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speaking countries while her father,
the late Gen. John w. Foster. was
in the diplomatic service-gives her
a distinct advantage in playing host
tess to visitors from South and Gen.
trail America. The tea. which Is to
be more or less informal in character,
and at which the ladies will meet
the wives of some of the diplomats
from Latin American countries and
the wives OF State Department offi-
cials. Is to be given under the aus
pices of tie Woman's Auxiliary Bu-
rcau OF the Second Pan-American
Scientific Conference, of which Mrs.
Lansing is chairman.
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the various other activities OF the
week.
| The Swnrmipg Of
Presidential Decs.
It's been, ind, ed. various" sort
| of a week, beginning with a charity
ball.-for the Children's Hospital-in
| which the resident set was the ele-
nent chiefly interested. and wind
ing up with the opening guns OF
| big pan-Amcrican conference. Rather
| a wide range that! And that's not
| all: for through IL all one has heard
| a murmurous undertone, like unto the
| buzzing OF a thousand bees. For the
campaign hive is waking up. the
| Presidential bees are swarming. Be-
| fore the echoes OF the great Jackson
| Day Democratic dinner had sub"i'"a,
| lung before the poor Democratic donk-
! cy had recovered from the morning
after head" consequent on that wild
dry night the candidates, receptive.
| acceptive and deceptive, were upon
| us. A dozen or more we have more
or less permanently with us, h0'r
| the Cabinet and a choice selection
from "up on the hill" and la aa-..
tion Wood. Lowden and Hoover have
| been here during the week.
Their presence has been responsible
| or several political parties, notably
| the reception which Senator Me1il
| IcCormick gave for Cow Frank Low
| len. Mrs. Mccormick had nothinl
| TO do with this. 1t was her husband :
: party. Since Gen Leonard Wood was
in town, attending a departmental
: conference, there was a general de-
| sire to entertain him-and make him
| talk politics. 1t didn't work, how
| ever. He was here on business and
! he refused to let himself be distract
/ ed from that business save for a
| weekend, when he motored to Bal
| timore to stay with friends, and on
! Wednesday afternoon when he was
the guest of honor at reception
given by Major Ryan DevereuN at his
home in Bradley lane. This way
planned originally as an informal
gathering of the generals old friends
Major DeverCux had served under
General Wood in Cuba in 1901-but
interest in his visit developed to
such an extent that II grew into
gathering of all the shining political
lights of Maryland.
Another reception with a slight
flavor of politics was the one given
by Mrs. Howard Sutherland, wife of
Senator Sutherland OF West Virginia,
for her guest, Mrs. Wilbur w. Huh
bard, of Maryland. There's a we'll
defined presentiment that Mr.. Hub
bard means to be the next governor
Of Maryland. This may be bit pre-
mature. for Governor Ritchie has
only just been elected, but that's the
gossip-and l always pass on the gos
sip to you.
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OwAership Of Russian
Embnssy q Bit Doubtful.

The Russian embassy, 1l2b six
teenth street. built by the late Mrs.
George Pullman at the time when she
thought her eon-in-lsw. Gov. Frank
Lowden, OF Illinois, would be more
or less permanent fixture in Wash
ington-perhaps he will later, on is
perhaps one Of the handsomest en-
bassy properties in Washington. How
ever, its status is a bit vague. like
everything connected with Russia
at the present moment. 1t was pur-
chased under the old regime--and nd
for several years the Imperial Rus
sian ambassador. George Bakhmetef.
(Continued on Page Seventeen.)
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nssy Foreign Gsvers@~sts
Bsy Homes Here fsr Eavsys.

Many Foreign CsversS~ats
Bsy Homes Here Tor Esveys.
The list OF foreign governments whs
own their embassies In Washington is
assuming imposing proportions. Tho
French have a nne residence in upper
Sixteenth street, which 10 French in
It's architecture and furnished in Ac-
cordance with the best French tra-
dltion of decorative art; and the
Spanish embassy-Spain does own her
embassy, doesn't she7-is In the block
below. The British embassy In on
necticut avenue has been the prop
erty OF the British crown for many
years-And Is as British. II you please,
as roast beef and plum pudding. The
Japanese have the commodious house,
1921 X street. which has been in
habited by several successive am
bassadors; and the Mexican govern
ment owns the house In ] street where
the Mexican Ambassador and Nine.
Bonillas now live.
The Argentine government pur-
chased within the last two or three
years the very charming residence,
1900 New Hampshire avenue. which
was built by Mr.. and Mrs. George
Hum. This proved inadequate In point
OF size. SO additional premises front
ing on Corcoran street were pur-
chased, converted into offices. and
connected up with the embassy
proper. and now the Argentine m
ba Do ador and Nine. LeBreton have an
exceedingly commodious and charm
ing residence.
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Reception for the
Actors Fund Committees.

At Mrs. Barney's big party on Fri
day afternoon, the politicians gave
place to the players; and the mem
bers of the theatrical companies then
playing in Washington mingled with
the society women who are working
Tor the success of the Actors Day
Memorial fund benefit on January q
In one big and brilliant assemblage
There's no one like Mrs. Barney when
1t comes to getting together the peo-
pie who do worth while things and
the people who contribute to the sup
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be a singularly delightful billet"
So everybody, even the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John p. Story.
seem thoroughly contented; and GER
tainly the bride went off as radiantly
happy as a bride ought to be.
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lAnnOuncem"nt Causes
| Iscant Surprise.

| Apparently nobody seemed to h,
livery much surprised at the news.
People had long since begun to re
imarlS that "Phil Kaufman was Civ
ling Nancy Lane the rush of his life !"
&nd their beaming faces helped tell
the story. Besides Miss Lane had
told a few of her most intimate
friends-and. well YOU know now
like wi'dtire such news spreads. Tn
engagement is barely announced. and
yet already several parties for the
young people have been p!" nned. NJ 3
Adolph Miller will give a tea for the n
on January 81, that same evening
Senator and Mrs Frank B. Kellogg
are planning a diner for them, and
there are several other festivities in
the offinG, the dates for which are
not yet determined.
Marcy Lanes n lovelv girl. culti-
vated talented-she's a fine musician
generous and genuine and she will
have the good wishes of a host OF
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Argentine Reception
DeIiyhtful Affair.

The reception at the Argentine en-
bassy last Light. with the Ambassa-
dor and Nine LeBreton as hosts and
DR.. Domingo Salaberry, minister of
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Miss lane steals
MIS-. story's Thunder.

Miss Lane steals
MIS-. story's Thunder.
II Nancy Lane was the first girl OF
! her season to get engaged, Jane
Story was the first OF her year--last
year-to wed. And Miss Lane rather
marriage yesterday to Capt. II. r..
Glen. while IL was one of the most
important OF the seasons events, was
second in news value" TO Miss Lanes
, engagement. II was, however. q per-
fectly lovely wedding. No, l didn't
go-for II was one OF those weddings
with a big wedding party and small
company looking on-but Ibheard all
about 1t, how ravishing the bride
looked, how pretty her younger sis
ter. Caroline story, who was maid Of
honor, Is getting to be AN every
thing"
IL you weren't a bridesmaid or an
usher, you had to be a relative or
an intimate friend to be invited to
this wedding, but at that the little
company was widely representative
one and included many OF the
diplomats as well as men and women
prominent in the various circles of
Washington's social life. The Brit
ish embassy people were quite
numerously present, OF course. In
fuC,, most of the men of the stalf,
from the charge d'affaires, the Hon.
Ronald Lindsay, down, were among
Captain Glen's ushers. On the other
hand. there were but three brides
maids-Cornelia Vanderbilt, who was
to have been the fourth, was i'll and
couldn't come-the three girls who,
...l L. AAa 10, III La
dubbed "the princes own" because
they were in on all the parties given
for him.
Yesterdays other particularly in
teresting wedding, the marriage of
DR.. and Mrs. Lyman b. Swormstedt's
daughter. Helen, and Paul Lothrop
Mansfield, of Boston, was even
smaller. There were only few peo-
pie present, besides the relatives of
the brd and bridegroom. who in
themselves formed a goodly little
company. Mr.. Mansfelds father and
mother were here, also his sister;
and all of the brides close relatives
came on for the wedding, with the
exception of her uncle. Col. Stewart
.Godfrey-who isn't nearly. as old and
settled a person as the word uncle
implies, and who used to be station
ed at Washington Barracks not so
many years ago. Colonel Go frey and
his charming wife are now settled
at Mussel Shoals, Ala, where he is
in charge of an important engineer
ng project, and he was not able to
Leave his work just at this time.
Mr.. Mansfield will take his bride to
Roston, but it's a long way that Jane
Story-no. Jane Glen-is going, and
she's very young. However, Captain
Glen's older, somewhere in the neigh
borhood OF thirty there are no two
opinions as to his being a thoroughly
good fellow and a gallant soldier,
and his new post at Tokyo is said to
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Fancies. Fads.
And FOibles of
Capital Society

diplomatic and resident society IA
happy proportion. .
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Engagement of
MancyLane
Is Announced

AH ONT tell me a woman can't
"a keep a secret. It's hard, OF
- course. particularly when It's
e secret In which the world and his
wife would be Interested. But-well,
Hrve an old-fashioned idea that a
igirl-or moIe properly her parents
for her-should be allowed the privi-
iege OF announcing her engagenne mt
whenever and however she pleases.
b All of which has to do. OF course,
with Nancy Lanes engagement, which
You probably know all about by this
time Yes. the Secretary of the In
iterior and Mrs. Lane are today an
lnouncing the engagement of their
lllovely daughter, who Is only slip
ilof a girl and made her debut but
Ia scsnt month ago, to Philip c.
ilRauffmann. son of Mr.. and Mrs. Vic
tor Kaufman. ,--,
NJ The wedding will take place In the
Ilate spring following Miss Lanes
ilbrilliant first season. AS the only
iIcabinet debutante of this admins
Ilration, she has naturally been much
lteted. and being as popular as she
lis pretty-which is saying lot-she
has been made much OF on her own
account. Mr.. Kaufman is a grand
llson OF the late Rudolph Kaunma ann,
ijwho was one OF the founderS OF the
lEvening Star. and his family, which
has maintained its connection with
lthe Star, is exceedingly prominent
lin Washington. He Is a Princeton
Imam and In the Naval Reserve for
1.-TWO years during the war. seeing
active service laying mines in the
North Sea.
Yesterday aftern on Mrs Lane told
the news OF the engagement 10 a
idozen or so of her old fr.ends-peopio
lWho had known Nancy from the time
she was a little girl-whom she had
Ih SIX ed in to tea. In the evening Il
was announced again to group OF
Miss Lanes playmases. This was at
Ithe dinner which Col. and Mrs.
lCharles Patterson gave for Lindsay
lWood, or rather 1t was when the
iyoung people were gathered together
lat Miss Woods rrepara o'y to al
ltourning to the Pattersons' house f."
ldinner And then II was passed on t
Ia larger company of young peop'" a.
1.-The bach eiors' bal ra5que," whi h
The Pattersons' dinner guests at.
tended.
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friends when she starts on her beau
tiful adventure,
As for Mr. Kaufman. he's as nne
outstanding a lad as one would meet
IL days journey; and it's quite
touching to see how devoted he is 10
his handsome mother. Mrs. Kaun'
mann's younger son, Sam Kauffmann
Is very much taken with that orett,
little Miriam Hoy. from Albany, wha
visited the Kauffmanns recently. No
i won't go SO far as TO say they are
engaged. That might be letting cats
out OF bags. and besides they're both
too young for any sort OF formal
understanding" but they grew up
together-both the Kauffmanns and
the Hoys spend their summers at
Camp Percy. N. H-they are quite
wrapped up in each other. and fire.
quently these boy and girl affairs. do
wind up with a wedding.
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PRINCESS RADZIwILL,
sister of Princess Lubomirska,
who, with Prince Radziwill. is the
guest of the Polish legation.
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The S,varmipg of
Presidential UeCs.

the various other activities OF tn
week.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-01-30
THE SUNDAY SHOOT.

In the last issue of the Gazette it
was announced that members of the
Tonasket gun club would be here with
chimes Sunday and engage In trial
shoot with members of the local club
The promise was given with reserva-
tions, the reservation being the condi-
ton of the weather. Sunday was
pretty sharp day around the edges. re-
ally too chilly for shooting. and the
Tonasket boys decided not to make
the trip. The appointment will be fill
ed later. Possibly the Tonasket gun
artists made mistake. for the shoot
ing that the home club did engage in
was not up to regulation standard and
the visitors might have slipped someth-
ing over on the locals. But the chance
was missed and the home boys may not
do so much missing when the meeting
finally takes place. Only few Of the
local gun club braved the elements and
pulverized, or attempted to pulverize,
targets Sunday as the following score
III IL.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-01-30

timers who occasionally present one
that has been called by the treasurer
are Amos Tupper of Pateros, John
Whiddin of Loomis and c. c. Campbell
of Chelan.
TON Burke, the well known min
ing man of Ruby and Conconully, pur-
chased thousands Of dollars worth Of
these warrants years ago for a ply
sician friend of his in California. 1t is
said they weer bought for % cents
on the dollar. This physician passed
away many years ago, long before
any of the warrants were paid. The
bulk of his fortune went to two nieces
named Lanning, who reside in Mon
treal, Canada, and these women are
now reaping the harvest of the old
miners investment
when Commissioner Anderson
started the machinery in motion that
had in view the retirement of the Ser
les B warrants. he said to the writer
that If this county were properly man
aged 1t would be but remarkably few
years until all Indebtedness were
wiped out and IL now appears as If the
old gentleman had figured about
right
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-01-30
A SPOKANE PIONEER.

Hon. w. c. Jones of Spokane, stop
has way to Okanogan where he was to
appear as counsel for one of the liti-
gants in a mining case involving the
title to the old Lone Pine mine. Mr..
Jones is one of the brightest members
of the Spokane bar, and one of the
few pioneers of Spokane Falls still
remaining alive and residents of that
city. Mr.. Jones came to Spokane in
the early spring of 1883, and our ac-
quaintance with the gentleman dates
century we have seen little of w. c.,
for after having made the mistake of
leaving Spokane we could meet up
with our early day friends and ac-
quaintances of that city only at long
and irregular intervals. Our best men,
ory of the man is when we knew him
best, and while he has grown in his
practice, has developed as one of the
leading legal luminaries of the state
has represented the state in congress
yet the success of his attainments is
no more than We expected of him, for
in his younger days he gave promise
of making his mark in the city where
he had chosen to make his western
home. A close student of current
events, voracious reader, a deer
thinker and keen reasoner, Mr.
Jones is most admirably equipped tc
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-01-30
A GREEN OLD AGE.

Mention was made last week of the
death on the coast of the mother of l..
w. Barnes, of this place. Upon his re-
turn from his sad mission Mr.. Barnes
gave in the following information
relative to the deceased: Mary A.
Evans was born at Burksville, Cum
berland county, KY, September l.,
1881, and removed with her parents
to Iowa in 1S49. She united with the
NJ E. church at Pleasant Ridge, Ia,
in 1850, and was a devont member OF
that organization up to the time of her
demise She was married to Jones
Barnes in 1852, and was left widow
March 1, 1880. She came to Washing
ton in 1888, locating at Tolt, with her
daughter, Mrs M. N. McNaughton. She
moved to Monroe in 1912, dying jan
uary Is, 1920. She was the mother of
six children, four boys and two girls.
Three of the sons and one daughter
survive the mother, and she also
leaves eight grand children and three
great grand children. All of her life
she enjoyed excellent health up 70
the time of this last illness.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-01-30
GROWING OF ASPARAGUS.

Below we publish the first of SER
les of articles promised by w. F. RAM
sey upon the growing Of vegetables in
the valley under the irrigation system
Few men are more capable of giving
valuable information along these lines
than M. Ramsey, for he has had much
experience in the growing of vegeta-
bles for market What he has learned
on the subject that he will treat has
come to him from hard knocks, expert
ments and the hard experience of
practical effort, in which mistakes
have been made, but from which mis-
takes he has accumulated a fund of
valuable information. For years he has
engaged in fruit and vegetable grow
ing and of late years has given all his
time to that work on his tracts on the
Ellis-Forde Orchard Tracts some
miles south of town. 1t is his desire to
aid and encourage all those who may
desire to engage in truck farming to
q smaller or greater extent and what
ever Mr.. Ramsey may suggest as the
best methods to pursue in this class
of work can be pretty thoroughly de-
pended on. His first letter treats of
asparagus, which so few people seem
to know how to properly handle, and
which, when cared for as 1t should be
proves a very prcfitable crop. ''e--'
How to Grow Asparagus.
Asparagus is our longest lived veg
etable, bed is expected to last a
generation and an English bed ninety
years old has been reported, requires
and demands much care in its early
stages While it requires and responds
to heavy feeding, the old time methods
of deep trenches and manuring be-
fore planting has been proven to be
unnecessary, thus putting asparagus
for home culture within the reach OF
every one who can spare the space.
Although asparagus will grow on any
soil that is not actually wet or very
stiff it does best on sandy soil, well
drained. A heavy land should be
lightened by working in sand or soft
coal ashes. If wet, it should be under
drained. The rows should not be less
than three feet apart. Plants in row
should not stand closer than eighteen
inches; two feet is better. Deep plant
ing gives much better results on the
same land. The deep sown plants have
in the same season resisted frost for
some weeks later than the shallow
sown. For this reason, as well as to
save the labor of transplanting in the
second spring, plants should be sown
where they are to stand if the space
can be spared. BY this method, SOW the
seed in trenches six to eight inches
below the surface. Coat with an inch
of soil, or SOW several seed near each
other at the permanent distance. Thin
to one foot If possible, when the plants
have all we'll started, or to one plant
| to each hill. Give clean cultivation dur
| ing the season, gradually filling in the
! trenches to about half their depth. In
the fall fill them completely The Sec
ond spring, take out every other plant.
They may be set out in another row.
|, Break the shoots off instead of cutting.
You are not so apt to injure the young
shoots that are up. This method will
| give good results.
w F. RAMSEY
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-01-30

Genial John Mulligan, the we'll
known Spokane attorney, spent sew
eral days in Oroville during the past
week, called here on legal business.
p DR.. Lewis operated on young
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart Much
Monday morning for enlarged tonsils
and adenoids. The little one is making
rapid recovery.
G. NJ. Scott, local manager of the
Bowen Auto company, returned home
Monday after an absence of some days
on business trip to Spokane and
the coast cities.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. B. Starrett. Jr., re-
turned home from Spokane Wednesday
evening, where they had been for a
week, Mr. Starrett having been called
10 that city on business.
DR.. Lewis reports the arrival We'd
nesday at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Willis Martin new son, and as this
is the first addition to the family Joy
reigns in the Martin household,
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discuss any subject either in connec-
ton with his legal practice or that
may be sprung upon him in the course
of conversation, discussion or debate.
He is fluent and charming talker,
either in the social circle or on the
rostrum, and personally a congenial
and most companionable gentleman. 1t
has been some years since We last met
Mr.. Jones, and renewing old acquaint-
ance and talking over old days beyond
gether was all too short.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-01-30
RETURN OF THE FLU.

Word reaches Oroville that our
neighbors at Okanogan face serious
influenza epidemic. From what can
be learned there are a large number
of cases, but of rule in mild form.
The doctors here are rather inclined
to believe that the ailment Is much
after the nature of the innumerable
cases of severe colds and sore throat
that are prevailing in this community.
If Okanogan has the regular last
years brand of flu, Oroville and all
the other towns in the valley cannot
hope to escape the same visitation.
People should guard against the dis
ease so far as it is in their power If it
should make it's appearance. Oroville
was exceptionally fortunate last win
ter when the epidemic was raging The
cases were many, very, very many,
but deaths We're few, and confined to
cases that were brought here for
treatment. If the disease proves this
year to be as malignant as it was last
winter, and becomes as prevalent, we
could hardly hope for the immunity
from death that marked the previous
visitation. According to press reports
the disease has made it's appearance
again in various parts of the country
and is especially virulent in Chicago
where the death list has been large.
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Mrs. l. n. Wickersham, for so many
years resident of Oroville and now
living at Walla Walla, writes that re-
ceiving the Gazette is just like getting
letter from home. and reports that
all of the family are well.
Wilfred Lewis Clarke of Oroville,
subject of Great Britain, has applied
for first naturalization papers before
the county clerk. His witnesses were
S. B. Starrett and R. J. Frank, of Oro-
ville.-Okanogan Independent.
Reevie Frank returned home from
Spokane Tuesday where he had been
attending the auto show. 1t was one
of the finest exhibitions of automobiles
ever seen in eastern Washington, and
Mr.. Frank feels well repaid for his
trip.
Bad colds and sore throats have
been so common in this place of late
as to be almost classed as an epidem-
ic. Nothing serious has developed in
any of these cases, but the suffers
have experienced much distress and
the ailing ones seem to lose all their
pep.
The first straw that points toward
spring is the renervation Of the inter.
ior of the large and cozy waiting room
of the Hotel de Grubb. That knigh
of the brush, John WeLe, is decorating
! the ceiling and wood work and wher
he finishes the Job the lobby will be ;
J joy to the eye.