Beautifying Front Street Park Strips to Become Town Asset
Attorney L J Nelson has worked with railroad authorities to clear and guard a 50 by 800 foot strip between Front Street and the railway. The Wenatchee Valley Development Club will plant grass trees and shrubbery with initial $50 from Mark Losekamp. The Echo urges swift spring work, predicting this will spark a beautification drive and bolster Great Northern railway dispatching efficiency.
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L. J. Nelson
Front Street
Wenatchee Valley Development Club
Leavenworth
The
Echo
Losekamp
Great Northern Railway
Telephone system on G N Spokane division expands dispatching
The Spokane division of the Great Northern will complete 2100 miles of line with telephone dispatching gear. It runs Troy Montana to Leavenworth Washington, 337 miles, needing two dispatchers. Forty five way stations will have Western Electric telephones and Gill selectors. A testing panel aids quick faults and circuit tests, operable by new staff. Seventy siding telephones will be installed along the division.
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Great Northern
Minneapolis
Seattle
Spokane
Great Northern Railway
Troy
Mont
Leavenworth
Wash
Western Electric
Final exams and grade promotions in local school notes
The eighth graders finished geography exams and move to civil government. Several students promoted from primary to advanced primary. Promoted Welcome Sauer Ferrol Titus Sern Jensen Helen Blankenship Gladys Simons Dorothy Bresch Margerite Hathaway. Teddy Wyckoff assigned to second grade after moving from Monitor. Marshall Leonard from Coeur d'Alene joins tenth grade, prompting an extra desk. Community pushes for a full four year high school and accreditation. Mrs. Grant Alsbury ill but improving. Engineer Jumbo Kountz, long time resident, killed near Vancouver Washington. details are sparse.
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State Board of Education
Welcome Sauer
Ferrol Titus
Sern Jensen
Helen Blankenship
Gladys Simons
Dorothy Bresch
Margerite Hathaway
Teddy Wyckoff
Monitor
Marshall Leonard
Coeur d’Alene
University of Washington
State Agricultural College
Revival meetings continue through Sunday with full schedule
Revival services run Sunday with 10 am Sunday school 11 am morning sermon 2 30 pm men’s meeting 6 30 pm Epworth League 7 30 pm evening sermon. Men’s meeting at 2 30 pm includes short talks by the pastor and others. Second quarterly conference reports net increases of 36 church members 5 in league and 30 in junior league plus better Sunday school. Rev J O Hawk pastor invites all to attend.
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Epworth League
J. O. Hawk
Three Doctors Fail to Close After Appendectomy
A man undergoing appendicitis surgery was found to have a sponge left inside by the first doctor after closure. The wound was reopened and the sponge removed. The second doctor then missed a needle, requiring another opening and closing. The third missed a pair of scissors prompting the patient to quip for buttons.
Widow funds sanitarium for blues in New Hampshire
The widow of Brewer Jones turned her estate to Dr. Sidis of Harvard to establish a sanitarium for blues and melancholy. Also reported are a Southern Pacific wreck near Ogden killing three, price stability promises in Elgin Illinois, and various national incidents from dynamite deaths to rail and energy notes.
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Brewer Jones
New Hampshire
Sidis
Harvard
Southern Pacific
Ogden
Elgin
Ill
Board of Trade
Russian Council
United States
W. A. Bennett
New London
Conn
Ohio General Assembly
Chicago, St. Paul & Milwaukee
Keystone
Iowa
Child a Victim of Parents Folly
In Seattle, Judge Frater denied Dora L. Pierce a divorce from C. R. Pierce, a Pike street saloon keeper, leaving their two year old child illegitimate due to an invalid marriage under Washington law. The custody question hinges on their prior Spokane divorce and a Victoria B C wedding.
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Seattle
Frater
Dora L. Pierce
C. R. Pierce
Pike Street
Pierce
Victoria
B.C
British Columbia
State of Washington
Albert N. Porter
Spokane
Wenatchee Valley Developments Across Chelan County
Chelan County news notes a Wenatchee guardsman company forming with fifty signatories and more pledges. Real estate leaders predict peak valley growth and law order remains strong with only one arrest in the prior year. The Dryden-Wenatchee bridge plan and post office consolidation, plus a potential public publicity club, are debated at local meetings. The Wenatchee Railway and Power Co seeks an electric link, while a horticultural course draws fruit growers to lectures by Prof. Trumble. Local miners Emerson and Townsend stake a gold quartz ledge near Mineral Slide. The Dryden Fruit Growers Union reports thirty members, a new warehouse, and plans for marketing next season. Kennewick editor Lauren W. Soth dies in Walla Walla hospital at age with five children.
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Dryden
Wenatchee
Wenatceee High School
Trumble
Darlington
Dryden Fruit Growers’ Union
A. Smith
N. R. Cade
C. A. Thompson
P. Dittman
W. M. Kinney
Thompson
Advertised Letters and Knights of Pythias Meeting Notice
Local notices invite readers to respond to advertised letters uncalled for at the post office dated January 17 1910. A meeting of Knights of Pythias at Wenatchee January 24 1910 invites members and families to discuss organizing a Pythian Sisters Lodge with entertainment and fund raising for charity. donations of discarded clothing accepted.
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Order
K. of P
Valley Lodge
Wenatchee
Pythian Sisters Lodge
Entertainment Committee
H. N. May
Chirman
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Leavenworth Echo
G. N
Grant Alsbury
George Kountz
Kountz
Vancouver
M. E. Church Notes
Congress
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Ballinger
New York
Ellis Island
Gunnison
Montrose
Calif
Ohio River
Louisville
Brandenberg
Cook
B. E. Rowe
Episcopal
Alaska
Rowe
Peary
Polar Circle
San Pedro
Los Angeles
Salt Lake
Chelan County
National Guard
Chelan
Wenatchee Valley
W. M. Emerson
J. C. Townsend
Mineral Slide
Lauren W. Soth
Kennewick Courier
Walla Walla Hospital
Mr. Soth
Gladstone
Parker
Lowney’s
Candy Shop
A. A. Tholin
D. M. Thomas
E. H. King
Orchard Loan
U. S. Forestry Office
Leavenworth, Wash
Pos
Anderson
Ef Baldal
Ed Gates
Louis Koontz
Geo Vincent
Ralph Walker
J. C. Davis
Nason Creek
C.W. Hastings
Reynolds
Knights of
Pythias
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