The Hood River Glacier from Hood River, Oregon • Page 8

fiOOb ItiVEll (JLACIER THURSbAY, DECEMIlElt 30. IMS i 4, 1 1 safes fsrtw Wit 2f 4 r. 0 "The Last Days of Pompeii" at the Electric Theatre, Tuesday and Wednesday, January 4-5 ACTI VITIES of the year of 1915 will "soon become records of history, records of which all ot us may well be proud. It has been a good year. Let us make thq next year better.

Let us remember that we should strive to make Hood River our home community, the best community in Oregon, and the best in the land. Let us work together, boost and not knock, buy at home and not abroad, and the year 1916 will be one to be proud of. It has always been our desire, and we feel that we have accomplished our ends, to place before the purchasers of this community goods in the Jewelry line of as good quality as may be found in any metropolis. We are proud of our record and' we assure that our old time standards of honest dealing and quality will be maintained. To our patrons of the past and to those new friends that we will make during the New Year, we wish health, happiness and prosperity.

i fix! 1 I If V3 111 I W. F. Lara way At the Gem Theatre next Wednesday and Thursday. Scene from "The Blindness of KB H'iL -r-w j1' vt fi lK 4 me your flowers now, don't wait until death has closed my eyes to their beauty, and my esrs to your words of praise." When you want breads, pastries, pies, foods that will make von think ol tie days of von youth, for they v. ill bring back the annetitpfif vour ornmins dava they aw so good, just call the Blue Rib lino isaitory, phone 2:573.

tf Go tf. Law, The Cleaner. 1 'ill WMW tf SlT.fC. Mr. unning enjoyed his home in the l-nt-ly clime amt did much tr iilllpli his It has lieet hiil (tint he is a tietiefat-tor who tuhke? urn Hades of grass giow where net' ii )fme.

Mr. grt-w nanj icii'iful Itoweis in nil colors of tt.i tui tinin arid ciiiutMl the ejith witl (in fragtai.t I hi' nsi tulviv tui tespui'dt'd tii bis ciltutt', hi ti it-suits be wsh as rous in unm-K i tie wes (IiIirci I in Mr. t' was giuMed tbe Imu If 'i '1 i i University of Oregon Glee Club, the members of ife i.l 77 yi ais ai-d id the Inst lie wsf if ugt'lulrttR ai ci ii ahfei're-will be felt nisnv Kocisl i'Ipp. He ill missed in tlte Gran i rii t'f he lif.ut.lic. When the (inn gs out its hlirri' r.ntes we fluP i uf the lust drummer ttlAays titl I in ia duty.

He Mill be misled i is church. He will he missed in V. i (iKlitiorhood. In hi -furtMly his lilnc. never tie retilled.

Itw leases a 1 1 IcMtemory. He tender ui uted in his itomesrlc re I ll vss an hiinnratile cituori, a true filial, a conscientious' In ry respet he was a goiid-maiu bveThatis Late The following, clipping from Hit American Home Weekly; of Minneapn-i. Minn.was euliniitterl to the iy G. II. Kerton Mrs.

W. K. Mbshfer, whose disappearance and rtlnrn havi oeen the subject of much con men! throughout the is quoted raying: "Your family' iiever miit-t you until'you go away;" Quite aside from the Moshivr cst there is a world of. truth that olistr-vation. The point is that one's relatives and friends so rarely show epprt-emtiou of one until a -vacant chair in the1 family circle tells of love missing or duties undone; or a helping tiano that is gone.

How many Mr. Hit band, and now many weeks and months, have you let slip by without- telling your wif. that-you appreciate her-' worth and efforts, and show-her that you love her and want her love? To be sure; yiu do feel all that, but you seldom let her know iu Little good it would be to "miss her so much" tomorrow if you were to lose her today And, Wife, do you ever let your husband know- what a fine fellow you think he is, and bow pleased you are that he works so hard and to well that the family may live in comfort? It will be too late to tell him that after he'a gonel Do you, Mr. Father, or you, Mrs Mother, ever wave -the fotihgsters aside when they want you 4o read to them or join in their evening's game? Do you call them nuisances; when romp in play You'll miss these little 57 ion, with, blue eyes and brown buir. Again he enhsted and remained in thu service until the close of the war.

On the-reverse side of his discharge one of his officers wrote the following: "Thomas J. Cunning, a private of Company 24th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, has been present with his company and regiment in all the various marches through Vjrignia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia; has been in the following bRttles: Green Kriar, Cheat Mountain, Went Virginia; Shiloh.Corinth, Mississippi; I'erryville, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Kidge, Ringgold and Rocky Face. He has been a brave and efficient soldier." It is interesting to note that his three brothers served through the war and lived to see. it After peace was declared Thomas settled, in the occupat tion of miller. He has been heard to say that he could hold up his hand and amrm mat nu i.aa never taken, an unjust toll.

He contracted a marriage with a fair German maiden. Miss Anna Kinsey. They removed, to Missouri, where were bora to them eight children, four of whom-are living, a daughter in Montana, one sen now in lex as, another in Oregon, and one a resident of Washington, Arthur Cunning, who ia in this- audience today. In Missouri Mr. Cunning continued me Business or mining until be was honored by being appointed Dostmaster.

His first wife died before all the children reached maturity. A few years later tie met Mrs. Agnesa Blount Mark, ham. The-acquaintance, once begun, waa carried on through correspondence. II III ill i naar-i A-i i 7 which will sing at Heilbronner Mr.

Cunning waa a most- gifted letter writer. By that means he won a wife who. has ever been proud of those letters, which the still keeps as a treasure of. romantic association and lilerarylex-ee Hence. We Iknow Mrs.

Agnes Cun ning and need no enumeration of her bxcellencies. She has one son, Claude K. who is present with his wife, two sons. and- one daughter. At the time of his mother's aecond marriage he waa of mature age.

He and his stepfather became good friends at once and were recipiocally affectionate and helpful unto the end. When Mrs. Markham married Mr. Cunning his daughter ws but 12 years old and his youngest son was only six. The newly wedded pair took- a journey back to Ohio to revisit friends and scenes of former years and then returned to make a home in.

Missouri; They remained about a year and a half, then they followed Claude Markfaam to Oregon, where he had married and settled. In 1907 Mr. and Mrs. Cunning came to southern Calif oi nia. They first vis-ited William Cunning In Pomona They saw other parta of the state and their intended stay of four months was.

protracted to 10 months, when they reluctantly returned to the north. As soon aa possible they rearranged their at fairs, disposed of their property and four years ago they came to Long Beach. Mr. Cunning, was a man of deeply religious nature. He united genuine spirituality with an unfaltering love of truth.

He waa progressive, accepting OrO Hall Friday night. the scientific theory of evolution, seeing back of it the great creative Spirit ol the Universe; whom he regardet with the love and trust due a heavenly Father. He had hroihirly sympathy for all men. He believed in the up ward trend of right. With this crew the joined the Unitarian church at Hood River, Oregon, and three yeart ago became one of the charter members of the Firel Unitarian church O' Long Beach.

Alt hisacquaintances am the neighbors who knew him most inti matety attest to his coneistsnt Chris tian character. Cunning loved beauty. In hit-youth he was a teacher of music nd he always retained high appreciation ot that art. His literary productions, both in lettert to friends and in composition! If personal, were marked' with good taste. No- matter what subject he se lected, he was able to express his thoughts with choice diction in a convincing and agreeable way.

He had keen discrimination of what haa merit in books and periodicals. Reading was one of bis greatest enjoyments. During later years, as-his hearing' was somewhat impaired, in society he took little cart in the unimportant chatting that ia properly called "small talk," but the-friends -who aat beside him with the' purpows' of exchanging real ideal that he waa a converter of more than usual interest, for his mind waa full of' interesting information; which he expressed with a flavor of Irish wit and Seoteh sagaeity mingled with something rise which makes the rare possession, paradoxically called "common T. J. CUNNING: WAS CIVIL WAR VETERAN Thomua J.

Cunning, who died recently, at his home in Long Beach, for-many years one of the Hood Itiver valley' moft highly respected citizens. Mr. Cunning, who ftitmerly remtJMj in. the Oak Grove district, muHhUi. fur many years in the Heights section of the city, was a veteran of the Civil war.

tie was an cnthusiastie member of Can by Host, A. and was a past cominandei of the Department of Oregon. The following tribute to Mr. Cunning, read at the funeral service, was handed to the Glacier by Mrs. G.

H. l.ittlefitld, a niece-o Mrs. Cunning: Thomas Jefferson Cunnine, had he lived until today, Nov. 8, would be 77 years old, He wis born in Shanonsville, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, in the year IHiS. He had one sister and three brothers, one of whom, William Cunning, is present.

The parents were Scotch-Irish and they had the sterling qualities of that mingled nationality. They appreciated education and: gave their children all the advantages available. Thomas, at 20, became a teacher. He was 21 years of age. just in time to cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln.

The following year be enlisted in the army. His discharge paper.dated 1864, describes him as 25 years of age, live feet. four inches high, of fair complex Views of Hood River County Library "nuisances" and their "Come daddy, play wif me," after they have gone away or grown up. But your missing them won't bring any smiles to tiny faces that are gone. So it often is between friends.

They too, carry concealed in their breasts their feelings of alTccition and appreciation. When it is too late they unburden themselves and pile heaps of flowers upon the grave. It was a wise man who said, "Give SEE AT THE-. GTRIC ELE THURSDAY, JAN. 6th.