The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1921-09-22
PIONEERS LOOK
TO BIG FAIR
PIONEER TRAILS MARKS PROPOSED
Rev. Troy Shelley Introduces Resolution
Judge Wilson Pays Tribute to
Pioneer Dead

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of days when first history of the com
munity was in the making. Their
thoughts are largely on the future and
with confidence. inspired by the won
derful progress they have beheld in
the span of their lives, they look for
ward with typical pioneer optimism to
the great 1925 fair proposed by Port
land.
Hood River pioneers wish to see
appropriate markers placed along the
old Oregon trail, today crossed and re-
crossed by modern motor boulevards,
in order that the many visitors ex-
pected at the world exposition may
contrast with these modern highways,
of graceful curve and easy gradient,
the crude trails that the brave men
and women blazed with their ox-drawn
prairie schooners IN the SOS and 6Os OF
the preceding century.
Now within two years of his 8Oth
birthday, Rev. Troy Shelley, addressed
his fellow pioneers and told of jour
ney made few weeks ago over the
old Barlow road. He drove over the
route, where 73 years ago he accom-
panied his parents by wagon train
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down into the valley of the Sandy and
thence to the Willamette valley.
81 wanted to see Laurel Hill" said
Mr.. Shelley, "where | remember my
mother dared not risk me in the wagon
but carried me down the grade, with a
pitch as steep as the roof of a house.
| / hitched my horse and started to walk
up that long climb. Alders and even
fir trees as big as a mans body have
grown up in the old road. Enormous
fallen logs blocked my way, and ] was
so fatigued that | had to give up be-
fore reaching the top of that hill. But
hope that we may initiate move
ment that will result in the placing OF
appropriate tablets of bronze or stone
where the magnificent Mount Hood
Loop Highway and the route of the old
! trail will intersect. Those who travel
the new highway should be permitted
to see what the first settlers of this
land of promise had to use for roads.
| The old trail should be slashed out. !"
Mr.. Shelley introduced resolution
embodying his recommendation, and
with the amendment, introduced by
Geo. Il. Prather. that the matter be
further considered next year by the
Oregon Pioneer Society at its annual
reunion in Portland, the resolution was
unanimously adopted. Carson G. Mas
liker. member of the state society, APP
proved of Mr.. Shelley's suggestions.
Mr.. Masiker, too, travelled with his
parents down into the Sandy valley
over the old Barlow road. He charac-
terized Laurel Hill as the most notable
landmark from the Missouri river to
the Willamette.
The chief address of the Saturday
reunion was made by Judge Fred W.
Wilson, of The Dalles, native son OF
prominent pioneer family. He paid
tribute to the memory of the late f.
l.. Smith, John A. Wilson, and Mrs.
William Boorman, all of whom have
died since the annual reunion of year
ago: ,.s
away" declared Judge Wilson, all
too soon for the good of the communi-
ties wish our life of today might be
| influenced to greater extent by the
pioneer of right and wrong,
by those early day mutual relation
ships, the necessity of giving as well
as taking and by the old fashioned
ideas of duty from children to their
parents and from parents to their chill
dren as well. | am profoundly appre-
ciative of the fact that my parents
were pioneers and you children here
today, as you grow Older. will, too, be
glad of your pioneer fathers ana
mothers.
al recall an October day three years
ago. Judge Morrow, of Portland, and
| had just visited r. l.. Smith at his
| home. and as we left the first lights
/ IL. ha afF a
sunset was dimming down the Column
walked out on the sidewalk, said TO
me. 1t was not my privilege to know
| Mr.. Smith, but from my visit this af
ternoon know that his was mind al
WAYS filled with good thoughts.
dHis words were a truthful charac-
terizaton of his life and that Of Mr..
Wilson and others of the pioneers of
this valley, who have left to you
richer heritage than the wonderful and
/ beautiful material resources that sur
round you.
Other numbers on the program in
cluded readings by Mrs. j. +. Fergu-
son and Miss Martha Ferguson and
musical numbers led by S. +. Bart
mess with Mrs. Bartmess accompany
| ing on the piano. Mrs. Benton Mays,
of The Old Fort Dalles Historical Soci-
ETY., invited the members of the local
organization to participate in a joint
reunion with Wasco county pioneers
at The Dalhs September l6, 1922. The
invitation was accepted. Plans call
for motor trip over the Columbia
/ River Highway between the two mid
Columbia cities. BY the time Of the
| Joint reunion, it was stated, the link
/ Of road will be fully paved. The invo-
cation was pronounced by NJ. ID. Odell,
the Oldest native born man Of the val
| ley present.
In addition 10 Mr.. Smith, Mr.. Wilson
and Mrs. Boorman, Mrs. Mary Frazier
Corwin. historian Of the pioneer soci-
etv. reported that the following pio-
neers have died the past year: Mrs
| James Eggert, Mrs. Lucy Odell Dim
mick. Mrs. Elvira r. Reynolds, Mrs.
Lucy Plaisted, Mrs. James X. Steele,
! Mrs. Caroline Gould Culbertson, Flint
/ Bradford, Mrs. Emma ingalls,, Miss
! Ezma r. Jones and Mrs. Rose Sherrleb
/ Shelley.
AT the instance Of Mrs. J. +. Rand
the secretary Of the society was in
/ structed to send letter Of greeting TO
/ Mrs. John Marden, The Dalles pio-
neer. who had been q regular attend
/ ant at local reunions but whose health
now confines her 70 her home IN Port
I land.
The pioneers held their reunion in
I the big Lotus Grille, chartered for the
dav. At noon long tables we're spread