The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-10-04

culo. OF course our sympathy is with
| the great humanitarian movement on
| foot for the relief of the afflicted and the
elimination of the great white plague al,
together too common and the material
and moral aid we can extend towards
it's suppression we freely give, but we
10 not want any closer acquaintance
There was not much pleasure rid
the public has taken kindly to the re-
1uest for the conservation of gasoline
The people of the United States are to
| be congratulated upon their Willingness
ence that will contribute in the least
degree to the winning OF the war.
Lieut. Frank NJ. Dallam. jr., writing
| from France. says: my new COMMISSION
the same time enlarges ones usefulness
in the service to certain extent, ana
every man over here wants to do the
ties present" Now that is the spirit
that prevails in the army. The boys want
to do, and will do, to the UTMOST of their
home do less in backing those boys up?
Let those who are loyal stand shoulder
to shoulder behind our gallant lads tax
the hardships ana %d dangers disIevs 81 tne
home and contribute to the utmost OF
our means in aiding the Liberty Loan
We get back what we loan the govern
ment. Those boys at the front don't get
back their lives, their limbs. their sight
that they sacrifice for their country.
Mrs. Frank Reeves, of Wenatchee,
stopped over in Oroville tuesday on her
way to her home from visit to Repub-
| lie where she spent some days organizing
the women of that place to carry on the
Liberty Loan drive. Mrs. Reeves ad-
evening at the Civic League building. and
aided in outlining plans for carrying on
| the drive in this place and neighborhood
Mrs. Reeves has taken very n active par
| ing much of her time attending meetings
of state officials of women's clubs Or
ganized for the purpose OF continuing
| aid the prosecution of the war. With a
| pleasing presence and most happy fac
| ulty of expressing herself the. lady not
| mon her large audience but aroused an
enthusiasm in the work that will bear
| fruit
H. D. James, of Milwaukee, accom-.
panied BY vs hS Wifi Mr. aT nmes IS the frce
behind the Oroville Copper COMPANY,
formerly the old o. X. one of the most
promising mining prospects .ers.s on kru a ger
number of eastern people in. this excel,
lent proposition, a number of whom VIII
! be out here within the next rev DAYS
70 70 Conceal about the Oroville Copper
company holdings. and it is a safe pre-
diction that the visitors will be more
|
| their observation. The past several
weeks have been devoted to equippine
the mine and the management is abou,
| ready to start in active operations eX.
tracing ore. We would not be surprised
II the installation of treatment plant
| would follow the investigation of the
| eastern stockholders, as much money
could be saved by concentrating the ore
at the mine
The case of James Brooks. one of the
Oroville boys serving in France. is one o
the most singular that has come to lgh
in connection with the casualty cases
Weeks ago Mrs. Brooks received tele
gram from the war department announc
ing that her son was among the missing
some time after that telegram here comes
a letter from young Brooks stating tina
he had been slightly wounded In action
| that he had almost recovered and expect
ed to go back to the front and was gla'
| Of il. AS we were reading that lette
his sister Mrs. Jerome Hankn. cam
into the office with telegram. Stain,
; | that James Brooks was captured and II
, | the hands 81 the Germans. Tuesday Mrs
| brooks. who has returned to Orovill
from Leavenworth. received a Telegram
, from the war department stating tina
, her son was wounded, extent undeter
mined Whatever the Huns have don
, to him 1t is evident that young Brook
has had q run of hard luck. and hi
!, friends here only hope that he wi