The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-07-20
BILLY SUNDAY
ON VACATION
NOTED EVANGELIST AT ODELL HOME
Rev. Sunday and MA" Spend Days En-
gagged in Farm Chores Swim
cry Has Sleeping Porches

Billy Sunday the noted evangelist,
whose first fame came when he was
star baseball player for the Chicago
White Sox. way back in the late eight
les, is again spending his summer va
cation on his Odell country place. For
the time being, apparently, baseball
and evangelistic meetings, too, have
been forgotten.
The man who goes to call on Billy
Sunday and "Ma." his faithful better
half and partner, who along with their
two children, Billy. Jr., and Paul, is
here also for the summer, will find
them out in the open air wedding
flowers. picking berries. helping with
the hay. opening the rills of irrigation
bitches, watching the antics of the
pigs or ponies or engaged in some open
air sport.
When the writer, in the company OF
Rev. and Mrs. W. B. Young. called al
the Sunday ranch last Thursday, Mrs.
Sunday was picking raspberries and
currants, which were being made into
delicious sun-cooked jellies and pre-
serves.
"Our currant jelly" said Mrs. Sun
day, "puts to shame the famous con
fections of the region of Bar le Due. >
Mr.. Sunday was nowhere in sight.
"But come on" said Mrs. Sunday
as she carried her boxes of precious
fruit up to the house. I'VE will go ant
find Dad. He is off tending to the wa
ter or helping with the hay"
There is no c0nfining Billy Sunday
and his wife to the four corners of |
closed room in the summertime, whel
they are enjoying the splendors of th'
Hood River valley. The visitor il
taken on long walks over the meadow
down to the barn. He is shown th'
ponies, the chickens and the pigs
Verify, Rev. Sunday is believer II
the open air. He has just had carpen
ters finish building new swlnery
The ultra-exponent of sanitary livinl
should see this new home for the Sun
days herd of pure bred Poland Chinas
The floors are neat as kitchen tiles OF
fastidious housewife. You have hear
about how hogs get their feet in tn
trough. Nothing like this happens ou
on the Sunday ranch. Contrivances U
Mr.. Sundays own suggestion hav
been installed to keep the trough
clean. When MIR. Pig has finished hi
bran mash, the gates lift over the foo
container.
But the emphasis of the sentence bt
ginning the preceding paragraph ha
been lost in the description of ths
clean trough. Again let it be sale
"verily, yea verify, Billy and Ma SUI
day believe in the open air. That ne
hoghouse has individual sleeping porci
es for its porcine occupants. No hog
ever had such an opportunity to Leaf
clean, healthy lives as those fat, col
tented porkers of the Odell district.
| And thus Mr.. Sunday spends h
summers. From daylight till nightfa
he is pottering about the place. Pa
ting into effect some whim or ide
j there. All of his thoughts are for Il
comforts of his animals, and more
!. for the tenants of his place., His hal
brother, l.. G. Heizer, is the re
4 farmer of the Odell place. But n
IL many farmers have the privilege of e
III Toying as comfortable quaretrs as tho
II provided for Mr.. Heizer. Much of h
II work is done like that of the chauffe'
II of the 1916 model automobile. He CT
II lust press buttons and turn faucets al
il do lot of the work that requires mo
IL physical effort on the ordinary farm.
IL A deep well, provided with the late
II pumps, lifts the domestic water of t
II ranch place to huge tank set artist
ally above the ranch home. No OPP
irrigation bitches are seen on the Su
III day place. The water has been plac
III under pressure in pipelines. Roses
iii vegetables, flower gardens and mea
II ows may be watered by sprinklers.
III The Sunday place grows more
II tractve each year. 1t is a new.pla'
II even in the Hood River valley, a loc
II ity for the most part made up of NJ
II places. Each year the rose plants. I
Ill Dorothy Perkins pink ramblers and
/ shrubbery gets larger. The natu
iii attractions are each season brouf
III out a little more vividly. The croql
iii grounds, the tennis court and
III swimming pool, with the rough edi
iii left by constructor and stone mas
iii taken off, appear more convenient Q
iii comfortable. The huge sugar phi
that lear themselves at the south {
III of the Sunday place seem little tall
HI the tent house home of Mr.. and NJ
Iii Sunday set beneath these same p
trees seems more part of the natu
surroundings and little less artificial
= When you go to seeFBilly Sunday
will take a delight in showing
r. these things of farm life. For the Il
+ thew seem to hold the greatest inter
I for him. If you ask him about m
] ters of evangelism. he will answer
I but soon his mind wanders away
I other things. Suddenly he will {
! discussing the meeting at Kansas I
+ and tell you to look at that fine po
Z his boy Paul's saddle animal.
7 al want to get away from eve
I thing for a while.' he says.
7 Oregon atmosphere gives me
strength to do what am doing. |
I possible for me to recuperaie here
Z meath the pines, breathing in the arc
! of fresh resin and the perfume of III
i of curing hay" He may not expl
Z himself in just those words. but tha
+ the gist of what he means.
/ Last year Mr.. Sunday, with the
I of Ma. who advises with him on
+ matters, conducted meetings in
L large cities, Omaha, Syracuse, II
Z ton. Baltimore and Kansas City. n
+ than !, 900, 600 people heard his fore
/ sermons, delivered in slang ths
+ shocking to some, yet seems to !
I the appeal to draw thousands to
/ the "Sawdust Trail" Mr.. Sunday
T day seems more enthusiastic over
+ meetings at Syracuse than those OF
/ other point the past year, Col
I men and women, it is said, take lig
! the thought of spiritual welfare.
/ Sunday is proud of the hold he GO
Z the students of the university town
+ eve had them with US from the
/ ginning" he says. "a number OF
prominent faculty men were on
+ committee in charge of our meet
[ Ma appealed to them by her addre