The Lynden Tribune from Lynden, Washington • Page 3

LOCAL UNO PERSONAL Take time to register! Miss Mmlge McKlnnon is reported being on the sick list. .1. S. of A mu ing in Lynden. P.

Van Hemert, of the Lynden Department store went to Vancouver on luesday 011 tr The Electric Theater is presenting some unusually photoplays this week. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Magill, of Seattle are visiting at the t'arr Bailey home.

I lie little three-year-old son of Mr. iinil Mrs. Karl Hays had his arm broken Thursday evening. Charles Mersey, living north of town had his hand and foot crushed by a log while at work Friday. John Slotmaker leaves on Monday for a visit with friends and relatives in the Bait.

T. 11. Haveman has bought the home property on 12th Street, at present occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hammond.

Mrs. George Worthen and Mrs. C. H. Bay gave pnrty in honor of their sous and their boy frineds at the Won lien borne last evening.

Mrs. J. Jacoby is confined to her bed for a. few dnjrs, recovering from the effects id' a minor operation, which She underwent Monday. Misses Tilda and Theresa Tromp went io Bellingham yesterday, Miss Tromp attended a meeting of the Eastern Star there lust night.

Mrs. De Brpn, who came here from Michigan last Spring, went, io Bellingham for surgical treatment, last Thursday. Mrs. M. 1,.

Stuart and Miss Pansy Stuart entertained Misses Eva and Caroline Cole at dinner Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Burringtou of Seattle, spent last week visiting with Mr.

and Mrs. S. A. Thompson and family. Mrs.

.1. C. Reach and Miss Frances Kuapp left this morning for a month's visit with relatives of Mrs. Beach, at Coupeville. Miss Helen Smith had as her guests Sunday, Miss Fleckenger of Seattle and -Mrs.

Dancer of Belling ham. Motorcycle races axe to be held at the fair grounds on next Saturday under the auspices of the Skooktim Motorcycle Club of Bellingham. Mrs. T. A.

Serrurier and Mrs. Herman Roseuzweig will entertain the members of the Kensington of the latter tomorrow evening. Club atid their husbands at the home Mrs. Eva Thompson, who attended the district convention of the Women's Home Missionary Society at Arlington, Thursday, returned home Saturday. The Volunteer fire department is soon to give a lawn social.

The arrangement! been placed ill charge of W. H. Waples, Mark Hammond and 11. Kosenzweig. Work on the Hannegan road is proceeding under most favorable circumstances, and majjy of the farmer along the (lew road are as yet not through "cussing" the new Bellingham-Hannegan enterprise, The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Farmers Mutual Telephone Co.

will be held in the Chamber of Commerce rooms in Bellingham on Monday, JuneS, at in o'clock in the forenoon. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Hp Van af Holland have arrived in Lynden and will make their future home the valley. They are slopping With their son, G.

Van Weerdhulsen. Prof. H. L. Blancha'd has an Interesting article on Silos a ml Silage in the current Monthly Bulletin of ihe Pullman state agricultural college, ulso an article on feeding and rare' of the calf for the dairy.

The bulletin will be sent free to all ott- IseUS of the state upon application. next Saturday is a legal lioliday and as the offices In the county court house will be closed, unpaid taxes will become delinquent tomorrow. The privilege of paying one-half or all of their taxes before May is accorded taxpayers. After I hat date delinquent taxes bear 15 per cent Interest. The date for holding the firemen's summer night's festival has been set for Friday evening, June The festivities are to be held on the Waples and Berrurier lawns, these famillea having kindly consented to Ihe use of their beautiful grounds One of the best programs ever arranged for the people of Lynden is 11ow In preparation.

The firemen intend to make this festival the --vent of the summer season. II DOM will have a public sale at the place, Booth's Corners, miles west ot Lynden, on Thin-winy. June 4, commencing at one O'clock. He will serve a (raa lunch at the noon hour The nropeitv to be disposed of includes. sorrel pony.

1 colt, 6 cows, yearling Holstein bull, young calf, pigs 175 chicks, feed bins, De Laval 'separator, and a large number of farm implements and household goods. George Bostwlck will officiate as auctioneer and the usual terms of will be givt-n. A series of Bih)e lectures is being held Hawley'a Hail, Georire H. Ode, now one of Bellingham's enterprising business-men paid Lynden a visit on Monday. Mr.

and Mrs. Walter Miller, Mrs. Louis Larson, and Mr. and Mrs. Marion Thompson autoed 10 Westminster and Vancouver Sunday.

BedrO-Woolley has also let additional paving contracts at far better figures thau were prevalent last year. Mrs. De Hruyn, was conveyed to Bellingham last Thursday to undergo an operation at St. Luke's hospital. Mr.

and Mrs. Garret Bierlink are the happy parents of a baby girl which arrived at their home last Thursday. All children who wish to join the parade on Decoration Day are asked to meet, in front of the M. E. Church at 2 o'clock, and to bring small flags.

The Republican county convention will be held in Bellingham on June IS. The first and second precincts of Lynden townships will be accorded seven delegates. The next mpptlng of Y. P. B.

will bo at the home of Miss Ruby MiDantels, OH June 8. All members und their friends are cordially invited attend. Special attention is called to the, program on page six for the Grand Concert to be given by the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Choir of voices, on Friday evening, June (5. at Jamieson's Opera. House.

I). De Jong on Tuesday sold four lots on the southeast corner of Front Street and British Columbia Avenue to A. To Belle, who has commenced the erection of a residence on the same. The infant Child of Mr. and Mrs.

J. H. Rloemendaal has been seriously ill with an attack of meningitis. Mrs. Rloemendaal lias also been a sufferer from an attack of heart trouble during the past week.

Anaeortes on Friday let thp contract for asphalt paving 20 blocks downtown on a bid of The district Include! 12 blocks on Commercial Avenue, three blocks on Oth and 7th streets, and two blocks on 2nd street. The county fair management is actively engaged in preparing its plans for the best and biggest county fair ever held in the Pacific Northwest. All indication point to unusually attractive, exhibits from every section of the county. The "Old-Time Dance" given in Alexandria Hall at Abbot iford, B. on last Monday night in celebration of Umpire Bay, was largely attended and a good time enjoyed by all.

It was a success from every viewpoint. Tie present prices quoted on cement are highly favorable to street paving. Within the past week cement dropped in price from $1.90 to $1.10 a barrel. I'nder such circumstances street paving in Lynden should be hurried along Without further delay. Win.

Fritz, formerly a member of the Lynden Hase Ball Club is now playing with the Watsonville, California, Mission League team. Hill says, "It's great, down there In the land of sunshine and flowers" and he seems to be well pleased with his new location. There is on exhibition at Taylor At Kiddle's office a citron which was on exhibition af last years' fair 'o show the keeping qualities of Nooksack Valley products. This citron is In as high a state of preservation as when it was plucked from the vines almost a year ago. The city council of Bellingham on Monday night ordered Meridian Street from the inter-section of the pavement to the city limits paved.

When this improvement is completed the worst portion of the Guide Meridian highway between Lynden and the county seat town will hp.Ve been placed iv proper shape for travel. The Northwest and Northeast Diagonal roads within the city limits of Bellingham are also to be permanently paved. During the past record-month, from April HI io May 15, there were 13,200 pieces of mail weighing 2,1104 pounds taken out on ICoute One by carrier Bostwick. The class, or parcel post matter carried on this route amounted to 2XO pieces and weighed HO4 pounds. Carrier McSorley on Route Two, handled 14,101 pieces of mail Which weighed 2,503 pounds.

The parcel post matter carried ou Route Two amounted to 2.35 pieces and weighed 570 pounds. Rev. J. D. O.

Powers, minister of the First Unitarian Church in Seattle, will preach in the Unitarian Bellingham, next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. His subject will I Became a Unitarian and Why Remain One." Rev. Fred Alban Weil of Bellingham will exchange with Dr. Bowels and occupy the pulpit ill Seal tie. Sunday afternoon, alter preaching at ihe Unitarian Chanel in the morning, Dr Bowers will give the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class at tbe Normal School, and he will also remain over until Monday for the Peace Pageant at the Normal School.

Dr. Powers is president of State Peace! Society and is Identified with civic work in Sent- Itie, while as a pulpit orator he is considered one of the best upon the Pacific Coast. A number of Lynden people may attend the service Bellingham next Sunday morulng the Unitarian Chapel. THE LYNDEN TRIBUNE THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1914 LYNDEN DEPARTMENT STORE LADIES WOOL DRESSES We are showing an excellent line of Ladies and Misses Wool Dresses in blacks, navies, browns, etc. These dresses are exceptionally well tailored and they are very reasonably priced at from $6.50 to $12.50 WHITE CAT UNION SUITS GROCERIES: COMPARE OUR PRICES WITH OTHERS Cheese, per lb.

.20 Bacon, per lb. .20 Graham Flour, 50 lb. sack 1.25 Whole Wheat Flour. 50 lb. sk.

1.25 Bayo Beans, 16 lbs. 1.00 Pearl Barley 4 lbs. .25 Rice, Best Japan, 20 lbs. 1.00 LYNDEN DEPARTMENT STORE This Store is the Home of Hart, Schaffner and Marx Clothes Dairy Herd Records at Tribune office cents dozen. D.

Vander Qrlend and family will leave on next Wednesday for an extended trip to the A dance, to which the public Is invited, will be given at Hoffman's Hall, at Delta and Sunrise, on Saturday, June Labor Commissioner Olson points out that to make the minimum law a success tie buying public must patronize thus" Who pay the higher wages, ratier than out-side competitors who can sell cheaper because not. compelled to pay so much for labor. Many local fans as well ns the Sumas supporters were disappointed last Sunday on account of the postponement of the game, which was to have been playd at the border town. Hadley's illness, together with Bowman's injured limb, ctippley the local team. A pitcher to fill Hartley's shoes was not available an aggregation of Sumas' calibre.

No game is scheduled for next Suuday. LYNDEN DEPARTMENT STORE Let your next Union Suit be a White Cat, made by the Cooper Underwear the inventors of the Closed Crotch Unions. These Garments are unsupassed for wear and comfort $1 to Suit Dutch Cleanser, 4 for .30 Cream of Wheat, 3 for .50 Copenhagen Snuff, 6 for .25 Yeast Foam, 7 for .25 Matches, 7 for .25 Brick Salt, 3 for .25 Raisins, 16 oz. 3 pkgs. .25 High School Commencement Exercises.

Commencement exercise! of tbe Lynden high school wore held In Jamlesnn's hall Thursday evening, tbe targe auditorium being filled with relative! und friends of the thirteen The stage was effectively decorated With flowers, pennants and school emblems. The class motto, "Rowing Not Drifting," executed in white flowers on a green background, was suspended in large ters across the top of toe stage. Prl iclpal I. A. Wright presided over tbe exercises.

Q. 3, Brouwer, of the Kirst Reformed church, gave the Invocaton, and Dr. Mathes, of tbe Bellingham Normal, delivered the principal address of the evening. Dr. Mathes' remarks Were exceedingly Well chosen and full of interest and uplift both to of the graduating class and the audience, and were listened to will' the closest attention.

To Howard Worthen and Nellie O.ikes fell the salutatorian and valedictorian honors, respectively, and both acquitted themselves with marked credit, Mr. K. BSdson, president ot the school board, mude a When "Miss Beautiful" thinks of a wedding, be it her own or that of a friend, she thinks of us. She knows that the ONE place to come to buy wedding things is our store. But be it for weddings, for "good old Summer time or any other time or occasion, we, at all times, are equipped to please you.

"Tone" and a reasonable price are the two things that have made our store the RELIABLE store. You just ought to SEE our summer goods. See our line of Ladies and Misses Skirts. We have the popular plaids as well as the plainer colors. Misses Skirts from 25c to $4.50 Ladies Skirts from $3.50 to $10.00 GORDON Short address, closing the program, and Wlt.h a personal word to each member of the graduating class, presented the diplomas.

Enjoyable features of the were musical numbers by Mrs. ('. Heun and Kenneth Heim, tend Mmes Mark Hammond and L. Wright, Misses Kenton and Tucker. The class roll is as follows: John Wolf, Lawrence Nymen, John Bay, Beryl Merrltt, Howard Worthen, Llda Stone, Tillie Meurer, Gene Welhouse, Ada Baldwin, Iva Jacobs, Catherine Harris, Ethel Bruns and Nellie Oakes.

Orange Jacobs, long prominent iv Washington's political life, is dead at the ripe age of 87. He was former (chief justice of the territorial supreme court, delegate in congress, mayor of Seattle, and member of the legislature. The public service commission of Washington has secured for the city of Spokane a reduction in light and power rates of from 28 per cent to 40 per cent, which, in dollars, it Is estimated, will amount to more than $100,000 per year to the consumers. LYNDEN DEPARTMENT STORE LADIES AND MISSES DRESS SKIRTS Currants, 16 oz. 2 pkgs.

.25 Soda Crackers, large tins .90 Cleveland Baking Powder, 1 lb. .35 Knox Gelatine, 2 pkg. .25 Minced Clams, 2 for .25 Lima Beans, 13 lbs. 1.00 HATS The Gordon is the most popular $3.00 Hat in America today. This popularity has been gained by quality.

We have other hats at $1.50 and $2.00. Boys Hats from 50c to $2.00 Straw Hats from 10c to $7.00 Spring Millinery Is Low Priced MISS HELEN E. SMITH Lyndon's Milliner, will, betrinDlng tomorrow, FRIDAY, May "J'J, make a reduction of 25 per cent on all Trimed Hats, Shapes and Flowers MUD IO POI OEHT OH PLUMES The woman who wants absolutely authoritative style at a rim, iest price must come to he Lynden Millinery Store. For iv spite of the fact that we buy hut few of style, we can thereby present an unequalled assortment. For Hprinit 1914 the shapes and models ure gathered with the utmost care; the choicest conceptions of Fashion are adapted to he needs of patrons HELEN E.

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