The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-10-09
LOCAL HAPPENINGS AND WHEREABOUTS
NEWS ITEMS
Notes. Personals and Small Items May be Phoned Direct to
The Echo Office :. :. Telephone Number 285

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De Los Fowler Of Lake Wenatchee
was in town the first OF the week circu
lating among his many friends.
Mrs. R. V. Briggs and daughter,
Mrs. V. Webb left Thursday afternoon
for the Coast to spend several days.
Mrs. A. H. Sylvester and daughter
will leave Monday for Chicago to visit
her parents for the next two months.
Dick Simons and Bob Smith left the
first Of the week for Lake Wenatchee
where they expect to spend a week in
search OF big game.
The forestry Office this week re-
ceived three graduated snow stakes
for measusing snow fall. They are to
be set up at Bee Hive sawmill, Blew
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Peter Rebhahn and son, Val, Of Sc
attic, owners of ten acre tract in Cas-
cade Orchards, are here this week pick
ing their apples and making other i'm
provements about their place. They
expect to get about 500 boxes this
year.
C. P. Willis, who spent the past
month in this vicinity on work con-
nected with the forestry department,
was joined here by his wife, who had
been visiting relatives in Wenatchee,
and on Tuesday departed for Portland,
Oregon.
H. B. Smith, the Merritt merchant,
passed through the city Sunday on his
way to Spokane. Mr.. Smith has some
valuable mining properties in the vi
cinity of his home which he expects
will startle Chelan county in the near
future.
DR.. ]. H. Blake, OF Wenatchee, pro-
gressive nominee for representative from
Chelan county in the next legislature,
spent Wednesday and part Of Tuesday
here getting in touch with the voters.
By mental and educational equipment
the doctor is we'll qualified for repre-
sentative.
Mrs. o S. Sampson entertained
Tuesday afternoon at Kensington'
in honor of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Kier,
of St. Joseph, Mo. Beside the honor
guest, there were present, Mrs. M. A.
Marley, Mrs. Allison, Mrs. P. A. Snyder
Mrs. Geo. Stirling, Mrs. D. H. Magyar
and Miss Wightman.
Thomas Jones as he calls himself who
last week broke the plate glass window
in Carlquist's Jewelry store and stole
five Ingersoll watches plead guilty in
Wenatchee this week and was SEN
fenced to from one to five years in the
Walla Walla pen. Just who will get
the 500 reward for his capture has not
as yet been decided.
At an early hour Monday some mis-
creant, who evidently had it in for F.
H. Hutchings threw big rock thru
the front plate glass window in the
Lobby Bar. That robbery was not the
intent OF the rascal is presumed as moth
ing was taken. The officers were un-
able to find any clue as to who per
petrated the deed.
Mr.. E. L. Baker, of Wenatchee, the
progressive nominee for county attor-
ney was here Wednesday getting ac-
quainted with the voters. While here
he called on The Echo and stated that
if elected he would devote all his time
to the duties of the Office and would
not employ deputy. BY giving the
county all his time he thought he could
save the taxpayers the cost OF deputy.
The Taxpayers association, COM
posed OF citizens of Wenatchee, who
are making a campaign for wet"
town, have drafted an ordinance which
will be presented to the council in that
city in case Wenatchee goes wet. The
ordinance is long one and goes into
every phase of liquor regulation. 1t
provides that no more than FIVE licenses
for saloons shall be granted at the
present and in the future one more
saloon for each additional thousand
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