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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1908
Page
4
Senator West of Missouri argues a newspaper is a valued business, worth fair payment for its articles. A local paper serves public usefulness, promoting welfare and community interests, beyond charity, while editors’ politics or private affairs should not affect support. Road supervision should reflect good roads associations when appointing overseers.
A Belgian church hires an artist to touch up a large painting and receives a humorous itemized bill listing whimsical restorations from correcting the ten commandments to gilding halos and adding earrings. The board ends the practice, and later sections outline road district division and supervisor oversight with per diem limits.
Tacoma and Spokane investors apply to the state land commissioner for permission to make Moses Lake a large storage reservoir to irrigate about 75 000 acres of semi arid land in section 16 township 19 range 28 east. Frank D. Wilson represents the big concern and presents plats. The company owns about 4200 acres nearby and asserts the lake would not interfere with adjacent land. With water the district’s semi arid lands in southern Douglas county could become a paradise.
The piece questions defects in the direct primary and road laws, suggesting deliberate flaws and poor drafting. It notes a shift of people toward southwest farms, praising farming independence and warning against urban herd mentality as a positive national trend. The Los Angeles Examiner comments on the rural turn as an encouraging sign.
Uncalled letters advertised at the post office include Carl Erikson Gust Erikson Robert Johnson Henry Johanson Edvin Larson John Olson Alf Olson Jack Overdorff Rasmussen Chris Tornberg Pet Wallace Walter. In calling for same please say advertised. J C Davis Postmaster.
A series of transfers shows C A Barron selling to Chelan Electric Co and many other parcels changing hands. Buyers include Emma Pankey to Phebe Page and M Horan to Valley Lodge 116 K P among numerous lots in Wenatchee and surrounding plats with prices ranging from 30 to 1 100 dollars.
George Moore of Grimesland N C credits Dr King’s New Discovery with saving his life after a bout with consumption. He began improving with the first bottle and after twelve bottles was well and happy again. Trial bottle free. 50c and 1 at City Drug Store.
In Chelan County Washington the court orders final accounting and distribution of the Pierre Peter estate. Henry Cross as administrator must show cause why the final account should not be approved and the residue distributed to legal heirs. A notice of hearing is published and posted, with copies served at least twenty days before the hearing.
State of Washington summons in Leavenworth Chelan County before Judge Taylor. J W Millett claims against defendant for nine dollars sixty cents on an open account for merchandise. Hearing set February 24 1908 at 2 p.m. unless the defendant appears the claim will be confessed.
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