The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-01-31
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Chas. Hayward spent Sunday in The

Chas. Hayward spent Sunday In The
Dalles.
G. L. Rogers went to Portland the
fist Of the week.
Fred Wilson, of The Dalles, spent
Monday In Hood River.
A. p. Bateham, of Mosier, had bus
iness In Hood River the first of the
week.
Roy Slocom came in Sunday from
Tacoma to attend the funeral of Ev.
erett Rand.
F. W. Angus went to GThe DaIles
Monday and returning went through
to Portland.
Mr.. Yagdjoglou, the Vladivosto ock
fruit dealer, was in Hood River the
first of the week.
A rare treat is In store for those
who hear the Reed. Alexander song re-
cital at the opera house February 8.
Mrs. W. M. Stewart arrived home
from Bellinghsm Sunday, where she
has been visiting her sister, Mrs. o.
j. Nelson.
Robt. Manning and family, of OK
lahoma, are visiting A. d. Ramsey.
They are looking over the country
with the pul pose of locating.
Alex Stewart, Frank Ginger, W. w.
Stevenson and f. G. Stauffer came
down from Mosier Saturday attern oon
to attend meeting of the Masonic
lodge.
A. O. Buck is now librarian for the
city library which was in the drug
store OF Keir 4 Cass, and has moved
the library to his rooms in the
Brosius block.
Mrs. Chas. Hall left on the after
noon train for Portland Friday and
was Joined Saturday by Mr.. Hall On
Sunday they attended the wedding of
an intimate young lady friend of Mrs.
Balls at Astoria.
MI. London, who has charge of the
apple buying for Guthrie & Co., was
on No. Monday which was tied up
here on account of the blockade, and
spent the day visiting with the fiuit
men and friends.
Q. N. Wonacott, membership secre-
tary of the Y. NJ. @. A. at Portland,
was in the city Satul day In company
with his brother, of Brownsville, Ore.
Mr.. Wonacott Is interest in secur-
Ing some OF our famous orchard land.
"The Supreme Task" will be the
subject at the Unitarian church Sun
day at IL m.. j. A. Baldridge,
minister. No services Sunday even
ing on account OF the weather and 9TH
er conditions. All are cordially in
vited.
The heavy snow that fell Sunday
and Monday made walking around
town very laborious and disagreeable,
and j. L. Walker riggeed up snow
pillow on the bill and plowed out sew
eral good paths for his neighbors. In
the afternoon Marshal Ganger put
him to work in the lower part OF
town, and the good work was much
appreciated by those who had to trav-
el to and from the business part of
the city.
l. N. Sargent, grandfather of Mrs.
f. W. Clarke, died at his home In
The Dalles, Friday evening, January
%. The deceased had been in i'll
health for several years, and it was to
attend him In his feeble old age that
MI. and Mrs. Clarke moved to The
Dalles last spring. where MI. Clarke
opened jewelIy store. The funeral
OF MIR. Sargent was held Sunday af.
ternoon.
Practically the first snow blockade
OF the season in this part Of the state,
to interfere materially with traffic on
the o. r. g. NJ, occurred Monday,
when q cut near Bridal Veil was filled
with snow and blocked the trains two
days. No passed Hood River and
got down to the obstruction, where it
was tied up, but No. turned back at
Hood River and went east again. No
trains got through fl ON Portland until
Tuesday noon.
W. II. Epping, who is in charge of
his brothers ranch in tho Barrett dis.
trict, was at the train Thursday to
meet gang of men from Portland
whom be has engaged to clear land
Mr.. Epping says that he is clearing
up 20 acres this winter, which will be
set out to apples next spring, and
when completed the ranch will all be
under cultivation. Mr.. and Mrs. Ep-
ping came up from Portland Sunday
to spend few days on the ranch
James Ward Tompkins died Mon.
day, January 2l, at Vancouver hospit
al, OF pneumonia, following an at
tack OF typhoid fever. The funeral
was held the following day at Hood
River and the remains buried in Idle
wilde cemetery, under the auspices Of
the Modern Woodmen lodge. He
leaves wife and daughter, be side a
father, mother, brother and sister, to
mourn his loss. The deceased was
nearly % years OF age.
An earth slide the other side of Mo-
sier Sunday delayed trains all day.
No. 3 passed safely, but No. 5 was
caught the other side of the slide,
and was held there until late at night.
Crews and wrecking train we're sent
to the scene, and transfers Of passen-
gers we're made during the day. A
section of the cliff Md evidently be-
come loosened by the frost and caved
onto the track. 1t is lucky that it did
not happen while train was passing.