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Friday, March 15, 1907:
Joseph M. JOSEPHSON, son of Mr. and Mrs. Magnus JOSEPHSON of this city died last Friday of cerebral spinal meningitis after an illness of about six days. Deceased was a member of Court Blaine, I. O. F. and the funeral services were conducted by that lodge on Sunday afternoon every member being present. The young man was twenty-five years of age and leaves a father, mother and four sisters to mourn his early death. Friday, April 12, 1907: Lawrence Drake MONTFORT the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis MONTFORT of this city died last Monday night as the result of pneumonia. The funeral services were conducted on Wednesday afternoon and the little boy was laid to rest in the Blaine cemetery. Friday, May 10, 1907: Joe A. WHITE, Jr., aged nine months two days, died at the residence of Mr. Fred WYMAN, Seattle, Wash. May 2nd. of spinal menengitis. The funeral services were held on Saturday afternoon after which the parents accompanied the remains to Bellingham, in which city interment will be made. Friday, May 24, 1907:
EVISTON Buried Here
The remains of Al EVISTON, who died at St. Joseph's hospital in Bellingham last Monday, were brot (sic) here for burial Tuesday afternoon. The Eagles and W. of W. lodges turned out and the interment was in the Blaine cemetery. EVISTON was a blacksmith and up to his going to the hospital last January we employed in the QUIRT shop in this city. He was about 40 years of age and, so far as known, leaves no relatives. One of the Bellingham papers stated that he was a county charge -- this is a mistake, as he was a member, in good standing, of both the Eagle and W. of W. lodges, the former of which paid the expense of treatment at the hospital, also that of his funeral and burial.
Roy REYNOLDS, the young man who was accidently crushed under a log at the Ridings mill on Wednesday afternoon is reported to have died yesterday. Young REYNOLDS was dragging logs to the mill with a team and was, in some way, caught off his guard and thrown beneath a log which passed over his body. At first it was thot (sic) he would recover, but we hear, just as we go to press, that he has died. The funeral services will be held tomorrow at two o'clock. Friday, June 14, 1907: John Scott DAHL the four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles DAHL, died at the family home in this city at 8:30 Monday morning, after an illness of several weeks. Funeral services were conducted at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday by Rev. C. J. LEONARD of Christ Episcopal church and the remains were buried in the Blaine cemetery. Friday, June 21, 1907:
Winchman Ground to Pieces in Winch While Loading Poles in the Bay this Morning
At about 9:30 this morning a winchman was killed while loading the cargo of the Robert Dollar now in this port. the man in some manner was caught in the winch and his weight threw the valve open, which gave the engine full power. The man was drawn into the machinery and crushed to death. The captain of the Robert Dollar says the man joined the ship about three weeks ago, giving the name of J. NICHOLS. He was a member of the sailors union and beyond this nothing is known of him. In build the man was somewhat under size and weight with dark complexion and appeared to be about 27 years of age. The body was brot (sic) to the morgue and turned over to Mr. POTTER. An effort is being made by the captain of the Dollar to find the man's relatives by wife, but up to the time of going to press nothing has been learned.
Friday, July 12, 1907: Sherman HICKS, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle HICKS, died at the home of his parents in Custer at 8:30 last Sunday morning, aged seventeen years. He leaves to mourn his death his parents, three sisters and a host of friends. Sherman was a boy who was loved by all who knew him and his death comes as a blow to everybody. Funeral services were conducted at the M. E. church in Custer by Rev. G. D. HYDEN and the interment was in the Enterprise cemetery. The floral offerings were many and beautiful and showed the high esteem in which the dead boy was held by those who knew him. Friday, August 9, 1907: John WAGNER died at his home east of Blaine last Monday morning and was buried in the Blaine cemetery on Tuesday afternoon, the Blaine Masonic lodge officiating. Mr. Wagner was an old settler of this section and leaves a widow and a large number of friends. Friday, September 20, 1907: Died, September 6 at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. HANSEN, at Sumas, Harold Lee HANSEN, aged seven and one-half months. The remains were buried in the Enterprise cemetery on September 8. Mrs. HANSEN is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. H. LEE of Birch Bay. The 2-year-old son of Ed. DICKERSON [DIXON] of Kickerville, fell into a tub of boiling water at 3 o'clock this afternoon and was scalded to death. The child's mother was near and snatched offspring from the water, but the heat had done its work and death occurred twenty minutes later. -Friday's Reveille. Friday, September 27, 1907:
FURTHER PARTICULARS SECURED
Further particulars regarding the accidental death of the little 1-year-old boy of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. DIXON, of Kickerville, which occurred Thursday last, tell a different story than the dispatch given the Reveille of last Friday morning, and copied by the Journal. The child in some way fell head-first into a ten-gallon keg in which there was about an inch and a half of water, and when found about a minute afterward by its mother, was dead. Its head was thrown back with the face resting on the bottom. Prompt action by the mother, assisted by several neighbors, failed to revive the child. The little one had been throwing sticks into the keg a few minutes before, just outside the window near which Mrs. DIXON was ironing, and was missed but a minute before she found him. How the child could get high enough to fall into a keg nearly as high as it was, will probably never be known.
The funeral services were held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, and the burial made in the Enterprise cemetery. The parents are heart-broken at the sudden loss of their only child, and have the sympathy of everyone. Mr. and Mrs. C. S. SHELTON, of this city, attended the funeral, Mrs. DIXON being Mrs. SHELTON'a sister. The funeral of Joseph PROTTO [PROTTEAU], who died Friday evening last, was held Sunday at Custer, under the auspices of the Woodmen lodge. Mr. PROTTO was employed in the Modern mill and was taken suddenly ill Friday morning with an internal hemorrhage, passing away the same evening. The interment was made in the Enterprise cemetery. The deceased leaves a wife and three children. Mrs. Maud Irean (sic) SMOCK, who died in this city on September 23, was born in Nelson City, Iowa, November 31 (sic), 1870. She came to Blaine last June and was a sister of Mrs. A. WELLS and Mrs. SNIDER. The burial will probably be next Sunday as it is expected Mr. SMOCK will arrive from Indian Territory by that time. Friday, November 8, 1907: Agnes DAVIDSON, aged 7 years, died at Drayton last Saturday afternoon of spinal meningitis. Funeral services were conducted at the Foresters hall on Monday afternoon by Rev. C. B. SEELY. T. YOKACI and O. MIYAKI are the names of the two Japanese who were crushed under a dirt slide on the Great Northern grade north of Blaine last week. The bodies were brought through Blaine and shipped from here to Vancouver on Saturday. Friday, November 15, 1907:
FORMER BLAINE MAN KILLED
O. H. NEIKIRK, the man killed by a falling pile driver hammer at Sinclaire, Skagit county, last Wednesday morning, was at one time a teacher in the Blaine schools. He had many friends in Blaine and was employed with C. C. McDONALD in SEELY's store for some time. Mr. NEIKIRK was assisting in the repairing of an old dock at Sinclaire when the pile driver hammer slipped and fell, crushing his head. He was a son-in-law of Rev. J. H. FRESCOLM and leaves a widow and ten months old daughter. The funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow and in interment will be in Bay View cemetery, Bellingham.
CHARLES J. JOHNSON DEAD
In a letter received this week from Levin JOHNSON, who left Blaine some days ago for the bedside of a sick brother at Springdale, Alberta, Mr. JOHNSON says that his brother passed away on Saturday morning, November 9. The cause of his death was tubercular peritonitis of the bowels brought on by a case of pneumonia which started on August 18. Charles J. JOHNSON was born in Fulton, Whiteside county, Illinois, June 4, 1869, and was 48 years, 4 months and 9 days old. He at one time lived in Blaine and had many friends in this city. The remains were buried at Springdale.
Friday, December 20, 1907: Harold WEIBEMAN, a nephew of C. GRONVOLD, who was taken to St. Joseph's hospital, Bellingham, about three weeks ago, died yesterday as the result of appendicitis.
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