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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1919
Page
1
President Wilson designates Thursday November 27 as a day of thanksgiving and prayer inviting national reflection on peace and unity. He urges Americans to renew loyalty to democratic principles and assist others toward a world of friendship and goodwill.
Sabbath School at 9 45. Epworth League at 6 30. Sermon 11 am titled The Suffering Saviour. Choir sacred concert at 7 30 entitled An Evening in Story and Song. Everyone welcome.
For sale a heavy solid brass bed with springs Ostermoor mattress Round Oak Heater Globe Wernicke bookcase and a 7 drawer Singer sewing machine See D H Mayar or phone 284
W. M. Yundt of five miles east of Leavenworth shows a season's fruit believed to be the largest apple ever grown. The Wolf River apple measures nineteen inches around and six inches in diameter and weighs two and a half pounds. It is slated for display by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, highlighting Leavenworth as a premier apple country.
A sequence of property deeds shows numerous owners selling lots and tracts in Chelan and vicinity. Buyers include individuals and firms such as Morrison Kingman, Ellis Forde Land & Investment Co., Millerdale Improvement Co., Northwestern Security Co., and Citizens St. Bank of Auburn, with prices ranging from 50 to 14,000 dollars. Parties include Fred L. Post, Clarence Van Slyke, W R Higgins, W. T. Shipton, Marie Andresen, James Ainge, Adam Crone, Carl Gattung, E. F. Warren, R. F. Johnson, Sarah Holes, Molly Neel, Ora Parker, J. H. Neher, John L. Simonton, Albert Simon, G. B. Deering, J. Geminhard, Harold Hilton, Albert Tonk, C. Furney, Solomon Cadman, David Morley, W. A. Darling, Roxie Searls, Columbia Valley Lbr Co, and others, with numerous parcels described by section, township and range.
Leavenworth Peshastin and Dryden fruit growers are called to a Grange Hall gathering in Peshastin on November 20 at 3 p m. to elect two delegates for the Annual State Grade and Pack Conference set for December 1 to 5 in Spokane.
The Leavenworth State Bank will distribute Free Farm Account Books to ranchers in the area who notify the bank by oral or written request. The bank asks for immediate notification to prepare these books.
A furnace blaze in the Carlquist jewelry store basement last Friday caused alarm to Tom Nolan the tailor next door and others. The fire was quickly extinguished with little damage reported.
Three members of the Centralia American Legion post are killed in an Armistice Day shooting blamed on IWW members. From a Tower avenue building shots rain down on the parade as crowds flee. Several wounded, a man hanged, and the IWW hall ransacked as arrests follow.
Doings among the railroad boys and girls report visits by Seattle and Spokane personnel, layoffs and health updates, travel through Leavenworth, and a birthday gathering. News includes engineers, conductors, operators, and family mentions across the W O Line and Cascade Division with several in Seattle, Spokane, and Drury.
J B Adams field manager for the Northwestern Fruit Exchange of Seattle was named by Governor Hart and the Seattle Chamber to attend the Western Land States Reclamation Conference in Salt Lake City November 21 22. The gathering aims to push national irrigation legislation and a unified western policy, backing the Jones bill to provide 250 million dollars for reclamation. Adams, a leading irrigation figure and orchardist, will join ten delegates from each western state to press agricultural and water development efforts.
Miss Chrissie Timpe substituted in the sixth grade and second grade at Leavenworth High School. Mrs T E Brown covers fifth grade while Miss Ward is away. The Board granted a half holiday on Armistice Day though not a formal school holiday. Officials urge precautions to protect pupils from illness and request cooperation from pupils and parents to limit winter disruptions.
Taken up describes a black and white Holstein steer found near Plain about Nov 1, two years old with an H brand. Owner to claim by paying notice and feed. In the same notice Dr. Judah attended a Nov 6 birth at H. E. Milham Wenatchee, naming Dixie Maemogene for a baby girl.
Gene Haskins, driving the Leavenworth Laun clock delivery car, was struck by a switch engine and dragged for a distance before release. He was taken to a hospital with head shoulder leg and wrist injuries but is expected to recover and return home to the Anderson hotel.
A note on the death of poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox follows, recalling her famous line Laugh and the world laughs with you. It mentions the poem’s anonymous first publication and later inclusion in her verse. The piece quotes the opening lines and reflects on the themes of joy and sorrow.
Yesterday afternoon a fire alarm summoned the fire department to a blaze caused by a defective flue in the house of H. A. Sumpter, located a short distance northeast of the primary school. The fire was extinguished quickly with no injuries.
F A Sinclair and F L Barkee visited the Peshastin apple packing plant on Thursday. Mr and Mrs W W Smith and two daughters of Chatanooga Tennessee are visiting Mrs Smiths brother E N Burgess and plan to leave early next week with Burgess. Mr J B Adams arrived from Seattle for several days and serves as an executive officer of the Northwestern Fruit Exchange, which invested a million dollars in eastern Washington orchards last summer and is the region’s largest apple shipper.
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