The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-11-14
THE PEOPLES STORE.

urlV6r last week, ana CAME uone LOT Ille
| winter.
For the present the ladies' guild vii
meet with Mrs. E.E. Savage Wednesday
afternoons. ii.
Charles Miller and Tillman Young
went to the mountains last week anc
built cabin on Mrs. Laura Baldwin,
claim. They had rough time OF it, al
1t rained and showed every day they
were out.
| On Tuesday Friday & Barnes closed
| deal for the sale of George Bickel's 30
acres, with 80 acres in Strawberries
The land was bought by A. E, Lake
Sim Bolton and f. S. Wilson, of The
Dalles. Consideration, $500.
1t stopped raining for a short time
Tuesday. The sun shone brightly
scarcely cloud could be seen in the
skies, and the weather-wise began to
predict long dry spell. But happily
the glad rains soon came and Webfoot
was itself again.
Thanks.-The ladies of the w. r. O.
offer thanks to the ladies outside the
corps for their assistance in helping to
make our social success both finan-
cially and socially. The proceeds
amounted to $27.15 By order of COM
mittee. Ellen Blount, Treasurer.
Hon. ]. M. Shelley and wife Of Eu-
gene, visited Hood River the first of the
week. Mr.. Shelley is representative
elect from Lane county to the legisla-
ture. He is brother of Rev. Troy
Shelley and Roswell Shelley of Hood
River.
d. B. Leaning came up Monday from
Portland, TO look after his fruit farm in
the valley. He was accompanied by his
brother-in-law, Warren Turner, who re-
Gently arrived from Kansas, and will
look over the valley with a view to
locating here.
w. A. Slingerland gathered over 5000
boxes of marketable apples from his
orchards. He has sold 800 boxes and
has $500 boxes in his store houses. He
had splendid crop, 1t will pay any
one interested to take trip to his place
and see the nice fruit he still has on
hand.
A door key with a handkerchief at
tached was found near the Hood River
bridge one day last week and left at
this Office for the owner. There are
several other keys and punches of keys
in limbo awaiting claimants here. If
you have lost yours you may find it if
you call.
Apropos to our remarks last week,
relative to Hallowe' 'ening, is the follow
ing from the Medford Success. Com
ment is unnecessary: Halloween
pranks resulted in three persons getting
shot at Monmouth Friday night. Clar-
ence Carter, a livery stable hand, fired a
shotgun to frighten some boys, with the
result that Frank Haley, l.. p. Owen
and M. M. Britton, the latter man
passing on the opposite side OF the street,
were pepered with fine shot. No serious
damage was done, except to Owen, who
may lose an eye.
At the meeting of the stockholders
OF the Hood River Fruit Growers union
Saturday, the following directors were
elected to manage the business for next
year. H. J. Hibbard, E. n Benson, D.
E. Miller, Jos. A. Wilson and G. ].
Gessling. The meeting was attended by
about rs growers and was harmonious
throughout. After hearing the secretary's
report which showed nearly 26, 900 crates
Of Strawberries shipped which paid the
growers an average of $l.97 per crate,
and the election Of directors, the meet
ing devoted about an hour to discus
sion of picking, packing and other top
les of special interest.
]. NJ. Confer OF Golden City, Mo, has
recently returned to his home, after en-
joying months visit in Hood River
valley. Mr.. Confer came to Sherman
county seeking location in our famous
state, and, hearing Of the Hood River
fruit fair, came to see it, lie found
some old acquaintances in the valley
and decided to spend few days here.
The consequence is easily guessed; he
fell deeply in love with the country and
determined to leave his old Missouri
home as soon as possible for the better
land" across the Rockies, 1t is said
that to convince a Missourian you have
to "show" him, but it is equally true
that when once convinced he is willing
to admit it, even if tits the fact that
there is at least one state ahead OF old
Missouri.
George Ireland of Mosier district, was
in town Wednesday. Mr.. Ireland is one
of the successful fruit growers and farm
ers of his fruitful district. His place is
5 miles south of Mosier, on the Ridge.
He has 100 Italian prune trees that bear
enormous crops every year. The writer
OF this visited Mr.. Ireland's orchards in
July last, and never saw prune trees
loaded like his were, nor more thrifty
trees. The prune crop never fails with
him. He sold most of his prunes at the
dryer in Mosier, but those he shipped
to Kansas City. Denver and other points,
netted him 80 cents a crate. MIR. Ire
land thinks no fruit will pay better than
pruHes, in his neighborhood, aad will
set more trees. His apples are also first
class; no Goblin moth has ever been
found in his orchards. The ridge be-
tween Mosier and Rock creeks is all
good for fruit, and some day in the near
future this will be a great apple pro-
dueing section. The country Is yet
mostly in its wild state, the land having
been homesteaded. Land is compare
lively cheap, and we know Of no better
location to buy cheap lands for fruit
growing.