The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-06-13
HOOD RIVER IS
TO CELEBRATE
THE RED CROSS WILL HAVE CHARGE
Chief Athletic Event Will Be Tug of War,
With Teams from NeighbOring
Logging camps COnteSting

With the Red Cross Chapter in ex-
elusive charge, Hood River is already
preparing for the towns most glorious
Independence Day celebration. lnvi-
tations have been extended to neigh
boring towns of the Columbia,
both in Oregon and Washington. All
concessions have been granted the
Chapter by the city council, and it is
expected that the Chapter will be rich
er by more than 81, 900 following the
event.
The big athletic event of the cele-
bration will be tug of war. A plat
form will be erected on the main busi-
ness street. and teams from all adjoin-
ing logging camps, the city and orch
ard communities will participate.
The committee has made the follow
ing announcement:
The celebration will be under the di-
rect supervision of the Hood River
Chapter of the American Red Cross.
assisted by every civic and fraternal
organization in the community. 1t will
be in the form of big carnival, in
GLIDING a children 5 pageant and sports,
patriotic exercises in the forenoon and
a blood stirring championship tug-of-
war contest in the afternoon. In the
evening there will be the various at
fractions and dancing at the al fresco
pavilion.
Last week the ways and means COM
mittee of the Chapter issued an invita-
tion to all the various organizations in
the city to appoint delegates to assist
the Red Cross committee is perfecting
an organization to take general charge
of the celebration. This resulted in
the formation of the following general
committee: John X. Norton, chair
man. representing the Red Cross ID.
G. Cruikshank, c. +. Gilbert and c. ID.
Hoyt, representing the Commercial
club Mrs. c. o. Huelat and Mrs. c.
X. Marshall, representing the Wo-
mans club; o. p. Dabney and Alva
Day, representing the Odd Fellows :;
JAS. H. Hazlet, and c. c. Anderson,
representing thetKnights of Pythias I;
Harry Farrell and Peter Mohr, Jr.. the
Knights of Columbus H. F. Davidson
and j. X. Carson, the Masonic Lodge );
Marie Berry and Katherine Baker, the
French Orphan Relief club.
The chief event of the day will be
the tug of war championship between
specially picked teams from among the
timbermen and loggers of the various
numbering centers in this part of the
state. +. f. Ellsworth, manager of
the big mill at Cascade Locks has tele-
phoned that his team would outpull
anything that walks on two legs. !"
G. $. Morgan, who is organizing the
team at Wyeth, modestly procIaims
that the Wyeth team will ''at least
outpull Cascade Locks" so there you
are. The big camp of the Oregon
Lumber Co. at Dee is preparing to en-
ter six giants as championship contend
ers. and the Phillips mill in Post Can
yon notified the committee Monday
that they would have team ready to
pull all comers on the Fourth.
A long, narrow platform five feet in
height will be erected on Oak street
between Fourth and Fifth, so that the
struggles of the teams will be in con-
stant view of everyone in the crowds.
1t is expected there will be eight teams
| in the contest.
To accommodate the crowds from
Cascade Locks and Wyeth a special ex-
cursion has been arranged with the
steamer Tahoma, coming up from the
Locks in time for the forenoon events
and returning in the evening at $50.
The round trip fare will be Sl.l0.
Among the carnival attractions will be
minstrel show staged under the per
sonal direction of c. F. Gilbert of the
once famous team of Clarke a. Gilbert
a special show will be staged by the
Odd Fellows; the Fish Pond, where
suckers will be hooked ad lib by pretty
maids; the Ferris wheel; Soak the
Kaiser" shooting gallery; "hot dogs"
and many others now IN process of in
cubation by the committee. The entire
proceeds of every show and concession
will go into the funds of the Hood
River Red Cross Chapter.
The city council has granted the Red
Cross the exclusive use of Oak street
between Fourth and Fifth streets and
has further authorized the closing to
all vehicle and motor traffic of Oak
street from Second to Fifth streets and
from Cascade to State street between
the hours of a. m. and II p. m. on
the Fourth