The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-05-02
LOCAL NOTES.

viii McAllister Monday morning.
J. A. Gadbury, of LOOMS, was visit
ing in town with his son Fred Sunday
A daughter was born to the house
hold of Mr.. and Mrs T. N. Finnila
Saturday.
H. H. Granger left Tuesday morn
ing on business trip to Spokane and
his old home in Davenport.
DR.. and Mrs. H. M. Fryer, of River
side. stopped over in Oroville last
Friday night on their way to Spokane
John Kimball, the pioneer livery
man of Riverside, was in town Sun
day night, making the trip in an auto
c. A. Potter, the Nelson merchant
was a visitor in town over Monday
night, returning home Tuesday morn
ing.
c. B. Sanger, Of Nelson, who is con-
nected with the Nelson Leader as
business manager, was in Oroville
over Monday night.
P. D. Smith, the we'll known and
successful Conconully attorney was a
passenger outward bound for Spo-
kane Monday morning.
Vim. Lightner, who was reported
as down with a severe cold that
threatened pneumonia, last week. has
| about entirely recovered
M. Schweikert, the Tonasket miller.
who is making his town famous with
the brand of flour he is turning out,
was in Oroville Saturday.
Jack Williams, one of the early set
tiers Of Riverside, was a visitor in
Oroville over Saturday night. return
ing home Sunday morning.
Mrs. Webb Hurley, OF LOOMS, has
been in town during the past week
with her husband, who is finishing up
assessing in and around Oroville.
H. H. Haaser, of Spokane, repre-
senting the Remington Typewriter
company, was doing the people of the
the town, where opportunity pre-
sented, Saturday.
Ellis & Forde have planted $4,000
fruit trees, principally apples, this
spring on their orchard tracts on both
sides of the Okanogan river, a few
miles south of Oroville.
1t looks as though Oroville would
fail to have a ball club this season.
II such Is the case it will be the first
year since the town was established
that club has not ben organized.
The Ororville orchestra gave a pub
lie hop in Cummings hall Saturday
night. These occasional dances al
ways draw a crowd, and are conducive
of a great deal of pleasure to the par
Elephants.
Snow to the depth Of froll four to
five inches fell at Nelson Monday
evening. Snow this late in the season
will do no damage on the hig. an.
Indeed 1t will prove beneficial in pro.
viding ample moisture to insure good
crops for this fall. r.'-.
Degree work was put on at the
Masonic lodge Monday night, candi-
dates being taken in from Oroville,
Nighthawk and Nelson. From the
way it is starting out the Orovil.e
lodge bids fair to grow rapidly in
strength and influence.
Webb Hurley states that he never
realized how values can suddenly
shrink, or how poor people think they
are. until he took up the work of
assessing. The very sight of an as
SCISSOR contracts individual possess
sions 30 per cent, and then some in
many cases.
Peter Johnson is around with his
neck and head swathed in bandages
looking like man rescued from a
train wreck. He is just getting the
better of rich ripe, juicy carbuncle
that located in the back of his neck
and at one time threatened to elect
MIN lot q pine DOX.
Judge E. E. Parsons has opened an
| office In the room on Main street form
erly occupied by John r. Fraser The
judge will temper justice with mercy
in his decisions, for he is that kind
Of man, yet at the same time no
real criminal will escape paying a
heavy penalty for wrong doing.
A large assortment of railroad la
| borers came in from the north Sun
day and left for Spokane Monday
morning. They had been working on
the Kettle valley road near Penticton.
Judging from the number that have
come in from that direction the rail-
road gang up north must be pretty
we'll thinned out.
John F. Van Dyke, customs officer
stationed at Ferry, spent Sunday Wis
iting with his brother and sister on
| Ellemeham mountain. He left the TOP
OF the hill at 3 o'clock Monday morn
ing in order to catch the outgoing
train. When he left the high lands
three inches of snow covered the
ground and still falling heavily.
The local creamery is now shipping
butter to Seattle. Considering the ex-
tensive dairying interests on the west
side putting butter into Seattle from
this remote locality sounds as pre-