The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-10-21

That is quite an artistic window dis
play in the Leavenworth Mercantile
Co.'S store.
Mrs. c. Fl. Mason went down to We
natchee yesterday to buy furniture and
fixtures for her new house.
L. II. Bowman came in from Seattle
Monday and after spending a couple of
days left again for the Sound yester-
day.
Fourteen car loads of torpedo boat
destroyers for the japanese government
passed through on their way to the
coast yesterday.
Mrs. Ed. Mills left last Saturday
night for Bremerton where she will
join her husband, he having decided to
make that his future home.
Mrs. J. E. Schubert returned from
Seattle yesterday. Mr.. Schubert ac-
companied her and the boy some ten
days ago but himself returned last
week.
After the speaking Congressman
Humphrey left at a. m. on the east
bound to be present at Coulee City
where he was billed for a speech on
Thursday night.
Charles Rippard, one of the sid time
printers, known in every printing Office
from the Pacific to the Atlantic,
stopped off here one day thes week, on
his way to the Sound.
The ladies of Companion Court 1. o.
F. will give grand ball as soon as the
John Bjork building is ready. This
will be in about ten days. Further
particulars will follow later.
w. P. Sears, who left here about the
middle of July for Iowa with the body
of his wife, who died here, returned
yesterday. He says he will probably
remain here during the winter and
may decide to remain permanently.
Henry Grass spent two days in our
town this week. In conversation with
the writer he said he had been all over
the county recently and had come to
the conclusion that Chelan county
would go republican from top to bot
tom by from $50 to $50 majority.
Mrs. Julia Mitchell, from Wilson
Creek, mother of j. H. Mitchell, has
been here this week on a visit to her
son. She left for her home yesterday
accompanied by Mrs. J. H. Mitchell,
who is going to Wilson Creek on
short visit.
Tom W. Davidson, agents assistant
at Chiwauknm, spent few days in our
town this week, shaking hands with old
friends. He says the receipts at
Chiwaukum Office footed over four thou
sand dollars for one month this sum-
mer. Chiwaukum must be on a boom.
P. H. Graham is building a barn at
If he fences his lot as he has a right to
do, entrance into town from that direc-
ton will be cut off for wagons Com
mercial street should be cleaned out
and graded from the Congregational
church to the bridge. The streets are
under the control of the commissioners
court and that body should take this
matter up at its next meeting and in
struct the road supervisor of this dis
trict, Mr.. Stein, to do this work this
fall.
Messrs. Beam & Smith, the contract
ors, are putting the finishing touches
to the John Bjork building When
finished this will be handsome bust
ness block and would be credit to any
town. Under the supervision of the
same firm of contractors the Smith &
Tholin building is fast approaching
completion. While not so large as the
Bjork building it is in some respects
even better, all the walls being Is inches
thick. The upper floor being intend
ed for an opera house it had to be built
more substantially as to walls and
floors. The upper room will be thirty
five feet wide and eighty-tive feet long
with sixteen foot ceiling, and will
have permanent stage of ample d.
mansions and drop curtain and wings
Mr.. S. 81. Shook tells US that he has
about completed the wood work on
ten room house for F. L. Brender on
his Chumstick dairy ranch. Mr.. Shook
says he will have one OF the best farm
houess in this section, when it is com
pleted. No better indication of profit
able farming can be given than that our
ranchers are building, and are able to
build, large and substantial homes.
Five or six large and handsome farm
houses have been built in this section
within the past year. Not old-fashioned
box houses. but neat attractive and
modern homes with all the conveniences
of a city house. A freshly painted
bonsa surronnled with trees and preen