The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-10-17
PROMINENT VISITORS.

About noon last Friday a host of PROM
linent business men of Vancouver and
,Penticton. Il. c., decended upon OroviIte
looming down in eleven autos from the
latter named city. took lunch at the
Hotel de Grubb and spent an hour or two
looking over the town and surrounding
Icountry. They were a live bunch of hot
lstuff, those old boys from Vancouver, and
lwere enjoying every minute Of a protract-
led outing.
| The party was made up of SO members
lof the Vancouver board of trade, with
Iabout "A dozen members of the Penticton
board of trade as guides and assistant
10y makers. The members of the Van
lcouver board of trade had deserted the
Idesk. the factory and business house for
a trip through that part Of British Colum-
bia from which Vancouver draws large
trade and in their peregrinations reached
| enticton and from that place drove down
Ito look over the big irrigation project
north of Orovile in that part of the Okla
tnogan valley just across the international
line, where the work Of putting In bitches
land fumes Is now in progress. and where
eventually hundreds of returned Canad-
fian soldiers will be making that vast de-
lserted territory a land of peace. plenty
land contentment. When the visitors look
led upon the project and voted II good, It
Idawned on them that there was no place
within reach where the inner man could
Icalled up over the phone and arrange
ments made for feeding the multitude.
IThey could not protract the stay as ar
Tangements had been made to banquet
the visitors at Pehticton that evening.
and also attend a reception rendered to
| the Governor General and Duchess of
| Devonshire, who were at Penticton the
same evening.
| We are informed by members Of the
party that the coast visitors were very
Ifavorably impressed with the appearance
Iof Oroville, its ideal townsite and the
scenic surroundings. The orchards and
lcultivated fields with the numerous stacks
of alfalfa standing as sentinels all over
the valley silent evidence of the fertility Of
the and particularly impressed the stran-
gers, as showing what can be expected
on the British reclamation project IL sO0n
as water can be turned on.
Christopher Spencer is president OF the
Vancouver board of trade, and w. +.
Payne secretary. Both gentlemen were
with the visitors. Also H. B. Morley, pres
ident of the Penticton board Of :rA le. and
r. J. McDougall. secretary of the same
Organization. The following is a list OF the
Vancouver visitors as taken from the
lPenticton Herald:
c. A. Crysdale. Monarch Life Assurance
Co.. w. b. Rathbone. Crane Co.. OF Can
ada; James Galloway, McC!ary Mfg. Co.:
| j. w. McCabe. Mgr. Bank Of Hamilton:
IC. j. keHer. SOlQlerS civil Ro 7StaDlSn-
ment Department; w. R. w. Mcintosh.
Kelly. Douglas & Co. Ltd: W. B. McKen-
zie. Wood Valance & Leggat; Dr. G. y.
Prowd; Stanley Black. Black BIDS; r. X.
Houlgate, Vancouver Financial Corpora
ton Ltd; DR.. H. H. Milburn: A. C.
Stevens, Canadian Bank Of Commeccs;
A. NJ. Stevens, Royal Bank Of Canada,
Me- Westminster. B. c.: H. J. Hsnder-
son. rffendersUn Pam, - r. =.
lMcL.ennan, McLennan. McFeely Co.: G.
Spencer David Spencer Ltd: A. A.
Brookhouse. Cowan & Brookhouse; Dun
lean Gavin, Martin 4 Robertson: Hugh.
Dalton. Canadian Manufacturers Assn:
n. F.. Munton, w. H. Malkin Co. Ltd:
lH. ]. Littler Terminal City Iron Wks.:
Nels Nelson, New Westminster Brewery
Co.; A. S. Brenchley. r. R. Stewart Co.:
lG. II. Cunningham, Cunningham Drug
lstones; Alex MARSHALL ]. H. Falconer. b..
lC. Vinegar Wks.; R. F. Arnett. Brake.
Creedon Co.; J. Moe, Canadian Pacific
Railway; w. II. Leckie, J. Leckie Co. Ltd.
u. F. Stephen; R. c. Purdy. Purdy's Con-
lfectionery Co.; A. A. Disney, White Star
|S S. Co.. Norman c. Gull, optician; Scott
Il. Eaton. Success Business College: w. e.
Payne, Vancouver Board Of Trade; John
Nelson, Vancouver World; B. A. McKelvle
Vancouver Daily Province; w. T. Wallace
Wallace Parsons Farmers Co.; w. c.
Shelly, Shelly Bros. Ltd. ]. Duff Stuart,
Clarke * Stuart; II. G. Eakins, Druggists
|Sundries: Harrison Watson, Dominion
Trade Commissioner, London England.