The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1917-05-25

week. Mr.. Murray is president of
: Group 1, and will preside at the meet
ing. Mr.. Murray was accompanied on
the trip by his wife.
At the Oroville General hospital
daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Weldon early Monday morning.
DR.. Lewis operated on Ed Rowlands
of LOOMS, for hernia, the latter part
of last week at the Oroville General
hospital.
Mrs. C. j. Cassad, of Twisp, arrived
in Oroville Monday and will visit with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ Horrigan
for some weeks.
VIM. Butler of Saskatchewan, ac-
companied by his wife has been visit
ing with his brother. Dick Butler. dur
ing the past week.
The governor has by proclamation
designated Tuesday, June s, holiday.
That is the date for registration under
the selective CONSUMPTION law.
The frame work of DR.. Lewis new
residence on the hill is up, and some
idea can be formed OF the imposing
appearance the building Is going to
make in that choice residence district
Rev. Showers of the NJ e. church,
delivered an eloquent baccalaureate
sermon to the high school graduating
class at the Methodist church Sunday
evening The ediflce was crowded on
the occasion.
Tho ranant nnnlnr wQathQr
end to the thaw in the mountains and
the Similkameen, which for time was
booming along toward the top Of the
banks has considerably contracted
during the week.
l.. Il. Billups, of Bridesville. was
brought down to the Oroville Genera.
hospital Saturday suffering from np-
pendicitis, and was operated on by
DR.. Lewis. He was making steady re-
covery at last reports.
G. e. Baker, living near Algin, has
purchased the Bull tractor that w. ].
Frank 4 Son brought in from Water
vile, Saturday. A number of other far
mers are figuring on purchasing this
useful piece of machinery for farm
work.
Frank Farnsworth has about decid-
ed to locate in Oroville and go into the
warehouse business, making the hand
ling of grain speciality. AS he has had
years of experience buying grain Mr.
Farnsworth should make success OF
his venture.
John Desmond, who has been clerk
ing in his uncle's store for some time,
left for Spokane Wednesday morning,
and in a few days he expects to go on
east and enter some line of business.
His friends wish him good fortune
whever he may locate.
A report is in circulation to the eff
feet that the diamond drills on tn,
Ivanhoe claims have cut two strong
and heavily mineralized lodges at con-
siderable depth. 1t is alleged that the
last ledge encountered Is four feet
wide, and solid galena.
Fred j. Fine spent several days in
Oroville this week looking after state
lands. He was in the county In the line
of his duties connected with the state
land department, and made it point
to get here during the foregathering
of Odd Fellows Saturday.
E. McCammon shipped car of 26
tons of potatoes to Seattle Tuesday
Mr.. McCammon left for Seattle the
same morning and expects to put the
potatoes on the market himself, thus
escaping the rather high commission
| al,o hx no ,,,tIA1o
Our readers should remember the
grand opening of the new Community
hall that is to take place at Wauconda
on June IA, and as many as possible
attend. The good people of Wauconda
are going to make the occasion an al
day celebration, winding up with big
dance in the evening.
E. A. McMahan and H. F. Warren
returned the latter part of last week
from their land hunting expedition
down on the south half of the Colville
reservation. They were fortunate In
discovering two choice pieces of land
containing 1870 acres each, and have
applied to enter the same as home
steads.
Y. L. Redhead, who is an expert or
chard manicurist has the big orchard
owned by the Orchard Company Oh
the East Oroville Orchard tracts in an
elegant condition. He has pruned the
trees in the most approved manner,
and has the ground in perfect order.
There is a promise of big fruit crop
on the tract this season.
j. F. Van Dyke, who is we'll known
as a customs officer formerly station
ed at Danville, and now connected
with the customs force at Vancouver,
British Columbia is spending fort
nights vacation on the farm with his
brother, H. F. Van Dyke. He is not
idling away his vacation, as he is put
ting in all his time farming.
Monday w. R. Collie purchased the
lot fronting on Central avenue ad-
joining the old Gazette office on the
west. Mr.. Collie has confidence in the
future of Oroville and made the buy
as an investment. Furthermore, We
believe that Mr.. Collie made no mistake
for Oroville is going to be the city OF
north central Washington one of thes
days, and nothing can head 1t off.
Jess Willis was over from North
port for several days during the past
week visiting his old haunts. Mr.. Will
lis was formerly connected with the
H. J. Desmond hardware store, but Sc
cured responsible position with a
large department store at Northport
about a year ago. He likes his new
home and reports that the smelter is
a great factor in making live town.