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THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 19, 1911 5 BARGAINS IN THREE FLATS Three Bargains in Willow Flat H flat Forty acres, unimproved, all under irriga tion, on good county road, 30 acres first class orchard land, oalance good timber. Four Thousand Dollars. One-half cash. B flat Forty acres a little higher up on the scale, above irrigation, all good orchard land. Ten acres partially cleard; adjoining $250 land. Four thousand and five hundred dollars. One-third cash. C flat Ten acres all improved; three acres cf three year old trees; balance one year ex cept small patch of hay and berries for Home, Surct home use; small house and barn both Home. new. One of the best pieces in Willow Flat. Six thousand dollars. Half cash. The Hood River District Land Co. THE SMITH BLOCK HOOD RIVER, OREGON S. E. BARTMESS Funeral Director and Practical Embalmer KSTAHLISHED 18 YEARS MOOD RIVER, OREGON I DRAYING Express " B. GGAC.E jj Furniture and Pianos Moxfed 4 All Kinds of Light and Heavy Work E Office Phone 29 Residence 238K TAFT TRANSFER CO. Stanley Smith Lumber Company Wholesale and Retail Lumber, Lath, Shingles Etc. Lumber delivered to any part of the Valley Electrical Contractors 'Bailey S31 Colby Harlmcss "Bldg. Thone 6QX Estimates Cheerfully Furnished High (Iraale Ucctric fixtures Up-To-Date Glassware NVestlnghou.se Llectric Motors Heating Apparatus, Etc. l ull Line of Llectric Wiring Supplies W e Guarantee Satisfaction W. S. GRIBBLE The Mt. Hood Store General Merchandise Flour, Feed, Spray Material Farm Implements :: and :: Stumping Powder J. A. LITEL MT. HOOD, ORE. Blacksmith and Wagonmaker HORSE SHOEING A SPECIALTY 25 Years Experience 4BaaBBaaBaHHBBv IN THE APPLE WORLD START EXPERIMENTS IN APPLESAND PEARS The department of horticulture at the Oregon Agricultural College la doing pollination work on an extent) Ive scale In apple aud pear orchards thin year near Medford and Hood Klver. Four men; K. V. Iteene, us stated by J. M. Kpldel of Edmund Okla., Hay Itoljerts of Lebanon, Linn county, and C. C. Thompnon of Hood Klver have been at Medford expert mentlng on eroding, tn the orchards there, and studying various problems concerning the netting of pears and apple. A corps of the college men will shortly come to Hood Klver to take up the study of some upeclal prob lems. Kor three years, Work has been done at Hood Klver on problems as to sterility and fertility of apples and the mutual nlllnlty of all the leading varletl.w. This year special dlllicultles In handling Spltzeubergs will be taken up. For the tlrst time work will be con ducted at Freewuter and In the Mil ton district and a part of the Walla Walla valley. The problems will be In connection with the speclul fruits grown In that region to determine whether the climatic conditions there cause any variations from data ai ready collected In other regions, Special studies are to le made of the Jonathan, Itonie Keauty and W ine sap apple. At the home station at the college K. J. Krause, assisted by others of the horticulture department, Is go ing to conduct elaborate series of studies and exterlments. Their work Is to !e more along the line of bud study as to the development and differentiation of apple buds. Prof. . K. Gardner has started a series of studies cf the blossoms of the prune and cherry, along the line of preliminary studies of breeding work be hopes to take up this com lug year with these fruits. We shall first determine the fertility or steril ity of the leading varieties of cherries and prunes. From the studies ob tallied we hope to get a certain per centage of seedlings which Indicate the stability and unit characters of these varieties. J. I). Grlllln of Astoria, Clatsop county, a Junior studeut will assist AWAIT DECISION IN ORCHARD CASE Whitehead's Utah Land Plaster Arsenate of Lead Vitrol Lime and Sulphur Solution Lime Seed Oats Vetch Whitehead's 20 Acres OF ine Red Shot Soil Hood River Apple Land in the Famous Oak Grove District Ten miles out In tha nouthwNt part of ths Hood Hirer valley. Hood Kivcr. Urewun. The tract is partly improved with 5 acres in young com mercial orchard, has fairly good house, barns, etc., and a fine spring well which is callable of being developed sufficiently to irrigate 40 or more acres. This tract is in the best apple section in the valley composed of all red shot soil. The surrounding country is being rapidly de veloped and growing into big money. FRANK 11. rORSBLietl, Owner hood River, Oregon Evidence Id tne Vanderbllt Orchard case was concluded Wednesday and the case Is now la the hands of .1 udge Wolverton of the United States IMst rlct Court for decision. The testi mony on both sides was volumln ous ana it is expeciea to ie some time before a decision Is humled down. Much or tne contention in the cane centered around the allegation tha the orchard contained hard pan and was therefore liable to Iwcome worth less. This assertion as to the nature of the soil was backed up by an ex pert from the experiment station a Colfax, Wash. In opposition to this several Hood Klver orchardlsts Including I'rof. Henderson, formerly of the Agrlcul tural college at Moscow, Idaho stated that there was no hard pnn In the orchard. To corroborate this statement, an expert aecom panled by Frank Dethman made hurried trip to Hood Klver from Portland during the trial and made an examination of the soli. In sev eral places they dug Into the orchard four feet but found no Indications of bard pnn and so testified the next day. Among other testimony given was that stating that the orchard bad this year paid 17 per cent on the 1n. vestment and that this amount could have been Increased ty more economical handling. WARNING ISSUED TO AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS The speed limit for automobiles, auto trucks and motorcycles on the public highways outside the corpor ate limits of any village or city In the state of Oregon Is 2-1 miles an hour The limit of such speed within the boundaries of any village or city Is 8 miles an hour. The limit of such speed approaching any team of horses or person riding a horse on said highways, Is to be so regulated that the automobile, auto truck or motorcycle will not If possible, frighten such horse or horses, and If the rider or driver of such horse or horses In case of thttlr becoming frightened shall signal to the driver of any automobile, auto truck or motorcycle to stop said motor ve hicle, he shall stop the same until such horse or horses are under con trol of the rider or driver thereof. All automobiles, auto trucks or motor cycles meeting other motor vehicles, teams, horseback riders or footmen on the public highways and streets shall turn to the right In passing, or If approaching other vehicles, horses or footmen from the rear shall turn to the left In passing. All motor ve hicles above named shall after dark ness while being driven on the public highways or streets display at least one white light In front and a red light In the rear of said vehicle, also displaying at the same time there upon, the registered number of such vehicle. The penalty for violation of any of the provisions of this law Is f 2.Y00 fine for the first offense and $1)0 fine for subsequent effenses. This Information Is given especially for the benefit of those persons who are unacquainted with the Oregon laws governing the operation of motor vehicles oil the public high ways, and reiterated as a general notice to others who have been ex ceeding the speed limit and falling to observe other provisions of this law In the use of our roads. Those per sons who have Ix-on violating this law In the past are hereby warned that If any further violations are ob served three days after the publica tion of this notice, meu will be placed upon the highways for the purpose of detection of offenders and those who nre arrested for these violations will get the benefit of the fine limit. (5KO. I). ClLBlTSOX, County Judge. Dated April 14th, l!ll. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely de range the whole system when enter ing It through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never le used except on prescriptions from repu table physicians, as the damage they will do Is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. .1. Cheney & Co.. Toledo. O.. iiitalns no iivei-cury, and Is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces ot the ystem. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure, Is sure you get the genuine. It Is taken Internally and made In Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by all drug gists, 7.V per bottle. Take Hall's Family Fills for constipation. THE DAY OF THE TRUMP By M. QUAD Copyright. 1910, by Associated Lit erary I'ress. One eveulng after supper Silas Wlggs picked up his Imt off the floor and walked out of the houxe without a word. Mrs. WIkks did not ask where he was gulag. She knew. Every week day night fur years and years Silas bad gone down to the village to loaf and gab for two or three hours. Ev ery night he Inquired for mall at the postoftVe, aud every night be received a shake of the head. On this evening, however, Silas did something he had never done before. He stopped for a moment to look at his wife and children, aa if bidding them, farewell. Mr. WIggs had come to be forty-eight years old. He had worked all his life. He hadn't broken bis back at It, but be bad done fairly well for a man who hated work. There were days when be was hoeing corn for some one for $1 a day that he got so mad he Jumped up and down and whooped. He want ed to take life easy, but he couldn't. He wanted to have a whole sack of flour and three pounds of butter ahead of the appetite of the family and then go fishing, but the day had never come. Neither the village postofflce nor the grocery nor the drug store saw Silas that evening jior for many long even ings to come. It was remarked that something must have happened to him. Something had. On leaving the house be bad walked In the opposite direction from the village. He had walked all night and all the next day. In fact, he kept on walking until be was 100 miles away. Then he stopped and got work lu a hotel barn for a few weeks. He finally found the man be was looking for, and after several In terviews with him Silas put fifty more miles between him and home. Then he sat down In a hamlet In the midst of a rich farming community and got his breath. As soon as rested he an nounced himself as Ablljab, the proph et He had come there to warn sin ners and all others that the last trump was about to sound. He set the day for It to sound. The date had been given him In a dream. Silas hair hung down to his shoul ders, and he bad a venerable appear ance and a deep voice. No one around there had ever seen a prophet, but it wasn't long before everybody was agreed that Silas at least looked like one. At first he was laughed at and ridiculed, but that only made him the more earnest. He spoke from the steps of the tavern, and he went from house to house and from farm to farm. He spoke to the women more than to the men. In two weeks he had half a dozen of them with him. Then he found male converts. This was In May. The last trump was to sound on the 4th of August. In four weeks two-thlrd9 of the pop ulation of a county were converts. In six weeks there were only a few out siders. The weekly papers scoffed at Silas and his dreams and predlctlous, but he silenced them by asking, "How do you know that this thing won't come to pass?" They didn't know It. They couldn't declare It Impossible. They couldn't sneer at the last trump business without offending their Chris tian subscribers. It was the same with lawyers and doctors. They Jump ed on Silas to Jump off again. You Ivelieve there is a heaven, don't you?" he would ask. "Oh, yes." "Ever been there?" "Of course not." "Ever see any one who had?" "No." "Then why do you believe?" "Because the Bible says so." "But It also says there shall be a Judgment day." Yes, but why on the 4th of Au gust r "Why on any day? Why not on that day as well as another?" "If the last trump is to sound what of our property?" "It will be destroyed with the earth. of course," was the reply. That suited some, but not the major ity. All day on the 3d of August the coun ty held Its breath. Farmer and vil lager put on clean shirts and did no work. It was said that children forgot to cry and that never a rooster crowed. Hundreds of people sat up all that night, going to their doors now and then to consult the heavens. On the morning of the 4th there was gathering on hills and knolls and a farewell shaking of hands. Teople spoke In whispers, and husbands and wives held hands. It was so up to 10 o'clock, to noon, to mldaftemoon. to sundown. Then Silas Wlggs stood up and snld to the people around him: It has not come and we will dis perse, but to hold ourselves In readi ness for a week yet. It may be that Oabrlel has mistaken the date." rld they swarm for him? Pld they bring out a rail and tsr and feathers? Did they go to the courts and cast him yito Jnll ? Nothing of the kind for Silas Wlggs. They allowed that there waa mistake somewhere, but It might be Gabriel's fault instead of Mr. Wlggs'. ne hung around for a week and then withdrew by dnyltcht, as an honest man should. lie said he would dream irnln and try and have the thing come off on time. Sllns hasn't worked any since. He doesn't have to. Ills share of the plnn dor vornitts him to go fishing all the time, and be never comas home empty handed. Water Works on the Farm Yea, that's Just what we mean real water morkt; runnlaff water in the kitchen, the bathroom, the laundry, th barn in (act, all ever the place. And it's all done br that tank yoo are la Is lower left band corner of this picture tne leader System. It's vsstly different from the old-fashioned elevated tank which worked by (rarity, for tha Leader Water supply System la operated by comfimud air reliable, aafa and cleanly. Your windmill pumpa water into the tank (which is already full of air). The air, being clastic, ia compressed into apper part of tha tank, and forces the water out through the pi pea. Thia fives you pressure, so that a powerful stream of water ia on tap at every faucet, do matter where it is located. And thia mrana oAi tul Jirt-pTottctwn, for tba pressure ia alwayt and alwaya ready. Now, th old style gravity tanks were either put ia the attic or ait. Bated on high tower out of doors. la the former case, their weight when full, cracked the plastering; or they overflowed or leaked, flooding the rooms below. In the case of the outside tanks, the water often froze solid in winter, necessitating eapensiva plumb ing bills; or it became aot and atagnaal during us summer ana unni lor use The Leader Water Supply System avoids all thia, bees use the air-ttght tank la either in the basement or buried under- 6 round below the frost line. Every outfit i complete, with full directions, and ia easily installed. 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