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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1919
Page
4
The Echo reserves space for paid notices and fund raising schemes at regular rates. Free use is allowed for moral community welfare efforts and benevolent promotions. Back issues past the current month cost 25 cents each.
The National Grange, a farmers organization, rejects an alliance with union labor and says farmers have no mutual grievances. There is public outcry in many quarters for new laws to curb radicals. Judge Grimshaw of Wenatchee says existing laws will suffice if enforced. Cheney completes 35 blocks of paving for 72454. Seemingly that cost is reasonable and could inspire Leavenworth to invest more paving.
The Senate appears poised to defeat the peace treaty and the League of Nations by adopting numerous reservations despite broad public support for the negotiated settlement and the league’s formation as the best possible outcome.
The Washburn Lignite Coal company mine seizure at Wilton North Dakota appears to be the opening move by the Nonpartisan League to apply eminent domain. The provision would allow the state to seize all real property including farms.
U S court orders a halt to the coal miners strike. The move is viewed as correcting industry injustices and reducing prejudice against workers entering strikes before winter. Supporters say higher prices may be needed to ensure fair treatment for laboring families while noting strikes are growing less popular.
Print paper manufacturers, early profiteers of wartime shortages, push prices higher. Prices rose from about three cents to thirteen cents per pound fob mill in carload lots as government controls eased, sparking accusations of profiteering or theft by printers.
The piece argues the government should round up the T. W. W. as an enemy of the state. It contends evidence is conclusive and urged action, while noting most Americans would support a firm stance if needed. It suggests some may be misinformed about the group's true aims and calls for them to correct course.
After seventeen years at the Leavenworth Echo Deed H. Mayor sells the paper to a trio of North Dakota printers and plans a winter rest in California. The Echo has long served as a welcome exchange for Oroville weekly readers and the Gazette’s office notes with regret his retirement from the newspaper business.
The piece recalls how the Echo name went to Leavenworth and prompted Riverside Argus launch plans. It cites three partners moving to Leavenworth with strong community support and notes Mr Mayor beat the writer to the Echo name about seventeen years ago, shaping local newspaper history.
A collage of lighthearted clippings and reader toasts from small papers. Jests target editors and editors moods while readers share garden produce gifts and a dog reward caper. The notes reflect regional humor from Spangler PA Middlebourne WV Weston WV California PA and more.
A funeral preparations scene unfolds as a colored resident lies in state. An undertaker shuttles through the doorway while a small Black child blocks the entrance claiming "I'se de crape" and insisting on staying. The tension highlights harsh racial language and segregation era atmosphere.
Two 1918 Buick models offered by R F Dahl at Elman Hotel Wenatchee. The five-passenger Light Six in excellent mechanical condition lists price 1400 with five tires motometer bumper wind deflector and chains. A four-winder five-passenger model in very good condition is priced at 800. Call or write for details.
The USDA assists the 1920 census, with enumerators visiting 7,000,000 farms and 35,000,000 rural residents beginning January 1. Farmers are urged to study census questions covering farm tenure acreage livestock facilities and land use to ensure accurate reporting and inform future ag policy.
The census survey asks farm owners about tenancy, years of farming, rent payments, land ownership, and land managed for others. It seeks total farm value, building and equipment values, debts and interest, labor costs, drainage, farm facilities, and marketing clubs. It also requests orchard and timber data, including merchantable timber acres and forest product values.
Public health notice warns that eating undercooked pork can transmit trichinosis from microscopic trichinae. It notes higher parasite presence in hogs and dogs and emphasizes that illness severity depends on parasite quantity ingested.
A stranger attacks the farm dog when kicked in defiance. The farmer appears and says the dog is not mad. The stranger responds that he is the one who is mad noting his own anger and frustration.
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