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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1906
Page
3
The Torrence Stage Line departs Leavenworth every Monday Wednesday and Friday at 7 am and leaves Blewett every Tuesday Thursday and Saturday at 7 am. It carries passengers and express.
A collage of local notices lists bakery staples at Frank's Place and Prime Flour claims from Keating's, a strawberry festival hosted by Mrs. O S Sampson, sales pitches for Peach Blossom flour and Palm Ice Cream, liquor ads, piano lessons, used wheel sale, new underwear, a fresh cow for sale, business for sale, a house for sale, town visitors and minor incidents, and a note of the Echo newspaper staff changes.
Town and County C. L. Meyers visits Quincy. various residents make Seattle trips. Portrait work offered by studios over Echo office. Real estate deals include X five acre Cascade Orchard tract at $650. Public notices reference a library hall bid and July completion.
The Leavenworth listing shows a 12 item program including violin and piano duets, recitations, tableaux, songs and dramas with performers Minnie Waldenberg Elsie Anderson Anna Tholin Bessie Simmons and others. Tickets are 25 cents and on sale at the post office.
Three hundred men will be employed over the next three months to add four miles of side track, a twenty stall brick round house, machine shop, storehouse and blacksmith shop. The project includes a covered turntable, moved water tank, enlarged ice house, and extended north tracks toward the old graveyard. Gravel is being unloaded west of the depot for a concrete culvert in the ravine and at the Chumstick bridge. Grant Smith contractors the job. completion is set for early December.
An 11 to 28 game pitted Wenatchee's Ellis-Forde squad against Leavenworth Juniors, aged 8 to 15. Bob Smith pitched creditably for Wenatchee while Pearl Bissell umpired to general satisfaction. The observer notes more practice could have narrowed the margin.
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