The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-05-14

tie, but sometimes can always Goil
which from tother. One morning he
got up by the O'Clock whistle, thinking
It was o'clock, and lost good hours
sleep. Next morning he failed to hear
the first whistle, and when it blew at Z
o'clock, thinking he wouldn't be fooled
again, turned over for another nap. 1t
was 8 O'Clock when he got down town,
and he lost an hour or two when he
should have been attending to business,
So it seems there are others besldes'
those who look upon bright tinware
when it gltters in the sun who have
troubles OF their own.
o. Fredenburg, the Mount Hood mail
carrier, and Glacier reader since vol
ume I, was printshop caller Saturday.
Mr.. Fredenburg says that the rush OF
New comers to Mount Hood has abated
somewhat. Crops OF all kinds are grow
ing rapidly and look fine. Mount Hood
settlement has 30 acres in strawberries
this year, the growers are finding that
berry culture paws, and Mr.. Fredenburg
says in few years Mount Hood VIII
be shipping strawberries by the carload.
1t takes 80 hours to take the trult IN
sp ing wagons to the depot, but with
even this long haul Mr.. Devoid proved
the experiment success last year. The
Mount Hood berries are highly colored,
firm and require but little irrigation.
Uncle John Smith, who is staying
with his nephew, G. A. Cramer Of Mos
ier, came down Friday on visit. He
reports good promise of fruit at Mosier.
George Cramer and family, formerly OF
Hood River, are living in house they
built on G. A. Cramer's place. George
Cramer has a contract to get out one
million feet Of logs for the saw mill be-
ing set up by Fisher & Wood. This is
the mill that was owned by Frank Dav-
export and Carl Wood and which was
set up on Hood river to cut lumber for the
improvement company's fiume. Fisher
& Wood have tie contract. Uncle
John Smith is hale and hearty at the
age of 81. His eyesight is poor other
wise he is well preserved.
There will probably be two trains be
tween Goldendale and Lyle when thu
road is fully opened, says the Sentinel
A passenger train will leave GoldendalC
in the morning and return in the after
noon. A mixed train will arrive up from
Lyle in the forenoon and return In the
evening. At present freight goes vi
in The morning and leaves in the after
noon. People desiring to reach Portland
or Goldendale by the river boats can ge
passage on this train.
J. S. HARRISON is another of our OLE
timers whose taste for farming required
more room than he could get in HooC
River valley. Since selling his farm oil
the East Side last winter to Wilson Fix
of Iowa he has bought highly improved
farm four miles from Albany, in tn
Willamette valley, where he will engag
in general farming and stock raising
His postoffice is Tangent, from whicl
point he receives daily mail throug
! rural free delivery
In 1857, in Hancock county, Illinois
/ E. w. Winans bought Is acres of Ian
: and had it surveyed by Warren Miller
) county surveyor The survey was cPi
| titled to as being correct, and Mr.. Wi
9 mans has kept this certificate all thes
/ years Last Saturday he met Ware
s Miller, grandson of the old surveyor i
Y Illinois, and gave him the certificate {
t the survey made by his grandfather 4
Y years ago.
! L. A. Newman father-in-law of "
i Fike, the new owner OF the Harfiso
e place, called at the Glacier office las
i week and took chance on the buggy
: Mr.. Newman came from the mountain
c GUS regions of Southern Pennsylvani
and finds the country here somethin
e like his homeland. If he likes the sitr
c alton here he will become a permanen
e resident of Hood River.
: Frank Pruitt, recently OF Portland
. . has located with his family in Hoo
:, River and is living in the H. i. How
y house on the hill. Mr. Pruittis engage
y in the plastering business and uses tn
:" Acme cement plastering, something ne
. in these parts. He did the plasterin
A.. work on E. w. Winans' fine residenc,
y also on Truman Buffers house.
DR.. l.. L. Pickens of Oregon Git
/. visited Captain Shaw Saturday an
d Sunday. DR., Pickens was accon
t. panied by his wife. Sunday Captai
il Shaw took the doctor to the falls an
a gave him a taste OF fish. DIR. Picker
q commanded company during the Phi
ippine campaign in the Spanish war.
e Candy post and relief corps, at the
II meetings last Saturday, accepted the il
II vitation of Waucoma lodge X. OF P. to a
tend in body the memorial services
be held by that lodge next Sunday at ]
a m. in X of P. hall. Rev. j. L. Hersl
e ner will preach the sermon.
Is Joe Wilson dug up root of the col
d man in the groundn which weighed
d pounds. Joe Purser hauled it to tow
S and it is now in the show window
e George d. Culbertson & Co. Dell Ran
i labeled it "Parsnip, raised by Joe Wi
e son."
y Judge A. r. Byrkett of Bingen WI
: offered $50, 900 for his fine ranch net
= that place. He informed the editor tn
y strawberry land was worth $1,000 p
acre in that vicinity. y.-Goldendale Sc
y tinel.
n Attorney W. H. Wilson was in Pc
i dleton Thursday attending the supren
# court, where in connection with &. v
- Phelps he represented the defendant
u the divorce case of Eleanor Potter VS. \
q ID. L utitTs ul IlNuu hiNcfs-N NhitnlCic.
l. w. A. Slingerland wishes to announC
D to his friends and others interested thI
a his home address is 209Is Fourth stree
and his business address is 40 Fir
street, Portland, Oregon.
William Chipping has let a contra
d to ]. L. Blount to build a story and on
d half cottage on his lot on Oak street, o
Is posite w. B. Shute's residence, TO CO
g. 500.
Emerson the painter is back again
= Hood River. He is one Of the strikiI
= painters of Portland, and is now workir
!, for Jim Hunt.
II Miss Noa Smith Of Hood River
:. teaching school at Iyle.-Klickitat A