The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-02-09
Town and County

Tue nome OF MIS- s. y. DdFis On GU l.
L. J. Nelson went to Wenatchee
Wednesday evening and returned
Thursday.
A A. Bryan went to Wenatchee on
Monday of this week and returned
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Deed H. Magyar went 10
Wenatchee Sunday night and returned
Tuesday morning.
Mrs, John Trerice returned Wednes-
day afternoon from three weeks visit
to her daughter in Seattle.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Mackey went to
Spokane Wednesday evening to visit
with friends for few days.
H.. E. Carr was called to Wenatchee
this week on business connected with
his duties as school trustee.
Lewis N Moss, of Spokane, owner of
the John Smith ranch, on Eagle creek,
spent several days here this week.
Mrs. o. S. Sampson went to Wenat-
chez last Tuesday evening for visit
with friends for a few days.
G. w. Hastings came down from
Merritt Wednesday and stopped off
here for a short time on his way to We
natchee.
Rev. T. M. Hilton will conduct
Episcopal church services in Fraternal
Hail on Sunday, Feb. 18th, and every
two weeks thereafter.
The Ladies Industrial Society will
be entertained by Mrs. Deed 81. Magyar
and Mrs. E. A. King on Thursday,
Feb. 18th, at the home of Mrs. Magyar.
A cordial invitation is extended to all.
Leavenworth possesses some suttle
attraction for Fred Reeves, of Wenat-
chez. Never a week passes but he
spends day or two here. The firm of
Reeves q Reeves has quite string OF
clients here, and it may after all be
only legal business that draws him.
The following Wenatchee people
spent last Sunday in Leavenworth,
Miss C. Josephine Miller, Miss Edna
Miner, Bernard Knowles and Claud
Mills. The party took the local train
Sunday night for their home. Miss
Miller is teaching in the Cashmere
public school.
The following Great Northern e.
gineers went to Seattle this week to at
tend the funeral of their comrade, d.
J. Mcpherson, who died in Providence
hospital as the result of injuries re-
C 9ived at Chiwaukum last week: P. J.
McGregor, Henry Lee, Okey Algreen
and Emory Ross.
John Griffin has been employed by
the Meteor Mining Co, at Blewett, as
shift boss. The report is current that
the ore body in the new tunnel will be
reached in short time as the forma-
ton has changed, indicating the
presence of mineral.
The memb ers of the Masonic frater-
nifty of Wenatchee have planned big
celebration on Washington's birthday,
February 22nd, to which they have in
vited all their brethren of the sur
rounding towns. A large delegation
from JeayepWorth will attend, we are
told.
Charles Hinkley who spent several
months here last season in the employ
of Wright Bros, of North Yakima,
large sheep owners, came in the first
OF this week. Mr.. Hinkley tells us
that Wright Bros, will have a large
number of sheep here this year TO
fatten on the mountain range in this
vicinity.
L. N. Moss unloaded five cars Of one
and two year old steers here last Sun
day. The cattle were shipped from
Spokane and reached here in good con-
dition. They will be taken to Mr..
Moss's ranch in the Eagle creek valley
where they will be fed and fattened for
market by ]. N. Leary, who is in
charge of the ranch.
While in Wenatchee on Monday of
this week the man of the Echo at
tended the minstrel performance given
by the ladies of that town for the BEN
eft of the Episcopal church. The We
natchee theater was crowded. Some
dozen from Leavenworth attended,
while Cashmere was represented by
more than fifty. For an amateur per-
formarce it was very good. There is
talk of putting the performance on in
this town.
The people of Wenatchee are jubi-
liant over the prospects of their town.
And they have a right to be. With
the bridge over the Columbia under
construction and work on the railroad
I'D the Columbia to begin in a short
time, the irrigation of four or five
thousand acres Of land on the south
side of the river they are sure to double