The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-02-11

ditiOns and circumstances and no
other result could have been expected.
Taking into consideration the hard
ships the boys endured reaching Con-
conully, and the fact that one of the
best and most aggressive players on
the team was out of the game the
showing made was very creditable.
Sanger & Williams bought a Key
stone we'll drill Of A. P. Murray, Of
Oroville, last Wednesday, which they
will operate in this section next sum-
mer. Its drilling capacity is 1000 feet.
Nelson Leader.
People living along the Oroville- We
natchee branch feel like applying to
the present winter the same appella-
ton that General Sherman applied to
war. Especially SO since the change
Of railroad schedule.
immigration Inspector A. M. Helms,
OF Marcus, was minglIng with the local
officers stationed at this point Friday
last. If he had anything special in his
line up his sleeve no one outside of
the force found it out.
A couple of solicitors for the Spokes-
man-Review were doing the town for a
few days last week. They struck the
marble heart In some quarters owing
to the seemingly Indifference of the
SIR, to this part of the state.
People have become passive over the
protracted winter, and are waiting
more or less patiently for the break
to come. which is bound to occur soon,
unless the clerk of the weather desires
to protract winter until the 4th Of
July.
Last summer when this section was
sweltering under an extraordinary hot
spell, the prediction was freely ex-
pressed that the extreme of heat would
be followed by an extreme of cold. For
once. anyhow. prognosticators guessed
right.
Geo. Bowerman, formerly resident
of the Oroville neighborhood, but for
several years living at Hedley, B. c.,
spent several days during the past
week visiting his brother, Harry Bow
erman, the well known Osoyoos lake
orchardist and rancher.
The co-partnership between John
Morrison and Thos. Lavigueur in the
saw mill business, has been dissolved
by mutual consent. Mr.. Lavigueur will
continue the business at the old stand.
This paper is pleased to state that Mr..
Morrison will not leave Oroville.
AS this paper goes to press the
weather shows some symptoms of
off the cold tap. And 1t is
about time, as this country has had
two months and a half of real winter,
Of b vintage that people do not care to
partake Of again for years to come.
Mrs. P. s. Wright, of Hedley, was
operated on at st. Joseph's hospital
Saturday morning for appendicitis.
Dr. Lewis performed the operation,
assisted by DR.. Elmer. At last accounts
the lady was doing splendidly with
every prospect Of a speedy recovery.
Bear in mind the Commercial Club
luncheon on the 18th. Be there and
take some. If you are not already a
member of the organization, ask your
self whynot, and failing to receive a
reply, drop around on this
occasion and become one of the boost
ers.
The high school basket ball team
goes to Nelson today to play a return
game with the high school team of that
place. They will drive up in sleighs so
they can return the same night. The
team is placing no more confidence in
railroads after the experience of last
week.
Building is going to commence early
in the spring in Oroville, and the i'm
provements during the year of 1916
will surpass any year since the town
was laid out. This is not hot air, for
a number of citizens have expressed
the intention of putting up modern
homes
Owing to the freezing of mains, some
of the residents in the north part of
town are compelled to pack their sup
ply of water for domestic purposes
from long distance. The mains that
are blockaded are the smallest ones
that have been laid in the city for wa
ter service.
At last the mystery is solved. Since
the first of the year M. H. Mahoney
has had men at work overhauling his
building adjoining the post office to
the south, formerly occupied as a sa-
loon. A new foundation and floor were
put in, the interior repapered and
painted and otherwise improved I'M
til the room became one Of the neatest