Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-30
ABOUT TWO CITIES


The road meeting which is to be held in
the X. of p. hall, New Whatcom. on
ably be well attended, Notwithstanding
the fact that farmers are very backward
with their spring work. There is de-
termination abroad in the land that we
must have better roads, and the board OF
county commissioners have expressed
their Intention to forward the effort in
every legitimate way.
In Jarvis cigar store there is a nice bit
Of hand wood carving the work of sailor
on the bark Java.
w. G.. Gooch has on his farm in Cres-
cent precinct, fine spring OF mineral
water. An analysis Of the water shows il
to be possessed Of great curative proper
ties for the many diseases that flesh Is
heir TO. Mr.. Gooch has placed small
quantities of the water on the market,
and intends, with the revival OF business,
to bottle 1t on an extensive scale.
The president Of the Wagner Palace
Car company is on his way 10 Bellingham
bay, where he will go east over the Cana
dian Pacific. He has a train OF fine cars
drawn by his own locomotive. The cars
are Of the most elaborate kind, and are
/ intended TO Illustrate the ease, comfort,
elegance and convenience which charac-
! terizes modern railway travelling. IL you
have what is expressively termed a
| sack"
w. L. Miller, the shingle man, says that
prices Of cedar shingles are holding up ia
| good shape, and he accounts for this by
] saying that there is demand for them,
and as long as there Is a demand the
prices will keep up. And Washington
shingles are just beginning TO be known
and appreciated in the East.
1t is reported that Harry Austin has
about completed the sale Of his entire
timber interests on Lake Whatcom to
syndicate. The timber on the Austin
claims is said 10 be the finest on the lake.
staff Captain Blanche Cox. inspector Of
the Pacific coast department Of the Sal
walton Army, accompanied by her secre-
tary, arrived in New Whatcom yesterday
morning, and took up her quarters at the
barracks on street. A HERALD repre-
sentative met staff Captain Cox Yester-
day and, by the way, the title does not
seem to set well upon the fragile looking
young lady with serious blue eyes, cover
ed with spectacles, pale, oval face and
curling brown hair cut short, whom
the reporter met in the not altogether
CHEEKY docking rooms called, by courtesy,
the barracks. But Captain Cox Is inter-
ested In her work and although but girl
in appearance, she has devoted ten years
of her young life, three of which were
spent in India, to Salvation Army work.
On her present tour she has visited San
Francisco and other California towns,
Portland, Tacoma and Seattle. The var1-
Gus corps are In a hourishing condition,
and the army everywhere prosperous.
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work done by the Life Boats" and RE
fuge Shelters" A Life Boat" by the
way, is place where the hungry and
homeless can receive supper, night
: lodging, a breakfast and bath all for
the sum Of ten cents. In San Francisco
$4,000 have been fed since the place was
opened last December. In this state there
are seventeen corps and three outposts
and Of the work done any unprecedented
person is able to Judge. There will b.
three meetings at the barracks today-a'
t II a. m, 3 p. m. and s o'clock. The tall
work in India. On Monday evening the
services will be held in the First Me
thodist church, / street. Staff-Captair
Cox will address all the meetings.
Arbor day exercises we're duly OBJ
II served in the Larrabee avenue school a.
well as in the Fourteenth street school
the grounds we're not ready Tor them,
10 idignantly writes a young lady te tcher
: Apologies are offered for not mentioning
" the Larrabee school specifically. 1t Is
nice building. has an excellent stan o
nice teachers. and 1t is too pad that tn
word mice" cannot be applied TO tn
grounds. The different departments as
sembled in Miss Gleason's room, City Su
perintendent Hughes made an aDproprl
ate Arbor day speech, and Arbol day re
citations and declarations followed. mis-
Kellogg also contributing much to tn
pleasure of the occasion.
T. NJ. Galbraith. othe well-known sui
veyor, has reputation as bee huntel
although being a modest man he Is nc
always parading the characteristic
which have given him fame. All las
summer he carefully watched bee tire
on his Nooksack farm; he was sure 1t wa
bee tree for the bees were obsered dali
going aud coming and disappearin
through a knot-hole. And when the tin
OF the honey harvest had come, lade
with saws and axes with which to fell II
tree, AMI a number Of buckets to contal
the gathered sweetness Of the bee, he b
took himself to the part Of the fore
wherein stood the tree. 1t was felled an
an examination revealed a nice large ne
OF humble bees-and that kind don't NAL
honey. But Galbraith never tells tn
himself.