Local items note resignations and arrivals in town
City Clerk Blacksedge resigns and moves to Seattle to take a store job. Water Commissioner Tolbert also resigns and janitor W S Guest takes the vacancy. Other news covers births, a sailor's leave from the South Dakota, forest fire risk on Blewett pass, and plans for fruit picking and sales.
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Tolbert
W. S. Guest
School House
John Lee Nugent
South Dakota
France
New York City
Timber land watched amid Chelan fire risk visit
Mr C E Payne of Tacoma with Northern Pacific land department tours the western Chelan county timber lands to monitor value and ownership as fires threaten forests. Mr and Mrs W H Noble of Paterson spend time in Leavenworth visiting and working near Red Mountain with Royal Development Co. and stay with M Rumohr.
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C. E. Payne
Tacoma
Northern Pacific Land Department
Northern Pacific
Chelan County
W. H. Noble
Pateros
Leavenworth
Noble
Royal Development Co
Red Mountain
Tents For Sale At Echo Office
Second hand tents offered including a 12 by 12 foot unit with 8 foot walls and several smaller tents. For details call the Echo office.
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Echo Office
Leavenworth Budget Estimate for 1919 Fire and City Expenses
City council presents an 1919 expense forecast totaling 10 950 dollars covering fire equipment street improvements police and clerk salaries health engineering water bond interest and other departments. Taxpayers may discuss the budget Monday October 7th 1918 at 10 a.m. in City Hall GEO A BLOCKSEDGE city clerk.
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Coney Tree
Hesethsn
Cnrcus Duatieted
Hopg Icel
Phe Testico Ee
Lion Cas Ocdad Gras Eststacites Cinteot
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TP Oual Freise
Geo. A. Blocksedge
Leavenworth Seeks 75 Dollar Y M C A Fund
Mrs. A G McKeown hosts afternoon drives in the War Workers room to raise seventy five dollars for the Leavenworth Y M C A. The effort runs this afternoon and tomorrow from two to five in the afternoon urging residents to contribute what they can.
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A. G. McKeown
Leavenworth Minute Women
War Workers Room
Leavenworth
Draft register yields 333 for Leavenworth and 53 for Tumwater
The September 12 draft registration tallied 383 in Leavenworth and 53 in Tumwater precincts. The Jacobsen Lumber Co warehouse office hosted the open books with city Registration Officer Hauber aided by Lin R. Hart Thos S Pipkin H G Kroll Pfeiffer R L Sparks L O Taylor Mrs E C Lang H M Gobb and A H Sylvester. Registrar Jacobsen received help from H A Franklin. Registrars and clerks served without pay.
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Leavenworth
Tumwater
Jacobsen Lumber Co
Hauber
Lin R. Hart
Thos
S. Pipkin
H. G. Krollpfeiffer
R. L. Sparks
L. O. Taylor
High School To Close Next Week Says Superintendent
Superintendent Osborne announced the high school will adjourn next week after deciding not to release students until the following week. The plan shifts children to orchard work for four weeks with sixth grade and higher students involved.
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Phil Bartlett
Seattle
Osborne
The
Echo
Peshastin
Pits and Shells for Gas Masks Drive Launched
The War Department asks boys and girls clubs nationwide to collect fruit pits and nut shells for carbon used in gas masks. Contests are proposed among Million Club members by the U S Department of Agriculture and state agricultural colleges to promote the effort.
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War Department
United States Department of Agriculture
State Agricultural Colleges
Local Red Cross Seeks Fruit Pits and Nut Shells for Masks
The club work aims to gather peach pits or seven pounds of shells from each member to produce carbon for masks. Members should collect pits from peaches prunes and plums and visit homes communities canneries hotels and bakeries. Seeds from dates olives and shells from various nuts should also be saved and delivered to Red Cross central stations.
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Red Cross
Yarn Without Profit For Red Cross Welfare
Spokane merchants agree to sell yarn to the Red Cross without profit per A A Hilton director of supplies. War Industries Board notes wool commandeered nationwide, forcing Red Cross relief and a shift to service yarn through Red Cross chapters. Local stocks will thin, with colored yarns remaining for non Red Cross buyers until conditions change.
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Spokane
A. A. Hilton
Department of Supplies
Northwestern Division
Red Cross
War Industries Board
United States
American Red Cross
Little Carolynn Kroll Pfeiffer Celebrates Fourth Birthday
At the Harry Krollpfeiffer home on a Tuesday in September Little Carolynn celebrated her fourth birthday with 16 guests. The party featured lawn games, group photos, and a five o'clock luncheon of ice cream and cake, ending with thanks and many gifts.
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Harry Krollpfeiffer
Carolynn
Ship's Cook Alfred E Frank Weds Genevieve Ricker
The Sub Chaser notes Alfred E. Frank known for shy ways married last week, then appeared with cigars for the gang the following morning. He wed Genevieve Ricker of Seattle at 7360 71st Ave N W in Seattle, a surprising turn in these panicky times.
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U. of W
Alfred
Alfred E. Frank
Alfy
Frank
Genevieve Ricker
71St Ave
N. W
Seattle
Instant Adler-ika Promises Quick Digestive Relief
An old Leavenworth advertisement touts Adler-ika a buckthorn bark based laxative. It claims instant full bowel flush relief from sour stomach gas and constipation and even prevention of appendicitis. Wheeler's Drug Store promotes this product with emphasis on rapid action.
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Leavenworth
Adler-ika
Wheeler's Drug Store
Surprise visit marks Mrs Harris’s afternoon with friends
Nine of Mrs. Wm Harris’s lady friends gathered yesterday for a pleasant afternoon of conversation and lunch. Mr B F Morgan notes a car load of Winter Banana apples shipped from the area last week, the season’s first, grown from local orchards north of town. Leavenworth’s 1918 apple crop is expected to include sixty to seventy five cars.
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B. F. Morgan
Leavenworth
Washington
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