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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1910
Page
5
Leaves Leavenworth every Monday and Friday at 8 a m arrives Telma at 4 p m Eaves Telma every Tuesday and Saturday at 8 a m arrives Leavenworth 4 p m Mail, envee on and express. For further articulars address Joe Massie Proprietor ex 71 Leavenworth Wash
Leavenworth residents mix business and social news from the week. Visits by Joe and Leonard Debord, Edna Featherstone return from Pullman, and A. J. Martin attending his daughter Mary’s wedding are noted alongside property deals, new businesses, and development plans in the Cascade Orchards and Wenatchee region.
A Spokane party from Washington Iron Works located a large magnetic iron ore deposit near Blewett on Peshastin creek. Ore tests indicate 70 percent iron, much higher than the workable 10 percent. The find could stimulate mining jobs and Chelan county’s ore industry, with development expected soon. Windy Brown had long held the claim but no work was done. Magnetic iron, or magnetite, is valued for high quality steel and is highly magnetic.
J G Debord began this week a warehouse on the railroad right of way at the west end of the viaduct. The brick basement structure measures 26 by 26, with overall 26 by 40 dimensions. He plans to store grain feed coal wood and other profitable articles and currently operates a feed business opposite the site.
Morning topic titled The Destroyer and the Rescuer. Evening program includes piano sextette from Lucia di Lammermoor, vocal Just As I Am, mandolin and piano duet, vocal duet The Shadows of the Evening, and offertory Oh Thou Sublime.
The Sweet Evening Star notes from Tann house announce that all are invited to attend upcoming services led by Pastor W. V. Davis.
Quiet ceremony at the home of Mrs A J Martin unites Miss Mary Etta Martin and Percy J Adams of Novelty Washington. Rev Davis officiates. few relatives attend. After a wedding breakfast the couple depart for Seattle then British Columbia for a month before settling in Novelty.
The Echo sends warm wishes for a long and happy life and success in all affairs, hoping the couple enjoys fulfilled days ahead.
A collage of small ads includes house wanted in Leavenworth and Echo office notes, bids for board wood at School District No. 49, sale of real estate in Cascade Orchards, work horse for sale, multiple residences for sale, milk cows for sale, and notices to trespassers plus a Fireside machine and candy shop items.
In the White River valley two miles above Lake Wenatchee a 20 acre tract of timber with three million feet standing timber is for sale. Offerors are asked to write J J Henry Telma Washington for price and terms.
The Catholic Church ladies thank the Leavenworth women for their help in making their Pure Food safe campaign a success last Saturday. An Anthony Harper whiskey sign proclaims “The kind your grandfather used,” sold by J. B. Violette at the Overland Bar.
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