The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-04-06
ODELL

The following indications Of the ap-
proach of spring are noted: Allison
Fletcher has purchased a fine new
Oldsmobile 8; j. c. Duckwall. new
Dodge touring car and G. M. Sheppard
new Studebaker.
L. A. Chapman has painted and re-
topped his Maxwell and built garage
in which it will be housed.
r. A. Boles has partially laid the
foundation for the new hotel and is
ditching and doing preliminary work
necessary before actual building oper-
ations begin.
S. p. Davenport is busy making win
dow frames and when weather condi-
tions are quite settled we believe this
building will! be rushed until compile
ton.
| Mrs. G. e. Bowerman is reported
improving after having suffered from
a foot which was strained and neuritis
developed.
Miss Leita Bowerman and her sister,
Irma, went to Portland Saturday for
the day.
| Quite a number of residents of Odell
went to The Dalles last week as wit
nesses in the Rhoades- Highway case.
After only a short time out the jury
brought in verdict awarding Mr..
Rhoades 81, 900 damages.
Odell high school has a four-piece
orchestra. two violins, piano and drum.
Members of the orchestra are practic-
| ing and will be in readiness when the
occasion arises.
f4 GoId
Tuesday night. He will finish pruning
for orchardists of that locality.
Mrs. Fl. S. Caughey is spending a
week or more in Portland.
Your correspondent returned Friday
after having spent 80 days visiting her
parents and other relatives at Law
renee, Kas., friends at Burlington and
EuGora, Kas., also friends in Kansas
City. Mo-, and her daughter and fami-
ly at Hermiston. Ore.
A short time for long schedule.
The trip east via Oregon Short Line
and Union Pacific direct without
change of cars was made on time,
with sunshine and beautiful weather,
outside. Not a cloud was to be seen
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the winter has been very warm and
dry spring rains have been the order of
the day through March. Hyacinths
were blooming out of doors, peach buds
were almost in bloom and all vegeta-
tion so far advanced that anxiety is
felt lest killing frost may yet de-
stroy prospects for fruit on the few
fruit trees that are now to be found in
this locality.
+ One feature we noted wherever we
had occasion to stop was the fact that
highways and high taxes seemed so
closely affiliated that they go hand in
hand. Another point seemed also
clear, viz, through highway perhaps |
along or near one side of county, for
the convenience of the occasional visit |
or in the community, while the every |
day residents of this same community |
have only muddy, slippery dirt roads |
for their every day needs. much like |
unto the efforts of a housewife in a |
family of small or moderate means |
who puts into dinner for company an
amount which would enable the family |
to live comfortably fed several days |
and at the same time knows that they |
must go on short rations because of
this one big dinner.
Just now | am reminded of apples, |
Hood Rivers own fruit. Priced fruit |
only as far as Pendleton fruit stand in |
the depot. Apples were 10 cents each |
or two for 15 cents. Also got little |
information regarding methods of sis
ter states, or at least one way in |
which apples are shipped into Kansas
points and eagerly bought by consum-
ers direct from car in which apples |
were shipped loose and were said to
have arrived in very good condition.
carry box, basket or bag !
and buy and fill at the car.
At Burlington, a town of 5000 popu-
lation, small, apparently harmless
creek became the means by which
water from a cloud burst destroyed
81 900. 600 worth of property in time
incredibly short, carrying stocks of
goods, automobiles, horses. cattle and
houses away and in the business sec
ton every house except one collapsed,
a calamity swift and terrible.
The return trip was made from Kan
sas City via the Burlington to Omaha,
thence west via Union Pacific, giving
a little variety in route. Glad to have
had this vacation and visit in the old
home and with the relatives and old
glad, too, to be home and to
greet the friends here.
Friends, help Odell column all you
,an, not for yourselves, not for your
but for your own COM
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