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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1918
Page
5
Town notices show recruits for the city band urged to meet at City Hall on Sunday July 7 at 1 30 PM for first instructions. Travel updates cover residents visiting Seattle Spokane and Tacoma for Fourth celebrations and military pageants.
Saturday visits by Mr. M. Rumohr and Mr. L. O. Taylor to Wenatchee. Numerous brief notices of shopping at the Racket Store and Wheeler's, trips to Seattle Spokane Portland and Leavenworth, and family visits and relocations including Mrs. C. R. Rothen to Clinton Iowa and Mr. Cool moving to Leavenworth. 850,000 trout eggs and 150,000 steelhead in hatchery.
Numerous Leavenworth residents plan trips to Seattle and Tacoma for the Fourth of July with visits to friends and relatives. Several local individuals, including Mrs. Bowden and Mrs. Kinney, depart for the region, while others enlist or begin new jobs in nearby towns. The wheat crop outlook is reported at 43,900,000 bushels, up from last year.
Returning from Wenatchee lake last Friday night Mr. Hal Starks in a seven passenger Chalmers car hit near the Merril ranch six miles up the Chumstick valley. The car turned turtle tossing Mrs. Starks Miss Beardsley Miss Madge McCoy Mrs. Payne Mr. Norman Nelson and Miss Leila Snyder. Miss Snyder suffered a broken collar bone while Miss McCoy had a scalp wound and Mrs. Payne a black eye. Windshield broken and top damaged. no other injuries.
Harry C. Blankenship, district forest ranger, left Wednesday for Port Angeles to oversee right of way clearing for a Milwaukee railroad extension through the Olympic national forest. The line will tap a virgin spruce belt valuable for airplane building, and he will travel by auto via Snoqualmie Pass.
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