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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1914
Page
5
Wenatchee notes report visiting relatives and hunters sharing deer success as season closes next Monday. Residents travel for Thanksgiving, weddings, funerals, and business as Great Northern time changes disrupt trains and mail schedules.
Mrs D C Town announces she bought out the Erickson tailor shop adjoining Leavenworth State Bank. She turns the business over to her brother Chris Smith who will manage and warrant satisfactory work at low prices. Smith is known in Leavenworth and seeks local patronage for cleaning pressing and tailoring tasks.
Ten years back Patterson accepts a post with Leavenworth Mercantile Co. snow first appears in Leavenworth last Saturday and nearly a foot rests by night. Petral Davis of Lamb Davis Lumber Co. travels to Seattle for Thanksgiving with family. Geo S Merriam joins daughter Maud in Wenatchee for the holiday. Mrs John Tholin learns of her mother’s death in Weaver Minnesota and travels there. Local merchants stock Christmas goods and invite requests. A party to A S Huffmaster’s ranch for Thanksgiving includes L J Nelson F S Jacobsen and others with Mr and Mrs Huffmaster praised as entertainers.
Under Rev Carne the Congregational Church begins repairs with a fresh exterior paint. Interior renovations are planned to follow as part of the church improvement effort.
Wenatchee Park reports C F Rupel digging a well to stop hauling water. J R Peters spends days pruning fruit trees. Burgess brothers harvest a three point buck. Marvin Peters plans to take geese and turkeys to Wenatchee Thursday. Snow brings ample coasting for children. Rev George Hylton will not lead revival. He departs to Seattle China mission. Asa Miller and Ernest McMullen visit from Wenatchee for work and hunting. L H Irwin returns with family after eight weeks away. Post office patrons seek regular carrier from schoolhouse meeting. Evening services at Wenatchee Park schoolhouse led by Eld G W Hilton from China over two weeks. All welcome.
Eagle Creek community highlights include Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Anderson and sons Herbert and Wayne visiting the Martin Christenson home. Teachers Miss Blodget and Miss Scott depart or plan term completion, with local wood cutting by A. L. Mitchell and Ross Ramage. Otto Anderson visited the E. A. LaBare home, and Thanksgiving moments with Mrs. Cahill. Bill Riggs and a Wenatchee friend hunt nearby.
A Dryden pioneer A P Johnson aged 75, visiting Leavenworth, recalls homesteading 160 acres near Dryden 28 years ago. He sold most land but kept ten acres now bearing apples and harvested over 3000 boxes this year. He remains healthy, optimistic about reaching his 100th birthday.
The Leavenworth Sewerage Company urges stockholders to surrender shares to Mr. Joseph Gangler at Tumwater Bank so the current funds can be fairly distributed to each owner. F. A. Losekamp.
In Chelan County Superior Court a day of settlement is set for December 2 1914 at 10 a m. for the final account of E H Fox administrator of Henry C Selis deceased. Notices must be posted in three public places and published weekly in the Leavenworth Echo for four weeks prior. Judge WM A Grimsham signs the order in October 1914.
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