The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-12-31

""'ihs up at Princeton b. G oil fou
mas oeen in town for a week holding
uaiiy seances with DR.. Masters bav.
ing some of his molers doctored Tho,
nave been kicking his Jaw almost off
one would not suppose it had been
coid enough to form ice of any thick.
ness yet We are informed thai tho
JACK water in the Similkameen above
Tue dam is frozen hard enough for a
person to cross the river on the ice
The last whist party of the series
gwen by the young ladies of the Cath
oiic church will take place at the Civ
&c League building next Thursday
night, January Z. On that occasion the
prizes won during the series will be
| awarded.
Dr Elmer reports the arrival of a,
| new boy to the household of Mr.. and
Mrs.John Swanson. The new heir n
the house of Swanson let his presence
De known Wednesday of last week
and was reported trifle too late TO,
last weeks issue.
sam A. Johanson who is working in
the mines at Burke, Idaho, is home
FOR the Christmas holidays. Mr.. Johan.
son is an experienced miner and ex.
poets to get shift on a machine drill
when mining operations are resumed
in this locality in the spring
Word has been received that Geo. j
Hurley of Loomis, who has been quite
Ill for some weeks, is a very sick man
at the present time. Those who know
the old timer, and they are multitude
earnestly trust that change for the
better will speedily take place.
There is still talk of drilling for ci
in this locality, where indications en-.
courage hopes of results from deeI
sinking. Nothing definite has devpl
oped from the rumors. Should sutl
a fortunate thing as the discovery ~
oil take place in the valley 1t woul,
be boom with whoop for this mans
town.
Clair Hanson, who has been holding
a position with a large firm in Col.
vile for the past two or three years
spent Christmas with his mother, Mrs
J. NJ Norris, Sr, and his brother, Gail
Hanson, connected with the Standard
Oil company. He returned to Colville
Tuesday.
Mrs. VIM Nagel, who has been stay
ing with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T.
C. Hume, for several months, left for
Tacoma Monday morning, where she
will assist her sister, Miss June Hume
in lining up a swell stock of millinery
for the spring and summer trade in
Oroville.
The masquerade dance last Friday
night at the Liberty theater was well
attended and there was a motley ar
ray of costumes. Those who partici-
pated remark that it was one of the
best conducted and most enjoyable
dances of the kind they have ever at
tended in OrOville.
c.. J. Casad was down town taking
the air Tuesday, but he does not look
nor act as though he could toss a bull
by the horns. Mr.. Casad is slowly re-
covering from an operation for appen-
dicitis that he underwent about
month or six weeks ago. He had
close call and he is gaining strength
very slowly.
T. A. Brown of Osoyoos, was IN
town Friday last. 1t was only re"
weeks ago that Mr.. Brown left for
Winnipeg, and it was expected that ne
would be absent until spring, al
though he did state that if the wealth
or became too cold he would head
hack for the west. The cold wave
must have struck Winnipeg.
One gentleman we have met VINO
hos hut thirteen hens informs us that
he has had all the eggs and chlckehs
coded in his family during the past
year besides selling eggs and chlcKehs
to the amount of STA. true MS Ieeu
has cost him about what he has taken
in in cash. but he has escaped tne TAX
for eegs and fried chicken, and that
is some tax at the prevailing price OF
eggs.
From the fact that building mater
ia1 has taken a heavy slump during
tho mast few weeks, with the prospect
If the same reaching pre-war prices
1v spring, next summer should see a
ivelv building boom in Oroville. more
houses are needed to accommodate
hose looking for homes, and there
will be more people coming here look
ng for homes during the coming year
The small boy with his team mate
Tho small girl, has been out VITA ms
,.rd sleds this week trailing Dehlnu
,utos or any vehicle to which sled
,ould he hitched. To see the merry
youngsters taking advantage OF the
.other uncommon opportunity OF
,oa cling and shedding in the valley
,oakes MS older birds sigh with regret
hat tbe days of our youth that nave
led.
While digging a cess pool IN the
.ear of Covert's new brick ouiiolhs
o. KiIl;en cut a strata of clay that
9 without a particle of grit, and oy
,yneriment upon furnished metal IN