Orondo News legacy noted in 1890 items
The Daily World highlights J. B. Smith the Orondo pioneer and the Oron do News published eighteen years earlier as Orondo boomed. March 10 1890 reports Miss Annie Parker visiting Mrs Williams Blair returning from Ellensburg with fifteen feet of snow on the summit.
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Daily World Office
J. B. Smith
Orondo
Big Bend
Captain McDermott
Wenatchee
Annie Parker
Mrs. Williams
Blair
Ellensburg
Crollard Returns to Private Secretary Post at University
Fred Crollard, Wenatchee native and University of Washington junior, has been named private secretary to University President Thomas F Kane. He spent months at the Sound and will return to his duties next Monday.
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Fred Crollard
Wenatchee
State University
Thomas F Kane
University
Frank M. Dallam, Jr
Crollard
Yon Yonson revival promises wholesome comedy at Wenatchee
Ben Hendricks leads a capable Yon Yonson Company praised for skilled acting and lively singing and dancing. The Wenatchee Theater hosts the revival on Saturday December 28 with performers Josh Whitcomb Fritz and Nathaniel Barry delivering clean family entertainment attractive to all ages.
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Ben Hendricks
Yon Yonson
Wenatchee Theater
Yon
Josh Whitcomb
Fritz
Nathaniel Barry
Hendricks
Browne Plans Spokane Banking Move After Prosperous Year
Guy C Browne a Wenatchee banker says he will move to Spokane for three months to oversee the family bank holdings. He credits Wenatchee with a very prosperous year, large crops and strong prices, and notes regional financial unrest has eased.
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Spokane
Wash
Guy C Browne
Wenatchee
J. J. Browne
Sleighing Social Planned by Epworth League
The Epworth League of the Methodist Church invites all young people to a social tonight at eight. Sleighs will be on hand for a two hour ride followed by a church basement lunch. The group enjoyed a sleighing party lasting several hours last night with Neva Black Orpha Levers Elizabeth Graves Sylva Grant Mildred Halenbeck Zelma Reeves C Bowman Lyman Shotwell Fred Morrison Bruce Hastings Clifford Knowles Thayer Litlefield in attendance.
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Epworth League of the Methodist Church
Neva Black
Orpha Levers
Elizabeth Graves
Sylva Grant
Mildred Halenbeck
Zelma Reeves
Messrs. C. Bowman
Lyman_ Shotwell
Fred Morrison
Bruce Hastings
Clifford Knowles
Thayer Litlefield
Anent City Appointments
The mayor elect Jno A Gellatly says he will not announce the coming year’s office appointees until he meets each council member next week. He plans to confer with the council before naming the personnel for city offices.
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Jno. A. Gellatly
World
Bryan Named U S Senator as Mallory Vacancy Fills
William James Bryan of Jacksonville Florida is appointed by Governor Broward to fill the United States Senate seat left by the deceased Stephen Russell Mallory. Bryan, a 1876 Orange County native, longtime attorney and county solicitor, is not related to William Jennings Bryan.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Broward
William James Bryan
United States
Stephen Russell Mallory
Bryan
Orange County
Emery College
Washington and Lee University
Bryan & Bryan
James H. Bryan
State Educational Board of Control
Mallory
William Jennings Bryan
Nebraska
Hoquiam Mills Open After Christmas Resumption
Hoquiam reports mills will resume operations immediately after the new year with full-time production. Large orders have been placed with several local mills and plants will run through spring.
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Hoquiam
State Briefs Incl. Illness From Exposure and Local News
Seattle rear admiral Thompson, retired, is seriously ill from exposure during Christmas shopping. Emancipation day will be celebrated by Seattle negroes Jan. 1 with an elaborate program. Olympia five year old George Nason narrowly escaped death after a fall from a second story back porch. his leg was broken in two places and he was badly bruised. An accidental shotgun discharge may cost Arthur White a leg while hunting Tuesday. Pullman farmers form a union to cooperate in selling produce and buying supplies and implements. twenty three organizations are represented. Kennewick a boatload of poles and wires was shipped to White Bluffs to install a telephone system. Vancouver farmer John Gill saved $103 by grabbing his purse during a robbery and demanding “hands up.” Castle Rock Mrs. W. M. McCoy, daughter of Ira C. Conger, pioneer merchant, died Christmas Eve.
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Seattle
Thompson
Olympia
George Nason
Arthur White
Prof Crane Opens Studio In Wenatchee
Prof Crane announces a new painting studio in the former B C Collier rooms on Wenatchee. Classes start after the first of the year and will be open to the public until January 1. From then on visitors are welcome only on Sundays. Miss Florence Hovey of Seattle visits Chelan avenue for holidays.
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Crane
B. C. Collier
Wenatchee
Florence Hovey
Seattle
Bries
Barnes Yocum l
Chelan Avenue
Welcomes Aliens at Ellis Island Christmas Party
Miss Helen Gould hosted a Christmas gathering for about 100 immigrants at Ellis Island. A festive dinner, trees, carnations for each woman and child, and toys and candy for the kids marked the first Christmas in America for many awaiting naturalization while interpreters bridged language gaps.
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New York
Helen Gould
Ellis Island
Miss Gould
America
Thibet
New Concrete Process Promises Forest Preservation
Spokane, December 26. C F Pease a local building contractor says his concrete block method reduces wood demand. One part cement to seven parts sand and gravel makes blocks 8 to 12 inches wide and 30 inches long cast in galvanized molds. Two courses can be laid in a day as interior work begins after walls are up.
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Spokane, Wash
C. F. Pease
Spokane
Gifford Pinchot
Museum Vault Preserves Recordings for Future Generations
In Paris at the opera house a vault seals a talking machine and discs bearing voices of 20th century stars like Carusa Scotti Plancon Patti Melba Calve. The double boxed, air and light free items are expected to endure for a century until they are opened for future listeners.
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Paris
Opera
Talking Machine
Carusa
Scotti
Plancon
Patti
Melba
Calve
St Luke’s Sunday School Christmas Eve Service
The Reverend T A Hilton will lead a short Sunday school service at St Luke's Church this evening at 7 pm sharp. After hymns and prayer, children will view stereopticon slides and enjoy a Christmas tree with a gift for each enrolled pupil. Parents and friends are invited.
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St. Luke's
T. A. Hilton
St. Luke’s
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Messrs. Baker
Sumaker
P. Dill
A. Holcomb
Ingraham
Doak
Cooper
Columbia River
Z. A. Lanham
C. Peterson
Wenatchee Electric Company
Columbia Valley
Old Strong Bank
Stein, Knabe
A. B. Chase
Everett
Ludwig
Packard
Emerson
Estey
Sherman Clay & CO
Crollard IS Home
Kane
Brown
Epworth League Social
W. J. Bryan
Senate
Florida
Hoquian Mills Open
Prof. Crane
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