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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1924)
HOOD RITER GLACIER, THURSDAY, DECEMBER *4, 1924 —1 h IT ALWAYS PAYS TO Bl# AT LARA WAY’S IT ALWAYS PAYS TO BUY AT LARA WAY’S Watches WE CARRY CUT All of the latest and most pleasing patterns. Our Watches are guaranteed and we stand back of them. < A Full Une of Wrist Watches Glasses Silverware RINGS UMBRELLAS No finer lot of umbrellas has ever been shown in Hood River There ia a keen pleasure in shopping where you are not bothered by sales people who Uy to sell you something you do not want. What a relief to examine things at leisure I Whether it be a ring for the baby of plainest design, or with delicate setting, or a fine dia- the happiness siiarkles from the family. We set our diamonds told by a diamond merchant that at least 85% of the jewelera of the country were unable to W. F. LARAWAY, JEWELER stones in platinum hight here in Hood River. “Ma” Sunday will accompany tl>e veteran evangelist on the tour, Hcpsd- uled to start "about the ■ middle of December.” The entire Sunday evan- gaUatic troupe will make the trip. DON’T TAKE A CHANCE Protection POOI.EVS LOSS IN APPLE FIRE $35,000 The moat disastrous fruit fire ever to occur in the Hood River valley was that last Friday afternoon when the Pine Drove packing plant of E. It. Pooley waa burned to the ground, de stroying an Hpproximate 15. (MIO Isixes of apples and entailing a loss esti mated at 835.(MM). The packing plant waa one of the largest and ta*at equipped in the mid-4kttambla. The lower floor waa given over to storage apace and packing and grading ma chinery. The second story waa equip|s*d aa sleeping quarters for membrra of hla harvest crew, and it waa here that the fire, from some undetermined 1 Source. started. Mr. Pooley.-who was handling his own record yield of fruit thia year, waa also representing Page A Son. Portland dealers. lie hail the bright est prospect* for years for a fine re turn from hla orchard. A motor pumper of the city fire de partment reiq>onded to a tall for help, but thg flame« had made such head way that little could tie done <>u ita arrival. The pumper aided in saving an adjoining toolhouae. Mr. Ptsdcy had hi» warehouse and apple crop covered by Insurance, and yet his I ohs will la* severe. BARRETT OUR USUAL LOW PRICES PREVAIL NO EXTRA COST FOR PROTECTION NO RAISE IN PRICE Through the Tire Replacement Corporation of California, every tire purchased here is protected for one year against— v _ • Accidents, Negligence, Blowouts, Wheel Align meets, Under Inflation, Rim Cuts or any Road ments, Hazard, m fact, anything that might render rend« your tire useless. JUST WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN WISHING FOR! SHOP Elder and Mrs. Lee Cotton enter tained eight of the young people's Sunday schonl class Sunday after church service. Mr. and Mrs., L. K. Turner and twa children. of Van Hook. N. D., ar rived Hunday morning for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Sumner. Mrs. Turner is Mr. Sumner's daugh ter. Miss Edna Phelps visited home folks Thursday. Mr. c Crapjx>r Mr. and Sunday Griffith. Elder W. L. Cotton will preach aj Advent Christian church next Sun- day. Elder and Mrs. Livingstone > take turns tn preaching Valley Christian church. Miss Helen Garrett V toted at home Sunday and attended nervicea at the Valley Christian church. Mrs. Ida Crapper. of Hood River, spent Tuesday night visiting her son. Gny. and faintly and attended the operetta at the grange halt. Mrs. M. Chaney. Misses Ione Cha ney. Orlon Kirkpatrick. Mr. ami Mrs. Win. Ross, of The Dalles, and Wm. Terrill, of Mosier. spent Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mrs. John Griffith. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Crapper, daugh ter, Nellie, and sons. Dorsy and James, ate turkey with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Crapper iu town Thanksgiving. Mrs. Roy Hays and daughters, Allee and Davis, spent Thursday tn tlx* mountain camp of the ditch com pany with Mr. Haya. Miss Nellie Crapper visited her grandmother and other relatives in town the past week. George Frey visited Grandpa Hays Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. George Ward. Walter Isenberg and Miss Helen Garrett were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Garrett Thursday, STEVENSON (Skamania County Pioneer) Dairymen distributing milk in Ste venson will raise one cent per quart on the price of milk beginning De cember 1, making the price 11 cents per quart, which price will continue until April 1. Arthur Allen received a painful wound Wednesday when he h looped to repair a saw and the end of a pic<*e of bailing wire pierced bin none, bandy missing the eye. The wire was forced through the nose. • Mrs. Olaf Sholin was buried here Wednesday, having jmssed away al the home of her ilaughter. Mrs. Es ther Morris, in White Salmon very suddenly last Monday. The Sholin family made their home in Stevenson for many years, moving from here about four years ago. Mr. Sholin and the elder son are now in Alaska. Scott Hughes says it’s a fact that trouble never, comes but What It << oiim ’in bunches. Wednemlay Scott was splitting wood with a' single bit ted. ax when the handle* caught and the ax cut a big gash on his head. Yesterday while he was helping cut w < mm I his right hand got under the saw and nearly severed the hand. Dr. Barber thinks he will be able to save all the fingers and the hand will heal without much injury. In the death of Emil Willard there has |>assed one of the oldest settlers and most res|s*<-ted citixens of Ska mania county, be baying been county i-omniissioner for six years, from HMM» to 1915. Tlie death of Mr. Wil lard occurred at th« White Salmon hospital November 22. Rl<s>d poison several years ago left him in u phys- i< al condition from which he Yiever entirely recovered and whlcli hastened hla death. The funeral was held Novemlier 24 at the Whlie Salmon Methodist Episcopal church, Hey. J. C. lAiwrence, the pastor of the Ste venson Methodist church, officiating, assisted by Bev. Young of the first named church. Burial was in Under wood cemetery. Howard Peeler Here from Canada Howard Peeler, who waa a pioneer orchardist here and whose home is now at Beyuon, Alta., says that the ranchers of that neighborhood are fairly prosperona thia year. The drouth, however, caused a heavy damage. In some places growers had their crop entirely ruined. In other localities the harvest reached SO bushels to the acre, Mr. Peeler re ported. “The harvest waa still in progress when I left,” said Mr. Peeler, "al though anew had fallen. Up to last week We had to haul the threshed grain out on sMghs. It turned warm, and for a week before 1 left we were using wagona. Dur temperature the paat week ragged from 30 degrees in the morning to So at msmtime. “We had the beet labor situation, from the farmers’ standpoint, we have had in years. Formerly we iiad to go to the towns in s«ar<*tv*of help. This year it came to ua. We paid W per day laat year for threshing help. Thia year we got it for |4." It you liare a worn-out, cream- waating separator, you're paylng for a new DeLaval whether yrtu buy one or not Oan you afford it? rfPhnett Brothers. j — - - Need Hay? J. G DEVIN & SON MT. HOOD, ORE. Tel. Parkdale 26x2. English Lutheran Churrti Regnlar services at 11 a. m. The Hunds y seinsil meets at 10.80 a. m. A meeting of the voting members will l*e held Hunday afternoon at 3 p. m. The Ladles' Aid meets Thursday at 2.30 p. in. P. Hilgendort, Pastor. The Clothes We Clean GROCERIES We have a full supply. Let us furnish your Harvest Groceries. Supplies for School Children. WILLARD RADIO BATTERIES Gibbs’ Battery Station AUTO AND RADIO BATTERIES Hood River, Ore. 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