The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-17

was very. plump. The cause of his
failing away was influenza. He stated
Ithat he had had three relapses, and
when we heard that report we were
not surprised that he had lost con-
Isidefabie flesh, considering 1t little
Ishort of a miracle that he made u
live of it.
A letter from Prof. F. B. Nance, re-
questing that the address of his pa
per should be changed to Council
/ Bluffs. Iowa, states that he is now
| teaching in the high school of Com
Imerce, in Omaha, Neb., while he makes
This home across the Missouri river
in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He goes on
| to state that I'VE are enjoying the
winter, but IT Is cold, 30 below Fri
day morning This sounds rather
like josh.
c. Clark. the popular representative
OF the B. G. Ewing Paper company of
| Spokane, blew in Saturday on his
regular rounds. This office had to
stock up on supplies, but the prices
quoted threw the chief push into a
high fever for several days. 1t looks
like profteering somewhere, yet it is
certainly not among the country prin-
ters, for few of them have the nerve
to boost their prices up to correspond
with the increased price of material.
Both of our doctors are being rush.
ed to almost the limit of physical en-
durance and 1t would be public
calamity II either or both of them
should be SO unfortunate as to break
down during the prevailing reign of
the influenza. Saturday, during the
heighth of the prevailing snow storm,
DR.. Elmer was called to Nighthawk
and LOOMS and DR.. Lewis to see
patient 10 miles up the Methow valley
from Pateros. In order to respond
to these calls the doctors had to leave
a score Of patients in their home
town.
The soft weather did not stop ice
cutting, although 1t threatens to cur
tail the supply II thawing continues.
Fred Clark, Is making hay, or ice,
while the Ice holds out and has al
ready filled some of his contracts. The
| ice houses of the Hotel de Grubb and
A. A. Bumgartner are filled, and it
has required some 225 tons to fill that
order. However, there need be no
apprehension as to any shortage in
the chilly commodity in our. opinion.
:or there is plenty-of time to make ice
in abundance before the return Of the
birds in the spring.
Early last week H. s. Irwin of Ok
anogan had the misfortune to sus-
tain a fracture of the fibula of the
right leg while hauling ice, large
block Of Use slipping off the vehicle
and striking the leg. He came to
Oroville Saturday accompanied by his
wife and was placed under the X-ray
by Dr. Lewis. The photograph showed
that the bone had not been set, as a
Jagged piece of the fibula stuck out
into the flesh. The bone was put in
place and Mr.. Irwin is now resting
comfortably at the home Of his broth
er-in-law, Justin X. Hill.
The position of health officer in
small town is not altogether an at
| tractive or happy one. At times when
the health of the population is in
jeopardy it devolves upon him to take
| steps as he deems necessary for the
protection Of that population. If he
| is not prompt in putting on the screws
hA io ov.;<; hn ~ ho
closing propositions of the law fault
is found 1t Is case of your damned
If you do. and you are damned IL You
don't, and there does not seem to be
any happy medium by which Mr.. Of
icer can escape the damning.
Vern Francisco is back home hav-
ing been discharged from the service.
He was called by the draft some
months ago and was assigned to the
Coast Artillery and has been stationed
at Fort Flagler, WASH, for the past
two months and half. Even the few
months training has greatly improv-
. ed Mr.. Francisco's appearance and he
looks like a husky soldier boy. Just
now he is considerably out of luck,
as the influenza has taken possession
of his family and four or five men,
bers are down with the malady, al
though none are in a serious condi-
ton.
About every weekly paper in the
state carried a supplement last week
in which the suffering of Armenians
and Syrians wera told at length in
such detail as to arouse the sympathy
Of every reader. For some reason the
supplements sent to this Office did not
reach their destination until last Fri
day morning nearly "a hours after
the paper was printed so they could
not be used. This is mentioned to
show that this paper did not inten-
4 tionally fail to give this great human
itarian movement the publicity that it
should have received In this neigh
borhood.