The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-08-28
OAK GROVE

mTs. E1dTTicl n. d9uCg WIZ nus
made her home the past three years
with her son, L. r. Gano. has gone to
visit daughter in Minot, N. ID.
Miss Mabel Francis left Monday for
Portland, to resume her course of
study in the Behnke-W alker Business
College. She was accompanied by her
mother, Mrs. A. o. Anderson, who will
remain few days.
Miss Marguerite Nadeau returned to
Portland Monday, after an extended
stay at the home of Alfred Cox.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Nj. Francis and
guest, Miss Elizabeth Thompson, of
Portland, are camping for week on
the Little White Salmon.
r. T. Newhall, of Salem, spent a
few days last week with his friend,
Mr.. Burnham, who is summering on
the McCrea ranch.
Jay Armstrong has gone to central
Oregon to take up timber claim.
DR.. Laura l.. Beedy, of the Portland
Convalescent Home, is the guest of
Mrs. Alfred Cox.
r. j. Snow visited over Sunday and
Monday at the Lennon home, return
ing to Portland with his wife Tuesday.
They were accompanied home by their
little daughter, Roberta.
Miss Helen Cox entertained half
dozen of her young lady friends at her
home Thursday afternoon. She returns
soon to her studies at the o. A. c., and
will be accompanied by Miss Ellen
McCurdy, who will enroll as student.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Albright and
daughter, Alene, are home from Nye
Beach, Newport, where they took in
the tonic and rejuvenation of the sea
breeze for few weeks. We note, in
cidentally. that snap shot picture of
Miss Alene, with Miss Marian Citron.
of Portland, both in the garb and outfit
of suffragette lifesavers, adorns one of
the society pages of the last Sunday
Oregonian.
The union picnic held the other day
in Pregge's woods by the Sunday
school of Oak Grove and Belmont was
we'll attended and much enjoyed. There
is need of more frequent affairs in this
line-occasions that draw the people
together, old and young, and promote
acquaintance and friendliness. The
great need of rural life just now is a
wholesome social atmosphere and a
healthy social activity. Here in this
favored valley we should all feel a
community of interest and get together
like big family, with common con-
cern for each others progress and well
fare. As Billy Sunday said to US on
Saturday, we ought to improve every
chance to mix and do lot of hand
shaking and shoulder rubbing.
Speaking of Billy Sunday, the fact is
brought to mind that in some of the
flippant and superficial reports of his
platform work is tendency to under
rate or belittle the same, and to en-
large upon the peculiarities of the
man. The writer's of the cynical little
diatribes must be unaware that he is
an amazing power for righteousness,
recognized as such from ocean to
ocean. AS an intance. take the fact
that on his way to his summer home
in Hood River. Billy stopped off for a
day or two at Los Angeles, Cal. The
great International Convention OF
Christian Endeavorers was in session
in that city, attended by some of the
ablest speakers of America and Eu.
rope. Mr.. Sunday was secured for 6
few addresses. "The Continent" the
conservative and able organ of the
Presbyterian church, said in its report
July "a: "Evangelistic power obtained
its most positive expression in the per
son and preaching of Rev. William A
Sunday. The meetings addressed by
Mr.. Sunday were crowded to the doors
and to the roof, and, wherever it was
possible, overflow meetings were held
No voice in all the great convention
sounded clearer note of the old gospe
call than his. and. judged by the i'm
preston made, no personality will have
exerted more lasting influence fol
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