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

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Bargain day next Tuesday. Be in Oro-
vile on that date.
Dance for the benefit of the library
this Friday evening.
r. Greger went to Greenwood Satur-
day on a business trip.
L. E. Hendrix went to Nelson Satur-
day to look after his harness shop in
that place.
Miss Alice Meanor. of Loomis, left Sat-
urday for Cheney, where she will enter
the normal school for the winter.
Earl Harkin left for North Yakima
Saturday after a pleasant visit to the
scenes of his childhood around Loomis
County Assessor Jerry Mccartney left
for Olympia Saturday. where he goes to
attend a meeting of the assessors of the
state.
Daily shipment of peaches is being
made from the Leslie Hill orchard. Most
of them are consigned to British Column
bia points.
Jas. T.. Forde returned to Spokane Sat
| urday. He hardly knows where to regis
ter from nowadays when putting up at
a hotel. Chewelah was hung to his sigma
| lure when he signed the hotel register
| here.
Bargain Day next Tuesday promises
| to be the red letter day of the year for
Orovile. 1t will be case of combining
| pleasure and business, and the towns
people and visitors alike will have ample
opportunity to enjoy themselves.
An auto load of young folks consisting
| of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Loudon, Mrs Geo.
| Bartell, Miss Tiley and Miss None Bur
ket and Frank Bartell jr., motored over
to Loomis Friday last and attended the
dance given at that place. in the evening.
| The brick walls of the new school
house are creeping up above the second
story, and work progresses the public
| more and more realizes the fortunate
| selection for a school house site. When
finished the high school will be an i'm
posing looking building commanding a
magnificent view of the entire valley.
In conjunction with the tennis tourna-
ment a social dance was given in Eagle
hall. Loomis, last Friday night, which was
attended by people from all the country
side, as well as the residents of the camp
There have been larger dances at Loomis
in the past, for the people of that locality
are strong on the pastime. but none more
conducive to pleasure than that of last
Friday evening.
All who are inclined that way should
attend the ball given by the library
committee of the Civic League this Fri
day evening. If you do not indulge chip
in dollar, anyhow, and help the cause
If there is any one thing in town that
ought to be encouraged more than an
other it is this library and free reading
room, and those aiding in it's support are
helping out a most worthy cause.
Owners of East Orovlle Orchard tracts
are harvesting tomatoes and large ship
ments are made every day. Vines are
yielding enormously of the very choicest
vegetables 1t is unfortunate that there
is not a canning plant and pickle factory
at this point to handle the surplus crop
Enough of these and other vegetables
besides fruit, could be raised in this part
of the valley to keep plants running
night and day during the season.
, An Havillah reader, who has had q
number of laughs coming over the dis
, position of fishermen to resort to fairy
tales. sends in the following that he
picked up somewhere, which he feels
fits local cases very snugly: HE had hat
/ hard luck fishing and on his way home
, he entered the fish market and said t
TIE TITO ldeasr; nv Jps t stand over there an'
t trout. .Tehrnyv ~ tne pisgest OF shos,
3 the dealer in amazement. so | can tel
| the family l caught them. l may be {
poor fisherman but I'm no liar
, A. J. Spencer, one of the successful
. growers on the East Oroville Orchard.
tracts, has a variety of Strawberries
ara colo 70 I,A
= Mr. Spencer has picked berries from
=, the vines this month, some on the 3Oth
that We're just as perfect in every par.
lcular that goes to make the strawberry
( the queen of fruit as those gathered ir
the early part of the season. So far the
quantity has not correspondent to the
quality, but Mr. Spencer is taking great
: care of the plants and expects to be able
r next year to have berries on the market
, throughout the summer If he can de.
liver the goods his tract will prove tc
be more valuable than a gold mine
; DR.. j. l.. Masters is back behind the
forseps after vacation extending
t through the month of August. DR.. and
Mrs. Masters did not waste any long
periods of time at any one place. as the
ground travelled over indicates. They
just boarded their car and cut loose Dur.
ing their travels they covered over 1906
miles. One of their trips was run
through portion of British Columbia
gong as far as kamloops. At that place
they met j. w. Newell From him they
learned that both himself and his son
jay Z. Newell and c. c. Mckay have
taken up ranches some 20 miles out from
kamloops. Mr.. Mckay also conducts a
lodging house in the city. They seemed
, pretty well satisfied with their new To-
cation.
1t is disappointment to be compelled
to state that Orovile was not repre-
, sented at the tennis tourney held in
LOOMS last week From the fact that a
number of husky young men have been
, pranclng around on the local tennis courts
, most of the summer it was supposed
that Orovie would enter the contests
out the players either did not feel that