The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-07-09

wise. Those valuable men. Balmes
Stapleton and Herman were absen,
and Curtis was on hand for only ont
game.
Milo Hicks Is taking the air In 9
new S~tudebaker that he accumulated
from Geo. Bartell, and a handsome
%equippage it is. Mr.. Hicks invested
some days ago. but it is only recently
that we have noticed him sitting at the
wheel.
Customs Officer w. A. CRUDE, OF
oroville. was here the latter part OF
last week to act in the place of Floyd
LOOMS, who was in Spokane from
Thursday to Saturday. on business
connected with the experimentation
son Leader.
The Van Atlas are sparing no ex-
pense to give the public the best to
be had at the Liberty theater. During
the past week they have installed a
player piano, and 1t is not only q
swell piece Of furniture but a rich
toned instrument.
Mrs. Florence McCool and her young
son arrived in Oroville the latter part
OF last week and is visiting with her
sister, Mrs. c. C. Hedger. Mrs. McCool
spent several months in Oroville last
summer and was with her parents in
San Francisco during the winter.
Quite a number Of residents of Oro-
Vile put in the day on Wanicut lake
Sunday. That lake was the Mecca for
campers from both sides of the valley
and milestone Flat during the three
days that were more or less devoted
to a quiet recognition of the national
holiday.
Miss Kittie Holbert was a guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. CRUDE over Sunday
and left for Okanogan Tuesday for a
visit of a few days when she will re-
turn to her former home at LOOMS for
tie summer. Miss Holbert taught in the
Ellemeham district during the last
school year.
It's an i'll wind that blows nobody
good. The dust storm of Sunday even
ing was about as disgusting and irri-
tating as a dust storm could possibly
be, but it sure tempered the atmOs-
phere to the shorn and unshorn lambs,
for Monday the weather was much
more endurable.
r. B. Pierpoint, registered as from
~Conconully but with the forest rang
er's home near Fish Lake as his hab-
liant, vas in town Monday. Mr.. Pier
point has been attached to the forest
service, with headquarters near Con-
conully. for a number of years, and
is one of the most popular attaches
of that service in the county.
Jack Williams, formerly proprietor
of the New Oroville hotel, spent sew
eral days in town during the past
week. Touching him as to where he
had been keeping himself recently.
Jack stated that he was living in the
hills, and after experiencing a few of
the hot days in the valley he was going
to get back in the upper currents OF
air as soon as possible.
There may be a critical shortage Of
gasoline but it was noticeable that
n of cars found some kind OF
volitile fluid to push along their
chariots during the'three days OF the
past week that were largely given up
to an observance of the nationa, holt
day. Cars of all sizes and descriptions
were coming into and going out OF
Oroville Saturday, Sunday and Mon
day.
Owners of cars are anxious to see
the new bank building open for busi-
ness in order to secure safety deposit
boxes in which to store gasoline. 1t is
unsafe to leave a car containing the
precious fluid out on the street as that
fluid is liable to disappear, and 1t Is
difficult to secure redress in a case OF
that kind, for it would be impossible
to prove property either by appearance
taste or smell.
TO the residents on the desert shore
of Washington British Columbia, so
conveniently near at hand, is like a
lighthouse throwing out its rays OF
hope, succor and relief to those with
an unquenchable thirst. If the reports
coming to this office are correct, there
we're many Washington visitors at
Penticton last Thursday who were
grasping the life line and hanging on
with a death grip.
The most popular resort about town
lust at the present time Is the SWIM
ming hole on the Okanogan river. Inc
waters fine now and everybody, al
most. meanders down to the bath house
and takes a dip every day and evening.
The accommodations are not what they
should be and by another year some
provision should be made for the erec-
ton of new and more commodious
bath houses.
Those who were over to LOOMS
Saturday report that there was a large
attendance at the celebration, n
while the program was not elaborate
those in charge kept things moving
and something was going on all the
time. According to statements Of par
Elephants the crowd seemed to extrect
more pleasure from the celebration
than crowds usually do from a celebra-
ton planned upon a much larger scale.
Mrs. Geo. Bailey left for Rochester,
Mimi, Tuesday morning accompanied
by her daughter Margorie, where the
young lady will be treated at the Mayo
hospital. Last winter Miss Bailey met
with a severe accident in which the
elbow of her left arm was broken. Her
arm was left in a crippled condition
and the Mayo institution Is resorted to
in the hopes that the defect may be
remedied, and that hope is entertained
by all who know the charming little
miss.