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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1918
Page
2
The Leavenworth Echo states that resolutions of condolence cards of thanks notices of entertainments with admission fees or fund raising must be paid at regular advertising rates when published in the paper. Free use is limited to moral or community welfare movements benefiting the whole community with no promotion of business. No deviation from this rule.
The piece notes Republican lawmakers supported war measures and call for a full investigation into the airplane scandal. It cites Administration aides and Baker, hints at office appointments, credits bipartisanship, and mentions coal overcharges leading to refunds via the Red Cross for 318 consumers and 651.21 dollars in unlocated cases.
Mrs Chester Stewart of Wenatchee visits with her mother Mrs Ed Phillips. Mrs Al Durnall returns from Seattle to visit her parents Mr and Mrs J A Wilson and plans to depart for California after visit. Mrs Horton of Wenatchee visits with daughter Mrs Leonard Harvey. Mr Preston, Wrights Saw Mill night watcher, injured falling from platform with Dr Hoxey improving slowly. Mr and Mrs B L Ryan visit Cashmere on business. Mr and Mrs Hobson drive to Wenatchee to see daughter Mrs Forest Leedy who is very sick. A 9 12 pound girl born to Mrs Ollie Kelley at Leavenworth Emergency Hospital Friday May 3. Mrs Louis Arbogast and Miss Lettie Arbogast with Miss Jessie Haskins shop Leavenworth Tuesday. Mrs Harvey Otis, recently in Seattle, returns home to live with her parents Mr G P Pryberger. Mrs Bert Paul and daughter Virginia and infant son return to Twisp after visiting Mrs W F Boston. Blanch Boston returns home. Mr and Mrs M W Starks visit Leavenworth on business. Miss Lanphere called to Brewster on important business then returns home Monday evening. J A Warman returns from Seattle on business to Seattle then home Sunday night. Louis Spidel visits Leavenworth Tuesday. Mrs M F Patrick, Miss Permelia Patrick and Ollie Kelley visit Leavenworth Tuesday.
A Seattle dispatch reports State Fuel Administrator Whitcomb announced that total overcharges amounted to 8 368 48 dollars in a daily press briefing this Wednesday.
Last Thursday May 3 Lea venworth High School junior class staged a varied program titled Junior Jinks. Olive Blankenship and John Coppock opened with a coon creek comedy. Iva West and Hazel Peterson impressed with pantomime and songs. The show included sketches by Edward Ritchie Bruce Smith and others and a ukulele finale. Proceeds neared $50 to entertain the senior class.
A school assembly ends with the entire class singing the Star Spangled Banner after a roll call and a song, with the whole gathering rising to join in.
The nation lauds Charles M Schwab and John D Ryan for headship of shipbuilding and airplane programs. Critics say political management lagged behind, and genuine industry leaders will deliver results. President Wilson earns praise for a businesslike plan guiding wartime construction. Workmen and the public celebrate anticipated progress.
The Nicaraguan congress on Tuesday formally declared war on Germany, joining twenty nations in combat against the Hun. Congress also backed solidarity with American Republics at war and authorized the President to mobilize the nation’s forces as needed.
Its neighbor Guatemala declared war on Germany last month. Nicaragua severed relations with Germany a year ago.
Classified ads offer good clean seed potatoes Early Michigan and Nested Gems at £2.09 per hundred from A. O. Nuetzel. Contact O. B. Robertson. May 1000 feet 20 to 35 pound pressure 10 inch wood stave pipe 35 cents per foot f o b mouth of Icicle. For further information write City of Leavenworth or A. R. Brown Clerk. marStf
Classifieds include a two room furnished shack renting near Echo with May 31 date, a six room house on River Front St costing 12 dollars monthly, and an invitation to plan a Lake Keechelus Inn vacation with season starting May 20. Also agricultural pitches for cabbage plants and tomatoes from C. E. Rollins dated May 31.
Henry T. Booth age 64 shot himself at Entiat Tuesday after waiting alone while family was in another room. Death was instant. He leaves a wife and four sons and one daughter all residing in Entiat.
Leavenworth public library will close Saturday May 15 and all borrowers must return books by May 18. The library plans a fall reopening, with notices in Echo want ads encouraging returns and future results.
Samuel Gompers declares in Cleveland on April 19 that American socialism is a branch of German propaganda and not a distinct American party. He labels socialism poisonous German propaganda and argues there is no separate American Socialist organization.
The Echo accepts orders for any rubber stamp item with careful attention and prompt delivery.
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