The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-09-03

Reevie Frank made a business trim
to Okanogan Monday.
Dr. House returned home Saturday
evening from a trip to the coast.
contractors are pushing the finish
ing touches on the big garage of the
be ready for some time
this month.
Inc demand upon our columns for
advertising has been so great that the
Gazette is somewhat shy of the usual
amount OF reading matter, but that
VIII be corrected after the primary
election.
A son was born to the housebold
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Garnet Willis. of Kere
meos, at the Oroville General hospital
Sunday, August 20. AS the new arrival
was the first In the family, great 10y
prevails therein.
primary election a week from next
tuesday and everybody will be glad
when the flock of candidates have
been winnowed over and the lucky
ones chosen to make the run at the
November election.
A state convention of the LOYAL Le-
gion convened at Spokane this week,
opening Thursday and continuing
three days. Chas. McGinty, left We'd
nesday for Spokane to represent the
local post Of that organization.
Monday morning Rene, the six-year.
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jasper
Morris, died at the Oroville General
hospital of dysentery after an illness
of a week. The Gazette extends SYM
pathy to the stricken family in the
hour of their great bereavement.
One of the largest crowds ever seen
in any British Columbia town near
the border will collect at Osoyoos next
Monday. Labor Day, drawn to that
place bv the celebration that Is 70
take place on that date. Oroville will
contribute a very large contingent.
Mrs. H. M. Course, formerly a resi-
dent of Oroville and now living on the
coast, was a guest of Mrs. F. V. Covert
for several days during the past week.
years ago and she sees very marked
improvements in the town since her
departure.
Monday morning the poll of old
| Chopaka wore a crown of dazzling
| white and the higher peaks to the
westward were all covered with snow.
The 30th of August is early for the
first snow, even in the high lands, and
| we trust it is not the herbinger OF IN
| early winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Bender are in
town from their home at Cleveland,
| Ohio. Mr.. Bender is well known here.
/, He remodelled and equipped a stamp
mill at Nighthawk and spent a year in
Oroville while engaged in that UNDER
taking. He is here at the present time
to look after his property interests.
The county is flooded with candi-
| dates Logging for support at the pri-
mary election that takes place a week
from next Tuesday. There are manJ
likeable chaps up for office, some of
| whom we have known for years, and it
is a sincere regret that we are not en-
doWed with a sufficient number Of per-
sonalities to vote for all of them.
Commissioner Frank Mitchell re-
turned home Monday evening from
Everett where he attended the Good
| Roads convention. Okanogan county
was well represented in the cOnven-
ton and the delegates elected to with
draw from the east side Good Roads
district and join forces with the west
side district, from which more recog-
milton could be expected.
G. L. Armstrong left Sunday in his
car accompanied by his wife and Mrs.
Fritz Grathwohl headed for victoria,
B. c.. where Mrs. Grathwhohl and Mrs.
Armstrong will visit for a few weeks
with relatives, Mr.. Armstrong expect
" l. 1onIx hy 0ofrrdoU (hQo
Powell, Sr., made the trip with the
Armstrong party as far as Wenatchee
returning home Monday evening.
Attention is called to the weed
nuisance that is littering the town and
is not only an eye-sOre but which may
prove a ena to property as a means
| of spreading fires when the growth
, becomes dry. Some measure shout be
| taken for cutting down and destroying
| weeds about town. No section Is free
/ from the unsightly growth, although
! there are more of them in some quar-
| tiers than in others.
I ! C. Cloud has sold his five acre
| ire ct in East Oroville to CLIFFORD
| Heath. the consideration being $1,000.
| My Cloud purchased the place last
wear but owing to poor health he
| Tonnd even five acres a little more
| than he could conveniently care fer.
I Mr.. Cloud reports that Mr.. Heath Is a
valuable addition to the population
and as Mr.. Cloud expects to remain In
Oroville the town will still retain an
other valuable citizen.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. j. Cummings drove
nm from Riverside Monday. Mrs. Cum
rninos is becoming an expert at the
wheel. as she put that car over the
road in a trifle better than an hour
mat is a pretty considerable OF a
tr;fle. The lady is also a fluent talker
long political lines and with a little