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s I HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER I, 1920 No. 28 VOL. XXXII The Busiest People in the World are those who, In the census, are always listed as having "no occupation." They are the housekeepers the makers of homes, the managers of husbands and children, and of the family income and its outgo. Every day more and more of these busy women are realizing that the budget system put into operation with the help of a bank account, is the only efficient way of managing household finances. This Institution is glad to render assistance in the preparation of budgets. It welcomes accounts of women. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK HOOD RIVER, OREGON fa feVii W i)cTr:nmiii;:miiiiii;imniriiiiitfi nm.Tiirainiiini rnmiii:rmnrm::mimTi Mi i kill ' ' 1 1 1 ' ' L M "Every Banking Service" That slogan means that the Butler Banking Company Is capable of fur nishing every help that can be re quired ol a financial Institution. Whatever may be your business in Hood River, you can transact it through the BUTLER BANKING COMPANY New VICTOR Records j Whispering. ( The Japanese Sandman. j Avalon -Just Like a Gypsy. Best Ever -Medley. THE BEST DANCE RECORDS By Paul Whiteman and his Ambassador Orchestra. 1 COME IN AM) HEAR THE OCTOBER RECORDS LJ Kresse Drug Co. The ffioXQlflL Store Ul Member Federal Reserve System i i " BORDEAUX PASTE Freshly Prepared. Will Save You Time and Trouble. Bluestone Lime Arsenate of Lead DO YOU KNOW that quality it) Coal is of vastly greater im portanee than the price asked ? OUR COAL is frpt' from pluir and carc'tilly screened. It gives you tin' id a x i mil tn of ) i m with the minimum of ram, and burns bright sad dean right dowa to the a -1 1 I, HoW in. it'll shall IN send yovl HOOD RIVER FUEL CO. Phone 2181 Fourth anil ( :,is. I "FRIEND" SPRAYERS It Will Pay to Order Early. Hood River Spray Company Phone 2421 If its for Spraying we can furnish it Extra Pants 20 Reduction ALSO THE Sale of Shirts at 20 Discount STILL CONTINUES J. G. VOGT DW1GHT-EDWARDS Dependable Brand COFFEE DEMONSTRATION November 8, 9 and 10 Drop in and get a good cup of Coffee PINE GROVE STORE A. F. BICKFORD. Prop. WHY swelter in the heat, and shiver in the cold, when you can combine the activity and thrift of the open car with true homelike comfort in the Oakland Sensible Six Sedan? Nowhere does an automobile invest ment pay higher returns than in this moderately priced and efficient car. We are exhibiting the Oakland now at our salesroom, frj OAKLAND SENSIBLE SIX Ofr Cm ,VW, KmUam Ftm ft itMi.Omy 2i f O. B Ptm. MkMhsm. UHhnJ Jr Wwt JTfcrf IfM'twr. Hi HEIGHTS OA RAG I; APPLE HARVEST IS COMPLETED FINE WEATHER PREVAILS AT CLOSE ("annin Stocks Now Bringing $12 Per Ton Apples Must He 21 Inches or Larger While the first three weeks (if harvest were characterised by unprecedented rains, the picking isMon closed in a burst of glory. Last week was ideal for harvest, and growers were enabled tn get their fiuft under cover without difficulty. The Apple Growers AmccI atiou up to Saturday had received In excesi of 460,000 boxes of fruit, and more than 800,000 boxea have been de livered to other shipping concerns While more than SO pet cent of growers are through packing, owners of large orchards, who are equipped with com modious packing houses, have rushed B plea under cover and their packing crews will be busy The market oper canning stocks of : Neil & Libby, of 'I ing selected cann The same quality and up last season, the fruit be 2 inches in diameter or larger. The first killing frost prevailed here 1 last Saturday morning. Sunday morn- j ing the temperature was still lower and Monday morning the thermometer j of Leroy Child registered a low as 1!) degrees above zero. Tomato and pota ! to vines on extreme low levels were j killed, and the many flower gardens of j the city were ruined bv the frost. Ice a half inch thick formed on still, shal- low pools. Practically all apples, however, were picked, and the cold, it is said, resulted InSnO damage. up last brunt-lit $20 per ton It is lequiied Unit BOOTLEGGERS DRAW FINES FROM 0NTHANK and William Hi .ill, ninary trial was apprehended on ad from Hosier d liquor for sale and confined In after a fight hc- I. II. Mow aid when arraigned Fri illegally possessing iruili v Before Justice thank. Their prali held Saturday mornii Howard and llewit information telepho that they had offer there, were arrested pul Thursday night tweet) Howard and officers, and a Might through the business section of town in an automobile Howard, aeocrfling to the story of ollicers, declared that he would rather lie than be arrested. After the two were conquered and had offered to drive their automobile to the jail, they made a break and applying the iKiwer hurled the car down town streets. Unacquainted with roads they ran Into a blind pasratrS OH the north side of the O.-W. I!. & N. tracks near the passenger station. Their car SOU tai led seven gallons of whiskey and a supply of bottles and corka. The men give Portland as their home. C. D. Nickel. en conducted the de fense Saturday, and Judge Derby ap peared for the state. Hewitt was fined $200 and Hewitt $100 Mr. Onthank considered that How a d was t he lead er. It was Intimated during the trial th:;t the men were merely acting for some higher up princpals. MODIFIED ACT TO INCREASE CIDER While the burden of proof is still placed on the manufacturer to show that the beverage was turned over to transportation companies for consigi ass in a non intoxicating state, the Vol stead Act, according t notice received from internal revenue headquarters by 1 ica I cider manufacturers, relieves Mm manufacturer from further respnnsibil ity after such delivery. Formerly the act hell the manufacturer responsibls even after cider leached the retailer As result of the drastic interpretation of the law, cider manufacture was gri a'ly curtailed throughout the North west. While C J. Calkins, manager of the Hood River Apple Viregar Co., say the ruling v. ill rot change the local condition greatly, as practically all culls would have been used at any i ate, he tays the relief of the manu facturer will greatly stimulate cider mat mfacturo in the large Washington district, Yakima and Wenatchee. SCHOOL DISTRICT IN FIRST CLASS ftf. EL Niekelsen, who has just com pleted a census of children over four years old, reports a total of 1,015 in the city school district. Five hundred and thirty-one of the youngster are girl. The increase over lasl year is M "Ihe numlicr. passing the 1,008 mark, brings Hood River to the point of a lirst class district." says Mr. Nick el.sVn. "The outstanding feature of my canvass was the number of 4-year-oid children. I found M 4-year old boys and 2'J girls." LEGION PLANS FOR BIG ARMISTICE DAY The feature of the evening will star at 11 o'clock, sharp, no matter if the j floor is crowded with dancing couples, j Dance music will stop, and the feature will be staged without further prelim ! inary. The committee is not giving out the information as to what may be I the nature of their "stunt, " but say : that it will be something new and at the same time something novel. All ex-service men are requested to appear in uniform, as this is the one time during the year when the ex soldier gets together with his buddic to celebrate the close of the world war. All ex-service men, whether they are mem I ers of the LsgiOfl or not, are asked to be present, in uniform, for the evening's entertainment. General admiaaionhss been placed at 25 cents per person, dancing for the evening being $1, in addition to the gen eral admission for men It is the hope of the Legion mem bers that all citizens of Hood ltiver will get behind this dance and push, for the building fund and Legion fund are sadly in need of all the money they can take in. GAME ASSOCIATION With a dance in the ev ing a foot ball game in t the American legion pro he ate Armistice lay rig Flans are fa.-t I hag of a dance Th an m i I, in Pythis it is the it tenth f l in (harire, Kobt. . Mi li irn and Allv i Button, laid for iav ever Nai to u a ;.ture mtl.l pewsriett to be s u i -,u '. Ir.e K nights of f xeirnng new rn thias hall will h NATION SWEPT BY REPUBLICANS HOOD RIVER VOTES WITH PARTY All Parly Candidates Except George Cham berlain Swept to Victory Folk Hear Returns at Club Rooms The Hood River County Came Pro tective Association has cancelled the annual banquet, set for Friday nieht. The officials of the organization had planned China pheasant as the piece de resistance of the dinner, but, PiSI Fredricy declares, the game birds are not ubtainahle as a result of the whole sale slaughter by visiting hunters. "Portland men came here by the hundreds," he says, "and as a result it is difficult to find pheasants now. Un der protection the handsome fowl were almost as tame as chickens and they were killed by the hundreds tnc lir-t two days of open season. Those left have learned to be discreet and they have either fled tu safe retreats in the high places around the vhlley or have sought refuge on orchard places where shooting is not permitted." Mr. Fredricy says that the game or ganization will hold an annual banquet the lirst Wednesday night of Di et min t when ollicers for the ensuing year will he elected. COMPARATIVE COST IN BUILDING SHOWN A graphic example of the increased cost of building is shown in the con struction of the new brick and eaji Crete school to replace the old Park Street frame school. '1 he old beilding, built mors than SO years ago, cost only $10 01)0. The row struct ure will cost about ijtit'i.OOO. The average ost per room in the oi l structure, accc. riling to figures furnished by the city super intendent, was $1,100 per room, where as the average cost, for the new struc ture will be $i,lr)0 per room. The old bell will be transferred to the new building. It was purchased through contributions of studi-nts of sari) days. EXCAVATION FOR HO TEL PROGRESSING A crew of men is now engaged in ex cavating for the new tourist hotel Ht Wau-Quin-Guin. The new hostelry will be three stories with foil base ment. The pi. ins call for a roof gar d n, an I n bum- searchlight, to play on surrounding snow peaks and the scenic points of the gorge, will he installed. The ground measurements T the hotel are 185x96 feet. A wide verandah will overlook the falls of Pbelpa creek which la ip for 200 feet over the canyon side at the point. Landscaping will make the m ist of the ere', k which me anders through the grounds. Trucks are now engaged in hauling crushed lock, sand and cement to the site of the new building, to be erected by the Dinwiddie Construction Co, of I'orlland. The structure will tie of concrete, it will be readf for the heavy tourist traffic expected next spring. HOOD RIVER WINS OVER CAMAS HIGH Hood RivSf high school foot ball team shut out Camas, VVa.-h., high Fri day, wore 17 to 0. This is the first HUM won this season by the local buys. Touchdowns, with goals kicked after both, win made b Kino Annuls aid Kay Slavers. Clifford Creen kicked a tit Id goal. Friday afternoon the local team'will plav Fst onda. The game will be called on tiibaon field at IH. Bath Bstecstta and Ho d Rivsf have de feated Camas. Coach Fleischmann has made a new line-up by shifting his men. ASSESSED VALUE JUMPS $456,770 The tax roll pleted by Ast total valuation crease of year. No vabi; w hich addi I t year, is Inehsdl I Ten years a here was less tl suiting from dairvinir catt for the ; MSN H ear. ju.;t ci m--khHin, shows a of ra .ver i.r,24.r, an in that of last lotor vehicle-, the roll a. I ear's r II. ulue of rattle Tod grass UK valued at ..... j:; i. LUMBER MAKING A HEAVY DROP thi bo in lumber re id a keen d.'- gnasM kavf This is a Republican year, and a landslide through all the nation, except the solid south turned toward Harding and Coolidge, Tuesday. Hood River county's vote went forward on the tide, and nil party candidates weie given the party vote except Robert Stsnfield for United States Senator. George Chamberlain led Stanfield in more than half the precincts. Cham ber lain, according to latest returns yesterday, was running neck and neck with Stanfield thotighout the state, al though Oregon has rolled up an enor mous majority for Hauling. Hood River's vote was lighter than expected, under 75 per cent. The town turned out strong Tuesday night to attend the meeting at the Commercial Club, where returns were gathered. The Knights of Pythias band WSS resent. After giving a con cert on the street corner the band boys Sppesured in the club assembly hall and gave several pieces. Coffee and dough nuts were served. Hood River county voted more than six to one against the interest measure, the anti-vacciuation bill and the state market commission. The port bill car ried, and the bird refuge hill went through b' a small margin here. J. R. Nick risen Is elected to Ihe state MOSte. In Wasco county in tfl pre cincts out of .7.) he received 2146 votes to Haz ett's 1308. He ran about 200 ahead of Haslett in this county. Hasbrouck defeated Hannum about 900 h re. Baker defeated Derby by 160 votes in the countv. A late dispatch from I'ortland yester day announced that Stanlield has car ried tin.' state over Chamberlain. MISS EZMA JONES KILLED BV AUTO Miss Fzrna Jones, retired nurse ged 66, was instantly killed Tuesday night, when struck by an automobile driven by Miss Bertha Cate. daughter of H. II. Cstei Miss Jones' neck whs broken She was returning home from the Rock ford store when strm-k hy the car. The accident occurred ab.iut (.16, The young woman, who was pros trated after the tragedy, aecoiding to those who were at the scene of the ac cident became confused when she tl iee I 1 SteSt her ear around another a u torn ibile turned put for a spiay mar chine. She ran too far off the highwaf and struck Miss JbnaS, who was well to ttie side of the road, it is said. Miss .hu es is suivived by an only brother. Lewis Jones, locomotive engi neer of Walbi Walla. Miss Jones, who was a nurse in New York, hhs lived here for many years. She took a great interest in civic affairs of the community. During the war i.o ope served more patriotically limn she. She was beloved by all who knew her, and her tragic death left a pall of grief over the community. iFuneral services will be held at the Anderson chapel today at 'I p. m The body will be shipped to Walla Walla for interment. .1. H. GILL DIES VERV SUDDENLY The many Hood River friends of J. H. Gill, for many years a resident of the Heights, were deeply grieved and shocked la t Thursday when news arrived here of h s death erlv that morning at Sheridan, where for several months he and Mrs. QUI have been making their home with their son, Charles GilL The bock was all the more felt because Mr. Cill had just arrived b me after a visit here. While in the eitv he called on friend and c immtn'ed on the good health that had been his in the Sheridan district, Wr.lie he ha, I been seriously ill when living here, the Yamhill climate seemed to agree with him. News of Mr. Gill's death came in a telegram to W. H. Taft. Mrs. Gill's brother, who hastened at once to Sher idan. Funeral services were held Sun day afternonn at the I'ortland crematorium. surviving children are Verna l! I. "ghaiu. and Miss Fdvth veteran United States Army Otbei Cill. of Cill. a name. Toe the fill Wilson, Mr. and Slavens. Mr. and M'S. Mrs. I.. K. in I'ortlan for I Mrs. John A. C V. Prffer, Taft and f. M R. W. 0RDWAV FU NERAL HELD FRIDAY Funeral ferviees for R. W. ()rdwv. Belmont orrhardist who died Wednes day of last week, were held today. Mr. Oidway, who was C7 years old, was a native of Wisconsin. He rume to the vallev with his family 17 yearn ago. In addition to his widow he is survived by the following rhildren: Karl and Clen Ordwav and Mrs. J. H. Sjrrtll. of Hood Rrirer ; Mrs. William Stewart, of Vane over, and Mrs. C. L. Moot.ey, of Neheowtaw, Wash. FIREMEN TO HOLD THANKSGIVING BALL The fire denartxe-it will hold an Bed i re A Sci will be om fa Use. and err'mcnt. being printed a dance souvenirs. been rut. The cjt will range from $6 Dr. Collie, wtss las beea ill fbjr i to $15 uer thousand, it is stated. time, is improving in hetJlh. i