The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-30
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The Tribune is pleased to announce
elsewhere that the school board is fig
uring On purchasing a high school
site and constructing an auditorium
this year, but it hopes that In the end
the board will not be satisfied to buy
one block Of ground.
Ii. our humble opinion the board
could net do wiser than to buy a five
of six acre school ground. Let us
make our schools and their grounds
a place of beauty and a place to be
proud of. We propose now to build
permanent buildings. Let us make
them artistic as well as comfortable
and healthful.
A town the size of Lynden cannot
hope to have many public buildings.
The government is going to build no
post offices here. The state will con-
struct no $15O,OOO armory in Lynden.
We have little to look forward to in
the way of public buildings except our
school house. Let us make that a
thing to be proud of. And, building,
no matter how artistic it may be,
shows off poorly on smalE grounds.
Moreover We must provide room for
our children to stretch their legs as
we'll as for them to stretch their
minds.
Elsewhere DR.. Wilbur makes a sug-
gestion that it is not only timely but
which contains some plans for the flu
ture that are well worth adopting. We
hope every Lynden resident will read
1t, and we hope the Patrons Associa-
tinn ha u,;1 -
least part of his suggestions are car
ried out.
The council very sensibly have fol-
lowed the advice of the Tribune and
are notifying property owners to
clean up their premises before the
Fourth. | don't really think the no.
tice was necessary, for the people of
Lynden are naturally clearly, an
moreover, now that they have invit-
ed their neighbors here for the day
they were bound to clean up. The no
tice is good only for the careless Ones
There will be lots of fire crackers and
fireworks. The most dangerous places
where fires are likely to start are in
rubbish heaps, SO, even If we had no
pride, as matter of business we
should clean up anyway
The newspaper man who will try to
drag the Bellingham bank failure into
politics is a fool. Our county officials
are doing all that any honest men
could do to punish the guilty ones, If
there be any guilty ones. They have
saved the county $500 reward money
that at least one yellow paper tried
to induce the depositOrs to insist on be-
ing thrown away. They will save the
tax payers more money il the politi-
clans Will leave them alone to do it.
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Well Teddy, we are listening.
The Blaine Journal, The Ferndale
Record, the Maple Falls Leader and
others of the county are giving our
townsman Frank Bixby, some very
complimentary notices on his decision
to be candidate for prosecuting at
torney. The Nooksack Reporter is OPP
posing him, on the grounds that Live
sey has made a good officer and Is
deserving of second term, and also
ON the grounds that Mr.. Bixby refused
to pay for political notice in their
paper so long as they opposed his e.
lection. Frank has lot of loyal friends
and whether he wins or loses he will
have a right to feel proud of them.
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If Bellingham Commercial bodies
would sandbag few of its estimable
newspaper men, that town would not
only grow faster but SO would the
whole county.
Bellingham had bank failure sew
eral months ago. The consensus of o.
lnion WIS that the failure was due
ID criminal actions on the part OF
some of the bank officials. Well the
bank officials are all in hand now. The
matter is in court. For heavens sake
can't we trust the court to discover
who if anyone, is to blame, and to al
Just the matter? Or, must the trial be
held through the columns of our press,
and the press of the country at large
l remember we'll frequent remark
of my fathers quoting a funny OLD
neighbor who said:
Never tell the hired man he looks
sick, else he'll be sicik.'
There is more sense than poetry in
that remark in spite of its humor. If
everybody remarks that a well man
is sick he sooon begins to believe ne
is sick he soon begins to believe he
Money is the communitys servant
and it has a mighty sympathetic dis-
position. 1t is always hunting for sym
toms. The least little excuse Will
cause it to take day, week,
month or even a year or two Off. we
have a dozen solid banks IN the coun-
ty, banks with years OF honest pusi-
ness dealing back of them. Our coun-
tv papers and the countrys papers are
saving nothing about them. They are
lust giving up columns of slush to the
one sick one. For gracious sake lets
forget it. If we can't forget 1t let's
trv to find out what per cent the de-
positors are going to get. Ex-GoVern.
or Meads told me he believed ina.
with reasonable management the as
sets could be made much more 'nah