The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-05-05
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! the caAus", the scrubby COW. the raZo"
| back hog were considered good enough
for existing wants. 1t is different now.
! Farmers have learned that it is Just
as cheap to raise good stock as "A poor
! article, and there is more money in the
in This effort to improve Ivy investing
| in high class horse, fact that breed
| ers should max note Of.
| j. II. Steele has given up the lodg
| ing house he has been conducting in
| Il fairly good business, but it has been
. case of working hard for the land
| lord, and that becomes monotonous in
course of time. He gave up the prem
| ises Sunday. the last day OF the month.
Mr.. Steele expects to go to work on
| the Dewey ditch.
Bonaparte Grange, No. 444, is taking
time by the forelock, with the an
nouncement that a grand Fourth of
wash creek, under the direction of the
grange. There will be a great gather
ing of residents for miles around, and
in all probability the crowd on this oc-
casiOn will be one of the largest ever
collected togather in the east part of
the county. The festivities will be ap-
propriate to the day. with the special
feature of a picnic dinner.
Del Wood was in town Saturday to
secure large road scraper that he
had purchased for use on road work
Mr. Wood and ar associate have u
$1,000 contract for doing - stretch of
state road building, and you will come
very near striking the nail on the head
if you guess that the work to b" done
is in the ronasket neighborhOod. Tn
der "A recent ruling OF the attorney
general state money cannot be used
for road work in a road district in
debt, and as this work is going on it
is a satisfaction to know that one road
district at least in the county is on IA
cash basis. Mr.. Wood will make IA
creditable job of the highway, some
thing that can not be said of all the
state road building that has been done
in this county in past years. and now
being equipped for that class of work
he should be able to out bid other CON
tractors in the future
The baseball boys or the town both
seniors and juniors. were keenly dis
appointed sunday. Two games with
visiting teams had been arranged for
and advertised. and both failed 10 ap-
pear. The regulars and picked nine
tried conclusions in an unintercsting
and featureleSs game, ending in IA
At the late meeting of the town
council there was "A deadlock over the
selection of a councilman to hll The
vacancy made by the resignation OF
Robert G. Evans, handed in some time
ago. Now that he resides within the
town limits, Mr.. Evans name was pre-
scnteG for reinstatement but two of
the conncilmen voted against the can
didate How the opposing councilmen
can square their conScienceS to this
attitude is beyond understanding. This
is not said because the candidate hap
pens to be Mr.. Evans 70 rit is imma-
terial to this paper who may hold this
N\ n fnI ltt h.n of l,..
circumstances surrounding the case.
Mr.. Evans was elected to the office last
fall, but moving ont of the corporate
limits he became ineligible to sit in
that body. With a manlineSS that older
men could well initiate to their advan-
tage. he resigned the office in order to
remove all cause of friction. The ter
ritory in which he resides has been
absorbed into the corporation and Mr..
Evans is again eligible to a seat in the
council 1t would have been only an
act of courtesy had the council unani-
mously indorsed his name when pre-
sented. II is everywhere admitted
that while in office Mr.. Evans made
one of the most active and level
headed councilmtn that has ever held
the office in this place. We have not
exchanged a word with the gentleman
on this subject, yet presume, from
what We know OF him. and the fact
that the job is anything but a pleasant
one under the most favorable COndi-
tiOns. that it is immaterial to him
whether he is chosen or rejected. Men
ton is made of the case only as an act
of common justice, and this position
would have been taken had the mat
ter of IA choice, under similar circum-
stances, been that of any other mem
bcr of the body.
The Similkameen river commenced
raising this week. 1t will be a month
probably before high water, and there
may not be any very high water this
season after all.