The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-01-14
THE NEWS OF CHILEAN COUNTY

I'LL NLUO VI NItLLf1I NVOiit
R. P. Wright Of Chelan has been
awarded one of the A.-Y.-P. grand
prizes for having secured a certain
number Of first prizes for fruit exhibits.
Dan Cupid did not attend faithfully
to his job in this county last year. In
spite of the increased population there
were but Isl marriage licenses issued
last year as against 1873 in 1900.
Huge ice jams in the Columbia,
some of them hundreds of feet high,
in the vicinity Of Bridgeport, have
effectually put a stop to both dredging
operations and navigation for the win
ter.
Water was turned into the big wood
pipes of the Entiat Light & Power Co.
last week, and as soon as the electrical
machinery is properly tuned up light
and power will be delivered at We
natchee.
Governor Hay has finally been pre-
vailed upon and has promised to be in
Wenatchee on February II to assist in
the dedication OF the commercial club
building. 1t is expected that noted
men from all over the state will grace
the occasion with their presence.
Mayor Gellatly of Wenatchee has
appointed o. B. Fuller, A. B. Peters,
w. T. Clark, H. A. Chaplin and w. R.
Prowell of Wenatchee as delegates to
the State Good Roads Association in
Aberdeen. Mayor Gellatly will also
attend and will read a paper on the
road improvement, past and proposed,
in Chelan county.
Ellsworth France of Wenatchee and
L. H. Titchenal of Cashmere are win
ners of fourteen prizes at the Colorado
Apple exposition, which closed at Den
yer, Jan. 10. The judges awarded
France nine first prizes and Titchenal
two frsts, one second and two third
prizes, the exhibitors taking $3.50 cash
and added premiums worth $3.50 more.
An important decision has been
handed down by the state supreme
cout regarding the ownership OF the
Holden mine, in which the court held
that an alleged grubstake of eleven
years standing was not sufficient to
base claim for an interest in a mining
property which had been developed
and upon which large sums of money
had been expended to put into pro-
duction, and therefore denied the
claims OF w. S. Denny of Seattle and
gave J. H. Holden perfect title.
Upon the recommendation Of Sheriff
J. E. Ferguson the county commits
sioners discontinued the salaries OF the
deputy sheriffs at Cashmere and Leav-
enworth, while at the same time they
raised the salary OF the Wenatchee
deputy from SIS to $85 month. Ac-
cording to the deductions Of Sherlock
Holmes this action might infer that
there is more evil at Wenatchee than
at Leavenworth and Cashmere COM
bined.
In regard to the district teachers
meeting to be held in this county this
month and next, County Superintend-
ent Bowersox has the following to say
in letter issued last week to the
teachers of the county:
The district meetings will be held
as follows: At Wenatchee, but not
including Wenatchee teachers, Friday,
January IA; Leavenwor.h, Friday, jan
uary %; Chelan, Friday, February 4;
Entiat, Friday, February 10. The pro-
gram at each place will begin at $3.50
a. m. You may attend the meeting
that will be the most convenient to
you. This is institute work and you
will receive pay for the day just the
same as if you were teaching.
THE subject Of text books will &C.
cupy large part of the time at these
meetings, and we want you to come
prepared to tell what you think of the
different text books you are using.
What books do you want changed the
coming summer? Other subjects for
discussion will be: The Teaching OF
Geography; Primary Reading; Use OF
School Libraries; Attendance of Pupils;
and at the Wenatchee meeting Supt.
Casebeer will present the subject Of
Adolescence.