The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1910-12-09


Mayor elect Reese filed on desert
claim Thursday
up on the roof of the county, at Mol
son, people are travelling around the
country on runners.
Jay Newell has put in big post
card rack that is convenient addition
to his establishment.
The man who told you so' was dis
tinctly in evidence after the vote
were counted Tuesday.
A dancing club has been formed at
LOOMS, and dances are given the first
and third Friday in each month.
A. Geo. Wehe was down from We
hesville Thursday, and travelled in a
snow storm until he got down into the
banana belt.
K. Truax is laid up at his home south
OF town with servere cold that
threatens to develope into something
more serious.
Mrs Ed Cox and children have gone
to visit for couple of months with
her morher, who lives near Bossburg,
in Stevens county.
The moving picture show has out a
new electric sign which is helping to
make Main street great white way
on modest scale.
Quite number of old friends from
this place paid the last sad token Of
respect to the late Judge Peck by at
tending the funeral at Chesaw We'd
nesday.
County Treasurer Nickle was visit
or in town Thursday for a few hours.
on trip through the county probing
up delinquent tax payers. Mr.. Nickle
became so popular during his first
term in office that the republicans felt
it useless to pnt up candidate against
him at the last election.
Mike Manning, popular resident of
the Loomis neighborhood. spent two
or three days in town this week. Mr..
Manning is an expert .orchardist and
gardener, and can raise more and bet
ter vegetables to the acre than any
man in the country.
For several weeks the local postof-
flee has been out of money orders. and
Station Agent CASTILLO has had heavy
run on express. money orders. The
supply was exhausted Tuesday. This
works hardship only on those sending
money to the land office, as that office
will accept nothing but hard cash or
postoffice money orders.
Ira w. Follis arrived home Tuesday
evening after an absence of several
weeks in Spokane and the Palouse
country. He took his wife out for
medical treatment when she was very
low, and there were grave fears that
she might not recover. He reports
that the lady is slowly regaining her
normal health and strength.
Mrs. Smallwood held the lucky num-
Der, 544, in Jay Newell's weekly draw
ing, Saturday. The holder OF the
winning ticket, No. 23l, in the draw.
ing of the week before, has so far
failed to materalize. 1t may have
fallen into the hands of some one with
so many s. pieces that he, or she, does
not care to be burdened with any more.
People living along the road to the
southwark were mystified several days
last week at seeing Harry Cowling
riding to and from town standing ir
his stirrups. 1t seems that between
himself and the saddle a boil had in
tervened, and being of humane dis
position the young man had no desire
to infict unnecessary pain upon the
saddle.
The cruel war is over, all differences
were efferescent, anyhow, will soon be
forgotten and Oroville will still keel
on the march of progress. We ma.
differ as to the merits of candidates
but are indivisible as to the interest
of the town. Now that the local up
heaval has subsidized let us pull togeth
er for the one object, better and
bigger Oroville.
1t is reported that surveyors are a
work running the ditch for the pro
posed irrigation scheme promoted b.
Col. A. NJ. Dewey, the object being +
/ convey water on Whitestone fiat an
Horse Spring coulee. With two pre-
jects under way proposing to suppl
the same territory the prospects loo
pretty good for water to those holding
claims in that semi-arid belt.
This paper expresses sincere thank
to the Spokesman-Review for cut
the late Judge Ernest Peck. unfor
tunately the cut was not on base s
it could be used, but in the imergenc
some kind friend of both the decease
and this paper, at Spokane, forwarde'
a mounted cut in time for this issue
The photograph was taken only fey
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