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THE HOOD HIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1913 ; LOCAL AND PERSONAL 1)uvI(Ihoii in your Kntcr 4'J9 V. U telephone directory Klrut class meulu und aceoi imodu uona ut .Mouniuin llrook Inn. Trout 1-uko. Mm. M. Hillings, Prop A. I lleitHlier, formerly with the Pueille Power & Light Company here upent Beverul duys lit town last week Minn Klizubcth Howell of t'.ioux City Iowa, arrived last week and U a guest at the home of Archie AdauiH.She ex pects to upend the summer with Mrs, Alice Osborne at Oak drove. Mrs. M. Hilling,, js now ready to re ceive guests at her place, Mountain llrook Inn, Trout Lake, Wash. Spe cial Sunday dinners will be served to parties If notified In advance l'ho te, George It. Miller, the Cloud Cap Inn Hume, was in town last week on his way to Portland, lie recently made uocciii io me inn und reports thut the last three miles of the trip are still snow covered, being still 15 feet deep in some places. Miss Francis, teacher in the local schools, expects to leave next week lor i iiicago, visiting a number of places of scenic interest en route From there she will return to Haven pun, towa, to spend the summer at her home. Mrs. J. V. Kigby expects her broth er, uev. j. .vi. i.resennger ,to arrive today for a short visit. Mr. Gresen rlger was presiding elder of the l It ciiurcu nere ior a number or years and will be remembered by many old friends. He has been living in Flor ida, but recently returned to Oregon and is now living at W'alula. Mrs Kigby and he hae not seen each other for 'M years. Mood Kiver'g legal fraternity has received an addition in the person of H. K. Stanton of Oak Grove, who has decided to resume the practice of law In this city. Mr. Stanton purchased a rancn at i;ik urove about a year ago. Previously he had practiced law at Stromsberg, Xeb., for 23 years Me has not yet secured an office, but this will be announced later Judge Castner a Fire Warden I'nder a new law County Judg Castner Is now fire warden for the county, lie will be authorized to is sue permits for burning slashings and starting fires. The season during which such permits are required Is between June 1 and October 1. Heights Team May Disband The Heights baseball team of this city, which has maintained one of the strongest aggregations in the Mid ( olumbla district for the past three seasons, will probably disband since Charles Hart and "Itillie" Hall. the team's battery, have accepted places on the Myrtle Point team for the remainder of the season. Hurt has been pitching and Hall catching cm the local team for the past three years. SOCIAL An Ice cream social will on the lawn of the Valley Church Thursday evening. Kveryone Invited. be given Chrsltian June 12 SANS SOUCI CLUB ENTERTAINS Last Thursclav afternoon the Sans Soncl l-jiibroidery Club entertained their ex nieinbern at a garden party on the beautiful lawn of the tut ton home. During the afternoon various embroidery stitches were demonstrat ed. One of Die most popular was "punch work." in which sides were chosen mid hen each lady was given a marslimaliovv. At a given signal the leaders started to eat their marshmallow s and as soon as they were hw allowed gave their neigh bors a "punch." The neighbor then ate hers and so on clown the line, the side finishing first being pronounc ed the most adept in this particular stitch. Other kinds of needlework tried were fagoting, cat stitch, drawn work and Irish crochet. The guests were then told that they would be taught padding and were led to the daintily appointed refreshment tables HCattered about under the trees. Tljere were about forty members and guests present. MACADAMIZING 13 STARTED K. O. Hall, who secured the con tract for laying macadam on several of tin city streets, has lost no time in gelling busy. A crew of men and a sleatii plow were put to work this week on the west end of Cascade Avenue and the work Is progressing rapidly. Most of the business streets which are to be hard surfaced are now graded and covered with crushed rock. The surfacltiK work wns start ed this week on F'ront and F'lrst lit recta. BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON Portland, with her Hose F'estlval, now the Mecca of the Northwest. Is A bumper strawberry crop! With a cloudless Hummer day and about 1000 persons present, Weston's twenty-first annual reunion of Umatil la county p.jneers was held. During the wool galea at lleppner. 1,000,000 pounds was disposed of at prices ranging about three cents less than last year. Dallas is planning the finest cele bration of Independence Day ever held In that city. The Dallas Chautauqua will open July 4, to continue for one week. A number of widows have applied tor the mothers' pensions at the office of the county clerk at Albany, during the past few days, and their requests will be considered by the county court. V. H. Snodgrass, ex-deputy warden of the penitentiary and now chief Of the guards there, was arrested on charge of having attacked and I verely beaten a prisoner May 16. If the efforts of the 22 widows with children who have made application for pensions under the law recently passed by the legislature are success ful the state will -expend $510 a month In Douglas county alone. George L. Hlodgett, sentenced for life in the Salem penitentiary for the murder of Alice Mlnthorn at Portland In 1!)()G, has been released under a conditional pardon given by Governor West. A grand Jury at The Dalles ha3 re turned mi indictment against George F. Ross charging him with the em bezzlement of public funds to the amount of $884.63, while recorder of that city. He was given bonds. Jackson county will Issue a pam phlet along the lines established by California counties. The edition will be at least 50,000 and It will contain approximately 100 pages, Including statistics and maps. The county court has authorized this work. The big V-shaped harrow now being built at Astoria for the port commis sion will soon be ready for use in lm proving the channel across the shoal at the mouth of the Columbia. It will have a spread of 20 feet, with eight th rey foot revolving discs. Taking a dare to climb a tree while out with a party of Joy riderB near Medtord, Miss Itamona Ladd, 18 years old, climbed to a height of 30 feet. A branch broke and she fell. She was carried to a hospital, and it Is said that her back is broken. The Trl County fair w ill be held In Condon this fall on October 1, 2 and 3, according to the decision of the ex ecutive committee in a special meet ing. The Tri-County fair is to be a permanent yearly t ent - in Condon henceforth. Advices were received by State En gineer Lewis that !000 acres of land belonging to the Columbia Southern project, has been withdrawn from en try by the Interior department. The original project consisted of 23,000 acres and the 0000 acres were Includ ed within the last few years. The forestry service has ordered a telephone line to be installed connect ing Prairie City with the summit of Strawberry Peak, 12 miles distant. A station will be erected on the ex treme summit of the peak at a height of over 10,000 feet, which overlooks the entire forestry district of eastern Oregon. Stone houses may replace the regu lation two roomed shanties which now form the abodes of homesteaders on virtually every quarter section In Christmas Lake and Silver Lake val leys. This Is made possible by the discovery of a half dozen stone quar ries on the side of Table Mountain. Mandamus proceedings have been begun by the Oregon & California rail road company against Sheriff Reeves of Washington county, to require him to show cause why he will not accept a tender of $19,755.08 In payment of! the onipiiny s t:.x in that county. This amount does not include a special road tax of $2,185.04. After waiting since 1910 to be reim bursed to the extent of $72 for rver- charges on some household goods ship- tied from Mobile. Ala., te Itonnburg, K. Lynn Tunnell has been notified by the st..te railroad commissioner that the Interstate commerce oommlssien has decided in his favor. The com mission took his case up several years ago, and the delay was due to the fact that many railroad lines wetit In volved. The McMinnville council awarded a contract for street grading to a firm of Portland contractors, and Mayor W. T. Vinton refused to affix hU sig nature. Contempt of court proceed ings followed, and the mayor was fined $:!00 and sentenced to six months confinement ia the reunty jail with out ball, or until such time as be sees fit to obey the orders ef Ut olrcult court that he sign the contraot. The Smith-Towers Logging eoia- pany, one of tile largest ooneerns or Its kind on the roast. Is making pre parations to open two camps three miles above Coqulllo, where It kas about 50,000,000 feet of timber. The right of way for a logging railroad to extend two miles Into fie timber from the main line is now being oleared and the road will be constructed forth with. The logs will no to Um a 1 Smith sawmill at Marshfiold. JUNE JUBILEE SALE ROYAL TAILOR SUITS Buy Your 4th of Jul y Suit Now Royal Made-to-Measure Suits, $ 13.50 u p. Every Suit Guaranteed to Fit and to Be Strictly All-Wool. HE Royal Tail ors have broken all records in the Made-to-Measure Tailor Business this season, and in order to make a grand cleanup of the spring season, they have reduced the prices on some of the best numbers of the season's goods. Every man knows that he nev er heard of an All- Wool Made-to-Measure Suit, guaranteed to (2? 1 CA fit and hold its shape for a year, at the exceedingly low price of . . . fP A 3 J LET US TAKE YOUR MEASURE NOW, SO YOUR SUIT WILL BE HERE BY THE 4TH We Can Mention Only a Few of the Numbers and Prices Here 7001 Is a brown striped cheviot; 7002, a grey herringbone stripe suiting Suit, $13.50 7003 Light brown mixture; 7004, grey diagonal; 7005, tan diagonal; 7006, light grey diagonal. Suit, $16.00 7168 Navy stripe worsted; 7092, grey stripe worsted; 7111-12-14, tan, navy, brown diagonals, $25 Suit, $20.00 7258 Grey silk striped worsted; 7259, tan silk check striped worsted, $30.00 suits, cut down to . $22.50 Here Is one of the big surprises of these unusual offerings 7384, a fine, soft finish Blue Serge Suit $25.00 fJThere are about 500 samples to choose from and every one is guaranteed all wool. Make your selection early, so you will not be disappointed in getting your suit on time. A complete line of Men's Furnishings, Shoes and Hats, Dress and Work Trousers New knitted Neckwear, 25c to $1.00; Summer-weight Suspenders, Invisible Suspenders, Arm Bands, Guaranteed Silk Socks, 50c; Guaranteed Wool Socks, all colors, 25c; Leather Belts, 25c to 75c; Soft and Starched Collars; Munsingwear Union Suits; Porosknit and B.V.D. Unions and separate garments. Balbriggan, Lisle and Mercerized Underwear LAST WEEK OF THE WHITE SALE All White Coods Priced Lower Until Saturday, June 14th Bragg Mercantile Co. Have You A TAD AT YOUR: HOME? The Tad System is Working Fine MANY INDICTED FOR WAGECOjttPIRACY 19 Minevvorkcrs Officials Ac cused of Fart in Restrict ing Coal Competition. It rt-maing for Colonel Watterson to J say what lie thinks about Colonel; Roosevelt, who lived at the White House for seven years and only used the mint bed a half-dozen times. Chautauqua July 21-28. He there. Charleston, VC Vh President Whi. ami 18 other officials of the Unite Mine Workers of America, were indict ed in the federal court here on a charge of violating the Sherman anti trust law. It is nllei;ed the defendants conspired with the coal operators of western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to raise wapes in the West Virginia coal fields so as to prevent its competition with the other four states In the western mi.rket. The Indictments charged that the 19 men affiliated with the United Mine workers of America did in Kanawha county. West Hirfcinia, and within the jurisdiction of the federal district court, engage in a combination and conspiracy unlawfully in restraint of trade and commerce in the several states; the offense is said to have started September 1, 11)12, and con tiii'iiil since. Ii is charged that the indicted men hae been agents and members of "an unincorporated voluntary organization of individuals as a labor union known as the United Mineworkers of Ameri ca, having many thousands "of mem bers, who conspired, by regulating wages, to control the price at which the co.M mined in the state of West Virginia could compete with coal min ed in l'ennsylvanl'i Ohio, Indintvi and Illinois." Tomato Plants We have for sale, younp; Tomato plants that were grown in lime and sulphur which stop the disease of blipht. CTry our plants one year and you will buy them every year. Geo. Hasllnger THE HEIGHTS GREENHOUSE Phone 3393 CELEBRATE THE NEW SCHEDULE ffieunt Hceci Railroad KlT.Ttuo 12:01 A. M. Sunday. Svpt. 8th lull! No. I a. n. 8 mi 8 05 8 15 8 85 8 40 9 05. 9 15 9 20 9 45 10 10 10 15 10 40 10 45 STATIONS Lv. Hiwxi Rivr Ar. I'mvtTtlale S Hi lihmi'k. Mo. 2 P.M. 2 55 .. : 50 2 :m Van Morn.. 2 10 M-hr ... tMell Summit Hlmicher Witians Iv TnMit Cwk Woworth Ar. Piirkitale I. v. 2 05 2 . 1 50 , 1 4;i 11! 1 30 1 15 1 05 1 00 A. WILSON. Agent. CONSERVATION NOT FAVORED Western Executive Favor Liberal Land Policy. Salt I,nk City, t'tah. When the national conference of governors meets in Colorado Springs next Au gust It will be asked by the western governors to go on record against the conservation policy pursued by the last three national administrations. This was made certain when the western conference officers, at Its closing session declared for a more liberal administration of the public lands by the national government. See the Late 1913 Model i REV. MR. PARSONS RETURNED Friends of llev. J. H. Parsons, as well as members of his congregation, will be pleased to learn that he was returned by the conference to his charge here. This was in response to n unanimous petition signed by members of his congregation. MONEY BACK Lawn Mower ! Sell Sharpening f i at en r Mir Adjusting Hall Hearings. Patent $ Draw-out Wiper P.lades always adjusted. Every blade absolutely perfect. Ruv a Monev hack and save annoyance and ad- $ 111 I IV' I 1(11 I A TIUXi GUARANTEED HIGH QUALITY IE. A. FRANZ GO. l-Aclusive Agent 1 Mood River, Oregon WW I At y It will be a Big Day in the APPLE CITY The Day's Program will Include: Gorgeous Automobile Parade; Hose Races, The Dalles vs. Hood River; Band Concerts; Base Ball Games; Dancing Afternoon and Evening; Fourth of July Exercises; Real Live Greased Pig; Aquatic Sports, Etc. GRAND DISPLAY OF FIREWORKS Something Doing Every Minute A Day Chuck Full of Amusement Special Reduced Rates on Railroads and Boats V