The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-12-15
SHORT LOCAL NEWS.


sickness this week.
c. Schassberger the new tailor. has
opened Shop in the old hotel build
ing opposite ID. G"ieger's office.
Prosecuting Attorney Fred Neal and
Deputy Sheriff Mclean wore visitors
in town Tuesday on official business.
w. p. Hoskyn left for Spokane Sat
urday, where he joined his wife. who
has been visiting with friends in that
city for several weeks.
Robert Evans took train Saturday
for Minneapolis, st. Paul and Chicago
on business trip. He will attend the
big land show at st. Paul before going
to Chicago, and will be gone until aft
er the holidays.
John H. Killian, our local cigar man
ufacturer, who makes popular brand
of that class Of goods that is enjoyed in
it's destruction. made trip to Nelson
Monday and picked up nice lot of
orders.
The new addition to Z. McCammon's
residence, in the east part of town,
wholly transforms tho outward ap-
pearance of that structure and when
completed and painted will be one Of
the most attractive homes in Oroville.
The dance given last Friday night by
the Oroville Athletic club, holding
forth in the Cummings building drew
out a fair crowd that managed to eX-
tract the usual amount of pleasure
connected with pastimes of that ma
ture.
Jas. OJIerin reports a singular con-
dition in his orchard this year. Last
year five Delaware Reds yielded very
heavy crop, one box yielding 80 boxes.
This year the same trees did not bear
an apple. He can not account for this
utter failure to yield, as the trees are
healthy and in vigorous condition.
r f. Britain, living near Tonasket,
was in town Saturday and Sunday on
{. mission OF kindness. Mr.. Britain
and others have extended all the aid
possible to the Huntley family, in
which two deaths have occurred with
in a short period, and he was here for
the purpose of arranging for and con-
ducting the funeral of the child, Cora,
who died Friday.
Chas. B. Welter, post office inspector
for eastern Washington spent several
days in Oroville during the past week.
No official high or low has been treated
with sIch difference and distinction as
Mr.. Welter. He held ievees. met and
mingled with our leading business and
professional men. and was besieged
earnestly and eloquently on every
hand. lie survived the ordeal
The schools have not closed OH ac-
count of the diphtheria case, but as a
means of rrecaution DR.. Schwabland
examines the throats of the scholars
every morning, quite trying job both
for the physician and the children, es-
pecially the latter. who are compelled
to have their mouths pried open daily
and their interior exposed to the
weather. BY this means it is loped
to be able to head oft any spread of
the disease.
A family named Huntley, living near
TonaSket, has suffered terrible afflic-
tion recently in the loss of two young
children from that dreaded ScOurge,
diphthcria. On November II. Mary,
ten-year-old daughter, died of that dis
case, and last Friday, December s,
Cora, aged Z years, passed away and
was buried Sunday in the Odd Fellows
cemetery at this place. Added 70 the
distress resultant from the sickness
and fatalities the family is in ST. raigt-
ened circum stances. Kind and SYM
palmetto neighbors have done all in
their power for the unfortunate fam
lily.
Stephen Mills, the young son of
Postmaster Mills, is confined to the
house with an attack of diphtheria.
The attending physicians, Drs. House
a
mild one. The residence, in which is
only the sick boy and his mother, is
quaranrined. AS from the first SYM
toms the lad was carefully cared for,
and medical attendance called early,
it is believed that he will speedily re-
cover. Every precaution has been TAX
en- and it is hoped that no other cases
will develop in the community.
Bank Examiner F. II. Luce was in
town Thursday last on his regular
rounds, prying into the condition OF
the First National bank He had to
work double shift in order to get
through in time to catch the Friday
morning train, as there were other in
stitutions suffering for examination,
hence he was not able to get around
and meet old acquaintances. He found
the nome Dank III Il SOllQ anu SuDSldH-
tial shape, doing business right, and
the right kind of business, all of which
is pleasing and encouraging to the pa
irons thereof.
The other day Station Agent Castel-
10 was soliloquizing over the singular
transactions that come to his notice,
and to which people pay no attention
One case he mentioned was the fact
that sheep men of this county ship
clear through to Chicago TO a market,
and the local butchers receive their
mutton from Spokane. This seems like
strange case of going far around to
procure what is close at hand. Deal
ers explain it by stating that local
| consumption requires only few sheep
at a time, and as the large tlocks are
usually remote from the town owners
do not consider the profits justify them
in going to the trouble to fill small or
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