The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-04-21

tain Thursday last.
Mr. ald Mrs. Oh irles +. Black we'll mo
tored up from Riverside Monday AM
spent the greater portion Of TUESDAY il
Orovile,
Mrs. Walter Mills. accompanied by he
two children left Monday for Spokane
where she will visit for some time witt
| relatives.
A large crowd attended the Judsol
| Murray auction sal" Thursday. The bid
| ling was spirited and mach persona
| property was disposed of.
Little Miss Tressic Masters. who is at
tending tie Catholic school at Ward. ave-
in Stevens county spent the E"star h,li-
days with her parents in Orovie
| \ pr;,, tice game of ball between tn,
| regular nine and a picked aggregation
| took place Sunday afternoon drawing gu,
quite a crowd. The PLAYING was ragseo
| in spots. as might be expected 5. early
| in the season.
| That sturdy pioneer. Horace Brown
was in town Thursday and while here
| iileG ON 1870 acres of land around his OLD
| stamping "rolnd, few miles south OF
| Orovlle. MAY he i've long to emo his
| new posse, sion
The Okanogan Valley Orchards com
| pany has the large tract west of town
| fenced. and will at once set out fruit
| trees. 1t is enterprise that wit be a
| large factor in making Orovine IL great
fruit producing ceCter few years hence.
\ special election was held TUESDAY for
the puipose Of voting On The admission Of
~ ~. IL
limits of the town. Some 80 votes were
| east 50 in favor and against. II should
nave been unanimous. but all men can
not think alike.
The Women Of Woodcraft are prepar
ing t" present The Man From Barneo.'
during the latter part of May Further
and fuller particulars will be given AZ "a
later date. but the public ear prepare FOR
something exceptionally gooG in the way
of amateur t'ieatrcnls
There is mnr<,d ,,nd glowing inter
est in bowling. and to meet the demand
Forquier. the man who had the foresight
and enterprise to introduce the game IN
Droville. mas adedd Il second alley to the
| room he occupies and the public seems to
appreciate. that enterprise by keeping the
balls rolling pretty steadily.
The secretary Of the interior has Jus,
rendered Il decision contii ming the fi,d
ings OF thc commissioner of the ,:cnerai
land office. who decided in favtr OF the
homesteader in the proteS, entered by the
Horn silver Minin, company against the
homestead entry OF Mrs Florence T..
Jones. Attorney II"skyn. representing
the pi"testee, received Il copy ct the de-
cision this week.
Superintendent Morgan of this division
nj the Great Northern road accompanied
by u II lmher OF rain Dad officials. cam. in
Wednesday evening; in his private car
and continued on t" The trent Thursday
morning. While ma one niunaged to &c,
to at" ear of Mr.. Morgan. yet a well de-
Veloped feeling prevails since his appear
ance That things will Soor be moving On
the southern branch.
y carload of S-inch pipe. for use in "x-
tending the laterals in the irrigation sys.
TEN nstaleG hv tie East Orovilc Or-
chard company. was received this week
and is being rapidly placed in the ground
1t Will be some time before il will be nee
"ssary to TURF on the water. but the sys-
TEN is being perfected and vii! be thor
"ughly tested 50 mat there will be no
hitch wheu water is nee led.
W. T. stewart Il pioneer farmer of the
Nelson ncishboiho ID. left with his fam
lily Tuesday morning, for San Bernardiro
cal Mr. Stewart goes south with the
hopes of Eenetting the health o. Il Young
son. who has been i'll for some anon tns
and should he find the climate o, Cail-
fornia beneficial Will probably return in
few weeks ana dispose of his property
in, hi, "A
state - live permanently
j +. Getsey. the well known and popu.
lar conductor, who has used the punch
with care in the ple ssence of the passen
gair," on the Great Northern for !. long
long time. is soon to dis, ard lid punch
for the plow and other handy tools used
by the yeomanry who provide the bread.
stuffs that keep united body and soul OF
the hnnSering consumer. Recently he
liled Oh homestead spattered over the
hillside Il short distance east of Oroville.
Geo. II Ellis. jr.. and las. f. Forde
the combination that is the CHIEF push te
hind the firm OF The Ellis FOrde COM
pany, of Wenatchee. came in Tuesday
evening from Spokane. Mr.. Ellis is ;ust
back from trip to Boston and other
eastern cities. The gent ,men own many
acres of valuable fruit land in the north
ern part of the county, some of whicn is
highly improved ard more OF it they will
probably put unde, water at ar early
date.
Carlton w. Tage who was in Oroviile
only short time ago putting the limp
ing linotype N the Gazette Office in work
ing order spent Sunday in town. lie
had been on 81 long stage trip from Mas
field, through Bridgeport brewster. Okla
hogan, Omak. riverside and Conconully
in the interest of the Mergenthaler COM
panv ne represents Strange to say nc
has Il preference for a Pullman owe" a
stage after the long trip through this
upper country wheels pushed by horse
flesh.
The. MAYOR desires us to state that the
stock ordinance which prohibits stock
! from running at large within tie .orpor-
ate limits, is TO be strictly enfoI ced Dur
ing thu past wear this local regulation has
been neglected. and in consequence :he
streets and vacant places about town
! have been made a barnyard. Those ny
J ing to improve their premises by setting
out trees find their time. labor and money
| thrown away roaming stock destroys
/ shrubbery as soon as it is set out: The
| householder trusts the ordinance will ne
! rigidly enforced
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