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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1919
Page
6
Local names and travels populate the week with visits to Wenatchee Leavenworth and Cashmere. Families attend openings store shopping and dances while roads are reported fair and ditches break causing water shortages across the region.
A fragmented collection of maxims on truth, wit, money, gender, age, and life. It blends humorous and reflective lines about behavior, society, and human folly, noting how people misread truth and how small troubles multiply. Some lines touch on gender roles and everyday observations.
Ralph Carpenter alias Ralph Patrick was arrested in Spokane on request of local authorities for involvement in forging a check that his wife was to mail. The forged check was sent by a man at Lake Wenatchee to the wife, and money was obtained in Leavenworth. Patrick is charged with complicity. Deputy Sheriff Sherburn to escort the prisoner back.
Open stock dinner ware options available at the Racket store during June. Seven patterns shown for selection with no fixed sets, allowing customers to mix and match as desired.
The Apollo Club, a Wenatchee aggregation of about twenty four, performed a varied program at the Scenic theater last Wednesday evening to a fair sized, appreciative audience. Merle Lanphere did the Charley Chaplin act and was repeatedly recalled. A. B. Wescott leased the Potter home and moved in this week. Mrs. Riske of Ephrata visits her daughter Mrs. J. A. Hearst. Catholic Ladies announce a food sale downtown Saturday.
W A P writing from the Jacksonian notes Senator Poindexter’s senate speech stirs historic echoes of Lexington Yorktown and Washington as campaign issue. The column laments modern league debates and recalls two White House lambs named Martha and George observed on Washington’s birthday. An ad promotes blue bird dinnerware at the Racket store.
Washington reports Mrs. Medill McCormick chairs a Republican women’s panel asserting suffrage will influence 1920 nominations. She cites 8 to 9 million eligible female voters across 20 states, many west of the Mississippi, capable of sway in electors. Poindexter opposes League of Nations and favors a strong navy with even ship allocation between Atlantic and Pacific.
Senator Poindexter warned the proposed league of nations lacks enforceable disarmament provisions. He argued the plan allows decrees to reduce armament but leaves key terms and relative military strength to a power balance favoring Europe and Asia. He spoke to the Women's Civic Association in San Francisco.
U S Land Office Waterville Washington notes William Thompson of Leavenworth filed intent to make final five year proof for lands described in section 4 and 5 township 26 north range 17 east Willamette meridian before R S Ludington Wenatchee on July 16 1919. Witnesses named A Fredrickson Patrick Ryan T J Dillon Francis A Ware.
Orders for anything in the Rubber Stamp line are being taken at The Echo office for immediate fulfillment.
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