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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1907
Page
5
Leavenworth to Blewett stage line leaves Leavenworth Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays at 8am and from Blewett Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays at 7am. Carries passengers and express. E. D. Shugart, proprietor.
A weekly schedule states leaves Leavenworth every Monday and Friday at 8 a m and arrives Telma at 4 p m. Return trips depart Telma Tue and Sat at 1 a m arriving Leavenworth 4 p m. Includes mail passengers and express. For details contact Joeassie Proprietor Box 71 Leavenworth Wash.
Keating's offers granite and sleds as town news notes holiday sales. Peshastin man French loses a valuable horse last week. Miss Mabel Hewett joins King Co. store as saleslady. Trains on Great Northern are sometimes on time. Visitors include Miss Bessie Simmons from Spokane and Anna Davis. Mrs. W. A. Lord visits Everett. she recently recovered from illness. O. S. Sampson and Deed H. Mayor travel to Seattle for business. Postmaster Davis hopes to recover spoons to save a Christmas gift budget. Smallpox cases surface in Wenatchee with eight to ten exposed. Chumstick valley district to hold joint Christmas tree at the church. Sleighing is good. many may ride out of town.
The Pacific Wave lists Lucien Kelleg as news editor of the Washington University student paper, praises his Echo experience, and notes local events in Wenatchee including holiday sermons, a New Year dinner, pneumonia recovery, a Christmas program, typhoid cases, oyster supper, and merchant advertisements.
Four Edwards sisters presented a Wednesday night entertainment at the opera house under public school auspices. One fourth of net proceeds funded the school piano fund. The program featured quartets duets and solos with readings and a violin piece. encores were numerous.
A 1907 notice lists uncalled for letters in Branatetter Bristol Broderick Chapin Carlson DeKel Dalton Gibbs Holm Holmes Hill James Johnson James Kelly Klemel Merry Martin McLeand McAboy Nielson Olin Perry Pitterson Riboric Tone ammegi lie Slotaon Smith Starl e Tyler Wertburg Wells Wilson and others. Postmaster J C Davis urges addressees to call for same by saying advertised.
The Home Orchestra of Leavenworth Washington invites engagements both in town and out of town. Debord and Abbott advertise sewing machines for rent and a furniture store offer a range of goods including bookcases dressers folding bedsteads iron bedsteads springs and mattresses. Beef prices and local dining at the Big Rock restaurant are listed. A rooming house for sale and pine and fir wood for sale are offered with contact.
D M Thomas thanks the volunteer firemen of Leavenworth and others who fought the December 8th blaze that damaged his store and stock, praising their heroic efforts to save property and prevent loss.
A bracelet found at the office is offered for description and payment of its handling. The finder asks the owner to describe and claim the item by arranging payment and retrieval.
Classified notices list land for sale adjoining Leavenworth Gardens by L. J. Nelson, plus items including milk equipment, a Kentucky whiskey ad, a fresh cow for sale, and rental housing options. Also referenced are laundry services by Wenatchee Laundry with local agent Earnest Forbes and a four room rental.
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