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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1917
Page
6
Leavenworth women report growing needs for an office desk to organize records while they continue daily schoolhouse sewing sessions. They supply warm clothing, hospital dressings, bandages, and Christmas packages for soldiers, urging the public to lend a desk or direct leads.
City residents travel and visiting friends in Seattle Tacoma Spokane and Portland with local club events Red Cross Kensington meetings and a dolls sale. The Leavenworth page also notes new downtown shipments new dinnersware and medical clinic visits at the Barclay Hotel with Dr Mellenthin promotions and patient anecdotes.
Donald McIntosh, formerly a clerk for Great Northern Lumber Co, left two months ago for Standard Oil Co in Wenatchee and has now been promoted to a better mail office position in Spokane. He will make his home there. Mrs. J B Schons and children returned to Wenatchee after a month on the Eagle Creek ranch, noting apples nearly all picked and stored.
The article urges Americans to assemble small holiday care packages for soldiers overseas and at home. It notes the gifts should include toilet articles sweets and writing materials to lift spirits and remind soldiers of childhood memories. It stresses the fear of any soldier being forgotten at Christmas.
Mrs. A C McCready president of the State Federated Women's Clubs of Washington will visit Leavenworth today to address local women about patriotic club work. Citizens are urged to attend as she is described as an eloquent speaker with a patriotic message.
The article notes J B Violette was arrested for violation of the dry law and is out on bond for the next Chelan county Superior Court term. He has two prior convictions for the offense and faces potential fines and jail if convicted again. Also mentioned is the Leavenworth Red Cross auxiliary financial report to be published next week and a Thanksgiving Eve Masquerade and Basket Supper led by Ross Irwin on November 28.
A Sorbonne professor held by Germany since 1915 feigned total blindness to escape. German doctors tested him rigorously but he maintained a blank gaze, and he was exchanged as a permanently disabled prisoner.
A hotel clearing house will be inaugurated by the Hotel association of New York City to locate suitable rooms for visitors when hotels are full. The system aims to prevent accommodation troubles during peak times such as the world’s baseball series. Vancouver work at the shipyard progresses rapidly.
State industrial notes announce a new sugar beet plant planned for next season near Sunnyside, alongside other regional developments. Sedro Woolley reports a 7 million bushel bean crop. Aberdeen launches a 2 250 000 feet lumber-carrying auxiliary schooner Fane Strand. Blanchard Milk Co incorporates for 50000 dollars. other projects include a state veterans dormitory bid, an $80000 tuberculosis hospital, an evaporating plant at the state penitentiary, an $80000 coal pulverizing plant in Seattle, a 160000 bond vote for Bell street wharf expansion, tax proposal shifts by the Non-Partisan League, Aberdeen shipyard improvements around 35000, Spokane sewers by day labor cost 15475, and a 66000 irrigation project for Fords and Waunchs Prairies.
Higher wages are paid to steel workers in Youngstown mills with some earners reaching $800 a month. The pay reflects a new sliding scale tied to steel selling prices under an Amalgn association ruling. Rollers receive the highest wages, while heaters roughers and other trades see similarly elevated pay. Skilled laborers may earn from $12 to $15 daily, and some unskilled workers reach $5 to $6 daily after weeks of experience.
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