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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1921
Page
1
The Knights of Pythias Leavenworth ladies announce three prizes for the high school essay contest on Americanism to be presented Friday evening May 6 at the Community Building auditorium. The program includes readings by the winning students and extra musical numbers. admission is free and all are welcome.
Postmaster General Will H. Hays offers up to 5000 dollars for any postal employee or other person who captures a mail robber. The piece argues arming post office workers, recalls historic robberies, and warns that protecting the mails could deter the looters who have stolen millions in recent years.
Church notices announce Sunday School at 9 15 Roseate Sunday in the class Mrs Clarence Seely leads opening exercises upstairs Mrs E R McClain directs Primary and Junior departments Epworth League at 7 Preaching at 11 am and 8 pm Morning sermon Lest We Forget Evening sermon Elisha's Love for Elijah Everyone welcome
Sunday School begins at 10 a.m with a lesson on Cain and Abel. Sermon at 10 45 a.m. theme from John 11 17 27. Ladies Aid meets Thursday afternoon May 5 with Mrs Martin Johnson. Pastor Wm Lueckel.
Mrs James Moore Mrs N B Mc Coy Tan McCoy Esq Mrs Fannie E Ralchson Mrs Lillie Shaffer Mrs Mabel Smith F H Williams. When calling for the above letters please ask for advertised. Guy A Hamilton P M
Bond No 6 of Local Improvement District No 7 in Leavenworth Washington is called for payment. Interest will cease accruing on April 29 1921. R F Taylor City Treasurer.
Regular meeting held Tuesday April 26 1921 with Mayor Blomeke and eight councilmen present. Minutes approved. Audited accounts listed for labor, supplies, binding and inspection. Ordinance 206 read and passed. Engineer’s walk in L I D No 6 approved. Committee to view and relay work in L I D No 6 authorized. Safety committees appointed. Inspector of Cement construction named. Traffic ordinance discussed for revision. Alderman Potter acts for mayor. Three hydrants ordered.
Ordinance No 206 provides for the Chief of Police salary in Leavenworth to begin May 1 1921 at 150 dollars monthly. It repeals Section 1 of Ordinance No 110 and sections from 1919. The ordinance becomes effective after council passage mayor approval and five days after publication in the Leavenworth Echo. First reading was April 12 1921.
The Leavenworth saw mill started last Friday and continues on an eight hour schedule this week. Box production lags as the box factory has not yet begun, threatening box shortages unless factories run through the season. Logs arrive from Chiwaukum, with steady mill operation expected. gains depend on ranchers ordering boxes.
A man lights a match to check if his car gas tank is empty, another pats a strange dog to test affection, a third races a train crossing and fails, a fourth touches a trolley wire and finds it live, and a fifth trims advertising to save money but fails.
A married friend shares a gossip tale about a scandal whispered by a wife. The tale centers on confidential chatter and the belief that women cannot keep secrets, provoking reflections on discretion and curiosity.
Practical guidance for hens and chicks from hatch to brooding. Emphasizes keeping the hen with chicks 12 hours after hatch, ensuring fresh water on demand, offering skim milk in early life, delaying solid food until 48 to 60 hours, and storing fresh eggs in water glass for winter use.
Mr and Mrs J E Craney arrived Tuesday from Spokane and stayed to manage household interests. Mr and Mrs M A Wise and family moved from Wenatchee to their ranch here. The Leavells hosted a Sunday dinner with Peters and Homer present. A successful school term ends this week as Miss King plans a Burgess woods picnic. Wenatchee visitors Kale and Rupel visit. Vegetable market improves with truck loads sent to market.
A young man visiting his best girl stays late despite her sleepy pleas and fear of robberies after midnight. She persuades him to call a taxi home, noting safety worries in the area, but he insists the taxi will hurry him home even faster.
A Peshastin column covers a Daddy Long-legs film at the school auditorium, P. L. F. Club charity chairs, and a Sleepy Hour sketch. Local visits include Mrs. Hauber and Mrs. Osborne Sr, while events feature a Woodmen social and a Dean White lecture with P T A backing. Wanda Bobblett injures her arm.
A new one reel film titled A Plant Disease and How It Spreads is circulated by the division of general college extension under Dr. F. F Nalder. Secured from the U S Department of Agriculture, it shows rhubarb disease, field and lab studies, and microscopic views at 1000x magnification to aid public education and agricultural classes.
The second Annual Apple Blossom Day in the Wenatchee Valley is slated for May 38 1921. A committee led by L G Olds plans parades, rides, a queen coronation, dances, a cantata, school performances, a baseball game against Leavenworth and a street dance ending the day.
A tale from the Christian Advocate uses dogs in a house to show how Frisk confuses inference with fact. The pets discuss a dog named Snap believed to be hanged as a rumor spreads from misread clues. The moral warns against assuming conclusions without evidence.
A passerby questions a woman tooting her car horn while her husband repairs the vehicle. She replies that she obeys his instruction so she cannot hear his remarks during the repair.
London report states that upon reading the will of a man who died at St Leonards, the widow is left one shilling to buy a rope, a curious bequest reflecting the deceased's wishes.
Levi Howard Gonser 56 a Wenatchee resident and five year Chelan county deputy game warden died after his car rolled over at the top of a grade near the Columbia river ferry Sunday night. His son Stanley escaped with minor injuries after freeing his father from the wreckage. Gonser formerly steward of the local Elks club leaves a wife and five children.
Mrs. Coleman from Omak visited Cashmere with friends while Dryden guests came Monday. Judge Chase and daughter Charlton plan to depart May 1 for Cashmere after Washington D C correspondence. W R C planned April 30 cake sales. Otis Yancy bought a Ford coupe. Sophomore picnic at the Hogsback delighted attendees. Measles hit Barnard Eliot’s sons. Dryden’s Dorothy Mitchell ill with diphtheria. Pollyanna Circle hosts an open air meeting then dinner. Mr. and Mrs. John Marshall leave May 1 for Scotland with passports. Walter Armstrong promotes oil stock near Great Falls Mont. Mrs. W J Harper of Corvallis and sister attend funeral of sister Mrs. Clarke Murdock. Ernest Gronseth and two Dryden children visit relatives in Cashmere. Frank Wohler family moving to Smith Grove for summer. Mrs. J C Mann of Omak visits son Carl H Mann. J M Mann en route Spokane to Omak. Olin Mitzer of Wenatchee visits his father and brother. Rosella Ladd and Marguerite Jorgenson visit Dryden Saturday. E J Watson suffers severe poison ivy. First home game: Waterville High 4 Cashmere High 13, Russell Green umpired. Roy and Elmer Caldwell return from Pequa Ohio. mother near blindness in danger of total loss.
A playful verse celebrates baseball season with lines about April showers, spring signs, and the thrill of a grand stand seat. The speaker notes watching the game beats poetry and declares a firm plan to be at the ball park, avoiding desk work.
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