The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-01-25


tried to break into the service and
Uncle Sam will just nave to accept
him in order to suppress a nuisance.
Too bad the same strain Of patriotism
is not more thoroughly developed
throughout the country and there
would be no reason to enforce the
draft.
W. S. Ramsey purchased the Dell
Hart property, Joining DR.. Efner's
home on the north, Saturday. Mr..
Ramsey will probably make his home
upon his new purchase until he Is able
to build residence upon his land In
the Ellis-Forde Orchard tracts, which
he will do as soon as he can secure
the material for building. The town
property that he has taken over is
very slightly located, as it has an ex-
cellent view of the valley north and
south.
The Oroville basket ball team has
framed up a long trip that will cover a
fortnight, having made dates to play
through the Colville valley to Hillyard,
then across to Waterville and We
natchee and up the valley home. Oro-
Vile has cracking strong team this
year and the boys will give good
account of themselves. From the stand
point of publicity this excursion will
be great advertisement both to the
school and the town. The team will
leave here Monday.
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ter Dorothy, returned home from their
eastern trip Tuesday evening, glad
enough to get back to the Okanogan
after experiencing the blizzardy
weather that has prevailed in the east
ern states. The one great disappoint-
inability to pay his father visit.
Owing to the illness of little Dorothy,
and also that Mrs. Elmer was indis-
posed for time he was compelled to
cut his trip short and hasten home.
It is really astonishing how many
men have defective memories. We no.
tice this particularly in the number
of subscribers to the Gazette who leave
their places of residence for parts
unknown and who are indebted to
this office for one or more years sub
scription. We feel certain that this
oversight is quite unintentional, as
not one man out of ten thousand de-
sires to repudiate small bill, but the
practice is very annoying to say moth
ing of the loss, for in the aggregate
the sum amounts to considerable.
Friday evening Judge Ferguson and
his wife were taken completely by
surprise by the arrival from Central
ia of their daughter, Mrs. Elsie Garri-
son. The judge at once telephoned to
another daughter, Mrs. Edith White
head, living at Tonasket and in just
an hour Mrs. Whitehead was at the
Ferguson home, coming in haste,
fearing that her mother was worse.
Mrs. Ferguson has been very sick for
some weeks, but the arrival of her
daughters seemed to act as tonic
and she is now steadily improving.
w. r. Rush surprised his relatives
and friends by arriving in town from
nounced. Mr.. Rush formerly lived on
an orchard tract at the big trestle.
Some six years ago he left here for
California, where he has established
very pleasant home. He is one of the
best preserved men of his years to be
found anywhere, and comes back to
Okanogan county in the very pink of
good health. His stay here is uncer-
tain, depending upon some business
matters that he came north to adjust.
Mrs. Rush is not in the best of health |
at the present time.
Miss Agnes Wensted, now visiting in |
Spokane, has had letter from Joe |
Hash, written somewhere in France.
Joe enlisted in Co. B End Washington, |
in company with Lawrence Dallam at |
the time troops were sent to the Mex
lean border two years ago. When war |
was declared with Germany the two |
boys were called to the colors. Joe Sc
cured transfer to Co. NJ, and the |
regiment was incorporated in the 161st |
Infantry, 41st Division. The division |
was sent to Camp Mills, Long Island,
and after remaining in that camp only
short time sailed for France about
the 18th of December.
AS predicted the Oroville high
school team did get the scalp of the |
Tonasket high school in the game
played last Friday evening at Tomas
ket, but the boys had hard time of
1t saving their own scalp. The Tomas
ket bunch proved to be Tartars, and
much to the surprise of Oroville, that
games that they feel entitled to claim
everything in sight before the test,
the first half of the contest ended in
favor of Tonasket. With the score
against them at the beginning of the
second effort the visitors had to hump
themselves and nosed out by a mar
row margin. 1t was a slashing good
game ending in score of % to 16 in
favor of Oroville.
During the week S. c. Mitchell &
Co., disposed of their stock of lumber
and building material to the Wood
bury Lumber Co., and the same was
transferred by truck from the yard OF
the seller to the yard of the purchaser.
S. c. Mitchell started the lumber yard
over which he presided March 10, 1907,
and has been the manager ever since.
The company will still operate the
saw mill at Sedley, and continue the
yard at Nelson. In selling out we are
pleased to say that Oroville is not to
lose Mr.. Mitchell and his estimable
family. MIR. Mitchell has number of
interests at home and near at hand,
the supervision of which demands his
presence here while giving him suffi-