The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-09-21
PIONEERS WILL
MEET TO-DAY
NEWTON CLARK DELIVERS ADDRESS
Gathering will Be Held at 0ddfellows
Hall Customary Sumptuous Dinner
will Be Feature

/: This is Pioneers Day. Survivors Of
the early day population of the Hoot
River Valley may be seen assembling
as the noon hour approaches at the Ode
Fellows Hall, where the customary
sumptuous dinner will be served by tht
wives and daughters of pioneer fam.
lilies. Such dinners can only be pre-.
pared by families Of pioneers. Fol
lowing the repast the official business
of the day will be transacted, and the
annual program will be held.
In addition to the regular pioneer
day celebration, the oldtimers will to.
day participate in the 80th birthday OF
David A. Turner, who landed in the
Hood River Valley 55 years ago. MIR.
Tru1er is a native Of Missouri. He
came to Hood River from California.
He is young old man, and though he
has retired from active life. his friends
find him full Of activity, raising about
the best garden products to be had in
town on his place on East Sherman
avenue. Mr.. Turner declares that the
great development Of the Hood River
Valley is all due to the faith of the
Hood River mothers of early days.
Making living on local ranches in the
extreme early pioneer days, be de-
clares, was difficult. The men pos
sessing more of the rowing tendency
would all have left had the women not
demanded that they remain and build
permanent homes. Mr.. Turner is q
musician of no mean ability, with bis
beloved fiddle he will today render
THE Arkansas Traveller" and other
oldtime favorites.
Newtown Clark, who will deliver the
formal annual address, will no doubt
weave into his narrative some of the
history Of himself. He has lead an
interesting life. Lest in his modesty
he may not reveal all that he has done,
some of the high lights of his early
day will be herewith reproduced.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark were married at
North Freedom. Wis, October IL,
1860. Mr.. Clark was born in Illinois,
May 27, 1888.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark removed to the
Territory of Dakota in 1870, where a
homestead was taken up near the pres
ent site of Sioux Falls. He built the
first frame house erected in Minnehaha
county. Always staunch Republican.
Mr.. Clark was member of the legis-
lative assembly of South Dakota, and
introduced the bill defining the bound
aries of Minnehaha county.
A skilled civil engineer, Mr.. Clark
laid out much of the land of South
Dakota. Clark county Of that state
bears his name. After he came to
Oregon, he secured the contract for
surveying into section much of the ter
ritory around the base of Mount Hood.
One of the glaciers Of the great peak
bears his name.
Mr.. Clark was a member Of the
Masonic fraternity at Sioux Falls. He
was a charter member of the local
lodge A. o. U. w., the first fraternal
organization of Hood River. For 20
years he was grand recorder of the
order. Mr.. Clark is past commander
of the Department Of Oregon, G. A. r.
For more than four years during the
Civil War he made an enviable record
as a soldier in Company K, Wisconsin
14th Volunteer Infantry.
An interesting paper on the Columbis
River Indians. written by H. C. Coe,
son of Nathaniel Coe, founder of HooC
River. will be .read by Mrs. T. R.
| Coon historian nf the sncietv