The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-05-19

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pany. The water front land will be cut Ut
| into building lots Of from three-quarters
of an acre to an acre making ideal build
| ing sites The land back from the lake will
| be divided up in to from one to five acre
tracts. and they. also, will be very desira-
BILE holdings.
The high spots in Okanogan county were
not the only places visited by snow last
week. 1t is reported that even Spokane
| took on a winterish aspect with several
| inches of snow which remained on the
ground only short time, however.
Hugh Gibbons, the son of Vulcan who
hammered iron at Riverside for years. but
Is now performing the same exercise al
Tonasket, was in town demonstrating the
Dodge car, for which he holds the agency
at our neighboring town, Tuesday.
There will have to be an Injunction got
ten out against Geo. Bartell selling auto
mobiles in Oroville. Studebaker cars are
becoming SO thinck that the council Will
! nave to employ extra policemen to guide
pedestrians across streets at the corners.
The committees having charge the ar
arrangements for the celebration of the
Iopening of the irrigation system, which Is
billed for June Z, are working steadily. A
program will be formulated in time for
publication before the date of the great
event.
The board of directors of the West Okla.
hogan Valley Irrigation District will meet
on the 9th day of June at the Oroville Of
flee. consider the applications OF several
Iowners who have asked to have their lands
taken In or excluded from the district
ITOnaSket Times.
Miss Marguerite Allen, who spent several
months at Spokane visiting with her Sis
ter, Mrs. Jas. Porter, has returned to
Oroville. Indeed Miss Allen has been back
for some days, but says that she will not
realize that she has really returned until
she sees 1t announced in the local paper.
Geo. Engle, one of the oldest miners and
prospectors in the county, went up to the
20. *, mine Monday for the purpose of
pumping the accumulated water out of the
something is about to be done in the way
of fresh development on that property.
Dell Hart. well known real estate and
mining man from Oroville, was In the city
for a few minutes Friday on his way to
Seattle. Mr.. Hart states that considerable
land Is changing hands this season in the
Oroville country and that every one Is
looking for good year.-Wenatchee
World.
A rumor was in circulation Tuesday to
the effect that IA large three story concrete
hotel building was to be erected on the
site of the Spokane hotel, 1t was pretty
piece of news, but lacked any foundation,
at least George Devon, the owner of tho
property. knows nothing about any such
improvement.
Postmaster Hoskyn states that no one
realizes how many new people are coming
into this country, receiving mail through
the Oroville post office. Not a day passes
that he is not required to serve one or
more new patrons of the office. All of
which indicates that the country Is gradu-
ally but steadily settling UP.
While the knowledge did not contribute
TO the comfort of the public there was
some satisfaction in knowing that the
miserable weather of the past week ex-
tended pretty well all over the Pacific
coast Unfortunately the cold was SO Sc
we're in some localities as to seriously dam
age the prospective fruit crop.
Turn out to the graduating exercises
in the high school auditorium this evening
and give the glad hand to the young la
their public school course. and who will
either go to higher institutions of learn
ing or take their places i'm the ranks or
the bread winners of the country.
Tuesday morning the town had another
narrow escape from another fire. Some
one had emptied hot ashes along side Of
the small buildings on the alley in the hea,
of Buckingham's barber shop. w. o.
Hamisch fortunately strolled out that way
and discovered the insipient blaze, which
was speedily extinguished without an
alarm.
Does advertising pay? Last week Mr..
Onn advertised in the classified columns
la house and an acre of ground for rent,
and before the paper had been out two
he had two or three other applicants Sat
urday. If you have anything the people
want the way to reach them is through
the columns of the local paper.
Geo. A. Blackwell, a pioneer Riverside
citizen, so well known throughout the
north of the county that he is at home any
place he registers, was in town Tuesday.
Mr.. Blackwell is largely interested in the
10. X. Mine, on Kruger mountain, and he
may decide to do considerable work on the
property this summer. 1t certainly has
showing that justifies further develop
ment.
Geo. Bartell received another car load of
Studebaker cars Tuesday, the third al
ready this season. This last car was
monster Rock Island car built on
Brobdingnag scale, reinforced with heavy
iron girders, stanchions and doors. 1t came
direct from Detroit, and was built espec-
tally for automobile carriage. The car con-
tanned big buss, big auto truck and
two automobiles.
Both hose carts were out Monday even
ing making runs on First avenue, and at
taching to the plug on the corner OF First
avenue and Main street. The practice Is
great work, making for the efficiency OF
the department. 1t was largely owing to
practice that the boys got water on the
Hotel Spokane fire 50 speedily last week.
and by doing so undoubtedly saved a much
larger property loss.
The Pawn of Fortune is the attrac-
ton at the Orpheum for Saturday and
Sunday evenings. 1t is said to be pow
erful American feature and one that has
drawn crowded houses in the largest
places. 1t is a five reel photo drama, in
Besides this chief feature there will be
the usual Pathe's weekly events, which in
themselves are well worth seeing
S. +. Stanton is out to Spokane and it
capitalists to renew work on the 49th
Parallel mine on Kruger mountain. No
particulars have been given out but con-
sidering the excellent quality OF the ore
alread uncovered in that property II seems
almost certain that if thoroughly develop
ed the Parallel will be shipping steadily
before work proceeds much further.
DR.. and Mrs. Il. l.. Effner will leave the
last of May or the first of June on trip
east to be gone some six weeks or two
months. During his absence the doctor
will take post graduate course at some
of the larger eastern medical colleges. The
doctor naively remarked in refined Eng
lish, when announcing his intentions that
few christian citizens indebted to him
might extend IA helping hand just at this
time.
G. A. Potter, the Nelson merchant, roll
ed into Oroville Monday morning from
Spokane in six cylinder Oakland auto,
on his way home 1t is the first Oakland
to break into the community of many
other makes of cars in this part of the
country and it is a very pretty machine,
by Mr.. Potter as to the ease with which
1t climbed all grades between Spokane and
this place.
VIM. =. Cassel. assistant secretary OF
the National Union Fire Insurance COM
pany. who was in town during the week
assisting in adjusting the losses sustain
ed at the Hotel Spokane fire, was gener-
partment for the work done in saving the
building from total destruction. Under
the conditions prevailing at the time OF
the fire, relative to the high wind, he said
that he had rarely seen case where bet
ter work was done by any fire department,
and it was especially creditable to volun-
teer department.
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