The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-07-21
friday July Il 1916

where he has secured work in harvest
fields. He will probably be gone two
months.
The Wenatchee World is authority
for the report that the apple crop Of
the Wenatchee valley this year will
approximate eight thousand cars, which
the Great Northern railroad officials
have promised to handle expeditiously.
Wenatchee apricots are beginning
to move. The crop is said TO be
average and the quality excellent.
The price per box, 10 cents, is said to
be satisfactory and it is not believed
they will be lower. Early apples also
have begun to move.
Harry Chesley, formerly a resident
Of Leavenworth but for the past four
years living in Seattle, passed thru here
yesterday on his wav to Wenatchee to
file on Colville land. He expects to
stop off here on short visit with old
friends on his homeward trip.
Mr.. T. C. Simmons, editor of the
Northwestern Merchant, Seattle, and
secretary OF the Retail Merchants
Association of Washington was here
the first OF this week circulating among
the retail dealers and awakening their
interest in association work.
Mrs. Susan Shortly is here on visit
and to look after some property inter
ests. Recently she has been making
her home with son, on Orcas Island.
This is her first visit here in two years.
For some time after moving from here
eight years ago she made her home in
southern California.
]. E. Shubert and son Goethert re-
turned yesterday morning from Ev-
erett, where he spent several days
looking after his property interests.
He says it rained for several days
while he was on the Sound, sometimes
like he has seen it rain in Iowa, straight
down and in large drops.
David Phillips who came here last
week to attend the funeral Of his son
Davy Philips, lived in Chelan county
up to eleven years ago. He now re-
sides at Friday Harbor, San Juan county
composed OF five or six islands lying
in the upper Puget Sound. On his
return home last Saturday he was ac-
companied by his daughter Mrs. Don
McKechnie, and her husband who will
visit him at his island home.
R. B. Field, wife and children, and
Mrs. Field, mother Of Mr.. Field re-
turned Wednesday evening from Seattle
for which city they left Sunday July 3.
Mr.. Field and family returned by way
of the Snoqualmie and Blewett pass
route. He says he passed many autos
loaded with people on the way home
from Wenatchee where everybody has
been going the past two weeks TO get
some OF that free land. On the Blew
EFT road he says he had exciting ex-
perience but no mishaps.
Guy R. Osborne, who spent several
months here working at his trade for
Thos. Nolan, the tailor, left last Sun
day for San Francisco to join his regi-
ment. Under the terms OF his enlist
ment he was subject to call to the
colors to serve three years, the balance
OF his enlistment period in the event
his services were required. Mr.. Os-
borne made many friends while here
and was 10th to leave, but considered
his duty to the government OF the
United States above every other obi
cation.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Bachrach Of
Kansas City, Mo-, and Mr.. and Mrs.
F. H. Hayner. of Seattle, arrived here
Monday afternoon from Glacier Nat
ional Park where they had been on an
outing, and Tuesday went up the
Icicle river horseback in company with
Mr.. Al Van Epps to look at mining
property in which they are interested
and incidentally do some fishing while
there. The headwaters OF the Icicle
has long been famous for its trout fish
ing. Mr.. Bachrach is connected with
the Pittsburg Filtering Co. in his home
town and Mr.. Hayner is Seattle cap
italist. Both gentlemen are interested