The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1918-04-25
FRIDAY WILL BE L. S.
LIBERTY, LOAN DAY
If You Haven't 4 Bond Yet, Buy One
Friday, Says President; News of
Washington

Friday, April &c, will be Liberty day
throughout the United States under a
proclamation issued by President VIII
son calling on citizens of every com
munity to hold Liberty loan rallies
and 'liberally pledge anew their fin
ancial support to sustain the nations
cause"
The dentists state convention will
be held in Spokane June 81 % and
20.
The Wahkiakum county council of
defense has been reorganized. A home
guard has also been organized.
Emil Herman, state secretary of
the socialist party, was arrested at
Everett on the charge of violating the
espionage act
Free train service to and from Seat
tie shlpyards is being furnished for
shipyard emp!oyes. The service was
ordered by Director General McAdoo.
Every town in Yakima county and
every county in the district compris-
ing Benton, Kittitas. Klickitat and
Yakima counties, have gone over the
top" in the Liberty loan drive.
Loafing has gone out of vogue in
Aberdeen, employment agents say.
They are finding no oilers around
town and few men are changing jobs
by shifting from one camp or mill to
another
The car shortage situation has
greatly eased up on Grays Harbor
and mills generally are receiving as
many cars as they can load. Railroad
men expect cars to be plentiful during
the summer months.
. Acceleration of production of spruce
material for warplanes has reached
such magnitude that the quantity now
turned out each day at the government
cut-up plant at Vancouver is sufficient
to make 300 machines.
4 Miss Elizabeth Mcdowell, of Olym-
pia, was reelected to the presidency
of the Columbia river district Women's
American Baptist Mission Societies at
the fourth annual meeting of that or
ganization at Portland, Or.
/ Fire, believed of incendiary origin,
totally destroyed the big furniture
manufacturing plant of the Chehalis
Furniture & Manufacturing company
at Chehalis, entailing a loss of $11O,-
600. There was no insurance.
/ Beginning Monday a wage scale APP
proved by Colonel Disque of the spruce
division of the signal corps, was placed
! in effect in every lumber mill and
logging camp in eastern washington,
northern Idaho and western Montana.
Tentative plans are being consider
ed .occording to Henry Hewitt, Sr., for
the establishment of concrete ship
yard at Tacoma. There will be two
sets Of launching ways and complete
vessel will be turned out in 80 days.
The historical and pioneer societies
of eastern Washington are to be ask
ed by the Spokane Pioneer society to
join in a permanent exhibit of his
torical relics and curios at the city
museum to be opened in Spokane in
June.
Six hundred young men were grad
uated at Camp Lewis Saturday from
the third officers training camp,
where for the past three months they
have alternately studied and drilled
in preparation to accept commissions
as officers.
Lewiston is to have storage ware
house large enough to take care of
the entire apple crop of the Lewiston
Charleston region. The State Fruit com
pany will erect a $4,000 warehouse
at once and will have storage facilities
for $4,000 boxes of apples.
Because of the acute housing scar
city now existing in Tacoma the
Foundation Shipyard, which operates
the largest wooden ship construction
plant in the country in Tacoma, has
taken steps to provide proper hous
ing accommodation for its employees.
/ The managerial form of city gov
eminent, with the chief power vested
in a small council, will be submitted
to the voters of Aberdeen in their
new, first-class city charter. 1t is
generally believed that it will carry.
The charter is net to be voted upon
until June.
A. c. Jameson, president, and D. X.
Mcdonald, secretary, of the Vera Land
company; w. A. Ridway and P. NJ
Shaughnessy, all real estate men of
Spokane, are under indictment by the
federal grand jury on charge CT u
ing the maIs in connection will a
scheme to iefraud
The fourth annual women's vocation
al conference of the women of the
state college, Pullman, and the sur
rounding country, was held at the
college Friday and Saturday, with
state college vocational leaders and
prominent women vocationalists of the
inland empire in charge.
Warm weather, following the recent
severe frosts, has put it beyond ques-
ton that the soft fruit in the Yakima
valley has suffered severe injury
Peaches, apricots, sweet cherries and
pears are almost a total loss in the
low ground, and even the earlier
varieties of apples are injured.
l A cow-testing association is being
formed in Clarke county to test the
product of each individual cow, that