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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1904
Page
3
Arrivals and departures listed for the Great Northern service. Leavenworth station departs Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays at 8 AM while Blewett leaves Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays at 7 AM. Service carries passengers and express.
Townspeople and visitors arrive and depart weekly. New cottages rise near the mill and hospital expansion proceeds. Dentists seek locations. doctors travel for cases. local business transfers and real estate moves are listed alongside rail and telegraph company updates.
The Wenatchee letter notes A M Anderson’s removal as Indian Agent and mentions Wood’s brother visiting from Tacoma. It reports basements under construction for Barne’s building and for a M E church addition, with Watts and the Eagle Livery firm involved. Other items include new trees and a band stand in the city park, a Wenatchee band concert, and progress on Griggs block.
Bessie Walker celebrated her 11th birthday with a party of friends including Myrtle Wall Lillian English Dagmar Trasmussen Alma Turner and others. Guests enjoyed ice cream and cake then left tokens of remembrance. Mr B W Phelps of Mission visited Wenatchee and discussed creamery prospects for farmers and milk markets in the valley.
John B. Adams organized a town base ball club this week. He raised seventy nine dollars for grounds equipment and uniforms and secured a lease on a field north of the track beyond the Broom residence. A meeting at Keating's hardware store will elect officers tomorrow night.
The Room No. 2 notes show first and second place pupils across fourth and third grade spelling language geography reading and arithmetic with names such as Lennie Ballou Anna Sadoske Alta Castleberry Lester Hobson Charles Vest Bertha Turner Alfred Frank Evelyn McPheters Nora Debord George Ballou and others. Principal Manza Farmer urges parents to keep children until term end and to return library books.
The Woman's Twentieth Century Club met at Mrs. Frank Sutton's home and decided to hold weekly meetings for the next month. They set the next gathering for Wednesday May 14 with Mrs. McLure and will focus on a program about the St. Louis Exposition including several papers.
Bargain price on a nearly new Oliver No 40 14 inch chilled plow. Call at this office for details. Dr Hoxsey received a call to Blewett this week.
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