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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1910
Page
2
The Echo presents Allan L. Benson's view on high prices arguing it reflects producer and consumer interests. Government data shows fewer livestock and farming workers than twenty years ago, cited as reasons for rising costs.
At a Wenatchee Commercial Club meeting the group urged the Great Northern railway to add a gasoline motor car passenger service between Leavenworth and Ephrata and to operate a gasoline car between Wenatchee and Mansfield. Currently a mixed train runs daily between Leavenworth and Mansfield. The Harriman lines have already adopted gasoline cars with success and the Great Northern plans a Seattle Everett service.
Walter M. Olive and Fred Reeves of Wenatchee visited on Wednesday. Olive voiced optimism for the Wenatchee valley's development this year, noting many homeseekers and urging locals to bring land hunters to Leavenworth.
The Commercial Club met at the opera house on Wednesday night with nearly all members present. The new constitution was adopted without discussion, and thirteen or fourteen new members were enrolled. By April 4 the first permanent officers were to be elected, with petitions for nominations due by April 2. Four Elliott building rooms at $30 monthly were approved as a club home, and the group planned to reconvene Monday to elect officers and finalize its permanent organization.
A new caboose for passenger service is due this week on the Wenatchee Valley and Northern railway. Daily trips will run Leavenworth to Beaver Creek hill summit, about fifteen miles, with track work extending to Shugart place twenty four miles west. Freight and passenger service will run, says Superintendent McDonald. Logs brought to the mill increased from six to eight per day this week and will rise to fifteen next week.
The Lamb-Davis Lumber Co resumed operations this week after winter closure due to snow. The saw mill and planer employ 145 workers now, rising to 180 190 soon, with lumber shipments increasing from last week’s three to four cars daily. The box mill will start soon as demand for lumber and fruit boxes remains high.
The mill expects a bumper fruit crop and a record year with a new planing machine turning five to six cars of lumber daily. City crews clear the Front street parking strip while Uncle Dick leads old settlers in brush clearing and ground cleanup with F A Losekamp and Al Pesch notable. Cashmere Record notes local automobilists plan to build a Lake Wenatchee club house with land purchased from Wm Blankenship, including a garage and banquet hall. Weekend social events are anticipated.
A traveled girl recalls tipping everyone in London before leaving. A man covering the wheel with a soiled cloth to protect her skirts provokes fear as he curses and wishes the boat would sink. She notes the voyage was wobbly but the boat survived.
A clergyman recalls a ragged Little Girl at Fifth Avenue and Thirty Street in New York who wistfully watches passing carriages. He asks if she wants one, she replies in tearful defiance that she never rode in a carriage because her little brother died before she was born.
The article notes the midnight sun is visible above the horizon for a period in Bodo from June 3 to July 7, in Tromso from May 19 to July 22, and at the North Cape from May 12 to July 29. It also mentions winter dark periods when the sun does not appear, tempered by twilight from snow and northern lights.
A nervous man recalls his first church visit in years and admits he began rolling a cigarette by habit until he awoke, imagining how dire it would have been if he had not. The uneasy reflection appears in the New York Press.
A man asks if any inhabitant escaped with life. the other replies he did not check. He adds that if anyone escaped alive, then there was little use in escaping at all, reflecting a harsh view from a Washington tar era voice.
Magistrate sternly questions John Jones who faces charges of habitual drunkenness. He offers a defiant reply and frames his offense as habitual thirst in a terse exchange reflecting the era's tone.
A mother praises her son for a fine voice and flute accompaniment. The young artist, skilled on the flute, provides self accompaniment, while the Bon Vivant context hints at a refined household scene.
The M. E. Church reports a highly attended Easter service with offerings reaching 216 dollars including Peshastin. Sunday school talks and mission study events were held. next week’s schedule lists Sunday school at 10, morning sermon at 11 on The Three Good Cheers of Jesus, Epworth League at 7 and an evening sermon at 8 on The First Coward in the World. The Congregational Church notes praise large communion attendance, four new members, and dedication of the communion set. Regular services are planned with the evening service at 8.
J. E. Amos a Great Northern brakeman about 30 years old was killed Tuesday night in a derailment a few miles this side of the tunnel. He was taken to Everett where his family resides after the incident. The Holm-Wells-Nichols Co Wenatchee sold the John A Gellatly 92 acre orchard tract northwest of Wenatchee last Monday. The tract is planted to Winesaps Jonathans and Delicious apples and priced from 600 to 1200 dollars per acre.
A herd of about twenty Jersey cows was shipped from Everett last week. Buyers include H. B. Smith who bought two, T. W. Greeve one, N. Forsythe one, and A. A. Brooks one. All buyers own ranches near Merritt.
A small office supply item sale notes manifold typewriter paper available at The Echo Office. Local shoppers can acquire standard sheets suitable for typewriter use and office tasks.
The class will gather Friday evening April 1 at 7 30 at Mrs Maston home to study Social Life and Customs of Korea with devotions by Dan Nicholson and others including Alex McKenzie Miss Ella Robertson Rev Hawk and Miss Nora DeBord. Joe Cohns Spokane Indians arrived in Wenatchee to train two weeks.
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