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to J .Li tl x . HOOD IIIV3SR. QLAOIER TCTRSPAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1004. DAVIDSON FRUIT CO uuy a neversiuie Disc How and save your team ha its labor, besides the tune it takes to grade the ridges and iurrows. we guarantee it to do the work. It turns the turrows all down the hill. Come and see it, and our many styles of walking plows. The spray pump season is about here and you must remember that we are handling the best. If you buy the cwmimu, jr.. r.mionaor rruitall you will have the right kind and your trouble is reduced to the minimum. We are the agents nui have them for sale. W e have some second-hand spring and farm wagons which we want to close out cheap and- quick. Come in and see them. Your Money's Worth and more at THE DAVIDSON FRUITO When You Come to Town Do not fail to get our prices on Groceries, Flour and Feed. We have a few Mackintoshes left over at less than half price. We have a good line of Underwear that can not be duplicated at the price. Goods Delivered Free To Any Part of Town. bone & Mcdonald We have the trade in ine Ciders WHY? ' "La Integridad" "Henry the Fourth" "El Sjdelo" C. A. MORGAN & CO Turn Long-Ills' Looks Westward. U.S. Drake, formerly of White Salmon but now living at 3100 Oak avenue, Al toona, Pa., sends the following inter eating letter to the Glacier: After reading what 1h said about the weather In this letter you will hardly wonder at us turning a longing look Westward, We often talk of Hood River and White Salmon and their people and of the development that is vet to take pluce in the fruit industry hi your nildtit. I tlnd the people here are eager to ding parlies and ska tine are the attrac- learn about On-iron and the 01-!'"""'- Sleighing is splendid, and three engines were used in ascending 1 ennierii siope 01 me mountains, Hie freight business was practically paralyzed. A number of freights are frozen up and hud to be abandoned on the sidings until the present cold snaD is over. Early this morning a foreigner was iounu hi iTesaen almost frozen. He had evidently lost bis way and had wandered about until exhausted and miieii 111 me snow. 111s legs were frozen so badly they will have to be amputated. With plenty of snow and ice, sled nltita for the home seeker and the. busi ness man. And we, too, are never tired telling of that country and Its people. I could distribute sevcral.hundred cop ies of the Glacier each month if I had them. The people here know little, comparatively, ot the Western country and seem eager to learn, so if your board or trade will send me literature, prepaid, I will see that it is placed where it will do the most good. Mrs. Drake's health has much improved since we came East, even in this severe climate, so you see there was this ad vantage, which was our object in com ing here. Whether we shall ever re turn to the West is an unanswered question, though in many ways we would rather be there than here. We are having winter in dead earnest here. The latter part of last November cold weather set in, and there has been no let up since. True, every day has not been bitter cold, but the weather has varied from freezing down to 18 degrees below zero. There have beeu but very few days during that time when the sun warmed up the ice upon the walks. Two weeks ago today the thermometer registered from 10 to 18 degrees below zero throughout-fhecity, and today (January 19) was near enough like it to be a brother. The instrument at (he Ninth avenue and Twelfth street shop gate registered 18 below at 4 o'clock this morning, with that in Fairview at 20 degrees below. Itellwood gives us 20; Roaring Springs, 1!); HollidayVburg, 24. This wastaken at the court house and is official, and its accuracy cannot be questioned. The Alteona city hall is one of the best heated buildings in the state, but visitors there this morning would have found the hall doors shut. This means the coldest weather since the building was remodeled. The trolley cars kept up a reasonable service today, consid ering the lack of power and cold weather. The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. felt the effect of the blizard. All passenger trains were behind schedule time and I. most every night one or more sledding panics are i uu mey go 10 ine ueigu boring towns or to some farm house to spend the evening in music and eames. and finish out with an oyster supper or . i . - - r . 1 , 1 " wo . . sunieiuiiiK 01 me kiiiu. u 11 was not, so cold there would be more fun in the going. But while the music and games and supper are quite the thing, the go ing and coming through the cold is not quite so enjoyable. Then the skating pouus are wen paironizea. we can look out of our sitting room window tonight and see the skating pond four blocks away, all lit up with electric lights, and can almost hear the shouts of the gleeful skaters, Since the holidays the shops have Dee 1 1 working iuu time, ana some de partments are on 13 hours a part of the time. 1 ne ranroaa shops Here are said to be the largest and best eauinrjed In the world. They use up upwards of 200 car axles each day, and the Juniatta erecting shops have a capacity of 300 locomotives per year. rue. company win need &o new engines this year, iuu 01 which will he made bv the Bald win Co. and the remaining 150 will be uuut here, which, with repairing, will give the simps all they can do. Last fall a new shop was erected, which will be devoted to the building of steel coal cars. In South Altoona the company are building a new foundry, in which 2,000 men will be employed. Other industries, though not numer ous in the city, give employment to a large number of men, for, you know, this is a woikingman's town. The Klass works were started up late last fall but were forced to close down, Jan uary 0, because the price of glass was not high enough to enable them to pay the union wages. And as the union did not care to take a "half loaf and run the -vorks for what they could make, the managers closed them. The rolling mill closed down on account of luck of orders. The silk mill and foun dry ure still running full time. The planing mills and all building opera tionsareat a standstill on account of Get your Lewis and Clark Stationery PRINTED AT HOME And 111 addition " advertise your home town and country, and 'our personal business as well, by having your Envelop es, Letter Heads and other stationery present local features, that stationery printed elsewhere does not give. "We are prepared to do your work in as attractive a style a. it can be done at Portland, and have full authority for using the Lewis and Clark official design, together with any local design that may be desired. Investigate our work lefore placing your orders out of town, and you will find we can satisfy the most exacting demands. Yours for the Exposition, and Emphatically, Yours for Hood Iver, E. R. BRADLEY. W. T. WEBBER, Civil Engineer and Surveyer Plans drawn and estimates given on work. P. Culbert.-oii A Co., Hood llivrr. ijetive orders with Oeo. the cold weather, but great prepara tkona are, going on for next season's business. This city is noted for its fine church buildings. Tbey are all quite new and moaern in architecture and equipment, most of them having been built withlu the past 15 years. -Last week the United Presbyterian people were fully occupied in the dedication of their new building. It cost, with clock in the tower and furnishings, about $25,000. Letter from Judge Henry.' 233 American ave. Lone Beach. uai., Jan. 28,' 1904 Editor Ulaeier We came to this place December 2tt and are very pleasantly located and enjoy ing life. It. is very dry here, but the natives seem to think it is all right. We have had two "soaking" rains in the past 10 days. The first rain snaked the dust to the depth of bait an Inch, and the other one was about half as much. It has been quite calm until today the wind Is traveling about 40 mnes an Dour, hut is calming down some as 1 write. We met here our old friends. M. A. Cook and family, all well and well sat- tsned. 'Also met Mr. Templeton, a former Hood Biyer man, and James DeBord and wife, and our old comrade Luke Blount, came and took dinner with us. He is in a eood slate of pres ervation. Some of us think town lots arenrettv nign in nooa Kiver, out compared with prices here. Hood River Drorjertv is very cueap. , ; I spend most of my time with rod and line 011 the pier, where the (Hilng is generally good. 1 will not say much bout the fish Ine for fear Comrades Byrkett and Baiiey might hear of it, nd then we would have to listen to some whoppers of fish stories. But the met is 1 nave had the pleasure of land- ng some nne ones, and some days as many-asS4 fish. rve have planned to visit the Cat- elene Islands on Saturday. We will stay at this place until about the last of February, or maybe longer. We are in usual health. For about one week we had frosty nights, and two iiluhts froze ice. L. Henry. mn an The Bond Question at White Salmon. White Salmon. Wash.. Jan. 25! 1904. Editor, Glacier: 1 saw an article in your Eaper of January 7 stating that Judge yrkett paid more school tax than all those who voted against bonds. This statement is not true. If they had said s paid nearly as much as the other 67 ho voted for bonds, there would have beeu some truth in the statement. They try to make It appear it was the interior class woo voted against bonds. will give the amount of laud the tlority who voted for bonds have d the wise readers of your paper can udge for themselves. There was 60 ho voted for bonds who do not own I acres of land In the White Salmon school district, and about 60 of them do t owu 300 acres altogether, and many them do not own the houses thev live in or any taxable property. Oth ers did not live in White Salmon at all. When we challenged these votes thev swore them in. It is too bad the laws are so we can have debts voted on us by such people. The 22 who voted against bonds own over 1,200 acres of land. All of tbeni are prosperous peo ple. Some of them offered to pav t."0 apiece toward building a new school house, instead of disgracing the school district by bonding; but the ones Who were for bonds diduot want to do that. as tbey would have to take something out of their pockets; at least it looks that way. Tbey say we will have a school house we will not be ashamed That may be. but we think there will be a debt on it we will be ashamed of long before it is paid for. We hope it can be paid for all right, but people who go with poverty In one hand and style in the other don't think much about their debts. Subscriber. t rial bottle of Dr. Kings' New Discov ery lor consumption induced me to try it. Results were startling. I am now in the road to recovery and owe it all to Dr. King's Ivew Discovery. It surely saved my life.": This great care is guaranteed for all throat and lung dis eases by Chas. N. Clarke, druggist.Price ouc and fl. xnai potties tree. The Best is Not Too Wood for Hood River Hood River, Feb.l, 1904 : Editor Gla cier: Kev. vv. U. Allot s sermon at the Unitarian church on the theme of the lessons to be drawn from the incident 01 ine recent ourning 01 the theater in Chicago, 111., was one of his best efforts, and all who heard it surely enjoyed a real treat and a feast for their souls. He discussed the question of law, the en forcement ot law, the abuses and mis uses of law by executive officers created by law. He also considered man. what constitutes true manhood. the citizen and citizenship with its moral and ethical uuues necessary to move out onto a lKher plane of civilization and keep step with present day progress and bet terment of mankind. It was, perhaps, one of the most up-to-date, instructive, logical and eloquent sermoiiB ever deliv ered in Hood Kiver, and should be fol lowed by many more on the same line. No person, whether orthodox, hetero dox, saint or sinner, model, atheist or Christian could have listened to that sermon without being benefited. Every young man and young woman, mother and father should have been there to listen to those truths which he made so plain. Pi'nuu8, jr. mos Underwood Takes Hold to Mint Amos Underwood went down on Satur day's boat with $i0 worth of gold dust, hmh represented two weeks' of work by the most primitive means on his McCoy creek mine in the Kiggerhead istrict in Skamania county, savs last week'" Enterprii-e. There is as yet no road to the d is! riot, but is reached a trail from White Salmon. Mr. Underwood lugued in a vthip-eaw and ith it cut 150 leet of round lumber from white pine tree and tins he need far 111111 boxes. Mr. Underwood made the trip to Portland especially for the pur pose of having it minted. litis will probably be done at .the San Francisco mint. Mr. underwood tHtseH!ei, and is lung rrt-ideiice entitles It i tit to a large degree of local pride, and it may be im agined with what complacency and sat isfaction lie will vie-.v the newlv minted roduct, composed of metal mined w ith is own bands from dirt lielonging to the con nlv in which he has labored so long and so well. IVlfect t-'onflileiH-e. Where there used to be a feeling of ncaMiiep ami worrv in the hoUHiiiold hen a child showed symptoms of the eronp.there is now perfect confidence. This is owing to the uniform success of Chamberlain's Congh Remedy in the treatment of that disease. Mrs. M. I. Ban ford, of Poolesville. Md.. in sneakimr of her experience in the use of hat remedy says: "I have a world of contl-' dence in Chamberlain's Cough Remedy lor I have nsed it with perfect success. My child Garland is subject to severe tucks of croup and it always gives him prompt relief.1' Fer sale by all drug- eta. ra4qnaled for Constipation. A. R. Kane, a prominent druggist of Baxter Springs, Kansas, says: "Cham berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets are. in my judgment, the most superior pre paration of anything in use today for constipation. They are sure in action. nuwiinno wnoencv to nauseate or gripe, ror sale by all drnggisU. Exraprd an Awful Fate. H. Haifgint ot Melbourne.Fla.. write : My doctor told me I had consumption nd nothing could be done for me. . I as given up to die. The offer of a free Fruit Growing in Hood River. Oregonlan's New Year Edition. Hood River, it is fair to sav. is bet ter known for its fruit than any other section of Oregon. Retailers on Broad way display Hood Kiver apples with placards reading, "Choice Hood River Spitzenburgs"- and "Oregon Pippins." At the Waldorf- Astoria and aboard the great trans-atlantic liners, "Hood River apples" may be found listed with the other fruits on the menu cards, and du ring May and June, "Hood River straw berries" are sold at leading groceries and fruit stands in all the principal cit ies of the Rocky mountain and Missouri valley states. Fruit dealers in all parts of the United States, who might have difficulty in pointing to Oregon on the map, know Hood River to be a great fruit country somewhere in the far West With Hood River farmers fruit grow ing is made a business to be scientifical ly studied and mastered in all its de tails. Varieties are selected for tlirif ti neas and commercial value. In the or chard the trees are planted 28 or 30 feet apart, carefully pruned each spring, and the ground thoroughly cultivated and kept free from weeds. Insect pests and fungus growths are. kept in subjection by the .use of -winforAid bammer sprays. - - , the soil of the vallev seems peculiar! v adapted to the production of large.sound, well-colored apples of fine flavor ajid keeping qualities, but were it not that the orchardists take every possible care of their trees and fruit, apple culture would be a complete failure. Hood River apple growers strive to produce nothing uumm-ciaea mm, anu, succeeding in tine they receive higher prices than anv other section of the Pacific coast. This fall the whole crop of Spitzenburgs was sold under contract at $2 and Yellow Newtowns at $1 80 a box on board the cars at picking time. The Hood River apple crop for 1903 amounted to 50,000 boxes, which was worth to the growers $75,000. It is esti mated that hardly one-tenth of the acre. age planted to orchards is in bearing- wnne not one-tenth nor even one-twentieth of the available ernnml is nlnnlerl. In the next five years the increase in production will be verv ranid. The or chards are not large, 25 and 30 acres be. ing the average orchard for an individ ual grower. Incomes of SI. 000 ami over for a single acre are not uncommon, while ine xaviason fruit company, which bought the larger part of this year's crop, is authority for the statement that a oeanng orchard this fall was worth to the grower fully $500 an acre. The principal varieties sought for planting are the Spitzenbnrg, Yellow Newtown, Jonathan and Baldwin. Other varieties are grown, but not extensively, and the first two named are considered the most profitable commercially. In September of this year the Hood River Apple Growers' union was organ ised with a membership of 80 nercr.nt.nf the growers. The organization was very successful in marketing the crop at a good price. A. I. Mason, for nine years a Portland letter carriers, iH president of the board of directors, and Joseph A. Wilson, manager. Some of the largest growers are not members of the union, preiernng to market their apples inde pendently. - All apples sold by the union are packed under the supervision, of expert packers. The fruit it lawfully sorted and graded, each apple is . carefully wrapped in paper, tle boxes lined, and paper is placed between the layers of apples.. In this shape the buyers place the fruit in the New York markets, whence some of it finds its way to Eng and Germany, while some of tlio apples even cross the Pacific to the porta of China and Japan. The Hood River strawberry yield for 1903 was nearly 90,000 24-pound crates, which brought into the vallev oyer $150 000. The yield will be considerably in creased next year, there being at 'least 1,000 acres hi bearing plants. A conser vative estimate places the average straw berry yield at from 125 to 150 crates per acre, while every year some growers market 500 or more crates from a single aore. The secret of the great success Hood River has made in the straw berry business lies in the firm, large berries produced and the painstaking care in grading and packing. Strawberries are shipped in refrigera tor cars.and in the height of the season a dozen cars a day leave for points in the Rocky mountain states, Kansas, Nebras ka, Iowa, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Manitoba. Cherries are a coming crop for Hood River. This year extensive shipments were made for the first time, and the experiment was very encouraging. The fruit does well, is easily marketed and has proven very profitable. New Stock Wall Paper ABOUT March 1st I shall add 5,000 , rolls of paper to my ' - present sWk. Peo ple looking foj fane -wall paper can. find what they want from . 10c to $5 a roll. HuntsWall PaperShop VIBRASSAGE Treatment by RUSSEL & REIS, At the - fi 1 BARBER j. lv. shop. A new and scientific meth od for treatmen of the hair, scalp and skin. The treatment is extraor dinarily efficacious in the sjkhhIv and permanent re moval of Dandruff, Black heads, Flesb Worms, Wrink les, Sallow mplexisn, Cold in the Head, etc. See them. Wear them. Appreciate them. Having been appointed Selling Agents for the famous Hand Made Bradley Logger We invite those interested to call and examine a Strictly First Class Shoe We Guarantee the Price and Wearing Qualities MT. CO Without question the most beautiful residence location in the city. High and sightly, no mud no dust. Supplied with the purest spring water. You are cordially invited to come up and inves tigate, see the water plant, enjoy the fine view and have a good drink. No trouble to show lots: Always at home. Now is your chance. C. COE - - - - . HOOD BIVER The Rich Can Ride And SO Can the Poor Babies. Baby Carriages, Go-Carts, Express Wagons in numbers and variety that rather astonish us. We are not exactly afraid they won't sell they are too nice a lot and in such a fine climate as Hood Kiver there is little to fear. We bought a big lot to get a low cost. Now we decide to make vnnr pnt W and sell a bigr lot. It won't cost you anything to insnect the finest TCnbv CnrHnrrpafnb STEWART'S, the Home Furnisher. Hardware, Stoves, Furniture, Carpets, Shades, Paints, Oils. Tar and Oakum, Building Material; Glass, Tinware. RIVER VIE W PARK AND IDLEWILDE ADDITION TO HOOD RIVER. Centrally Located. Fine View. Pure Spring Water. STREETS ARE NOW BEING GRADED, Sidewalks will be Put in when Grading is Completed Property is in the first sewerage system that will be put in by the town of Hood Kiver. Several1 fine buildings will be erected on the property during the summer. Special Inducements to Peo ple who wish to Build. For full particulars call upon PRATHER INVESTMENT CO., Or GEORGE D. CULBERTSON & CO. J. F. Batchelder and R. R. Erwin, Trustees. ' STUMP PULLERS. 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