The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-12-12
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS

Phone IA for The Racket Store.
A full line of Holiday Goods-Leav-
enworth Pharmacy. (49*)
Do your Christmas Shopping early,
at the Leavenworth Pharmacy (49)
We have nice line of dolls for
Christmas. - Leavenworth Pharm-
acy. (49)
Herman Howe and Mrs, L. J. Mel
sen and daughter were Wenatchee
visitors Wednesday.
Mr.. F. H. Hutchings writes from
S48 w. 9th St, Los Angeles, to have
his paper forwarded there.
Let dozen photographs solve a
dozen Christmas problems.-Wheel-
er's Photo & Art Shop. (49*)
At Christmas time your friends
can buy anything you can give them
except your photograph.-Wheel-
er's Photo and Art Shop. (49*)
The c. NJ Hendricks family moved
in from their ranch near Peshastin
so that their children may have the
benefit of the Leavenworth schools
this winter.
Attorney L. J. Nelson was taken to
Seattle last Saturday and is now at
the Columbia sanitarium His host
of friends at home trust that he may
soon be back among them.
A couple Leavenworth men, who re-
Gently visited Seattle, say that it is
the best lighted city they ever saw
The only way to tell when night came
on was to consult their watches.
Moonshine
A Leavenworth man, who recently
came here from North Dakota, takes
no stock in Washington thermom-
eters. He evidently thinks the Wash
ington boomers are in "cahoots" with
lIle ildhtIS Vi lilcIHlOIHGlCIos
There is an outbreak of smallpox
out at Lake Wenatchee and DR.. Ju
dab was out there Monday to attend
patients and establish quarantine
of those ailing. Smallpox, if taken in
time is not the scourge that it was in
olden times; but care must be taken
or it may be very fatal.
Philip Yeats, who has a sheep range
above the Chiwaukum, was in town
Monday. He had been to Wenatchee
in a law case which was brought
against him some weeks ago wherein
he was sued charged with allowing
his sheep to trespass. No one appear
ed against him at the trial in Super
Tor court and judgment was awarded
in his favor
F. S. Scritsmeier, manager of the
Great Northern Lumber Co.'s business
at this place, left last Friday to visit
his family a few days at Portland.
From there he was to go to Boise,
Idaho, to look over some timber Mr.
R. C. Day, also an employee of the
company, left on Monday to join Mr.
Scritsmeier at Pendleton, Oregon, and
accompany him on the trip to Idaho
Frank E. Carlquist recently collect
and sent to Mr.. P. j. Longeran a sum
of money for the relief of poor in New
York City. Mr.. Carlquist has Just re-
ceived a Letter of acknowledgment
from Mr.. Longeran in which he says:
"Piease convey to all who contributed
my thanks in the name of the very
poor The poor will suffer much this
winter and perhaps what you sent
will keep some poor mothers heart
from breaking. The West knows none
of this misery, this privation, and l.,
who love the West with all my heart,
am grateful to feel that they can new
er experience it."
A bunch of good fellows were held
up in a pool room at Gold Bar Satur-
day evening, and among them were
Bill Tegtmeier and Homer Apologize
Of Leavenworth and Ray Shelton, for
merly of Leavenworth. They say Bill
Tegtmeier got his hands so high he
had to stand on tiptoe to get them
| down, but finally he crossed them over
his head-and was good Much mon
| ey is said to have changed pockets in
very few minutes. Jimmy Bruce, a
former Leavenworth character, was
in the bunch held up, and it is said,
= politely told the robbers he had no
money-whereupon one of them re-
piled, Il, we knew that before we
started"
The extreme cold weather of the
past week or ten days has resulted in
much trouble for the electric plant,
the ice stopping the flow of water to
the turbines and consequently a lack
of power. Saturday evening the G. N.
Il Tumher Co. had TO be resOrted to for