Wenatchee Dominates Spokane Prize Show At Apple Fair
Wenatchee swept top awards at Spokane with the premier $1000 National Apple show prize and a $500 district prize. Yakima placed second with $500. Wenatchee also won multiple prizes for Arkansas Black and Winesap apples and secured five irrigated acres with trees. Awards continue as judges finish recognizing box prizes and other varieties.
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Spokane
Wenatchee
Mike Horan
Great Northern
W. T. Clark
Ellsworth France
T. J. Black
J. R. Atkinson
Spokane Orchards
Tedford Bros
Spokane Valley
D. C. Corbin
Medaa
Milton Nursery Company
D. W. Roderick
J. R. Atkeson
Otis
Spokane Canal Company
Geo. Farwell
Rhode Island
Valley Ford
C. L. Green
George Farwell
Rome
Arcadia
Seattle Investor Buys 5 More Acres Near Wenatchee
C F Jacky of Seattle purchased five acres adjoining the ten acre Dickson tract west of the city, bringing his Wenatchee holdings to 15 acres. The orchard yields include Winesaps Jonathans and Yellow Newtowns, netting about 4 per tree and valued at 7000 for the whole purchase. Jacky, with a rental building nearby, plans to move here next summer with his family.
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Cc. F. Jacky
W. H. Dickson
Seattle
Wenatchee Canal Company
Deniston & Christenson Agency
Jacky
the Sound
Wenatchee
Pen Vil Starts Romance. Walla Walla Prison Meeting Leads to Spokane Wedding
Love that began inside the grim walls of the state penitentiary at Walla Walla culminated in a Spokane marriage. T. E. Wilson and Miss Jessie Maz Utley, once visitors to the reformatory, tied the knot after months of chance meetings in Walla Walla and Wenatchee. Wilson had worked for the Wenatchee Canal company until recently. Utley had taught in Bovil Idaho.
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State Penitentiary
Walla Walla
Spokane
T. E. Wilson
Jessie Maz Utley
Miss Utley
Bovil
Idaho
Wilson
Wenatchee Canal Company
Reformatory Institution
Canal Company
Early Christmas shopping boosts stores and displays
Christmas shopping begins ten days earlier than last year as ads in the Daily World spur early buying. Merchants report near-sold-out lines and festive displays, with stores like Bazaar and Parshall's decorating walls and ceilings. Santa sightings and bright lights brighten Wenatchee and Orondo avenues as Miss Josephine Weis travels to Spokane.
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Ellis-Forde Company
Santa Claus
Parshall
F. Corbin
Corbin
Wenatchee
Orondo
Columbia River Appropriation Estimates Presented
Secretary of the Treasury G B Cortelyou submits to Congress his river area requests totaling about 1 million dollars. Key items include Mouth of river 450000 Celtic canal at Sales 1164009 Columbia and Snake 85000 and Columbia River Washington 10000. A congressional fight is expected as Speaker Cannon vows to oppose river funding and retrenchment is anticipated.
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Secretary of Treasury
G. B. Cortelyou
Congress
Columbia River
Columbia and Snake
Washington
Cannion
Northwest Apple Exporter Eyeing Europe Trade Surge
S Haines an apple exporter from Washington tells Spokane Chronicle he plans to make a major yearly dent in European markets. He says England will buy Washington apples as wages rise and tariffs shift trade, while James Gibson notes Britain may tax Canadian fruit. Both say the season here is late for now, but the aim is expansion. Haines claims to be the largest U S pear and apple exporter and cites 70 000 barrels shipped from New York last season bringing over 150 000 dollars.
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Washington
United States
S. Haines
Spokane Chronicle
Haines
Spokane
Neely
Mr. Haines
Europe
James L. Gibson
Gibson
Domestic Economy Department
Washington State College
Great Britain
Mr. Gibson
Northwest
New York
Virginia
Spokane Apple Show Party Draws Excursion from Valley
About one hundred tickets remained unsold at the depot for the Spokane apple show while many travelers joined trains at Leavenworth Cashmere Monitor and Malaga for a sizable excursion. A partial list names passengers who left last night including T L Ross J W Quigg F H Phipps N S Neubauer and wife E R Van Leuven C A Harris and wife D H Mahler A H Smith L S Phillipps A G Pogue and others.
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Spokane
Leavenworth
Cashmere
Monitor
Malaga
Wenatchee
T. L. Ross
J. W. Quigg
F. H. Phipps
N. S. Neubauer
O. J. Fish
E. R. van Leuven
C. A. Harris
D. H. Mahler
A. H. Smith
L. S. Phillipps
A. G. Pogue
R. P. Webb
G. R. Fisher
O. W. Ernst
Dr. Blake
E. F. Thayer
A. Z. Wells
R. H. Hutchkins
J. S. Merriam
H. W. Otis
A. C. Dallach
Mr. Tyler
L. R. Bailey
Jack Bower
Ed Dennis
Mr. Brush
J. W. Monroe
C. H. Chapman
J. R. Taylor
C. A. Battles
D. Keith
W. H. Dibbke
S. Miller
C. A. Bower
Leonard
C. E. Owens
J. A. Gellatly
W. R. Prowell
F. W. Cooper
J. D. Ross
A. A. Stevens
A. J. Linville
Water Works Start Monday in Seattle Project
J. J. McNerney of Ball and McNerney filed a 28000 dollar bond for completion of Seattle city waterworks. He said a crew would begin next Monday, starting at the Columbia river intake and pumping plant with a May 15 completion deadline.
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J. J. McNerney
Ball & McNerney
Seattle
McNerney
World
Columbia River
Arrest of John Hinson on board bill at Columbia hotel
John Hinson was arrested today at Sky komish and brought here this afternoon. He left a week’s board bill at the Columbia hotel and will be tried here tomorrow morning. He played in the orchestra at Shipp’s rink.
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John Hinson
Skykomish
Columbia
Shipp
McKitrick Buys Wenatchee Avenue Property
C L McKitrick of KimbaH Idaho arrived with his family to stay and has bought the Wenatchee avenue property from W W McKit trick.
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C. L. McKitrick
Kimbah
8. D
Wenatchee Avenue Place
W. W. McKittrick
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Arkansas
Ice
Wenatchee Electric Co
Golumbia
Wenatchee, W, Sank
C. F. Jacky
Dickson Place
Emas. Degoretons
Parshall’s and Bazaar Beau
Ellis-Forde’s
Josephine Weis
Atawest
Suppli UE
England
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