The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-06-30
THE FOURTH AT LOOMS.

| The 4th of July comes on next Tues
day and the chief recognition Of this
great national holiday in this vicinity
will be at Loomis, where preparations
have been perfected for an old fash
ioned hurrah There will be events ga
lore Of an interesting nature, and all
who attend are assured of a generous
welcome and entertainment that will
entertain. Horse racing will be con-
spicuOus event, but that is only one
item upon an assorted program re-
plete with events presenting attract
i've features. In the old days when
Loomis celebrated the hill country
and the valleys sent streams of people
into the camp and the lively times the
crowds had will live forever in the
memories of nose who participated.
Some of the old features that con-
tributed largely to the gayety of those
occasions may be missing, but the cell
ebration will be all the more enjoy
able, especially for the milder manner
ed visitors, by their absence. 1t is go
ing to be big celebration with cap
ital b, and there should be more peo-
Ii pie in Loomis next Tuesday than ever
before gathered In the place. One of
the most attractive numbers ON the
program will be the Grafton by Father
, Shei .han. an orator without SUPER
ior in the state, and an American
without a shadow of doubt as to his
Americanism. He will give the kind Of
a talk that every citizen in the land
naturalized. Altogether Loomis has
should hear, whether native born or
something in the way of a celebration
very much worth while, and as many
residents of Oroville as can do SO
should make it point to be present.
LIKE CARRYING CORN TO ILL.
NOIS.
During the past week one of the
business houses in the town handling
small fruits had to send to the coast
for strawberries for the purpose of
Injecting the local demand We could
hardly believe the statment, yet the
box of berries was before our eyes and
the word of the gentleman to whom
the berries was shipped was evidence
that could not be doubted. 1t seemed
a strange and inexplicable anomaly
that this queen of small fruits should
be shipped into this market from dis
tance of two or three hundred miles
when the very best strawberries that
ever tickled the palate of an epicure
can be, and are, grown around Oro-
vile. There is no good reason why
strawberries should not be grown
right here at home for export, to say
nothing about meeting the local de-
mand. 1t is no unsubstantiated boast
that as choice berries, in size, color
and flavor, are rasied here as are
grown anywhere in the land, ana it
would seem that something is radical
ly wrong if sufficient quantity Is not
produced to meet the consumption of a
community numbering thousand
souls.
While on the subject it may be ad-
ded that another large merchant--nO
reference to the size of the man, but to
the volume of busines that his house
ransacts-informed the writer that
during one week recently he could
have disposed of 500 crates of straw
berries, if he had had the strawberries
to handle This gentleman gave as one
reason of the shortage of the normal
crop of berries in this vicinity this
season that the hard, unprecedented
winter killed many of the vines. Grow
'ers who last year delivered several
hundred dollars worth of berries
were unable to deliver but very few
this season. Just the same the said
gentleman emphasized what has been
intimated in this article, and that Is
besides meeting the local demand
lgrcwers should be exporting straw
berries in large quantities.
| Everybody wants to attend the CONNER
| cial Club meeting Saturday at noon at the
Civic League building. There Is someth-
l ing doing in Orovlle and you want to be