The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-10-03
- Travelled ARTIST.

prowne, an itinerant sign
!. len decorating the bust.
IN Oroyille for the past
-. weeks. The word "itin-
!. r'.s s,sd with all due respect to
-sor he is a skilled artist
4. ,,s,h with few superiors-
,.adily be understood that
'',',s sign writer has a limited
'ssxradon. After the, the business ,ssnD -
~ town are worked there is
y, : demand for signs for sew
- = perhaps, and hence the
4. makes a specially of fine
= s,s is compelled to move
'', '',s % place in order to find
Y prowns never fails to find
4. "A his work draws business.
Z. sr,erinations he has travelled
= ~ United States. even ex-
!. N axcursions to Cuba and as
a I, Honduras. Mr.. Browne is
=, M, but he does not leave
ON behind when he goes root
- the country brushing up
.I.,,,hIe dollar. He loads them
I, i,ttod for travel and supplied
st0ls 70 that he can go into
.yvhsrs night overtakes him.
rpey-like mode Of living, but
A. ~ members of the family
,,d certainly it gives them
s.tmlty to see the world close
" IL screen. Just now he has
hne It Chelan, where he will
d IL winter. and when the birds
4 i nm the south he will bundle
\ lils out from the north in
Y ( IL ready kile.
.. niurally, the life he leads is
| l a1fes, both cash and human
A u when one falls into con-
~ 1ith Mr., Browne. and hears
'srs q his experience, it is ex-
~ aiffIcult to break away.
n. Drowne Is not only intelligent
|my Observing, but he is also an
IN nd entertaining raconteur
Il y epes down the line telling
= ~ humorous stories of his
80 one ID struck with the fact
II ~ much more out Of his
kt1ne life than mere susten-
|1t 1 margin. II those expert
~ be put into a book the
you'd make most interest
-
ovne was in Oroville some
m 20 and since that time he
~ 1 wide swing around the
j gnting much time in the far
m and educated as he was
! ~ since he has grown to
a6d broadened mis- vision
~ - has lost much Of his
~ country south of the Ma
ll1oa line. While he was there
~ brought starvation to the
( northern Texas, and they
/ 10 time Of his visit in a de-
: coadiuon. In New Orleans he
BE going rocky. He declares
noot Of the south there are
= classes, the very rich and the
b poor. and the poor people
Ior(h have no conception Of
|tle the poverty stricken of the
i've to live with an on, how
W little they find necessary
J body and soul together. OF
nance Of the country people,
Vt and graft Of New Orleans,
Inmorality and four flushing
aemsnt that pretende to be
q communities, he tells in
l4se language. He says that
T u the lost cause still fingers
nd and though he was in the
tes for months he never heard
Y Spangled Banner" sang or
lntl he got back into Kansas.
tement he made to the writer
med within only a few days
conversation. He spent some
Galveston and along the gulf
! He said that the once glory
0ston as a thriving business
ping point had departed, and
y people had left the city for
y the disastrous high tide of
'afs ago. He declared that the
q break water or dyke, that
cted at a cost of millions Of
nd which it was announced
'Fevent any repetition Of the
that cost the city so much in
property, was inadequate for
poses for which it was con-
and 1t was on account of that