The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-01-30

Der mill.
Walker Laney and wife, of Cash
mere, were visitors at the home o.
George Briskey this week.
Geo. P. Rice has been confined tc
his home for the past two weeks with
a severe attack Of rheumatism.
Reserve your seats early for the Hal
lowell Concert Co. a
J. Q. and M. F. Gilbert, and I. C.
English, residents OF Peshastin, were
doing business in Leavenworth We'd
nesday.
Mr.. J. T. Mcdonald left last week
for Winfield, Ala, for visit with his
mother. He expects to be gone about
six weeks.
Del Mccoy, the Peshastin merchant,
accompanied by his niece, Mrs. Min
ME Reed were Leavenworth visitors
one day this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Patience, Of
Wenatchee, spent last Sunday and
Monday in Leavenworth, the guests oil
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Rice.
Mrs. C. w. Ellinger and her son,
Elwood, are keeping house in town
this winter. Elwood is attending the
public school and is in the high school
class.
The E. G. B. Sunday School class
of the NJ. E, church will give a Hard
Time Social" Friday Feb. 9th, in the
church basement. Prize will be given
to the poorest dressed person.
Dick Simons and Arthur Babst ex-
pect to leave Monday on a trip that
will take them to San Francisco, Los
Angeles and other California cities.
They will be absent month or six
weeks.
J. o. Hawk, Peshastin fruit grower
who made one Of his occasional visits
to Leavenworth yesterday said there
was lots OF snow in the lower valley al
present but that he did not regret it as
it assured protection TO the fruit trees.
o. H. Anderson, adjuster and audi
tor for the Washington Industrial Insu-
rance Commission was here this week
checking up the different employers oil
labor to determine how much each is
liable to contribute to the insurance
fund during the year 1914.
o. V. Cox, with his family, left the
last Of this week for Sheridan, Indiana,
his old home, and expects to be abb
sent from Leavenworth for a year. His
father died in December last and he
will remain until the estate is settled
up. He rented his house furnished tc
a railroad employee.
J. c. Biles, manager OF the Peshas-
tin Lumber Co. was in Leavenworth
Wednesday. Speaking Of the activi,
ties OF his company for this year he
said: I'VE are doing considerable
logging this winter and expect to oper-
ate our mill to its capacity when the
season opens
Hugh A. Dotson, formerly resident
Of Leavenworth but now residing witt
his family at Seattle was in the Office
one day this week. He says extraor'
binary activity is evident among the
saw mills on the coast. In the pas
two weeks a large number have re-
sumed operations, and that the belle
prevails that 1914 will be banner
year in the lumber trade.
Ex-Mayor Frank E. Carlquist spen
several days on the Coast this week
He says that business men and Others
Of Seattle are very optimistic over thu
future of their city and are predicting
a million inhabitants inside Of the mex
ten years. The opening of the Pan
anna canal, the development of Alaska
and the establishment of the regiona
bank in that city, which is practically
assured, will undoubtedly make Seattle
the biggest city on the Pacific coas
inside of the next decade.
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