The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-09-01

tonight.
Mrs. Geo. Blocksedge left for Seattle
the first of this week to visit with
friends.
Miss Mary Hansen, after a week
spent in Seattle, visiting friends, re-
turned last Saturday.
Mrs. Charles Anderson is one of the
mill town residents who is reported on
the sick list the past week.
The saw mill outfit for the North
Star Mining Co. arrived this week and
will be moved up to the names at once.
Mr. Chsllefeu has been on the sick
list this week, Nothing serious, how
ever, and he will be out again in "a few
days.
H. Fl. Dean, ]. C. Adams, ]. T. Nc
Aneny and ]. w. Elliott left for STRAIT
ford, Wash, yesterday on duck hunt
ing expedition.
D. V. Foster, of Merritt stopped off
here last Tuesday on his way home
from Wenatchee, where he had been
attending TO some land matters
J. E. Mills, Of Wenatchee, was here
last Tuesday looking for an opening in
the barber shop line. Whether he de-
cided to put shop in here We did not
learn.
r. F. Scott, night yardmaster for the
G. N. is at Spokane on two weeks
vacation. In his absence Orvil Bethel
is acting yardmaster and Bert Hansen
has taken Orvirs place as day porter
The boarding cars of the steel gang
were moved down to Peshastin the first
of this week. The work of replacing
the old steel with new between here
and Wenatchee is going on very rapidly.
Mrs. D. H. Magyar started for Lake
Wenatchee last Tuesday where she
will remain for week or ten days at
the Lake View Hotel, enjoying the
scenery about the lake, and. escape the
drudgery of housekeeping.
Mrs. A. J. Martin returned from
Biewett Wednesday, where she has
been to see sister, Mrs. Smith, who is
sick. Mrs. Martin says the camp is
quite lively, and she enjoyed her stay
at the camp very much
Miss Maude Hamilton, formerly of
O'Neill, Neb., but now of Seattle, "the
sister of her brothers" Guy and Claude,
accompanied Rafe T. King on his re-
turn from the Sound Sunday afternoon,
and is visiting her brothers, and the
Judge and Mrs. King.
If you know of any local news do not
hide your light under a half bushel.
Some people complain because they do
not see the names of their friends ar
rival in the paper. The Echo inyar-
IDLY mentions their arrival when he its
editor knows or someone tells him OF it.
II you know yourself Indebted to the
Echo on subscri ption do not wait to be
dunned and then threaten to stop the
paper because the editor could not wait
any longer and was compelled to ask
for what you should have long ago
paid
Herbert Stearns came up from We
natchee last Saturday to spend Sunday
with the family of G. S. Merriam,
where his sister, Miss Rose, has been
staying for the past month. In COM
pany with his sister he returned to
Wenatehee Monday morning.
The Echo received a letter this wee k
from Charles Bergler. who left here
last fall for Winona, Mimi, with two
dollars encl osed, saying, don't stop the
paper, when this is exhausted let me
know We would not be surprised to
see Charley back here almost any old
Time.
William Barron went to Chelan last
Tuesday. Mr.. Barron first landed on
the lake in 1888, when there were only
two white men in all that country, I. a.
Navarro aud his brother. Mr.. Barron
has not seen the lake country for
eleven years. He goes to see brother
who makes his home there.
Among the sitors to oar town thi
week was Louis Mullerleile, promin-
ent real estate man of Q iincy, Wash.
He tells the editor Of the E;ho that his
town is improving very rapidly, that
land values are enhancing as a conse-
9uenca of thu pro luctivity OF the soil
as shown by the enorm )u, crops which
are being harvested in the Big Bend
country Mr.. Mullerleila has invested
in a tract of Cas- ,ade Orchard land,
which it is his intention to begin i'm
proving this fall and set out 10 fruit
trees, He says il any one can give a
reason why land in this vicinity should
not be as productive and profitable as
it is around the town of Wenatchee,
and cOnSeouentfV as valuable he WOuld