The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-09-12
UNDERWOOD.

The Underwood Sunday school held
Its hrst picnic at tLe school houst
Sunday. The program heing short, II
was we'll rendered. This speaks vel
for the young people. Let US rot be
weary in well doing. We may enlarge
and become greater, for we have room
tor Improvement We are sorry ia
note the absence of a number OF our
people from the immediate neighbol :
hood.
Mrs. friedrich, sister OF Mrs. ii.
Nelson, returned from Portlaud Sat
urday. She reports Mrs. Nelson i'm
proving and believes her recovery is
assured.
j. Snyder and Otto Thomas came
over Sunday from White Salmon to
attend the picnic.
Ii. Coleman is the busiest man in
this section of the county, getting
material on the ground fer the DIR.
Whiteside residence. This is to be
built of logs, placing them ON end
The house when completed will be
16x50. Mrs. Ed Underwood started
for Yakima Saturday morning where
she expects to stay for several weeks.
Will Stipp, while giving the boys a
lesson on fancy canthook Tipping on
the rundown, got his face too close
to the end of the canthook stalk. Ii
struck his lower lip, cutting it
through to his teeth, SO Will went
down to see DIR. Avery, who found it
necessary to patch it up with neat
little plaster. Off ways it looks to
be about Axe.
Mrs. Olson and sis .er, Miss HUFF
came down from the falls Saturday to
visit with their friends, Mr.. Larson,
and was IN attendance at thu picnic.
A. j. Haines, the only first class
carpenter we have In this section, ia
doing hume work for Stipp Bros. 4,
which he will soon have completed.
Mr.. Haines says he has had moI g
work than six men could do.
Recent meetings OF the Underwood
Improvement club have demonstrated d
the good work being done and that
nav still be done by the organization.
Interest Ia matters pei tanning to
advancing the interests of the com
munity represented by the membe
ship, Is constantly increasing, and as
is shown hy returns of petitions to
the moth bank railway officials.
signed by considerably over 300 prop
erty owners and residents, every bod y
is "pushing.
A large committee from Trout Lake.
Husum, Underwood, Lower Whit
Salmon valley, augmented by prom
inent business men OF Portland, all
of whom have intere sts at this point.
are now In Portland in the interest OF
the club.
Arrangements are being made foI
more satisfactory steamboat landings
and the club is in communication
with state and county officials regard.
ing betterment of roads and bridges.
The whole upper valley Ia anxious tc
get the roads and bridges leading &c
the mouth of the river in such oondi.
tion as to permit of being freighted
and travelled over, owing to the great
saving In distance and grade. The
new state road will be the natura
wafer grade roadway keing the output
of the entire White Salmon River val
ley to within stone'q throw of the
present Underwood landing. This
whole district for 25 or 80 miles uI
the valley Is represented in the Un.
derwood Improvement club, and while
we have many obstacles to remove
and many accommodation to provide
before we are prepared to properly
take care of the daily arrivals Of home
seekers and investors, and to provide
facilities for handling the large and
constantly increasing traffic from the
interior, the officers and every men,
Der of the club have reason to con.
gratulate themselves on the success
already attained and the outlook for
further development Is brighter and
surer every day.
The club feeels very grateful to the
good citizens OF Hood River for their
kindly and most valuable offers of as
sistanoe, aud If they will pardon our
copying after their progressive and
up-to date methods of boosting" we
hope very soon to be able to "put
Underwood on the map"
Z. |. Packard. Sec'y.