The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-09-01
Mrs. T. B. Ford went to Portland
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Mrs. T. B. Ford went to Portland
Tuesday to visit friends.
Born-To E. H. Hartwig ard wife,
Tuesday, August 80, girl.
Born-To 0. T. Wedemeyer and
wife, of Oak Grove. Tuesday, August
80, girl.
The 0. r. & N. Shops baseball team
of Portland, came here Sunday and
won from the Hood River Heights
team by score of 7 to 2. The batter
les were: O. R. Il NJ. Sullivan and
Marias. Hood River Hart, Brough-
ton and Sweeny.
Frank Davenport, Jr., and wife re-
turned Saturday from near Bend where
they have spent the past six weeks.
Mr.. Davenport has just proved up on a
homestead taken there under the Carey
irrigation project. He is very enthu-
siastic about the country where they
are raising great crops of alfalfa un-
der the Deschutes irrigation.
C. c.. Hutchins, of White Salmon,
was here Saturday. Mr.. Hutchins is
in the real estate business and also
does considerable Photographic work.
He had just returned from a trip with
party of photographers getting views
for the North Bank road. They had
been driven back by the forest fires in
Washington and had to postpone their
work.
Will G. MacRae, of Portland, was
here last week in the interests of eX-
u. S. Marshal c. J. Reed, who is an
anti-assembly candidate for Congress
from this district. Mr.. MacRae was
formerly sporting editor of the Ore
gonian and has more recently been in
Washington as the private secretary
to Congressman McCredie, of Vancou-
yer.
F. H. Graves, of the Portland Ore
gonian, was here Friday on business.
The Oregonan, according to Mr..
Graves, is planning to issue New
Years edition during the coming holi-
days which will eclipse any newspaper
issue which has ever been attempted
by it in the past. 1t will be the
fftieth anniversary of the founding of
the paper.
Charles M. Simons, of Lordon, Eng
land, and w. M. French, of New York,
both of the firm of Shuttlewurth,
Simons & French, of New York, which
deals with closely allied firms in Can
ada, South Africa and Australia, mar
keting fruit in England and Scotland,
were in Hood River last week sizing
up the Hood River apple crop.
C. S. True and family and Miss
Aileen Clark returned last week from
an automobile trip to the coast. Mr..
True drove his Hudson touring car to
Tillamook and over to the beach at
Letarch. He reports some good roads
and some bad ones but says that the
car ran beautifully throughout the trip
and did not need single repair on the
entire trip.
In writing of the apple packing
school of the NeWberg, Yamhill
county, Apple Growers Union, Man
ager H. H. Keim said: We are sorry
there are not more young men attend
ing the packing. Mr.. Vannett, of
Hood Rivre, has been giving us valua-
BILE help and instruction. He leaves
for home on Thursday evening. He is
handling a 20 acre orchard in Hood
River Valley.
The Music Club will hold the first
meeting of the season to resume the
work for the year a week from today,
on Thursday, September 8. The first
meeting of the year will be at the
home of Mrs. V. c. Brock at 2:3O
O'Clock. The members are asked to be
present at the first meeting and all
musicians are invited to attend and
identify themselves with the club.
The benefit which was given at the
Gem theater Wednesday and Thursday
nights of last week for the Woodmen' S
sanitarium in Colorado Springs was
largely attended and the fund raised is
in the neighborhood of 1925. Besides
the regular program of pictures and
illustrated songs George r. Wilbur and
Paul Hubbard sang solos as part OF
the entertainment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Everett re-
turned last week from Friday Harbor,
Wash, where they visited Mrs. Ever
ett's sister for three weeks. They de.
clare it the most delightful trip they
ever took. Mrs. Everett says the San
Juan Islands are Mecca for all pill
grins in search of health, rest OF
pleasure. The people are healthy,
wealthy and correspondingly happy.
They are social and kind and take ar
interest in one the moment he plants
foot on their Island. The farms are
beautiful, being well cultivated, anC
are, this year, yielding abundantly.
Every land owner has an orchard, the
| limbs bending to the ground with fruit