The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-03-03
Town and County

Mr.. and Mrs. L. p. Durand went
down 10 Wenatchee yesterday.
Fifty cars of ice are being put in the
Great Northern ice house this week.
Attorney L. J. Nelson was in attend
ance at the superior court in Wenatchee
last week.
Messrs. Smith & Tholin this week
put handsome gold leaf sign up over
the Opera Bar.
Judge J. J. King was in Wenatchee
last Friday and Saturday in attendance
on the superior court.
Mrs. Otis Elan left yesterday for
Winchester, Wash, and will spend
some time on her husbands ranch.
The Wilkins Concert and Comedy
Company will give a vaudeville per-
Torrance in the opera house tonight.
George Blocksedge made trip to the
Sound this week to visit his father who
is at the old soldiers home at Orting,
Wash.
The order of Fraternal Eagles held
social session on Thursday evening and
had royal good time say those who
attended.
The Wenatchee river has risen two
feet in the past week and if the warm
weather continues look out for high
water.
Ole Sands has gone TO Wenatchee
where he will work for j. NJ. Duffey.
Mrs. Sands viii follow him in about
two weeks.
The continued warm weather of the
past week has put an end to sleighing.
The roads, too, are getting into almost
| impossible condition.
Ferdinand and Jens Peterson have
been reported to US as victims of la
grippe this week. They are residents
of the Merriam addition.
A wee bit of a girl made her appear
ance at the home of w. c. Pendleton
yesterday morning. Mother and baby
doing as well as could be expected.
Horace Bliss went over to Seattle last
Saturday and returned Wednesday
morning He says they are enjoying
fine weather on the Sound and that he
| had pleasant trip. t
Mrs. P. II. Cookston, daughter OF our
fellow townsman, D. c, Wilson, left for
her home at Columbia, Wash, last
Saturday after spending a week visit
ing with the family of her father.
He opened his eyes last Sunday morn
ing at the home OF Engineer James
Mackey, and said, as plain as baby
can with his eyes, ''what worlds this
ere, that I've come near" Mother and
babe getting on nicely.
A small but congenial party met at
the residence of A. NJ. McPheters last
Tuesday evening and employed them
selves with music, cards and dancing
after which the luncheon was served,
all of which the guests enjoyed.
w. G. Beagle and family left last
Tuesday for Mohler, Wash, where they
will make their future home. Mr..
Beagle has a ranch near that town
which he will improve. He says he
would rather live on farm than work
on the railroad.
Amon5 the window attractions this
week we noticed very new and unique
one in the City Drug Store. 1t at
tracted considerable attention. Elec-
tric lights play on numerous colored
glass crystals producing kind OF
Kaleidoscope effect.
H. G. McWhirter, the Wenatchee
tombstone man. spenta day in our town
this week looking for business in his
line. He told US he did not make Il
sale. People do not die here, conse-
quently do not need monuments to re-
cord our virtues after we are dead.
IlO oLO" % Nioo 49, 1900
A few more days such as we have had
this week and We will be walking on
bare ground. As result OF the late
warm weather the roads are getting in
very bad condition. The melting snow
washes them into an almost impossible
condition.
Quite a large and enthusiastic crowd
of the devotees of the terpichorean art
attended Prof. McDaniels' dancing class
and social hop last Saturday night. 1t
was perhaps the largest crowd which
has so far turned out. Do not forget
that there will be another at the same
place tomorrow evening.
The Leavenworth Skat Club. August
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