The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1889-06-22
BRIEF LOCAL MATTERS.

A family from Arlington are camping
here.
George Prather returned Tuesday
from brief visit 10 Portland.
Quite number Of campers from The
Dalles are located on Neil creek.
Rev. 0. D. Taylor, Of The Dalles, was
down Tuesday and went out to the falls
Mr.. William Hernaman and wife went
to Portland Sunday returning Tuesday
Mr.. S. f. Blythe returned to Portland
Monday TO take his place in the World
Office again.
Mr.. Fowler has moved his family here
from The Dalles and will remain and
abide with us.
We are informed that Newell & Willis
will soon make daily out of the World
and will take full dispatches.
G. r. Bone has a nice cottage contain
ing four rooms for rent. A good we'll Of
excellent water on the premises.
A. w. Pealer this week sold an 80-acre
tract, pretty well back in the hills, to
A. B. Jones, OF Montana, for 5000.
Hon. E. L. Smith is visiting the A. 0.
y. w. lodges OF Eastern Oregon, he
beng the Grand Master Workman.
Joe Wilson was up at Lagos Yesterday
laying off a cemetery. 1t is on Virgil
Winchel's place near Pine Grove school
house.
Mr.. w. r. Winans will commence the
erection of a two-story hotel at the forks
of the river at once. The sight is de-
hghtful one.
During the week Mr. r. Rand sold
twenty acres Of land situated about
mile and half from town to a lady
from East Portland, for the sum of 5000.
Mr.. L. D. Potter who has been at
Heppner putting up handsome resi-
dence for Mr.. Frank Mcfarland, COM
pleted the work and arrived home last
Saturday.
Lyman Smith has twelve acres of
wheat which will average from forty to
fifty bushels to the acre, and there are
thousands OF acres of just such land as
produces it.
Mr.. Saulsby is cutting his wheat and
LETT with us bundle which is an aver
age of the field The heads are we'll
filed out and the stalks will average five
feet in length.
There will be basket sociable at
Lagos school house tonight. No doubt
a large crowd will be present, and that
they will have good time is fore
gone conclusion.
Bridge III about mile and half be-
low town caught fire Wednesday night
and burned enough to delay the east
bound passenger from midnight until 6
O'Clock in the morning.
Mr.. Frick and wife of Arlington have
been enjoying the cool breezes of the
Columbia canyon at Bonneville for
week or so. They passed through here
on their way home Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Prune, Of Red
Bluff, California, arrived here last Sat-
urday and are visiting d. g. Hill, Mrs.
Prune's brother-in-law. They will
probably locate here permanently.
The Cascade ball club sent our clup a
challenge Tuesday, to play game at
that point tomorrow for $35. Our boys
are blooded enough, but do not care to
play for money especially on Sunday.
Jack McLaren, one Of the drivers for
the stage company, saw two fine deer in
the road while on his way in Wednes-
day, one of them about half mile this
side OF the hotel and the other farther
down the river.
Captain ]. II. Dukes has field of Z
acres of wheat about six miles south of
town which the most conservative esti-
mates place at forty bushels to the acre,
and it will probably thresh fifty. The
grain is grown on the uplands the
ground being such as most of the valley
consists Of
W. r. Winans has let contract to
the Winans brothers for the erection of
a fine two story hotel at Union Falls,
ten miles south OF here. The location is
a splendid one, being in the center Of |
the best fishing grounds. Fifteen me-