The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-06-19

IcOmpelled TO continue on to Omak as
a delegate to the republican county
convention. 1t was case of compul-
ever, for during the past fifteen years
he has been a conspicuous figure at
republican conventions in this county.
A pleasant social dance was given
in the Orpheum Friday evening last
by the members of the ball club The
attendance was really larger than
could have been expected considering
the mixup of dates that occurred with
the ball game, it having been the in
tention to have the game and dance
take place the same day.
| Fred J. Fine returned to the coast
Tuesday after having looked over the
land in the county he was sent here
to inspect. He may be back any time,
as there is much state land in the
county, and the duties of his position
require him to keep tab on that land
when any information is wanted at
headquarters in regard to it.
Hon. E. D. Reiter, of Spokane, came
ir Saturday to stay several days look
ing over the mining situation. Mr.
Reiter is hard at work interesting cap
ital in the mining operations in this
upper country, and says the sampling
| works are a sure go. The young man
| is hustler, and when he takes hold
to do things, things are generally
done.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Green and son,
S. G.. Green, of Sacramento, are visit
ing with their daughter, Mrs. Geo.
Bartell. They arrived at Pateros last
Friday, and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Bartell
motored to that place and brought
them to Oroville. Mr.. and Mrs. Green
will spend the summer in Oroville,
but the son will have to return to
Sacramento by July LIST.
The ball club was billed to go to
Penticton Thursday of this week, and
Penticton will be down here for a re-
turn game next week. Then the two
clubs get at each other again on the
LIST and I'd, at Penticton, and back
Penticton comes to Oroville for the Sd
and 4th. These two clubs will have
each other sized up pretty thoroughly
before the season is over.
The Wanicut sanitorium is attract
ing a number of ailing people this
year, but not as many as might be ex-
pected considering the virtues of tie
water of the lake. The company is
we'll prepared to accommodate pa
tents and in the course of time Wani-
cut is sure to be as great a health re-
sort as Soap lake, Hot Springs. or any
other place invalids are in the habit
of going in search of the waters of
youth.
Last Wednesday Peter Lecoux, of
Princeton arrived in Oroville on his
way to Seattle, where he was going to
he operated on for appendicitis. He
was in very bad shape, and while here
had to call in DR.. Lewis for relief He
was so we'll pleased with the doctor
that he decided to have the operation
performed here. He passed thorugh
the ordeal Thursday, and at the pres
ent time he is sitting up and is we'll on
the way to recovery.
A Of T,,J
lin, of LOOMS, living with Mr.. and
Mrs. Thos. Collier, and sister of
Mrs. Collier, was operated on Satur
day. She had tonsils, adnoids and
bones of the nose removed. The child
had never breathed through the nose,
and DR.. Lewis was surprised to find
that there were no openings from the
nose to the throat, and openings had
to be made. The child is rapidly re-
covering and trying to get used to the
novelty of breathing through the nos
trils.
Mrs. Albert Coy, nee Miss Orva
Payne, formerly of Oroville, won the
first prize offered by the Revelstoke
Review in a recent circulation contest.
We note also that the contest extend
ing over only few weeks added about
enc thousand names to the subscrip-
ton list of the Review. That kind of
appreciation of home paper is some
what different from experience on this
Of hn inn xunn civ c
contest of the same kind only resulted
in the addition of barely one hundred
new subscribers.
The Wanicut postoffice was not clos
ed Monday as expected. The mails
| were not sent from here to Wanicut
Monday, as the presumption was that
| the orders to close had gone into eff
| feet There was an official letter in
the mail, however, from the postoffice
| department directed to Postmaster
Wills of Wanicut, and this Postmaster
Mills forwarded. That official docu-
ment carried instructions to Postmast-
er Wills not to close the office, and
hence he has postofIice on his hands
| that he can not let go of, which he has
been trying to do for months.
Mrs. A. H. Overman and daughter
Miss Eva Overman, left Tuesday for
| Wenatchee and after spending a
month in that city will go on to Port
land and Salem, Oregon. Mr.. Over
man in his position as civil engineer
with the Great Northern, has been
stationed at Wenatchee for the past
year. The Overmans stored their fur
niture and have rented their bunga
low so that their ahSence from OrO-