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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1907
Page
2
Notice from the Leavenworth Echo announces weekly publication on Fridays with a one dollar yearly subscription and office address. It states that condolence notices and business-promoting notices must be paid at advertising rates, while free community entertainments and welfare movements may use columns free of charge. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 5 1907.
A 3 December election will choose a mayor treasurer and four councilmen with one holding over. The piece urges property owners to register and vote advocating businesslike leadership and prudent spending, arguing the village should cost no more than 3000 dollars yearly and warning against haste and waste.
A Spokane vacationing editor retells a quiet joke at Medical Lake insane asylum. An inmate, mistaking him for a newcomer, asks why he is crazy. The editor quips he runs a Wenatchee newspaper, prompting the inmate to declare he is not crazy, just a plain damn fool.
S Neuenmaker of Dakota and G S Krotter of Nebraska visited our town this week. They are on a prospecting tour and will continue to Oregon after leaving here.
The Fanning Howard Co presents a one night only show at the Opera House on Sunday evening November 10. Fresh from Wenatchee and Nome Alaska the company tours Capital vs Labor and brings a high class attraction for local patrons of good entertainment.
A Butte physician notes receipts fell by about 75 percent the week racing began. He says most doctors and many businesses see slow collections when the local track operates. He questions why newspapers promote gambling and its economic drain on the town.
Magistrate Taylor states the court’s only business last week was dispensing justice to two plain drunks. The remark underscores a quiet docket while highlighting enforcement of public intoxication cases in his jurisdiction.
The new building is in use with classes forming across grades. Ninth grade holds fourteen pupils while first grade adds Wilbur Jennings and others, second grade includes Ethel Chapman, and tenth grade will be added next year with reassigned teachers bringing total of 233 pupils under six teachers.
Rev. O W Mintzer presiding elder will preach next Sunday evening at the Methodist church and a reception of members will follow. Catholics Altar Society meets with Mrs Harry Moore on Wednesday Nov 13. Congregational services Sunday include Sunday school at 10 and sermon at 11 followed by 7 30 evening service. Ladies Aid meets Wednesday Nov 13 at Mrs Jas Edwards home. Everyone welcome.
Public notice lists candidates for mayor treasurer and four council seats to be filled at the Town Hall in Leavenworth Washington. The election opens at nine in the morning and closes at seven in the evening on December 3 1907 with G W Hoxsey as the unexpired term mayor candidate.
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