The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-06-04

profuse or beautiful in the valley at
this season OF the year. but the sup
ply of sunshine was exceedingly
meagre.
In the regular order of things Mon
day came under the head of a holt
day, Decoration Day falling on Sun
day. About the only evidence that
things were otherwise than normal
in town was that the bank was closed
for half day, and the postoffice also
was a closed institution.
When you have any job work to
give out do not overlook the local
print shop. 1t can be done just as
we'll, if not little better, in your
home printery. Besides, by so doing
the money is kept at home and you
will be helping an institution that is
working for your town So weeks in
the year.
Monday a special train Of rs car
loads of sheep came up from Wenat-
chez. The sheep were unloaded at
Tonasket, and will be taken upon the
forest reserve back of LOOMS. An
enormous number Of sheep are be-
ing pastured on the reserve in this
county this year, most of the animals
coming in from Montana.
Tonasket and Oroville cross bats on
the home grounds Sunday. Tonasket
has been putting up splendid ball this
season, but somehow has been play
ing in hard luck. Every team that has
beaten the Tonasket bunch had to
play ball all the time and the outfit
is dangerous proposition to tackle.
The game Sunday ought to be hot
one.
When finished Central avenue will
be some boulevard. 1t is taking on
that appearance now. With a top
dressing of rock, with drainage gut
tiers and parking strip on each side it
will greatly improve the appearance
of the north part of town. 1t is to be
hoped that in the course of very few
days every street in town will be
similarly graded.
Jas. E. Forde was displaying alfalfa
over five feet high, grown on the
Ellis-Forde lands, Tuesday The fact
is that first alfalfa crop is unusually
heavy this year owing to the excess
sive rain. Indeed the continual mois-
ture threatened to work much damage
to the first cutting, but from present
indications the loss&A will probably
not be very great.
There is considerable lamentation
among those who were taken in by
"The Follies' appearing here last
Thursday evening. Some are unkind
enough to daub the performance "The
Crime" Of course, the local manager
of the house is not responsible. A
travelling troupe must be taken on
trust. and the manager feels any fail
ure of a visiting company to come up
to representations as keenly as the
public.
G. l.. Parker, district engineer of
Washington district United States
geological survey, of the water re-
source branch, spent the past week in
Oroville and vicinity placing guages
if streams for the purpose of ascer-
tanning the annual flow of water. Mr.
Parker's assistant was Joseph T. Hart
sen, youngest son of Hon. Willard T.
Harrison, one of the early settlers of
Spokane, now a resident of Tacoma.
1t was natural that we did not rec
ognize young Harrison right off the
bat, for when we last saw him he was
a very small kid, and now he is a
fine, strapping youth, stretching up
ward above six feet.
Before the commencement of the
Okanogan-Oroville game Sunday Man
lager Hedger, of the Oroville team,
filed written protest against the
playing of three new men on the Okla