The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-05-08

Iam1nations will be held at Oroville on
June 3, 1914, which will cover the
postoffices in this class in the northern
part of the county.
Pard Cummings was in town Fri
day last from Riverside urging upon
old timers to be present at the driv-
ing of the last spike on the Oroville-
Wenatchee branch, which will close
the gap in that line about the first OF
July. The suggestion Is one that
should appeal to all of the old set
tiers. The occasion should be made a
grand celebration, for it VII be a
momentous event for those who have
waited so many, many years IN this
valley for rail communicate h the
outside.
Some time in March one Harry Nc
Allister stole pair Of opera glasses
from Lew Hendrix, our local harness
dealer, and the property was sub
sequently found in the possession of
an innocent individual. Last week
McAllister was arrested at Nelson,
brought down to Oroville and arrang-
ed before Judge Parsons. Nc plead
guilty to the charge and took his medi-
cine, which was pretty wry dose as
| it included $40 and costs. 1t would
have been much cheaper to have pur-
chased a pair of opera glasses at the
beginning.
Last Thursday evening Judge Par
sons was called upon to tie the knot
that made Frank o. Johnson and Miss
Leona NOrthrup one and indissoluble
The young people are popular resi-
dents of the Ferry neighborhood, and
came to Oroville to have the marriage
ceremony performed in order to es-
cape the hazing that they sure had
coming from enthusiastic friends had
the marriage taken place at home.
After remaining in Oroville two or
three days in order to get used to
the novelty of welded existence the
newly weds returned to MIR. Johnson's
ranch, where it is hoped they may
live happily ever after.
The town council of Riverside has
decided to grant saloon license.
Riverside precinct went dry under the
local option law when the question
was voted on, but the town has been
incorporated since, and the town au-
thOrities have the right to grant
license under the new order of things
if the members so elect. The chief
reason for permitting the sale of the
demon rum Is the glamour of the
$1,000 demanded for license. Money
for public improvements is always a
scarce article in small town, and
a thousand plunks will go good way
toward internal repairs. 1t was too
subjective to be permitted to escape.
Riverside and other towns are going
to feel the loss of that source of in
come sorely when the state goes dry
next fall, and more tax will be neces-
sary to make up the deficiency.
Schultz & Gordon, the transfer peo-
pie, and several assistants, exercised
all the muscle at their command Mon
day morning transferring from the de-
pot and setting up in position a new
safe recently purchased by e. A. Nc
Mahan, the jeweler. 1t was big
chunk of metal to handle, as it weighs
$500 pounds. This new safe takes
the place of one that Mr.. McMahan
has been renting from F. j. Cummings.
Mr.. Cummings having sold the old
safe it was necessary for Nc to pro-
cure another, and while procuring it
he got good one. 1t is much larger
than the old safe, and built on modern
lines being both burglar and fire
proof Aside from the various COM
partments on the inside, in which to
store away valuables, there Is steel
combination lock box large enough
to hold a pot of money. 1t is a neces-
sary and convenient recepticle that
Mr.. McMahan needed in his business,
and it's possession will relieve him OF
any apprehension of loss by fire or
from the visitation of thieves.
BY tangle of type that will occur
in the best regulated print shops an
error crept into j. F. Getsey's adver-
tisement of the Carter automobile, as
published last week, that made the
reading so ridiculous as to arouse
comment. The notice read ''the greas-
less transmission" when the proper
reading should be "gearl IS transmits
sion." And that is the very meat in
the cocoanut, for there is just where
it is claimed that the Carter car has
into the bowels of almost any machine
and you see conglomeration of cogs
and thingabobs that makes one dizzy
to try and study out the purposes for
which they were put there. There Is
WucIc d great ucdl VI ullScIy OTl6-
mates for the auto owner. 1t Is diff
ferent with the Carter. The internal
arrangement of that car is as plain as
wart on ones nose. All that there
is to it is depicted in the cut at the
top. of the advertisement, simply q
steel disc with a wheel revolving on
it. That does the business and does it
right. 1t is worth while just to peep
tv,Nn %10 sn%N a.
you thinking If you are in the humor
Of nurcha sing