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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1906
Page
4
Local notices include Walker's store plans for women's wear and millinery updates. Wenatchee Bazaar advertises a removal sale, coal agency, and affordable garden hose. loans for homes and farms offered by Bower and Nowlan. Community notes mention births, visits, and the upcoming election registration totals.
Southern Pacific officials report Salton Sea rising less than an inch daily and outline a plan costing about 700000 pounds to reestablish the Colorado River’s old course. A large workforce will build embankments to divert water from new channels back toward the Salton basin, 262 feet below sea level. Once rechannelled, percolation and desert evaporation are expected to reduce water in the Salton Sea net, which is over thirty feet deep in places, within two to three years.
The steel steamer Twickenham from Java to Vancouver with 6000 tons of sugar went ashore early morning two miles south of the Slime kiln on SunJoap Island. Four feet of water in forepeak. Maude has been sent to assist. Twickenham reported fast on rocks at high tide.
Aug 24 Wenatchee Valley Fruit Growers Association shipped another full car of fruit from this place Thursday. Rev J A Rippey and Samuel Golick Sr visited the county seat. W G Perry returned from Wenatchee. Cole Webster and crew finished the warehouse for the association and returned home. The sick child of Mr and Mrs S E Hanan is improving. Don Guiney was at the county seat on business. Joan Gorr is gathering material for a new house and barn. Hanan and wife visited Wednesday.
The W. C. T. U. urges all who support good works to attend Sunday gospel services at the reading room on Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Ladies plan to serve one of their dinners on election day.
Miss Elizabeth Rothwell of New York was killed when her foot was wedged between railroad ties as she and relatives crossed a trestle near Brandywise Springs Park during a farmer’s fair. Mrs Richard Rothwell and her cousin Richard Rothwell were injured as the freight train struck the group.
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