The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-04-01
Town and County

G. S. Taylor, of Wenatchee, was in
our city last week and called on the
Echo.
Tom Henry was up this week from
Pine fat with load of apples and veg
etables.
The Ladies Guild will meet next
Thursday afternoon with Mrs. G. W.
Hoxsey
Lot Wilbur, the pioneer druggist of
Snohomish, was visiting friends in
Leavenworth one day last week.
A. G. Daniels, the night operator,
has also been transferred to some place
and will leave In few days for his
new berth.
Miss Laura Turner, who is attending
college in Seattle, is visiting her par
-ents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. 81. Turner, of
this place.
J.H Mitchell, who lost his entire
household goods in the fire OF last week
has moved into the house vacated by
Jay Wyckoff's family.
Mrs. A. Downing and her sister, Mrs.
j. Decker, went down to Wenatchee
Monday to visit friends. Mrs. Decker,
who lives in Seattle, has been here
for the past week with Mrs. Downing.
George Seamans, from Blewett, who
has been in the Leavenworth Hospital
for the past week or ten days, was dis
I charged the fore part of the week and
has returned to his home.
Edward Flaherty. who has held down
the position as day operator at the G.
N. depot has been transferred to the
dispatcher's Office at Spokane and left
to take up his new duties Monday.
C. b. Nichols, who left here some
two months ago for Chicago to accept a
position with the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, has returned and &C.
cepted the position OF day operator at
the depot.
Dwight Huston, OF Chiwaukum, came
down last Tuesday and put himself un-
der the care of DR.. Mccoy at Leaven-
worth Hospital. He was suff ring with
a humorous swelling on the neck which
DR.. Mccoy is treating.
Mrs. Merriam, wife OF Samuel G.
Merriam, came in from Spokane last
Sunday. Mr.. Merriam and wife will
make this their future home, he having
accepted a position as bookkeeper
for the Leavenworth Mercantile Com
dany, of which his brother, George S.
Merriam, is president
Paul Triem, rancher upon the
Chumstick met with an odd accident
last Saturday. In discharging his pis-
tol, in some unaccountable way small
particle of the bullet flew backwards
and struck him in the eye. Fortunate
ly. however, the wound was of such a
nature as not to iniure his sight.
On Saturday last, during the absence
of the editor in Seattle, c. NJ. Hen
bricks, OF Mission, accompanied by
Roberts Dye of this place called to
scrape up kind of Missouri acquain-
lance. Mr.. Hendricks came to Leav-
enworth about three years ago from
Paris, Mo, and worked in the round
house here for two years. While here
Mr.. Hendricks made many friends who
were glad to see him. A year ago last
summer he went to Mission and en-
gagged in the box manufacturing and
saw mill business with his father which
has proven very profitable.
RI. Casaday, of Centralia, is here
on visit to his son William, who is in
the employ of the Great Northern as
bridge foreman and is just now over
seeing the bridge being built across the
Chumstick east of town. Mr.. Casaday
was born in east Tennessee in 1927 and
first came west in 1s49 during the first
gold excitement. In 1889, while in the
employ OF the Hudson Bay Company he
crossed the Columbia river near where
Wenatchee now Is. He crossed the
Mains eleven times before railroad
was built across the continent. He has
seen cities built where was wilder
ness: he has seen the most savage and
warlike tribes of Indians transformed
into peaceable citizens. In fact since
he FIRST landed on the Pacific coast he
has seen an empire evolve out OF path
less wilderness
See Mrs. Beamish's millinery open
ing advertisement. Qp