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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1920
Page
4
Public notice states that all condolence cards thanks notices entertainments with admission fees or business-promoting notices must be paid at regular advertising rates when printed in The Echo. The policy emphasizes paid placement for such items.
May reports suggest no gasoline shortage if consumption decreases and alcohol prices drop from 150 to 19 in Chicago on a tip the Supreme Court may strike down the 18th Amendment. The Republican National Committee seemed to favor holding their Chicago convention after similar chatter.
A nationwide price-cutting wave spreads this week as merchants try to unload high priced goods. Money tightens, affecting general merchandise with sugar largely untouched. The trend begins with large city merchants cutting prices to clear stock ahead of broader declines.
Waldo Roberts spent Tuesday in Everett. Conductor R L Leslie has moved back to Leavenworth area with his family. Several railroad workers, including Trainmaster Clary and Engineer Shewbridge, were in town this week. Social notes mention whist games and a Maccabee card party.
A compilation humor piece notes advertising rates with fixed prices for calling a citizen relic of antiquity a veteran, a new lawyer a legal light, and a refined lady a valuable acquisition. It mocks terms for a lazy progressive citizen and a deceased poker regular, with local humorous clippings from Holdenville and Winamac and a poem about early spring signs.
Attorney Corbin from Wenatchee attended Beamish's sale on Saturday handling business matters as the auction proceeds regardless of cost. sale details suggest a forced relocation or reorganization of property.
The article argues farmers should advertise like other businesses. It gives examples of effective want ads, stressing including what is for sale, age, breed, and price. Plain ads fail without price and description. Try several well written want ads in your local paper.
Neighborhood events include a Miss Taylor program and a Thursday picnic in Mr Burgess woods. Rupel children Martha Paul and Claude visit Wenatchee high school peers in Lake Wenatchee area. Families J F Craney H W Peters T A Leavell N A Peters host gatherings. Sixty five Wenatchee high pupils tour to Lake Wenatchee for a picnic.
A recent North Dakota experiment shows male asparagus plants yield 2700 pounds more per acre than seed producing plants at ten cents a pound, equating to 270 dollars extra per acre though males produce smaller spears though more of them. Stevens County Farm Bureau eyes a potato growers association to grow pure seed and market county crops. County agents bought 12,000 pounds of alfalfa seed saving farmers 1,200 dollars. Seventeen fertilizer tests proceed in Benton County mostly on asparagus and alfalfa with three on orchard trees. Thurston County Farm Bureau bought 10 tons of stump powder saving 145 dollars per ton. Eight thousand pounds of poisoned oats distributed in Whitman County for ground squirrel control. Forty thousand pounds of land plaster bought cooperatively by Klickitat County farmers saving 4 dollars per ton.
Lake Wenatchee residents attended a Wednesday evening program at the school house, gathering to hear speakers and participate in the community event. Community members gathered at the school house for an evening program on Wednesday.
Dr J S Judah calls all debtors and creditors to send bills or remit at the address 1826 Lakeview Boulevard Seattle Washington. Adv 21 41 np.
The Association of Railway Executives reports spread of railroad securities among investors. Individuals hold about 10 million in securities with over a million owners. life insurances hold nearly two billion. savings banks own 847 million. insurers and other institutions hold hundreds of millions.
The Methodist Episcopal church schedules Sabbath School at 9 45, Epworth League at 7, and morning and evening services at 11 and 7 with sermons on The Promise of a New Heart and The Conversion of a Major General Pastor WM Hoskins leads. Whatcom County Farm Bureau aims to test 10 000 dairy cows for tuberculosis this year with 200 signed application blanks ready for the state inspector.
Clarke county community in Mount Pleasant organizes a bull association and purchases a purebred bull for £500 to support local farming. The move underscores cooperative livestock efforts among residents.
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