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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1921)
V liooi) RIVER GLACIER, TNl'ltsi-AY, DECEMBER 1. 1021 r.r'u'ir -m Vr -u- ivj-'nr -cj- rvj- ',vn j. BWBB u-'ti- 'tn mj'm rwW-w m miHr imwWi' u- "ir. .w. nt.'pj. hj Wj'ij.Vj'u u.'lm"nj'''u'ivn njWt .tp'ni-'j. mi'iin'im wv''iu''iui'ihV rV .TW -V. fx, -W .-. TTt. IV 1. W. -Wl in. WW -TV " , 8 8 8 8 8 8 The Store of Substantial Christmas Gifts JOIN if 'j Eg ; , jjgj ment. manufactured from gold has come from the increase in the labor expended in the making. ,in.in,in.iniiivwiiin.in.J.rain.in.in.i.in..i......1 , - ru .ry rfi mt tn tn n jinfufi dn tfi tfv.yhifv tfit ifi.yv Mi rw rw .w eti. . u -n. tj-h ru .ry yf 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 PJ U U ..J. -W -rV n rii ynu tfv -f -rw art 'j OT alone is the Diamond beautiful because of the purity of the rays that it sheds. The fact that its lustre wiil endure down through time, lends it value and beauty, too. Some gaudy tinsel may be made for a moment to outshine purest gold, but the precious metal never loses its durability. We pride ourselves on our gifts of sub stantial quality, gifts the workmanship and nature of which will render them heirlooms. And in passing we would call your attention to the fact that gold was never cheaper than at the present mo- Jewelry of gold, watches and rings, is now at a low mark. The only increase noted in the price of jewelry a n- -w r n .m u v. ttl ri ar-i Whether it be a ring for the baby of plainest de sign or with dainty delicate setting or a fine diamond, you will find it here. We set our diamonds in plati num. The other day we were told by a diamond merchant that at least, 85 per cent of the jewelers of the country were unable to handle such work. We set our stones in platinum right here in Hood Kiver. We have a line of Silverware that is unexcelled, sterling silver service and silver plated ware that can't wear black. Not long ago we stripped the silver from a knife and left it for two weeks in a lemon. It couldn't turn black. CUT GLASS AND SILVER SALT AND PEPPER SHAKERS c We carry LIBBEY'S CUT GLASS in all of the most pleasing patterns. Our line of Pyralin Ivory was purchased in bargain quantity. We are selling at factory prices of today. Our customers, whatever line of jewelry they may be interested in, get the benefit of our buying for three big stores. FOUNTAIN PENS. EVKRREADY PENCILS PINS, BRACELETS, NAPKIN RINGS Watches Nearly every man prizes p. gift watch. We have the Waltham and Elgin and other makes time pieces that the man in his prime today will pass on to his son. The Gift Watch is very appropriate. A HJL1, LINK OF WRIST WATCHES GLASSES V at to m How about vour eves? If vour vision has become imperfect, you owe it to yourself to make a Christmas present of a pair of glasses to yourself, Perhaps you will receive a Christ mas letter from loved ones far away. What satisfaction it will be to read it with your own eyes. Our many years of successful experience in fitting glasses enables us to offer you a sdrvice second to none. We permit only the best and most perfect to pass over our counters and from our shelves. We allow no one to undersell us. W. F. LARAWAY JEWELER Diamonds have been advancing since 1890. Thy will never be lower. Just twice as many dia monds were mined in 1913 as were taken from the earth last year. The most important feature in the buying of a diamoud Is the dea ler you patronize. You must have absolute confidence in the house you deal with. For many years we have bean selling stones to people who know and demand the best. Every diamond is absolutely backed by our guarantee that has stood for a most exacting honest policy for many years. r The Red Cross is spending Ten Million Dollars a Ye. to help the ex-service man and his family o7?;m7 Roll CaU 7).u-2j()v j To bring before the country In visual form the vat problem it is helping to solve, the American Red Cross has prepared for its Annual Roll Call, Nov. 11 to 24, a poster showing how rather than diminishing the total of World War veterans entitled to Federal aid continues to grow. Red Cross Service to these men is costing $10,000,000 a year. RIVER BOATS ARE APPLE MARKET NOT CARRYING FREIGHT AFFECTED BY TIE-liP YOUNG TRAPPER'S BODY IS RESCUED .John Wood, 24, trapper, whose body was found on the Wahtum Lake trail four miles no Herman ereek, may have lieen killed by a falling limb, accord ing to Deputy Coroner Anderson, who brought the body here Saturday night liy launch. The poeition in which the young man's body was found indicated that he had sat down to remove his snowslioes and replace them with leather pacs. Numerous fallen limln were near. He had been warned by forest rangers against making the trip during the storm. Deputy Sheriff Sloat and Traffic Officers Murray and Wood accompanied Mr. Anderson. The body will be held here until the coroner gets word to a sister residing at Prince Rupert, B. C. It's an ill wind that blows nobody rood. With the slides left by th se vere snow storm tying up the Colum-1 bin River Highway indefinitely snd thus temporarily erding activity of the numerous motor truck lines that were handling the lion's share of light freight and express between here and i Portland, Columbia river steamers are exicted to leap into popularity again. Indeed, the steamers the past several days have made possible the relieving, of the congestion of freight that hat piled up between Portland and ;mid-('o-lumbia cities. "Persuade the boats to take ship ments." has been the burden of scores of telegrams sent firm here the past several days bv all manner of mer chants and business men. The river , steamers were already carrying a beavv tonnage of apples between M- i sier. White Salmon and Ur.derwod and Portland. The efferts of the .."w storm will farther increase this fruit j freight, it is said. Rier business.' it is declared, will be restored to some-1 thing like oldtime day. f After a week of inactivity the move ment of aprdes to the east has lietrun here and the normal shipments of an average of 30 carloads per day are roll ing again. Unable to hear from the outside world and under the imprestioa that other northwestern districts were tied up by the storm, local shippers anticipated that the week's tie-up might have a stiffening effect on the eastern market and relieve the glut of fruit rolled there during the past sev eral weeks. The storm, however, had but little effect on other set i ,.ns, and it is not expected that the local lack of shipments will render the general mar ket apprenat najt the storm wi zero, and it wi licht heaters pla ear and fit-Id hi How I Screen Water for Irrigation (Hy Hans Hoerlein) Thorough screening of the water 1 used to irrigate hillside land is abso lutely necessary in order to insure pro tective, thorough and time-saving irri gation. This applies, of course, pri marily to the cultivated orchard, the spring planting of hay, or some culti vated crop, where it is necessary to irrigate freshly-stirred soil by means of "rills" and small furrows. The use of a minimum amount of water per rill in such irrigation is essential to prevent washing, yet it is difficult to keen the water flowing, because of the annoying tendency of the holes in the Hume to clog. This tendency can be overcome al most completely by screening the water thorouithly as it flows onto the ranch at the head-gate. The screening system easily can lie installed, and will prove at once reliable and a great aid to the hillside irrigator. Construct two stout bases, fx4x4 feet, making these of plank, or, better still, of concrete. These are to be placed so that the irrigation supply Hows from the head-gate into the box es before nassing into the flume dis tributing the water over the ranch. The water should flow from the gate into one of these boxes, and the other tiox should lie so placed that the over flow from the end of the first box can run into it. If the ground has not sufficient slope for the water flow into the boxes di rectly from the head-gate, then they must be sunk into the ground to the required depth. The second box must be set lower than the first enough lower to be below the outlet of the first box, with several inches to spare, as there should be room also for the screen that rests on top of this box. The overflow from one box to an other and to the distributing flume is frames should not cover the full width nor length of the boxes, so that if the screens should (ill with trash, and over flow, the water will return to the box es rather than wash out over the land. The screen frames are supported by their protecting ends, and are placed on top of the boxes. The screen for the second box may be set down in the box to gain a few inches, especially if there is not much fall to the ground. The screens must not be nailed in place, as it is neces sary to remove them to dump otF the trash. In fart, it is advisable to beat the BereenB thoroughly with a stick in order to Bhake out all adhering trash. The size of boxes naturally will be governed by the amount of water to be screened ; the Bize here described should take care of 15 to 20 inches of water, and these have been made large enough to eliminate the necessity for taking out the settlings of sand and dirt as often as would be necessary with smaller boxes. Furthermore, NIMM nf ample size need cleaning less frequently. It should be remem bered also that these boxes serve a valuable nurpose as settling chambers for the sand and dirt earned along by the water, which also clog holes in the flume. With such a screening system one needs to spend but little time in look ing after the irrigation. Once it has been regulated, a little attention morn ing and evening is all that is required to open a hole here and there that may have become closed. As water must run for several days at a time on hilly land to insure thorough soaking, it is a relief to reduce the flow of water through each rill to a minimum and. to know that water is running constantly through every rill. LIFE IN AFRICA INTERESTS better. i temperature here dur f n m ;n of i t the MM of or :'! I- r. Il Parity Flour utade at homm. C7tf and which less from it Heavy ga ; f H box. and 3 box. This i (preferably lower side TRANSFRS OF REAL ESTATE (By Hood River Abstract & Co.) Charles A. Ham and wife to J. K. Andrews, undivided one-half interest in tract in Fine Crove. H. Felsensteoi to R. A. Chipman and Klda A. Chipman, tract on old Mo sier road. David Fyks and wife to J. M. Can non and wife, 10 acres in Barrett. A. F. Hremer to Columbia Highway Fark Company, 101 acres on Herman creek. Maud E. Ikinohoo and husband to Dick F. Doyle and wife, 3.9 acres in Fine Crove. Walter M. Isenberg and wife to Mrs. Gladys Gurley, lota 37, 38, 39. 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 in I ik 10 of Erwin & Watson's First Addition to Hood River. Frank Routh and wife to Lydia Elli ott and husband, lot 5 in bik D, in South Waucoma Addition. State I .and Board to R. J. Stewart, 40 acres of indemnity land. Nelson Emry and wife to Esary Lumber & Fuel Company, lota 3 and 4 in blk 7, Second Addition West. (ate Sell Hart Hotel E. U. Cate has sold the Hart hotel hi. h catch the chaff " the Hej!,8 U) K, - T"rn.r- ,ormer ranrner ni neiser, iuk. i ne rawer rias arrived here to take charge of the ho tel. The deal involved the transfer to Mr. Cate of a grain ranch of 270 acres at Weiser. and fitting snugly into each opening a trough of galvanized iron. Such troughs are durable and will never leak. The troughs from both boxes mutt be placed low enough to insure that the water level in each box is 4ower than the serve will sag more or f lized screen should be I n-h mesh over the first vh mesh over the other en should be fastened h strips or lath) to the a stout frame and the Careful j to mobiles. ittentioi fioaeil i --aid to repairing an Kros., Tel. 2551. a4tf The daily life of a missionary in Af rica is filled with many things of inter est, according to Mr. and Mrs. David Hyerlee. Mr. and Mrs. Byerlee left during the summer of 1!I20 for Eiolenga, Congo Heine, where they are stationed at a mission school. "This Ubanifi district is a great place for wild animals," writes Mrs. Hyerlee to home folks. "The people make their gardens in between their houses and as close around them as possible, because otherwise the ele phants would destroy them tramping through them. The land is low and swampy and you can see for miles in all directions across the waving ta'll grass and occasional tall palms. Sometimes in hunting buffalo the men wade in water that has a solid bottom of tall grass. " Just before the letter was written members of the mission party had re turned from a hunt. They killed many buffalo, Ji monkeys and some croco- : diles and hippos. The buffalo were dried or manufactured into sausage. Dr. Jaggard, a member of the mis sion, shot a huge crocodile that had haunted a beach near the mission. The big saurian measured over 10 feet. It was skinned and the meat sold for nominal Bums to the natives. "There was not near enough to sn around, if it had been given away." writes Mrs. Ryerlee, "and so the only way to dispose of it was to sell it to the natives, as the gift method would have caused trouble among those who got left out." Mr. Byerlee states in h's letter, written August 14, that mid-Afnra had been experiencing some very cold weather. He writes : "Some days the temperature has not gone above SO degrees in the shade, and the whites as well as the natives have suffered. Several of us have taken turns at bad colds, which affect ed our lungs. You may think it ftrange, hut there is more suffering from cold here than from heat, esiieci- elly among the natives They have no blankets and must depend on their lit tle ramp fires to keep them warm at night. "1 am not working 'eighteen hours a day' but 1 am sure busy while the day lasts. I have charge of the printers and carpenters and have to see that all are working and that their work is all right. Then 1 have Basknta (boys from 14 to 20 years old) to look after in their school and work of clear ing away the jungles and planting gar dens for themselves and the mission." Riverside Church "A conirsdi-sliipof worship snd service." Church Schl at 9M L M. Regular Breaching Service at II. Sunday Evening Club, 1st. and 3rd. Sunday Evenings, K-t. to April, inc. Christian Endeavor eer Sunla hw at 7: t0. Mi I-week meeting Thursday at 7 o. Other meetings subject to - iai an nouncement. sMf Seventh Day Adventist Church Corner. 15th and C streets Ssbbsth school Saturday 10 a. m. j Preaching service 11.15 a. m. Prayer meeting, Wednesday 7.45 p. m. Alii are welcome. Minister F. F. Oster. Residence 414 Montello Ave. Phone 3074. r Saturday Specials Folgers Golden Gate Coffee 5 11). can $1.98. With each 1 lb. can free. 5 lb. can we give a Fresh Curve Cut Macaroni, 3 lbs. for 25 New Crop Dates and Raisins 23c package. 2 for 45c. Crisco 3 lb. can 63c. G lb. can $1.25. 9 lb. can $1.75. Pineapple, Large can 25c. White Rose Syrup 5 lb. can 40c 10 lb. can Sun Beam Syrup 38c 75c. 5 lb. can 10 lb. can 68c Mince Meat, I', can 18c, L Ur 35c. 20TH CENTURY GROCERY 104 Oak Street, Hood River CHRISTMAS CARDS IN UNIQUE AND HANDSOME DESIGNS Send your friends your own personal message. Call early and make your selection. ii THE GLACIER OFFICE