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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1918
Page
1
A Federal Agriculture Department summary shows farm labor wages rising from 1902 to 1918, with monthly board wages climbing from 28.35 to 63.00 and daily harvest wages from 2.01 to 4.00. The figures bolster farmers’ claims that rising costs, including machinery, have eroded profits amid reduced cereal production. E. T. Marchetti, Field Agent.
Mr. Minter Love, who managed the Leavenworth creamery, is replaced by Messrs Van Brocklin who lease the plant for a year with option to buy. The new lessees are creamery veterans planning retail milk and cream, butter making, and milk sales. Since its four year history the venture has doubled local cow numbers and aided producers.
From the Portland Journal clipping Carrie B Turner notes two year old Winifred Nichols daughter of C H Nichols of Gladstone Oregon died after a short illness from pneumonia. The Nichols family moved from Oak Grove to Gladstone six months ago while the father served with the 31st railway engineers in France. Funeral at Holman Pace chapel with interment in Mountain View Cemetery. Also a note that New York state wages rose 1 percent from October 1914 to October 1918.
West end residents including D A Burger Theo Bresch Peter Fruchtricht G A Hamilton J R Ramsey Herman Stoltze S C Kinney of Peshastin and A V Shore of Plain named among jurors for the January term in Leavenworth County Superior Court.
Postmaster General Burleson announces a sweeping plan that slashes long distance and toll rates with a basic charge of 6 mills per mile. Night rates drop to one half the day rate from 8:30 to midnight and to one quarter after midnight, with next January 21 as the effective date. A San Francisco to New York call could cost about 84 cents under the new scheme.
Leavenworth residents are urged to join the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call to fund months of postwar relief. Chairman Harry Krollpfeiffer stresses ongoing need for aid for soldiers and civilians, noting that de mobilization will take time and that every adult donation helps.
Mr H S McNett was notified of the death of his son Dr Frank McNett at Ft Oglethorpe Georgia at 1030 Wednesday night The body will be shipped to Portland from which place he enlisted for service in the dental department He left for the southern camp in July He has a brother Roswell in the heavy artillery service Enlisted the same time as Harrison Woodrow Earlier this spring The Kaiser is mocked as vain in an offhand remark about attempts at self destruction.
American Red Cross nurses and volunteers have gone to France to aid wounded soldiers under combat fire and in hospitals. They man evacuation units, operate in base and convalescent hospitals, staff canteens, and recreation huts, and provide social work for refugees and repatriates, expanding from eighteen to over five thousand workers since 1917.
Owing to a month of flu closure the school honored the old practice of dismissing for Christmas and New Year this year. Christmas and New Year’s Day are noted as the observed break.
The passage notes that the Germans are believed to surrender warships to the allies with the expectation they will be returned after peace. It also mentions a broader observation about German thinking and includes a line about dismissing school for one day.
Washington December protests over wartime wire control linger as Commercial Cable Company fights postmaster general seizures in court. Burleson pushes for public ownership and rapid highway building while cancelations of war contracts hurt manufacturers nationwide.
Washington shows its corn potential with a record 1 634 000 bushels produced from 43 000 acres in the last year with an estimated 38 bushels per acre. The state notes a rapid rise since 1892 from 10 250 acres and 185 000 bushels to this year’s large output and higher acreages.
Mr and Mrs G W Hart departed Tuesday afternoon heading to Everett to spend the holidays with their daughter and her family.
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