The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-03-25

more than q thousand collars.
Ia Hood River county 9S. 400 game
fish were distributed last year.
Il is Just two weeks now until that
Hood River County Game Protective
Association fish fry will be held. IL
the plans of the contestants in the
trout tourney do not gang a-gley there
will be no fasting on account OF lack OF
fish. J. B. Hunt, Fred Rand and Bert
Stranahan, the members Of the promo
tion committee, are whispering fish
stories for the purpose of aTousing la
tent talent. Joe G. vogt, it is said,
NAV again cast a hook. and +. A.
Baker, known as tennis champion but
whose experience in fly casting has
been limited, is contemplating joining
the creel laden contestants. Judge
Derby, who already has a reputation
for landing fine trout and lots Of them
but who has recently received spring
call Of nature, may leave his lily ponds
and rose bushes and mix 1t some with
the boys.
Local veterans say there is now a de-
mand for G. A. K. buttons. In June
the bill recently passed by the legisla-
ture permitting old soldiers to fish
without license will go into effect.
Mr.. l.. j. Drake, who recently re-
moved to the Hood River Heights from
Indiana, was accompanied on the
tourney to the Pacific coast by three
O'pOssums. The marsupials are still
with him, and they seem TO be thriving
on the atmosphere of the mid-Colum-
bia. Mr.. Drake exhibited them at the
Consolidated Mercantile Co. store in
the Sproat building Saturday, and the
Exchange Day" crowd was much in
terested in the peculiar beasts. Many
people in Hood River ad.never seen
an opossum before.
Vain attempts were made by num-
ber of former residents of the polk
berry and persimmon districts OF. the
lower Mississippi valley to secure the
beasts by barter or direct purchase.
The sight of a pOssum to a man who
has shifted the aroma of one of the an
imals, properly dressed, that is, being
baked with sweet potatoes, acts like
the vision of dram to drunkard.
There floats through his mind portions
of that old song, of which darkles have
made a lullaby to rock their babies to
sleep:
"Possum meat am good and sweet,
Carve him to de heart. F."
However, the force of the COnsoli-
dated company refused to part with the
ratlike, edible animals for any price.
Their owner, former Hoosierite that he
is, thinks that the western appetite for
'pOssum will be easy to cultivate. lie
contemplates starting an o'possum
farm here in the Valley of Apples. The
animals are fond of fruit, and they can
be fed on Gull apples very economically.
Mrs. A. T. Boynton, who removed
several weeks ago from near Tillamook
to the Mosier district, possesses Rhode
Island Red hen that is the pride of her
family and the wonder of two commun-
tiles. When Mrs. Boynton and her
family pulled up their stakes in Tilla-
nook and decided to remove to Wasco
county, the old hen had been setting for
about two weeks on l8 eggs. She was
a favorite, however, and they did not
desire her to pine away behind.
al took those eggs" says Mrs.
Boynton, and put them in a cotton bat
ting nest made in hamper basket.
Then put the old hen in on them. |
took the basket on the train from Till
amook to Portland, as though it had
been a lunch for us. We spent one
night in Portland, and the old hen and
the eggs stayed in the room with me.
That old hen would cluck at intervals
just as contentedly as though she were
back down under the back porch at
home in Tillamook. We took boat
from Portland to Mosier."
A few days later the hen hatched out
Ii of the Is eggs. The brood of chicks
is doing fine and the old hen is scratch
ing for bugs just as vigorously as she
ever did in the sands by the Pacific.
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