The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-06-24
FRANKTON.

Mrs. VIM. Eddy and two daughters,
Florence and Jessie, returned home
Monday from camp.outing down at
Mitchell Point. Mr.. Eddy is transit
man for the State Highway Commits
sion on the work down there, and his
wife and daughters have been visiting
him.
Merrill Miller got the contract for
furnishing wood for the Frankton dis
triet at $3.50 per cord delivered in the
basement. Other bids for the same
price were submitted, but did not spec
ify that 1T was to be in the basement.
The latest word from the Frankton
girls that are up near Parkdale pack
ing berries, is not very fiattering. The
weather has been very unfavorabIe for
camping out and it also has caused the
berries to ripen very slowly. ri Stag.
FAnother of Frankton's fair young
school marms is spending her vacation
in the east. Miss Grace Stewart.
teacher in the intermediate room, is
visiting relatives and friends in Mime
sofa. 80 - sses s--.-- --.-- @s-5 :s.-
The annual school meeting was held
Monday afternoon. Joseph Frazier,
Jr., was reelected director and Mrs. e.
j. Nicholson reelected clerk. The ques-
tion of consolidating the Columbia
school with Frankton for the next year
carried by large majority. The school
board decided to have part of the
Frankton school building reshingled
and the furnace repaired or new one
put in.
Mrs. Roy Cahoon, from near Husum.
Wash, was visiting friends in Frank
ton last week. She says that they will
probably winter on that side of the
river, as there is more work in sight
over there than on this side.
We have known John Phillips for
number of years, and he has always
been building air castles. He has one
just finished and its fine one. 1t has
several sleeping rooms, all high up in
the big FIR trees in his yard.
Miss Aldine Bartmess has been Sc
ected for teaching music in the Frank
ton school next year. She gave good
satisfaction last year, and the patrons
of the school are fortunate in securing
her again.
Miss Eloise Copper, whose term of
teaching school up near Mosier is not
out yet, was visiting home the week
end. She, had one extra day at home,
Monday being annual school meeting
day.
Frank Kerr, son of L. A. Kerr. our
Frankton blacksmith, was killed at
logging camp over in Washington,
north of Portland, last week. The
young man had Just taken charge of
large crew of men, and while superin-
tending the work was struck by
broken pulley block and instantly
killed. His home was in Portland, and
he leaves wife and two children to
mourn his loss, besides his father,
friends and relatives here.
That grim reaper, Death, has called
another from our midst. Richard Bel
lamy, who has been suffering for the
last year with that most dreaded dis
ease, cancer. died last week. MIR. Bel
lamy was born in Dorchestershire,
England, in 1875. In 1903 he was mar
rled to the wife who so herocly helped
to make his long sickness as easy as it
was possible for human hands to do.
They came to this county in 1911 and
have lived in this neigbhorhood since.
Beside the wife, two children and a
brothel-in-law. Robert Tazwell, and
any friends they had made in this, their
adopted home, are mourning his un-
timely taking off.