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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1911
Page
6
Four young men were arrested Monday on shooting grouse out of season. Their trial will be held before the justice of the peace at Entiat. Dr. A L Kingdon of Wenatchee was appointed health officer by county commissioners to replace Dr. McCoy who resigned.
For the first time since 1907 the Spokane Interstate Fair will remain open on Sunday October 8 with exhibits in place and special entertainment. Local ministers led by Dean William C Hicks protest but manager R H Cosgrove defends the plan saying it offers working people a Sunday view. The last day features a carefully chosen program and a benefit dance with a six piece orchestra conducted by J McDaniel.
A nine year old boy, son of Mrs O E Hutchings of Leavenworth, fell five feet from a lower floor window at the Roosevelt hotel on Thursday evening. He injured his arm but did not fracture any bones, after leaning on a screen from a chair near a bedroom window.
State tax commission figures show fourteen logging roads in the state valued at 1 822 017, an 81 276 gain over 1910. Wenatchee Valley & Northern Ry rises from 119 849 to 169 042, the largest jump among the roads.
A short note suggests fruit trees need attentive care and mentions a gentle greeting as a technique to calm a cat. The fragment hints at household advice without specific names, dates, places, or organizations.
A Lincoln girl writes that after long illness with stomach problems she used Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and recovered within three days. She calls the medicine very good and notes it is sold by King's City Drug Store.
Inspectors P S Darlington and I E DeLong estimate 3000 cars of fruit from the Wenatchee valley this year with 2000 apples 600 peaches and 400 pears and other soft fruits. Washington hay production expected at 925000 tons up from 815000 last year. Kittitas county yield 100000 tons. Wheat barley and oats yield over 2000000 bushels. Odessa wheat market remains strong with last Friday prices at 73 for bluestem and 69 for red, above other towns on the Northern Pacific and Central Washington lines.
The article lists goods admitted free into the United States from Canada including fish, salt, timber, boards, poles, plaster rock, mica, feldspar, asbestos, fluor spar, glycerine, talc, soda ash, hemlock extract, carbon electrodes, brass, cream separators, rolled steel, crucible steel wire, galvanized wire, typesetting machines, barbed wire, and notes the treaty also lowers tariffs on hundreds of other items.
The Kitsap county decision affirms a lower court conviction of a steamer purser for selling liquor without a license in Kitsap County. Lawyers say the ruling would require licenses for all boats and trains passing through towns, counties, and states, potentially drying travel. The notice ends with a promoted remedy from King's City Drug Store.
The notice outlines daily and weekly bag limits for upland game birds including quail with a ten-bird daily cap and a thirty-bird weekly cap. It bans prairie chicken hunting east of certain counties until Sept 1, 1912, with listed exceptions. It also sets seasons and penalties for swan, goose, duck, snipe, plover, rail and shore birds with varied dates by county.
The churches announce the pioneer picnic service with the theme The Golden Sunset of the Pioneer Life next Sabbath. Regular evening service, Sunday school at 9 45 a m, and Rev W V Davis listed as pastor.
The Eagle Transfer Company of Wenatchee won the contract to build a three mile road between Leavenworth and Peshastin for 7103.71 dollars. J A Seaman of the company said work will begin immediately and be pushed to completion as rapidly as possible.
Chelan County abstracts list real estate transfers including Higley to Hazen and Cannon to Cannon in blocks around 28-22 and 25 dates, with prices from 1 to 16500. Transfers involve multiple lots in Leary Gardens and Wenatchee additions to Peshastin Orchards, Leav adds, and school district parcels. A final note about cake making cites suet and butter in fruit cake.
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