Council Buys Extra Lot and Fire Equipment
Leavenworth city council approved purchasing 500 feet of double jacket hose at 80 cents per foot and a No 1 hose cart. They also instructed the Columbia Engineering Co. to proceed with sewer layings and connections in Improvement No 2. Several petitions were referred to committees for cost and revenue studies.
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Columbia Engineering Co
Ois
Hamilton & Peake
Grand View Addition
East Leavenworth
Water Committee
Staffords Addition
Evans Street
E. A. Wood
J. H. Bohnsack
L. C
Mica Company Heads to Mad River Mines Near City
Will Soon be Shipping Mica M F Peake president of North American Ore Company with Mr Kuhn manager and Mr Bartlett heavy stockholder depart Wednesday for Mad river mines twenty five miles from city to begin preliminary work and assemble a workforce. Kuhn will oversee mining. shipments expected within three weeks via W V & N tracks to city and then Seattle. Extension of the railroad line will be within a mile of the mines.
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M. F. Peake
North American Ore Company
Kuhn
Bartlett
Mad River
Peake
White River Game Preserve Created in Two Townships
Chelan County Game Commission declares a three year ban on all hunting within a boundary covering two townships at the head of White River northwest of Wenatchee Lake. The measure follows a legislative grant of authority and aims to stop poaching with wardens posting notices and strict monitoring.
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Chelan County
Buck Creeek
Cascade Mountains
Buck Creek
White River
Chewawa River
Schaefer Lake
Boulder Creek
Buck Creek Pass
Le Vera Opera Company Opens Here Sunday Night
Le Vera Opera Company opens Sunday night for a week long engagement with nightly program changes. The company has drawn strong crowds in Wenatchee and offers three reels of pictures each evening along with productions such as The Girl from Paris and The Queen of the East. John Love begins work on the Methodist parsonage foundation to be ready for use in September. Katherine Connelly of Spokane travels to Missoula to dispose of a timber claim for 4000 dollars to Black Foot Milling Company. Mrs. J E Schubert and son Georgbert travel to Seattle for a sea air visit.
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le Vera Opera Company
Wenatchee
Paris
John Love
Katherine Connelly
Spokane
Leavenworth
Missoula
Montana
P. F. Connelly
Black Foot Milling Company
J. E. Schubert
Goebert
Seattle
Sound
F. J. Davis
Frank
Reeves, Crollard & Reeves
Lyman Durand
Lyman
Cascade Tunnel
W. C. Wallace
Commercial Street
Harriett Hathaway
Story of a goat in Leavenworth park spawns a town tale
A humorous local saga details Mr. Ritchie’s goat placed in the park to comfort deer. The odoriferous, pugnacious William goat sparked complaints about public health and property, then vanished last Thursday night. Residents speculate on its fate as officials and townspeople recall the odd affair. A J O Leary and C B O Leary of Wilson Creek visited Lea venworth this week after selling their Wilson Creek grocery business. S P Beecher plans a trail from Snow Creek canal to Twin Lakes to build a concrete dam. A fishing party returned from Twin Lakes with a bountiful catch. N A James traveled from Lyle to Wenatchee lake for a homestead venture.
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Ritchie
Leavenworth
Soap Lake
Burce
Marshal
A. J. O’leary
C. B. O’leary
Wilson Creek
S. P. Beecher
Snow Creek
Twin Lakes
Counterfeit National Bank Notes Circulating in Northwest
The United States Secret Service issued an alert August 1 warning of counterfeit First National Bank notes circulating in the Pacific Northwest. The fakes, tied to Bel lingham Burlington and Kent, Washington, are said to be poorly executed and easy to detect.
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Pacific Northwest
S. H. Moran
United States Secret Service
First National Banks
Bellingham
Burlington
Kent
Wash
Grand View Addition Nearly Half Sold
The Echo advertised Grand View Addition and by Saturday evening twenty seven lots had sold. Hamilton and Peake offered eight acres for a town park if water mains are extended to the addition, within walking distance of downtown and suitable for a ball park. The 136 lots are expected to sell within ten days.
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The
Echo
Grand View Addition
Messrs. Hamilton & Peake
Grand View
Valley Train Service to Start August 17
The Leavenworth Wenatchee run will begin August 17 with an engine baggage car and two coaches. Schedule shows Wenatchee to Leavenworth at 6 50 am arrival 7 50 am, Leavenworth to Wenatchee 8 15 am 9 15 am, then Wenatchee to Mansfield and back by 7 15 pm. Frank Meldrum reported.
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Valley Train
Here
Mansfield
C. W. Meldrum
Leavenworth-Wenatchee
Wenatchee
Leavenworth
Record Run: Leavenworth to Wenatchee in 55 Minutes
W E Moore of the Leavenworth Lumber Co. claims a 55 minute car trip from Leavenworth to Wenatchee in a Ford, beating previously quoted times. The start was from the Club Pool room and the finish at Conrad Rose's Produce Co. Moore bets a hundred dollars to prove the feat. Other drivers like Hal Starks and F W Smith are noted for similar trips but Moore’s time stands out.
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Leavenworth
Wenatchee
W. E. Moore
Leavenworth Lumber Co
Ford
Moore
Conrad Rose
Hal Starks
F. W. Smith
Quigg & Seaman Co
Mr Moore
O Neil Promoted to General Superintendent on Great Northern
J. H. O Neil formerly Cascade division superintendent on the Great Northern has been promoted to General Superintendent with headquarters in Spokane. Known as the Snow King he handled Cascade snow duties and saved lives during the Wellington avalanche at Cascade Tunnel when 100 people died.
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J. H. O’neil
Cascade Division
Great Northern
Spokane
Mr. O'Neil
Cascade Mountains
Mr. O’neil
Wellington
Cascade Tunnel
Parcel post costs cut boosting local mail business
Local postal officials report an order from Postmaster General Burleson cutting parcel post rates and raising weight limits to 20 pounds in zones one and two. The change, effective mid August, lowers costs for long distances and promises a surge in local shipping as firms expand by mail.
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Burleson
Seattle
Tacoma
Spokane
Walla Walla
North Yakima
Ellensburg
British Columbia
Davis
Forest officer arrests eight fire law violators in Chelan
O. T. Green, formerly with the local forestry office and now in Kittitas county, is reported to have arrested eight violators of the national forest fire law for leaving camp fires burning, sending a warning to campers in Chelan county.
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O. T. Green
Kittitas County
National Forest
Chelan County
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A. R. McKeown
A. G. McKeown
Cashmere
Denver
Leavenworth State Bank
Anna M. Tuck
Chas. A. Anderson
8. C. Woldenberg
Salem
Oregon
San Francisco
Cal
Clinton
Iowa
al. van Epps
Icicle River
van Epps
Nial
J. A. Fernstrom
J. W. Burns
J. E. Gatherless
Hugo Kringel
Mrs. Aw
Drickhammer
White River Game Preserve
A. J. Cook
Dr. Hoxsey
George Hoxsey
Chas. Smythe
Guy Stage
Smythe and Stage
N. A. James
Lyle, Wash
Wenatchee Lake
E. H. Robert
Baring
Steel Company
Rotert
Great Northern Railway
East
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Anna McGregor
Fargo
North Dakota
D. A. McGregor
Clifford Griggs of
C. E. Hamilton
A. H. Sylvester
Chicago
Joe Massie
J. H. O'Neil
Icicle
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