The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-05-09
LOCAL NOTES.

! for a brief visit to Spokane.
Attorney p D. Smith returned from
Spokane last Friday, and left for his
home at Conconully Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. B. Grinnell, of To-
nasket, were visitors in Oroville Fri
day last. coming up in Clay Fruit S
car.
M. X. Bowen, the Tonasket agent
for the Ford auto, has sold out the
car load of machines that he ordered
early in the season.
Ed. Provo is just able to move
around and take sustenance with
some degree of relish after an illness
extending over two weeks.
Judge E. X. Pendergast stopped
over in town last Friday on his way
to Conconully from Republic where
he had been on court business.
S. E. Minnick, one of the land hold
ers of the East Oroville Orchard
tracts, has gone to Grand Forks, b.
c., where he is working at his trade
of builder.
Mrs. j. p Forde, who has been in
st. Louis for several months, having
her son Boyd under treatment, is ex-
pected to return to her home at
Loomis Saturday.
Mrs. Laswell, who had been visiting
with Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Graham at
Loomis, for some days, took train at
this place for her home in Colville
Saturday morning. Mr.. Graham
brought her over in his car.
Jimmy Jackson, who had to pick
up meal at Spokane loaded with
ptomaine poison, is able to be out and
around again after a week in bed He
must have been some sick, as he shed
fourteen pounds in seven days.
The Tonasket creamery is now in
the charge of the Lakewood paople
of Spokane. The creamery is not op-
Grated, but a representative purch-
asses all the cream that is offered. and
it is shipped to the house at Spoka. G.
Miss G. M. Donald teacher in the
Tonasket school, spent the week end
in OrOville, the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
F. A. DeVos. The public school of
Tonasket closes in couple of weeks,
and Miss Donald expects to spend the
summer in the county
Reports from up and down the val
ley as to the effect of the frost last
week on the fruit trees are very re-
assuring Those in position to speak
from personal observation declare
that the damage is very slight, and
will not be perceptible when fruit
natures.
Station Agent Costello sold ~
tickets to Spokane Monday morning
besides a number to other points
along the line, which would indicate
that there is some travel out of this
place, and that Uncle Jim is taking
enough out of the valley to pay for
the pull over the hill.
M. G. Jackman, weather observer,
hands in the following report for the
month of April Temperature
Mean maximum, GA; mean minimum,
1872; mean, 51.1; maximum 80, on
the 18th; minimum, 20, on the 7th and
goth. Precipitation-1.O OF inches. Clear
days, 1S; partly cloudy, 4.
c. w. Smith, secretary of the Owas-
co Mining company, has purchased
the residence in the north part of
town now occupied by Bert Silver
nail, which is an encouraging indi-
cation that Mr.. Smith is here to stay,
and he can be classed among the right
kind of people to have stay.
Rev. and Mrs. H. o. Nash came in
from LOOMS in their car Thursday
afternoon last, and continued on their
way to Brewster after remaining in
town an hour or two. Rev. Nash is
still in charge of the Episcopal mis-
sions in the south part of the county
and will continue in that field until
September
The saloon in the Peerless hotel is
closed. The license was originally
issued to Albert Smith, who died
few months ago. The place was con-
tinued under the old license until it
lapsed and as it could not be re-
issued to Mrs. Smith the bar was
closed. Other parties may eventu-
ally secure the fixtures and reopen
the establishment.
The ladies of the Guild of the Epis-
copal church will serve ice cream and
cake in the vacant room in the Hos
kyn building, on Main street. Satur-
day afternoon and evening. The pub
lie is requested to build up an ice
cream appetite and bring it around
to the place mentioned, on the date
fixed, and have it satisfied. The ladies
are going to put over the Oroville
vintage of cream, which is nough
said.
S. F. Mcdonald, Oscar Trummell
and Mate Irwin have worked improve
ment about their home places on the
bank of the Okanogan near the cream
cry this spring. Among the invest
ments is bulkhead to prevent the
river eating away the land at a point
where the water takes bite out of
the abutting real estate almost every
spring. Mr.. McDonald's contribution
is in the shape of a neat new fence
around his premises.