The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-01-16

creamed carrots; fried parsnips; tea
and coffee.
Charlie Stanley was among the
lucky ones who drew a trip to Con-
conully this week. At the same time
it may be mentioned that he did not
at all feel cheasty over the honor.
c. J. st. Hill has opened a wood
yard in town, and so far has sloughed
off large quantity of .uel. He will
eventually establish his yard near the
town hall.
The basket ball team of the local
high school goes to Omak Saturday
to meet up with the high school team
Of that place. Too much cannot be
expected of the boys, as some of them
are still out of condition from severe
attacks of humps. Win or lose the
Omak boys will treat them right, and
those who make the trip will have
good time.
The crew that has been engaged in
stretching line of wire between Oro-
vile and Pateros, along the Oroville-
Wenatchee branch, was pulled into
Oroville Sunday, and Monday the boys
were paid off and discharged. The
system of communication is by tele-
phone, and offices have been establish
ed at all the stations between this
place and Pateros.
The Hotel de Grub threw open it's
doors for the exception of guests Mon
day evening, and for the first day the
register shows the signatures of 43
patrons. That does not include all
the regular roomers. Not bad
showing for the first day, and indi-
Gates that the big hotel is no mistake
and is sure to pay the enterprising
owner handsomely.
There was very little cold weather
last winter, and yet heavy ice crop
was harvested. Only twice last winter
according to the records of the local
weather recorder, did the thermometer
register below zero, and then only
three degrees below, once in January
and once in February. According to
cold figures this winter is not alto.
gether phenomenal.
The following item received by mail
throws light upon the whereabouts
of Vic Hagerman, who left here a few
weeks ago not feeling any too good:
"The first of the new years guests to
arrive at Hot Lake Springs, Oregon,
from the Okanogan country, is v. A.
Hagerman, of Oroville. MIR. Hager-
man is badly crippled with rheuma-
tism and is here for treatment"
The Benson case is going to cost
the county and state a pretty penny
and whether he wins or loses out
Benson will find it an expensive ex-
perience with absolutely no redress.
He was arrested under the new red
light abatement law, having, so it is
alleged, rented his property, the old
Riverside hotel, for immoral purposes.
A score or more of witnesses have
been summoned to testify in the case.
A boast was put up by a Colville
paper that the postmaster at that
place handled something over 60 sacks
of mail in one day recently. That is
cutie a pyramid of mail sacks, but
Monday Of this week Postmaster Mills
OF the local office handled 81 sacks of
mail, and did not consider that extra
ordinary. And it should be remem-
bered that Oroville is about a third
the size of Colville.
Tom Stanton, who has returned
from attending court, reports that
many people whom he met were maxi
ing sport of Oroville having a sec. 600
hotel, declaring that the town would
never be able to support such an in
stitution. Those sare people will mo
doubt be surprised, and realize how
little they know about Oroville when
they learn that Wednesday night
every room was occupied and two an
plicants were turned away from the
new hotel, and this is considered tn he
the dullest month in the year in the
hotel business!