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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-04-26
]. R. JONES, STACKER, GETS
FREE RIDE ON RAIL
Employed at G.. n. Mill-Refuses to
Buy Bond-Fired and Leaves
Town Between Two Days.

J. r. Jones, employed at the big
saw mill as scaler since it began run
ming this spring, refused to buy a
government bond last week when all
the other employees invested in one
ore more of Uncle Sans evidences
of Indebtedness. Tuesday evening
his attention was called to the over
sight but he still refused to come
thru, without giving any reason for
his failure so to do. The small
gathering of employees grew larger
as the talk grew louder, and some
body produced rope, which was plac-
ed about his neck. One or two of
the more deliberate and cooler heads
urged prudence and the rope was
withdrawn. Then somebody produc-
ed a rail and Jones was placed a.
stride of it and given a bit of shak-
ing up and short ride. Up to this
time the proceedings had about half
the appearance of jest, but Jones
eltner got mao ODOuJ InlS time, or
thot the crowd was afraid to do any
thing serious, so when Sawyer John
Thompson called Jones a Stacker, he
retorted with one of those express
sions that men usually resent with
a blow, which was just what Thonp-
son did. He hit Jones on the
mouth with his fist. Things at
once took on a serious aspect and
Jones made his get away, not, how
ever, before being notified his SER
vices would no longer be required at
the mill. Jones gathered up his
blongings and got out of town be-
fore daylight the next morning.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-04-26
FARWELL PARTY FOR THE
NICHOLSON BOYS

Angus Nicholson, and his cousin
Dan J. were rendered a farewell
party at the Methodist church par
lors last Saturday evening. They
have a large circle of friends and
many of them were out last Satur-
day night to extend farewell greet
ings. After the usual diversions a
light luncheon was served. Pastor
Moore of the NJ. E. church, and Mr..
F. 7. Motteler and several others
madt brief remarks, wishing the boys
"God speed" and a safe return.
Angus and Dan Nicholson and Paul
Miles passed thru here Monday after
noon on No. /, on their way from
Wenatchee to Seattle where they ex-
pect to join the U. S. army. They
received quite an ovation, indeed Dan
Nicholson received, in addition to an
ovation, a shower of rice. Whether
the rice was based on the suspicion
that he was already married, or
would be in the near future, and
the crowd took time by the forelock,
this deponent sayeth not. Anyway,
the rice was thrown, probably to be
on the safe side.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-04-26
GOVERNMENT WANTS SKILLED
MEN FOR SERVICE IN FRANCE
Gen. Pershing Needs $4,000 Men
Skilled in 73 Occupations Time
TO Enlist in this Battalion
Expires Tomorrow.

Tomorrow evening will come to an
end ten day opportunity that is
being afforded registrants under the
Selective Draft Law, throughout the
country, to volunteer for immediate
service in France.
General Pershing has called for
10000 skilled men, and the War De-
partment will furnish them through
the medium of the Selective Draft
machinery of the Nation, although
actual drafting will not be resorted
to.
Any registrant who is physically
qualified for general military SER
vice and who is skilled in any of
the 73 lines, may list his name with
his Local Board until and including
Saturday, April 9th. The Local
Boards will then report the volun-
teers to the Department of Selective
Service Supervision at Olympia which
in turn, will advise the War Depart
ment on April Both. After all States
in the union have been heard from,
the number of men who will be ac-
cepted from each state will be de-
termined by the War Department
and Immediately thereafter the vol
unteers from each state will be mo-
bilized.
Only rgistrants who can demon
strate that they are skilled will be
accepted, of course, and it is pro
bable that not every skilled regis
trant who volunteers can be used.
From the personal standpoint of the
registrants themselves and in addi-
ton to the need of the nation, the
opportunity is considered a most ex-
ceptional one. In announcing the call,
the Provost Marshal General says
"The military duty and training
of these skilled men will be interest
ing and the men who succeed in Sc
curing induction into the branches of
the service to be filled will receive
material personal benefit which will
aid them in advancement, both in
their Army and in after life"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-04-26
HOUSE NEXT DOOR" DREW
RECORD BREAKING CROWD
Every Seat Filled and Standing
Room Sold-Highly Pleasing
Performance.

Under the direction of Mr.. W. F.
Bickle, some of the high school boys
and girls, assisted by some of the
young folks of the town who have
histrionic inclinations, the play en-
titled "The House Next Door," was
presented Wednesday night to the
largest audience ever gotten together
in this town to witness a show. 1t
is the universal opinion that it was
the best amateur performance ever
pulled off here. Not only was
every seat on the lower floor and
the gallery occupied but aisles were
packed and some standing privileges
were sold and still fifty-odd ticket
holders were disappointed because
they could not get in at all.
The net proceeds are to be given
to the Red Cross, and arrangements
have been made whereby the play
will be repeated in Cashmere to-
night. 1t is not improbable that
another presentation will be given
here sometime in the future.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-04-26
GREAT NORTHERN BOX AND
PLANNING MILL STARTS MONDAY
The Indications Point to a Large
Demand for Fruit Boxes Which
will Keep the Mill Going.

Arrangements are practically com
pleted for starting the big box mill
of the G. N. Company the first of
next week. In fact steam was
gotten up and the machinery turned
over the last of this week. The
stock of logs on hand is larger than
for several years as this season, and
the number is constantly being add
ed to. Mr.. Quigley, the logging
superintendent, says he does not
think the saw mill can catch him
between now and the time the snow
flies.
The outlook for a fruit crop was
never better and the fact that so
many mills that have heretofore
made boxes are now engaged in
some governmental activity will
leave the box demand to be filled
by those mills that are free to fol-
low their usual occupation. The
price last year was considerably
higher than the year before and be-
cause of the increased labor cost this
year are almost sure to be still
higher.
The fruit prices are hardening and
will be higher than last year. We
are told that apple handlers are now
going among the growers and offer
ing to advance money on next falls
crop of apples. Because so much
of the lumber of our mills go into
fruit boxes the size of the crop and
the price determines whether the
lumber mills will run full blast and
continuously. So far as indications
now point the makers of fruit boxes
ought to have a prosperous year.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-04-26
FIRST FOREST FIRE OF THE
SEASON.

The first forest fire of the season
occurred last Friday in Anderson
canyon about miles from this city.
Mr.. Anderson while cleaning land
and burning brush was unfortunate
enough to have the fire escape. The
smoke was seen from town and
Ranger Harry Blankenship hurried
to the scene. He found that Mr..
Anderson had already succeeded in
getting the fire under control but
only after it had covered some 7
acres. This is an indication that
the season will probably be a dan
gerous one for fire and extreme care
must henceforth be taken by every
one.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-04-26

and until transportation facilities are
good this country cannot speed up its
war program. Germany proved her
recent drive just what perfect trans
portation facilities can do. Upon
transportation, land and sea, depends
the issue of this war.
A writer recently told of his eX-
perience in Russia in trying to buy
a stiff white collar. The clerk
would not sell him one, because of
the sympathy of the clerks union
with the laundrywomen's strike for
higher wages. Kansas City has
Bolsheviki, and perforce has been un-
der guard because of the laundry
workers strike, and the sympathetic
strikes which have followed.
After the present program of
wooden shipbuilding is completed, it
will be curtailed in favor of steei
construction, on the base of sug-
gestions made by experts to the
shipping DOdTu3f llldJ' Tie o;oOO OOIi
wooden ship is economically expen-
sive, and that all engines and boil
ers are needed for steel ships. 1t
is probable that no more wooden
ships will be built on the Atlantic
coast after the present contracts are
filled. Ways on the Gulf and Paci-
fic Coast may be used for further
building, but the number will be IL
mited.
Australia has surplus of $50 mil
lion bushels of wheat which it de
sires to ship to the United States,
with the understanding that a like
amount will be shipped to the Allies.
Facilities for shipping it direct to
Europe do not exist, but with the
recent accession of ships from Hol-
land and Japan, something may now
be done in that direction.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-04-26
TWELVE YEAR OLD BOY OF ny.
WRITES POPULAR WAR SONG
Son of Lexington, KY, Newspaper
Man, Joe Lee Davis, Author of
War Garden Song.

Lexington's boy poet, Joe Lee
Davis, twelve-year-old son of r. Lee
Davis, a we'll known Kentucky ro'e
paper man and for years one c
star men on the Lexington Lc
has sprung into national
through his "War Garden Song"
Gently published 1t has just been
approved by DR.. Clarence Wood of
the department of agriculture at
Washington, who has announced that
it will be printed in a special govern
ment bulletin and sent broadcast in
to every school garden district in
the United States, to be sung by the
millions of young Americans that
have enlisted in Uncle Sans juve-
nile agricultural army to do their
bit in helping to lick the kaiser and
win the war.
The inspiring song, which is to
the tune of cover There" was
written by Master Joe Lee, who is
student at the Lexington junior
high school, at the suggestion of
his teacher, Miss Effie Denny, as
classroom assignment, for the
school garden club, with no thought
of its ever being sung outside of
his immediate school circle. But
when, few days later, it was en-
Enthusiastically sung by the 600 boy
and girl students of the junior high,
including the young author, it made
such an instaneous hit that all of
the public schools of the city prompt
ly adopted it, and it featured the
program at the big home-school
garden demonstration held here on
April 2, when department of agricul
ture officials were present and when
5000 children of the public schools
paraded through the streets of the
city and sang it several times at
Woodland park. Since then the
school children of Louisville and
other cities of the state have learn
cd it and are singing it with great
zest.
WAR GARDEN SONG.
ITO the tune, cover There.O
Johnnie, get your hoe, get your hoe,
get your hoe;
Mary, dig your row, dig your row,
dig your row;
Down to business, girls and boys,
Learn to know the gardeners joys
Uncle Sans in need, pull the weed,
plant the seed,
While the sunbeams lurk, do not
shirk; get to work.
All the lads must spade the ground;
All the girls must hustle round.
Chorus.
Over there, over there;
Send the word, send the word over
there
That the lads are hoeing,. the lads are
hoeing;
The girls are sowing everywhere.
Each garden to prepare,
Do your bit so that we can all share
With the boys, with the boys, the
brave boys,
Who will not come back till it's
over, over there.
OVER THEREi
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-04-26
F. G. HUTCHINGS DIED IN FRISCO
APRIL 20.

Mr.. Hutchings had made his /
in Leavenworth for the past tw
years, coming here from Wenat"lit
For the past three or four VI
he has been in very poor healt.
and four years ago underwent an
operation at the famous Mayo Bro
theirs hospital in Rochester, MINI.
Feb. 22nd last he in company with
his wife left here for Los Angeles,
where his son, A. E. Hutchings was
temporarily living. He seemed to
enjoy the trip and started home in
high spirits on the End of April.
He took sick on the way and stopped
in San Francisco on the 23rd and
remained there until the goth, when
he died. The body was brought to
Seattle and buried there on the oath.
He lacked a few days of being go
years old. Besides his wife he
leaves two sons, E. A., whose home
is in Seattle, and /. F. Hutchings,
who lived here.
Mrs. Hutchings, accompanied by
her two sons, arrived here yesterday
afternoon.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-04-26
BRITISH AND ALLIES VICTIMS
OF WAR FUND.

Mrs. Percy Wells, of Cashmere,
custodian of the funds subscribed
for the benefit of the British and
Allies Victims of War Fund, ack-
nowledges receipt of the following
amounts; Episcopalian Church,
Cashmere, $3.50; Episcopalian Church
Wenatchee, $625; A. P. Knowlton,
Leavenworth, $500; Mrs. G. w. Les
singer, Cashmere, $500 and Mrs.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-04-26

The new factory of the Dixie Corn
Products company on east Trent
avenue, Spokane, has been completed
and most of the machinery has been
installed. The plant will begin
operations shortly.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-04-26
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
Mayor Hale and Police Magistrate
Reynolds Resign-COuncilman Ir-
win to Fill Mayor Hale's Place.

At a regular meeting of the coun-
Gil last Tuesday night the Mayor
and following councilmen answered
present: Blocksedge, DAILY, Irwin
and Warner.
After the minutes of the previous
meeting were read and approved the
usual number of bills were allowed.
The resignation of Magistrate Rey-
nolds was read and promptly accept
ed by the council, and was followed
by the reading of the resignation of
Mayor Hale to take effect after the
adjournment of the council. On
motion the resignation of Mayor
Hale was accepted.
1t was moved, seconded and carried
that Councilman Irwin be elected to
act as mayor protein until sue
cessor to Mayor Hale has been elect
ed and qualified.
The matter of appointing a sue
cessor to Magistrate Reynolds was
laid over until the next regular
meeting.
The ordinance increasing the salary
of the chief of police had its second
reading.
James Thompson requested per-
mission to repair the steps at the
club building. Referred to the
building committee.
The council authorized the pur-
chase of a new flag for the city
hall and then adjourned.
The following bills were allowed:
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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-04-26

Mr.. ]. B. Adams arrived from
Seattle yesterday afternoon and this
afternoon took the train for We
natchee.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-04-26

Services in the Lutheran church
in the morning in the Scandinavian
language, and in the evening at 8
o'clock, in the English language by
Rev. L. ]. Lindseth of Wenatchee.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-10-04
NO DODGING THE ORDER

The War Industries Board, in an
effort to reduce the use of paper to
a minimum. issues the following man.
date to users of paper:
That all newspapers shall on the
first day of October drop from their
lists all delinquent subscribers who
have not paid in advance"
And there you are. If you are dis
appointed in not receiving your paper
henceforth just bear in mind that the
orders have been strictly complied
with. This office has signed up half a
dozen pledge cards with paper dealers
that every effort will be put forth to
comply with this ruling. All newspa-
pers have done the same. If news
paper fails to carry out the order
those dealers are instructed not 70
supply that newspaper with white pa
per. 1t is case of complying or
quitting. Do not blame the newspa-
per man II he cuts you off. Charge II
up to the head of the Huns who has
turned this old world topsy turvy in
an effort to force his foul dominion
over all people.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-10-04

that prisoners in Germany receive
through the hands of both the civilians
and authorities. There they are per-
mitted to freeze to death without COW
ering. are fed on shadow soup, are
put to the most tortuous labor when
hardly physically able to crawl, and
are so brutally treated that death is
relief as putting an end to their
terrible suffering. These same par
barian German prisoners are the men
who have raped the women OF Belgium
and Northern France. mutilated chill
dren, crucified allied prisoners and
committed outrages unprintable Sucn
merciful treatment does not help the
cause of the allies, although 1t does
show the difference between German
military brutality designated as kul-
tur and the humanity of civilized peo'
pie, for the German soldiers suscep-
Utilities are so blunted that he knows
nothing but force and can respect nc
nation that does not resort to the
same methods that he employs.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-10-04

Judge ]. Stanley Webster, the AM
erican candidate for congress from
the Fifth district, announced that he
would not carry on political cam
paign during the Liberty Loan drive
as he would take no part in attracting
the attention of the public from the
one great object of securing the full
quota Of Liberty Loan subscriptions
That means that the Judge will take
no active part in politics until after
the 18th of October. BY that date
very little time will be left in which
to make a campaign, and naturally he
will be able to cover only a limited
territory. He will be compelled to
confine his activities to Spokane coun-
ty. However, 1t is not necessary for
him to cover the ground he covered
before the primaries a second time
for a man who has displayed such
patriotism as the judge has displayed
will receive the vote of every true
American citizen. native or natural
ICED. in the district, and as that kind
of voters are in the vast majority his
election is a foregone certainty
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-10-04
FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN

To all Red Cross Chapters:
Eaiiy IN tne summer Secretary Bake,
troops in Europe. immediately t ;evv,o V :
war ofilcial proclaimed to the German
people that this statement of Mr. Bakers
Was not true, because it coulud not be
NJ tho ne r. salu we didn't have an army
pl mat size, and that if we had il would
nave peen impossible for us to have Sent
tne men to Europe because of orr IaHb
OIL snips, and that even had be boats
marines would have sent them 70 ~
pottom before they reached their ports
OF destination. He concluded this 70
I ma, house-that- Jack built statement
Viii Mill tle assurance that German soldiers
would never have anything To faar go,
american soldiers i iioiii
Our enemy looked on with sneers and
banjo ai wbi contempt, followed by fear and
66' Mnlle democracy built an army
Gur allies watched with hope and wiz
aouoti whlle democracy turned its Gift
1 1raS INTO soldiers and sent the finished
YAM ou viii IN ,ne battle fronts of Europe.
lou VIII remember the 5th of .Juna q
year ago. when between dawn ap5 "i AZ !
teh Hllinon men-to be exact q zoe &c
t tihGr between the ages of twenty-one and
snIIy-ohe, were enrolld for miIit a,n.
service. how, within forty eight ii hos,ry
s psaeoiecaily al registration returns wer,
ington mere at wash
The same process was renao.o,
3 tbin, and ana again in August, When sor ras'
eiis IKE soO.OOO men, the new tn,o,,t
one year olds, We're enrollad. uMenty-
me Sne iourth registration which Cono INV
no. JUS. authorized includes IL O00 0oo
a tune' up TO forty-five years of o,ya eo o y
co,'nt u elgnteen That will leave in thu
ieS NY only about five million ah,an IN .lie
heads WIN NC poys and gray
,h Al nrst glance the biggest thing a,o,,.
az ira att apepars to be its size bnt eren !
remarkshia oIe numbers are hardly az
a aart that the people raised tha ns tne
army. Every town, CITY ana Sneir own
nominated its best men ana anu county
put IN charge. No mighty fa tdey We're
s.e composed of army oft9casI war
s.a'., rom Washington and Il, -, WAS
e,oesrywhere into the frame worl, inssruued
cr AT the capital Provost Marsha, co,,
narssor, with a force of forty oneIaI
ASSISTED .ie pans and directed the wo,.is
Wons 1y five hundred clerks 'he WORK
ficarS a ~! thirty thousand CIVILIAN A ny
neerS ana was administered w, nan Of
ssnop,e' friends and neighbors' II nome
saie demonstration ever mad W. vas the
sell government "iaue OF local
the LII 10 .ne cost, 1t is to be notad H..
me OH Tor the draft is far less soreu that
s9a AZ OF volunteering. In 1914 ~ nlau i
unteer 81, tecrulting man into The S'oS
ana e. system; in 1915 it was N9i-
Went ~ Tue nine months Just hsforraa' Ia H.
first v eo war II was s2S 95. Duripo we
ApriI IaI oi she war down to the 7tb we ne
cost far o., oinclal reports show tbat IN 90. OF
cents 1rbn Isterlng each man was VIZ
Inc cost for each man calisr o.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-10-04

| ing the canal zone and fitting 1t ior na.
| man habitation, is in charge Oh AMY
| sanitation. -,
| AS soon as the soldier is assigned
| quarters he is given the most searCli,s
| physical examination. All scientific mea'
| cal tests are applied 20 detect dlseaT;
| For instance. if there are indlcauOhs
| tubercular infection the patient Ha
under observation that there may " H., ~
| mistake in the diagnosis. II there y X, "
cipient trouble he is sent to one Y ~, ~
army sanitoria and restored to mean
If his case is advanced he IS rsHs w
| from military service or exempted UNA
physically fit. than
Besides the examining surgeon lnai
| is the dentist Teeth are put IL .- NJ
condition here and there are den l,i'.
overseas to keep them in good conulsN- n
Also there is an orthopedlc suiseOhh ~
examine the soldiers feet IL las w U,'s
said that during past wars lhe a,s , sS
more desertions from foot u Uao o, ar.
all other causes combined. Ihe asI IN
ton given to the selection OF snoe', /, y |,
the soldiers in the American arlls ,sr
sidelight on the care we give oui In ns. A
When a soldier gets MS Irs' 20 a' 4,
shoes he gets a pair that nj iis , rcrs NJ
account is taken of the size he wo, n,r i
fore. His feet are placed in a cu'n nait
devised form where the length a aao,s hs
are exactly determined. ne pea aa n
weight on this little machine an anu Nh,
officer and non commissioned ONCE i,. ram mi,
the size record of both feet, ms "A a' ari
company and regiment are repor.e \, M N,
then he puts on the pair OF shoe' and M i
size called for. But that doesli e Sbsrs
There is further device tna' o St
on the measuring machine anu TSj |;
any human error in recording. l IN m.
nut in his shoe and he runs dow, ho Ok m
cline of 30 degrees striking ms MI, tIs ma.
the elects nailed to 1t IL tnis n ,hs sho,
chine does not make itself anu ~; ~ sauri
after examination by an oincer a,,sd and
to he satisfactory, the man ls ,a m''y rscort
his size is added to his servisg,s1, rsan
Our soldiers are provided M WIN he
socks. and at the end of long Illa' ,hs sui.
feet are carefully inspected py v"
geon in charge =, ,,os over ct.
No army in the world mas o ear, The
tanned such a health record as ogis svsr
death rate being eight out =. vnuli
thousand. here and abroad, Iils ,umbsl
even he lower but for the iais diseases 70
of men who come down VIII, .ra leaving
which they We're exposed peioie
home. ,uht NJ th.
The average gain In welsn,, hs ssry.
American soldier since enterlis Sincerely
ice is l. pounds per r nialr; FUNK
yours. ANTOINE t,Li. ~ De.
Director Propaganda and spiS Jjbery
partment. National Womann rtrnent
Loan Committee. Treasury Dep'
Washington. d. c.