The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-04-21
HOOD RIVER AS IT
IMPRESSED NDIANIAN
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tGDntlnucu ltOul fhSS A"bSJ |
tered it all over the field finally. AND
she. lately the favorite performer at
select musicales, what was she dong
"Just utterly wrapped up in the study
of chicken raislng-my specially, you
know" " And out poured stream OF VI
yacious and practical talk on the breed
ing of chickens, with an occasional ref
erence to one of the several poultry |
journals upon the table. The home OF |
| this family is shown in the Hood River |
picture herewith. =.
| | visited with other friends, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. B. Allen and Mr.. and Mrs.
Coburn Allen, late of Indianapolis.
Their home, a beautiful log cabin, Is
perched on the mountain slope on the
opposite side of the valley-this Para
disc valley, where there is no striie
or bitterness except as TO Whlcn slae
of the valley and which slope OF the
mountain is better for apples. Think
of the joy of building log house. win
the labor of your own hands, beginning
with the telling of the trees and then
the matching of log to log, the shaping
of the walls for windows and doors,
yeranda, posts and rails of little trees
inside castings about the windows and
doors of half-sawn small logs; great
firepace. with six-foot opening, built
, out of the boulders cleared from your
field. Everything from your own place
done by your own hand, and the hands
of your son, your boy who was not
spoiled by his college career, but works
beside you, little more. skillfully than
, YOU do YOU confess to yourself with
pride. And there stands the finished
9 product. a beautiful loghouse win every
a possible convenience in it, including an
{ ample water supply from the fiume
higher up on the side OF the mountain
in the midst of thicket Of pines and
| frs, with the apple lands below and the
I broad valley stretching out to the
mountains opposite, that catch the sun
set raw. And these are people who
have brought their choicest rugs anc
IS antique furniture from big city house
i. Into this ten room log house and nov
q dispense hospitality with all the es
) sential requirements OF citys socla
- life, out upon the mountain SIDE VIII
's the forest back of them yet uncleared
1t But it is not isolation, for yonder Oh
N the next twenty acre tract, you ma.
= see very handsome man, whose over
n long hair suggests the fact that ne i
el an artist, dividing his time betweel
re feeding his pet fowls and pantinl
them. Just around the shoulder OF tn
!, mountain are two jolly members OF tn
TX elee club, Fred and Joe McCrea, for
IN merly of indianapolis, who have jus
finished building house for their pai
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. F.F. McCrea, afte
es chopping away the trees and clearin
\ the land.
:, A little farther on the young mar
Fred Wasson, who forgot himself In tn
We log book, lives in tent while ne an
er his men clear forty acres OF land ar
ed prepare it for an apple orchard. h
ho gets most of his own meals now, al
N they set pretty we'll with him. Z
on home he was served by family butl'
is and had Indigestion. One of the mo
oa enterprising of the fruit growers
Clarence 4. Coffin, also former lno
annapolis boy.
A woman of Hood River does n
give up task and ask to die when 81
has no help in her kitchen. She TEL
phones around for house party. L
I'D women and girls prepare the meals a
Ih, the boys clear it away to the tune oi
college song.
win it last? Will these highly &C
my Gated and cultured people, and epecia
oJ ,I,, the young men, with the tastes OF q
rIy life. be content? Will they persi'
Urn h,, Not all of them, | prophesy, but !
~ best. There, as elsewhere, the inevi
a,. BILE sitting out must go on. But tht
eas M who stay will reap not only what tn
w uwhs but what others have sown. Such p
o,d ond Pile build good roads and good hous
alI surrounded with attractive gardens
anu no point of advantage in the landsct
A. Lis ever overlooked. So that in t
sne ad years, or it may be ten, Hood Ri
fnl aI valley will be little paradise of be
iuil .ha tiful homes set in the encircling mo
.ne tain. All will not make the money Il
az a., anticipate, but they will make liv
,oiv ar,. and have lived life worth living.