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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1908
Page
1
Dr Eva C Ditman offers general practice with specialties in diseases of women and children at the Columbia Valley Bank Building. Also advertised are Ever Ready Battery sales bicycle supplies and repairs. J J Eyer described as the cycle doctor handles bicycle repair and service.
Rev. John W. Berger of the First Presbyterian church returns from a month on the Sound with his wife. A Wenatchee gathering included Mr and Mrs Berger Miss Nan Lawrence Miss Ella Kuentzel George and Ernest Kuentzel W L Pritchard and C F Underwood. Berger will conduct union services of the Baptist and Presbyterian churches at the Baptist church next month.
The M. E. church youth plan a Friday evening social with ice cream cones and cake at the church park under the Baptist Young People’s Society. Sadie Godfrey leaves next Sunday for a monthlong Sound visit with relatives. J. W. Carpenter of Krupp injured bucking cayuse at Waterville and hospitalized with a broken elbow. The Daily World functions as a local clearing house for lost items and community notices.
A Warren Littleton Engineering test of John Lebeck’s irrigation plant shows a 12 hp Weber engine and Deming pump delivering 182 gpm and 29 inches over 1100 feet of pipe. It lifts water 150 feet to irrigate 40 acres alfalfa or 60 acres fruit. operating cost averages 30 cents per hour with gasoline at 20 cents per gallon, about 12 dollars per acre annually at 150 ft elevation. The system costs roughly 30 dollars per acre to install and runs 16 hours daily for 150 days or 100 days continuously, proving pumping as cheap as gravity under local conditions. O. B. Fuller and wife leave for Lake Wenatchee for a camping trip. Bates stage runs between Chiwaukum and the lake.
The family of Henry Steffen at Stemilt Hill suffers a diphtheria outbreak with seven children affected and one death. A child was buried Monday as officials trace the illness to exposure from cold irrigation ditch water.
In Waterville on July 28 the Meisenheimer divorce fraud case began with a motion to dismiss denied. Esta Kendrick Meisenheimer testified she and Allen Meisenheimer secretly wed in Rathdrum Idaho after meeting in the east, then described abusive conduct during marriage. Cross-examination by John Merritt is expected Wednesday as proceedings continue.
The Record Herald reports that trans continental railroads plan to abandon much of the U S and Canada trade with Orient Australia New Zealand and that this action could enable the Japanese government to gain control of the Pacific commerce. The railroads are controlled by Edward H Garstess James J Hill the Berwind syndicate and the Canadian government.
The Wenatchee post office receives an additional clerk as part of expanding to an eight hour service. Albert R. Sperline is recommended for appointment after passing the civil service exam on March 14. The change, along with a new stamping machine, signals local effort to modernize and keep pace with town needs.
W T Prine, Western Union day operator in North Yakima, received a telegram from his former Danville Illinois sweetheart Miss Georgia Golden agreeing to reunite. She will travel west to marry him after fifteen months apart following a quarrel and his ad in a newspaper. Transportation details were wired to Miss Golden who will arrive Saturday.
Roy Pullen owner of a new runabout Reo arriving from Everett this morning adds to Wenatchee Valley prosperity. C Cape, recently from New York, buys a seven acre bearing orchard farm above Cashmere and will take charge immediately. G A Hauber formerly of Wenatchee now of Peshastin is in town. C E Buttles and A A Bousquet on a fishing trip at Leavenworth.
Spokane press reports R E Strahorn confirms the North Coast road is part of the Chicago Northwestern system owned by the Vanderbilts. The line extends from Casper Wyoming toward Idaho and Walla Walla, with branches to Kiowa Portland and Seattle. The North Coast already shortens Spokane to Walla Walla by 49 miles with easier grades, as Western terminals approach.
People tributary to Wenatchee seek two additional rural routes. A petition with 125 signers will be sent to Washington to establish routes for areas south and west of town. East Wenatchee and Badger Mountain residents press for service. current route users may be segregated from new plans.
Charles Montross of Snohomish attempted suicide in Wenatchee after a theft incident and family neglect. He took poison at the hospital, was revived, and remains very ill though no longer in immediate danger. Police and locals seek his whereabouts as officials assess the case.
The Wenatchee Milling company completes a warehouse near the big bridge for storing Big Bend wheat. The facility aims to secure ecrops hauled to Wenatchee from across the river. William Blair, brother of George Blair, arrives from Oregon City. formerly lived here and now works at a paper factory in Oregon. Mayor and Mrs. O S Sampson of Leavenworth visit and depart by westbound train. Major Barrett of Whelan is in town.
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