The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-06-25
CLEANINCS.

The rose show held at Bellingham
last week was a pronounced success.
1t is expected that an early de-
cisiOn in the Glacier coal land
cases will be rendered.
Raspberries are plentiful through
out the county and bringing a good
price.
The Whatcom County Holiness AS
ISOLATION camp meeting is being
held at Ferndale.
There is a probability that What
com county will get the state pow
der plant when it is built.
Harvesting Is in progress all over
the county and all laborers that
want to work find employment at
good wages.
The funeral of Adam Sipes. aged
SO years was held from his late
family home near the ROeder school
last Thursday.
The Swedish picnic which was 10
be held at the White City in Bell
ingham on last Sunday has been
postponed until Sunday. July IL.
Judge PembertOn has committed
Bjorn Benson Of Blaine. convicted
Of selling diseased meat to pay
fine Of $125 and cotss.
The county commissioners have
awarded the contract for rebuilding
the bridge across the slough at
Marietta to Ed. G. Johnson for ST.
562.
The county commissioners have
called for bids for the construction
Of 1000 feet of road in Columbia
township, between Kendall and Su
mas. The estimated cost is $1,000.
$3.50 A. NJ, or July 81 has been
set by the CONF issioners for the
hearing on the Ed. Brown ditch
and July 90 as the date for hearing
on the Hovander ditch.
The funeral of John T. Coffman.
who came to the county in 1889.
was held at Bellingham last Sun
day. He was an honOred member
OF the G. A. R.
The fruit growers union organ
ICED at Nooksack recently bids we'll
to be a successful organization
and to prove of great benefit to
the growers in that locality.
The combined Socialist locals of
Whatcom County are preparing to
hold their annual picnic at Otley's
park on Lake Whatcom on July 4.
rhe arrangements have been placed
in the care of Peter Zobrist.
The cost of the Custer. or ED
Brown Ditch as it has been com
monty named, and which is to drain
35 900 acres of land and portion
Of the tOwnsitee of Custeer. has
been estimated by the county en-
gineer to cost $25,663.
Henry Dwight Marshall. SO years
old. a pioneer of Puget Sound and
perhaps the oldest Mason IN the
state, died at Bellingham last Fri
day, at the home of his daughter.
He had been active in MasOnary
for the last AZ years.
While digging a we'll at Birch
Bay, the Morrison brothers struck
a well Of oil on their farm. From
prospects the oil will bear inspec-
tiOn, and possibly the owners will
go down and find where the vein is
and strike oil in paying quantities.
Oil experts claim that Whatcom
county Is a veritable bed of oil.
Mrs. Priscilla Berg. aged 81
who came to Whatcom County in
1883 and has since then continual
ly resided on the farm near Nook
sack, which her husband homestead
ed. died ON Tuesday. June 16 at
the home OF her daughter. Mrs. A.
NJ. Germain. She leaves seven
children to mourn her loss.
The funeral services at Belling-
ham last Friday attended upon the
burial OF Horace c. Byron were the
most impressive ever witnessed in
that city. Mr.. Byron was one OF
the county's most highly respected
and hOnored citizens. He was
Man in the true sense of the word,
and his untimely death is mOurned
by hundreds Of sincere friends and
The people of Whatcom County gen.
orally.