The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-04-29
K. II. Shepard and wife we're pas
sengers for Portland Tuesday.

K. Ii. Shepard and wife we're pas
sengers for Portland Tuesday.
Jasper Wickham has been appointed
deputy assessor and will cover most of
the valley.
Miss Eva Coshow went to Portland
Tuesday afternoon to visit friends
for a few days.
The Steamer Charles r. Spencer
will run between Portlsnd and As.
toria again this season.
Frank M. Cashen, clerk at the Mt
hood hotel, is visiting friend at
Portland few days this week.
The Everhart place mile west OF
town sold yesterday to Gus. Miller, OF
Ohio, who will take possession and move
his family out soon.
The 1909 dog tax is due May |, and
owners of dogs In the city limits
should govern themselves accordingly.
The prices of tags aIe S3 and IS.
Marshal Lofts has placed a new sign
on the steel wagon bridge which
warns the public that travel over the
bridge must not be faster than walk,
under penalty of s25 fine.
P. Fl. Martin has resigned as a
director of the Apple Growers Union
and account OF disposing of his ranch
here and II. X. Abtee has been elect
ed to ill the vacancy.
Oscar Vanderbilt has crew Of nire
surveyors at work laying out the tract
OF /, 900 acres on the west side which
he recently purchased from the Stan.
ley Smith Lumber Co,
Mrs. g. Zweifel, of Portland, was
the guest of MIR. and Mrs. Jud Fer.
guson this week and returned home
yesterday afternoon with her husband,
who was returning from a business
trip through eastern Washington
Mrs. II. L. DumbIe Is recovering
from serious operation at the Cottage
Hospital aud is getting slong us well
as could he expected. DIR. Geisen.
dorfer, of The Dalles. and DR. Miller,
OF Portland, performed the operation.
h. s Cunning treasurer of Wasco
county was badly injured in an auto.
mobile accidest near The Dalies Tues.
day. While going down a grade the
machine slid and went over an em.
bankment Mr.. Cunning suffered q
broken collar bone and four ribs wei
fractured.
j. M. Walker, of Bloomfield, Mo-.
accompanied by his family, we're the
guests OF l. II Huggins the fore par,
of the week. Mr.. Walker is an old
friend and neighbor Of Mr.. HuRgini
in Missouri, and has come west to 10.
cate. He was well pleased with Hood
River, but will look around In the
Rogue River country before deciding
on a location.
A treat that is in store for Hood
River lie lecture that will be given
next Monday evening In the high
school auditorium by Prof. l.. X.
Alexander OF the University Of Oregon
entitled "Chums, Chumps, Gumps,
Goops and Spooks," and is said by
those who have been fortunate enough
to hear 1t to be one of the most enter
tanning ever heard In Oregon.
j. j. Luckey and VIM. Ganger will
start Monday for tour of eastern
Oregon and Washingont TO exhibit
| the ball bearing hub and lock nu A
new buokrboard is being cited with
the new patent devices, and 1t Is the
intention to make the trip overland
without bit of oil on the hub or
axle to demonstrate The claim Of the
invention. They may be gone sever al
months.
w. F. Laraway received letter from
P. G.. Coann, of Glasgow, Scotland,
president of the New York aud Glasgow
Fruit Co., in whicn he axes inqniry
as to orchard property in Hood River.
| He 81 'ates that he saw some Newtowns in
Glasgow IRON the Laraway ranch in
February He states that choice New.
towns we're then selling at $3.50 and a
| few boxes of fancy quoted at $4.20. 1t
costs " cents box freight on box OF
apples from Hood River to Glasgow
Ii. w. Day, of the trm OF Sgobel
Il Day, New York, accompanied by
his son, Kenneth w. Day, arrived
yesterday from Portland, and spent
the afternoon with the directors cf
the Apple Growers Union. He will
spend today with Bsbson Bros, on
their Mt. Hood ranch, ami will leave
Friday morning for The Dalles on his
way home. Mr. Day has been making
tour OF the apple districts in the
west ern country having visited CALI
iornia and Southern Oregon. Mr..
Day has been making annual trips 10
Oregon tor ten years aud is we'll &C.
quainted with the fruit sections OF the
coast. He says that the Hood River
apples ale the finest OF them all