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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (June 4, 1914)
he IB VOL. XXVI HOOD 1UVKK, OH 1X5 ON, TIU'KSDAY, JI NK 1. 11U4 HOSE 4 ply ply Kauga garden hose 50 ft ready to use .nd a writ ten guarantee for two vears. $6.00 or $5.70 Cash Simply can't be beat. Bull Dog Hose 20c ft. or 19c cash 3 in. 10 oz. Irrigation Hose 100 ft. $3.25 or $3.10 for cash Mill remnants 8 ft. in finest garden hose. Roofing and Paper Sale of damaged and marred pack ages at 1-3, 1-2,3-4, and 9-10 of value, will continue till closed out. 20 styles of Quick Meal gas oline stoves at a saving of 25c on $1.00 Herrick Refrigerators are simply too wonderful for the truth to be told in an ad. Ccme and get an ice cold drink that never touched the ice, and see matches, salt, but ter and vegetables keeping in perfect condition for weeks. Great Lace Curtain Sale at 1-3 less continues. Bed Spreads, Pillows, Blankets Comforters at money saving prices. Lodges or Societies requiring chairs can have any quantity up to 500 of $12.00 Folding chairs at $6.00 per dozen ; 200 or more $5.50 dozen Stewart Hardware & Furniture Co. Hardware, Furniture and Orchard Supply House Hood River - Oreg'on Reed (Si Henderson Incorporated General Real Estate and Insurance Brokers C7 nnfl Accident Policy, with CQ7 Rfl ?f,3UU Weekly Indemnity to wl.OU Business Men for $24 per annum. Rentals Loans Investments Surveying and Engineering We Have Money to Loan on First Class Farm and Orchard Land BOOTH DELIVERS MEM0R1ADDRESS MANY CITIZENS GO TO IDLEWILDE Audience Assembles I'nder Oaks, Where Senate Nominee Impresses All Wiih Words to the Old Soldiers THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK 3 ON SAVINGS j HOOD RIVER OREGON 4 per cent Interest SAVINGS DEPOSITS will bear I 'i interest after June 1st. This increase in rate is made to encourage systematic saving. Every dollar deposited before June 5th, will earn you inter est at Vic per annum, payable September 1st. Everyone should carry a savings account in a strong bank. It teaches the child a valua ble lesson in saving. It provides a reserve fund for the man or woman who would be come independent. We are at your service and invite your deposits. 1 UNDtR U.S.If COttRNMENT I (JSUPtRWSIOwJ 1 ft vi u a i capital & Surplus $l33.000jj Eli p "" i 1 THE HOME OF QUALITY GROCERIES Our Bill of Fare iH so extensive and varied that our patrons have a wide range for selection. Buy select groceries that have been selected. FreHh Fruit and Vege tables. Also a fine line af Cookies just in. Ask about Whijisit. ELITE GROCERY J. R. KINSEY, Prop. Phone 4451. Bell BKlg. We give Stamps FORD THE UNIVERSAL, CAR If your pocket-book could talk it would recommend the Ford. The man who obeys the voice of economy invests his dollars in Universal car. He knows it serves his every purpose best and at lowest cost. Buy yours today. Five hundred and seventy-five dollars is the price of the Ford runabout, f. o. b. Hood River; Model T touring car is six hundred twenty-five f. o. b. Hood Kiver. Columbia Auto & Machine Co. Kresse Drug Co., The Rexall Store EASTMAN KODAHS AND FILMS I.ESI.IIC BUTLER, President TRUMAN BUTLER, Vic Pn-.iji nt C. H. VAl'GHAN. Cashier BUTLER BANKING COMPANY ESTABLISHED 1900 Capital, Surplus and Profits Deposits over ... $125,000 450,000 Four per cent interest compounded semi-annually in our Savings Department. American Bankers Association Travelers Checks, payable in any civilized country on earth. Safe Deposits Boxes in Modern Steel Chest. JUNE TIME ROSE TIME GOOD TIME PORTLAND THE OREGON-WASHINGTON RAILROAD & NAVIGATION COMPANY will sell Round Trip Tickets at greatly reduces fares for the eighth annual ROSE FESTIVAL PORTLAND, JUNE 9-12 On sale daily, June 7-12. Final return limit, June 15. Make your plans now to attend Portland's annual feast of roses. For full particulars, fares, schedules, etc., ask J. H. FREDRICY Agent, O-W. R. & N. Hood River, Oregon" New Harness and Shoe Shop at O. B. Evinger's Old Stand on 12th Street Good Machines and Reasonable Prices. Have had 25 years Experience in the Business. Your Patronage Solicited. J. W. DICKENS The Dividing Line THE BANK ACCOUNT is often the Dividing Line between Success and Failure. GREAT THINGS often come from Small Begin nings. Start the Saving Habit. Open an Account at our Bank, no matter how small. Systematic Sav ing will firmly fix the habit that will lead you from poverty to independence and a home of your own. We will be glad to help you in any way we can. HOOD RIVER BANKING & TRUST CO. With flags on the public building at halt maft, Hood Kiver paid tribute Saturday, to the memory cf the nation' suliders who have answered the last call. Saturday was a typical Hood Kiver summer day, a brilliant sun shining from a blue sky. A large number of the business houses were closed until two o'clock in the afternuon. The banks were closed the entire day, and a hush pervaded the streets. In the forenoon the members of the Knights of Pythias formed in line at the hull on State street and marched to the cemetery, arriving at 10.30, where they were met by the Canby Post, (!. A. K., the veterans of the battles of a half century ago met to observe their ritualistic services over the grave of the deceased comrade, Geo. M. Wells. A large number of the citizens of the city and valley assembled at the ceme tery. I he children of the public schools of the city were present, singing patri otic song and engaging in impressive Hag drills. After the rituralistic services of the Pott, the people-men, women and children -gathered under a grove of oaks at the west end of the cemetery. where the program was rendered. The chief address of the day was delivered by R. A. Hooth, of Eugene, Kepublican nominee for the United States Senate. The impressive oration of Mr. iiooth follows : This sad hour is freighted with sa cred memories of those gallant heroes who made it possible that the homes of America should be reunited; that beneath their roofs should be learned the meaning of constitutional liberty; that the sparks from their firesides might kindle the flumes that would burn out the low passions of oppression, create a new light for the down-trodden and give new meaning to liberty. How appropriate that we should not forget the heroic dead and honor the noble living! This beautiful custom, born in the southland, has spread throughout our nation, but now, as never before, envelopes the whole re public with love and affection that shall not die as long as (lowers have fragrance, as long as unselfish devotion to principle is cherished by a grateful nation; a nation not circumscribed by narrow borders from North to South, one that reaches from the ice-locked ocean to the tropic sands, one that sends the thrill of its greatness to every habitation and builds hope in every human heart. Men of the blue uniforms, 1 would not, 1 could not, detract from your fame. I but increase it when 1 extend to all the union the words of sympathy and the assurance of greatness that bt longs to thiH day. The first memor ial days were born in the Valley of the Shadow of Death. They seemed the only bright spots that shone effulgent through the sable clouds of bitterness and stilled for a time the walls of deso lation arising from hearthstones of desolate homes and yielded balm for broken-hearted women. Hut we are rising to loftier heights, we are view ing with an extended vision, and for getting all losses as we contemplate the immeasurable gams. A debt was cteated to the soldier that the nation cannot pay, but the cost of that struggle, terrible as it seemed, was then and is now justified by the freedom that it gave and the priceless heritage that came to all people for all time. The shattered sycamores and tht blackened walls of ruined homes, standing in mute silence, appealed to Heaven not in vain, for today the re joicing of it he Unionist is mingled with the iny of the Confederate bound up in kindred ties of a common country; bound together by the intercourse of the forum and the market place; bound together in trie sacred interchange of domestic affection and cemented by the loved little ones who reverence alike the grandsire whether his face was turned northward or to the sea ; and so, "From the Bilcnce of sorrowful homes The desolate mourners go, Lovingly laden with flowers Alike for the friend and the foe, Under the sod and the dew Awaitnig the Judgment Day, L'r.der the roues the Hlue, V!f,der the lilies the Gray." The war is over. The intervening years hve bound up the wounds and reunited the broken ties. It is related that in the darkness at Gettysburg the auldiers in bluctwd the soldiers in gray knelt side by side U quench their thim at the same spring, not being able to distinguish friend frous foe. Today there is no foe ; all knee) at the same altar and drink from the same fountain. The sunlight of freedom shines alike upon all our fair land. All over the south today the rolling seasons in their course have covered the scars of war with their verdure of the better years that have come to our reunited people. The embankments of the old forts are covered with fruit trees, and birds are whistling in the grassy embrasures from which once the cannon blazed. Nature waves her peaceful pennons over all the shot-plowed sod ; yellow harvests grow in the fields were stood vnur guns: violets cover the ground drenched with slaughter; and children there with shout and laughter are chas ing the sunny hours away, all thought less of the dreadful tragedy of carnage once enacted around them. Your shrill fifes and rattling drums are Bilent. Your victorious northern bugles have sounded the last charge. Your cannons slumber in silent arsenals, ror car3 your shredded and riven banners that nnca bUzed in the forefront of battle have been furled in triumph in our cap itola. The silvery moon by night shines 'unon a sleeping land of peace and I mighty people repose in peace beneath the broad 6hield of the Union. Let not ! those be forgotten by whom this peace was won. rorcct not the men who through life must hobble on the maimed stump or wear the armless sleeve. Kevere the memory of those who, figting, fell, and with each re-tni-niiiir Mav visit their Braves and lcr.ve thereon the perishable tokenB of imnerishable regard. And last and kiehest of all. love with a lofty devo tion the country which they died to ave and transmit the Union, which they preserved by costly sacrifice, un harmed to posterity, ever believing thai "behind the dim unknown stand- th God behind the shadows keeping watch above his own." There remains no bitterness fast fades the regret. Brother met brother; all their cour age and fidelity belongs to America. Kach considered the other wrong; edu cated in antagonistic school of thought. both firm in conviction, neither could yield; one desperately upholding a thought, both of mediaeval time and contending for the rights of states destructive to national interest, the other upholding a constitution that had for its central sun the declaration of men s eqality, and fur its frame work the mighty ligaments that held the new continents of nations together. Mighty iasues! Supported by men with no thought of fear, none of retreat ! A nation's life in the balance! Nations yet to be must recieve their mould from the verdict. Nothing in history surpasses it. W ho could decide? None but a God. He who formed the conti nent where the Medea and the 1'erisans could dwell ! He who planned the sone where liberty's cradle Bhould be rocked while the Neros were held at bay. He who gave new conceptions to master intellects, purity to great hearts and irove the Napoleons into exile. He who inspired Columbus for his voyage and protected Wasington at Valley Forgo, gave victory to Union arms and freedom to all the world. His spirit touched the souls of men. His ear heard the sound of victory : his pitying eye saw the stains of blood. He healed the broken hearts and reunited broth ers in a compact of love, freedom and peace. He has caused sectional confu sion and civil stife to cease. The veterans of the Confederacy. mingling with you, testify to the living reality of a fraternal national spirit. which has triumphed over the differ ences of the past and transcends the imitations of sectional lines. This is a triumph of American greatness, the crowning ol the years, and thus we march out into the new century with our unity complete. I fie country saved by the Union army is become the theatre of the world's greatest events. The achievements of your arms, men, are achievements for ub all. You fought the battles of civilization. The day the colonies declared fer In- depenence, the contention that followed to enact it into law and the surrender at Yorktown have their counterpart 'n Lincoln's declaration that he would save the Union at any coat, the support given him by the Union Army, and the surrender at Appumatox. As the Civil war was great so seem its issues mo mentous. There were other great con (lets, other great victories; barbarians had been driven back in the interest of civilization, but no master mind amid all the huropean culture seemed to grasp the idea or control the elements necessary lor federation. If they had, the history of the western world would have been differently written. This work was left for the statesmen of the new hemisphere, born under a different sky, surrounded by a different horizon, wrapped in a different mold. The acts and deeds of our statesmen and soldiers can never die. Their deed are imperishable. I hey built new stiucture but they built better than all others, their character and service will continue undiminished in influence and advance in the estimation of man kind so long as liberty remains the cor nerstone of free government and integ rity of life and the guaranty of good citizenship. Our country breeds great men, men for every calling; men for every occa sion. From every walk of life has come men for our congress, our soldiers and our treasuries. When great issues are involved our patriotic people re spond with their votes, their taxes and their lives. No duty has seemed too great, no burden too heavy, no cause long waited for a leader, From the people came a Chase when our nation was without credit and our vaults without specie. Ha was called to mighty task. He could not reach forth his hands to have them filled by the ravens but with rare genius and con sumate skill he began and completed the chain that bound together the vari ous interests of the loyal section. Hi plans bore the mark of statesmanship, wero recognized by the world to be comprehensive and complete but like every thought born to the minds of those times, like every plan to be per formed, they rested for a base upon the patriotism of the people. The foundation pioved as adamant, firm as the eternal hills, given without mens ure and continued through life. And the country's cause was not without advocates. In the halls of congress voices were heard as out of the clouds, pointing to the intent ol the fathers, showing the necessity of Union, the beauty of freedom. From the pulpit came the mighty ap peals that touched men's hearts plead- r i i . . i : i ; . . ; .j . . i ng lor numan equaniy anu imuviuuai NEW CANNEIi NEEDS HELP BUT FEW GIRLS RESPOND TO CALL Local School Girls May be Induced to Help with Strawberry Crop -Canning Process Interesting Although hampered because of lark of labor, the Cloud-Newton cannerv as been one of the busy places of the ty this week. Although room has been provided for 130 girls, but about 30 have responded to the call. These re busy stemming the large perfect strawberies that growers have been bringing to the city this week. We were not expecting this condi tion," says K. H. Cloud, who with his partner, J. K. Newton is actively in I. t L .? iimnc ui mo canning operations. With the light force we can not near ly run the plant at capacity, and as a consequence much of the fruit that we could use here is necessarily being hipped out of the city." lhe cannery, which cava a cent a ound to those bulling and stemming the berries, offers an opportunity to local girls to make neat incomes this summer. Last summer, as will be re membered, many of the high school iris of the city and valley made Din money packing cherries. The cannery tiers a similar occupation, cleanlv and one of the best ventillated and ghted buildings in the city. In Cali fornia and the Willamette valley high school students spend the summers working in the canneries. The em ployment of preparing berries will last through the season. Help will then be needed in preparing cherries and peaches, which will follow the straw berries. Mr. Cloud thinks that as soon as the people of the city and valley un derstand the nature of the work and the need for the help, the ranks to great extent will be filled. Monday morning a woman who had coma from alitorma to work in the White Salmon cannery, which had not begun opera tions, applied for and was given work. The cannery is packing four grades berries, each can containing 14 ounces of fiuit. "Every pound of fruit worth six and a half cents to the valley," says Mr. Cloud, the "the sum of two cents being paid out in labor." It Is an Interesting sight to watch the berries as they pass through differ- nt stages of the canning process. From the crates of the growers they are are taken to the tables, where the iris "husk them. They are then taken in pans to shelves within reach of the girls who place them in the cans, each can being weighed. Next the sugar cylinder is placed over the can. each can receiving the same amount. hey are then placed in cabinets. where the sugar is forced by steam uniformly through the fruit. The cans are taken from the cabinets, the cylinders are removed from them and caps palced on them. They are then run through the apping machine and placed in a large vat, where they undergo a heat that cooks and sterilizes the fruit. Experts who have seen the new can nery building say that it is one of the best arranged in the state. Skylighta in the roof give plenty of light and ventillation. It is equipped with a rest room for the girls. One hundred and thirty-two lockers hsve been construct ed there. The buiiidng is 60x100 feet. The basement will be used for storage, having a capacity for 30,000 cases of canned fruit. The benefits of the cannery will be most felt in the valley when the peach crop is ready for harvest. Heretofore peaches have been a drug on the mar ket, the cannery will use the entire output this summer at a fair return to the grower. liberty, and in every congregation and home where righteousness had a cham pion, the Union cause found a friend. Hut abroad the enemy ol iree govern ment leagued with the messengers of hell, used the arts of diplomacy to dis solve the Union and sent forth the messengers of destruction, expecting that a government robbed of its tress ure and stripped of its munitions of war could never stand forth among the nations to demand an accounting. Even for this emergency God had inquired a brain and nerved a heart, and 8B Franklin bad gone forth in ear lier vears to strengten the way of In dependence, so Ueecher now plead abroad for the American union nan unacquainted with moral fear, and ntensilied with a subject world-wide ts hearing, everlasting in its effect, guarded by the angels of Heaven, he rtond amid jeers and hisses but above the tumult was lifted his voice saying 'Standing by my cradle, standing by my hearth, standing by the altar of the church, standing by all the places that mark the name and memory or. neroic men who poured out their lives and blood for princple, I declare that in 10 or zU years Ol war we win sacrmce evervthing that we have for principle, If the love of Donular liberty is oeao in Great Britain, you will not understand no - hut if the love of ibertv lives as it nnce livnd and has worthy successors of those renowned men that were our an cestors as much as yours, and whose examples and principles we inherit, to mnk fruitful as so mucn seed corn i a new and fertile land, then you will understand our firm, invincible deter mination, deep as the sea, firm as the mountains, but calm as the heaven above us to fight this war through at all hazards and at every cost." f DAK1N ASKS BEE ORDINANCE REVISED W. W. Dakin, of the Heights, who has a large apiary, complaint against which led the city council to pass an ordinance, providing that not more than five stands of bees be kept by an indi vidual in the city, appeared before the body Monday night, pleading that the strict provisions of the new Taw be not enforced. Mr. Dakin declared that the bee buisness was his living. He stated that he had given a good por tion of his life toward the propagation of. bees for the benefit of the orchard community. He was asked to bring in a written petition before the council could take any action. I he street committee plana on visit ing Portland to look Into the advisabil ity of purchasing a road oiler. Instead of concrete paving on Twelfth street oil bound macadam will be laid. Such action was taken at the Monday night meeting. WALTON RESIDENCE GUTTED BY FLAMES (Continued on Last Page.) The homo of W. H. Walton and his sister, Miss Amie Walton, was gutted by fire shortly berora noon luesday, aad but for the quick work of the Vol unteer fire department, which reached the scene with the speed of profession al firemen, the home of C. D. Nickel sen, directly east of the burned house. might have been destroyed, as a nign west wind was blowing. The fire started from a defective flue. It was discovered by Mms Wal ton, who heard the crackling while in the kitchen preparing lunch. All o' the household goods were removed without damage. Rhododendrons in Bloom The rhododendrons, hundreds of acres of them, at the headwaters or the West Fork and in the Lost Lake dis trict are now in full bloom. The bush es, which have a leaf something like the southern magnolia, are about waist high and are covered with beautiful pink flowers. The blossoming rhodo dendrons are the lure for many people who have been visiting the Lost Lake district this week. One of the mountain snruos was brought to this city year before last for Judge Derby by Raymond Markley. It has thrived on the lawn of the Der by home on Cascade avenue, and for the past week it has been loaded with the pink blossoms.