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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-19
MR.. CAMPBELL LIKES HIS NEW
HOME

In a letter of the 18th instant, to
Postmaster Hamilton, Clarence A.
Campbell says: "Arrived at STRAIT
ton, Nebraska, Wednesday morning
and am hard at work. This is
town of about 500 popuation. Well
built. Has two garages, both larger
than either of the Leavenworth gar
ages. Cement walks; water system:
and "a hour electric lighting service.
The country is open and rolling. The
principal crop is wheat, though they
raise considerable corn and quite a
lot of cattle and hogs. The altitude
is 1900 feet. 1t is hot in the day
time but cool at night. Very much
like the climate of Leavenworth. |
think l shall like it here" Mr.. Camp
bell occupies the same position in the
Stratton bank that he occupied in
the Leavenworth State bank, assist
ant cashier, and is also a stock
holder.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-19
HEBBARD STILL URGES MORE
CANNING BY WOMEN

Spokane. July 16.-"The food ad-
ministration and the United States
department of agriculture have urged
repeatedv that every city become as
near selfsupporting as it possibly
can regarding food. You have been
urged to raise all the vegetables you
can care for. This is part of the
plan of becoming self-supporting.
The next step is to put into jars or
cans enough of these vegetables to
supply your table during the coming
winter, and if you have more vege-
tables in your garden than you need
for your own use. let some neighbor
who is not so fortunate, have some of
your surplus to can for future needs.
"The demands of the army and
navy and especially our over seas
forces during the coming winter will
undoubtedly be so large as to make
serious draft on the supplies of
commercial Gamers which have here
tofore gone to the civil population.
"Householders who can and dry
vegetables this summer will, there
fore, be doing double patriotic SER
vice; First, by conserving great
quantities of vegetables, which will
otherwise go to waste and second
by making available for our armed
forces in France and for the navy
a greater proportion of the CONNER
cial caned product.
"I cannot too strongly urge in
creased effort upon the part of ev-
cry one and feel sure that the public
will respond Loyalty to this appeal
for further conservation and pre-
paredness in food matters"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-19
AMERICAN TROOPS HELPING TO STEM HUN TIDE
Big Drive, Started Monday Morning
Strikes Stone Defense-Amercan Troops
or Marine Attack Take Prisoners

gains were smaller than any pre-
viously made, and as formerly were
made with tremendous sacrifice in
killed and wounded. The deepest
penetration into the allied lines was
less than four miles, and this on I,
very narrow sector.
The American troops, who are
stationed along the Marne river at
the left end of the battle line, were
compelled to give some ground in
the first rush of the enemy, but by
a brilliant counter attack Monday
evening they regained all the ground
lost and more besides and took sew
eral hundred prisoners, variously re-
ported from 500 to 1,500. They also
drove the Germans back across the
river at some points where the
enemy had effected crossings. Re-
ports from the battle front state
that the American machine gunners
did fearful execution among the
dense columns of advancing in
fantry, and the heavier artillery was
particularly effective in blowing up
the temporary bridges which the en-
emy had succeeded in throwing over
the river and otherwise impeding the
enemy advance.
Military authorities estimate that
the Germans are employing sixty to
seventy divisions in this drive, or
upwards of 100000 men.
As it is the First army corps of
the American expeditionary force
which is holding the line at the
Marne, it is altogether likely that
Central Washington men are in the
thick of the big battle.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-19
WILLIAM STAGE PASSED AWAY
JULY 18TH.

When William Stage, Sr., died last
Saturday this community lost a
good citizen. He had made his home
in the upper Wenatchee valley six
teen years, and if anybody ever ut
tered a disparaging word about him
we have yet to hear of it. He filled
the measure of good citizenship to
a letter. He was considerate to his
family, respected his fellow mems
rights and was just in his dealings
with all. Some time before the hol-
idays last winter he went to Seattle
to consult a physician, not feeling
just right, and one day in crossing a
street he was hit by an auto, striking
him on the back part of the leg be-
tween the knee and thigh. This again
laid him up for a time, but apparent
ly recovering from this hurt he re-
turned home. The hurt had evident
ly been more severe than he at first
thought, and pus formations began.
He was relieved of these, but only
temporarily, as others formed and
finally affected his general health,
which began to decline, resulting in
his death Saturday morning, July
18th at 1920.
Mr.. Stage was born in Ohio, May
Is, 1854. In his youth he went to
Iowa, where he was married in 1877,
and shortly after removed to Kan
sas, where he lived five years and
then went to Nebraska, where he
lived until 1902, when he removed to
the Peshastin valley. Two years ago
he retired from active farm work
and moved to Leavenworth. where he
lived until the end came Beside
his wife, Emma j., he leaves three
sons, A. G., C. E., William DeForest
and three grand children, residing in
the Peshastin valley, a few miles
from Leavenworth. He also leaves
two brothers, Charles and Harry
Stage, who reside in Nebraska.
Mr. Stage was a member of the
Masonic fraternity and of the Wood
men of the World. Funeral services
were held in the Masonic hall accord
ing to the rites of the order, Monday
morning last and the remains taken
to Wenatchee and placed in the home
of peace.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-19

American troops are playing a
leading part in the great battle on
the western front in Europe, which
was renewed early this week with
all the fury that characterized the
other great battles in that part OF
the war zone this year. And with
their French and italian allies, they
have put up a stone wall defense
against the flood of invading Huns
upon which the waves of infantry
and artillery of the enemy have
beaten in vain for four consecutive
days.
Early Monday morning, after six
weeks spent in reorganization ana
preparation, the Germans launched
the fifth great drive of the 1918 Of
fensive which was undertaken to
break through the allied lines and
to capture Paris and the Channel
ports.
The section of the battle front
chosen for this drive is the same as
that of the last previous drive-the
Mane valley-but the engagement
extends both east and west of the
sector of the former drive and covers
a. front of about sixty-fve miles, ex-
tending from west of Chateau
Thierry to several miles east of
Rheims. This portion of the front
is held by American, French and
Italian troops.
The drive, after four days of con-
tinuous fighting, has proved almost
complete failure. Although, as in
previous drives, the Germans sue
ceeded in gaining some little ground
in the first rush of the attack, the
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-19
SAVE YOUR GULL POTATOES

Starch, manufactured from pota-
toes grown in the Inland Empire,
will be upon the market this fall.
Lundin Bros, of Spokane, have
bought site at 1905 East Sprague
avenue and will at once commence
the erection of a potato starch fac
tory. Machinery is now en- route.
1t is expected the plant will be in
operation by September /, The ca
pacity will be ten tons of potatoes
daily. This will be increased as the
conditions warrant. The managers
state they will be in the market for
Gull potatoes at fair prices. They
do not expect to use any first grade
potatoes as these command too high
price for food use. The factory
will be the first of its kind west of
the Mississippi.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-19
OF OUR NAVY
HEROES WANTED

The navy department is collecting
photographs of enlisted men who
lose their lives in the war that their
memory may be perpetuated. Sec
retary Daniels asks relatives and
others having such photographs to
lend them to the navy that copies
may be made for the navy's records.
Originals will be returned to the
owners as fast as copies can be
made.
A photograph of each man is to be
forwarded by the navy department
to the training station where he be-
gan his career in the service. At
each of such stations a memorial
gallery of honor or a hero's corner
is to be established so that for all
time the face of the man of the navy
who has made the supreme sacrifice
may be honored by the youth of the
future sent to the station for train
ing.
All pictures, loaned or contributed,
should be securely wrapped for mail
ing, with name, branch of service,
and training station the young man
entered after enlistment. They
should be addressed to Recruiting
Division, Bureau of Navigation,
Navy Department, Washington, D.
C. Care will be taken to return safe
ly the photograph to the sender,
when desired, together with one of
the copies made of it.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-19
NAMES OF REGISTRANTS
CALLED FROM LFAvFNWORTh
Order in Which They Will Be
Called to the COlOrs

The county exemption board has
given each of the 113 young men
who registered the 9Th of June last
for duty under the selective draft, a
number which shows the order in
which they will be drawn for duty.
AS soon as the Glass 1 men under
the first draft have all been called
to the colors the men of Class 1 of
the second registration will probably
be called, and it looks as if they
would go during the month of Au-
gust. Then it is expected the Class
2 men under the first draft will be
called, followed by the Glass 2 men
of the second draft and so on
through the list.
In the list given below, the first
number in each case is the regis
tration number, which takes the
place of the serial number that was
used in the registrations under the
first draft. The last number given
in each case is the order number,
showing the order in which the reg
istrant will be called to the colors.
The following Leavenworth names
appear in the list:
IA. Heizi Hirakuri, a
7S. Ernest E. Mortimer, 7.
65. Sadaguma Ogata, Is.
81. Walter Arthur Koerner, 1S.
Al. Charles M. Love, %.
55. Max R. Anderson, 2S.
35. Harry Carl Sitan, 3S.
80. Clarence E. Herzog, AZ.
81. William A. Harding, 59.
81. Roose Patrick, "a.
40. Henry T. Goldman, 65.
6. Roland c.. Nickols, II.
6S. James P. Brewer, 70.
73. Frank S. Holzinger, 105.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-19
MR.. WHITNEY FOR PROSE
CUTTING ATTORNEY

Elsewhere in this paper Mr. w. F.
Whitney declares his desire to re-
ceive the nomination on the republi-
can ticket at the September pri-
mary election for prosecuting at
torney of Chelan county. Mr.. Whit
ney has lived in Chelan county for
ten years, has served a term as as
sistant prosecuting attorney and
given abundant evidence of his abil-
ity as lawyer in the civil courts of
the county. He has always been a
consistent republican and has a host
of friends. He is just recovering
from a six months spell of illness.
Between this time and the 10th of
September he expects to present his
claims to the voters all over the
county.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-19
ISRAEL TRASk FOUND DEAD
IN HIS ALFALFA FIELD
Had Been Missing Week-Body
Mutilated by Wild Animals

The body of Isreal Trask, a pio-
neer settler, having located here in
1890, was found in his alfalfa field.
five miles from Leavenworth, last
Friday by Mr.. Fruchtnicht, a neigh
Dor. AS near as can be made out,
he must have died July 5th, as he
was seen the day previous about his
place. One arm had been torn from
the body, supposedly by a wild ami
NAL, and was found a short distance
from where the body lay.
Some three months ago he had a
slight attack of heart failure and
was told by DR.. Hoxsey that while
his heart was weak, otherwise he
was in fairly good condition for a
man of his age. He was seventy
the 4th of March last.
He homesteaded the place on
which he died in 1890, selling eighty
acres, known as the Glen Echo ranch,
to DR.. Triem, some twelve years
ago. He was of a quiet, retiring
disposition and was considered
good citizen. By those who enjoyed
his confidence it is said he originally
came from Massachusetts, and had
been married there and left his fam
lily. He had followed the occupa-
ton of heeler in his younger days
in Massachusetts, shoe factory. The
body was laid to rest in the Lea
venworth cemetery last Saturday,
after an inquest held by County Cor
oner Templeton, who decided that
death had resulted from natural
causes.
With the purpose of locating rel
atives, having heard from Mr.. Purdy,
his most intimate friend, that Mr..
Trask came from Salem, Massachu-
sets, Coroner Templeton wired to
the authorities of that city and re-
ceived an answer saying that ]. M.
Trask, a brother, resided at Beverly,
Mass. He will probably come here
to look after his brothers property.
Mrs. D. C. Town prepared the
body for burial and accompanied the
remains to the cemetery.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-19
MORE OF OUR BOYS GOING TO
WAR

On July % another bunch of our
boys will leave for Camp Lewis. The
ladies of the War Workers Rooms
are planning to give dance in the
Firemen's Hall Saturday evening
in honor of them. Following are the
names of the boys: R. L. Howerton,
Dan Massie, Geo. Boulton, Julius
Berger, Jno. Rosenberg, Vernon
Nichols, Harry Brown and VIM.
Horey. There is an unconfrmed re-
port that Lester Brown and G. w.
Hart will also go at the same time.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-19
MR.. HOOVER TALKS OF BIG
PROBLEM OF PRICE CONTROL
Thinks Too Much Regulation May
Result in Curtailing Production

The following, recently printed in
the Chicago Tribune, indicates Mr..
Hoover's opinion about price con-
troll:
That large profits for low cost
producers are essential to stimu!a-
ton of maximum output by high
cost producers and that the only
feasible method of curbing profteer-
ing is to impose a high war profits
tax is the opinion of Food Admin
istrator Hoover, expressed in a reply
to a letter from Simmons, chair
man of the senate finance committee.
"My view," Mr.. Hoover says, ais
that broad regularity restraints now
in force are essential in commodity
handling in the face of shortages |
am equally convinced that large
percentage of extra normal profits
earned out of war conditions, wheth-
er by more fortunately situated
members of regulated trades or 9th
erwise, should be appropriated to the
public treasury through taxation.
Cites Business of Packers
Mr.. Hoover sites the business of
the Chicago meat packers as a case
in point.
"There is an additional phase of
the limitation of profits by regula-
tion where such regulation needs CO.
ordination with taxation" says Mr..
Hoover. "If regulation of profits
or price is placed at so low a level
as to restrain the profits of the low
cost producer to a normal profit, it
will not only cut off high cost pro-
ducers and increase the shortage,
but sometimes gives to the low cost
producer the entire field and means
the crowding out of many business
concerns. In many industries it
means bigger businesses will survive
and the smaller businesses will be
extinguished.
"This is typically the case in the
meat packing industry. The five
large concerns together kill about 40
per cent of the animals of the
country. They will this year pro-
duce several billion pounds of meat
products.
Small Margin Profits Huge
"They are so regulated as to
,,,oS+e ~,
on all business except foreign hold
ings and non-food business) that
their earnings could not exceed one
cent per pound of meat products
produced. Yet if they earned this
amount they would earn $70,000,000
per annum. I am sure the packers
themselves will agree upon their pre-
war experiences that this would be
an inordinate profit. On the other
hand, a further drastic lowering of
profits would, in some branches of
the business covered by the packers,
drive struggling competition from
the field
Inc 1bilOlIilhi piOlitS OuI VI wal
conditions of the favorably situated
producer can only be reached by tax
alton, unless, by regulation, we take
the risk of curtailing production and
the decentralization of the economical
conditions of the country. Further
more, if such increased taxation
,ua,.o i,,,pocaJ ~ would o,, q h1o ,anr,,
lation to be carried out with more
liberal hand and less friction"
Points Danger of Shortage
Mr. Hoover says that "extra
profits out of war are hateful" but
that it is impossible to eliminate
profiteering by regulation alone and
still maintain the maximum produc-
tion necessary to meet war demands.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-19
OILY BUTTER AND WILTED
COLLAR DAYS

Beginning with last Sunday we
had a touch of warm weather. The
weather indicator fiickered around
the hundred in the shade" mark be-
tween II a. m. and p. m. However,
as it was not accompanied with that
enervating and depressing element
stuff called humidity, we suffered no
inconvenience beyond wilted collar.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-19

Ship building in the state of Wash
ington has brought unprecedented
prosperity to Washington and every
citizen should support measures to
perpetuate these industries.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-19

Some ten or twelve fruit ware
houses, costing approximately two
hundred thousand dollars, are under
construction in Chelan county.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-19
WAGE SCALE FOR HARVEST
HANDS

Uniform wage scales for harvest
hands in the Inland Empire have
been adopted at meetings recently
held in a number of communities. 1t
is hoped to stop the practice of bid
ding for help by this method. In
general the scale is higher than ever
before paid. Employers assembled
at Ritzville, Pullman and Pomeroy
established wages which are being
accepted in other towns. The range
of pay is indicated as follows:
Leaders, $3.50 to $4; sack sewers
$3.50 to Sc; combine spike pitch $3.50
to $5; box drivers $3.50 to Sd; com
bine drivers $3.50 to $3.50.
Other labor is being paid in pro-
portion. The ten-hour day is being
adopted, with provision for overtime.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-07-19

On another page of The Echo we
are printing this week the announce
ment of Judge ]. Stanley Webster,
of Spokane, candidate for congress
on the republican ticket from the
Fifth district The mere fact that
Mr.. Webster agreed to resign high
er position to which the people of
this state elected him by a large
majority, in order to become can
didate against Mr.. C. C. Dill, at the
earnest solicitation of friends, both
democratic and republican, made a
favorable impression on the writer of
these lines. This impression was
strengthened by inquiry made in
Spokane last week. OF Judge Web
ster's qualifications and fitness there
is no question. Of his availability,
after the action of those who know
him best, there is no doubt. We want
man who can get Dill's scalp, and
confidently believe Judge Webster
can remove his political hair.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-04
GERMAN SOLDIERS SHOWN
COUNTRY AHEAD OF THEM

With tn American forces in France,
Sept. 30-Before going into battle
German soldiers in certain instances
are shown moving pictures of the
country through which they are sup.
posed to pass during proposed adj
vance
Information reached American Of
ficers recently that moving pictures
had been put on the screen for the
benefit of the Germans who took
part in the offensive which started
July Is in the Marine country, the pic
lures showing certain stretches of
land so as to familiarize the advanc-
ers with the terrain. Some of the
wooded districts and fields shown on
the films were never reached by the
Germans owing to the counter attack
of the French and Americans which
began on the morning of July Is, COM
pleting upsetting the German planes
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-04
FRANCE IS USING
MOTOR LAUNCHES
GO ACROSS OCEAN ON OWN
POWER.

A French Atlantic port, Sept 80
CORES pondence of the Associated
Press France in her work of safe
guarding the coast from mines and
submarines is using 4 large number
of motor launches of the standar-
died American type which came over
under their own steam with loss
nf only one out of fifty.
One of the most successful boats
used for the work is the canonniere
which. working with Diesel engines,
can steam 5000 miles at ten knots
an hour without refuelling, and so
could cross to the United States I'M
der its own power. The craft carries
guns big enough to deal with any
submarine. as we'll as depth charges
and it's low draught enables it to
travel over mine fields that would
wreck destroyer The average size
of this xessel is about 400 tons.
For mine-sweeping the French use
an economical form of travel. The
sweep is towed astern, being held out
! by the floats and the trawl itself has
ingenious underwater appliances for
sweeping it at the required depth
and a new device for cutting a mine
adrift whenever it touches the traw
| line.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-04
FOCHS OFFENSIVE HAS
STRONGLY IMPRESSED CHINA

Picking, Sept. 30.-China has been
impressed by the success of Geneal
Fochs counter offensive, and by the
American successes on the western
front. Hitherto the Chinese have
been very much overawed by Ger
many, which most of them consider
ed invincible. Now change has tax
en- place which is reflected in the
Peking pess. The Minhsinpao urges
with the allies and says the defeats
of the Australian and German armies
lin Italy and France show clearly that
A complete military victory over the
entente is impossible especially now
that the young American army has
proved itself capable of attacking
the experienced German troops with
victory.
Previous to this Franco-American
victory in France, the majority of the
Chinese people, especially Chinese
military officers most of whom have
been trained in Germany and Japan
or educated in China under German
and Japanese military instructors, ex-
pressed great doubt about the abil--
ity of the experienced Americans
to combat successfully the Germans
on the western front.
Now the Franco-American victory
has shown the intelligent class of the
Chinese what the American army can
do. This raises the prestige of the
American in the far Fest as a military
people.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-04

During this week many inquiries
have been made regarding the date
for changing the time back to the
law which governs tibet dimi-l.hcetaoi
old hour. This change, under the
law which govern the time, will be
made on Sunday, October o. and
until that dote everything will run
on the present schedule.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-04

and the feeling prevails among a large
majority of the leaders of the state
not only those who are active sui
fragists but others as well. that the
dy to recognize the tremendous aid
given by women during the past few
years in the progressive life of the
nation and particularly in the war ac-
tivities is an expression OF prejudice