Progressive Party Nominates Full Chelan County Ticket
At a Wenatchee mass meeting the Progressive Party decided to nominate a full county and legislative ticket with Sept 7 primaries and Sept 10 state and county convention. E W Evenson spoke on organization. filing closes Sept 2 with fees waived for Republicans. The platform endorses Theodore Roosevelt and urges nonpartisan county offices and Kansas Blue Sky style securities laws.
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Progressive Party
Wenatchee
F. T. Spiller
Cashmere
E. S. Gill
Sunny Slope
Fred Kemp
D. D. Olds
W. W. Woods
E. W. Evenson
Spokane
Deed H. Mayor
Leavenworth
Chelan County
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Inland Meat Co forms from Wenatchee consolidation
The Little Wetsel Co and Frank Meat Co of Wenatchee consolidate into Inland Meat Co effective September 1. Will H. Littel assumes full management with C. D. Flannigan as assistant. Frank retires from active duties. The move aims to cut operating costs across two slaughterhouses and markets. White Star market closes soon, and Wool Wietz? Erkhardt, Schott, and Bissel take over at the Emil Frank market.
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Wenatchee
The
Inland Meat Co
Frank
Will H. Littel
C. D. Flannigan
White Star
Erkhardt
Charles Schott
Pearl Bissel
Emil Frank
Martin Christensen
Cashmere
Candidacy Shifts and Primary Prospects in Chelan County
Chelan county politics feature withdrawals and party switches. Doran withdraws as sheriff candidate. Lister visits the county as a Democratic governor hopeful. Lamb swaps from Republican to Progressive for the county treasurer race. Ambitious progressives gather in Wenatchee to discuss party principles with a Spokane speaker.
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Ernest Lister
Tacoma
Chelan County
Lister
Progressive voters urged to back third party in September primaries
A letter from K C Beaton executive secretary of the Progressive movement reports strong growth across Washington state. It calls for full county tickets in most districts, predicts large turnout in the September 7 and 10 primaries, and asks leaders to send lists of county progressives to state headquarters for targeted literature and support.
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Progressive Party
Kenneth C. Beaton
The
Seattle Star
Seattle
Progressive Pri
King County
King County Campaign Committee
Lawrence
Hodge
Case
Panthamus
K. C. Beaton
Butler Hotel
Wash
City Council Regular Meeting Notes and Preparations
Regular city council meeting attended by most members except Weigand and Schubert. Actions include referring hotel repairs to the building committee, tabling Mrs. Morse’s $175 pest house damage bill, forming a tax levy estimate committee, instructing printing budget prep, canvassing bond election returns, calling for bids on water bonds, considering iron pipe under paving, revising rock dressing on Commercial street, planning improvements on Front, Division, Commercial streets and north side tracks, adjourning after early ordinance reading, and approving bills for City Engineer Brown and J. E. Grant.
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Weigand
Schubert
Clifford
Amanda Morse
Nelson
Robertson
Mischke
Front Street
Brown
J. E. Grant
Big Irrigation Project Extends To 90000 Acres In Kittitas
Walter L. Fisher secretary of the interior signed a contract for perpetual use of Yakima river storage waters by the Valley Reclamation District. Bonds totaling 5 million dollars will be issued. Upon completion the district will surpass the combined irrigated lands of Kittitas and Yakima counties. Water is to be diverted from the Yakima river at Easton and delivered through a canal network over 75 miles long.
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S. P. Beecher
Chelan
Kittitas Counties
Wenatchee Vallley
Grange
Wenatchee Valley
Kittitas County
Walter L. Fisher
Yakima River
Valley Reclamation District
Kittitas
Yakima
Easton
Northern Pacific
Milwaukee Line
Street paving progress on Front and Eighth streets
Seaman and Quigg hold the paving contract on Front and Eighth and Ninth streets with twenty to twenty five workers progress this week. Injunctions filed by O S Sampson and wife the Great Northern railroad and others prompt a hearing in Wenatchee next Tuesday to decide if the injunction stands. Col Fox represents the plaintiffs. The city and the paving company are represented by L J Nelson and an unnamed attorney for the company.
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Messrs
Seaman & Quigg
O. S Sampson
Great Northern Railroad
Wenatchee
Col. Fox
L. J. Nelson
Paving Company
Grant Hotel proprietor dies in acetylene tank blast
F A Ott owner of the Grant Hotel at Neppel on Moses Lake in Grant county was killed last Thursday when an acetylene gas light tank exploded while he was charging it. The blast tore off the top of his head and caused instantaneous death. Ott was known in the region and at Lake Wenatchee. He leaves a wife and two children.
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F. A. Ott
Grant Hotel
Nepple
Moses Lake
Grant County
Ott
Lake Wenatchee
No Sunday Mail to Be Distributed at Leavenworth Post Office
Beginning September 8 no mail except special delivery letters will be distributed on Sundays at the Leavenworth general delivery. The postmaster general in Washington ordered the change to reduce Sunday work, affecting all post offices. People needing important mail on Sundays should have correspondents send it with special delivery stamps. Holiday service remains unchanged.
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Kansas
Washington
Leavenworth
Davis
Beach enters race for state superintendent on Progressive ticket
C E Beach city superintendent of Olympia public schools announces candidacy for State Superintendent on the Progressive ticket. He chairs the Legislative Committee of the Washington Educational Association and represented the state at its Chicago convention. Beach has led Olympia schools for three years and previously ran Bremerton and Kitsap county districts.
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C. E. Beach
Olympia
Beach
Washington
Washington Educational Association
Chicago
Bremerton
Kitsap
State Board of Education
Scenic Highway Plan Advances Amid Funding Fight
Promoters say the scenic highway via the abandoned Great Northern switchback is virtually assured with work to start within a year. It will pass King Snohomish and Chelan counties which face partial costs and seek state funding this fall. Estimated completion cost 200000 dollars. Disputes loom over Spokane area funding as Yakima and Kittitas counties press for money for the Snoqualmie pass route and oppose the Scenic Highway Association.
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Great Northern Railway
King
Snohomish
Chelan
Yakima
Kittitas County
Snoqualmie Pass
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Progressive County
the Little Wetsel CO. and
Frank Meat CO
Inland Meat Company
C. F. Urquhart
A. H. Sylvester
Mr. Urquhart
Geological Department
W. O. Tufts
H. D. McDonald
Columbia River
Sylvester
Cascade Mountains
Little Wenatchee River
Peshastin
Chelan and
Doran
Lyman Lamb
Otto A. Case
W. W. Gideon
N. M. Sorensen
Nels
Sorensen
A. N. Corbin
Echo
Mr. Corbin
of Public Instruction
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