Peshastin Social Notes and Local Business Highlights
Peshastin reports arrivals and visits including Mrs Stanley Neander's mother from Underwood and Mrs Maxfield with baby from Seattle. Local residents travel to Wenatchee and Seattle on business while Wingate buys Stokes orchard and sells a ranch. The piece notes a 1917 King 8 accident, civic club reports, theater of daily life, and a Washington land litigation value figure of 76 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Neander
Underwood
North Dakota
Maxfield
Seattle
Peshastin
Fred Wright
Harry Harvey
Doris
Wenatchee
F. A. Wingate
Bert Luttrell
P. L. P. Club
Cornelius
Cashmere
Fred Miller
Zert Goff
Walter Smith
Billy Stage
Hal Starks
Gladys Spencer
Kathyl Gregory
Lanphere
Grace
Waterville
G. A. Lanphere
Ellen Ryan
Geo. Fields
Smith Hill
Ephrata
Blewett
Lovell Hendricks
William Wilbur
Ted Gray
Jim Smith
Dan Logue
S. P. Beecher
Stokes
Here
Leavenworth
Ralph Curtis
Leave
Chautauqua Financial Report and Local Balance
The Echo provides a week’s Chautauqua financial wrap by secretary Guy Hamilton. It details 1919 metal output declines in Washington with 1918 value totals, district ore shipments, smelting plant activity, and new mining developments. It records adult, student, and child ticket sales, a deficit, and notes a remaining balance and urging prompt settlements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chautauqua
Guy Hamilton
Chewelah
Stevens County
Republic
Index
Snohomish County
Okanogan County
Northport
Tacoma
Trail
B. C
Washington
Electric Point
Midvale
Utah
Loon Lake
United Copper
Metaline Falls
Notice to Creditors in Hutchings Estate Chelan County
Superior court probate notice states Irven F. Hutchings is administrator of Lola A. Hutchings estate. Creditors must present claims with vouchers to the administrator or attorney L. J. Nelson in Leavenworth, Washington, within six months from July 8, 1919, or claims will be forever barred. First publication Aug 8, third publication Aug 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior Court
State of Washington
Chelan
Lola A. Hutchings
L. J. Nelson
Leavenworth
Chelan County
Washington
A. D
Irven F. Hutchings
P. O
Wash
Sugar beet acreage and value planned for Yakima valley
It is estimated that 10 000 acres of sugar beets will be raised in Yakima valley this season. The Utah Idaho Sugar Co will farm three thousand of the total. Growers will average about 13 tons to the acre, which will bring in about 1 500 000 dollars for the crop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yakima
Yakima Valley
Utah-Idaho Suger Co
Aviators Tour Northwest To Boost Recruitment
Washington DC aviators sent to Camp Lewis begin a Northwest tour to spur enlistment. Four flyers in two Curtiss JN4D planes travel at about 70 mph up to 12 000 feet and offer rides to recruits to welcome them into the army. In Wenatchee, officials seek owners of a Seattle bound truck shipment held since June 7, facing nearly 1000 dollars in demurrage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Lewis
Washington D. C
Northwest
Great Northern
Great Western Truck and Trailer Co
Seattle
Sound City
Wenatchee World
Apple Box Famine Forecast in Wenatchee District
Wenatchee World reports a looming apple box shortage as mills abandon box production for higher profit lumber. Prices rise from 18 to 22 cents, with estimates of 25 cents likely as apple crops grow and demand soars. Factories operate two shifts to meet demand. Yellow Pine Lumber Co and Great Northern Lumber Co push box output daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wenatchee
Yellow Pine Lumber Co
Johnson Creek
Great Northern Lumber Co
Leavenworth
Landreth Bros
Wenatchee Woodworking Co
Japanese Influence in Seattle Area Noted
The article catalogs Japanese owned or operated interests in Seattle and nearby, including farmlands and the public market. It cites businesses such as the Oriental Trading Co and many restaurants, grocery stores, hotels, dye works, junk shops, apartments, garages, and repair shops with significant growth in Spokane-Building and a rise past the $800,000 mark as the seven month trend continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
City
Oriental Trading Co
Northwest
Washington Notice: European Bride Weds Navy Officer Abroad
Washington readers learn of Mrs. Robert Allen Dyer II formerly Olga Parodi of Gibraltar, now the wife of Lieut. Byer of the US destroyer service. The couple honeymooned in Washington and Annapolis after a overseas wedding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
America
Robert Allen Dyer II
Olga Parodi
Gibraltar
Byer
US Destroyer Service
Annapolis
Building Boom Promised as War Halts Construction
The War era labor note urges building nearly one million homes as a basic industry with ripple effects through the economy from ditch diggers to bank presidents. Wyomont Co plans oil rig near Montesano Grays Harbor and Swastika Co to drill at Jefferson Oil Co site. Seattle capitalists buy about 1000000 dollars of property in Moclips Sunset Copalis Beach near an active Standard Oil Well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Labor
United States
Aberdeen
Grays Harbor
Wyomont Company
Montesano
Swastika Co
Jefferson Oil Co
Seattle
Moclips
Sunset
Copalis Beach
Standard Oil Co
California
Oil activities in Hoquiam promise growth
Aberdeen payrolls total 1,000,000 dollars a month as oil activities in Hoquiam show strong promise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoquiam
Aberdeen
Dairies face decline amid labor woes and proposed plants
Centralia Washington milch cows fell by 14000 in the past year as dairymen blame condemsaries and push cooperative plants. Labor shortages blamed. Kendrick Kenyon bill seeks government operation of packing plants stockyards and refrigerator cars via the department of agriculture. Mayor Harlin orders undesirables out of Wenatchee prompting departures of noted figures. Tacoma workers see average wage increases of 78.7 percent since January 1917 per city council figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Centralia
Washington
Kendrick-Kenyon
Department of Agriculture
Tacoma City
Factory planned to build in Seattle for luxury car making
A plan calls for a Seattle factory to manufacture high grade pleasure cars. In nearby news, Spokane butchers strike for higher wages set at 85 dollars per week. Inland Empire lumbermen reject wage hike from 4.20 to 4.80.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Spokane
Tnland Empire
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E. M. Chandler
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State Reclamation Service
Cooh
C. N. Gerry
United States Geological Survey
Department of the Interior
Ellison-White
Coxmsetaudis
Cresta Notte de
Metal Mining IN
Pam
Wheeler’s
Rexald
Lady Eglating
Maryland
Gus Rhodes
West Salem
Wis
White Rock
Rhodes
la Crosse
Lo Performance
Capital SE
Harlin
Bumstad & Lindley
Thor
Leavenworth Supply Comp
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