The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-10-05
A. F. Adams has purchased from E.

A. F. Adams has purchased from E.
L. Smith a residence on State street
formerly occupied by the family of Mr..
Smiths daughter, Mrs. .. Nelson,
who now lives in Portland. MIR. Adams
and family are making their home in
the newly purchased place.
Friends of e. G. F. Knowles, for
merly local orchardist, have been ap-
praised of the appointment of Mr..
Knowles to the Office Of general Pacific
coast agent of a large fire insurance
company. Mr.. Knowles headquarters
are in San Francisco.
W. s. Kaestner, who has purchased
from Frank Cady, the latter now u
resident of Gresham, Is acre West
Side orchard tract. has arrived here
with his family to make his home. MIR.
Kaestner was formerly in the machin-
cry business in Chicago.
Preparedness is not only applicable
to national affairs, but to those Of every
private individual. Are your finances
in case OF sudden reverses in state of
preparedness" for the protection of
your own and your family's interests?-
John Goldsbury, Local Representative
of Northwestern Mutual Life. in15.tf
The wedding of Lester D. Perkins,
formerly in the mercantile business
here. and Miss Mabel E. McEwen, OF
Goldendale. WASH, was solemnzed at
that city last week. MIR. and Mrs.
Perkins have gone to Sterling, Colo,
where Mr.. Perkins will enter the bank
ing business.
John A. Wilson, who with Mrs. Will
son, has been visiting bis daughter,
Mrs. Geo. Hinish. at North Beach, Wn..
returned home Sunday. Accompanied
by Mrs. finish and little daughter,
Nancy Lee, Mrs. Wilson will come to
Portland this week for visit before
returning home.
Miss Georgia Lynn, who has been at
the Good Samaritan hospital in Port
land recovering from an operation, has
recovered sufficiently to be removed to
the home of her grandmother, Mrs. R.
B. Byerlee, in the st. Johns addition.
Miss Lynn will accompany her mother,
Mrs. G. H. Lynn, home Sunday.
A formal reception was rendered
Grand Commander Laraway Tuesday
evening by the members of the Hood
River Commandery. W. F. Andrus, of
Portland, was present for the occasion.
Following fluctuations extended the
new Commandery head, luncheon
was served.
G. W. Stanton, who is trapping in
eastern Oregon. writes his father, D.
E. Stanton, that he has already this
fall trapped rs coyotes and one bobcat.
The young man netted neat sum last
winter from the sale of his furs and
from the receipts of bounties on pre-
datory animals.
MIR. and Mrs. n. H. Thornton and
daughter. of Burley. Idaho. we're here
the first of the week looking over the
valley. Mr.. Thornton is a great boos-
ter for his home country. 'We are on
the Minidoka project" he said, "and
electricity is about the cheapest thing
we have. A large percentage of our
homes are chimneyless. heat being fur
nished by electricity"
Chas. Hall, who is now president
and manager of the Coos & Curry Tel.
ephone Co., at Marshfield, was in Port
land last week following up a campaign
that he has begun to draw Portland
and the Coos Bay country into a closer
trade relation. MIR. Hall is given
great credit for assisting in hurrying
development of the rich Coos Bay Sec
tion.
First evidences of political activity
before the general elections in Novem-
ber are beginning to display them
selves. While candidates for county
offices have as yet in no instance begun
their campaign. aspirants to district
positions are beginning to canvass the
territory. Fred W. Wilson. of The
Dalles, former district attorney, is here
this week in the interest of bis race
for circuit judge.
Mrs. C. ]. Crandall, who with her
husband has been residing the past sew
eral weeks in cottage on Mrs. Alma
Howe's place, left her home at The |
Dalles last week for st. Louis to attend |
the general convention of the Episcopal
church. Mrs. Crandall, who was elect
ed a delegate to the convention from
eastern Oregon diocese, will also at
tend Indiana home coming week in In
dianapolis before her return home.
Mrs. Nellie Wattenburg. of klamath |
Falls. state president of the Rebekah
lodges of Oregon. made an official visit |
to the local lodge last Thursday even-
ing. A reception was rendered Mrs.
W attenburg at the Odd Fellows hall.
Members Of the reception committee
we're: Mrs. M. E. McCarty, Mrs. R.
E. johnson. Mrs. E. E. Kaesser. Mrs.
A. L. Vincent and Mrs. Geo. W. Thom-
son.
Donald Nickelsen. formerly a student |
at the University of Oregon and who
last year took work at the medical de-
partment of the state university at |
Portland, left last week for Chicago |
where be will enter Rush Medical Col
lege. Young MIR. Nickelsen, who for |
the past summer has been employed
piling lumber and loading cars in the |
Ruthton yards of the Stanley Smith |
Lumber Co.. is a member of the Sigma
Chi fraternity.