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

cattle for years and is In position 10
express an opinion from experience.
He says that it does not cost any more
t. raise a thoroughbred animal than
it does to raise a scrub, and when you
have three-year-old thoroughbred
you have something worth while FOR
the market. AS people realize that
there is more money and If anything,
less work, in raising the best animals
of all grades for the market than in
raising cayuses, plebian cattle and rail
splitting hogs, the latter will disappear
and nothing but pure blooded domestic
animals will be found in the country.
Do not overlook the dance to be
given next Friday night by the fire
ladies. If you have conscientious scru-
pies against dancing buy ticket any
how. You do not have to attend, but
the small contribution that pastboard
will cost you will go toward aiding an
Organization that every property owner
is interested in keeping up to the
highest stage of proficiency. 1t is hard
ly necessary to urge others to invest,
for all who dance will be there, as it
is going to be one of the largest public
dances of the winter.
The alternate thaw and freeze dur
ing the past week has kept the popula-
ton in a state of doubt as to the real
intentions of the clerk Of the weather.
For time there was an intimation that
spring was near at hand, but things
meteorological are tickle at this time
of the year and again the chill Of win :
ter struck the valley. 1t is yet trifle
early for a break up, although a multi
tude of birds are noisily on the wing
every day. If the weather moderates
within the next fortnight the people
can then feel that winter is about over.
A plan is now being considered by
the high school basket ball team to
make another trip to Republic, as the
boys have been urged by the high
school performers OF that place TO
come again and play the sugar game,
the record now standing tie. Chesaw
has sent word that the club at that
place wants to take on the Oroville
basket shooters for a game, and if ar
rangemcnts can be satisfactorily made
it is the intention to take in both Che
saw and Republic on the same trip. If
the plan works out the double header
will be pulled off next week.
A change Of 40 degrees within twelve
hD,, {e,c bat Of n nj n
perature in this section of the country
and one that is not often noted. Mon
day afternoon the big thermometer on
the Oroville Commercial company
store registered over 40 degrees above
zero, and after five o'clock the mercury
was above 30. Early in the evening a
heavy wind came swooping down out
of the Arctic reagions, snow swirled
and whirled in binding sheets, the
mercury dropped rapidly until it reach
ell a point several degrees below zero
Tuesday morning and people suffered
from the coolest day or the winter.
A gentleman and his wife from Min
nesota spent two or three days in Orc
Vile last week leaving for their home
Wednesday morning. They had visited
a number Of towns in Eastern Wash
ington looking over the prospects will
the object of deciding upon a location
| They had become tired of the extreme
Minnesota cold and desided a chang
to a more congenial climate. The,
were most favoribly impressed witt
Oroville, it's present appearance and it
future prospects, just from the Location
of the town. So we'll pleased were the