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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1920)
HOOD HIVKK n LACIER, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 0, 1020 i - ,,i Mazda Lamps For the Home and Office Gradually the days are becoming shorter. This means more artificial illumination. AN EDISON MAZDA LAMP is the logical solution. Each lamp has been carefully constructed to conform to our lighting voltage. That gives assurance of correct candlepower and long life. Common sizes, 10-15-25-40-60-75 and 100 watts. Prices, 40c to $1.10 Pacific Power & Light Co. "ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE " PHONE 4231 FIRST NATL BANK BLDG. MRS. MARTHA SCOBEE WAS BURIED FRIDAY Interment of the body of Mrs. Mar tha C. Scobee, 74, who died the pre vious Wednesday in Portland, occurred at Idlewilde cemetery here rriday. Mrs. Scobee. who moved from Fair Oaks, Cal., to Oregon ten vears ago, following the death of her husband, lived in Hood River a number of years. She is survived by the following four sons and one daughter: J. E. Scobee, of Salt Lake City; L. I. and Miss Mat tie Scobee, of Portland, and Dr. E. ;L. and W. P. Scobee, of Hood River. Members of the city council, Kay W. Sinclair, C. C. Cuddeford, Walter Wal ters, Mark Cameron and A. S. Keir, and Dr. H. D. W. Pineo, were pall bearers. Funeral services were held Friday morning in Portland at the Byrnes chapel, Rev. Edward Constant and Rev. Edward Bollinger, Congregational ministers of that city, officiating. BOX SOCIAL AUCTION Thursday, Sept. 9th. Plenty to Eat with Fun for an Appetizer On Thursday night (tonight) the ladies of the Valley will all bring basket lunches, each containing two boun teous meals which will be auctioned to the hungry. Everybody Invited. The Committee will serve Coffee. ODELL GRANGE HALL Beginning 8:30 o'clock. Bert Head's Mother Passes Funeral services for Mrs. Amanda Head, mother of B. T. Head, were held Sunday at the Anderson chapel, inter ment following at Idlewilde cemetery. Rev. W. H. Boddy, pastor of Riverside community church, officiated. Mrs. Head, aged 66, died Saturday. She was a native of Virginia, but had resided in lennessee bet ore coming here six years ago. A daughter, Mrs. Edna Storey, of Newman, Calif., am a brother, George Turnbull, of Brush Prairie, Wash., survive. Mr. Turnbull was here for the funeral services. banana P38 nan m Just Little Stories That Hood River folk would furnish free coffee, sugar and cream to all who journeyed here for Benson Day celebra tion with their own lunch apparently spread through the world of tramps. Early Monday morning a tramp from whom caricaturists draw their like nesses of the genus hobo, presented himself at the hack door of a citizen. He announced that he had his lunch but would appreciate a cup of coffee. The family had juBt finished break fast, and fortunately a cup of strong coffee still steamed in the percolator on the back of the stove. The desire of the tramp was fulfilled. Then the old man, his one good eye sparkling with the ghost of good humor, cited the offer of local folk to furnish free sugar and cream, asked that his coffee receive these trimmings. He stated that he had read of the great celebration to be held here in honor of Mr. Benson. He got his sugar and cream. Card of Thanks We wish to thank our many friends for their kind words of sympathy and aid during the time of our bereavement attendant on the death of our mother and Sister. Especially are we grateful for the remembrance of those who sent flowers. B. T. Head. George Turnbull. Japanese Baby Dies The body of the four year old daugh ter of T. Katayama, who succumbed last Saturday to dysentery, was shipped to Portland Sunday for cremation. Funeral services were held here at the Anderson chapel. Bill Hart Wins Swimming Prize William Hart, city night officer, who has just returned from a vacation at Pacific City, Wash., states that he won a swimming contest at the beach. Mr. Hart won a 10-pound salmon in a con test of men over 40. "I learned how to swim in Kentucky ponds," says Mr. Hart, "and after such a training locomotion through the water of the Pacific is easy. Next year I am going to challenge all men over 80, and I'll bedinged if I don't be lieve I can beat 'em." . .The Dalles Melons Come by Truck As a result of the opening of the new six-mile grade of the Highway be tween here and Mosier, watermelon growers of The Dalles district are mar keting their melons direct to local mer chants by motor truck. The growers make daily deliveries of the melons, held in high favor at this season. A number of motor truck loads of The Dalles melons have passed through here en route to Portland over the Highway. AUCTION EXCHANGE SEVENTH AND COLUMBIA STS. (Hunt's Old Warehouse) Fjjcing Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co. 's Barn This section certainly owes a lot to the automobile IOC GROSS & ISENBERG Turn Your Waste Into Cash What have you to sell ? We buy and sell at Auction, or if you prefer we will sell your goods, give you the money less the commis sion. Fair enough, we advertise, store care for, and sell once a month at auction. No quantity too large, no parcel too small. REDUCE THE HIGH COST OF WASTE Mr. Farmer, in your shed or about the place, you have some tools or implements that you have no further use for. Someone has maybe a saddle, harness, bor.press, grindstone, extra plow, cultivator, harrow, etc. This is a waste. Someone needs these things. We bring the things wanted and the party wanting them together. You have decided to refurnish the house. You should get the benefit of the used chairs, stands, dressers, rugs, beds, or whatever you are replacing new. We are in position to help you dispose of the things. They are worth something, yet are stored away and become useless. Let us get together. The war proved that we were careless, thoughtless and waste ful We now exercise more care, are thinking more keenly, but are still wasteful. Convert this waste into cash. THE AUCTION EXCHANGE is the remedy. We will pay the highest cash price or will sell on commission. The choice is yours let us get together. FIRST SALE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th. Inquire Phone 1213. Select your tires ac cording to the road they have to travel : In sandy or hilly coun try, wherever the going Is apt to be heavy The U. S. Nobby. For ordinary country roads The U. S. Chain or Usco. For front wheels The U. S. Plain. For best results everywhere U. S. Royal Cords. BOWL CORD -N08BV CHAIN USCO -PLAIN EOK at it just from the business stand point, compared with, say, ten years ago or even five. Everything speeded up made easier. Nearly every business man depending on the automobile to trans port himself and his products. That is one reason, per haps, why more attention is being paid to tires why tire costs are being figured closer and people are beginning to look for better tires. We believe that people are entitled to better tires the best they can get. Not only the man with the big car, but the man with the small car, and the medium sized car. Ill We represent U.S. Tires for that reason because their policy is the same as ours every tire as good as you can get it, regardless of the size of the car it is to go on. It was that policy which led to the introduction cf the straight side automobile tire, the pneumatic truck tire. And you can't beat it. IV U. S. Tires are guaranteed for life, with no liixiitction of mileage. It will pay you to talk to us about tires, if you are looking at them from a business standpoint. United States Tire CAMERON MOTOR CO. HOOD RIVER, OREGON l"l"l-H-lH-M"M-M"M"I"l"l"l"l"l"l- x Clipped Here and There i H "1 -I I 1 I H 1 1 1 H-l-1-1"! I "l-I-l-l-i-l-V Continued remrts of an exweted shortage in cars to handle the fruit rop during the heavy shipping season !his year make it imperative that no step le neglected to avoid such a con tingency if possible. For shipments to iearhy Hints considerable help in this lirection can undoubtedly be secured by establishing motor truck lines as is Ming done in the east. At least this is a point that mav well be considered by shipper:- in their efforts to reduce to the minimum the number of cars need ed. Hy Invest in thlC the uossiblitics f utilizing io some extent this mode of shipment in each of the fruit ship ping territories it is more than prob able that f -nit transportation can be greatly aided. As the large bulk of Northwestern tree fruits, however, are destined for far away noints we airain!wish?to call ttention to the advisability of organ izing committees, or other bodies, or securing individuals to take charge of the matter f the car situation at an arly date. If nothing else is accom plished the information that will be secured will be of vast benefit to both shippers and grower in regard to crop movements and in providing stor age. Better Fruit fruits at different times, but it has bean the consensus of opinion that the oridnary spraying of fruit for the con trol of insect pests and diseases could not affect the palatability of the fruit. Pears, apples, peaches and other fruits have been sprayed for years and we have the first case yet to hear of where anyone was hurt by eating such fruit. However, it may be that the.e particular pears were dangerous as claimed. If so, nobody has any right to ship or sell such fruit and prompt and effectve meaeures should be taken im mediately to prevent a recurrence of the offense.- The Packer. Christian Church Bible School, 0.15 a.m.; Preaching Service, 11 a. in. and K p. B.j Christian Kndeavor, 6.48 p. in. Cordial welcome to all. II. L. liasbroiick. Optometrist. Tl n of the Boston authorities iK pears which showed a in conden trace of arsenate of lead sprav wher placel on sale comes as a shock to the fruit shippers in the west. Last year I a good deal of excitemeut also was caused when authorities in Boston pre v toil ti:e sale of a car of apples on that market because of spray trace-, j Hov ot r. the action of the Boston i authorities in itself has not caused the ! widest-read interest that cornea from the announcement of the Bureau of i Chemistry, I Apartment of Agriculture, I i in tfli I'rtm t.t th Rnalnn ininprtrtn 1 as finnuHi ,n 1 ne acaer last wee. Individual pear, it was claimed, car- i ried one-sixtieth grain of arsenate, or a half a medicinal does. Fruit which j I shows overspraying will not be allowed to be sold unless it ia cleaned or sold to canners and preservers wBrt will peel the fruit before using. There has been considerable .discus ion of danger because of sprayed Box Nails Camp Stoves Box Hatchets Ranges Picking Bags Detroit Vapor Oil Stove Screen Doors Lime Wash Boilers Fly Screen Bluestone Kitchen Ware Ladders PAINT LUBRICATING OILS KELLY BROS. CO., HARDWARE BUYERS AND SHIPPERS OF j APPLES AND PEARS