The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-05-06
COLUMBIA HIGH
WAY IMPROVED
MANY CITIZENS NWORKERS RANKS
Commercial Clubs Good Roads Day Sue
ceSSful FranktOR Roads Worked
Poison Oak Gets AXmen


Threatening weather throughout the
day last Thursday did not deter Hood
River business men from participating
in good roads day, staged by the Com
mercial club. While business houses
were not closed as on good roads day
of last year, representatives from all
the stores were kept busy improving
a stretch of the Columbia highway
from its intersection with a stretch
of the new road now under construction
by the Standiter-Clarkson Co., which
is blasting out tunnel through the
rocky barrier at Mitchell Point, all the
way up to the west end of the city,
where a large crew was engaged in
Strengthening out bad kink in the
highway. Only enough clerks were
left in town to care for the days busi-
ness. Fills and excavations we're made.
Bushes were cut and grubbed along
curves.
One of the most enthusiastic of the
workers was C. A. Bell, than whom on
man is a greater booster for the CO.
lumbia highway. MIR. Bell and Charles
Tucker formed the advance scouting
line, and proceeded to the Mitchell
Point grade, where all loose rock were
hurled to the favine below. This work
will be greatly appreciated by motor
lists, for the loose stones were very
destructive to tires and made the heavy
grade very difficult to negotiate.
The men from town were aided by
numerous ranchers living along the
route. The latter furnished wagons
and teams, and much real beneficial
work was accomplished.
Este Brosius, too, spent several
hours clearing away loose stones on the
grades at each side of the Mitchell
Point HILL
The greatest showing madet by the
road workers appears just west of the
city limits, where a cut was made for
the purpose Of eliminating bad kink.
A small crew of men loaded wagons
with sawdust and shavings at the foot
of the Stanley-Smith Lumber Co. fiume
at Ruthton. The debris was hauled to
the top of the Ruthton grade, where it
was spread over rough places in the
road. The Franz Hardware Co. crew
spent hard days work on clearing
ana grubbing at the top of the Ruthton
hill.
Among the workers on the Columbia
highway were the following, number
of whom furnished either automobiles
to transport the amateur laborers or
provided wagons and teams for hauling
material:
r. E. Early and Tony Frohn, driving
teams for the Stanley-Smith Lumber
Co.. W. N. Winter, L. A. Franz, j.
j. Ward, p. S. Davidson, Leslie Butler,
S. A. Mitchell, Este Brosius, ID. G.
Criukshank, r. +. Scott and E. O..
Blanchar, in addition to working. furn-
isheu automobiles Harry Wood, A. j.
Graham, James Rimmer, B. b. Powell,
A. S. Keir. Minor Sosey, Will Isenberg,
Walter Ford, Rev. John Samuel, Harry
Connaway, r. f. Acheson, A. d. Dab.
ney, d. c. Garrabrant, NJ. E. McCarty,
J. s. Taylor, Truman Butler, S. W.
Arnold, Frank Howard, J. II. He'll
bronner, 4. G. Rand. Kent Shoemaker.
Ii. G. Winans, horse and stone boat |;
J. r. Nickelsen, Edgar Franz, r. B.
Bragg, Arno Leoffler. G. o. Huelat,
Clyde Arnold, Floyd Arnold, John A.
Wilson, Harry Hoskins, wagon and
team Robert Vaughn, E. H. Maurit-
son, wagon and team: G. A. Bell,
Charles Tucker, j. S. Hunter, E. G.
Bowen, driving team for T. d. Caikins.
Warren Miller was on the job, laying
out work for the crews of men and as
sisting with the work. Mr.. Miller is
supervisor of the recently created road
district west Of the city.
A large amount o. work was done by
crews of men with wagons and teams
on the May street and State street
roads leading out through the Paradise
farm to the south Frankton district
The following men worked on this i'm.
provement Thursday
/. George johnson, wagon and team
Earl 0rdway, wagon and team; Lee
LaFranque, E. II. Hartwig, J. j.
Mortimer, wagon and team; Melvin
Foley. wagon and team; s. F. Blythe,
Allen Hart, Jos. Frazier, Jr., Roy
Taft, Frank Morris, who drove team
for Taft Transfer CO.. +; Peter Nelson,
and John Dixon, who furnished a
wagon and one horse, Mrs. l.. Nj. Bent.
ley furnishing the second horse for the
team; A. G. Staten, wagon and team
driven by F. T. Anderson. A man was
furnished for the event by L. N.
Blowers.
The following ladies assisted in max.
ing coffee at the home of Mrs. Bentley,
and the delicious and refreshing bever.
age was served to the tired workers al
noon: Mrs. A. C. Staten, Mrs. George
Johnson, Mrs. f. h. Hartwig, Mrs.
John Dixon and Mrs. Melvin Foley.
Rev. Morris Goordich, pastor of the
United Brethren church, was one OF
the NEST enthusiastic workers. And
Rev. A. S.tDonat, pastor of the River.
side church, happening along, found
the amateur laborers, peeled off his
coat and joinedltheir ranks.
This week some of the road workers
rue their indiscrmination in choosing
bushes to attack with their axes.
Poison oak and willow brush alike fell
before their onslaught. In few days
the rash of the poison oak broke out.
ID. G. Cruikshank's face looked as
though it had been pounded with q
STEAK beater. Z. A. Franz, too, has
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