Leavenworth News in Brief Highlights Local Folks and Commerce
Mr R O Canady returns from Seattle after illness and surgery and reports improving health. The Cashmere Lumber Co. transfers to trustees due to inability to meet obligations with plans to reorganize. Chelan county raises funds for war savings stamps with a large drive planned. Local traders promote holiday goods and new car drops at the Racket Store. Death news from Georgia reaches Leavenworth as Mrs A H Leftwich is reported deceased in November.
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A. H. Leftwitch
Georgia
Big Saw Mill Closes for Winter at Great Northern Lumber Co
The Great Northern Lumber Co saw mill shut last Saturday due to snow and log shortages. About forty workers lose winter jobs while the box and planning mill operates at full capacity. Logging continues under J S Quigley and shipments remain steady as winter logging proceeds. The article ends with a perplexing question about a figure called the Count and whether he has enlisted.
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Great Northern Lumber Co
J. S. Quigley
SLAIN GIRL'S BROTHER RE ENLISTS IN NAVY
Benjamin F. Phagan, brother of Mary Phagan, re joins the Navy after a prior bad conduct discharge. He served as fireman on the Ohio during the 1915 murder and lynching case. He was allowed to reenlist after applying at the Philadelphia Navy Recruiting Station. He has been assigned to the receiving ship at League Island.
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Philadelphia
Mary Phagan
Leo Frank
Georgia
Benjamin F. Phagan
Phagan
United States
Ohio
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Frank
Reid
Navy
Arch Street
Ile
League Island
Logging Contractors Wanted in Leavenworth WA
Multiple small horse and hand logging contracts open with opportunities for teams skidding and team rentals. Contact Great Northern Lumber Company in Leavenworth for particulars. Also classified notices offer 32 eggs under 9 cents a dozen and Washington Product Purity items. Five acre tracts for sale in Leavenworth First Addition by Leavenworth Land Company with long payment terms. Lost dog notice: terrier with collar and 1916 Everett tag, reward $10.
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Great Northern Lumber Company
Leavenworth, Wash
Leavenworth Land Company
Leavenworth
F. A. Reynolds
Everett
Timber for Sale Western yellow pine in Wenatchee NF
Sealed bids for about 110 acres in the Chumstick Creek area Wenatchee National Forest Washington will be received by the District Forester Portland up to December 24 1947. Estimated 600000 feet B M yellow pine and 67000 feet B M Douglas fir and other saw timber. Minimum bids 1.80 per hundred for yellow pine and 0.50 for Douglas fir. Deposit 500. Information from Forest Supervisor Leavenworth WA or District Forester Portland.
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Portland
Oregon
N. R
Chumstick Creek
Wenatchee National Forest
Washington
Leavenworth
Wash
Katmai Volcano Called World’s First Wonder by National Geographic
Washington reports the Griggs expedition to Mount Katmai Alaska returns with a mapped valley of ten thousand smokes millions of vents and a nine mile circumference crater. Dr Robert F Griggs says Katmai is the greatest crater on earth and the party collected photographs plants and insects for U S study returning around Oct 5 in good health.
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Washington, D. C
National Geographic Society
Griggs
Mount Katmai
Alaska
Robert F Griggs
Gilbert H. Grosvenor
Giggs
Grosvenor
Katmai
Terrtory
United States
Washington
Seattle
National Forest Timber For Sale In Washington State
District Forester in Portland Oregon announces sale of merchantable dead western red cedar from about 30 acres in Wenatchee National Forest White River watershed. Estimated 1175 cords of shingle bolts. Minimum bid 60 cents per cord with $200 deposit. Prior bids rejected. details available from Portand District Forester or Leavenworth Forest Supervisor. sale dates November 16 30 and December 7.
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Portland
Ore
Leavenworth
Wash
Enlistees Honored With Dance
The many young friends of Dick Simons Jack Mahoney Sam Ricker and Will Wunder who enlisted in the Aviation service the first of this week were honored with a dance Wednesday evening in the Great Northern Lumber Co.s club house. An unusually large number of the young folks turned out and a most enjoyable time was had.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Simons
Jack Mahoney
Sam Ricker
Will Wunder
Great Northern Lumber Co
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W. B. Paton
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Blewett Mill
L. H. Mundt
Peshastin
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Cashmere Lumber Co
F. ‘W. Shultze
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Commercial Bank & Trust Co
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Astoria
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T. E.hoxsey
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EB. E. Batchelor
White River Valley
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Wiley Rice
Winton
Geo. Dreyer
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St. Louis
Joe Debord
Busines
John W. McDermid
Blewett Pass
Fateeraes Iolumn
Purity Products Company
O. Hawley
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Boulevard Cafe
Firemen’s Hall
Thanksgiving Eye
Echo Office
J. E. Shubert
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