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HOOD KIVEK, OREGON. TIIUIISDAY, JI XE .1. l'Ji:,
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earnings in
the Bank;
U All your labor proves profitless unless you have some
thing to show for the time you have toiled.
11 A Bank account is the best record of industry and
worthiness. It is easy to start and the best friend you
have. It is a stepping stone to success; an honor to the
possessor and the envy of the spendthrift. We help
others save, why not you? Begin with $1.
4 Interest Paid on Savings
FIRST NATIONAL
Capital
$ioo,.oo BANK
Surplus $36,000
Bank Advertisement No. 54
"Blessings on the man who smiles! I do not mean
the man who smiles for effect, nor the one who
smiles when the world smiles. I mean the man
whose smile is born of an inner radiance, the man
who smiles when the clouds lower, when fortune
frowns, when the tides are adverse. Such a man
not only makes a new world for himself, but he
multiplies himself an hundred fold in the strength
and courage of other men." George L. Perin.
One of the watchwords of our office force is
cheerfulness.
It is our aim to perform any duties entrusted
to us by our customers faithfully, cheerfully and
efficiently. We. have a Savings Department in
which we pay interest at the rate of 4 and we
are prepared to do well all the things that are
done by a well regulated country bank.
Our best advertisement is our long list of sat
isfied depositors.
BUTLER BANKING CO.
Get on the Safe Side
It is a good deal better to be safe than to be sorry.
That is why it is good to be on the safe side by sav
ing a little money. It often happens that a little sav
ings account at the bank has carried people over times
when they would have been mighty sorry without it.
No matter how small your earnings, pinch out a little
and put it in the bank. It will grow and you will take
pride in seeing it increase and thankful that you started
Hood River State Bank
FORD.
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
Barring the unforeseen, each retail buyer of a new Ford car,
between August 1914 and August 1915, will receive from $40
to $60 as a share of the Ford Motor Company's profits.
For strength, light weight and dependable power, the Ford
car is without a peer. Economical, too, averaging two cents
a mile for operation and maintenance.
On display and sale by
Columbia Auto & Machine Co.
LONG TIME credit houses must get long prices.
Goods sold on twelve months time must pay two
or more profits.
List up $50.00 you have paid such house? and
compare with our prices.
We Offer You 60 Days Credit
Because that is best we could get.
We Offer You 5 per cent for Cash
Because that is what we get plus the insurance, ex
pense of bookkeeping, stamps, etc.
We Charge Interest if Over Time Is Taken
Because we cannot borrow money without paying
interest.
The net result after three years is that the increased
percentage of cash received creates a change in ratio of
turnover that enables us to reduce price level, while the
5 for cash is always that much less than you are
buying for.
Let us show you the facts and the goods.
Stewart Hardware & Furniture Co.
IF IT ISN'T AN EASTMAN IT ISN'T A KODAK.
IF IT ISN'T A KODAK, IT ISN'T AUTOGRAPHIC
IF IT ISN'T AUTOGRAPHIC, IT ISN'T
Hence:
UP-TO-DATE.
IF IT ISN'T AN EASTMAN, IT ISN'T
UP-TO-DATE
All 1915 Folding Kodaks are Autographic
Let us furnish and finish your Autographic Films
Kresse Drug Company
Store
Victor Victrolas and Records
Satisfactory Titles
arc demanded by the wise buyer. Our work in untiuatioiiei1
and guarantees protection.
Satisfactory Insurance
is deemed a necessity by the wise property owner. Wo represent
10 strong companies and have millions of insurance in the Valley
Satisfactory Bonds
may sometime be required of you, contract, court or security.
When in need of such service inquire of uh.
Hood River Abstract Company
If Your Apples Have Scab
Get into the dairy business. We are in the market
for more cream. We can also use a limited amount
of whole milk. Our CREAM CHECKS are mailed to
reach our customers the fifteenth of each month. Last
month we sent out over eighty. This month they will
go over ninety. You should have one also.
We made 5,000 pounds of BUTTER IN APRIL
lacking one pound. In May we made over 1,600 lbs.
a week and we are selling every pound we make. If
we made more we could sell it also. We want to make
more. Will you help us?
Hood River Creamery Co.
Tht Best Coffee on Earth Sold only at
The Star Grocery, Perigo & Son
"GOOD THINGS TO CAT"
IS EXPRESSED
S1EG ISSUES BOOKLET TO GROWERS
Co-Operation and Common Sense Distri
bution are Advised by Sales
Manager
Last week a circular booklet, written
I by Wilmer Sieg, entitled "A Few
I Thoughts From the Sales Manager,
With an Urgent Request for Your At
tenion," was distributed to the grower
! members of the Apple Growers Associ
j ation. Significant extracts from the
' booklet appear lie low.
I 1 am truly grateful for the confi
! donee expressed in me in calling me
back to Hood Kiver to takecharge of
i your sales interests. 1 have the feel
I ing that Uood Kiver has the best op
I portunities ahead of it for the future;
opportunities unequalled by any other
section of the northwest. 1 was per
fectly willing to cut loose from all alli-
lancea, burn my bridges behind me and
link my future with yours. My furni
! ture is here; 1 have gone to housekeep
ing and want to be a permanent citizen
of Hood Kiver, realizing fully that my
future can be just what you help me
to make it. My .whole time, thought
and attention will be devoted toward
trying to solve the mighty big problem
that confronts us, and the only help I
want in .solving this problem is your
cooperation.
An experience of nearly 30 years in
marketing fruit products, together
with a constant study during the lust
three years of such points as would
concern your interests, prompts this
circular at this time.
In the first place, let me say that
from a logical standpoint there never
should be local competition in the hand
ling or marketing of Hood Kiver fruit.
I take the stand that we have in flood
Kiver, to a degree, a special product,
the distribution of which cannot be
competitive with the northwest in gen
eral, because our main varieties (Spit-
zenburgs and Newtowns) as grown
here are not produced to equal advant
age elsewhere. With this feeling that
we produce a special product, we of
Hood Kiver need not worry as to crop
conditions of any section. There is al
ways room at the top, there is always a
market for a specialty, provided we
make it a specialty by adopting'the
two cardinal principles; first, monop
oly of product; second, common sense
distribution.
It is very regrettable therefore that
the only harmful competition we have
comes from among ourselves and 1 am
in hopes that the sun will soon shine
bright enough to let us see the error of
our ways.
1 start the season with the warmest
feelings tuwards all shipping organiza
tions in the northwest and with a will
ingness to cooperate with them in any
and all ways that will best protect your
interests.
We intend to market our products di
rect because we feel that the maximum
results can be secured for Hood Kiver
through the medium of direct attention
and direct sales service and this can
only be attained by direct etTort under
your own guidance.
It is our purpose to specialize Hood
River fruit every day in the year and
we are building up a sales force in ev
ery portion of these United States that
will work for Hool Kiver superiority.
You have at the present time facili
ties sulhcient at Hood Kiver to properly
house such proportion of your crop as
should be held here. The duplication
of expense of building new warehouses
at this time is unwarranted and means
only unnecessary debts that you must
pay in the future.
You have at your command now the
finest terminal facilities in the north
west and I do not know of another sec
tion in these United States that offers
the producer the same chance for pro
tection at the same light expense.
Your own interests are founded on
economy of handling and results se
cured fur your product. The protection
of your own interests demand closer co
operation at home and the full use of
your own warehouse facilities.
iiood Kiver is practically the small
est apple section in the northwest.
This valley can never be greater than
the counties that nature gave it.
In years past you have built up a
recoid for quality that is still an asset
to you. No other section can steal
your name, and with the advantages
that i'rovidence has given you, if you
cannot monopolize your pioduct and
obtain the commercial advantage that
lies at your door, our hopes fur the fu
ture must te founded on sand.
I come to you a a specialist to diag
nose your trouble, to locate the weak
spots and stop the leaks. Sales service
is not the only cure we need, but we
must blame a lax inspection for a cer
tain share of our evils. 1 have been at
both ends of the line. I know the evils
at home as well as i.i the market and if
I cannot change these conditions 1 will
have failed in my duty.
There has been a period of demoral
ization and we want to profit by exper
ience and not experiment. There are
too many in the field trying to feed on
the dissatisfaction of the grower in all
sections. The medicine must tit the
disease. Don't look to short crop sea
sons for your salvation because shot t
crops are only periodical, and if we de
pend on them our orchards will have
little or no value.
Persistent organization, cooperation
at home and common sense salts meth
ods are j our safeguards for the future.
Another important fact to be taken
into consideration is that the brands we
are building up are your brands and
can never be taken away from you be
cause we specialize Hood Kiver exclu
sively. No matter what may happen
' to the Association in trie future, its
method of work and its established
' brands will all innure to the benefit of
I Hood Kiver in general. The brands
others are putting out mean nothing to
I you because you do not control them.
; Should any occasion arise wherein oth
ers would not continue to enter into the
marketing of your fruit, these brands
could be taken away and other sections
! with even moderate amounts of the
same variety of fruit.would profit from
j your work. Think this over; it's worth
while.
I T he season past was full of disap
pointments, but the Apple Growers As
sociation, box for box and grade for
grade, will return more net money to
its members than any other organiza
! tion in the northwest. If you can ac
complish this result when working
jointly with the entire northwest, can
not you figure out the benefit to be
derived when working alone and spe
cializing our product.
When it comes to handling a tnnr.agu
such as Hood Kiver can f urtnh, and
when we can figure for all time to come
j that the biggest percentage of our
product will be Spitzetiburgs and New
i tons. 1 believe I am in position to know
j positively the value of a local organiza
tion as compared with a general organ
ization. The hbIcs etfort we put fotth
on the main varieties we specialize will
certainly show a beneficial effect as
well on the several hundred cars of odd
varieties grown here that aret.ecis
sarily competitive with the same vane
ties grown here that are necessarily
competitive with these varieties grown
elsewhere in the northwest.
Another thought 1 want to crmte is
that taking into consideration the
main varieties we grow, and the splen
did terminal facilities we have for the
protection of our fruit, I firmly believe
that no other section in the entire
northwest is as well enabled and
equipped to go alone as is Hood Kiver;
provided we cooperate among ourselves
by protecting jour Association and
making quality a factor in our output.
The future of this valley is going to
be what you make it, and every growtr
in this valley will tie a dominant factor
in the building of success or the crea
tion of demoralization.
In building on right lines and creat
ing the fullest measure of confidence
among ourselves no factor plays so im
portant a part as the method of fruit
inspection. I am glad to report that
your directors have placed that impor
tant department in the hands of Sam
G. Campbell. This gentleman is too
well known to need any introduction
and returns to us after two years spent
in working through the entire north
west. Mr. Campbell brings to us an
experience from both the producing
and marketing ends that is a guarantee
to all and will be a factor in bringing
Hood Kiver to the front.
LOCAL ROSE SHOW
SET FOR SATURDAY
Hood River will have its first rose
carnival and show next Saturday after
noon and evening at the Unitarian
church, file display of wonderful blos
soms that may be seen on every hand
here will be made. The rose show was
inspired by a visit of Mrs. William
Stewart to the West Side place of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert G. Dieek.
"1 want the Hood Kiver people to
see some of these wonderful roses of
yours," said Mr. Stewart, "and 1 am
sure you would exhibit some of them
at a show, provided we have one."
Mrs. Dieck assented at once, express
ing her wonder that Hood Kiver has
never before had a rose show. Mrs.
Dieck has a wonderful collection of
roses and other flower at "Topside '
ranch. Her Irish roses, a new und
beautiful variety, are now blooming.
She captured prizes at the Portland
rose show last year with some of her
flowers grown here, and varieties that
will be exhibited Saturday will be tak
en to Portland.
The rose gardens of Hood Kiver have
never been more beautiful. Mr. and
Mrs. W. F. I.araway, whu have a beau
tifusl collection, the lluweis completely
surruuding their home on Front street,
have floral gems of which anyone would
be proud. Mrs. J. W. Armstrong, on
the Heights, has scirea of different va
rieties, well cared fur and beautiful.
Mrs. Stewart, who is promoting the
show, has one of the handsomest gar
dens of the city. Judge Derby has a
collection of rare rose plants.
Others who have fine roses and who
with the above named rose fanciers ate
expected to exhibit specimens of their
flowers Saturday are W. 15. McGuire,
D. G. Jacksun und E. A. Franz.
"Hood Kiver apples are known the
world over," says Mrs. Stewait. "And
they Bay that The Whole World Kiiowb
the Portland Kose. ' And the Hood
Kiver rose is every lit as fiie rs that
of Portland."
Everyone in city or country is invited
to exhibit flowers at the Saturday
show. It is probable that many with
some of the rarest Mowers are not
known, and it is hoped that all wi 1
take this opportunity to bring in their
flowers. Those who wish to plant rose
gardens and who desire to learn what
varieties are best suited to the local
climate should nut miss the Saturday
show. Prizes will be awarded for the
best exhibits of a dozen roses each.
F. C. EXCHANGE GET
TING READY TO RU1LD
The Fruit Growers' Exchange has
leased l."0 feet of frontage on the
tracks of the Mount Hood Railroad
yards east of the Hood Kiver Canning
Company's plant, and are making final
arrangements for the construction of a
three story storage and warehouse.
The first story of the new building will
be of concrete and hollow tile. It will
have an approximate capacity of 75,000
boxes of apples.
J. E. Ferguson, formerly an architect
at Astoria, who was recently elected to
tne board or directors of the selling
agency, will superintend the construc
tion of the new storage plant.
The Fruit Growers Exchange is now
making daily shipments of strawber
ries," says Manager McKay.
WASCO BOY SCOUTS
ARE CAMPING HERE
A party of 17 Scouts, of Wasco, ac
companied by the Scout Master, Itev.
W. S..Crowder. pastor of the Wasco
Methodist Episcopal church, arrived
here Monday morning fur a week or
more of camping on Hood Kiver. The
boys were enthusiastic little fellows,
and made themselves at home in seeing
the town. They stopped at the Slocnrn
& Canfield store, where they had their
pictures made.
Kev. W. B. Young will preach to the
Scouts at the Asbury M.E. church next
sunday morning, and in the evening
("the Scout Master will occupy the pul
pit
The members of the party were as
follows: Marion McKee, Donald and
Francis Clodfelter, rd Miller, Clarence
Yocom, Orval Silvey, Clyde Curry,
Herbert Ellsworth, Pearl Everett, Max
Venable, l.ynde Smith, Emory Fuller,
Delhert Surratt, Lloyd Royse, Wayland
Weld, Mac Crowder and Harold Sisces.
SUIT THREATS
MAY BE DROPPED
STANTON CONSIDERS THEM LIGHTLY
(illicials After isit to Columbia Highway,
Have I'raise for Manner in W hit h
Work is Being Done
While tfe O.-vY. R. & N.; Co.;haa
threatened;.! suit for damage? against
the county on account of the delay
caused its trains several weeks ayo,
when heavy I, Lists wire discharged at
Mitchell Print, where the Standifer
Clarkson Company's men are digging
a tunnel for the Columbia highway.
County Judge Stanton thinks that for
mal demands will he dropped, and that
the mutter will soon be cleared up.
Judge Stunton says that he has dis
cussed the matter with members of the
contracting company and J. A. Elliott,
in charge of the Work for the slate,
and both tell him that the.blasts were
set olf mth the full knowledge of the
riiilioad's trginter, who, indeed, set
the time of the bliista and who offered
to have a steam crane at each end'of
the long line of di hns.
Accompanied by County Attorney
Derby and Commissioner Hannum,
Judge Stanton has inpsected the Mitch
ell Point work. "All danger of delay
to trains are now over," he says.
"The contractors are progressing very
rapidly with the tunnel work. Three
holes have been cut in the aides of the
tunnel and the debris is now being
dumped through these. These open
sides will make the Mitchell Point por
tion the most talked of piece of the
Columbia highway."
While on their tour of inspection the
county ollicials visited a point near
Starvation creek, where the county,
with C. Johnson in charge, is building
a line of dry masonry retaining walls.
Mr. Johnson formerly had charge of
rock work for J. li. Yeon. Multnomah
county's rondmaster.
Through some error this piece of
work had been left out of the contract
of the Newport Land & Construction
Co. Although 11. R. Newport was re
cently called on hy the members of the
county court, Stale Engineer Cantine
and Leslie Butler, member of the ad
visory board of the State Highway
Commission, he refused to do the work
at the price quoted in the contract, this
price ranging from $1 to $3 per yard.
Mr. Newport asked !f().4!5 for the work,
and the county considered that the
work cuulu be done more economically
if it were handled directly.
Judge Stanton, Judge Derby and Mr.
Hannum were taken on their trip west
of the city by K. F. MarquiB in hil
automobile.
- "Thu mud no flip built ' ibvi .liwtoA
, - . , - -
liertiy, "looks mighty fine to me.
work seeniH of th heat It will
August before the tunnel work is com
pleted.'"
ROY CHASE CREATES
The
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When Joe Nix and Abe Rosstein, two
boys who were hanging around the sec
ond hand store of Gross & Hnxor on
Third street Monday, stole a box of
watches, they were delected by Mr.
Gross, who demanded the return of the
goods. Hut the hoys, striking the pro
prietor of the store, rushed to the
street. Gross made full use of his
lungs, also following aa fast as he
could run. For a few minutes the chase
would have made good scenario stunts
for moving picture manufacturers.
The boys ran first up toward the K.
of I', building. They crossed down
across town. and headed for the jungles.
A dozen or more men and boys were in
hot pursuit. E. A. Franz happened
along and with a pair of pruning
shears, leveled as a pistol, did effective
work.
It is probable that the boys would
not huve been caught had it not been
fur George Orr and others, who were
fishing in the lowlands.
City Marshal Carson says that he
thinks the boys are wanted at Pendle
ton; for he found un them a manicur
ing set, reported to have been stolen at
that city.
One of the boys, Joe Nix, recently
escaped from the Reform school at Sa
lem. He will be returned.
Nix's true name is said to be Nicho
las Comlioglcs. Hu formerly lived in
Portland, but was sent to the reform
school for crimes committed in The
Dalles.
John O 'Conner, a third boy, was in
volved in the theft from the second
hand store. T he ollicers have not yet
been able to locate him.
CARSON NIPS PLANS
OF ROY DESPERADOES
When City Marshal Carson started
home Tuesday evening he was joined
by John Zolls. "Let's step to this oack
window," said Mr. Carson, and "see
what the boys we have here are talking
about."
The men soon learned. The boya
were discussing plans fur escape.
They were proposing to strike the mar
shal the following morning, when he
camt to feeil them, nid make their es
cape. Mr. Cars. m's Kentucky temper
gut the l est or linn at that moment,
and he immediatvly arose, saying,
"Here I am, boys, Ou that trick you
were talking of now."
While one of the boys was being ex
amined before Judge Duck, the other
broke up a chair, tying the pieces to
gether and reaching with the stick thus
formed for a key left in the lock of an
adjoining cell, made un attempt to es
cape. Prof. McLaughlin's Father Dead
The funeral services of the father of
Prof. J. O. McLaughlin, C. S. Mc
Laughlin, occurred at his home, Mar
kle. Pa., on Tuesday, May 24. Mr.
McLaughlin was 70 years of age. In
addition to l'r f. McLaughlin, another
son. Dr. Charles McLaughlin, a physi
cian at Freepurt, Pa., and his wife
were left surviving by the deceased.
Prof. McLaughlin, who was called
east on account of the fatal illness of
his father, will return home Friday
evening.
Mrs. P. S. Davidson is visiting Port
land friends this week.
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