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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1909
Page
5
Leavenworth to Telma stage line runs Mondays and Fridays at 9:30 AM with 4:00 PM arrival at Telma. Telma to Leavenworth departs Tuesdays and Saturdays at 8:00 AM arriving 4:00 PM. Offers mail, parcels and express. Inquiries to Joe Massie, Proprietor, Leavenworth, Washington.
Local items from Leavenworth Wenatchee and nearby include travels of Dr W W Elmer Alden Warman and Judge J J King to Wenatchee and Spokane updates on schooling and employment. Exposition visits and shopping at the L D Store punctuate a week of social and family news.
The Methodist ladies met with Mrs. Carl Cloud. Jennie Ruth returns to Seattle after visiting cousin Art Johnson. McLaren and wife plan Everett move. King duo to visit Everett and the Sound exposition. Ellis and Krollfeiffer return from Red Mountain mining camp. Congregational dinner raises about 25 dollars for the church. Albert Greenhalg narrowly escapes serious injury on a switching engine. Porter couple visit Leavenworth relatives and head to Los Angeles for medical studies. Juvenile band practice with 21 attending. some absentees. Deputy Debord escorts William Weigand to Wenatchee then to insane asylum. Harry Woldenberg injured in a horseback incident. prognosis favorable. Mrs. Jack McLeod and Mrs. Carl Cloud bid farewell from the Degree of Honor lodge with a reception, dance and supper. Mrs. Maud Hall and George Keating head to the Sound. Keating plans hardware business move to North Yakima. G. H. Snowdon returns from Blewett mines. local camp employs about 25 on Snowdon’s placer hydraulic claim.
F A Reynolds of Reynolds Washington plans land sales in five acre tracts after a new wagon road links Lake Wenatchee with the Great Northern railway and rumors of an electric line. Rev Melvin Rumohr leaves Leavenworth for Chelan to take over as pastor next Sunday. The Echo notes goodwill for the departing minister.
Mrs. Mahala Carr, aged nearly 63, died in Leavenworth on Sunday September 13 after feeble health and two minor paralysis attacks. A brief funeral was held at her son Harry Carr's home by Rev. W V Davis. Her body went to Clinton Iowa for burial with her son Harry. Survivors include sons Harry and John, daughter Miss Mattie in Leavenworth, and son Will in Dayton Ohio.
T C Thompson and wife visited Tacoma relatives and attended the expo. G A Daly and wife joined the Wenatchee special and waved the valley flag in the grand Wenatchee day parade. Mrs N Coleman and son Carl returned from Tacoma after visiting friends and the exposition. Mrs J G Brown and her mother Mrs Allison toured the exposition and rode the Sound steamer Iroquois to Deception Pass. Miss Myra Daly vacationed in Everett visiting friends and schoolmates in Seattle. Mrs Farmer traveled via Seattle to Wenatchee to visit daughter Connie Parker. Arctic explorers Cook and Peary spar over a cold subject.
Nelson Forsythe and Family express sincere thanks to friends and neighbors for help and sympathy shown during the illness and death of their mother Mrs Martha Porter.
Mr and Mrs Lewis Noble thank friends for assistance in their baby’s death. Also notices for church chicken dinner, whiskey ad, stock sale, land for sale, loan offer, lots near school, laundry help, furnished house for rent. Also price and contact details sprinkled through.
Notice from School District No. 49 Chelan County Washington invites taxpayers to a 7:30 p m October 4 1909 meeting at Leavenworth school house to discuss a levy estimated at 10120 35 with detailed purposes on file The plan covers teachers salaries 5960 truant officer 90 school clerk 150 books and stationery 300 new furnaces 1350 three stages 1175 incidental expenses 200 and carpentry work 150 all totaling 10120 35-6 C E Hamilton Clerk.
Notice to the public that 349 F. A. Losekamp is appointed administrator of the estate of John Smith, deceased. All indebted parties to him or the firm Tholin & Smith at death are notified that accounts are payable to the administrator. Includes assets such as cash on hand and real estate.
Edison phonographs offer 2 and 4 minute records and a new attachment are featured at Nickell's store opposite the depot.
The Echo promotes calendars wall pockets banners and other advertising novelties for 1910. Readers are invited to view examine and obtain prices. The paper claims it can supply these items cheaper than agents who incur hotel travel expenses and share profits with their employer.
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