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THE HOOD RIVER NfcWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1910
BRAGG
MERCANTILE
COMPANY
Mid-Winter
BRAGG
MERCANTILE
COMPANY
LADDIES' COATS 13 FD
It is not our policy to carry over from one season to another, anything in this
line, so we sacrifice the price to your advantage. This means
Misses Coats 13 Off
$30 Coats for 25 $25 Coats $ 16.75
20 Coats for $13.35 $15 Coats for 10 $12 Coats for $8 j
Overcoats for Hen and Boys
25 per cent off on Winter or Warm Overcoats.
The cold snap is liable to come any time. Don't delay buying now or you may
be sorrv.
Children's Coats 1-4 Off
MO Coats for 6.75 8 Coats for 5.35 6 Coats for 4
Come early and get the choice of these bargains
Wool Underwear
At greatly reduced prices, that we haven't time to describe, but included in this
is Men's Wool Underwear for as low as 68c per garment, and up to high class
goods at proportionate prices. Everything goes in wool Men's, Boys', Ladies'
and Children's.
Included in this Special Sale will be Winter Dress Goods, Kamonas, Waists, Wool Blankets, wool Shirts and about 300
Pairs of Shoes. We reserve the right to withdraw these prices after the 20th.
DERBY RESIGNS FROM
ASYLUM COMMITTEE
representative A .1. Ilerliy of Hood
Klver, says the Journal, resigned
from the committee which will In
vestigate the Orwgon Insane nsvltim.
II Is health has not tieen good In the
past few days and he did nut believe,
that he could bear the exacting re
quirements an a member. Speaker
Kusk appointed Collins of Multno-'
mall to take the place vacated.
j The house decided that It would
1 make an Investlgatlen of the asylum
' Independently of the senate. The
! resolution from the upper house pro-
Forty Thousand
Prescriptions Have Been Filled at This Store
In The Past Ten Years
This record shows better than
anything else the confidence
placed in this store both by
the Doctor and the Patient
Chas. N. Clarke
GLACIER PHARMACY
Hood River :: :: Oregon
Don't Leave the Hood River District
WITHOUT INVESTIGATING
Mosier Valley
Natural adv&nUffea for fruit trowing
unexcelled. Land prices hmw doubled in
tat two years but are not half that aeked
VtT Birmlar land in other aections Bur
now before speculators add their profile.
Commercial Club of Mosier
MOSILH. ORLOON
6 Miles East of hood River, Oregon
To the discriminating Housewife:
We have installed some new machinery and
CUPID FLOUR
will now make the buhitcjt. lightest
bread of any flour on Hood River market
if handled rightly. It does not require as
stiff working as others. Next time ask
your grocer for CUPID and if he will not
furnish it, trade with someone who will.
A It fs made in Hood "RfxJer .
Hooci Rtoer ffliCfing Company
ALL SHOULD BOOST
GOOD ROADS CAUSE
(iretfuu'ii mud tax is four million
dollars The amount saved would
luilld l.KiO mile of guild roads, it
would Improve all the highway In
the state. Oregon' mud tax saved
would pay ly several time the pos
tdate tax (or iiermaneut highwuy
maklng under the proponed good
road MIIm submitted In the legisla
ture by the Oregon Hood I'oad As
sociation. A mile of good roads built ends
the mud tax and lieglns the returns
on the Investment from the good
road construction. Other miles of
good roads on up the state to In
creased population. Intensified pro
duction, accelerated development,
making possible more pleasures and
comforts, bring rural delivery, In
creased neighborhood sociability,
elevate citizenship standards, double
in value abutting property.
Louis W. Hill, president of the
Ureat Northern, said t he other day:
"Oregon is backward In wagon road
building. Our contemplated rail
road construction will fall of In
tended development benefit If the
people do not make good wagon
roads as feeeders to the railroads."
Mr. Hill did not advocate wagon
road construction to fill his own
pockets. He kDows, and those who
live In the enjoyment of good roads
know too, that permanent high ways
and their use and benefits fill the
pockets of the ieople.
The value of macadam roads Is
not understood or reallwd until the
rond Is made and used. liackward
ness of road construction in Oregon
Is explained In two ways: First, ig
norance of lenefjts; second, opposi
tion to population and Intensive cul
tivation of the soil. A man was
fount) lobbying against the flood
Itoads Association highway meas
ures at the legislature. "I own 511 K)
acres of land," he said. "I have
seven miles of road bordering my
property; 1 am opposed to popula
tion greater than now; I am opposed
to good roads; good roads bring
population and might compel me to
cut up my place; I don't want
to cut It up." The views of this
man are not shared by people anx
ious to enter In upon Oregon's un
developed inplre, nor are his views
tin red by the man who really de
sires to Is-neflt and develop the
state The man quoted was con
trolled bv petty, selfish localism, and
It would le Oregon's sorrow If his
kind were in thp majority."
Unfortunately a mistaken Impres
sion, due to lack of Information, con
cerning the highway measures has
gained place In the minds of some of
Oregon's js-ople. The highway bills
of the Oregon Oood Hoads Associa
tion were not framed for the rim-
vldlng for a Joint Inquiry came from
the resolutions committee with an
unfa vorntile report and It was
adopted.
Ilelland of Clatsop, Magone of
ClAckamas. Miller of Columbia, Smith
of Josephine and 'fill of Wasco were
appointed as memls-r of the com
mittee to confer with a similar one
from Washington on the Columbia
fisheries question. They will meet In
Portland during the next week or
ten days.
structlon of state roads. They put
the entire power of road building
Into the hands of the people of each
county. If all the measures were
made law and became operative, no
county would be under greater obli
gation to build roads than now.
Nor Is an excessive road tax contem
plated. People In the cities, when
they want to hard surface streets.
Issue bonds providing a sinking fund
and pay for the street out of the in
creased business and property values.
As much ns anything else, Oregon
needs the advertising value of good
roads. If the people now residents
were not to In? benefited, the value
from the advertising across the na
tion would more than offset the cost
of permanently constructing high
way systems lu every county.
Facts Regarding Oregon's Forest Fires
Oregon hns one-fifth of the stand
lug timber of the United States.
Oregon hus 400 billion feet worth
5)0 million dollars on the slump.
If manufactured this -too billion feet
will bring In five billion dollars of
outside money. It will either !
manufactured or destroyed by fire.
Oregon's forests already distribute
more wealth Iti the state than applet
fish, wool and wheat combined. Cut
ting has hardly liegun.
Lumbermen are speudlng each year
to protect their tlmtsT In Oregon
about $l:W.UU0, the federal govern
spends for patrol $1.V),(HM). The state
spends $250.
Pennsylvania spends 10,000, New
York $11S,000. Maine $4.0on, Idaho
$:i0,0oo and Washington f(,0OO to
protect, their forests as against fiV)
by Oregon with more timber than
any state. Washington expects to
quadruple Its appropriation this
year.
Of the revenue received from our
IuiiiImt SO er cent g(s-s for labor and
supplies.
The state is taking no steps to ap
prehend violators of fire laws or look
after patrol In sections occupied by
settlers and miners.
Heights Literary Society Meets
Hood HIver Heights Literary So
ciety met at Taylor's hall heb. 1st
and the following program was ren
dered:
Heading of ml tin tea of previous
meeting -Wm. Chapman.
Declamation Mr. IUoshoiu.
Song Carson Hncklln, Karl llol
man and Wilbur Walker.
Iteclfn lion Nellie Hart.
Song, "Casey on the Engine" Joe
Carson, Fred Curtis and Ilora Cham
bers, tiers.
After a recess, the subject. "Itc-
solved, That capital piiiilshmcut is a I
crime and should l abolished, was
debated. Atllimatlve, Allen Hart,
Joe ('arson, Carson Itileklin. Nega
tive, OIltsTt Edglngton, Air lilossom
and Wm. limine. Mr. Shrum. Mr.
Holman and Wm. Hart were chosen
ns Judges and di-rtded the question In
favor of the n (Urinative.
Miss I-na Shrum presided at the
organ A closing song was given by
illlert Edglngton.
The next meeting will ' ,,n
Wednesday, Fel. 8th, at Taylor's
hall on the Heights. A good pro
gram Is Is'lng prepared and every
body Is Invlt d to attend. Exercise
will liegln a o'clock p. m.
RUMOR OF TYPHOID
AT MOSIER UNTRUE
Editor News: On my last two
trips to Hood Ulver recently, I was
much surprised at being asked the
question by a number of prominent
Hood Kiver people whether or not
the report was true that there was
au epidemic of typhoid fever In
Mosier. It seems that for some un
accountable reason such a report
has lieen !elleved In your city and I
am writing you In hopes that you
will find room lu your most valuable
publication to contradict any such
report, nnd assure our good friends
over the mountain that this is not
the case.
There is one case of typhoid In the
Mosier district, a Miss Jennie Olson,
who contracted the disease In the
Willamette Valley ami was sent to
tier home In Mosier for treatment.
However, under the Invigorating In
fluence of our splendid climate. Miss
Olson is rapidly recovering. This
lielng the only case of typhoid In the
Mosier district, It should not be used
ns a menus of starting the report
that there Is an epidemic of this fever
here.
Thanking you in ad vance for any
means of correcting this rumor you
may see tit to use, 1 remain
Yours verv trnlv,
D."l). HAII.
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