The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-12-26

Misses Edna and Stella Brown retur-
ned last evening from Hood River val
ley to spend their vacation at home.
The former is teaching the school in
the Columbia district and the latter
assistant in the Frankton school under
Principal Cromwell. Both districts have
had very successful terms so far. In
Frankton district the teachers meet
every Friday evening to consult over
school matters and the school board at
the end OF every school month for the
transaction of business. To this fact
and the excellence Of the instructors the
people of that neighbordood attribute
the signal success Of their school
Chronicle.
Our town was full of people from
Mount Hood last Thursday. We don't
know the occasion for such an influx of
Mount Hoodites unless it was that they
came to interview Santa Claus. Among
the number we noticed w. S. Gribble,
A. B. Billings, w. II. Edick, HH. Tom
linson, Peter Felthausen and George
Perkins.
w. D. Rogers procured some fine
views of Mount Hood from Lost Lake
while in camp at that famous retreat
last summer, and now has the views
on sale. f,you want something nice to
send to your Eastern friends who never
saw Mount Hood, get some of these
views. They're all right for a Christ
mas present.
w. A. Wyman has made an improve
ment upon his grubbing machine and
has supplied ratchet, which makes
the machine entirely safe. He thinks
he can build a grubbing machine
that will give satisfaction for $780,
Parties in need of a machine of this
kind should call on him.
Frank Davenport, Warren Davenport
and j. F. Short have purchased the liv-
cry business of A. K. Fuller. Frank
Davenport has rented the LaFrance
house, known as the Fox house, and
will move his family into it about the
first of the year.
Samuel Clark of Moscow, Idaho, a
former resident of Hood River and an
uncle of our townsman T. c. Dallas, is
a visitor in Hood River Uncle Sammie
has seen the SHOWS of "a winters but is
hale and hearty and bids fair to live to
a ripe old age.
W. W. Mason went to his ranch at
Mount Hood on Saturday. He is tax
ing day off during the cold spell. Mr..
Mason has been constantly employed at
mason work in Hood River since last
spring. The freezing weather stopped
all work of this kind for the winter.
Last Sunday evening Chris Lowe
gave turkey dinner to his friends,
Bert, Charles and Jim Stranahan, AL
bert Whitehead, and Frank Quinn. The
dinner was given at Lee Tong's restau-
rant and was pronounced a success by
the boys.
Alfred Ingalls, reports that he butch
cred II months old hog last week that
dressed $50 pounds. He got the pig OF
Warren Miller when it was supposed to
be a runt, but it came out all right and
was not much of runt at killing time.
F. 0. Brace says that if the party who
carried off his coat from where he was
working near the railroad track last
Saturday, will leave the garment at the
Glacier office he will deem it favor
and ask no questions.
The Woman's Alliance of the U nj.
tartan church will spend a soci al time
at the residence of Mrs. Franz, oh Fri
day, January 2 Teams will take the
ladies from residence of Mrs. Smith at
10 a. m. sharp.
Attorney J. II. Middleton of Portland
was in town Saturday. While here he
made sale of the old box factory and
two lots, which was purchased by the
lodge of United Artisans.
Earl and Meigs Bartmess, Percy
Adams, Max and Ernest Hinrichs, Bar
ton Davidson and Walter Dickey, stu
dents at the agricultural college, are
home or the holidays.
The Bon Ton barber shop has re-
Gently been re-papered and decorated
and now presents very neat and at
traetive appearance.
Mrs. w. A. Lockman and son Miles
went to Vallejo, CAL, last week, where
they will spend the winter visiting
friends and relatives.
Sam Bartmess had the honor of pre-
senting the first fancy calender for 1908
to the editor of the Glacier It's dandy.
Charles Peugh, who is attending the
college at Corvallis, came
home last Saturday for the holidays.
Mrs. A. A. Bonney, who is visiting
her mother in The Dalles, has been
dangerously i'll but is now improving.
Fred and Grace Brace left SATURDAY.
for Seattle, where they will visit rela-
tives for a couple of months.
Miss Vera jackson, who is a student
at Pacific university, Forest Grove, is
home for the holidays.
The recital to be given BY the Unitarian
alliance has been indefinitely postponed.
Miss Nellie olinger is spending Christ
mas in The Dalles.