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

for Conconully to attend court.
Paul and Frank Loudon, of LOOMS,
were over to the masquerade ball.
Fruit Bros. and Jack Evans have the
thanks of this Office for beautiful cal
endars of the new year.
Now that Princeton coal can be de-
livered at this place that fuel is com
ing in more general use.
Teachers and scholars in the public
school took up the daily grind Tues
day on the long end of the term.
Mrs. j. j. Neal, of Seattle, who has
been visiting her brother-in-law. j. F..
Samson, left Tuesday morning for her
home.
Miss Jessie Mae Sigrist left Monday
to resume her studies at the Cheney
Normal, after spending the holidays
pleasantly at home.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Holmes were out
going passengers Tuesday morning, on
their way to Spokane, whore they will
visit for few days.
With ones teeth chattering like cas-
tanets one hardly felt in the humor for
exchanging the customary new year
greetings Saturday.
Miss Alberta Beaton returned to her
home at Spokane Tuesday. after HAY
ing spent the holidays very pleasant!
among friends at Loomis.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Gadbury ard
daughter Jennie were visitors in town
Friday last, and the ladies attended
attended the masquerade ball.
Miss Maurine Samson, who has been
teaching term of school at Wehes-
vile, departed Tuesday for Salem, Or
egon, where she will enter college.
The people of LOOMS njoyed a dir
ny round of pleasure daring the holt
day week, some private or public en-
tertainment being billed for every
night.
From the way the business is grow
ing Postmaster Samson experts that
the present quarters will have to be
enlarged before expiration of the pres
ent year.
Judge and Mrs. E. w. Taylor spent
Sunday in Oroville on their way from
Republic to Conconully. The judge
opened the January term of court at
the county seat Monday.
1t was degree above zero Monday
morning, the coolest registered up to
that date. Later-The mercury since
Monday has slipped below zero, but
only two or three degrees
Word came down off the hills near
Nelson Sunday that thermometers reg
istered Is degrees below zero, causing
people down in the valley to feel as
though they were living in the tropics.
Crowds indulge in skating on the
lake almost day. Graceful skating is
the poetry OF motion, and quite a num-
Der of the multitude that haunt the ice
have the exercise down to the poetic
point.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. A. De Vos, who
have been sojourning at Conconully for
a couple of months, where Mr.. De Vos
had charge of the editorial department
of the Record, returned to their home
in this place Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. A. Smith and
daughter Gladys, of Deer Lodge, Mon
tana, are visiting their daughter Mrs.
w. J. Hoskyn. They are very much
pleased with the looks of the country,
and possibly may locate here in bust
ness.
One of those penetrating zephyrs
that occasionally slips into the valley
during the winter directly from the
north pole, causing people to blanket
their orange trees and supply bananas
with overcoats, pranced around thess
diggings Saturday.
A. B. Barns, who is guiding the DIES.
TIMES of the Commercial bank at Mol.
son, was down to the metropolis Fri
day last to take in the masquerade and
enjoy the new year, which was not at
at all enjoyable beyond the radious OF
a few feet from hot stoYe.
Those owning ice houses are harvest
ing the winter cropin anticipation that
it may be needed few months hence.
The brand of frigid moisture is No. l,
and the chunks run from eight to a
a dozen inches in thickness. The ring OF
r small slabs in glasses will sound pleas.
ant about the 4th of July.
'' Grover Sigrist left Monday for Pull
man, where he will take up The horti.
3 cultural and agricultural course at the
! state college. Provided with the scien.
tific theory as to how\ to secure the
best results from tilling the soil, Mr.
Sigrist will return to Oroyille and pol
ish up his education with practical ex
perience IN orchard culture.
1 Frank Putnam, manager of the Con
! cOnully Record and an all around ex.
( pert at the art preseryative of all arts