U o f O L ib ra ry
T he M onmouth H erald
YOL.
XV
M ONMOUTH, POLK CO U N TY, OREGON, FRID A Y . JU L Y 20, 1923
No. 46
T h e r e is N o L a n d L ik e O r e g o n a n d O n ly O n e W illa m e tte V a lle y
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lamb feed aheai
At Oregon Normal
in ilk an d su g u r according to ta s te and
Mrs. 0. A. Wolveiton Kilitors of Oregon
w a te r could be obtained a t any tim e Mechanical Device
from a la rg e w ater bag near by. The
w ate r w as from “Tilly J a n e ” creek or
Bur'ed Last Tuesday I Visit Mount Hood some
Locating Oil Wells
o th e r icy source for it w as a l
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follow ing h av in g been in stalled a
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w ays cold.
Dr. C harles J. Woodbury of Oak- ^ e j - e g t i l a r m eeting la st M onda
Mrs. O. A. W olverton died a t h e r ' F or several y ea rs p ast th e Ameri-
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. S tan to n accom
N earb y to the kitchen was the " c a n
land, C alifornia, ad dressed th e N or- " * h t '
<; la re s Powe11’ no^ le
home in th is city la st Sunday m orn van Legion post of Hood River has te e n ”.
H ere was w here you regis- panied Mr. and Mrs. B. T. M errill on
m al School stu d e n ts a t th e chapel - 1' J ‘ T e te rs- ' ice g ra n d ; P aul Tacli lng a t 12:30. She has been a p a tie n t, been laboring t o ‘get th e a ttra c tio n s of tered and received your official badge 8 ‘tip to E ugene S unday w here they
hour on M onday.
Mr. W oodbury eron>
*e" e ta r y i ^ J ’ 1'* LZ®r ’ tr,e a *' suffel"er since she re tu rn e d from th e Mt. Hood m ore accessible to the pub which en title d you to chow and o th e r saw th e p ro g ress w hich has been
w as fo rm erly the se c re ta ry o f R alph “ rer> K bickafoose, ch a p lin ; J . B
D allas hospital sev eral w eeks ago and lie.
The m ost p opular m eans of do- p rivileges.
If you w ere not a new s- m ade in d rillin g an oil well in the vic-
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r u n e r a i services w hich w ere held in of the m ountain. E ach y ear the num - if you w ished to climb under th e di achieved n o to riety because a preach-
bers of th e Concord gro u p v ery in ti . a n « V ' S U n to n o utside g u a rd ia n , th e local C h ristian Church T fu uesday
e sd a y ^ / b e r who m ake th is stren u o u s achieve- rection o f th e official guides.
The; e r * 8 ce rtain Rev. Olson, located it
m ately.
Hence he gave a m ost in
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A ' L M iller, aftern o o n w ere atten d ed by
la'-gc ment becomes g re a te r.
also
sold
sm
oked
glasses,
alpenstocks,
w ith a special a p p a ra tu s sim ilar to
te re s tin g ta lk ab o u t them , em p h a L. S. N. G.; G. A. N estler, R. S. V. G.; crowd
The d isp lay of flowers w as I To bring fu rth e r publicity to th e chew ing gum , chocolate b ars, cig ars, ‘he m anner in which sp rin g s a re oc-
sizing E m erson and T horeau p a rtic u G lcnn McNiel, L. 5L V. G .; O scar Z°ok exceptional, th e "coffin an d the* . pu7p~
' p r o j e t ........
''th is . year they invited th e lto ba cco. so ap and a few oth er e ss e r- casionally located by a water witch
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K. 6. a ., J . O. A ndrus, L. S. S ., O. \\ beinir banked
banked hv » »>>•• .,c ki„...~ . . . .
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la rly .
ein
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banked
by
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of
bloom,
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ito
rial association to sh a re
ti*l* all “ at the sam e prices ch arg ed
w ith a forked piece of willow.
The
ellogg, p p a a st st g g ran
rand.
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K K ellogg,
d.
R evert
R everend H. C. S h ro p sh ire preached th e ir h o sp itality , to observe how in Hood R iv er"
One of the young well is on th e c re st of a hill near th e
F riends
r- . . ' Ü g ad t0 w eleom e b a tk
R efresh m en ts followed th e installa- th e serm on ex to llin » t»ï" '7 T* "
and m ountain clim bing ig done and per-1 L egionaires in chnrge of the can teen u n iv ersity city and th e drill is now
Mr : \ GOt ° ld J0 f _the_ N“ rm al faCUUy ‘.on- The lodge has fed on bear and c h a ra c te r of the l e a s e d , a , T
who has been doing g ra d u a te w ork in p0 rg and venison in tim es r a ”
âiid
w*. ' " i a tv ta s e d - and Kev- haps to tr y it also.
Som ething like w as a nephew of F ran k Loug ia ry ot jdown
about «00
feet.
Of course
th e re is a stock proposition connected
th e School of Speech a t N o rth w e ste rn it is w hispered th e re may
be " some- church aTsisted T u r i i d 'w C h rU tia n ,
Persons successfully made th e M onm outh.
O pposite th e canteen w as the com- w ith it.
The Rev. Olson says he has
U niversity d u rin g th e p ast y ea r. She th in g new , S0IMe lamb Bt th e leagion j
EnKlisb C em eterv L
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° n Sunda>’’ Ju ly 15 and <|uite “
has re tu rn e d to th e W est and will re- n ex t M onday n ig h t.
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Cem etery n ear A irlie.
few of them w ere n ew spaper people, in issary d ep a rtm en t in ch arg e of a m oney enough of his own to live on
su m s her w ork a t th e N orm al on Ju ly '|
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' ary “ ene ^ ta a ts , w as descended men and women.
soldier from the U. S. arm y.
H ere , f ° r th e rem ain d er of his days and his
30.
Miss Godbold visited in Mon- '
S h erid an ’s F ree C h au tau q u a
’' om ° ne
tb * P‘one*r fam ilies o il F or the few days of the actu al blan k ets w ere rationed to those who p a rtic u la r profits in th e en terp rise
m outh la st w eek-end.
S heridan has evolved a unique plan 1 ls Pa !t
O regon. She w as born clim bing season the Legion m ain tain s needed th em , the one specification will be devoted to th e church,
for financing its Chautauqua next
^ ‘r *ie on the S ta a ts donation 'a cam p on the snow line of the moun- being th a t th e applicant bear th e j Rev. Olson is positive oil will be
P re sid e n t
L an d ers
visited
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S ig n a tu re s fo r th e g u a ra n te e *an<* claim , A u g u st 6, 1864, th e tain , 6100 fee t above sea level, and a t badge of th e s ta te press association found at a d ep th of 3300 feet because
branch of th e N orm al now in session
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d a u g h te r nf th e l u t e
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a re being received w ith th e a rra n g e - uau 8 n te r
th e la te Isaac and O rlena th is cam p on S atu rd ay th e second It w as a special privilege given to th e th e in stru m e n ts he and his associates
in P endleton th e first of th e week.
d a y ’s session o f th e ed ito rial conven- editors who w ere p erm itted to draw | have p erfected assu re th is.
They
A concert of m ore th a n u sual ex m ent th a t each person who sig n s re- , ta a ts '
ceives a reserv ed se a t fo r each $3.50
was m arried to W. E. D a lto n /tio n w as held.
A m ong those who ap- fo u r b lan k ets apiece w ith th e proviso I have seven d ifferen t locating in stru -
cellence w ill be given in th e chapel
pledged.
So f a r 103 h av e signed
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u a r y 2, 1882 and
and w w as
as le ft a peared on th is p ro g ram w ere Levi th a t th ey sign up for said b lan k ets m ents to rely on.
n ext W ednesday evening, Ju ly 25, at
fo r n ex t y ea r.
The business m en of ' vldow ten y ears la te r, w ith four chil- P ennington, p resid en t of Pacific col- fo r which, if not retu rn ed , the arm y
The Olson com pany have taken a
8:16.
B eatrice Barlow e D ierke,
th e city a re u n d erw ritin g th e v en tu re
le n ’ aR
wborn survive her. They lege of N ew berg and J . Adam Bede, would collect $8.60 per. for each la rg e num ber of leases in the W illa-
a n is t and O tto W edem eier, b arito n e,
a s a fre e C hautauqua.
A ccording to aze I^ r s '
l a y l° r ° f P o rtlan d , fo rm er m em ber of congress from b lan k et m issing.
m e tte valley an d say th ey will devel-
both of P o rtlan d , a re the a r tis ts who
th e Sun th is y e a r ’s fre e C hautauqua d r s '
0? D allas; Crosby Dal- M innesota.
Q uite a few of the asso-
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supply
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them as f a s t as they can g et
will ap p p e ar a t th a t tim e, so th a t a
w as ex trem ely successful.
“ People of E ugene and W alter D alton of
ciation m em bers who atten d ed th is n ex t th in g w as to find a sq u are o f 1 aro u n d to it.
They expect to s ta r t
real tr e a t is in sto re fo r tho se who
| A lbany
bany.
session re tu rn e d to Hood River before so ft e a rth on w hich to m ake your bed. ■“ w ell n ea r Monroe in th e near fu-
atten d .
A dm ission fo r tow nspeople , w ere a ttra c te d to S h eridan from
j m iles around.
T. J. W erth b ro u g h t IIn O ctober, 1910 she w as m arried to n ig h t.
More of them stay ed to en- S oft, level stre tc h e s w ere exceeding- j tu re .
They have no difficulty in
will be 50 cents.
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in a tru ck load each evening from O. A. W’olverton.
She joined th e joy the cam p fire a t n ig h t.
A m ong ly scarce an d you contented y o u rself g e ttin g funds and m oney is pouring
A bout 300 stu d e n ts u nder th e di- above W’illam ina.
O th ers w ere h ere | 1 h ristia n church in Independence in th e la tte r w as th e H erald fam ily,
w ith a place as nearly level as w a s ,in on them .
rection of Mr. B utler and Mrs. P ark - from M cM innville, m any from B alls- 1887 an d has since been an activ e j To g et to cam p we trav e led tw enty available an d you helped o u t th e soft-1 As evidence o f Mr. O lson’s activ-
For a num ber of y ea rs th ree m iles from Hood River, th ro u g h ness w ith a few fir boughs.
D allas.
Buell mem ber.
e r visited th e s ta te in stitu tio n s at ton and som e from
litie s we ta k e th e follow ing from th e
s e n t its q u o ta n ig h tly as well as Pa s t sbe has been tre a s u re r of th e th e apple o rch ard s and fo r a p a rt of
Salem la st T h ursday.
C ongressm an N. J . S in n o tt w ho ¡c u rre n t C o ttag e G rove Sentinel.—
G rand Ronde and W illam ina.”
The Ladies Aid Society of th e church and th e way on th e Mt. Hood loop road. w as one of th e p arty , w as assisted by I C o ttag e G rove’s first oil d errick looms
A m otion pictu re will be show n in '
Sun e stim a te s th a t 12,000 atten d ed bas had a prom inent p a rt in ail o f,T h is road is under co nstruction b ut a num ber of boy scouts in p re p a rin g ; up from th e to p of M ount David to
the chapel on F rid ay evening, Ju ly
th e different p ro g ram s.
j Hs activities.
fo r th e tim e th e b a rrie rs w ere let
oft bed o f fir and his couch we i so , in sp ire those who believe th a t every
20 .
She was also a m em ber of A g ate down and freedom of p assag e g ra n t- co m fo rtab le and he slept so soundly I hill about th e city will h av e a sim ilar
Invent F lax P u ller
A dah od-
Some of th is recently g raded and so vigorously th a t some w ho decoration w ithin th e n ex t few years,
Rebekah lodge,
M onm outh;
Bruce W olverton of P o rtlan d cam e
R obert C raw ford, who helped to
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I< I C h ap ter, O rder of th e E a ste rn S ta r highw ay w as rough enough b ut when bunked n ea r him w ere positive th e (The first d errick can be plainly seen,
to a tte n d th e fu n eral of Mrs. O. A. estab
lish th e flax p la n t a t R ickreall, I - , ,
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W olverton, and stay ed over fo r a and in te re ste d w
. l people in the ° f IndePtn d *n« ; th e G ra n g e and th e we left it and sta rte d on th e tra il e a rth trem bled a t in te rv als th ro u g h a s D r. Olson, th e prom oter, prom ised,
local
from alm ost any point in th e city. The
of
M onm outh, to th e H om estead Inn, real m ountain th e n ig h t.
sh o rt v isit wish rela tiv e s and old grow in g of flax, has b J n a ointed p r a te r n a * Union
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of
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Rebekah
lodge
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encountered.
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su
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atched
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fn n n e-w o rk has p rogressed
well
friends.
Mr. W olverton ta u g h t la st bead of th e prison "flax
He e i {ended th e fu n eral in a body.
an t.
ur; I soil th e re is volcanic ash which ra y s o f lig h t fad e aw ay on th e peak ‘»w ards th e 100 fee t w hich U to be
y e a r in E a ste rn O regon but expects alw , y8 im pre ssed local p people
as a
F allen ,
Leilfht and will be ready to re
to have a school n ea r M ount A dam s cap abie m an
In connection w ith 1 Beside h er children she is survived has th e c h a ra c te ristic s of wood ashes. and then lighted a cam p fire.
in W ashington n ext y ea r.
flax grow ing, Joseph R artosz of Sa- by s ' x Kra ,u lchildren, tw o s te p d a u g h - We b attle d th ro u g h a few m iles of wood was plenty and soon th e flam es ceive th e m achinery som e tim e before
th is s o rt of th in g and th en le ft th e lighted the su rro u n d in g scenes.
T he ^ ‘h ere
hope o f th e m achinery arriv -
lem has invented a m achine fo r pull-
Mr i - D. J . B o lter of S u v er and
ca r an d s ta rte d on foot.
The Legion fire was not f a r from the edge of th e ' nR-
T he w et sp rin g and sum m er have in g flax.
Miss
L
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W
olverton
of
P
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d
,
I t is being trie d o ut but
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ro th p rs
M M a a ts „<•
ush ered in bum per crops fo r the as y e t . / has n o . t . been en . tirely
success-, and
na fo
Io u u r r h °r<nners,
j I . M.
of m ain tain ed . g . u ard
. over
. . c a . rs th u s left . g o rg e and in a sem icircle around it > E)r. Olson h as experienced difficulty
Led by one of th e in K ey in g th e req u ired d rillin g out-
fa rm e r and if prices w ere b e tte r th e re fu j
j f ¡t couid be m ade to w ork it S al«‘m . J- O. S ta a ts o f E ugene, C. E. and °P e ra te d 8 tra ln ° ‘ Pack eayusefs all gath ered .
He has been able to g e t several
would be real p ro sp e rity in th e ru ra l WOUld save th e lab o r of from 500 to S ta a ts of D allas and A. C. S ta a ts of an<1 m ules to haul UP lu g g ag e. T here young men m any of th e so n g s of th e Bt.
w ere also ponies fo r such of th e w om service w ere sung.
A m ale q u arte t sm a lle r outfits b u t will consider noth-
d istric ts.
1500
people in the M arion-Polk ¡A irlie.
en who th o u g h t this s o rt of riding w as found w hich rendered sev eral ' n 8 except one capable of going to a
B earers a t th e g ra v e w ere officer:.
county d istric t.
p referab le to w alking.
ALBANY HAS A N O TH ER
selections.
The songs w ere chosen 'K'Pfl1 ®f 3500 feet.
He expects to
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CR O SSIN G A CC ID EN T
To an y one who saw th is so rt of th a t consist la rg e ly of rep e titio n s I utrilce oil a t E ugene a t 3000 feet but
G. T. Boothby is stead ily im proving
A m ong those from o u t of towr. .fre ig h tin g fo r th e first tim e it had and are easily learn ed and everybody Relieves th a t th e depth a t which oil
from his la te s t spell of sickness.
M rs. G. M. L arkins, 23, w as in an
'se v e ra l points o f in te re st. T he fre ig h t joined in to give them volum e.
M rs. M a rg a re t Powell of H illsboro who atten d e d th e fu n e ra l a re :
' n Pa y*nK q u an titie s is likely to be
A lbany h ospital a t th e point of d eath
Mr. an d M rs. T racy S ta a ts , Mrs. is held in saddle bags and in bundles
is th e g u e s t th is week of h e r sister-
As th e tim e to re tire cam e one o f »truck here is a t least 500 feet deep-
as a re su lt of a cro ssin g accident
T h ere was th e d irecto rs of th e e n terp rise an e r ’
in-law , A u n t J a n e Powell and th e two Allgood, M.-s. H a y te r, M essrs and i tied on above w ith ropes.
M ount David is probably th a t
w ithin th e city lim its of A lbany late
ladies had a m ost enjoyable v isit re- M esdam es M. L. Boyd, V. C. S ta a ts. much fre ig h t to be tia n sp o rte d for as nounced th a t as a btrtnuoQ s d a y ’s m uch h ig h er th an th e n earby lower
M onday aftern o o n .
Mrs. L arkins,
C laire S ta a ts , V ere S ta a ts , Schaeffer one f re ig h te r rem arked, “ Some people w ork w as ahead fo r th e clim bers on levels
callin g fo rm e r days.
h»« m achines have told him
who is a bride of b u t th re e w eeks, is
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E. V. D alton, M aurice D alton, Sund- expect th e co m fo rt of P ullm an service. th e m orrow it w as essen tial th a t they ‘ h a t th e point a t which th e b est flow
an inexperienced autom obile d riv er
P riso n er E scapes
b erg , T hom as H ooker, S co tt Lough- even w hen th ey climb m o u n ta in s”.
have a good n ig h t’s sleep, and a fte i o f oil is likely to be found is from a
and drove onto a railro a d cro ssin g in
G eorge M cA llister, aw aitin g a ses- a ry and Mrs. P ro c to r of D allas; Mrs.
T he hor8es w ere tied in single file ta p s w ere sounded no one would be P ° 'n‘ n ea r ‘he old city reservoir,
fro n t of a southbound S outhern P aci sion of th e g ra n d ju ry on ch arg es of [rn ia H ecker, Mr. and M rs. Dave on* behind an o th e r and th e freig h t-
allowed to d istu rb th e sleep of others which will be used ss a p it into which
fic tra in , and being ig n o ra n t of w hat ste a lin g a u to
accessories
escaped Sim pson of A lb an y ; N ick T a r ta r o i „ rode th e firs t one. C lim bing up- and an y one who p ersisted in m aking ‘he refu se from th e well will be
to do, w as h it by th e tra in before e a rly M onday by saw ing th ro u g h the C orvallis and M essers and M esdam e:.;w ard w as hard w ork.
T he horses
she could d esert the ca r, according to b a rs of his cel) and an o th er b a r ,n W ill W alker, Jo h n Bohannon, M. C .!sto pped to re st occasionally and when a distu rb an ce would be plact'd undei dum ped.
a rre s t.
He explained m any of th e | M essrs. S tan to n and M errill also
th e eye w itnesses.
H er rig h t th ig h t u c o n i oi aim
ns * a., \\ lJliams, \ \ . F. ( am pbell, an d Thom I th ey reached th e top w ere p re tty d etails of m ountain clim bing.
The saw th e op eratio n of a m achine fo r
and le ft knee w ere broken and she th ro u g h th e brick w alls.
O th er as W illiam s of Independence, Mr am ' we|| “ blow n” and to w arm th ey could first te st cam e in th e clim bing of e x tra c tin g oil from th e shales of
suffered num erous scalp wounds and priso n ers sta te d th a t he began work- M rs. Byron Gill of E u g en e and Mrs
not be w atered fo r some tim e.
On C ooper's spur.
T his ascen t w as Jack so n county, la rg e deposits of
probably concussion of th e b rain.
jin g on his escape la te Sunday n ig h t. H. M. H ayles of A irlie.
the down trip th ey tro tte d and every over loose m a terial and if an y one got which ex ist near A shland.
The m i-
'tim e th e leader slowed up th e follow th a t f a r it was assu red ne could m ake chine seemed to be doing effective
ers would pile up to g e th e r in co n fu s th e re st of th e trip .
From th e top work.
The only suspicion the local
ion m ore a p p a re n t thon real.
of th e sp u r th e tra v e l was on snow to people had w as th a t p articu la rly
We, who w alked, a lto found the go w h at they call “ tie in rock” .
T here rich specim ens had been selected for
ing stren u o u s
The day w as hot and all w ait for th e guides, a re tied to- d em o n stratio n purposes.
the c o n sta n t ascen t into rarefied a t g e th e r in sm all g roups and have a
T h ere is no excuse fo r an y one be
m osphere com pelled freq u en t h alts to cable up the rocks to a ssist in w alk
F a rm e rs are
rest.
W ithin a q u a rte r o f a mile of ing.
As the sun on th e snow is very in g idle a t p resen t.
our goal we cam e across snow. It h ard on th e skin th ey p ain t th eir callin g fo r men and a re u rg en tly in
was in a canyon under ta ll trees and faces w ith g re a se p ain t, red in color, need of m ore help and th e paving
the ap p earan c es w ere it would be w hich m akes them look like Indians. ) f e w south of th is city is badly
Clim bing down th e m ountain on the handicapped fo r lack of labor.
th e re fo r som e tim e still.
The usual Legion cam ping ground follow ing flay w as very much easier i --------------------------------------------------------
on th e banks o f th e “Tilly J a n e ” was th a n clim bing up.
Going up it |
rendered im possible because of banks seem ed as if each mile w as longer i
! of snow some o f which covered p a rts th a n the last one, b ut th e dow nw ard
of th e creek itself.
A m ore open jo u rn ey was accom plished in much
space close by had been selected and s h o rte r tim e.
here w e took note of th e a rra n g e
On F rid ay n ig h t th e ed ito rs w ere ^
m ents fo r our accom m odation.
tre a te d to a g ra n d banquet in the
An open kitchen had been arran g e d C olum bia G orge hotel, a fine place I »-
Ion th e low er level close to
h u g e je a te d a mile from Hood River.
Tne
snow bank in which such stuff as re m o u n tain trip , how ever, was th e o u t
quired re frig e ra tio n w as buried The sta n d in g fe a tu re o f th e en tertain -1
cooking a rra n g e m e n ts w ere sim ple m en t provided by Hood R iver fo r the
b u t effective.
A b ig fire u n d er iron en te rta in m e n t of th e v isito rs and
p lates supplied th e h eat and when none who took p a r t in it will fo rg e t it
meals w ere announced each cam per read ily .
They a re now try in g #to in
wtfh his soldier’s m ess equipm ent te re s t th e governm ent in th e con
passed betw een tw o long tab les where stru c tio n of a road to th e snow line of
w aiters served him c a fe te ria style. th e m ountain.
T h ere is rock a t the
His first lesson w as^in le arn in g to top which could be crushed to f o rg
hold his m etal p late, pan and cup. th e roadbed and it is said a g i ide
His knife, fork and spoon he th ru s t could be m ade th a t would enable cars
in his pocket.
W ith his food in hand to ascend and tu rn on th e glacicra.
he found a su itab le spot and devoured Mv>unt Hood, like Mount R ain ier is in
it. The food consisted of beef, bacon, a governm ent reserv e.
Mount R ain
•>ggi, p o tato es, bread, b u tte r, jam , ier has been m ade easily »..-casible
d o u g h n u ts, pudding, pork an d beans, for people who w ish to vicit it and
all good to th e p alate.
You w ere o f th e re is no reason why Mount Hood
fered te a or coffee w ith condensed should not be tre a te d th e same way.
A Great Big River to Cross