The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-04-05
Firemen's dance April 10Th.

Samuel Blacklers new residence is
nearing completion.
r. Grieger shipped two car loads of
hay to Princeton this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Limbach, of
LOOMS were registered in town Sat
urday.
Mrs f. n. Grub went to Nelson
| Wednesday morning to visit with
friends.
Trinity Guild bazaar and entertain
mnet next Monday afternoon and
| evening.
Ed. Kilngman will contribute neat
| modern residence to aid in the beau
tifying of Knob Hill.
Mrs King, mother-in-law of Fred
| Gadbury took the train Monday morn
ing for trip on the outside.
Samuel Blackler was an outgoing
| passenger Wednesday morning. on his
way to Spokane on business trip.
Sunday will be Easter, and arrange
ments have been made to have special
| musical features at the several church
| services
| The first of April escaped without
| the perpetuatiOn of any great josh.
unless it may have been the meeting
| of the council
| Joe Mcdonnell moved with his fami-
| ly to PentictOn last week. where he
has secured the bar privilege in one of
the hotels at that place
Chas Powell. jr has been under the
weather this week, and Harold Nc
| Cannon filled his place behind the
| counter of the Oroville Commercial
| company's store.
Fred Clark has had his small tract
on the East Oroville Orchard Tracts
set out to trees, and will also grow a
large quantity of vegetables on the
| land this season.
Tract owners on the fiat and up and
down the valley are just now on the
| jump breaking out and cultivating land
and setting out fruit trees. Much new
land will be put into orchards this
season,
High mass will be celebrated in the
| Catholic church Easter day for the
! first time since the church was estab-
lished in OrOville. Undoubtedly there
will be large attendance from far
and near.
e. G. Rice left for Spokane Wednes-
day morning to meet his wife on her
return from Lake Forest H., where
she has been spending a greater por
ton of the winter visiting with friends
and relatives.
e. ". Henderson, who was 50 SER
Ously injured by being thrown from d
speeder some weeks ago, Is back on
mis- job. Mr.. Henderson has not fully
recovered from the effects of the
shock. and will carry an ugly scar to
his grave.
County School Superintendent w. e.
Gamble was a passenger ticketed for
Spokane Monday morning where he
will attend a meeting of the county
schol superintendent OF the state, and
the Inland Teachers Institute, held in
that city this week
Arthur ClaughtOn new arrival
from PentictOn, has purchased Joe
McDonnells saloon, and the unex-
pired license was transferred to him
ut the last meeting OF the council,
Mr.. Claughton Is said to possess con-
siderable means and Is live business
man.
w. p. Ramey has sold out his milk
route to a Mr.. Curtis, who has been
farming in the Anglin country. Mr..
Ramey intends going upon his farm.
which is located also in the Anglin
neighborhood Mr. Curtis has moved
his family, consisting of a wife ana
four children. to Oroville.
Miss Clara Melcher of Loomis, was
visitor in OrOville Saturday. Miss
Melcher taught one of the schools in
the Ellemeham district during the win
ter, and gave such excellent satisfac-
ton that the residents of the district
contributed sufficient funds to cOntin-
he the school another two months.
Tuesday night Marshal McCammon
arrested Councilman |. n. Wickersham
for drunkenness, and confined him in
the town jail. The case created quite
sensation The, matter was patched
up and Mr.. Wickersham escaped with
out q fine, the marshal permitting him
to go free on promise OF good behavior.
Geo. Devon will have q swell hotel
after he finishes the improvements in
contemplation. 1t is the intention to
make the south end of the lower floor
a glass front the same as on the Main
street side. When the work and paint
ing is done he will install cOmbi-
nation OF electric lights that will il
Illuminate the entire front.
Dooley p. Wheeler received a full
car load of fruit trees Friday last from
| the. Wenatchee nursery for local de-
| livery. This lot represents an enOr-
nous number of trees, but is only a
portion of what Mr.. Wheeler has de-
livered this spring, as he raised many
thousand young trees on his own place
with which to fiji orders.
| Dooley p Wheeler has purchased
five additional acres on the East Oro-
| Vile Orchard Tracts, adjoining his
home place on the west. He will cul-
tivate and set out the land to fruit
this season, and make It duplicate
| of the home tract, which, in the lux
uriance of its prOductiveness, was the
| sight spot OF the valley last year.
The ladies of the NJ. e. church gave
tramp lunch" in the Lyric theatre
last Friday evening. The new
tangled feed consisted of a cup of cof-
fee and excellent sandwiches and
doughnnts wrapped in paper pack
ages. II these constituted fair
| 90 nplo IF a tromp'c raUu1ar lunch IL