Wenatchee Valley News Notes Local Moves and Events
Kemp visits Chelan on business while local families report illnesses and travel. The Wildberger infant is very ill. Mrs Fisher plans a weeks trip to the Atlantic coast. Ogan family heads to Knoxville for winter with relatives. New trustees Sewegnecker and Triplett relocate to Wenatchee. Roverts of the State University visits, seeking valley land. A lucky number yields a McDonald’s chocolates prize. Local residents advertise real estate deals and praise Wenatchee apples. Lincoln Broadway game draws crowds. M E church Ladies’ Aid hosting a social. Groves advocates forming a chamber of commerce to win an electric road project.
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R. Fisher
Ntic Coast
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Ruth
Mary Knoxville
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Triplett
Wenatchee Theane
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State University
Saattie
O'préeman
Shieh
McDonald’s
Dick Lillis
L. W. Smith
A. A. Bousquet
Trade for medical bill echoes a strange request
A wounded stranger, chief victim of a car crash, asks a Bushby Inn surgeon to accept payment in trade. He offers future services from blinds hanging to installing lightning rods and even playing the cornet, promising competence in each.
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Bushby Inn
Women Oyster Gatherers in France
The article notes oyster collecting is unsuitable for women yet appeals to men little, as women endure long hours knee deep in water under a hot sun. It claims some go mad yearly and are hospitalized while beds yield high profits and owners grow wealthy quickly.
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France
Jessie and Fremont Marriage Threats by Senator Benton
The anecdote recalls young Fremont fleeing to wed Jessie prompting threats from Senator Tom Benton who urged vengeance with roasts and bullets. Mrs. Benton quips that Jessie should be given to him. The piece shifts to Diamond Cutters and Their Work describing strict daily counts and nightly safekeeping of unfinished stones to prevent theft in a highly surveilled trade.
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Jessie
General Fremont
Tom Benton
Measles Notification Under New Family Health Law
A letter to a health officer states that Peter Adams reports his son Ephraim has measles, complying with a law passed last year requiring heads of families to inform authorities of contagious diseases in the home.
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Ephraim
Peter Adams
Harvest Party Hosted by St Luke's Youth
Young people of St Luke's Episcopal church invite everyone to a Harvest Party on Tuesday November 24 featuring games and refreshments.
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St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
Sprague’s
Thanksgiving Sale At King Coal Rooms
The Presbyterian Aid will hold a Thanksgiving sale on Tuesday November 24 in the King Coal company's rooms under the Columbia Valley bank. The sale opens at 9 a m and features Christmas novelties fine needlework dressed dolls mincemeat pies and other items.
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Presbyterian Aid
King Coal Company
Columbia Valley Bank
Southside Happenings and Rail Route Tour
Surveyors resurvey the John Mitchell farm this week and Dr Warren the veterinarian with Frank E Ping of Wenatchee returned from a professional trip via Columbia Siding along the new railroad route up the coulee and over the mountains to Wenatchee. A social dance at Scott ad Saturday drew a large Southsider crowd and was very enjoyable.
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John Mitchell
Warren
Frank E. Ping
Wenatchee
Columbia Siding
Coulee
Scott Ad
Falls City Visitors and Local Events Spark Weekend Activity
Mr and Mrs J L Coquillette of Falls City Oregon visit sister Mrs G H Overturf and may stay through the holidays. Claude Neely and Elmer Gensing er travel from Wenatchee to hear the Wenatchee Waterville high school debate. Overturf makes a Wenatchee business trip. A box supper and social dance is planned at Kiser school house Friday night. McCullough cattle buyer with O W Neely tours the mountains buying beef cattle. Elisha Ping and Ferdinand Rollek vacationed hunting on the mountain, returned to Wenatchee where Ping attends school. Guy Campbell went to Wenatchee Saturday.
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J. L. Coquillette
Falls City
Oregon
Mr. Coquillette
G. H. Overturf
Elisha Ping
Ferdinand Rollek
Wenatchee
Guy Campbell
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Lincoln
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M. ‘E. Church
Thomas Groves
Wenatchee Grocery Company
R. B. Winans
Pennsylvania Avenue
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Leroy Wright
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