The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-07-21

SICK list this week.
Clay Fruit was in town from his
place near Tonasket Saturday.
Chas. A. Andrus was in town from
Nghthawk over Monday night.
A girl came to cheer the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Hancock Saturday.
II you want to enjoy a day off go to
Republic Sunday with the ball club
and band
Attorney Fitzgerald returned Friday
last from a business trip to Spokane
and Seattle
Mrs. John E. Reese returned home
saturday from visit with Mrs. Guy
Fruit, at Loomis.
Now that everything is so dry and
parched, people cannot be too careful.
in guarding against IRE
The town council failed to meet
Monday evening on account of
shortage of the necessary number of
members.
According to the record the mer-
curry registered 106 Saturday and III
Sunday. end the heat was quite not
iceable both days
Mrs. John Mcintyre left for her
home at Spokane Saturday after a
visit of week with her daughter,
Mrs. Charles Lewis, on Ellemeham.
1t is keeping Commissioner Hoose
busy looking alter leaks in the old
wooden water mains. One iseyser is
hardly plugged before anOthe' breaks
out
The new issue of town water bonds
are to be taken by the state, and the
money will be received as soon as the
bonds can he engraved, signed up and
issued.
Mrs Dick Case, formerly of this
place and now a resident of Phoenix,
B. c.. was a guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Reevie Frank several days d ring the
past week.
The heat was so great Sunday as to
blister the paint and varnish Oh both
inside and outside of a passenger
coach that was left standing on the
side track.
Owing to the excessive hot weather,
which initiated against violent eXer-
else, there was slim attendance
at the dance given by the ball club
last F.'iday night
ME-. anu MIS-. y. w. NlHScs, vi .>i6h'
hawk, were in Oroville Monday night,
and while here Mrs. Kinsey filed on
desert claim before the loca! United
States commissioner.
The Kings Daughters at LOOMS
will give a lawn social at the library
Saturday, July %. to which all are
cordially invited. Refreshments will
be served on the lawn.
z. Spinka VINO held the position as
brewer at the OCal brewery for few
weeks. left for La Grande. Ore, some
DAYS ago and his wife and infant
child followed Tuesday.
S c. Mitchell. has twenty car loads
of four foot slab wood and posts piled
ND lust south of the railroad track
Prospects of cold winter has in
duced this accumulation OF rue!.
Now that many of our citizens have
telenhones. it will be considered IA
vor if they will ring up this office and
send in any personals. or item OF
news that comes to their observation
The river at the bath houses was
tull of bathers Sunday from early
morning until late at night. IL was
the temperature of the atmosphere
that created a universal desire to be
in the drink.
man should not find fault with
what a local paper says ABOUT nun
for q paper is usually MID IN cru
cism. He should be thankful to the
editor for suppressing what could, ana
might, be said
Saturday evening the reservoir con-
tanned 10000 gallons OF water, ana
by 9 O'Clock Sunday morning the tanh
was empty. There must be tremen-
dOrs unnecessary waste, or serious
leakage in the mains somewhere
J Friis the creamery man. lett ior
Spokane Tuesday TO look after MS
butter shipments. He now mas sever
al tons of butter in cold storage IN
that city. MI Friis expected when ne
left to b. absent only two or three
days.
n T. Desmond is the first citizen to
tan the new water mains for water
surply. No doubt other connections
viii rapidly follow, as no one wlthln
reach of the source Of supply can al
ford to be without this great domestic
convenience.
son was born to the household OF
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Xix, at their
home on Ellemeham mountain lhurs-
dav last, but the little one died yes
terdav morning. The young COUPE
have the sympathy of their FRIENDS III
their sad loss.
From the amount of smoke that
covered the face of nature TUESDAY IL
is evident that the annual forest nre'
81 destructive to standing timber, mas
broken out again. The obscurihg Oh
tbe sun, with slight breeze. occa-
sional,y developing into a sim plo"'
temnered the atmosphere.
Under the ordinance regulating tne
usc of water, lawns can only be sprln-
kled between the hours OF ana III
The morning, and and in me even
ing Even under those restrictions II
keeps the pump busy supplying the
reservoir with sufficient water TO meet
the demand, and the reservoir NOUS
$4,000 gallons.
Several of the passenger train ere"
LAYING over here from Saturday even
ing until Monday morning went OUT
r. the front on a special carrying
workmen to Princeton, Sunday, ana
mt in the day fishing on Won creek,
q small stream ~ miles this SIDE Oh
princeton. They had lucky run anu