The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-11-12
Great Northern
LEAVENWORTH AND VICINITY

Floyd Coats is quite i'll with typhoid
fever.
Miss Mary Ralston left for Seattle
Tuesday.
Active operations on the new depot
seem to have ceased.
Mrs. Collins of Wenatchee visited
friends in town this week.
Miss Mildred Hollenbeck of We
natchee was the guest Of friends here
Sunday.
Miss Bessie Holmes of Wenatchee
came up Saturday to visit her brother
in Leavenworth.
The milder weather Monday caused
a temporary retreat of Old Winter a
little further up the hills.
Mrs. o. S. Sampson was the guest
of her daughter, Mrs. Will Little, in
Wenatchee, returning Tuesday.
Whitman street was ordered to be
placed in shape to use the coming
winter and further work abandoned.
Miss Olive A. Gertson and Paul J.
Wilcox were married Tuesday evening
by Rev w. V. Davis at the parsonage.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. P. White from St.
Maries, Idaho, are here, the guests of
Mrs. Whites parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Phelan.
One of the crying needs of Leaven-
worth just now is newsdealer enter
prising enough to carry all the leading
magazines.
Two carloads of cattle from Winthrop
were unloaded here Sunday, en- route
to coast cities. They were owned by
E. F. Banker.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. T. King last week
spent several days in Seattle. Mrs.
King visited with her parents while MIR.
King attended to business affairs.
Have you registered? If not, better
do so, as an election will be held on
Dec. next for municipal officers. In
order to vote you must be registered.
S. J. Ellison, heretofore assistant
general passenger agent OF the Great
Northern, has been made general pas
senger agent, with headquarters at St.
Paul.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Abbott arrived
from LaConner, Wash, Monday morn
ing. After visiting with old friends and
relatives they departed for home Wed
nesday morning.
John F. Hartman was given the con-
tract to build sidewalk on Commercial
street at 271a cents per lineal foot.
Efforts are to be made to have this
walk ready before snow flies.
Underwood's canned crabs, at D. M.
Thomas, Quality Grocer. a.
Mrs. c. A. Tiff, recently from Trini-
dad, Wash, has rented the building,
corner Eighth and Commercial streets.
She will put in home bakery, selling
all kinds of goods in her line.
Charles Gibbs last week sold 71a
acres of Peshastin orchard land to S. B.
Kinney, county commissioner, The
property is unimproved, except for a
small house; but has a water right.
The price paid was $3.50.
E. c. Leedy has been appointed
general immigration agent of the Great
Northern railroad, vice Max Bass de-
ceased, with headquarters at St. Paul
and Chicago. Mr.. Leedy owns prop
erty in Wenatchee and is well-known
there.
Everfesh coffee, cream Of all cof-
fees, at D. M. Thomas, Quality
Grocer. "A
c. Dameyer, representative OF the
Netherlands American Mortgage Bank
of Seattle, was here the first Of this
week. He says his company has fire.
quent applications for loans from this
section and he wanted to familiarize
himself with Wenatchee Valley land
values.
John Wilson, OF the Pacific States
Telephone Company, OF Wenatchee,
has been working this week in Peshas-
tin to improve the service. There have
been few connections at Peshastin.
Mr.. Wilson hopes to put in a number
of new phones and establish a central
at that place.
The centenary of the first American
settlement on the Pacific coast will be
celebrated by Astoria in 1911. Plans
for the affair are being discussed. De
scendants OF John Jacob Astor will be
asked to join in the commemoration OF
the planting Of the first American city
on the Pacific by the founder OF that
famous family. The story of the found
ing Of Astoria is told in Washington
Irving's book OF that name.