Accidental Revolver Death at Wenatchee Ranch
Fred Bills of Monitor died at Wenatchee General Hospital after a gun discharged accidentally on the Wenatchee High Line Orchard where he managed a party of friends. The bullet passed through his abdomen after the firing pin stuck, and he died about twenty hours later despite initial hopes of a quick recovery. He was well known in the Wenatchee valley and left many friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Bills
Wenatchee General Hospital
Bills
Wenatchee High Line
Wenatchee Valley
Blewett Briefs from Blewett Oregon and Nearby
Local notes report Rev. Moore preaching Sunday afternoon at the Hall. Mrs. Harper of Aberdeen and Mrs. Ott shopped in Leavenworth. Peshastin Lumber auto truck under repair. Blewett Bloomers to play ball Wednesday due to heat. Aston residence nearing move in, Gregory’s new home progressing. multiple small social and family updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Biles
Doris
Peshastin Lumber Co
Blewett Bloomers
Eagle Creek Anecdotes and Local Visits
Mr. Christianson took his family and neighbors to the Cahill ranch on the Chumstick last Sunday. The E C S club met at the Christianson home for a pleasant afternoon of fancywork and lunch. Government surveyors are mapping township lines from the Columbia river to Eagle creek head. Mrs M Christenson and Mrs Schons visited the Anderson ranch while Mr and Mrs Van De Grift went to Spencer Blankenship. Mr Schons bought a large Holstein cow for his herd.
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Mr. Christianson
Wall
Lucille
Madeline
Fred van de Grift
Cahill
E. C. S. Club
Christianson
Clyde Kenyon
Spokane
Columbia River
Eagle Creek
Mrs. M. Christenson
Mrs. Schons
Anderson Ranch
Mrs. van de Grift
Spencer Blankenship
Banish the Fly and a Mt. Baker Gold Strike Reported
A health note urges screening stables and disinfecting litter to curb house flies reducing typhoid and intestinal diseases. It recommends traps and swatters as extra control and links fly control to protecting babies. Separately, a rich gold strike occurred on Swamp Creek in the Mt. Baker district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman’s National Weekly
Swamp Creek
Mt. Baker District
Peach Growers of Lower Valley Hope For Better Peach Prices
W H Pauthamus is expected in Wenatchee to meet soft fruit growers unsettled about selling peaches with a good yield promised on trees left standing. Past low prices discouraged orchards, cherries also fell in value due to market dumping. Peaches would arrive around early July and growers seek a pricing solution. Pauthamus’s success with Puyallup valley berries offers hope for stabilizing peach markets.
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Paulhamus
Puyallup Valley
Apple growers complain of slow settlements in two districts
Leavenworth area growers signed with the Fruit Distributors Selling Agency while Peshastin growers joined the Western Fruit Exchange. Peshastin final settlements reached 59 cents per box, while Winesap and Delicious varieties paid 45 cents and bulk shipments only 25 cents, with Leavenworth still unsettled. Citizens question why the distributors lag others. Northwestern Electric raises 2 million dollars for Clarke, Cowlitz, Klickitat and Skamania counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leavenworth
Fruit Distributors
Peshastin
Western Fruit Exchange
Also Mentioned on This Page
Parks & Banks Railroad Show
Madam Roberts
Human Butterfly
Leonharts
Captain Herbeck
Big Lion
Funny Clowns
Methow
Pride of the Valley
Schmeerkase
Charles Eckhart
Tumwater Savings Bank
The
Pioneer Bank
Peach Blossom Flour
Wenatchee Milling Co
Wenatchee, Wash
Wenatchee
Blewett Briefs
Aston
Gregory
Palmer
Koerner’s
Cashmere
Lower Valley
W. H. Pauthamus
Palmer’s Perfumes
Northwestern Electric
Clarke, Cowlitz
Klickitat
Skamania
Wheeler’s City Drug Store
Rexall Agency
A. D. S. Agency
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