The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-12-25

home from the University of Oregon
for the holidays.
Tax budget was adopted yesterday
with but few changes from the items
as arranged at the tentative meeting
the first Of the month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Root and chill
dren will leave soon for southern Cali
fOrnia- They will ship their ear to San
Francisco and motor down through 9TH
er points of the south.
Mrs. Jessie NJ. Bishop left last week
fer Portland. where he will spend the
holidays with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ferguson, and sister. Mrs. FlOy Camp
bell.
Mr. and Mrs. K. E. Miller and baby
daughter have left for Los Angeles,
where they will spend the winter.
Mr.. Miller plans on visiting the Texas
oil fields before returning home
Miss lydia Johnson, preparatory to
visit in the east and middle west,
has left for a stay with her sister,
Mrs. c. Z. Knott, and family in Port
land.
DIR. J. d. Cutlery is in Nebraska at
tending to matters of business. He
had hoped to return by the holidays.
but was unable to complete his task in
time.
Ira W George. who has been absent
at various western points for some
months, has returned and is now with
his father, H. S. George. at the Elec-
tric Kitchen.
J. P. Darnall. who has been in
charge of a music house here, will
leave early in January to represent the
kohler 4 Chase company in eastern
Oregon and Idaho as far east as Boise
Leslie Butler is in Portland this
week attending meeting Of COM
mittee appointed to investigate rates
of the Oregon Industrial Compensation
act
Mr.. and Mrs. A. |. Mason and Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Tooley, OF The Dalles,
will take Christmas dinner today with
Mrs. Mason's sister, Mrs Rowland
Wiley, and husband.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Porger. Of Two
Harbors. Mimi, who have been here
on visit, accompanied Mrs. Porger's
sister, Mrs. Chas. Rathbun, and hus-
band. on visit with friends and rela-
tiyes at Tacoma and British Columbia
points over the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. j. Waidie, of Hol-
ton. Mich, have arrived to spend the
holidays with their son, T. d. Waldie,
and family. Mr.. Waldie, formerly
with the Stanley-Smith Lumber Co.,
is now general manager of the James
Prior Lumber Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Wilson left
yesterday for Portland. where they
will spend Christmas with their daugh-
ter. Mrs George Hinish, and family
From there they will go to San Gabri-
el, Calf. for an extended visit with
their son, George Wilson, and wife.
Miss Harriet Hamann has arrived
from Portland, where she is student
at the Behnke-W alker business college,
to spend the holidays with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Hamann. Miss
Hamann recently scored SO per cent in
an examination at the business college.
Ebert f. Newell, Civil Engineer and
Surveyor, located permanently in Hood
River, will be pleased to meet and ad-
wise with anyone having prospective
work. Present headquarters at Mt
Hood Hotel. d1ltf
II. s. Caughey will leave Saturday
for San Diego, Calf, where he will
join Mrs. Caughey The latter with
her baby left earlier in the season with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. R. Cros-
by.
Few people are so fortunate as the
/ family of W. G. Weber In addition to
some 60 chickens Mr.. Weber raised a
number of turkeys on back lots the
past summer. He dressed four hand
some birds, selling two and keeping
two for the home table. Fancy and
appetizing. the turkeys averaged l3
pounds in weight.
AT the annual meeting Wednesday
evening of last week the Masonic
lodge elected officers as follows for the
ensuing year: Kent Shoemaker, M. /;
A. F. Howes. S. W.. X. W. Sinclair,
j. w. E; Truman Butler. treas. Harold
Hershner, sec. f. 0. Banchar, trus
tee. Installation of 1920 officers will
he held on St. Johns night, Saturday,
December 27.
The Oregon Fire Relief Association
has more net assets than many old line
stock companies. 1t has over $400, 900
ready to use in paying claims Its his
tory as a claim paying company is as
good as any. 1t costs you 40 per cent
less than stock companies. See j. b.
Lister about your insurance, save 40
per cent on your premium and be safe
ly insured.
Newton Clark has just arrived home
for the Christmas vacation from Stan
ford University, where he is sopho.
more in the department of mechanical
engineering. Mr.. Clark was DELAYED
by wreck on the S. p line near Red
ding, Cal, said to have been the worst
without serious consequences in the
history of the rail line. Seven cars
went down an embankment. The
sleeper on which Mr.. Clark was pas
senger was drawn only partly off the
track.