The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-12-13
TONASkET NEWS.

Del Wood made a trip to Penticton
| Wednesday.
Ernest Burns is building a concrete
house on his ranch north of town.
Mrs. Kellog is visiting her father,
Mr. Simons in Pine Creek.
| Mrs Grinnell and Mrs. Nickle Wis
| tied Mrs Burns, of Britain flats Sun
day.
| Mrs. Chas. Beck, who has been on
the sick list for a week is getting
better.
| Mr.. Noyes, of Loomis, spent Sun
day in TOnasket. the guest of Mrs.
| Thompson.
The Builders" held their monthly
| business and social meeting with Su-
san Shimiek
Civic League will meet Saturday.
| Dec. 21, at 2 p. m. Mrs. Bowen and
Mrs. Curtis, hostesses.
Forest Metcalf has returned to
school after a vacation of six weeks
and a run of typhoid fever.
Harry Yount, jr., is suffering with a
badly crushed foot. His horse slipped
on some ice and fell upon him.
d. E. Gilman, of Hepner, Oregon,
was in town Monday. From here he
went to Conconully and Riverside.
Prosecuting Attorney, Fred T. Neal,
with the assistance of E. A. Newell is
building house on his homestead
near town.
Mr. and Mrs. M. Sweikert, Chas. TUT
ty and Morris Bowen attended the Ju-
bilee Singers concert at Riverside on
Friday night
Harry Betaque, of Riverside, is as
sisting his brother Arthur, in the rush
of business that is making the Ton
asketites happy
Frank Samson, of OrOville. was in
town Monday collecting assessments
levied by the East Okanogan Valley
Irrigation District.
Mr.. Bowen made trip to ConcOnul-
ly Tuesday with D. E. Gilman to COM
plete the transfer of the Farnsworth
ranch from Mr.. Gilman to Mr.. Bowen.
Quite crowd of young people from
here attended the dance at Anglin last
week. Thos. Mayberry and his party
abandoned their rig on the road,
walked two miles, borrowed another,
but refuse to explain why.
About one and one-half miles from
town on the new Bonaparte road. is a
group of large trees, the largest and
most beautiful in this part of the
county. They form a national park
and should be preserved. The COM
missioenrs nave taken steps to protect
those on the county right-of-way and
strong public sentiment should pre-
serve those on The adjoining home
steads
The Board of Control of the library
and reading room met Tuesday night
and formulated rules and regulations
to govern the use of room, circulation
of books, etc. They decided that the
reading room will be open every even
ing. Wednesday evening will be given
to the boys and will be under the di-
rection of Prof. Grinnell. Every other
Friday night will be given to social
affairs under the direction of Miss
Donald. Saturday and Sunday after
Moons the room will be open and peo-
pie from outside of town are cordially
invited to make use of it as a rest
room. The room will be under su-
pervision of some member of the club
at all times. The books may be drawn
at any time the room is open by any
active or honorary member.
The Civic League became a perma-
nemt institution Saturday, when q
ladies adopted a constitution and
elected officers for the coming year
The following were elected: Presi-
dent, Miss Donald; vice president,
Mrs. Green; treasurer, Mrs. Beck;
secretary. Mrs. Grinnell The COM
mittee on furnishings and books was
made permanent and with the officers
of the League form a Board of Con
troll who was given charge of the read
ing room. The members are Mrs.
Bowen, Mrs. Lane, Mrs. Nickle, Mrs.
Pollock, Mrs. Grinnell, Mrs. Picken.
The report of the Cemetery Committee
was held over until the Townsite COM
pany, which has the matter under ad-
visement shall be heard from. The
matter of Keeping Tonasket Clean was
discussed and it was agreed that to
keep unsightly and unsavory things
out of the town would be easier than
taking them outside later and that the
piles of cans. garbage and rubbish
that adorn the suberbs of so many
cities shall never appear in Tonasket
KEEP TONASkET CLEAN"