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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1911)
nOOD RTVER GLACIER, THUItSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1911 Read This P Before you buy. We ask you to call and inspect our complete line of New and Second Hand Furniture, Stoves and Ranges. Everything in house furnishings We will take your old furniture or stoves in exchange for NEW GOODS. O. P. DABNEY & SONS Guaranteed Cheapest Outfitter Agents for Charter Oak Stoves and Ranges H10NK 248-K Cob. Forum am) Statk Sth. STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION or tiik Butler Banking Company, of Hood River, Ore. At the Close of Business, Sept. 1, 1911 RESOURCES: Loans and Discounts $514,001.28 Bonds and Warrants 9,442.0!) Office Fixtures and Furniture 5,700.00 Cash on Hand and in Other Banks 150,590.96 $685,794.88 LIABILITIES: Capital Stock $ 50,000.00 Earned Surplus and Undivided Profits 62,921.58 Deposits 572,87.3.30 $685,794.88 I HOOD RIVER ABSTRACT CO. J. M. 8t IIWKI TZFK F. A. lilNHOP ABSTRACTS Insurance Conveyancing SURETY BONDS "Accuracy" is Our Motto L Office in New Heilbronner Building Phone 23 HOOD RIVER, ORE. Progressive Fruit Growers WANTING Better Fruit Ought to investigate the merits and results of spraying with Wm. Cooper and Nephews TREE SPRAY FLUIDS The only scientific Sprays produced. Desrip tivo Pamphlets and Sprays at D. McDONALD, Local Agt. CHARLES G. ROBERTS, General Agent 247 Ash St., Portland, Ore. torage We have storage space for all kinds of goods in a concrete building Our Tranfer Wagons Will Move Anything Complete Transfer Service Transfer & Livery Co. Phone 5 8. T. RAWSON F. II. STANTON HOOD RIVER NURSERY Stock Grown on Full Root. We dtwire to let our friends ami patrona know that for the fall planting we will have and can supply in any number Cherry, Pear, Apricot, Peach and Plum Trees Grape, Currant and Berry Plants Shade and Ornamental Trees Also, all the standard varieties of Apple Trees. Can supply the trade witb plenty of Newtow n, Spiuenberg and Jonaehan apple trees Rawson & Stanton, Hood River, Ore BOWSERON FARM .Me Hears of An Ideal Place to Spend Vacation. PUT WISE BY FARMER'S SON. Promises Sounded Good, but Invest! gstion Mad Tired Man Think Visit From His Mother-in-law Would Be Preferable Says He's Sold Again. Literary By Copyright, till. M. QUAD. by Associated 1 'rets. J II. BOWSER had one of hia good streaks on. lie came home to pet the cat, who ran down to the gate to meet him, and to give Mrs. Bowser a smile as be ascended the steps. He made no kl k lit all during dinner, but, on the contrary, had several words of praise. When the meal had been fin Is lied and they hnd ascended to the sluing room he said: Mrs. Bowser, you mot the doctor on the street tue ottier aay, man t you?" Yes." "lie told me so today. Tie said you were looking fagged out. 1 think you are myself. The bot weather Is pull ing you down." "Oh. I don't know," she replied. "I haven't felt so very well for the last week, tint there'll come a cool day and 1 shall brace up. You are looking hit fagged yourself." "I feel so. We both of us need a vacation. We ought to have two weeks or a month off." Yes." And we are golug to have. We can get away as well as not. From two to four weeks In the country or on the seashore would make us feel like new beings." "But you've looked every summer for the last five years and haven't found a place." Expected Too Much. "And I'll tell you why. I've expect ed too much. I've been thinking It over and I know that's the reason. I WAD1NO IN TUB BABBLING BROOK. Imi't think we ought to pay over $7 $8 a week for good farmhouse board, but I've wanted fishing, sailing. bathing and grand scenery thrown in. u other words, I've been cranky." "But can you find a place this year?" "I have already found one.- Fifteen miles out a fanner has a furnished bungalow to reut. It's within a few steps of his house. We take the bun galow and board In the house, and thus we have no cares. We slmiilv swing i our hammocks all day long." "But about the scenery?" asked Mrs. Bowser. 'The farmer says It's nothing extra, nd as he is honest In this respect believe be Is in others,. There will be green mentions, a brook, a bill, a bit forest and so on. I shall not look for scenery, however. The sight of a mountain 6.000 feet high Is uot going to put fat on our ribs." "Is the place on a railroad?" "It's ten minutes walk from the depot." Ana wueu are you going to see about It?" "Tomorrow. I shall go out there ou tlie U o clock train, and within two days we shall be established in that bungalow. I have somehow got the feeling that we have struck It at last." Mrs. Bowser Is Doubtful. The matter was talked over for an other hour. Mrs. Bowser was doubt ful, but didn't want to say anything discouraging, while the more Mr. Bow ser canvassed the mutter the more en thusiastic he became. Ho woke her up at midnight to say: "We will take off our shoes and stockings nud wudo In the babbling brook." "Yes, dear." At 1 o'cliH-k he said: "We will lay down and roll over In the green meadows." "Yes. dear." At 2 o'clock he said: "We will milk the cows and chase the frolicking lambs." "Yes, dear." At 3 o'clock he sat up In bed and said: "And the bobolinks and mocking birds will sing ns to sleep every nij,'ht." "They surely will, dear, but you must iro to sleep. You have to get up early." "Yes. I will go to steep and dream of the fresh eggs." Pajiight bad hardly come when Mr. Bowser was out of bed. He ate a scratch breakfast and was at the depot almost an hour before his traiu was due. "I get off at Spike's station," he told Blankets and Quilts Laundered in a thoroughly sanitary manner by the Hood River Laundry Co. Phone 123 the conductor as bis ticket was taken op. "Summer boarder?' was queried with a smile. Tip From the Conductor. "Tea. and this pure country air is like a tonic to me. Do you know any tiling about Spike Villa? It Is run by Farmer Spike?" "I know that people go there and come away a-ala." "Too rich for most of tbem prob ably." "That may he It" When Mr. Bowser got off at Spike's station be found a shed, a cow and a boy waiting for him. After some hesi tation he asked the boy to direct hi in to Spike Villa. "Never heard of It," was the reply. "Then you don't live around here?" "Yes, 1 do. I'm a Spike." "Farmer Spike's son?" "Yes, air, and we didn't hare any Tllla around when 1 left home an hour ago. Come on if you want to go there. A villa Is a bang up sort of a house. Isn't It?" "Yes." "Well, we hain't got nothln' of the sort Ma must have told pa to ring that In on you city folks." "But you have a bungalow near the house?" "That's ma again!" laughed the youngster. "Pa's fixed up a shed, but I didn't know they'd got another name for It" Not Much Furniture. "But It's furnished, Isn't it?" "Oh, yes. There's a bedstead and a looking glass and two chairs. Ma says that city folks don't want much furni ture when they come to the country. They see so much at home that they get tired of It." Mr. Bowser began to feel chills go over him as he walked along, but he decided to hope for the best and asked the lad: "You have fresh eggs, of course?" "When we buy 'em," was answered. "How about milk?" "The milkman leaves It every day." "But you have fresh vegetables?" well, you see. pa ana ma are so busy running the villa that we don't make garden." Mr. Bowser paused In the middle of the road as If in doubt whether to go on. Might as well come on," said the boy. "But this was advertised to be only ten minutes' walk." "That was ma again. She said Wes ton could do It iu ten, she guessed." "Look here, young man," said Mr. Bowser as he bristled up. "I believe your old Spike villa Is a fraud!" Boy Had Feelings. "That's what they ull say." "And your father Is a blamed old liar!" "I've heard 'em him so." "And your mother's In on the game." "Say, mister, she's the slickest talk er you ever met. She can get the boarders to use sour milk and 'lasses In their tea and coffee." "But but what of you? If you are son of the Spikes' why do you tell me all this?" Oh, I was born with feelings, you see, and the more boarders that show up the less there is for me to eat If you think I've been lying about things come on. I'll bet you give dad a swat in the eye In less than five minutes. jook out for ma, though. She's a great hand to claw and bite." Mr. Bowser returned borne. Mrs. Bowser saw him while yet a block off, nd she was prepnred to hear him say that she had driven him to the dead line and Hint their lawyers would set tle tilings on the morrow, but to her amazement he simply said: "Sold again! I wonder if It wouldn't be like a vacation to have the mother-in-law come down for two months!" Wild With Excitement Hood River, Oregon, in Fever of Excitement Over the Wonderful Cures Perform- ' ed By DR. MADISON The Great Medical Ex pert and Bloodless Surgeon As to Cats. Cat Is the first syllable In catalogue and cataract and differs from the com mon housefly in many respects. The cat Is useful for many purposes. For one thing. It affords an Ideal spot to place little odds and ends, such as old shoes, bricks, etc. Cats usually grow under one's win dow at about 12 o'clock at night, at w hich time the difference between the clam and the cat families Is very dis tinct very, very distinct. The cat has idne lives, each of which Is one-ninth of a life in duration. The cat may be divided Into three parts bass, alto nud soprano. Fuck. Fine Sanitary Conditions. "What are the sanitary conditions In this town?" asked the man who was looking for a factory site. "First rate," replied the native. "Eb Stevens has a boy that ain't Just right, and old Mrs. Webb has been out of her mind fer some time, but the rest of the folks are all about as saullary as you'll find 'em anywhere." Chicago Uecord-IIerald. ... ... -P if eioi roeuo. Our prosaic notion of nothing to write poetry about is a lady with large feet and white shoes. Milwaukee Sentluel. Insistent. Frlend-What about the rent of a place like this? I suppose the land lord asks a lot for It? Ilnrdup Yes, rather. nVfl always asking for it London Opinion. The Bathing Girl. I said she looked like Venus, rising from the sm. But when I told her of tt she waa much vexed at me. Not that she was (O modest, as she ob served, but. shoot! It seemed I hadn't noticed her stytUa bathing; suit! Milwaukee Dally News. A SNAP 12 Acres on the East Side, 10 acres in trees. 2i acres, 9-year-olds; 34' acre in 4-year-oMs ; remain der set this spring. Balance oak grove. Beautiful building site, which commands a glorious view of the valley. E. G. NAPER Rout 1 Box SO Opera House Packed Nothing Like it Ever Seen in Hood River Before Dr. Madison and staff of the Medical Institute of Liverpool, England, and Crawfordsville, Indiana, lectured to a large aud ience last Tuesday evening. The doctors are agreeable and force ful speakers, and held the audi ence in close attention while they explained the theory and usefulness of their wonderful discoveries. Many promises were made which seemed utterly impossible to believe and when the doctor invited those who were hard of hearing to come forward and be cured. L. D. Boyed, Eugene Bush and N. J. Seline responded to the call and were made to hear a whisper in a few seconds. The doctor then called for cripples on crutches and V. A. Whitcomb responded. He was afflicted with the giant disease, rheumatic paralysis and he was unable to walk except with crutches and great diffi culty and pain. He was oper atad on with medicine for twen ty minutes and walked off the stage free from pain and stiff ness followed by the wondering crowd, while he broke his crutches. To say the audience was astonished and wild would be putting it mildly. The doc tor was warmly congratulated. It seemed like a dream, but it was real. Ministers and doctors were in the audience and they seemed as well pleased as any one. They treat the following dis eases: Jt'aralysis. catarrh, deaf ness, big neck, bladder and kid ney diseases, rheumatism, scro fula, female diseases, bowel complaint, debility, dropsy, heart, iver and nerve diseases, cancers, piles and fistula cured without pain and all kinds of chronic diseases cured. Office at HOTEL OREGON 1 a. m. to 9 p. m. includ ing Sunday. CONSULTATION FREE The treatment is Medicine and Bloodless Surgery. Will not visit any other town in this county. All wishing treatment must come to Hood River by Tuesday, September 19. Posi tively the last day in Hood River, closing at 5 p. m. . ' -.i.jt za y-ir, r J. M. WRIGHT CONTRACTOR AD BUILDER All Kinds of Shop Work, Band Sawing and General Mill Work. HARDWOOD LUMBER, HARDWOOD CABINET WORK AND MISSION FURNITURE MADE TO ORDER. Old Armory Building Phone 306-X Stanley-Smith Lumber Co. Wholesale and Retail LUMBER Lath. vShing'les, Ete Lumber Delivered to Any Part of the Valley Auto Delivery Co. Regular trips through the Valley EAST SIDE, MONDAY AND THURSDAY WEST SIDE, TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Deliveries to Any Part of the City Express and Burgage- PHONES BEATY & PARKER 347-X 347-L Those NICE DISHES on Display at WOOD'S GROCERY are given away FREE with Cash Purchases. Be sure to get your tickets when buying goods there. These dishes are Warranted to be first class ware. Call in and examine them. We sell all kinds of Groceries at prices that are right when quality of goods is taken into consideration. "The Best Thing's to Eat." WOOD'S GROCERY J. M. WOOD, Proprietor. The Purity Dairy Co. Yours for prompt service and Good Milk THOS. D. CALKINS GLACIER STAMP WORKS Makes Perfect Printing' Rubber Stamps Of Every Description FRUIT STAMPS A SPECIALTY We will make your Rubber Stamps just the way you want them, and Perfect Printing. Glacier v Stamp v Works HOOD RIVER, OREGON I)