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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1908
Page
4
A notice outlines filing costs for district and county offices and precinct positions. It specifies rates for candidates and the election authority sets schedules and deadlines. The document emphasizes fee amounts, payment methods, and submission timelines for official candidacy filings.
A series of Chelan county political notices announces candidates for sheriff and county auditor across both major parties. Individuals include M Horan R F Holm J J King Del McCoy Ed Ferguson N Insche Dan F Shafer W T Simmons F A Reynolds and E G Spencer with affiliations Republican or Democratic and primary election on September 8.
Notices show J. W. Sussex Fred M. Berry and F. A. Warren announcing runs for county engineer subject to Republican primaries. Berry names September 8 1908 as the primary date. Wenatchee Washington figures appear in the declarations.
A. A. Bousquet announces candidacy for the office of county treasurer in Chelan County Washington. The statement is dated March 4 1908 and addresses Wenatchee.
A. G. Bowie and E. C. Bowersox announce candidacies for the Republican primaries for County Superintendent of Schools in Chelan Falls Washington. A. G. Bowie seeks the nomination for a new term and E. C. Bowersox seeks re election to the office of County Superintendent of Schools.
Having served three years as deputy assessor in Chelan county I announce I will be a candidate for the office. I served one year under J B Holmes and two years under the present incumbent M P Spencer and previously ten years in Nebraska in the same capacity.
A candidate listing for Chelan County Bruce Osborn seeks the Republican primary ballot for county assessor with a Washington address Lakeside and notes re election bid. J L Campbell County Clerk confirms intent to run again in Chelan County on the Republican ticket pending primary voters.
Several residents enter the Chelan county race for the Republican primary. Geo Liverly of Wenatchee Lake and A F Estes announce for western Chelan and district two respectively, pledging equal rights and good roads. H W Otis also backs a bid for the second district after reconsideration.
E. C. Booth announces his candidacy for justice of the peace in Leavenworth precinct Chelan County subject to the Democratic primary. Booth seeks the position in the local precinct within the county political contest.
The Harrington Citizen reports in Pendleton and Walla Walla that a brewer in Walla Walla created Near-Beer after Oregon and Pendleton county went dry. The drink imitates real beer with low alcohol to skirt prohibition. It is shipped across the state line, with saloonmen in Umatilla County beginning to handle it. Local breweries seek to expand as orders rise and preparations for future local option laws grow.
Lieutenant Governor Charles E. Coon addressed the Washington State Press Association in Vancouver urging clear rules for advertising versus news matter and calling for a legislative committee to press for fair ad rates. The group named Eugene Lorton, J. W. Lysons, Grant C. Angle, E. E. Beard, and Albert Johnson to lead the effort with publishers statewide.
Washington potato growers eye Minnesota methods to store tubers for years. Deep 50 to 100 foot cellars with cool, stable temperatures yield potatoes that can be kept for two years or more, with minimal sprouting. The Monroe band will play in Seattle for the Eagles national session August 13 to 15, and a subscription fund seeks to send the girls band to join.
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