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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1915
Page
2
Framed as a Friday issue note from The Leavenworth Echo inviting reader input and describing the section titled Scraps from the Intellectual Junk Heap. It references common newspaper editorial labeling and notes the term Some Newspapers call it Editorial.
In Leavenworth a public event promotes an alfalfa diet as a cure for indigestion and the blues. The piece notes a Chicago meeting of the American Institute of Homeopathy and imagines alfalfa providing food and clothing, while praising a peaceful day of rest with dances, chats, and civic humor.
The Fourth of July arrived on a Sunday but was observed the next day. Monday offered perfect weather with mild heat and a cool breeze. Local residents marked the day with firecrackers, a fat woman's race, and gun club activities.
Prosecuting Attorney Bert Williams in Chelan county will be asked to aid enforcement of the 1915 auto license law. The new levy, based on auto size and use, has raised over $130,000, with counties to refund road use excess collections. Also discussed are worker death claims, jail discharge rights, and suits concerning industrial insurance and the state land board emergency decision by the supreme court.
The article covers a push to exchange land with the federal government to release more than half a million acres owned by Washington schoolchildren. It notes state hiring limits with 400 job applicants for about 30 positions and that Land Commissioner Savidge will serve without pay. It also reports on referendum petitions checked by I M Howell with many female signers, plus Paris kit relief distribution coordinated by the American War Relief Clearing House and Mrs Whitney Warren.
A New York City relief plan led by Mrs. Whitney Warren through Secours National aims to send kits with clothing and essentials to destitute French babies and children. The program emphasizes aid to noncombatants, urging Americans to divert part of vacation funds to this cause.
Leavenworth celebrates a marriage week with ceremonies in Seattle and Wenatchee. S S A Murray and Elsie Barker wed in Seattle and returned to Leavenworth. Roy Robertson and Ruth Emerson wed in Wenatchee and are now home in Leavenworth. Frank Fromm and Susie Brisky married in Seattle and plan to reside here.
Notice invites readers to place lost and found ads or buy sell rent and locate information in the Business Pabli O Column. Rates are 0 cents per line for first insertion and 5 cents per line thereafter with a minimum charge of 2 cents.
A sale listing offers many first class Holstein and Ayrshire heifers, two grade bulls, and four milk cows ready to stand a test. Contact H. B. Smith Merritt Wash or inquire at the office.
Cheap two room shack with water and electricity available. Inquire at Echo office.
An optimistic ad extols Dr King s New Discovery curing colds by addressing the root cause. It urges readers to buy a bottle now and promises relief from throat irritations and germs with full faith in the remedy. Also notes new law requiring motorcycle head and tail lights after July 1 and announces Tacome Glacier Fish Co plans a cannery in Alaska.
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