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THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3. 1911 5 BARGAINS IN THREE FLATS Three Bargains in Willow Flat i H flat Forty acres, unimproved, all under irriga tion, on good county road, 30 acres first class orchard land, balance 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 of three year old trees; balance one year ex cept small patch of hay and berries for Home, Sweet 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. HOOD RIVER, OREGON THE SMITH BLOCK S. E. BARTMESS Funeral Director and Practical Embalmer ESTABLISHED 18 YEARS MOOD RIVER, OREGON r . m v i r i J Y I Jl t-XPRESS AND BAGGAGE Furniture and Pianos MaJcd All Kinds of Light and Heavy Work Wood Yard and Feed Store in Connection Office Phone 29 Residence 238K TAFT TRANSFER CO. 9 iJLM Stanley Smith Lumber Company Wholesale and Retail Lumber, Lath, Shingles Etc. Lumber delivered to any part of the Valley Electrical Contractors 'Bailey S31 Colby Hartmcss Hldg. Thonc GOX Estimates Cheerfully Furnished High Grade illectrtc Fixtures Up-To-Date Glassware Westlnghouse IJectric Motors heating Apparatus, Etc. Full.Llne of Llectric Wiring Supplies We Guarantee Satisfaction W. S. GR1BBLE The Mt. Hood Store General Merchandise Flour, Feed, Spray Material Farm Implements si and is Stumping Powder J. A. LITEL MT. HOOD, ORE. Blacksmith and Wagonmaker HORSE SHOEING A SPECIALTY 25 Yean Experience BARNES ANIMAL SHOW SAID TOJE WONDER In modern pugenntry therein said to Ik- not hint; unique ait the street parade of the Al (J. ItarntM ISIx Three Kln Wild Animal Circuit which will Ikj here May 9th, for two perfor DianceM. There are l'(HJ wild nnliualrt (all of them trained to do the acta that hu man ncrobntH perform), to lie dis played In their handsome cage of such proportion and equipment an to approximate the royal. That In merely the 1mk1uiiIuk. Iq thin real train are llonn, elephants, leopnrdH, panthers, cheetas, mountain lions, camels, tlKers, nud, In (act, all the singular creatures of Nature's wilds. One of the most Interesting epi sodes of this rare spectacle Is the g float typifying the early California days, which Is drawn ly six enor mous bears. These animals us high ly trained as possible In the "High School for Animals", conducted by Al. i. Barnes, seem to appreciate their Importance In the pageantry, and conduct themselves accordingly. Never before was such a spectacle provided by a circus management. Another thing Is the Introduction In the parade of several sacred cattle of India the worshiped zebus of In dus. Rapidly their nuiulrm are e Ing disseminated, and Al. (i. Barnes Is the only showman who may boast a herd of them. Still another big feature Is the ze bras. For Iwauty and grace nothing could excel the group that Mr. Humes presents, most of them captured from the African wilds by himself, for he Is an Intrepid hunter and most of the wild creatures that appear In the big three ring show were taken by him during his various trips to the Inter ior of Afrlcu uud the remote regions of Asia. I'onles!' Oh, my! The heart of every small boy will rejoice when he sees what a procession of these ex amples of equine perfections Al. G. Barnes will present on the morning of the opening, for It has been a pas sion with this kind-hearted show man to cultivate this species of the horse, with reference to his little friends, whose name Is legion. BODY OF INJURED MAN IDENTIFIED AS EDW. MOE The body of the man who was ta ken off the train here last week dead was Identified Thursday as Edward Moe, a laborer who had been work ing with a blgcoustrucrlon gang cm ployed by Twohy Bros., the contrac tors, a mile and a half Ik'Iow Biggs. The gang are engaged In double tracking the (). V. K. & N. near that point. Moe Is said to have ln-en a Norwe gian. When he was struck the men were Just quitting work for the day. The engine slowed down and had passed through the large crowd of men when Moe was still observed on the track. Just as the engine reached him he heard the approach of the train and started to leave the trrek. The pilot of the engine struck him In the sldecatislng Internal Injuries that were fatal, although the Injured man stated when they put him on the train that he was not hurt much and did not want to go to the hospital. The body was burled here Satur day In Idlewllde Cemetery, the burial having liecn arranged for by the rail road company and the contractors. GLOBE TROTTERS OUTFIT FOR LONG RIDE AT DALLES "Wyoming Jesse" Bowers, of Wy oming, who, with "Sailor tius" Fransen and "Texas I'ete" Jensen, will travel nround the world on horseback, pnssed through here last week on the way to The Dalles to secure three saddle horses for the long Journey. The three ex-cowpunchers will leave 1'ortland In n few dnys for San Francisco, the first leg of their trip across the (."tilted States. They ex pect to reach New York City In nine months, and plan to complete the Journey around the globe In tnree years. Only three horses anil a dog will tie taken and the packs will Im as light as possible. F.aeh rider will carry a rltle. a revolver and a knife. The trip will le for pleasure only, the Journey being planned thnt they may see the world cm horseback. How's This? We offer One Hundred Hollars Re ward for any case of catarrh thnt cannot be cured by Hall's Cntnrrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo. O. We, the undersigned, have known F. .1. Cheney for the last 15 years, and Is'lleve him erfeetly honorable In nil business transactions, and llnnnclal ly able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. Wnldlng, Klnnan Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, O. llallVCatarrh Cure Is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 7.V ht bottle. Sold by nil druggists, Take Hall's Family Fills for constipation. BARRETT SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT The annual commencement exer cises of the Barrett School will Is; held at the Valley Christian Church Saturday evening. May Cth, at S o'clock. The motto of the graduat ing class Is "By V irtue ami Labor". The class flower Is the carnation aud Its colors pink and green. A well selected program has Is-en arranged as follows: Music Orchestra Piano Solo Shubert's Serenade by Franz Liszt Ye mice Bobbins Double Quartettte "I'nder the Chestnut Tree" Duet "I w'ould that my Love" Mendelssohn Mrs. A. P. Auhagen, Mrs. W. E. Cauller Invocation Kev. Isaac Peart Solo "Meet Me by Moonlight" Ittter Murphy Oration "The Boy Problem and How the State Bolves It". Virgil Jones Solo Selected Mrs. Auhagen Oration "Take heed how you Build" Delia Smith Graduating Ode Twelve girls. Address to Class Bev. T. S. Hand suker Duet "Sweethearts and Hoses" Branen . Mrs. T. A. Heavls, Miss Gladys Heavls Presentation of Diplomas C. II. Bobbins, chairman of school board Quartette "Good Night" Mrs. Isaac Peart, Mrs. B. L. Mur phy, W. E. Cauller, B. L. Murphy The graduates are Delia Smith, El sie Moore, Virgil Jones, and Elno Jakku. The school board which has had charge of the Barrett school during the year are G. II. Bobbins, F. C. Sherrleb, J. H. Shoemaker and F. M Miller. STAR BOARDER HENS TO GETJHE AXE The conversion of a flock of hens that barely pays for the feed it eats Into one which will lift the mortgage from the farm, Is largely a matter of the elimination of the "star boarder" and the conservation of the L'(K)-egg-a year hens. Prof. Dryden, of the Oregon Agricultural College, has made a special study of this subject, and Is a Arm Lellever In the trap-nest. "To discover the egg type of hen, we have got to use the trap-nest or some method of keeping a record of eggs laid by Individual hens," he has said. "The trap-nest Is about the best thing we have discovered In the poultry business. We will make slow Improvement In breediug with out an egg record for each hen In the flock. The objection to the trap-nest Is that It requires too much labor for the farmer. That Is true. Not many farmers can give It the necessary time. I believe that the state ex periment station should come to the rescue here. There should Ite a breeding station, or several breeding stations, in every state, where farm could secure at nominal prices cock erels of good egg-lnylng pedigree to mate with their flocks. It would not take very long to furnish every farmer with a male bird whose an cestry for two generations has an egg record of 150 eggs a year or more. "We say It Is the hen of vigor thnt lays. We say that without consti tutional vitality she will not lay. That Is undoubtedly true. A hen tuny have the egg-laylng capacity, but without vigor she won't produce eggs. On the other hand, the hen may have vigor without egg-laylng capacity. She may have constitu tional vitality and lay less than L0 eggs a year. The point Is, thnt by selecting for vigor alone we won't make very rapid progress In breeding up n strain of layers. We have to select for both vigor and egg capac ity. The trap-nest enables us to do tlils." PRATHER'S CATS DIVIDE THEIR MATERNAL DUTIES Geo. T. Prather Is In the limelight again. This time with a couple of cats that are In line with the co-operative wave swaying the country. While feeding his work horses at the barn recently he discovered one of them with a nest of nine kittens. Mr. Prather was surprised at such a number for a single family. However, after a few moments the other cat returned with n mouse, which she gave to the cat suckling the kittens. Further observations proved that both of the cats were mothers and that they had entered an agreement to raise their families on the co-operative scheme. They alternate their time spent In hunting and feeding the kittens. Oregon Hotel Special Dinners A special table d'hote dinner will be served at the Hotel Oregon ,.Verv Sunday from "r.'M to 7:'M p. in. for 75 cents. An a la carle meal will also be served. Music by the Mandolin ( lub. Dine with us. LYLE TOWNSITE OPENED MONDAY The towuslte xt Lyle which has largely Is-longed to the railroad com pany and has not Is-en developed owing to the fiat that title to the laud could not be secured. Is now about to 1m opened up and big prepa rations are Itelng made to push Its development. In fact Lyle has been bottled up. It has leeu Impossible to pur chase auy lots there for years. Var ious reasons have been advanced for the refusal of the railroad company to proceed with development of the town site. Within the last year It has been rumored repeatedly that the company had at last decided t yield to purchasers and open up the town. One of the reasons given for holding back Lyle was that later the North Bank contemplated placing shops and yards there and did not want to be hampered by any of the restrictions of a town. Notwithstanding the bottling up, an active town has come Into being at Lyle. At present two large ho tels, five lurge general stores and a riuinU'r of other business enterprises are there. It Is the junction of the Goldendale branch with the main line of the North Bank railroad, and the steamer harbor at Lyle Is con ceded by river navigators to lie one of the best on the Columbia IUver. Keasey, Humason & Jeffery, the well known real estate operators of Portland, have been selected to place Lyle upon the market, and commenc ing Monday, May 1, the public was allowed for the first time In the his tory of the place to make purchase of property In the town. Plans have been drawn and building constauc tlon will lie started Immediately on a two-story office building. A bank has been organized, and will Imme diately construct a two-story con crete bank building. A 50-room tourist hotel has lieen decided upon. The Lyle Trading Company, which hns maintained a large general store at Lyle for a number of years. Is drawing up plans for a modern store building. The railroad will Imme diately build and equip a modern station to be one of the prettiest on the line of the North Bank. The exhibit made by the fruit growers of Lyle won the first grand prize for fruits, vegetables, grains, grasses aud forage plants at the Alaska-Yukon exposition at Seattle, and for three years In succession won the gold medal for Its display of non Irrigated fruits at the National Ap ple Show at Spokane. A number of orchards are being developed there. Tributary to Lyle is the famous Camas Prairie district, where lm mense quantities of grain are grown. 20 Acres OF Fine Red Shot Soil Hood River Apple Land in the Famous Oak Grove District Ten mil out in the southwest part of the Hood Kiver Valley. Hood River. Oreg-on. 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 capable 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 E. FORSBHRG, Owner Hood River, Oregon HOCKEN BERRY & BARTLETT ARCHITECTS Hcilbronner Building HOOD RIVER. OREGON Phone 61 The W. G. Aldred Co. CONTRACTORS EXCAVATING AND GRADING Crushed Rock and Gravel HOOD RIVER, OREGON lient I Garrabran.t Confectionery, Cigars Fishing Tackle Spaulding's Sporting Goods All Kinds of Soft Drinks Oak 8trt, opposit Smith Work. Hood Rivrr. Water VJorlis on the Farm Yes, that's Just what wf mean real water workt; mnnlsf water In the kitchen, the bathriM.nl, the laundry, the barn in fact, alt over the place. And it's all done bv that lauk you lower left hand corner of this picture the Leader Ryotem. It s Ysstlr dillrrent , from the old-fashioned elevated tank which worked by gravity. For the Leader Water Supply 6ystrm is operated by comfirrsssd air reliable, sale and cleanly. Your windmill pumps ater into the tank (which is already full of air). The air, being elastic, is compressed into upper part of the lank ind InrtA IK mlmr tutt IhriMioh th mri'. This rives you pressure, so that a powerful etreera ft water is on tap at every faucet, no matter where it U luc.itrd. And this mesns o. htU tn-frouctum, for the pressure is aluayi and always reiy. Now, the old style gravity tank were cither put In the attic or sit uated oa a high tower out of doom, la tat former case, their weight when full, cracked the plastering; or they overflowed or leake-l, flooding the rooms below. In the case of the outside tsnks, the water oftea froze solid in winter, necessitating eipensive plumb ing bills; or it became not and stagnant during the summer ana unnt lor use. The Leader Water O .. ... I aa O .. 1 S vs. aaV II X. -af 1 1 -V-V Pi J m Xiglgpg Yrn 1 avoids all this, because the afr-tlght tank is eiiner in ine uucmtni or uuiiru unurn 6 round below the front line. Every outfit i complete, with full directions, and is easily installed. The Leader System needs no repairs, is suited to smsll building or large, and is modeiatc in price. Let ns send you oar fr hanklrt, "How I feilvrd the Water supply Problem." the i story of a man who successfully squlppeft his country home with modern water wurks. W Write for It today, before you forget i mm sssBi i ap i is i 1 Apple Land and Orchard Company Offioo, Mo. 9 Oak St foot, Phono 26 orZ2002K. Hood River NOW OPEN Hotel ttlodem in tsvery Respect Located in tfvj Heart cf tft Upper Va((ey Rooms 50c and $1 Meals 35 Cents Rates by the Week PARKDALE, OREGON J. M. CLARK, Proprietor Real Estate And Insurance GEO. W. D1MICK & GO. . Next to Mt. Hood Hotel Unimproved Farms a Specialty Office phone 45-L, Residence 345-K THE MANUFACTURERS HAVE COMPLIED STRICTLY WITH THE GOVERNMENT PURE FOOD LAWS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF White River Flour It Is Unbleached CENTRAL MEAT MARKET H P. C. YOUNG, Proprietor jj Fresh and Cured Meats, Fish, Oysters S BUTTER AND EGGS Phone Main 6 i Fit EE .1.VD MOM VI DELIVERY Hood River, Oregon For Lime, Cement and House Plaster See STRANAHAN & CLARK The Ultimate Flour Wftite toaf Whv not your next sack? You cannot keep house without it. Kverv sack imarantced. Popular Price.