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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1909
Page
2
The Leavenworth Echo outlines subscription details and editorial rules. It lists types of paid notices such as condolence resolutions and fundraising events while promising free space for welfare oriented community notices.
Taft is inaugurated as president following Roosevelt's retirement. Roosevelt served 7.5 years with reform and prosperity, shaping a strong administration. Taft arrives as a seasoned public official ready to continue reforms. Business leaders express optimism for the new administration and the nation’s future prospects. The sixth and seventh grades report high averages and plan a box social to fund school room improvements.
An eastern letter from J A Hume of Bancizire Wis located in Yakima extols Wenatchee valley soil and climate. He cites volcanic ash soil water supply sunshine mountain breeze and scientific farming insight as keys to extraordinary crop potential with no exaggeration.
M R McMahon and O E Loving of Wenatchee sue Colonel George G Darrow James S Johnson ex councilman Seattle C W Johnson H O Read and R S Ladington in Salome Enterprise Seap lake control near Spokane. They seek 21500 and ask for a restraining order to halt further indebtedness.
Charley Ashley a hotel cook long in Okanogan was arrested on bigamy charges. Pleading guilty he was sentenced by Judge Taylor to from one to five years in the penitentiary. His true name is Watson and he lived with a woman under the Ashley name before fleeing to a homestead near town. Mrs Watson, his first wife, arrived and the arrest followed.
Cold snap gripped Lake Chelan last Thursday night causing surface freezing over several miles above Lakeside. Heavy wet snow layered the lake as water temperatures remained too cold to melt it, forming a half inch sheet that reflected a rare winter event for the region.
Mrs. L. W. Bloom of Wenatchee visited friends here on Wednesday, sharing time with locals during a brief visit.
The Peshastin Commercial Club at a schoolhouse meeting urged Great Northern to open a freight and express office with an agent. They cited last year’s 25 cars of fruit and 75 cars of other products, with expectations to triple. The group plans advertising schemes for the valley and notes nearby land slated for irrigation and subdivision into five and ten acre plots likely to host a Quaker or Dunkard settlement this summer. George Hauber leads the club as president. Quigg advances a steel bridge project with steel on the way, though delayed.
Mr G F Cleary and Mrs May C MacDonald were married in Wenatchee last Friday morning by Judge Palmes. Cleary is a new arrival from Ellensburg, MacDonald a former Sycamore Illinois resident. The couple returned home the next day and will reside here.
In the postoffice records, uncalled for items remain. J C. Davis, Postmaster, directs that the same be advertised and calls for recipients Burnside Walter Bergstrom Chas Davis Len Forsythe Mrs Lacy Hunsacker W Hardman Miss Ida King Mrs A Mitchell Mrs FE.
Governor Hay and Emmet B. Parker of Tacoma and Geo. E. Mor tis of Seattle named to created posts. The six day session presses to wrap up, with the AYP commission inviting Seattle for a Saturday meeting. Senate reviews a code bill on crimes with two major, conflicting amendments. The cigarette law remains unchanged amid strong public critique. If days left fail to show progress, observers warn the session will appear derelict.
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