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The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-24
A SAD CASE

Saturday morning Clinton Curtis
Sanford passed away at the Oroville
General hospital, the third member of
the family that fell a victim to
ptomaine poisoning. On Friday, Janu-
'ary 10, the Sanford family was a
happy one, consisting of husband and
wife and three children, the eldest
being only four years of age. They
were living on a ranch near Winthrop.
in the Methow valley. At dinner that
day, among other articles of diet, the
family partook of canned chicken, or
rather chicken put up in a glass jar.
They had eaten the same article be-
fore, and observed no difference in
the taste. Saturday Mr.. and Mrs
Sanford and the eldest child, Doris.
were taken sick The symptoms
puzzled the local physician. There
was paralysis of the tongue and
throat, and a rapidly growing weak
ness, and yet the patients complained
of no particular suffering. Monday
morning at o'clock Mrs. Sanford
died and the child's death followed At
Q o'clock. Mrs. Sanford was a daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Martin of
this place, and the parents arrived
at the home of the Sanfords shortly
after the death of Mrs. Sanford. The
remains of the mother and daughter
were brought to Oroville for inter
ment, and were accompanied by Mr.
Sanford. He was able to travel, but
grip of the poison was on him, and
Immediately upon arrival he had to
take to his bed. He grew worse and
at the time of the funeral of his wife
and child, last Friday afternoon, he
was not expected to live. He gradu-
ally grew worse and died early Sat
urday morning. The funeral tool,
l'place Sunday afternoon. He was laif
to rest along side of his dear ones IL
| Odd Fellows cemetery. A baby o.
few months and child of two years
survive the parents. This triple
death is one of the saddest cases o.
record in the county and the sym
pathy of the entire community Is ex
tended to the stricken relatives.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-24

other has delightful "reminiscences OF
the days spent among the people that
have deteriorated from the civiliza-
ton that existed before the days of
Christ, and countries that are attrac-
tive to the people of this age by the
glamor of departed centuries. To
meet and talk with them is like bring
ing the extremes of earth together
1t has been given to few of us to see
what these gentlemen have seen, and
even had most of us the opportunity
they have had few of us could so
gracefully and intelligently express
the impressions the countries made
on us as can Mr. Lund and Mr.. Brat
tain. nor could we store up and retain
the vast fund of information that
these gentlemen accumulated in their
travels
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-24
WHERE OROvhLE FELL DOWN

During the war Oroville never
shirked responding literally to every
call for funds except in one instance,
and that is in subscribing its ap-
| portionment of War Saving Stamps.
This was, and is an attractive invest,
ment, especially for those of small
means, providing method of saN ing
by which those who took advantage
of it were laying up treasures for the
future. The larger buyers failed to
come through, and the great proper
tion of the stamps that were sold were
purchased by people of small means,
and those of small means could not
be expected to take a Insufficient num-
l..r to make big showing IN a
drive during the summer quite a num-
ber of people pledged themselves to
take stamps, butfailed to make those
pledges good OF course this failure
was largely due to the unfortunate
crop failure in the. county, yet if those
who could would have responded as
they should Oroville would nor be so
near the bottom of the list in the rec
ord of districts. There were four
teen districts arranged in the county
to which collections, or sales, were
to be credited, and when the hnal
report for the year was made Oroville
stood eleventh. This district was
called upon for $2s,020 and sold only
$19,772, that being 70.6 per cent of
the apportionment. Nelson leads all
the district with percentage of sales
of 1856 and Wauconda brings up the
rear with a percentage of 43 A. Mol
son, Brewster, Loomis, Winthrop, Ok
anogan and Pateros districts sold
more stamps than their apportion-
ment. Below is a full report of the
sales made in the county in the sew
eral districts:
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-24
LOOKING BACKWARD
Items of interest Taken From the
Palmer Mountain PrOspectOr Of
January 20, 1899.

Oliver Tufty of Oroville was q
Loomis visitor Tuesday. (Mr. Tufty
is still in the land of the living, max
ing his home at TonaskeU.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. w. p. Bur-
berry, of Horse Spring coulee, Sunday
January Is, son.
Henry Wellington advertises this
week to make final proof on his home
stead. (Mr. Wellington was among
the early settlers in the valley, and
the land proved up on is the ranch
now occupied by H. H. Granger. Mr.
\.tl,metCh was a graduate of Harvard
HI. lived almost the life of :'e-
,'luse. lie had little to say OF his
anticedents, and it was never known
wnat induced him to como out to the
far west and bury himself in the wild
erness. He was scholarly gentle
man and 1t was a pleasure to meet
and have converse with him. He died
at the home of the late VIM. Mcdaniel
many years ago).
For several issues early in Janu-
ary the Prospector was issued as a
half sheet owing to the snow block
ade during which no supplies could
be received for weeks.
G. w. Elliott filed his bond with the
county commissioners as the newly
elected treasurer, succeeding himself.
Mr.. Elliott is now over the divide.
Fred Pflaeging was the newly elected
county auditor. He is now in the en-
ployment of the Great Northern rail-
road, and living at Spokane. J. F.
Buttles, was the newly elected as
sessor His whereabouts is unknown.
Thos. s. Dickson was the newly elect
ed sheriff. He continued resident
of the county until few years ago.
J. F. Samson of this place was the
newly elected county school superin-
tendent, and is spending the winter
in California. The board Of commits
sioners was made up of Alex Watson,
r. J. Cannon and Allan Palmer, all of
whom we believe are still living.
Here are some of the salaries al
lowed by the county commissioners in
those days: Sheriff, one jailor ut
$2S.34 per month; treasurer, one
deputy at $3.50 per month"; auditor, a
clerk at $6634 per month; deputy
sheriffs, $3.50 per day when actually
employed. Old High Co.t of Living
/ had not hit this country in those days
evidently from the generosity of these
salaries.
The Prospector let's out an awful
roar because the community had
been deprived of mail for three weeks,
owing to the snow blockade, insisting
that if freight teams could break a
way through there was no good rea-
son why stages should not deliver
mails.
8. E. Barron was in town from the
@. S. mine the first of the week. (Mr.
Barron spent many months hard work
at the @. S. mine, and was very opti-
mistic in his reports of the showings
made on the property. He not only
superintended the work but got in
and handled sledge and drills him
SELF In an evil hour he ran for the
legislature. was elected, went to
Olympia and never returned to the
Okanogan country. The last heard
from him Mr.. Brown was still mon
keying with mines down in southern
California, but that was good many
years ago).
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-24

forever and could see no reason for
saving when they had the cash to
save. However, all this moralizing is
not changing the situation one whit.
The men are now idle and lit is not
conducive to peace and quietness to
have large crowds of idle men hang
ing around at any time, and espc-
cially just now when the agitator is
so busy and no drastic measures are
being taken to squelch him. But get
ting back to Mr.. Wentworth, who has
been lost sight of in this long drawn
out item He has returned to north
ern Okanogan county, where he has
spent so many years and expects to
stay. He has not decided what he
will go at, but as he is a hustler he
will not be idle any length of time.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-24
AUTO OWNERS MUST RESERVE
OLD NUMBER PLATES

All owners of motor vehicles of
whatever type or description should
be sure to hang on to their two license
plates issued for the year 1919. If
they do not, their paths will surely
be beset with endless trouble and ad-
ditional expense and possibility of
Jail doors yawning in their faces.
No one will receive new numbers
for the year 1920; everybody will re-
tain the same old numbers as for the
year 1919.
Anyone who will take the trouble
to look at the plate of any machine
will notice that the left hand of either
side of the letters "Wn." and numeral
indicating the year in which the
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-24
4 CREDIT TO THE NAVY

Minor S. Mclean, son of NJ. E. Nc
Lean, the popular conductor on the
Oroville- -Wenatchee branch. has spent
several days in Oroville during the
past week, visiting with his father.
Young Mclean travels in the togs Of
an American sailor, as he Is in the
mechanical branch of the navy. He
has been stationed at several navy
yards, east and west. Just now he is
enjoying furlough from the Brem-
erton navy yard, but expects to go to
Philadelphia in a short time. Last
Summer, when Mclean entered the
navy, he created quite a furor. He
was heralded as the apollo of the
Navy" and the daily press of some
of the large cities devoted columns
writing up the young man. That
widely known artist, whose pictures
of beautiful women are a JOY to look
upon. and who is an acknowledged
judge of the human form divine,
Howard Chandler Christy, declared
him to be one of the handsOmest men
he had ever seen. He won the admir-
alton of such stage favorites as Mary
Garden and Lillian Russell, and be-
came the guest, pet and toasts of the
fashionable world in Philadelphia.
All this fulsome flattery would have
turned the heads of most young men
in their early 20s, but young Mclean
Is. made of more substantial stuff. He
can accept such adulatiOn without re
quiring a change in the size of his
hat and becoming snob. Today he
is just a natural, care-free, genial
likeable American youth, meeting Or.
dinary people on a common footing
doing his duty in the service of his
choice and worthy of the praise that
has been bestowed upon him.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-24
HARD SHEDDING ON THE COAST

Will Wentworth has returned from
Tacoma, where he went last summer
with an army of others seeking en-
plOyment on government work, at
tracted by the high pay offered by
contractors who We're building ships
lat profit of 10 per cent on the cost,
and making the cost as heavy as pos
sible. A very discouraging report
Mr.. Wentworth brings back from the
coast as to conditions among working
men. These men never figured out
that the war was bound ID end some
time and when it did TIE Jobs they
were on would end instantly. The
wage was enormous but they did not
lay up treasures on earth That is
| they did not consider it necessary to
look ahead to a wet day, although wet
days are the rule on the coast, and
when that day arrived with the end
OF ship building with the signing of
the armistice mighty few If that army
or workmen had saved enough to tide
\ them over until they could secure
other means of sustinance AS a re-
suit Mr.. Wentworth states that there
| IS host of men broke on the coast
Knowing not where to turn to better
their condition. 1t is understood that
ship builders were considered goo(
picking when they were pulling dowr
large wages. and they found the cos
OF living dispropOrtionately high, al
Though we have heard number o
people declare that they could liv,
cheaper in Tacoma and Seattle thai
in Oroville, and that may be reason
.why so many found themselves brok'
when work ended. But the old saw
holds good that money that comes
easy goes easy, and no doubt the ma
jority thought the fat job would las
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-24
The scores for opening day follow

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H. S. Irwin returned from Oroville
Friday, where he went to have his
right leg set-Okanogan Independent.
Ray Love, the young son of Mr.. and
Mrs. C. E. Love, is very low as Ie-
suit of influenza which developed into
spinal meningitis.
At a recent meeting Of the stock
holders of the First National Bank
the following directors and officers
were elected: Directors, ]. L. Mast
ers, Geo. J. Schlief, ]. J. Bennett
Elton G. Rice and s. B. Starrett, jr.;
officers, President, Elton G.Rice; vice
president, Monroe Harmon; cashier.
| S. B. Starrett, jr.; assistant cashier.
Geo. II. Jackson.
Deputy Sheriff Ed. Burden and VITA
stopped over in Oroville Tuesday
night. going on to Tonasket and Okan-
ogan Wednesday morning. Mr.. Bur-
den is carrying his arm in a sling as
| the result of an accident he met with
while on trip east with carload
of horses. He fell aft a car. or was
run over by train, or something
right rough as he was all mussed up.
However, he is now well on to total
recovery.
To a stranger coming into town
from the appearance of tie freight
1yard the impression would be formed
that this is the busiest station on any
railroad in eastern Washington
4 Strinu. Of kIo
side tracks extending across the val
Hey almost from the Okanogan to the
ISimilkameen river. These were the
cars intended for use in hauling ice
from Ottar lake, and they will prob
Iably remain here until the ice is again
formed and ready for cutting, IL the
process of water solidifying ever hap
ipens again this winter.
! "A telegram has just been receiv-
ed from the War Department an
lnouncing the death of Lieut. Frank
III. Taylor, from wounds received in
Ibattle October II, 1918. Lieut.. Tay-
or owns ranch at Kippling adioin-
ling Albert Eliott's place and farmed
the same during 1917 before being
lllO lue SclNlSC' LID
land brother have been looking after
the place since that time. The farm
Iowned by Lieut.. Taylor is known rs
the Fortress Place" and is fully
lequipped with stock and machinery.
1t is supposed that the place will have
to be sold to settle his estate in the
lnear future"
Sunday Mrs. Mia Lusk Simpson,
lwife of Andrew Simpson, super:ntend-
ent of the Ivanhoe mine, died at the
Imine. She was taken down with the
influenza which developed into pnen-
monia, which brought on premature
child birth, terminating fatally. The
deceased was born in the province OF
lQuebec September s. 1883, and was
iaged 81 years, months and l" days
at the time of death. 1t is understood
that she leaves four small children
es;des her husband, the balance OF
lthe family being afflicted with influ-
enza. The remains were brought to
Oroville by Undertaken Barnes and
the funeral took place from the under
taking parlors Wednesday afternoon
The deceased was an estimable lady.
and devoted wife and mother, and her
/ death is deeply deplored by all who
know the family.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-24
NEW TELEPHONE TOLLS

A new schedule of charges went
into effect on. the telephone system
Tuesday, in accordance with the an
nouncement made by the postmaster
general who has the regulating of
telephone tolls. Just what Is meant
by station to station" "person to
person" appointment" and "messen-
ger CALI rates is something that no
fellow can find out directly OF the bat.
interviewing the operators at the
local Office discovers that the young
ladies are very much at sea as yet.
as they have not been fully posted
and there are so many variety of
charges that it will require time to
fully master the new system. There
is a decided reduction in the night
service, If one wants to sit up all
night to carry on a conversation over
the wire, and the operators claim that
the service under the new regulations
will be much cheaper. 1t seems to be
for short distances on the line. but
how it is going to work out on long
distance is yet to be ascertained 1t
is a safe bet that there will be much
dissatisfaction until the new system
/ is thoroughly understood, and that
dissatisfaction may even be greater
after people are able to get the several
methods of charging through their
heads. 1t looks as though everything
that the government has a hand in
is in very much OF a muddle.
Katherine Grant has been :lu pa.
| tient this week, but the young lady
is now we'll on toward recovery.
Mrs. J. r. Erwin was one of the
most seriously afflicted influenza and
pneumonia patients in this neighbor.
hood. She was sick for several weeks
and at one time her life hung in the
balance. The lady is now able to be
up and around.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-24
CARD OF THANKS

Alfred g. Fox and wife wish to
convey their sincere thanks to the
many friends and neighbors in theiI
kindness and sympathy extended then
during the illness and death of theil
beloved one who passed away or
Monday, January 20. 1919
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The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-04-24
NEBRASKA MAN BUYS
NUEcES COUNTY FARM

81 nUI IIfH n INHI n UIIIHI-
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The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-04-24

A wonderful story SO
how The million Dollar
Kid of Broadway IS re
formed hy q wonderful.
Brady take advantage OF
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-02-19
STATE PRIZE WINNER
Zola Walker Captures Second
Prize in State Contest.

Elsewhere appears the story of
how Zola Walker won first county
prize, $500 in War Saving Stamps,
and a free trip to Charleston as
State prize. Her pig was secured
through the Bank of Edgefeld and
cost SALTS. The additional cost of
feed and attention to end of contest
was $47.09, making total cost of
sSS.S4. The value of the sow at end
of contest was $125.00 and of the
pigs on hand, $175.00,~ total value be-
ing $4,000. The total net profit was
$211.16, a nice little purse to come
from Duroc sow and litter of pigs,
Below is the official letter to our
County Agent announcing Miss Wal
ker's success.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-02-19
The Thirtieth Division.

All honor, all possible honor, to
the members of the gallant Thirtieth
Division. On every hand, without
question anywhere or by anybody,
they are accorded the honor and dis
tinction of having achieved one Of
the greatest victories of the war, to
wit: breaking the Hindenburg line. If
those now living who have seen with
their oan eyes and heard with their
own ears, accord these brave boys
this distinguished honor, surely fu-
ture histories who shall record their
deeds Of heroism on the printed page
will give them justice.
Major Edouard DUPONT of the
Freuc!: High Commission. q repre-
sentative of the French government
stationed at Washington, addressed
the House Of Representatives Mon
day night and one Of the series Of
eloquent climaxes of his eloquent ad-
dress was his reference to and praise
of the Thirtieth Division in its death
struggle to break through the hither-
to imDresnable line Of Hindenburg.
Had it not been shattered before, this
would have broken the morale of the
German army.
The irrepressible boys from North
Carolina, Tennessee and South Caro-
lima who compose the immortal
Th.rtieth Division during those days
and weeEs of ceaseless fighting wrote
then names high upon the scroll of
fame in flaming letters of gold.
Al! honor, ali possible honor, to
them!
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-02-19
Red Cross Interested in Percy
QUITS.
Mrs. Eva QUITS,
Edgefeld, s. c.
My Dear Mrs. QUITS:

Recently we received a communica-
ton from Congressman JAS. F. Byrnes
asking US to make another effort to 10
cate your son, Joseph Percy QUITS.
Inasmuch as we have no information
in our office as yet concerning the loca-
ton of your son, we have to day ca
bled our office in Paris asking them to
send US whatever information they can
about your son. We realize that you
have waited long time for some word
of your son, and we regret exceedingly
that this man is among the unfortunate
ones who have never been reported.
We want you to feel sure that the Red
Cross abroad is doing every thing with
in its power, and that Immediately as
soon as he was reported missing by the
Government the search was started for
him by the Red Cross in France, as it
was iu the case Of every other missing
man.
We feel sure that in the course of
three weeks, if our searchers are at all
able to find him, they will send US some
and at that times we will
telegraph you.
Very sincerely yours,
w. R. CASTLE, JR.,
Director.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-02-19
Albert R. Brunson Writes His
Mother From France.
January g. 1919.
Dear Mother:

Dear Mother:
received your letter and was so
glad to hear from you all, this being
the first time in five months. This
leaves me we'll and having happy
New Year. Glad to know that all are
we'll and ] wish all of the family a
happy New Year. Tell Grandma to
take care of herself. l am looking to
come home in short time. am just
as happy as a blossom in May, am
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-02-19
Bishopville, S. C.,
February IL, 1919.
Mr.. A. B. Carwile,
Edgefeld, S. C.

Mr.. A. B. Carwile,
Edgefeld, S. C.
Dear Mr.. Carwile:
This is to inform you that Zola Wal
ker, of. Edgefield, Route 2, has won
Second Prize in the Boys SAate Pig
Club contest for 1918, which entities
her to $500 in War Savings Stamps
offered by the National Loan G. Ex-
change Bank of Columbia, S. C. L
wish to congratulate you and also
this young champion of yours upon
her achievements.
The State Prize. Winners have been
invited to Charleston by the Charles
ton Chamber of Commerce to be
their guests at a dinner to be given
in the near future. They are also to
be guests of the Chamber of Com
merce while in the city, when we
hope to take them to all the points of
interest around the old historic city.
At the dinner the winners will be
presented with the prizes they have
won. We hope to have a little fund
to defray the boys expenses from
Columbia to Charleston and return.
Will let you know particulars later
on. l want you to hold yourself in
readiness to go down with US as one
of our guests at the dinner
With every good wish, remain
Yours very truly,
% L. L. BAKER,
Supervising Agent, Boys Club Work.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-02-19
Stolen Cars!

The police are constantly receiving
notices of stolen automobiles, At
1anta reports the theft Of Buick
no. 4a2S21, Ford no. 221Sao7, Chan
dler no. 5216O, Chandler no,469So,
Mitchell no. S2657, Ford no. 1179224
Ford no. OOoO14, Buick no. 299275.
Augusta reports theft of Chandler
no. 56G97. Charlotte reports loss of
Chalmers no. 1OO639,. Raleigh re-
ports theft of Dodge no. lolSoo.
Some we're stolen in Columbia also.
| can insure new cars against Fire,
THEFT and Lightning for $l.75 per
s1C090, one Year.
Phone No. SO.
E. J. Norris,
Edgefeld, S. C.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-02-19
Wbile Premier Clemenceau

While Premier Clemenceau is
president of the Peace Conference,
vet Woodrow Wilson is the dominat-
ing personality of that distinguished
body, and during his absence of a
month from Paris no cardinal doc
trines affecting the nations will be
"passed to third reading" They will
rather wait the return of Mr.. Wilson
to obtain his 80. K"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-02-19
Periodic Bilious Attacks.

Persons subject to periodic bilious
attacks will observe that their appe-
tite fails them just before an attack.
That is, =. really do not crave food
but ct Decause 1t is meal time. If
they will eat only a light meal and no
meat, then take two of Chamberlain's
Tablets the attack may be avoided.