The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1905-01-26
JUST THE PAPER
FOR HOME.SEEKERS

The following letter from Kansas
shows how an Easterner appreciates
the Glacier and what the paper
is doing for Hood River:
Robinson, Kas., Jan. 10, 1905. Ed
itor Glacer: Your paper comes as us
ual every Monday, and | cannot tell
you in words how glad we are to re-
ceive it. We read it, then it is rolled
up again for ride to some of our
folks or friends in different parts of
Kansas and to Arkansas. After read
ing the Glacier one of my friends
wants to subscribe for it. He says
it is the cleanest, incest and most in
teresting paper he ever read.
| made trip to Hood River last
August and September and after tax
ing look at the country bought a
nice little home near Hood River.
After returning home, and telling
my folks and friends of what | saw
in and near Hood River they laugh
at me, tell me that such could not be
the case.
In telling of what the farmers raise
on the ground, they say that it is to
much for au acre of ground to pro
duce. Now here is where | shine. |
set the Glacier and let them read
"Onions 20 tons to the acre!" NY
gracious who ever heard of the like?
And such apples Then some of
them will cay, els that all they can
raise in that country" My, no! and
here's hay all kinds of fruit and
vegetables, everything a man wants
to grow
Then | point TO a column that gives
the numbering industry, and so on.
Then some one will say: "Wcll it
rains all tho time out there in the
winter. " Then | point to the weather
report for December. That is a fine
thing. Ever one can see what kind
of winter there is in Oregon. Here in
Kansas on December q we had a
binding snow storm, with the ther-
mometer at zero and a wind that was
blowing 40 miles an hour. We have
it about as bad tonight. Several of
our chickens froZe to death, and we
have had change of 60 degrees in "a
hours from warm to cold. Here in
Kansas we take all the clothes we have
when we go to town. 1t don't make
any difference how warm and nice it
is when we start
People of Hood River and vicinity,
you ought to be proud of such a pa
per, and presume you are. Let ev-
cry one try to help such good paper
1t is the making of your town and
valley. People read the Glacier that
you have no idea Of or ever dreamed
Of, so let all push it along. 1t is nice
to sit back here in Kansas and read
Of Underwood Brothers and so many
ohters too numerous to mention; of
what they have cleared up this win
ter, and correspondence from all
over the country. am glad OF read
Of your items, they are all interesting.
People here don't go by hearsay,
but when they see anything in print
before their eyes then they can be
convinced. One of my trends had
the brass to tell me that people could
not get market for their products
He said he knew of a family that
raised plenty of everything, but they
got so poor their trends in sthe East
had to send them money to get
way. That he declares was in Oregon.
| suppose at Hood River, too. So let's
hear from them all.
Mr.. Editor, will you give me space
in your valuable paper, as feel that
it is no more than right to speak in
praise Of the Glacer. | think lots of
it and its workers, and may they
have much success and the pest wishes
of their reades. / expect to land in
Hood River about March l, or sooner,
with my family and two other fami-
lies who intend to make their future
home in Hood Rriver or vicinity.
| am yours respectfully,
W. A. HALL