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About The Hood River news. (Hood River, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1910)
8 THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1910 Boxes :: Crates Fruit Packages of all Kfnds Reserve your orders for the old, reliable Home Factory. For two months last season, while run ning a full force, our pay roll amounted to $1000 per month. Would you like to see this industry extinguished to save a nickel? We have as com petitors big Lumbering concerns whose mills and factories are located outside the County and who can do business here for a time without profit. We cannot do business a day without profit and will not try. Do you believe in the Standard Oil method of running out the little fellow and cen tralizing industries? We respectfully ask you to give this matter thoughtful consideration and re serve your orders for the Hood River Box Company R..E. HARBISON, President STRAWBERRY GROWERS Of Hood River Valley MM The N A FEW WEEKS, almost be fore you know it, the BERRY fy& SEASON will be at hand, and irom all reports tne crop will be a large one. Apple Growers Union will ship berries this year, and with its splendid stor age equipment and shipping facilities will be in position to help you get the best possi ble returns for your crop. We want your business, and in favoring us you will also help yourselves by building up an institution that is owned and controll ed exclusively by growers of Hood Klvcr Frail. APPLE GROWERS UNION GET YOUR MILK FROM The Payson Dairy Supply Co. MOUNTAIN GLEN FARM Pure, Wholesome, Healthful, from Cows and Stables that are SANITARY. H. N. PAYSON, City Salesman THOS. CALKINS, Dairyman Phone 28 1 -X i i Water Works on the Farm Yes, that ! Just what we mean ml water works; running; water in tbe kitchen, the the laundry, the barn in fact, all over the place. And iff all dene by that tank you lower lelt hand corner of this picture tbe Leader System. It 1 vastly dinerent from the old-fsshioned elevated tank which worked by gravity. For the Leader Water Supply System la operated y compressed air reliable, aafe and cleanly. Your windmill pump rater into the tank (which ia already full of air). The air, being elastic, ia compressed into upper part of the tank, and forces the water out through the pipe. Tbia give you a pressure, so that powerful stream of water 1 on tap at every faucet, no matter where it is located. And this mean 6iO luU firt protection, for the pressure ia always and always ready. Now, the old style gravity tank were either pat ia the attic or (it mated on a high tower out of doors, la the former case, their weight when full, cracked the plastering: or they overflowed or leaked, flooding the room below. In the case of the outside tanks, the water often froze solid in winter, necessitating expensive plumb ing bills ; or it became not and stagnant during tbe summer and unfit for use. The Leader Water Supply System avoids all this, because the air-tight tank la eithrr in the basement or buried under ground below the front line. Kveryout6t is complete, with full directions, and ia easily installed. The Lea'lrr Svstem needs no repairs, is suited to smsll buildings of asrgc, ana is moaeraie in price. Tt a snd you our free booklet, "How I hrived the. Water Mopply problem." the story of a nun who aucrasfullv cjuippt bis country boms with modern water works. Write for It today, before you forget bathroom, see in tha II VS. II XX r (ft jt? RTF j; rsT-T ftT I 9 inaTta TAassV l rtt a est it now ADDRESS .nni-i. n- JZ-VT tXt9J 4mm MS Apple Land & Orchard Co. Office, No. 9 Oak Street. Phone 26 or 2002-X MASON REPLIES TO UNION SCHOOL OPPONENTS Kdltor News: brother Absteu liaa given hlii "simplltled" figures ant 1 my "elaborate" ones in reference to the cunt of Krankton's hljfh school for the year litox Oil, and I presume there In no need for further comment by either of us. Study on each net of figures Ih Interesting and 1 hoe the public will do ho. His great obstacle to overcome In the transportation of the high school children. He tells us of that long distance, the short days, the bad roads, and adds some sarcasm about air ships, etc , and In short, tries to lead us to believe transportation to le Impos sible. It Is the saint- old story. Columbus was told that It was Impossible to sail to tills country and that the world was not round. And to Ira press this Impossibility the Bible was quoted and the pessimists said: "How can the world be round when It 'sits on its four pillars.' " Indeed that word Impossible from a practi cal view has beeu used so often with meaningless results that we are Just optimistic enough to believe that such will be the results In reference to our consolidated school question. If not now It will be later. Will Brother Absten tell us why It Is so Impossible to transport our high school children here when It lias proven so very practical in the east ern and central states where they have colder and longer wiuters, Just as great distance and worse roads, ou account of the deep suow drifts, and just as short days during the winter months. And also tell us why our high school scholars cannot be transported with as much ease and safety as those little A. B. C. scholars In the east. We should be fair and reasonable In this discussion and leave out per sonalities. We have several committees pre paring some statistics on this ques tion and we siucerely hope that the opposition will do likewise. If we cannot convince the taxpayers thnt consolidation of our school Is both cheaper and more efficient, then we shall not ask for their support. Brother Absteu, I have tried to treat you fair and you have done me likewise, except In having published that anonymous letter from some Pine Groveite who is ashamed t have bis name published. His letter Is full of personal spite and hatred and offers no argument. He says "Their egotism was feasted and fattened by the freedom It offered to Inflict their oratory upon those who In self defense were forced to listen." While this was Intended for an In suit to those who sacrificed both time and money to promote a noble cause, yet I hope to show more dig nity and offer more logical reading to Interest tbe public. Who were those that Inflicted tills unknown writer with their egotism and oratory? Our state school sup' erlntendent, air. Ackerman, was one of them. Prof. Wiley, principal of Hood Hlver schools was one of them. Attorney Woolpert, a rest dent of Hood River who had Just moved out of a consolidation school district, was one of them and many of our own townsmen and citizens In the country were some of them. I might add too that tbe majority of the Fraukton people approved of this "egotistic" campaign. " But why answer this unknown correspondent? Ho says "The ques tlon was settled three years ago and Is no longer debatable." (ireat harrows! what argument. I presume this unkuowulte would also like to have an Injunction served against those eastern school consoll dationlsts who are giving us eucour agement In this grand movement. The Pine Grove people are progres sive and have always kept abreast of many other parts of the country. We have lead a long and hard fought battle for letter roads and have spent more sjieclal road tax money In our district ttian any otherdlstrlct In the county. No more unpopular movement was ever started than when we liegan to ask for special road taxes In Pine Grove road dist rict. Your humble servant wan told by a present member of t he board of directors of the Apple Growers' Un ion that he would bankrupt the neighborhood if he didn't stop talk Ing macadam roads. One of the tuemliers of our present county court said at one of our public good roads meetings, "Our tax payers cannot stand It and I wont." One of our present school board said he could not pay his spe cial road tax unless he sold every thing he had, even to his old hen and chickens. But thanks to the Intelligence of the people In Pine Grove that day has passed and we are today a unit on better roads. Our neighborhood has not become bankrupt. Our member of the county court Is one of our most ardent workers for lietter roads and our memlier of the couuty court still has that old hen with all of her posterity, laying 50 cent eggs. WHEN YOU WANT manufacturing and Repair Work OF ANY AND EVERY DESCRIPTION We are prepared to do it in our large and well equipped manufacturing and repair establishment We would be pleased to have you call and see us Our shop is one of the largest and best on the Pacific Coast. In it we are prepared to handle orders of any kind, size and quantity, having special equip ment and being experienced in the manufacture of Wagons, Wood Choppers, Loggers' and Grubbing Tools. We can turn out or repair any kind of Sledges, Wedges and Orchard Utilities. Not alone are we Blacksmiths and Wagonmakers of a superior class, but we do FINE HORSE-SHOEING Our Horse-Shoeing Department is fitted up-to-date, in charge of men experienced in that class of work. We make Horse-Shoeing a specialty and assure our customers satisfaction in every job. SNOW & UPSON M QhniW L-L.LAin Fourth trrrt iTlnrtncifp riilhrt-VAiiihan IIwl Divor fW Such an evolution of public senti ment on better roads has been within the last few years and I predict that a similar one Is awaiting us on con solldatlon of our public schools. If our unknown correspondent from Pine Grove caws to come out In the open and enter a fair and hon orable discussion, either before the public or through the press, we will be glad to answer hlra, otherwise we shall make no further reply. Yours respectfully, A. I. Mason. Cash For Last Year's Ice Books If you have any more tickets In your last season's Ice book turn them In at our office and we will pay jou for them on the same basis as we charged for them. No loose tickets taken. The Ice business has reached such proportions that It Is necessary for us to retire from delivering and we have made arrangements with the Taft Transfer Co. for making dellv erles and In the future all orders should be placed with them. We will continue delivering Ice at our factory platform to any who may wish to call for it, at the fol lowing prices subject to change at any time. J'rlces apply to quantities given and cakes will be cut Into 100 pound pieces without extra charge on orders of i00 pounds or more. 1 ton or more 17; ton $4; 200 pounds fl; 100 pounds 50 cents; 50 pounds So cents; smaller pieces 1 cent per pound. We lelieve tho new arrangements for delivering will lie satisfactory to our many customers and we wish to state that we fully appreciate the liberal patronage we have had for several years. DAVIDSON (Kl'IT in.' Fully nine out of every ten cases of rheumatism Is simply rheumatism of the muscles due to cold or damp, or chronic rheumatism, neither of which require any Internal treat ment. All that Is heeded to afford relief Is the free application of Cham berlain's Liniment. Give It a trial. You are certain to le pleased with the qulch relief which It affords. Sold by all dealers. Oucco Tree Protectors at White heads, Come! Come!! Come!!! Everybody Come and Celebrate ST. PATRICK'S DAY by attending the Vaudeville :. Entertainment to be given at Pine Grove Grange Hall Thursday Eve, Mar. 1 7 The program of Readings, Song, Recitations and Charac ter Dancing will conclude with a Society sketch entitled, "Mrs. Busby's Pink Tea'' CURTAIN - 8:15 Admission 25 and 15 Four-Button Novelty Sack. no. 553 Spring Clothing Absolutely the best values we have eVer givenin point of popular weaves, good tailoring, and right prices. Notice the west window a few are shown (wish we could show all). See the price tickets. Great values and no mistake. J. G. VOGT