The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-03-18

Dining car charges have been re-
duced on the Great Northern from IS
+ to % per cent
Mrs. |. j. Pentz, who had been at a
Wenatchee hospital for several weeks,
is now out of the hospital and may
soon come home.
The X. F. lodge entertained Grand
Outer Guard Pinkerton last Thursday
evening at their meeting. He was
here in an official capacity.
/ B. +. Hollinshead was taken 20
Wenatchee Tuesday by Mrs. Town,
who has been designated to look after
county interests here. Hollinshed had
an operation Wednesday for rupture.
The steamship Wenatchee is to ar
rive at Seattle April 4th and there is
talk of an excursion from this vicin-
ity to Seattle to meet the big boat
named after our popular lake. The
Wenatchee is 535 feet long and 70
feet beam, with displacement of 49,
500 tons. She is to be operated on
the Pacific in the passenger carrying
business.
An old coach is in the Leavenwo1th
yard aboard a couple fiat cars. The
coach looks like it may have been the
first one jim Hill ever owned, and APP
pears to be a combination affair. We
should not be surprised if it were the
one in which the writer rode from St
| Paul to Atwater, Minnesota, in 1876.
The use it is to be put to now has not
| been learned.
Cashmere is questioning Leaven-
worth's right to claim the champion
ship of North Central Washington IN
basket ball. The Cashmere bunch
are trying to make case favorable
to themselves, but without success.
1t is rather hard Of some fellows to
admit defeat. though it is more
| Sportsmanlike to do so than to set up
a 'yeowl that may be heard the
world around.
Mr.. and Mrs Bert Hagler enter
tanned the members of the Coteric
club at their home last Saturday eve
ming. Progressive 900" was the
game of the evening. Mrs. Alice
Biddescombe and Miss Anna Long
captured the ladies' prizes, and Mr..
Frank Hennessey and Mr.. N. B.
Smith the gentlemen's prizes. De-
licious refreshments were served at a
late hour.
Sheriff Forsythe was in town We'd
nesday with brand-new Buick car,
which he left standing, properly park
ed next the curb alongside the X. &
V. B. Hardware store. While the car
stood there a runaway team hitched
to a dray came around the corner and
collided with the rear end of the sher-
ifs new wagon with such force that
it was bounced ahead and up onto the
sidewalk, Fortunately the sheriff had
had bunch Tuesday and put a
bumper" on the rear of the auto and
the dray struck the bumper, which
saved the car from any other dam
age than to the "bumper." A crowd
soon gathered. thinking, perhaps, that
the sheriff's car was filled with moon
shine or something equally as good,
but if there was any it was securely
slowed away and all were disap-
pointed
Because some have eyes but can
not see, is the reason "The Other
Half''-the less fortunate of man
kind-must toll and sweat under un-
just conditions "No sentiment n
business" was the maxim Donald
Trent had inherited from his million
aire father, and the pursuit of money
made him blind to the conditions Of
his employees. "The Jazz Kidd" syn
copated "Sweet Cookie Mine" while
she toiled in the hot laundry and did
her bit in spreading sunshine Kath-
crime, the blue-blooded heiress, saw
the light and spread good cheer in
her cray O'Hope' newspaper Jim
mic Mains physical sight was re-
stored when he realized the truth, and
Donald's spiritual vision was cleared
by an appreciation that "the brother
hood of man" is the solution of labor
injustices and unrest See Florence
Vidor and Zasu Pitts at the School
Motion Pictures next Tuesday even