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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1909
Page
5
Leaves Leavenworth every Monday and Friday at 9 a.m. arrives Telma at 4 p.m. Leaves Telma Tuesday and Saturday at 9 a.m. area at Leavenworth 4 p.m. Mail passengers and express. Joe Massie proprietor Leavenworth Washington.
Community items include business ads at Keatings and D M Thomas Quality Grocery, visits by Jack McLeod and Mr. F S Jacobsen, and meetings of Eagles and Degree of Honor. Prosecuting Attorney Fred Kemp, L J Nelson, J J King travel for legal business. weather notes mention snow melt. De velopment League and local officials attend regional events.
Mr Harris plans to start a mill for the Washington Meteor mine and exhibit a gold brick at the Alaska Yukon fair. A F Estes of Cashmere discusses land buyers near Leavenworth. Ed Tholin and Jack Smith expect Smith to recover and return by April. Bernard M Shoemaker from Spokane joins the local forestry office. Other items report land sales near Peshastin, a stamp mill at Golden Eagle, and the opening of Hotel Chickamin by Leftwich. Promoter H C Peters talks Cascade Orchard plans and Thomspson to run orchards. Prices and sales of Cascade Orchard tracts to Fred Greiner and J Luther are noted.
Night Marshal Teshera clamped down on a basement Mahoney and Salicks poolroom last Saturday night taking four men. Three pleaded guilty paying fines and costs around 27 dollars each. The fourth was arraigned before Judge Booth and discharged after the state failed to prove the case. W J Coventry foreman at the electric plant learned of a family link with his Kansas based father and Dr H Coventry with a possible English estate stake.
Household hints advise washing with rubber gloves to protect hands and conserve effort. Potatoes are sliced, soaked in cold water, then layered with butter in a pan and baked until browned. For sweeping, dampen corn meal to dust and lift dust from carpet, reducing floor and furniture dust.
Instructions for floor cleaning with kerosene and boiled oil with beeswax, brushing technique, hair comb and brush hygiene to prevent dandruff and infection. Fur cleaning via bran rubbing to restore fluffiness and cleanliness.
The article explains cleaning fur by removing bran from the fabric, taking the fur outside to air, and beating it with a rattan cane on both sides. After several hours of airing the fur becomes clean, fluffy, and noticeably improved in appearance.
A collage of 1909 ads includes a Ladies Aid pure food and apron sale at a church on April 10, 1909, new shirt waists from The Big Store, three homes and three tree plots for sale by L. W. Bloom, Hart Schaffner & Marx clothing arrivals at Leavenworth Mercantile Co, a Bloom 10 acre tract near town with irrigation water, a large shipment of shoes at Leavenworth Mercantile Co, two residence properties priced from 1000 to 1200 dollars, a six room plastered house with land and fruit trees at Leavenworth Gardens, renting options versus buying strategies from Adams & Carr, and Harper whiskey promoted by J. G. Fritz at the Overland Bar.
Readable items include live poultry breedings and pricing, land sale and exchange notices, local business ads for buckles belts and purses, job printing and pharmacy services, piano lessons, and fresh candies at Nickell. Also notices of property for exchange near town and small business promotions.
Edison announces 2 and 4 minute records and a new attachment now available at Nickell's, highlighting updated audio offerings.
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