22 Jul 1915
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Newspaper
Lynden Tribune
Location
Lynden, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1915
Page
1
The 1915 Whatcom County Fair premium list will be distributed next week by Geo. W. Frick secretary of the Association. The booklet is on the press with expanded awards across most departments. A milking contest offers a gold watch to the premier cow owner and entrants should notify Frick.
Residents and visitors gather in Laurel for family visits and socials. Local families travel to Dayton Washington and Ames Iowa. kinship ties link Bellingham Stanwood Everett and Seattle. Community groups meet including the Laurel W C T U Epworth League and Methodist Ladies Aid with outings and games.
Ferndale residents and guests attend regional trips and gatherings. Mr. and Mrs. Hood visit Walter Keyes in Blaine while Campbell family returns from San Francisco exposition. Numerous visits include Miss Gorauch on Vashon Island and Miss Hameling’s Seattle trip.
Several thousand people and hundreds of autos gathered at the Bellingham dock to greet Shriners. The crowd learned the boat had sailed back to Seattle from Anacortes. The state highway commission awarded Charles E. Lind of Bellingham a $12,186.80 contract to clear, grade, and drain a 2.75 mile Pacific highway segment between Custer and Enterprise.
Lynden Public Library now houses 1108 books with 48 added last week and monthly purchases planned. Family memberships cost 1 and allow two books out for two weeks with renewal. non members pay five cents per book. New titles include works by Conner, Gray, Bronte, Cooper, London, and Conan Doyle among others. E Edson donated 35 volumes including five Bret Harte sets and two Conan Doyle sets.
The W R C notes a small attendance with several absences and welcomes Mrs Warlow who was initiated. Updates on Comrades Bayes and Biddell are given, and a report on the G A R and WA C encampment at Centralia is read. A July 31 dinner at the hall is announced inviting all old soldiers.
Mrs. O D Chappen has returned home from St Luke s hospital after a month s stay. Edna Blomquist of Alberta Canada will return home soon after six months here. Rev and Mrs J Friberg and children of Seattle vacation in Delta. Friberg to preach in Delta church Sunday night. Mr and Mrs A Pehrson and son from Ferndale visited A M Olson home Sunday. Reuben Fredeen and Gustavson of Bellingham were here last Sunday visiting. Froberg hosts E Markstrom and families, Axlund and others Sunday. Harry Tyrall left Saturday for Home Guard encampment at Fort Worden.
Miss Iva Sletto has returned from Seattle where she had been visiting her sister for a week.
The B B and B C road will build through to Spokane at once. Amended articles of incorporation will be filed with the county auditor this week for the extension. The line will extend Lynden to Blaine. The Nightingale Singing Class honored leader Mr Nick Boerhage with a surprise party at his home and presented a Morris chair. Chas Bateman will begin building a new home next week. Harry Fountain George Cole and Peter Dunnick with T J Storrey as guide plan a bear hunt in the mountains next week.
Hobart Hamlin, en listed in Seattle as a Navy musician, expects to sail in August. Mrs. Darland visits from Portland. Local trips include Fred Flint and others to the mountains. A serious auto accident near here injures Mrs. Adkisson. Rev. Adkisson and children escape. Church groups meet at Reynolds home with a planned Ladies Aid gathering and a social lunch follows.
The Lynden Bellingham auto stage field adds hourly service with 75 cent round trips. Lynden Livery and McGinnis Mock adjust schedules with multiple daily departures and a Saturday round trip. H Lavenhart and Fred Kramer add a seven passenger car, while a new Lynden Westminster BC line opens with 125 fare and 10:15 am arrival.
A Cohasset beach gathering last week returned Monday night with a boss fish story. They saw a forty five foot fish said to swallow a prophet, pulled from the Pacific near the whale plant at Cohasset. The trip visited Seattle Tacoma and other points with a large party including the Knapp and Frick families among others.
The Rebekahs held Saturday night installation ceremonies at the I O O F hall and initiated Mrs. Dan McLeod. Officers installed included N G Mrs. Frank Bostwick V G Minnie Vinup RSNG Emma Frasier LSNG Mrs. Cheney RS V G Ella Clarke LSNG Anna Anderson Warden Mabel Bateman Treasurer Hallie Hickey Fin Sec Birdie Topping Rec Sec Madeline Bay Inside Guardian Verna Rusco Chaplain Mary Palmer PNG Pauline Colby Conductor Hannah Satterthwaite Outside Guardian Mrs. Beatty.
A. H. TeSelle and family spent a pleasant week at Van Zandt as guests of A. P. Bur graff, enjoying a relaxing escape with hospitality and local sights.
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