The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-05-06

The Wenatchee Valley & Northern
railway is putting in a passing track at
the foot Of Ninth street.
Guy Hamilton and Pat Gallagher
went to Wenatchee Monday to see
Guys brother, Jean, who is quite sick.
Harry Warner quit the Leavenworth
Mercantile Co. Monday and has gone
to work in the Leavehworth Meat
Market.
Miss Nellie Eikelburner of Wenat-
chez spent several days with the family
Of Max Kringel last week and returned
to her home Sunday.
Mrs. Painter came over from Everett
last Sunday and spent several days here
this week looking after her millinery
store.
Miss Lillis Bollen and Miss Matte
Harris Of Govan are visiting the homes
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Noble and Nj
and Mrs. J. F. Hartman.
A regular meeting of the CONNER
cial Club will be held in the club rooms
next Monday evening. All members
are urged to be present.
John Bloss, who has been day opera
tor here for the past eighteen months,
has been transferred to Spokane and
will be employed in the dispatcher's
office.
Mrs. G. H. Moore spent several
days here last week and on Sunday left
for Seattle, where she will remain a
month and then return to Leavenworth
to reside permanently.
Frank Va1o, for the past year con-
nected with the Hub Clothing Co.,
contemplated leaving here the first Of
this month, but has changed his mind
and will continue another year with the
Hub. Frank is popular with all the
boys about town who are glad to know
he has decided to remain here.
R. B. Field arrived here last Satur-
day from Columbus, N. D. He
shipped his driving horse and buggy
and fine Jersey COW, taking up the
balance of the car with household
goods. He will occupy the residence
vacated by Mr.. Fritz, which he bought.
His family will be here the latter part
of the month.
Engineer Cook, who surveyed the
townsite located on the Albright place
at the head of the Chumstick, returned
to town this week. He was engaged
in this work some three or four weeks,
and while there also sub-divided some
two hundred acres of land into FIVE and
ten acre tracts. This land will be put
on the market within the next few
weeks.
Mr.. Weigand is having the front of
his building on the old Big Rock
corner remodeled. The work is being
done by Messrs. Moad and Speidel, and
when they get thru the Hub clothing
store will have one of those modern
glass fronts that so admirably display
goods for public inspection.
The work of remodeling the Fritz
building for the use Of the new state
bank is going on with all the dispatch
that competent corps OF workmen are
capable Of. 1t was at first proposed to
open the bank about the first OF the
month, but the changes made in the
building cannot be completed before
the last of the month. The old front
has been entirely torn out and new
one in keeping with the uses to which
the building will be put built. A first
class vault is being constructed. In
short, nothing will be spared in making
the building conform to the use Of a
bank. All the furniture and fixtures
are first-class and every convenience
will be provided for the use Of the
banks customers.
Conductor Ole Hutcheson returned
from Cameron, Tenn, whittier he ac-
companied the remains Of Oscar Nc
Cracken, who, it will be remembered,
was killed in the Peshastin wreck three
weeks ago. Mr.. Hutcheson says Nc
Cracken's parents are very old and
were much grieved at the loss of their
son. There are four brothers of Nc
Cracken living, all Of whom are larger
men than Oscar, who was over six feet
and a perfect specimen of physical
manhood. The father, says Mr.. Hutch