The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-10-22

| VINO has Deen WORKING on the Chelau
News-Leader for the past month. re.
turned home Monday and celebrated
the event by falling into the sump at
the Four Metals mine fortunately
without anything more serious than a
ducking. Temporarily lodging sumps
Mr.. Kennedy is back juggling anti
| mony on the Gazette.
Friday night while Frank Taylor
was in attendance at the dance at the
Liberty some one stole new tire and
| rim from his car standing in front OF
the theater. The tire was locked to the
| car, but the thief or thieves, managed
to pick the lock and get away with the
property. Mr.. Taylor traced the thieves
as far as Okanogan but there lost
track of them Considering the bold
ness of the operators Mr.. Taylor may
| consider himself in luck that the ma
RAIDERS did not take the car.
Geo. G. Cantwell. field naturalist for
U. S. Biological survey, with head
quarters at Puyallup, is located for a
week at the Frank Winkler ranch, on
the east side of Osoyoos lake for the
purpose of making collections of birds,
animals and plants for the U. S. nation
al museum. He is especially interested
in any rare specimens of hawks, owls
and little known mammals and would
appreciate specimens, or information
relative to predatory animals or spe-
.,,i,y vi to ovt.to Itttr
Frank Smith, an old time resident
of this county was in town Wednesday
shaking hands with friends of long
go. Years ago, Smith lived at Concon-
ully, and after 1.-THE old camp lost the
county seat he drifted to Seattle.
where he was during the war. The
only reason he was not over there, is
because he is crowding down toward
20, and the powers that be barred men
of that age. At present he is located a,
Osoyoos, helping out ]. A. Brown.
Time is treating the old publican kind
ly. and he has lost none of his gen.
atty.
The boys from Seattle had some hot
cheer leader in the person OF Loyal
Partridge. We have listened to the
rancurous voice and watched the GYM
nastics of many cheer leaders in our
time but this Partridge-and he was
sure a lively bird-had it over those
who had gone before and have been
forgotten He was as agile as jump
ing jack and had voice on him like
fire siren. He knew how to get a raise
out of the crowd and when to do 1t and
when he yelped Nov all together
there was a roar in unison that fairly
chipped the concrete off the wall. He
was the life of the party, and there
was no sign of funeral so long as he
was in evidence.
E. w. Zibell, secretary OF the Stew
art Calvert company, piled Off stunt
during the visit of the Seattle eXcur-
sionists that provided considerable
amusement He had samples OF the
Epsom salts, the natural product or
the salts lake near town, put up In
neat boxes, labeled "Firt Aid, EPSON
Salts. Mined and Refined from Naturaf
Deposits by the Stewart-Calvert co E,
Oroville. Wash" and distributed
among the visitors. Now, Mr.. Zibell
had no other motive than to bring to
the attention of the coast people the
fact that nature has deposited a medic
inal compound of commerce in THIS
mart of the state and that an enter
nr;sine company was working that de-
posit. giving employment to a large
number of men and shipping vast
Quantities all over the country. The
salts deposits and the working Thereon
provides one of the important indus
tries of the county.
The Oroville public schools have .
larger attendance this year than ever
before in the history of the schools
Superintendent Odds reports that 3|9
nupils are enrolled and there are
more TO come. There are 70 in the higf
school. which is remarkable when Il
| is remembered the light attendance II
that department last year. the Ole
school house in the south part of town
;s crowded to the very limit OF its ca
nacity. and there is hardly place FOL
another pupil The four rooms ALREADY
have more children than the teachers
should be required to care for. 1t l.
plainly evident that more provision
must bee made in the near future u
accommodate the increasing school at
tendance, which means additional
school houses. The school directors
have been fortunate this year IN as
sembling a very efficient corps o
teachers and every indication points
70 the most successful school year tina
the local schools have ever experienc
ed.