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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1910
Page
1
In a quiet week, local friends showcased steady assistance and encouragement across tasks and events. Neighbors shared meals, ran errands, and offered company, highlighting a network of care within the tight knit locale.
Dispatches from Moscow report that business leaders who once opposed a dry town now back continuing prohibition. Interviews say Moscow’s merchants credit saloon elimination with stronger business, higher collections, and spent buildings repurposed for trade.
Dispatches confirm Joe Kelly his wife and ten year old Florence died when a Canadian Pacific train derailed and plunged into the Spanish River last Friday. Forty souls perished and about thirty injured with Mr Kelly a sawyer at Lamb-Davis mill. The family had lived in this area before moving to Wycliffe BC and were visiting relatives in Cannington Ontario for Christmas when the crash occurred. Mrs Kelly and Florence had recently visited Leavenworth selling their homestead near the track.
News brief notes several items including a Spokane rule barring married men from high tower employment on the Monroe street bridge due to danger. It also mentions the inland empire winter wheat risk from heavy rains and other regional events.
The Perkins-Baker Land company sold a twenty acre seven year old apple orchard eight miles down the Wenatchee valley from Leavenworth for Mrs. M. O. Tibbitts of Wenatchee. Purchasers include Fred A. Shaffer F E Burns and Louis G Heybrook. Ninety two percent of last year’s crop was graded extra fancy and shipped to Europe.
For ten days Leavenworth residents have shopped in a citywide sales push backed by Los Angeles merchandise. Retailers announce deep price cuts on shoes clothing and underwear to finish the bargain spree before the week ends.
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