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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1917
Page
6
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Anderson express heartfelt thanks to friends and neighbors for kindness during Velma Anderson’s illness and death. A note references a dozen photographs from Wheelers Photo Shop and a wartime call to join the food administration against Germany.
Sealed bids for about 30 acres in Section 29 Township 28 North Range 16 East will be accepted by the District Forester Portland Ore until December 17 1917 for 1175 cords of western red cedar timber. Minimum bid 60 cents per cord with $200 deposit. Also note right to reject any and all bids. Details available from District Forester Portland or Forest Supervisor Leavenworth.
District Forester announces sale of 600 000 feet B M western yellow pine and 67 000 feet B M Douglas fir in 110 acre area in T 25 N R 18 E W M Wenatchee watershed. Minimum bids set at 1 80 for yellow pine and .50 for Douglas fir. Deposit 500. Bids due Nov 23 30 and Dec 7 1917.
David Grootch a stenographer from Jonesboro Arkansas was found on a small island in the Shoshone river near Cody Wyoming by Undersheriff Walter Barber. He said he lived 22 days with only water as nourishment marooned near a wagon road sighted by travelers. He wandered to the river and memory failed then woke on the island 200 rods below a bridge unable to swim and exhausted until a passerby found him.
Neodosha Kansas Wilson county reports indicate an enormous wheat crop with yields around forty to forty four bushels per acre and oats at ninety to ninety five bushels per acre. Notable grows include William Rankin threshing over 10 000 bushels and Mrs Dora Long with 7 500 bushels stored in farmhouse bedrooms.
General George O. Squier told the house appropriations committee that General Pershing needs a competent meteorological expert in France. He said the signal corps must develop new weather forecasting capabilities and obtain special equipment used by French and British armies.
London says William H K Redmond brother of John Redmond left a 1916 December dated statement via his solicitor in Ireland. He pledged true Catholic faith and mercy from God and noted joining the Irish brigade to fight for Ireland and his belief that he was doing his best for Irish welfare.
Noblesville Indiana man D I Neher ships walnut timber to Britain for the western front. The contract covers thirty carloads of lumber for airplanes and gun stocks, from a Nora area woodland at 6 50 per hundred feet, with supplier A L Purser.
In Scranton Archie Reeves and Burgess Richards of Lansford debate telegraph history. Reeves cites a Scottish castle dig revealing wires proving early wired telegraph. Richards counters with a Welsh castle find suggesting ancient wireless telegraph knowledge.
Mrs. Lara West arrives back from Tacoma on Tuesday following a two week visit with friends. A Racket Store advertises a full line of dolls. A wartime editorial urges Americans to practice economies to save food for the war effort.
Maj. W. A. Starrett, former architect, built 16 cities each housing 40,000 people with complete light, heat, ventilation and sewerage in three months. He led emergency construction as chairman of the council of national defense after Congress severed relations with Germany. The cantonments he designed host the National Army draftees.
A Vergeze land owner receives a letter from his staff captain son recounting a wife and a sixteen year old son who had been hidden among unmounted chasseurs. They served in trenches with the battalion for five months before discovery and the battalion's secrecy about the case.
A mix of local notices and world events discusses a dinnerware shipment at the Racket Store alongside wartime morale lines urging thrift. It notes a record price for a Shorthorn cow at the Portland Live Stock Show, a judge wedding in Wenatchee, and Wilson’s call to boost national production. It also lists labor demands in lumber and shipyards, irrigation bond votes, apple shipments from Omak, and tax timing, finishing with a exhortation about saving bread for soldiers.
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