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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1909
Page
2
The Daily World lists subscription prices for readers in Wenatchee Washington with annual and six month mail plans and carrier delivery rates. The rates are shown in small print and include in advance payment.
The traffic agreements among the great transcontinental lines for entrances into Portland and Puget Sound cities are welcomed by the interior residents. With terminals settled, traffic managers will seek feeders, likely accelerating a railroad up and down the Columbia River.
The World argues that ending local fruit and orchard inspectors is a backward move that will harm county fruit growers by lowering product reputation and causing long term losses far exceeding the immediate saving to the treasury.
Superintendent Bowersox reports nine years of rapid growth in Chelan county and Wenatchee with pupil enrollment rising from 835 in 1900 to 3300 in 1909 and Wenatchee from 173 to 1250. The piece links school census data to city population estimates and future development prospects for North Central Washington.
Honolulu May 27 Japanese employees of five Hawaii sugar plantations totaling more than 7000 are on strike for higher wages. About three thousand strikers are in Honolulu living in sympathizer provided quarters. A general meeting of plantation managers from across the island is set for Thursday to address strike matters.
In Denver on May 27 the Presbyterian church assembly debated immigration amid predictions the US population could reach 200,000,000 in 50 years. Speakers warned of immigrant needs for home missions while defending immigrants as industrious and self-sustaining, with call for an $800,000 evangelism budget.
In Maywood Illinois the village’s Sunday riot of golf and gardening is halted as a concert band arrives at 5 50 pm. Rev P B Barker greets 35 Christian musicians and leads 200 followers down South Third Street. A crowd grows to 400 golfers and gardeners filing into First Congregational Church after a march to Madison Street.
Mary Johnson, a skilled Swedish servant girl, seeks an employment position in a household that uses Folger's Golden Gate Coffee. She aims to find a welcoming home and steady work.
Cone Johnson announces a gubernatorial bid in Texas while T J Akins is named postmaster of St Louis. Georgia Gov Brown to be inaugurated June 26 as legislature opens. Theodore Roosevelt’s mayoral nomination in New York proposed by Stewart Woodford. Howard G Cosgrove named to Washington University board of regents. Ex Gov Lowry of Mississippi recovering from illness. West Virginia eyes Galveston style bi partisan municipal reform. Perry Wright sells ten acres in Chelan district for 7000, a district high price. D J Peters, Frank McMullen, Dave Shattuck, and Charles Feiderspiel are noted in brief local movements.
City health department urges all families within limits to use closed tin cans for swills and waste instead of leaking wooden pails. Fergu son & Son supplies cans, dumping in back yards or alleys forbidden to prevent fly breeding and disease. Alleys must be cleaned and sanitation improved to avoid regrets.
While fishing at the Prosser Power dam Tuesday afternoon Joe Cloud 17 nearly drowned after a giant salmon pulled him into the water. He held to driftwood and avoided the falls. Yakima River fish runs bring large catches with Maurice Evans at 65 pounds and James Savage at 35 pounds.
Repeal of the indefinite sentence law of 1907 and abolition of the state prison board shifts pardons and discharges to the governor. Attorney General Bell rules that parole under the new law removes the board of control’s power to act.
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