The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1901-08-16

ldleWllde cemetery, II is supposed by
those who saw the accident that the boz
was dead before he fell beneath th,
water for, had it been simple drown
ing, the body would have reappeared
The heat at the time was intense. Altel
bathing in the river, the boy raced on
the sand with his companions, and being
oVerheated the sudden shock OF the colo
water caused his death.
r. +. HARRISON sent the following re-
port to the Climate and Crop Bulletin
Tor the week ending Monday, August II
The hottest weather known in this val
ley for Is years occurred during the fore
part OF the week On Sunday the tenn.
perature reached l03 degrees in the
shade: on Wednesday the hot spell wa.
broken by most welcome shower foi
two hours rain fell quite heavily and
cultivated land was wet TO depth OF
three-or four inches. Crops of every
kind were immensely benefited by the
rain. The hot spell scorched few APP
pies, but no serious harm resulted.
Improvements are being made on the
store building occupied by j. h. Rand,
on the corner of Third and Oak. The
building will be extended on both streets
to the sidewalk grade, and a new front
will be made to face Oak street. The
warehouse in the rear on Third street
will be fitted up for part of the store
room. ]. II. Middleton, who owns the
property, will expend about 81 900 in
the improvements. When completed
the building will be one of the best
business sites in town.
A tame gray squirrel lives in the front
yard of Rev. Troy Shelley on the East
Side The squirrel was caught when
quite young and placed with the family
cat and her kittens The cat adopted
the little stranger and fondled it with
even more care than she did her own
young. She was much exercised when
the squirrel grew old enough TO climb to
the top of the big trees. The squirrel is
now about grown, is quite tame and eats
from the hands of the people of the
house.
The Davidson Fruit Co. will begin
next week canning peap. The COM
pany expects to put up about four car
loads of the fruit. Most of the pears
will come from the valley, while some
will come from The Dalles and few
from Mosier The bulk Of the black
berry crop was shipped this season, the
prices being too high to admit of can
ming any quantity. The company's box
factory is filling an order this week for
prune boxes and crates from The Dalles.
r Last Friday, Davenport's mill cut up
a single yellew fir that made Sl25 worth
of lumber. The tree came from the
land recently purchased from Frank
Caddy, and Frank Davenport informs us
that the mill has 100 such trees, within
1000 feet of the donkey engine, which
will make 500 worth of lumber Both
the Davenport mills are running full
force now and are turning out 60 900 feet
OF lumber per day, most of which is mar
keted in Salt Lake and Ogden.
Davenport Bros. will expend about
1900 in constructing an irrigating ditch
from their mills at the head of Pole road
to the north fork of Green Point, dis
tance of three and one-half miles With
this ditch they expect to supply the
fruit growers in the Crapper district who
are above the Valley Improvement Co.'S
ditch. They have already made con-
tracts with r. B. Lindsay, J. |. Miller
and others
Mrs. Rose Mccoy, accompanied by
her son, Elmer Mccoy, returned to
Hood River, Monday, after protracted
visit in the East, Mrs. Mccoy left here
last October. A big part of the time
she spent in Michigan and Buffalo. Du-
ring the severe hot spell they were at
Hot Springs, Ark. They returned to
the coast by way of the Canadian Pacific
and had a very pleasant journey.
Good summer apples are in demand
just now, but Hood River has none this
year The majority of the summer APP
pies here are OF the Gravenstein variety,
and as the trees were permitted to over
bear last summer, they are bearing no
fruit at all this year Hood River ship
ped about 5000 boxes OF summer apples
last year.
A. l.. Craig, general passenger agent
o. r. x N, and a. d. Carlton, assistant
passenger agent Northern Pacific, and a
number of other railroad officials, will
be here from Portland, Sunday, in
special car. They will remain until
Wednesday, taking in the sights of
Hood River and the surrounding coun-
try.
j, r. BagIey will resume his position
as station agent about September lst,
when j. +. Wilhelm will take a short
vacation. G. b. Atterbury, who has
been telegraph operator during thesum-
mer, will quit September lst to resume
his studies in Stanford university, where
he is a sophomore.
Mrs, j w. Short of Twin Grove, H.,
and daughter, Mrs. II G. Stagner of
East st. Louis are visiting Judge and
4 Mrs. l.. Henry. Mrs. Short and Judge
| Henry have been acquaint noes all their
lives. Saturday, Judge and Mrs Henry
and their guests went into camp at Ma
! pie Dell for week.
Geo. H. Cook of the Union Printing
| Co. of Portland, and Dr. JAS Surman of
! Portland, arrived in Hood River, Sun
! day, and went out to Lost lake to view
some ti5ber lands they acquired before
the Cascade reserve barred out timber
entries in that locality.
The camping party, consisting of Mrs
/ NJ. A. Cook, Edna Sheriff., Viola Green,
! Pearl Cox, Iva Norbeck, win and Wal
ter Isenberg and Leo Ulrich, that went
into camp last Tuesday, returned Satur-
day night and report the jollest kind of
good time.
A fine Photographic view of Hood
River, with snow-capped Mt. Hood in
| the distance, taken from Jewett's place
at White Salmon, can be seen in the
show windows of +. r. Bradley. The
picture is the work OF the artist, L.
Bradley.
c. n. Macarthur, graduate of the Uni
versity OF Oregon, class of '0l, and man
/ ager of the athletic team that inflicted
such decisive defeat on the Multno-
nah club last May, was in Hood River
Sunday night visiting with Ned Blythe.
Miss Carrie Butler went to Portland
last Friday afternoon. She expects to
return this week, and will leave shortly
| for an extended trip east, taking in the
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