The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-02-28
LOCAL AND Personal

tea Saturday afternoon in the Pres
byterian church.
Jack Mclaughlin is building a
shooting gallery on the lot adjoining
the Crescent cafe.
The Alpha Club will hold business
meeting in the Presbyterian church
Tuesday, March 4th.
Mrs c. K Stanton, who has been i'll
for some time, is reported to be very
low again this week.
George Wilson is building a neat
cottage on his orchard tract on the
east side of the Okanogan river.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Evans were in
town the first of the week from their
Sinlahekin valley ranch, visiting with
relatives.
The new Office building of r. P.
Hoskyn is approaching completion
and will be ready for occupancy in a
very short time.
Homer w. Noyes, the Loomis and
Tonasket real estate dealer, was a
business visitor in Oroville Wednes-
day and Thursday.
Mrs A. d. Balderston visited with
Mrs. Eugene Taylor and Mrs. H. l..
Heath at Riverside last week, return
ing to Oroville Monday.
James G. Irving, formerly a resi-
dent of Oroville and now of Grand
Forks, B. c. was business visitor in
town the first of the week.
| Pete Ewell, S. F. & N. engineer,
has taken a run out of Oroville and
will move his family to that town this
Observation-Disclosures
Mrs. J. j. Erb, who has been visit
ing her daughter Mrs. A. A. Spencer
for couqle of weeks, left this morn
ing for her home in Tieton.
Miss Colleen c. Mcintosh and the
Oroville Male Quartette will give an
entertainment in the Presbyterian
church Friday evening, March IA.
Fred T. Neal, former prosecuting at
torney and now holding down a home
stead near Tonasket was visitor in
town the latter part of last week.
Mrs. S. Blackler left Thursday
morning for a visit of a couple of
weeks in Portland and Roseburg, Ore
gon. In Roseburg she will visit with
her brother r. w. Wells.
Mrs. Robert Thompson will speak
at the regular service at the Loomis
M. E. church Sunday evening, March
End. Her subject will be Lesson
From the Life of John Wesley"
E. A. McMahan is having his jewelry
store rehabilitated. New shelving and
handsome heavy wall paper add to the
interior appearance of the store and
set off to advantage McMahans fine
stock.
been in charge of one of the construc-
ton trains, was threatened with fever
last week but DR.. Elmer put the mi
crobes out of business, and Killian is
back at work again.
Emile Schultz left on the Monday
morning train for Wells, Minnesota
where he was called by word of the
serious illness of his father, who is in
his eighty-first year, and whom Mr.
Schultz has not seen for thirty-one
years.
R. B. Vail and Arthur e. wheeler,
both of LoOmis, stopped in Oroville
Tuesday night on their way to Spo-
kane, from where they will start north
this spring for the Mackenzie river
country. They expect to spend a year
or so in the north prospecting.
| M. X Bowen, of Tonasket agent for
the Ford automobile for this district
comprising all the territory within a
strip running across the northern end
of Okanogan county between the in
ternational boundary and "a miles
business.
The lights and power were shut off
for time Monday evening and Tues
day afternoon. The trouble Monday
was caused by some drift getting into
the turbine, which necessitated a shut
down, and Tuesday three or four of
the poles between the plant and town
went down.
S. r. Case, formerly town marshal
of Oroville and now living in Phoenix,
B. c., was in town the first part of the
week on business. Mr.. Case owns a
desert claim on the north side of the
Similkameen river and he is figuring
on returning here this summer with
his family and building home on his
property.
Sheriff Harry E. Stark last week
named J. w. Carrel as his deputy for
this precinct. Mr.. Carrel has a fruit
ranch on the east side of the Okanogan
river, and has been resident of this
community for the past six years. The
selection is a good one and Sheriff
Stark is to be congratulated on his
good judgment.
Reports from Loomis tell of a splen-
did time at the Eagles dance there last