The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-12-24
LOOMS ITEMS.

+. G. Burnham has returned to IIol-
yoke, Mass, for the winter.
The public school has the regular
holiday vacation next week.
Lee Rhoden has moved his grocery
store into the building, on Main street,
formerly occupied by Jas. Callahan as
a saloon.
Horace Brown, who has lived in
Loomis and this vicinity for ages, left
during the week to spend the holidays
in Montana.
Considerable assessment work is un-
der way in this vicinity, which is Civ
ing timely employment to large num-
ber of miners.
Harry Grahlman has resigned the
Office of L. S. Commissioner at this
place, and Geo. j. Hurley has been
recommended to fill the vacancy.
Mrs. VIM. Pierce has returned to
Loomis from Toronto to spend the
winter with her son-in-law and daught-
er, Mr. and Mrs. j. NJ. Richmond.
The fall and winter have been very
quiet here, but the people, with per-
ennial hope, look forward in anticipa-
tion of a lively spring and summer.
Geo. Loudon, who has lived with his
family in the old Loomis residence for
years, has moved into the Arthur Lund
residence on the hill near the school
house.
| The Palmer mountain tunnel power
plant is closed down for the winter,
and the camp has returned to the
primative candle and coal oil for light
ing purposes.
Mrs. Geo. w. Loudon, who has been
visiting on the outside for couple of
months, returned home this week, feel
ing in much better health than she did
when she left.
The spirit of the holidays seems to
be in the air. There has been good
trade and the people of the camp will
observe and celebrate Christmas with
the old time ardor.
ago in announcing that Harry Grahl-
man had sold out his soda water plant.
He is still in the business, and has
quite large made up stock on hand.
Jack Long returned from the east
recently with car load of blooded
Jacks, with the object of going into the
mule industry. He will dispose of some
of the animals to stock men in the
county.
q 1t is evident that the dance to be
given by the Miners Union, in Eagle
hall, this Friday evening, will be the
largest attended dance of the winter.
The knights of the drill have spared
no pains or expense to give the pa
irons good time.
The Sunday school children will en-
JOY Christmas tree at the NJ. f,
church this Friday evening. The ladies
of the camp have had charge of the
arrangements, and cantata, music
and other exercises will proceed the
distribution of gifts.
Clarence French proved up on his
homestead, located on Douglas noun
tain, Saturday. Although he was on
the land before it got tangled up in
the forest reserve it required some
| yards of red tape to get the filing ac-
cepted. Mr.. French has put in a num-
ber of years hard work, and now owns
a valuable place.
a young daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Herman Krause, living in Horse Spring
coulee, was painfully injured recently.
The little girl found giant powder
cap in the cellar, and in some manner
it exploded, terribly lacerating the left
hand. The injured child was taken to
Riverside, where it was found neces-
sary to amputate the thumb and first
finger. The family have lived on Pal
mer lake and Horse Spring coulee for
years, and they have the sympathy of
the residents of the whole surrounding
country
During the fall f. G. Burnham pur-
chased and brought into this section a
drill with the object of sinking an az
tisian well on the Fred Till place that
Mr. Burnham purchased last summer.
1t is reported that +. c. Limback, who
has had charge of the work at the Pal
mer mountain tunnel, may start up the
drill this winter. This experiment is
worth while, and the result will be
looked forward to with much interest
by great many people. Artesian wells
have been successfully drilled in vari-
Gus localities in eastern Washington,
and assuredly there is no more promis-
ing spot to strike flowing water than
in the valleys of northern Okanogan,
surrounded and in juXtopasition to
high mountain ranges. If flowing
we'll can be struck on the Till place it
will open up new system of procur-
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