The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-12-31


with water pipes freezing.
w. w. Parry passed through Orc
vile Monday on his way to Nelson.
Attorney Hoskyn and Ira w. Folli'
were passengers for Nelson Tuesday
j. +. Longacre, pioneer of the
Loomis country, was in town Thursday
w. H. Mcdaniel, of LOOMS, was il
town Thursday circulating among his
friends.
c. c.. Tilley expected to leave on a
business trip to Princeton this Friday
morning.
If you have not yet sent some copies
of the Christmas edition to friends at 6
distance do so at once.
Mrs Fred. j. Fine was visiting with
relatives in Nelson Wednesday an6
Thursday of this week.
! j. A. Gordon has taken the travel
ing az ency for Jack Evans nursery
and is now out on the road.
Mrs. Chester Glendening, living or
the old Finsen place, is reported to be
seriously i'll with pneumonia.
The subject of Rev. Courses sermon
Sunday evening, at Peerless hall, will
be ''Noble Deeds of Noble Women
Sunday school at 2:3o p. me-,
To- inv, IF Snolyo,,o
was in town Tuesday, looking after
the local postof1lce and found it o. X.
Rev. T. J. Strawbridge, of Loomis,
will conduct series of evangelical
services in the M. E. church of this
place, beginning January II.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Creelman made a
visit of several days duration to Prince
ton this week. Mr.. Creelman was
called there on mining business.
Another steam shovel was unloaded
at this point during the past week for
use on this end of the Oroville-Wen
atchee branch under construction.
Riverside had slight baptism by
fire Thursday. A building owned by
f. j. Cummings, and occupied as a
meat market, was destroyed. Loss
about $500.
Notwithstanding the fact the ground
is frozen to considerable depth the
steam shovel is at work couple of
miles below town STACKING - 1irt pp
the railroad grade.
Sheriff Thorp was in town Wednes-
day while out on the road rounding up
jurors. He had to cover a good deal
of territory and found it chilly getting
over the country.
Willis Putnam, of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, brother of Frank Putnam, has
recently purchased a homestead claim
near Whitestone fiat, and will turn his
attention to farming.
j. A. Blackler returned to Oroville
Wednesday evening from visit of two
or three weeks with his parents at
Lake Forest, Ills. The young man is
looking well, and of course had de-
lightful visit at his old home.
Regular gospel service in the NJ. E.
church Sunday, January 8, at 1880 p.
m. Mrs. Thompson will speak. Sub
| ject-"Conquest." Special music by
the choir, including an anthem, Crock
of Ages" Everybody cordially in
vited
Parties in from the hills report see
ing robbins and menow larks fitting
about, and claim their presence to be
an omen of an early spring. 1t looks
like a case of insanity this thing of
having wings and not flying to warm
er country.
The council is considering the ad-
visibility of building larger and bet
ter town hall than the one for which
plans were drawn, and the public will
endorse the decision. If hall is to be
built let it be an ornament to the tewn
and large enough to meet the require
ments of future growth.
On Tuesday evening, January Is, the
Musical Highlanders will give per-
Torrance in Sigrist hall. The com
pany comes highly recommended, and
the people of Oroville and vicinity is
assured great musical treat 1t is
seldom so large company visits so
small plance, and it should receive a
liberal patronage.
NJ. M. Collins, who left LOOMS near
ly two years ago for White Bluffs,
passed through Oroyille Tuesday on
his way back to Loomis, where he ex-
poets to make his home 1t is the
same old story. People never get over
the Okanogan microbe. Nine out of
ten who go away return better salts
fed with the country than ever.
Because there was cold winter last
year people had an idea this would be
a mild one. But really it has so far
been severe winter for this country.
The mercury has not registered a very
low degree of cold, but it has been
freezing steadily for a long period of
time. The cold came early and there