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The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1917-12-28
.F.V. Covert,
The Store Of Quality

Deer Park to Grand Forks snow was
falling in cloud. There is much more
snow in the Colville valley than at this
place. We were surprised to note that
so far the snow fall at Nelson has
been very light.
Thursday the Princeton crew was
sent west from Oroville on an S. o. S.
call for snow plow, made necessary
by the heavy fall of snow. 1t is report
ed that three feet of snow on the level
has already fallen in the Princeton
country and more of the chilly white
ness still coming.
Every business man in town, large
or small, should be represented in the
advertising columns of the Gazette. 1t
not only gives good impression of the
town on the outside, but would very
materially aid the advertiser in build
ing up his business, and incidentally
help along the paper.
w. J. Scott, of Vale, Oregon, is visit
| ing with his sons, Winfred and Her.
bert Scott, living on Ellemeham noun
tain 1t was Mr.. SCOTS first visit to
Oroville in eight years, and he ex-
pressed much surprise at the marked
, improvement in town and surrounding
country during that period.
G. T. Gregson left Oroville last Fri
day morning after putting in very
strenuous fortnight, stirring up things
in the trading line as they never were
stirred up in this place before. He
expects to come into the county again
In the spring and carry out a sales
campaign in a neighboring town.
The mercury dropped to zero at
Okanogan Monday. So far Oroville has
been fortunate in summer, or near
summer weather since winter or the
usual season of winter, set in. We are
not doing any boasting of monopoly
ON tropical climate. Winter is liable to
kick in any day and knock the bottom
out of thermometers.
Val Haynes, the British Columbia
stock man, living near Fairview, was
a visitor in Oroville Friday last. Val
is one of those subscribers that is en-.
titled to a halo. His time expires the
day before Christmas. and every year
he is Johnny-on-the-spot, just about
the holidays, and pushes that subscrip'
ton a year ahead. He repeated Friday
The merchants of Oroville enjoyed
an excellent holiday trade. People gen
erally entered into the spirit of the
season, there was much giving OIL
presents and homes partook of bounti
lful Christmas cheer. We trust tha
there was not single man. woman Of
child in this community that did no
have reason to enjoy the great holt
day.
A. J. Easum, late a resident of Col
fax, arrived in town during the weel
with his family, and will become {
permanent resident of the valley. Mr.
Easum brought with him car LOAF
OF full blooded cattle, and proposes II
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-15
Early Peace Discounted

1.-The stock market has not yet fully re- covered from the peace note effect. Dur ing the interval there was very consid- erable rally from extremely low prices, but no really permanent recovery said Henry Clews of New York. It is quite took off the edge from the bull market and crippled many speculative operators on the long side. It Is equally evident that the larger owners of securities have not been ready buyers on the decline, but preferred selling on the rallies, all though support generally developed whenever decided weakness occurred. Un- less appearances are misleading, there has been persistent inside liquidation in industrials, especially the war group, upon the we'll grounded assumption that there will be no such volume of munition or ders in 1917 as in 1916, nor any such prof it's There is no denying the fact that Wall street is disposed to discount to some extent an early peace. The central powers claim they desire an end of war; The allies in reply have intimated the general basis upon which they will dis cuss peace. Germany may not listen to such proposals Mediation by neutrals at this time would be offensive to the en- tente and a failure; so the war must go on sometime longer, or until both sides come nearer together on terms.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-15
HOTEL LOBBIEs
Agrees With Board

With quite number of othsr tax payers of the county, I have waited with forbearance. if not with patience on the decision of the board of revenue in the matter of fixing the salaries of the clerks of the county courts said William Spencer "On looking over the list, l think so far as have knowl- edge of the situation, the salaries are fair and equitable.
 T have always advocated the prop sition that the laborer is worthy of his hire and firmly believe that the trained man is worth more than the man >un- trained. While some of the salaries fixed by the board may seem out of proportion to those fixed by the legls- lature, 1 am convinced that the board of revenue is fairly familiar with the duties of these offices and is certainly in a better position to fix the salary of the highest official or the humolest clerk in the employ of Jefferson county than any legislative body that ever convened"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-15

deemed his only escape was throug death. There are no real facts to sho, how this was brought about. Barret his biographer, who could only repee what he was told, says he took "a larg dose of opium, some of which was picke out between his teeth after death.',e>
 When Chatterton was found del next morning his body presented fao ei horrible spectacle, with limbs q lflos as after convulsions. Some of hstor te admirers assert that he died of 3pos tion. The question really is, had Marvs finished what hunger had begun? Poiso
 After his death no relatives claimeS body of Chatterton and he was buriqa' c August 2S. His body was placed in shell-a pauper's coffin-and inferred i the burying ground in Shoe Lane Worl house. Later at Bristol monument wa erected to him which bears this inscri, tion: N
 TO the memory of Thomas Chattertol Reader, judge noti If thou art Chri; tian, believe that he shall be judged E a Higher Powerv'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-15
Decatur Wants Road

Tt will be little short of calamity will stand heavy service all the year round, is not built from Decatur to this city" said United States Marshal H. A. Skeggs. T attended the meeting of the Jackson Highway association in Bir- mingham Thursday, and was of course disappointed that the Bee line" route was not selected. However it doesn't really matter what name we have What we want is a road from the Ten nessee valley to Birmingham. 4,.
 Birmingham merchants get more trade from the agricultural sections of Alabama than they get from the so- called corporate interests. Decatur peo- pie, and people in that section, spend much of their money in Birmingham, and they would spend much more if there was a good road connecting the two cities. I expect to join with w. T. Sanders of Athens in the organization of work for the North and South high way, and I hope that we can get the road built.
 There is a good road already run ming from Nashville. by Columbia, Pu- laski and Athens to Decatur, and if we can get good road into Birmingham, it will be 8 great thing. Of course we do not intend to build this road to com pete with the Huntsville route of the Alabama Jackson highway. The way look at it, the more good roads we have the better, no matter where they run"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-15
WINTER

By Robert Southey. A wrinkled grabbed man they pictui
 thee, Old Winter. with a rugged beard 1;
 gray As the long moss upon the apple tree: Blue-lipt an ice-drop at thy sharp bll
 nose, Close muffled up, and on thy dreal
 way, Plodding along through sleet and driftir
 snows. They should have drawn thee 5 u
 high-heaped hearth, Old Winter, seated in thy great arms
 chair, Watching the children at their AChristrn;
 mirth, Or circled by them, as thy lips decla| Some merry jest or tale of murder di1 Or troubled spirit that disturbs ti
 night. Pausing at times to rouse the mouldetI
 fire. or taste the old october brown q
 bright.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-15
CHATTERTON, THE BOY POET

From the Pittsburg Post.
 TN all literature there is no more mys-
 terious parsonage than the boy poet, = Thomas Chatterton. It is difficult to understand the peculiar character of this marvellous boy, who committed suicide in a London attic when he was only r years of age.
 Chatterton was only 15 years old when he mystified all England by his produc- tion of parchments which he claimed had been produced several previous centuries. He secured the idea of this deception, at least so it is supposed through the discovery of several fifteenth century parchments in church at Bristol, Eng. where he was born. The boy looked upon these parchments with great curiosity and set upon their deciphering.
 These parchments were few. but Chat terton began adding to them, and in or der to do so he was compelled to invent character-Thomas Rowley. fifteenth century monk-and wrote short poems and bits of history which he pretended were the works of Rowley. After consid- erable study he would place his own writ ing in this ancient style upon it in such way as to give an idea of considerable antiquity.
 The deception of these parchment poems accredited to Rowley was at length discovered. and when Chatterton was 16 years of age he went to London, arriv- .-;- 4ho ,.s-~ ~..+rovoyJo xuitb b,rey,, cE in his pocket. He was unable, in spite of his genius. to obtain any employment that would pay. He lived in a garret, and subssted mostly on bread and water, and often had nothing to eat at all.
 But Chatterton was so proud that he let no one know of his serious want. He wrote letters to his mother and sister in Bristol telling them he was making fortune, and that great men were his dear friends. He spent the shillings of his literary earnings on buying pres ents for his mother instead of, getting himself food and clothing.
 Chatterton would sit all night in his dingy garret and write satires and poems and would spend most of the day in try ing to sell them. The wonderful compo- sitions would find recognition nowhere. and finally in August when he was IT years of age. he committed suicide. spending his last cent for arsenic. The next morning he was found dead in his attic with all his unsold manuscripts torn into fragments, lying about his dead body.
 Chatterton committed the rash act only after he found that there was no ray of hope left for him. Mrs. Angel. from whom Chatterton rented his garret home, believing that the boy had not eaten anything for two or three days, begged him. on August "A, to have some dinner with her. He was offended at her re- quest, which seemed to hint to him that
 he was in want, and he assured her that he was not hungry
 Heartbroken and starving, the poor boy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-15
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Military Traimimg
Benefits Guardsunem

Benefits GuaRdsmem
 66IEvERYBoDY is talking about
 A how fine and vigorously healthy the boys that come back from the Mexican border all look, says the New York American.
 Many of these young men have passed through Birmingham on their way home from the border and have marched through the streets of the city to stretch their legs" before resuming the journey. Everyone who saw them was impressed by their fine appearance. Health and vigor showed in their bearing. Without exception they all seemed stalwart fellows, tanned by outdoor life and in the best physical condition.
 Not only have New York troops visited Birmingham, but militiamen from a number of other states along the Atlantic seaboard. All showed the benefits of the military training they had received. The transformation wrought by few months of duty on the border is indeed remarkable. The improvement has been moral as well as physical. They are all better cit izens for the training they have re- ceived.
 While there is some impatience be- cause the Alabama troops have not yet been sent home, when they do return, their relatives and friends will acknowledge that while patrol duty along the border may have caused physical discomfort and financial loss, in other ways the boys have profited greatly. They will enter business and professional life again with renewed energy, and with such strength of will and confidence that they will soon make up for the time that was spent in the service of their country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-15
Washington Prepares
 For the Reunion

A LTHOUGH the Confederate re- GA union, to be held in Washing ton. is more than four months off June Appropriations are well under way. This will probably be the last reunion, but whether it is or not, it is safe to assume that it will be the last big one.
 Not only is the Washington com mittee of arrangements busy every day in the week with details, but vet eran camps in every state of the south are perfecting plans for moving on to the national capital. Also the rail- roads are giving great deal of pub licity to the forthcoming event.
 The lines traversing this part of the south with eastern connections that is to say, practically all the lines --~are making announcements which appeal to the sentiment of the old soldiers who fought for the lost cause. One railroad company is stress ing the fact that it's trains run through historic battlefields of Vir- ginia, taking in view of the crater near Petersburg and the Qualifications around Richmond. Another company calls attention to the fact that the veterans who travel on it's road will ride over one stretch of AS miles which was build by confederate sol diers "and which has remained, per haps, the most permanent monument of any work done by the Confed- eracy." It is the line between Greens boro, N. C., and Danville, Va.
 When the war began there was no railroad connecting the old Richmond and Danville with the North Carolina system of roads. A railroad official,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-15
LUKE M,LUKn SAYS

A girl gets just as mad when strange man admires her as she does if he fails to notice her.
 You can easily patch up quarrel But it isn't so easy to keep the patches from showing.
 If you could only get married women to believe that being good natured im- proves the complexion, lot of married men would be happier than they are.
 A burned child dreads the fire But a man will go and get married a second time.
 One thing we can all agree on is that the other fellow ought to be satisfied with what he has.
 Somehow or other nobody ever kids a big. broad-shouldered. athletic, brown skinned. military looking guy because he is wearing wrist watch.
 If a man doesn't like another man. he knocks the other man behind his back. But he doesn't rush up to him and kiss him when he sees him on the street. How about it, ladies?
 The fact that woman hates to have her husband out of her sight does not necessarily indicate that he Is such a good husband Maybe it is just the re- verse.
 There is an awful difference between complexion that won't come off and blush that won't come off.
 This is wonderful country. No mat ter how cold it gets, there is always plenty of hot air in circulation.
 single man imagines that after he gets married he will have right to spend part of the money he earns. But he learns better after he gets married.
 Of course it would be cruel and un. usual But our idea of fitting punish ment for Mexicans captured by oI,r troops would be to make them take a bath once week.
 Our idea of reckless courage would be for a man to tell the mother of new baby just exactly what he thinks of it,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-15
HE FOUND THE TICKET

New York Correspondence Pittsburg Dis
 patch.
 A boy with big bundle leaned his head over the subway ticket choppers box yesterday and walked in. Hey bawled the ticket chopper In English, whats the idea. Where's yer ticket?' ''Aw. I put it in.' yowled the boy with manners T had it In me mout'." "Ye did not bawled the chopper; just walt now till I see if I kin find ticket wid teeth marks" He looked, and after some effort found the evidence which acquitted 10 kindly faced and nearly honest sub- wayfarers ran through the argument zone without paying their fares.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-15
Active School Tax
 Canvass Needed

E7HHE 3-mill school tax proposition
 N is popular, but to make sure of it carrying at the polls on January 30 a great deal of active work is needed Last November, in the gen eral election, when the enactment amendment was ratified, an unusually large vote was boiled. But in special elections, even when the issue is of far-reaching importance, it is difficult to get out anything like a full vote. Jefferson county has never had more v'tal question to pass upon than this of the 3-mill school tax It affects all the school district in the county the city of Birmingham, the suburbs and the rural sections.
 Were the proposed tax levy de- feated Jefferson county would have to hang its head in shame, for its school term would be reduced from seven months to six months, maybe five. But with 3-mill tax, the county outside of Birmingham would take a great stride forward. It would not only have nine months term, but it would have better schoolhouses and more of them.
 The educational forces are pledged to earnest endeavor in the campaign. The teachers are enthusiastic volun- teers and have offered their services for house-to-house canvass: and that is the kind of canvass which will prove most effective.
 Every intelligent man in Jefferson understands school conditions. Will every one go to the polls on January 30 and cast vote for the 3-mill tax That is the paramount question.
 As the election is only two weeks off from tomorrow, no time is to be ! lost in campaign activities, But with good organization on the part of
 team workers tue tax will carry by g decisive majority.
 1 The new Emperor of Austria thinks his
 wife the cleverest woman in the world
 and also the most beautiful. Maybe he. one ruler who won'ts cultivate the ac ! quaintance of stage beauties but you never can tell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-15
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ALABAMA PRESS

Andalusia Star: They say skirts are to be longer this spring. We'll. if there is to be a change it looks like they'll have to make them longer. as they have about gone the limit on the ascending scale.
 Albany Decatur Daily: The Country club and the Motor and Country club of Birmingham. in an effort to get their dances started earlier, are offering s in gold to the first three women to arrive. Milady will have one hard time choos- ing between her natural born instinct for bargains-and putting in another hour or so on her toilette.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-15
Large Delegation

We expect to send the largest del- egation from Birmingham to the Con- federate reunion at Washington this summer that has ever attended sim liar gathering outside of the city" said Capt. John c. Smith. commander of Camp Wilcox, U. c. " T under stand that elaborate preparations are being made for the entertainment of the veterans by the committee In charge at the Capital City, and as has been said before. this may be the last opportunity for many of the veterans to attend and many will avail them selves of the opportunity. In the past we have always been able, through the generosity of our friends, to send goodly number of veterans to each reunion and this year we expect to send every veteran who desires to attend and who can stand the trip"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-15

After residing in this country 2S years Otto Kahn, banker. philanthropist and pa tron of arts. has decided to become an American citizen Evidently. MT. Kahn does not feel any ill will toward Amer ica because bis name was mentioned in the leak" scandal
 The Oklahoma house of representatives has passed a bill to make cigarette smok- ing punishable by arrest. Brother Ford and Brother Edison, who are fighting the little white slayer" should lose no time m wiring congratulations. the house and suec for a divorce. Then he learned that she had recently inner tied sl.0OO,ooO and now he is wishing some body would kick him for being so nasty. Complaint is made that New York ho- tel clerks are impolite to women guests who cant afford to pay for an expensive room. The right sort of manager should know what to do
 If reports are true, certain pestifer- ous insect gets under Tommy Atkins clothes and causes him more acute dis comfort than all the Germans put to- gether.
 Dutch suffragists have withdrawn their pickets from the entrance to the Dutch parliament at The Hague. Their tactics failed, but the pickets are all martyrs now.
 The president of s1O,OOO, 900 corporation seems to have considerably less weight on his shoulders than the chairman of an entertainment committee.
 
 The Kaiser says Greece is gnashing her teeth The allies wouldn't tolerate such belligerent conduct. However, Greece may be making faces.
 Some of the German newspapers seem to think the allies are crazy. There are times when it appears that all of Europe is more or less mad.
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 Greece seems to be having a hard time satisfying the entente, but on the other hand. the entente may be hard to satisfy
 The Father of His Country ate with his knife historians say, but at that time the practice was not considered a social solecism.
 cost of living has not appreciably re- duced the number of bigamists in this country.
 porter has discovered that young Gump the former Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
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 The Japs are said to be crowding into the toy market. When you come to think of 1t, that's way the Japs have.
 Of course. Mir Lawson isn't strong CT than Congress. The only person who thinks so is Mir Lawson.
 
 The water wagon continues to rumble merrily on it's way. but the road on either side is lined with fallen passengers.
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 You will notice that those suffragist pickets at the White House have failed to get smile from Mrs. Wilson.
 . The German crown prince is seldom heard from these days Maybe he's dead again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-15
COLONEL CARTER
he New York Telegram.

From the New York Telegram
 Bedford place. where F. Hopkinson Smiths Colonial Carter of Gainesville" :" lived while in New York, was West Tenth street. Part of the white frame house where the "coloner' had his home, in the rear of No. 5s, still stands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-15
LADY IN A COTTON lNIGHTGowr

Recent attempts to improve the artistic appearance of the coins of the United States have been failures as rule. The Lincoln one-cent piece. issued a few years ago, vas without merit. The decorations of the new dime are too much involved. Now we have the half-dollar with an eagle in pajamas on one side ana lady fr a cotton nightgown on the other.
 What was the matter with the old half-dollar? And why, when we have a good coin, should we discard it?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-15
SHE KISSED THE WAITER

New York Correspondence Pittsburg Pos
 Two young women who had the. taJ d'hote habit, sat alone tonight in tT'sD ink establishment in the Forties. f r silly last night" moaned one 'IiA '" in here and no one whom can tolerfsaa was here. I felt alone and resentful. kissed Mike. the waiter" ''Yvonn Yvonne!' walled her companion, ''wl did you do that?' "Bah!" sneers Yvonne. q had tonsilitis."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-15
LATEST IN BABY CARRIAGES

Popular Science Monthly for January.
 The up-to-the-minute baby carriage has it's electric gong and batteries, operated by conveniently located push button. preferably on the handle. to clear the pathway of the carriage