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The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., June 30, 1916, page 2

GLENWOOD NEWS AND COMMENT BY A VISITOR

Trout Lake, June 27, -- The Glenwood Grange gave a comedy, “Topsy Turvey” at Kuhnhausen’s hall Friday night to a crowded house. The production was well staged and the audience was well pleased. Miss Nelda Howe, in the title role, exhibited and will make her mark some day, if she desires, as an ingenue, in a marked degree. She received much favorable comment. All the cast played their parts with ease and understanding of the art. The band which was organized last January, rendered selections between acts, and have proven their efficiency.
It may be well to say here that the band is constructing a hall 45x70 feet in size. This is in Wild wood park and a diamond will be near, where ball will be played during the summer.
It is reported that a hotel will be built near the head of Hell Roaring canyon where visitors to this scenic point may comfortably sojourn.
The town of Glenwood has improved wonderfully during the year. Several bungalows have been constructed and new business houses have been built. The garage would be noticed favorably in a town many times the size of Glenwood and fills its place to the satisfaction of patrons. With public halls, churches, amusement places, its hotels and restaurants, its well stocked stores, its pretty homes with well kept lawns and gardens, Glenwood presents an air of prosperity equaled by but few towns of the same size in the county. Camas Prairie and Troutlake valley are the playgrounds of the county and should receive more visitors this season than for any time in the past.
There are two resorts near Glenwood that will be open to the public this summer. One at the old Dairy Creek ranch eight miles northwest of Glenwood; one at the Parrot place on the Klickitat river near soda springs, and yet another at Hell Roaring Canyon, already mentioned. The first two will be easily accessible for Yakima people. It is here that a bridge will be constructed across the river connecting the auto road between Yakima and Glenwood.
The people of Glenwood and vicinity are a social people who are very gracious to the stranger with-in her gates and once visiting there one wants to come again, and, in fact, one is urged right royally to repeat his visit.
There are many new acres being placed under cultivation and irrigation around Glenwood. There is plenty of water for irrigation above Glenwood and it is high time that the entire people of Camas Prairie get together and construct a system of irrigation. It would make the valley blossom and yield crops of clover that the rich soil has been waiting to do for many years. Let a Camas Prairie Development company be organized and each citizen stand solidly together for his own and his neighbor’s prosperity and work together for an irrigation system. This is what the valley needs right now. It can be had. The snows of the mountains are eager to help the hand of man; the rich soil is begging man to aid it by bringing the showers down from the glaciers. It will be expensive at first by it will pay. It simply requires willing hearts and hands to make Camas Prairie one of the best spots in the state. When anyone lends all his energy to bear on a certain project it must be a success.