The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-08-06
COUNTY NEWS ITEMS

ne Town OF cashmere Will vote
wet or dry August IA.
Registration books for the local OPP
ton election in Wenatchee will close
August IS.
A marriage license was issued Mon
day TO Bert Hodge and Estella Bates,
Of Cashmere.
The Great Northern railroad has been
ordered by the railway commission to
establish express stations at Peshastin
and Malaga.
Eight school districts outside Of
Wenatchee will have new school build
ings before the opening Of the fall term,
the one at Peshastin to cost $1,000.
c. B. Cooper, of the United Wire
less Telegraph Company, has been in
Wenatchee arranging for the establish
ment Of a wireless station in that city.
Residents of Wenatchee must boil
city drinking water. The reservoir
supply, drawn partly from the irrigation
ditch, is infested with disease germs.
In the list of citizens Of Chelan
county who are subject to jury duty
are 2,378 names, which is fewer than
it would have been under the old law
The Chelan Box Factory Company
has extended its log yard to deep
water. An effort will be made to keep
the channel free from logs in the
future.
Complications that threatened the
improvement this season of Wenatchee
Avenue, Wenatchee, have been cleared
away and work on the undertaking will
begin in few days.
Again Chelan county has achieved
victory in the apple contests at the
Alaska Yukon-Pacifc exposition, being
awarded first prize for the best display
Of Stayman Winesaps.
The Chelan Falls Orchards tracts
were put on sale last Monday. There
are fifty pieces, ranging in size from
three to ten acres. Water will be sup
piled not later than May !, next year.
Charles A. Harlin, Wenatchee, has
begun the erection Of handsome
building on the site of his burned
market. The new building will be
three stories and basement, and will
cost SIS, 900.
Contractor E. c. Martin Of Spokane
was the successful bidder for the Cash
mere State Bank building. The build
ing will be OF pressed brick, two stories
and basement, 33x55 feet, and will
cost $4,000.
B. M. Chapman, who, with D. N.
Gellatly, has charge Of the Chelan
county display at the exposition, has
written to E. T. Balch urging him to
call the attention Of growers to the
necessity of taking care in packing
their shipments OF display fruit.
Chief Of the Wenatchee fire depart
ment, J. E. Throw, has outlined plans
for increasing the efficiency Of the
department. He favors the buying Of
hook and ladder truck, the purchase
Of three additional horses and the en-
ployment of two more paid members.
Efforts are being made to induce a
company OF Waukesha, Wis, to locate
in Wenatchee for the purpose of saving
waste fruit by the debydrating process.
Dried fruit under a less euphonious
name might not have the selling quail
tiles, but doubtless would taste as well.
Besides "debydrating'' might help sell
the stock.
Publicity Agent McKittrick, Chelan
county, expects to remain in Occur d
Alene until after the land drawing. He
has already sent a number Of land
seekers to the Wenatchee valley, and
it is thought that the valley will get a
great deal of beneficial results from
the little exhibition being maintained
at Occur d'Alene city.
So that the order OF Elks may secure
a charter for a lodge in Wenatchee,
members of the fraternity have en-
gagged the Polk directory people to
take a census of the city. The result
is intended to show that Wenatchee