The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1906-07-19

Mrs. Martin Emstrum, OF Oregon
City, is visiting in Hood River thls
weel.
Do you need carpenter to do that
odd job? Call up F. q. Coe' phone
57l.
Murray Kay is marketing some very
fine cucnmh hers from his ranch Just
across the Hood River.
0. B. Hartley is recovering from his
attack of muscular rheumatism, ana
able to be out on the street again
Gillis Hubbard, William, Phil and
! Mack Bird, Henry and John Combs
are among the Hood River men going
to the harvest fields in Eastern Ore
gon.
MI. Frank Woods returned Sunday
from trip through California and
left on the afternoon boat for Carson
to visit his brother, Cliff, who is in
business there.
A. l.. Phelps is making arrange
ments to go to the hop fields OF the
Yakima country, and wishes all
those contemplating going, to let him
know, as he is making up a party to
60 together.
j. Il. Nichols has purchased a port
able pipe tone folding organ, which
can be taken to the cemetery to use at
funeral services at the grave. lie has
also engaged paid choir to sing at
| funerals.
Eiler's music house, of Portland,
have rented part of Booths store and
put in a carload Of pianos, which they
say will be put on the market in Hood
River at very low prices. See their
add in another column.
VIM. Bannon, father and Jack Bag
| lev started for Lost Lake Monday
morning on fishing trip and an out
! ing IN the mountains. They took
along outfit and paraphanalia enough
to have a good time, and will no
| doubt succeed.
G. E. Day has received his "dim-
mer," which will be used in the cleo
trio wiring of the Odd Fellows hall,
and is happy. 1t is the only ap
pllance of its kind in the city and is
very effective in manipulating the
lights in lodge work.
Mrs. Byrne and daughter, of Grand
Forks, N D., spent day with their
old friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Q. ii.
Sletten. last Saturday, leaving for
home in the evening They 60 from
here to Salt Lake, and will visit sew
eraI Eastern cities on their way home.
The plumbers are about the busiest
people in town these days On ac-
count of the order from tho council
to connect with the sewers, those
who have not already done so have
given their orders to the plumbers.
More help is wanted, but it is hard to
get.
Several cars of bridge building ma.
chinery we're dumped off at Hood
River Monday, and camp is being
built on the fiat below the bridge for
the crew. Work is to be commenced
at once on the new bridge across
Hood River and the grading done to
straighten the track.
G. D. Nickelsen has moved back to
Hood River with his family from Hen
drick, Mimi, where he has filed the
pulpit OF the M. b. church n that
place for couple of years. be was
not satisfied with the cold climate in
that country and will go on his ranch
near the Morse pIa2e, at Belmont.
DIR. II. d. W. Pineo now has a
suite of three rooms in the Smith
} block, across the hall from his old
office room. He has them nicely
fitted up, aud is in better shape to
take care of his patients. He got the
best of the hot weather by fixing up a
fan on his electric motor, which he
can move from place to place, by CON
Meeting on the light wire.
Jack Rand is now getting a supply
of fine peaches and summer apples
from his ranch east of town, and is
now supplying passengers on the
trains aud boats with the choice
Hood River article. Mr.. Rand says
that his peach crop is light on ac'
count of the March freeze, but that
he will have fair supply, and the
quality is good.
The merchants have signed an agree
ment to close their places of business
at seven o'clock in the evening, Sat
uTday nights eHCepteu' IL was Il
first endeavored to fix the closini
time at 6:15, but all would not agTe,
to the earlier hour, and o'clock wa
fixed upon as compromise. Th
move is a good one, and gives th
merchants and their employees part O
the evening, at least, 10 themselves
After September the hour of closinj
has been fixed at 6:l5,
Herbert Williams, wife and daugh
ter, of Minneapolis, who have bee
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Wolpert
at White Salmon, for couple O
weeks, returned home Monday morn
i~g. Mr.. Woolpert has $50 acres G
land a couple of miles north of th
village, which he will develop. cut y
Z into small tracts, aud put on th
market, keeping gO0d 'anch 10
= himself. His Mime luli- ,rier'
q we're delighted with tie county. an
will probably be the means of loct
D ting other people out here from the
3 section.