The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-08-14

HERE AND THERE ON THE CURB

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Frank Buckingham is figuring Of
building a residence near Wanicu
lake.
Mrs. c. T. Fenner and children ar
mere from Oroville visiting.-Molsol
Leader.
+. d. Smith, the well-known Con
conully attorney, was visitor in tow
Saturday.
Ed. Provo has moved out on rancl
near Havillah and will turn his at
tention to farming.
c. c. Hedger left for the Yakim;
valley and coast cities Thursday las
on a months vacation.
There is grand scramble every
evening for the daily papers. as ever,
body is anxious to read the war news
The closing down of the shelters al
Grand Forks, Greenwood and Trail
works a great hardship on shipping
mines.
The tent shows were fairly we'll pat
ronized while here last week, yet it is
doubtful if they took very much money
out of town.
A. G. Andrus, the Great Northern en-
gineer, was visitor in town over Sun
day, meeting up with many of his old
acquaintance.
DICK Butler returned to his home in
this place Saturday from Oregon where
he has been engaged in mining during
the past summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. Provo left this week
for Pendleton, Oregon, where they will
visit with daughter. They expect to
be absent several months.
Geo. H. Ellis returned to his home
IL Spokane Monday after having spent
week in Oroville looking after his
property interests in this vicinity.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. ]. Hurley and Mr..
and Mrs. w. e. Grant spent Saturday
night and Sunday in Oroville, coming
over from Loomis in their cars.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. B. Starrett left
Thursday last for Mr.. Starrett's old
home at Central City, Nebraska, where
they will visit for several weeks.
Dr. Jaggers, of Nelson, who is kept
pretty busy answering calls for the
services of veterarian, was in town
Monday en- professional business.
The local band INDUCES in benefit
dance at the Orpheum this Friday
night Every lover of the pastime in
town should attend and help a most
worthy organization.
Among the Oroville people that the
Record mentions as being in Concon-
ully last week were: ]. f. Samson,
Dennis Mccarthy, J. A. Blackler, DR..
c. p. House and L. L. Work.
j. w. Gilmore, who has been living
in Spokane for the past year, but still
claims Oroville as his place of resi-
dence, has filed as a candidate for the
office of surveyor in this county.
A residence owned by j. F. Samson
in the east part of town is being al
most entirely reconstructed and rem
ovated. 1t will be occupied by Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert Gregg when fin
ished.
A. ]. O'Connor, an attorney of Brew
ster, was a visitor in town Saturday
feeling the general pulse. Mr.. O'Con-
nor has filed as democrat candidate
for prosecuting attorney before the
primaries.
w. G. Gresham came over from Con-
conully Saturday and spent Sunday in
Oroville Mrs. Gresham was also here,
she coming over from LOOMS, where
she has been visiting with friends for
some time.
Ed. Hall and Frances Kalsic were
married in Oroville last Thursday,
and the youth of the neighborhood
treated the couple to the usual sere-
made in which noise is the chief OBJ
ject and harmony an unknown guam
tity.
The town was all agog over the hold
ups Monday morning, and the streets
were lined with excited groups Of cit
liens discussing the rare and exciting
event. The fact that local artists
turned the trick added zest to the gen.
eral discussion.
The timber fire that mas been raging
in the mountains north of town, and
Just across the boundary line for the
past two weeks has burned over con-
siderable country. There does not
seem to be any concentrated effort to
extinguish the blaze.
Even the Chesaw News admits that
the hot winds has done much damage
to grain on the hills, which is sur
prising when it is considered that the
same paper charges the Gazette with
knocking" when it made the same
statement. Consistency thou art a
jewel"
The air is daily filled with rumors
relative to the European war, and the
more improbable the report the swifter
it makes the rounds. Every crumb OF
news swiftly passes from mouth to
mouth showing how anxiously every
mind is centered upon the great strug-
gle across the water.
Oroville is going to be pretty well
represented on the ballot at the pri-
election Arthur Pla 0klor 10 in