Potter protest hearings mark last council meeting
The city council held its final business session with Mayor Day and eight members present. The Potter protest over Hale’s mayoral election was discussed but deemed insufficient to void the results. hearings adjourned with decisions on ordinances, fines, and a future administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Featherstone
Hale
Kugelman
Miller
Snyder
Reynolds
Mayor Day
Nelson
Brown
Seeley
Whitney
S. A. Potter
W. L. Hale
Art Franklin
Eickmeyer
Potter
Daly
Graham
H. T. Graves
Theo. Ersch
Front Street
Lamb-Davis Lumber Co To Resume Operations Soon
Mr. Geo L Gardner, general manager, is on the coast arranging for locomotives and cars to run the mill day and night this summer. Two engines and 50 to 100 cars will serve Wenatchee Valley Northern railway. Logging will start when weather allows with motor trucks replacing horse drawn wagons. Gardner will issue more details upon his return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. L. Gardner
Wenatchee Valley Northern Railway
Federal regulation of railroads urged by lawmakers
The article reviews why railroad regulation at the federal level is argued as essential, citing state laws on freight movement, hours, safety, and various charges. It notes hundreds of railroad bills, taxes on financing, and costly compliance in 1914 and 1915, with disputes over state discrimination and reporting burdens.
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West
Congress
Missouri
Foss
Massachusetts
Cruce
Oklahoma
Hughes and Dix
New York
Harmon
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Arizona Corporation Commission
Southern Pacific
Kansas
Texas
New York Central
Illinois
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Shreveport
Louisiana
St. Louis
Kansas City
Tennessee
Arkanasa
Memphis
Virginia Commission
Interestate Commerce Commission
North Carolina
Judge Prentice
Senate Committee
Unmuzzled Dogs To Be Destroyed Under Rabies Warnings
Public health orders require muzzling all dogs and authorize destruction of those not muzzled as rabies fears persist. Weather records show Thursday morning's thermometer at three degrees below zero with eight below along the river. Grandpa Wright, 78, is recovering from a period of illness, while the grip situation continues to ease in Leavenworth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKeown
Public Services Hearing Set in Olympia on January 11 1917
Washington State Public Service Commission schedules a January 11 1917 conference in Olympia to examine toll divisions among Farmer Lines Pacific Telephone and related parties. The notice invites affected parties to present communications on tolls exchanges and connections. Also included are local notes on a Peshastin marriage and Methow valley railroad prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Public Service Commission
Pacific States
Leavenworth Co
Peshastin
Leavenworth
Commission
Office Public Service Commission
Olympia
Farmer Line Companies
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company
The
Public Service Commission of
Washington
Miss Arline Farmer Weds Mr Graves in Seattle
Miss Arline Farmer married Mr Graves in Seattle on December 23. Graves, formerly of Chelan Washington, has long resided in Alaska where he is involved in mining. Mrs M Farmer, former public school principal, is Arline’s mother. the family has lived on the coast for eight to ten years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arline Farmer
Seattle
Mr. Graves
Chelan
Wash
Alaska
Miss Farmer
M. Farmer
Farm Loan Associations Organized in Chelan Co
The new farm loan banks planned by Congress will open after the new year. Spokane area residents seek to host a regional bank, and Chelan County ranchers in East Wenatchee Cashmere and Peshastin are forming loan associations while Spokane lands the Regional Bank No 12 for the Northwest. Over 6000 job applications have been filed and hundreds more arrive from Spokane in anticipation of farm loan business.
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Congress
Spokane
East Wenatchee
Cashmere
Peshastin
Farm Loan Bank For
Northwest
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
Regional Bank No. 12
Death of Granville Hancock in logging camp tragedy
Mr and Mrs Ed Matthews and Mrs Matthews sister Mrs Blacker returned from Sedro Woolly after the death of Granville Hancock twenty year old brother of Mrs Matthews and Mrs Blacker He was crushed between two logs in a Sedro Woolly logging camp and died four hours later The funeral was delayed until Wednesday awaiting his mother's arrival from Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed. Matthews
Matthews
Blacker
Sedro Woolly
Granville Hancock
Hancock
Montana
Cashmere to host Bellingham team on Friday night
The Bellingham basketball aggregation stays No. 4 and travels to Cashmere for a game with the area's high school boys. Afterward they proceed to Wenatchee for two games Friday and Saturday night while Walter Koerner heads to Seattle on Thursday for a return Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellingham
Cashmere
Wenatchee
Walter Koerner
Seattle
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J. F. Pratt
State Bank Asst Eeeter
Rainer Cafe
Fred Cahill
Wood
Otto A. Weile
Eng
Chas. Wallace
Lamb-Davis Lumber CO
Elmer
Grandpa Wright
Judah
Levenworth
Pacific States Co
Orville Headly
Ellen Arbogast
Young Headley
Methow Valley
Pateros
Columbia River
Methow
Chelan CO
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