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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1919
Page
3
Spokane reports a record boost in northwest travel aided by factory output, cheap vacations, and eager Eastern visitors. Davenport offers free camping. towns plan signboards and literature to draw tourists while grape growing spreads in home gardens.
The article explains how small price differences drive household meat choices and urges using mutton and lamb shoulder through boning and rolling to create chops or roasts. It notes improving sheep breeding improves flavor and claims removing the wooly taste via trimming the outer membrane eliminates the objection to eating lamb or mutton.
The notice outlines a 1919 tax under Section 630 of the revenue act requiring vendors at soda fountains and ice cream parlors to collect a one cent tax for every ten cents of the sale price on drinks and ice creams. Vendors must report and remit monthly to the collector in Tacoma and keep detailed records. It urges dealers to apply for mailing lists to receive tax blanks and warns of penalties for delinquency. Also included are notices about mining claims and patent applications in Washington with formal notification to adverse claimants and publication orders in Leavenworth.
Official publication for Leavenworth State Bank Washington shows resources totaling 498 980 58 with loans and discounts 300 404 68 bonds warrants and other security 88 274 83 and real estate 11 126 59 under liabilities capital stock 25 000 00 surplus 5 000 00 undivided profits 5 372 36 and certified checks 205 22 mortgages payable none letters of credit 18 000 00 with sworn statement by Assistant Cashier C G Cockburn and directors Robt Field J Adams F Field notarized March 18 1919.
Philip J. Lonergan of box 686 pursues a patent for the Leprechaun Lode in the Leavenworth Mining District Chelan County Washington. The notice is filed in the United States Land Office at Waterville Washington dated January 28 1919 under Title 32 United States Revised Statutes.
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