Stores Close for Bryan Lecture in Lynden Chautauqua
Lynden merchants vote to close shops 8 to 10 p m on lecture night to allow clerks and workers to attend Bryan event. Tickets $2.50 adults $1.50 students $1.00 school. sales at local banks stores and Tribune. Ida M Tarbell Edward F Trefz and Private Peat headline a wide program with music by the Czecho Slovak Band and performances by several noted artists.
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Chautauqua
Lynden
Bryan
Ida M. Tarbell
Miss Tarbell
America
Paris
Private Peat
Joseph Clare
Petrograd
A. D. Carpenter
Elliott A. Boyl
W. L. Mellinger
Jaroslav Cimera
Lewis Military Quartet
Camp Lewis
Mary Adel Hays
New York
Fern Goltra
Chicago Opera
McDonough-Eagleston Company
Regniers
Apollo Concert Company
Lyndon
Edwin Whitney
Boston
Elsie Mae Gordon
Hoosier State
Harold R. Peat
Peat
Saturday Evening Post
France
Flanders
Government to Issue Three Life and Three Endowment Policies
The plan outlines Ordinary Life 20-Pay Life 30-Pay Life 20-Year Endowment 30-Year Endowment Old age Endowment and related options. It explains premium timelines and payout conditions including cash values and monthly installments for death or disability.
Milk and Butter Prices Climb for Lynden Producers
Lynden butter rose 3 cents to 57 cents per pound, lifting farmer butterfat returns to about 7 cents per pound. Whole milk prices increased fifteen cents, set at 2.90 dollars per hundred pounds after adjustments by condensaries.
Nearly Two Million Now In County Banks
Whatcom County banks show deposits totaling 1,979,333.01 on June 30, with gains across towns. Custer adds 12,000, Ferndale 8,000, Lynden 16,000, Sumas 4,000, and Blaine 47,000 in four months as resources rise to 1,979,333.01.
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Whatcom County
Custer
Ferndale
Lynden
Sumas
Blaine
Everson
Commissioners weigh paving from Guide Meridian to Lynden
The board considers a petition to pave eight and a half miles from Guide Meridian to Mintucn s Corners and to Hannegan then to Lynden with a three mile branch to Roeder school. A Tuesday hearing had no attendees at the courthouse. Also notes a Liberty Theater screen upgrade by Jack Kauffman with new screen to enhance film depth. Financial figures list Custer 105288.87 Ferndale 337153.26 Lynden 485979.78.
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Board of County Commissioners
Meridan
Mintucn’s Corners
Hannegan
Lynden
Roeder School
Liberty
Jack Kauffman
Liberty Theater
State Urges Tuberculosis Testing for Lynden Herds
The State of Washington offers tuberculin tests for Lynden herds with Dr. L C Pelton conducting tests. Lynden Creamery backs the program urging patrons to apply. If reactors are found, animals are slaughtered with salvage paid to owners. indemnities from state and federal governments may total about 80 to 85 percent of the animal value. An application form is printed for Lynden farmers to mail to Tribune or directly to the county agent H B Carroll Jr.
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State of Washington
Lynden
L. C. Pelton
State Department of Agriculture
Lynden Creamery Company
Pelton
United States Department of Agriculture
Tribune
H. B. Carroll, Jr
Federal Building
Bellingham
Lynden Lacks Wagon Scales Sparks City Complaint
Residents say Lynden has no wagon scales after Fifth and Front Street device failed. Farmers must travel to outlying areas for weighing while Co. B. Love urges the city council to buy a scale and impose weighing charges.
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Lynden
Fifth and
Front Street
Co. B. Love
Mission Day Set by Lynden Churches at Fair Grounds
The Reformed and Christian Reformed Churches of Lynden will hold a Mission Day at the Whatcom County Fair Grounds on Wednesday starting at 10 a m. A Japanese missionary will speak and a collection will be taken for missions. Attendees are asked to donate at least one day's wages. lunches will be sold by the Ladies' Aids to support missions. refreshments will be available at the canteen.
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Reformed
Christian Reformed Churches
Lynden
Whatcom County Fair Grounds
Japan
Tuberculin Test Application Form for Lynden Farmers
Lynden farmers may request a free tuberculin test for cattle by sending a filled blank to The Tribune Office of the County Agent in Bellingham. The form, addressed to the Commissioner of Agriculture in Olympia, requires farm details, animal counts, identification methods, and agreement to test procedures and potential quarantines.
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Commissioner of Agriculture
Olympia
Washington
H. E. Stuart Appointed Postmaster of Nooksack
H E Stuart received the appointment as postmaster for the Town of Nooksack. A former Lyndon resident and publisher of the Nooksack Reporter, he succeeds Mrs J C Orr who had served as post mistress for nearly 19 years and resigned last February with a successor delayed until now.
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H. E. Stuart
Nooksack
Stuart
Lyndon
J. C. Orr
County Receives Fifty Pheasants From State Farm
Whatcom County received fifty Chinese pheasants this week from the State Game Farm. The birds will be liberated by J. M. Aitken, county game warden.
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Whatcom County
J. M. Aitken
Sumas business houses close Wednesday afternoons now
Sumas stores close Wednesday afternoons to give owners and clerks a half day off during the summer. Other towns in the county plan to adopt the system. Richard Rutgers suffers a complicated case of appendicitis this week.
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SUMAS
Richard Rutgers
Price of Lynden's Cherry Crop Soars
Lynden cherries commanded record prices this week with Royal Annes at ten cents per pound at the Lynden Cannery, double 1918 levels. Black Bings and Lamberts fetch 8 cents, Black Republicans 6 cents, other varieties 4 to 5 cents. Last year’s top paid 5.5 cents. Cannery manager C. M. Creamer cautions a lighter crop than 1918, while Nooksack and Paulhamus Puyallup interests reportedly pay twelve cents for Bings and ten cents for Royal Annes.
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Lynden
Lynden Cannery
Royal Ames
C. M. Creamer
Nooksack
Paulhamus Puyallup
Royal Annes
Lynden’s New Funeral Parlors Open With Upgraded Features
F E Knapp completed his new funeral parlors this week in the former H S Stein hauer quarters. A large chapel room with comfortable chairs, soft brown furnishings, and a private mourners’ room have been added to improve funeral services. The extensive equipment aims to place the parlors among the county’s best, with substantial expense invested.
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F. E. Knapp
H. S. Steinhauer
Knapp
High School Graduating Class Meeting Set at Lynden High
The graduating class of 1919 will hold an important meeting at Lynden High School on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Attendance is requested for all members to settle important class matters.
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Lynden High School
Backyard Flock Urged for Lynden Residents
The USDA bulletin advises Lynden residents to keep a backyard flock. A sample poultry house, built in 1914, cost under $100, with a concrete floor, roosts, nests, and water system. The 12 by 18 foot, three-pen structure uses yellow pine, stone-surface roofing, and bungalow windows for ventilation.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Lynden
Government Department
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