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

The rose show held at Bellingham
last week was 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 good
price.
The Whatcom County Holiness AS
ISOLATION camp meeting Is being
held at Ferndale.
There il 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 n
fine of 1925 and cotss.
The county commissioners have
awarded the contract TO, rebuilding
the bridge across the slough ut
Marietta to Ed. G. Johnson for $i.-
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.
$50 A. NJ, or July 81 has been
set by the CONF issiOners for the
hearing on the Ed. Brown ditch
and July 20 as the date for hearing
on the Hovander ditch.
The funeral of John T. Coffman.
who came to the county In 1889.
was held ut Bellingham last Sun
day. He was an hOnOred member
of the G. A. r.
The fruit growers union organ
lied ut 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
mold 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 1t has been COM
monty named, and which Is to drain
$4,000 acres of land and a portion
of the tOwnsitee of Custer. has
been estimated by the county en-
gineer to cost $25.663.
Henry Dwight Marshall, 80 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 Missionary
for the last AZ years.
While digging we'll at Birch
Bay. the Morrison brothers struck
a well Of oil on their farm. From
prospects the oil will bear inspec-
ton, and possibly the owners Will
go down and find where the vein IL
and strike oil in paying quantities
Oil experts claim that Whatcom
county Ia u veritable bed of oil.
Mrs. Priscilla Berg. aged 81
who came tn 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 II
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 ia mournet
by hundreds of sincere friends ant
the people Of Whatcom County gen
orally.