The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-05-18
Inlay is 1917
City News

relatives in Spokane.
Until further notice we will sell Red
Crown Gasoline at 24c per gallon
Leavenworth Supply Co. 1921"
Mr.. and Mr.. Arthur Kringle arrived
here last Saturday from Portland and
will take up their residence in this city.
H. c. Blankenship returned Wednes-
day after week spent in Ellensburg
where he was called on forestry
business.
Wenatchee is busy these days raising
money for big celebration to be held
in that city June 14th, when the town
is to be host to North Central Wash
ington.
1t is time now TO think about paying
taxes. A IS pei cent delinquency
penalty will be added if the first half of
the taxes are not paid before the end
OF the month.
Mr.. R. B. Field returned from
Seattle Monday afternoon after an
absence Of three weeks. While there
he underwent an operation for apendi-
citis, from which he is rapidly recover
ing.
Harry Warner left Monday afternoon
for Spokane to attend the annual state
meeting Of the Knights of Pythias, to
which he is delegate from the Leaven
worth lodge.
Seattle ate ton Of whale meat last
week and liked it. The meat sold at
10 cents a pound and was on sale in
a number Of restaurants. 1t is said to
have very palatable flavor and prom
Uses to become staple food on the
Coast.
J. A. Adams OF the firm Of Hughes
and Adams, was one of party OF five
who fshed at Lake Chelan Sunday with
fine results, capturing thirty fish that
aggregated thirty pounds in weight.
And yet they say fish are not biting at
Chelan. -Wenatche World.
Saturday was another record breaking
day at the county auditors Office in
the liqur permit line. Permits to the
number of 143 were issued, which is
the second biggest days business in
this line in the history of the office.
Art Wilder who has been here the
past week on a visit with his sister and
husband, Mr.. and Mrs. E. K. Barnum,
has decided to join the cavalry arm OF
the federal army and left Wednesday
morning for Wenatchee in company
with R. F. Taylor to enlist. He will
shortly leave for California, and, we are
told. will 90 from there to the Hiwalan
Islands where he will be attached to
regular command.
Mr.. VIM. Mcintosh, with his family
drove to Lake Chelan last Sunday in
his new Ford. He says he found the
road in good condition for driving, but
did not much like the climb from the
Columbia river valley to the lake. He
saws if a man ever lost control OF his
machine on that hill unless he had
previously made a will the probate
court would wind up his estate.
Mrs. E. C. Booth is in receipt OF a
letter from her>husband dated the lst
of Nav, sent from England, in which
he said he expected to be sent to the
French Front in about two weeks time.
In all probability Mr.. Booth is now on
the firing line, and passing thru some
of the hottest fighting of the war.
A Tacoma party Of four arrived here
Wednesday morning and in Mr.. Days
car left for Deep creek, tributary OF
the Chiwawa river, about thirty-hve
miles north OF this place. They are
interested in asbestos property located
on Deep creek on which some de-
velopment work has been done and
which promises to be valuable ind
Geo. Likfelt, Neal Sears and Geo.
Dean, residents of the White rVer
valley were here this week and SAID
that farming operations would begin up
in that part OF the world IN short
time. They are up where the snow
lies on the ground rather late and this
wear later than usual. In keeping with
.La raror, that comes to US from every