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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1919
Page
3
Southland fashion notes urge stockpiling light fabrics for spring and summer. Georgette dresses and raspberry dotted dimity hats dominate shops, with satin and lace ensembles, embroidered details, and new khaki-like novelty weaves shaping outfits for refined tastes.
The farm markets office announces a new monthly exchange list listing cattle sheep hogs mares and stallions for sale. County agents will provide complete product details and assist listings with direct farm to farm sales encouraged. Directors Hobson urges interested ranchers to contact their county agent or write to the Office of Farm Markets in Pullman.
A list of farm goods includes young pigs seed corn seed peas and beans choice seed potatoes alfalfa and mixed hay cedar posts and wood strawberry plants silos and clover and alfalfa seed.
A senate bill altering homestead rules to reduce residence time for mountain settlers was approved by the house with no amendments. It would let land office registers require six months a year for four years or five months for five years where climate makes longer residence impractical.
Chief Deputy Madge Cushing of Wenatchee received a shock when a Chelan Falls salary warrant was returned by a county employee. Principal A G Bowie of Chelan Falls refused county pay for the three weeks the school was closed due to influenza.
Old papers for sale 25 cents per hundred. Useful for packing wrapping cleaning and making fires. Call at Echo offices.
The Oregon and Washington spruce production railroads sawmills and logging camps will be sold to the highest bidders February fifteenth. Officials announce auction plans with details on properties and bidding process.
Trade restrictions on wool have ended and free importation will resume. Soon ships will bring large quantities from Australia Argentina and South Africa. American flocks face eventual pressure to shift to meat production unless a protective tariff is enacted before competition intensifies.
The Republican Publicity Association lauds Theodore Roosevelt’s life and war service in Washington headlines. Also published is a notice of Philip J. Lonergan’s patent application for the Leprechaun Lode in Leavenworth Mining District, Chelan County, with filled legal details and publication requirement.
Commissioner Fleming told the city council that the Spokane municipal fish market reduced salmon to ten cents a pound from 17 to 28 cents while still clearing 1600 on a 6400 business. The state fisheries department was paid, fixtures installed and paid for, the original city advancement was returned, and funds remained to run the business this year.
Tacoma buys the Lake Cush manpower site for 300 thousand dollars to expand industrial capacity. Officials say the purchase secures jobs and future development opportunities for the region.
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