The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-04-02

high school, is spending the Easter
vacation al her home in Seattle.
Hemmy says he is going to gal
Top away with the county base ball
championship this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Mcdonald
of the Laurel district were Sunday
guests at the Warren Hawley home.
Henry Span today started to de-
liver cream and milk to city GUS
toners. His advertisement will
appear in next weeks Tribune.
The base ball season in Lyn-
den will open on Sunday. April II,
with Sumas and the local team
crossing bats at Hawley's park.
Frank Topaz is now filling the
position of book-keeper and account
ant at the Lynden Cooperative
Creamery, formerly held by Mrs.
Gehrman, nee Miss Nettie Hoover.
Rev. A. Brinck, John Shoemaker,
D. ]. Zylstra and H. Kok went to
Everett Tuesday to attend Clas-
sis of the Christian Reformed
church.
H. c. Smallfield has taken over
the Electric Theatre WHICH he sold
q short time ago. He will conduct
the same in his usual efficient way,
and promises TO furnish patrons
with the latest and best photo-plays.
D. ]. Milan has sold all of the
stock on his ranch between Lynden
and Everson, and rented the same
TO Art De Bruyn for two years. Mr..
Milan and family will for time
move to u nearby ranch, but event
ually come to live in town again.
The new uniforms for the Lyn-
den base ball club have arrived.
and gray, and are on exhibition in
the show windows of the Efficiency
Shop, through which they Were
supplied.
C. H. Sears and family will leave
on April fifteenth, on the steamer
Wind Der for Port Moeller. Alaska.
Mr.. Sears will be succeeded as local
manag ger of the light and power
company by Mr.. Ed Walsh. now To-
Gated ut Concrete.
cambridge Colby. one of the
ablest orators in this country will
deliver one of his best speeches ON
Progressive principles, under the
auspices of the Progressive state
central committee, at Bellingham.
on Thomas Jefferson's birthday.
Monday, April 10. A large attend
dnce from the country precincts will
be at the meeting which will be
u very interesting one.
Under the auspices of the local
Rebekah lodge. Mrs. Addie Do
ben, OF Bellingham, will give
lecture on hygiene at Odd Fellows
hall on Wednesday, April s.. The
meeting will be at two O'Clock in
the afternoon. No admission will
be charged. and all ladies interested
in the subject OF hygiene are cordi-
ally invited TO attend. The lecture
is for ladies only.
Final steps have been taken in
the matter of street paving in An
acortes. The city council of that ci-
~ has over-ruled the protests Of
objecting property owners and will
proceed to carry out the previously
outlined plans for paving. The ordi-
nance. providing for the improve
ment will be introduced at the next
meeting and the city engineer
cations preliminary to calling for
is authorized to prepare specifi-
bids.
The Progressive Auto Company
which lately started in business on
the corner of Sixth and Front
Streets, with F. G. Knott and Hank
Haveman at the drive wheel report
splendid success. and that automo-
bile owners generally are bringing
in their machines and having the
necessary repairs on them made for
the opening of Spring. They have
also several good prospects Of the
sale of Overland Autos. the best
machine on the market at $1075.
There have been quite few de-
clamatory contests heard here this
winter and the latest is one by Nc
Daniels, the pool-room proprietor,
who was seen throwing looks across
the street the other day and de
claiming" as follows to-wit: If /
should die tonight, And YOU should
come to my cold corpse and kneel.
Clasping my bier to show the grief
you feel say, if | should die to-
night, And You should come to me,
and then expectantly. lust even hint
bout payin' me that three, | might
arise the while; But I'd drop dead
again.
Friends of Grandma Long, mo-
Their of Mr.. 7. b. Long. will regret
to learn that the state of her health
is not so satisfactory. as it was r
few weeks ago. Nearly year ago,
Grandma as she is affectionate-
ly called by her friends, was oper-
ated upon for an abscess on the Ii
YER. 1t was at first hoped that her
health would be permanently re-
stored, but the trouble returned.
and Mrs. Long has been more or
less of an invalid since that time.
Recently. another abscess formed
and caused intense suffering for