THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23. 1913 PLAY BALL I S10.00--S15.00--S18.00 AND S20.00 J An Open Door Always WE SELL SUITS FITFORM CLOTHES i-.rjs ... r-t That's our system and it has proven a mighty good one. This store is for every man, and every man will find a cheery greeting here. It's one place at least where a man can come and look and not feel uncomfortable. We are keen for more businessfor your business but first of all we want you to know us and our UP-TO-DATE METHODS WE GIVE VALUABLE REED ROCKERS TO OUR TRADE FREE ! FRANK A. GRAM i! IWk I FITFORM A ! x v rvi iv i r Bearing Orchards Centrally Located In Exchange for City Property in Port land and Hood River. J. H. Heilbronner & Co. proved 4 Hart wig. V V LOCALSPERSONALS Lime and Spray Kelly Bros., phone 4443. Buy your coal of Taft Transfer Com pany. 7tfc Motorcycle for sale. A bargain, see G. L. Emry. 16-17p A son was born Tuesday to Mr. and Mrs. Fred S. Mack at Pine Grove. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Clark of Dee were In town for several days last week. H. E. Noble, a Portland capitalist, was here with Mrs. Noble over the week end. S. F. White, a Portland contractor, arrived last week to spend a couple of weeks in the valley. D. C. Eccles of Ogden was here j Can deliver coal or wood promptly Taft Transfer Company. 7tfc If you want insurance in companies that pay losses promptly and in full call on A. W. Onthank. Mrs. C. W. Hooker of Oak Grove, who has been quite ill, is now report ed to be improving. F. C. Kurz. a druggist from Chica go, has been spending several days here with a view to locating. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Kerr and baby. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ft. Kerr and child ren and Dr. David T. Kerr of Port land spent the week end here. Mrs. W. F. Shannon of Dee return ed Saturday from a trip to Portland. She was accompanied upon lier re- last week looking over the Eccles in-turn by her sister-in-law. Miss Edith terests in the valley. Mrs. James S. Brayden of Salem, Shannon and Mrs. Bertha Giese, who will spend some time at the Shan- Mass., arrived last week to spend the J non'g summer home. summer with her sister, Mrs. D. E. ( lark, at Odell. V. D. Haven and wife of Eugene, who bought the Samuel Blowers place on Cascade Avenue, came Saturday for a short stay. MOTHERS! REMEMBEIl Friday and Saturday, May 2 and 3, are Tad Days at the Bragg Mercutile Com pany's store. See their add in this issue. 17-18c NOTICE Before ordering your Bur bank and Vermont Gold Coin seed po tatoes you had better call the V. C. M. Ranch, F'hone Odell 337. 11 18c Mr. and Mrs. Val Tompkins of Cas cade Flocks and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Lucas. Their daughters, Aileen and Alice, were con firmed by Bishop Paddock at the Epis copal church and Miss Aileen remain, ed over until Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. George J. Parker, who have been spending the winter at Newark, Neb., returned Saturday to their ranch in the Upper Valley. They were accompanied by their nephew, Thomas Evans of Colorado Springs, who will spend the summer I them. For prompt delivery of coal call T. ,1 T rr For Rent Three furnished light housekeeping rooms. Phone 2653. if $926.00 to loan on first-class im farm land security. E. H 12tfc Attorney A. P. Reed and Joe D. Thomison made the trip to Celilo Sat urday to see the big government project. Write for our booklet on the cheap est irrigated lands ever offered. Grow clover and alfalfa, and make money raising hogs. Pend Oreille County Land Co., Newport, Wash. 17-24p B. E. Duncan, who has extensive property Interests at Camas, Prairie, Wash., made the trip to Glenwood last week. by automobile. He found the roads in excellent condition for this, time of the year and made the first eighteen miles of the trip with' out chains. At a sheriff's sale the last of the week H. F. Davidson bid In the fam ous Sheppard orchard in the Willow Flat section and paid for the 51 acres $35,000. There are about 20 acres in full bearing on the tract and the bal ance is set to young trees of com mercial varieties. A suit for divorce has been filed in the Circuit Court by Mildred Es tella Fenlon against Henry Alexander Fenlon. They were married in Craw ford county, Neb., April 8, 1908, and she says that he deserted her. There are no children and she wants to re sume her maiden name of Mildred E. Pullen. Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Heifer left this week for Indianapolis, where he has accepted a flattering offer from the American Motor Car Company. Mr. and Mrs. Heifer have made their home for the past three years on their ranch in the Belmont district and made many friends who will regret their departure. At the election of May Day Queen held by the students at Willamette I'niversity, Miss Ada Mark of Hood River was chosen. Miss Mark is a senior in the college of liberal arts, president of the Philadosian Society and a graduate of FFood River High School. May Day with the crowning of the Queen and attendant exercises Is the leading student day at old Wil lamette. NOTICE We have a client who desires to secure a loan of $2100.00 on first mort gage on 40 acres of land about three miles Bouth of Hood River. Will pay w ith 8 per cent interest Phone 3183. 13tfc STARK & HAZLETT. Will buy well secured first mort gages. E. II. Hartwlg. 14tfc Coal or Wood delivered on short no tice. Taft Transfer Company. 7tfc George A. Clough. who has a ranch at Mt: Hood, was here from Arlington this week. L. S. Miller of Portland, who has a ranch at Van Horn, was up on a visit this week. Mrs. Ella J. Wilbur tripped and fell on the sidewalk last week, sustaining a painful fracture uf the nose. J. Clifford Combs, formerly a ranch er at Willow Flat, is a visitor here this week from San Francisco. E. B. Clark, a former resident and now a property holder here, was up from Portland over the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Castner re turned Thursday after spending two weeks on the Davidson Fruit Com pany ranch at Lebanon. Rev. J. H. Swift, who has been making an extended trip In the East, will return the last of the week and occupy the Christian church pulpit Sunday. B. Cram ani '.family of Gateway, Oregon, visited his brother. Frank A. Cram, the last of the week. He had Just delivered a $42,0u0 shipment of cattle to the stockyards at Portland. W. H. Lawrence, formerly county pathologist, has become manager of the newly-organized Oregon and Washington Fruit and Farm Land Company. The company's main office is in Portland with branch offices in St. Paul, Hood River and Lyle. Lawrence Robertson of the Belmont district and Mrs. Edna Lee of Port land were married In that city the last of the week. They will make their home at Green Point, where he will be employed during the summer. Mrs. George H. Gill returned to Du fur Saturday after having spent two weeks with her sister, Mrs. Charles N, Clarke. An enjoyable reception to new menv bers was held at the Methodist church Friday evening. Miss Bess Edging- ton arranged the program, which was greatly enjoyed. It included a pipe organ selection by Mrs. Oxborrow, re- clt .tions by Misses Alice Taylor and Gretchen Calkins, vocal solos by Miss Bess Edgington and Miss Gill, a violin solo by Dr. M. H. Sharp. All were re called for encores. . Luncheon and a social hour concluded the evening's entertainment. A daughter was born on Friday to I ..$s$.vSk4k$$j3 air. ana Mrs. i. K. Hunt, who live at Eighth and May slreets. Mrs. D. B. Learning of Portland and her daughter, Mrs. D. D Conway, came HAY FOR 8ALE Timothy and good cleangrain hay. nquire Meadow Brook Farm. Phono 5524. 14-17p. 3 CAMAS PRAIRIE HAY LANDS There is money in Hay and Cows and this is the correct time to get into the business. We have some good farms equipped with buildings and the prices are right and the terms will suit your pocketbook. B. E. DUNCAN & CO. up Saturday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. .J I. Miller. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Fording, who have been spending the winter in Cal ifornia and at Puget Sound points. returned a few days ago. E. L. Bashford, a capitalist of Van couver, Wash., who is contemplating building a flouring mill here, came up this week to look things over. C. C. Lemmon will drive his Apper- son car for hire thig summer and will make his - headquarters at the ML Hood Hotel, where he may be found at any time. Among those who were over from Underwood for the dance Friday evening were the following: Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Greiner, Misses Rachel Brooks, Ruth Benton and Ruth Coop er, Harry Stickney and Frank Hoag. Mrs. Robert Tazwell of Ruthton sus tained a broken shoulder the last of the week. She wag driving to town and in passing another rig the wheels of the two carriages became locked and Mrs. Tazwell was thrown out. She was brought to the hospital where the fracture was reduced. The dance given by the guild of St. Mark's church Friday evening was one of the most successful of the series. There were about 60 couples present and music was furnished by Chandler's orchestra. So popular have these dances proven that requests have been made that another be held in a couple of weeks and It is prob able that this will be done. A class of 15 were confirmed by Bishop Robert L. Paddock at St. Mark's Episcopal Church last Sunday. They included the following: Mrs. W. J. Baker, Mrs. C. R. Bone, Mrs Harry T. DeWitt, Mrs. George Stran ahan, Mrs. W. L. Clarke, Levi. Clarke, Master Newton Clarke, Miss Palmer, the Misses Aileen and Alice Tomp kins, Miss Susanne Kay, Miss Laura Doerrer, Mrs. A. C. Lofts and Miss Viola Crap per and Miss Bretherton. Rev. "Billy" Sunday of this place has just closed a successful revival at wiiKesnarre, i'a., according to a clipping received here which says Rev. Billy Sunday's revival meetings closed at Wllkesbarre, Pa., Sunday evening. Forty thousand persons at tended the services the last day and the free will offering amounted to a little more than $23,000. The total number of converts was about 16,000. At Columbus the offering was $21,000 and the number of converts 18,000. torejl nee & Henderson, Incj Fire, Accident, Life, Automobile, Plate Glass, Burglary, Employer's Liability, including FARMERS and ORCMARDISTS. Also Judicial, Official and Indemnity Bonds I Resident Agent for: U. S. Fidelity & Guaranty Co. V T.ll A T J iNorinern Assurance vx.t 01 Lionuon Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ltd., of London Hanover Fire Insurance Co. of New York Pelican Assurance Co. of New York Investments "Real Estate Loans REAL ESTATE BULLETIN 8 Acres Upper Valley. 4 acres in apple trees from lto 5 years old; 4 acres uncleared. Small buildings valued at $600. Price $3,000. Will exchange for Hood River residence property. 230 Acres Near Salem, Ore. Price $23,000-80 acres wheat and grass. Balance stock range. Electric line station 1 12 miles; near cannery, 4 miles from town. Ideal proper ty for subdivision. Will trade for Hood Kiver acreage. What f have you : 22.6 Acres Price $5,000. Ited shot soil, good spring; 4 acres in 5 to 8 year trees Newtown, Spitz and Baldwin. 3 acres, 2 and 3 years, Newtown and Spitz; a few pears. Fam ily orchard of peaches and cherries; fifteen acres fairly level; balance pasture. Will exchange for good house and lot 20 Acres in Marion McUae tract Will exchange for 5 room cottage in Hood Iliver. What have you? Five old line Insurance Companies that have been doing business for more than 50 years, are ready to take your ap plication for insurance. Come and talk it over with us. ROBERTS & SIMMS UCCtSSOHS TO EDWARDS 4. CO. HOTEL OREGON BUILDING G. Y. PHONE 311 1 EAST FORK RATES SET The directors of the Kest Fork Fr rlgatlon District have estimated that the tolls for water this season will probably not exceed $5 per Inch. On that basis they will make a levy of $2.60, payable the first of July, and the balance of the toll will be col lected October 1, at which time It will be known how much will be nec essary to pay operating expenses. Un der the old company the toll was $8 per Inch. r It's Sure to Be Right If the watch comes from here, no matter if you buy the cheapest or most expensive--Lvery watch $ we sell is a... Guaranteed TSimcKccpcr Arthur Clarke Jtwtler and Optician Opp Hutlci i llmnk t Grace U. B. Church Sunday School at 10 a. m. Special sermon to the church at 11 a. m., sub ject, "Counting Like Children." C.K. at 7 p. m., at 8 p. m. the subjet will be "Caught One of Our Citizen swllh a Small Shipment of Tiooze Why Not Catch Others Continuously Re celvlng Irge Shipments of Booze?" J. Fi. F'arsons, minister. PR 11 HOME PFANO TUNKFt O. H. Car rier, II. V. D. 1, or phone 8. W. Arnold, 3102. 1417c Cf hat Is 'Printing NO JOB TOO LARGE OR TOO SMALL FOR The NEWS JOB DEPARTMENT j S. E. BARTMESS Funeral Director and Practical Embalmer ESTABLISHED 18 YEARS IOOD RIVER, OREGON