The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1922-12-29


quite sick for some time. is reported
to be improving.
Messrs. J. A. Wilson and NJ. W.
Starks went to Seattle Saturday to
stay a few days.
Mrs. ]. E. Oursler went to Cascade
Tunnel Wednesday to visit Mrs.
Clark few days.
Tommy Calvin was home from his
duties on the road to spend Christ
mas with Mrs. Calvin and their son.
J. B. Schons recently arrived home
after several months absence travel
ing, we understand, in the apple bust
ness.
The Wenatchee World seems to find
considerable solace in its headline
No Enthusiasm Over Plan to Divide
County"
Mrs. Helen Finley and son Gordon
of Seattle arrived here the first of the
week to visit Mr.. and Mrs. F. W. Rice
and family.
Roy Larson, county soil expert, is
reported to have been made county
agricultural agent, the two offices
being combined.
The plumbing job at the hospital
has advanced so far that lathng will
soon be started an the plasterers
will closely follow.
Fletcher Gardner arrived home last
week from the Moran school to spend
the holidays with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. o. F. Gardner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Harding went to
Wenatchee Saturday, hoping to have
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Harding return
with them Sunday for the holidays.
Max Kringle was laid up for
couple weeks with illness but has
been getting around again and teach
ing his large class of pupils in mu-
sic.
Miss Louis Rumohr arrived home
Friday from Salem, Oregon. where
she attends willamette college. to
spend the holidays with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Rumohr, and her
brother.
The Misses Hazel and Ivie West
arrived home last week to spend the
holiday vacation with their parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. West. Talbot ar
rived Friday from the university at
Seattle.
Lloyd Stanley Funderburk, former
ly known here, was recently convict
ed at Seattle of having narcotics in
his possession and sentenced to
serve eighteen months in the federal
prison on McNieis Island.
j. +. Champers came over from Sc
attic Saturday for the holidays. He
is an employee of the Great North
ern Lumber Co. and since the open
ing of the school year has been
studying at Seattle institution
Miss Bessie Headley and Gladstone
Pease We're married at the home of
the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Headley of Peshastin, on
Christmas day. Mr.. Pease resides at
Spokane. Rev. Emery of the Peshas-
tin NJ. E. church officiated.
Last Thursday Chas Northrup fell
in his barn and broke couple ribs.
The snow had slipped off one side of
the roof and he was up on the inside,
humping the rafters in order to
cause it to slide off from the other
side, when he fell, striking 2xS. He
was in town Saturday to have the
doctor look him over and bind him up.
The Mexican bean beetle has been
recorded from 10 new counties in
Kentucky. 1t is now known to be
present over practically the entire
central area of this state. During
the past month it has also been re-
ported to the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture from four new
counties in western North Carolina.
False wireworms We're much more
seriously abundant than usual in Oc-
tober in western Nebraska, Kansas,
and Oklahoma, according to reports
received by the United States De
partment of Agriculture. In the Vi
cinity of Big Spring, deuel. County
Nebr, hundreds of acres of unsprout-
ed wheat have been destroyed while
lying in the dry soil.
c. W. Semmes, an employee OF
the Cashmere Record. was here Fri
day on his way to Portland to spend
the Christmas holidays. He had for
merly been one of the prohibition
enforcement sleuths and had a no
ton that he could locate something
again when he got down there. Some
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