The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-02-20
65TH GREETED
BY THOUSANDS
SCHOOLS DISMISSED FOR OCCASION
Ii is Estimated that 5000 Assembled at
ON. R. &N. Station to Welcome
the Returned Artillerymen

The armlstlee daY celebration was
eclipsed by that Monday in honor of
the two long train loads of handsome
and hale Northwestern young men.
members of the 65th Artillery. Two
hours before the trains arrived fire
sirens, school and church bells spread
the tidings. Never has such crowd
assembled at the station. All schools
We're dismissed. IL is estimated that
5000 people lined the tracks
With the band playing and amid deaf
ening shouts the first section rolled in
and scarcely had the wheels ceased
turning when Richard Scearce. of Bat
terry c, sighting his parents from the
car steps, leaped into his mothers
arms. All other Hood River boys
were aboard the second section. De-
layed, this train had orders 10 pass
through Hood River. The officers de
clared, however, that they did not have
the heart to disappoint Hood River
parents. In the end, however, it was
in many cases a disappointment for the
soldiers whose parents had left to join
in the celebration in Portland.
The soldiers Of both sections were
given a liberal treat Of apples, and
friends and relatives of local men load
ed them down with boxes Of delicacies.
What fine looking bunch, was
the oft repeated expression as the mass
of friends and admirers viewed the
boys disembx king from the two troop
trains. Handsome, trim, neat and
husky was every mother's son of those
men of the 65th.
What difference when we came
back. said Roy d. Smith. veteran of
the Spanish American war, who saw
service in the Philippines. Everyone
of us showed the palor of i'll health.
Those fellows seem to be as strong
as oxen No wonder the huns couldn't
stand up against such men.
Numerous old veterans Of lS6l-65
were in the crowd. recalling the days
when their regiments came home from
the war
There were tears, but tears of glad
| ness, not those that tore the heart like
that day on July 20, 1917, when the old
18th Co. pulled out for Fort Stevens.
}. H. Fredrlcy. Of the Canteen com
mittee, who had charge Of greeting
the men, tried in vain to keep the
platforms at the station clear Of the
| crowds. After few minutes the
crowds pushed into the cleared spaces
and mingled with the returned veter-
ans. When the warm embraces of
loved ones were over, the local men
were kept busy shaking hands with
friends. The soldiers of other north
western points mingled with the
| throngs, answering questions and tell
ing Of experiences. But not ghost
of a boast was heard. The men of the
65th have simply returned from a
duty. There seemed to be a feeling
among all the men, however, that the
drive on the huns had stopped too
soon that the war should have been
carried on into German territory and
that some of the conditions imposed on
| France should have been measured out
to the boches.
After brief halts the trains pulled
out for Portland, where reception be-
fitting the record made by the 65th
was there rendered the artllerymen.
They then went to Camp Lewis, where
they expect to be mustered out within
the next two weeks.
| The girls OF the Canteen committee
of the Red Cross Chapter were kept
busy seeing that every soldier had all
the apples he could eat. The members
of Battery f who were aboard the
troop trains We're: Capt. Edward w.
Van Horn, Carl Copper, Rud Imholz,
Paul Lancaster, Allyn Button, Roselle
Crone, Fred Thomson, Orville Thomp-
son, Ora Cushman, Albert Miller,
Perle Perkins, Gustafl flForsberg, Walter
b. Regnell, Ned c. Jackson, Samuel
H. Douglass, Corbett Alexander, Del
bert Slutz, Everett Swearingen. Earl
Dunbar, Gold Dodson and Claude c.
Collins.
Other Hood River men with the 65th
are: Slab Davis, Battery D; Jno. W.
Allen. Battery +, Richard and Robert
Scearce. Battery G, and Edwin Som
nichsen, Headquarters Co.
The impromptu ovation to the men
was greatly enlivened by the recently
reorganized Hood River band, which
played popular airs while the trains
were here. The members of the band
are. c. D. Nickelsen, Harry Gonna
way, G. W. Ripper, George.and Will
Zolls, M. p. Warren, J. W. Forbes. M.
A. Udelius Will Davidson, NJ. Savo,
Nelson Emry, Tom Fisher, A. l.. Page
and Ashley Cash.