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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1911)
-if mm HOOD KIVEK, OREfiOX. THURSDAY, .H LY 27, lull VOL. XXIII NO. U 1 150,000 Worth of ORCHARD PROPERTIES were sold by us in the past 90 days. Lots 1 to 43 inclusive of Mosier View Orchards containing approximately 420 acres, have been sold and the SECOND DEDICATION, embracing lots 44 to 74, inclusive, is now offered to the public at at tractive prices and on easy payments. During the past three months we have sold Mosier View Orchard Tracts to some of the shrewdest buyers and most careful investors from New York, Massachusetts, North Da kota, Texas, Minnesota, Oregon, California, Mon tana, Washington, Missouri, Ohio and Alaska. Port land people alone purchased over $50,000 worth of these orchard properties during this period. We plant to a commercial variety of apples these 5 and 10 acre tracts, and care for same in a scientific man ner for a period of five years, without any cost to the purchaser except the purchase price, which is ex tremely low. Sunday Excursion Trips to MOSIER VIEW ORCHARDS are becoming more popular every week. Call or write to us for our free booklet. Hood River Orchard Land Co., (Capital $500,000) wlin & Fircbaugh Sales Agents. Hotel Oregon Bldg., 906-909 Yeon Bldg., Hood River, Oregon Portland, Oregon For Sale by Owner 200 acres, GO acres cleared, 11 acres planted, balance unimproved. Price cheap and easy terms. J. P. Thomsen It. F. 1). No. 1 box GO Phoue 200 Odell Land For Sale 1 have about 1,000 acres of No. 1 Apple Land, most of it under ditch at prices ranging from $60 per acre up. In tracts from ten acres up. J. R. STEELE Hood River - - . - Oregon Don't Leave the Hood River District Without Investigate Natnral advantages (or fruit growing unexcelled. Land prices have doubled within the lat two years'but are not over half that'asked for similar, land inj other sections, Buy now before the speculators add their profits. Mosier Valley COMMERCIAL CLUB OF MOSIER MOSIER, OREGON. Six Miles Eaat of Hood River, Oregon I 1 111 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 111 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 111 I 1 I I 111 I 1 111 1 I 1 H 1 I 1 1 I 1 II lair red Land Bargains in Hood River 20 Acres, $5,50054 miles from town. 5 acres cleared; house! 2 eood aiirinug: fine view of vallev and both mountains; shot soil; easy terms. 19 Acres, f 8,0005 utiles from town. 16 acres cleared ; 2 acres in trees; balance in clover and alfalfa; all hut 1 acre first-class ap;.!e land; splendid view ; easy terms. 17 Acre, 9125 an Acre1 mile from shipping station, school,, store and church ; all uncleared but tine land fur apples; a snap. 20 Acres, $22, OOO.I acres 2-year-old; 19 acres in 5-vear oid Spitzenburg, Newtown and Ortlevs. One of the sightliest placet; in the valley and is in the heart of the apple growing section. Near store, school ete. Terms. We have a number of special bargains in inside business property that are sure money makers. J. H. Heilbronner & Company i The Reliable Dealers Hood River, Ore. J H-H-l .H.WH-I-l-I-H-l-H-I-H-H-l-m-H llllll H-H 1 I 1 I'i 1-1 - SCOUTS ENJOY LONG HIKE VACATION SPENT AT LOST LAKE Rector Dr. ;F.O. W. D1MM1CK. Phoiw 344-K Office Phone 4S-L H. H. HADLOCK Phone 326-M Dimmick & Hadlock REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE Improved and Unimproved ORCHARD LANDS Office First Door West Mt. Hood Hotel, Ground Floor HOOD RIVER, OREGON GREAT BARGAIN 103 acres in the Willow Flat dis trict. 1 S acres in trees from 1 to 12 years old. Soil of the finest "Red Shot," which has made this district famous. Good spring water. Price $130 an acre; 1-3 cash, balance at 7 per cent. See This at Once. It is a Great Bargain ' Hood River District Land Co. Hood River, Oregon Unusual Farm Bargain 30 Miles From Portland, Ore. 144 acre farm, black and red soil, beautifully located, 42 acres cleared, balance slashed and in pasture, 100 assorted old fruit trees, 6-room house, 60x70 barn, out buildings; all fenced and cross-fenced; cemented well, . spring in pasture; 2 miles north of LaCenter, Wash. Owner going to California for health, must be sold at once. If taken at once, will give one-third of entire crop to purchaser. $2,250 cash will buy it, the bal ance, viz: $3,250 on mortgage at 6 per cent. Total $5,500. One of the finest properties in this section. Communicate with us at once if interested. DUKE & BRAN LaCenter, Washington THE COOL DINING ROOM Of the Mt. Hood Hotel Electric Fans Ventilating Fan Hot Weather Dishes Cool, Screened Porches service: a la chrte We Also Serve a Thirty-five Cent Merchant's Lunch at Noon EXCELLENT CUISINE MOSELEY & LARSEN, Props. Simpson Tells of Adventure Kanaka Teaches Boys First Aid to the Injured. Don't Clia.se out or around town (or some thing foreign when you can get a Perfect Printing Rubber Stamps, or a First-class Job o( Printing at the Glacier office. Just call Phone 37, We'll do the rest. Seed potatoes at Whiteheads. T AOntl A gold bracelet, containing I I IX I 25 or 30 pearls and a small Airimnnti Wa Inst hptwepn the Episcopal church and 725 Sherman Ave. Finder return to Morlan & Lathorp'i for reward. We pay highest cash price for over ripe and cull strawberrie". Crocker & de Reding; 4th between Oak A State Sts. Phone 227-M. tf With faces tanned and muscles hard ened by their two weeks' outing near Lost Lake, the .Hoy Scouts returned here Saturday. All members of the party grow enthusiasti? when they relate the adventures of the trip. Hector K. T. Simpson, of the St. Mark's Episcopal church, who organ ized the boys in this city and who planned the Lost Lake trip, tells below the interesting story of the long hiko and the encampment. At seven o clock on the evening of JulyC the bi;g!o sounded the march ana the boys of Troop One, Hood River, Or., with Hag living started on their ong contemplated hike to Lost Lake. The party consisted of three partols the Wolves, Don Allen, pMtrol leader, (Hen Goodall !and Frank Palmer, cor porals; the Foxes, Roger Simpson, patrol leader, Mark Moe, Paul Harris, Leon Bentley and Jack Dukes, corixir- als; the Staga, Bill Allen, corporal in command in absence of patrol leader, and Edwin Sonnichsen, acting corporal. Unfortunately several members of the troop were unable to come along. In charge or the party was Scout master E. T. Simpson. Several miles out the company was joined by Vaughan Gunnell, a Kansas Scout vis ting in the Vallev. Me was assigned to duty with the Wolf Patrol. The party crossed Tucker's bridge and camped that night about a half mile beyond. While the boys were supposed to have had their supper before having left town, most of them were glad of a sandwich or rookie, w. shed down with cold Hood River water, before rolling themselves in their blankets for their first night's sleep in the open, (iuards were set and the Scouts settled down to a well earned sleep. Soon after daybreak all were up and, after eating and cleaning up camp, began the hike to Winan's, here they arrived in time to select a camp site before the arrival of the Mt. Hood train bearing the camp supplies. The train also boro Mrs, Simpson, the scoutmaster's wife and a younger son, Douglas, wholwhile not a scout, could not very well be chloroformed and left behind. The bagagge was carried to the con venient and pleasant spot in the woods and a temporary cuinp was established. Friday and Saturday were spent by the boys fishing in the fork'of the river. Merton Whitney, who hiked out alone from Hood River on Saturday, distin guished himself as the champion fish erman of the lot, getting over 40 trout in the two days. Sunday was visitors' day at the camp, f A number of friends and relatives motored or drove out and brought welcome additions to the larder. Leon Littlefield, who was unable to go with the troop on the whole outing, rode out Sunday evening on his pony and spent the ;night. He was accompanied by Eldon Bradley, who brought along his team and carted theheavy baggage from the Winan's campto Lost Luke. Bright and early Monday morning, at 3 A. M. in fact, the bugle aroused the Scouts from their dreams to the realities of life and u long day of tramping, and for the older members of the party the hard pioneer work of getting the wagon over roads which distinctly outclassed the "Rocky Road to Dublin." By 5:15 ablutions had been performed, breakfast was over, tents, "fixins" and "eats" (grub is now an obsolete word) packed in the wagon and the camp policed. At the sound of the Scoutmaster's whistle the boys assembled in patrol, ollicers re ported all present, the flag was trans ferred from the camp flagstaff to the hands of the standard bearer and (con cluding the ceremony of breaking camp) the camp fire was formally ex tinguished, it was a picturesque pro cession that made its way through Dee at that early morning hour lirst the Wolves, with the Stars and Stripes waving gaily ; then the mounted Scout, Leon Littlefield, followed by the camp wagon. At intervals came the Foxes and the Stags. The rear was brought up by the Scoutmaster and Mrs. Simp son, who had been given the nororary position of chaperone. sleepy eyed people came to uoors and windows to see the show. Those who were more awake called greet ings, or asked questions as to destina tion. To the latter the answers were always prompt and emphatic, "Lost Lake or bust Mere onlookers, wno had nothing to say, were aroused to mental activity by the Scouts, who inquired the distance to the goal. The answers varied considerably at times it seemed that the nearer we got the further away we were But presently houses were far apart and seemed to be deserted, their owners at work in the fields. About 8 o'clock the toot of an auto was heard. The bugle sounded a welcome blast, and Dr. and Mrs. Kanaga overtook us in their car. Af ter brief greetings they flew ahead. However, a little later they were found stalled in a nasty piece of road. The Scouts did some energetic road fixing and it soon proceeded to the Stone house, the last residence on the route. Here the occupants of the tri8' chine awaited the arrival of the boys and with them proceeded on foot to the Mineral Springs, where a lunch was served at 10 o'clock. At eleven the march was resumed. The main body led by Dr. Kanaga struck out for the lake. The Wolves witn the scout master followed with the wagon. At a mile or two from' the Mineral Springs the teamster'8 troubles began, the road being perhaps the worst in the country.: Holes had to be filled up, rocks cleared away, protruding roots removed and even then when a few hundred feet had been prepared a half dozen shoulders had to brace against the wagon in order to get it over some exceptionallylifficult place. In places the wagonj came very near tipping over. At last however, the worst was over and the'graceful shadows offthe forest were entered. The road became less difficult and at last the glimmer of the lake burst unon the eye. A last de scent and the Scouts had reached their camn. Here Dr. Kanaca. skilled in the art, bad prepared a fully equipped camp kitchen as though by the magic of a fairy wand. A cheery hre was blazing and in a few moments hot bouillon was served all around, fol lowed bhortly by a more substantial supper. The Scouts had a plunge, put up their shelter'tents, the bugle.sound ed and all was still. The grown-ups slept in the open. No shelter tent between them and the stars, if you please. The pleasure of waking up in the night and gazing at the stars, any where! But at Lost Lake, under the shadow of Mount'Hood, to lie awake of a summer night looking up through foliige of two-hundred-year-old pines at tiie star-studded sky why it would be foolish to try to describe it! A bugle call in the early morning, and the routine of camp life began. The Wolves, under the direction of the grown-ups, were cooks lor that day, to be followed by Foxes, they by the Stags and then the Wolves again and so on. But life was not all work there. There was aplenty of fun, too. It was a pleasant surprise to find that the pleasure and interests of campers were protected on the lake by a splen did fleet of one man-power, non-sink-able, flatbottomed cruiseis, (guaran teed speed of one knot per hour) which might be overturned in such !a way as to catch and hold a layer of air and then you could dive under and come up with your nose in the enclosed air ana stay almost as long as you desired. Or, you could run along the upturned, unseraped bottom, slide the way you do on ice, tho last foot or two, and drop, with a delightful splash into the water over your head or, the boat being righted, manned, anil armed with high-pressure spoons, or rapid-fire fiies, war could be successfully waged against the unsuspecting but tasteful trout, many of whom gave up their lives with a fight, to grace first the frying pan and then the board. How good those trout were when you were trolling for them, and when you had them hooked, and when you were good and tired, and, most of all when you had a hunk of one in your hungry mouth. Speaking of mouths, there is a class of words) which a scout's mouth is not supiwsed to utter, should a scout's mouth so far forget itself as to say, for instancewell never mind, if it should say one of these words, the other scouts present seize the owner of ttfe mouth, hold his two armt aloft and gently, but firmly pour a cup of real, nice cold water down his sleeve and it trickles and trickles, and runs in un pleasant little streams down his arm, along dowh his rside and even to his socks and it stays wet for a tood time, too, giving evidence that it is a clean ser of speech as well as of body. This, however, happeed so seldom at Lost Lake that it was something of a cere mony when it did occur. Another offense had to be dealt with differently. One night when we were singing around the camp fire some one gave a rendering of "The Old Time Religion. It took, especially the chorus, "It was good enough for father It was good enough for mother It as good enough for brother And it's good enough for me." That took, like tho meadas and promised'to run for nine days, oi for whatever time meaBiea run. When, next morning, one of tho larger boys was shouting this out at the top of his lungs in nerve-racking reiteration, til! the young men of a neighboring camp fired olf their six shooters in protest, he was ordered to stand on top of an old tree stump, and sing for half an hour without stopping, the chorus, on pain ot having every person in his vicinity fire blocks of wood at him should he stop for a minute. After twenty minutes' effort the balance of the sentence was remitted on promise of good behavior. He tried, in the evening, though, to get even by organ izing a bunch to sing the prohibited song in unison, lhese criminals were instantly ordered to various stumps and fallen logs, where they remained singing, or rather howling, to a diiss- fully unattentative world till the ex aggerated hilarity of the law-abiding group over story and joke drew them, one by one, from their perches. As one great object of the trip was to help the boys to qualify for second class scouts, part of the two lirst days was spent under the instruction of Dr. Kanaga in acquiring the first Aid knowledge required for that grade, Several of the older boys had already received instruction in this from Dr. Malcolm Bronson, who from the first has taken a lively interest in the work of the Boy Scouts ot Hood Kiver, Most of the Boys, however, had as yet had no instruction in First Aid. The troop was therefore divided into two classes. A short talk on what to do in case of a certain injury was given, questions asked, and then the boys were called upon each to De either the victim of a supposed accident or the partner who had to care for him until the arrival of a doctor. The victims acted their parts well, those who cared for them of course made some blunders at first, but soon came to do the right thing, a little rough, perhaps, but nevertheless in the right way. Then things would change; the victim of one time would be the helper next and so all had a good chance and made good progress. The boys of the Troop ' are now keenly anxious to be on hand the next time a citizen cuts an artery, or breaks a limb, or punctures his foot with a rusty nail or gets bitten by a snake. Perhaps to some our outing acked completeness because none of these things happened to any of the party and no opportunity was given for a display of real First Aid. In fact f rom.the standpoint of the grown ups it was most fortunate in this re spect ; for no accident occurred other than a slight altercation between one member of the party and a pair of scissors, in which the scissors came out best, and a night attack by yellow jackets upon our guest from the East, who alter a long day s tramp sougni to cool his weary feet in the trickling waters of a rippling rill. Disturbed in their peaceful slumbers by finding the weihgty mass of a human crushing in one corner of their abode, a detatch ment of the little insects was sent out to do battle with the intruder, shrilly sounding the Y. J. war cry. It wheeled into line, and with exquisite military judgment threw the weight of the batallions against the unpro tected feet of the enemy, then by an upward turn they reached the cover of the flapping trouser leg and there noured forth the deadly volley of stings. The enemy was routed, horse, foot and dragoons, particularly foot, and fled in disorder, leaving as spoils of war his shoes and socks. To the recoveryjof the spoils came the scout master sure, that, calm and unatraid. no harm would come, secured the de serted foot gear and flung them to WATER SUIT NEAR AT HAND ENGINEER KELSEY INSPECTS FUN T Special Term of Circuit Court to be Hel Here-Derby and Skarrs City's Attorneys. From the report of the Fire and Water Committee made at the Monday night meeting of the city council, the condemnation proceedings, which have been filed by the city against the Pacific Power & Light Co., the pr.o,,.t owners of the water system supplying the mieople of the town with water, will be taken up by a special term of the circuit court here next week. L. C. Kelsey, a prominent civil and hy draulic engineer, who conducts an office in Portland and who is the con sulting engineer of Salt Lake City, has been here for several days makin g careful inventory of the water plant for purposes of evidence to be intro duced by the city. The city's action will be conducted by Attorneys A. J. Derby and Jesse Stearns, the latter of Portland. A communication was submitted by Otis Treiber, agent for the owners of the property over which the road to the Underwood Ferry passes, calling the attention of the council to the fact that garbage was being dumped along the road way and making a great source of annoyance to p?ople travel ing to and from the ferry landing. Mr. Treiber pointed out the fact that the property made use of as a public dumping ground was private and asked the council to take some action con cerning the matter. His communica tion was referred to the Health com mittee. The permit of the Fira and Water committee to tho Hood River Apple Vinegar Co. to inn ease the size of its factory on Railroad avenue was con firmed by the' council. The Apple Vinegar Co., because of the recent installation of a soft drinks depart ment, found it neeessary to add an other story to its factory. The Street committee recommended that cement sidewalks be laid in the paving district of the city, where such were not already installed, and along the south side of Columbia street be tween Fifth and Thirteenth streets. Ordinances were ordered providing for the carrying out of the resolution. Councilman Early stated that the Oregon Lumber Co. was ready to give the eify a deed in escrow to the prop erty owned by it over which the pro posed extension of hirst street to the waterfront will puss. The deed will be delivered to t e city mi condition that it acquires within a year the other property and rights of way necessary for the completion of the proposed street. 1. C ESTABLISHES AUCTION HOUSE A number of fruit anil produce mer chants of Chicago attended the open ing of the new fruit auction house of the Illinois Central Railroad at the foot of South Water street and ex pressed the belief that it will enhance the reputation of the city as a fruit and produce distributing center. Ad dresses were delivered by Vice-President F. B. Bowes, of the Illinois Cen tral, and Manager Ceo. D. Bills, of tho Pioneer Fruit Co. The second story of tho building has been fitted for auctioning purposes. It is expected that the auction Bales will reach sixty cars a day within a short time. Arrangements have been made by which the Union Pacific Road, it is said, will turn over a large amount of its California fruit tonnage to the Illinois Central at Omaha. TheJIatter is now operating a fast fruit train on a 26-hour schedule from the Missouri River to Chicago, and has provided facilities for holding fruit consign ments in its yards at tho foot of South Water street for reconsignment to points in the East. The Btep taken by the Illinois Cen tral in enlarging its facilities for handling fruit shipments means that the company . hereafter will make a strong bid for this class of business from the West. Both the Illinois Cen tral and the Union Pacific are Harri man roads, and co-operation on their part along this line, it is asserted, will make the Illinois'Central a strong competitor of other 'Chicago roads, which make a specialty of hauling shipments of fruit. "The opening of our fruit auction house means a good deal for Chicago," said Vice-President Bowes. "We have taken special care to provide the best facilities for this class of business, and the name of this city as a center for fruit merchandising ought to be enhanced in a marked degree. bruit Trade Journal and Produce Record. (Continued on Page Two) FRISKY COW STEALS BATHER'S GARMENTS A dispatch from White Salmon to the Oregonan sajs that several White Salmon boys; were kept in the little ake in the Wyers pasture near the Columbia, where they had gone swim ming.jlonger than 'they planned when some wild range cattle charged them on the bank while they were dressing and Iran them into the water. The attle hacked and pawed at tneir clothes on the sand, and ono of tlm cows catching a horn in a suspender strap.'went tearingoh with the trous ers of A. F. Johnson, a Seattle travel ing man who owns land up the valley, and was in bathing with the boys after hanging his clothes on the bushes. Mr. Johnson was in an embarrassing predicament, as he was going to Port land on the evening train. After an hours search the kidnapped garment was found a mila away, with nothing lost from the pockets. Miss Nell Reed, of Greenfield, Ind., and Miss Carrie Kinsley, of Portland, spent Thursday here with Valley friends. Miss Reed was returning to the East after a visit to Pasadena, where she had gone as a delegate to the convention of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Now is the time to buv cheap slab wood. A. C. Lofts, phone 310.X. -J ; m T