The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-04-11
Go to Geo f Coe & Son
And buy your peanuts by the ton;
Eat them hot, eat them cold,
They're the best that ere were sold.
MeneIeys, saturday night.


Uncle Billy Eastman, who has been il
feeble health during the past winter, il
now seriously sick.
Miss Alice Quigg, teacher in the
Portland academy, was guest at the
Alma Howe house Saturday.
George L. Davenport of the E. G.
Partridge Co., Portland, made business
trip to Hood River Thursday last.
Col. Hartley says he lost his mus
tache at the Odd Fellows blow out al
Bngen, last Thursday night-the goat
ate it off.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Sunderland o
Portland are visiting friends in HooC
River. If they can procure dwelling
house they will remain here for the
summer.
Walter Shaffer, who has been visiting
his brother in Hood River since his re-
turn from the Philippines, started last
Friday for his home in Indiana. He
served three years in the regular army
and in all that time has not had a fur.
Tough home.
The Davenport Lumber Co. are re-
ceving orders every day for lumber anC
railroad ties to be shipped East. They
now have orders for 100000 feet or more
per week at prices better than ever
These orders come through the saw mil
mems association, of which Frank Dav
export is vice president.
Mrs. Rose Mccoy and Elmer Mccoy
returned to Hood River last Thursday
They spent the winter in Southern Cal
ifornia and report having a pleasant
time. But they are glad to get back tC
Hood River, where We have plenty O.
wood, and where when the weather
is cool we can build fire to take the
chill off.
At the old armory building now occu
pied by the Waucoma Manufacturing
Company they have good fire protection
An inch and one-half pipe leads the wa
ter into the building from the two incl
main in the street. With rs feet of Ia
inch hose and a q inch nozzle they car
throw stream over any part of the
building,
Henry Howe and son George came in
from Burns, Oregon, last Friday. Mr.
Howe is chief clerk in the United States
land office at Burns. He is off duty on q
months vacation Mrs. Howe and hei
daughter Mary arrived from Minnesota
on Tuesday. Her daughter Helen, who
has been with her uncle and aunt, Mr..
and Mrs. w. II. Bishops lat Warm Springs
came home also and met her father al
The Dalles.
People sometimes have o sick horse OF
COW that needs treatment but the ami
NAL is neglected because the owner
doesn't know how to treat it. NJ. E.
Welch of Hood River is graduate OF
the state university of Illinois where he
took thorough course in veterinary
and is skilled IN the treatment of live
stock Of all kinds. Call on him when his
services are needed. His charges are
: reasonable.
sThe game of basket ball held at the
gymnasium, last Saturday evening, drew
a good crowd to witness the game. The
boys played a good game, which was
won by Captain Earl Bartmess' team
with score of 8 to 10. The gymnasium
is great thing for the boys and it seems
TO be well appreciated by them. Mr..
Shaffer deserves great credit for the in
terest he has taken in the welfare OF
the boys OF Hood River
Paul Kruger, the fruit tree agent, is
in the valley selling trees. He has been
selling nursery stock all over the upper
country and probably sells more trees
than any agent in the field. He is very
accommodating and when a man wants
the best he can always get it from Kru-
ger. One party asked him for 100 good
strawberry plants. He told him he
could sell him 100 Clark's Seeding
plants far 81. The man didn't want any
seedlings at any price. All right,
said Mr.. Kruger, q have the Hood River
berries at $40 per 100" He made the
sale at the latter figures.
G. f. Waldo returned last Friday from
a trip to Tacoma, Seattle and Puyallup,
At the latter place he found the hop
growers digging up their hop vines and
planting instead blackberry and rasp-
berry vines. They grow the everbear-
ing blackberry and find it very prof
table. Mr.. Waldo was surprised tC
learn of the productiveness of the soil
in the Puyallup valley. Places OF two
or three acres are making good livingS
for whole families. From one and
three-uuarters acres a man took off SOC
crates Of red raspberries that sold al
an average price Of Sl.25 per crate. The
net price was So cents a crate. The
berries are shipped TO Montaua. The
crates hold q pint cups. He found nc
Hood River climate there and is back
again in Hood River.
A serious runaway happened on the
East Side last Thursday. Mark Thorn
as and two sisters were driving down
the hin from their place when Marx
got out OF the hack to cut a switch. lie
gave the lines to his eldest sister, but
she soon after got ont of the wagon and
in getting out accidentally threw OF
the brake. The wagon started onto the
horses and the team started down the
road. Izette, child seven years old
was left in the wagon. Mark ran and
overlook the team and climbed into the
wagon, but just as he had about sue
ceeded in stopping il, be was thrown Out
by a lurch made by the wagon on s
side hill. The little girl was also thrown
ont or jumped out. The boys right
arm was broken; the little girl wa'
picked up insensible and sustained
serious injury TO the eve