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Show mo contractor or an architect. These men are in close touch with prices and 111 can give pretty ncArute estimates of H. the cost of any structure. GAME PLENTY IN WASHINGTON Wild Pigeons Are Numerous and Hunters Look Forward to the - , u t Deer Season. nOll Wild pigeons are reported In great numbers in the oak openings along the Columbia river, Washington, whero rin the birds are feeding on last year's HH crop of acorns, which are still lying on the ground. Some of the pigeons are attaining immense growth from Mor the nut diet, and a few killed for tho In pot averaged favorably with grouse. Tv ,Wlld and domestic hogs, made little an Inroads on the acorns during the winder win-der and spring, and the crop V this f summer promises to he an abundant one. Deer are reported to be living Tr ,n the nuts and some fat kills are promised hunters this fall. An nt- v , 'tempt la being made by one man to :utll Ize the acorns near his farm by feeding them to turkeys. He has sev- 'AtUtIc eral hundred young ones which, when tCC01 lnrge enough, will be turned into the dl',c oaks to fatten. Pigeons arrive In large !','de,c flocks every morning from islands In Alnsk the Columbia river, where they nest 1 bnl . ' , hunt Comforting. I bnsls- A Hoosler minister's wife was get-' AZZ ting ready to go Jo the hospital fo. i an operation. Her husband and chil- P,?,,f dren had been solicitous of her all lay, everything around the house hurt W been very quiet until late that eve- "Tr ling, when she heard the seven-year-; ' m twins quarreling. She asked her , bS' lusband to see what It was about, mid ie summoned them Into the room to give hem a lecture on worrying their T,"06 nother. n11 c -It was all your fault, daddy," 8 riora retorted. I : Floyd nodded his head and the mln- ,v,'? ster asked what he had done. Im-! , :glne the feeling when Floyd replied: joats) |