Notes and Comment on The Old Home Town
Walla Walla county faces a potato shortage with crop yield reduced to one quarter due to improper seed. A Washington horse wins the junior stallion division at the Pacific International Livestock exposition in Portland with owner A W Clark of Latah. Rev T M Cornelison to take pastorate at Kapowsin First Presbyterian Church succeeding Rev Warren G Reemg. Aberdeen real estate sale for delinquent taxes set for November 19 at Montesano. Sumner Orthopedic Guild hosts a card party to benefit Seattle Orthopedic Hospital. Puyallup named for upcoming district convention of the Ancient Order of United Workmen to be held November 15. Judge Stephen J Chadwick of Seattle to address delegates. Paria hotel bids opened in Port Angeles, averaging around $60,000. Loggers and Lumbermen Welfare association formed in Snohomish County under KE B Fish, with hundreds already members. Walla Walla Union notes summer’s desertion in fall. Snohomish high school sets Better Speech Week for Thursday and Friday. 30-piece program to be rehearsed weekly Sundays. Prof W T Stephens of Ellensburg Normal School to give a philosophy lecture at Ellensburg High School Thursday. Headaches from slight colds solaced by laxative Brom Quin Tablets. genuine carries Grove signature.
Woman 87 enters Star's oldest commercial fruitgrower contest
Mrs. Philip Ritz, 67, of Walla Walla, nominated by daughter Mrs. C Becht, seeks the free trip to the Pacific Northwest Fruit Exposition during Thanksgiving week. Ritz came to Washington in 1862 or 1863 with her husband, who died in 1689, and she remains active in fruit growing on the family homestead. The Star offers travel to Seattle for the winner, with lodging, and nominations close November 15.
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Philip Rita
Walla Walla
Frasier
Seattle
Unemployment Committee Forms In Seattle Campaign
Seattle acts to combat rising joblessness as the new unemployment commission organizes with Mayor Caldwell as chairman. Subcommittee chairs include George C. Mack industries William Short public works Mrs Henry Landes employment for women and Rev Ambrose M Bailey centralization of agency activities. An aggressive campaign is planned.
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Frank H. Kannai
Unemployment Commission
Caldwell
George C. Mack
William Short
Henry Landes
Ambrose M. Bailey
Harvest Hands Robbery Leads to Guilty Plea in State Reformatory
Gaddy and Meyers pleaded guilty to grand larceny charges Tuesday before Presiding Superior Judge Everett Smith. They held up and robbed fourteen harvest hands returning from work in Eastern Washington. An accomplice was still at liberty.
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State Reformatory
Everett Smith
Gaddy
Meyers
Washington
Liberty
Modern Womanhood Demands Health and Vitality
The piece argues that the ideal of womanhood has shifted toward strength and efficiency. It urges women to maintain health through daily baths, exercise, fresh air, and Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at the first signs of female weakness.
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Lydia EK
Pinkham
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