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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1911
Page
6
Residents and guests travel between Leavenworth Wenatchee Cashmere and nearby towns in a flurry of visits business trips and social events. Apple shipments hiring building projects and a Halloween party highlight a lively Peshastin week with family reunions and community notes.
Fifty carloads of apples shipped from Wenatchee last Friday with forty six eastbound and four westbound. record season. County commissioners will pay rancher C W Johnson $500 for capturing Percy Short who attacked Harry Holland last March. Moose lodge play Hop Skip and Jump earned $740 with net profit about $250. Wenatchee High beat Lincoln High 12 to 0. Broadway High and Red Apple boys to meet on the Wenatchee gridiron tomorrow. Mrs C E Lillis plans a four story steel concrete building in Wenatchee next spring between Palouse and Orondo avenues with 200 foot frontage. Great Northern engineers plan rock tests in Chelan gorge for a power plant. work to start soon. Steve Bailey recalls Capt Miller’s mining advice from 1899 and laments not buying city lots then.
Assays in the Index area show gold values up to $200 per ton. Spokane-area notes report Spokane postal effort for the National Apple Show with one million postcards and every resident to mail ten cards. State taxes for the year total $5,062,167 while state property values exceed $2 billion. Plans advance for Long Lake spillway dam project to generate 90,000 horsepower, with a 320 foot dam, 145 foot base, 8,000 cubic feet per second flow, and a $4 million estimate, slated for completion in 1912.
The M E Sunday school scholars will lead a rally day service on October 22 at 10 o clock. A sermon follows from the pastor titled Where Is Thy Flock Thy Beautiful Flock. Epworth League meets at 6 30 p m Evening sermon at 7 30 p m Prayer meeting at Leavenworth 7 30 p m Wednesday. The pastor invites all to attend and join in worship for the day.
Congregational church advertises next Sabbath morning sermon on Pleasures of the Life With Christ led by Rev. W V Davis. Evening services follow and all are invited to attend.
An advertisement extols Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as the perfect remedy for cuts corns burns bruises boils ulcers eczema eczema and more. It claims unrivaled relief for piles sore eyes cold sores chapped hands sprains and other conditions and notes a price of 50 cents at druggists with an October echo guarantee.
Voters in Leavenworth will decide November 4 1911 on ratifying water works plans by engineer O H Green and issuing 44000 in negotiable bonds payable over twenty years at 8 percent interest. Polling places include City Fire Hall and City Hall with designated judges clerks and official ballots listing Yes or No choices.
The statement notes the issue of negotiable bonds totaling 44000 dollars to fund a municipal water system, dated October 1, 1911, signed by L. R. Hart.
Warns travelers to carry Chamberlain's Goli Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, stating it may be unavailable on cars or steamships and at the King's City Drug Store is the source for purchase.
Clerk of Leavenworth Town to close voter registration books on October 25 111 for the November 4 1911 special election. Voters must register by October 2 WL to be qualified. Election called by the Town Council to determine a specified issue.
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