The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-10-11
LOCAL NOTES.

AVCAL NUIESs
Several residents of this place wen
to the Riverside fair Thursday.
j. H. Holmes has been away this
week on trip to the San Poll country
Beverly Powell and Perry Blackler
made the trip to Penticton and back
last week on their bicycles.
School opened up again Monday af-
ter the vacation of a week while the
teachers attended the institute.
Ben Anderson, an old time stock
man and rancher living near Chopaka,
was visitor in town Tuesday.
| E. Truax is making extensive i'm
provements on his residence south of
town. AL Fox Is the artist who is do
| ing the work.
ID. II. MOhler, Wenatchee nursery
man, was In this vicinity the first of
the week making arrangements for the
| sale OF his home grown stock
Services will be held in the Episco-
pal church at the usual hours Sunday,
Rev. Baxter officiating. All are cordi-
ally invited to attend these services.
Some people who attend public en-
| comfort of the olfactory nerves of the
audience if they would think of it in
time and wash their feet before en-
tering the building.
Congressman La Toilette is billed to
speak In OrOville on the 22nd of this
month. Political meetings are few and
far between in this place this year,
and there should be large turn out
to greet Mr.. La Toilette.
P. D. Mcclellan is kindly filling Mr..
Mckenzie's position in the Peerless
hotel while that gentleman is incapaci-
tated by illness. 1t is no new stunt
for Mcclellan, as he has had years of
experience in the hotel business.
There are several very attractive
displays of vegetable products about
town, that arouse favorable comment
among strangers visiting Oroville.
The vegetable monsters are creatures
Of the Incompatible soil in this part
Of the valley.
Mrs. Lee Rhoden, of LOOMS, was
brought over to Oroville in Bob Gal
lup's car Monday morning and taken
to Springdale to be placed in a hOspi-
tai. 1t is feared that she is suffering
from typhoid fever. She was accom-
panied on the trip by her husband.
According to the published state
ment OF the assessment of the various
school districts OrOville leads all 9TH
ers by 100000, or more. And yet Oro-
Vile has the poorest school house and
the most incOnvenient educational IA
cilities of any Of the larger districts
in the county. Are you proud of it?
The town Jail has become a grew
some habitation, and it will be a great
er punishment to cOnfine malfactor
therein than any fine that can be i'm
posed. Two prisoners have died in the
building within the past year. II the
place Is not haunted then spirits never
walk the earth under the cloak of
darkness.
w. e. Grant, the we'll known Loomis
attorney, was in OrOville Wednesday
ON legal business. Time is surely
treating the genial attorney kindly,
for he is looking younger than he has
at any time for years. He reports
business excellent in his line, which
would indicate that all of the people
are not living amicably together over
the ridge.
Mayor Reese, feeling that the coro-
ner should take cognizance of the sud-
den death of Henry Schmidt, who died
in the town jail Friday night, tele-
phOned for Coroner r. F. McCampbell,
at OkanOgan, Monday. Mr.. McCamp-
bell arrived Tuesday, but as it was
plainly evident that death resulted
from natural causes an inquest was
not considered necessary.
jeff Irby is the proudest engineer on
the line. He has been given a fine,
new, large engine to take the place of
the scrap heap that he has been coax
ing over the rails between here and
Princeton for couple of years. He
has an iron horse now that he can de-
pend upon, and put the spurs into
without fear of the results whenever
the occasion requires the making up
of lost time.
w. C. Owens, one of the pioneers of
LOOMS, was in town Thursday He
came over to figure on going into bus
mess in OrOville, but finding local
option contest on declared that he
would wait until after election before
making move. If the. town goes dry
he wants none of it, as he has had ex-
perience along that line in Loomis
NAts OWSAAO 40 NV quOeCu W
voters one way or the other. 1t is
merely quoting his statement.
Mrs. l.. F. Pourtales, her mother-in-
law, Mrs. l.. M. POurtales and brother
in-law, Robert M. Pourtales, left Tues
day morning for Tacoma, where they
will visit with relatives. Mrs. l.. F..
PourtaIes will be absent fortnight
before returning home. Mrs. l.. M.
Pourtales and her son will go from
Tacoma to Florance, Oregon, where
they will remain with another son of
the lady until January, when they go
to California for the balance of the
winter. They expect to return to Oro-
vile in the spring for a long stay.
Nc. Hershberger was in town from
his Ellemeham ranch Tuesday. Mr..
Hershberger operates a threshing ma
chine in season, and reported that he
had just completed his last run. The
crops on the mountain to the west of
the valley were not so abnOrmally
heavy as on the high lands east of
| Oroville, but Mr.. Hershberger states
that the yield was up to the average
and uniform throughout his country.
Anyhow, the crop was larger than it
has been for the past two years, while
not one to which the word bumper
would apply.
| The house of Rev. and Mrs. H. M
l L. N..<,