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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1909
Page
5
Leavenworth to Telma stage service runs Mondays and Fridays depart 9 30 a m arrive Telma 4 p m. Telma to Leavenworth runs Tuesdays and Saturdays depart 9 30 a m arrive Leavenworth 4 p m. Mail and express service offered. For details contact Joe Massie, Proprietor Leavenworth Washington.
Town items report visits from M Rumohr and others to Peshastin and Wenatchee. Retail deals include boots at Keatings, dry goods at cost, and ice cream at Palace of Sweets. Community notes mention school contracts, concerts, real estate interests, and a Ladies Aid meeting.
Wenatchee brief highlights include a lawyer cutting 84 500 feet of lumber in ten hours, the Darling Land Co water line flowing, executives visiting Seattle, and plans for a new brick school at Peshastin. Also reported are railroad progress, railway land rights cases, and mining updates with rail and ore expectations.
Postmaster Davis spent last week in Seattle attending Masonic sessions and visiting the expo. Deputy Forest Supervisor A A Parker and family depart for Bellingham as Parker transfers to the Washington Forest. Meisner & Roach buy Elliott’s brick building and will move their saloon there soon. Geologist J S Diller from Washington DC visited to study asbestos near Mt. Stewart but snow and Icicle river water blocked access. M P Heraty and daughter arrive from Ellensburg via Blewett. he owns land in Chumstick valley and will stay a week. Initial steps for a Leavenworth Building and Loan Association were taken with many local signatories. temporary chairman O S Sampson and secretary M A Marley named. by-laws committee appointed. meeting adjourned to June 28 1909.
Board by day or week at the Lilly Hotel on Front Street. Mrs. S. Shortly, proprietor. The Altar Society members thank Leavenworth patrons for their social and dance event on the 17th which succeeded socially and financially. Lost items include a red backed time book and a pocket book with $7. C. R. Rothen. Good working team for sale call on S. A. Thompson Cascade Orchards.
Local items promote advertising novelties from The Echo at lower cost than agents. Also notices seek tenants, prescriptions and drug store services, house rentals and sales, backgarden plant listings, musical records, perfumes, soap and toilet articles, and assorted goods from Nickell’s and Pfeiffer’s stores.
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