The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-08-26
MAGAZINE TELLS OF
LYNDEN'S PROGRESS


"Lynden, Business and Social
Center" is the title of the leading
article this month in the Puget Sound
Electric Journal, published by the
Puget Sound Power and Light Co.
for the 10000 employees of this dis
trict.
The article is illustrated with his
torical and industrial views of Lyn-
den and its people. E. H. Thomas,
former Lynden resident, expressed
his affection for Lynden in the open
ing historical sketch of the district,
while the industrial survey was
handled by Edward A. Batwell. ed
itor of the Journal.
The following is the article:
Beautiful Lynden, set in a curve
of the winding Nooksack, is one of
the ideal spots of Washington. 1t is
a community achievement or the
highest type. Lynden as it is today
Is dream come true the dream of a
pioneer who has lived to see the vi
sion realized. That pioneers life
bridges the period that lies between
the emigrant train and the airpiane
in the history of the nation.
1t will be fifty years next summer
since Lynden was settled. The moth
er of that settlement was Mrs. Phoebe
Judson. and Mrs. Judson. after a half
century. is still the mother Of Lyn-
den.
From 1871 on through the years.
as long as H. A. Judson lived. and
then on until Mrs. Judson's activities
were curtailed by an accident which
made her cripple when she was ap-
preaching the S5th year of her re-
markable and unselfish life, the
home of the Judsons was always a
synonym of genuine, pioneer Ameri-
can hospitality. There are but few
'of those emigrants of the early fif-
ties left. None Of them built any
finer monument to the high faith that
inspired them than is found in this
gem town that commands the rich
and fertile Nooksack valley because
OF the courage and fortitude of its
founders.
In 1853 the Judsons left the shores
of Lake Erie for the shores of luget
Sound. They had read OF this won
derful region in a book on the Ore
gon country written by that pioneer
missionary. Gustavus Hines. By one
of the most remarkable of coinci-
dences they found Gustavus Hines
and his brother Harvey Hines at the
point where Kansas City is now To-
Gated, on their arrival at that historic
crossing of the Missouri. They join
ed forces with the Hines brothers
and all proceeded overland to the
goal of their desires. 1t required sew
en- months to make the journey to
Olympia, where they arrived at the
end Of that time. a notable incl
dent was the birth enroute, at La
Bonty Prairie, Of a son to Mr.. and
Mrs. Judson. who was given the name
of his birthplace and called La Bonty
hudson. "Bonty' as he is known to
all. is the only son left to his moth
er's declining years.
1t was in 1871 that Mr.. and Mrs,
hudson decided to settle permanent
ly on the Nooksack. after having liv-
ed at different places in both Oregon
and Washington territory. To reach
the spot selected they journeyed up
the river in canoes piloted by Indians.
This river was the regions only thor
oughfare, and it was obstructed III
two places between the Judson set
Element and the mouth by log jams.
II was necessary to negotiate these
obstructions, which was done by un-
loading the canoes and dragging
them from the foot to the top OF the
lam. over great logs and tree piled
upon tree. and then by packing the
contents of the canoes over the same
laborious routes, work that was slow
and hard as well as dangerous from
meath. If ones foot slipped, or II
a log rolled over, the swift current
carried the unlucky one beneath the
lam where he was more than likely
TO perish. The hazard was increased
when the person was loaded with a
mack. 1t was over such obstacles
that the Judsons travelled to their
new home, there to found town des-
tined to become one OF the most
beautiful and one OF the richest IN
the state.
Their neighbors were Indians sew
aral hundred of the Nooksaek trioe
living between the mouth OF Fishtrap
and the Forks at what is now Dem
ing. Sundays the Indians came fro"
oil along the river, and met at the
hudson homestead for services lou
nv a missionary, C. Nj. Tate VINO uau
ING nreached to the natives. II the