The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-07-25

Geo. o. Potter, stepson OF w II
Phiipot, arrived in town last week on
a snort visit to bis mother having ms.
oeen discharged from the army He
was member of the 9th Coast Arti,l-
cry. He did not get across seas. His
regiment was at the port of emtsr h A.
tion ready to sail when the news of
the armistice was received.
Eugene Enloe. head and front Of the
Okanogan Valley Power company. mo-
tored over from Spokane Sunday in
MS Dig Wilton Six, and spent a day
OF TWO looking over the big work un-
der way at the falls of the Similka-
iheeh. which is eventually to develop
INTO great dam that will give the
company water power sufficient to
grgind out electric energy to meet
and supply every demand.
John W. Sawyer. of Davenport, who
recently purchased the Granger place,
south of town, has taken charge of
that valuable piece of property, which
Will be farmed by one of his sons.
Years have made very little change in
Mr.. Sawyer and he looked hardly a
day older than when We knew him at
Davenport, and that is some time ago.
Mr.. Sawyer reports that the drouth
has greatly damaged the crops in Lin
coin county and the grain yield this
year will be very light. as it has been
for the i'm ST two yanrs
John w. Sawyer shipped two car
loads of stock and machinery from
Davenport to Oroville for use on the
ranch that he purchased from H. H.
Granger. The goods were in charge of
Billy Brink, and when the cars reach
ed their destination Brink was among
the missing. Mr.. Sawyer got busy on
the telephone and learned that Brink
was in a hospital at Wenatchee nurs-
ing broken leg. 1t appears that a
sudden jolt of the cars threw the
horses and Mr.. Brink into an inextric.
able mix up and when the mass was
untangled Brink was found to be suf-
fering from broken leg. Mr.. Brink
is not wholly a stranger here as he
had charge of the barn and stock for
Mr.. Granger at the time the latter was
hauling material for the Grub hotel.
Scion l.. Sain stopped over in Oro-
vile last Friday night on his way to
Loomis to visit with his sister, Mrs.
II. p. Decent Mr.. Sain is just back
from France where he served in the
10th Engineers. At one time Mr.. Sain
was a resident of Loomis, a cracking
good ball player and an all around
good fellow. OF late years he has lived
on the coast He went into the service
in 1917 and was assigned to the En-
gineers, where he saw IN 1ch service.
fer the engineers constitute a branch
of the service in which the duties
range all the way from road building
to fighting. The regiment to which he
was attached covered much of France
during the time it was over seas. Mr..
Sain did not show up at the Gazette
office, much to our disappointment
FOR we would have been pleased to
have welcomed him back to his old
stamping ground.
w. H. Barney is the kind of man
needed under the irrigation system. A
flock of men like Barney would soon
have every available acre under the
system under cultivation and produce
ing. Mr.. Barney's postoffice address
has been Chesaw, and ne lives near
Wauconda Recently he purchased
from the Twisp bank twenty eight
acres of land fronting on the west side
of Osoyoos lake. Mr. Barney did not
rest with the possession of the land to
profit by the natural increment the re-
suit Of 1leighborhood improvements.
Within week he had the posts and
wire on the ground and was ready to
fence the land. In addition to enclos
ing the property preparatory to break
ing out and seeding he had put himself
up a house, not a mansion, of course,
but domicile that he can occupy I'M
til he can put himself up a better
house later. He wanted a place in
which he could hole up while improv-
ing his land, and the building he
erected answers the purpose for the
present Mr.. Barney is going to make
that land valuable, and that is what
any body with the same vim and get
up-and-get can do under the West
Okanogan Valley project.