The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-12-10

pears In this column. SEf MOUR w.
C0NDON.]
Charles. A. Alvord, Earnest Kuhn
hausen and Benjamin F. Miller of Fulda
were in town, Tuesday, on business be-
fore the United States land commission
er.
John Farr OF Goble, Columbia county,
Or, lumber merchant, was in town,
Tuesday, on land business.
White Salmon pays out through VOL
fard 4 Co., alone, 81 200 per year for mill
feed for stock. We import practically all of
our side meat, hams and breakfast ha-
con. We also import great quantity
of hay. The hay and bacon We ought
to produce at home, or at least a large
part Of it.
Rev. Mr.. Garrison preached Sunday
of last week about the prodigal son. The
sermon was very highly spoken OF by
those who heard it and the seats were
we filed The minister emphasized
the foresight OF the father, his great and
generous love for the wayward boy. He
gave him enough rope TO let him gather
in his experience and when the poor
boys heart turned to the old home
again, the fathers welcome was ready.
The generous love of the father rather
than the experience or quality of the
prodigal being the real meat of the story.
Fathers sometimes FORGE to forgive and
are stern and unrelenting, but mothers
never fail in generous love going out to-
wards the wayward boy.
The masquerade ball given Thanks
giving evening was great success. The
floor was crowded with dancers and the
room was filled with spectators. Prizes
were awarded as follows: Best dressed
lady, Miss Georgia Johnson. Miss john
son represented June Rose" and under
her burden OF beautiful roses fairly won
that prize. Best dressed gentleman,
Clarence Rankin-"Spanish Prince. +"
Best sustained comic lady character,
Miss Lydia Grove, whose troubles as a
wash-woman were fully exploited with
tub and washboard and "the old mans
socks" Best sustained comic gentle
man character, Merl Fox as "Hayseed, +"
who did the part to finish. Others
did their stunts we'll. By Hamilton, as
usual, played his part to perfection.
Many would have accorded him prize.
His Irish Dude would have pleased
the gallery gods" at a theater, where
he would shine. Everybody too old or too
good to dance went to look on and all
enjoyed the occasion.
S. G. Ziegler's residence is nearing
completion. 1t commands great view
of meadow, river and mountain. Zeig-
Ter is an example of what industry and
frugality and sense can do with a very
few acres at White Salmon. Moore
has been splendidly demonstrating the
same thing; so has Egan and Mcclure
and Adams and Shurte.
Among the larger farms, where farming
is OF more general kind, we have the
Byrkett and Henderson places.
There places have what the upland
lacks-magnificent meadow lands where
alfalfa grows luxuriantly and dairy
herds revel in luscious grass. Mr.. Hen
derson leans toward stock raising and
alfalfa hay, while Byrkett is center
ing more and more on strawberries.
He has under. tiled and brought under
cultivation some of the richest land on
earth and now has about 20 acres ready
for berry crops. On the first plateau
above, the largest place is that OF A. II.
Jewett, who is an early settler. Mr.and
Mrs. Jewett keep summer guests and all
summer long their house is filled to
overfowing. Being summer resort
beauty has not been sacrificed to thrift
at the Jewett home. A beautiful and
an extensive lawn lies about the house,
and one of the most picturesque canons
containing the cascadeso Joslyn creek
forms its eastern boundary. For scenic
beauty tits rare and inspiring spot. This
short sketch completes a birds-eye view
from the river front as far north az the
county road to Bingen.
North of the county road live the rest
of u.s. Facing that thorough-fare you
first discover the townsite. On the south
or bluff side, in new buildings are the
Bancroft market, the Roth feed store,
the Grove q Gearheart drug store and
the GrOshong blacksmith shop, with
dear, old Grandpa Swan sandwiched in
between the last two named. Then to
the left are the Peck hotel, T. Wyers, sr.
and jr., and Dick Krepps. On the right
or north side of the road are the Con-
gregational church, very neat little
building, plastered, carpeted and well
painted and the new parsonage built by
the energy of the pastor, Rev. Mr.. Gar
rison, assisted by the generosity of the
people of White Salmon and the church
extension board. Next comes the new
and nicely furnished residence of G. F.
Waldo, and following this comes the
Wolfard home and then the printing
office.
Next is the large merchantie establish
ment of c. NJ. Wolfard & company. 1t
has out grown the old name of "store,"
and does an immense business, having,
so far, monopoly of the market with
firm grip on both the local and tribu-
tary trade. Near the store is the house
of Mr.. Lauterbach, who owns 100 acres
of land trinht In, tnur, y IT,, -. .....