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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1916
Page
1
Last Tuesday the city election drew interest as a sticker candidate challenged mayoral nominee W. L. Hale. Sam Potter supporters fell short by nine votes. No council candidate appeared in the second ward as H. H. Warner and M. D. Montgomery were chosen by sticker votes. Overall turnout was light versus the November primary.
The Leavenworth Fruit Growers Unit has shipped twenty six cars of apples and expects four more. Returns already cover paper boxes and labels and most warehousing costs. On Monday December 4 the Unit paid growers an advance of ten cents per box for standard grade apples. Officials hope to finish the season by mid January 1917 as car shortages delayed earlier settlement.
Road Overseer Parrish states Blewett Pass saw heavy use during open months with almost six thousand autos traveling the route from June to November. Officials announce next season improvements including grade reductions to ten percent and widened grades with frequent turnouts.
Two boys convicted in a Los Angeles court for leaving a campfire burning in the Angeles National Forest are sentenced to visit the Newhall forest fire scene where 400 acres burned and $100,000 in property was destroyed. They must study the damage and report to the judge in six months with lessons learned.
The Mount Vernon Singing Party of three ladies and two gentlemen performed as the second in four winter entertainments organized by the Kumlux Club in Leavenworth. Their program included well known opera selections, plantation melodies, and Italian character songs, with the audience asking for more after excellent unlisted numbers. The Kumlux Club earns praise for the choice and for drawing a large crowd.
Gen Chittenden promotes a Leavenworth to Skykomish tunnel to aid year round auto travel across the Cascades. He has sent letters to Wenatchee and east side commercial clubs seeking cooperative support, with railroads likely to study the project and Seattle showing interest. legislative action at the next session seems probable.
The forestry department outlines 40 000 for Blewett Pass and 25 000 for Sunset Highway with 40 000 and 25 000 again for Blewett and Sunset budgets. other Inland Empire routes receive 15 000 while total sums require state or county matching. Engineer Fredrickson returns to Leavenworth headquarters.
Eagle Creek campgrounds on the Oregon National Forest drew 15000 visitors from 30 states and 12 foreign countries in 1916. Facilities include 100 campsites with fireplaces water sewer and a central comfort station. A future plan adds an automatic bridge and more campsites as forest officials praise visitor cooperation. Sherrard notes expansion aims to serve national forests in Oregon and Washington with new sites next year. Shafroth proposes constitutional changes to electoral process and congressional terms.
The state insurance commission rules that the Casualty Company of America, Seattle’s sole jitney insurer, must be barred from writing further policies until adequate proof of solvency is provided.
The Lincoln County Times reports Davenport plans to elect a woman mayor as men drift from local affairs. Women urge Mrs J B Phillips to run, arguing the dry law is not enforced and the town is in bad shape.
The United States government employment service operates offices in major Washington cities to provide labor information and direct workers to employers. From January 1 to November 30, 1916, the offices assisted about 28,000 people into work, with free service for both employers and employees. Locations include Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Everett, Walla Walla, North Yakima, Aberdeen, and See- courtice Building, with contact details and phone numbers for each office.
The Cashmere community arranges a six day Chautauqua for next summer. E. E. Stowell of Cashmere will serve as chief deputy to Sheriff McManus. The city departments list monthly wages for clerk 30 dollars marshal 65 dollars and policeman 45 dollars. An association forms to access farm loan bank funding to develop land. Despite a 40 percent hike in shoe prices, buyers expect only minor annual cost increases as wearers reuse, patch, and resole shoes.
The coming session will consider buying non agricultural lands for reforestation and forming agricultural districts aided by land clearing powder. A loan plan of up to 1000 dollars to settlers on logged off lands may pass, with ten to twenty year terms at 6 percent interest.
The piece notes urgent calls for a tougher wartime effort in England and questions Lloyd George’s ability to form a cabinet that pleases all government factions. It cites allied disputes over war focus, with Lloyd George favoring Salonica, while German forces push in Romania, and praises France as a bright spot amid broader allied missteps.
Atlantic coast lobsters arrive by special train at Anacortes marking a government push to establish a lobster fishing industry in the San Juan islands. The Bureau of Fisheries pursues this expansion, echoing its New England program, while Milwaukee rushes 3000 freight cars.
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