The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-03-13

have arrived home IN the past wees
Not an idle ex-artilleryuan can row
be found. AllyU Button and Rudyard
Imh0lz have resumed their places Win
c. f. Gilbert AMI II. T. Dewitt M1-t
of the men. former oFchar1lzts. have
resumed Their woEk of pruning with
greater zest man they displayed m
1917, Just before the war.
Wsgoner Paul NJ. Blowers. member
Of the 9lst Division. vino Is TOW at St
NazaIre. Frame, mas sent his sister,
NJ lss Alice Blowers. pair oI WOO ien
shoes. now generally worn abroad.
The shoes. light ami neat, have IN
scribed on them the names q the ou-
merous French and Belgian cites
visited by Mr. Blowers
Wagoner blowers. however, saws
that his title may be misleading. He
has nothing 10 do with horses or mules,
but at present is engaged IN plotting
trucks from St Nazaire to DlJon- tie
wrote that he had just returned from
trip TO Germany.
In letter to his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. S. b. Carnine, Radio Sgt. Sidney
Carnine, in charge of the radio station
of TT. Andrews, Mass. tells OF an
interesting reunion with two other for
mer members of 18th Co. The other
men were sgt. ". l.. Hodges. who
was later transferred to coast artll-
iery regiment which was at at Camp
Eustis ready for embarkatiOn at the
cessation of the war, and Capt. Van
Swardenrud, who was at one time
commanding officer of 18th Co. The
reunionists, according TO the letter.
spent several hours pleasantly recall
ing their first days as soldiers at Fort
Candy.
After 10 round trip voyages across
the Atlantic, Chas. Gill, with first
engineers rating in the navy. writes
his parents. Mr. and Mrs. j. H. Gill,
that he has been transferred To the
flagship of destroyer tlotila.
Eight of the trans Atlantic trips were
made in conveying American EXpedi-
tionary Forces to France. On two
trips he accompanied returning sol
diers.
IL am glad, he writes, THAT will
not have to be constantly moving
around now.
Wesley n. Hugenin, formerly resi-
dent of Mosier orchard district, after
serving with an aerial squadron
abroad, has, following his discharge
from the service returned to the west
with his wife. After residence in
Mosier. Mr.. Hugenin had gone back to
his old home at Ayre, Mass.
But the war experience has brought
back all my old longing for the west
again, he says, and here am"
Cpl. Stewart Kimball. Just recovered
from a wounded ankle sustained in the
+ Argonne forest, has returned home
from Camp Lewis, where he was
mustered out. The young man was a
member of machine gun company of
the 9lst Division.
Foidham b. Kimball. who remains
in France, was attending an artillery
school and had been recommended for
a commission when the armistice came.
j. E. Bailey last week received a
letter from his son, Sgt Hurley f.
Bailey, of the 9Th Field Signal Bat
TALON, with the armies of occupation
in Germany, who announced that he
had just passed examinations that LED
to the new title, ''expert military
telegrapher.
Sgt. Bailey has qualified as a cable,
wireless or telegrapher operator.
Sgts. Henry Blagg and Joe NJ. John
sen, members of the First Gas Regi
ment, which was on the battlefront al
the last minute of the day the armis
tice was signed, returned home Friday
from Camp Lewis, where they wer,
mustered out. Sgt. BIagg still shows
the effects of light dose of gas
picked, as he says, on the last morning
of the war.
Mark Cameron Monday had a tele
gram from h brother, Tom Cameron
who has been in England and France
with detachment Of the aviation ser
vice, announcing his arrival at th,
Garden City, N. Y, aviation field
Mr. Cameron, who was a mechanic il
the Hood River Garage. expects to b,
mustered out soon and back at his ole
task.
Arthur NJ. Geary. again in moft
after year spent in France as frs