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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1910
Page
4
The Wenatchee Daily World lists staff and offices including World Advance Pub Co, W S Trimble, EB Stohl, Advertising Manager, Daily World Building, Farmers Phone 1132, and delivery rates with subscriptions and carrier terms.
Chelan county voters support keeping county clerical posts functional irrespective of party. A civil service move aims to protect postmasters from national political shifts, valuing prompt reliable service over religious or political views. The Thompson family plans a summer in Omak where S A Thompson leads the cannery.
G B Lanham an eastern apple buyer from Chicago wears a red necktie linked to the Industrial Workers of the World. Wenatchee police keep watch as the style shocks locals. A Daily World sleuth learns the insignia signals a Chicago fashion. Taft and Cannon reportedly wear the symbol.
In Chelan County Washington the Board of County Commissioners will hear Geo D Brown's petition for a light and privilege franchise to construct and maintain a water piping line for irrigation and other purposes on county roads. John Godfrey County Auditor notices the hearing set for May 3 1910.
Chelan County officials schedule a public hearing on June 6 1910 at 2 PM in Wenatchee to consider granting a street franchise for Chelan Falls area including Locust Second Chelan Avenue and C Street corridors. The county auditor will publish and post notices as required by law. The action accompanies city plans to secure Squillchuck water rights for Millerdale to supplement year round supply and reduce Columbia River pumping costs.
Weather notes describe June 1 with strong winds marking a change from a unusually quiet spring in the valley. Residents recount this spring as the calmest and most pleasant in memory, while acknowledging the sequence of windy days typical for the season.
The park committee may pursue an extra site on Mission Street while a donor backs a future park purchase. Officials cite risks of using park land for a library and push for new site negotiations. Bond sale is delayed as Peters and Powell require ordinance fixes and contractor bonds await approval.
A joint convention in St Louis united the Farmers Educational and Co operative Union with the American Society of Equity and hundreds of affiliates, representing over 7 million members. Reports show vast farm assets, plants, warehouses, and banks, plus calls for a parcels post law and a $10 million agricultural university funded by member assessments.
A humorous meditation on rising living costs and social uplift. The piece muses on figures from aviation to heiresses, jokes about finding a girl who resists affection, and notes the paradoxes of optimism and speech in public life. It riffs on cultural clichés and ends with a Harper's Weekly quotation about life being one blamed thing after another.
Coming events include June 2 Republics versus Engineers and June 6 County commissioners meet. June 13 Commercial club meeting with special features. June 22 summer begins. Court cases: Conrad Rose versus P C Lausen et al summons with Ludington and Kemp for plaintiff. I H Jennings versus D M Thomas with Ludington and Kemp for plaintiff. Hattie A Richardson versus Niva Vilot et al summons with B J Williams for plaintiff.
A reflective exchange about trust and attraction between spouses shows a woman anxious over her husband’s appeal to others and her own reaction. The conversation then shifts to a humorous kitchen table moment as Uncle Charlie Seaver insists on preserving dialect speech for summer boarders.
A school scene features Ardyce and Wayne singing America as their father overhears Wayne reciting Land where my papa died. Ardyce corrects the line to Land where our fathers died, prompting Wayne to ask about the plural. A brief quip follows about bandits and gags in a travel tale and an opera comparison.
A Birmingham Age-Herald exchange features a heated taunt about lying and stealing. The dialogue escalates with a quip about not being clever and a courteous reminder to avoid insults. The short interaction captures a tense newsroom moment.
A Kansas City Journal excerpt praises the hogs as diligent producers while joking at a lazy son. It notes a hog’s value at about ten cents per head, contrasting work ethic with idleness. The piece uses rural farming wisdom to humorously reflect on labor and merit.
In a humorous aside the judge notes Smith renounces vegetarianism while Jones L1 remains torn. Brown affirms a vegetarian heart but admits the stomach disagrees. The exchange frames a light legal-quirky moment about dietary choices.
The notice covers Margaretta Drexel’s engagement to Viscount Maidstone with a June wedding planned. Context mentions social page interests and intertitle discussion of a forthcoming marriage in high society circles.
The quip notes H. D. Taft registered at El man, not Bill Taft, leaving Shakespeare’s question unresolved by a naming mix up.
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