The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-03-08

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c. Dorr, Jr., president of the Hudson
| Consolidated Mines company, arrived
in town last week with his wife and
two children, and has secured a cot
| tage in the north part of town. Mr..
| Dorr will give all his attention to
overseeing the extensive work and
improvements under way at the mine,
a short distance west of town.
Percy Eastman of LOOMS, was a WIS.,
itor in town Saturday Mr.. Eastman
has earned the reputation of being
one of the best road builders in the
north part of the county. Wherever he
has worked the roads, the auto driver
has chance to store up cuss words
for use on sections where some other
fellow has been pretending to build
highways.
Ben Prince enlisted in the navy at
Spokane Thursday. Red" announced
some time ago that he was going into
the marines, and he has carried out his
promise. The young man is an all
round athlete and will make record
| in the branch of the service he has Sc
lected. 1t is another Oroville boy who
has responded to call of country. May
good luck remain with him always.
Already March has commenced to
uphold it's reputation as being the
most tickle month in the year. Opening
up with an ideal May day, followed by
three days of mild weather with
slight fall of snow very early Monday
morning, the clerk touched the cold
button, mixing the chill with a stiff
north wind, Tuesday, and that day was
one of the coolest and most disagree
able of the entire winter.
Mr.. and Mrs, James East, who live a
| short distance from Tonasket, spent
several days in town the latter part of
last week. A number of years ago Mr..
| East was a pupil in the Oroville
| school. He has grown up to be strap
ping fine young man, and from all out
ward appearances would make
striking looking soldier. And Jimmie
tried to get into the game, but he has
an eye on the strike which will not
perform it's proper function, so he was
turned down.
! The Nelson Leader says that oval
ter Howard, who has the contract to
build the bridge over the Okanogan at
Ellisforde, is working about ten men,
and has the structure about half COM
pleted." Some one has been stringing
our Nelson neighbor, or We have been
misinformed. According to reports
reaching here really little work has
been done on the actual construction
of the bridge, and our informant said
The thought the bridge would not be
ready for use until May.
| Land owners in this valley will
make a careful and thorough test of
raising sweet corn this year with the
object of establishing cannery next
year at this place. Those who have
tried growing sweet corn in the past.
such experienced farmers as Frank
Stansbury, Geo. Whistler and E. e.
Parsons, declare that the most perfect
corn can be raised here especially
adapted for canning With this ques-
ton satisfactorily esttled there is not
particle of doubt but that a large
and modernly equipped cannery will
be in operation during the coming
season of 1919.
When the Oroville Gun Club entered
the Inland Empire shooting match the
stamp to every man who made
straight string of %, and thrift
stamp to every score over 81. In the
Sunday shoot Dick Butler not only
raked off the war saving stamp but
fell heir to box of cartridges, offered
by Sexson Bros, for a straight string
over the traps. Then four other mark
smen pulled down a thrift stamp. If
the boys are going to improve as they
did Sunday the bank will have to in
crease it's capital to meet the cost of
war stamp premiums.
w. S. Ramsey, who has operated
locomotive on the railroad near Van-
couver, B. c., for number of years,
and who purchased large tract in the
Ellis-Forde Orchard Tracts some three
or four years ago with the object of
eventually making his home in the
valley, arrived in town Monday even
ing with the object of going on his
land to stay Mr.. Ramsey has made
several visits to Oroville since he
made his investment and now he is
here to settle down. He is an enthus-
iastic hOrticulturalist and it is safe
prediction that within two or three
seasons Mr. Ramsey will own one of
the most attractive, as well as most
productive, tracts of land in the north
part of the Okanogan valley
Judge Ferguson made four souls
happy Monday of last week, the par
ticulars of which have just reached
this office. He tied the knot the united
two couples. The contracting parties
in one of the matrimonial ventures
were VIM. Lawson and Frances May
lChampneys, two well known residents
iof the Nighthawk neighborhood, who
have reached the age of discretion and
who have undoubtedly made a wise
choice in joining their future lives for
better or for worse. And may the many
years before them be all for the better
is the wish of the Gazette The other
two devotees of hymen were Arthur
Brooks of Oroville, and vira Viola
Brady, of Conconully, and they start
upon their new experience in life with
the best wishes of many friends.
A service flag hangs in the window
of the Pacific Coast Telephone and
Telegraph company office on First
avenue with the figures $50 thereon.
Those figures represent the number of
mnlOYeeS of the cnmnanv that hauo 70