The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-03-01

during the past week on visit. Mr..
Gathworp has offered his services to
the merchant marine and expects to
be called at any time to enter the SER
vice. Above draft age Mr.. Grathworp
can do even more than his bit to help
along in this war, and that is what ev-
cry mothers son Of us must do to car
ry the country through creditably.
Reevie Frank returned home Mon
day from business trip to Waterville
where he is interested in the Frank
Craft-Buick company, that has its
principal place of business in this town.
Mr.. Frank reports that the outlook for
the auto business for 1918 is very
bright. His house has already placed
a number of orders this early in the
season. To one farmer alone, the COM
pany sold three Bucks, two five pas
senger and one seven passenger, and a
tractor in addition.
More ore is being hauled from the
Copper World Extension mine and de-
flivered at the railroad at Nighthawk
now than at any time since ore COM
menced moving from the mine to the
smelter. The present contractors who
are hauling the ore seem to have solv-
ed the problem of getting that ore
down off the hill. AS there seems to be
no end to the ore still exposed in the
.. underground workings the movement
of ore to the smelter will probably
continue IN ;udofipifo1v
One could hardly imagine that there
could be such a difference in tempera-
ture within few miles as there is be-
TWEEN the valley at this point and the
Nelson country, hardly dozen miles
distant as the crow flies. Last Friday
was probably the coolest day here
since the beginning of the new year,
and the government thermometer reg
istered s dgrees above zero. On the
same day mercury dropped to 10 below
at Nelson, and in the Colville valley
a record of 20 below was made
For the past two weeks the station
at this place and the vast ramification
of side tracks that exist in conjunction
with the station, has been one of the
livliest spots in the valley. Trains are
being made up or coming or going out
about every hour of the day and night
and the toot of the engines is pleasant
and incessant music on the air. The
movement of the ice trains is largely
responsible for this activity, as trains
OF from As to SO cars are not infre-
quent ON the line going and coming.
| The dread fire alarm sounded about
o'clock Tuesday afternoon, just at a
/ time when the wind was at its height.
The firemen responded ~ssthe call of
the siren in remarkably quick time,
and the echo of the alarm had hardly
ceased humping against the sides of
the hills that hedge the valley until the
| for service. Happily its services were
not needed. The alarm was caused by
the buring out of a chimney in the
Riverside hotel, on Spokane street.
The building is two story frame, COW
| ering considerable ground, and had a
fire really got started on the premises
the firemen would have had a hot old
time
A. J. Taylor, a we'll known rancher
in this vicinity, who left for southern
California q few weeks ago to accept
work, Is back again to the Okanogan
country, and right glad to be back.
| When he reached his destination Mr..
Taylor discovered that the Job he went
south to accept at very attractive
wages was that Of digging clans. Tay-
lor has had experience in digging post
holes or spuds, but clans are out of
his line, especially when he has to
mooch around at all hours in ice cold
water in order to extract the bivalve
from his muddy roost. So he gave up
. clam excavating and Is back to wheat
growing, or the growing of anythoing
that will pass muster as food.
The Young Ladies' Knitting Club
| staged a dance at the library building
| Saturday evening, the proceeds of the
social affair to be devoted to purchas-
| ing yarn for use in Red Cross work.
The dance was a cheap affair, only so
cents a throw, but public loyalty to the
! Red Cross made even that low priced
! dance a financial success, far beyond
the expectations of those who sug-
gested the scheme. When Saturday
night came around the library was full
to Overlooking, the crowd stringing
out upon the lawn. Dancing in those
quarters was out of the question, so
the aggregation Of merrymakers ad-
journed to the Orpheum where the
dance went on. The young ladies clear
ed some $40 which is remarkable
showing for half dollar dance.