The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-08-24
WHITE SALMON.
IRON the Enterprise)

Mrs. G. M. Russell and children,
who made two months visit in Iowa
and Montana, returned on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Torrey have gone to
Lake City. Mimi, for a few weeks
visit at their former home.
A girl was bornsto Mr.. and Mrs. ].
w. Macken, who live near Husum,
Friday.
Alvin Redlinger, who has been
spending the past week with his par
ents. will soon return to his Eastern
home.
DIR. Garnett reports a boy to MIR. and
Mrs. Chas. Pund one day last week.
For the 1911 crop of Strawberries,
the White Salmon Fruit Growers
Union received $35, 564.70,
Rev. E. 4. Day, of Cedar Falls,
Iowa. arrived in White Salmon last
evening to spend week with his
brothers, Homer G. and Herbert W.
Day and his father. W. W. Day.
N. 0. Wielander and sister, of
Minneapolis, are at the Washington
for few days. Mr.. Wielander is the
owner OF quite a chunk of land bought
just north of town, and is eager to get
it developed before dropping his sue
cessful undertaking business in Mime
sofa to become resident of this sec
tion.
One of L. Woods bear hounds is in
bad condition as a result of attacking
a porcupine. Before Mr.. Wood could
shoot the animal the dog had his muz-
zle full of quilts, many of which
worked in so far that gashes an inch
deep had to be made to extract them.
This is the second porcupine that has
ever been killed In this section.
Directors of the Fruit Growers
Union of White Salmon and Under
wood met at Cameron school to talk
over the proposition to unite the
Unions and place them under one man
agement. A committee, consisting
of Messrs. Love, Packard, McCracken,
Slade, McInnes and Newton, was
appointed to present plans of consoli-
dation at a meeting to be held next
Thursday. This may be the first step
toward one general Union, made up
of Hood River, Mosier, White Shannon,
Underwood, Lyle and The Dalles.
Maurice ]. Kane, of Troy, N. Y, is
in the White Salmon country for. few
days and may permanently locate. He
is an Eastern man who believes in the
seeing -America-firs idea and has been
doing it all summer, taking in the
large manufacturing cities, trip across
the Great Lakes, through the Yellow
stone Park, and just finished Hood
River Valley, being beaten back by a
from the top of the mountain by a
storm. So far the two places he is
most favorably impressed with are
Ellensburg and Hood River. He has
yet to look over this district.
Where G. D. Moore, who lives on the
fiat below the town, expected a prac.
tical failure of his peach crop on ac.
count of the icy frosts of the spring,
he now has trees loaded with large,
ripening peaches that are sore temp
tation to the trespasser. Peaches OF
the Carmen variety, measuring nine
and one half inches. weighing nine
ounces and as pretty as the peaches
you read about, were brought to the
/ enterprise Office on luesudy. MI
Moore has about six acres of his thir
teen or fourteen acres in cultivation
his trees consisting largely of peaches
His apple trees are of the Lady Apple
variety, the fruit of which is small bu
shapely, They are unique in box anC
so desirable for ornamentation, and |
fairly good eater, that growers on thu
Hood River side have netted $6 pc
box on them. Between the rows ar,
all kinds of vegetables, for irrigation
is had from never-failing spring
Sunfower stalks are utilized for tn,
climbing beans.