The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1920-02-05

Snow in evidence on the hirh Pc $
tuesday morning and across the river
IN Washington the hills were white.
Jim and Bill Carroll visited their SIS
ter in The Dalies Saturday.
Mrs J. E. Higley was called TO T he
Dailes late Saturday evening by The
I illness Of her daughter, Mrs. E. d.
Piercey, and family. Word received
. Sunday by Mr.. Higley stated that they
! we're al improving.
The work Of loading and shipping
apples at the MOsier Fruit Growers
warehouse Is moving along rapidly.
/ They are now working out the New
/ towns. all other varieties having been
shipped. The output this year will he
double the amount sent out last season.
/ The total for the year will be 80 ears
or more Manager Chatfield saws
everything Is working out very satis-
/ factorlly and that they will finish snip
ping in about two weeks.
Week end guests at the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. c. q. Nichol were Mr.. Nich-
ol's sister. Mrs. Wiley and her hus
band. Of Hood River.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Kemp. Of Odell.
spent the week end in Mosier with MIR
and Mrs. John Davenport. Mrs Kemp
and Mr.. Davenport are sister and
brother.
John and Florence Huskey, accom-
panied their father, W. +. Huskey, to
The Dalles Tuesday morning, where he
will remain at the hospital for treat
-ment for pluro- pneumonia. He was a
very sick man when he reached the
hospital.
Sheriff Chrisman was in Mosier
Tuesday afternoon.
When c. G. Nichol reached his store
Tuesday morning and entered the
building he saw there had been unin-
vited guests during the night. One Of
the panes of glass from front win
dow had been removed, through which
the burglars gained admittance. A
number of articles of clothing We're
missing. A large sack which had been
left living IN the rear of the store was
missing and it is thought this may
have been used to carry away things.
Mr.. Nichol had not been able to deter
mine the exact amount of loss at the
time of this writing. No clue by which
the thieves could be traced has been
discovered.
j. NJ. Carroll was attending to busi.
ness in Portland the first of the week.
Geo. Wilson was in The Dales Tues
day to have his hand treated
Mrs. S. d. Fisher returned to her
home in Hood River Monday afternoon
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daughter. Mrs. Leslie Root, who has
been very i'll with bronchial pneumonia.
Mrs. }. NJ. Burpee, of Portland. ar
rived Monday evening to stay few
days with her sister, Mrs. Root. She
was accompanied by her little niece,
Chiquita Winkler.
Leo Nichol returned home Monday
evening overland from Bend He
states that he left Bend about six
O'Clock Sunday morning and reached
Maupn that night, where he stayed.
Next morning he started early and
after passing Gateway his good roads
and good travelling ended very sudden.
ly. Tn to that time he had found the
road in fairly good condition, but on to
Antelope and Shaniko he was forced to
get aOut ana cledn lne Hu0 from lne
, wheels of the machine many times, and
for the lack of shovel or even piece
Of wood he used his hands. and even
moved the mud from the tracks ahead
with his hands 50 he could drive few
feet at time. He passed several
abandoned cars and was concerned at
3 times as to whether he would have to
walk somewhere to get help. BY
strenuous efforts he finally passed over
the worst ground it had ever been his
luck to encounter and reached home
happy to be alive, but vowing "never
again.