The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-02-07

e. b. Gay was down from Oroville
on business Monday and while here
was showing samples of tomatoes put
up in his cannery located at the up
river town. Mr.. Gay says his son
planted five acres of tomatoes and
that he ordered $4,000 cans to handle
the crop, but discovered that he fell
far short of having cans enough to
hold the crop from this small PATCH
Omak Chronicle.
Mrs. Nora Ricketts, has sold out her
bakery to J. NJ. Jackson. Mrs. Rick
etts has handled Seattle bread and
bakery products and has built up a
very large business. 1t is understood
that Mr.. Jackson contemplates putting
in a lunch stand in conjunction with
his bread emporium. The establish
ment is located in the old Peerless
building. Mrs. Ricketts, contempates
opening a millinery store with a full
line of goods as soon as she can find
A suitable location.
The return of cold weather has made
more ice on Otter lake, in British Co.
lumba, and Friday and Saturday an
army of ice cutters passed through
town for the lake where ice will be
harvested for large number of Great
Northern ice houses. The quantity
of ice to be cut is enormous. If is
stated that the crew at Otter lake
will cut and load at least 2,OCO cars,
which means over $4,000 tons Of ice
harvested at this one place. and if
ice cutting on Loon lake is impractic-
able this amount will be greatly in
creased.
Col. Gallagher has received the
smelter returns from the car load OF
ore shipped some time ago from the
Harry Williams mining claims, on
Wanicut lake, and the figures are very
satisfactory. Owing to the fact that
Mr.. Williams has not sufficiently re-
covered from his injuries received by
the caving of rock at the mine and
hence is not in condition to take
charge of and carry on work, Col
, Gallagher states that further opera
tions cannot be expected until early
in the spring, when he expects to not
! only continue development upon a
considerable scale but also to make
regular shipments of ore.
A representative of the Ellison.
White Chautauqua System. which has
series of entertainments billed for
the last week in February, was in
town the latter part of last week in
conference with several of our citi.
zens who had signed up for the series
The lack of a hall was taken into con.
s!deration and it was decided that il
the Orpheum could not be repaired in
\ time for the event it would take place
in the auditorium of the High school
the only room in town adapted TO,
stage performances. The entertain.
ments offered will be first-class ir
every particular. and even If neces
sary to use the room in the high
! school it will be we'll worth the
trouble of climbing the hill to attend
| Ernest Truax returned home Sat
urday from trip to his old home il
Iowa, where he was called some week,
ago by the news of the serious illness
or his mother. He reports that
, condition of prosperity exists anon;
the farmers of Iowa such as wa
never before known. With corn a
$l.5o per bushel, an almost uuhear,
of price, every farmer in the Ian,
has dollars to throw at the birds. n
says that there are very few bee
cattle in the state. and the numbe
of hogs has been greatly reduced a
farmers do not consider it nrottabl
t" feed high priced corn to st ock 'Th
lVe1ther during January was marvel
orsly mild in Iowa, an unusual con
dition that seems to prevail through
out the entire country. 1t is regrett
liable to state that Mr.. TruaX left hi
mother very low with no hopes of re
covery, ...