The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-03-26


Clay Fruit, of Tonasket, was Wis
itor in town Friday last, bringing Maj.
Anderson to this place in his car. 1t is
the first time that Mr.. Fruit had breez-
ed this far north for many months.
His robust appearance would give the
lie to the reports that have occasional
ly reached this office that he was not
in the best of health and We trust that
his appearance does not belle his real
physical condition.
Last Friday evening quite a delega-
ton from the Oroville Masonic lodge
drove down to Tonasket to visit the
lodge at that place. One of the attrac
tions that drew the followers of the
mystic square and compass to the
southward was the putting on of the
third degree by the Tonasket goat
riders, and those who were present de-
clared it to have been the most impress
sive ceremony of the kind they had
ever witnessed. A late and elegant
super did not detract from the pleas
ure of the visit.
j. B. Patton was in town from Fair
view Friday last and reported that all
his family had had the flu very Sc
verely. The disease went particularly
hard with Mrs. Patton and left that
lady in condition bordering upon
a nervous wreck. However she is now
very much improved and steadily gain
ing her normal health.
While potatoes ale not quite worth
their weight in gold on the local mar
ket the price which they command GER.
Jainly makes a nick in the bank ac-'
count when a householder has the
nerve to buy any quantity. Local deal
ers have been drawing their supply
from Wenatchee, as there does not
seem to be any stock among the far
mers and, this week it cost Z 1-2 cents
a pound to put potatoes on the retail
market. That is at the rate of $3.50 a
ton, and that is about as high as the
spud ever reached in the early and
glory days of Dawson. Potatoes have
been out of the menu of this mans
family, as it would be about as cheap
to dine off humming birds.
Gasoline has jumped two cents a
gallon, but we have not noticed that
there is any appreciable change in the
amount of auto travel since the boost
of price, and probably there would not
be if the price jumped a dollar or more
a gallon. 1t is not the high price of
our pleasure that we kick about The
inconsistency of man is conspicuous
when spending money like drunken
prospector for what the human animal
calls fun, and then roaring his head Off
when his wife asks for few dollars
for the baby's shoes, or happens to
buy some glad raiment at prevailing
prices. There is no profiteering when
you are buying joy, it is the high price
of the common necessities of existence
that makes one shout bloody murder.
c. J. Grunland and Jas. Stack, old
and worthy residents of ElIemeham
mountain, made medicine before Judge
Murray for day and a half the latter
part of last week over little diff
Guilty in which they had become ming
led. 1t appears that these two neigh
bors had locked horns over a question
of driving stock over certain lands,
and while the evidence did not show
any actual assault had been made, the
words passed were almost as severe
as blows, and Mr. Stack decided that
Mr.. Grunland ought to get a jolt from
the law for the part he had taken in
the animated conversation. After hear
ing the evidence the judge decided,
that no harm had been done and the
defendant was declared not guilty. The
court session attracted considerable
attention as the parties to the contro-
versy are well known and there was
quite flock of witnesses.
DR.. Paul West of Riverside, county
health officer, was in town Saturday
called here by complaints relative to
the garbage dumping grounds n short
distance south of the Similkameen
bridge. The doctor could find no fault
with the selection of this spot as
dumpage, as there is no other avail
able place within easy reach of town,
and the gulch on the bank of the river
now utilized can be used without en-
dangering health if the rubbish is
pushed over the bank and occasionally
burned. We may state in connection
with his visit that Dr. West contem-
plated moving to and making his new
home at Okanogan after the first of
next month. The doctor is most
| pleasant gentleman personally ard a
physician of rare ability. He will soon
build up a good practice at Okenogan
and he certainly will make a valuable
addition to that community.