The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1920-08-26

A new exchange of the Oregon
Washington Telephone Co. at Parkdale
will be cut in Friday. Formerly calls
from the Upper Valley have been
handled through an exchange at Odell.
! The first test message sent from the
Upper Valley exchange was sent by j.
W, Haviland, an employe of the com
| pany, to his wife here.
Fresh Strawberries continue to find
their way to the market in crate guam
titles. The fruit. which sells for 20
cents per pint hallcok, is grown by w.
X. Gibson and son on their Mountain
View ranch in the Willow Flat section
The berries, of the Everbearing vari-
ETY., will bear profusely until frost,
Mr.. Gibson states.
R.. V. Wright, who for the past two
years has been in charge of the agrl-
cultural department of the high school.
will leave with his family Friday for
California. Mr.. Wright, who will
make the trip overland by automobile,
has resigned his local work to accept
the head of the department sof farm
management extension with the Uni
versity of California.
University from various Willamette
valley points participated in picnic
Saturday at the DEVILS Punch Bowl.
A number Of the old students of the
Forest Grove institution have been
spending the past week at Sunshine
Shanty, the Dee homestead of Albert
Tozier and sister, Mrs. Edith Tozier
Weatherred Some of the reunionists
hiked to Lost Lake.
Lieutenant Commander Elder. of the
Portland Naval Recruiting Office drove
here Monday over the Columbia High.
way with Chief Quartermaster Weaver
and Chief Pharmacists Mate Barring
ton to establish a local recruiting sta
tion. Mr.. Darlington was left in
charge, while the other two officers
returned to Portland. He remained
here three days seeking new gobs.
The Highway is becoming favored
for side trips by motor tourists who
pass up and down the Pacific Highway.
Scores of cars visiting Portland the
past two weeks have motored this far
over the paved boulevard along the
gorge. Yesterday Mr.. and Mrs. l.. h.
Edens, of Galveston. Tex, who have
been on the road since May, having
visited Yellowstone park and Canadian
points of interest, came here over the
Highway.
Eight members of Waucomas Camp
fire Girls, chaperoned by Miss MAY
Davidson, have been camping this
week at the Willow Flat ranch of the
Davidson Fruit Co. The young WON
en- slept IN the big hay mows of.the
"A.
over campfres. The girls in the party
were Misses Janis Gould, Anita Ham
ann. Mary Katherine Scott, Agnes
Chipping, Geraldine Sosey, Kathleen
Blakely and Faye Howe.
Mrs Anna Croft, of Croft's Station.
ILL. here on a motor trip and 10 visit
her niece. Mrs. w. l. Kirby and fam
ily, declares that Idaho garagemen
warned her on the way here to pass up
the Northwest because Of the gasoline
shortage. She thinks the warnings
turned many motorists away from the
district Mrs. Croft experienced her
first difficulty in securing gasoline
here. she says, having been forced 20
delay her trip to Portland and thence
to California, until dealers received a
shipment.
While no visitors are buying any
apples. a number Of eastern buying
representatives have been here the
past week viewing orchards and inter
viewing growers and shippers All
express the opinion that buying will be
limited until the fruit is harvested.
and the apple buyers get ready to dis
tribute the product William g. Ger
ow. Los Angeles representative Of
Smith & Holden. a large New York
City commission firm. was here Satur-
dav