The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-09-04

After vacation spent here with his
brother, Sherman j. Frank, and wife,
VIII Frank. who spent the winter in
Portland with the Baker St0ch Com
pany. left Monday u Ioin the Ameri-
can Llfeograph Company in filming
The Golden Trail, an Alaskan pic
ture, on the srowhelds of Mount Hood
The Wind River Lumber Co. at Cas-
cade Locks, according to visitors here
from that city. Is erecting a 900 foot
mororali system TO transport lumber
from their mill to cars on O.-W. K. &
y. siding. The company it Is stated.
has found shortage Of bridge CaTpen-
tiers. The bridge. which will be about
So feet nigh, Will hold conveyor car
rying carload Of lumber.
Sol. J Spear. formerly located here,
viii return within the week with his
family and renew his duties al the
Cram store. Mr.. Spear, one Of the
enthusiastic members of the Hood Riv-
er Game Protective Association, will
again have charge of the mems tog-
gerry and shoe department Of the Cram
store. which is experiencing a greatly
Increased business recently.
Fifty Portland o. W. K. & \. en-
ployes who had arranged for a special
tram over the Mount Hood to transport
them 10 Parkdale Saturday night an
nouEced that their proposed Labor Day
ascent of Mount Hood had been post
poned. The men planned to spend Sun.
day and Monday on the snow fields of
the peak.
j. d. McLucas. who has been here
engaged building ireplaces and Chin
neys for number of Hood River fam
lies, hassreturned to Gateway. Some
one remarked the other day If fire
was to sweep the Hood River valley it
would leave hunrdeds of McLucas mon
uments in the chimneys rearing them
selves from the wrecks.
J.. H. Fletcher, of Peotone, ILL.,. has
Just arrived here to take charge of a
Central Vale orchard place Just pur-
chased from c. K. Bone The new
place contains 20 acres Three broth
ers of the Illinois man, Allison, Clay
ton and Leonard Fletcher, had already
preceded him here, all having bought
orchards of the Dukes Valley or Odell
districts.
Appendicitis is one Of the luxuries
usually reserved for adults. Little
Opal, three year old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Green. of the Odell
district. probably holds the mid -Colum.
bla record for extreme youth of an ap.
pendlcltls patient. The little girl, fol.
loving an operation for removal of the
troublesome little internal member, is
making a rapid recovery at the Cottage
hospital.
Portland mechanics seem to be very
busy, said H. A. Cunning last Fri
day. Three weeks ago | broke a
shaft on my hay baler and had to have
new one made Yesterday it came,
but it was not the right dimensions, so
am leaving today for Portland to
give the job my personal supervision.
The Portland machine shop had SO
much work ahead that it took them the
full three weeks to get to my work.
Rev J. d. LewelIen lost his automo-
bile at the hands Of a thief when he
and his family visited Portland during
the rose festival week. He has given
up all hopes Of recovering his machine,
covered by no insurance City friends,
however. are determined that he shall
have a new car A subscription paper
has been started and sufficient funds
for a new touring car, it is said, will
soon be available.