Leavenworth Looks Ahead to 1913 Progress and Prosperity
The 1912 year saw a new high school building, a near completion of the municipal water system, and multiple blocks, homes, and paving projects expanding Leavenworth. Business reports show strong sales with no commercial failures in ten years, and optimism that 1913 will be the town’s best year yet.
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Leavenworth
Icicle
Tumwater Light and Water Co
Eighth Street
Leavenworth Building & Loan Association
Echo
Eighth
Commercial Streets
F. T. Motteler
the Echo
Ranchers and Fruit Growers Column Opens for Letters
Weekly department inviting farmers ranchers and fruit growers to send letters signed with real names for publication. Wives daughters and sons urged to contribute. Unsigned letters will not be noticed. Subscriptions allow five lines free for buying selling or exchanging. The column aims to share information and foster mutual help among tillers of the soil.
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Echo
Sending The Echo Abroad as a Christmas Gift in Leavenworth
The Echo is promoted as a cheap strategy to attract eastern readers. Fifty copies sent yearly could bring twenty-five families to the upper valley, each worth about a thousand dollars annually to Leavenworth. Recipients would receive fifty-two reminders over the year of the considerate giver.
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Leavenworth
Plain Statement of Subscriptions Due
The writer explains it is unpleasant to press subscribers who owe money for subscriptions. With hundreds due, the aim is to urge payment to cover small debts and sustain self-preservation. A plain notice may spur those behind to action without bitterness.
Subscriptions Renewed Rise at The Echo Office
Within thirty days two hundred local subscribers renewed their Echo subscriptions and about fifty out of county readers mailed remittances. Despite this progress, over three hundred remain delinquent and should come forward.
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The
Echo
Sharman Visits Seattle Family This Winter
E. P. Sharman is in Seattle this week visiting his wife and daughter who are spending the winter in that city.
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E. P. Sharman
Seattle
Peshastin Holiday News and Community Events
Peshastin reports several residents visiting relatives for the holidays and others traveling to Seattle Tacoma and Wenatchee. A Methodist class plans a C supper at District 15 schoolhouse on the 31st. The town enjoyed a mock murder trial, a Sound dinner party, and a successful Peshastin school entertainment with proceeds aiding school pictures.
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J.C. Biles
M. Whalen
Wenatchee
Erma McClure
William Ott
Cashmere
Guy Sherman
Dryden
William Simpson
Methodist Sunday School
District 15
Copie
Reeves
Hal Starks
Bert Jones
Barker
Clark
Allen
Peshastin Creek
E. P. Dunbar
Nellie Dunbar
Winnie
Nora Pendleton
Earl Wingate
Chester Hinton
Howard Clark
Local Trade and Classified Notices Pages
Advertisements inviting lost and found items purchases rentals and services with rates. Listings include Wanted Milch cow from H Leftwich Leavenworth Wash For Rent two room shack near Echo office and Commodities from Rutherford's Feed Store. Also eggs incubator and kitchen cabinet for sale and Harper Whiskey advertised by J B Violette Overland Bar. Catarrh remedy marketed by M D and King’s Pharmacy with novelty claims.
Leavenworth Public Library Opens in Commercial Club Rooms
The Leavenworth Public Library occupies the Commercial Club rooms and offers Wednesday and Saturday afternoon hours from 3 to 5 o clock. The reading room remains open constantly with magazines and daily papers for visitors seeking a place to rest or read.
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Leavenworth Public Library
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Post Office of
Leavenworth, Wash
Deed H. Mayar
Julian Mayar
Leavenworth Echo
Ay. DE
Peshastin
Frank Lake
W. G. Simpson
Madge McCoy
Ralph Dunham
William Wilbur
Alden Warman
Mr. Warman
Tacoma
Frank A. Wingate
H. Leftwich
Echo Office
Rutherford’s Feed Store
W. J. Watson
Harper
J. B. Violette
Overland Bar
King’s Pharmacy
Public Library
Teel
Leavenworth State Bank
B. Field
Best
Rexall
Leavenworth Furniture & Hardware Co
the Palace of Sweets
Tumwater Savings Bank
the Pioneer Bank
Jos. W. Gangler
J. E. Grant
Roach Brothers
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