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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1917
Page
5
City reports include a new Wenatchee area bridge opening and multiple travels by residents to Seattle Olympia and Urbana Ohio. Draft numbers touch Wenatchee and North Yakima, while forest service clerks openings promise federal jobs.
The County Commissioners authorize a stockade and frame shed enclosures for I W W prisoners moved from the county seat. Federal authorities have not announced release terms, and visitors or attorney consultations are barred. Lieutenant Schwarz says actions follow orders.
Community brief recounts home guards drills in Leavenworth and Peshastin, social visits and entertainments at Andersons hall for Miss Fitzpatrick, a Dryden trip organizing an I B S A ecclesia, and multiple personal updates. Updates include Mrs P N Gregory traveling to Seattle, Rev Chas Maxfield moving to Seattle, a finger injury to J D Day, and job changes at McCoys store and a Pateros general store.
Local notes report Mrs. Howard Robertson’s Monday return from Snohomish, garages rising for Mr. L A Humphries and Mr. F G Thompson, and Mrs W E Biles visiting Seattle. Sam the fisherman is praised for Sunday catch, and Mr Thos Sharp marks his eighty first birthday with cigars.
A dairyman announces higher milk prices due to rising costs. After August 1 customers buying a quart or more daily pay nine quarts for one dollar. Pint daily buyers pay sixteen pints for one dollar. single quarts cost 12 cents. Signatures: Chas Wallace, M. Rumohr, M. O. Van Brocklin.
Lake Chelan box mill begins season production at a rate of 15000 feet daily. Wheat crops and fallow land praised, while a Wenatchee weather spike reports 120 degrees. A fatal accident on the Oroville branch bridge claims 66 year old Tra Landis.
To the friends who kindly helped us during our bereavement and especially to Mr. W L Hale who did all in his power we extend heartfelt gratitude. Mrs Jennie Hathaway and family.
The Town Undertaking Co prepared Mrs. Frank Erickson's body for shipment to New York for burial after her May 29 death. Weighing over 200 pounds, the case posed difficulties, yet on June 7 New York undertakers declared the preservation perfect, noting Western methods advance Eastern ones.
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