T H K
FOI' K
THE BONNEVILLE DAM
CHRONICLE
llou ii lüVKIl. OREGON
Ofi'iciiil | ..|"T <if oily of Cascade
Oregon.
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3, 1879.
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Interests of the Bonneville Dam area
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B O X N K V I L I, K
we’ll take that chance, and print our
warning anyhow.
Icy sidewalks and stairs are just
as dangerous to pedestrians as icy
streets are to automobiles.
“ Be careful!’’ is the incessant cry.
Some folks won’ t be careful, some
folks forget to be careful, some folks
remember but aren’t quite careful
enough. Every winter takes its toll
of sprains and broken bones.
Our suggestion: Take every step
with the feeling that it may be the
one before the fall. Walk mincingly,
with short strides. Test innocent
looking snow—there may be ice be
neath. Be prepared to catch yourself
if you do fall. Pockets are no place !
for your hands when you slip. Bet
ter wear gloves.
W oops! Just barely caught your
self that time, didn’t you?
I) A M
FRUÍA Y, J A N U A R Y 15, 1»3?
C H II O X I C I- K
A F R IE N D L Y S U G G E S T I O N F O R M R . D A S H
A way from me
M y spirit free
Doth follow with much sympathy.
The dupes that go
Through falling snow
In search of bleak absurdity.
By H . A . S.
N o w who's so wise
That they 'd surmise
The snow was placed for their surprise.
A n d then "sw oof" down
W ith muffled sound
To choke their agonizing cries.
N o w I ’m quite sure
There is one cure
N o need this freezing spine endure
If you're so pert
W h y not exert
A n d button up your open shirt.
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W E S T W A R D HO!
Odd Shots
—
Charley Huelat of the Leonora
specialty shop must be credited with
the year's snappiest comeback so
far—even if he can only be credited
with putting an old gag in. new
dress.
Charley
was
pretty
warmly
wrapped up Friday morning (those
of you with long memories will re
member why) when he walked past
T. W. Fletcher, genial office worker
at Duckwall’s.
“ You can always tell an old man!”
called Fletcher.
“ Yes, but you can’ t tell him
much!” Huelat snapped back.
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The Hood River hospital is nothing
else if not loyal to the surrounding
territory.
Dessert for our first luncheon
there last week was half a baked
apple.
“ Westward the star of Empire
takes its way.”
People who insist on staying in
These oft-quoted words of Ban
doors simply because of slippery croft, historian, hold for us in the
driving conditions are missing some great Northwest a peculiar signifi
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of the grandest scenery they’ ll ever cance. For this star which has been
have a chance to see.
in the vanguard of the march of cen
Funny places, these hospitals. We
The entire gorge and valley are turies appears now to rest station
LAND TR A N SA C TIO N S
additional strength to markets and were supposed to be all well, and
transformed by the ministrations of ary on the summit of the Cascades.
had got almost downstairs on our
Two weeks of December 23 to Jan prices for farm products.
winter. Take even a short stroll It has reached its destination. It can
way out, when a nurse caught us
uary 6. Compiled from data fur-
In respect to farm costs, the report
through the snow, with your eyes go no farther west. The shores of
and made us walk back up and ride
open to the beauty of it, and you’ ll the Pacific mark the terminus of its nished by the Hood River Abstract shows a 5-point advance in prices down on the elevator.
paid by farmers for commodities
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see. You needn’ t so much as leave leadership. There is no farther West, & Investment company.
J.
O.
Jones
and
the
State
of
Ore
used in production and living, com
your house, if you really must stay! Shoving off from our shores, you
Sickness seems to be pretty prev
gon, ground lease for parcel of land pared with a year ago. The purchas
inside, to appreciate the wondrous- go East!
alent at the moment. The exact per
And the Empire is here—make no near Viento for consideration of ing power of farm products in ex centage which might be described as
ness of snow on fir boughs, and the
cupped drifts on every post and twig. doubt about it. And how rapidly it $16.66. Lease to expire June 21, 1937. change for commodities usually New Year’s Eve disease is difficult
Oregon Lumber Co. to R. C. bought by farmers is estimated to be
But the really grand views are ob has come ! Search the history of the
to determine.
Ramey,
10.15 acres in Woodworth 94 per cent of the pre-war average.
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tained from conventional vantage nations through, and I doubt if you
This is 5 points higher than a year
points, with the entire landscape al will find any empire developed in so Acres for consideration of $366.
No chances with tricky togas or
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin A. Heft to R. ago and the most favorable relation
tered by the snow. Mount Hood and short a time. But a hundred years
slipping
sashes were taken by a.
Mount Adams are spread in different ago, Whitman and his companions Insinger, 26 acres of land near Sum ship for agriculture that has existed ladies’ aid society we heard of, who
colors on different canvases, and landed at Walla Walla. That date mit station. Dated November 10, since the year 1929, except from spent an afternoon “ sewing on the
August to October this year when
even the hills in their new winter marks the beginning of the settle filed December 26.
Christmas play.”
First National bank to Mr. and the relationship was even more fa costumes for the
ment of the Oregon country—the be
clothes will bear looking at.
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vorable
to
farmers
than
at
present.
Mrs.
Walter
Nack,
a
2-3
interest
and
If you’re really ambitious, and in ginning of the great trek to the
A municipal lottery is suggested
The report, which is available from
pretty good trim, a long hike into Northwest. Now we have an empire to Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Isbell a 1-3
in
Portland by Commissioner Ben
interest
in
estate
and
20
acres
lo
county agricultural boards, contains
the hills will more than pay for —splendid and populous cities, mar
nett
We think the taxpayers take
cated
about
2V;
miles
south
of
Hood
farm price data and other informa
itself. There’s a lot of fun in follow velous natural and cultivated re
enough
gambling risks already
at
River.
tion on a large number of farm prod
and a commerce that
ing animal tracks through the snow, sources,
the
biennial
elections.
E.
J.
Cowlishaw
to
the
state
of
reaches
round
the
world—all
brought
ucts
of
importance
in
agriculture
of
watching the squirrels at their win
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Oregon, parcels of land south of Oregon, showing the relative posi
ter antics, and experiencing the to pass within a hundred years!
Social climber: One who cannot
Is it any wonder that the eyes of Parkdale for a consideration of $3000. tion of each compared with the gen
thrill of coming across an occasional
Dated
August
15.
filed
December
28.
square
herself with her own circle.
eral
average
and
conditions
which
all
our
eastern
cousins
are
focused
bear track.
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P. B. Silkworth to Mr. and Mrs. have existed during other years and
All right, curse the snow if you upon us? There is our salubrious
Howard
C.
Johnson,
around
40
acres
periods.
New name for janitresses: Sweep
must. It's a nuisance in most ways, climate, temperate and benign. There
ing beauties.
we’ ll agree. But your blasphemies is the wonder of our mountains—our in the Mt. Hood district. Dated April
would die on your lips if you would scenery. The man who writes, “ See> 1, filed January 2.
P L E A F O R H O S P IT A L
Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Homan to
view it ns it should be viewed—and America First’’ must come to the
Economists no sooner quit worry
SUPPORT GOES O U T
Northwest to feature his superlative Mr. and Mrs. Albert Alexander, joint
how the farmers love it !
ing about the depression than they
scenes. The dam area has right at its tenancy deed. Dated December 16,
start worrying about a boom. This
An urgent plea for support for the
front door a wonder of the world— filed January 2.
CRIM E STILL W IT H US
paper will give two glass inner tubes
Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Ferguson to Doernbecher Children's hospital was
Recurrence of dastardly crimes in the mighty gorge of the Columbia.
to anyone who can figure out a set
Duckwall
Bros., Inc., parcel of land transmitted this week to the Sun by up under which the economists.
World
travelers
will
tell
you
there
is
America such as the kidnaping and
brutal murder of the little Mattson no river trip to be found that is com near East Barrett school for consid Miss Bessie Williams, county health would have nothing to worry about
nurse.
eration of $1800.
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boy in Tacoma causes many people parable.
The hospital has provided frequent
Mr. and Mrs. Harleigh Glass to
There are our mountains — great
to wonder if civilization is taking a
The gorge enjoyed rather low tem
backward turn. In view of the white dominating sentinels that send Paul Silkworth, 20 acres of land in service for children of Hood River peratures during the past week. Sev
shrewdness and canniness of modern their copious wealth of water c a s -1 the Mt. Hood district. Dated January county, according to Miss Williams, eral society dames were
noticed
and has also cared for children from
crimes, one is apt to stop and pon cading down their granite canyons, 11, 1936, filed January 2, 1937.
hereabouts acquiring icy stares.
Bertha Huggins, as trustee for every county in the state, 90 per cent
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der. Certainly the philanthropic and that bring the life-giving fluid to
Lindsay
Hill Spight and Prudence of whom are unable to pay for treat
our
fields,
and
make
that
liquid
fire
good will agencies in modern civil
Then there was the guy who asked
ization must do much to offset the to give us light as well as power to Spight, to Melissa E. Hill, a bargain ment.
the
waitress for a roast leg of lamh,
Supported by funds from the state
and sale deed for lot in Hull's sub
dastardly nets of the fiends of the drive our machinery.
and
all he got was the cold shoulder-
higher educational system, the hos
These invaluable resources of ours division to Hood River.
present day.
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Mr. and Mrs. William Fuger to pital faces money shortage due to
What is the enuso of present-day
our livable climates, fertile soil.
Real
estate men are wearing
wide spread crime? The Yakima Re unrivaled forests, fishing industries, J. B. Laber, conveys to Alta Laber shrinkage in property evaluation
smiles
these
days. Heck, all through
The
hospital
guild
is
sponsoring
a
public some time ago laid some mining possibilities are megaphon part of an acre of land in Cascade
the
depression
they had lots to be
bill
in
the
current
legislature
for
an
blame on the ineffectiveness of the ing an irresistable call to others. The Locks. Dated December 22, filed
thankful
for.
additional
appropriation
of
$34,464,
pulpit. The Bend Free Press last trek to the Northwest will continue. January 6.
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and asks citizens and organizations
week charged the schools with fail They will come to us in large num
to urge their legislators to support
Some people won’t be satisfied
ing in their mission. But if one bers in the years just ahead. The FARM PU RCH ASIN G PO W ER
empire
will
double
its
population.
with the milk of human kindness,
N E A R IN G P R E -W A R N O R M AL the measure.
thinks broadly on the problem, he
What of our future citizenry? Will
but insist on having the cream too.
will see that u people such ns now
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we
have “ men and women to match
Market prices at mid-December Too Bad
lives in America, advancing in men
our
mountains?’’
After
all,
the
indicated that the general level of
tality, in business, in science, in
Jake, the genial gentleman who
Persons who have slipped on iey
government, in social welfare, in greatness of an empire lies in the farm prices in Oregon has advanced runs a shoe repair shop near the sidewalks during the past few days
education, would naturally grow race of men and women it develops. somewhat during the past month Hood River hotel, has an excellent may well wish for the good old times
smarter and shrewder and perhaps We have great things to measure up according to a review of the agri memory. In 25 years of cobbling, he when there weren't any sidewalks-
to.
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more brutal in crime.
cultural situation just released by says he has never returned the
the OSC agricultural extension ser wrong pair of shoes to a customer.
It may not be pleasant to think,
Congress is in session again, and
Skiing is back with us again, and vice. This trend is similar to that of
thnt as wo advance in civilization,
Never, that is, until this week, we may soon expect some major
we must cope with more vigorous once more a carmine face becomes farm prices in the country as a when he not only gave the wrong ascents of hot-air balloons.
crime, but we must face the prob a badge of honor rather than a badge whole, and in line with recent trends pair of boots to a man but told the
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lems as well as enjoy the luxuries of shame.
in consumer purchasing power as man, who returned with the boots,
We understand young Senator
indicated by industrial payrolls and that no mistake had been made.
o f our growing civilization. Anyway
Rush
Holt of West Virginia will not
To
be
great
is
to
be
misunderstood,
it seems that federal and state law
business activity.
Later the real owner of the boots
get
a
slice of patronage pie. Looks
said
Emerson,
but
there
ain't
room
in
Compared with a year previous, showed up. and Jake doesn’t know
enforcing agencies have advanced in
like
he's
going to be kept pure io
the
halls
of
fame
for
all
the
hus
their lines also, and our hope is that
the Oregon farm price index for what to do. He is distressed by hav
spite
of
himself.
bands
in
America.
their efficiency can bo so developed
November, at S4 per cent of the 1926- ing made an error, but more dis
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that safety of all our people, from
1930 average, was up 12 points, or tressed to think that somebody has
Well, folks, the joke factory is
We fail to find the Schmeling- approximately 16 per cent. This com the wrong shoes.
murderers, gungsters and kidnapers
closing
down for another week. Sec
Louis fight pictures listed with the pares with a gain of 14 points, or 19
can some day be assured.
“ I’ve lost a pair of feet,” Jake
10 best movies of the year.
per cent in factory payrolls in the says. He’d like to see the man who you all at the inauguration.
SLIPS COUNT!
United States, and 15 points, or 17 has them.
Such are the totally unpredictable ¡ Federal Power Commission reports per cent in general business activity,
j Approximately 81 per cent of the
habits of the weather that by the
how tregon and Washington to from October 1935 to October 1936.
TwoKe persons were killed in' people of Oregon now use electricity
time this editorial appears, its en-, have the lowest average electric prought-made scarcity of some farm Portland traffic accidents during De - . or live within the limits of free ser-
lire force may have been lost. But rates in the nation.
products has been a factor giving cember.
j v j c e connections.
TO T H E SNOW
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