The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-02-24
Town and County

TINS week.
Mrs. Frank Sutton has been quite
sick this week.
/ DR.. Hoxsey went to Seattle Wednes-
day to attend the Elk's plug hat parade.
Quite a large crowd from this place
attended the dance at Cashmere on the
22d inst.
The trains have been running on time
the past week TO the delight of the
travelling public.
Court is in session at Wenatchee this
week and several Leavenworth citizens
have been in attendance.
Miss Mary Hansen is visiting friends
at Cashmere this week and reports that
she is having pleasant time.
Hagen Anderson, time keeper at the
tunnel was in Leavenworth Wednes-
day and Thursday of this week.
Charles Keane, a fireman, has been
transferred from Everett to this point
and will work out of Leavenworth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Griggs aud
children, of Wenatchee, spent Sunday
in the city with Mrs. Griggs mother,
Mrs. Rawlins
Robt. Nichols is at the hospital suf-
fering with a broken foot. A tree fell
on his foot at Chisholm & Morris camp
last Saturday.
Mrs. S. p. Bethel and daughter, Miss
Floy, returned on Monday from Cash
mere, where they had been visiting
friends and relatives.
J. C. Davis, formerly a Great North
ern engineer, has been appointed post
master OF Leavenworth and it is re-
ported will qualify about April LIST.
Mr. B. F. Reed, of Ellensburg, the
republican candidate for joint senator
from Chelan and Kittitas counties was
pleasant caller at the Echo Office last
Friday.
The past few days have reminded one
of the early spring weather. 1t is re-
ported that robbins have been seen al
read.', which is generally the first in
dication of spring.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Green came
over from Ballard last Sunday 10 visit
with Mrs. L. Fl. Turner, and enjoy the
sleighing. Mr.. Green was formerly
cashier at the G. N. depot.
1t is reported that the Great North
ern will put on work train between
the Columbia river and Leavenworth
early in the spring. The road bed will
be put in good condition and new steel
will be laid
Mrs. H. r. Stearns and her son, Her
bert, came up from Wenatchee last
Saturday to pay visit to her brothers,
the Messrs. Merriam. Herbert re-
turned Sunday night but Mrs. Stevens
prolonged her stay until Tuesday.
Mr.. w E. Gore and wife returned
! last Saturday from weeks visit to the
family of j. r. Hinton of the Cashmere
valley. Mrs. Gore was very much
charmed with her visit, with the many
pleasant people she met and also With
the famous valley.
Airline Farmer this week developed
case of diphthera and as result Mrs.
Farmers room at the school house re-
NAMED closed this week. The case is
not believed to be serious and it Is
hoped that the quarantine on the family
will be raised in few days.
While in Wenatchee on Monday of
this week we were told that the new
hotel proposition was only somebody's
pipe dream. Tie Hotel Elberta fills the
bill so completely that there is not
soon rs the growing city needs another
hotel the Brown Brothers will fill the
bill with as good hotel as there is in
the state.
Mrs. Eta Castleberry, who left here
last July with her husband for Joplin,
Mo, her old home, Mr.. Castleberry
was suffering from lead poison and has
since died. Mrs. Castleberry informs
us that she has decided TO make her
home permanently in Joplin. She is
here for the purpose of proving up on
valuable homestead which she owns in
the Chumstick valley.
The Echo had pleasant call from
Mr.. B. f. Reed, of EIlensburg. Mr..
Reed is the republican nominee for
state senator from Chelan and Kittitas
counties. He is an old resident of the
state and has done much to advance the
interest of the farmers, dairy men,
horticulturalists, and stock raisers. He