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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1917
Page
5
The community news lists events including a costume mask hall on Halloween night and a Lutheran Ladies Aid meeting set for Thursday October 25 at Mrs. Art Franklin’s home. It also notes Red Cross Jitney dances at the Firemen's hall and various travels and local activities among residents and forestry workers.
An Indian showcases a plate of remarkable potatoes in the K. V. B. Co window. Two Siwashes view the exhibit while a townsman jokes that all potatoes were grown in one hill. One Native observer replies Maybe so hill side. Echo prints wedding announcements. Call for samples.
The Blewett Ladies Aid social in the hall Friday evening drew a good crowd and raised a neat sum. Blewett opened a school for grades one through four on Monday October 15 with Miss Florence Wellington as teacher. A nine and a half pound daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. C Bolles at the Emergency hospital on Monday. Mrs. A Leckey and Miss Ruby Boblette sisters of Mrs. B W Taylor visited at the Taylor home. Ed McCallen installed a player piano in the hall for winter dances. J C Biles Mrs S A Covert Mrs Glen Smith and Miss Alice Biles drove to Wenatchee on Tuesday. Harry Newsham of Cashmere spent a few days in Blewett this week.
A New York report states exemption board members advised the President and army authorities to draft all available single men before married men. They warn that drafting married men first causes intense public resentment and harms confidence in conscription, risking separation of husbands and wives and other social dangers.
Walla Walla Valley will produce about 14 million dollars this year from wine, fruit, and agriculture. With an estimated 40 000 residents in the district, per capita wealth comes to roughly 350 dollars, the highest total production and per person wealth in the town's history.
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