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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1909
Page
5
The Lake Wenatchee stage runs from Leavenworth to Telma every Monday and Friday at 8 a.m arriving 4 p.m. It returns from Telma to Leavenworth every Tuesday and Saturday at 4 a.m arriving 4 p.m. Mail and other details via Joe Massie proprietor box 71 Leavenworth WA.
Community briefs list residents visiting Wenatchee on business and leisure, trips to the county seat, and social visits. Movements include Mrs. Kringle and Miss Anna Tholin in Wenatchee, L. W. Bloom in Leavenworth, and the McNulty family moving to town. Divorces, band memberships, and the Antlers Club plans are noted along with local commerce updates.
Items include Holland herring and Norway mackerel at Thomas Quality Grocery and cheap sale offers on a cook stove and rug. Town developments, railroad land moves, road changes, visitor notes, and residents’ travel and medical recoveries fill a broad local update with multiple named people and places.
Jack Mahoney travels to Seattle to try out with Dugdale's team while there. T. L. Ross arrives to take up permanent residence with Cascade Orchard land and predicts bearing trees next year. Widespread talk of peach prices rises as crop damage spurs demand. Local council considers surveying Icicle river to Leavenworth water supply. Chelan county seeks more exhibit space at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific fair. Dr. Harris B. Haskell joins Dr. W. M. McCoy in Wenatchee practice. Chelan exhibits expansion aimed at larger space.
The Ralston land across the river from Leavenworth was sold to Dwight Darling of Everett who will subdivide it into acre and five acre tracts and market them. Water access is planned via river pumping or a ditch from the Icicle. a producing apple orchard exists and Ralston won Wenatchee prizes. L. J. Nelson of Leavenworth will manage sales on liberal terms.
A. G. Stage of Peshastin Washington lists pure silver spangled hamburg eggs at 1.50 for 15. The property includes 2 acres of land with 60 two year old trees a 4 room house good cellar and well with ample water located 700 feet north of the new school house described as the best garden spot in Leavenworth Gardens. Joseph Martelle is the owner.
Description of a home listing a new six room plastered house with a cement cellar and well in the kitchen. Includes a wood shed barn one acre of land one hundred fruit trees two years old and sixty bearing berry bushes. Call on Fred Marble at house Leavenworth Gardens off.
Pure White Wyandotte crossed with pure White Leghorn at 50 cents per setting. A No 1 winter laying strain advertised by F L Brender of Leavenworth. Also 120 acres farming land and 160 acres timber land ten miles from town offered by William Douglas, G N blacksmith, with reasonable terms. Call for details.
A big sacrifice sale of millinery in Leavenworth closes soon at the Debord’s adjacent sample room run by Mrs. Bloom. McCall's patterns are advertised as cheap and reliable with a sample copy offered to mailed requests in New York. Sealed proposals for two school buildings in Telma District due May 3 1909. Lutheran ladies plan a bazaar and supper on April 15 at Fraternal Hall.
Four lots for sale in Central Addition offered by R R at the lunch counter. Inquiries may learn price and terms from the counter.
One furnished room available in a house for rent. Inquiries directed to R E Simons at the L D Store, 131F.
Bargains announced by Adams and Carr include two Leavenworth Gardens lots with rich soil for gardening at 500 dollars cash, two First Addition lots at 225 dollars with terms, five acres in Cascade Orchards at 1850 dollars with terms, plus several residence bargains. Next week promises a new proposition for small close in tracts.
William McQue of Ephrata Grant County Washington filed a coal declaratory statement for wine and land in section 24 township 17 north range 17 east W M and now seeks to purchase under 2548 to 252 U S Revised Statutes. Adverse claimants must file protest affidavits in the land office by May 15 1900. W F Haynes Register April 1900
A fine strain of S C Buff Leghorns offered at 1 dollar per setting of 15 or 5 dollars per hundred. A land offering seeks Leavenworth property in exchange for ten acres two miles from a coastal town near a school and church. Enquire at The Echo office. Pfeiffer’s Pharmacy advertises prescriptions and drug sundries with Edison phonographs and records available at Nickell's opposite the depot.
Readable lines advertise Nickells' fresh candies nuts and fruits, and O B Robertson selling travel Har per signs while Harper whiskey is pushed by J G Fritz at the Overland Bar. Also mentions vegetable plants for spring planting on the north side of the track near Mayor Nelson's residence.
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