The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-06-02
Town and County

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Harry Dean is putting an addition to
his residence in the mill town addition.
Miss Anna Tholin returned Sunday
from Wenatehee after an absence of u
week..
o. J. Void was up from Cashmere
and spent last Sunday with his Leaven-
worth friends.
Mrs. Sam Merriam went down to
Wenatchee Wednesday TO visit with
relatives for few days.
e. G.. Spencer went to Seattle Friday
to meet his daughter VINO has been in
Portland for the plst month.
Don't forget that DR., Cameron, the
dentist, will come up from Wenatchee
about the first of every month.
Sam Merriam was called to We
natchee the first of the week as a wit
ness in the belong lunacy trial.
Ed Tholin left for Dawson, Alaska,
yesterday. He will remain in Alaska
until fall and may stay all winter.
The Wenatchee river has been rising
for the past week as result of the
warm weather we have been having.
A. p. Sheridan was a visitor to
Leavenworth the past week. He is
about to enter the employ of the Great
Northern.
Elma and Walter Turner left for
Spokane Wednesday, where they will
visit Mrs. Nichols, their sister, for the
next week.
Chris Jack, of Umatilla, Oregon, has
been visiting the family of Oscar Hum
phrey and returned to his home last
Saturday.
d. NJ Thomas went TO Wenatchee
Monday on business trip and return
ed Tuesday While there he bought
car of flour for his house.
Frank Reeves came up from We
natchee Wednesday to represent w.
e. Bartlett in the examination which
was held before Justice Taylor We'd
nesday evening.
Commissioner Human came up from
Cashmere on Wednesday to look after
the work which Mr.. Stein is doing on
the streets of Leavenworth and the
roads leading to it.
What saw mill is this?" Will in
the future be answered by a large sign
which the Lamb Davis Lumber Co. has
erected facing the railway track just
beyond the coal sheds.
j. L. Wheeler, ST., is making con-
siderable improvement in the internal
arrangement of the Wheeler store. He
tells us he will have considerable more
room and intends in the future to carry
very much larger stock of goods.
Mrs. Ina Munger and daughter, Vera,
returned last week from Benton Har
Dor, Michigan, where her husband
Llewellyn Munger, who was killed by
log rolling on him in March last, was
buried. Mrs. Munger will probably
make her home here.
The Great Northern is employing
large force of men apd steam shovel
between here and Wenatchee, widening
cuts and Fl lis and making extensive i'm
provements of the road bed. About
forty miles of heavy steel rails will be
laid east of here, between now and this
fall.
B. G. Collier, the Wenatchee photo
grapher, was Going this portion of
Chelan county last week for the pur-
pose of getting some of the interesting
views to be obtained about here. He
has the contract for making the pic
lures for the Chelan county exhibit at
Portland.
Word was received last Tuesday by
Jas. Clark, of Chumstick valley, that
the body of his father was found near
Roslyn, B. c. The indications showed
that Mr.. Clark had been murdered.
He disappeared about two weeks ago.
The full particulars are not known at
this writing.
E. Forbes and wife went down to
Malaga last Thursday to visit few
days with Mr.. Forbes father. They
returned the first of this week. Mr.
Forbes tells us he will put the next few
weeks improving some lots on the
north side of the track, which he
bought from E. A. King.
Work on the Beaver creek hill, on
the Lake Wenatchae road, was begun
Monday morning. Twelve men with
their teams are at work at present.
They will clear off the right-of-way
and take out the stumps and Road Su-
pervisor Steine will do the grading.
At present there is twenty-five per
cent grade. This will be reduced to a
NAHUM five per cent grade. The
travel between Leavenworth and Lake
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