The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-07-21

Isaac Barmon and family of Seattle.
"a brother of Harry Barmon, of this
place, spent a day or two in Oroville
this week while on an auto trip
through the northern country. Mr.
3arnion drove from Seattle up into
the Caribou country, and took in Oro-
vile on his return trip to his home.
Since the beginning of the new
year Oroville has had more than its
share of fires for a town of this size.
and fortunate it is that the town has
such an excellent water system or
the loss from that source would have
been many more times what the
speedily eXtinguished fires entailed
Mr.. and Mrs. F. j. King and baby
left for Spokane Tuesday. Mr.. King
has been driving a locomotive on the
Oroville- Princeton run since the first
OF the year He may get transfer to
some run out of Spokane, but in any
event, Mrs. King and the baby will
remain out during the hot weather.
C. E. Heath, Miss Arnelda Clark
Miss Violet Williams and Miss Elsie
Martin motored to Lake Chelan Tues
day of last week and represented the
local Epworth League chapter at the
young peoples meeting there. They
returned Monday Rev. Jas. Opie
went by train and returned Saturday.
Hon. j. Stanley Webster, who is
making an auto trip through the Fifth
congressional district, is expected to
arrive in Oroyille the latter part OF
| this week, or early next week Mr..
Webster is making no dates for public
meetings, merely travelling over the
district meeting and consulting with
his constituents.
Yesterday, Thursday Mr. and Mrs
w. f. Grant and daughter. Kathleen
| left by auto for the coast where they
will spend month on Woody island
Occupying a building owned by Mrs
Taylor, formerly a resident of LOOMS
and wife of the late Judge Taylor, who
kindly placed the premises at the dis
posal of Mr. Grant
| Mrs. Bulah Edwards is visiting with
her parents, MIR. and Mrs w J. Frank
and will remain with them until her
husband has had a permanent assign
ment with the Great Northern. Mr.
Edwards was formerly employed on
that railway. and has recently been
reinstated but his run has not yet
been definitely decided.
! Charles Lewis brought a load OF
hogs down from his place on Elleme-
ham Tuesday for shipment to the We
| natchee market. He reports that he
| has good prospects for a grain crop
that win equal if not better the crop
he had last year He says that num-
Der of the fields on the mountain
show fair promise of making crops.
Joe Miles returned home from his
trip to Davenport last Friday. He
states that the wheat crop around
Davenport and Medical Lake was
about normal. much TO his surprise.
which would indicate that consider
able grain is going TO be harvested in
eastern Washington notwithstanding
the extreme and protraeted drouth.
Beverly Powell, accompanied by
Lloyd Grant. left for Seattle Tuesday
in Mr. Powell's bug. Beverley will Wis
il with his brother. Charles. and while
in Seattle attend the merchants con-
vention to be held in that city next
week. and which promises to be the
largest attended meeting the Merch-
ants Association has ever held in the
state
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Grahlman and
their two young daughters of Con-
conully. and Mrs. j. E Longacre of
this place. left Saturday for Pentie-
ton to spend Sunday Mr.. Grahlman
is one Of the old settlers of the north
part of the county In early days
he was interested in soda bottling
works at Loomis. when soda was a
popular chaser among those who did
not take their poison straight, but