The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-10-24
LOCAL NEWS

r. j. Cummings. of Rivers,do ,o,.
trip. "' vi business
crank frank Funkhauser, principal Of the
d am school was in Oroville Fri.
su MIs' Geo. w. Loudon was in TOWN
rom her Similkameen valley bon,a
Friday last. 'a''eS nome
Grant Elgin, the old time stockm.r
ana widely known pioneer, was in Gro,
vile Friday last. " 30 III ''o-
MT Mrs; j. B. Gordon, living on the
n las. orovilie Orchard Tracts. is re-
por'ed down with small pox.
Guy Fruit and w. E. Grant were over
ron Loomis last Friday evening and
attended the Holden lecture.
me football game with Okanoqan
mas been postponed and will he njayed
mere next Saturday, Nov. LIST
Joe Darnell, manager of the Hote,
auDourne, has gone down to his for
iler nome at Lakeside for a visit of q
week or two. '' Vi ="
John Whidden was down from his
ainier mountain ranch last Friday
eNehihs 10 post up on farming. He
was entertained by the lectures.
A. f. Whitscomb, chief engineer If
the Great Northern road. was in town
tuesday and made a trip down the
sou'n Dranch to lock over the work
Under way.
#. u. Burnham, of Holyoke, Mass.
VINO mas been interested in mining
property about Loomis for years. ston.
pea over in Oroville Tuesday night on
his way to LOOMS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. II. Ellis, jr.. of
spokane, arrived Wednesday and will
spend several days in Oroville visiting
with Mrs. Ellis parents, Mr.. and Mrs,
Frank M. Dallam, sr.
X. Greiger is to put in a new and
feliable platform scale on Spokane
street, near his lumber yard. IT is
convenience that has long been need
ed IN this part of town.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
l.. Z. Gray, living in the south part
OF town, died after brief illness
thursday morning. The stricken par
ents have the sympathy of every par
ent in the place.
The strongest evidence of the nom
ularity of the Holden party lectures
was in the number of people who came
to Oroville Friday last to hear the
evening lecture after having heard
those delivered during the day.
Judge and Mrs. C. H. Neal drove
over from Conconully Thursday, the
Judge coming to Orcville on profess
sional business. 1t is hoped that be-
fore great while the Meals will be
permanent residents of Oroville.
Little Brandy Smith has been con-
fined to the house for week or more
as the result of having enlarged ton
slls removed. The removal of the an
nuying tonsils was minor matter, as
he suffered from other ailments that
Kept him down and out
Miss Flora M. Raforth and Mrs.
Chas. f. Marshall, of Chesaw, and Ella
Fletcher and Miss Elva Neaudre, of
Nelson, teachers who had been in at
tendance at the institute at Concon-
ully stopped over in Oroville last Fri
day night on their way home.
There have been no less than three
applications from persons desiring to
lease the ground floor of the new Odd
Fellow building. 1t is really one of
the best business corners in town, and
hence very desirable location. The
trustees of the lodge will probably
one of the several applicants during
the next fortnight.
Miss Annabel Downs, one of the
teachers in the public school, was ia
ken violently i'll after returning from
the teachers, institute Friday last,
brought on by the hardship of such a
long and exposed trip to the county
seat. She recovered sufficiently by
Monday to resume her duties in the
school room, though far from being
in her normal physical condition.
Mrs. Fannie M. Barry. widow of the
late Judge A. w. Barry, came up to
Oroville Monday and returned to her
home at Riverside Wednesday. While
in town Mrs. Barry made arrange
ments with the Union Title and Trust
company to administer the estate of
her deceased husband. Mrs. Barry
will leave today for Lovelock. CAL, to
join her daughter. Mrs. Ed. Mackedon
Engineer Zediker, engaged on the
reports for the irrigation districts. was
over to Loomis visiting with his family
for the week end. He returned Sun
day evening, and the next morning
learned by telephone that both his wife
and son were elegantly frescOed with
small pox eruptions. They showed
no signs of the disease when he was
.,t homo Mr. Za1ikor will ho n1ayin O
in luck if he escapes touch of the
same disease.
After one of two more games abroad
the high school football team will play
a number of games on the local
grounds. Oroville has fine, husky
gentlemanly line up of players, the
stuff is in them to make creditable
record on the gridiron, and when
games are scheduled at home the en-
tire population should turn out and
give them the glad hand. The boys
should be enthusiastically encouraged
and supported by the home people.
Rev. Howard d. Chandler arrived in
Oroville the latter part of last week
to assume charge of the Presbyter-
ian church. which has been without
a minister for several months, and
held his first services Sunday, max
ing a very favorable impression. Mr.
Chandler is a young, Jealous and able
member of the cloth, and under his
administration the church will grow in
membership and become strong fac
tor in the moral uplift of the commun-
ity.
Saturday the Oroville Commercial
Company purchased four tons OF cab
hage from w. P. Burbury. and such
large. sound, succulent heads of cab
bage as are seldom seen in the market
Mr.. Burbury's onions and cabbage
show just what a farmer can raise in
this locality if he will only take little
care and trouble. A country that can
produce such perfect vegetables as
Mr.. Burbury grows, and in such guam
titles, should supply the markets OF
The state, and markets even beyond the
lo,dor, Of tho state