Local Notes Bring Mrs Adams and Family News
Miss Mildred Adams left for Seattle on No 1 while Mrs S E Smith visits family in Leavenworth. Mrs John S Love and children move from Tye to spend winter in Leavenworth. Several local residents relocate, workers join Leavenworth Box Factory, and The Wenatchee World reports on travel, health visits, and orchard activity amid wartime and export plans.
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John S. Love
Tye
Leavenworth
Art Babst
Minnesota
Christmas packages for every soldier in France
Red Cross guidance outlines assembling Christmas parcels for service members in France. Emphasis on durable, nonbreakable contents, khaki handkerchief wrapping, and a $1.50 spending limit with a festive card. List of suggested items includes writing supplies, games, tobacco, sweets, and hard candy.
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Red Cross
Leavenworth
Health Braces Offered At Koerner's Drug Store
A note invites readers to buy Health Braces at Koerner's Drug Store for the round shouldered and narrow chested. A contract for a 50 by 100 warehouse is let locally at 43 Mt. Vernon.
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Koerner’s Drug Store
Mt. Vernon
Local Notes from Eagle Creek and Area Weekends
Mrs J H Sharpe hosted Sunday at the H A Anderson home. Harold Hines stayed with the Sharpe family and visited his mother in Leavenworth. Christenson family visits Cahill parents on the Chumstick. Van de Grift and son Wesley apple picking near Cashmere. School resumes Monday after two week vacation. Thanksgiving program and box social planned at the school house in November with proceeds to the Red Cross.
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J. H. Sharpe
H. A. Anderson
Harold Hines
Sharpe
Leavenworth
Martin Christenson
M. Cahill
van de Grift
Wesley
Cashmere
Red Cross
Anacortes Shipbuilding Co to Start Four Big Boats
Anacortes Shipbuilding Co to begin work on four large vessels. Seattle plans a four story reinforced concrete manufacturing plant 80 by 256 feet with an $80,000 cost. Kelso Columbia River Smelt Co enlarges its dock. O W R N Co reports August 1917 rail car loading up 11.4 percent versus August 1916.
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Anacortes Shipbuilding Co
Seattle
Kelso
Columbia River Smelt Co
Homesteaders Can Extend Land Under 640 Acre Rule
Congress amended the 640 acre homestead law before adjournment extending entry privileges. A 160 acre filer can add land up to 640 acres within a 20 mile radius, without building a residence on the new tract if already living on the original homestead, provided no nearby land is open for filing.
Ahlin’s Confectionery serves tamales and hot drinks
The note promises B and M Tamalas and chili con carne with private booths for ladies. It hints at public ownership ideas pushed by the North Dakota Non Partisan League, aiming to publicize elevators mills power plants for farmers, with tax exemptions shifting costs to general taxpayers.
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North Dakota Farmers Non- Partisan League
Cider Delivery Promise From Rollins Firm
An offer states pure apple cider available in any quantity from 1 gallon upward. Delivery offered to any city address with a 25 percent price cut per gallon. The contact listed is C. B. C. L. Rollins, with the number 40 in the text.
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Leavenworth
C. B. C. L. Rollins
Tacoma Camp Lewis to get 3000 seat theatre
Town reports a $27,000 theatre seating 3000 at Tacoma Camp Lewis. Utah-Idaho Sugar Co subscribes to $325,000 Liberty Bonds crediting Washington with $25,000. A three story Tacoma moving picture theatre is planned costing $50,000. A six mile branch line from Greendale to DuPont is planned to serve army post traffic. Centralia awarded a $32,813 school building contract. Spokane proposes a $500,000 hotel. Washington Collier Co capitalized at $500,000 intends to develop a coal field near Lake Washington containing about 12,000,000 tons.
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Tacoma
Camp Lewis
Utah-Idaho Sugar Co
Liberty
Washington
Olympia
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Greendale
DuPont
Centralia
Spokane
Olympia—Washington Colliers Co
Lake Washington
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Franklin
de Reymonte
Claire Smithson
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Kansas
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Gordon
Echo
Idaho
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Toppenish
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Shanghai
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Manilla
Acme
Orient
Terry
McPherson
Glennwood Orchards
Wenatchee World
F. L. Heidrich
Cascade Orchard
P. Jackson
Heidrich
B. L. Ryan
Peshastin
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France
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C. A. Fisher
W. J. Barrett
R. L. Leavett
J. M. Smith
Russia
Great Northern Railway
A. A. Brooks
Dardanelles
John Brooks
Maine
Allie M. Amos
American Lake
Jas. S. Smith
J.C. Heim and Son
Hunter
Oklahoma
Hein
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Tennessee
Jubilee Singers Scenic Theatre
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F.E. Cariquist
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L. C. Gilman
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