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00 o HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1921 No. .'57 VOL. XXXII 71 11 ill I I r- " 1 ! For Depositors' Protection A LL National Ranks in the country are obliged to , report five times a year to the Comptroller of the Currency at Washington; and twice yearly their affairs are minutely examined by agents of that De partment. This institution welcomes Uncle Sam's investigations of our activities, because they serve to emphasize our strength and standing. We invite your investigation of our ser vice. We know its quality will please you. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK- HOOD RIVER, OREGON " 'II 1 I 1 -- II Is not cheapest per ton BUT it IS cheapest per Unit of Heat Ask any King Coal user. Are YOU buying Pounds or Heat Units? HOOD RIVER FUEL COMPANY Fourth and Cascade Phone 2181 &e LIBERTY Presents LON CHANEY The Screen's Greatest Character Actor, famous for "The Frog" in "THE MIRACLE MAN" a3 BLIZZARD The Legless Crook, in "The Penalty" Also, 2 Reel Comedy Topics of The Day The Liberty Orchestra Vet a Kolstad on the Liberty Organ TWO DAYS ONLY Monday and Tuesday February 14 and 15 No Raise in Prices For that Cold TAKE Rexall Cherry Bark Improved. Riker's Mentholated White Pine and Tar. Elkay's White Pine Tar and Cherry Comp. Rexall Laxative Aspirin Cold Tablets. Rexall Grippe Pills. KRESSE DRUG CO. The ffieXOtflL Store Come in and hear the latest Victor Fehruary Records. 1B0 Lincoln's Birthday "The beauty of Lincoln's immortal char acter has thrown in the shade the splendors of his intellect. The time will be when the severest critics of mental philosophy and mental development will sit in judgment and admiration upon the splendid brain of that great man. His terse and beautiful rhetoric rivals the utterances of the greatest orators of the past and present. He was truly great." Bishop J. P. Newman. This Bank will not be open Lincoln's Birthday, February 12th BUTLER BANKING COMPANY Member Federal Reserve System I THMIIIimHIHIipfTTftfc"tTfimmTTTIT Hood River Abstract and Investment Co. J. W. CRITES, Pres. K. W. SINCLAIR. Sec. ACCURATE ABSTRACTS INSURANCE ALL KINDS LOANS REAL ESTATE Our Customers will find us endeavoring to make our regular prices in line with the new mar ket levels. N E W The First of Spring Merchandise. Heavy English Corduroy Breeches, durable seat, close fitting knee, beautifully tailored, in Sizes 30 to 36 $7.SO Shirts, Belts, Walkover Shoes, and many other things of much importance for the careful shopper will undoubtedly be on display before this goes to press. J. G. VOGT NATIONALLY KNOWN MERCHANDISE PINE GROVE STORE A. F. BICKFORD, Prop. YOU NEED 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 JUDGE WILSON MAKES APPEAL GREATER FAITH IN GOD IS NEED Jurist Calls as Witnesses in Support of of His Plea Such Characters as Washington and Lincoln in fe.lra nppn at the curiosity. HarryaConnawav grew hunery at The Dalles." The train was just leaving as he ordered a ham sandwich. He planked down a dollar, but couldn't i wait for his change. It was the high est priced food bought on the trip. The Wasco lodge served a banquet The Hood River band returned amidst plaudits. Their concerts, it is declared, formed the hit of the convention. CITY HALL VISITED BY MANY CITIZENS Judge Wilson in'an address here Sun irht hefnre the Sunday Eveninir Club of Riverside Community chnreh, appealed for a greater Christian spirit uality aa a solution for the discords that beset the nation. Judge Wilson approached his subject, he said, as an attorney presenting a case neiore a court. He cited the economical and nolitical crises t -at confront the nation and the world. He decried the secret whispering of Bolshevism, which he declared would strike at the funda mentals of the United Mates as UOd and its founders intended they should be and follow the footsteps of Russia. Judge Wilson then summoned as his witnesses leading characters of Ameri can history to give testimony in sup port of his plea. He cited the prayers hHt Washington offered in time of stress or moments of triumph. The .... m ... a . mm I II - f I abiding laitn 01 jonn iviarsnaii, oi Lin coln, of Garfield and of General Meade who preserved the Union by victory at Gettysburg, all were shown. "We cannot pick up a newspaper tndnv " Hid .IimI.t Wilson, "without seeing its front page given over to incidents of discord. (Jet in a crowd of fellow citizens and their chief con versation is about the discordant notes. There is something wrong with thin world of ours today, ine crisis con fronting capital and labor causes us to view the situation with alarm. We wonder when and where the solution will be. The crying need of the time is for a greater spiritualization. All ..f ...... mIm !,... rpnri I hp Kerintnre III V V 1-1 ir nun. ...... F and 1 have read it but little, will have noted that whenever the chosen ot r.nH the children of Israel, were in stress they were attempting to pursue their course witnoui ine support, on a supreme being. "If we will note conditions we have seen that men, when discordant condi tions arise, think they can enact a a t,v new legislative bills. The- Oregon legislature is now in session. How many new bins nave neen intro duced? And yet the old discords con tinue Hut as sunbeams nierce the clouds of night, so. I believe, w II those spiritual rays, it we wouiu omv avail ourselves of them soothe and set at rest the troubles t a beset us." Judge Wilson touch, d lightly on the evils of some motion pictures. He de clared that this problem could be easily settled by a closer cooperative relation ship in the family. He suggested that the family discuss such things, pass upon them and then act on tha deoson. Judge Wilson said the problems of cap ital and lalior would vanish, if onlv the two sides of our national life would deal more in accord with the Sermon on the Mount. L B. Gibson presided at the meet ng. With Mrs. C. H. Henney in harge the girls' and boys' choruses of the high school rendered songs. Rev. Hoddy paid a tribute to the students and their director for their successful efforts at socializing the community. OVERLOAD OF MOON SHINE IS COSTLY An overload of moonshine cost Dr. H. D. Thomas, dentist, Roy A. Newby and T. McDonald, all of Portland, each $25 and costs before Justice of the Peace Onthank last Thurday. Dr. Thomas was released from prison after his attorney in Portland had conferred by telephone with District Attorney Baker. The other two men spent the night in jail. Sheriff Johnson and Deputy Moat were en route to Cascade Docks by automobile to return EL M. Benson. 19 year old youth, who claims Bend as his home and who was arrested for enter ing a lodging house with a pass key and surreptitiously spending the night in one of the hostelry's rooms. Traffic Officer Murray, headed for Cascade Ixicks on his motorcycle and about a mile ahead of the other officers, found an automobile parked at a sharp curve in the middle of the highway just west of Mitchells Point. The driver, who proved to be McDonald, Mr. Murray reports, was so far under the influence of liquor that he could not rouse him. The two other men. according to the tory, were entwined in each other's arms, and steering an erratic course down the road on foot. When the other officers arrived McDonald was transferred to the officers' car When Dr. Thomas and Newby observed an other car headed their way they ap pealed for lift. It was granted, and the men were driven directly to the new city prison here. Thomas and Newby did not realize that they were prisoners until they recognized their surroundings, it is raid. The Benson youth, who was brought here, was released Thursday. COUNCIL PLANS FOR PAVING HIGHWAY ROUTE TO BE IMPR0VED Monday Meeting First at New City Hall All City Officers Reappointed By Mayor Scobee Mavor E. L. Scobee, and members of the city council, Mark Cameron, A. S. Keir. Walter Walters. Frank lav enport, Jr., C. C. Cuddeford and Hat- ' old llershner, City Water Superintend ent W. T. Price, City Recorder H. L. ! Howe, City Marshal Hart and Deputy J Mnrshal Webster and members of the Volunteer Fire Department were hosts Thrrdav night at an opening reception of the" new S6,000 citv hull juit com pleted. The council chambers, record er's office and quarters of the fin de partment were handsomely decorated with Oregon grape and palms, filler and doughnuts were served to the hun dreds who called to inspect toe new structure. The evening was not without levity, and Mayor Scobee, as the result of a prank on the part of his fellow offi cials, was imprisoned for five minutes in the new city jail. It was charged against him that the cider being served contained more than one. half of one per cent alcohol. Testimony aubte quently produced, however, showed that the complaining witnesses had been sampling a beverage, made of canned heat and automobile varnish, that had been taken from Intoxicated prisoners recently. The city's firemen exhibited a new IS, 000 motor driven fire engine, said to be one of the finest of its tyne in this section of the state. The new building contains quarters for the en gineers of the fire deptrtnenl. Joe Wendling has been named day engin eer, and Pert Head will be in charge of the i p mratus at night. The new city hall was designed and constructed by the Baldwin & Swope Construction Co. OFFICERS PARTICIPATE IN LIQUOR RAH) When H. A. McGiiinis, taken in a moonshine raid by city and county offi cers was arraigned Mon lav before Jus tice of the Peace Onthank, he pleaded not guilty, declaring thai he ha I been away from home w d did not know liquor, found at his home, was there Hit wife, present at the hearing, on being questioned by District Att rney Haker, declared the contents of bottlfel taken by officers was vinegar, which hi'wu mikini from trie juice of pears and other fruits. She said that her hatband was intoxicated when tiil..n in the raid on their Heights home but attributed the condition to vanila extract. When N r. Kuker or dered her arrest for vti -latiorr of the prohibition law, she changed her story and signed a warrant as complaining witness against Chub llaynes. Offi cials say the latter is also wanted at The Dalles on moonshine charges. Mr. McGinn hi was released, but his son, George McGinn is, whose home was also raided on a search warrant, and Bert Hopklna wire held. A quan tity of prune mash wi s found on the premit-es. Officers participating in the raid were: Sheriff Johnson. Deputies Stoat and Murray, Marshal Hart and Night Officer Webster. Examination of locsj prismera re vealed that moinhi'iers were in opera tion at The Dalles, and on information from local authorities. Sheritr Chris man Monday seised a quantity of mash and liquor and arrested E. A. Havncs ...,.i :.... IWirmmi Local prisoners were taken to The Dalles yesterday to testify before the grand jury in session there. LOCAL PYTHIANS GO TO WASCO CONVENTION All roads for Knights of Pythias of the mid-Columbia led to Wac Monday night. A special O-W. K. & N. train carrying 125 Pythisns of Cascade lxcks and Hood River, left here at 5.30 p. m. for the Sherman county capital, where the annual district convention was held. An equal number of Knights of The Dalles joined the partv there. The train, scheduled to leave here at 4.30, was held an hour for grand lodge officers of Portland, who journeyed this far by automobile over the High way. The local Pythian band attended the convention. F. W. Chindlund probably had more fun than any one of the 125 loral ' Knights attending the convention. Mr. Chindlund carried a small wooden I box. with a slatted top. (Questions im j mediately began .to flow his way. He 1 announced- that be had an Oregon gray : bet. a very rare mammal, which had ! ju-t been 'captured on a bluff of Hood river. A crowd at yrre surged around him. Mr. Chindlund in fact had boxed up a fray be-ekbst. He says that every delegate to the convention had VISITS CLUB HOUSE The following members of the Port land Snowshoe Club left Friday after noon on the last lap of their journey to their mile-high club house near Cloud Cap Inn, hiking a six mile distance on a snow blanket six feet deep: J. Wis lev Ladd, Rodney L. Glisan, Dr. H. S. Nichols, C. E. Grelle, D. T. Honey man, Dr. Millani Holbrooke, A. Ilamp son, R. H. No. -, ' t" -ter V. Murphy, Horace Meek It in. The recreationu-ts were taken to Parkdale by rarl auto of the Mt. Hood R. R. Co. They jour neved by Bleigh from thence to the home of J. F. Car dee, where lunch was served. Telephone line wt re d. wn and the party was cut out from c. mm inieation with the outside world until they emerged from the rational forest Tuesday en route home. As they retur- ed members of the club declared v. earner conditions on the mountain had been ideal until Tuesday's downi-our of rain begai . Dr Nichols and Mr. Glisan remained in the Upper Valley, where they were joined by Mls. Nichols, Mrs. Clark Si mon. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Strong ami Miss tauise lutttrman. The second party is now on an outing at the club house. One of the first acts of the city coun cil at the first meeting held in hand somely appointed chambers of the new city hall Monday niuht concerned plans for an early preparation for paving of a 1100-foot link of Cascade avenue at the west edge of the city and the mu nicipal link of the Highway. The council also proposes to build an ap proach to the new conrete bridge (Cross Hood river, constructed jointly by the county and state. The grading w ill be made and the approach con structed in preparation for paving, which, it is said, will be laid when contractors pave the stretch of High way between Hood River and Mosier. Mayor E. L Scobee made re-appointments of citv officers for the ensuing year as follows: W. E. Hart, citv marshal; E. C. Smith, city attorney; W. T. Price, water superintendent; A. R. Cruikshank, city engineer; L. G. Morgan, fire chief ; Dr. Jesse Eduing ton, health officer; and M. B. Webster, night officer, Mr. Morgan, ex-chief of i tie I real lire department, life member of the Hend Fire Department and a member Of the Oregon Association of Fire Chiefs, has been serving for some time as acting lire marshal, tie was made permanent incumbent by Monday night's appointment. A delegation ot citizens or ine Co lumbia stre. t residence section ap peared before the council to protest against a slaughter house operated on hu it lhiihes. The citizens complained that the odor from (be plant at times made Hie mrseraoie. II was declared that recently the fumes from the plant for a lime were unbear able. Mr. Hughes addressed the coun cil and explained that the recent dis semination of the bad odor occurred when gaskets of a fertilizer boiler blew mt. allowing steam to escape rrom cooking refuse, Mr. Hughes explained that ordinarily all ba l smeus were passed through a condenser and thus prevented annoyance. He assu-ed the cjuncil that its' members would have his fullest cooperation in preventing a recurreiiie pi trie cm uum-. mo matter was referred to a committee, ciiu i!t.u!th Officer Eduinirton has appealed to the council to take some measure toward OS tioying rats tnac swarm about a garbage dump on the Columbia lowlhnds. Dr. Edging ton believes that the rqdents should tie ex terminated before high water of the Colombia drives them to city homes in the spring Dr. Edgington reported that W. Ross Winans had broached him several times about the rats and guaranteed a method of killing them. The health officer, however, was not acquainteed with what the method would be. The city may arrange wifli Mr. Winans to destroy the rodents. Dr. Edgington also urged that the council take Mime action toward secur ing more sanitary conditions at a feed yard near the business section of the city. BI(i CLUB MEET ON FEBRUARY 21 President J. H. Fredricy has an nounced an open hous; and inaugural meeting of the Hood River Commercial Club fur Monday evening, February 21. The session will be open to all citizens of the valley. Mr. Fredricy will outline the club's plans for activ ities of the roiling year. Refresh ments will be served. It is expected that the attendance will be the largest present at a commercial club meeting in 10 years. Officers of the organiza tion will be formally inaugurated. The club has wired the Hood River Wasco county legislative delegation urging their opposition to the Dennis bill, proposing a heavy increase in automobile licenses. The m ssage ex pressed that the club was not opposed to an adjustment of licenses as to ma chines of different makes. In case of the need for greater revenue the local rganization went on record as favor ing an additional 1 cent per gallon tax on gasoline, with sales for spray ma chines or for other similar industrial uses exempt. Notice of Special Meeting The Vinegar " mnittce of the Apple Growers Associat ion is calling a special meeting of all members of the aasocia- tion for 1 p. n . Saturday. February : 12. at the C.,nnier lal Club to consider I and present data collected by them on cider, vinegar and apple by-products. E. B. Van Atta, of Olean. N. Y ins agreed to be present and will be glad I to give us any information he can on I these subjects. Mr. Van Atta is not I only a very large manufacturer of cider and vinegar plant equipment but has also had n a i.v years' experience as a manufacturer of cider and vinegar. The committee has collected definite and valuable information on these sub jects. A spe : isl meeting is necessary Its properly bring out the vital points of the by-product situation at this , time. All members are urged to be present. A. Guignatd. S. G Oxborrow, D. L Pierson, Committee FRENCH & (ilBBON START BUSINESS Purchasing the business formerly op erated by J. K. Volstorff in connection with his Heights Garage, Kloyd L. French and Percy G.bbon have opened a shop at Twelfth street on the Heights. The young men will engage in a general plumbing business and make a specialty of heating plants. Mr. Gibbon is a veteran at the plumb ing business, and Mr. French, former ly having been empbyed with Mr. Volstorff. is experienced at the game. Mr. French is a great war eteran, having been a member of old Twelfth company, who was later transferred to a company of the 69th Coast Artillery . which saw service in Frsnce. Mr. Gibbon during the war wa engaged in steam and pipefitting at an Astoria h:p.ard. He a also a plumber at Bremerton Nsvv Yards for some time. POSTOFFICE TO REMAIN UNCHANGED Postmater T. V P.ea.-is Tjeay re eived a letter fro"n the rtcU-fnce de artment at Washington confirming a eleeram of last week, which an Zeei acceptance of an offer of the I hioVe to retain the postoffice ng. where it hss ie nast 15 years. in the Matnic b been ma"tiflci f : I- l.tion of an arceptanee of an offer of C. A Cas to construct s new building for the postoffice on Fourth street and Cascade averue. c