The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-12-26
Blood River @lacier
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2e, 1902.
An Old Glacier.

An Old Glacier.
Earl Prather, in looking over some
old papers, recently, came across a copy
OF the Hood River Glacier Of June 81
1889. 1t was No. 8, Vol.1. At that time
the Glacier was printed in The Dalles.
Its first page gave the news of the Johns
town disaster, several suicides and muir
ders, John L. Sullivan was drunk again,
and Pennsylvania had defeated a prohi-
bition amendment by 100000 majority.
The advertisers were +. J Thomas, phys
iclan and surgeon; the 0. r. K n.
George Matthias, painter; G. r. Bone,
real estate; Grant Evans, barber; ii. G.
Coe, real estate; r. Rand, Mount Hood
hotel; Geo. I. Prather, general merchan-
disc; Olinger 4 Bone, livery stable; and
j. IL. Middleton, general merchandise,
occupied two columns to tell the people
what he kept in country store The
paper then had four pages, five columns
to page-20 columns in ALL The edi-
torials treated on local questions Strange
to say the water question at thai time
was uppermost in the EDITORS mind and
his leading editorial called for dam in
Indian creek to bring water to town for
"irrigating purposes. Fire protection
at that time was not considered The
White Salmon country and its resources
was dilated upon at length; editorially
sportsmen OF The Dalles were warned
not TO come to Hood River to disobey
the game laws. A big dam was about
to be put in Hood river just above the
county bridge, and big mill, ALSO was
to be built, and flume to haul the
wealth OF lumber from the mountains to
the town. Locally, the valley had re-
ceived its first threshing machine, and
now "the increase in all agricultural
products will be steady and rapid, until
the whole valley is under cultivation.
Cloud Cap Inn was just building andwas
known as the Glacier hotel. A fishing
party had come down from The Dalles,
Olinger & Bones livery rig took them
out to the falls Of Hood river, then
known as Union Falls; G. r. Bone at
the ribbons. Geo. I Prather had made
a trip to Portland ;campers were numer-
GUS on Neal creek; S. f. Blythe had re-
turned to Portland to work on the
World G. r. Bone had q cottage to
rent; A. w. Pealer sold so acres to A,
b. Jones for 5000; E. l.. Smith, grand
master workman, was visiting lodges in
Eastern Oregon; Joe Wilson laid off
cemetery at Lagos; w. r. Winans
commenced the erection of two-story
hotel at Union Falls; r.. Rand sold 20
acres OF land one mile south of town for
5000; M. B. Potter built house for
Frank Mcfarland at Heppner and re-
turned home; Lyman Smith had II
acres OF wheat that would average so
bushels to the acre; Joe Soesbe had cut
his wheat; a basket sociable at Lagos
school house; Cascade base ball club
challenged Hood River to play game
for $35 but Hood River declined to play
ball on Sunday; j. II. Dukes' seven
acres OF wheat estimated to go 40 bush
els to the acre, and probably so; Chris
Dethman sold 40 acres to Mr. Cox of
Kansas; j. II. Middleton and wife visit
ing in Salem r. II. Button, A. J. and
j. B. Rand were at Vancouver; 4th of
July picnic at the stage company's
bridge; Joe Wilson had been to the
Glacier hotel and discovered deer tracks
about the building also signs of grouse;
Hood River base ball players made
Cascade club lay down the bat and
yield the victory to Hood River; the
steamer Wasco was taken over the cas-
cades to the lower river, when Captains
Coe and Troupe, s. D. Fisher,L. Clarke,
Chas. Coates, Cush Luckey, George
Crowell, l.. N. Blowers, j. Il. Rand
Harry Luckey, George Matthias, Will
liam Cooper, F. Daily and G. X. Bone
were on board.
A fond mother OF four year-old
child writes the Glacier in this old copy
as follows: II was trying to teach her
some questions out Of the Bible one day,
and, among other things, told her Adam
was the frst man. She had not shown
much interest until then, when she
looked up quickly and said Adams, DR..
Adams? Oh yes, know him. Did God
make him frst?'" That bright little
darling Of four years is now sweet II.
Who ie she2