Plans underway to build Entiat hotel; Bridgeport man receives performance award; Apple Blossom festival names new executive director

The briefing

The Old News column gathers items from The Wenatchee World's archives at 115, 65 and 40 years' distance. From 1911: plans for a hotel in Entiat, a new contracting business in Wenatchee and a night watchman hired for the Columbia River bridge at $2.50 a day. From 1961, Bonneville Power employee Robert F. Patterson of Bridgeport received a meritorious performance award, and from 1986, Susan Wallace became executive director of the Washington State Apple Blossom Festival.