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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1910
Page
3
June 30 shows Republics versus Firemen. July 4 features Jeffries Johnson boxing. July 4 and 5 mark two days of celebration. July 6 lists a County commissioners meeting. July 5 pits Tammany against Republics.
Tammany did not play the Engineers last night as Twilight League games are postponed until after the Fourth to allow practice for the leading team. The next Twilight game will be Tammany versus the Engineers.
The Columbia hotel has shifted its position after a moving crew, led by A. J. Van Landingham, pulled the building back several days ago. The sidewalk strip will be graded down, leaving the hotel entrance elevated above the street with steps from the porch to the sidewalk and minor improvements planned.
Soap Lake in Grant county Washington is a famous health resort with a mile long lake and waters likened to soap. Three sanitariums serve visitors led by Siloam Sanitarium on high ground offering scenic views and recent improvements. The Great Northern adds a station nearby to ease travel from Ephrata.
The article proclaims baseball as a joyful profession and reflects on the Stratford Irrigation Company driving fruit land sales near Soap Lake. It notes pumping irrigation, new village additions, Soap Lake water fame, and major league names released to minor leagues, highlighting the sport and local development.
Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood nicknamed Hard Wood since boyhood faced early discipline at Marlborough grammar school. At ten he joined Marlborough College where a November riot over fireworks sparked a mutiny, burning the headmaster’s desk and causing damage. He was flogged fined two pounds and ordered to copy 300 lines of Latin.
Former Wenatchee girl Fawn Wells, long in Chicago studying music, is expected in Wenatchee before tomorrow. She left Denver Monday and will make a one day stop in Salt Lake City on the way home.
L. F. McConihe, promoter of the Moses Lake irrigation project, told World reporters in Wenatchee that development work in Grant county will continue. He expects contest cases to close soon and that construction will begin shortly. A new survey crew is working in the Moses Lake district.
A Hungarian Slovak village meeting in Za kopese features Bar on Ludwig Levay addressing in English after a peasant requests it for a Magyar audience. The result shows over 80 percent of the 3000 inhabitants had returned from America improved in English. The tale mirrors a humorous anecdote about Senator Hearst and Colonel Ochiltree recalling a lost million after a boastful red haired boy claim.
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