Local notes and residents depart for travels
Mr and Mrs G W Chambers leave for Spokane. Mrs H B Rabybaugh returns from Dalles Oregon. Mrs Frank Jobson and sister return from Soap Lake. No services at Lutheran next Sunday. Paul Rupel leaves Plain for Wenatchee apple harvest. Mrs Schons improves after Leavenworth hospital. Mrs S S Truitt arrives for ten day visit with daughter Mrs Geo Watson. Homer Weimer leaves Plain for Wenatchee for several weeks. Mrs William Vommon leaves for home in Hillyard after visiting Clemens. Mrs F J Hanover leaves for Gainer to pick huckleberries. Mrs Geo Welker leaves for Seattle after three weeks with Mitchells. Mrs G W Hoxsey returns from Spokane and Hillyard. G I A ladies meet at War Workers room for sewing second and fourth Wednesdays. Mrs George Weber and three children visit from Hillyard. Art Johnson goes to Marquette Michigan for permanent position. FE Daniel Whitmer of South Bend Indiana visits Plain, then Wenatchee. News from Peshastin reader reflections noted. J B Adams checks Leavenworth affairs then departs to Seattle. G W Chambrs resigns Leavenworth Market job. Cline from Wenatchee substitutes. Mr and Mrs A R Woody arrive from Omaha to live in Leavenworth. Woody joins Great Northern. Mrs F H Hutchings improves after stroke. Firey of Portland forestry office visits Leavenworth with a colleague from Washington HQ praising Northwest forest work. Mrs J L Maston receives German gas mask from son in France. helmet previously on display at J C Penney window.
Card of Thanks for Sympathy and Floral Gifts
We sincerely thank friends for kind acts and words of sympathy and the beautiful floral offerings in our time of sorrow for our beloved son and brother. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas MecKinzie and children.
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Martin Johnson
Arthur Johnson
Thomas MecKinzie
Why Pork Is Important
Pork finds strong demand as hogs can be marketed in many palatable forms with good keeping quality. Nearly half of meat product value comes from hog slaughter in the United States and the country leads in meat production. Three fourths of world pork trade originates in the United States, a share boosted by wartime demand. Farmers should boost hog production to feed both domestic and foreign markets.
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United States
Haywood Sentenced to Twenty Years in Federal Prison
William D Haywood receives a twenty year federal prison term marking a major justice milestone. The sentence comes amid ongoing labor disputes and federal investigations into his activities and leadership of the Western Federation of Miners.
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Wm. D. Haywood
Speech Linking Labor Leaders to Bolshevism Draws Fire
The speaker argues that Haywood Debs and Clara Parsons bolster anarchist causes and defend Mooney and the McNamaras. He claims their leadership corrupts organized labor and hinders convictions, urging that Haywood finally face punishment to curb political influence.
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Ed King
Haywood
Eugene V. Debs
Clara Parsons
Tom Mooney
McNamaras
Mooney
Organized Labor
Record to Put Some Younger Women to Shame
A local note praises Mrs. M. L. Moore, aged 80, for long Red Cross service before her son Rev. Moore departs for ministerial work. She knitted socks, made bandages and shirts, and contributed to wartime relief. The message challenges young women to match her wartime sacrifices and ask if they would comfort soldiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M.L. Moore
Moore
Red Cross
Leavenworth Welcomes New M E Pastor Rev Morton
Conference assigns Rev A H Morton to Leavenworth M E Church for the next few years following Pendleton Oregon talks He is known to local churchgoers and replaces Rev Moore who departs with best wishes from the congregation Rev Morton is expected to provide satisfactory service in the parish.
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A. H. Morton
Leavenworth
Mr. Morton
Leavenworth M. E
Pendleton
Oregon
Morton
Leavenworth Church
Moore
Rumor of German Seizure of Savings Denied by McAdoo
An official statement from Secretary McAdoo rejects German seizure rumors as baseless. The piece asserts American savings are safe and protected by the United States, with victory by Germany the only threat to savings. It emphasizes the U S defense of citizens' liberty and property amid wartime.
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Germany
America
McAdoo
France
United States
Germany Lacks Democracy Basis in Twentieth Century World
The article argues Germany is culturally and politically behind France and England, a back-number nation with a centralized state built by Prussian kings. It credits late centralization as necessary but too late, noting France and England advanced earlier during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries while Germany lagged.
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Germany
France
England
Germany lagging in world progress explains postwar options
The author argues Germany trails Western states in political development, lacking a bourgeois government and democracy training seen in France England and America. The piece contrasts absolutism, middle class power, and potential paths Germany may take after the war toward democracy or a workers’ democracy.
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England
France
Germany
New World
Muroape
America
Americans in France and at Home in the Fourth Liberty Loan
Premier Clemenceau and David Lloyd George praise American troops for discipline and bravery in France. The piece urges Americans at home to support the Fourth Liberty Loan drive beginning September 28 to back the victory effort and honor soldiers and sailors.
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France
Clemenceau
House of Deputies
David Lloyd-George
England
Harrington man joins Mutual Mercantile grocery staff
Mr. A. J. Hayden of Harrington has accepted a position with the Mutual Mercantile Co. and will be employed in the grocery department.
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A. J. Hayden
Harrington
The
Mutual Mercantile Co
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Great Northern Lumber Co
Leavenworth, Wash
G. W. Chambers
Spokane
H. B. Rabybaugh
Dalles
Frank Jobson
Jenson
Soap Lake
Paul Rupel
Plain
Wenatchee
S. S. Truitt
Seattle
Geo. Watson
Homer Weimer
William Vommon
Hillyard
F. J. Hanover
Gainer
G. W. Hoxsey
G.I.A
B. of L. I
War Workers Room
George Weber
Will
F. W. Clemens
Art Johnson
Marquette
Michigan
Daniel Whitmer
South Bend
Ind
C. F. Rupel
Plain, Wash
EF. S. Kale
C. N. Stutsman
Fruit
Upper
Wenatchee Valley
J. B. Adams
G. W. Chambrs
Mr. Cline
A. R. Woody
Omaha
Neb
Woody
Great Northern Railroad Company
F. H. Hutchings
Leavenworth Hospital
Firey
Portland
National
Washington
Forestry Service
Northwest
J. L. Maston
Harry
J. C. Penny Co
Naxle Sales CO
Calder Herring
Liberty Bonds
Leavenworth State Bank
Violet Dulce
Wheeler’s
Rexall
Sampson Grocery Co
Mr. Hoover
Mits
Epworth League
F. L. Moore
Floyd Williams
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