The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-08-11
Town and County

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Mr.. Schmidt, proprietor of the FL
berta Hotel, spent a few days in
Leayenworth this week.
Mr. and Mrs. NJ c. Humphrey went
to Spokane the last OF the week to visit
with relatives for week or two.
j. Nj. Hamilton, with his assistant,
got very busy this week wiring up sew
eral residences for electric lights.
F. f. Spragne came up from We
natchee Wednesday to prepare the
body of j. A. Burgett for shipment.
A first class dramatic company will
appear at the opera house on Monday
Tuesday and Wednesday nights Of next
week.
H w. Russell, the Wenatchee
painter and paper hanger, is here
papering Mrs. H. A. Anderson room
ing house.
Geo, Blocksedge left Wednesday for
| Soap Lake where he will remain for a
week, or longer if the waters benefit
his rheumatism.
Mrs. Charles L. Crawford left yester-
day for the coast where she will spend
month in hope that the change of air
will benefit her health.
| G. S. Hanes and wife, Of Humboldt,
Iowa. father and mother of f. F. Hanes,
left for home Tuesday after a two
weeks visit with their son.
Mr.. Koren says he has had number
OF applications from parties who want
ed to be shown over the Cascade
Orchards lands the past week.
Joe Teshera has been in the noun
tains with hunting party for the past
two weeks. Wynne Faulkner is acting
as town marshal in his absence.
RoadSupervsor Stein is up in the
Chumsticll valley repairing the roads
and bridges, doing good work say the
inhabitants of that fertile valley
Mrs. Mae Mcclure returned last Fri
day from the Sound country after an
absence of two months. During her
absence she visited the Portland fair.
The family of John Brender are re-
ioicing over the arrival of a boy at
their house. Although the event oc-
Cured some time ago, they are still
rejoicing.
Howell Ralston returned Tuesday
from visit to the Portland fair. He
says Chelan county has very credit
able exhibit and the entire show is
worth seeing.
In five years the population of We
natchee has grown from SIP to over
5000. Bringing the surrounding lands
into cultivation by irrigation is respon-
sible for this growth
Fl. f. Carr went to Wenatchee Mon
day on business and on Tuesday Mrs.
Carr Joined him Together they atten-
ded the marriage of Miss Ada Tread
well to Mr.. Frank Johnson.
Among the Peshastin people who
were doing bus mess in our town this
week were w. H. Wahlfel, II. W..
Otis. Charley Wright, w. F. Wright
and w. I'll. Isaacs. the Peshastin mer-
chant.
Mrs. J w. Campbell returned from
her summer outing at Lake Kahchess
in the Cascade Mountains last Satur-
day. Her daughter Miss Edna is still
sojourning at the lake and will return
later on.
Albert Walker who started two
weeks ago on an extended tour of Cal
| ifornia and the southern states return
ed last Saturday. His trip being cut
short by affairs that called him home
from Oregon.
L. s. Parker, Fremont Station, Seat
tie, this week bought two lots in the
Cascade Orchard lands. 1t is Mr..
Parkers intention to make his home
here and at once commence the work Of
improving his tracts.
The work of laying the STEEL between
this place and Rock Island began We'd
nesday morning. The boarding cars
of the steel gang, thirteen in number,
were set out on an improvised track at
this place the first of this week.
F. F. Hanes and family left this week
for Riverside. Wash, where Mr..
Hanes has finally decided to accept the
position of manager for the Glenwood
Mercantile Co. Mr.. Hanes is most
excellent citizen and we regret to loo.e
him.
Miss Maud Merriam left yesterday
for Seattle, from where she will go by
the Canadian Pacific to Oswego, New
York, the old home of her father, Geo.
S. Merriam. She will be absent two
weeks. Mr.. Merriam will accompany