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8 THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1913 McEOB SPRING STYLES READY The Best $3 Hat on Earth. Try one. You will be a steady wearer I El Mm MMTB 3 y II " A FULL LINE OF NAP-A-TAN SHOES JUST ARRIVED r v LOCALSdPERSONALS Buy your coal of Taft Transfer Com pany, "tfc Lime and Spray Kelly Brot., phone 227-M. Samuel M. Blowers of Portland spent a couple of days here last week. Miss Jessie M. Turney returned Thursday from a two-weeks' visit at Eugene. A daughter was born Friday to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Foster, who live on Columbia street. W. M. Dickerson, who is spending the winter In Portland, was here a few days last week. Mrs. J. C. Skinner spent a couple of days last week with her husband, who is working in Portland. District Attorney W. A. Bell and Circuit Judge Bradshaw were here Fri day on court business. Professor C. D. Thompson spent sev eral days last week on a trip which included Corvallis, Salem and the Rogue River Valley. Among those who returned the last of the week from Corvallis, after at tending the short course, were George W. Blodgett, R. C. Sollenbach and R. W. Arens. Mr. and Mrs. Burton Frasher of Van couver, Wash., are guests at the Ho tel Oregon for a few days while look ing over the valley. C. W. Calkins, inspector for the Hardie Spray Machine Company, is spending a couple of weks in the valley Inspecting machines. The Sans Soucl Club will meet to morrow (Thursday) with Mrs. R. P. Orr on Sherman Avenue. An election of officers will be held and all mem bers are urged to be present. Rev. W. C. Gilmore, now of Dayton Wash., and a former pastor of the Congregational church here, greeted old friends the last of the week, hav ing stopped off for a brief visit. The High School basketball teams played the Dalles fives here Friday evening. The boys won, 23 to 9. The local girls played a closely contested game with the Dalles girls and were defeated, 14 to 12. While coasting down a steep hill at Oak Grove last week Oscar Vosberg struck a stump and sustained a severe wound over his right eye, the scalp being laid open. The wound was dressed and be is now- doing nicely. T. E. Watson arrived the last of the week from Raleigh, N. C. He Is an engineer and will be employed this summer on the Pacific Company's power project. Men are being employ ed this week, the camps are being built and final preparations being made for starting construction work. ; lore with Reerj & Fire, Accident, Life, Automobile, Plate Glass, Burglary, Employer's Liability, including FARMERS and ORCMARDISTS. Also Judicial, Official Resident Agent for: U. S. Northern Assurance Co.. Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ltd., of London Hanover Fire Insurance Co. of New York Pelican Assurance Co. of New York Heat Estate Loans A Splendid Line of Suits for School Boys-Just Arrived FRANK A. CRAM For Sale or Rem A piano. Phone 2193. 6tfc C. T. Early spent several days last week in Salem. For prompt delivery of coal call Taft Transfer Company. Ttfc For Rent Housekeeping rooms on State street. Phone 2821. 6tfc Public stenographic work done. Room 2, Hall Bldg. Phone 3291. 6tfc A. J. Brunquist went to White Sal mon the last of the week on a pruning job. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. McClain are re joicing over the arrival Sunday of a daughter. John Goldsbury and E. C. Euwer ot the Upper Valley returned Saturday from Corvallis, where they attended the short course. Friday evening at the Unitarian church a Valentine Party will be given, and young and old are cordially invited to attend. Harry Bennett, an orchardist of Lyle, was a visitor In the city Monday. A son was born last week to Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Shelley. C. C. Pratt, who has been in charge of installing the auto-manual telephone system here, left last week on a trip to Pasco, where a similar system is now being installed. Th stork ailed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bellamy on Sunday and left a 7 pound daughter, who has been named Marjorie. True-to-Name Nursery has opened an office in town on corner opposite from Oregon Hotel and samples of trees can be seen in tree yard adjoin ing office. Mr. Galligan will be at the office Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur days. Today (Wednesday) will be Mothers' Day at the Woman's Club meeting. Mrs. Sarah Orr Dunbar of Portland, corresponding secretary of the State Federation of Woman's Clubs, will speak. All members are urged to be present. An enjoyable occasion is being plan ned to take place at the Unitarian church this (Wednesday) evening, be ginning at 6:30 o'clock. This is to be a supper served by the Alliance to be followed by the opportunity to play cards. The admission fee is 3uc. A large attendance Is expected. WANTED Men and women to learn watchmaking and engraving, few months only learning. Practical work from start. Positions secured for graduates. Practical trade not over done. Write for particulars. Watch making School, 210 Globe Building. Portland, Ore. tf Boost for the experiment station. Henderson, Incj and Indemnity Bends Fidelity & Guaranty Co. of London Investments t Coal or Wood delivered on short no tice. Taft Transfer Company. 7tfc Regular Sunday excursion to Park dale. Tleasant trip for yourself ana friends. The I. D. K. Club will give a cos tume dance Friday evening, the mem bers appearing In the garb of boys and girls. Crawford Lemmon returned Satur day from Corvallis, where he attended the short course. He spent a week with his sister, Mrs. Snow, In Port land while enroute home. Any party knowing of any real es tate transaction with August Arp of Helix, Oregon, will please notify Mrs. Emma Arp Silliman, 944 N. Beaudry Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. 2tp At. the meeting of the county court last week It was decided to appoint a county road master. C. K. Marshall was given the appointment. This of fice, was discontinued several years ago, but it was thought advisable to re sume it. Chandler's orchestra of this place has now acquired an Interstate repu tation and will play for the Odd Fel. lows' ball to be given at Stevenson on the 22nd. They will also furnish mu sic for the masked ball to be given here the preceding evening. Mrs. John W. Sifton, wife of a prominent Portland physician, who bought a place south of town, has been here putting the house In order for their arrival next month, when the family will move here for the summer. Judge W. L. Bradshaw of The Dalles held a short session of Circuit Court here the last of the week. In addi tion to a number of small matters, L. Touscher, charged with bootlegging, was arraigned and pleaded not guilty. He will probably be tried at the next term of court. Rev. A. B. Warren of The Dalles has volunteered to hold services at St. Mark's Church Thursday evenings dur ing Lent. The hour will be eight o'clock in order that all may attend. Rev. Mr. Warren has preached here before and will be especially pleased to meet old friends. John B. Castner returned the last of the week from Logan, Utah, where he was in charge of a packing school at the stite agricultural college. He left Monday for British Columbia, where he will be employed by the govern ment for a month giving instruction In packing at Grand Forks, Creston, Crawford Bay and Kaslo. A masked ball is to be given on the evening before Washington's Birthday, February 21, at Hellbronner Hall. This will be a subscription dance un der the auspices of the Assembly Club, Many of the dancers will probably ap pear In Colonial costumes appropriate to the occasion. . Card tables will be placed at one end of the hall and those who wish may indulge in this pastime. Arrangements are being made which promise to make it one of the pleasantest socla) functions of the season. A number of prominent Hood River people have closed their country homes for the winter and are enjoying a gay season in Portland. A recent theater party composed of Hood River people, followed by a banquet at the Hotel Portland last week, brought to gether 28 loyal representatives of the famous valley. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Dickerson, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Deem, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Carpenter, Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Ravlln, Mr. and Mm. W. E. King, Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Ireland, Mr. and Mrs. Murray Kay, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cutler, Mr. and Mrs. Alan Reed, Miss Grace Peck, Miss Lula McCully, Miss Lucy Cutler, Mrs. Burnette, E. Duncan, Asa Cutler, Mr. Dickerson. Oregonlan. Can deliver coal or wood promptly. Taft Transfer Company. "tfc J. L. Firebaugh of urtley was a visitor in the city Thursday. Julian P. Scott has returned from Portland, where lie has been spending the winter. William Reavis of Washougal.Wash. visited his brother here the last of the week. B. H. Baker and C. B. Durham, old friends of Wilmer Sieg's in Milwaukee, were visiting him Friday. Lester P. Harris of the Upper Val ley, who has been taking the O. A. C short course, returned the last of the week. Mrs. W. S. Farris, formerly of this city and now o. Portland, spent Sun day here while enroute home from Spokane. James T. Burney of Kansas City Is a guest at the Mt. Hood Hotel for few days while inspecting his Inter ests here and in White Salmon. Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Boe, Mrs. Boe's mother, Mrs. A. Killer, and Miss Filler were In town from Parkdale the last of the week to see Mrs. Filler off. She was leaving fur a visit In California. C. G. Roberts of "Tanglewood," who has been spending the winter in Van couver, B. C, made a short stay here the last of the week while enroute to Medford to visit a daughter. Friday night was the coldest of the season, the thermometer dropping to 10 degrees above. The cold snap brought back excellent skating and the ponds north of the railroad have been thronped with skaters. What is a house without some kind of music in it? What will a Music House be 'n Hood River without your patronage? Waggener'a Music House has the goods, and Waggener wants your trade." David Cooper of Portland spent part of last week here to be with his sis ter, Mrs. George Perkins, who under went a serious operation at the hos pital. Mrs. Perkins' children were al so here, including Mrs. William Smith from Fossil, Ore., and J. L. and Z. Dimmick from Starbuck, Wash., and British Columbia. Hog Clear $70 for Owners Seventy dollars on one hog in 12 months is the record made by J. Harmes on his Row River farm. W. A year ago he bought a young sow for $10. She raised nine pigs and the net returns from these and the sale of the original sow amounted to $70. The sow was fed on milk and roots and fattened on oats and wheat. ST. Mark's Episcopal Church Sunday School at 10 o'clock. Morn Ing services will be held at 11 with J.W. Crites as lav reader. He will also read a short sermon. Beginning to morrow (Thursday) evening and con tinulng each Thursday during Lent Rev. A H. Warren of The Dalles will conduct a Ienten service at 8 o'clock. This Is a volunteer assistance on the jutU p;dot( sj ii pu uajjA'JW JO l-""1 a large congregation will attend. Receiver Named for Orchard The Fen-ell orchard, consisting of about 20 acre of bearing trees, and la cated In the Willow Flat section, was placed in the hands of the receiver by Judge W. L. Bradshaw. T. A. Decker, of the Davidson Fruit Com pany, was named as receiver. A Pittsburg woman asserts that her husband has not given her a cent In 38 years. Swed n has ordered 1,00 tons of American armor plate for new battle ships. New York has six blind operators at telephone switchboards. BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON Twenty-two cups, valued at $250, are offered as prizes at the Union poultry show, to be held February 13, 14 and 15. James S. Royal, Oregon pioneer of 1SS2, Indian fighter and former owner of a portion of Portland's east side, died at his home in Forest Grove of acute kidney trouble. Under direction of T. F. Smith, ot Talent, chief inspector for the district, orchards in Ashland territory are be ing overhauled by county horticultural officials for evidence of blight or seal. The general merchandise store and hotel of J. W. Meyers & Son, at Hebo, were burned to the ground. The en tire stock and hotel furnishings were destroyed. The loss waa $20,000, part ly insured. A bank, to be known as the Bank of Shedd, will be established at Shedd, In Linn county, articles of incorpora tion having been filed In the county clerk's office Friday. The bank will have a capital stock of $15,000. Fire at Bend wiped out a row of frame buildings with a loss of about $10,000. The origin of the fire 1 un known. Two saloons, barber shop, restaurant, pool hall and a bowling alley were put out of business. The same site was cleared by fire In No vember, 1910. With the end In view of establish ing a cement plant at Vale, George S Mills is developing the big gypsum deposit on the hill east of town, In an effort to interest outside capital. Should such a plant be established. It would be the only one of Its kind be tween Ogden and Portland. Judge Kelly of the circuit court at Albany, pronounced sentence In the liquor cases. J. D. Kennedy, on two convictions, was sentenced to pay a $605 fine and serve 50 days In Jail; Walter A. Marks, $400 fine and 10 days; Ed Ackerman, $150 fine. E. D. Henry, of Harrlsburg, convicted on two counts, failed to appear. Apple trees which were planted 56 years ago by the late A. O. Marshall, a well-known Linn county pioneer, on bis farm seven miles east of Albany, are yet bearing splendidly. There was a good crop on the trees last fall. Three different varieties of apples are Included In the old trees, Baldwins, Spitzenbergs and Bellflowers. To pave at least ten blocks with hard-surface pavement during the com ing summer is the object of a special committee appointed by the Dallas commercial club to Interview the prop erty owners to be affected by the proposed Improvement They report much progress. The proposed Im provement will take In the entire busi ness district. Bandon is assured a public library. A mass meeting was held to discuss plan for the establishment and main tenance of a library. A considerable sum was raised as a nucleus and a soliciting committee waa appointed to continue the work until the sum of $500 was secured for the special pur pose of buying more books and $(00 for a maintenance fund. The commissioners of Jackson coun ty have authorized preliminary sur veys for an Improved road over the Slsklyous, south of Ashland. This movement Is really one result of the Pacific Highway agitation, and Is la line with other work la view, which has for Its aim a connecting link between the Oregon and California subdivisions of this big Interstate road. The contract for the sale of HS,00V 000 feet of timber In the Uwipqua na tional foreet to the United States Lop glng company, new corporation, wlta headquarters at Cottage Grove, was signed Thursday and sent to Wash ington for the approval of the Interior department. Tne company was tn only bidder. Most of the timber la Douglas fir, which, with the red cedar and sugar pine, sold at $1.25 for each 1000 feet The hemlock waa sold at 60 cents. Another Impetus to the dairying In dustry in central Oregon Is the estab lishment of a cheese factory at La I it law. John B. W liner, a Latdlaw mer chant and rancher, is the promoter of the enterprise, the first In Crook county and the second In central Ore gon. Mr. Wimer has already placed orders for machinery and Is now on a trop to Corvallis and other Willamette valley points, purchasing cows which will be imported. Mr. Wlmer will buy nearly 100 head, which will be distri buted among the ranchers. Mr. Wim r t TO EXCHANGE THREE NEW MODERN HOUSES-located in the best East Side district of Portland. True value. $11,500 to exchange for bearing1 orchard of nearly equal value, or not to exceed $12,500. 25 ACRES Located 5 12 miles out on East Side; 10 acres bearing; 2 acres 3 years old; balance partly cleared, located on main county road. This is strictly high grade property. What have you to oiler in exchange for this? Will consider stocks, bonds or other property for part. Price $15,000, and worth the money. Have a client who owns a $5,000 house in Portland, 80 acres of good uncleared land in Mosier district worth $G,400. Will trade these properties for a nice VIEW place near Pine Grove district and assume or pay cash difference. When you think of Insurance, think of ROBERTS & SIMMS ucccssona to G. Y. EDWARDS &. CO. PHONE 3111 HOTEL OREGON BUILDING LOW COLONIST DAILY MARCH 15 TO APRIL 15 To AirPoints on the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Ry. FROM Chicago I'eoria St. Louis Milwaukee Little Rock Memphis New Orleans... i F ROM OTHER EASTERN POINTS IN PROPORTION Tell your friends in the East of this opportunity of mov ing West at low fares. Direct train service via Burlington Route, Northern Pacific, Great Northern and Spokane, Port land & Seattle lines. You can deposit funds with me and tickets will be fur nished people in the East. Details will be furnished on request. W. D. SKINNER, Traffic Manager, Portland, Ore. er estimates that 300 pounds of cneeae will be turned out dally. The bottling plant of th Eastern Oregon company at The Dalles, was gutted by a fire. The bottling work were In a stone building, with shingle roof detached from the brewery pro per, which made It possible for the firemen to successfully cope with th fire, though for a time It was thought the brewery was doomed. The weed en partitions and roof were entirely destroyed, and the machinery badly damaged, causing a loss of probably $5000, but the walls are Intact, belag only slightly damaged. Th origin of the fire Is not known. Th brewing company will rebuild the bottling works at once. Read the News. It tells It all. . sT - We are offering some t fine bargains in WATCHES and Hand Painted China See Our Windows Arthur Clarke Jtweler and Optician Opp Bullet's Bank . FARES $38.00 37.00 37.00 36.70 42.50 41.50 48.05 St. Paul $.10.00 Minneapolis... 30.00 Duluth 30.00 KanasClty 30.00 Omaha 30.00 St Joseph 30-00 Lincoln 30.00 A. GIBERT, Agent, White Salmon, Wash. mm