The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-09-15
Town and County

Mrs. John Tholin left for Seattle
Tuesday evening and will remain on
the Sound for few days.
w. S. Bixby and sister have gone to
Tacoma, their old home for a two
weeks visit with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. H. Shook left for
Lake Chelan last Saturday and expect
to be gone several weeks.
Mrs c. H. Jenkins, who has been
visiting Mrs. Frank Sutton the past
year, left yesterday for her home at
Lacrosse, Wis.
On last Thursday there occurred an
event at the home of E. L. Pearson,
since which his family is larger by the
addition of boy.
]. S. Morney and wife, OF Spokane,
father and mother of Mrs. r. R.
Meachem, spent the past week here
visiting their daughter.
Mrs. w. A. Teutsch, sister of Mrs. E.
G. Spencer, left for her home in Port
land, last Thursday after a most enjoy
able visit of two months with her
sister.
Mrs. J. L. Dean and daughter, from
Des Moines, Iowa. arrived here last
Tuesday evening. They are on visit
of indefinite length to Mrs. Deans son,
H. H. Dean.
Mrs. L. E. Stephens. whose home is
in Sioux City, Iowa, arrived from
Portland last Tuesday evening TO visit
Mrs. S. Shortly who was a neighboC
and friend OF hers in Sioux city.
Mrs. H. r. Stearns, and her son Her
bert stopped off here on the way
home to Wenatchee from the Portland
fair to visit a few days with Mrs
Stearn's brothers, the Messrs. Merriam.
Road Supervisor Stein was down from
the Beaver creek hill where he is still
engaged on the road. He says the
work of making a good road is even
more heavy than he at first believed il
would be.
A. E. King left last Sunday night
for Everett, where he will join his
wife. He has been figuring on a vaca'
ton of months duration but private
affairs may interfere with his plans
and cause him to change his mind.
Miss Grace ]. Smith, of Wenatchee,
accompanied her brother-in-law, Joe
Edwards, on a visit to our town last
Sunday. Mr.. Edwards is here for the
purpose of figuring on some improve
ments to be made in the plumbing Of
the opera house.
Superior court will be in session ftr
the next two weeks. Messrs. j. A.
Miller and George P. Rice, of this
place will serve on the petit jury the
first week of the term, for which pur'
pose they went to Wenatchee last Sun
day.
Mr.. H. E. Carr, one of the members
of the school board tells us that the ser
vices of G. B. Simmons, of Prosser,
Wash, has been secured as principal
of our public school. This still leaves
one vacancy in the intermediate de
partment which will be supplied this
week.
Geo. Mclean an old time passenger
engineer on the G. N. who formerly
lived here. but now makes bis home
in Spokane stopped off here last Fri
day with his wife to visit old friends
He went from here to Portland wnert
he will put in week at the Fair.
G. E. Keller, who has been employed
in Dwight Darling's drug store al
Everett, arrived here last Saturday tC
take charge of the City Drug Store
during Mr.. Kings absence. Mr.. KEEL
Ter is a graduate of the Philadelphia
School of Pharmacy and comes highly
recommended as competent druggist
County Clerk Christensen came ny
from Wenatchee last Saturday and re
turned Sunday. His sister-in-law. Mis-;
Nyborg, from Minneapolis, who is visit
ing his family, came up with him to see
Leavenworth She is most charming
young lady and frankly admitted tina
she liked our town, saying if she de
cided to locate in the west she would
prefer this to any town she had seen.
Charles Northup last week sold to W
H. Wahlfel forty acres of Chumsticl
land, miles from town. Mr.. Wahl
fel came from the Big Bend countr,
some two years ago. He is progress
sive and thorough going farmer will
unbounded faith in the future of thi
country. He is at present on tn
Charles Zinkey farm, near Peshastii
but will next year commence the i'm
provement of lis own place.