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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1914
Page
6
Property ads offer 28 to 42 acre tracts near Leavenworth and Merritt with irrigation water, including 10 tillable, 8 cultivated, and timbered balance. Prices range 1500 to 2500, with 35 acre option near town and trade or sale terms. Echo, Leavenworth, Wash.
For sale forty acres southeast of the northeast quarter and section 17 in township 26 range 17 half mile from Winton. Mostly good tillable land on a county road railroad cuts off a few acres. See Deed H Mayor Leavenworth Washington for price and terms. This is a good buy and price is low.
Grace Hitchcock, operator at the Great Northern terminal office, leaves today for Ephrata and Spokane and will be absent for several days while away from work.
At a June 15 meeting the church and cemetery site was chosen and a temporary worship space is being erected. Alberta residents Ira Miller and family built a neat house on their Wenatchee Park lot and plan to clear land. Oregon residents Jesse Beckwith and family have moved in and he works for J. R. Peters. Earl Young reports a stray deer by his barn, a temptation he resists. Roadwork across from the Chumstick schoolhouse has started and crews will stay busy until completion. Elmer Gensinger and wife moved to their newly purchased lot, hiring two men to begin work. A. B. Peters lost a fine horse that wandered toward its former Big Bend home. Alfalfa hay in Modesto, California, sells slowly at 3 per ton after previously bringing 10 to 15, a lesson in cattle farming costs. Warm praise for the Seattle state fisheries exhibit came from Dr. Hugh M. Smith, noting it tops the Washington D. C. display. the fisheries building is at Fourth and Seneca.
Arrest of a Grandview orchardist amid resistance to blight eradication inspections sparks debate over protective association methods in Yakima valley. Reports note new shackles on inspectors, eight Spokane county associations formed, with demonstrations by Assistant Commissioner Morrison. The commission proposes a state powder factory or stricter powder standards to aid stump blasting, while a public hearing in North Yakima weighs Pacific Power and Light rate plans across ten Washington counties and adjacent states.
Waterville slipped over the winning run in the fourth extra frame to win 5 4. Finley the southpaw allowed six safeties while Will Smith fanned 11 on a seven hit outing. The crowd called the bonehead errors costly as Wenatchee visits Sunday for the season finale.
WANTED TO TRADE Good five acre tract of land for Ford touring car roadster or bag of late model Call at or adress The Echo office Leavenworth. 24 of Mrs Speidel and children of Seattle who have been visiting with Louis Speidel in Cascade Orchards returned to Seattle Thursday afternoon. Action has be taken by Attorney General Barker of Missouri seeking to oust Swift Co of Illinois from the state for violation of the anti trust laws. The supreme court appointed Nat M Shelton to take testimony.
Transfers show Ernest F Steffen to Robin Field for $1 covering lots 1 and 2 in block 30 first addition. Lear Adams Investment Co to Chas McGill et al for $1 covering lot 35 block 5 East Leavenworth. Chas McGill to Oscar Gilbertson for $1 covering lot 35 block 5 East Leavenworth. Frank A Reynolds to F E Van Brocklin for $1 covering lots 17 18 block 7 Leav Lbv Cos first Add. John E Gull to WJ Gull for $100 covering lots 16 1 and 18 block 2 Ralston’s Add to Leav.
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