The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-02-22
FRANKTON.

Frogs are singing their spring songs.
This is as good sign of an early
spring as Indian Georges prediction
that we were going to have hard
winter. George was mistaken and so
may the frogs be.
The next Parent-Teacher meeting
will be on March 2. Don't forget the
box social at that time.
Mrs. Dan Malaer has been under the
Doctors care for the past week. At
this writing she is improving.
The upper planer operated in the
past by the Stanley-Smith Lumber Co.,
has been closed down.
From good authority we have it that
the county's big gravel truck will be
operated night and day for some time
distributing gravel. Query: Will the
Frankton roads that are now almost
impossible get their share, or will
other roads, as in the past, get it all?
A Sunday school was organized at
Frankton last Sunday afternoon.
Quite large crowd turned out to help
the good cause along. The Methodist
minister from town came out and
helped Rev. Frank Spaulding with the
work. Following are the officers who
have charge: Rev. Frank Spaulding,
supt. c. E. Miller, asst. supt. Miss
Carrie Schmoker, sec. !; Mrs. c. F.
Gray, treas. Mrs. c. Z. Miller, organ.
ist, and C. F. Gray, librarian.
John Phillips, with twenty or more
men and three or four gasoline wood
saws, is making the new town up ir
Post Canyon quite busy place at the
present time.
Merrill Miller and Carl Crapper have
come down from the Mt. Hood settle.
ment where they have been cutting
wood for some time and are now work
ing up in Post Canyon.
Warren Miller and Nell Foley art
getting rich these winter days trading
hogs and horses. So far Foley has the
longest end of the string. He got thu
horse in the trade and has no trouble
keeping it, but at last reports Miller
didn't know Just who owned the hogs
he, Foley or the public. Later-I
looks as though Miller might be in tn,
lead. He has traded off his ''tin liz
zie", quit rambling, and is "Dodging'
now.
B. F. Belieu, now resident of St
Johns, Portland, was shaking hand
with his many friends in Frankton las
week. Mr. Belieu and family wer,
former residents of Frankton, havin,
been one of its early settlers. Some 8
years ago he helped build the lumbe
1ume now owned by the Stanley Smitl
Lumber Co.
The County Surveyor Hurlburt wa
out Tuesday making estimates of tn,
probable cost of improving the road VI
Clifton hill.
Miss Eloise Copper and her cousin
Joseph Tooley from southern Oregon
were out for hike SUNDAY taking il
the highway and other points of inter
est in their rambling.
Rev. Frank Spaulding told the writ
er the other day that the first sermon
he delivered in what is now Hood Rive
county was in an old school buildin,
that stood on the present site of tn,
Frankton school 81 years ago. Mr.
Spaulding said there was no churcl
building in this valley at that time
He is now living on the Columbi,
highway just west of town and is still
working in his Masters vineyard.
The newspaper correspondent doesn'
have smooth sailing all the time. Th'
reporters for the big dailies out on tn,
battle line take their lives in thei
hands and are dodging bullets ant
bursting shells, and the little fry ar,
dodging brickbats, frying pans ant
rollingpins, all because You don't spell
the name right or spell it too often, O.
not often enough; or they say some
thing like this: Il hope to live lonl
enough to get even with you, or if
die first you will be in luck. But i
| all goes, so we should worry.