Seattle Daily Times (Seattle, WA)

"Kalama
... The pulpit at the Congregational Church was filled in the evening by Rev. Campbell W. Bushnell, a former pastor. Mr. Bushnell has accepted a call at Granite Falls, Wash."

[includes photo of Elisha]
"May Send Alvord Invention to Fair
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Local Mechanical Experts Say Great Pulp Press Should Go to World's Exposition at San Francisco.
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"Elisha H. Alvord
Washington's State Exposition Commission is preparing an exhibit to represent this great commonwealth at the Panama-Pacific World's Exposition at San Francisco next year. In that exhibit the visitor to the fair will be shown a display of the wonderful industries and resources of this state.
Will the Alvord multiple compartment pulp press be a part of that showing?
Well, perhaps.
It will if the Seattle businessmen and mechanical engineers have their way about it!
The big press is very, very heavy and could be moved to San Francisco only at great trouble and expense...
The Alvord press, conceived and completed by Elisha H. Alvord, a Seattle native son and president of the Alvord Automatic Machines Company, 1045 Railroad Avenue South, after six years of steady work, is pronounced by master mechanics and engineers to be the most notable industrial invention the world's genius in this line has brought forth in the last forty years.
And this gigantic machine, which experts declare will fill a long-felt want in the manufacture of pulp and kindred industrials, one of the principal industries of the Pacific Coast, is the work of a Seattle man was built of Made-in-Washington products and ill be put ion the market from a big plant in this city!!!
...This huge mechanism, which was completed only a few weeks ago, has been put to the most severe tests by experts from every part of the state...
Alvord already has taken one prize of this sort, his single compartment press having been awarded first prize at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909.
And those who have seen the multiple compartment machine, which can do ten times the work at less cost and with less labor, declare this, too, would take all prizes in its class if it is exhibited."

"Alvord Pulp Press to be Given Severe Test
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Seattle Man's Mechanism will be officially Tried Out by Willamette Paper and Pulp Company
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What promises to be the most thorough test to which the Alvord multiple compartment pulp press, the remarkable Seattle machine invented by Elisha H. Alvord, has yet been subjected will take place beginning next Thursday when the huge mechanism will be given an official trial of ten days by officers of the Willamette Pulp and Paper Company of Oregon City.
Thee test, in the course of which the machine will turn out twenty tons of pulp sent here from Willamette mill, will take place at the shops of Alvord Automatic Machines Company, 1-45 Railroad Avenue South....
Mr. Alvord said yesterday that upon the arrival of the Oregon men he would merely explain the operation of the machine and then turn it over to the visits, that they may determine for themselves just what it can do. As the press, once set in motion, operates without a single attendant, the visitors are expected to have no trouble in making the test by themselves.
While in Portland on his trip to Oregon City, Mr. Alvord was the guest of the Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club. These organizations, after hearing a description of the working of the invention, decided to send representatives to Seattle at the time of the test."

"Divorce Complaints
Complaints for divorce were filed in the superior court today ... Eugenie H. Alvord against Elisha H. Alvord, nonsupport."