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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1908
Page
1
Advertisement notes Wenatchee Plumbing and Heating Co and Bon Ton parlors in Mrs Webb's Millinery establishment offering up to date fashionable dressmaking. Calls encouraged with phone numbers 251 and 101.
The Lamb Davis Lumber company of Leavenworth sues Deak Brown of Monit or for $210 in damages over alleged unlawful conversion of runaway logs last spring. The main issue is whether the logs were properly marked as the property of the company. Outcome may affect further similar lawsuits. Corbin Ludington Kemp defend for Brown. Reeves Reeves for the plaintiff. Big Sacrifice Sale. Pipe must be used so get in on the ground floor at Wenatchee Plumbing & Heating Co. Local cattle purchase led by Allen Wetsel of Little Wetsel Co. Wenatchee and Twisp, with about sixty head shipped and plans to bring more. Prices reported at $3 to $3.75 per cwt. for weighed stock.
A Wenatchee column collects oddities from public life including an epitaph debate and occult happenings. It notes a Washington woman with three lungs, a Quaker seeking crimson sausages, and locals attending a Wednesday dance to support the American game in Wenatchee. A rape case inquiry yields no arrests as the mother plans to take her daughter to Seattle.
Dan Beal of Beal Milling Co found a yellow hen in his garage with an egg bearing the bold prophecy Wesley Jones Will Win. The egg was viewed at the World office by witnesses including Cross Olive Sumner Ferguson Belser. The egg broke when handed to Ferguson, inspiring local chatter about the omen and its source.
Two teams frightened by a donated water-closet revenue project fled this morning through Wenatchee streets. Arrows Bern’s wagon driver Charles Gurdet and Eagle Barn’s Bill Montgomery were injured as wagons collided with Latham’s garbage wagon, capsizing it and injuring a horse. A 14-year-old boy was bitten by a dog belonging to Saloon keeper McCormick, disposed of by police after multiple prior bites.
Wenatchee Development Co warns that anyone leaving garbage refuse or lead animals on property in Columbia Bridge Addition south of the big bridge will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. March 30, 1908.
The Wenatchee World predicts 1908 will be a landmark year of prosperity for Chelan county. It cites sixteen reasons from expanded irrigated land and larger orchards to new railroads and homes, noting Wenatchee's shift from desert ranch to orchard prosperity and urging continued local investment. The piece praises a united civic effort, a strong commercial club, and the potential for cannery and dairy developments. Also mentions a WCTU Kensington event and a special on calling cards at World Job Rooms.
Mrs W G Myer hosted the Tourist club on Friday. The program included roll call Men of the Times and papers on The Imperial Family of Japan Japan's Army Education in Japan Japanese Traits and The Marquis of Scion Ji. The next meeting will be with Mrs L M Hull.
The state board of tax commissioners ruled that taxable property moving within the state is assessable on arrival at its destination if started from a county before March 1. The decision arose from a Snohomish county assessor case about taxing wheat stored in the Great Northern warehouse.
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