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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1908
Page
5
Leavenworth to Blewett stage runs every Monday and Wednesday through Tam line provides passenger and express service. BE Shugart is the stage line proprietor with stops at SAM, Western, Tam and Wy Tauraday.
Monday and Friday departures from Leavenworth to Telma with 4 p m arrivals, return legs on Tuesdays and Saturdays. County commissioners meet next Tuesday and stay all week. Christmas ball by the Brotherhood of Firemen and other winter entertainments forecast. Civil Service exam in Wenatchee for T. F. Hallett. Local humor on Geo A Grant’s politics. New Methodist church nearing completion with roof and spire. praise for Pastor Rumohr. Stork reports births at Dotson, Emmett, and Candles homes. Front street improvements and moved City Drug Store. scale of local real estate deals noted. Recent railroad injury recovery, theater offerings, and plans for a two-story brick building. City Drug Store moves into King building. steam heat and living space noted. Successful opera house dance. McDaniel orchestra praised. Thanksgiving Eve ball planned by the band.
The paper warns several hundred subscribers are in arrears and will receive statements in the next two weeks. It cites Postal Service rules that a weekly cannot keep a year or more behind and threatens removal from the mailing list if renewals are not made by December first.
Local items note clothing sale ads from the L D Store Co and various prices. Community notices include visits to Seattle and Wenatchee, new births, a skating rink plan for Wenatchee, and local social happenings among residents and Elks at the Great Northern hotel.
A. F. Estes sold a twenty acre tract belonging to Casey and Erickson, one and a half miles from Cashmere, to H. H. James of Seattle for 28000. The five year old trees on the plot are in excellent condition and the buyer plans a scientific fruit ranch.
Nickell showcases Edison phonographs and amberole records now available. The note mentions a quick short order meal at King's bakery near Elliott's, and urges all clients to settle accounts within a week. Also references wintering horses at Kenyon's Eagle Creek ranch and the old Smith place 4011. Mrs. Campbell is listed.
The directors of School Dist 49 will consider propositions for transporting children from Eagle Creek to the Leavenworth school house. Directors to be contacted include G W Hathaway clerk.
Dr. L. B. Manchester of Wenatchee will be at the Franklin hotel on Sunday Nov 15 to perform all kinds of dental work and take appointments for future dates.
Mrs Mollie Woodward box 39 Leavenworth Wash invites families to contact about boarding a one year old child. A community notice lists a chicken supper by Lutheran ladies at Fraternal hall from 5 to 8 pm on Thursday Nov 19 with all invited. Also offers horse and wagon for sale by M W Kelly Cascade Orchards and a store sale extending one more week with ladies shawls scarves hoods and hats offered at low prices.
A jumble of ads and notices listing services from well digging and bricklaying to bakery and laundry offerings. Found notes include contracting work, cabbage sales, lost items, and a new veterinary surgeon moving to town. Echo office for orders and rewards, bakeries on Front Street near Elliott's, and local laundry boasting top service in central Washington.
Wire bound wooden pipe sections for sale in good condition. Length totals 100 feet. Inquire at Echo office. es 28tf
A sequence of dances will start Friday night November 18 at the Estes Opera House in Cashmere and run each Friday through winter. Free dance lessons 8 to 9 p m at each event. Admission one dollar. First Friday features the Baltimore with Orchestra J McDaniel violin B Benson clarinet Mrs McDaniel piano Mrs Schuck cornet. All invited to learn to dance and enjoy old time music.
Wenatchee Washington November 9 1908 To the editor of Leavenworth Echo I thank Chelan county voters for their loyal support of my election to county treasurer I will serve the people without party bias strive for a clean record and timely right actions Signed C A Battles Your obedient servant
Drugless system claims to abolish chronic nervous troubles including headaches stomach liver and kidney issues. Offers painless cross eyes correction without operation and refractive errors fixed with glasses at a reduced price for school children. Lady attendant available.
Grandfather praises Harper whiskey as a lifelong favorite and the narrator agrees it is the best. The ad urges readers to buy Harper from J. G. Fritz at the Overland Bar.
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