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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1922
Page
6
A reflective piece on the annual period of good will and kindness, urging readers to maintain charitable spirit beyond Christmas. It frames the season as essential for rekindling childlike joy and love, citing the moral call to conversion and humility.
A nostalgic look at peacock pie as a grand Christmas dish with ceremonial serving and the phrase by cock and pie. The piece mixes culinary lore with a 1922 publication ownership statement for The Leavenworth Echo, including names, roles, and notary details.
Old superstitions describe Christmas Day births as lucky and gifted with prophecy in France and as predicting careers in Silesia. Vosges traditions link Christmas Eve births to gab and Christmas Day births to sharp judgment, with daughters expected to grow wise and virtuous. A 1915 bequest left five pounds to each child born on December 24 in the testator’s native town.
A gray bearded philosopher speaks of sorrow at Christmas while a young man recalls the memory of loaned ring installments tied to a marriage, the most solemn reflection coming from such recollections.
The weather description evokes a crisp frosty Christmas with fine dry bracing cold air and a bright day. Pastimes of cheerful, lighthearted winter scenes are imagined as elderly gentlemen in a field playfully leapfrog in pure joy.
The Leavenworth team defeated Chelan 16 to 11 in a Saturday night high school basketball opener. Our boys struggled with nerves and shooting in their first game of the year, but are expected to settle in for the next matchup. Earlier, 7th and 8th grade teams played with the 7th grade finishing 10 to 9.
The Hathaway family notes the birth of their first grandchild, a daughter born Monday December 18 1922 near Cashmere to Mr and Mrs Richard Teigner. Also a notice of hearing in the estate of Lorena R Sinclair in Chelan County Washington sets January 24 1928 for final report and distribution in Wenatchee Superior Court.
Department of the Interior notice from Waterville Oregon Washington dated October 11 1922 announces J C Lemaster Peshastin Washington filed Sworn Statement and Application No 018635 January 4 1922 to purchase SW 1/4 SE 1/4 and SE 1/4 SW 1/4 Section 28 Township 24 North Range 18 East Willamette Meridian timber valued at 402 00 with timber estimates 76000 board feet at 0 75 per M and 150 00 board feet at 1 50 per M land 120 00 final proof set for December 29 1922 before U S Commissioner R S Ludington Wenatchee Washington protests allowed before entry or before patent issues with corroborated affidavit.
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