The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-02-07

$3.50 A YEAR.
5O-foot frontage at that point on Main
| street. Mr.. Hamisch Is not prepared
as yet to make an announcement re-
garding his plans respecting the use
or improvement of this property. This
is the most important transfer that
has been made recently in the busi-
ness section of Oroville.
| Mrs. ]. J. Erb, of Tieton, Washing
ton, mother of Mrs. A. A. Spencer, ar
rived Saturday night and will visit
several weeks with her daughter and
son-in-law.
| A. R. Tillman, an old time sawmill
man of LOomis, passed through Oro-
vile Tuesday on his way to Havillah
to Havillah to purchase horse, and
to purchase horse, and will return
the latter part of the week.
Miss Minnie Stever, who has been
| employed in the Crescent cafe, left
Tuesday morning for her home at Red
| Deer, Alberta, and Miss Orphia Cooper
| of Lewiston, Idaho, has taken her
place as hostess in the popular res
| taurant.
| So eminently successful was the
musical service held by the choir of
the Methodist Episcopal church jan
| uary 26 that a series of such services
has been decided upon and henceforth
| Oroville people will be given an Op-
| pOrtunity once each month to hear
delightful musical program under the
auspices of this organization.
Mrs. Henry Cunningham and chill
dren, who have been visiting with Mrs.
Cunningham's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
| E. McCammon, were joined here by
Mr.. Cunningham Friday, and left for
Riverside, where they will live on a
ten-acre tract adjoining the railroad
| depot, lately acquired by Mr.. Cunning
ham.
Ignatius Kelsic, who Is employed In
the Crescent cafe, had the second fin
ger of his right hand cut to the bone
| by a falling saw which became dis
| lodged unexpectedly when he reached
| for it while at his work Monday night.
The wound was dressed by DR.. e. E.
Elmer, and while it has not proven SER
| ious it has been too painful to permit
Mr.. Kelsic to return to his work.
| The Farmers Educational and Co.
Operative Union of America, Oroville
local No. 18O, which was organized
here short time ago, held a meeting
Saturday afternoon and initiated five
| new members as we'll as receiving sew
| eral more applications for member
| ship. The union is growing strong
| and the members are planning to
make it factor in the development of
this community.
F. J. Cummings, of Riverside, more
widely known as "Pard" Cummings,
| was a visitor in town the first of the
week. Mr.. Cummings has been in the
mercantile business at Riverside for
many years and has one of the larg-
est stores in Okanogan county. His
! trip here at this time was to see pri-
marily Philip LEM, who is caring for
his place north of town, and who is
| now convalescent from a serious ILL.,
| ness.
| D. r. Jackson arrived from Spokane
Thursday to accept the management
of the Osoyoos company, the position
coming to him in recognition of his
excellent record as secretary of the
Cook-Clark company of Spokane. The
| OsOyOOs company will at once launch
an active selling campaign. The COM
pany's Office is being renovated and
improved by the contraction Arm of
Cutler & Jordan. Mrs. Jackson will
later join her husband here.
w. Hughes, of Vancouver, B. c., en-
| gineer of the Kettle River Valley rail-
road, accompanied by w. Perry and G.
La Roselle, also of Vancouver, passed
through here early in the week on the
way to Penticton, to inspect the con-
struction on the Kettle River Valley
road, which is rapidly extending west
ward to the coast and promises to be
an active competitor throughout the
boundary country of the ", v. & e.
extension of the Great Northern.
w. A. Ingham, who owns the Lucky
| Knock antimony mine on Whitestone
mountain, and Benjamin o. Hare, of
Chicago, were in the city Sunday Mr..
Hare departed Monday morning for
the east. Mr. Hare came west to in
| spect the Lucky Knock, but neither he
! nor Mr.. Ingham were prepared to say
what was the result of his visit here.
The work done on the Lucky Knock
has developed fine showing of anti
mony and that property is generally
J considered one of the most likely in
| the northern part of the state.
| A coyote which had been driven in.
side the city limits by hunger and the
storms of the past few days was killed
by c. c. Hedger, manager Of the North
Washington Power and Reduction COM
pany, near the city reservoir on the
hill west of town Wednesday. Any
campaign of invasion on the hen
roosts of Oroville which the animal
might have planned during lonely
vigil on the hilltops was short-lived
when 1t approached nearer it's pro-
posed base of operations and collided
with Mr. Hedger in the role of MINI
| rod.
The Woman's Civic League will meet
Friday in the Lyric theater to receive
the reports of the three standing COM
mittees on ways and means, public Ii
brary and improvements. The i'm
provements committee will probably
suspend its report until the following
meeting as, owing to the weather con-
ditions, 1t failed to meet with the city
council last Monday for the purpose
of requesting permission to park
strip of ground near the bathing place
on the Okanogan river and to have
the city supply water for the improve