The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1917-11-02

cation of elbow grease and water from
the ditch Mr.. Mahood has made that
erstwhile desert blossom as rose,
| fguratively speaking, for the gentle
man has turned all of his attention to
the more practical products Of the veg
cable kingdom. AS result he has
large crop that he can realize someth-
ing substantial on in the way of dol
lars and cents.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Gray arrived in
Oroville from Chewelah Saturday and
will make this their future home. They
have secured the Jack Downs home,
on the East Oroville Orchard Tracts.
cozy place with just enough land to
keep Mr.. Gray busy. Mr.. and Mrs. Gray
are parents of Mrs. ID. H. Lewis, and
pioneer residents of Eastern Washing
ton. We have known Mr. Gray since
the early days of Spokane Falls, where
we both resided some 35 years ago.
Time is treating him kindly. for Mr..
Gray looks as clipper and we'll pre-
served as man of half his years. May
Mr.. and Mrs. Gray find their new home
in this north country pleasant one.
w. c. Carpenter has sold his second
hand store on the south side of the
track to Frank Donald and left during
the past week for Enunclaw, Wash,
where he expects to locate perman-
emily. Mr.. Carpenter is one of the old
time residents of Okanogan county,
spending a number of years at Con
conully. On several occasions he has
moved away from the county, but in
variably he would gravitate back to
his old love. 1t is altogether probable
that in short time Mr.. Carpenter will
return to this county, and he has many
friends who will welcome him back,
in the meantime wishing him luck in
his new home that may be only tenn
porary.
The Second Washington, now
known as the 161st Infantry, in which
are several young men of this place,
has been sent to Fort Mills, Long ISL
and, preparatory to crossing the pond.
This regiment can now be classed as
veterans as it served on the Mexican
border during the summer of 1916.
The troops travelled over the Milwau
kee & st. Paul road much to the dis
appointment of many of the boys and
relatives of those boys living in Spo-
kane, the trains were not routed
through that city There were no
doubt good and sufficient reasons for
missing Spokane, but the soldiers and
their relatives will always feel that it
was an injustice not to let them meet
once more before going on into the
danger zone. Among the members of
the 161st from Oroville are Chas Nc
Ginty, R. W. Anderson, Joe Hash,
Lawrence Dallam and Frank M. Dali
lam, Jr The address of these boys for
the present will be 161st Regiment In
fantry, Fort Mills, Long Island.
Railroads have served notice by di-
rection of the federal authorities, that
no cars can be furnished for the
movement of potatoes. Just why, no
one seems to know, and the most care
full inquiry can produce no informa-
ton. Local Agent Reed is in the dark.
He simply has his orders. The pre-
sumption is that the purpose is to re-
lease cars for the movement of apples,
under the supposition that potatoes
can be protected from the weather and
apples cannot. Whatever the reason
the embargo works great hardship
on the potato growers of this part of
the country. There is large tonnage
of potatoes here to be moved The
market is attractive, and much of the
crop has been contracted for. If the
crop could be moved considerable
ready money would be put in circula-
ton. Then the situation works great
hardship, and means additional ex-
pense to the growers. Cold weather is
on, and exposed potatoes will be fro
zen if not at once put under cover. The
stoppage of shipments means that
growers will have to build root cellars
or pit their potatoes. Station Agent
Reed states that the orders were some
I what modified Monday when he re-
ceived instructions to move potatoes
billed for local stations, but that still
shuts off the market at larger centers
of consumption.
w. E. Morris, of Nelson, was regis
tered in Oroville Monday evening"