A Father’s Long Search for a Missing Son
Twenty years after his son disappeared following a summer in the White Bluffs valley, a Yakima father offers a reward for news of his whereabouts.
Mr. Druce said that his son, Edwin, who spent a summer here about the time of the town removal from the river, disappeared shortly after he returned to Yakima and has never been heard from since. The father thinks that possibly the boy went to war but is not sure. Mr. Druce says he will pay a liberal reward for information that will lead to the present whereabouts of his son.
“Mr. Druce says he will pay a liberal reward for information that will lead to the present whereabouts of his son.”
The disappearance of a young man, possibly linked to the trauma of the Great War, highlights the enduring personal cost of the era's frequent migrations and the instability of life during the town's early development.
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