The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-04-22
LfAVENWORTH LOCALS

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Sunday, April oath. 15*
A five acre tract of Cascade Garden
land sold last week for 5000 per acre.
Found, and left at this office, small
metal cross, which the owner can have
by describing and paying for this
notice.
Mrs. James Coulson left for Spo-
kane last Tuesday and will be absent
for a month or more visiting with
friends.
Mrs. G. w. Painter came over from
Everett last Sunday and is spending
this week in her branch millinery store
at this place.
The wife and daughter of Engineer
E. ]. Long arrived here last Friday
from Superior, Wis, and will reside in
Leavenworth permanently.
Oscar Dearborn and family and his
father-in-law, from Miller, S. D., ar
rived Monday on visit to his brother
in-law, A. c. Gilbert of Peshastin.
Joe O'Conner and wife, from Miller,
S. D., arrived here Monday and ex-
pect to make their home here. Mr..
O'Conner is a brother of Mrs. J. w.
Burns.
The City Beautiful club will meet in
the city hall Tuesday, April 26, at
$3.50. Every lady in Leavenworth in
vited to be present.
On the 18th inst, at the home of
Thomas S. Chalmers, a boy arrived.
DR.. Hoxsey also reports a boy at the
home of Charles A. Johnson on the
l4th of this month.
Paul Weigand has closed a contract
for new front in his building on Front
street. The new front will be flush
with the street and will be plate glass
affair fully up with the best in town.
Three OF the four electric motors
that were carried off in the great We'll
lington slide on the first Of March have
been recovered and have been found
to be but slightly damaged. 1t is
hoped by the railway employees to re-
sumo electric power service in the tun-
mel at an early date.
Harry Moore opened up for business
in the Bjork building the first of this
week. He has place worthy of any
city in the country. 1t is handsomely
and extensively fitted up. In the rear
room are three pool and two billiard
tables. The front room is fitted up
with handsome oak furniture. He will
carry full line of tobaccos and cigars,
candies, nuts, cold drinks of all kinds,
and next week will have line of fresh
fruits. He means to make fruits a
specially and has made preparations to
display them in way that will attract
attention.
John Conway, whom many of the
old-timers will remember as a Leaven-
worth citizen, writes from Beverly,
Wash, where he is engaged in devel-
oping ranch, that crop prospects in
the Columbia river valley are looking
fine and prospects bright. Potatoes
are up, and cherry trees were in bloom
on the 18th of March, currants half
grown" All right, John, send US
some of the cherries when they are
ripe, SO we can determine for ourselves
whether you can beat the Wenatchee
valley.
Mr.. Jacobsen OF the Lamo-DaVls
Lumber Co. says the big mill is short
some fifty or more men. This same
CRY comes from the surrounding coun-
try. The Wright & Day ranch has
wanted more men for some time. The
logging camps are short Of men. Per
haps it is no exaggeration to say that
from one hundred to one hundred and
fifty men could find employment in
the mill, on the ranches and in the
logging camps around Leavenworth at
the present time.
James F. Coulsop, census enumera-
tor for the district composed OF Leav-
enworth, Blewett, and the Red Noun
tain country, began work last Friday.
He is asking all sorts of questions, and
some people want to know why they