The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-01-23

Barney Hughes. of Vancouver B. c.,
brother of Mrs. Quincy and a cousin
of DR.. D. H. Lewis, has been visitor
in town for several days during the
past week. A very pleasant gentleman
to meet is Mr.. Hughes, and he GER
tainly made a ten strike at the sold
ier's reception with his inimitable
singing stunt that brought down the
house.
The town council is considering the
ACCESSIBILITY Of providing free park
ing place within the town for auto
tourists. The idea is a good one that
has been acted upon by most of the
incorporated towns in the state. An
enormous auto travel passes through
Oroville every summer and it would
be a convenience to strangers to have
a handy place where they could park
their cars off the street.
b. A. Thayer of the Thayer Motor
company, Okanogan, spent Tuesday
night in Orovilie. Mr.. Thayer is hand
ling the Dodge car and line of trucks
for this county and is doing a remark
able good business, thanks TO the big
apple crop and ruling prices for that
fruit. Personally Mr.. Thayer is
bright, hustling young man and the
success that he has met with is large
ly due to that personality.
The Tonasket Gun Club, or a large
representative of that organization,
will be in Oroville, Sunday, the 25th,
and go round with the local gun
clubs over the traps. 1t is going to be
an interesting meet, providing the
weather is favorable, and as the To
nasket contingent is some target bust
ers with the spread gun the home team
will have to squint carefully over the
sights or take the worst of it.
The local high school basket ball
team has a victory to its credit. The
boys and a few hackers went to Mol
son last Friday evening and managed
TO put it over our hill neighbors to the
tune of 10 to Is. 1t was an exciting
game all the same, and not easy going
for the winners. The Nelson boys eX-
tended the glad hand to the visitors
and made the occasion one long to be
remembered in school circules.
In the published list of officers in
stalled in the Odd Fellows and Re-
bekahs lodges last week the names of
L. HI. Phillips, treasurer of he Odd
Fellows, and Mrs R. A. Jackson,
treasurer of the Rebekahs were unin-
tentionally omitted by the person who
handed in the list to this office. Such
an oversight was likely to occur where
there was so many officers named,
and it might have been any other Off
GERS as well as the treasurers.
There is going to be social dance
at the Liberty this evening. Mr.. Van
Alta has sent all the way to Pentic
ton for music, as he is determined to
have the best procurable. With the
best floor in the whole county around
and music that puts swing to the feet
the dance tonight should harbor lot
of fun for all who may attend, and it
is a safe bet from the popularity of
the Liberty dances, that big crowd
will swarm upon the floor on this
occasion.
Hon. Hans Lund was a visitor in
town Sunday having recently arrived
at Tonasket frorl his home in Kansas
City. Although Kansas City is Mr..
Lund's established home, and has been
for a great many years he has so
many business interests in Okanogan
county, and visits the valley so fire.
quently that he could we'll be claimed
a resident of this county Mr.. Lund
must have access to the spring Of
eternal youth, for he seems to grow
younger from year to year.
Ole A. Johnson, who farmed in this
locality for a number of years, and
who has been living at Seattle for the
past year, returned to Oroville Tues.
day evening, and will be rejoined by
his family when his daughter finishes
her schooling at Seattle. Mr.. Johnson
was called to North Dakota in Decem-
Der by the serious illness of his father
resulting in his death. He reports the
winter at that time as very severe in
the Dakotas with little or no snow
which is not very encouraging pros
pect for crops next year.
T. J. Brooks has invented gold
saving device which he has named
the gold lizard" that looks as though
it would turn the trick of saving
placer gold in st cams where install
ed. 1t is worked automatically by tbs
current, and from the design of the