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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1910
Page
2
The Leavenworth Echo outlines that condolence cards admission events or fundraisers require regular advertising rates for publication. Charitable or community welfare notices may use space for free, while promotional schemes seeking public funds must be paid. The policy applies to all communications addressed to the newspaper.
The piece scolds boycott promoters and praises local sales by Leavenworth Mercantile Co and The Echo. It claims strong weekly advertising impact, with readers across Chelan county and rapid response to brief ads.
Mayor Gellatly urges a February 12 gathering in Wenatchee to organize a Chelan county good roads movement. The Echo backs public road improvements, citing 15 percent annual savings and benefits to farmers, land values, homeseekers, and investors.
The Ohio editor recalls childhood tastes and appetite, reflecting on a time when even simple flavors delighted him. The passage contrasts past hunger with current tastes and hints at broader youthful appetites among unnumbered millions.
The Ohio State Journal reflects on an editor from Toledo who once savored wormy apples and now finds taste dulled by time. The piece praises Ohio apple growing, mulching and spraying, disputes distant Washington and Oregon apples, notes high land values near Spokane at 3000 dollars per acre, and poses a question if Ohio remains apple wise.
A private Seattle letter warns that Northwest Publicity and Advertising Co. is soliciting funds for a Souvenir Guide of Washington, claiming offices in the Central building Seattle. The scheme is described as fraudulent and a graft on the public.
Brand Whitlock the Toledo mayor and successor of Golden Rules Jones addressed Chicago's Sunday Evening club. He declared that the golden rule operates daily in every person’s life and that universal laws govern civilization, with the rule eventually being discovered and applied.
It states a universal law of moral action and reaction that requires no enacting body or court to operate. The passage asserts that unkind deeds invite unkindness, hatred begets hatred, and loving care returns in kind, calling this principle the law of love.
Eastern capitalists led by Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota seize Northern Pacific holdings on Moses Lake comprising 40 000 acres in townships 28 19 and 20 ranges 27 28 at five dollars an acre with a plan to flood lands within a year. Large pumping plants will raise lake waters for irrigation. Hollister of Twin Falls and J J Hill of Great Northern take shares in the new company. The Connell Northern buys the Soap Lake baseball park tract for 3000 dollars.
The council failed to reach a quorum Tuesday as councilmen delayed and some left for errands. They plan to reconvene Friday to address road improvements to Peshastin and discuss rebating unlawfully taxed money, with the Lamb-Davis Lumber Co. among others to receive a certified statement from the county treasurer.
The Quincy Valley Water Users Association filed with County Auditor Godfrey for irrigation water from the Wenatchee and Chewawa rivers. A surveying crew mapped Wenatchee and Chewawa rivers for months and laid lines toward the Columbia junction. Daily press notes the Quincy irrigation project could begin ditch work next summer.
Commissioner F H Huntley says more than 500 people handle nursery stock in the state and tighter inspections yield cleaner stock. Nurserymen report heavy demand and orders rush fulfillment. John Royer of Northwest Nursery in North Yakima predicts state stock will exhaust this spring. A separate dispatch notes heightened police action in Tokyo over five Koreans plotting to kill top officials. Cornell’s J W Jenks informs Seattle’s mayor that immigration findings place Seattle second only to New York as a white slave market.
L A Nelson of Seattle Mountaineers, outing committee chair, arranged transport with Joe Massie for baggage and camp supplies. The 50 to 75 member party plans a July 25 start, on foot, from Leavenworth to Glacier Peak about eighty miles away.
The Great Northern Oriental Limited derailed near Odessa after washouts and ran off the track at a Coulee City junction at four the train plowed into soft ground and stayed upright. One passenger with a fractured arm escaped injury while the engineer and fireman jumped. The incident prompted a late return by Dr. Hoxsey as the belated train passed Leavenworth around midnight.
The Wenatchee national forest posted receipts of 11674.08 and disbursements of 22717.28 for the year ending June 30 1909. Chelan and Kittitas counties benefited by 25635.80 from one quarter of receipts plus government expenditures circulating locally.
Tonight the Wenatchee Leavenworth Electric railway franchise is on the city council agenda delayed from last Tuesday by train issues. Ezra Kendall, famed comedian of 29 years on stage, died of apoplexy in an Indiana sanitarium after performing in The Vinegar Buyer in Seattle three weeks ago.
A consoling poem reflects on loss and loneliness. The speaker trusts God to replace broken friendships with brighter provisions and promises a glorious recompense for years of sorrow.
S. A. Blankenship and H. T. Hansen return from Seattle as other forestry boys plan to come back next month. The piece argues for women's suffrage, citing taxation representation, legal rights, and the impact on family and democracy. It asserts women as capable voters, their influence on lawmaking, and the need to empower mothers and sisters.
Mrs. Chas Cromwell is slowly recovering from a long sickness. Randolph Heinrichs visited from the Wenatchee river area. Leavenworth youths hosted dinner at the Poepmuller home. Bill Poepmuller and Bill Moon escaped a snowslide while felling timber. thirty thousand feet of logs were buried, tools and oil lost.
Otto Kenyon traveled to Michigan last Saturday for a quick visit. Mr Featherstone of Leavenworth visited over Sunday with his daughter Mrs Will McGivern and family. Miss Evangeline Peterson visited with Mabelle Mitchell. Kenyon plans to move his new saw mill this week aiming for early spring work. Dave Ramsey and family have moved into the Graham house.
Postmaster note lists uncalled for letters including Collins Miss Cora Croops A Z Coppins Paddie Johnson W Johnson Russell. In calling for same please say advertised.
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