Pomeroy Town Bets On Auto Growth And Campus Boom
Pomeroy Garfield county hosts more automobiles than towns twice its size with 35th machine shipped and total cost near 58000 dollars. Spokane merchants fund 1000 dollar prize for best apples at fall fair. Pullman State College expansion sparks a 325000 dollar building boom including a library valued at 130000 dollars. An accident near Harrington killed two horses valued at 450 dollars. Roy Estes wins a local horse race after a rematch with Rice and Estes. race covered about 1.5 miles south of the river.
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Pomeroy
Garfield County
Charles
John Hellopeter
Harrington
Messrs. Rice
Estes
Roy Estes
Commercial Club Plans Fourth Celebration Drive
At a regular meeting the Commercial Club approved a unified push to fund a July Fourth celebration. A five member committee with broad powers was formed to recruit more volunteers and appoint sub committees. They aim to raise about 1000 dollars and discussed a public booklet to highlight Leavenworth’s resources while urging investor interest. The group urged better attendance by local business leaders at future meetings.
Alaska wheat yields 227 bushels per acre in Idaho trials
Idaho experiments by Allen Adams produced a hardy wheat named Alaska that yields 227 bushels per acre with giant stalks and upright heads. Trials began from a 1904 head, yielding 1,554 pounds from seven pounds of seed in 1906, with later plots reaching 277 bushels per acre after hail and adverse conditions. Idaho College of Agriculture findings praise plump sound grain suitable for better bread.
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Idaho
Allen Adams
Alaska
Adams
Idaho College of Agriculture
Fine Fruit Growing Land Near Leavenworth Explored
Leavenworth Land Co led by Everett residents Swartout and Smyth has developed about three hundred acres north of town into plotted five acre fruit tracts. Thousands of trees, irrigation springs, and a cedar flume support the venture with owners already living on-site and plans to expand as water and land hold steady.
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Leavenworth Land Co
Everett
Leavenworth
The
Echo
M. Swartout
Nick Kinchers
Swartout
C. G. Smyth
College President Finds Women Marry at High Rate
A woman's college president cites statistics countering the claim that higher education prevents marriage. She notes that 77 percent of college women marry and 8734 percent have children, challenging a common notion about educated women.
Forest Service relocates to new Wenatchee base
Forrestry headquarters move to a new base in Wenatchee under Mr. Flory. The Lamb-Davis Lumber Co will finish a 20 by 28 foot frame building on Commercial Street opposite the Anderson rooming house for occupancy. Flory will occupy the former Jos Jackson house.
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National Forest
Flory
Wenatchee
Lamb- Davis Lumber Co
Commercial Street
Anderson
Jos. Jackson
Forest Department appoints guards for regional forests
To meet rising forest service work during grazing season and lumbering revival, Philo M. Williams is named a forest guard on the Wenatchee river national forest while Hiram A. Woodworth and Potter Bayer are appointed forest guards on the Chelan national forest as part of expanded staffing.
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Forest Service
Philo M. Williams
Wenatchee River National Forest
Hiram A. Woodworth
Potter Bayer
Chelan National Forest
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Geo. Keating
J. G. Debord
General Merchandise
M. F. Peake
F. R. Peake
M. F. Peake & Son
General Agency
Timber Lands
Puget Sound
Washington
F. E. Carlquist
J. E. Grant
CARR
Postoffice Building
A. A. Tholin
the Samantha
WM. Herder
Front Street
Alfalfa Hay
Old Adam Emig Place
Lamb-Davis Lbr. Co
Woldenberg
F. S. Taylor
Joe Murphy
Liberty
Max Spromberg
Chumstick Valley
Murphy
Spromberg
Spremberg
Taylor
Chicago Millwaukee & St Paul Railway
Ellinsberg Dawn
Spokane
Pullman State College
Commercial Club
L. J. Nelson
the Echo
Forrestry Headquarters
Lamb Davis Lumber Co
Forestry
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