The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-08-18


man, has developed case of typhoid
fever.
Mrs. j. r. Buttles came up from We
this week to visit her sister-in-law Mrs
Blinn
A great big new boy made his APP
pearance at the home M. j. Dalton
last Wednesday morning.
We have just learned that water is
running through the entire length OF
the Cascade Orchard Canal.
Floyd Shields. from Des Moines, Ia,
is here on a visit 10 the family of Harry
Dean of whose family he is an old &C
quaintance.
Nels Sorenson returned Wednesday
from Portland where he went TO take
in the fair. He will leave for Mime
sofa tomorrow.
Mrs. Frank Gerlick who has been
here with her husband for the past
week feft Wednesday for Soap
Lake, where she will spend a week.
The box mill of the Lamb Davis
Lumber Co. is engaged in filing a ten
car order for rolled oats boxes for a
Chicago firm. Three thousand boxes
to the car.
Fl. Blinn returned from Seattle this
week. He was called there by the
doctor who recently performed an
operation on him. He says he is feel
ing quite we'll.
He. Peters came over from Sc
attic this week to meet the engineer
and the contractors who built the
Cascade Orchard ditch and formally
receive the work.
Among the purchasers of Cascade
Orchard land this week are c. p.
Porter of Seattle. B. N. Johnson Of
Sultan and our fellow towsmen j. W.
anu t. JOcTSot'
Mr.. R. Gibson, a dentist, recently
from Seattle is stopping at the Over
land Hotel. If he finds the outlook
encouraging he will locate permanent
ly. If you have work in his line go and
get acquainted with the doctor.
DR.. r. Gibson, who has; been at the
Overland Hotel this week is looking
for a permanent location, and should
you contemplate having any dentistry
work done you should call at once, have
youc teeth examined and get his prices
free of charge, as he wishes to ascer-
tain something of the work to be had
in this locality, should he decide to re-
main.
The Band boys have poster out
announcing dance for Sept. 9TH. The
object of course is to replenish the
depleted treasury of the band. A
dance appears in the light of past ex-
perience, to offer the greatest attrac-
ton, in this town. When every other
form of entertainment fails to bring out
a crowd Just announce a dance. 1t
seems to have much the same attrac-
ton for the young people that the
candle does for the moth.
Judge King has found new use for
sticky fly paper. A colony of yellow
jackets had found Judgement in the
front end of his Office just over the
door. One day last week he tried
burning them out and came near set
ting fire to the building. Last Monday
morning an ingenious boy told him to
nail a sheet of stickey fly paper to
board and lean it against the building.
The yellow jacket, if you remember
him as boy, is about as full of fight as
a bull dog. No sooner did they per-
ceive this strange object near their
than they attacked it in force.
with the same result that the fly at
tains. They got stuck on it. In a
short time he had the larger portion of
the colony securely stuck. An occas-
sional shaking of the board would
cause them to attack with renewed
vigor always with disastrous defeat.
An alarm of fire Tuesday evening
was caused by a volume of smoke
issuing from the residence of Jno. B.
Adams. 1t was discovered and the
alarm given by Mrs. G. w. Hoxsey.
An investigation proved that the bed
clothes in one OF the bed rooms was on
fire. Mr.. and Mrs. Adams had gone
out on the day before to spend Monday
and Tuesday on the ranch of Miss
Anna Tholin leaving their boy and
girl aged respectfully ID and 10 at
home. The fire is believed to be the
result OF some accident or thoughtless-
ness on the part of the children or
their playmates who had been about
the house in the afternoon. The dam
age was slight not amounting to more
than $50 or SIS. The dire results of
fire experiences in the past was in
the mind of the people and when the
alarm was given it caused consider