The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1917-11-23

Spokane Wednesday evening, and will
be here for several days looking after
business interests.
Ellis & Forde received two car loads
of cattle Wednesday evening which
they purchased near Spokane The
shipment was in charge of Ferris
Ford and came through in fine shape.
S. A. Shamberger has purchased the
Carl Refsing saw mill, located a short
distance southeast of Oroville, and
has large amount of orders for lum-
Der and timbers which he will at once
fill.
Peter Flanagan was over from Oro-
vile Wednesday from his Horse
Springs Coulee ranch He expects to
leave in a few days for Minnesota to
visit with his mother and will spend
the winter in that state.
The usual high class attractions in
the moving picture line will be pre-
sented at the Orpheum Saturday and
Sunday evenings. Not having received
his bookings up to the time the paper
went to press, MIR. Bartell could not
give his regular announcement.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Adair and daugh-
ter Alice came over from their home
near LOOMS Tuesday in VIM. Kip 5
jitney. Mr.. Adair has Ilved on ranch
on the south side of Mount Chopaka
for number of years. This was his
first visit to Oroville for many months.
J. F. Pershing, of Chicago. travelling
salesman for the Gold Bond Clothing
house, of which Frank Bartell, Jr., is
the agent in Oroyille, was in the city
over Sunday. Mr.. Pershing is broth
er of Gen. Pershing, commander of
the American expeditionary forces in
France.
Gilbert Lord, the lucky deer hunter
OF the season, sent out big and hand
some set of deer horns to Spokane
Thursday evening to be mounted. II
was one of the finest set of antIers
that has been seen here for a long
time and will make a pretty ornament
when mounted.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Butler were the
lucky hunters of the several who went
forth from Oroville in chase of the
nimble deer last week They went up
on the head waters of the Sinlahekin
creek and returned la st Saturday af-
ter noon with a gallant speciment of
the deer family, a buck that dressed
some 200 pounds. And many friends
who have been faithfully Hooverizing
enjoyed venison as a change for the
meatless and wheatless diet.
Louis Prince, who has been away
from Oroville during the last two
years, and the last year and a half at
Minneapolis, returned home Monday
evening. The young man has under
gone a great Transformation since he
knocked around Oroville as a lad,
taking on form, height and weight So
marked is the change that but few of
his old acquaintance recognized him
at the first glance, or for several
glances, for that matter. Louis reports
that Ben Price. his brother, is now in
Minneapolis.
Tom Jones postmaster at Riverside
and a pioneer of the county, well and
widely known, has gone to Phoenix,
Arizona, in hopes that a change of eli
mate will bring him relief from long
and serious illness. All who konw Tom
Jones, and that is every one of the
older residents of Okanogan county,
trust sincerely that he will experience
relief from the change and return
home next summer well on toward re-
entire covery. 1t is understood that
Matt Picken will have charge OF the
post office at Riverside during Mr..
Jones absence.
The Oroville band was engaged to
furnish inspiration at the Victory
Loan celebration that took place at
Penticton yesterday, making the trip
north in autos. The local band, that
has won such an enviable reputation
throughout north central Washington,