Poindexter Sets Expenditures and War Bond Policy
Carter Glass announces during a telegram to Governor Lynch that fiscal year expenditures from July 1 1918 to Dec 16 1918 exceeded 9.6 billion dollars with November near 2 billion and December through the 16th over 1 billion. He urges short maturities for the Fifth Liberty Loan while continuing War Savings Stamps and Certificates, notes total 18 billion dollar year-end outlays, and recalls prior bond financing and armistice effects. John McIntosh arrives home on leave from Camp Grant Illinois for Christmas with family at home.
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Carter Glass
Glass
Treasury Department
Lynch
Treasury
America
McAdoo
Growers Sue Railroad Over 1917 Loss Claims
O C McNamara of Great Northern and W S Booth of the legal department have been in consultation with Wenatchee valley fruit shippers to settle roughly 350000 in claims for losses during 1917. Settlements have been reached with most dealers and growers groups at about fifty percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. C. McNamara
Great Northern Claim Department
W. S. Booth
Legal Department
Wenatchee Valley
Valley orchardists win apple route fight
Wenatchee Commercial club and Wenatchee shippers win a rate equalization victory with Great Northern. Effective December 26 the railroad cuts Canadian rates to match Yakima levels, opening northern markets. Wenatchee shipments shatter records with forty-five cars east and one west on Saturday.
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Wenatchee Commercial Club
Wenatchee Shippers
Great Northern
Yakima
Northern Pacific
Pateros
Yakima Valley
Wenatchee Valley
Canadian
Wenatchee
Wenatchee District
Rocky Mountain Territory
Restaurants May Serve More Meat And Butter
The food administration lifted rules limiting bread meat sugar butter and cheese in public eating places, a move to conserve all foods and aid relief for distressed European civilians. It urged establishments to be ready to implement any new measures as world relief develops.
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Food Administration
United States
Europe
Former Leavenworth couple tied in Seattle wedding notice
Mrs Jeane Evelyn McPheters of 840 West Fiftieth street announces the engagement of her daughter Evelyn Jeane to Lieut Alfred Bass. The marriage will be solemnized at the family home Thursday Dec 26 with Lieut Bass on leave from the aviation camp at Arcadia California. He will return after a brief wedding trip.
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Leavenworth
A. M. McPheters
Seattle
McPheters
Seattle P.I
Jeane Evelyn McPheters
West Fiftieth Street
Evelyn Jeane
Alfred Bass
Lieut
Bass
Arcadia
Cal
McPhee Williams Tie The Knot At Home Ceremony
Herbert McPhee and Inez Williams wed last Sunday at the bride’s home with Rev. Morton officiating. Seattle issued marriage licenses to two Leavenworth couples: George Noriie with Bessie Nelson and Seth J. Chambers with Ruth Eaton.
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Herbert McPhee
Inez Williams
Rev. Morton
Leavenworth
Seattle
George Noriie
Bessie Nelson
Seth J. Chambers
Ruth R. Eaton
Cardinal Gibbons Denounces Socialism as No Menace
Cardinal Gibbons told Baltimore reporters on Christmas that socialism poses no threat to the United States. He praised the peace after the war and urged future negotiations in Paris be guided by wisdom and justice. He warned against government control of major public interests and favored checks and balances among the three branches.
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Cardinal Gibbons
Baltimore
Cadmal Gibbons
America
Paris
G. N. Engineer Discharged for Liquor Law Violation
Leo Wenzloff a Great Northern engineer and L Zilka a conductor were discharged for liquor law violations. The retirements bring to six the number of Great Northern employees discharged in the last year for such breaches. Company rules require a fair hearing and representation at investigations, and a court conviction alone is not enough.
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Leo Wenzloff
Great Northern
L. Zilka
Wenatchee Man Released From German Prison Camp
Wenatchee’s only prisoner of war William C Nelson is officially announced as released from Rastatt and returned to France. His brother Harry Nelson received a telegram from the adjutant general’s office in Washington. Nelson, part of a May volunteer group, lost sight after machine gun fire and has been in a German camp since.
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Wenatchee
Wm. C. Nelson
Rastant
France
Harry Nelson
Adjutant General’s Office
Washington
Nelson
Race prejudice may fuel future war says Ozaki
Yukio Ozaki former minister of justice and constitutional party leader warns that racial prejudice could trigger armed conflict. He urges Japan to push racial and population questions at the peace conference and argues the issue matters more than Wilson’s fourteen points.
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Yukio Ozaki
Constitutional Party
Ozaki
Japan
Wilson
Germany
Asia
South Sea Islands
United States
Philippines
Hawaii
Local Red Cross Drive Surpasses 1000 Members in Leavenworth
Mrs. Chas. Eckhart reports the Leavenworth district already exceeded a thousand members with Tye and Blewett still to be heard from. Last year's figure is surpassed and the two remaining areas could add more. The membership drive runs to the start of the year.
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Chas. Eckhart
Leavenworth
Tye and Blewett
President May Hurry Home as Diplomatic Rift Grows
A Washington dispatch reports rising belief that President Wilson will return from Europe sooner than planned to avert Knox’s Knox resolution and a Senate clash over the League of Nations. European leaders fear a repudiation by the Senate as debate centers on seas freedom and international conferences.
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Washington Dispatch
Knox
Senate
England
France
League of Nations
Wilson
Europe
America
Lodge
David Lawrence
Paris
United States
League
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Italy
Oppo
League of Nations and
Freedom of the Seas
James Hamilton Lewis
Valley fruit growers on easy street in Wenatchee area
The piece notes Wenatchee Valley fruit growers wintering in Seattle and Southern California. It mentions C. W. Moore and wife leaving for California after selling an apple crop, others with four to ten thousand dollars, and growers moving to higher value orchards or closing. Prospects for the region look brighter for the coming year.
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Wenatchee Valley
Seattle
California
C. W. Moore
Leavenworth
George Beam
George
Frank Wingate
Peshastin
New York
Roswell McNett Informed of Brother’s Death Promptly Sicks Home
Roswell McNett fled Chicago last Tuesday due to influenza after learning of his brother Dr. Frank McNett’s death. He reached his parents’ home in Roswell and is under Dr. Judah care with no pneumonia. Roswell rests easier and improved while burial plans for Dr. McNett are delayed pending his recovery.
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Roswell McNett
Chicago
H. S. McNett
Judah
Frank McNett
Roswell
Mrs Katherine Johnson Returns Home For Christmas Dinner
Mrs Katherine Johnson came back from a lengthy stay with friends on the Coast and is at home for a Christmas meal with her family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine Johnson
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THE
Secretary of Treasury
John McIntosh
John
Ordnance Department
Camp Grant
Illinois
Growers Sue Railroad
McPhee - Williams
Echo
Inu. S.A
G. N
RED Cross
Valley Fruit Growers
Easy Street
Coast
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