The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-10-08
WHITE SALMON NOTES.

Mr.. and Mrs. 7. ]. Cunning of Hood
River were guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. G. +.
Waldo OF this place Saturday and Sun
day.
Mrs. Henderson, a sister of Mrs. All.
Jewett, and her daughter Jennie have
returned to Portland. Aeolus Jewett,
who has not improved in health, has
been taken to a sanitarium in Portland
The Enterprise is responsible for the
statement that a law office is to be
erected in White Salmon. 1t might
have been stated in the same connection
that Cultus Charley and wife will spend
the winter in Paris. One comes as near
to the truth as the other.
Inquiries are already coming in con-
cerning the school bonds. Two letters
have been received by the school clerk
from Eastern firms.
The new school building at Trout
Lake is credit to the people there
1t advertises them as a patriotic and
progressive people. Our old trap is a
reproach.
Every new conner in city judges it
by its public buildings. A country COM
munity Is judged by its school facilities
Ii you want improvements, you must
have people and people demand good
school houses. That's why the oppo-
nents of new building stayed away
from a meeting to which all were invit-
ed and then when those who did attend
unanimously instructed the directors
of the district to call bond election
this same public spirited element whet-
ted their knives and slid q negative
ballots into the box ''agin edicashun."
At recent convention of physicians
in Portland it was stated that in fami-
ly of hereditary lunatics there we're 36
children including six times twins, twice
triplets, and four times quadruplets I'M
agine bath night in such family Poor,
feeble-minded Dad trying to hang onto
an armful of wriggling, squirming trip
lets, while "Maw" stirs the quadruplets
about in the suds with a clothes-stick
Scourin' em fer Sunday.
It's funny how the freshet in the
creek has rolled our village spring water
system till it looks like old-fashioned
molasses with carpet tacks and caraway
seeds in it.
THE SCHOOL BOND SITUATION.
J. B. Turner of White Salmon has
filed an affidavit at Goldendale with the
object of preventing the sale of the
school bonds recently voted at the spe-
cial election. Mr.. Turner is not to be
blamed too much. He has been select
ed to appear in the open because of his
innocence and lamb-like docility, while
the Shack-nasty Jims and the Scar-face
Charleys keep under cover. There are
others. These others-some OF them
have more to gain and some as little to
lose.
Schools make taxes, and some men
would have the American flag hauled
down from the national capital to save
their portion of the cost of keeping it
there.
We have noticed that two classes of
citizens are enemies of new school house
propositions. Those who don't know
children, because they have never felt
the love of a child, nor protected one,
and those whose children never have a
balanced ration" or full set of under
clothing. The comfort OF half humid
red little folks in winter means nothing
to them. There's a moral issue here
that won't down. We may temporarily
advertise our lack of patriotism and To-
cal pride, but new people are coming
every one of them loyal to the public
school, and White Salmon will yet look
with pride at new school house where