Community News From Eagle Creek And Surrounding Area
Local notes report Eagle Creek picnic planned for Sunday the Fourth with invitations extended. Residents and visitors including the Andersons Van DeGrifts and Christensons share visits and travel, plus updates on new roads and farming activity. A Valley wedding of Carl Hinton and Dora Meeker occurred at the Meeker home with a shower and well wishes. The Fourth promises dancing at the Club House and Lake View Hotel amid Lake Wenatchee shingle boom disruption and river boom setup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex, Gardner
Wife
Hinton
Entiat
Ed Meeker
Pethastin
Miss Meeker
Entiat Wash
Lake View Hotel
Lake Wenatchee
Wenatchee
Dryden Doings Highlight Local Moves and Baseball
Dryden notes list residents visiting from Colfax Spokane and Blewett celebrations. Claud Smith to Odessa for harvest. Dryden boys beat Peshastin Creek 6 4 in a season highlight. married men defeat regular nine 6 to 5. Joe Fetters trades 10 acres for 300 across Methow. land boasts 100 cultivated. Families relocate and trips planned to Salem Oregon and Brewster.
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Claud Smith
Odessa
Joe Fetters
Methow
Mr. Fetters
Peshastin Notes and Social Updates
The Great Northern crew lays new steel in Peshastin. Mrs J Haggard returns home from Wenatchee hospital after several weeks. Mrs J W Sussex visits Cashmere family for ten days. Many locals attend Parks and Banks circus in Leavenworth. Jamie Smith and Earl Wingate departed for Seattle last Saturday to chase auto races in Tacoma. The Kuritsu Club plans a dinner in Al Darlington's grove.
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Great Northern
J. Haggard
Wenatchee Hospital
J. W. Sussex
Cashmere
Jamie Smith
Earl Wingate
Seattle
Mr. Smith
Tacoma
Kuritsu Club
al Darlington’s Grove
Blewett Briefs Round up of local notes
Mr and Mrs Biles and family left Thursday to spend a week on the Sound. Bertha Watson left Thursday for home after a three week visit with Doris and Alice Biles. Ed Newsham and Chas Pinkerton left for the Sound to spend the Fourth. Mrs Simpson of Dryden visits Will Simpson and was with her mother Mrs Newsham. Mrs Newsham and daughter visited Monday with Mrs Simpson. Blewett played Dryden Sunday with a 6 to 4 Dryden win.
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Guy Sherman
Salem
Oregon
Ledbetter
Mr. Lord’s
Mr. Torrence
Mrs. Biles
The
Sound
Bertha Watson
Doris
Alice Biles
Ed Newsham
Chas. Pinkerton
the Sound
Wenatchee Park Notables and Local Happenings
Mr Elmer Genginger operates a don key engine pulling stumps on his property. Mr Earl Maust visits Leavenworth on business. Mr Amos Peters tends his 50 acre ranch in the Park. An 8 pound boy was born to Homer Weimer on June 17. Frank Pabst is in Wenatchee for business. Miss May Ashenbrenner visits at Mrs Weimer’s home. Boys move to the Park in large numbers. One new resident lives with Mr and Mrs Earl Young. Mr W W Burgess cuts hay. Marvin Peters reports a fine wheat hay crop on his new land.
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Elmer Genginger
Earl Maust
Leavenworth
Amos Peters
Homer Weimer
Frank Pabst
Wenatchee
May Ashenbrenner
W. W. Burgess
Marvin Peters
Lake Wenatchee Forest Fire Ravages Area
A weeklong forest fire at Lake Wenatchee devastates property with Wm. Nelson and Mr. Batchelor among the heaviest victims. Losses on cut shingle bolts tools and timber approach 10000 dollars as crews from ranchers and visitors battle the spreading blaze amid the camping season and local hotel activity.
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Wm. Nelson
Mr. Batchelor
Cascade Orchards Notes and Visits in Wenatchee
Miss Honor Hannon left Sunday for Wenatchee to visit her aunt Mrs. L Lamb. Miss Genevieve Lamb will spend a week in Wenatchee with cousins and return home soon. Cascade Orchards girls organized a Camp Fire like club. Mr Begg returned from Seattle with two sons joining them for vacation here.
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Honor Hannon
Wenatchee
Mrs. L. Lamb
Genevieve Lamb
Cascade Orchards
Begg
Seattle
Hidden Moonshine Trade Emerges In Local Rural Market
A little known industry has appeared here. Some claim it serves as a relief outlet for excess fruit and grain or as anticipation of demand for spirits after January. Reports say a fair Kentucky moonshine is produced and sold locally, though it rarely appears in ads or billboards. Connoisseurs praise its purity.
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Kentucky
Ex Millionaire in Trenches Private Pawson in London Recovering
William Hargrave Pawson once owned 1 250 000 dollars and a 35 000 dollar yearly income but went bankrupt eight years after wealth. He joined the Eleventh Hussars during war, was wounded, and is convalescing to return to the trenches. Bankrupt court fixes discharge with 25 dollars judgment.
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Pawson
London
William Hargrave Pawson
Eleventh Hussars
London Court of Bankruptcy
Brougham
French Unveils New Shell Doubling Cannon Power
The Bulletin des Armees reports a new explosive boosting French cannon power tenfold while concealing its manufacture and composition. The shell using the explosive has caused severe losses to German tanks and even wrecked trees and debris, driving prisoners to the brink.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Bulletin Des Armees
Not a nibble fisher fined for license
Alec Buckowski sat by Kessler's pond with a pole and line from daybreak without a bite. A game warden issued Buckowski a $20 fine after Justice Pickersgill ruled he was a fisherman without a license in Perth Amboy New Jersey.
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Perth Amboy
N. J
New Jersey
Alec Buckowski
Kessler
Justice Pickersgill
Blaze damages upper floor of railroad eating house
At 3 30 Wednesday morning a fire gripped the railroad eating house, confined mainly to the upper story sleeping rooms. Two water streams saved the building with damage to roof and upper rooms. Loss estimated at 1000 for the building and 400 to 500 for fixtures and stock. Manager C I Van Tassel escaped via an upper window. A later note mentions the Liberty Bell’s July 13 pass through Leavenworth en route to San Francisco exposition. Also classified: Manifold Typewriter Paper for sale at The Echo Office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. I. van Tassel
Leavenworth
A Good Move Do It Some More
Citizens praise recent street improvements noting better pavement from railroad right of way materials and asphalt like filling. Sidewalk work is also commended and viewed as timely. If dust is reduced, property owners might share costs.
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Eagle Creek
Madeline
Fred van DeGrift
Mrs. Lancaster
E. C. S. Club
J. H. Sharpe
Wall
Lucile
Christenson
Madelin van DeGrift
Susie Cahill
H. A. Anderson
Harry Blankenship
van DeGrift
Mr. van DeGrift
Dryden
Harrison Amos
Colfax
Glenn Ayers
Spokane
Unger
Dollar and Fetters
Blewett
Chas. Burbank
Wilson Amos
Rev. McAlpin
Dryden Boys
Peshastin Creek
Blewett Boys
Chas. Amos
Helen Peters
Olive Amos
Brewster
Peshastin
Parks & Banks Circus
Blewett Briefs
Newsham
E. J. Turner
Mrs. Simpson
Wenatchee Park
Oliver Bates
Roy
Willie
de Los Fowler
Sth
Manifold Typewriter
Echo
Wheeler’s City Drug Store
Rexall Agency
A. D. S. Agency
Peshastin Postoffice Store
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