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f4 VOL. XXXIII HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1922 No. 51 roE Keep Funds Growing Dollars like plants, will not row unless they have the proper attention and care. Put them where they are safe and will row steadily to ood proportions. Your account is Invited. The First National Bank HOOD RIVER, OREGON 4 Interest Paid on Savings Accounts. Eastman Kodaks and Films Our Stock is Always Complete Kodak Developing and Printing 24-Hour Service The quality of our developing the tone and fin ish of our prints the success we have In bring ing out unfavorable exposures prove that Experts Do Our Kodak Work V KRESSE DRUG CO. Come in and hear the new Victorola Records. ZEE ROGRESSIVE Business Men or Farmers are always looking for something better and it is especially ho in the seed lipe. While we would not give 6 cents per lb, for Uncle Sana's Free Seed, we paid at the rate of $80.00 per lb. for some tomato seed, not because we have not in our "Hood River Special" a very good tomato but because, if it would ripen ten days or two weeks earlier and still retain the quality, we would have a little Gold Mine. So we have some very highly selected foreign seed mixed with ours and are distributing them among our Hood River customers, making these growers our partners. As the best results can only be brought about by friendly rivalry we have offered $2.60 for the first ripe tomato grown on our plants. Just let us know anyway, we are anxious that you have the prize. However, if you should not be the first one, we are sure that the effort expended to produce early fruit will repay itself many times over. Our Nonparel Asparagus is in a class by itself and since wholesale prices in other markets have gone up, Hood Kiver should not be ex empted. Still the difference for the amount consumed in Hood Biver would not cut much of a figure financially, so we are continuing to sell at the old price. Our Farm is quite an asset to Hood River, employing 17 people now, all full blooded Americans. If only from that reason alone, you should ask for our products, but aside from that, the stuff we sell is Twentieth Century Truck Farm JOHN KOBERG, Owner Spring Time-Building Time h Spring brings with it the thought of home; birds begin to build their nests.1 But to us HOME means more than shelter and protection. It means the respect and confidence of one's asso ciates and neighbors. Home owning pays. It pays in money because it leads to the saving of money and investing in one of the safest securities. We have for your use over five hundred modern plans for homes which have been built. Come in and see them. . Emry Lumber & fuel Co. Phone 2181 Fourth and Cascade ,,,,i,,,i.m..i.ii.i..i..i.;.,ii,nii,,,itiiii..iiuii)il,n.lilmillliai..imill.ll,,lili,i,il THIS IS THE MONTH ( This Is the month when the! thrifty beln to look forward with eaer anticipa tion to vacation time. Happy are they who have a fund put aside for the pursuits which fine weather Irresistibly suests. If you haven't been forehanded enough to provide for your vacation, let us suest that at Christmas time you will need a little surplus fund, and a Savings Ac count for this purpose should be started now. Once you et the habit you'll always have a re serve ready for vacations, Christmas and special occa sions, to say nothing of the Inevitable rainy day. BUTLER BANKING COMPANY Member Federal Reserve System ?o TRY OUR resh Vegetables FOR YOUR SUNDAY DINNER Fresh Meats In Daily The Pine Grove Store A. F. BICKFORD, Prop. Phone 4088 Do You Know WhatltWill Cost You? A flat price for a cash job. Come In and tell me what you want done and I'll tell you to a cent what It will cost you. Know In advance what your repair Job Is oin to cost. The man who knows Is far ahead of the man who guesses. "Satisfactory Service Always" Shay's SERVICE Shop AT THE FASHION STABLES Shop 1211 Re. 2772 We announce to the trade the in stallation of a Universal Bearing Machine. We will be able to re babbit connecting rod bearings for any make of car, truck or gas en gine. Better service and better bearings at all times. Contract prices an all bearings. Fairbanks Engines and Hayes Sprayers HOOD RIVER MACHINE WKS. Unger & Lcnz Tel. 3173 IS. C. LANCASTER . TELUS0F PLAN LOST LAKE TO BE SITE OF BIG CAMP Reed College Students to Have Charge of Cuisine Enterprise Announced . at Club Meeting The enterprise of a drearier, but a dreamer whose dreams nave come true, were given stimulus here Monday night at a banquet of the Commercial Club. Samuel C. Lancaster, a poet who is also a practical man, who has written in heroic measure in cliffside grade, in bridges and causeways, in the Figure 8 and curves of Crown Point, the ver visionings of an artist brought to real ity, told of another dream. His simple story here among friends, who, too, have contemplated the wonders of the forested area with a quickening of the thoughts, of plans for a summer camp on the shores of Lost Lake, bore marks that make any story appealing to one's fellow men. It was a great human in terest story. ' Mr. Lancaster, in the manner of a sincere conversation, told of his mo Uvea in establishin the summer camp, where, it is anticipated, 200 folk each day will seek recreation in a region that is a. little bit of Paradise. And thia is what he said : "Not long ago I had a call to go to southern China. They wrote me that I would get $6,500 per year and expenses and if this didn t suit me to write them what I wanted. It developed that it would be a task requiring the rest of my life the rest of my life in China. "Then, the folks back in my old home state, Tennessee, asked me to re turn there. My borne town (it was Jackson, Tenn.) proposed to join with the county and the state in attracting me back there. I called in my three daughters and the four grandchildren. My wife was there. I asked them to stand up. 1 asked them if they would go back with me. The grandchildren, of course, didn't want to go. My daughters preferred the Northwest. It was then that I seized on this new dream and sought the advice of my old friend, Tom Sherrard, Oregon national forest supervisor. And, when he told me that be would do anything in bis power for me, I songht the owner of the 100 acres, which we will utilize in our Lost Lake camp, and secured my lease. I realized that I could engage in a task that would give me fitting employment for the reBt of my days engaged in a work with an uplift." Mr. Lancaster announced his com plete plans. He has just consummated also the lease of 72 acres at BonneviMe, and, with the cooperation of the For estry Service, will equip a small camp at VVabtum Lake, lie declares that these recreational centers will result in visitors seeing in leisurely fashion the Columbia gorge, the Hood River val ley, the environs or Mount Hood and the trails around Wahtum Lake and down Eagle and Herman creeks. "My friends told me, when J broached my plans, that I knew nothing of com missary or cuisine, and I solved that by going to f resident bchoiz, or tceea coi lee, said Mr. Lancaster. "I was heartened by his whole-souled support. I mads him commander in chief of this part of my plans, and he entered en thusissticly into plans that call for the participation of students of the Home Economics department of Reed College. While Reed College as an educational institution will have nothing to do with there plans, the board of regents offered their heartiest support. We were grat ified in the offer of cooperation from the Oregon Agricultural College and the University of Oregon. "These students, who will attend to the cuisine, will also aid in the enter tainment of guests. They are musi cians or otherwise fitted as companions for those who go to the camps for a rest among the quiet forests in the shadow of the great mountain." Mr. Lancaster stated that it was pro posed to interest the students by the offer of a bonus in profits. Plans also call for the setting aside of a graduat ed increase of the growing profits to be utilized for scholarship funds for Reed College students. Camp equipment will be shipped by rail to Dee, on the line of the frit. Hood It. R. Co. along about Jnly 1, and thence it will be taken by truck to the lakeside. Llaborate preparations will be made. Mr. Lancaster cited the startling evening cascades of fire sent hurtling over Sentinel Rock at Yosem- ite National Park by those in charge of far-famed Camp Curry. He declares that nature will produce as sensational effects at sunset and dawn in her paint ing of the snow peak, but he proposes to beautify the lake, itself, at night with varicolored spotlights, sent danc ing on the waters from Red Hill or Zig zag Mountain. Radio receiving sets will be installed Immediately. The following Reed College students were pretent: Misses Helen Pippy and Verda McCallum and James Hamilton and Robert Brady. Mr. Lancaster in troduced the young men and women as typical of the students who would be in charge or camp cuisine and enter tainment. He stated that already Pres ident Scholz had been in touch with lecturers and entertainers, of nstion wide note, who would visit the camp and give addresses of entertainment and of educational value. W. D. B. Dodion, executive secre tary of the Portland Chamber of Com merce, declared that Hood River, Port land and Oregon should become inter ested at once in plans for the full de velopment of the scenic asnet of Mount Hood. He suggested thst Hood River folk should organize themselves into a society called "The Keepers of the Myttie Mountain." Mr. Dodson stated that the Portlnd Chamber had under consideration plans for raising fafl.OuO for publicity on the scenic asset of the stste. C C. MerrilL ehsplain of the Fourth Infantry Regiment, U. S. Army, who is here from Camp Lewis, visiting his sifter, Mrs. J. D. Smullin and family, of the Upper Valley, declared that be remarked to bis wife as the two mo tored up the Columbia River Highway the other dsy that be bad never iwn a more wonderful scenic effect than tewH from along the Gorgeaide read. Mr. Merrill, who was stationed with bis regiaet for several months with the Army of Occupation along the Rhine, characterized the Columbia gorge as far superior in its sppealirg natural beauty. Mr. Merrill toll nu anerous stories that trought spontane ous laughter, lie was co mors tested when Mr. Lancaster was on his feet bidding him attend sessions of the Lost Lake campfires this summer. Thomas H. Sherrard, national forest supervisor, announced plans of the United States Forestry Service in back ing the development of the lake region. He also stated that the forestry ser vice, although originally it was prone to withhold appropriation of funds until such time as the Cloud Cap Inn Co. gave assurance of hotel development, had decided to proceed with building a loop road from the Mount Hood Loop Highway to the hostelry site, tie de clared, however, that the hotel com pany, in case conditions were not com plied with would have their permit re voked and the property would be placed on sale. The conditions for hotel im provement. Mr. Sherrard said, were placed at a minimum in fairness to the organization. Mr. Sherrard stated that the forestry service bad laid out innumerable camp sites for individual use and that club sites would be at the disposal of the public. He suggested that the best of them be taken by the Hood River Fish and Game Protective Association, mem bers of which have been active in de veloping the scenie country. J. H. Fredricy, chairman tf the road committee of the Commercial Club, an nounced that this body had been instru mental in securing a county court ap propriation of $2,500, and that an addi tional $1,500 would be raised by private subscription for application on the Lost Lake Highway from Dee to the bounds of the Oregon National Forest. The $4,000 will be matched by a like amount from the Forestry Service. Mr. Fred ricy started the subscription list with $25 from the game association and a $10 personal donation. INTEREST IN ELEC TION WARMING UP Interest in politics is growing warm er here than usual before a primary election, and it is now anticipated that the vote tomorrow will be compara tively heavy. The primary vote at the last election was less than 40 per cent. Practically all interest is centered in Republican contests. Political observers here to date con cede Hood River county to Olcott, but, it is declared, Patterson has made con siderable gains and it is said that his strength is now pressing Olcott. White, it is declared, will get a strong vote, having the support of a large number of ex-service men as well as a strength among representative citi zens. Rumors have been going the rounds that Charles Hall, whose local support up to date has been considered negligible, though this used to be his home, will carry a considerable vote here due to the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. Observers, who claim to have received authentic information declare that Ku Klux workers, who have been active here have enrolled many new Hood River valley members, who have pledged their votes to Hall. Whlie a negligible element here will support Gwinn, Hood Rivr co-nCr, it is declared, will go-o i'rft'iminK'.y for Sinnott, the Republican incumbent, for representative in congress in this dis trict. While Judge L. N. Blowers is op posed by J. W. Morton for representa tive in the legislatuie, the former has the endorsement of every faction of the county, and his nomination by a heavy majority is predicted. A vacancy will occur in county offices only in that of the assessor, Jas per Wickham, the Republican incum bent, who is popular in most all county circles, is being opposed by E. C. Miller, Mt. Hood rancher. WORK ON GOLF COURSE DUE SOON Within the next three weeks work will be started on building the Hood River valley's new golf links. II. Chandler Egan, of Medford, ex-ama teur champion of America, who has been engaged in laying out a municipal cour.e in Portland, has been secured to lay out the local grounds. Mr. Egan, who was here Sunday before last to make a thorough survey of the Oak Grove place, said : "In all my experience with golf courses, I have not seen any land lying better for the development of the ideal links than you have here. The nat ural, rolling expanses are certainly pleasing to a golfer. Ihey can be turned into a course at a minimum of expense. Your local enthusiasts are to be congratulated on their choice of property. Last Thursday the committee an nounced that S. Benson, just back from Cong tfeach, Calii., where he spent the winter, had given $5,000, which will be utilized in building the first 9 hole unit of the course. Mr. Bnon made bis gift contingent on the club's sale of a total of $0,000 in bonds for the purchase of the property. The commitee, however, considers this a mere formality, as more than $15,000 haa already been placed, and it is an ticipated that the rest will be taken within a few days. The Oak Grove ranch has won the praise of numerous Portland citizens. among tbem Rabbi Wise, who made a complete survey of the grounsd. He pointed out that four of the holes will be in sight of both Mount Hood and Mount Adams. It is expected that a membership of 100 will be secured in t'ortland. W ork of making a topographic sur vey of the place will he started immed iately. The plans call for the laving out of a full 18-hole link, although only nine holes will be built at once. The other nine holea will be added at a later date. NICHOLS SAYS ROADS ARE BEING BETTERED County Roadmaster Nichols announc es that the Neal creek roa4, penetrat ing the I'rper Valley district by way of the Billy Sunday ranch, has been opened to traffic, Jvraper have been used and crews this wek have gore over the route removing ail debris. It wiii be in pood condition, he says, for traffic rxl Sunday. Mr. Nicho'a this week has a crvw cf men crw-nu g up the Lost Lake Hiph way above the corf! Jence r.f the l.ake Branch and Weft Fork of Hood river. It is anticipated that mar y motorists will travel ot to ttj section Sunday. ANNUAL EVENT IS PROPOSED ' j : PLANS LAID AT BLOSSOM BANG'S Smith is Toastmaster Pythian Sf ? i UUIHJLUUUiX I CCU 1HUUUA ; Event is Success Apple Blossom Festival was en its first impetus in 1919 when tk 5r rt land Ad Club journeyed here b . 1 to mobile several hundred strong; A join the Commercial Club in celebrating the season of blooms. Paving opera tions and scattering blooms prevented the resumption of plans for an annual celebration the next year, but this year the Ad Club promises another delegation of 500, and the Commercial Club and local citizens propose t j make Hood River Apple Blossom Day an annual affair, growing more elaborate each year. The local club plans on initating the season annually with an aople blossom banquet, the first of which was given Monday night, when a sumptuous din ner was served at the club rooms by the members of Wauna Temple, Pyth ian Sisters. F. A. Olmsted, president of the club, and Ernest C. Smith, toastmaster, elaborated on suggestions for a permanent blossom festival. Mr. Smith, in an eloquent talk, told how 40 years ago, when the district was a for est wider ness and homes and garden spots were set in little cleared spaces, the first blossom festival was a family affair. J "But travelers over the trails carry news," said Mr, Smith, "and they spread the story of the quality of fruits grown on those earliest treeB. More trees were planted and 'then came an era of unprecedanted develop ment, and advanced order of things, stimulated by the construction of roads.. Today the bees come down to pilfer the nectar from millions of blooms. We indeed live in a paradise and it behooves us to invite the world to come and join us in the enjoyment of it." The high school orchestra gave' sev eral selections that were highly appre ciated and resulted in rounds of ap plause. Rev. Boddy, who was called on, at repeated requests, regaled the audience with a good story. To C. C. Crew, the club secretary, should go much of the credit for Mon day nights banquet. He worked inde fatiguably for the affair. Leslie Butler Monday night' an nounced that he had just received a telephone message from W. P. Merry, cf the Portland Ad Club, who told of the enthusiasm of that organization over Sunday plans. LAUNDRY BIRDS PAY VALLEY VISIT It was a day of rare birds for tho Hood River valley last Thursday, and the Columbia Gorge Hotel became for a time a gilded cage of gigantic pro portions, the domicile ofmembresof the Royal Order of Pheasants and Roy al Blue Birds, the former the male of the soecies of laundrymen of Oregon and the latter representing the deadlier sex. Guests of the Oregon Laundry Owners Association from California, Washington and Idaho were present. One couple, Ollie McGoon, laundryman of Honolulu, T. 11., and his wife, had traveled all the way from the Island territory for sessions of Pacific coast laundry associations. California was represented by 27, and ofiicera of the national association were, present. Los Angeles was on the spot in force exhibiting a laundry owner, who, it was. declared, was the oldest laundry owner in the United States. The visitors were greeted by local laundrymen, A. F. Adams and W. A. Schaffner, and their wives, and a dele gation of membra of the Commercial Club. Mayor Scobto delivered an ad dress of welcome. Greetings were ex tended by Geo. R. Wilbur, represent ing the Commercial Club. Chief Roy al Pheasant C. W. Helm, of Portland, who presided at the luncheon at the tourist hostelry, was presented by The Dalles Pheasants with a mounted spec imen of China pheasant. His daughter, Misa Bernice Helm, chief Royal Rlue Bird, was presented by S. W. Law rence, Portland laundryman, with a handsome gold wrist watch. Select ions were given by the orchestra ac companying the laundry delegations. Miss Gladys Johnson, an accomplished violinist of Portland, accompanied by Miss Helm on the piano, gave solos. The luncheon was attended by 171. Before the laundry party left by aut omobile over the Columbia River High way for The Dalles, where they spent the next two days at their annual con vention, they were escorted through orchard sections of the valley. LOOP ROAD WORK TO BEGIN SOON J. A. Elliott, builder of Mitchells Point Tunnel, who is now in general charge of activities of the Bureau of Public Roads in Oregon, and W. G. Pe ters, who wiH take charge of the Mt. Hood Loon construction within the Or egon National Forest, were here Tues day en route to inspect the north end of the road. Air. Llliott stated that J. H Clarkson, contractor who built six miles of new grade last summer, row has a crew engaged in cleaning uplthe grade. His men were interrupted by the sudden snowstorm of November, the camp having been marooned by the deep blanket of sleet. "Mr. Clarkson has also been award ed the contract for 19 miles on the east side of the mountain, which will con nect the road up with the old Barlow road." said Mr. Elliott. "He will begin construction as soon as weather conditions will permit. While we are in the vicinity we will inspect rock quarries, for we wish to let a contract immediately for surfacing 10 miles of the highway this summer. Mr. Elliott says the spur road to Clui Cap Ir.n will probably be begun at once, and plans also call for activity on the road connoting Wapinitia in WaseoJ county, with the Loop High way. 11 ifv.et quality coal is cheapest. U' '. King Coal l '"lean, hard and biihe'" ui LeaL Latj Lan.be r & fuel Co. u co