The Hood River news. (Hood River, Or.) 1909-current, April 23, 1913, Image 6

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    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
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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
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Bearing Orchards
Centrally Located
In Exchange for City Property in Port
land and Hood River.
J. H. Heilbronner & Co.
proved
4 Hart wig.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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IOOD RIVER, OREGON