The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-11-06
HERE AND THERE ON THE CURB

| tuesday being regarded as noll-
day in business circules the bank was
closed on that date.
w. c. Gresham, the Conconully at
torney, was over to Oroville Tuesday,
leaving in time to get in a vote at
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. o. Steele and Miss
Mary Sherlock, of Oroville, were Con-
ccnully visitors Sunday.-Conconully
Record.
l.. l.. Work returned home Saturday
after an absence of couple of weeks
travelling through the eastern part OF
the state.
e. A. McMahan and e R. Hose act
ed as clerks at the election Tuesday.
Both are capable men on the job from
experience.
A top dressing of gravel is being
applied to First avenue east, and there
is hardly any street about town that
needs it more.
Wesley Leaning was business
visitor to Oroville the first of the week,
returning Wednesday morning.-To-
nasket Times.
The engine on No. 255, the Spokane
train, slipped cog Monday morning
and did not pull out of the depot I'M
til nearly 8 o'clock.
A number of hunters have haunted
the lakes far and near during the
past week or two with more or less
success, generally less.
w. II. Mcdaniel, his daughter, Miss
Grace Mcdaniel, and his mother-in-
law, Mrs. G. H. Baldwin, were in town
Saturday from LOOMS.
Jack Long was over from LOOMS
Tuesday and spent several hours swap
ing jokes, discussing politics and en-
joying himself generally with friends
about town.
r. Grieger has been laid up all
week with infammatory rheumatism,
and has suffered very severely. From
last accounts his condition was slight
ly improved.
The next pleasant spot on the cal
endar will be Thanksgiving. The pres
ident has issued the customary proc
lamation of early demise in the tur-
key family.
Judge Brown, of Okanogan, came up
to Oroville Saturday and stayed over
until Wednesday morning looking af-
ter the interests of his town in the
county seat removal fight.
w. E. Gamble, democratic candi-
date for county clcrk, spent Sunday
in town making final round up
among his friends, and he has quite
a quantity of them in this place.
Not as many attended the Wenat-
chez fair from this place last week as
was expected. The fact is that money
is not so plentiful that any one feels
like scattering it around on junket-
ing trips.
Horace Brown, the oldest prospect
or in years and experience in the
county, was in town for few hours
Tuesday from his place a few miles
down the valley. He does not get
here as often as he did in former
years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Bartell took in
the Wenatchee fair the latter part of
last week. Mr.. Bartell could hold
out only about day. Mrs. B. re-
manned at Wenatchee three or four
days in order to see the entire pro-
gram.
Mischief moved the spirits of the
younger element Saturday night, and
Halloween pranks were in evidence
Sunday morning. Main street was all
Uttered up, much to the disgust OF
Marshal Case who had to do the clean
ing up.
The extra passenger train on the
Oroville- Wenatchee branch carried
large number of passengers during
the few days it was in operation. Of
course the Wenatchee fair was re-
sponsible for most of the travel.
If any man wants to know Just
what an awful reputation he has all
he has to do is to run for some dinky
office in Okanogan county. If his past,
present and future are not dug up and
giving an airing then he has no past,
present and future to talk about.
After the fitful fever of a political
campaign, during which anxious can
didates skirmished over the vast coun-
ty at much trouble and expense, the
population has settled back into the
routine of normal life, and the world
moves on in the same old monotonous
way.
H. l.. Prentice, the always accommo-
dating public delivery man has made
a new winter schedule for the delivery
&C goods. Mr.. Prentice is now deliver
ing for all the merchants, and the ar
rangements are convenient for the