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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1917
Page
4
New York report on the newly formed Association of the Outdoor Showmen of the World aims to uplift and purify the outdoor show business. President Frank P. Spellman outlines goals including fair treatment, legal representation in cities, and defense against unjust attacks with Billy Sunday invited as a member.
A Massachusetts Agricultural College bulletin urges careful planning for town commons. Priorities include regrading lawns, proper watering and fertilization, pruning damaged trees, removing crowded stock, and selective replanting with a single tree species. Formal borders preferred. center left open. shrubbery and flower beds discouraged due to maintenance and visual impact.
Thomas Lovett of Cuero Texas recalls a two year old duck hunt incident when a wounded duck bound with his necktie carried away a diamond stud hidden in the tie. He reports the duck flew off with the tie dangling from its feet but Lovett has not filed any claim to the stud.
Washington reports the weather bureau seeks to replace sleet with glaze for frozen rain and defines ice storm as glaze with wind. Officials say improper sleet usage led to mislabeling storms like tornado for cyclone.
In San Francisco Lieutenant G. W. von Brincken a German consulate military attache, inked a coat of arms on his baby daughter's wrist to ensure he could identify his child amid hospital infants. He had feared nurses’ methods after a recent conviction related to munitions plots.
Bellefontaine Ohio reports Cora Woodbury seeks guardianship of her 82 year old mother Harriet Fulwider after the elder woman eloped to Newport Kentucky and wed 62 year old Joel Bates. The mother owns property valued in the several thousands and the daughter seeks dismissal of her mother’s guardian and appointment as guardian in Champaign county court.
A census bureau report shows New York state’s top manufacture in 1914 was women's clothing with $345,316,000 in output. Printing and publishing followed at $257,269,000 and men's clothing at $230,627,000, with overall manufactured product value totaling $3,814,861,000.
Monessen Pennsylvania Michael Kamar twenty nine received one thousand dollars for loss of an eye at a Pittsburgh steel mill. He celebrated with a trip toward New York stopping at Ashtabula. He spent the money in half an hour then resumed travel and planned work. Wayne Richardson from Clay Center survived being buried eighteen feet in an excavation at North Lawrence after twenty minutes and was rescued with no injuries.
The Jerusalem Artichoke tolerates frost and drought, with tubers stored like potatoes. It can overwinter in the ground and sprout yearly, but spring plowing or crop rotation can eradicate it. It yields potato-like tubers and supports hog and dairy feeds, especially in Washington, where it is recommended as a minor pasture crop for hogs. An acre can feed 20 to 30 hogs through fall and winter when ground is unfrozen.
Captain L W Richards of the Norwalk reports lace-like filmy layers on wild trees in Panama swamps. The bark yields mosquito netting like fabric that can be sewn. natives use it for garments. He tests cultivation and aims to develop a fabric for mosquito bars and summer wear.
In Flushing New York a mule owned by the Belmont Coal company had its ear burned off by a live wire in a mine. Dr W H Stevens sewed the ear back on and the operation was successful. The mule is not expected to be disfigured.
Kansas City area report says chicken thieves stole about two dozen birds from a farmer but were unable to start the stolen automobile. They left the flivver behind, while the farmer kept the car he had planned to use for the flock.
Glasgow Missouri couple J P Bentley aged ninety and Susan Fristoe Bentley eighty eight celebrated seventy years of marriage with no quarrel. They live near Forest Green on a 600 acre farm that Mr Bentley still runs. The couple, born on adjoining farms, raised nine children nine of whom survive, and their farm dates to 1815 from a government grant.
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