The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-07-15
Town and County

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Mr.. and Mrs. Carr aud Mr.. Downing
and wife spent last Sunday in the coun-
try.
DR.. Hoxsey has twice been called to
Blewett this week to attend sick child
in the Davenport family.
DR.. Mccoy and Mrs. Tholin spent
last Sunday at the ranch of w. w.
Stephens, out on Eagle creek.
There is a rumor that some one is
going to start grocery store across
the gulch, in mill town.
Mrs. James Clark, who had her arm
broken few weeks ago while trying
to catch horse, is out again.
H.Blinn one of our old time residents
went down to Wenatchee Tuesday to
take in the market day opening.
Jack Smith left Monday for Seattle.
Business will detain him there until
the latter part of the week when he
will return.
Vernon Anderson, of Wenatchee,
spent last Saturday and Sunday with
his friend Julian Magyar, returning to
his home OIL Monday.
IN johnson brought bunch of al
falfa to town last Saturday that meas
ured feet-l0 inches. 1t was grown on
his place without irrigation.
The fishing Sc son has set in, and
any hour of the day one can see the dis
ciples of Isaac Walton going in the di-
rection OF the river with fishing rod.
C. E. Barnhill was called to Wenat-
chez Monday evening and it is reported
that an heir was born unto him, that
it was boy and weighed eight pounds.
E. F. Sprague, the undertaken and
,embalmer, was up from Wenatchee on
Tuesday, being called here to prepare
the body of Mrs. Sears for shipment
to Iowa.
W.T.. Blankenship was down from
Lake Wenatchee this week doing bus
mess with our merchants. He said
that heavy rain fell there on Monday
afternoon.
Mrs. Maud Hall came in from Everett
last Saturday. Mrs. Hall is sister OF
George Heating and will keep house
for him when he gets his new residence
completed.
Among the visitors to our town last
week was George F. Grant, Jack Hin
ton and Mr.. Farnum, all old time
ranchers of the Mission valley. The
two former are unterrifed democrats.
Dwight Darling, proprietor of the
City Drug Store, came over from Ever
EFT last Sunday. His wife and daugh-
ter, who accompanied him. will remain
here for the next two weeks but he did
not tarry long, returning Monday.
P. J. Mcclure, NJ. ]. Dalton and Ed.
Tholin went up on the Icicle last Fri
evening and returned Saturday even
ing with 1914 speckled trout, from eight
TO twelve inches long. This is the first
catch OF any consequence this season.
doe Edwards came in from Wenat-
chez last Tuesday and returned We'd
nesday., Mr.. Edwards is the plumber
man for the Wenatchee Hardware Co.
and a postgraduate in that line OF
work. He was up TO figure on the
plumbing for the Bjork building.
R. F. Brown, an old time printer
who has forsaken that occupation and
has for sometime been engaged in min
sng up on Negro creek, spent the past
week in town. Mr.. Brown has some
valuable claims which will some day
be worth lots of money.
Kirk Whited, one of the Oldest attor-
news in Wenatchee, spent last Sunday
in and around Leavenworth. AS a side
occupation, and for recreation as much
as anything else, Mr.. Whited makes
a study of botany. 1t was in pursuit of
this favorite pastime that he came here
to get few specimens that abound in
this locality. He spent the day tramp
ing around over the hills and returned
the next day.
The waste earth from the Smith &
Tholin basement is being put in Front
street between the Losekamp corner
and the bank. and while there is not
enough to bring the street up to the
proper grade, II the property owners
would go to small expense in having
the high ground above the Losekamp
corner cut down and the waste earth
from there hauled down to the low
place, the street would soon present