The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-08-05
FRANKTON.

Tom Calkins marketed his first tOma-
toes the first of the week.
G. F. Gray has the first roasting ears
that we have heard of, and it was our
good fortune to sample them Sunday
Mrs. Walter lsenberg left Tuesday
for a weeks visit with Waits sister,
Mrs. Herman Sailing and family, at
Forest Grove.
Miss Pearl Scobee and friend from
Hood River hiked down to Storm Cliff
Sunday afternoon to see the big tunnel.
Mrs. Nealy and son, james, were
Portland visitors last week end.
The Belmont Foreign Missionary So
ciety met with Mrs. c. +. Gray last
Wednesday afternoon.
Miss Eloise Copper is home for a
short vacation from her school near
Mosier.
A sister of d. G. Garrabrant, Mrs.
}. W. Anderson, from Illinois. will ar
rive this evening for an extended visit
with her brother and family.
The dance at Merominee Saturday
evening was success that is, we think
1t must have been, as il was in the wee
small hours in the morning when il
closed.
Grandma Eddy was Sunday visitor
with the Garrabrants.
A number of Franktonites are sup
posed to be on top of old Mount Hood
today. We will give their names and
the luck they had next week.
Miss Pearl Eby left today for a
weeks visit at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Woodcock, of Wamic, Ore.
Earl Noble, wife and baby boy were
week end visitors at Clifton Earl was
out again Tuesday taking some kodak
views of his old home.
Miss Gretchen Cotton and a girl
friend, from Portland. came last week
for two or three weeks outing at Miss
ColtOn's fathers ranch on Phelps
creek.
The school board at the meeting last
week in accepting the resignation of
one teacher and the engaging of anoth-
er, lost Pearl and met a Fortune.
We made another trip to Mitchell
Point Sunday along with c. F. Gray,
wife and family and Miss Emma Noble.
We went by the way of Post canyon
road as far as there was any. then by
trail down the old log tlume at Sonny.
| But we would not advise anyone hunt
ing for pleasure trip to 90 that way.
We were getting in practice for climb
| ing Mount Hood, or we would not have
enjoyed it as much as we did.
The first meeting of the Parent
Teacher Association for the coming
school year was held at Frankton last
Friday evening. The attendance was
small aud the program, though short,
was fine. Mrs. Glass read fine selec-
tion, THE Ride of Kit Carson's Wife, "
and the singing and playing of the lit
tie Hastings children was splendid, and
they were encored to a finish. The
rest of the evening was spent in a So
cial way. Ice cream and cake were
there in plenty and after the price was
reduced it was--whO could eat the
most? J. Q. Eastman was the cham
pion, but it was easy for OF, as he has
practiced SO much.
J. r. Phillips says that he is think
ing very strongly of installing a small
grist mill in connection with his saw
mill, but that the report in last week $
Glacier that he had purchased the old
burrs from the HARRISON mill on Neal
creek was a mistake.
Last Thursday evening at the earnest
solicitation of Mr.. kimball. of Summit,
party of dozen or more of US, who
have been working in the interest of
some kind of memorial to be erected
here in Frankon at the top of Ruthton
hill in memory of what Simon Benson
has done for Hood River in making it
possible for this county and valley to
threw its doors open to the tourist