The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-06-10
Town and County


the past two weeks.
Mrs. NJ. J. Dalton has developed a
well defined case of diphtheria.
Mrs. NJ. ]. Smith, of Wenatchee, is
visiting with Mrs. Losekamp this week.
a. A. Dotson and Miss Mary Hansen
were visitors to Wenatchee last Sun
day.
F. A. Lukens, the Peshastin saw mill
man, was in town this week and called
on the Echo.
Mrs. Carl Christensen and children,
of Wenatchee, are visiting with Mrs. c.
R. Zinkey this week.
WI Wester, of Wenatchee, will
occupy DR.. Shores place in the drug
store while the latter is away.
All the men who have been working
on the dam have been laid off and work
has ceased until the water goes down.
Mrs. Mccoy, from Peshastin, mother
of Del Mccoy, is up on visit to her
son and will remain for week or two.
Mrs. Sam Merriam left Tuesday for
Oswego, New York to be gone month
or as long as she enjoys her visit with
her mother.
Jack Smith has ordered large tent
which he will put up on the lot next to
the postoffice in which he will open his
saloon until he can rebuild.
Dwight Darling came in from Ever
cite Tuesday evening to look at the
burned district. He will probably re-
build on the lot where the City Drug
Store stood.
The Hobson brick yard this week
closed trade with John Bjork for
enough brick to build his hotel. 1t will
require considerably over two hundred
thousand brick.
Postoffice Inspector Flavin was here
Wednesday, says Postmaster Taylor,
and pronounced matters at this Office
in good shape He goes from here to
Blewett.
Ira Farmer and Henry Larama left
last Monday for Lake Chelan. They
will make the trip on their wheels and
will be gone about week. They ex-
pect to visit the head of the lake before
returning.
Our two brick yards have enough
brick on hand to supply all wants, hav-
ing just finished burning new kiins OF
excellent building brick. Both yards
are going right ahead making brick
and will each burn at least two more
kilns.
Messrs. H. Z. Carr and F. S. Jacob
sen have subdivided into lots, and plat
ted the twenty-five acre tract of land
belonging to G.. S. Merriam, lying just
west and north of the round-house. 1t
will be known as the Merriam addition
to Leavenworth.
Work on the Olive ditch near Mis-
sion has been suspended. Parties who
have prior water rights have threaten
ed to enioin the building on the ground
that there is not sufficient water in Mis-
sion Creek above what is already filed
on.
The following Wenatchee people
came up Tuesday evening to see what
was left of our town: NJ. P. Spencer OF
the Advance, Prof. w. P. Mills, teach
err of the Wenatchee band, ]. E. Fergu-
son, Chas. and Jay Buttles, Al Scheble,
Pat Lillis, w. T. Rarey, Carl Christen-
sen and wife, ]. L. Wheeler Jr. and
j. NJ. Duffy.
Work on the cellar and basement OF
of John Bjork's big hotel began this
week. John is the kind of men that
do some good in town. When he gets
ready to do something he does not
make any talk about it but goes ahead
and does it. When finished he will
have one of the largest and finest hotels
in central Washington. 1t will be built
of brick and stone and will be practi-
cally fire proof.
Mace the Paris detective, who died
recently is said TO have worn pair OF
spectacles of his own invention. The
lenses we're divided into two parts,
through one of which he looked ahead
upon the ground and with the other
saw the people behind him. This is an
old idea. Many mothers and grand
mother had something of this kind be-
fore the detective was born. They
called their perception seeing through
the back of the head. Many OF US
have been detected ourselves and we