Seattle Visitors and regional industry plans update
Miss Ruby Ripple of Seattle visits the Skeffingtons and will ride with S. P. Beecher and daughters of Peshastin to Seattle via the Snoqualmie pass. North Yakima Earl Fruit Co to erect 4 warehouses in Yakima Valley. Northwest sawmills secure a $5,880,000 lumber ships contract and ferine training. Aberdeen Motorship to build seven 4000 ton wooden steamers for U S. Spokane New 1500 barrel flour mill and first unit of 1,000,000 bushel grain warehouse at Summer cost 125,000. Bay City logging camp established nearby with plans to turn out railroad supplies and another near Carlisle.
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Ruby Ripple
Seattle
W. P. Skeffington
S. P. Beecher
Peshastin
Snoqualmie Pass
Spokane
Bay City
Carlisle
Yakima
Yakima Valley
Ridgefield
Hoquiam
Hoquiam Lumber & Shingle Co
Harbor
Bellingham
Mount Baker
Peshastin Club Plans Dance and Card Party in Anderson Hall
Invitations issued by the Peshastin P. L. F. Club for a dance and card party at Anderson hall on Saturday June 30. Out of town guests expected. Red Cross week in Peshastin and Blewett raised $500. Postmaster Nell R. Duncan resigns after five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. L. F. Club of
Peshastin
Anderson Hall
Nell R. Duncan
Mrs. Duncan
Duncan
Red Cross Subscriptions Pouring In Across State
Indications point to over subscription of the hundred million Red Cross Fund. We natchee pledges exceeded 800 in a rush after a $5,000 goal was set. Peshastin pledged over 300 of 500 expected. Leavenworth aims for 1,000 with more to come. Women led on tag day. men expected to follow.
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Red Cross
Wenatchee
Ed Ferguson
Leavenworth
Red Cross backs the man behind the gun appeal
United States forces under General Pershing may face front lines in France. A call for American aid lists immediate French needs including 50 motor ambulance sections, 200000 blankets, 10000 kilos quinine, 30000 kilos cod liver oil, tents, gloves, boots, and medical supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gen. Pershing
France
America
Freight Auto Truck Schedules and Penalty Notice
A note states performing forestry work without a permit is punishable by a minimum $25 fine. It lists an autotruck service delivering freight to Wenatchee twice weekly on Tuesday and Friday with orders left at Leavenworth Market for pickup.
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Department of the Interior
U.S. Land Office
Waterville Wash
Adolph Fredrikson
Winton Washington
N. R
Range
Willamette Meridian
Ludington
United States
Wenatchee Washington
Wm. Thomson, Sr
Wm. Thomson, Jr
H. Cedarquist
Chiwaukum
Wash
R. Heinrichs
Leavenworth
Forestry Department
Wenatchee
Leavenworth Market
Army camp contract signals vast Pacific Northwest effort
Hurley Mason Company won a cost plus percentage contract to build an army cantonment at American Lake for about four million dollars. The project will house 60,000 soldiers and employ nearly 3,000 workers, reflecting a major wartime expansion and heightened regional prosperity in 1917 Seattle area markets including hogs, liquor prohibition trends, and Puget Sound trade.
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American Lake
United States
War Department
Hurley Mason Company
Army
Pacific Coast
C. R. Collins
Hurley Mason Co
Pacific Northwest
Germany
West
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Wheeler’s
C. R. Rothen & Co
MIDGE
Ben Spear
Register
Heal
Tireensem No
State of Washington
County of
Chelan
Skykomish Lumber Company
George G. Smith
Hattie Smith
Superior Court
Washington
Burt McManus
Said County
Samuel R. Templeton
North
Northwest
Veuspe
Aberdeen—Motorship Corporation
U. S
Blewett
Della Rosenberger
Cle Elum
A. C. Gilbert
Mabel Hinton
Entiat
Tom Cannon
Peshastin Creek
Fishlake
Mrs. Brady
Brady
Community Church
R. H. Barber
New York City
Barber
God
the Red Cross
American Red Cross
Surgical India
Pacific Highway Improvement
Lewis County
Toppenish—Wey Zuckerman Co
Chehalis
Greenacres
Greenacres Water Power Co
Spokesman-Review
Richland
Richland Kiowa
Pinecraft
Vancouver
Portland Bridge & Iron Co
Lewis River
Mutual Mercantile Co
Northwest News
John Barleycorn
Congress
Puget Sound
Graham’s Repair & Harness Shop
Heron Amusement Co
Merry
Everglades of
Florida
Mexico
Fat Girl
Old Ball Park
Naxle Sales Co
Calder Herring
Mgr
New York
Echo
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