The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-01-29


Panama Pacific exposition and expects to
return to her home in Oroville early in the
spring The lady has been in poor health
| this winter, and the trip is taken in the
hopes that change of climate may prove
| beneficial
Monday night DR.. Elmer made a trip
to Antwyne valley In his car to treat the
infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. Lew Sigrist
1t was one of the coolest nights OF the
season, and the water in the radiator
came SO near freezing that the car could
hardly hold out on the home stretch.
J. Henry Smith. of Brewster, was in
town over Tuesday night. Mr.. Smith is
one of the war horses Of the republican
party in the state. who rs a great sticlker
for party fealty. He was a resident of
Seattle for many years and Is now engag-
ed in the orchard industry on Brewster
fiat.
Andy Starr. one of the first among the
homesteaders In Horse Spring coulee. was
in town Monday. Mr.. Starr is the owner
Of some Of the very best looking mining
claims I'm this county. claims where the
chief value of the mineral is In gold. and
some day they ought to make him
wealthy.
In the future the county commissioners
will meet regularly the first of every
month. Formerly the meetings were
quarterly, and business would so accum-
ulate that 1t would require week to
clean up the docket. The new arrange
ment will be more satisfactory all
around.
Mrs. e. N. Grub returned from Sc
attic Friday last, and has been very Ill
since reaching home. She has been in
poor health for many months. and was
on the coast for medical treatment When
she left for Oroville she was much i'm
proved, but suffered relapse after reach
ing home.
L. W. Barnes, the local undertaken has
moved his branch funeral supply house
from Omak to Tonasket where it will be
more convenient for him to oversee. Few
persons are more capable as funeral d.
rectors and embalmers than Mr. Barnes
He conducts the sad duties with "a deli
cacy. tact and care that few in the bus
mess can approach.
That well known old resident of the
north part of the county j. F.. Sergeant,
who has a fine orchard tract few miles
south of Oroville. was a visitor in town
Tuesday. Time is touching the genial
gentleman kindly. yet still he is not as
young as when the writer first met him
considerable number Of years ago,
though there is no apparent change in his
good nature.
julius Brechlin was in town from
Loomis Tuesday. Mr. Brechlin was the
original locator of the claims now en-
braced in the King mine, and feels con-
fident that that property is going to m AXE
a producer. 1t will be glory enough for
him if the discovery he made turns out
to be the first paying mine In the coun-
ty, and that is the way IL looks at the
present time.
Garfield Graham. representing Barber
Ellis. Ltd, manufacturers of envelopes
and paper dealers. Toronto and else
where, came in from Penticton Thursday
last on a trip through the British Column
bia towns along the border. He reports
business of all kinds extremely quiet
across the line due to the European war.
He did not find business any too gay and
festive over on this side.
l. N. wickersham. who has been resi-
dent of eastern Warrington for So years.
entertaining of very early days. Speak
ing Of the weather he said that the pres
ent winter has been one of the steadiest
that he has experienced for years. Not
the coolest by any means. but contin.
uously chilly without thaws, and the
sleighing about as good as he has ever
seen in the valley.
The Oroville high school basket ball
team returned from Brewster Saturday
with another scalp, having defeated
Brewster by a score of SO to g. So far
the locals have won every game played
this season, two with Republic, one with
Riverside, one with Omak and one with
Brewster. That is a pretty fine record,
and If they do not step on banana peel
the boys have a chance Of making 1t a
clean string Of victories.
Hon. Hans Lund and his son Hugo, of
Kansas City. have been visiting with
Arthur Lund, of Tonasket, for several
weeks. They departed this week for
their eastern home. Mr.. Lund expects
to make a trip to Europe this spring un-
less England should declare him contra
band and run him in as prize. We opine
that under those circumstances a great
roar would go up in the immediate vicin-
ity where the Hon. Hans might be To-
Gated.
A delegation of Methow people Is at
Olympia doing the same stunt that has
been repeated every session Of the legis-
lature, and that is logging for a division
of Okanogan county. There is little
chance that the efforts will result in sue
cess, and yet SO far as the balance Of the
county is concerned there is no reason
to object to the cutting Off Of the Methow
valley, If the people of that section are
| willing to pay for the luxury of a separ-
ate county.
Ed. Yarwood, an old time resident Of
| Davenport and Lincoln county, spent sew
eral days in Oroville last week. Mr.. Var
wood is at present living at Okanogan
where he has charge Of the undertaking
| establishment at that place. young
| sonal character Mr.. Yarwood is valu-
able addition to any community, and the
people Of Okanogan are to be congratu'
lated If he elects to remain in that towr
permanently.
Charlie Lewis did not put his pork OF
the market in the raw this year. He hal
turned his hand to putting up home mad
bacon and hams, and as a result he ha
the choicest lot of smoked meats that tn
people of this vicinity ever put thei
teeth into. He figures on going more ex
tremely into pork packing from year t
wear, and If he does so he will have anoth