Drunken Hobo Sparks Disturbance on Wenatchee Avenue
A intoxicated man entered Cunningham lodging house seeking quarters or trouble and clashed with Mr. Cunningham. The would be lodger struck Mrs Cunningham as night patrolman Tedford arrived and arrested him. A large clasp knife was found near the scene and the suspect is linked to a gang of 21 sighted in town yesterday.
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Wenatchee Avenue
Cunningham
Mr. Cunningham
Tedford
Durance Vile
Fancy Packed Cherries for Association Members
The Fruit Growers association has received pound cartons for packing best cherry varieties. Eight cartons fill the standard box and produce an attractive presentation. A limited supply will be free to association members on request. An exhibit of this pack will be shown at Wenatchee Department Store.
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The
Fruit Growers’ Association
Wenatchee Department Store
Peshastin School Bond Vote Fails Amid Consolidation Battle
The June 12 vote at the district 15 schoolhouse rejected bonds of 3500 to buy a site and build a school. The long dispute over consolidating districts 15 34 and 35 ends with bonds defeated by about two to one as site choice and river boundary tensions influenced residents and tax base comparisons.
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Peshastin
Riste
Wenatchee River Bridge
District 15
Wenatchee
District 15 and 34 clash over school consolidation plans
District 15 seeks a consolidated district with a shared school house and funds while District 34 shows no debt on a nine month school. Voter turnout from 34 waned, and District 57 may vanish if bonds fail. Dr. H Allen, Mrs. J Griffith, and the De Mose troupe appear in local notices as commencements and campus expansion loom with a $322,000 college upgrade.
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Davis, Otis
Green
District 57
H. Allen
Wenatchee
J. Griffith
de Mose
District 15
Infant son of W F Lang dies of spinal meningitis
Horace Lang four months old died yesterday at the Lang home near Skyline Mill from spinal meningitis. The remains will be shipped to the old Lang home in Everett for burial on the noon train today. Mr Lang is a beekeeper for the Columbia River Lumber Company at its Skyline mill in the Hills.
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Horace Lang
W. F. Lang
Lang
Skyline Mill
Everett
Mr. Lang
Columbia River Lumber Company
Pixies Fairy Extravaganza Set for Wenatchee Stage
Episcopal ladies arrange a well known fairy show by W A Milne of Chicago to open at the Wenatchee opera house with 150 young ladies and children rehearsing daily. A grotesque 35 boy pixies and 12 young ladies in military uniforms will perform an Amazon drill and a Geisha scene. The piece has toured major cities in the U S Canada Britain and Australia and Spokane audiences recently packed the theater. The press calls it the most beautiful and laughable entertainment ever devised for amateurs.
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The
Episcopal Church
W. A. Milne
Chicago
Wenatchee Opera House
Fifty Graduates at Washington State College
The State College of Washington will graduate fifty students this year with eleven young women among them. Most female graduates study Domestic Economy, a field not yet open to men, despite several early inquiries at the start of the term.
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Pullman
State ‘College of Washington
A Bad Actor Flies the Coop
An actor fled with cash and a prop gun from the Brandon Company. M. E. Lowenworth was sent to Leavenworth to bill the town but departed westward, likely to be returned for trial on charges of absconding with the troupe’s money. The incident follows prior stage trouble and a disruptive performance by Lowenworth.
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Brandon Company
Brandon
M. E. Lowenworth
Leavenworth
Brandon Players
Lowenworth
Seattle
Brandon Players Present In Missouri Melodrama
In Missouri tonight the Brandon Players stage the old time favorite melodrama made famous by Nat Goodman. The production promises human interest heart throbs and stirring situations with a full house expected. last night’s vaudeville drew a small audience and Victor Gillard’s Lasca recital stood out as the top number.
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Brandon Players
Missouri
Nat Goodwin
Brandon
Victor Gillard
Lasca
Frank Desprey
Texas
Awnings and Signs Off Street Must Go
City enforcement nears deadline as ordinance requires any projecting awnings and signs to be removed. Owners face removal at their expense if structures remain Monday, with city workers enforcing on the fatal day.
Chelan Woman Takes Poison
Mrs. Frank Turner of a Chelan Falls fruit ranch died by carbolic acid in a suspected domestic tragedy. The 45 year old widow left a former marriage son in Spokane and a former wife’s daughter with Turner. Family and neighbors were shocked by the event and funeral was held at Chelan Episcopal church.
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Wenatchee
Frank Turner
Chelan Falls
Turner
Spokane
Chelan
Old Settlers to Reunite in Monitor June 21 23
Mr A Pitcher discussed the Chelan County Pioneers Association and a reunion set for Monitor June 21 to 23. Eligibility requires residence in Chelan and adjoining counties as of January 1 1892 and current Chelan residents. Pitcher arrived in the valley in 1899 from California and later moved to Wenatchee.
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A. Pitcher
World Office
Old Settlers’ Organization
Monitor
Association
Pitcher
Chelan County
Kittitas
King
Snohomish
Skagit
Okanogan
Douglas
Chelan
Wenatchee Ice Plant Promises Low Prices for All
The Wenatchee Canning company announces a new top ice plant in the Pacific Northwest and pledges cheaper ice than Seattle Sound Portland or other markets. They claim prices will be so low that everyone can have what they want.
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Wenatchee
Seattle
Sound
Portland
G A R Posts Regular Meeting Noted at Local Ball
Sainta McCook Post No 105 of the G A R will hold its regular monthly meeting at xe r ball over the Ellis Forde store on Saturday next June 15 at 1 30 p m A full attendance is desired and old soldiers are urged to attend Soldier O Merrill, Com.
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Sainta McCook Post
Ellis- Forde
the Valley
O. Merrill
Com
Lost test map near church and library on Orondo
A local civil engineer mourns the loss of a small tracing of a plot of ground described as rolled round like a lead pipe and about the length of a stalk of macaroni. He suspects it was dropped between the Presbyterian church and the W C T U library on Orondo avenue and offers a reward.
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Presbyterian Church
Orondo Avenue
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Oscar J. Craig
University of Montana
State College
College Park
Pixies
Cascades
Ice
G. A. R.let'ng
Arthur Gunn
Wenatchee Development CO
Sunnyslope
M. W. Nelson
Poplar Street
Entiat Valley
Frank E. Knapp
Entiat
Wash
West Cherry Street
M. B. Jackson
Keller & Belser
Nero
Black Hawk
Castle Rock
George H. Farwell
Wenatchee, Washington
A. Greenfield
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