The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1921-08-04
WHITE SALMON
fFrom the Enterprise,

Frank Depue is here this week from
Hood River to keep up repairs on the
local telephone lines while Manager
and Mrs. Fred Mcneil are enjoying a
vacation in the Trout Lake district.
Mrs. A lbert S. Hall and son, Archie
left for Portland this week after visit.
ing at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Aug
ust Lauterbach, as the guest of Miss
Gertrude Morris. Mrs. Hall expects
to join Miss Morris later to spend sew
eral days at Seaside, after which she
will go east to join Mr.. Hall.
Three to four miles of the Snowden
highway have already been graded
near the Miller place and near where
the camps and rock crusher are To-
Gated. Crushed rock is being put on
that section this week by Contractor
Leidl. Two inches of coarse crushed
rock is first put on the grade, then two
inches of earth binder, followed by
two inches of finer crushed rock, top
ped by two inches of screenings.
Clawing fingers of a whirlpool be.
tween canyon walls on the Clark fork
in the Thompson Falls district in Mon
tana, ripped canoe expedition to ruin
and almost ended the lives Of Robert
Bruce, formerly of this city, and four
other adventurers, last Saturday. The
party was to travel from Montana to
Portland by canoe, taking moving pie
lures on the way down. They returned
the fore part of this week to Portland,
sans all equipment but a camera and
tripod. Reports state that they were
all thrown from their canoe and an
other boat into whirlpool after whirl-
pool. How they reached land, ex-
hausted, is all miracle.
"a swimmin' hole" all their own
with chance to take a duck after
working hard all day in the field, is the
way the Husum Pig Club boys combine
pleasure with business.
These boys live out where they do not
have chance to jump in the river for
the waters of the White Salmon is far
too cold even in the good old summer
time :" so they joined together and
made a regular old 'swimmin' hole"
of their own. Working with their
local leader, William Olson, they met
and dug hole four feet deep, fifteen
feet wide and seventy feet long. This
hole was dug not far from an irriga-
blOli hlbSl4 anu LllC was luIllGu Ill
to fill the pool. 1t might have been
expensive to let all the water go to
waste, so they use the overflow from
the pool to irrigate a club garden.
The Laurel Box & Lumber Co., box |
factory at Laurel is turning out 5000 |
apple boxes per day. according to Man
lger c. j. Harrison. The mill is also
saving away as fast as possible and
Tuesday made a record run of SO, 500
'eet of one-inch lumber. l.. w. Wood,
If this city, is logging for the com
)any. using four trucks, and putting in
Is, 900 feet of logs per day.
Mrs. Sarah Jennings passed away at
he home of her son. George C.. Jen-
lings, in White Salmon, Saturday.
'uly %, after short illness. She was
,orn in Buck county, Pennsylvania,
une %, 1860, and was married to G.
\. Jennings April l9, 1881. The hus-
'and passed away June %, 1919. De- ,
eased was well known to western
county people, having lived
n the Trout Lake valley a number of
ears.
The large apple crop to be harvested
n the White Salmon valley has made
necessary for a number of growers
0 build apple houses and install grad
lg machines.
j. E. Slade, of Husum, is building a /
umber of small houses to house his
arvest help beside erecting a large ,
pple house. '.
Graders are being put in by Geo. [
arter of Husum, and also by Miller
Bradley, and the Robertson Bros. s
4 the Miller Bradley apple house. /