The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-05-03
FINS, FURS AND FEATHERS

"His name is Mike and he knows it"
was the inscription on the box that
bore a huge white Angora cat, present
from Oscar Vanderbilt to General
Manager Stone, into the offices of the
Association one morning last week.
mike" a veteran of many barnyard
victories, took immediate possession
when the lid of his delivery box was
pried off. When local newspaper
man, accompanied by his little black
dog, "Hoot" visited the Office of the
Association, Hoot's intrusion was re-
sented. Hoot gave one friendly sniff
and then an angry howl. The battle,
lasting a half minute-a half minute
filled with an action that would have
pleased nightly a movy director, for
ink was spilled, young women stenogra-
pliers climbed to desk tops. chairs were
overturned and valuable papers scat
tered-resulted in another decisive vic
tory for Mike. And now, when Hoot
accompanies his master he remains
discreetly at the entrance of the Apple
Growers Association building.
Mikes arrival was coincident with
an announcement by G. W. McCullagh,
new sales manager of the Association,
who, as an expressman asked one OF
the members of the clerical force to
sign for the new office room mascot,
was telling the man he had just inher-
tied from Wilmer Sieg $50, 900
Beauty" cat owned by Mr.. and Mrs.
Sieg for the past several years. "$l0,-
600 Beauty" has won an enviable rem
utation as a fighter, but Mr.. McCul-
agh states that he will allow Mike to
claim the championship, after witness
ing last weeks evidence of his PROV
ess, without contest
Residents of Hood River witnessed a
rare sight for this district Sunday and
Monday, when numerous fiocks of wild
geese descended from the course of
the northbound flight, high above the
skyline of the surrounding range tops,
to settle in willow clumps on the Co.
lumbia lowlands. The honkers seemed
we'll nigh famished and were seen eat
ing the young sprouts of trees and new
grass.
1t is not an infreqeuent sight at this
season of the year to see thousands of
the geese winging northward, but
never have they alighted locally in
such hordes.
Do you remember that feeling of
prowess attendant on the catch of your
first club? Of course, and you can
realize how that feeling was manifest
ed last week when jimmy Wilson, ac-
companying his father, Harry Wilson,
of Portland, landed an eight inch trout.
Jimmie was ready to quit fishing for
the day. No sooner had his father ex-
tracted the hook than Jimmy wanted
to take the fish right away up town
and show it to Granddad, W. G. Weber.
W. ]. Chapman, Heights merchant,
Monday landed the first Royal Chinook
salmon caught this year in Hood river.
The big fish weighed 20 pounds when
dressed. Mr.. Chapman was accom-
panied by his brother, Eldon, and it
took 20 minutes for the two men to
beach the big salmon.
Numerous fiocks of white swans
have arrived during the past several
days and are now disporting them
selves on mid Columbia sand bars and
feeding in willow groves on the new
sprouts of shrubs. Passengers arriv-
ing here on river boats say that the
big bids are seen at many points be.
tween here and Portland.
Whether to stay at home and tend
the vacant lot garden or to join the
scores of fishermen and spend Sunday
at some favorite pool on Hood River,
was the question that perplexed many
Hood River citizen.
County Clerk Shoemaker reports that
more than 800 fishing licenses have al
ready been sold to local disciples of Sir
Isaak Walton.
Investigate sewer tile instead of wood
pipe. More sanitary, more durable and
cheaper. Willis Bradley, tel 1878. $40
BY OUR RZ0