The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1917-07-27

While on = "Trip to Pullman recently
Mrs Hugh Miller, wife Of Ex-County
Commissioner Miller, was seriously
injured in an auto accident near Col
fax, where she was taken, and was
compelled TO undergo an operation
Al last reports Mrs Miller was slow
ly improving, but she had a very mar
row escape from death.
{. p Scztes, formerly publisher Of
the Riverside Argus and uoE connect
ed With the Okanosau Indeuendent
vas visitor IN town Saturday Ny
scatss Is bright and experienced
newspaper man, q credit to The craft
and We trust that he will eoatfura 10
De member Of the Okanogau press
gang for years to cone.
Mr.. and Mrs. Al Gillespie and Mr..
and Mrs. Ben Smith. Of Brewster,
passed through orovilIe Monday On
their way home from : TWO weeks
tour Of British Columbia Both gen
demen are oid-tims residents Of
Brewster. We have known Mr.. Giles
pie for over 80 years, first meeting hin
i0early days when he was z resident
Of Cheney From Cheney MIR. Giles
pie went to Douglas county, taking
up homestead in the early DAYS
Nearly 20 years ago be located in
Brewster, where has conducted z
store meeting with much SUCCESS.
7. c. Hume, foreman Of the Gazette
Office, left Wednesday morning for
Walls Walla 10 visit with his family.
expecting TO Be absent 2 month Nj.
Hume has well earned the vacation. as
Il has been two years since he accept
ed z position with the Gazette. and in
all that time be has not seen his fam
ily nor taken lay-of Some mutual
friend will have 10 introduce him 10
the members OF his family when he
arrives at Walla WaIIa- During his
absence Victor Julian, an experienced
printer. will have charge Of the ne
chanical department Of the Gazette.
For several days last week Joseph
Lenton, Of Nizhthawk and A a Wor-
ley and J. F. Samson, Of this place.
selected By the government farm loan
bank as a committee to appraisa lands
IL this vicinity owned by men making
application for loans, Travelled over
the territory assigned them perform
ing the duties required The district
covered extended TO Tonaskes and
Wauconda to the south, Chopaka and
LOOMS to the west, Nelson to the
east, and the International boundary
to the north The gentlemen axamin-
led some twenty claims, and the
final disposition OF the applications
will be based upon their findings
Each and every one Of the trio is par
ticulsrly qualified TO pass upon farm
land values, and they are men who
can be depended upon to BE- fair am
just both to the applicant and the
loan bank.
Our popular tailor, Carl Schass-
berger, bundled all Of his family into
his auto Saturday morning, getting Z
livery early start, and hit the trail for
Spokane, going by the way Of Nelson.
British Columbia and the ColviIle val
ley Deer Park, some miles this side OF
Spokane, is Mr.. Schassberger's destin-
alton. as his mother lives at that place
and while the trip is taken as an out
ing, the main object is TO visit with
the mother. From Deer Park, Mr.
|Schassberger can and will run into
Spokane frequently. Both Mr.. and
Mrs. Schassberger have well earned
the lay off, as they have worked hard
and insistently for three or four years
without z break, and they had q rest
coming. While on the outside MI
|Schassberger will engage q tailor TO
assist him in his steadily growing
business, business he has built Up
By doing first class work and treating
the public right