The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-08-27
WHITE SALMON NOTES.

MIS-. OeOTRe IuISeI las dDOut i6SoN'
cred from her recent illness, and her
many warm friends will be glad to see
her out again.
Ed Egan, Will Biesanz, Ferg Gro
shOng and others are away at work but
will return with pockets bulging with
scads before winter festivities begin.
Henry Dennis and J. r. DevliG, from
Wisconsin, friends of Messrs. Bowman
and Main, have been looking at the
country with view Of locating. From
here they went to Hood River.
DR.. II. Epley and wife of Salem, Or.
Miss Won Ehrenbr0ok of Denver, and
Miss N. B. Pipes, Mrs. A. Morgan, Miss
l.. f. Morgan, A. H. Fisher and Miss
b. 0. Wise are among the recent guests
at the Jewett farm.
The Columbia River Northern has
purchased the shore land at White Sal
mon from G. d. Moore. Some time age
the White Salmon dock was turned
over to the same company. This gives
them control of one of the best landings
on the Columbia river from Portland
to The Dalles.
The new drug store is now open for
business. If the drugs are powerful
enough to penetrate the asphalt lining
of White Salmon stomach they are
good ones. Reservoir water has coated
the interior of the average resident 8,
that he could drink a pint of carbolit
acid without batting his eyes.
M. G. Fox will take charge of tht
Wyers hotel September /. Mr.. Fos
will sell or lease his strawberry place a
Pucker-H Huddle and devote all bis time
to the business Of making a homelikt
resting place for the travelling public
Mr.. Wyers will build at once just north
of his present building. Mr.. Wyers Is
an honest, square man, and we wan
him and his wife to stay right here
among us.
Ia conversation with Hon. e. l.
Smith of Hood River we learned thai
he will have large number of Spitz
enburg and Yellow Newtown apple
trees, yearlings, for sale. 1t is gooC
news, because the trees are acclimated
and it does grower good to escape the
clutches of the unregenerate herd q
professional fakirs known as nursery
men. They're hard lot, as every frui
grower has learned.
White Salmon's most crying need j,
water system. The supply now is
both inadequate and thoroughly an
satisfactory. Patrons of the little PLAN
drink spring water, creek water, reser
voir water, green scum, dirt, sticks
worms, bugs and young reptiles by
turns, and then it stops, and we have 9
water famine. Let some philanthropiC
individual, with an eye to profits, come
and see our need and size up sources oi
supply.
What has become of the much-her
aided opposition steamboat? Is she a
phantom or is she really being logged
out? Her whistle doesn' t awaken the
echoes as yet. White Salmon people
hope for a good live competition on
the river. Not u "cut-throatn PROPOSE
tion but a competition that will last
and benefit the public There is a kind
of competition that is good for the pub
lie, and we would like to see it main
tanned on the Columbia.
We need a cemetery. Until the dead
of all civilized communities come to be
disposed of by cremation, which is
both sensible and sanitary, the old
problem of disposing of the dead SO as
to be fair to the living will perplex us
A cemetery plot in the very center ot
u growing community is not desirable
Is there some one who wants to con.
tribute to the public welfare by donat
ing piece of land in more suitable
place for the burial of our dead?
The funeral services over the remains
of Mr.. Johnson, the young man who
was drowned in the White Salmon
river, were held under the auspices oi
the lodge of Odd Fellows, Sunday af.
ternoon. The church was taxed to Its
utmost by those whose sympathies
were aroused by the accident. Rev
Mr., Garrison gave an appropriate and
feeling address. If our community
could do so it would send to the young
mans home in far New Brunswick Il
message of true sympathy.
The Enterprise editor in his last is.
sue gets terribly tangled on the new
school building issue. Like the mar
recently from Killarney, who escaped
from night fire and lit on the side,
walk with his trousers wrong side be
fore, Bro Harlan seems "fatally twist.
ed" Two days before the Enterprise
containing the editorial on school af
fairs was printed, our dear old modern
Rip Van Winkle was informed, as q
news item, that the directors had de.
cided to simplify the issue by building
on the present school site. The Enter.
prise editorial must have been put in
type very early in the week before, and
frozen stiff to the patent outside, for il
utterly fails to present the issue up to
date. Try it once more, grandpa, yol
have one more chance before the bond
election to give us lift. The question
is simple and free from all complica.
tions. Here it is: Shall we build on
the present school site an $500 school
building in which our little folks will
be comfortable when the snow flies, OF
shall we be content to continue ia
STABLE them in the shack of which
we are so ashamed. The school board
has simplilied the issue by a unani-
nous vote to use the present school
site, which is the geographical center
of the district. We hope that in its
next issue the Enterprise will have
rubbed its eyes and be ready to present
the issue clearly instead of filling the
atmosphere with dust of its own max
ing The Enterprise editor didn't even
take the trouble to get the facts. He
says: "Jewett's have offered block of
land at any place in the town site
where it is not already sold, and Mr..
LauteThach has virtually made the
same offer" Now, nothing of the
kind occurred. Mr.. Jewett offered one
of two certain blocks located south OF
the new drug store, and Mr.. Lauter-
bach didn't offer any site at all. A
vote of thanks was given Mr.. Jewett
for his offer, but the directors decided
not to accept it. We want to see the
Enterprise declare ITSELF Do you favor
a new building on the old site, or not?
There is one animal among us that
has more to do with the home life ol
our village than all Others. It's ram.
When old man Noah started out on his
memorable journey to Mount Aramt
he may have had among his collection
of animals ram. But il wasn't like
our White Salmon ram. Our ram wa.