County and state notes from busy readers
Logging camps in Snohomish county will resume Feb 1. Canneries on the coast plan a strong year in fishing. Skagit valley oats fetch $30 a ton, highest in six years. Fruitgrowers urged to prune for blight. State labor commissioner drafting a bill for state employment agencies. Paper costs push up newspaper subscriptions. Louis Irving burned to death in Hóbart fire at Wood & Iverson mill. Over 2,000,000 acres logged in Washington ready for grasslands. Escaped prisoner recaptured at Pendleton still in handcuffs. Wheat buyers and millers report $2.5 million in recent gains. Sheriff bans boxing in Snohomish County. 1914 immigration expected strong for western homes. Stankey sues 32 Grant county residents for $50,000. Odessa citizens urge Wilson and lawmakers to block munitions exports. Streetcars threatened by jitneys in Los Angeles Seattle and Everett. Burlington man loses 50 chickens. thief shot handling gun. Labor conventions to Olympia criticized as lobby risk. Labor union has 20,000 dues-paying members. 180,000 workers under hazardous act. unorganized workers exceed a quarter million. Cowlitz county to issue $75,000 road bonds.
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Olson
Washington
Local Happenings From Leavenworth Week in Review
Local notes report J D Wheeler’s Seattle business trip and return Sunday. Bank surplus up from 2500 to 5000. Judge Victor Martin of Wenatchee seen in Leavenworth. Geo W Trigg of Cashmere visits. Several residents travel, visit, or conduct business. church events and public notices noted. Chicken thieves strike again with a man wounded by buckshot after a local shooting incident.
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J. D. Wheeler
Seattle
Leavenworth State Bank
Oliver Bates
Geo. Siverly
Lake Wenatchee
Kelso
Wash
J. J. King
Local Yeomen audit shows excellent order and records
H. H. Barton state manager of the Brotherhood of American Yeomen audited the local Homestead chapter books since April 9. He reports excellent condition with well kept books and records. A Hallowell concert at the Scenic drew a appreciative audience for William Tell overture and solos. Governor Lister calls for tax cuts statewide. F. S. Jacobsen & Co. formed with 7500 capital, to operate wholesale and retail lumber, incorporators F. S. Jacobsen Sarah S. Davis and E. H. Fox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Barton
Brotherhood of American Yeomen
Barton
Hallowell
William Tell
F. S. Jacobsen
Sarah S. Davis
E. H. Fox
Gibbs Ditch Co. Annual Meeting Set for Feb 1 1915
The Gibbs Ditch Co will hold its annual meeting at the Grange Hall in Peshastin on Monday February 1 1915 at 2 p.m. All stockholders are urged to attend as important matters will be discussed. Gibbs Ditch Co January 22 1915 By F A Wingate Sec
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Catholic Ladies Aid Society
J. Beattinger
Sylvester
North Yakima
Forestry Department
J. L. Close
Shreveport
Louisiana
Mr. Close
Gibbs Ditch Co
Peshastin
F. A. Wingate
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Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Sharman & Gangler Inc
Snohomish County
Skagit Valley
E. W. Olson
Louis Irving
Snohomish
Wood & Iverson
Hobart
King County
State of
Nooksack Wash
Pendleton
Ore
Portland
Tacoma
Sheriff McRae
Stankey
Mansfield
Grant County
Odessa
Wilson
Senate
Europe
Los Angeles
Everett
E. M. Thornton
Burlington
John F. Estes
Organized Labor
Olympia
Cowlitz County
Echo Office
Victor Martin
Wenatchee
Leavenworth
Geo. W. Trigg
L. J. Nelson
Wm. Mercer
C. E. Hamilton
S. P. Beecher
John Byron
Mr. Byron
Cascade Orchards
J. W. Beaseley
J. B. Williams
Sorrensen
Skykomish
Goldbar
M. G. Thomas
Alaska
Kathleen M. Scott
Daley
W. V. Stephens
City
Charles Hartshorn
Centralia
F. A. Debris
Drebis
Mr. Hartshorn
F. H. Williams
N. A. Pearson
A. R. McKeown
James Buchanan
Babe
H. L. Hart
Peshastin District
Dwight Darling
Congregational Ladies’ Guild
W. W. Rice
Mr. Rice
Leavenworth Mercantile Co
Mrs. Rice
Ned Myers
the Echo
Spokane
J. B. Adams
Monitor
John D. Atkinson
Chikamin Creek
John
Joseph Ellinger
Charles Ellinger
California
San Francisco
San Diego
L. S. Ailes
Ces
Lister
F. S. Jacobsen & Co
Wenatchee Valley
Thos. Nolan
Our
Wheeler’s City Drug Store
Rexall Agency
A. D. S. Agency
L. F. Bullis
Rob’t B. Field, Cashier
H. G. Krollpfeiffer
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