Executive control shifts to Nadeau at Seattle office
Ira A. Nadeau, former Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition director general, assumes executive control of Equitable Life Insurance Society affairs in Western Washington as the company plans a Seattle fiscal agency to invest surplus funds in the Northwest. In Washington state news, census supervisor Kelley predicts population growth will double since 1900, potentially adding representatives in Congress. The Washington Good Roads Association convenes in Aberdeen January 20–21 to discuss $1.5 million road fund use and broader highway reforms. Governor Hay supports a day light saloon law but opposes statewide prohibition. Walla Walla votes to keep saloons with regulation, Davenport goes dry with 35 dry towns to 19 wet. Ballinger-Pinchot charges to be investigated by Congress after year start. Taft backs study. Ballinger seeks official review to demonstrate fairness. Emma Smith Devoe, head of Washington Equal Suffrage Association, is invited to National Divorce Congress in Washington DC January 14–17. The congress aims at remedial legislation in response to divorce trends.
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Ira A. Nadeau
Equitable Life Insurance Society
Washington
Nadeau
Northwest
Equitable
Seattle
Wash
Kelley
Congress
Cascades
Washington Good Roads Association
Aberdeen
State
State Association
M. E. Hay
Nebraska
Walla Walla
Davenport
Stevens
Whitman
Richard A. Ballinger
Department of the Interior
Ballinger-Pinchot
Taft
Ballinger
Pinchot
Washington Equal Suffrage Association
Emma Smith Devoe
National Divorce Congress
Washington, D. C
Senate
House
New Zealand
Wyoming
Editors Mirth as Papers Fight over $100000 Libel Suit
Amusing column notes editors riding waves of pride and worry as speculation swirls about a $100,000 libel suit against the Cashmere Record by the Pacific-Hawaiian company. Other exchanges mock, praise, and comment on exchanges and advertising, with quips about editors and local papers.
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Cashmere Record
Bagatelle
Chelan County Horticulture News and Local Projects
A roundup of Chelan County notes includes school attendance easing after a scarlet fever scare and holiday relief. U S Senate bills propose post office funding for Waterville and Wenatchee. The Washington State Horticultural Association sets eight winter sessions at Wenatchee January 12 to 14 with notable experts. Brown Electric Company advances Entiat plant plans. Methow convicts released near Wenatchee with cash clothing and transport. Good Roads Association urges Aberdeen meeting delegates for January 20–21. Chelan County Horticultural (Cashmere) Society to meet January 8. Several spraying and fruit-growing discussions, officer elections, and plans for a seven-meeting series with expert lectures begin January 22 through April 2.
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Washington State Horticultural Association
Wenatchee
Northwest
Methow
Chelan County Horticultural Association
Cashmere
Spokane
Darlington
Trumble
Wenatchee High School
Wenatchee Valley
L. Titchenal
Mike Horan
J. H. Sprague
C. A. Huston
Cashmere Horticultural Society
Cashmere Opera House
Fool-Proof Powder To Be Tested In Coeur d Alenes Mines
A new blasting powder named oxygen, claimed to be more powerful than dynamite and safe except when ignited by a fuse, will be tried in the Coeur d Alenes mines after successful tests in southern Idaho. The inventor is said to be a southern Idaho man.
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Coeur d’Alenes
Idaho
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G. W. Hoxley
Leavenworth, Wash
J. E. Shore, M. D
Trinity Medical College
Toronto University
A. G. Mickeown
Attorneys AT Law
J. J. King
U. S. Land Department
Lewis J. Nelson
Leavenworth
J. B. Adams
Victor Martin
Omar P. Barrows
Henry Crass
John E Porter
Crass & Porter Lawyers
Columbia Valley Bank
Wenatchee, Wash
Thomas & Sorenson
R. S. Ludington
Fred Kemp
F. and
M. Bank
Reeves & Reeves Attorneys
Counselors AT Law
Wenatchee Drug Company
Ss. D. Griffith
Burt J. Williams
J. D. Langdon
Joe Massie
Echo
Echo Office
News OF
Pacific Northwest
Harrington
Pacific- Hawaiian Company
Pateros
Douglas County Press
Spear
Langley Islander
Index News
Jimmy
Leavenworth Echo
Chelan County
Chelan
Jones
United States Senate
Federal Post
Waterville
Wenatceee
Messrs
George Brown
J. G. Kennedy
Brown Electric Company
Gray
Entiat
Secretary Brown
Washington State Good Roads Association
Brown
Telephone Central
Tumwater Light & Water Company
Distributors of
Leavenworth Light, Water and Telephone Service
S.J. van DE Grift
The
L.D. Store Co., Agts
A Milling CO
Wenatchee Wash
Wenatchees
the Opera
Tholin @ Smith
Che Farmers’ Weekly Dispatch
the Farmers’ Weekly Dispatch
ST. Paul, Minn
Telegraph News Service and
Y of the
News of the World
Farmers’ Weekly Dispatch
Willie
National Forest
Wenatchee National Forest
United States
United States Land Office
W. M
William R. Downs
John A. Love
Edward
Carter
Chiwavkum
Nerés
John H. Watling
Cashmee
Fred Dennett
General Land Office
Frank Pieroe
Interior
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