The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-12-15
watches. c. Il. Temple.
Celluloid novelties at Goes.
Games at Coe & Sons

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Tompkins re
turned Friday night from Portland.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. M. Abbott were Port
land visitors last week returning Frida,
evening.
Ladies Aid of the Unitarian church
will meet at Mrs. J. E. Rand Frida,
afternoon.
Miss Laura Cramer attended the Entr
Nous dancing party in The Dalles las
Friday night,
The ladies aid society of the Congre
gational church will meet Friday after
noon at the residence of Mrs. F. II
Button.
Why fret and fume looking for pur
chaser when Glacier adlet will save you
trouble, and costs you but % cents
The habit of advertising saves you lot
of time.
At the school meeting monday night
the school patrons Of district No. 7 vot
ed for 12-mill tax also decided to ex
tend the school term of this year one
month.
BY omitting the morning and after,
noon recesses and shortening the moo
intermission, the public schools of HooC
River are closed shortly after 3 o'clocl
these dark days.
Charles N. Clarke is now the manager
of the Hood River opera house. He
will make an effort to bill nothing but
first class productions, and proposes t
give the theater-going public some good
plays before the season closes.
Aspecial train bearing O. R. & N
railroad officials passed Hood River
Saturday morning about II o'clock, go
ing east to Huntington. Among the
party were General Manager +. E. Cal.
vim and Division Superintendent Buck.
ley.
M. f. Jacobs has purchased house
and lot in Portland, where he and Mrs
Jacobs will reside during the winter
Mr.. Jacobs says he bought the Portla nd
property so as to give Mrs. Jacobs an
opportunity to get out of the house dur
ing the winter months, as she will be
able to in Portland on the street cars.
NJ. M. Walther was in from Under
wood Monday with a load of dressed
beef. Mr.. Walther disposed of sameI at
cents pound, He says with the dis
continuance of the Chenowith postoffice
it makes it very unhandy for the settlers
on the Little White Salmon, as the ten
mile trip cannot be made every day by
the busy farmers.
The household goods of Rev. W. c..
Gilmore, the new pastor of the Congre-
gational church, and j. +. Batchelder
arrived Monday, and from now on these
people will be residents of Hood River.
Rev. Gilmore and family will reside in
the parsonage on Sherman street, while
Mr.. Batchelder and family will reside
at the Country Club Inn.
Messrs Mason, Dragseth and Gleason
of the Pine Grove district completed the
stringing of mile or more of telephone
wires last week and are now regular
subscribers to the Hood River system.
Harry Bailey was employed to string the
wires, but the work was paid for by the
farmers, who have named the branch
line the Pine Grove Independent Phone
Co.
Both steamers, the Spencer and the
Gatzert, have withdrawn from the run
between Portland and The Dalles. The
The slack in business caused their with
drawal. Jim Stranahan says there is
hardly enough business on the river
these days to make it paying for one
boat. There is talk of third company
putting on line next summer and hav-
ing a steamer on the upper river be.
tween Cello and Lewiston.
II. D. Taylor was injured at the Park
ertown mill last Saturday, by being
caught between the rollers and the tie
cant. His leg was fractured in two
between the thigh and knee. The in
jured man was Immediately brought to
town for medical treatment, and when
his injuries were found to be so serious,
Frank Daveport accompanied the man
to Portland hospital, where he will be
given every care.
Cooper, the young man who made
charges against the city marshal, was
given a hearing before Recorder Nick
elsen last Thursday. The gentleman
had evidently been making false state
ments, and everything came out salts
factorily to the entire council, with the
exception Of Ed Mayes, who says he
will at the next council meeting demand
that some of the careless practices in
the police department be corrected.
Two drunks were brought before Re.
corder Nickelsen Monday morning, and
for a sentence were put to work cleaning
the sidewalks. One day of this stren-
uOus pastime was sufficient for one of
them, and while the hobo herder who
had them in charge was busy about
some other matter for a moment, the
weary one vanished in thin air and has
not yet materialized in this bereaved
neighborhood. Requiescat en- pace.
j. M. Culbertson secured a box of
choice apples last week from B. r.
Tucker, which he sent as a Christmas
gift to his former emplyer,C G.. S. Chapel
agent for the Santa Fe at Fort Worth,
Texas, where Mr. Culbertson used to
have charge Of the freight warehouse.
The apples were fine ones, there being
but 40 to the box. There we're four va
rieties-Newtowns, Spitzen bergs, ,Arkan-
sas Black and King of Tompkins County.
The high school literary will argue the
following question Friday afternoon:
Resolved, That Hood River would be
better off with saloons" Harold Hersh-
ner has been assigned the affirmative,
and will be supported in the debate by
Marjorie Baker, Hope Shelley, Merrill
Gessling. Alva Day will argue the neg
ative with Omar Day, Rule Blagg and
Bertha Lafferty assisting. The contest
of arguments will be held In the school
house on the hill, beginning at l o'clock.
Uncle Oliver Bartmess left Tuesday
for Oklahoma, where he will visit with
daughter and her family. Uncle Oil
yer gratuitously does the jenitor work
for the U. B. church and looks after it's
every want. He has every available
space in the large basement of the
church filled with wood cut for the fur
mace, and everything about the church
and gymnasium building is left in good
shape. The church people have decided
to purchase an organ for the library
room and Uncle Oliver gave $40 towards
it.
George w. Love and son, r. +. have
just finished slashing H. acres of land,
which they intend TO clear and sow To