The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1909-09-02
Il. B London made business trip
10 Mnoinr Tnnrdnu

e. B London made business trip
to Mosier Tuesday.
Judge Ganten bein and wife, of Port
land. spent Sunday at Hood River
looking over their ranch property.
Mrs Doherty, of Lathrop, Mo.
visited her niece, Mrs. Geo. |, Slocom
for a week, returning home Tuesday
Miss Mary Pew was the guest of
MIR. and Mis-. g. p. Ross for few
days and returned to Portland Tues
day.
Lathers are at work on the new
brick block of Lawrence Blowers,
and the builc ing viii soon be ready
/ for the finishers.
II. e. Blocher came down from the
Big Bend country in Washington the
latter part of the week to attend to
business matters.
Miss Kate Danner who has been
spending the summer with Mrs. Will
! lam Monroe, returned TO her hcme lu
Lead, S. D., Tuesday.
W. D. Rogers accompanied DR.. Coe
and party to Eastern Oregon Friday
to take views of the land project i'll
which DR.. Coe ls interested.
Mrs. Guy Phillips, of Portland,
came in from a visit to relatives at
Moser Tuesday Bnd will visit treinds
in Hood River for few days.
The fishing party headed by Bill
Johnson returned yesterday hshless.
Bill says the only fun they bad was
drinking Fol !er's Golden Gate Coffee.
Miss Bess Osb Inc and Miss Edith
VIII, of Los Angeles, formerly OF
Glenwood, Iowa, wels the guests of
MIR. and Mrs. W. H. Lsraway last
| week.
G A. Lindsey and wife, of Denver,
are spending |. everal days in the val
ley looking tOI ranch property Nj
| Lindsay is connected with he Color
ado Southern Railway.
MIR. and Mrs. 0. L Stranathan re
turned to Portland Tuesday. Mr..
StranahaB has been experimenting
the paving OF the cement sidewalk in
front Of his property on the Heights.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. S Moore, of
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and family last week, returning home
Thursday. Col Il. q. Uesry, a
brother of Fargo, N. D.. ac ompanied
by his w'te, we're also recent visitors
at the Geary home,
The new cement walks which are
being laid on the Heights are a big
Improvement to that part of town and
worth double the cost to the abutting
property, as well rs to the c0Hven-
lenoe and comfort o. the public.
James McBain has finished the stone
Foundation for the new First National
Bank building, and the con ract t l.
the buildidg Will be let this week. 1t
is hoped to get the roof on before he
fall rains set In, SO ss not to delay
the finishing and completion of the
building
h. f. MoLsin, formerly of Dee,
now living at Salem, was up the first
Of the week on business Mr. McLain
is interested 10 the Hood River Man
nfscturtnR Engineering Co lie was
one OF the fortunate winners in the
drawing at Spokane recently, and will
get good claim.
! Q. f. Falkenberg, the expert Ioa1
maker, who is super ellntendiug the
| building OF the macadsm road on the
East Side grade, is getting the work
down 10 n system and "A careful esti.
mate will be made OF mile of road
to find out the cost of it. The road
has been completed past the gate of
Murray Kay's ranch and they are
working up the bill.
The ditch his been completed to
connect @ old he'd OF Hood River
with the present channel and a big
stream OF water is now running past
the mouth of the sewer. This is a
IROod piece OF work, and it is expected
the freshei in Hood River this fall OF
wint will deepen the ditch and
make permanent channel sno aid in
turning the water back to its old run.
way.
Arthur Clarke returned home last
week from his camping trip on the
Little White Salmon aud brought with
him cub cinnamon bear about two
months old which be caught in tree.
The little fellow did some scratching
before they got him into gunnysack,
hut has since become quite tame aud
will eat out of tie hand. Mr.. Clarke
will send him to Portland where be
has been guaranteed at least $50 for
the littl e fellow.
d, Il. Cooper was down from Mt.
Hood yesterday and says that the
telephone service in that district is
very unsatisfactory. Eheie are too
many on most of the lines, aud they
have little or no Sunday or night
service. In case of sickness, when
it is necessary to cali help at night or
on Sunday, the matter is very SER
ious. A petition will be circulated
asking tor better service and ii il is
not provided Mr.. Cooper says many
will take out their phones.