The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-11-24

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| Watch this paper for the return date
of DR.. Burgess about the fifth of Janu-
airy.
| H. Schwenne returned Thursday last
from Spokane where his wife has been
under treatment for some weeks.
| Mrs. P. H. Dokken spent the week
end on Pine creek, visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Henry -Whittle and family.
! Frank Putnam, postmaster at Tomas
ket and publisher of the Tonasket
Times, was in Oroville over Monday
night.
| Glen Carrel left Tuesday morning
for Orient, Ferry county, where he
] will work in the lumber camps this
winter.
| Mrs. o. N. Mum, former county sup
erintendent of schools of Whatcom
county, was week end guest at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. b. M. Davenport
The Young Peoples Club took hike
last Thursday evening to the Indian
camp on the east side of the Okanogan
river, near the railroad bridge and had
a weiner roast and coffee About 80
members were in attendance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Groulx and AL
bert GroulX, Jr., and p. H. Dokken
motored to, Pine creek Sunday, spend
| ing the day with Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Writtle and bringing Mrs. Dokken
home from her week end visit.
The directors of the West Okanogan
| Valley Irrigation system are taking
advantage of tne fine weather and are
making considerable permanent re-
pairs on the system where repairs
| were felt to be absolutely necessary.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Bassett, wlo
have just returned from Vernon, b.
G., after six weeks visit to that city,
were accompanied by Mr.. Bassett's
brother and niece, Miss Fannie Nee
doba, visited this week with Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Groulx and other friends.
The party have gone on to Olympia to
spend the winter.
Many residents of this place are suf-
| fering from colds more or less severe.
Some of the colds have developed into
light attacks of the grip 1t Is a season
OF the year that people cannot be too
careful in guarding against exposure.
So far there has been no sickness of a
serious nature, but colds can develop
into pneumonia and that is an ailment
that is always serious.
Roger Reed was at Wenatchee re-
Gently to attend conference Of the
leaders Of the Young Peoples Club
of the Episcopal church of the dean
cry and returned with the report that
the Oroville Young Peoples Club has
the largest membership of any club in
the deanery. An unusual feature of the
local club is that the membership in
cludes more boys than girls
A kind friend presented Mrs. Frasier
with two boxes Of apples one day last
| week and during her absence from
home some unknown person entered
the house and stole one full box and
the half of the other. A person who
would steal apples nowadays when the
fruit is so cheap must be hard up in
deed and without conscience when
stealing from widow who has fam
lily of children to support
| M. H. Mahoney returned from Spo-
kane Monday evening where he went
for the purpose of consulting a spec
alist Mr.. Mahoney, one Of the pio-
| neers of the north part of the county,
has been in poor health for some
months and only recently was able
to leave the hospital. Upon the advice
of DR.. Bevis he went to Spokane to
consult a specialist and had his system
Thoroughly punched, prospected and
| X-rayed. The investigator did not find
any of the interior works so out OF
| joint as to be alarming and Mr. Ma
honey returned in clipper spirits with
a promise of numerous years of life
ahead of him.
Up to the time of writing this ship
ping point has been able to secure
eight cars for apple shipments since
Friday last and those to whom the cars
were assigned lost no time in loading
! and having them shunted eastward
Eight cars are hardly more than a
drop in the bucket where IS could be
used to a good advantage, yet this
small number helps out in the existing
emergency and the shrinkage of the
surplus on hand makes more room for
storing the surplus still to be handled
The dribbling in of eight cars all in a
bunch encourages growers to feel that
it may be possible to move the entire
crop before the apples entirely break
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