The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-12-24

~ NUMBER OF friends of the family.
some dozen guests assembled around
the iestal board and those present
nave reason to regret that the
doctor does not have BIRTHDAYS more
frequently, if they could only be called
10 to assist in celeb ~ating the event
Robert Pourtales returned to his
nome near Seattle Saturday after hay
ing visited with his brother. /. II
Pourtaies, for several weeks. Mr.. Pour
tales is bright, clean, high minded.
most likeable young gentleman. and
maze quite a number of friends in Oro-
VILE during his short stay. He .ools
l0r greater activity in and around Oro-
vile next spring and expects to re-
turn.
Among the jurors drawn for the
January term of court the following
names OF residents in Oroville and vi
entity appear: Clarence A. Hotchkiss.
Oscar Smith, Steve Macy, G. M.Bottom-
ley and T. E. Gadbury, Oroville; J. e.
Longacre, l.. Carter, E. E. Willitts and
j. W. Starr, LOOMS; Bert Weeks.
Nigfthawk; Ed. Canuel, Geo. C. Davis,
A. R. Schmidt, VIM. Cody, G. D. Avery
l.. ?. lessen and J. A. Sherling, Mol
son.
Every day this week, and many
times every day, parents could be seen
scurrying around the streets with their
arms loaded with bundles that had a
very suspicious appearance of the near
approach of Christmas. And those met
so armed were smiling pleasantly and
apparently happy, and we do not
know of anything that tends SO strong
ly to bring joy and pleasure to the
grown man or woman as buying
things that are to make Christmas a
happy day for the young
There is a big project under way
right at the edge of town, and the
citizens of Oroville have wondered
why the Gazette has not mentioned the
fact. This silence is nc fault OF the
Gazette. Those interested have re-
quested that nothing he said of the
undertaking for the pres INT. and not
withstanding that it IS a sore trial. the
editor of this paper has never failed
to hold a promise inviolate, though by
doing so he has often missed an i'm
Dortant piece of news until it was
made public through some other
source.
He was at the basket ball game last
Friday night, The man from the city
who was comforting a favor upon the
rural kicks by his presence. He per-
sisted in noisily advertising the fact
that he was there with bells. His
breath was like the pungent odor of a
distillery, his vocabulary that of g
rounder, and he was loaded with the
shallow wit of the gallery and the
bleachers, Why such simps cucumber
the universe is one of those myster.
ious arrangements of providence be
yond the understanding of the ordin
airy mortal.
The news of the shocking bridge
accident at Spokane, which occurred
early Saturday morning and wa!
brought in by the crew on the Spokane
train, created a sensation in Orovile
1t was the general topic of converse
| ton, and as there was no mail Sunda.
and the Saturday edition of the We
natchee World, the only sourc
! through which further information
| could be expected, failed to reach here
the community was in ignorance of tn
| extent of the disaster until Monda.
night, although many and eXaggerat
| ed rumors were afloat.
Al. Carter, one of the early home
steaders in Horse Springs coulee, nea
| Loomis, was in town Saturday with
load of turkeys. He had only 25 birds
but that was a sufficient number o
| such birds as Mr. Carter raises, t.
| make a load, for a number of the tur
keys weighed in at % pounds dressed