The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-10-08

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principals of the Holiday and Albina
central schools Portland, were guests
at Liberty Home farm, Saturday after
noon and Sunday. The former is an
old schoolmate of A. |. Mason, at Kinks
vile, Mo-, state normal class of 1884.
Mr.. Kiggings is owner of 40-acre apple
orchard near Boise, Idaho, and is prepar-
ing to plant GO acres more this spring.
Thinking that Hood River could pro-
duce the best Newtowns in the world he
purchased while here 500 choice year
lings. Mr.. Mason supplied both gentle
men with samples of Hood River apples
He, like many others, wonders why
Hood River gets better prices than 9TH
er apple districts. He sold 1900 boxes
of Jonathans at $1.30 /. o. b. at Boise.
AS Mason is president of the apple
growers union, he probably explained
the secret of high prices.
Captain ]. P. Shaw took a prospective
land buyer to look at w. A. Wendorf's
fruit farm at Underwood, last Thursday.
The captain on his return brought some
samples of the fine apples Mr.. Wendorf
is harvesting from four-year-old trees.
The apples are on exhibition in Shaw
& Culbertson's 8 real estate office. Among
them is a freak-a King, with a half
inch stripe of deep yellow and red on a
roam background of the King. Apple
experts declare it to have been pollen
lied by Yellow Newtown and a Spitz-
enburg, of which Mr.. Wendorf has one
tree each in his orchard. On another
shelf is cucumber labeled: "Five and
one-half pound health food, grown by
Hood Rivers leading agriculturist, G.
j. Gessling.'
Everett McCarty of the Paris Fair
returned last week from New York,
where he went to purchase line OF fall
and winter goods for his store. Mr..
McCarty was delayed nine days in Dem
yer on account of sickness, which un-
fortunately makes his goods that much
later in arriving. The fall goods are ex-
pected to begin coming by the end of
the week, and when they do get here,
the Paris Fair will be crowded more
than ever for room. Mr.. McCarty
says he was successful in selecting fine
| line OF ladies' cloaks, skirts, dress-trim-
mings, etc., and that his store this fall
will show the best and largest stock it has
yet exhibited.
Property owners ON River street are
laying sidewalks Soon there will be
sidewalks and crosswalks the whole
length of the street. The proprietors of
Riverview Park addition viii lay the
walks on both sides of the street west
from the armory building. Judge Henry
engaged H. j. Byrkett and j. w. Rigby
to lay his walk. Mr.. Byrkett got Cap
tain Dukes to assist him ON his walk,
and now these old veterans claim to
have done the best job of laying sidewalk
in town. Guess they're right.
Mrs. B. Warren moved to Portland
Monday. Mr.. Warren is much improved
in health and expected to leave the hos
pital last week and go to his daughters
house. He has purchased house and
lot near the home of his son-in-law, B.
P. Ramsey, on the East Side, and will
make that his future home. Mr.. and
Mrs. Warren are old residents of Hood
River, having come here in 1877, and
will be greatly missed by their many
friends and old-time neighbors.
J. H. Tapp OF The Dalles, who has
been supplying the markets of Hood |
River during the season with big, luscious
watermelons, kindly left one of his arg-
est melons at the Glacier Office one day |
last week. The melon weighed 4S
pounds. Mr., Tapp's melon was soon
tapped, and when the Office force gath
cred round it it melted rapidly-the
devil getting away with the biggest slice
as usual, when there's melon on tap.
Mrs. William Foss has fine lot OF
apples this year on her eight-year-old |
Yakima trees. They are very large and |
handsomely colored. Many OF them
will make three-tier An apple buyer
from New York state, who has orchards
of his own, after viewing Mrs. Foss'
apple trees, declared they were the fin
est lot of apples he ever saw.
Cloud Cap Inn was vacated for the
winter, September 30. Peter Felthaus-
en-, who acted as guide on the mountain
during the past season, proved to be the
best guide the mountain has had. He |
made nine trips to the summit this year,
taking up 10 ladies and 10 gentlemen,
besides making other trips to different
spurs of the mountain.
Frank A. Cram has had his ad paint
ed on the roof of B. r. fuckers barn.
1t covers the whole OF the side of the |
roof next to the road, in letters so large
that che who runs may read" Mr..
Cram believes in putting his ad where
it will be seen, hence his generous use
OF the pages of the Glacier.
j. r. Nickelsen, having sold his black
smithing business to Snow 4 Upson,
will continue to sell agricultural imple-
ments. He has purchased the building
formerly occupied by Snow & Upson |
and will move it over to his lot and use
it for the storage of his implements.
Elmer Wells,so of George M. Wells,
arrived here from Texas recently, and is
making his home on the East Side. He
went hunting, one day last week, saw
grou Sc in tree, shot at it, and at the
crack of his gun cub bear jumped out
of tree and soon disappeared in a thick.
ct near by.
F. W. Angus, who has been packing
apples for H. Avery, says that in one |
lot he had 246 boxes of sound apples,
and less than 25 boxes of wormy and |
five-tier apples. Mr.. Avery has done
thorough work in spraying and is now
reaping his reward.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. P. Watson and
daughter Lula of Wasco visited during
the week with Ed Mayes and family.
They left Tuesday morning for San Jose,
CAL, where, if he likes the country, Mr..
Watson may locate permanently.
Lee Evans, a leading fruit grower of
Mosier, was in town Monday and gave
the Glacier a call. Mr.. Evans had , 0no
crates of prunes this year. His apple
orchard is young but he will have 500
boxes OF first-class apples.
Miss Albina Page of Portland, who
spent a week visiting Miss Teal at Pine
hurst. returned home last week This
was Miss Pages first visit to Hood River,
and she was favorably impressed with
the beauty of the valley,
Henry Buskirk will build two-story
dwelling house on the site of the laun-
dry building recently destroyed by fire.
L. d. Boyed has the contract, and the