The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-01-17

The familiar face of C. J. Mckenzie is
behind the counter at the Peerless hotel
again. -, Nc is one of the most popular
hoteI clerks In eastern Washington.
L. L. Work has been away during the
past week visitin~' his chain of banks
through the county, extending his travels
as lar as Twisp 1t is an unpleasant
season of the year for an outing of this
kind
Mrs. r; 3. Rumsey, wife of the station
agent at Nighthawk. who was taken down
Win an attack of appendicitis this week.
Thursday, where she will undergo an OPP
GRAFTON. ~
A commission auction house will be
opened In the new Stofferan building on
Saturday. Janaury 25th. Bring in your
salabie articles and come prepared to buy
needed goods at your own price l.. vi.
Barnes will preside as cryer.
,, Chas. A. Powell went to Grand Forks
THURSDAY morning to meet his father, ex-
Pected IN from Spokane. where he arrived
direct from England Wednesday. The
meeting was very hapr-- one between
Iatner ana son after a separation of many
years.
Chas. e. Blackwell, the Riverside mer-
chant. left for Chicago and New York
Inursday: He has gone east to confer
alrect with manufacturers with the OBJ
1ect OF buying direct from first hands
and shipping goods via the lsthmus as
soon as the Panama canal is completed
Ice has formed to the thickness of n
foot in the eddy in the Simlkameen river
Just below the bridge. and Fred Clark and
!. N; Wickersham commenced harvest
ing tnsot the ., crop p, THURSDAY. They have con
tracts TO NIL about every ice house in
town. and the harvest will be larger this
year than ever before.
Assessor J: F. Mccarthy stopped over
In Oroville Wednesday night on his way
to Olympia to attend a meeting of the
state assessors. Mr.. MCCARTHY has been
principal of the Loomis schools since the
opening of the school year and his wife
DOSitiOn Ia hnln Of I,
term. The voters of this county made a
wise selection in .electing Mr.. Mccarthy
assessor. He Will not use his office to
and will try and be strictly just pleas
ant gentleman is Assessor Mccarthy out
s sas OF MS official CAPACITY, and while he
before the end of his term
The new town administration has moi
as yet held formal meeting, but will
hold the first session Monday evening
Mayor Grubb has. however. named the
appointive officers. He selected for mar
shai. Percy u. Davis a young man well
doubt fill the office creditablv He carries
the meat to stand off obstreperous pris-
4ners. and is steady and reliable. r. r.
clerk so acecptably during the past two
years. has been reapponted. and the Sc
6 Lection was reward of merit: Geo. J.
1t was a good appointment.
The school directors have decided TO
submit a proposition to the voters of the
school district to 'urchase five acres on
the fiat and bench just west of the town
pumping station, eventually to be used
for school purposes. The location is very
central and one of the most attractive
that could be selected anywhere within
the town limits. 1t is not so high as to
work a hardship upon teachers and schol-
ars attending school on the bench and
yet high enough to overlook the town and
valley. There is ample lana. and excel
lent land, for agricultural purposes and
play grounds. No reasonable person can
find fault with this selection, and If our
people really want to acquire desirable
land for school purposes no opposition
should develop when the question of pur-
chase Is submitted to the voters.