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A. PATREAU HERE
FROM FRENCH FROM
if 1 choose to return to France, but 1
must leave here at the end uf that
time. Rut 1 am given the privilege of
remaining and offering my service to
America, if needed.*’
The boy declared that he bad never
in his life made a speech until Friday
night. “ 1 am more frighten ed.’ he
declared, ' ‘than 1 was when 1 first
entered the trenches. I can’t keep my
knees from shaking.
Rut his few
quietly spoken words, carrying an
earnestness brought prolonged cheers.
He ended his speech by declaring that
from what he hail seen o f the spirit o f
the country as expressed at the meet
ing he thought he was needed at home,
and the closing words o f his talk v»**re :
“ I am ready to otter this right arm
to protect the honor o f the American
Hag.”
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BEACHES OF SOUTH
ERN CALIFORNIA
I- rum the I I imk I River Glacier
Arthur Kuhn, ill the followmg arti
cle describes some o f the beaches in
Tears o f untold joy welled in the eyes
southern California which were visited I
o f Mr. and Mrs. A. Patreau, o f the VIt.
by him self and Mrs. Kuhn in their
Hood district last Thursday night,
recent tour during the winter in that
when they were aroused from then
state
sleep, filled )ierhaf>s with dreams o f
Coronado Beach, near San Diego, !
battlefields, to answer a knock at their
starting at the Coronado hotei, runs,
homestead home. The alarm at the
east to the mainland, a distance o f 10
doorstep at the home in the quiet rural
miles, as Coronado Beach is a penin
community was sounded by their son,
sula anil partly forms the bay o f San
A. Patii.au, Jr., just returned from
Diego. Also this neck o f land is
France, where he fought for two years
called the Strand, having an oiled road
in the trenches.
that is a meooH for autos. The s u r f:
For three months he was in a French
bathing is very fine here and there is a
hospital. The young man accompany
life line that runs about 1000 feet into
ing 22 other Americans returning from
the breakers, in the regular season!
service in the Allied armies, reached
the life savers watch the bathers.
New York on Thursday night March 22.
Here was the original tent city, nearly
A fte r a rest from the sea journey he
700 ten ts; the roofs have for coverings
started immediately for his Oregon
limbs or blades o f date palms. Claus
home.
Spreckles, the multimillionare, has a
Armand Patreau Jr. whose father
A fte r thoroughly considering all the fine home near the noted hotel; his
ami mother natives o f France reside
fine private yacht was anchored in the
on a homestead in the Middle Valley bids for Wasco county's $200,000 road bay near the San-Diego-Coronado ferry
was the honored guest o f the people of bonds, the county court Monday after landing.
The only danger to the
Hood R iver Thursday night. Armand noon accepted the bid o f the Lumber bathers on the California beaches is
Patreau, the younger, returned the men’s Trust company o f Portland at a the small sword fish and the little dan
evening before yw leave o f absence premium o f $ 7830 , says The Dalles gerous stingeries once in awhile cul
from the trenches o f France. He came Chronicle.
The Portland firm was the only bid the foot but it is very seldom. To the
quietly not seeking notoriety nor the
left o f the hotel and about four miles
plaudits of his fellow'
Americans der to submit an absolutely uncondi in the ocean are the kelp industries,
w hether they were actuated by their tional bid and otherwise comply with where they make potash to be used in
own new horn feelin g o f patriotism or the requirements specified by the making powder and fertilizer from the
by curiosity.
The young American county court. A New York bank was sea weeds and kelp.
citizen who has been doing his bit in the other bidder whose hid w as uncon
Ocean Beach, near San Diego, has a
the armies of France, had hut one ditional, hut the failure to accompany fair beach but smaller.
thought, and that was to get as soon , the bid with a certified check for five
I.a Jolla Beach and Sunset Cliff
as possible to the simple home o f his l>er cent o f the total bid made the pro Beaches are Inith pretty and interest
father and mother, for his homecom posal illegal. Although nearly 20 bide ing beaches. Here may lie seen the
ing was a surprise for them. He was were received, some were not consid '«•«■an gold fish from the rocks anil the
told that roads to the remote Upper ered at all, due to the fai t that the water at places is very d ear and one
Valley community o f his parents were bond buyers made their bid conditional and see into the oeeHn to a depth o f 111
so bad that an automobile could not upon the approval o f their attorneys. to 15 feet. The meks at one end of
carry nearly all o f the distance. Rut The supreme court having decided on the beach are partly formed into caves '
that did not deter young Patreau, and the validity o f the bonds, a conditional from the constant dashing o f the waves
after he had been set down by the bid was*uncalled for.
The bonds, when first advertised, against them. Once fill years ago when
motor car Thursday night, the returned
l was fishing off o f one o f the rocks, a
soldier walked six miles through the brought a premium o f $10,77.5.20.
The sale o f the txmds means that wave struck me und I slipped off anil
darkness to tap at the door o f his old
road improvement in Wasco county got a ducking.
home.
IWI Mar has one o f the finest anil
H ihh I River had planned for a p atri will soon be under way. The first unit most popular beaches outside o f Coro-
otic meeting Friday night. The home- ready for work, all rights o f way hav nada Beach, in southern California.
coming o f youg Patreau, known to the ing been granted, is the route between Tw o line hotels are located here.
and
Lateral,nr*,
people <4 lilt M 1» Id 1« ■ Valiev and many I Chenowith creek
Can you blame tourists with autos
were « (*ned by the
o f the older residents i Of the city as a Uld\ for
for seeing southern California? Near i
ednesday.
little French boy whose English, with (,,U!'T\ court Wedi
Iy all the roads are either paved, oiled,
its quaint foreign inflection was pleas
graded or well sprinkled so that no!
ant to listen to, was learned. It was
Petticoats Still Menact“ Mails
i dust w ill get m your eyes. I talked
deeided to invite him to come and de
Miss Uenora Hunter, local postmis with many ranchers, fruit growers,
liver an address. Still tired from his
j business men and asked in regard to !
long journey across the Atlantic and tress, in the past two weeks has re j their taxes. They all claimed their!
the continent, and hungry for the sol turned many letters mailed to the | taxes were reasonable and especially
National Mail Order Brokerage Kx
itude o f his rural home, young Fat
ranchers claimed that with such roads
reau tried gracefully to decline, but change, to the genders whenever she 1 they saved money in getting their ,
when told that he might stimulate an happened to see such letters mailed. , produce to market.
interest on the part o f local young men The concern has I»een doing a fraudu ! The Palms, Capistrana and Baden
in doing their duty for their country, lent business and local people have Baden have fair beaches,
he accepted the invitation. When an been induced to send their money t< j Near I .os Angeles there is Unrig
indirect appeal to his sense o f duty was further the »hemes o f this concern. Beach, lb miles out. The business and
made, the boy who has fought and bled Hood River, The Dalles and in fact, I resident districts overlook on the
in the trenches o f the great overseas from practically every city in the (« can. There are about eight blocks
United States replies to this fake
war responded instantly.
of bath houses njit 1 piers at the edge of
Armand Patreau, Jr., was the guei-t proposition have been forthcoming. the water. Intermingled with refresh
o f a banquet at the Mt. Hood Hotel. The postmaster general has instr «cied men* stands, all kinds o f curio shop.»
Twenty four o f the prominent business all postmasters to return all mail ad merry-go-rounds, rolla coasters, figure
men o f the city gathered to shake his dressed to this mail-order house the eights and some other kinds o f figures i
hand and hear him talk. “ I haven’ t address uf which is given as .520 Globe promenading the board walk
an d !
any clothes to w ear,” he said, “ when building, Minneapolis. Minn., the flow ! thousands o f bathers and thousands o f
he was invited to lie the guest o f the of letters having been inundating the people sitting on the beaches listening
Hood River men. " I only have mv Minneapolis postoffice at the rat* of to the concerts given daily by a high j
This
old uniform and my h elm et." And so ; four to ten thousand daily.
class band.
he came, and men o f this town have action grows out o f a novel endless
At Rodona Beach they have just
never listened more eagerly to conver chain letter scheme started last fall.
Someone chose the name o f the completed a municipal pier, all finished
sation. Rut first o f all young PHtreau
in cement, about 1000 feet long and
is a soldier and has learned the lesson .National Mail Order Brokerage Kx
the end is shaped like a large O. One
o f discipline. Until the great war in change, an institution having no exist
side is reserved fo r fishing and has a
Europe is over, he says his lips are ence whatever, as the guise under placard which warns the fishermen to
sealed on some o f the most absorbing which to send out letters promising look out for the iiedeatnans, but I
that a $4.75 silk petticoat would be
topics.
noticed that the pedestrians were look
“'I am pledged not to tell of anything furnished in return for ten cents, pro ing out for a fisherman who had just
that may get hack to our enem y,” he viding the person rem itting each dim* landed a hah. This pier is used only
says. ” 1 might tell you o f some o f would make five copies o f the letter for amusement, to stroll out into the
these things o f which I know, and they and mail them to five friends. O f breakers and is one o f the finest piers
might seem to you o f no great conse course, each o f the five secondary re in southern California outside o f the
quence, even should they be known, cipients o f the letters were also to get new municipal pier just completed in
but I follow the orders that I have petticoats if thev in turn put uji ten San Diego. A ll kinds o f amusements
cents and mailed five copies o f th*-
received ."
at all o f the beaches.
Within 14 days after France had de letter to five additional persons. And
Venice has a fine beach and also the
clared war on the imperial armies o f so on to infinity.
show
lieai li o f them all. Here one can
A ll replies were to be addressed to
(ierm any, young Patreau was enlisted
go out in the ocean in the glass bottom
for Francne. He served for h time in 52o Globe building, Minnea|N>lis. Then* boats and view the sights under the
a Red Cross corps. A t the time he is no such number or tenant in the water.
Globe building, out letters containing
had barely turned his majority.
Ocean Beach is another fine bathing
Since delivery at
" I t was frigh tfu l work,” he says, dimes poured in.
beach and the city is right across the
“ that o f gathering up the maimed and the Globe building was impossible, th** street from the edge o f the surf and
the living.
Many and mHny times letters went to general delivery. The is partly maintained by the people who
have I had men tell me to kill them mysterious promotor o f the scheme come out to the beach for amuse
ami put them out o f their misery, and called on.’e at the general delivers ments.
often it would perhaps have been an window o f the Minnea|M»lis office for
Another fine beach we were at was
act o f humanity, but I told the poor this mail and obtained a quantity o f it. the C liff House at San Francisco.
sufferers that it was my duty to get Soon after, apparently, he took alarm , Near the entrance to the Holden Hale
them to the hospital, and listening to for never yet has he made a second are the Seal Kooks where thousands
their moaning 1 and my companions call for his dimes. Although postmas o f seals may he seen sunning them
ters have had instruction since last
Imre them to the rear.”
selves on the rocks. To the le ft the
Then young Patreau became a mem Octolier to withdraw all such corres- beach starts and runs for miles. To
ber o f a machine gun company o f a jamdence from the mails whenever the the rear is one o f the main state high
regiment o f infantry.
On the right sender is known, and the matter ways. This excellent highway leads
sleeve o f his coat he wears inverted semed to be nearly ended, a new wave to San Mateo, Burlingame, and on to
chevrons, the sign o f two wounds. «•f the correspondenee has broken over San Jose, a distance o f 65 miles. The
For three months he was in a hospital. the Minneapolis office.
Hundred» and even thousands o f pavement is as smooth as glass and in
"T h e most terrible o f my exiieri-
the four hours drive we must have
ences,” says the returned boy. "h ave peofde are being defrauded o f their seen 90,000 autos coming and going.
been with the poison gas fired by the dimes and the poatal service is l**ing
Herman soldiers. One time I saw 22 put to great expense and labor to
Sunday School (lathers Papers
companions, as they slept fill their search out the senders and return them
lungs with the deathly vapor'and die their money. In the m ajority o f cases I The .Sunday School class o f th** Im
the
iiostmasters
are
power
leas
to
pre-
j
in an instant. 1 happened to be awake
manuel church are asking that the
‘and saw the approach o f the ghostly vent the deposit o f the letters in the (Kfople o f the city a mi valley save all
mist that men in the trenches fear mail, and, once they are in, it fre- ' their old ne»*f»|**tj***rs, magazines, cat
more than exploding shells or the bul qucntly happens that the sender can a logs, etc., which will be taken charge
lets o f machine guns, before 1 could not I k * identified or located. Hence j o f by the Sunday school class and will
give an alarm it was on us. I barely hundreds o f the letters and dimes arc I k * « rated and «hipped to a firm who
had time to adjust mv mask.
The going to the dead letter office. The will pay for all such waate pa|»er by
Herman army
has three kinds of orphan dimes that reach the dead lei I the |>ound( the money reverting to the
poison gas, I understand. Some o f it ter office are turned over to the dead j Sunday school class. In the city m
fund o f the United States i
is visible, while other kinds cannot l»e letter
wagon w ill l*e sent around to gathei
seen and are thus more deadly. The Treasury.
It
is
to
I k * hoped that sufficient pub- ' up this paper, and fieople living in the
French government has manufactured
country who will g ive this waate
such death dealing fighting apparatus, licity will now be given the matter to material to the «-lasa instead o f burn
k ill off the scheme effectively.
No
but its use has not been permitted.
ing it are asked to leave the vamc at
"W e soldiers, before entering the one complying with the terms o f the the building north o f the Mosier Hook
trenches are all given a gas tent. With letter has received a fietticoat.
Store, commonly known an H ail’ s
our helmets on we ar* made to enter a
o ff i c e building
room filled with a gas, not poison, but
Card of Thanhs
Mrs. W. A. Husband* and Mra. F. A.
fatal, if too much o f it is inhaled and
Allirijrton made a house to houae can
We wish to extend our sincere anpre
no aid given. The test is given both
vas* Wednesday in the interest* o f the
to try («it the masks and to test the ciation for the msny »-*.* o f kirwlne«* Sunday school class and secured the
shown during our recent bereavement
vitality o f the w e a re r."
names o f every one in the city who ia
" I find a great love and admiration and for the many floral offering* j willing to co-operate. It is hoped by
for Americans in the rank o f the tendered.
them to secure considerable quantity
H. H. Rordcn,
French army. Thev think this a most
so that a large shipment ma> he
Mr. and Mrs. Arnw Root,
magnificent land. Y e t they do not l*e
made the latter part o f next week.
and Family.
lieve we can best serve the ends o f
defeating Germany by actively par
Annual Merting Saturday
ticipating in the fight. They want us
At the Hood River Electric Theatre
to furnish food and money, and France
H. H. Fletcher, K*meral .ales mao
has the men to carry on the battle*.
Friday and Saturday
after o f the Northwestern Fruit K x - ,
It is my belief that victory for the
U* autiful Blanch*» Sm*ei in h«r lat- change, o f Seattle, will he here Satur
allies w ill come this fall, and I believe
P a ra m o u n t atic rat, * ‘The Sturm. ’ day to talk to the grow er« at the an
the western lines w ill be the first to he
the M*mier Fruit
l - will \>e !weri s a harum-araruvn nual meeting o f
crushed. I have heard that the opinion
Id o f natur»*, li 1t hearted and care Growers AKjwtfdatlon which w ill U
expressed in this country that the
held
at
lb
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a.
m
Reside* the rear!
*. Th* ace es o this urtumial dranrt»
French |ieople are going hungry. Thi*
r** laid in U ■ Maine wooda and Miss mg o f the manager's refiort, there will
is a mistake. O f rour*c aycri <- n
be election «*( officer!» and voting on
omy is practised, but no one in es Sw*-t t ta seen jt« a daughter o f an äh amendments to the by laws. Indtra-
hungry.
But the German soldiers fw*nt minded, ret i red old profesaor. tiona are that a good representation of
whom w# have reently raptured, seem How she falls in luv* a rlood ia > t*l growers will be pr*-**-itt.
to express no regrets
They are all *»ver her life , * nly to he diapelied t»y
th* man her h, rart deairea ta unM^ed
hungry.”
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Patreau say* that his furlough w ill and « »plained n an fntenac and irtar
AU** a dandy comady. The Halletiii ■df.M
•xpira in 23 days. "T h a t la, ” he say». ♦•«tin g marjr-er
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uncertainties. At thin time we must prepare for unknown
needs that may arise in case of war.
Increasing a hank ac
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