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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1921)
HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1023 VOL. XXXII No. 33 CONOKNSKD UK PORT OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF HOOD RIVER, OREGON AT THE CLOSE OK BUSINESS DEC. th. 1920 Resources : Loans and Discounts $492, 503. 35- United Stales Bonds and Other Securities 29(5,075.51 Bank Building ami-Fixtures 52,704.65 Other Real Estate 950.00 Cash and Exchange 223,670.73 $1,065,904.24 I.iahililics : Capital Stock 1 .'. $100,000.00 Earned Surplus and Profits 31,563.84 National Currency 96,800.00 Rediscounts none Borrowed Money none Deposits 837,540.40 $1,065,904.24 Cash Reserve $223,670.73 Legal Reserve required 46,383.00 Excess over Legal Requirements $177,287.73 Statement of the Condition of the Butler Banking Company, of Hood River, Ore. at the close of business, Dec. 29th, 1920 RESOURCES Loans and Discounts , $799,850.38 U. S. Bonds and Treasury Certificates.. 23,878.00 Bonds, Warrants and Stocks 95,282.63 Savings Department Loans 364,658.78 Safes, Furniture and Fixtures 9,940.00 Real Estate 24,559.17 Cash on Hand and in Other Banks 190,343.65 $1,503,513.21 LIABILITIES Capital Stock $100,000.00 Earned Surplus and Undivided Profits 50,314.07 Deposits 1,216,799.14 Rediscounts and Bills Payable 141,400.00 $1,508,513.21 Member Federal Reserve System. SNOW! Now is the time to make a Kodak Story of the wonderful scenery about your home. Snow pictures are always interesting and its fascinat ing sport to make them. We develope and enlarge your pictures. Ex pert work and 24 hour service. REMEMBBR-Ifit isn't an Eastman it isn't a Kodak. KRESSE DRUG COMPANY The QjoJUL Store Come in and hear the January Victor Records. -"' sSgg A GOOD FIRE REQUIRES GOOD COAL It's easy to keep the house com f o r t a b I y warm and at a uniform heat if you have just THE RIGHT COAL for your heater. Why not have us send you a load right away? There's plenty of cold weather ahead and you are sure to need some. HOOD RIVER FUEL COMPANY Fourth and Cascade Phone 2181 A jaunt in an Oakland Sedan gives an idea of the great usefulness for which this car is fitted. Highly powered, scientifi cally light and splendidly balanced, it pursues a steady, pleasant course through traffic, on country roads, over hills and when inclement weather is added to the other condi tions encountered. I'll llll I U BP I II I HI II I rtX. my m OAKLAND S ENSIBLE SIX OprnCar?n95, RoaJtttr JS1395. Four IW GcJ.n JS20C5. Coupe J2065 F. O. B. Pontile, MichiRan. A Jditiima! I ir Wire Wheel F.quipmenl. ?H5 HEIGHTS GARAGE f J. I". VOL8TORFF, Proprietor PRUNING TOOLS We carry a full line of all kinds Hand Pruners, Poles, Loppers, Saws. fczbotzpl Let us outfit you with Rubber Boots, Boot Socks, and other items needed for this sloppy weather. YOU NED A FRIEND SPRAYER YOUR NEIGHBOR WHO USES ONE WILL TELL YOU WHY ORDER NOW FRIENDS ARE MADE A LITTLE BETTER EACH YEAR Hood River Spray Company Phone 2421 PINE GROVE STORE A. F. BICKFORD, Prop. Satisfactory Freight Service This is what we claim to render. That we haVe been successful in rendering satisfactory Freight Service is shown by the very liberal patronage we enjoy at points between Portland and Wyetn where we have been operating for the past two years. Our service to Hood River is but an extentiou of an already successful line. We will protect your interests. Rubber Stamp Ink at Glacier Office THE WARREN TRUCK LINE Phone GLADDEN 4242 Hood River Depot Fashion Stables. Portland Depot, jj? North Second Street. MANY GROWERS ATTEND MEETING INTEREST IN SMALL FRUITS LIVELY Experts Advise Horticultural Diversifica tion. Canners and Processors Assure Growers of Market 1 1 ' l : i . 1. iti . i l. : . - vvmic Hppies win leumiii mm- it- show, orehardists of Hood Kiver, judg I ing by the large attendance and enthu siasm displayed at a mass meeting : Thursday, are ready to add to their I horticultural activities the cultivation of small fruits as no mean-sized tide ' show. I While local growers for several years have been considering horticultural di i versification by the introduction of i more pears, cherries, blackberries and raspberries, the freeze 0! last winter with the resultant damage, has stimu lated interest in small fruits. Al though from a general standpoint the December, 1919, unprecedented cold weather but slightly affected the pros iierity of the district, a number of in dividuals sustained severe losses in killed or permanently injured apple trees. Leroy Childs, who presided at Thurs day's meeting, in an introductory talk delivered the keynote reason for the determination of local growers to plant small fruits or pears instead of apples. Mr. Childs recently made an extensive tour of eastern and middle western apple districts. He pointed out that the annual yield of the United States' apple orchards is reaching an enormous tonnage. Growers of the commercial districts of the east, he cited, have been aroused to the benefits to bo de rived from scientific care of their tracts and in the application of strict grading rules in preparing their prod uct for market. He pointed out the burden that has been placed on north western growers by the heavy increase in freight rates. Mr. Childs is a warm advocate of table varieties of pears to take the place of many of the winter killed apple trees. He suggests that local growers are assured of a good market for such varieties as D'Anjou ar.d Bosc, both of which he says thrive under local climatic and soil conditions. Mr. Childs points out that the produc tion of such pearB in other parts of the country will always be limited became of an inferior quality and for the reason that fire blight prevents plant ing of pears in many sections. Mr. Childs says that the present tonnage of table varieties of pears does not more than supply the populous centers of the eaBt. He says that Europe, where the pear is a favorite fruit, offers great opportunities for market development. While the Bartlett pear. Mr. Childs thinks, will not offer as high returns, he thinks it a staple va riety, because of the demands of can ners. Bartletts, he savs, along with Winter Nellis, as a table variety, are tieing planted as a favorite in Wenat chee and Yakima, Wash. Mr. Childs believes that growers of the mid-Columbia section are missing a good bet when they fail to develop a more extensive market for fresh sweet cherries. He declares that nowhere in the world is a more appetizing or per fect fruit grown than the Bing or Lambert cherry in localities between The Dalles and Portland and in the Willamette valley. The limited ship ments of this fruit to eastern markets have already created a widespread popularity, he says. Mr. Childs elab orated on methods of cultivating cher ries, pointing out that growers must plan on a system of pollenization by putting in a certain percentage of Waterhouse trees, a fruit equally as desired by canners as Royal Anncs, now grown in great quantities in the state. In the replanting of old orchards Mr. Childs pointed out the necessity for plenty of plant fool for the young trees. Because the old tree has used up most of the plant food, he said, orchardists have often found it difficult or impossible to start a new tree. It can be done, if plenty of care is given the work. The new hole should be large. All old roots should be re moved, and then the young tree should receive an adequate supply of fertilizer and be kept well cultivated. Where an entire tract is to be replanted, it is urged that the new trees be placed as far away as possible from plots occu pied by the old ones. Clark Seedling strawberries, which have won a national fame for their shipping qualities and for their superi ority lor canning and preserve makini?, for mor than 2ft years have been largely grown here. High prices for this fruit have stimulated strawberry planting to the point the past three years mat it is uimcuit to s cure sum cient plants. Gordon Brown gave growers at the Thursday meeting fig ures on a 10 acre strawlierry tract, on typical berry soil of the valley. At the third harvest last year, this tract produced 2,530 crates of packed fruit, which sold for a gross sum of .f I" Is . Canning berries from the place sold for tt& Mr. Brown's figures showed that the total cost of production for each crate of berries was $2.f5, which left a net return of $,IM9. "I have never observed the figures of any orchard undertaking that have inspired me any more," said Mr. Brown, "but I would warn growers undertaking the strawberry business j that a five or 10 acre tract is a huue undertaking in itself. The preparation of the land and the purchase of equip- I ment costs money. The grower must MM suitable soil and set his place with strong plants, else he may be ! robbed of profits." J. H. Stahl, of the I'uyallup, Wash., 1 experiment station, (rave grower a detailed address on methods of plant ing raspberries, loganlierries and black - berries. It was asked him if growers with large families were not the most prosperous small fruit farmers. Mr. Stahl declared that such was the truth. He said that women and young girls make the best harvest hands in berry di-trirts. "Bivswill not do for this work,"! raid Mr. Stahl, "we cannot tolerate' them up in our district. A boy will 1 ge a handful of berries aud see MM face of a fallow picker near. It is a target that he cannot resist. B ys in berry patches mean r ugh houses. Girls are eager to make morey to buy new clothes. They are nimble with their fingers and take an interest in their work. We have found berry growing and poultry raising a good combination. The women taKe care of the poultry and the men attend the cultivation of the fruit, but at harvest time the women play an important part. " Mr. Stahl pointed out that insect pests do not injure vines or fruit 1 1 the extent that spraying has been found necessary. He suggested that local growers, in case they enter the small fruit industry on any appreciable scale, divide their plantings as follows : 60 per cent raspberries or loganberries or 30 per cent of each, 20 per cent strawberries .arid 20 per cent blackber ries. Mr. Stahl recommended tin- Fv ergreen blackberry and the Cuthbert red raspberrv as the more desirable I varieties. J. H. Mohr. a l'ine Grove lorchardist pointed out that black cap ra.-pberries thrived here. The visitor sain tnis variety couiu not be grown in his district. He declared that growers would find a greater demand for this fruit if they could grow it in commer cial quantities than for the red rasp berry. Manager Clark, of The King Fruit Products Co., with plants at Salem and The Dalles, declared that grower, would have no difficulty in selling their fruit. He addel that huge quantities of berries ate now shipped to The Dalles plant ol the company, for dehy dration, from the Willamette valley and I'uyallup. Mr. Clark was especi ally optimistic over the loganberry, oiders for which, he said, were pyra miding each yoir. He said a market was immediately available for 2100 to 2600 tons of this fruit. Mr. Clark, however, warned against the mi ing of the two forms of horticulture. Field Manager Gill, of The King Fruit Products C ., .expressed the belief that an excellent quality of berry c;;ul I be grown here Legalise of inigition water. Mr. Stahl, too, said growers could better control their plantings liecj use of irrigation than can be done at I'uyallup. - Manager Wilcox, of The Dalles plant of Libby, McNeil & Libby. at tared the growers of a market for all the small fruit, Bartlott pears and peaches they might produce. Grower.! from all parts of the Hood River, valley and from neighboring Wasnington orchard did. rids were present. The local experiment station distributed blanks which will be used in determining the number of apple trees injured last winter and the ex tent t which local growers desire to enter the small fruit business. Mr. Stahl advised against planting berries Biul trees together. Silch pro cedure), he said, would prevent fpu y ing. He advised the planting of straw berries as fillors for young tree. Books on Small Fruits The library, as a result of the keen interest now being diaplayed, has listed the following books and pamphleU on small fruits ! Brown The Brambles. (O. A. C. Bulletin No. 192.) Card Bush-Fruits. Powell Orchard and Fruit Garden. Taylor Small Fruit Culture for Market. Brown The Strawberry. (0. A. C. Bulletin No. 140 ) . Corbett Strawberries, (Farmers' Bulletin No 19S.) Fletcher Strawberry Growing. WilkinsonModern Strawberry Grow ing. Corbett Raspberries. (Farmers' Bulletin No. 213.) . rown Loganberry. (O. A. C. Bul letin No. 105 ) Gardner Loganberry in Oregon. (O. A. C. Bulletin.) Lewis & Brown Loganberry By products. (O. A. C. Bulletin No. 117.) GAME ASS'N RE ELECTS OFFICERS At the annual meeting of the Heed River County Game Protective Asso ciation all c I i officers were reelected by acclamation. They are: J. H. Fredriey, pre ident; Geo. I. Slocom, vice president; A. R.. Cruikshank, treasurer; A. L. Day, secretary; and Frank Davenport, Jr., O. H. WMM and J. F. Thompson, trustees. T e organization adopted a resolutions, in structing the officer! to present a num ber of petitions to the State F'ish and Game Commission. The local game organization, the members of which, cooperating with the city and cojnty, have expended a considerable Burn in opening the mouth of Hood river, by the con truction of a diversion dam. in order that mora tory game lisli may enter the small stream from the Columbia, have asked the state commission to complete the work. Hood river a number of years ago was declared a spawning stream for salmon. A petition asks that a closed season be placed here for at leat a year on hunting China and native pheasants. After shooting is again permitted, the loc.il club appeal to the state commission to set tl.e first 10 days in November as the period of open season on Chinas. The local as-ociatijn which for more than a year has been working on the proposition and in making available a site, asks the commission to establih a trout hatchery on HooJ river. The state eoMMiseion is also asked to clean out the inlet and oulet of boat Lake, said to be choked with debris, in or :er that the stream may be available as spawning grounds. The commission is petitioned to exert every influence to secure a i lost . I season on black bear. These animals, it it said, are slaught ered ruthlessly in seasons when their flesh and fur are valueless. Last spring the local game associa tion secured a measure from the state commission which closed the Fast, Middle and We-t Forks of Ho 1 river to fishin until June 1. A supreme c urt decision indicates that the reso lution is invail ), a such authority is not vested in the state commission, j A new code, which the commission proposes to present to the legislature , however, will give the commission the power of regulating closed season on any stream . I F. M. Brown, deputy state game warden, was present for the annual meeting. Masonic Dance Series Planned Because of the success of a Masonic dance held v December, the lodge has appointed J. M Culbertson, H. D. W. Pineo, Harold Hersbner and Kent Shoe maker as a committee to arrange for a series of three daneea for the remain der of the wint r. The first of the ser iea was given lust night at the Knights of Pythias hall. CITY HALL IS NEARLY READY THE INTERIOR IS FINELY FINISHED Flvery Facility is Provided for Firemw. Building Contains Jail, Sick Ward and Comfort Stations Hood River's new city hill, the total cost of which wib reach approximately $35,000, will be ready for occupancy aa soon as interior work has been com pleted. The new structure is 67 feet square, It is built of hollow tile, and the front is faced with brick. The outsanding featuie of the new citty hall is the council chambers, 28 by 36 feet. Finished with soltd ma hogany aud with panels of San Domin go mahogany and Japanese grass cloth, the chamber is the most beautiful pub lic hall in the city. On the second story is also located the combined office of the city recorder and city water superintendent, which is finished in Oregon fir. This room is 30 feet square. A n assembly room, 28 by 40 feet has been arranged for the con venience of the volunteer fire depart ment. A shower bath has been pro vided for the firemen, whose quarters up to the present time have been crudely improvised. The re.-t of the upper Moor is de voted to sleeping quarters for the en gineer of the tiie department, who will havu charge of apparatus, including a new $L.,000 motor lire engine now uxp Died uny day, a large store room and a l.cdioom for the city water su perintendent. A regulation brass pole w il lead to the quarters of the fire engine on the lower story. The new puilding includes every fa cility for fire fighting appralOJ. Here tofore the firemen, following fires, have beon forced to stretch their hose on street walks to dry. The now itl ticture includes a drying closet ex tending the full height of the DJ tiding. A jail room baa been included in the new city hall. In addition to the cell room, provisions have been made for a sicH ward, where ailing prisoners may be cared for. This ward supplies a long felt need for the city. For the convenience of moto- tour ists, large rest rooms and lavatory quarters for both men and womon have been provide!. Numerous other rooms and closets are provided for snopwoik and for the storm iif materials und supplies of the water department. In the rear of the capacious room where tire appa ratus will be hou.-eJ, Mr. Price will have a laige workshop for hit depart ment. The city marshal has an office ajdjoining the tail. It will be equipped with a signal (lght, as will the record er's office, so that the marshal may be reaclu-d instantly ffooa any part of the city. li.e vault insures safety for the records of t e city. It is 9 by 16 feet, urrounde on all sides by concrete strongly reinforced with steel. The structure's plumbing is so artanged that it can be readied without disar ranging any wall or partition. The building ia healed by a hot water sys tem. Becsuse of the slope to Second street, the second story of the building is entered from the street at the south west corner by only a few steps. The entrance is gained by a handsome ves tibule. The building will be illumi nated by indirect lighting similar to that at tho Highway Auto Co. "1 have bud much to do w ith build ing," says Citv Water Superintendent Price, who hai been in charge of con- uraaMon for the city, "but 1 have never come in contact w ith contractors who have been so willirg to live up to and mure than live up to the terms of their agreements than have Messrs. ialdwia & Swope. The builders have done everything possible to make the structure just what it should be." Mr. Swope designed the building. The city has pnehased an entrance to the new strut iu:e from State street from Dr. Dumble. Sheds for housing tools and equipment belonging to the city will be erected in the rear of the city hall. The city council plans on a formal reception us soon as the stiucture is onene-d The citizens of the city will tie invited to participate in the dedication. BOYS PROFICIENT IN MILITARY WORK Sixty eight boys of the Junior High School here, under direction of their principal, C. C. ewhouse, ex-service man who was with the Rainbow Divi sion, have made rapid strides in mili tary training. With eiht squads par ticipating, the youngsters now execute he manual of arms like veterans. In drills on the streets, where they have assemble.! to advertise basket ball games, the youngsters have attracted widespread attention. The boys are very keen in their work," says Mr. Newhnuse. "and it has been a pleasure to watch them de velop. The schoxd is proud of them. Officers of the company are . Cap tain Ross Cooper; 1st lieutenant, Ralph Green;' 2nd lieutenant. Bud Cooper; 1st sergeant, Archie March bank ; duty sergeants. Jack Cram. Jesse Hawthorne, Lynn DoUttlas; and corporals. Lyle Guthire, ML Cram, lieonard Thomson, L liner Dakin, Asto lay Post, Hal Wittenberg, Carl Calan dra and Huw.rd Flint. I. rtland l owlinj! Tram Here Soon Plans for Daring the Portland Ail Star Bowling team, which will go to Spokane Sunday to howl a five game natch with the Spokane Ail Stars, have been cancelled, the Port landers having been cheduledto go by way of the S P. ft S. R. R. Co. C, K. Kruae. who with F. E. House has juat launched the Blue Diamond Bowling Alleys htre. is a member of the Portland team, which will meet the Srvkane bowlers in m return match in Portland on Sunday, January 23. On the litter date, a large number of local bowling enthusiasts will visit Port lard to see the interstate contest. At some future date the Portland team will come here for match with a picked local team. Interest in bowling ha been stimu lated here hy an offer of J C. Meyer, a tailor and an enthjisast fins-!. To the man who make the highest cor between now and Mar 1. Mr. Merer will gi e a $50 suit of clothes. "s 1 1