The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-05-22

Mrs. R. J. Smith who has been on
the sick list for the past two weeks is
slowly recovering.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Corcoran left
the first of the week for St. Paul where
they will spend several weeks with Mr..
Corcoran's relatives.
Mrs. O'Rourke, wife of VIM. o.
Rourke, proprietor of the Rainier cafe,
left Wednesday morning for Seattle to
visit friends for few days.
T. Hatch and wife of Everett were
here several days this week visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. SmYth. On Wed
nesday morning Mr.. and Mrs. Smyth
accompanied by their visitors, left for
Lake Chelan to be absent several days.
Jack Carr. the local representative oil
the Knights OF Pythias left Monday
afternoon for Spokane to attend the
22nd annual state convention OF men,
bers Of the order. The meeting con-
vened Tuesday and will close today.
Oliver Bates, proprietor of the Lake
View hotel, the oldest hosiery on We
natchee lake, was here this week. He
says since the train stops at Winton,
for Wenatchee lake visitors there will
be many more lake tourists than here
tofore.
F. w. Graham, industrial and i'm
migration agent for the Great Northern
railway, was here the first of this week
looking for almost anything that he
could use in advertising the resources
and advantages of the Wenatchee val
ley for the homeseeker.
]. B. Schons, of Wenatchee, owner
OF fine ranch in the Eagle creek val
ley, was here this week and subscribed
for the Echo to keep him posted on the
doings in the Upper Wenatchee valley.
He says the ranch is looking fine and
the prospect for a good fruit crop never
was better.
H. B. Ellison was a caller at the
Echo Office the first of the week and
had his Echo changed to Monitor
where he will spend the summer. The
professor has ten-acre orchard trac'
near that town which he will improve
during the vacation months, returning
here the first of September for the open
ing Of school.
Frank I. Curtis, Of Seattle, spent the
major part of this week here on hi
fruit ranch one and half miles east o
town. He has about hundred acre:
set out in fruit trees and says the trees
look fine and thrifty tho not yet in the
bearing stage. Like everybody else
he complained at the enormity of take:
in the Wenatchee valley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Starks, of Peshastin
narrowly escaped injury in an auto &C
cident Sunday. In making the shor'
turn on the road near the Orchard
Bond place, Mr.. Starks, intending tc
close the throttle, made the mistake
OF throwing it wide open and tipping
the machine over. They escaped
with slight bruises, however, and Sigh
damage to the machine. Cashmere
News.
H. B. Ridgely and wife were regis
tered at the Chikamin hotel this week
They left Wednesday morning fol
Blewett where they will remain during
the summer. Mr.. Ridgely is one o
the principal stockholders in the new
mining company that has taken owe
the old Washington Meteor properties
He says he intends to put on a crew
Of men at an early date and hopes in
short time to makes the mines a pay
ing proposition.
P. E. Galloway, manager OF thu
Shaver restaurant in this city, made thu
announcement the past week, that al
the Shaver eating houses along thu
Great Northern line have been taker
over by the railroad company which
will operate them in the future. Tht
change in ownership will be effective
June 1. Mr.. Galloway will be retained
as manager and states that next month
carpenters will be here to remodel thu
huildino which the restaurant now oc