The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-09-13

Inc young ladies in the high scboo,
want to bear in mind that thar IA,
Dc several more stars to add to the
senooi service flag this term. Among
Tue number are Theodore johnson
o'eVe Mills and Louis Prove. and
probably others whose names do not
occur to us at this writing.
The telegraph company has receiv.
GU orders from the government to
INSTALL no more telephones in resi-.
ueiceS' ana no new ones in business
nouses unless necessary for war mr.
poses. Those with telephones will do
"eA 10 hahg on to what they have.
ior III case the phone is removed if
cannot be re-installed.
"A letter from Frank M. Dallam Jr
states that when he was operated on
Tor appendicitis he was also suffer-
ing from an abcess, SO his condition
must nave been exceedingly serious.
when he wrote he was we'll on the
way TO permanent recovery and ex-
pected soon to finish his course in
the candidates detachment.
Inc Nelson Leader states that
woru reaches that place that a wire
from the war department Announces
that Jimmie Brooks, reported missing.
is dead.. No such wire has been re-
celVed by his sister at this Mace and
IN the casualty reports published one
uay last week the young mans name
appeared as among the missing.
Il. Il. Parsons, who has made sucb
a valuable and efficient member of
'he school board of this district, has
resigned TO go upon farm, the resig-
| nation to take effect October LIST. Mrs.
harry Brown has been recommended
10 the county superintendent of
schools for appointment to fill the va
cancy, and mighty good choice it is
Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Smith received
letter from their son Durward Mon
day evening, the first in six weeks
| The last letter received from him
stated that he was in the hospital
wounded. The letter received Mon
day evening reported him well again
and back to his battery, although he
did not state the nature of his in
jury.
Miss Sybel McCammon left Satur-
day morning for Tacoma for the pur-
pose of entering school. Mrs. Nc
Cannon expects to follow in a week
or two after closing up some business
matters. Mr.. McCammon has been
working in the ship yards at Tacoma
for the past two months. The family
expects to eventually return to Oro-
Vile.
Trouble Corrector Brickbill, who is
kept on the wing all the time looking
up and repairing weak spots in the
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph COM
panys ramification of lines in the
county, spent two or three days in
Oroville the latter part of last week
removing the causes for kicks on the
local system, and there were quite a
number of them.
Mrs. Clell Robb, of San Francisco,
spent Sunday in Orovile visiting with
her cousin, Mrs. Chas. r. Peterson.
The cousins had not seen each other
for eleven years. Mrs. Robb had been
visiting at Seattle and ran over to
| Oroville to see Mrs. Peterson, al
though she had hardly more time at
her disposal than to exchange greet
ings and then farewells.
Attorney J. NJ Adams has purchas-
ed the building adjoining the First
| National bank on the north and has
fitted it up as an office, where he will
hold forth in the future. AS j. M
is very handy with the carpenter kit
| he made the necessary transformation
in the interior of the building, and
few knights Of the plane could have
made a better job of it.
Miss Maude Keller, an attachee of
the local telephone office and one of
the most efficient and accommodating
operators connected with the tele-
phone service in the county, left for
Seattle and Camp Lewis Saturday
morning on a well earned vacation.
The young lady was accompanied by
Miss Dorothy Putnam, of Tonasket,
and expected to be absent a week.
A very interesting story was puo-
lished in the Spokesman Review Mon
day of the escape of Thomas Hitch
cock. jr., a member of the Lafayette
flying corps, who had fallen prison
e. in the hands of the Germans. The
plucky young man was an old ac-
ouaintance and school mate of Dur
ward Smith, of this place, who Is
serving in the field artillery in
France.
In the larger cities vary much of
the Sunday JOY riding has been cut
out in response to the appeal OF the
administration for conservation OF
gasoline. If every auto owner in the
country would reduce the use or MS
car to bear necess&&S an enormous
amount of needed gasoline could be
saved for government use, and at the
same time it would work no hardship
on car owners
Frank Grogan while here Tuesday
announced that he would soon enter
the service. In what branch ne VIII
serve is not known, for Frank is no
longer spring chicken and in some
branches men are barred on account
OF age. However. Mr. Grogan would
do we'll as a drill master, as he saw
service in his younger days and serv-
ed under Gen. Pershing when that Of
fcer was lieutenant.
Friday last a four-year-old daugh-
Tor of Mrs Clair Ward, while visit
ing with friends in the country 1eil
from a horse breaking the elbow OF
tho right arm. Mrs. Ward brought
tho child up to Oroville Saturday
,o,;no IN have the arm examined UNI