The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-12-17
oRovILLE, WASHINGTON. DECEMREP = ,o,s

CHRISTMAS only a week from Satur-
u"y' nave you done your holiday
sNopplng? If not, take time bv tbe
Iorelock and get busy.
school will have just one week of
NdCatlon during the HOLIDAYS This is
,,.7ue possible by Christmas and New
iearS coming on Saturday.
Il. $. Taylor has purchased from !
a,i3i.Ief nIacNIef a slightly lot in Grand View
rHu,Olon ~, III the west part of town, Mr..
ldyIor VIII probably build next year
Inc Loomis Odd Fellows do the
udhce act proper new years eve The
WnoIe surrounding country will send
uelegates to the camp on this occas-
sion.
Del Hart arrived here last Saturday
rom Golden with 125 head of fat cat
tie Whlch he Will winter on VIM. Aim
'lHsl ranch. on Tamarack slope
Molsor Leader
The bazaar given by the Ladies' Aid
OF the NJ E. church Friday Iast was
We'll patronized. The date was unfor-
ldnale owing to much sickness pre-
NaiIing in town.
MIS-. }. C. Martin returned home last
week from Spokane where she had
peen under medical treatment for sev-
eral weeks. The friends of the family
VIII be pleased to learn that she re
turns completely cured
rs anticipated the dance for the
btnelit Of the St Joseph's hospital last
FRIDAY evening, was well attended and
must have been conductive of much
JOY to the participants as the merry
Whirl did not end until about dawn
Saturday morning.
A. l. .Kitching, who is running a
wood saw in town, has had orders
enough for the past month to keep the
machine working to the limit. When
You come to think about it an enor-
nous amount of fuel'fs consumed even
in town as small as Oroville.
A. r. Thompson, large, powerful
young man employed with the Stewart
Calvert Co, operators of the salts
liant, is just out of the hospital after
q tough seige with pneumonia The dis
ease and confinement cut the flesh off
the lad until he is a shadow of his
former SELF but he is lucky to be alive,
Tor pneumonia is always a dangerous
|altlictiOn, and his case was a severe
one.
This is the season of the year when
The life of a postmaster is made mis-
cradle by an enormous increase of
excessive baggage. At Yuletide the
small is made a vehicle for the eX
change Of presents between relatives
and friends at a distance. All over the
country the postal force will be worked
to the limit of endurance. 1t is going to
be trying season in the Oroville post
office. The regular daily mail hand
led by the local poStoffice is enormous
TOR so small Il place and the size of the
force, and the Christmas business
promises to increase the work many
iold. The local force is going to have
about all the work they can handle.
Patrons of the office should endeavor
to relieve the burden as much as pos
-ible by getting in packages in season.
able hours and exercising patience and
good nature. With the labor ahead it is
mot going to be such merry Christmas
for those who handle and are respon-
eible for the safe delivery of the United
States mails.
Jas. S. Wheeler came in for touch
Gr hard luck just on the eve of the
holidays that hardly takes the shape
of a Christmas gift Recently the town
marshal took up a horse that was
found freely browsing around within
the town limits, which is an infringe
ments of a duly adopted ordinance,
even if the horse did not know it.
After strictly complying with the law
as to holding, feeding and caring for
the animal the marshal proceeded to
sell the same at public auction. Mr..
Wheeler was short a horse and was
tine successful bidder. Sunday night an
Indian walked into Mr.. Wheeler $ cor.
rll and without saying 'by your leave
marched off with the animal The In
dian who took forcible possession of
the four legged property under the
shade of night did not have the excuse
that he owned the horse. 1t seems that
the horse belongs to another lndlan'
who offered so reward for its return
and that SO looked big enough to in
duce the thief to make the haul.