MOSIER BULLETIN
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
BY
RO G ER W. MOE
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
On« Y mt
Month.
ti.fio
Thfw Month»
Entered aa M.ond-claa« matter March 12. 1909 at
the post office at Muster. Oreron. under the Act of
March 3, UT79.
VOL. VII
MOSIER, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 19 1 « .
HOOD RIVER
60 YEARS AGO
W h a t T im e Is It?
Everyone asks this question many times daily.
Our lives are regulated by our watches.
You are beginning a New Year.
Begin right by having your watch thoroughly cleaned
and adjusted.
Our repair work gives splendid service and will prove
worthy of your patronage.
SHIP THROUGH AGEN
CIES, IS ADVICE
W. F. Laraway, Jeweler and Optician
, E X P E R T SW ISS W A T C H R E P A IR IN G
One day he asked his neighbor,
Why his chickens laid so well.
He said, ‘‘Not feed nor labor,
But my hen house built so swell.”
See ‘‘Lumber Bill” for “Tum-A-Lumber”
and built your hen house snug and warm.
And the eggs roll out from under.
All the chickens on the farm.
•SEE J . S. ANDERSON ABOUT IT'*
Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co.
AT T H E HO M E O F
M o sier, O re g o n
transportation
Electric Light Globes
T h e kind best adapted to Mosier Service
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to the party order in g them, at l«*ai rat««, and
paid for before «Aidavit» are furnished.
Nichol & Company
General
Merchandise
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P E R S O N A L S E R V IC E
W h y g o to P o rtla n d fo r d e n ta l w o rk ? D o y o u s to p to c o n s id e r
th e se rv ic e y o u re c e iv e fro m th e h a n d s of th e d e n tis t w h o is h ire d
by th e w e e k to o p e ra te fo r you? H a v e y o u r w o r k d o n e a t h o m e
hy th e d e n tis t w h o d o e s th e w o rk fro m sta rt t o finish.
J J k G o ld C ro w n s
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Dr. Wm. M. Post
O ffice H o u rs 9 to 12, 1 to *.
P h o n e 2401
R o o m s 18-19 H e ilh ro n n e r Rldg.
H o o d R iv e r, O re g o n
Weather
We have had lots of weather the past month,—not all
agreeable. "Rainy days” come to all of us. If you have a
hank account you will be prepared for the rainy day that is
sure to come.
MOSIER VALLEY B A N K
M o sier
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O re g o n
Udiio, runidiiu ac /iMuua navicatimi Gumpuuj
Steam er “ Dalle* City** and “ S tran ger*1
I«e«v(*N P ortland 7 a. n»., arrive« The D>»ll**« fl:30 p in., H tinday, M onday, T uesday.
W ednesday, Thu isday (not Friday] and M aturday. A rrive« up a t Moelei about A
p. m l-eave« The Dalle« 7 a. m ., arrive« P ortland 6:30 p. in. H unday, M onel«/, Tues
d ay, W ednesday, T hursday, F riday, (not Saturday). Arrive« dow n at Mo«ter about
H:4A a in. W ednesday of each wee* 1« «et aside a« “ Stork Y ard Day " and then the
Bteamer "D alles City will take live stock for delivery tt> P ortland U nion Htock Yard
T his «er vlna «vili perm it the Ind ividual to sh ip a« few anim al« «« desired and get the
benefit of low freight rateN. For further In firm â t Inn telephone num b er Ml.
.1. O. B E L D I N , A g e n t
P h o n e
i Cheer Up!
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Busin— local« will b* cbar#*d at 5 cent« p«r tin«
for aach insertion.
ii M OSIER
John Davis, he often to me said,
‘‘My chickens will not lay;
I feed them dollar wheat for feed.
But cannot make it pay.”
I*r month t .BO
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grove for shelte r. Our own cows came night to post the moon on the events
to ua for protection and all the rest of the preceding day. The m ornin g ; \
followed. Mr. Laughiin felled trees to proved pleasant and the re st of the trip !!
m ake a large enclosure to keep them was uneventful.
away. When the storm abated he sent
an Indian with a message to those men
to come and take their stock away.
But the men abandoned the stock and
SON OF PIONEER WRITES STORY went to their homes a t the Cascades.
The c attle stayed in that grove until
every one died. All of Dr. F a r n s
w o rth 's and all of Mr. I.a ughlin’s but
However large they may have been,
14 head also died
At t h a t tim e there
was quite a deep ravine running from cam paigns and m eetings among fruit
j u s t below the spring down through the growers of the n o tth w e s t dwindle in
grove. By spring t h a t ravine was full comparison with the propaganda of ed
ucation proposed by no less an in s t it u
of dead cattle.
(H. C. Coe in Hood River Glacier)
A f t e r Christm as Dr. Fa rnsw orth be tion than the D e p artm en t of Agricul
tu re of the United States, which is
Hood R iv er has j u s t passed the half came discouraged, so he and Mr. now looming, according to advices r e
c entury m ark of its first settlem ent. Laughiin felled a large hr tree, dug ceived In Hood River by Wilmer Sieg.
The ranks of those haidy pioneers, who and burned and hewed out a very large
C. W. Moornaw. C. E. Bassett ami
alone can tell the story of its earliest canoe, in which he loaded e verything W. H. Kerr, re p re se n tativ es of the
s e ttle m e n t, a re being so rapidly deci he had and drifte d away from Hood Office of M a rkets of the United S ta te s
mated by the G re at D estroyer t h a t very River forever.
I hia left Mr. L aughlin's family very I ’O 'a r t m e n t of A griculture, « h o have
soon the last of these forerunners of
civilisation shall have crossed the dark forlorn. They had a w inter of struggles been ,n W ashington since the middle of
river and passed into the g r e a t un and hardships. With the help of Indi- J \ n, ^ ry, ip r e p a r ‘n8 a r. W r t , on . * n
ana whom he hired he felled trees to ''eal 8a.t , ° n ..™ade
f r u ,t IR0™’
known beyond.
Those of you who now, with wonder m ake corrals to se p a ra te the weaker in8, 8 u te8,' ' )r,!8“"' Washington, Idaho
havu b««n • "•tr o e te d to
ing friends, as you pass from f a rm to c attle and try to save some if possible, *nd
fa rm , point with pride to the magnifi hoping from dav to day for a Chinook f f turn V? the .n or‘h " e' t ' *nd “ >»«««>«
wind.
Finally
flour
gave
out.
Then
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w ,th tb,> » « « h e r s of
cent orchards t h a t are sc a ttere d e v e r y
b,ca*}ue a t hpokane. At
w h e r e ; as you pass the steepled church- he hired Indians to go to the Cascades
. es and overflowing schoolhouses, can to buy some. They were gone for a thls l !me i bey,,,wl .ma.ke ,, nu)?n tbclr
ittle a p preciate the vast wilderness— long time and re tu rn e d with short«, ; report ,*nd « ' ll undoubtedly offer some
g g e s t i o n a to the League, but the pn -
i the u t te r loneliness t h a t surrounded the and demanded half of th a t, of which i ^ inary
purpose
of ‘h<‘
the '»evting.
meeting, as
as aug-
Very soon ,nar.y p?
r P°“ of
pioneer se tte rs of this lovely valley. they brought but little
gested by a letter received by Mr. Sieg
\ F o r lovely it was, even in its solitude, this, too, was gone. Tbv*n Mr. Laugh
from Charles J. Brand, chief of the
l Deer, be ar and elk roamed a t will iin dug out a small canoe for himselt .office, will he to outline plans for
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through the park-like f o r e s ts ; cougar, and went up to The Dalles for sup-i
wolves and coyotes were in plentiful plies. While there he made arrange- ! meetings of fruit grow ers in every sec
m
ents
with
Major
Alvord
to
lease
land
l,on
of
the
four states,
evid ence; gre use and pheasants were
Judging »rom Mr. Brand a correa-
| found in abundance, while the stre a m s for a f a rm on the g ove rnm e nt reserve-
were filled with trout and the river lion (the sa m e land which he a f t e r po" d e i,ce the g o ve rnm e nt investigation
with salmon. N a tu re was indeed lavish wards held as a donation claim ). As 088 . ^?und JO8 eb,le* failures in the
in her anim al and plant life th a t could soon as the snow had gone off he gath- m*r l ie l|ng o t boxed apples due to leek
««operation on the w r t of Individual
tie used by the pioneer for himelf and ered what horses were left and hired
the Indiana from White Salmon, who * r° W8r8' who m ake shipm ents to d.f-
! his herds.
five canoes, to take the family up i e r e n t m a r k e ts direct. Mr. Brand evi-
| But when w inter came w ith its had
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I uence* a feeling of
dreary snows and storm s and he was the Columbia to The Dalle*, while he uen" ' * .f 8el!"K of confidence in the
and
bis son, Jam es, drove the p.tiful
“ V i * hh,ppfri
and the
unable, work however hard he mey, to
handful
ndful ol
ot stock back over those hills "b 'l.ty of the organisation of shipping
provide sufficient sustenance to proper ha
concerns
to
stabilize
to
a
g
r
e
a
t
degree
ly care fur his dumb beasts, then a nxi where so lew months before they had the m a rk e tin g of th e ir product. But
ety hovered over the pioneer's h o m e ; driven such a large herd.
before the work of the governm ent can
he eBgerly watched the sunset skies for
Early in the spring of 1854 a family ! be made effective, it is declared, it will
the first signs of the coming west wind
be necessary to carry a message direct
th at m ea n t w arm th and s tr e n g th to his excursion party consisting of N. Cot to the growers them selves, and edu
and wife and the w riter, then a hoy of
famished stock.
cate them to the necessity of coopera
Sum m er cam e a t l a s t ; hia herds be nine ye ars, left Portland, Ore., for a tion, not merely in name, hut in reality
came sleek and round as they fed upon t r ip to Fort Dalles, a t th.it tim e head -c o o p era tio n t h a t will he practiced.
the nutritious grasses, and all natu re of navig atio n on the Columbia river. All grow e rs will he told to form some
seemed to Bmile upon him. But anon Our first d a y ’s ride was on the little affiliation with a re p re se n tativ e and r e
d i s t a n t rum ors chilled his blood. They side wheel s te a m e r Fashion, VanBerang putable shipping organization.
came neare r and nearer, until an Indian m aster. The J a m e s P. Flint was the 1 It is probable th a t the plans of hold
w ar in all its horrors was upon him. pioneer boat on the middle Columbia, ing grow ers meetings have been more
The sickening, monotonous heating of but trade seemed b e tte r on the lower thoroughly workeil out for the s t a te of
the war drum , the yells of the i n f u r i river, so she was taken over the Caa
I d''«»!0» than for any other o f the
ated sa va ges, the blazing walls of bis cades the ye ar before and renamed >
n o rthw e stern boxed apple states. Mr.
neighbor's h o m e - a l l these have been Fashion.
says t h a t D r.H e cto r McPherson,
An all d a y ’s trip brought us to the Brand
the e x p e n e n e of the early pioneers of
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lower Cascades, where we were very ,
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Hood River.
hospitably
e
n
te
rta
ined
a
t
the
home
of
h*
a
to
collaborate
with
1 am under many obligations to Mrs.
E lzabeth Lord, d a u g h te r of Ju d g e Will B. B. Bishop, brother-in-law to the tbe offlc® °,f M arkets and a ssist with
Bradfords,
then
in
the
l
be
proposed
meetings.
An
absolute
:
iam C. Laughiin, the poneer se t tl e r ot
[ neutrality,
as between the different j
Hood River, for a very graphic and business a t the Cascades.
The portage of six mileB was a r a th e r j m ark e tin g organizations will be pre
thrilling account of th e ir aw ful w in
se rv ed ; apple grow ers will merely he
t e r ’s experience in our valley. You complicated procers. F r e ig h t for trana told to join some selling agency, and j
who. these w inter evenings, ait by your portation was first loaded in schooners, working in conjunction with thejgov- j
c om fortable fireside, the room flooded which, when the wind blew sufficiently l e m in e n t the S hippe rs’ League will be
with electric light, let your thoughts strong, were driven to the landing then 1
wander back to the horrors of that known as the middle blockhouse, but expected to work out the a ctual task of j
the best m anner of distribution and j
dreadui w inter j u s t n a n a century ago. i
,
Im agine if you can the little log cabin they were unjoactol’
Plans of an incorporation of the 1
alm ost buried in snow, surrounded by th a t came around Sh e rid an ’s Point, and Shippers' League were held in abey
hundreds of s ta rv in g cattle ; the de spe r was hauled up by a windlass run by a ance until a f te r the re p o rt of the Office
a te fight for life itself, the sickness, ve ry p a tie nt and inte lligent mule. of M arkets had been subm itted. It is
hungei and cold within, and then tell When the car reached the sum m it of expected t h a t this incorporation will
me if you can the quality and number the incline the mule was unhitched be effected along lines to he su ggested
of joys t h a t paia dise should hold to re from the windlass, attached to the car a t the Spokane m eetin g tomorrow.
quite the pioneer, even in part, for the and s ta r te d for the upper Cescudes
The report made lsat week by the
alone over a wooden tram w a y , with a
privation he has undergone.
couple of boards in the middle of the Office of M arkets on the distribution of
n
o
track for the “ e n g in e " to walk on. ! rthw e stern boxed apples is c h a r a c t e r
Arriving a t his de stination, the mule ized by Mr. Sieg as being of little
was unhitched, turned m ound and , value. This report, however, is dis
coupled onto an empty flat c ar and tin ct from the one to be made tom or
By Mrs. E lizabeth Laughiin Lord
row. D ata from the form er was g a t h
Hood River was first settled by Will s ta r te d on his return trip. A pole was ' ered by r e p re se n tativ es of the Office of
iam Catesby Laughiin and his wife, . lashed to his aide and then to the car. M arkets sent to Spokane early last
Mary Laughiin. Both of them w e r e 1 This acted as a kind of auto m atic brake fall, ’i h e s e men planned merely to se
;
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born in K entucky. They moved to Illi to keep the car from running over the i
• nd
nois in 1832; were m arriedjand moved " e n g i n e . " T h i. a rra n g e m e n t worked points to which it was shipped.
to Missouri in 1840. They crossed the well for a while, and saved the services
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The
report
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f
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says
Mr.
Sieg,
plains to Oregon in 1850, lived in The of a conductor, but the mule got onto "show s t h a t grow ers tailed to cooper
Dalles two ye ars and moved to Hood his job, and when well out of sight ate with the governm ent, in th a t out of
would stop to g e t up more ste am and
River in the fall of 1852.
9,407 cars of apples reported, hut 4,313
Having accum ulated quite a number incidentally to take good long napa
thereby
seriously interfering With the " ere, « p o r t e d ny shippers. The delm-
of c attle and horses by trading with the
Eventually 9««»1 shippers, however, were not
Indians and im m igrants. Mr. Laughiin tran s p o rta tio n business.
decided to locate on a good range and a fireman had to be added to the list of »m°"K ‘he * '«««"> associations, but
" ere made UP from Kr« « ers " ho were
m ake a home for himself and family tr a in hands.
At the upper Cascades the Bradfords shipping independently. ,
Dr. Karnwaorth, an old friend and fam-
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family physician, having arrived from had j u s t completed a »mail schooner of
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Missouri e arly in the season, they con about 40 tons burden, which was mak- i i a a t , n , 1 , 1 / ■■ » , r
ing
trip*
to
Fort
Dalle*
when
the
cluded to s e ttle at Hood River, then
called Dog river. Mr. Laughiin had winds were favorable. At th is point
looked the country over and thought it stood B ra d fo rd ’s store,w here two years
the loveliest spot on e a rth . However, a f te r w a r d a handful of brave, fearless
they delayed moving down until the men for three days held at bay hordes
im m igration was all in. when they took of Indians, in what is known as the
T here ia little chance th a t congress,
all the stock they could get to winter Cascade massacre.
We hoarded the schooner and with a this session, will auth orize the creation
for a sta te d price per head.
Mr.
of the Mount Hood National park.
Laughiin had about 100 head of horses fine breeze blowing we made good
The lands, other than private hold
and the sa m e n um ber of c attle of his progress and about noon reached Hood ings, t h a t could he embodied in the j
own, and a bout 200 head of c a ttle to River, then known as Dog River. We Mount Hood park are today included in ;
herd for others. Dr. F a rn sw o rth had were all very .much pleased.w ith the a forest reservation, under the juaria- j
general aspect of the country and my
about 100 altogether.
diction of the A gricultural d e p artm e n t, i
Some tim e in October they e ngaged a l a t h e r dete rm ined to te t u r n a t his If the park should be created the pub
e
flat boat to t a k e the families and sup a r lie st convenience and exam ine the lic lands involved would he tr a n s f e r r e d i
plies down the river, the doctor going lands with a view of locating if s a t is to the jurisdiction ot the Interior de- '
down with them . Mr. Laughiin, with factory. We reached our destination p a rtm en t.
two hired men and the docto r's 16-year- th at evening at F ort Dalles,which then
Discussion of the Mount Hood park
old son, drove the stock over the trail consisted of a governm ent post located in Oregon has brought to m em bers of
The boat made the run down and land a bout half a mile south of the few the Oregon delegation numerous pro-
ed where the ferry landing now is, in sc a tte rin g houses on the river, where
st.eep and stockmen w h o .
one day, while the stock took two days now stands the city of The Dalles. We test* J rom using the ra nge on the east
have been
to m ake the trip. A f t e r driving the remained over a day a t this place, and
south
slopes
of Mount Hood for
stock across Dog river. Mr. Laughiin which had at t h a t time but few a t t r a c sum m er range, under pe rm it of the
and his men joined the families in tions.
The only steam vessel then on the Fore st service, and they are loudly pro-
camp, and the next day crossed the
middle,Columbia was the little propel tesin g againat the creation of the park,
riv er by fording with ox teams.
Mr. Laughiin landed on the Coe place ler Allen. Capta in Tom Gladweil, th at because it would deprive them of their
grazing privilege.
Sheep and cattia
and built a small log cabin. Owing to was capable of c arrying few paasen
the latenesa of the season and the se ri gera and little freight. She only made grazing is not allowed in national
rks.
ous illness of hia eld est ton, Jam es, a few trips, however, when she was pa Another
fe a tu re has developed in
who had typhoid fever, he hastened to wrecked or c as t away, and her old iron connection with the park project tn a t
g e t a sh e lte r over hia family. Dr. hull may still be seen a t any low w ater may have the effect or delaying action.
Fa rn sw o rth took more time and built a abort distance above Mitchells Point
As long as Mount Hood and the s u r
a b e tt e r and larg e r cabin on the place on tha E dgar Locke farm. As the rounding territo ry re m a ins w ithin f o r
a f te r w a r d s known a t the Jenkins place. schooner t h a t we came up on would not e st reserves roada and trails can be
E v er y th in g now teem ed propitious to he ready to re tu r n for some days, and built by the Fore st service out of tha
the m aking of nappy and perm anent a down river t r ip was likely to be a receipts from tim ber sales, g r a ti n g
homes. But a short tim e elapsed until tedius one, we determined to take pern.its, etc. The Fore st service, and
a very heavy snow fell. 1 have no passage nn the Allan, which was to iarticularly F o re ste r Graves and the
date, but know it was in November, s t a r t the next morning.
The trip down the river was a rough oal officials in Oregon, have shewn
and much of the snow remained on the
strong desire to open up thia scenic
ground until March. The cabin was in one, and a f te r an all day battl* with section as f a s t as fund* ara available.
the edge of a beautiful grove of medi the wind* and wave* we reached White
um sized fir tree s, and all of the cattle Salmon, then tho only se ttle m e n t be
from fa r and near made their way to tween F o r t Dalles and Cascade*. The
Mr Arthur IntrodscM Road Bill
t h a t grove. There were eeveral men sole white resident here was K. S. Joa-
R epresentative McArthur, of P o r t
down near Mitchells Point herding over lyn, who with h n wife had located
500 heed of cattle, and they all came there, if my memory serve* me right, land. last week introduced in the lower
the year previous. I t was dete rm ined house of congress a bill appropriating
up to the Laughiin cabin.
No one who has not witnessed such s to rem ain here over night, and a t there |2flO,non for a Mount Hoad roadway
condition can imagine w h a t it was like was no accommodation on the b o a t— from G overnm ent r a m p to the Hood
They came In the night, end all erewd not even a cold handout—Mr. Joalyn, River valley, with late ra ls to Elk and
ed around our poor Titte cabin, bellow who was a t the landing, very cordially Brook meadows, and to connect with
ing and horning each other, until it invited all hand* to Ms homo, which in I hifur ai.d The Dali**.
The original plan of the bill was to
•eemed as if pandemonium bad broken vitatio n it ia needle** to aay was gladly
pay the eoat from the national foreat
loose. On looking out th ere sppeareo accepted.
receipts
and reim burse the sta te for its
It
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rem
a
rkable
how
a
m
a
n
's
p
e
r
■ te a of heads and horn* as far as the
eye could reach. They broke in the sonality is reflected in e verything that share of the funds. McArthur sa ys he
door eeveral time*. The f a an ly was autrounda him, and the welcome e x abandoned this because of objections
terrified, as it seemed as if the walls tended to the hungry and tired p a sse r from other parta of the s ta te , and b e
would give way. Mr. Laughiin fought ge rs and crew of the Allen by Mr. Joe- cause the proposed national pa rk would
them aw ay until morning, when be lyn and hia e a t i m a il c wifa seemed to remove jurisdiction from the foreat
tried to drive them off. bat they were extend down to even tho old watch service, m aking a direc t appropriation
ell gentle animal* ¡ a n d came to the dog. who** bovine«« it was d a rin g the r.ccevaary.
H. C. foe Tells of White Man's First
Winter in Community Early
Indian War Account
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Prof— tonal Cam*
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Prosperity is on the W ay.
Business is good.
The
Mosier
Book
Store
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fK H)l) lAKH MAY
H otpoint Electric Irons, Stoves. Ovens, Coffee
Percolators, Electric T oasters and all other elec
tric appliances. For sale by our agents
Arthur Pharmacy, Mosier, Or.
Pacific Power & Light Co.
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A Popular Confec-
fectionery Store
where th e most delicious candies r a n l>e
proenred, is alw ays a aource »f attraction
to th e girl with a aweet tooth, which is
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all times. Everyone t h a t likes rich snd
luscious chocolates, da inty marshmel-
low*, fine bons-bons and cream carmels,
m ade from high grade and pure ingre
dients, always find their way to The Oaks
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Better Equipped than ever in our new location
for High Claw Protraits. Open Evenings
T he T ow ne Studio
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CHARLES NELSON,
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leaves The Dalles 7:00 A. M., Sundays, Tuesdays and
Thursdays. Arrives at Mosier at 8:16. A. M.
Leaves Portland on Mondays. Wednesdays and Saturdays
from Oak Street Dock.
Passengers and freight.
Mosier Dock in charge of J. W. Huskey, who will meet all
boats and attend to transfer. Phone No. 85.
Bulletin Office
wants your
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PRI NTI
Quality of W ork the Best
Prices are Right
BUTTER WRAPPERS
According to Requirements
of the Pure Food Law