The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-06-20

Word was received in Mosier Sunday
of the death of Thos. Pain, who lived
here a couple of years ago and moved
with his family to Portland where he
and his wife have been working. All
though in poor health most of the time
Mr.. Pain was very industrious and kept
work to do when he was able. The re-
port was that he dropped dead while at
work. 1t is supposed that Mrs. Pain
and the two children will remain in
Portland where she has employment in
the Meier Il Frank store.
Mrs. c. G. Stotz heard the past
week from her two sons, both in the
service Harold has been stationed at
Jefferson City. Mo, but was to leave
soon for an eastern camp and from
there expected to leave in a very short
time for overseas. He says he has
gained 10 pounds since going into the
army and is not at all afraid of the
subs. He is in one of the big tank
divisions and hopes to get a shot at the
kaiser. Roy was in the base hopital in
\ France with scarlet fever. He was
/ improving and hoped to be out in a few
weeks.
What might have been very sas-
trous fire occurred at the residence of
Mrs Harlan one evening last week
about 10 O'Clock. During the after
noon and evening members of the fam
! lily had been burning the dry grass and
weeds near the house, as a measure of
safety, and thinking they had it all ex-
tinguished near the house the family
was pre- pairing to retire when Mrs.
Harlan discovered fire burning in one
corner of her bed room. She immedi-
. ately gave the alarm and after a few
minutes of strenuous work her son,
Mr.. Ginger, and his little boy succeed.
ed in putting the blaze out before a
great amount of damage was done.
The Columbia river is now at highest
mark for this season to date, Thursday,
having raised about three feet in 48
hours. The people who had bottom
land had fine gardens almost ready for
use. Today they are submerged. Prob
ably the greatest loss is to G. l.. Da.
venport, of Portland, who had just had
his foreman finish planting the land
north of the depot to an extra variety
of early potato 1t is thought that
these will not be greatly damaged if
the water goes down in few day, or
even week. Otherwise they will be
a total loss. The boats cannot land at
the lower Mosier dock because of the
high water.
J. E. Proctor, who last year collected
over S25 for the Overseas Tobacco
Club, has again received a request from
the club with petition for signers.
All who care to give 25 cents or more
to this worthy request may feel assured
that the money will reach its destina.
tion safely. as it is cabled over the seas
and the tobacco is already on the other
side, ready for distribution. Each
person who gives something must sign
his name, and will receive in return
note or letter of thanks from the sol
der who receives the package. The
message from the front reads in part
as follows: 1T is parcels of this kind
that make the soldiers hard lot easier
to bear, ard urges them to take a
keener interest in their work. knowing
that those who cannot come shoulder
to shoulder with them in the field are
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bear the stress of battle" To help
keep them CHEEKY these brave men, on
whose nerve and endurance depend the
safety of those at home.
Mrs. G. l.. Willard was very painful
y injured Monday morning while riding
in from the field with her husband on a
load of hay. In some manner the
horses became frightened and in trying
to run away they turned the loaded
wagon over near the east end of tht
Mosier creek bridge Just before this
happened Mrs. Willard jumped from
the wagon, and it is the opinion that
the wagon must have passed over the
right arm, which appeared to be badly
injured, perhaps broken. f. W. Da-
vidhiazr and Fred Evanswere passing