Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-01-21
NEW wHArooM NOTES

G. d. briggs, of Friday Harbor, is in
town
P. B. Smith, of Lynden, was in town
yesterday.
An apportionment of $2l 900 was
made yesterday.
- The Shakespeare Club met with Miss
May Waterbury last evening.
w. w. Barty, a councilman of Ana
cortes, was in the city yesterday.
The Bellingham Bay & Eastern will
resume hauling logs next Tuesday.
The regular monthly meeting of the
teachers of the city schools will be held
today.
Pinafore rehearsal was held last
evening at the residence Of Mrs.
Christman.
1t is rumored that an injunction has
been issued against the Improvement
of Dock street.
Taxes will be delinquent on March 1.
Already three-sevenths of the taxes
have been paid.
Complaintsiare made over the neglect
of the council to put an electric light at
the Squalicum creek bridge.
County Auditor Collier returned yes
terday from visit to Olympia to at
tend meeting of county auditors to
discuss needed legislation.
The semi-monthly tea at the public
library this afternoon will be presided
over by Mrs. Leon Lobe, all the con-
versation to be carried on in French.
Captain Biondi, of Port Townsend, is
expected to arrive today to survey the
Bellingham Bay d Eastern tug and
barge on Lake Whatcom for insurance.
Marshal McAndrews, yesterday, re-
ceived a telegram from Chief Jackson,
of Seattle, stating that he had man
from Whatcom with rare coins, and
asking If he should hold him.
The Northwestern Shingle Manu-
facturers' association which met at
Tacoma Wednesday, gave Whatcom
county the credit of being the best
organized county in the state.
+. G. Storey, of San Francisco, special
agent of the Pacific Insurance Union,
in company with j. l.. Easton, went
out to the Blue Canyon mine yesterday
to examine the bunkers with view to
giving them a special rating for in
surance.
Thursday afternoon a large number
of small boys were seen skating about
the streets on roller skates. 1t was
afterward discovered that sample
room under the Bellingham hotel, in
which Len Stenger, who formerly ran
skating rink, had stored large num-
Der of skates, had been broken into and
over twenty pairs of skates were miss
ing. Yesterday the policemen were
busy hunting up the boys with roller
skates in their possession. In almost
every case the boys had purchased
their skates of lad named Lou Geer
for various sums from five cents up to
twenty-five. Geer and a news boy
named Wilson Zook were arrested and
put in jail. About a dozen pairs of
skates were recovered.
The three days examination for pro-
motions in the city schools closed yes
terday. In the high school the classes
in geology and physiology took their
final examinations. They will now
take up botany and physical geography.
There is a possibility that we may
lose our present early morning mail
service via the City of Seattle. The ar
rangement was originally made with
the Premier, the mails to be carried
without compensation. When the
Premier was succeeded by the Seattle,
the P. s. & A. Co. gave notice that 1t
would not carry the mail on those
terms. Postmaster Cole referred the
matter to the department and yester-
day received reply stating that If the
service was continued 1t must be with
out expense.