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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1911
Page
6
Fr Frank McNett visited friends in Wenatchee Monday and Koerner's Variety Store drew attention with new basement entrance. Many residents traveled to Everett Seattle Hood River and Spokane for visits business and shopping. Multiple notices of illness travel and local commerce appear with ads for Koerner's Variety Store and Palace of Sweets.
Harry Thompson, a fireman formerly with Sam Potter on the W N railroad, left in July for Panama to work on the Panama Canal railroad arriving July 28 and starting work July 29. He says he likes the place and reports plentiful work. Potter plans a potential visit next year after receiving Thompson's letter.
The Leavenworth State Bank with local merchants offered large prizes for fruits and vegetables to be shown in the Great Northern railway exhibit car touring the eastern states. Winners included H. B. Smith Merritt for potatoes and cabbage, and H. S. McNett for carrots and onions. J. B. Adams won ten-variety apples. his orchard lies east of town. The event showcased upper Wenatchee valley's fruit potential and drew judges George Ingham Nick Kinchers and J. H. Sharp.
Christian Sunday school meets at 10 a.m. with Junior Endeavor gatherings every Friday after school. The Junior C E society grows in interest and attendance at each meeting led by Florence Pinch. An acrostic will be formed from the name Inez. Pat Gallager returned from Seattle Tuesday in improved health after a month away due to stomach trouble.
Engineer Vanderwest now living in Tacoma was in town Sunday. G N plans double tracking Everett to Vancouver soon. Smoker has moved into a house near the Power station and rents to Jack Mahoney. Two new crews and another engine added on the Cascade division amid rising business. Milwaukee Road breaks long distance record Tacoma to New York in 97 hours 40 minutes with silk cargo, beating G N record set June 22 by two hours and fifteen minutes.
Various public notices and ads including a church sale on October 14 in front of the post office, a reminder about Chamberlain's remedy for colic and travel, a gun metal watch agency pitch, Harper quality claim for a product, and a newspaper agent and subscription notice by Mrs C W Lancaster with address near the school. November 18.
Local notes from Eagle Creek recall upcoming nuptials and social visits. Clarabel Amos spent Sunday with J. H. Sharp and family while Ruth Sharpe visited her parents after returning from Wenatchee. P W VanDeGrift drove the school stage, and Kenyon built a chicken house on the Kenyon ranch.
Harry McNett shipped several hundred pounds of celery grown on his father’s place north of town to Wenatchee this week. The crop was praised as superior to California celery, with potential to become a local industry. The black muckey land near the McNett place is said to be ideal for high quality celery. The M E Ladies Aid will serve tea at Mrs L C Egans next Thursday afternoon, inviting all to attend. Harry Warner visited Wenatchee on Wednesday.
In the Superior Court of Washington Chelan County Minnie M. Pierce sues Oliver Pierce for divorce custody of Wendell Pierce. Oliver Pierce must answer within sixty days of the summons dated October 6 1911 else judgment by default. Attorney J Nelson Leavenworth Chelan Co Washington state records show Oct 6 Nov 10 dates.
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