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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1912
Page
5
Obvious community briefs list visits and travels of residents, business notes, and upcoming plans. Notable items include Dr. Hoxsey family movements to Spokane, various Cassade Orchards land interests, Wood and logging activity reports, orchard crop forecasts, and local shop promotions in Leavenworth area.
The library committee added numerous titles this past week including The Turnstile The Broad Highway Their Yesterdays A Girl of the Limber Lost Chanticler The Armchair at the Inn The Music Master The Streets of Ascalon A Hoosier Chronicle The Lost Ambassador The Harvester The Blue Bird The Rosary The Mistress of Shenstone Silent Places Les Miserables Captains Courageous Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant The Boys of Bobs Hill Cattle Ranch to College On the Trail of the Sioux The Young Pitcher Gypsey Breynton The Following of the Star Five Little Peppers Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Dandelion Cottage Just Patty Glenloch Girls.
A. D. Allen of Chiwaukum plans extensive logging with partners Parker and McCullen railroad contractors. They own seven teams a donkey engine and will hire about forty men in the woods on the Wenatchee river four miles above Chiwaukum.
D. C. Town of Wenatchee has purchased the Chickamin Hotel from Mrs. Bryant and her son who have operated it for about a year. The hotel is the principal inn in the city with a large patronage. Details on planned improvements remain undisclosed.
Ten acres in Cascade Orchards change hands as Sord T. L. Ross sells to a man named Rumble recently from the east. The conveyance covers a six year old orchard with about one thousand boxes of Staymen Winesap and Delicious apples this season. O B Robertson and H X Featherstone announce candidacies for councilmen. Robertson serves on the present council and Featherstone was a member of the town’s first council. A packer is sought to grade and pack 250 boxes of apples at The Lone Pine Orchard, one mile from town.
Classified notices invite readers to place ads for lost items found items or buying selling renting locating or information. Includes listings for housework jobs rent at market building sale of property and services with prices and contact details. Old I W Harper Whiskey ad closes the column with product claim and retailer details.
The Leavenworth Public Library operates in Commercial Club rooms with Wednesday and Saturday flier hours 3 to 5 pm and a reading area with magazines and daily papers. Wenatchee Business College reports higher enrollment than last year and seeks a janitor in exchange for tuition plus provides board and room for young ladies pursuing business studies.
Reliable agents needed to sell fruit trees grown at Kennewick and Spokane valley. Expenses advanced weekly. Free export advice to fruit growers by Prof. Van Holderbeke Washington State Horticulturist for five years. Van Holderbeke Nursery Co. Spokane Wash. 38 41.
An old advertclaims pimples eruptions and blemishes come from impure blood and promotes Dr King's New Pills as a cure. It urges readers to buy for 25 cents at druggists and to get butter wrappers at the Echo office.
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