The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1917-02-23


Splawn, who was in Orovillc only a
few weeks ago and we'll known in
this county, was very seriously i'll
with slight hopes of recovery.
Does advertising bring results? M.
o. Adams advertised for an incubator.
BY an oversight the advertisement was
run in the Bargain Column" twice.
The repetition of that advertisement
has almost given Mr.. Adams nervous
prostration. He writes: please dis
continue ad. Have had enough incu-
bators offered me resulting from it
to stock poultry farm"
Milo Hicks returned Saturday even
ing from San Francisco, where he
went some weeks ago for the purpose
of being treated by a specialist for a
cancerous growth on the face The
growth was removed and the wound
is entirely healed. Mr.. Hicks feels very
much relieved in mind, as his physic-
ian gave him assurance that he would
have no more trouble from that
source
According to the Okanogan Inde-
pendent Ernest jolly was fined 500
and costs at the county seat last week
for an assault on earl Refsing, com
mitted some weeks ago. Sheriff Ward
picked up jolly while he was passing
through Oroville on his way home
from Nelson, where he had arrested
Willis Waring on charge of breaking
Into the railroad depot at that place
and purloining $1375.
The Okanogan Independent contains
the following item relative to a young
man who Is we'll and favorably known
in Oroville: III. A. Stanford, who has
been employed in he office of the
Woodbury. Lumber company for some
months past left last week for his old
home in Indiana, in response to the
word that his step father was SER
iously i'll. The date of his return here
is somewhat doubtful"
The deal for the Carter stock and
grain ranch nine miles west of here,
was closed Tuesday through the Mol
son State bank. Bert Flynn, of Almira
was the purchaser. The price paid was
$4,000. The ranch consists of 400
acres OF farm and grazing land. All
farm machinery, live stock and other
personal property were included in
the deal. James, John, Peter and Har-
old Carter, who own the ranch, will
return to California.-Molson Leader.
The drainage at the street crossings
at the corner of Main street and First
avenue and Main street and Ceatral
avenue have always been defective
ever since the grading of the streets.
The drains were too small in the first
place and did not have sufficient fail
to carry off the water as rapidly as it
flows into the cutters. Then in the
winter the drains freeze up and un-
slightly ponds form at the corners
much to the annoyance of pedestrians.
The defect will have to be remedied
some way as the public is getting tired
of the nuisance.
We do not claim that the people of
this community wear halos, but take
them by and large and they will aver
age up for morality with any town in
this county, or any other county. 1t
hos been too common a practice for
people on the outside to make l1vidi.
GUS comments as to the morals of Oro-
vile citizens, and it is about time the
Lody is going to hatch up considerable
misery for his or her self. A -Iur on
the schools that was brought to the
attention of the directors by the cJun-
ty school superintendent created
somewhat of a sensation during the
past week, but thorough investigation
|proved there was nothing in 1t.
Hugh Gibbons, one of the most skill
|ful and expert mechanics and iron
workers in the county, who ran a
wagon shop at Riverside for a num-
ber of years, and who is now engaged
in the same line of effort at Tonasket,
spent a day or two in Oroville the lat
ter part of last week, travelling
through the north part of the county
in the interests of the Dodge automo-
bile. He report sthe demand for cars
| this spring is very encouraging for
those handling that class of goods.
People are as finiky over their choice
| of cars as they are over their likes
and dislikes of breakfast foods, hence
every brand of motor has a show to
find a market among many people Of
many minds. Besides, farmers espec-
ially have broken off quite a wad of
cash during the past few months and
feel In better shape to invest in one of
these great conYcniences