HOOD RIVER GLACIER, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 191&
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BRIEF LOCAL MENTION 1
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Shoe nade or repaired at Johnten'i
R. B. BanMtt spent the week end at
Cascade Loeki with friends.
Peachet for Sale M. ArZeliaT
Phone OdellX12x5.
Go to Law it right You are right
when yoo (to to La w, the Cleaner. jn29tf
r Walker West, of Dee. was in the
city last week on business.
Go to "New York" at the Gem to
morrow and Saturday.
Get a vspor plug from Gilbert & De
Witt and aave gasoline. ,28
Mn. Henry Serr apent the week end
in Portland visiting friends.
II yon want shoes that don't
wrong go to Johnson's.
Born To Mr. and lira. Allen Hart
on Sunday, September 17, a son.
Save 40 per cent of yonr gasoline with
a vapor plug. OUbert fc DeWitt. s2l
Bert Head, auto service to all Valley
Points; call Ms. Hood Hotel, 4421. jyfitf
Pathe News every Friday and Satur
day at tne uem.
For- a famous 25c lunch go to the
Hotel Oregon. a6tf
Eldon R. Bradley has' been suffering
irom an attaca oi grip.
Gray winter oats, vetch, rye. wheat,
Kelly Bros., phone 1401. aSltf
Dainty Ella Hall in "Little Eva Ed-
garton at the Gem today.
F. A. Cram was a business visitor
last week in Portland and Seattle,
If your shoes have gone wrong take
them to Johnsen.
H. M. Hosick spent the first of the
week in Portland.
almost
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Peaches for Sale - M. A. Zellsr,
Phone Udell izxd.
Miss Betty Epping, who has been
visting relatives in Astoria, has re
turned home.
Films left with us np to 4 o'clock p. m
are ready for delivery the next evening.
Sloconi & Canfield Co. m23tf
Charlie Chaplin at the Gem on Fri-
day, September 29, in his latest com
eiiy, "The Count."
Prof. L. F. Henderson returned
Vapor plugs cut gasoline bills
in hall. Uilbert & UeWitt.
Tuesday evening from Portland, where
he had been visiting.
For special dinners on Saturday, Mr
Orchard ist, visit tne Hon Brau in rear
of Garrabrant's cigar store. jnlStf
Mrs. E. A. Macnamara and son
spent the latter part of last week vis
iting friends at Cascade Locks.
Insure your apples and hay. Hood
River Abstract & Inv. Co., telephone
1331. jy27tf
O-Cedar and Oil Mops made like new
hv washing them. Price 10c, at the
Hood River Laundry Co. s21
Fred Bell, of La Grande, was here
over the week end with his father, C.
A. Bell.
Lois Weber in the powerful photo
drams, "The Eye of God," at the Gem
next Wednesday and Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Stewart motored
down over the Highway to Portland
Tuesday afternoon.
Insure your apples and hay. Hood
River Abstract & Inv. Co., telephone
1331. ' y27tf
S. A. Mitchell was a business visitor
in Portland the latter part of last
week.
William Desmond and Bessie Barris
cale in "Not My Sister," at the Elec
tric today.
Fred Cooley, son of Dr. and Mrs. M.
E. Welch, celebrated his 14th birthday
with a dinner party Monday evening.
Mrs. H. C. Deitz and her mother,
Mrs. Schall, have returned from Port
land, where they visited relatives.
Mae Marsh will be at the Electric
Sunday and Monday in "A Child of the
Paris Streets."
Insure your apples and hay. Hood
River Abstract A Inv. Co., telephone
J 331. jy27tf
St. Mark's Guild will hold a meeting
this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock at the
home of Mrs. A. C. Lofts.
Russell G. Pond, of the Upper Val
ley, passed through town last week en
route to Portland on business. '
Don't forget that Pauline Frederick
will be at the Electric next Tuesday
for one day only in "Audrey."
' After a visit here with Dr. and Mrs.
R. H. Cowley Mrs. J. B. Jones has re
turned to her home at Pasadena, Calif.
Insure your apples and hay. Hood
River Abstract & Inv. Co.. telephone
1331. jy27tf
Mrs. Howard Hartley, of Tumalo.
has been heie the truest of Mr. and
Mrs. R. B. Perigo.
We wsbIi rues, rae and ingrain car
pets at reasonable prices Hood River
Laundry Co. st
Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Davidson spent
the week end in Portland visiting
friends.
Have your sweater washed np for the
coming winter. Price 25c to 36c Hood
Kiver Laundry Co. .
Mrs T. N. Ravlin SDent the week
end in Portland with friends. She
wss also present at tha Tom Dobson
recital.
Arhtur Mnun J t,.i:. t . l 1
left Sunday for Walla Walla, where
they will enter Whitman College.
w. i. Euachede was In Forest Crova
oyer tha week and to visit with relatives.
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PhOne. dttT 2fi21 raai.lan. 9A'9 L
Carlton. tf
Mr. and Mrs. Ralnh Rnnt ami u.
and Mrs. F. X. Arena vara in Pnri)mnA
foi the Tom Dobson recital
Mrs. E. H Hartal mA ohiM...
left last Thursday for Portland to visit
mi ismiiy or M. C. McGuire.
S. W. Curran. ViantA nat una,.
visor, waa a business visitor in tha
city last week.
Let US do un vonr Brrim rnrtaina lull
length 20c per pair Hood River Laun
dry Co. ,21
D. C Eccles. nresident nf tha flra.
gon Lumber Co., waa here last week
irom ugden.
Kodak finighincr-ornprt
am m ww wa a n V aa
lour hour service. Blocom & Canfield
vO- m23ti
Mrs. E. R. Pooley, after a visit with
Portland relatives, and friends, re
turned home last week.
MISS Roth Blowers waa vinnar nf
nrst prise in Class A of tha fancy work
cAiuuiu at oaturaays scnool lair.
Dr. David N. Roherff. atata haalth
omcer, was here Tuesday visiting
iuuiuy neaitn umeer fcagington.
W. W. Stevenson is at tha Cottana
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nnspiiai sunering irom a serious ner
vous breakdown.
. Mrs. W. L. Nichols and daughter.
Miss 11a, and Mrs. A. O. Anderson
were Portland visitors last week. -
Bring us your films for development
and printing. Prices the lowest for
GOOD work. Twenty-four hour service
Blocom & Canfield Co. m23tf
W. L. Mason, of the Upper Valley.
was in town the latter part of last
week making preparations for the bar
vest of his apple crop.
Mrs. L. F. Hanel left last week for
Lakeview, where she will spend the
next two months visiting friends and
relatives.
Mr. ana Mrs. J. w. Parker and son,
Charles, who have been in British
Columbia for the past several weeks,
returned home Saturday evening.
Leroy, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ber
nard Krohn, left last Friday for Cor
vallis, where he will enter the Oregon
Agricultural College.
Donald Onthank came up Tuesday
evening from Eugeno for a visit with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. On
thank.
Searches of records and reliable ab
stracts made bv Oreeon Abstract Com
pany, A. W. Onthank, Manager, 305 Oak
street. Phone 1521. jy20tf
D. McDonald, to the pleasure of bis
many friends, is able to be out attend
ing to business after a recent serious
illness.
Mrs. Richard Depee, who had been
at Washougal. Wash., visiting ber sis
ter. Mrs. Smith, returned home last
week.
Coming soon. Wm. S. Hart in the
"Primal Life:" Blanche Sweet in"The
Sowers:" Mary Pickford in "Ibe Eter
nal Grind," at the Electric.
F. H. Libby. an orchardist of Sheri
dan, has been here this week noting
methods of caring tor tne hooo Kiver
apple crop.
Miss Bertha Serr, after spending the
summer here with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Serr has returned to Port
land to resume ber yocai studies.
M'bsbs Nellie Tolman, Gertrude
Nickelsen and Leita Bowerman have
left to enter the Oregon State Normal
at Monmouth.
After a visit at the borne of his
riaiicrhter. Mrs. J. M. Waueh. Dr. J. G
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Fraser has returned to nis noma ai
Cleveland, Ohio.
Little Miss Virginia Abraham.daugh-
ter of Dr. and Mrs. V. K. Aoraoam
after a visit with her grandparents at
Forest Grove, has returned Home.
Mra. I.ina Johnson and daughters
Misses Lydia, Esther and bdna, nave
returned from Portland, where they
visited relatives.
Rill Hsll. crack baseball pitcher.who
haa hoan nlavins at outside noints this
summer, is again behind the Hof Brau
lunch counter.
Tha inimitable Hazel Dawn, the
beauty of the movy world, will be seen
Isdv." at the Electric.
Mioa aita Poole, who has been spend
ing the summer on the coast, returned
last week and has resumed her work as
teacher in the city scnoois.
Ravmund B. Early, who is now in
tha firponn Lumber Co. office in Port
iont aa a week end visitor in the
citv.
Mra n P. Dabnev. who was cslled
t f ivinoHtnne. Mont.. recently because
of the illness of her brother-in-law, has
returned home.
Oca tha vallev rieht. in Walter Shay'i
Rijirtr tfiiirini? CUT. Special rates to
patties bound to remote points and to
Da- on st Anil at jut. HUUU liw
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M..a F.i hot Turner Hand, of Baker,
arrived the first of the week for a visit
at with her granaiamer, uaviu n,
Turner, and to be present for his birth
day celebration toaay.
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Killing A Million A Minute
Would you sleep with your face against a filthy
germ laden articleP knowingly? Your feather pillow
may contain millions of disease bearing g Jj
put them through our Steam Sterilization and Hygemc
Hot Air process at 50 cents per pair. .
Hood River Laundry Co.
C. N. RAVLIN
Successor to J. H. Hellbronner & Co.
Real Estate and General Insurance
Heilbronner Building, Hood River
For Every
Man
we have a Flor
shcim shoe cor
rect in style made over
"Natural Shape" lasts..
English flat lasts, high
toe models and con
servative shapes as well
The Imperial
A blgh-grad gentleman's
walking ahoa un or black
$5.00
SHOE
SPECIALISTS
ALL STYLES
$5.00&$6.00
A Full Line of NAPA TAN High Top
Shoes Now Ready
3BBE
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allGodsHeire
NEW WOOL SUITINGS I NEW FALL CLOAKS
50c to $2.00 $12.90 to $195
NEW FUR TRIMMINGS NEW FALL SUITS
25c to $2.25 $14.90 to $195
NEW FALL DRAPERIES NEW FANCY SWEATERS
lOc to 45c $1.95 to $9.85
NEW LADIES UNIONS NEW DOWN COMFORTS
SOc to $3.00 $2.9Q to $6.9Q
NEW CHILDREN'S UNIONS NEW MEN'S FLANNEL SHIRTS
SOc to $1.50 $1.5Q to $3.00
NEW WARM BLANKETS NEW SHOES for the whole family
58cto$11.90 SOc to $7.50
FRANK A. CRAW
Misses Alma Absten. of the Viento
school, and Miss Clsra Rand, of the
Columbia school of the Frankton dis
trict, spent Saturday here attending
the school fair.
Mra. W. P. McLaren and Miss Msry
McLaren left last Friday for the bast
Side home of Dr. and Mra. btanton
Allen, where they will visit for sev
eral weeks.
Mr. and Mrs.Omer Day and children,
en route from Portland to Pendleton,
called here over the week end to visit
the family of Mr. Day'a brother, Alva
. Day.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Kendall and Miss
Gladys Musser, of Chehslis, wasn.,
motoring here over me niKnway, ar
rived the first of the week to visit Mr.
and Mrs. C. B. Harper and family.
The Ladies' Aid of St. Mark's Guild
will hold a card party next Monday af
ternoon at 2 o clock at the home of
Mra. A. C. Lofts. All friends of the
Guild members are invited.
Floyd Gibbs, of the local Western
Union office, has been tsking his vaca
tion the past week. A part or tne
time was spent at The Dalles visiting
friends.
W. E. Lefaivre and G. McBrinde,
officials of the D. & R. G. R. R. t-o.,
were here last week, lhe visiting
men were shown over the valley by
Chas. T. Early.
1r. and Mrs. D. P. Gillam and their
eight months' old son motored to Port
land t idsy, returning ounaay. accom
panied on the return trip by Miss Elda
Jackson.
A. W. Stone wss at Lewiston, Ida.,
last week on business. He reports that
that section of Idaho was not so seri
ously affected bv freeezs of the late
spring as other sections.
That their daughter. Miss Janet, may
attend the local schools, Mr. and Mrs.
F. siade. of Uusum. have aeain
taken apartments at the Mount Hood
Hotel annex.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira E. Wililams have
been on their West Side place the past
week. Mrs. Williams being engsiied in
eannins fruit. Mr. and Mrs. Williams
are making their home at Laurel, Wn.
Miss Irene Williams, a former stu
dent of the local high school and the
roommate of Mis Marian Howe at the
Monmouth normal, is now teaching at
Stevenson, Wash.
Mrs. Flora Hartley, left last Thurs
dav for Eugene with her daughter,
Miss Katherme. wno win resume ner
school work at the University of Ore
gon.
We will write vour Fire. Automobile,
Life and Accident Insurance and Bonds
in the largest and best companies; old'
est insurance aeencv in the city. J. M
CulbertsonA Co., phone 2483. tf
A special meeting of Hood River
Lodge, A. F. & A. M., will be held
Saturday evenine. when work in the
E. A. decree will tie conducted, mas
ter J. 0. McLauehlin extends an invi
tation to all visiting Masons.
D. I. Stone, here from his place on
the uooer West Fork the first of the
week, says mat iramc to l.obi l-kkc
has been extremely heavy the past
summer despite the almost impassable
condition of the road.
Judge Samuel White, chairman of the
Democratic State Central Committee,
who had been at The Dalles to attend a
maetino of the Woodrow Wilson league.
waa here yesterday visiting local
friends.
Hugh Smith baa gone to Grants
Pass, where be will work in the new
auaar beet factory. Mr. bmith, an
experienced sugar man, was formerly
superintendent of the local municipal
water plant.
Accompanying the family home from
Portland over the Highway by automo
bile, Misses Olive Day and Mildred
Camp came up from Portland last
week for a visit with Mrs. Minnie
Jaeger Vonder Ahe and family.
Miss Margaret Reilley.who spent the
summer at her home at Rock Valley,
la., arrived last week to begin her
nrW in the citv schools Monday. Miss
Reillev will make her home with the
V. C. Brock family on Oak street.
J. Church and J. E. Hall gave
most enjoyable dancing party in their
nolv built ancle house at Uak drove
last Wednesday evening. A large
crowd of young and old people were
there from all over the valley.
W. H. Galvani, having accompanied
eastern friends, en route home, this
far from Portland, stopped in Hood
River a short time Sunday. Mr. Gal
avani la chief engineer of the Pacific
Power & Light Co.
William Walter returned last Friday
from southern Wasco county, where he
had been visiting the family of C. L.
Loftons and attending the Tygh Valley
fair. "The lair waa a good one,
says Mr. Walter.
Hans Laee was a business visitor in
Tha Dalles the first of the week, hav
ing driven overland to the neighboring
city, tie reports tnai me wasco coun
tv and or tne road over nm ranges 11
much better than that of Hood River
county.
A reception will be tendered the re
turning pastor of the Asbury M. E.
churcb. Rev. W. B. Young, and his
family, at the church parlors tomorrow
avenins. A basket lunch will be
served. Long tables will be set in the
church narlors and room
Nicholas Hanlan. of Sitka. Alaska.
who has been here visiting the family
of his sister, Mrs. Ned Van Horn, left
Monday evening. Mr. Hanlan will
visit in San Francisco and go front
there to Arizona.
w. L. Hodges has purchased a new
White touring car. Mr. Hodges and a
party of friends will leave today for
Pendleton to see the Round Up. The
trip, however, will be made in Mr. !
Hodges ford.
C. N. Clarke, who with his family
Is spending a vacation at Cannon
Beach, has been very ill. He is re
ported much better. Mr. and Mrs.
Clarke and children are expected home
Saturday.
After a visit here with her grandpar
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Blount. Miss
Leone Steinhofi returned to her home
in Seattle the latter part of last week.
On the return trip Miss Steinhoff was
accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Earl
trans.
While E. 0. Blanchar and J. E. Rob
ertson, who were in Portland Monday
to attend the funeral of the late Mrs.
Fred S. Stanley, returned home Mon
day evening, Mrs. Blanchar remained
in Portland for a time with the Stanley
family.
Members of the Laurel Rebekah
lodge entertained at a dancing party at
the Odd Fellows Hall last night. Those
in charge of the dance were; Mra. J
D. McLucas, Mra. Ura Wiley. Mrs. R.
K. Johnson, Mrs. Geo. W. Thomson, A.
L. Vincent and B. F. Moses.
The Ladies' Aid of the Asbury M. E.
churcb will hold a 10-cent party at the
home of Mrs. F. K. Jackson next hri
day evening, Setember 29. All friends
of the church are cordially invited to be
present. Members of the church and
society are urged to be present. A
general good time is assured for all.
Miss Lodesca Loveland. singer of
New York city, who has given a con
cert in Portland that brought much
praise, will give a recital next Wednes
day epening at St. Mark's Episcopal
church. Miss Loveland is said to one of
the foremost young soprano singers of
America.
"Preparedness" is not only applicable
to national affairs, but to those of every
private individual. Are your finances
in case of sudden reverses in a state of
"preparedness" for the protection of
your own and your family's interests?
John Golilsbury, Local Representative
of Northwestern Mutual Life. jnl5-tf
Mrs. A. G. Lewis and daughter, Jes
sie, after a three months visit with
relatives and friends in Fargo, N. D.,
have returned to their East Side home.
Mrs. Lewis' son, who accompanied her
east, has remained to accept a flatter
inhg position with a Fargo mercantile
company. Mrs. Lewis is much im-
provea in neaua since ner visit.
Miss Georgia Lynn, who has been in
Portland the past summer visiting her
grandmother. Mrs. R. B. Byerlee, un
derwent an operation at the Good Sa
maritan hospital Saturday lor hernia.
Miss Lynn is recovering from the oper
ation very rapidly. Mrs. Geo. H.
Lynn, who was in Portland with her
daughter at the time of the operation,
returned home Tuesday evening.
Miss Maud Carlisle, of Hood River,
treasurer of the State Music Teachers
Association, passed a few days in Port
land this week on her way home from
Chicago, where ahe passed the summer
studying at the Chicago College of
Music. She has been the guest of
Miss Nellie Cornish, of the Cornish
School of Music, in Seattle, for a
week, and while there attended the
concert given by Dent Mowrey on
Tuesday evening. Portland Spectator.
W. H. Weber, of Chicago, who has
been at MoBier looking after business
interests, was in Hood River last Fri
day afternoon. Mr. Weber is inter
ested in the East Hood River Fruit Co.
at Mosier. Hans Kollandsrud. super
intendent of the fruit ranch at Mosier,
who recently left the Cottage Hospital,
where he had received treatment for a
broken leg, waa also a visitor here
Saturday. Mr. Kollndsrud is much
better.
H. W. Bluhm and wife, of Seward,
Neb., who were en route home from a
tour of Colorado and California points.
arrived here last week Thursday for a
visit with Mr. Blubm's brother. P. W
Bluhm, and family. After aeeing the
Hood River valley. Mr. and Mrs,
Bluhm left Monday for Portland. Be
fore returning to the Middle West they
will stop at Washington points. The
visitors were delighted with the orch
ards. While here they visited the Up
per Valley and in the Dee region. Mr.
Bluhm motored with them to Mitchell's
Point tunnel, and a large number of
photographs of local scenes will be
taken back to Seward.
CULL APPLES
$6.00 Per Ton
Our price this season will be $6.00 per ton for the same grade of apples that
you have delivered us in former seasons.
$400 PER TON
If the above grade has been sorted and the best removed leaving dry rots, water
core and imperfect apples of 175s and smaller, our price will be $4.00 per ton.
You can deliver all your culls to us in sacks or loose in wagon box and no sort
ing for grade.
The $6.00 price delivered in sacks is a better price than $8.00 in boxes sorted
free from worms, dry rot or water core, and imperfect shaped apples, as you will
only be allowed $4 per ton for the latter grade.
Kindly consider these figures before contracting with outsiders, at a supposed
higher figure.
We have five large hydraulic presses in operation and can take care of your de
liveries without delay.
Hood River Apple Vinegar Co.
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Sheriff Johnson angled for the elu
sive Dolly Varden Sunday.
Daman Smiopft anil finv Millar anent
Sunday in the Upper Valley fishing.
C B. Harper and Russell Wilbur
spent pert of Sunday fishing on the
lower Hood river.
Carl D. Shoemaker, state game war
den, was in Hood River Sunday on his
way to lhe Dalies.
The State Game and Fish Commis
sion Friday distributed 85,000 trout
fry on the headwaters of the different
forks of Hood River. The fish car,
Rainbow, was brought here Thursday
evening by an O.-W. R.& N. passenger
train, and yesterday morning waa car
ried to Dee and Parkdale, where the
train was met by ranchers with wsgons
and automobiles, by the Mt. Hood
Railway company's regular steam
train.
The distribution of the nsh was in
the bands of W. O. Hadley, of The
Dalles, deputy game warden, and
0. H. Rhoades, a Valley rancher, who
is a member of the board of trustees
of the Hood River County Game Pro
tective Association.
Dr. Arthur Vial, of Portland, spent
the week end here with his old friend,
J. A. Epping, and the two caught a
nice lot of fish on Hood River.
W. L. Clark was accompanied on the
Hood river Sunday by the, following
men: W. J. McKee, Geo. I. Slocom,
H. H. Larkin, and J. H. Fredricy.
Walter Kresse accompanied H. D.
Emery and family on a fishing trip to
tha Trout creek section of the Middle
Fork Sunday, where all caught a fine
lot of trout.
The next regular monthly meeting of
the Hood River County Game Protec
tive Association, will be held at the
Library building Wednesday, uctooer
4, at 8 p. m.
Since the cool weather of Indian
Summer has come, the watera of Hood
River, formerly made dingy by the an
nual warm season of glacial erosion,
have cleared, and fishermen on the
stream are meeting with excellent sue
cess. Hood river was lined with fisher
men Sunday. W. L. Clark made the
record catch of the day. landing a 20-
incb Dolly varden.
all. All friends of the eburcb are cor
dially invited to be present. I
Swkk Champion Pear Grower
William Swick. whose acreage of
bearing pear trees is the largest in the
vslley, challenges any grower of the
Northwest to equal the record he has
made this fsll on an acre and three
quarters of Bartletts. Mr. Swick haa
harvested 1,670 packed commercial
boxes from the tract.
The pear grower has 17 acres of
pears in bearing this year. Fifteen
acres, onlv eight years old. are just
beginning to produce. Thirteen acree
of the place are set to d'Anjous. The
totsl yield for this year is placed at
provided for 1 2.500 boxes.
Rubber Stamp Ink at this office.
Mr. Morris, of the firm of Backua &
Mnrria- of Portland, waa in Hood Riv
er last week. Mr. Morris is very much
interested in the propagation of nsn
and game and seeing a membership re-
a,'nlnn tha Mnntar nf tha Franz Hard
ware Co., left $1 with Mr. Franz, wish
ing to belong to sucn an organization
to help the good work along.
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Dr. J. M. Waugh and family spent
one day. last week on the West fork.
They were accompanied by E. J. Mid-
dleswart, Hood River's veteran fisher
man. Dr. Waugh caught a large ateei
head, and his daughter. Miss Martha,
perhaps made the record eatcb for a
Hood Kiver young iaay, isnamg uaa
ketful of fine trout.
Whila Mra FV R Snvricr aiaa ensaffed
in housecleaning last week ahe was in-
tarrnnteri. A parnet aaeener waa left
on a back porch. On returninhg to her
task the housewife round it impossinie
to operate the aweeper. On investi
gating aba discovered a garter snake
coiled around a roller. Aa the. carpet
sweeper was opened the family eat waa
an interested spectator. laooy nas a
ranntation for freonent rentilian catch
es, and Mrs. Snyder haa concluded that
the anake bad sought tne unique re
treat to escape the claws of the eat.
"Come home at once and kill a bear
that is picking apples in the orchard,"
was the insistent message that Mrs.
W. L. Hodges delivered Monday over
the telephone to her buBband in the
city on business. Mr. Hodges lost no
time In motoring to his uak urove
home.
Men working on the orchard place
tried vainly to keep the bear fright
ened away from timber growing along
a draw after be bad eaten his nil or
Winter Bananas, but bruin escaped.
Many reports of bears raiding orch
ards are coming in. The scarcity of
huckleberries in the mountains, woods
men say, is driving them to the valley
for food.
Timothy Black, the half grown kitten
of the William Frazier family, acquired
knowledge and experience recently at
the cost of a portion of bia left ear.
In the trees on Hazel avenue, on
which the Frazier borne is located,
lives an old mother squirrel. The Sil
ver Gray mother is the pet of every
household, and many are the families
she haa raised to amuse Hood River
children.
The kitten wandered from his usual
confines in the Frazier yard and sight
ing one of the members of the newest
family of Mother Silver Gray proceed
ed with disastrous unsopbistication to
stalk the young squirrel. Barely es
caping the claws of the excited kitten,
the baby aquirrel barking frantic S. O.
S. calls climbed a telephone pole.
Timothy Black waa in pursuit up the
pole when a gray thunderbolt struck
him from behind.
In tha administration of the severe
punishment the mother squirrel sev
ered a portion of tha black kitten's left
ear.
Woman's dub Activities to Begin
The Woman's club will hold the first
meeting of the year next Wednesday
afternoon, Sept. 27, at 2.30 at the li
brary. There will be an important
business meeting presided over by Mra.
W.F. Laraway, the first vice president,
and Mrs. C. H. Castner will give a re
port of the biennial convention held at
New York last spring. Delegates to
the state convention at Seaside will be
elected.
The afternoon will close with a re
ception to Mra. Castner, the state fed
eration president. This will be in
charge of Miss Mary McLaren and the
former presidents of the club, assisted
by the staff of officers during Mra.
Castner'a term aa president of the lo
cal organization.
Variety stamps, etc., at this office.
NEEDY CHILDREN
MUST HAVE CLOTHES
Membera of the philanthropic com
mittee of the Hood River Woman's
club have issued an appeal to local folk
to donate clothing for the children of a
number of families whose lack of wear
ing apparel is keeping the youngsters
from school.
"We have been asked to aid four
such families," says Mrs. T. J. Kin
naird, chairman of the commitee.which
through the Associated Charities, ad
ministers to local needy. "For then
most part the needy have been left
Btranded here following the harvest
season. In cases children and mothers
have been deserted by the husband."
The philanthropic committee urges
than to those desiring to make contri
butions telephone at once to No. 2392.
Gifts of new articles will be especially
appreciated.
Children's Commission Exhibits
Under the auspices of the Woman's
club tbe Children's Welfare Commis
sion of Oregon, with headquarters es
tablished at the Masonic building, is
making daily exhibits this week. Yes
terday Mrs. Robert Tait, president of
the Commission, delivered an illustrat
ed lecture at the local headquarters.
INVESTMENT COLUMN -
REAL ESTATE
No. 109, : 8 acres 1 mile from town,
all in young bearing trees and clover,
(2500.00.
No. 117 : 10 acres, 200 boxes this
year, 6 miles out, Oak 3 rove. $2500.00,
modern house, price (5000.00.
Xo. 138 : 20 acres Oak Grove, young
bearing orchard, beautiful building
site, $1,500.00.
No. 139 : 25 acres Oak Grove, 5000
boxes this year, good building, (10,500.
No. 147: 10 to 25 acres Pine Grove,
11,000 boxes this year, full bearing, will
make right price.
No. 154 : Good ranch near Oak Grove
to trade for residence in Hood River.
No. 155 : Have exceptional buy on 30
acres near Riverside Park, Dee, with
perpetual water right.
LOANS
Money to lend.
INSURANCE
Agents for Travelers Life A Accident
and 24 good fire and casualty companies
INSURE YOUR APPLES
ABSTRACTS
Our records are extended daily. They
are correct. The title to your land de
pends on yonr abstract Be sure that
your title is good.
Phone 1331
HOOD RIVER ABSTRACT AND
INVESTMENT COMPANY