The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-04-17

Through in fairly good condition con-
sidering teh long distance they had to
travel.
| In point of numbers the audience
that greeted Walter o. Bowman, in the
high school auditorium last Friday
evening was greyiousi disappoint-
ment. Conflict of dates, failure of
the Lyceum bureau to send in post
ers and the apathy of the public, that
confines its entertainment pabulum
very largely to the movies, accounts
for the paucity OF, the crowd. Bow
man is q, true artist in his line as an
impersonator, and he ia, entitled to all
the favorable, recommendation that
preceded his visit. His character
portrayals were true to life, amusing,
entertaining, and the few present were
treated to one Of the best performances
that has ever taken place In Oroville.
It. may have been on account of the
first, bloom Of spring millinery, or q
strange and unusual moral uplift, a
moving of the spirit for Oroville-let
up hope the latter-but more people
attended divine worship in the several
churches Easter Sunday than have
collected in those holy places on any
Sabbath during the past five years.
That Is as far back, as our knowledge
OF church going in Oroville extends.
There was special services and special
music at the Presbyterian, Episcopal
and Methodist churches, and for once,
at least, the occupants Of the pulpits
did not face empty benches. May this
be the beginning Of the church habit,
for attending church never hurt any
body.
e. B. Newland, the widely known
pioneer settler of the Nelson neigh
borhood, was visitor in town Monday.
Mr.. Newland, who keeps very close
check on the crop prospects of the hill
country, reports that the outlook for
a large yield of grain this year was
never better at this season Of the year.
OF course 1t is still early in the sea-
son, and there Is plenty of time for
things detrimental to the fall harvest
to happen, but the ground at present
is loaded with moisture as 1t has never
been loaded before, and winter wheat
could not look more thrifty. A banner
crop this year would be a blessing to
the ranchers. May It surpass in
quantity and quality anything ever be-
fore harvested.
Frank NJ. Dallam, r., returned from
his trip to the coast Monday, but de-
parted again Thursday to be gone sew
eral months. He has been offered q
flatterinE position, at Seattle at q COM
pensation that the country publisher
knows not Of only in dreams. The
fact is, even, II written by one whose
opinion may be slightly biased by re-
latiOnship, the young man possesses
such q higher order of ability and tai
ent that he is doing himself injustice
locating, In small place and trying
to content himself with a bare, very
bare, living. Yet, he may return to
Oroyille at the close Of his present
contract, for he has every confidence
in the future of the place and expects
that it will become q, city Of consider
able magnitude.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Costello have
moved out of the rooms they have
occupied for so many years in the de-
pot building, and those vacant apart
ments have been transformed into Of
flces, to the greater convenience and
comfort Of the busy force that has
been cramped in narrow and made
quate quarters. And while ON the
subject it may be added that the old
depot has about outlived its useful
ness, owing to the increased business
at this point, and It IL about time the
authorities were replacing It
with an enlarged modern, up-to-date
structure. It. is expected that Uncle
Jeems Hill will take this hint and
rush material and crew Of builders
to this point at once.