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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1915
Page
6
Miss Idabelle Kelly leads as a strong contender in the Echo contest with a good chance at victory. Local notes report Miss Mabel Reeves hosting a birthday dinner, families returning from Spokane, and Peshastin jitney service praised for valley travel.
Wenatchee celebrated the hundredth anniversary of adopting the stars and stripes as liberty’s emblem in North America under the Elks lodge. Stores closed in the afternoon and Leavenworth Elks attended the event. Great Northern Railway issued first cars for eastern cherry shipments to G B Lanham and Ira Wares. Wenatchee Produce Co began eastern shipments. W E Moore, ex Leavenworth resident now in Wenatchee, will move with his family to Salt Lake City to represent Wenatchee.
Otto Anderson helped Martin Christenson with corn plowing for a few days this week. Crops look promising in the area and rain would help. Mrs. Wall and Lucillevisited for a month with the Christensens. Local families hosted a dinner with several Christensen and Anderson relatives. The EC S Club met with Mrs. H A Anderson for sewing and a luncheon. A Fourth of July picnic is planned on the Christensen ranch with invitations to friends who seek good water and air and ample food.
A town hall dance is set for next Saturday in Dryden. I A Gans welcomes a baby boy born last Thursday. Children rehearse for the Children's Day Program. Mr and Mrs Moline celebrate a baby girl. Claude Smith plans a Mission Creek move. Professor Campbell to teach here next year. Dan Ott and Mrs Roy Loudenbeck visit Cashmere. Carl Christenson builds a neat dwelling.
The column reports D C McManus, once of Cashmere, shot and killed in Lake City by William Powers after law enforcement to enforce spraying. Powers fled. Also: Robert Mustell returns from Pullman. E H Hutchinson of Seattle, noted checker player, visits. Cashmere Cubs beat Wenatchee 16 0 amid bleacher scuffle. Various travels and social notes on local residents and visitors.
Mr and Mrs John Latimer and son David left Monday for a camping trip expected to last a week. Mrs Baker and daughters returned from the Baker mine Sunday. Murphy Williams Sidney Graham and Mr Rice fished up Eagle creek Sunday and had a nice catch. Mrs DeLaney and son and Mrs Slawson and son from Wenatchee are visiting Mrs Jess Jones for a couple of days. The Newsham Turner and Simpson families spent Sunday at Engle creek. Mrs Inks returned from Wenatchee Sunday after a short stay with her mother. Ernest Wheeler and wife spent several days in Wenatchee last week. Margaret Burmeister Dori and Alice Biles and a friend from Aberdeen spent Tuesday night with Telma Baxter. Mr and Mrs Biles and family motor to Wenatchee Monday.
Washington calls for strict immigration controls as unfit entrants rise despite a drop in overall numbers. Data show thousands refused or barred for mental illness, physical disabilities, contagious diseases, criminal risk, or moral concerns.
Purley Douglas Bailey son of Professor George Bailey of Cazenovia New York who enlisted in the Royal Canadian Dragoons under another name on March 11 has recovered his memory He walked into police headquarters and heard of the efforts to find him and was sent to the hospital barracks Bailey a Syracuse University graduate received a lightning shock and fell from a tree in Denver He disappeared on his way to see a Syracuse physician Partial memory return is linked to a jaw fracture in a baseball game at the barracks He does not recall enlisting and is expected to be discharged.
Virginia Minnesota mining man A B Coates received a whiskey bottle from a Kentucky distillery. The bottle had his name and address and had been used on a river trip down the Nile in Africa about a year earlier. It was found, sent back, refilled, and returned as a courtesy from the distillery.
Mr W F Robbleasee returned from Seattle with plans to open the Lake Wenatchee Club House to the public around July first. He hired a first class cook for the cuisine department and arranged supplies for a full equipment of a first class summer resort.
M. O. Van Brocklin announces collaboration with Wm. Marshall of Mountain Dairy to supply pasteurized milk in Leavenworth. Already secured numerous patrons. others may contact by phone 19 percent or through the promoter. Milk claims to be highest quality and free from bacteria or impurities.
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