The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-08-18
l. w. Follis was called to Nelson
Saturday on business

l. w. follis was called to Nelson
Saturday on business
Rev. H. NJ Course spent some days
during the past week at Wilson creek.
Miss Ruth Bowerman left Monday
for Republic, where she will stay with
friends and attend school during the
coming winter.
Robert Evans has been off on a
camping trip with party of friends
in the mountains west of LOOMS Tor
week or more.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. l.. Armstrong were
off on a vacation during the past week
camping at the j. A. Blackler ranch,
on Palmer mountain.
c. Thos. Gawthrop, of Spokane, and
a printer by-the-way, filed on home
stead before the local United States
commissioner Tuesday.
Mrs. Robert Evans and baby Evans
spent several days during the past
week visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Stan
ley Evans, near LOomiS.
Miss Carrie Berg is the new hello"
girl at the local telephone Office. Miss
Berg returned last week from Cheney,
where she took the summer course at
the normal school.
Joe Mcdonnell was a passenger for
Greenwood Monday, where he expec-
ed to meet friend, and together they
were to take an auto trip some dis
lance into British Columbia.
Mrs. E. + Dorothy and her daugh-
ter. Miss Myrtle, of Pierre. s. D.,
mother and sister of Mrs. J. c. Wild,
are visiting at the home OF the Wilds,
few miles north of OrOville.
Capt and Mrs. Hanson, Of Okano-
gan, and Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. j. Hurley,
of Loomis, made an extended trip into
British Columbia during the past
week in Captain Hanson csar.
Miss Bessie Weaver, whose home is
near Chesaw, has been visiting Miss
Minerva Stever for some days. Miss
Weaver will leave this week for Bill
ings, Mont, where she will attend
school next winter.
Mrs. George Bowerman accompan-
led her sister-in-law, Mrs. Boeing, to
her home at Hedley Tuesday where
she will visit iorsome time. She ex-
poets later to go east to spend the
winter with relatives.
Miss Orva Payne has been confined
to her bed this week with what is pro-
pronounced to be slight attack of
typhoid fever. 1t is the only case re-
ported in this neighbOrhoOd, and 1t is
to be hoped it may be the last.
The ball boys remained in Green
wood over Sunday night. Two of the
cars arrived here Monday before noon
The third met with an accident and
had to lay up at Chesaw for an hour
or two for repairs, arriving home late
in the afternoon Monday
Steve Johnson, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
X. Z. Johnson, of the Wehesville
neighborhood, returned last week
from Bellingham, where he has been
pupil in the normal school for two
or three years. He has finished his
course and is now home to stay.
Black birds have commenced to
bunch in fiOcks and there is a pre-
mopition of fall in the air early in the
mornings. 1t is safe to chance the
remark that hot weather is over for
this year. although there is no danger
OF snow storm for several months,
The Paul Gilmore company that is
10 appear here next Thursday even
ing is the largest and strongest dra
- oNAAAHatiOu has ever Deen
piled for Oroville. The company
should be welcomed by such a crowd
that standing room will be at a pre-
MUM.
me county commissioners have
voted $3.50 to aid the Chesaw fair See
ing that the Riverside fair had been
given county aid it was only Just that
Chesaw should be treated likewise.
Public money is well spent, providing
such donations are not too prodigai.
when 1t is used to encourage improved
production.
A stranger reached town on the
princeton train Saturday evening, and
he hal not been on the street thirty
minutes before he was letting the
pubic Know in thick yet penetrat-
ing voice that he was enjoying him
sell. Marshal McCammon doomed IN
on the scene and :rotted the peace
breaker off to he'd.
One night last week some party. or
parties, unknown, with craving for
goose, carried off two geese from !.
A. Spencer's place, across the river
from the creamery. Geese we're not
the only property that their evil and
coVetous eyes fell upon, for they re-
moved and purloined the hobbies at
tached to the Spencer pony.
Fred C. Retzer, of Loomis, was a
visitor in town Tuesday. Mr.. Retzer
is the pioneer blacksmith of the coun
ty. He conducted a shop in Concon-
ully in early days, and has been en-
gagged in business at I.oomis for near
ly twenty years. Industry is his long
suit, and even in the dullest times he
manages to find enough to do to keep
busy.
The school in the Mustard district.
on Palmer mountain, opened for a
fall term Monday, with Miss Clara
Melcher, of LOOMS, as teacher.
Judge Albert Allen, Of Spokane.
came in Saturday and continued on
to Loomis Sunday, where he held a
conference with parties interested In
the tungsten claims that the judge has
under bond. He left for his home
Tuesday morning
Mrs. w. r. Eddy returned to Oro-
vile, last week from her visit to Boise
City, Idaho, but only to remain for a
few days. as Mr.. Eddy, who has been
on the Princeton run long time, has
recently been transferred to the Nell
son line, and the family left Tuesday
for Northport, where they will make