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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1916)
SCPl'LKMENl TO HOOD 111 V Kit GLACIKR, THURSDAY, DECEMBER U, 1916 The New Model Oveirlaimdl As announced in the Satur day Evening Post of Nov ember 18th, has created much favorable comment. We already have had nu merous inquiries for litera ture. Phone us for a cata logue which will be mailed you at once. Gilbert DeWitt White River Flour Makes Bread Having the Old Bready Flavor AT YOUR GROCERS ILA SMITH -DEAN The Christmas Gift Store Pretty and useful gifts, fancy work, hand painted china, a line of beautiful linen handkerchiefs, nowers, birds of paradise; many other useful and beautiful novelties. I I I I H"I"H 1 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I HJiS, VVRS AM) FEATHERS J Mil I HUM M II I I III III IH At the recent meeting of the Oregon Game League in Portland, Hood River men were elected to the following re apt ctive positions : Leslie Butler, sec ond vice president, and D. McDonald, a member of the executive board. Al va L. Day. Hood River's delegate to the annual meeting, made a report of the session at the regular meeting of the local club Wednesday evening of last week, The following is from a United Stales Department of Agriculture bul letin and a continuation of a recent article on wild bird propagation in the Northwest: For all birds some sort of bathing and drinking pools should be furnished, these may be either on the ground or raised and may be of pottery, stone, metal or cement. Both the edges and bottom should be somewhat rough. The water receptacle should be shallow and should slope up gradually toward the edge. The vital factor in attracting birds is the food supply. This may be fur nished either by providing artificial food such as crumbs.suet, chopped nuts and the like, or by planting trees. shrubs and herbs which will produce fruits or seeds that the birds them selves may gather. Winter feeding is the most familiar phase of bird feed ing, but there is no reason why birds should not be attracted throughout the year by a supply of food. For artificial feeding the biologists of the U. S. Department of Agricul ture suseest the use of several devises. A food shelf may be placed against the side of the house near a window, or a food trny may be fixed to the top of a post. Excellent food receptacle may be had by cutting a hole in a cocoanut and stuffing the shell full of chopped suet and nuts or some other iooo mixture. The shell can be hung from a limb. Holes bored in pieces of thick lumber mav be use instead of a cavity in a co- coanut. Feeding hoppers like those used for poultry may he employed for birds on food shelves or on tne grcuna. A wooden house open on one aide away from the wind also may be used as a feeding nlace. If it is desired to feed the birds naturally, there are a number of plants that may be grown which win he orna mental and. at the same time, will fur nish good provender for the feathered guests. For seed eating birds in the Northwest the list suggested by the Department of Agriculture includes prince s reamer, love-iies-oieeomg, as ters, calandrinias, blessed thistle, cen taureas, California poppies, sunflowers, tarweed, forget-me-nots, Polygonum orientale. P. aachalinese, portulaca, si lt lie and sugar cane. Other seed bear ing small plants that may he grown are the various millets, canary grass, and the various species of pennisetum. Among the trees bearing seeds rel ished by birds are the alders and birch en. The red-Dolls, siskins and gold finches are particularly fond of these tree seeds duriug the winter. Ashes and box elders furnish seed relished by evenine erosbeaks, while larches and pines and other conifers are attractive to crossbills as well as to some of the species just mentioned. The fruit eating birds may be at tracted in ereat numbers by planting of fruit bearing shrubs and trees. The best of the long persisting fruits in the Northwest are jumper, bayberry, thorn apples and related fruits, holly and snow berry. A large number of other fruit-bearing plants are listed in the bulletin already mentioned, and the period of fruiting of each is shown on a chart. One of the advantages of nlantino DiilH 9 mi t.nouri no trAAtt nnfi piuii tllig " ..M... . ........ shrubs, it is pointed out, is that the Dims are ionaer 01 inese man 01 tne cultivated fruits, and the latter, there fore, will- be protected. ?Z Copies of the bulletin may be had free on application to the U. S. De partment of Agriculture as long as the Department's supply lasts. ELECTRIC THEATRE MAKES IMPROVEMENTS Improvements that add to the attrac tiveness of the popular place have been added during the past week at the Electric theatre. Instead of the side lights that adorned the theatre over head electric lamps with inverted shades have been placed in the build ing. These lights illuminate the thea tre with indirect rays. They are kept burning throughout the show, and one entering the building does not have to grope to find a seat. The Electric' popularity is on the in crease, and Sunday evening it became necessary to add to the seating equip ment. One of the most attractive fea tures of the Electric is the organ music furnished by Mrs. Kolstad. Teachers' Examinations Notice iB hereby given that the County Superintendent of Hood River County, Oregon, will hold the regular examina tion of applicants for State Certificates at Hood River High School Building, as follows: Commencing Wednesday, December 20, 191K, at 9:00 a. ra., and continuing until Saturday, December 23, 1916, at 4:i:0 o'clock p. ra. Wednesday Forenoon U. S. History, Writing, Penmanship, Music, Drawing. Wednesday Afternoon Physiology, Reading, Manual Training, Composition Domestic Science, Methods in Reading, Course of Study for Drawing, Methods in Arithmetic. Thursday Forenoon Arithmetic, His tory of Education, Psychology, Methods in Geography, Mechanical Drawing, Do mestic Art, Course of Study for Domes tic Art. Thursday Afternoon Grammar, Geo graphy, Stenography, American Litera ture, Physics, Typewriting, Methods in Language, Thesis for Primary Certificate Friday Forenoon Theory and Prac tice, Orthography, Physical Geography, English Literature, Chemistry, Physi cal Culture. Friday Afternoon School Law, Geo logy, Algebra, Civil Government. Saturnay Forenoon-Geometry, Botany Saturday Afternoon General History Bookkeeping. Very truly yours, L. B. GIBSON, dl4 County Supt. of Schools. Allen Wins Law Suit Rev. J. L. Allen was awarded a jury verdict, damages assessed at 2,500, recently in circuit court in Portland against Painless Parker. Mr. Allen was suing the Portland dental concern, alleging that his mouth was seriously injured last spring by faulty treat ment. No tresspassing and no hunting signs at this office.
