The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-30
HERE AND THERE ON the CURB


Spokane last week.
Mrs. Guy Harpham, of Chesaw wa,
IN town Friday last.
T. W. Madison was in town from
Chesaw Friday last.
Judge c. H. Neal went 10 Okanosar
Monday on legal business.
E. R. Davis and wife of Twisp. were
VISITORS in Oroville over Sunday.
}. T. Ryan, the Coalmort hotel man
was registered in town Friday last.
MeD. Hershbcrger left for Spokane
!CnCay morning on business trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. c. Gresham, OF
okanogan, spent Sunday In Oroville.
MRS. L. W. Barnes is visiting with
Mr.. Barnes parents at Monroe. Wash
Drs. Lewis and Ketchum have NOV
ed into their new building on Main
street.
Ed. lsenhart, of Wenatchee, was
among the many visitors registered in
town Friday last.
W. Is. McChesney, of the Ivanhoe
mine, was visitor in town over last
Thursday evening.
A flash Of tightening put a trans
m1tter near the depot out of commits
sion Sunday afternoon.
Gregg took some elegant photo
graphic Views of street scenes during
the recent visit OF tle circus.
County Engineer Horace Smith was
IN town Saturday, coming here on BUSH
ness connected with his office.
W. ID. Timm has accepted a position
with J. Frank Anderson at the O. X.
mine near Oroville.-Republic News
Miner.
TWO or three gangs of surveyors are
strung out along the line of the ditch
lying out the work for the construc-
ton crews.
If the brick block fever keeps up
the appearance of Main street is going
to undergo marked change before
The coming of snow
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Beaton returned to
their homes at Spokane Monday after
having put in two weeks camping on
Toats coula creek, west of Loomis.
Silk & LaPlant a.v heating the erd
Of their street improvement contract,
and within another two weeks the
will Rave been complet-
ed.
F. G. French, who is Connected with
the Hedley Gazette, came down for the
purpose OF taking in the circus last
Thursday, and felt well repaid for his
long trip.
That is pretty big hole in the
ground that has been scoopcd out for
the Hamisch block and gives some idea
Of the size Of the building when it is
The hauling of tie heavy circus
wagons over the newly macadamized
streets gave them a severe test. In a
few places the surface could not stand
the pressure.
R. l.. Prentice reports that peaches
IRE only rs cents crate in Okanogan.
There is no reason for any one going
fruit hungry when peaches are selling
at those figures.
Chief Engineer HIGHLAND, Of the Great
Great Northern, ran out west to
Princeton on a special Sunday, and his
car was picked up Monday morning
and taken over the hill to Spokane.
A large portion of the population Of
Loomis was in town Thursday last at
tending the circus. Every visitor OK
pressed himself or herself as having
been we'll repaid for making the trip.
j. A. McFall, who has been in the
drug business at Riverside for num-
Der of years and has recently sold out
spent several days in Oroville last
week. He was accompanied by his
wife.
Reports come IL from every quar-
tel that grasshoppers ere doing con-
siderable damage to fields, orchards
and gardens. The pests were never
known to be so numerous in this part
OF the country before.
A heavy electric storm struck the
valley Sunday afternoon. The lightn-
ing was very vivid and peas of thun-
der sharp and frequens. There has
been more thunder and lightning this
season than for years.
Martin Mclean, national bank in
spector, spent last Friday in Oroville
Oh enc of his occe eional official visits,
and while here inspected the First Nat
/ nal bank of this place, h,:ding it IN
good and proper shape.
A. E. Weiland, ct Wenatchee, the
voll-known engineer who at one time
made the report On the feasibility OF
the irrigation system for this valley
and submitted estimates of Cost, was
was a visitor in town Friday last.