The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-06-09
Town and County

A. z. Wells, the Wenatchee hard
ware man, made a flying visit 10 our
town last Tuesday.
W. F. Blankenship was down from
Lake Wenatchee this week. He says
things never looked mere prosperous
to him than now
James Duff and G. Il. Wilson care
up from Wenatchee to look over the
Icycle irrigation ditch with a view Of
taking contract to build the same.
I. A. Navarro, our afTable county sur
yeyor, dropped in on US one day this
week. He is laying his plans to begin
the survey of the Red Mountain road.
A son of D. Y. Foster was brought
down from Mason Greek to be treated
for vegetable poison. 1t had broken
out on his face and assumed a serious
phase.
The Twentieth Century Club met
with Mrs. May Coleman on Wednesday
afternoon, June It'll. The next meet
ing will be held with Mrs. Sutton on
June 31st.
Two well known society people OF
Wenatchee were married this week.
Miss Dorothy Morrison and Percy
Scheble We're united in marriage on
Wednesday
That fruit and vegetable display
which Mr.. Moore keeps in Bliss Bros.
window is very attractive 1t pays to
display goods as well as advertise that
you have them for sale.
Ed Ferguson, of Wenatchee, the
genial,and irrepressible Ed, spent the
better part of two days in Leavenworth
last week and visited with the Echo, as
he always does when here.
H B. Smith, postmaster and mer-
chant at Merritt spent TUESDAY and
Wednesday in Leavenworth, He tells
us that Merritt will be a lively logging
camp this summer and fall.
F. Fl. Clerff, of Spokane, shipped
thirty-fve cars of sheep to Chicago this
week. The sheep had only been here a
short time and were driven here from
the eastern part of the state.
Mrs. Anna Godsoe, who spent last
summer in Leavenworth, and is quite
well known here, spent last Sunday
visiting with friends, returning Mon
day to her home in Wenatehee.
r. F. Holm, a Wenatchee real estate
man spent last Monday in Leavenworth
Mr.. Holm's firm, Bosquet & Holm, will
help to promote our irrigation scheme.
While here he called on the Echo.
J.E. Shubert was in town one day
this week with smile on his face as
broad as the hand as providence. He
said the recent rains had made his crop
prospects look mighty good TO him.
Mayor Sampson came up from We
natchee Sunday and went out to W.
w. Stephens ranch, where his wife
was visiting Mrs. Stephens for few
days Mr.. Sampson and wife returned
to their home Monday.
f. L. Sprague, Great Northern en-
gineer, formerly running out of Leayen-
worth. but now living at Spokane,
called on the Echo this week. Mr..
Sprague says his wife's health has not
been so good as when he lived here.
Gee. Fl. Moore made a business trip
to Seattle the first of the week. While
in Seattle he attended the wedding Of
an old friend and thus combined pleas
ure with business. Mr.. Moore tells US
that from a business point of view it
looked unusually quiet to him.
One day last week Deputy Sheriff
Evans came up from the county seat
and deprived Bill Allen of his liberty.
Bill is an Indian, who is charged by the
authorities of Okanogan county with
stealing cattle. This does not appear
to be the first time Bill has been in
trouble.
Maggie Mason, an Indian woman,
made complaint against Francis, an
other Indian, and on Tuesday he was
tried before Justie of Peace Taylor and
bound over to the Superior court on
charge of burglary. Bond was fixed at
$500, failing to give which he was on
Wednesday taken to Wenatchee for
safe keeping.
The sheep men are getting wise to
the fact that the store with the largest
stock is not only able to supply all their
wants promptly but can also sell
cheaper. The past ten days we have
supplied the wants Of several large out
fits. 1t was only necessary for them to
find out that ours is the place. They'll
come. Leavenworth Mercantile Co.
MIR. Peak has filed on a gold placer
claim on the Wenatehee river below
town. Years and years ago consider
able placer mining was done along the
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