The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-07-27

John wehe runs a service station
in conjunction with his paint snop on
the south side of the railroad tracks
and he has just added an illuminated
sign SO conspicuous that the widest
speed fiend can read It as he runs.
Ye editor struck out Thursday for
Seattle to be absent only two or three
days. The visit Of President Harding
was one attraction, but another that
had far greater influence with him
making the trip was the recent arrival
of grandchild at the home OF Frank
NJ. Dallam, Jr. Had 1t not been for the
latter attraction the trip never would
have been made.
According to the Penticton Herald
the department Of lands Of British
Columbia will offer for sale an addi-
tional thousand acres Of irrigated
lands in the South Okanogan districts
in August. The lands will be sold
mostly in ten acre tracts and are To-
Gated near the Osoyoos end. 1t Is esti-
mated that the raw land under the
system will bring from $165 to 1890
per acre.
Under charge of Fred Clark car
load of new potatoes was made up by
the growers of East OrOville this week
and shipped to an outside market. The
growers introduced new method OF
handling spuds with this shipment.
The potatoes were put up In small
crates. The bulbs were carefully wash
ed and sorted and they will reach
market in a condition that should
command the best price and a ready
sale.
L. N. Grub has just received word
of the death Of his nephew, Burrell
Grubb, who passed away at his home
in Virginia on the 8th OF July. Typhoid
fever was the cause Of death. Tie de-
ceased has large number of ac-
Quaintances in OrOville. With his
brothers, French and Greek, Burrell
had charge Of the E. N. Grub ranch.
in the valley a. short distance south of
town for two years, leaving for Vir-
ginia last October.
A cool wind from the NORTH We'd
nesday morning made delightful
change in the temperature after three
or four days of sweltering weather.
That is one of the attractive features
of the climate in this part of the coun-
try. A few days of heat Is generally
followed by cooling breezes, and al
though occasionally there Is night
when a sheet seems like heavy COW
ering, such nights are very few, for
before morning blanket becomes
comfortable.
C. c. Hedger at one time and for a
number of years resident manager OF
,, the OkanOgan Valley Power company
plant at this place but for the past
two years engaged in soliciting life in
surance with marked success, with a
home established at Wenatchee, was
a visitor in town Tuesday. He came
up the valley through roasting hoI
wave and reports that thermometers
registered 1OS and better at Omak and
Okanogan. So Oroville was not the
only hot point In the valley during
| the week.
| Miss Katie Marriott, who has been
visiting and living with Mr.. and Mrs
John Truax for the past two and a
half years, left Tuesday for Torring-
| ton, Wyoming, to join her parents
J Miss Marriott has arranged to leave fol
her home several times during hel
visit in Oroville, but something has
always interviewed to prevent her car
rying out her intentions. In the spring
she had made up her mind to leave
but was taken down seriously i'll and
was under the care Of physician fol-
some weeks.
To save the expense of having wit.
nesses appear against them. two meI
who built fire in the national fores,
without a permit and then went away
leaving the fire burning, appeared be-
=, fore Jutice of the Peace Headlee a
Oroville and plead guilty. The char
| ges againts them had been filed ant
they had been notified by letter from
| 1. SuPCIs loOI VI Tie Suc
Ian national forest that this actor
would be the cheapest. They paid ,
ffine Of $40 and costs.-Okanogan In
dependent.
Among the real estate transfers re
Gently reported by the Okanogal
County Abstract company, are the fol
lowing from this neighborhood: o, M
Terrence to Geo. Terrence, 10 acre,
of Tract 5, Oroville Acres, $500. 1. o
o. F., No. 255 to Geo. Terrence. e l.:
lot 1873, Riverview Cemetery, SIS
Commercial Bank, Twisp, to c. H
Curtis. lots 6, So, SO. Works Idea
Homes $1.00; L. R. S. so; Rober
Hill to Clifford Anderson. lots 3, 4
block 6, Ellis-Forde Lake View tract.
$2,75O; j. P. Hershberger to 9th
Hershberger, se4sw4 sec Is ne4nw.
w2ne4 sec 22-4-26, $1.O0; Geo. Tor
renee to Robert Hill, pit lots 20. "a, E
Oroville Orchards. Q3.54 acres) 81,