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Show Heay Pcrin lladscs' De slroyed ia Palh of 11:2 fl:nes; Shbrle . Now in; Dearer. ; People Picht IIero:cc!Iy to Stop Prepress of Rrc,bufeir Efforts Prove Futile, BELLINGHAM, March The forest for-est Area which yesterday afternoon de-troyed de-troyed the'-villa ae o North wood, in-..-' cludln a awmlll ' and general mer- chandlse atore," are today" within ' two miles of the town of Lynden; making headway . toward that community.. . .Men .fought the flames. durlnc; the night, - but . were , unable to gain : the upper hand.- C-i ). ' . . - ; " 'A shingle mlty-near Lynden 'is 'how in danger; . and Is having everything portable removed as rapidly as poisi-' ble.v : . .. i :: ' ' Many Lynden people are doing what .they caa to check the progress of the flames.'."- . ' ,.- - Yesterday ; the t residents V of '.North- -wood, whose homes were destroyed, and who .escaped with nothing but the clothes- - they. wer wearing, made- a" vain struggle to save-' some ef their property,- ,; yi.--iv.; .w. ' , . -For two hours they were cut oft-fronv escape-to Lynden.-but were Anally abl- ' to make vthe trip - when the -Are had burned itself out at the place where It blocked their-way. : - ' - Many farmhouses were, reported to have burned in the path of the flames. MISS FERRIS GIVES MISSIONARY ADDRESS v Miss Ferris of the Woman's Missionary Mission-ary society of the First Methodist church made an interesting talk on the needs of mission work in Africa last night. She divided her subject Ulto three phases, educational, evangelistic and medical .missionary work, i . She referred to the fallacious belief that missionaries in Africa can. live on next to nothing and asserted that the contrary' was the factthat mission-arlss mission-arlss were compelled to pay almost prohibitive prices for everything. She also said that the main hold obtained, ob-tained, on the people was through the medical missionaries who minister to them in times of illness and thus gain their affections; next the educational educa-tional missionaries are introduced and then the evangelistic workers follow. Miss Anness made an Interesting talk also- on -the efforts that, are being made to obtain a foothold in India. |