Grant County road patrol system cited as efficient model
The United States Department of Agriculture cites Grant County Washington for its road patrol method, which emphasizes preventing deterioration rather than repairing. It uses 3 patrol sections, each 6 to 10 miles, with a patrolman responsible for his stretch, aided by a specialized road fixer and in-house repairs, costing about 228 dollars per mile annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant County
Wash
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Public Roads
Grant
Stamp Sale Prompted by Lady in Quiet Exchange
A kind elderly woman asks if the clerk is a registered pharmacist. The clerk confirms and the woman proceeds to buy a 2 cent stamp, in a courteous exchange reflecting everyday local commerce.
Truth and fiction blur as tuberculosis tale lands in farms
A Vermillion County Farm Bureau report compares a U S Agriculture Department film about tuberculosis spreading via cattle to a real case in Nig ar County where a farmer kept a TB positive cow and sold her. Five of seven children contracted TB and a warrant is out for the farmer on quarantine breach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Department
Office of Motion Pictures
Vermillion County Farm Bureau
Nigar County
Weather efforts advance Greenland radio station plan
Officials of the Weather Bureau note Danish progress toward a high powered radio station in Greenland. The station will provide daily reports valuable for European and eastern U S forecasts and aid North Atlantic shipping and aviation. Met stations there have long shown links with Northern Hemisphere weather patterns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weather Bureau
United States Department of Agriculture
Greenland
Europe
United States
North Atlantic Ocean
Hemisphere
Far North Weather Forecasting Traces and Greenland Station
Reports forwarded to Copenhagen and the U S Weather Bureau show that daily forecasts for the Arctic vast area north of North America remain largely unknown. Inglefield Bay Greenland station at 78 latitude is among the northernmost, with Spitzbergen near 78 2 minutes hosting a radio link since 1913 enabling daily weather reports.
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Meterological Office
Copenhagen
U. S. Weather Bureau
Canada
United States
Alaska
Iceland
Inglefield Bay
Greenland
Pole
Spitzbergen
Woman Fights Three Tigers in Circus Parade
In Aurora Illinois a woman tamer Mabel Stark of Louisville Kentucky battled three wild tigers behind a circus wagon during a parade. Frightened horses bolted the cage causing crowd panic as guards separated the tigers with steel bars and the animals were driven apart. One tiger was shot later due to injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurora
Illinois
Mabel Stark
Louisville
Miss Stark
Wireless Daily Market Report On Fair Circuit
Daily wireless market reports from the Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates will be shown at state fairs nationwide. Up to date wireless stations, competent operators, and broadcasting of market information aid producers traders and the public. The exhibit also features wool grades meat cuts livestock pictures potato storage and a refrigerated car model with standard containers panel exhibit. The Sedalia Missouri circuit opened August 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates
Bureau
Department
Circuit of Department
Sedalia
Notice of Hearing Final Account and Petition for Distribution
In Chelan County Washington Superior Court a hearing is set for September 21 1921 at 9 30 AM on the final account of C M Luther administrator with the will annexed for the estate of Clarence J Luther deceased. Any interested person may attend and contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence J. Luther
C. M. Luther
Court House
Wenatchee
Wm. A. Grimshaw
A. A. Stevens
Superior Court
Isabel A. Ross
Foreclosure Tax Lien Suit in Chelan County Washington
Public sale summons in Chelan County for J W McCollum against H C Bennett and unknown owners. The suit seeks foreclosure of a delinquency certificate number 3150 issued July 12 1919 for 11 66 owed on 1916 taxes with 15 percent interest and costs. First publication August 26 1921.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Washington
H. C. Bennett
J. W. McCollum
Chelan
Superior Court
State of
Washington
Sumner & Lebeck
Water may spread corn borers to islands
Entomologists from the USDA report water is not a reliable barrier to the European corn borer. Specimens appeared on Middle Bass Island in Lake Erie far from shore, origin uncertain whether via infested Ontario cornstalks or by adult flight. Last year live worms were found on a coast island off Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Middle Bass Island
Lake Erie
Ontario
Massachusetts
Notice on herd health and breeding health certificates
A. E. Frank states that cows and herd bull were tested and are disease free. All cow owners seeking service must show a health certificate of the animal before breeding. The notice dates to 37-21-np.
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Franklin Lumber Co
Front
Reynolds Tebaces Co
Wireless Daily Market
County of
J. T. Lindley
P. O. Address
Leavenworth
Chelan County
W. M
P. O
Plough Bldg
Weahhington
A. E. Frank
Herriman’s
8Th Street
Herman Howe
L. J. Nelson
Nelson & Howe Law Offices
Elliott Building
J. W. Elliott
N. M. Sorenson
Blue Wenatchee
Bert Williams
Leavenworth, Wh
G. W. Hoxley
W. W. Elmer, M. D
Leavenworth, Wash
Myrtle Snyder
Barclay Hotel
C. A. Laws
Leavenworth Undertaking Co
Town & Hennessy
Sam R. Sumner
Columbia Valley Bank Bldg
Burt J. Williams
Chelan Co
John E. Porter
Columbia Valley Bank
E. J. Widbey
Wenatcher
H. Baer
M. D
Commercial Bank Bldg
Earle D. Sawyer
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