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Wednesday, January 27, 1897:
-Mrs. Charlie BRYSE is still sick at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. BATSTONE. -Mr. Will MAXFIELD, who has been spending the holidays with his family at Port Angeles, has returned to his field of labor in the DAVIS mill. Saturday, January 30, 1897: The Queen restaurant is defunct for the present. Mr. QUACKENBUSH who has conducted a restaurant there for some time that was a credit both to the city and the proprietor has sold his outfit and rented the room to J. M. FORTIER. Mr. FORTIER will move his saloon from the Lighthouse building to the new location and in the rear a first class cafe will be conducted under Mr. FORTIER's supervision. The cafe will be a short order lunch room during the day except from eleven till two when a business mans lunch will be served. The new proprietor aims to make it a popular place. He takes possession today. Rev. T. J. MASSEY, pastor of the First M. E. Church died of heart failure on Friday night at the M. E. Hospital in Spokane. Three weeks ago he preached his last sermon in Whatcom and got leave of absence for a month to go in search of better health. For the last five years he has been more or less an invalid and lately had grown worse. He started east and got to Spokane where he was compelled by physical prostration to enter the hospital. On Thursday his wife received a telegram that he was very low and yesterday news came that he had died. His body will arrive here tomorrow noon and the funeral will be a private one from the residence on Front street on Monday at 2 p.m. Union memorial services, taken part in by all the M. E. churches on the Bay will be held in the First M. E. church tomorrow at 11 a. m. Mr. Massey was 42 years old. He was born in Chester, Illinois. He has been on Puget Sound since '86, was two years a pastor at Tacoma, was presiding elder of that district, was agent of the Puget Sound University, has been twice pastor in Whatcom and was presiding elder of this district. His wife and four children, the eldest 15 years old, live in the Judge SCOTT house on Front street. Prof. J. M. HATCHER left on Monday for San Luis Potosi, Mexico, where he teaches English literature in a university. M. J. HENEY is back again from the east and still talks hopefully of the building of the Blaine & Eastern from Blaine to Nooksack, or thereabouts, via Lynden. ORTEIG Bros. have leased the room formerly known as the Grand Restaurant on Holly street and will open a first class French restaurant as soon as they can get things arranged. Dr. THOMPSON of Nooksack was taken suddenly ill in Vancouver, B. C., this week and for some time the matter was viewed very seriously and Mrs. THOMPSON was telegraphed for. He recovered and is now at home. G. M. SORELLE, formerly of Whatcom and later of Custer, last week sold a quarter interest in the North Exchange mine in the Slocan country. There is a tunnel in 60 feet in the North Exchange and men are at work on it. Saturday, February 6, 1897: George W. WELCH of Nooksack has been granted an increase of pension. Mrs. Alexander BOWEN of Sumas, has been visiting Mrs. Dr. PURDY the past few days. Sunday, February 7, 1897:
He was hind brakeman on the logging train that is such a familiar sight to the people of the city as it goes and comes to and from the various logging camps on the Blue Canyon route. Many times a day the train goes puffing out into the country and returns with a train load of big logs of fir and cedar that are dumped with a great splash down the long chute at the bunkers. The conductor is the head brakeman and he and Joe have been running the train since Fred HAMBURG was killed at the bunkers eighteen months ago. Yesterday the train came in with a long load of logs. The conductor was riding on the engine and Joe was on top of the last car. The train stopped at the bunkers. The men on the front were startled by shouts from a man down the track and went to the rear. There they found Joe under a thirty foot log, which was diagonally across him. It was a cedar log two and a half feet in diameter. He was crushed and broken so that he couldn't possibly life long. His legs, one arm, ribs on one side and his body generally suffered and the doctor's said that the side of his body and the leg that was on the under side were worst broken so that he must have been rolled over once at least. BLOEDEL took a hack and hurried Drs. BIGGS and HENDERSON down to the bunkers and they tried all means known but they were powerless to do anything except perhaps prolong his life for an hour. He was taken to St. Joseph's hospital and died there four hours afterwards. No one knows how the accident happened for no one was near the car. There is always more or less danger about a logging train for the weight of the logs themselves and the movements of the heavily loaded train make a man of no more account than a pasteboard toy in case of an accident, but Joe was always very careful seemingly and he was killed on the side of the train where there is considered to be no danger. The logs are all dumped to the right down the chute and the left side of the track is seemingly safe. The best explanation is that the train stopped and as it did so Joe jumped off the hind end of the last car as he always did and went round the car. There is a curve at that point and the top log, which perhaps wasn't well set in its place, by the jar of stopping and the cramping of the logs on the curve, became displaced and slid off just as Joe got round to the side of the car, just in time to catch him with the tremendous force that a thirty foot log would acquire in sliding from the top of a high carload. Joe was a young man, probably 26 years old, and unmarried. He is the youngest brother of the COSGROVE family, Ed, John and Pat being the other members, and was always popular among his associates. The arrangements for the funeral are not yet made and will be announced later. Thursday, February 18, 1897:
Second Grade - W. Frank MOYER, Esther SUTHERLAND, Carrie O. WILMORE, Nettie LEHMAN, John W. GODFREY, J. F. DEAN, Mabel DONOVAN, Miss Rose WILSON, Geo. R. AUSTIN, Mattie BIRD, Geo. H. ROBINSON, Nellie H. ABBOTT, Alice SMITH, Lillian GRIFFITH, Chas. A. LINDBERRY, Mary M. MACKEY, David DUNAGAN, Herbert A. BERKMAN, William JONES. Third Grade - Marian COLE, Luella AUSTIN, Mildred STUBBS, Myrtle TROTT, Emma WHEELIS, Fanny AUSTIN, Maude HUMPHRIES, Geo. M. NETERER. Ed GOODING and Miss Lizzie REED are to be married tonight at the home of Miss REED. May 9, 1897: Mrs. SCHLATER's daughter from Semiahmoo who has been totally blind for three weeks and is under the care of Dr. HOLT recovered her sight yesterday and could see across the street.
Harry PATTISON city superintendent; E. E. WHITE principal high school; J. N. SELBY, Anna GRAHAM and Virgil PERINGER, assistants; Mary D. CAREW, Joh LEE, Fannie E. LEE, R. SIMPSON, principals of grade buildings; Alice M BIGGS, Emma CAMPBELL, Feronia JOHNSON, Mollie CARPENTER, Hattie UNDERWOOD, Clara SMITH, Mrs. M. F. KNIGHT, Rose ROGERS, grammar grade; Nettie COLEMAN, M. Dee BACUS, May ATKINS, Anna McBRIDE, Will D. PRATT, Carrie WILMORE, Mrs. GETCHELL, Rose MORGAN, intermediate grade; Nellie LEE, Florence LEES, Rose DOBBS, Jessie CALLVERT, first primary grade. The music teacher hasn't been elected yet as the board adjourned before that order of business was reached. The term was fixed at nine months for next year and the wages will be the same as this year. BORN - A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. F. N. CULVER on Wednesday, May 5th.
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