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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1909
Page
5
Stage line runs weekly from Leavenworth to Thelme on Mondays and Fridays at 8 am arriving 4 pm. Return trips depart Telma on Tuesdays and Saturdays at 9 am arriving Leavenworth at 4 pm. For details contact Joeassie Proprietor Box Leavenworth Wash.
Town and County notices list repairs and sales at Keatings with appliances offered at cost. Local residents like Dan Mattenson and Guy Wall are in Wenatchee and Bellingham while Miss Parker and Mrs. Hamilton visit Leavenworth and Wenatchee. Community items include ice cream social profits, new construction, and a scarlet fever quarantine ending with four recoveries.
Local brief highlights include Charles Booth’s visits, Ferrells’ new baby born August 3, and E B Norrell’s town visit. Front street shops gain fresh paint while Whitman street work advances with a culvert project. Community groups meet at Odd Fellows hall and nearby surveying, land drawings, forestry notes, and local improvements are reported.
A parade of local residents returns from Icicle River camp. Concrete sidewalks progress from the bank corner to the depot with planned additions to fronts of the Overland hotel and Tom Burke building. Hunting parties, lake outings at Wenatchee Lake, and Chewawa Co. mining activity are reported along with crossing delays and a Mad River fishing tale.
Regular meeting held last Tuesday with most members present except Councilman Wheeler. The Lamb-Davis Lumber Co seeks $11.78 tax refund for 1908. future similar claims discussed and laid over. Bills paid include sharpening, street work, salaries, prisoner feeding, fire engine work, street maintenance, recording fees, and contract notices.
Wenatchee worker Roy Zahren was hired by Lamb-Davis Lumber Co to estimate a water system using Snow Creek water, with an approximate cost of 270 dollars.
Rev W V Davis spoke against Wenatchee Sunday moving picture shows occupying the opera house. He urged the town to shut them out, arguing they harm church attendance and offering no local tax benefit. He claimed churches deserve Sunday evening priority for moral influence.
Sincere thanks to neighbors Rebekah lodge and all who aided during illness death and burial of wife and mother A L Mitchell and Children. 50 acres horse pasture on Icicle river 50c per head per week inquire Cascade Orchards or Echo office. Lost case containing glasses on Icicle river between 8 mile creek and Cascade Orchards return to Echo office. I W Harper whiskey advertised for cold relief taste digestion sold by J G Fritz at Bank. 65 hives of bees for sale contact E Aldrich near G M Thomas residence. Two acres Leavenworth Gardens for sale 50 fruit trees 1 2 years old four room house brick school house 1250 cash owner Joseph Martelle Leavenworth.
The Leavenworth school district schedules eighth grade exams on August 19 and 20 1909 with teachers tests in Wenatchee on August 26 27 and 28 1909 under County Superintendent E C Bowersox. Real estate and business notices include a six room house on Whitman street for 1500 dollars half cash, a modern six room home near town, 80 acres at Beaver Creek hill with tillable land and timber, a sales-territory opportunity for water filters, a 2500 pound team for sale, and local advertising calendars from Kimber.
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