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The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-27
OPTIMISM VS.. COLD FACTS.

A correspondent takes us to task In
this issue for stating that the prospect
for bigh priced apples next fall were
not very flatterng at this time. Our
statement was an innocent repetition
of what has been said by people largely
intere sted in apple growing and with
not t. remotest intention Of discour-
sense and experience Of the past has
taught us that the price of apples from
year to year is no more stable than any
other article that enters into consump-
tiOn. There are many contingencies
that affects the selling price Of this
king of fruits. and surely the memory
of our correspondent is not so short
but what he can recollect when apples
were far cheaper than they were last
year. In fact he can remember few
years when apples commanded such
high price as they did last fall. 1t
Is no secret that about every cash
buyer who entered the market last
year suffered very heavy loss and
Is today broken or on the ragged edge
of financial ruin. Other men are not
going to chance their means in this
kind of gambling after the experience
of last year. There can be cooperative
selling and consignments to fruit deal
ers in the larger cities, but any one
experienced in selling through the con
signment system readily understands
that they are the ones who are left to
hold the sack. 1t is pleasure to know
that there is a man who is willing to
risk ten thousand dollars in an apple
investment on the basis of last years
prices, but $4,000 would look like
nickel in a million dollar stack as COM
pared with the amount of money that
is necessary to handle the crop of the
Okanogan valley, if the harvest next
year Is only half as large as that of
last year. Sophestry, guessing or antic-
ipation will not take the place of cold
facts, and no matter how unpleasant
the fact may be it hardly stands to
reason after the experience of buyers
last year it must be blindly optimis-
tic individual who can expect that buy
ers will be falling over each other
next summer contracting apples at the
same price they commanded last fall.
We hope they may. but with the evil
dence before us We are very much In
the doubtful class.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-27
THE PESTS.


Paper written in tuberculosis con-
test by Gilbert Schlief, of the Oroville
grammar school and submitted for
publication by the county tuberculosis
nurse, Miss Sumner:
Sir Don Sanitation was riding along
a road when he met an old woman
weeping. He asked what the matter
was. She said: "The giant Typhoid
Fever has taken my son." Don Sani-
tatiOn mounted his horse and rode to
the swamp and slew him.
Sir Don Sanitation and Sir Inocula-
ton were riding along until they came
to another swamp. They entered and
saw the giant Yellow Fever and his
servants, the mosquitoes eating their
victims! They sprang upon him and
slew him and also the mosquitoes.
The good knight Sir Don Vaccina-
ton killed the Smallpox.
And now our hero Sanitation Is
fighting the dragon tuberculosis. He
is hard pressed and needs your help.
Now please help the knight Sanitation
slay the dragon Tuberculosis.-Oka
hogan Independent.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-27
CANN ERY IN SIGHT.

F. w. Fraser. the man who placed the
first cannery in British Columbia. met
with the Commercial Club recently to
consider a proposition to put in can
merry at Orovlle, and met with such en-
couragement that we feel safe in saying
that at last this long felt want Is to he
provided. Mr.. Fraser and the members of
the club came to an amicabe understand
ing, and the club will give every assist
ance in it's power to forward the move
ment. The question will be finally settled
by the 18th of March. and Fred Clark is
so certain that the cannery will be fact
that he has commenced planting tomato
seed to raise plants in anticipation of a
large demand for that vegetable. Mr..
Fraser was called to Winnipeg on busi-
ness, but promised to return and settle
all details by the 18th of March. In addi-
tion to the cannery there is a bright pros
pect of Oroville securing an evaporating
plant. committee of the Commercial
Club left for Wenatchee Friday morning
for the purpose of comforting with the
managers of the evaporating plant at
that place and interest them in putting
in similar plant at this place. Things
are maturing that promise to be of great
advantage to the land owners of this part
of the valley, more definite particulars
of which will be known in a very few
days.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-27
tricts SO, GA, 21, 40 6S. "A.

tricts SO, Ga, 21, 40 6S, a.
Fl. A. Grenz, Chesaw School Dis
tricts 1O4, rs, 4S, 46
o. w. Gown, Okanogan, School Dis
tricts 105, 3-19
P. H. Pinkston, Conconully, School
Districts 2, 8, Al.
Ralph B. Kennison, Winthrop,
School District 103.
Wyn w. Gavin, Synarep, School Dis
lricts 5S, SO 5, IS, 30, LOG.
J. d. Wemmer Omak, School Dis
trict 10.
G. w. Myers, Nespelem. School Dis
trict IA.
T. c. Hunter, La Fluer. School Dis
,ricts SO, 3-13.
NJ F. Woods. West Tonasket. School
Districts 1-10O, 55, II. SO.
Chas. F. Brown, Malott, School Dis
tricts 2-13, so. 27, A, %.
c. ]. Ridge, Twisp School Districts
"a, 40, II.
J.. l.. Potter Brewster, School Dis
'~icts 26. 66, 8, 10, AZ So.
Frank Cooper, Pateros, S,'.oo, Dis
tricts 102. 81. SS, 2S.
r. f. Hopkins. Loomis, School Dis
tricts /, Is. 80, 25 72.
No applications. Oroville School Dis
tricts II, %, SO.
w. J. UT Riverside. School Districts
SO, 12. 65, AZ, 32
g. G. Boon, Wauconda, School Dis
tricts 101, As. 60.
Marion Rose, Methow, School Dis
tricts 81, 20 67. Z.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-27
j. A. SPENCER.
SCHOOL NOTES.

Mrs. Vincent seventh grade teacher,
is absent from school this week being i'll
with the flu. During her absence Anna
Hobbs, senior, has charge of her work.
On Friday of this week the o. H. s.,
basket ball team will go to Okanogan for
a return game While we lost last Satur-
day night we should not be discouraged
for If our boys could have kept the pace
they set during the first half the game
would surely have been ours. 1t is planned
to make the trip in cars and it will be
impossible for many rooters to go with
the team, but we can at least start them
of encouragement The line up will be as
follows: Bob Killain l.. F.: Byrd Jones,
(Cap) r. F.; Lloyd Grant. c John Kill
ian, r. G.; Gordon Jackson, l.. c.; Ken
meth Reed and Sidney Jackson, subs.
Last Saturday night the Okanogan bas-
ket ball team met the Oroville boys on
the local floor with Beverly Powell as ref
cree. When the whistle blew Gordon
Jackson. playing center, got the first tip
off sending the ball to Jones who seldom
misses a basket. and made first score At
the end of the first half We were in the
lead with a score of to 4. But during the
second half our bunch seemed to have a
change and only one point was scored,
this honor falling to Bob Killian. Our
team was somewhat handicapped as Lloyd
Grant, center, was out of the game. The
final score was 16 to 10 in favor of Okla
nogan
The gate receipts We're rather slim as
the intake was $1S.25 and guarantee of
$4,000 had been made to the Okanogan
team This is certainly not very encourag
ing from a financial standpoint and it
looks very much as though we We're 60
ing down hill with the throttle wide open
and all brakes off. While we realize that
Saturday night is not the hest time for q
ball game we certainly do need a little
better financial support.
Immediately following the game last
Friday night the Okanocan visitors were
guests at a High School party given in
the Civic League building The evening
was spent in dancing until eleven O'Clock
when refreshments were served.
Spencer Lewis, freshman. VINO has been
absent from school for the past month
because of the flu returned on Wednes-
day.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-27
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

Minutes of the regular meeting of
the town council, February 16, 1920.
Present Mayor Beale, Councilmen
Hart, Covert, Samson and Frank Min
utes of previous meeting read and ap-
proved as corrected. Motion was made
and carried that the street commits
sioner be instructed to notify Mr.. De-
Won to have an iron door placed in
cellerway on south side of New Oio-
vile Hotel:
Motion made that men be employed
to rake the loose rock off of Central
avenue and Bridge streets and that the
grader be put to work on such streets
as need it.
Councilman Samson advised the
council that he had received an offer
for certain portions of land adjoining
Shady Park and after some discussion
as to the deed to Shady Park the pur-
che Sc of this land was authorized, pro-
viding the deed to the town for Shady
Park is located.
On motion council adjourned.
e. R. HOOSE, Clerk.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-27
5. C. MITcHELL's STORAGE CLAIM.

To the unknown owner of the following
described property:
One Herring, Hall Marvin Safe Co.'S,
safe, No. 54150, size, width, eft. Az, height
2ft 10 in, and depth 2ft. 6 in.
Now, the owners or owner of the above
described property are hereby notified
that the said property will be sold by the
undersigned S. C. Mitchell at his ware
house, commonly known as the warehouse
OF the ). G. Mitchell Company, in the
town of Oroville, Okanogan county, Wash.
on Monday the Sth day of March, 1920, at
10 o'clock a. m. the above described prop
erty Will be sold to the highest bidder for
cash for the amount necessary to pay
storage charges and costs of sale
Dated, February 25th. 1920.
S. G. MITCHELL,
Warehouseman.
First publication February u. 1920.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-27
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

Sunday school every Sunday at IL.
Moral and religious training is the
basis for character. Is your child re-
ceiving regular religious instruction
Our school extends a cordial invito-
ton to all.
Next Sunday services will be held
on Sunday morning, March 7th.
Trinity Guild will meet at the home
of Mrs. R. A. Jackson on next We'd
nesday afternoon, March 3rd. All men,
bers are urged to be present
G. H. SEVERANCE, Dean.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-27
(O14691)
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Department of the Interior. U. S. Land
Office at Waterville, Washington, January
81. 1920
Notice is hereby given that Ole johnson
of .Oroville, Washington who on March
2lst 1916, made additional Homestead
entry, Serial No. 014691 for WkSEA, NE
ASEA, Section IS. and NWA ANEH Sec
10, Town 40 North Range 26 e. w. NJ
has filed notice Of intention to make 8
year proof, to establish claim to the land
above described. before John R. Fraser,
United States Commissioner, at Oroville,
Washington, on the goth day of March,
1920
Claimant names as witnesses: Daniel
w Riley, stephen Kanocy. William NJ
Johnson and Paul Baker, all of Oroville.
Washington.
BEN SPEAR, Register.
First publication Feb. 13, 1920.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-27
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Washington, for the County of Okla
nog
In the matter of the estate of Katie f.
Hershberger, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Nc. D..
Herschberger has been appointed admin
istrator of the estate of Katie E. Hersh-
berger. deceased and that all persons hav-
ing claims against said estate must file
same, duly verified with Grant and Will
Jams, attorneys for said estate, at their
office at Oroville, Washington within
one year from the date of the first pub
lication of this notice or same will be for
ever barred.
NC. DONOUGH HERsHBERGER.
Administrator.
Grant & Williams, attorneys for said
estate
First publication February 20. 1919.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-27
w. F. RAMSEY.

The flu situation has so improved that
been reported during the week. and all
those who have been afflicted are well
on toward recovery
Mrs. NJ NJ Collins returned home last
week after three months visit with her
son, B. M. Wills and wife, of Seattle. Mrs.
Collins while there took treatment from
one of the best chiropractors in Seattle:
has received great benefit from them.
She had never entirely recovered from the
accident received three years ago.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-27

Mrs. Beverly Powell left for Spokane
and Idaho Monday to visit with relative
for several weeks.
Mrs. f. r. Hoose is confined at the hos
ptal and is in very critical condition,
although her physician holds out hope of
ultimate recovery. A slight operation was
performed this week by DIR. Lewis in the
hopes of relief to the patient. Mrs. Hoose
is suffering from a complication of all
ments and is very weak
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-27
NOTICE OF ANNUAL SCHOOL ELEc.
TION.

Notice is hereby given that the annual
election of School District No. II of Okla
hogan county, Washington, will be held
at High School Building in said School
District on Saturday. Sixth day of March
1870, for the purpose of electing one
school district director for a term of three
years, and for the transaction of such
other business as may lawfully come be-
fore the meeting. rhe polls will be open
from one O'Clock p. M, to five o'clock
p. m. BY order of the Board of Directors.
Dated this 10th day of February, 1920.
MARY c BROWN,
School District Clerk
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-27
CALL FOR BIDS.

Binds will be received at the office Of
the town clerk of Oroville, Washington, on
or before the Sth day of March 1920, for
the grading, parking and laying of a five
foot cement sidewalk according to the
following engineers estimate
Excavation 80 cubic yards; embankment
172 cubic yards cement sidewalks 1917
cubic yards; concrete crosswalks 172 lin.
feet. Specifications will be furnished by
town clerk on deposit of $1.00 All bids
must be accompanied by 5 per cent de-
posit The town council reserves the right
to reject any and all bids. Bids will be
opened at S:45 p. m, March Sth, 1920.
e. II. HOOSE, Town Clerk.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-27
CARD OF THANKS.

We. the members of the o Fl. s.. wish
to thank the Commercial Club for the re-
freshments they so kindly donated for the
High School party. Saturday night.
VICTOR e. FINNILA,
Pres. Student Body.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-27
LADIES AID.

The Ladies Aid of the Methodist church
will hold a business meeting at Mrs E. A.
Hollinger's Thursday afternoon, March
4th. Ladies' please bring darning needles.
thimbes and scissors.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-27
NOTICE..

There will be Farmers Telephone
Line meeting Saturday, February 2S. at
one o'clock at the city hall. ALI those
else interested, are requested to be pres
ent. Important business to be transacted.
w. II. HOI.LANTS.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-27
TEACHERS EXAMINATION.

A teachers examination will be held in
Okanogan, March 4th. 9Th and 9th.
w. BRINKERHOFF.
County Supt
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-27

Durwood Smith was visiting with
friends at Colville for two or three
days during the past week.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-27

Asst OF 0M
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ition, four
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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-02-19

grant him the right to an opinion.
don't reason with him-just call him
bolshevik. The word has become an
epithet, a popular invective. slur. an
insult, an outlet for contempt. con-
tumely and hate. Its parenthood In
fiuences our definition of 1t. Most OF
us see the Russians with the eyes OF
the caricaturists. who for so many
years have portrayed the Russian as
the moujik with high boots. disheveled
hair, wild whlskers, the face Of an as
sassin, the body of terrorist in ac-
tion, the suggestion of long dagger
smeared with hot blood. under his
greatcoat.
II n doctor. making an examination
of all OF the patients in n hospital,
discovered they all had certain symp-
toms in common, such rs temperature.
weakness and pain, and because OF
these findings should diagnose the
sickness of all OF the patients as pneu-
monia, the doctor would be regarded
lunatic, yet there are men in the
world today who are as foolish MS such
a doctor would be. They call every
symptom of unrest, without regard to
its history, bOlshevism.
copyright. 1890. Western Newspaper Union)
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-02-19
Duty Before the World.

Millions Of gallant young men have
fought for the new world. Hundreds
of thousands died to establish 1t. If
we fail to honor the promise given to
them we dishonor ourselves. What
does new world mean? What was
the old world like? 1t was a world
where toll for myriads of honest work
ers, men and women, purchased moth
ing better than squalOr, penury, anx-
iety and wretchedness "A world
SCARED by slums and disgraced by
sweating, where unemployment through
the vicissitudes of industry brought
despair to multitudes of humble
homes; world where, side by side
with want, there was waste Of the in
exhaustibIe riches of the earth, partly
through ignorance and want of fore
thought. partly through entrenched
selfishness. If we renew the lease of
that world we shall betray the heroic
dead. We shall he guilty of the basest
perfidy that ever blackened peoples
fame.-Davld Lloyd George.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-02-19
RoumanIa's Oil Wells.

Many OF the Roumanian oil wells
are not in working order, which Is
chiefly due to the military measures
taken by the allies Mt the time of the
German advance in Roumania. Al
though Gen. Falkenhayn's experts de
voted particular attention to the re-
construction OF the dismantled wells.
their work was crowned with limited
success, and 1t will take n long period
of systematic work to raise the Rou-
manian oil fields again to their pre-
wnr importance. The Roumanian gov
ernment is reported to have lately
concluded convention with the Aus
trian government whereby they are to
supply the Austrians with petroleum
and other material of primary neces-
sity in exchange for Industrial prod
ucts.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-02-19
Thoughtful Youth

You're in q bad way, my FRIEND
announced the doctor to the young
Irish lad in the hospital. would you
like to see the priest?''
Did ye say have scarlet fever?"
a ked the boy.
"You have, and serious case
."Then send in rabbi. Do We think
I want to give the fever to priest?"
The American Legion Weekly.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-02-19

conclusion that to learn what bol-
shevism Is l might with wisdom adopt
! the scientific method used by the doc
tor OF medicine In arriving at d.
agnosis. The doctor examines and
gathers the symptoms, the meaning of
the disease. He then determines what
diseases might produce these symp-
toms. By a process of elimination he
discards one possibility after another
until at last there is but one disease
left. one thing that the symptoms can
mean.
discovered at the outset that most
of US have the habit of using terms
loosely. Seldom do we give time or
thought to the exact, real meaning Of
things. The meaning of bolshevism is
too important to the world not to try
to understand 1t. There is n differ
ence between having the acquaintance
Of word and knowing; the former is
n mere Introduction. the latter an In
timacy.
Since the war, when the fastidious
diner wearily orders his consomme
and the waiter brings 1t bit tardily
or cold. he thinks to himself. or II
courageous enough to speak his mind.
he calls the cook bolshevik. He has
found a word to express his Irritation.
1t serves his profane feelings and at
the same time saves his snug respect
ability.
See BoIshevism Everywhere.
Once the maid asking for an af-
ternOon OFF provoked a knowing smile.
Her mistress granted the request,
charged it up TO n possible romance
and generally suspected the policeman
on the beat. Since the war 1t is diner-
ent. The maid is looked upon with
suspicion. Her motives are questioned.
The request is considered symptom
Of the new terrible disease, bOlshevism.
The mistress thinks to herself: The
maid doesn't want to work any more;
she is down with the epidemic.
The Office boy, working the reliable
excuse that his grandmother has died
again, to get an afternoon of to go
to the ball game, is trying to shirk
work, in the opinion of his employer,
who formerly, when such an appli-
cation was made from the same source,
chuckled as he granted 1t. while his
memory took him back to his own boy
hood days when he used the grand
mother yarn to answer the call of the
ball field.
Many captains of industry see the
symptoms of the new dread in every
movement and thought of the workers.
The demand for living conditions and
decent wages are grudgingly received
by minds soured with the thought that
it is bo'shevism.
The hirers of child labor, looking
hatefully at legislation designed to end
child slavery. call the leaders of child
life conservation bOlshevists. When
doctors and public-spirited men and
women insist that an irreparable in
iury is being done the nation in al
lowing women to work for period in
excess of the hours they are able to
work without menacing their mother
hood, the profiteers from woman labor
cry out: "You are invading the right
of private contract; your are mad with
bolshevism."
Every Sort Of Definition.
The wag with the wit of barber
defined boishevism as wild idea sur
rounded by whiskers. The saloen-
keeper, bowled over by prohibition,
screams "bolshevism." The anti-sa-
loon leaders come back with the an
swer, "Your personal liberty cry is
only a camoufiage for bolshevism."
If anyone disagrees with you. don't
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-02-19

Have Evidence Against Germans.
Evidence of German crimes is fur
nished by NJ. Delannoy, librarian OF
Louvain: Henri Davignon. secretary
of the Belgian commission of inquiry;
Paul Lambotte. director of the art gal
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-02-19
eold.n phsa..nt Fesil,ers.

A considerable source of profit ex-
lists in the feathers Of the golden
pheasant, which are used in salmon
fishing. These birds, which are ma
tives of China, are the hardest of the
pheasant tribe, and are not at all
troublesome to rear in this country.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-02-19

leries of Belgium. and NJ. Lamy, sec
retary of the French academy. The
latter, it was said, has made most
telling Indictment Of those who were
responsible for acts Of savagery.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1920-08-26

oiSHCu az clSHl U ClOCh lUlS morning
at Mr.. Colby's home when the certi-
ficate from Governor Roberts that
the Tennessee Legislature had ratified
the amendment was received. Secre-
tary Colby announced his action on
his arrival at his office later.
The announcement disappointed a
group of suffrage workers from head
quarters who had gathered at the
state department hoping to be pre-
sent when Mr. Colby attached his
signature to the document. Miss
Alice Paul, chairman of the party,
was among the number.
1--WE are confident that the sigma
ture of Secretary Colby completes the
suffrage struggle in this country"
she said. "In spite of every obstacle
that our opponents could put in our
way women have won the right to an
equal voice in the affairs of this gov
ernment. The Women's Party will
not relax it's vigilance, however, until
it is satisfied that no further attempt
will be made to wrest from the wo-
men, of the United States the political
equality which they have Won"
Miss Paul planned to go today to
New York to call meeting of the
executive committee of the party at