The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1910-02-11
Hard times social on the 18th.

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air Thursday.
The council has ordered more side
walks, which means more happiness
for pedestrians.
Commissioner Wright was a visitor
in Oroville Saturday, called up this
way on county business.
Let no farmer in this neighborhood
overlook the Farmers Institute to be
held IN this place on the 22nd of Feb
ruary. 1t is an event of great impor-
lance and should draw the largest
crowd of intelligent farmers ever seen
in the town.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Woodland and
their two young daughters were out
going passengers Tuesday morning on
their way to Seattle, from which place
they will make trip down into Cali
fornia. No limit has been placed upon
the time of their absence or extent Of
their travels
M. NJ. Collins and son Henry, former
residents of Loomis who drifted out
after the White Bluff bubble couple
of years ago, and returned to Loomis
last December, struck out again for
the lower country Tuesday morning.
Their future intentions are uncertain
at the present time.
Frank Y. Merriman, Sherrel l.. Mer-
rimen and Jonathan Barrett, of Ang-
lin, and w. O. Steele and Otto Hersh-
berger, of Oroville, made final home
stead proof before the local commits
sioner Monday, and Andrew Koch
Ter, of Nelson, John Burgard, of Loom
is, and VIM. Vandtman, of Angln,
made proof Tuesday.
The small building that for long
time stood almost opposite the GA
ZErTE Office, and once used as head
quarters for S. T. Stanton, was moved
Monday to the corner a few lots west
of the old location. Attorney Fitz-
gerald will use it as an office, and in
the future there is where he will be
found whenever he is at home.
AS an object lesson as to the salu-
brity of the climate around Wehes-
vile A. Geo. Wehe brought in an arm
full of new onions Monday. The fruit
is the first green thing of the spring,
and samples Mr.. Wehe left at this Of
flee had the color, flavor and strength
of the real thing, although he did not
commit himself by claiming they were
plucked from garden of flowers out
of doors. A hot house had something
to do in producing the plant.
Many complaints reach this Office
that thoughtless people will stand in
the gangway at the postotlice and read
letters much to the inconvenience of
those DESTROYS of reaching the delivery
window, or their private boxes. The
small, and after the arrival of the
evening train it is jammed. Owing to
the cramped quarters if any one lin
gers after receiving mail they either
crowd out those who desire to reach
the delivery, or require them to rudely
force way through, which is an I'M
pleasant course to follow A little
consideration for the rights of others
would remedy this cause of complaint.
M. LAUDER, one of the pioneers of
the Okanogan valley, was in town
Wednesday. AS mentioned elsewhere
Mr.. LAUDER has disposed of his ranch,
and the old gentleman is somewhat at
sea as to his future movements. He
has lived on that ranch since 1884, and
it would be difficult for him to feel at
home anywhere else. TO part with it
was like severing old ties, but the
work was becoming irksome to one of
his years and he felt it necessary to
make change. He says he may move
to and make Loomis his headquarters.
Mr.. LAUDER has prospered during his
long residence in this county and has
sufficient to pass the balance of his
days in idleness and luxury, and he has
earned that privilege by hard work
and self-denial.
Some friend sent in to Jim Holmes
present in the shape of live bob cat.
The cat is in box on exhibition at
Holmes place, and his natural irrit-
able disposition is not improved by
confinement, or the familiar imperti-
hence of visitors. The other day a
siwash strolled into the bar room, and
not being permitted to surround the
moisture that his throttle yearned for
crawled up on an innocent looking box
to mournfully watch the procession
privileged to wet whistle. He hard
ly hit the box when he hit the floor
letting go weird, wild war whoop
that threw the loungers into panic,
and caused the bar keep to scramble
for blunderbuss. When the cause of
the eruption was understood the crowd
went into commissions. 1t appeared
that the cat had reached up and
clawed out section of the Indians
trousers, and with the cloth removed
a handful of flesh. That aborigine
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