The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-09-10
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appearance was indicative of keen
interest in the work before them, and
a ready willingness 20 take up that
work. Happy youth. Builders of air
castles, all their future before them,
it's joys and corrows, it's successes and
disappointment. May a kind provi-
dence have in store for each and all
of them future made up of many and
great joys with few end slight sorrows
is the wish of one who hes only the
past to look back apon while their
faces and thoughts are turned wholly
to the future.
H. T. Roeder. of Spokane, that past
master in the art Of bricklaying, is as
sisting and overseeing the laying of
the walls of the uamisch block, a
fact that insures that feature of the
work being done in a proper and
craftsman-like manner. Mr.. Roeder is
very kindly remembered by our citi-
zens, as he had charge of the brick
work on the Hotel de Grubb and the
Covert building. Aside from his skill
as tosses of mortar Mr.. Roeder is
one of the most genial knights of the
trowel that has ever followed that oc-
cupation in this upper country, and it
is to be regretted tina, there is not suf-
ficient construction going on here to
insure him becoming a permanent fix
ture in Oroville.
| Threshing is in full blast ON the
eastern hill tops and E. A. Williams
reports that there are upwards of
twenty machines knocking out grain
between Nelson and Havillah. The
yield is holding up to expectations and
indicate an enormous tonnage when
the crop is all threshed. On the Porter
Bros, place the average yield was AZ
bushels. Leon Swigle's wheat ran a
faction over so bushels. Ira Sanger,
from reseedCd field threshed As
bushels. Mrs. J. A. Shirling's crop ran
Al 1-2 bushels. These returns 60 to
show that in any ordinary favorable
season the high lands of Okanogan
county will produce as heavy crop Of
grain as any pert of the state, and the
quality is graded as the best.
A number of families have arrived
in town during the past week looking
for residences, and about everything
with a roof on is being utilized. This
paper pointed out during the summer
that there would be an unusual demand
for houses this fall This was a nat
ural consequence of the ditch building,
and the fact that many from the sur
rounding country would desire to
place their children in an accredited
high school. This demand is going to
increase steadily, because Oroville is
going to keep on expanding. Now that
start has been made there will be
no halt. 1t is safe to say that dozen
or more new houses would find occu-
pants before the winter starts in if
there were a dozen or more houses
ready for occupancy.
w. c. Carpenter, pioneer resident
of Conconnully and a gentleman of
personal WORTH arrived in Oroville
Friday last with all his household
gods and goods to MAKE this his fu-
ture home. In lieu of any better quar-
ters, at present unobtainable, Mr.. Car
penter has gone into the former Ii
brary building on Spokane street. 1t
| is his intention to take up the new and
second hand furniture business, pay
| ing particular attention to the latter,
and he brought over considerable stock
with him. Mr.. Carpenter like number
of other Conconcullyites, was a heavy
loser when the county seat was re-
moved, as the property accumulations
| of years is now of no value. May he
regain his losses in the new location
| he has selected as a home.
| In the science of ornithology such
| freaks as white crows and white black
birds are known to exist, but they are
so rare that the ordinary mortal sell
dom secs specimen, and will be in
clined to doubt that such bird can be
found. Proof positive is at hand that
white crow does exist, for Sunday,
while hunting near Wanicut lake, DR..
w. c., Ketchum snot pure white crow
| that was mingling among his mates as
black as the ace of spades. The crow
| has never ranked as a beauty in the
| bird family, but the one that succumb-
ed to the craftsmanship of DR.. Ketch-
um was certainly a pretty fowl, and the
white dove of peace has nothing over it
| for Immaculate whiteness. The doctor
will have the specimen mounted and
will keep it in his office to prove to
any doubling Thomas that a white
crow is not a bird of the imagination.
Eli Wilson returned this week from
| Oroville where he had spent several
weeks.-Okanogan Independent.
| w. McDuff, of Oroville, died at the
hospital this week. Heart failure was
| the direct cause of death.-Mission
| notes in Omak Chronicle.