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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1907
Page
4
Manager Dickson offers the Bunchgrassers for 250 a side and Ballard Giants accept to raise the stakes to 500 a side. Everett also broadcasts interest in a 500 a side series with Waterville and Seattle, contingent on Ballard Waterville results.
The Waterville Empire reports Douglas County expects the largest wheat crop on record, with conditions excellent and a June rain boosting prospects. Acreage is up across the county, and wheat yields may reach ten to fifteen million bushels as prices near a dollar, though securing harvest hands could be a challenge.
A revival session features Sister Jones denying public testimony citing her years of transgression while Brother Smith echoes with similar self deprecation and implying a door behind the room. The text then describes a simple home water test using sugar cubes to detect impurity by clarity after overnight standing at 65 degrees Fahrenheit.
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century page quotes cautionary notes on marriage and lists famous misfortunes of spouses. It ends with John McDonald of Bethlehem township planting sunflowers and selling the crop for seven cents a pound, yielding about $50 per acre, and mentions uses of sunflower and olive oil substitutes.
In Quincy the pastor uses a Job reading to humorously remark on a power outage during the sermon. Visitors Jeff Caither and Bert Cole, from Leavenworth, stayed overnight after a Saturday visit and returned Sunday.
A reflective poem contemplates ideal happiness shadowed by doubt and haunting presence. It contrasts flawless bliss with unseen specters at a wedding, linking human longing to mortality, fame, and spiritual themes.
A local classified item lists quartz blanks and placers for sale at The Echo office. The notice provides contact details and price range for interested buyers.
Real estate transfers list numerous parcel conveyances and drainage easements with prices from 1250 to 4000 dollars plus a water rights note. Real estate contracts record a sale for 2960 dollars. Census figures estimate the 1906 population at 83,941,510 in the continental United States with territorial additions bringing totals near 99 million. a Kansas cyclone story closes with a Swede joke about divine aid.
A brief appeal urges readers behind on Echo subscriptions to remit payments. The notice notes that even one dollar helps and that collective small payments from many overdue subscribers would greatly aid the paper.
Lorn O Northam of Leavenworth Washington filed intent to make final proof for Homestead Entry No 0008 dated April 1 1908 in section two township 26 north range 18 east. Proof will be given before J B Shore U S Commissioner at Leavenworth July 18 1907 with witnesses Ernest Heinrichs Randolph K Heinrichs Thomas Darling and Ira O Holden of Leavenworth Washington.
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