The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-02-04

eulches along the line, and he Will put
in a buried pipe line through the Ton
asket townsite to carry water 10 lanu
under the system below that town.
The contractors who did the street
grading In town last fall are talking
of a suit against the town regarding
payments for the work. The town mas
a better case for damages against the
contractors. for the evidence present
during the soft weather early in the
winter would indicate that the grading
was a mighty poor piece of work. And
the tough part of it is that lot or us
owning property frontage on the
streets will have to pay the assess
ment just the same as though the
work had been first class.
A lot of the Republic boys were not
satisfied with the defeat administered
tC the high school basket ball team by
Oroville last Friday night, so Sotur-
day morning they made up a picked
team and challenged Oroville high to
another trial. Nothing loath the visi-
tors went upon the floor and wiped up
the picked team by score of 30 to l9.
That does not count in the schedule
of games played during the season. but
goes to show that the locals are strong
at coming back, and can make pretty
good record two days in succession.
A handsome copy of Alaskan Gla-
cier Studies" volume of 500 pages,
has been presented to the public
school of Oroville by the National
Geographic society of Washington, the
book having been forwarded through
the editor of the Gazette. 1t is very
valuable scientific work, and is based
on the field work in 1909, 1910 1911,
and 1912 by the National Geographic
Society expeditions in the northland.
On behalf of the school, this paper
extends sincere thanks to the Nation
al Geographic Society for the hand
some addition to tho school library.
John Melcher, Jr., stopped over in
Oroville Monday night on his way to
his home at LOOMS. He is returning
from Pullman, where he graduated re-
Gently from the Pullman high school.
Young Melcher is bright, ambitious
lad, and realizing nowadays young
man who enters life IS sadly Eandi-
capped without an education, he is
bending every effort to take tern in
Pullman college He will work all
summer to earn enough to carry him
through college next winter. a boy
who has the grit to work his way
through college is bound to succeed
in after life. 1t is out Of that kind OF
material that the best men OF the
country are made.
Those popular humorous publica-
tons, Puck and Judge, have spotted
appearance with blank spaces existing
ried in the editions circulated in wet
territory. Under the new prohibition
law, that is so drastic that it is liable
in the end to defeat it's object, publ
cations carrying liquor advertisements
cannot be sold from news stands.
Hence the mutilation of such maya
zines as accept that line of bust
ness. AS the law gives man the priv
ilege under permit to purchase a.
certain quantity of liquor every 20
days, how liquor advertisement in
foreign publication could have any eff
ceft on prohibition is beyond under
standing.
DR.. Jacob May met with painful
accident last week while on his way
to Conconully from his visit tn Oro-
Vile. He left here for Riverside, and
from there took a conveyance for his
destination. A postal card informs lis
that while enroute, and some eight
miles from Conconully, the doctor met
with an accident that resulted in the
fracture of the rigth arm, but the ma
ture of the accident was not mention
ed. At the time the postal was written
DR.. May was being cared for at tie
home of A. J. Tugaw, where he expect
ed to remain until the injury received
attention from a physician. The doctor
sure will have some hard luck stories
to tell of his western trip aud cxrer-
fence when he gets back among his
eastern friends.
The first game the high school bas
ket ball team has played away from
home was last Friday night, when the
locals went over to Republic and met
the high school aggregation Of that
place on its own preserves. In point of
hard playing to win it was the best
game Oroville has taken part in this |
season, for victory hung in the balance
to use comon smile, until the very |
last few minutes of the last half, when
Oroville forged to the front by some
sensational playing. There must have
been some roughing, for the locals re-
turned home pretty we'll spotted up
with bruises. All who took part played |
to the limit Of their ability. and sue
cess was achieved through brilliant !
team work The final score was 81 to
10 in favor of Oroville. This makes a
two times winner from Republic.
The high school basket ball team left |
yesterday morning for Conconully |
where they played game with Con-
CouSuiis HiSu hui ouds ul6ut. rlOul
Conconully the team goes to Okanogan
playing Okanogan high this evening.
1t is hardly to be expected that the
boys will win both games, and it will
he no surprise if they lose both. The
team had some pretty rough handling |
at Republic, and Cole and McMahan
returned with Charley horses that may
prevent them from doing their best in
the games scheduled for this week.
The Conconully team is hard bunch
to handle, that team being considered
the best in the county. On top of all