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The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10
REPORT ON LYNDEN'S
FINANCES FLATTERING
State Auditors Find Condition of City
Books Excellent; Compliment Lo-
cal Officials

The condition of Lynden's finances
is excellent, according to a report of
the State Bureau of Inspection, re-
ceived here this week.
The following is his official re-
port
The financial condition of Lynden
is very flattering. There is no war
rant Indebtedness. total cash on hand
in all funds $3.352.16 of which ST.
53s.07 is current expense cash. The
available credit for all purposes is
s32,242.56. This increase is due
largely to increased valuation.
1t is quite evident that the affairs
Of the town have been handled in a
very creditable manner which is very
commendable. We have no criti-
cism of an, adverse nature to offer
other than to suggest that an effort
be made to locate the old rolls of To-
cal improvement districts 5. 6. s.,
IS and Olive Streets and ascertain,
il possible, if the balances uncollect-
ed as shown are correct. Dist. 9Th
Street shows an overdraft of s27.S6
in the fund. The balance shows no
cash in the funds nor any liabilities.
These five districts should be closed
up If possible.
The water department is in fair
condition for pumping plant, which
is much more expensive to operate
than gravity system and this Is
taken into consid Grafton. The records
were found in excellent shape: not
an error of any description was
found, all footings and balances were
absolutely correct which reflects
great credit on the clerk and treas
urer.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10
MAY OPEN UP GUIDE
PAVING NEXT SUNDAY
County Engineer Contemplates Per-
hitting Traffic To Use New Con.
crete Next Week

The new paving on the Guide Mer-
idian road will be opened to traffic
next Sunday, according to report
sent out today by the County Engin-
GERS office. The news will be re-
ceiyed with pleasure by Lynden
people who have been detouring by
various routes for several months in
order to reach Bellingham.
The engineers office is making ev-
cry effort to have the road ready by
Sunday, although there is just a pos
sibility that there may be delay un-
til Monday. The paving work was
completed on the Guide on May 10.
The Hannegan Road was closed to
traffic this week. as the Skagit Con-
struction Company has reached that
road with its paving crew. AS soon
as the paving reaches the south end
of the Nooksack Bridge, work on the
new bridge will start.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10
NAME DELEGATES TO
STATE CONVENTION
County Convention of Non-Partisan
League Selects r. W. Mize and
Four Alternates

r. w. Mize of Rome Township was
elected delegate from Whatcom to
the State Convention of the Nom
Partisan League by the County Nom
Partisan League Convention held at
the l. o. o. F. Hall Wednesday. J..
j. Falkuer of Mountain View. y. D..
lander of Ten Mile Township. Hen
ry Shagren of Lynden and ". H.
Kaufman of Ferndale Township were
elected alternates.
The State Convention will meet at
North Yakima on July 10. AT pres
ent. each county is allowed only one
delegate, but the Whatcom conven-
ton expressed itself in favor of a
convention on a membership basis,
counties having large memberships
being entitled to more delegates and
votes than those with but a few.
The convention session was ad-
dressed by John T. Mulligan repres-
enting the State Headquarters of the
League, l.. L. p
the Triple Alliance and Miss Irene
Thomas representing the Committee
of Fortnight.
Frank johnson of the Triple AL
lance addressed a meeting Tuesday
evening in Hawleys Hall, and Mr..
Mulligan was the speaker last even
ing at the l. o. o. F. Hall. The meet
ings were originally scheduled to be
held in the upper part of Hawleys
Hall. but so large were the crowds in
attendance that is was necessary TO
move over to the Odd Fellows Hall.
Mr.. Mulligan explained what the
League has been able to accomplish
in North Dakota, and told of the aims
of the League.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10
LINDEN WILL SEE
GAY "FUMBLES OF '19"
American Legion Sponsors For Big
Military Musical Comedy Coming
Friday Night

Under the auspices of Lynden Post
No. 80, American Legion. real mus
ical comedy entertainment Of high
order will be presented in Lynden
Friday evening. 1.-The Fumbles OF
1919" is the title of the amusing
production that promises to fill Haw-
ley's Hall with the local soldiers and
sailors and their friends.
The first part of the show runs for
an hour and a half, and is a spark
ling review of the Winter Garden
variety. The review will be full of
musical hits from Broadway, and will
be presented with sixteen changes of
chorus costumes.
About Face" the second part of
the show, is musical farce dealing
with the lighter side of the dough-
boys life in France.
Sergeant Danny Wallace is the in
dividual star of the production. He
will be assisted by company of fiji
ty.
Reserved seat tickets are now on
sale at the City Drug Store.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10
LYNDEN'S TEACHING STAFF
FOR NEXT YEAR ANNOUNCED

Lynden's teaching staff was an
nounced this week by Superintond-
ent William A. Fisher. The list is
now complete and includes many new
names.
The following will be the grade
school teachers:
First Grade-Miss Gertrude linus.
Second Grade-Miss Pearl Nessen.
Third Grade-Miss Mabel Mcleod.
Fourth Grade-Miss Hazel LOwrey
Fifth Grade-Miss Nina Hanson.
Sixth Grade-Miss Nellie Bromley.
Fifth and Sixth Grades-Miss Hell
en- Johnson.
9TH Grade-Miss Lula Wright.
Eighth Grade and 'Principal-Miss
Anna Wright.
The high school faculty will be as
follows: -7- ---
William A. Fisher, superintendent
and mathematics.
Miss Edna MacKinnon, Principal
and history.
Miss Lois Yeck. commercial.
Fred Hockey, agriculture, chem
istry, and physical culture.
Lester landau, manual training
and physical culture.
Miss Frances Knapp. languages.
Miss Lucille Powlison, English.
Miss Maud Mcdonald, science.
Miss Gala Van SICKLE, domestic
science.
Lynden schools will open this year
on August 80. The term this year
will be 3S weeks, two weeks longer
than usual The teaching of the extra
two weeks will give the district a
larger return in cash from the state
funds. and the move was made at the
suggestion of the teachers them
selves.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10
CEMETERY ASSOCIATION WILL
BE INCORPORATED IN LINDEN

A Lynden Cemetery Association to
care for the Lynden Cemetery will
be incorporated at once, following
decision of a meeting of lot owners
at the City Hall Monday night.
The Association, as soon as the
preliminary arrangements can be
made, will proceed with the work of
improving the grounds. and putting
them in suitable condition. Assess
ments will be levied on the various
lot owners for the care Of the graves,
and a sexton will be employed to take
charge of the grounds permanently.
S. T. Jackman was named chair
man of a committee to proceed with
the incorporation. Other members
are Nels Jacobson. Miss Ruth Handy
and p NJ. Serrurier.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10
COUNCIL REFUSES
LICENSE TO CARNIVA AL
Will Not Permit Street Show To
Let To BOerhave and Zoet

Because the Council did not con-
tertainment for the community, a
license to exhibit in Lynden was re-
fused Friday night. Representatives
of a carnival company had requested
permission to bring their tents and
attractions here for full week this
month.
Boerhave and Zoet were awarded
the contract for the Sth and Edison
Street sidewalk work by the council
Their bid was S4.7S7.40. Everett
Hawley bid s5.04920 and John Van
deryacht $5,529.00.
Work was started at once on the
improvement. and 1t will be hurried
to completion. All big shade trees
along the streets will be saved where
ever it is possible.
The salary of Marshal Jake LIE
Compile was raised to Sl25 by the
Council A large part of this is paid
by the Lynden business men.
Lynden streets will be swept but
twice a week in the future instead of
three times, the council decided. 1t
was pointed out that sweeping twice
a week would keep the streets in 4
good condition.
Lynden's water tower will be paint
ed black, following the decision of
the council to purchase quantity of
black paint for this purpose. Water
Knapp brought up
the question of numbering the streets
and he was asked to prepare plan
to present at the next meeting of the
council.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10
WILL ASK STOCKHOLDERS TO
RAISE TELEPHONE RATES

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Farmers Mutual Tele-
phone Company will be held in the
w. o. w. Hall in Bellingham on Mon
day at 1880 a. m.
Besides the regular election of of
Ulcers, the stockholders will be ask
ed by the director to approve of a
90 pei cent raise in rates to care for
the present increase in expenditures.
The directors also will recommend
placing the rentals of the stockhcld-
ers on an equality with the renters,
and then thereaf.es pay dividend
ON the stock. The company has never
paid dividend and there are a large
number of stockholders who arc re-
ceiving no return from IL air stock.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10
BREAKING TRAFFIC
LAWS BRINGS FINES
Several Motorists Disregard New
Street Signals; And Pay Penalty
Into Treasury

That it costs real money to violate
Lynden's new traffic ordinance was
demonstrated this week when three
offenders were arrested and fined.
Marshal Jake LIE Compile found
q trio of machines passing the new
concrete traffic signs on the left. The
offenders were given the minimum
fine by Police Judge Frank lie Coca,
$500, and $500 costs.
Automobile owners, or others who
move or damage the signs will be Ii
able under the ordinance for a fine
that runs as high as 800, with a
minimum fee of $500.
Wagons and horse-drawn vehicles
must obey the traffic laws as well as
automobiles. Marshal LIE Compile ar
rested one driver of a wagon this
week for going to the left OF the
street signals. and he was fined for
the offense.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10
HOLD FUNERAL SERVICES FOR
LATE ELMER l.. SICkLESTEEL

Friends gathered at Knapps Par
lors Tuesday afternoon to attend the
funeral services for the late Elmer
l.. Sicklesteel, who passed away Sun
day morning in Bellingham after
brief illness. Rev. w. o. Benadom
conducted the services, and interment
was in Lynden cemetery.
Mr.. Sicklesteel was born in Michl'
gan September 6. 1872. and moved to
Wiser Lake with his parents seven
teen years ago He was member
of the Laurel Grange, and Oscoda
court l. o. F. No. 2S5.
Besides his mother, he is survived
by his brothers, William OF Alberta
George of Davenport, Iowa, ano
Charles Of Wiser Lake.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10
LINDEN WILL PLAY
FAST BRUNSWICK NINE
Contest Scheduled For Friday Night;
Sumas Defeated In Opening En-.
gagement Of Year

Lynden will play its second game
of twilight baseball Friday evening.
tomorrow, with Brunswicks Of
Bellingham, one the fastest teams
in the County League. Some of the
boys have already played against this
team and feel confident that Lynden
will add another victory to her cred
it.
The game will be called at 6 D. m.
sharp. and Lynden stores will close
at five to permit everybody to see
the game. Manager Bradford Knapp
has arranged to stretch ropes out
side the diamond, to hold back the
spectators. so that those in the grand
stand will have a clear view of the
field at all times. Those who saw
the opening contest were convinced
that Lynden has a real ball team, 80
that a large crowd is expected to-
morrow.
At the opening game last Friday
evening, Sumas was defeated to S.
While no brilliant plays were made.
Lynden showed an abundance of mat
erial and demonstrated the ability
to use the bats. The Lynden team
secured 10 hits in 7ls innings. while
the visitors were held to four.
Captain Fisher tried out three
pitchers. Morse allowing no hits and
run in 4 innings: Bert Wander
Griend 3 hits and 3 runs in 3 inn
ings; and Will Meurer / hit and /
run in l inning. The Sumas battery
was Minkler and Bishop.
Lynden started scoring In the first
inning when two singles and triple
enabled them to tally three runs. Two
more were made in the third: one
each in the fifth and sixth innings;
and two in the seventh. The runs
were scored by Hickey. 2; Fisher, g
Theel 2; Baldwin, 2; Hockey. l.
Only two extra base hits were
made during the game, Theel getting
a triple in the first and Meurer
double in the sixth.
Lynden's lineup was as follows:
Morse, Wander Griend and Meur-
er. pitchers; Fisher, catcher; Blais-
dell, LIST; Meurer, End; Hickey. 3rd;
Baldwin, SIS; Rockey, |. f.: Dean, C. T;
Theel. r. f. Nieveen batted for Morse
in the last half of the fourth inning.
II nv,piroa
Score: Linden
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10
YOUR LAST CHANCE

Dairymen of the Lynden district who desire
places on the honor roll of Owners of Tested Herds
must sign an application at the Tribune office be-
fore Saturday night. The state tuberculin tester
is now at work in the county, and no application
will be received after this week.
Hundreds of COWS will be tested this year IN
the LINDEN district Why don't you, too, make
sure that the milk you use on your table and sell
to others does not come from diseased COWS? The
test is free Come in at once and sign blank.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10
LINDEN CHERRY CROP WILL
PROVE LIGHTER THAN 1919

The Lynden cherry crop will prove
lighter this year than last season,
but the fruit will be much better. i'll
the opinion of c. NJ. Dreamer, man
aser of the Lynden Cannery. AL
though no definite price has been
set, Mr.. Dreamer expects to pay ap-
proximately the same for the crop
this year as last.
Frosts in blossoming time dam
aged the crop, but the fruit is eX-
pected to be much larger and finer
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10

Friday evening at the Baptist par
sonage, a farewell party was given In
honor of Miss Rose russo and Miss
Mamie Stranded. The B. Y. P. A.
gave the party. The social room was
decorated with roses and other flow
ers. About 90 young people were
present, and the evening was pleas
antly spent in playing flower games.
Refreshments of punch, sandwiches
and pineapple salad were served.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10
HENS LAY OVERSIZE EGGS
AT HENRY HAVEMAN FARM

Out at the Henry Haveman farm
now. the hens are being trained to
lay oversize eggs now.
This week; an ambitious White
Leghorn produced an egg that meas
ured tx inches in circumference one
way by 6 inches the other.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10
c. E. WHITED OF BELLINGHAM
PURCHASES LYNDEN'S CAFE

c. E. Whited of Bellingham has
purchased the Lynden Cafe, and will
take possession next week. Mr..
Whited is an experienced restaurant
man, having conducted establish
ments at Bellingham and Bremerton.
He will bring his family with him
to Lynden next week.
Mr. Owens, who has conducted the
restaurant for the past two months.
plans to motor to St. Louis. Missouri,
for tie summer.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10
LINDEN COWS MUST KEEP OFF
SIDEWALK AND PARKING STRIP

Lynden cows must not be tied to
trees or poles so that they can run
over sldewa, and parking strips.
according Marsha Jake LIE
Compile. There is an o. finance pro-
hibiting the practice, = darshal
lie Compile has arreste several of
tenders lately.
They were fined by Police Judge
Frank lie Coco.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10

Mr.. and Mrs. c. Noteboom. Mr..
and Mrs. w. Steenbergen and Mr.. and
Mrs. G.. T. Schuyleman motored to
Mr. yeleke's farm at Noon Station
Thursday. Mr.. Veleke has beauu-
ful home and has made many I'M
provements on 1t.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10

Mrs. George Worthen left Satur-
day for Pullman, where she will at
tend the graduation exercises. Miss
Elsie Worthen will receive her dip
Iona this year.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10
HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1920
WILL HOLD REUNION AT LAKE

The class of 1920 of the Lynden
High School will hold a reunion on
Monday evening at Wiser Lake. All
members are requested to meet at
Blonden's Confectionery at 6;3O r.
N
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10

Mrs. Wilder Jones visited in Lyu-
den this week Mr.. Jones is now
connected with the J. c. Penney Co.
chain of stores, and is at Wenatchee,
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10

The w. c. T. u. County Conven-
ton will be held at Deming June 16'
A large delegation from Lynden Is
desired.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10

The Amphyction Club will meet on
Friday afternoon at the home Of Mrs.
Dale Huleatt.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-06-10

Gerrit Top chopped one OF his toes
with an axe last week.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
Phyllis Dugannc's Prologue

TSHE literary atmosphere of Wash
lngton Square reappears in Phyl-
lis Duganne's first novel, Pro-
logue CHarcourt, Brace & Howe). In
this book Rita Moreland tells her life
story, from childhood to the days Of
her marriage, partly through the medi-
TN of a running narrative and partly
through brief interpolated extracts
from her journal.
1t is an unusually sensitive study of
the startings, the turnings aside and
TIE final walking straight ahead of a
girl too intelligent to be normal, too
adaptable to be readily discarded. A
mentality Of the sort lodged in Rita s
head is apt to be critical, especially
when approached by the questings of
acquisitivc man, and Rita has many mo-
clents when her totality OF self is
brought to the surface through the ir-
r,tant of opposition or the excitement 1T
Of agreement, as a negative yields its
picture in the laboratory of the dark
room. Fifth Avenue, as we'll as Green
wich Village, is in this novel, as the
street of the city home of the More
lands.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
The Struggle of tho Jew

TNHE East Side has it's veracious
interpreter in Bertha Pearl, who,
in her Sarah and Her Daughter
(Seltzer), has come near to producing
the perfect picture of the battle of the
Jew to get standing place on American
earth and stick there. The girl, Minnie
Mendel. the core. Of this novel, around
whom the whole substance of its chap
ters Is fabricated, cannot be denied ad
mission to the small room where hang
the portraits Of living types in me iern
American fiction. In the opening pages
of Sarah and Her Daughter the slow,
remorseless unfolding of the record Of
Minnie's bitter fight to exist, to get a
tingerhold on q rail that shall enable
her to pull herself up out of the muck
of gray, sunless poverty, is q piece of
writing that has the elemental force of
brief epic.
We are sure that Bertha Pearl sees
now that she left sure road to wander
bit, when she undertook to imagine
Minnie shuttlccock Of the whims Of a
series of men, young and old, fat and
lean, clever and stupid, who affect the
beau and attempt to win her. each for
his own purposes, shameful or selfish
Minnie does get married at last, not to a
man she really loves, but, as it seems
to US, since she is desperately tired of
the whole problem Of steady job, and
Graves a chance to sleep in home that
is her own. However, we won't COM
plain, for this story Of the little girl
Minnie Mendel. with its close, oppres-
sive back-curtain Of squalor, sickness
death, of a daily, hourly fight for
breath and bread, is too true to be dis.
torted. This book came from the heart
Its two dominant characters, Sarah anc
Minnie, are from the camera of fact.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31

won't spoil this novel FOR the reader
by further divulgement.
Kathleen Norris never fails in her
plots, and her skill is in evidence
throughout the stretch Of Harriet and
the Piper. Harriet Field becomes, as
the chapters release their evidence of
her development, more and more liv-
ing woman. Her creator realized her
d. the beginning. 1t is for us, gain
ing little here and little there from
the give and take of the impact Of
personality upon personality, to be-
come conscious of her as a consis stently
imagined creature.
New York City gets into this novel
! at intervals. The people we meet at
Crownlands go to the city and return
frequently Richard Carter has his of
fee in the downtown district, and it
vas to West Forty sixth Street that
Elondin took Harriet on their mas
querade honeymoon
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
Tut and Mr.. Tut

RTHUR TRAIN has struck a vein
N of ore right here in lower Man
haitian. Those Of Us who have
read his Tutt aud Mr. Tutt (Scribnersl
infwhch he relates the legal adventures
Of whimsical and lovabls New Yar-
lawyer, with back country favor in
his makeup, are clamoring for more Of
the same sort OF fiction. Old Mr.. Tut
is as lone in the field OF this page Of
fiction as a croH in flock OF doves. II
his cases in court Re skates along close
to the dividing line between erect right
eousness and lending over, and to the
side, TO give an unfortunate but practj-
cally guilty chap lft. In his pro-
found knowledge OF the law. Of its sub
terranean passages that lead to shad
owed labyrinths in which juries get
befogged and lest, and in his ability to
quote the scripture Of the code against
even the decision Of Judge, he is
! figure feared and admired.
There is a fine dash Of originality IN
all the nine stories in this book. and
in proof that it is heartily New York in
spirit follow with US old Tut as ne
PAGES, perplexed, at night, through The
difficulties Of the opening story."The
Human Element" With his pockets
bulging with stogies and one glowing
like a headlight in advance Of him, he
wandered in sort of coma up Tenth
Avenue, crossed to the Riverside Drive,
mounted Morningside Heights, descend
ed again through the rustling alleys of
Central Park, and found himself 81
Fifth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street
just as dawn was paling the electric
lamps to a sickly yellow
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31

but no stands abashed when Mary does
things almost necromantic on his easel,
when recovered from the shock Of the
storm.
The swing Of the plot snaps to New
York with Dowst's vivacity alert within
it. and young Dunlap, who, by the way.
is veteran Of the A. E. F., comes to
match wits with certain big men Of the
Street over the patents Of churn he
has perfected and proprietary rights IN
valuable irrigation prospects away pack
in Ashauna. The play Of mind aga!nst
mind, man against maid, and man
against men, in this live American story
is aided very materially by the air of
reality effected through the ingeniousy
maintained presence Of the solid back
ground Of : ay York, her streets anc
her swarmlns. busy life.