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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1916
Page
1
A U S Department bulletin urges all land workers to diversify beyond one line of work. The article cites Wenatchee apple growers who failed to farm a garden and warns that prices for butterfat and fruit can shift. It notes small gardens and mixed farming can save money and provide resilience amid market swings.
Your profession will endure and prosper if you diversify as your surroundings allow and avoid dependence on a single line of work. Have faith, take courage, and plan with your wife. Patience and perseverance can prove practicable and profitable.
A discussion of Washington dairying potential notes the state exported about three million pounds of butter last year as dairying is in its infancy. The milder climate and longer grasses promise a cheaper, better product, with logged-off lands ready for productive use. Captain I M Howell provides a booklet on dairying poultry and stock raising upon request via Olympia.
F A Wingate announced that he and A Bigelow closed a deal with the Wenatchee Valley Fruit Growers Association to run the Peshastin warehouse independently this season. The building is large and sturdy, and last season the house handled about eighty carloads of apples.
Friends organized a surprise party last Saturday evening with guests including Misses Ethel Maston Violet Stafford Gladys Stafford Etta Hauck Daisy McIntosh Bernice Darling Mildred James Moyle Duncan and Bertrand Duncan and Messrs George Hylton Ernest Hylton Gilbert Reeves Edward James Earl Kalles.
The Church Board calls an important meeting of members and interested individuals next Monday evening at 8 p m. All members are urged to attend and participate in church affairs and planning.
The regular session approves Whitney’s $500 retainer and 50 percent share on first $2,000 in a suit against Seaman and Quigg, with 10 percent on amounts above. Police judge salary set at 25 dollars, dog license enforcement tightened, jail repairs ordered, and sawdust pile removal requested.
Britons urged to wear a Shakespeare medallion from April 23 to May 3 to honor the bard’s tercentenary. A lord mayor led committee appeals to all in the empire to show homage to the immortal name and its influence on national ideals and sacrifice.
The daily movement of war material via Vladivostok continues and a vast lumber export surges eastward. Every transcontinental line shares the coming boom with an average of 550 cars of lumber per day over the past two weeks, making it the heaviest lumber movement in history. Leavenworth mills are expected to add 20 to 40 cars daily once they operate.
Postmaster Hamilton announces moving into the new post office quarters tomorrow. The reconstruction salvaged much material from the December fire and fixtures are repaired and arranged to look better than ever. Contractors Hartman and McKenzie finalize the Investment Company block while a garage room is ready for the Ford agency to take charge by April first.
Pateros Reporter notes fifty two dairy men in Okanogan County already own silos with 150 more planned this summer. Advice urges cow owners to plant carrots and ensilage greens, grow alfalfa meadows, and feed cows with home grown fodder to boost winter milk yield and profits. S. A. Murray plans to relocate to Juneau Alaska after a previous fire. LifeStaff bottles marketed for home use.
President Butler calls for efficiency and responsible management in government operations. The Senate approves 2.65 million for Puget Sound navy yard. Hoquiam rail yards expand, Union Lumber plans restart with 250 workers. Elma adds equipment, Hoquiam to start a major logging operation, Raymond builds a new mill in ~60 days. Port Angeles wages rise for 40 railroad workers, Brewster co op creamery planned. Colfax to build a barley milling engine. Railroads add jobs and wages nationwide. Aberdeen-Lindstrom to build four auxiliary schooners with 140 workers. Arlington Canning plans salmon production. Tacoma buys lumber for cars. Great Northern to buy 30 million feet for snow sheds.
The Wenatchee Elks smoker drew several Leavenworth members into attendance on a Tuesday night event. Named attendees included O. S. Sampson, Butler Sampson, M. A. Marley, L. O. Taylor, C. S. Taylor, Geo Stirling, Dr. Judah, P. E. Galloway, and C. S. Norberg.
Terminal Agent Woodrow notes daily freight averages eight hundred cars through Leavenworth, with a peak of one thousand in a day. A cement plant at Concrete orders sixty cars daily, and lumber mills in Washington will add 200 to 250 cars more. War material dominates westbound traffic, suggesting continued growth as mills resume full production.
Mansfield will gain an electric light system supplied by the Okanogan Light and Power Company, serving Pateros Brewster Okanogan Riverside and Bridgeport. The system should be fully active by April first with wired stores hotels and public halls ready. The town features fifteen brick blocks a large gymnasium a brick two story school four churches a new water system and planned street improvements.
A deadly railroad collision on the nation's grand line near Amherst Ohio killed thirty people. Two trains collided and wreckage blocked the passenger track, then a fast passenger train, unable to stop in time, struck the debris. The incident prompted a demand from the Great Northern to Baldwin Locomotive works for 25 Mikado locomotives.
Yakima Co Horticultural Union announces a $35,000 cold storage warehouse project for North Yakima to expand local agricultural facilities and support fruit and vegetable storage.
Ridgefield The Potter saw mills will supply 5 000 railroad ties destined for China. The contract marks a notable export agreement involving the mill and a request from Chinese rail interests.
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