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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1905)
HOOD KIVER GLACIER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6,' 1006. RURAL MAIL BOXES WILL BE NUMBERED The "oatofflee department sent out orders to all postonlcoB from wdicd there are rural routes ordering that the mail boxes oil these routes all be numbered consecutively, beKlnninB with the box first on the route and continuing throughout the route. Postmaster Yates states that in a few days he will send out notifications to the natrons of the rural routes from this olllce, telilntf what their number will be. Kaon route patron win men bo expected to inscribe his number on his box with some durable paint or other marking material. While this system of numbering the boxes might work very well for con vmitonce in an old settled community, it will lie of little use here, whore changes of residences ownership of farms is an every day ocurrenoe. In a few mouths there will be very few numbers running consecutively along the route. Tho ordor as sont out is as follows: To postmasters: For public convenience and to facil itate a more accurate handling of mail bv rural free delivery carriers. It ha boon deolded that each rural mail box in use on the rural route whicn, under the regulations of the di-partment, Ik entitled to service, shall tie designated by numlier In the manner and by the method berulnarter sec rortn; ana me delivery by rural carriers of ordinary mail matter of all classes addressed to suoh boxes by number alone Is author ised solong as improper and unlawful business is not conducted thereby. 1. Postmaster! ut the respective dis tributing olllces are hereby directed to instruct the carriers of all rural freo delivery routes which have been operated sixty day or more, to review the rural mail boxei in use on their routes in the interval between the re ceipt of this ordor and Hejitomber .'VI, llH'i, and report which of them con form to the regulations and thus en titled to designate numbers. 2. The following, when found to be safe, weatherproof, and fit recepta cles for mail, are entitled to numbers: (a) Hoxe "ap, roved" under order No. 7M; (b) Non-approved boxes eroded prior to October 1, 11X12. il. No non-weather-proof or other wise unfit receptacles for mail shall be numbered. All such must kbe re placed with regulation "approved" boxes by tho owners or no Humbert will be assigned. No rural mail box erected within the limits of an Incorporated city 01 town within one half mile of a post office at an unincorporated town 01 vitiligo shall be numbered unless such box was erected prior to October IS, l'M, or is being served by specific order of the department. Service must lie withdrawn, how ever, from any box now being served, until such withdrawal is expressly or dered by thW office. 4. The numbers assigned to boxe ou each route will commence with "No. 1," which will pertain to the first regulation box reached by the carrier after leaving thu starting point of his roiito, traveling in accordance with olflfliiil description ; box there after to bo counted and giveu tlx proper number in regular sequence in order of service "No. 1" to and In eluding all those boxes entitled to ser vice on the route. 5. Knell numlier thus arrived at should be recorded in the carrier's ros ter book opposite the namo of the owner of the box to designated, and also opposite the name of every other Corson entitled to receive mail in said ox. Numbers thus applied to hoxet and registered must lie properly re ported to and reonrded by the post master of tho distributing office to which they belong and must not be changed thereafter exoept by specific authority of such postmaster. i. As soon as possible after com pleting the assignment of box num bers ou a route the postmaster will furuish each box owner with the offi cial number of his box, and request that this number bo at once legibly and durably Inscribed in a conspicu ous place ou the outside of tho box. 7. lioxos served regularly by more than ouo route must, iu oases where such double service is duly author ised, be given In regular oousooutive order on each route, by the method proscribed iu the proceeding para graphs of numberiii' boxes served by ( n carrier. . 8 New boxes erected aubsoqiiont to the original numbering between those already iu position on a route and consequently numbered, will be desig nated by applying there to iu tho reg ular order the next consecutive iium burn shown, by tho record of numbered boxes already on the route, to be unused. It. Tho work of numbering boxen, on newly established routes must not lie uiiilertakeu until the great majority are permanently in place. Not less than sixty days should elapse, how ever, after service begins, liefore the number are assigned. 10. Carriers must keep their roster bonks corrected up to date. New boxes erected, removals, change of ad dress, names of new patrons, etc., must be punctually entered up ami promptly reported to postmasters. The latter must carefully oversee the work of the carriers, ami also main tain in their offices acourate and com plete lists of the names and box num bers of all patrons of eacli route at tached to their olllee . 11. Any instructions issued by tills olllce coutlu'tiiig with this order are hereby revoked. 12. On receipt of this communica tion postmasters will give it the wid est possible publicity io.tlie patrons of the rural service, without expense to the department. The tinea: (Mil Way. A severe cold or attack of In grippe Is like a fire, the sooner you cnnilmt It llie better your chances are to overpower it. Hut few niol hers in this age are will ing to do the necessary work required In give a good old-t'itliioit'd reliable treatment such as would tie ministered by their grandmothers, backed by Hos ciiee's (ierinan Syrup, which was al ways liberally used in connection Willi the hiiine treatment of colds and is still In greater household favor than (un known remedy. Hut even without the application of the old-fusliloned aids (ieruian Syrup will cure a severe cold iu quick 'time. It will cure colds in children or grown people. It relieves the congested organs, allays the Irrita tion, and effectively stohs the cough. Any child will take it. It is invalua ble in a household of children. Trial size bottle, L'fic: regular aic, 7.rc. Kor gale by (.'. N. Clarke, The fruit crops of Soothe 'n Oregon have not been a success this year. The warm weather of last February brought out the blossoms too soon, and subsequent frosts caused much damago. 1 he summer, too, has been exceptionally dry, and all crops not tinder irrigation have sulfered. In referring a few weeks ago to the par tial failure of the fruit crop, the Ash land Tidings stated that tho most sat isfactory crop of the season in that district was tho loganberry. (Irowers of this berry, that journal says, re ceived good prollts. It adds: "It is claimed that there is more money to lie mado In growing loganboiries at T.j cents a crate than Ktniw berries at $1.50 per crate, and the experience of the leading berry growers seem to prove It. " The Country Weekly. Irrigou Irrigator. The country weekly as we see it to day came into existence about 40 years ago, when the "patents" were first placed ut the disposal of the pub lishers, and during these four decades the rural uowpsapcrs, as a rule, have deteriorated rather than progressed. In other words the country press has not kept stop with tho march tit leai n- Ina and intelligence. On the second day of the present month out of about :!0 country week lies which came to tho Irrigator olllce, 27 had tiatcnt insides or outside, and the articles in these patents bore date lines princiidly of August 2.1, 21 end 25, with now and then a so-called "special'' dated August 2i. Wo find then that the so-called 111 v.h was from seven to ten days old, which would have been a fair record for the days of the civil war, or for an earlier date when It took a lettei two days to go from Now Voik to Philadelphia, live days to Huston ami six moulds to San Francisco. In the meantime our postal and tel "graph facilities have been so expe dited that thoHe days between New Vork and Huston and Philadelphia have been cut down to hours, and the months between New Vnrk and 'Fris co have been reduced to less than lays. And ''uring these 40 years the rural population has grown to be an eager army of readers of intelligent readers who want the news, and they have loaraed to rely upon their home town miners for local news only and to go to tho city dailies, semi-weeklies and weeklies for tho general news 01 me world. The country publisher have tried to see how largo a paper they could give their readers, regardless of the mal tv of the matter it contained ; mid the publishers or furnishers of the patents have met this uemanii at low llgures by filling a large portion of their space with noxious and pemi- ious advertisements nuaiiiy or tne atent medicine and get-rich-quick ads. So today we find the intelligence or the average country publisher below the intelligence or Ins readers, lor they send forth ouch week a great mass of still! wincli lias neen rend days before by tholr subscribers, and the result is that only that portion of their columns devoted to home or lo cal news is of any interest to them. rhero Is a place tor the Utile coun try weekly, just as there Is a nlcho for the big city daily; there is a work a useful work for the village pulilislior as well as the city publisher llie work of each is to givo the news of his field, and the field of tho olio is Ills little local, or at most c unity com munity, und tho field of the other, who Is in touch with tho cable and overland telegraph, is tho world. So we say that for a country puli lislior to send out this "patent" stull week after week U an insult to the in telligence of his suhscrihois, and the sooner this is learned and acknowl edged tho bolter it will bo for the ru ral newspaper fraternity ot the coun try. In tins state we nave a lew uotalilc exceptions. Three of these wo noticed on our exchange table, and there are rirobnbly others. Their fearless pub lishers are content to fill I lie place al lotted them and leave tho broader fluid to lie covered by the press of Port land, Seattle and Spokane. Coming home, coining to IrrU'on, we have noticed lately that many of our good friends have said in their columns that tho lrlgator is "differ ent." They say we are conducting our paper along new and peculiar lines, and that we are making it wiu along those lines. Wo do not cite the Irrigator as an example of all that n good country weekly should or could be. Facli week when wo grasp tho ilrst copy that conies from the press wo see it lucking here and far below our ideal there; hnd each week we resolve that we will do ourleiel best to improve it the following week. And if we do our "level best" we are doing our whole duty. We feel that tho Irrigator has a work to do, mid that work is to edu cate our people along the lines of in tiiislvo farming on small tracts of ir rigated laud, and, incidentally to build up our town and community. To that end we fill our two outside pages with choice excerpts idoug the lines of actual irrigation and high class fruit and garden culture, to do which we take nearly every good farm paper In tho United States, ami glean from these thousands of columns of matter which we think is the heid. to show our renders what can and lias been done along the lines they are treading. And then we have what many we will say most country weeklies do not have an editoriel page, upon which we print from week to week articles written in our own olllce. And, by the way, in one of our ev changes, published iu this stale, we noticed in the last issue an article of nearly two columns about the Kusso Jap war, under the editorial hend und not a line of original matter on that page, not a lire of editorial in the w 'hole sheet. Then comes our local page, which enumerates such news as those who are absent would like to learn of our lionin doings and a little "stuli" to till up and make people talk about us and our tow n. Tho day of patents is past. The day when you can buy a box of boiler plate in January to do tho balance of t he year t hat- day is also past, the dillleulty is tlie "boys" are not, wise to the fact, although their readers all are and have been for lo these many yeais. Cw J i- s Cured. V e'-vlworilight.iwcr, Ala., relates -.im .; v.'j.y-ipV bad while ser in: on ;i 1 i ' t 'jvy i 1 a murder ni-c at KdwsroWi; . it ,' seal of Cli b.ninie comity, I''i'iani 'lo says: "While tlietv 1 t 1.1 09 livsli meat and sou-e mwtt aui it r.v r 'cholera morbus in l .-ry T?-9 m 1 never w as more 'i: In -:l ? iif -1' sent to the drug '! tef 1: 1 " f mlera mixture, but tio :;r;y ll-. Vf f; .f ... .. I... I, I.. ..I' 1 M ' . n 11 ih'iih- 1,1 , 1 1 a I I 1 - r 'oleraaiul hiariheca 'end mying that be bad ' " ' it that this medicine It,, r l; ' ',' "tr be would rather in' : J he tix I was iu. I ' ' : ' s ' it ami was In tier i:i five .in In. ' .he second dose fined me entirely. Two fellow jurors vuiv alllicted in the same manner and one small bottle cured the three of us For sale by Williams' Pharmacy. Pleasantly Kfl'oetive. Never in the way, 110 trouble to carry, It's a Dandy. Twenty acres of early etrawlierry, ap ple, cherry and vegetable land with a fine southern slope. Only one half mile from town of White Salmon. It roimnaiiils a magnificent view of Mount Hood and city of Hood Iliver. The soil is rich, deep and moist, hour acres cleared ami ready to plant to orchard, balance onlv light brush, easy to clear, some timber for fuel. It is all under fence, nnd 11 fine well of cool soft water, There Is no better anil and location for an orchard or a liner site for a home east of theCascadcs. And now that we are sure of Hie Northern Piieitic build idg down the iicutli bank of the Colum bia river it is dirt cheap at fflOO jier acre, it will be worth three times that in three years. Terms, $1500 cash, bal ance ill three years, lion't let tliis slip if you are looking for a home. White Salmon Land Co. White Salmon, Wash. asy to take, pleasant and never failing in' results urn heWilt's Little Karly Itis ers. These famous little pills are a cer tain guarantee against headache, bil iousness, torpid liver and all of the ills resulting f'liiin constipation. They tonic and strengthen the liver. Cure Jaundice . Sold by . K. Williams. Skill In Fruit Culture. In tho September iMSiio of tho Hor ticulturist of Tneo a appears an illus traation of A. P. Hatchum's display ut tho Hood Kiver fr;iit fair last year, which is uccoini anied by the article of Ma ager Shepard's, which tho (ila cior reprinted last week. Comme'it ing on the skill of fruit packing in Hood Kiver, the lloiticiilturist says: "Tho fro it page illustration Indi cated the caref 1 method adopted by the Hood River fruit growers, it will be noted that in some of the boxes tho tiers are broken, where the fruit is a little too lurge or too small to fill packiigo in full rows, and these are known as .'1 or 4 tier, as tho caso may bn; but note how even in ,-iH the fruit appears in each box. Jt is iu getting thousands of boxes of up l ies of high quality like Spitzenberg and Yellow Newtown, together i 1 one section, carefully picked, ouuily grad ed and properly packed that has ena bled these growers to attain such high measure of prollt as they are realizing today. 'Micro are numerous other lu cidities in the l'acilhi Northneit where lis nice fruit may be teen, but either there is not sullicient quantity to at tract the highe.-t bids, or too often when oll'i red, even in smaller quanti ties, the grading and packing are not iu attractive stjle. Then again in too many favored I'niil sections a largo acreage is devoted to pi oiiiiscnous varieties of the lower grades such us will not stand 11 freight tarilf to any distant market, nnd lealie a profit. While bringing the example of meth ods adopted by tho Hood Kiver fruit growers, to the ntl.ci.tinn of son.e prominent fruit mci! iu a favored lu cidity of Washington, recently, one of llieui said to the Horticulturist, that be did not believe the prices report ed, were received for this famous, Iruit. I Iiih man is an hnuivt doubter, 1 1 : . h a desire, anil will soon altaiu to bettor methods than he is employing. There are many others liko him for whoso beuellt we have Manager Khep ard's statement in another column anil the illustration indicated. The diU'cronco in the up to-dute methods here present ami that of the average fruit grower represents a variation in net prollts of from fid cents to 1.00 per box. In the Pacific Northwest wo have many favored fruit sections, tin I attaining tho highest measure of suc cess doesn't depend upon locality half so much as on how the work is done." A Splendid Idea. A new it 1 1 n in a Cough Syrup is ad vanced in Kennedy's l.axal i ve 1 loney 101 I Tar. lieshlcs containing Pine Tar, Ib.iiey and oilier valuable remedies, it is rendered Laxative, so thai its u-e in- ures a pi'iimt and t llicicnt evacuation 1 I' I lie bowels. It relaxes the nervous system, and cures nil laughs, colds, croup whooping cough, etc. A red ('over blossom and the honey bee is on every bottle of the Original Laxative Cough Syaup Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar. An ideal remedy for children. Mothers praise it . it is best f.rall. Sold livtl L. Williams. it Out" says many a dixtor to his lady patients, because he doesn't know of any medi cine that will cure female troubles except the sur geon's knife. That such a medicine exists, howevef,is proved by thousands of cures made by Cures Worab Disease It has saved tli lives of many weak, sick w omf 11 sn.t rescued 0 th us from a llfrdme of chronic sick lies. It will cure you tf you will only Jlv ft a ch.ince. Try ft. ilJ hy all druiintsts and deal ers ttl Jl .ill bottles. OAVE UP SUPPORTER. ' I wore h supporter for four years, to keep up my worab," writes Mrs. S. J. ChrlMiian, of M.-iiinsv1llo, N. Y. " My Juctor s.iid no iiieJIcinf would help na. After taking Cnrdul I gave up my sup porter ami am new well. UPPIHCOTT' MONTHLY MAGAZINE A Family Library Tha Best in Current Literature 12 Com pict Novels Yearly MANY SHORT STORIES AND PAPERS ON TIMELY TOPICS $2.60 PER YEAR J 25CTS. A COPY NO CONTINUED STORIES EVERY NUMBER COMPLETE IN ITSELF M Bffl Rivcrvicvv Park and Idlewilde Additions Easy Grades, Fine View and Good Water ALSO MANUFACTURING SITES FRONTING ON O. R. & N. TRACK WITH DEVELOPED WATER POWER Cheap lots for building Small Houses near Flour Mill FRUIT LAND FOR SALE IN TRACTS TO SUIT HOOD RIVER DEVELOPMENT CO. Office SCHOOL BOOKS School commences Sept. 4th. The largest find best assortment of Tablets, Pencils, Inks, Pencil Boxes, Crayons, Composition Books, Pens, etc., ever brought tp the city. Special attention in buying was given as to quality of paper. The covers are the best ever. THE DEPOT FOR SCHOOL BOOKS. SLOCOMS HuntWallPaperCo Curries everything in the line, including Krinked Silks, Sik Embossed, Tapestries, Moires, ng rains, Varnished Tiles, B anks, etc. Up-to-date Paper Hanging, Sign, Carriage and House Painting. Phone G71. First and Oak Streets. DAVIDSON FRUIT CO FRUIT DEALERS and Manufacturers of all kinds of Fruit Highest Prices Paid A. J. FLOOD, GENERAL CONTRACTOR FOR ALL KINDS OF Cement Work Estimates given on short notice. Ruilding Work a specialty. Phono !)'.)!. Hood River, Oregon. HOOD RIVER TRANSFER & LIVERY CO. TICLET OFFICE FOR THE REGULATOR LINE OF STEAMERS. Hauling, Draying, Baggage Transferred, First Class Livery Turnouts Always Ready. rhonel31. Square Deal Store lo not forget that you will get full value for your inoiicv every time you trade, with me. When in need of Groceries, Flour and Feed Call and soo me. You will find it pays to trade here. Plow s, Harrows, Cultivators nnd nil kimlsof Agricultural Implements Alfalfa, Cover and All Kinds or Held Seeds. I have iust added a stock of PAINTS and am pre pared to guarantee price and xuality. Come in nud wake your wants known and get prices. It will pay you?" - - Yours for Business, D. M'DONALD 3rd and River Strt. - CHOICE RESIDENCE next to Waucoma Hotel oxes for High Grade Fruit. Hood River, Ore. LOTS FOR SALE IN- HOOD SNOW & UPSON Blacksmiths and Wagon flak ers The most completely equipped power plant in Oregon. Contract work a specialty. Grubbing supplies and Log gers' tools always on hand. The care Of the horse's hOOf is essential. We are experts in that line and cure corns and interferes. R. D. GOULD, PLUMBING Steam and Hot Water Heating All jobbing promptly attended to. Dealer in Building Material, Doors, Windows, Lath, Mouldings, AND ALL GRADES OF AGENCY TROY LAUNDRY R. E. WITHROW Has accepted the Hood River agency for the Troy Laun dry Co. of Portland, with an office in the O. K. Harbor Shop. Ho will call for laundry Wednesday and Thursday, delivering Tuesday. These dates will hold for a few weeks, owing to the rush of work in Portland. Dates will be changed later and notice given. Wagon will collect and deliver goods. Phone Main 1143. -TRY "North Coast Limited" The Electric Lighted Observation Car Train between Portland and St. Paul. Pullman First Class Sleepers, Pullman Tourist Sleepers, Dining Car, Day Coaches, Observation Car. The Acme of Travel Comfort is found on any of the 3 DAILY TRANSCONTINENTAL TRAINS 3 Send four cents for our Lewis and Clark Booklet, or six cents for "Wonderland 1905." Yellowstone Park Literatim can be had for the nskinjr. The Ticket Office at Portland is at 255 Morrison St., Cor. Third. A. D. CHARLTON, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon. RIVER THE-