The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-10-13


land Saturday morning for a visit with
friends. From there she will go on to
Seaside to attend meeting of the
Grand Lodge of Rathbone Sisters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Lot, who have been
spending the summer on John Leland
Henderson's Belmont ranch, left Tues
day, for Olympia, where they will
probably reside. Mrs Lot is a daugh.
ter of Judge Henderson.
Mrs. Frank Button announces that
the ladies of the Congregational church
will serve excellent meals for supper
and dinner in the Artisan hall, during
the three days of the fruit fair. The
price for such meals is cheap enough,
25 cents.
m. Hallowell has the thanks of the
Glacier proprietor for a bunch of the
incest crisp, celery he has ever seen. The
stalks were about two feet long and snow
white to the leaves. There were four
plants in the bunch and it must have
weighed eight or ten pounds.
A picnic is what the Modern Wood
men and Royal Neighbors are going to
have Thursday, when they 60 down to
Hood River to be present at the fruit
fair. They'll board the Dalles City at
7:3O and may return that night or stay
two days, as their tickets admit of that
Chronicle.
DR.. and Mrs A. B. Peak of Salt Lake
City were guests of Mrs. Louise God.
dard last week. They were much
pleased with this fruit valley and quite
impressed with the fact of being able to
pick ripe blackberries in October and to
see three-year-old trees hanging full of
apples.
Edwin A. Henderson has accepted a
position as special agent OF the Equit-
able Life Insurance company. In com
pany with W. II. Cramer, Inspector of
the agencies of this company, Mr.. Hen
derson has been doing the valley during
the week. MIR. Cramer is well pleased
with the prospects in Hood River.
+. L. Smith sent fruit to st. Louis
last week from the following orchards;
j. L. Carter, 5 boxes apples and 2 boxes
of pears; August Paasch, boxes apples.
Secretary Giltnar of the Lewis and Clark
corporation will be here the latter part
of this week to purchace so boxes of
apples from the Hood River fair to send
to st. Louis.
G. II. Oren, representing Bell & Co..
commission men at Portland, after thor
oughly investigating Mr.. LOomis' Little
Red Giant" Apple Press, which is a new
invention, bought one at once, saying
that it is the most perfect machine he
has yet seen. That is saying consider
able, as he has been looking at all the
presses in the country, endeavoring to
get the best.
+. l.. Smith, president OF the state
Board of horticulture, has been asked
to deliver lectures before the Fruitgrow-
ers institutes, the Washington Agricult-
ural Colledge is arranging to give for the
farmers of the Yakima and WenaChee
Valleys, but owing to rush of work in
preparing his annual report which must
go to press next month, Mr.. Smith had
to decline the offer.
Sheriff Sexton, Deputy Prosecuting
Attorney Fred Wilson and Deputy Sher-
if Olinger went to the Mount Hood
settlement Sunday, where, with the
assistance of several of the settlers
there, they made search for further evil
dence regarding the Norman William
murders. Deputy Olingel says very
little additional information was secured
No trace can be found of the missing
bodies, for which such vigilant search
has been made.
One of the pleasant social events of
the past week was an "At Home" to a
company of ladies given last SATURDAY.
by Mrs. W. s. Garrison at her residence
on Washington street in honor of her
daughter, Mrs. Hattie Miner, who has
spent the greater part of the summer in
eastern Iowa with relatives and friends,
and will soon return to her home at
Hood River, Oregon. A three-course
dinner was daintily served at 500 p.
M, by the Misses Hazel Waite, Grace
Schamel and Elsie Garrison. Wyoming
(Iowa) Journal.
Charlie Copple, who conducted real
estate office in the city last spring and
later went to farming, says he has
turned more real estate the last week
than all the real estate agents put to-
gether. Charles has been plowing. He
has rented II acres from Charles Ross,
and has the same ready to plant to clo-
yer and wheat. Mr. Copple says he
will SOW clover and wheat together. The
wheat protects the clover through the
winter, and next spring he will cut a
crop OF wheat hay and later in the sum-
mer cutting of clover He expects to
secure more land from Ross, and will
plant 20 acres to hay this fall. The
rains have not yet softened the ground,
and blowing is hard work says Mr.. Cop
Pile.
The joke is on our lady compositor
this time. After attending Sunday
school and church last Sunday, she
walked out the state road to enjoy the
picturesque scenery, doubtless thinking
the beauties of nature would aid her
mind in assmilating the truths present.
ed in the pulpit. Evidently her medi.
tations were deep and all absorbing, for
when she came to realizing sense OF
things terrestrial, she found herself in
the depths Of one of Hood Rivers fam.
Gus Ben Davis orchards, confronted by
the proprietor. She meekly inquired
if he would kindly inform her where she
could find the road leading to Hood
River. She arrived at the office on
time Monday morning. We all smoke
at the Glacier Office, except the devil,
and he chews-gum.
S. C. Smith, who formerly owned the
D. c. Garrabrant place, and who is now
foreman in charge Of crew of bridge
men, came to Hood River last week and
has been at work on one of the bridges
here. He expected to be here several
weeks, but received instructions Monday
to report at Portland with his crew for
work that needed immediate attention.
They will go as soon as the repairs they
are now engaged on are completed, ,proba-
bly, Friday of this week. Sam travels in
his special car the same as any other
railway magnate, and is at home to his
friends wherever his Red Pullman stops.
Mrs. Smith and little Marie travels
with Sam, to take care Of him, and see
that he gets three square feeds a day
The older girls, Gocia and Ethel, are al