The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-08-14
OAK GROVE

| MRS. w. l.. Robertson and children,
OF Green Point, were guests of Mrs.
W. S. Crapper during the past week.
Mrs. Charles Lancaster and daughter,
Irene, are on visit to Vancouver,
Wash, and Portland.
James S. King departed last week
for stay of month or so at his for
mer home in North Dakota.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. b. Lindsay have
been at The Dalles for several days on
visit to their daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. r. Beale and family
left on Wednesday for a weeks stay in
Hood River. proceeding thence to Los
Angeles, Cal. where they propose TAX
ing up their residence.
Miss Marguerite Nadeau, of Port
land, is the guest of Miss Helen Cox,
at the Braecroft ranch.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Stanton and
daughter, Mrs. G. F. Moore, of Ne
braska, are spending the week with
relatives in Vancouver, Wash, and
Portland.
Kenelm Cox, the young son of Mr..
and Mrs. Alfred Cox, recently under
went successful surgical operation at
the Hood River hospital.
Mrs. Robert ]. Snow, formerly Miss
Marie Lemmon) comes from Portland
this week, bringing her little daughter,
who now has the opportunity OF looking
over and scraping acquaintance with
her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. G.
Lennon, for the first time. She ii
find 'em nice, friendly folks.
Mrs. Charles Albright went on Sat
urday to Newport, to assist her daugh.
tiers, Mrs. Church and Miss Alene, in
buffeting the breakers of the Pacific.
She expects to spend the month at the
Church cottage.
Misses Herta and Meta Wiese, stu
dents at the University OF Nebraska, |
now touring the Northwest, stopped off
at Hood River and came out Sunday to
spend the day with Miss Hazel Stan
ton.
Judge and Mrs. E. c. Bronaugh are
up from Portland, visitors at the beau
tiful Mt. Pleasant home of their SON.
in-law and daughter, MIR. and Mrs. Joe
K. Hall. The visitors have recently |
returned from tour of observation in |
Europe and Judge B. judiciously re-
served until now the best of the sight |
seeing, namely, the grandeurs and |
glories of the mighty Columbias gorge |
and the unrivalled beauties of the |
Hood River Valley. Europe has moth
ing on US in sweep and splendor of |
landscape, except ruins. In climate
we're standing pat in the game with |
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sunrise and sunset stunts we're filling |
the overarching canopy every day with
moving and changing pictures, of
sublimity and variety of coloration that
would soon start ltaly's sky artists
yelling for help. Then our stock of
heavenly rainbows- land perfect apples
Mark our valley as Paradise Re-
gained.
The summer attendance at our Sun
day school holds up finely.
The school is to hold the annual pic
mic on Wednesday, August 20, in Louis
Pregge's woods, uniting there with the
Belmont Sunday school. Parents are
expected and urged to come. bringing
provenderlad baskets, and help to-
ward giving teachers, youngsters and
themselves happy day.
They have a cute and pretty finan-
cial custom in this Oak Grove Sunday
school, namely, that whenever a pupil
reaches birthday, he or she drops into
the collection, penny for each year
lived. The kiddies have all promptly
chipped in the coin when due. How
ever jolt and mix-up was recently
caused by three lady pupils-two mar
ried and one single-who all dropped
in their birthday pensions at the same
time, thereby ingeniously fooling and
concealing their ages. And now their
respective span of years is known only |
to Themselves and the angels, not even
to those who can master the stagger-
ing problem, 'How Old is Ann?"
Some of US younger ones are hotly |
clamoring for recount of that penny
vote.
Decided success and enjoyment at
tended the social given by the Ladies
Aid Society on Friday evening. A
large company of old and young partic-
ipated in the affair, which was held in
the assembly hall of the new school
building. Along with the ice cream
and cake, there was served program
of music and diversion that was equal
ly relished. There were solos and
quartettes in which Miss Stanton, Mrs.
Moore, Mrs. Gladen and Miss Irwin
were heard. The hit that brought the
laughs was the singing of "a Bird in
Hand" by trio, Misses Hazel STAN
ton. Gertrude Irwin and Dorcas De-
Witt. In the song the three cleverly
transformed into three ancient maid
ems, by means of false faces ingenious
ly fitted into the back end of their re-