The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1921-12-01

tarred paper was burned the latter
part of the week, making a merry bon
fire.
]. P. OB'rien, general manager of
the O.-W. r. & N. Co., who was
caught in eastern Oregon by the
storm. arrived here the latter part OF
last week and took active charge OF
clearing the tracks between here and
Portland. Mr.. O'Brien. who spent
some time at the actual scene of en-
counter around Lindsay creek. says he
never asw the snow and ice so packed
into cuts.
Nobody, after wire service was re-
stored, by way of Spokane. was busler
in Hood River than were Manager Llv-
ingstone and his associates at the
Western Union office. He was kept
busy receiving an accumulation of tel
ergams of the past four days and
simultaneously. it seemed, everybody
in Hood River wanted to spend his
surplus in getting word out to business
associates or friends.
Sheriff johnson wondered all last
week Just where his son, James, was
stranded with the family automobile.
James, member of the local football
team which the Friday the snow
storm began played the Newberg high
school, proceeded to Corvallis and with
his brothers Charles and Julius. stu
dents at the Oregon Agricultural Col
lege, motored on to Eugene for the big
game.
James has now arrived safely home.
and the automobile is in a garage at
Corvallis. 1t will remain there until
the Columbia River Highway is opened
to traffic.
AS result of the snowstorm that
struck the Hood River valley so sud
denly, Richard Reiman. young man of
Denmark, who was due to sail from
New York City for his home Novem-
Der &c, had his plans badly upset. Mr..
Reiman had planned to leave for the
east the day following the onslaught
of the elements. Train service was
annulled and he was forced to remain
until it was impossible to reach New
York in time for his steamer. Mr..
Reiman, who has been here the past
fall visiting at the home of j. 2.
ranged to take a later steamer.
William Walker and w. M. Sylves-
ter, who Sunday walked on skis to
Little Boy Ranch. just west of Mitch
ellis Point tunnel, declare that the
drifts there on the Highway are be-
yond imagination. Mr.. Sylvester says
walking under the beetling brows of
the high cliff through which the open
window tunnel is bored is dangerous.
AS the men passed on their skis. an
avalanche of ice, sleet and rock rained
down around them.
Several motor truckloads of produce
and groceries are buried in the snow
somewhere between here and Portland.
A. 0. Hershey has two trucks ma
rooned on the Highway. Numerous
other truck concerns, who up to the
storm were handling most of the ex-
press business and much of the heavier
tonnage between here and Portland,
have machines tied up. The truck men
do not expect TO be able to resume
their business to any extent before
next spring.
Among the groceries en- route here
by truck was a heavy consignment of
sweet potatoes to H. Gross. 1t is ex-
pected that the tubers were ruinde by
the cold.
Be careful in setting your watch by
a Western Union clock in Hood River.
1t is said that half of the service
wires used in regulating the clocks
were broken by the activities of snow
shovelers in cleaning roofs, and now
the clocks are running themselves with
all the liberty of.a Russian soviet gov
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