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About The Hood River news. (Hood River, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1910)
THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1910 5 IF :xxinxxxxrziniixxxxxz: THE SQUARE DEAL STORE CARRIES IN STOCK A FULL LINE OF Farm Implements Extension Harrows and Orchard Tools N Bicycles and Bicycle Extras Fishing: Tackle Guns and Ammunition Gasoline Supply Station Z. McD OJVA.LD HOOV 'RIVE'R. OHEGOJV M 1 S. E. BARTM ESS Funeral Director and Practical Embalmer ESTABLISHED 18 YEARS MOOD RIVER. OREGON IV KW UKSIDKXTS We are always pleased to extend courteous as sistance to new residents of Hood River and the Hood River Valley by advising them regarding any local conditions within our knowledge, and we afford every convenience for the transaction of their finan cial matters. New accounts are respectfully and cordially invited and we guarantee satisfaction. Sav ings department in connection. HOOD RIVER BANKING & TRUST CO., hoodEgoner White :: River :: Flour Makes Whiter, Lighter Bread ASK YOUR GROCER If you want your horses properly SHOD come to SHI VELY&McGlLLl VARY flcjcl to Snobv SSL Upson Don't Leave the Hood River District WITHOUT INVESTIGATING Mosier Valley Natural advantages for fruit growing unexcelled. Land prices have doubled in lant two years but are not half that aaked for similar land In other sections Buy now before speculators add their profits. Commercial Club of Mosier MOSIER. OREGON 6 Miles East of MoodRiver, Oregon NICHOL & HADLOCK ORCHARD LANDS AND CITY REALTY Brosius Building, Corner Second and Oak Hood River, Oregon New Electric Supply and Fixture Store We have opened a new store with a complete line of Electric Supplies, Electric Fixtures and Glassware, on Oak street, next to S. E. Bartmess furniture rooms. We are agents for the J. C. English Co., Portland, and carry many of their high grade electric fixtures in stock. We have just received an especially fine display of new fixtures, artistic table lamps, Tiffany glass ware and Christmas novelties which we are offering at attractive prices. BAILEY & COLBY, Electrical Contractors Reaidenc Phone 268-L Office Phone 60-X GIBSON TALKS ON APPLE CONSUMPTION Nlrk lillmon, of the (ilbnon Fruit compim , of Chicago, Id an imMivhh U'fore the Amerlcuu Apple CougreHH ut Deliver, held luMt week, udvlwcn a campaign to tncreaHe the coiiHiinip t Ion of applet. Mr. (illmon said: "In my opinion the American pub lic need to lie educated to the point where more applet will lie cotiHiinied. I have the ambition to yet nee the day whi-n every man, woman and clillil will eat an apple a day. "It Ih a problem to figure out I know, not ho much becaune of the willliigneHH of the public to eat, but rather to get the money to buy, I am talking about the iiiukhi'h. It In a Had fact that lot of people In tbln country have hardly tatited an apple tlilM HcaMou. lint I Huppotie the gen eral public uhch about at many an we could expect the way we have been treating thecoiiHiiiner. Our national apple day hclprt somewhat and no do the apple hIiowh and the various free ili iiioimtratloiin to lie found here and there, yet we need to look to the future and compiler that within a few yearn our output In thin great wehtern country will lie doubled and trebled. "1 recall the time, a few yenrn ago, when a car of wentern box upplen on our eautern market wan acurloHity. Now they are plentiful. If you will pardon n personal allusion, I want to Hay that our linn ban Mold over 1, .(Ml earn of box apple thlH Hcanon, and w e are Mill felling "In ten yearn thU trattic will be eniiriiiniiH, compared with the pres ent. There will be or should lie an Increase In the output from the east ern and central states. Growers lu the east have taken a lesson from you In the west. Old orchurds, here tofore abandoned, are being sprayed and cultivated more carefully. New fiiruis are being set with more regard for future protHs than in the old day when a few trees were put In here and there as much for ornament as for fruit. "I repeat, we should look to the future and devise ways and means of Inducing a freer general consump tion of apples. The orange growers of California and Florida are spend ing some of their money to tell the put lie of the fine quality of their fruit, and the onion growers of Texas have lieen wise In employing print er's Ink to lull the olfactories of the public so that their succulent Bermu da onions are eaten with all the rel isliofau Ice cream soda In July. I am reliably Informed t hat the peach growers of Georgia contemplate quite an expenditure to present, through the public prints, the delic ious qualities of their Klbertas and other varieties of peaches. "And what Is being done to boost the apple consumption? It might not In' a bad plan to levy a volun tary tax of 1 or 1' or even 5 cents a box or barrel to go Into a fund to cover the cost of n nation wide cam paign to make people use more ap ples. Klgbt now we need the Im petus, for with anything like a full crop in all sections of t he country It will tax our ability to find a market for them all at anything like the prices many of you will Insist upon. "Who wouldn't rather eat an ap ple than an orange, an onion or even a peach? I have never spared a chance to say a good word for the apple." Catarrh Cannot be Cured With local applications, as they cannot reach the sent of the disease. Catarrh Is a blood or constitutional disease, and In order to cure It you must take Internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, and acts directly on the blood and mu cous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is not a quack medicine. It was pre scribed by one of the best physicians In this country for years and Is a regular prescription. It Iscoinposed oftheln-st tonics known, combined with the best blood purlUers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two In gredients Is what produces such wonderful results In curing catarrh Send for testimonials free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by druggists, price ".V. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Don't Blame Telephone tiirl When some men get a grouch he cause everything doesn't come their way, the first tiling that occurs to them Is to "take It out on the tele phone girl," when In fact. In most rases, she Is the most patient, accom modating girl In t lie world. Some men learn human nature In the game of politics and also In the game of poker. A girl In six months can pick up enough of it belore a tele phone board to do her a lifetime. If things go wrong with yon. don't talk mean to the telephone girl. Ho for the gas or electric light manor the water works or coal dealer. They don't care. (let your butter, guaranteed fresh cKKif cream and milk from Purity Dairy Co. Phone 68-L. Depot Davidson Building. County Court Proceeding K Krayford, registering voters! 2 3." Blowers Bros, road supplies... 10 75 Ilushotiif & Co, supplies 23 25 Cottage hospital, care Indigent 8 54 II Conuway, registering Totem 9 70 II W Chapman, rent election booths 10 00 Dean & Shaw, material and rent election 4 55 Davenport Harness Co .lacings 3 50 A CStaten, supplies lud 12 02 O Fredeuburg, reg. voters 7 40 E A Franz, hardware supplies 18 00 II It Light & Power Co, light and water 3 65 Win Hart, deputy sheriff 5 00 11 A Hackett, chalnman 250 11 It Com Club, apple exhibit... 73 25 li K Banking & Trust Co, rent 10 00 H It News Co, supplies 122 59 Home TelephoneCo, phone 4 25 FE Harris, clevis 1 50 K F Johnson, rock 75 00 C L Morse, labor on road COO L E Morse, election expense 00 I.obt Ieasure, deputy sheriff... 9 00 A W Meyer, electlou expense... 1100 D McDonald, powder 13 70 Mt Hood Milling Co, road sup 7124 Oregon Lumber Co, road sup.. 2H6 34 E L Pennock, reg. voters 8 20 Pacific States Tel Co, long dlst 3 10 Stanley -Smith Lmbr Co, lmbr 21 91 C F Sumner, plumbing 18 08 Shaw & Bronson, med services 31 25 Geo I Slocuin, supplies 40 Tnft Trausfer C, wood 7 50 Transfer & Livery Co, drayage 9 00 J G V'ogt, witness 4 00 0car Vanderbllt, apples for fair 5 90 J A Wauldlng, 2 coyote scalps 3 00 Raymond Markley, labor on roads 28 85 Geo W- Dlmmlck, reg. voters... 4 40 II A Cunning, " 3 10 KJMcIsaac. " 7 50 J P Lucas, " 3 90 L A E Clark, election board 9 00 CCMaslker," " 9 00 W A Lockman, " 10 00 It B I'erlgo, " 6 00 J L Hershner, " 6 00 AWOnthank. " 6 00 T A Keavls. " 6 00 Geo P Crowell. ' 6 00 J J Ward, " COO Fred Deitz, ,: 6 00 Jno A Wilson, " 6 00 Harry Bailey, 6 00 Albert B Shelley, " 6 00 F A Bishop, " 6 00 J K Carson, " 6 00 H W Taylqr. ' 6 09 J F Hendrlck, ' 6 00 T W Badder. " 6 00 A O Adams, " : 6 00 Thad Glazier. 6 00 J P Lucas, " i 10 00 B F Eadeiman, " 9 00 F W Angus. " 9 00 F H Miller, " 11 70 C M Hurlburt. " 9 00 March Morse, " 9 00 MD Udell, " 9 00 C 11 McCoy, " 9(H) A It Cutler. " 9 00 S F Blythe, " 9 00 .1 W Morton, " 9 00 Ed Mays, " 6 (Hi .1 H Osborne, " 3 00 E A Baker, " 9 00 Harry DeWItt, " 6 00 J M Culls-rtaon, " 6 00 II M Prtndle, " 6 00 L M Bentley, " 3 00 A I Mason. " 3 00 V Wlnchell. " 3 00 W A Stark, " 3 00 J II Koberg. " 3 00 F C Howell, " 3 00 CL Wheeler. " 9 00 J B Fletcher, " 6 00 D H Thome, " 6 00 R Savage, " 0 00 John Mohr, " 6 00 Roy C Brock, " 6 00 C W Reed. " 9 00 J B Castner. " 3 00 II M French, " 3 00 J J Gibbons, " 3 00 CE Mcintosh, " 7 50 II H Tomllnsoii, " 7 50 C B Harvey, " 7 50 J D Gordon. " 7 50 W B Davidson. " 7 50 W S Grlbble. " 7 50 J M Iax, " 4 50 II A Gray. " 4 50 Win Smnllln. " 4 50 J B Doggett, " 4 50 Wm II Edlck, " 4 50 School Dlst. No. 4, rent 5 00 P I) llenrlehs Est., gravel 51 00 .1 E Edgtngton, coroner 5 00 Mrs .IB Hunt, supplies ind 15 00 A C Buck, canvassing votes 6 00 (ieo W Dimmtck, canv, votes... 9 00 Geo D Culbertson, Incidentals 5 months (13 40 Glacier, printing 12 00 W O Shaw, Janitor, etc 15 00 Margaret Cochran, nursing 38 N) l L Dumble, medical services 5 00 1'iilon Oil Co, oil on roads 233 M Stewart HardwnreA Furniture Co, supplies 39 40 Claim of M Bronson for Injuries re ceived on road near planer, 11014 30, disallowed Claim of C I Minima for Injuries re ceived on east side grade, 93:15 00, continued The peculiar properties of Cham berlain's Cough Remedy have lieen thoroughly tested during epidemics of Inlluenza, and when It was taken In time we have not heard of a single case of pneumonia. Sold by nil dealers. GHIGO HEARS FAKE NEGROJECTURER A dispatch from Chlco, Calif., gives an account of the visit to that city of one Swackhanner, a negro, who was at Hood River during the summer with the Intention of delivering a lecture here. Before coming he wrote 10 me. -ews, saying tnat tie was a graduate of a college In Bombay, India, and was touring the country In aid of an educational movement for the natives of India. On his arrival here the editor sized him up as just a plain, ordinary "nigger" with the running of his race abnor mally developed and there was nothing doing for Swackhanner. He had to leave town. The following Is therefore of In terest: "David John Henry Allen Zamboss Swackhanner, ex-cannibal, who Is lu the city to lecture Is-fore school chil dren, If given the opportunity, says the American women are fools, and In proof of this statement, declares that he dare not dress decently for fear of adoration they will give him. "Any man who speaks from a stage, he asserts, liecomes an Idol lu the hearts of American women, and they flock around so thickly us to develop Into a genuine nuisance. "Swackhanner was born In Port au Prince, Haytl, and lecame con verted to the Protestant firith In 1881, Just a year after he had helped kill and eat t lie Reverend Dr. Thomas, a missionary. He Is black, wears a fuzzy beard and has very poor teeth. J ust what there Is about him to at tract white women he has not stated. "It's simply the fact that I speak from the stHge about foreign coun tries," said the ex-cannlbal yesterday with a broad smile. "If I dressed up they would give me no peace at all. I used to wear a uniform when 1 lectured but the American women made so much of me that I had to cut It out. 1 hey disgusted me. I don't like to have American women. or any other women, adore me the way your American womeu do when I am dressed well. Therefore, I wear old clothes most of the time." Oregon Took Them All This Is prize year for Oregon, and the taking of the premiums at out side shows seems to have no eud. Hood River not only took the first prize at Spokane for apples but fol lowed It up with capturing the sweepstakes at Chicago In competi tion with the whole country. Med ford took fir-t prize at the Canadian National Apple show at Vancouver, B. ('., a Madras man toi k first honors at the Dry Farmirg congress at Spokane with an exhibit, and now comes a Heppner stock breeder who receives the highest average price paid for Shorthorn cattle at the In ternational Livestock show at Chi cago. One t wo-year-olil luiier sold for $075. The average price received was Vale Orlano. Commonwealth Conference The Third Annual Commonwealth Conference will be observed at the I'utverslty of Oregon on Friday and Saturday, January 13 and 14. The programs number some of the most prominent men and women in the state, Including papers by Governor- Elect Oswald West, Mrs. Clara II. Waldo, former lecturer for the State Grange, Mrs. Sarah A. Evans, presi dent of the Federation of Women's Clubs. Hon. Chas. Galloway, member of the state tax commission. Dr. William House, of the Medical school faculty In Portland, and J.C. stev- ens, formerly l . s. district hydro- grapher. Ratto Highly Pleased Audience John B. Ratto, who gave the tirst entertainment of the Lyceum course under the auspices of the Commercial Club Monday night, had an audience that, although small, was very appreciative. Ratto's characteriza tions were very clever nnd his make ups, which he put on before tils audi ence, little short of wonderful. After the performance, he received personal expressions of appreciation from many in the audience. Veteran Jailer Has Stroke Jailer John Fitzgerald, who has lieen a familiar llgureat the Wasco county court house for more than twenty-one years, was prostrated by a stroke of paralysis four weeks ago. He Is apparently recovering, but the sheriff was reluctantly com pelled to appoint John Beattle In his place. Boy Scouts Organize at Wenatchee Wenatchee has taken up the Boy Scout movement, and a local branch of this popular and growing organ ization for training boys has been formed there. It Is also securing a foothold In other districts of the North west, and the movement bids (air to become general on the coast. Wasco Has Many School Children The returns for the school census for Wasco county show that 1912 boys and l'23 girls of school age are residents id that county. This Is a total of 37:15 as against 3504 when the census was taken In l'.fi'.l. an Increase of 231. Water Works on the Farm Yes, that's Just what we mean real water workjj runniaf water in the kitchen, tht bathro.ii u tht laundry, the barn - la fact, all met the p!ar. And 111 all don br that tauk you ar ta tba lower lelt band corner of thia picture the leader system. It a val!y dinr-rent s -Af'TV? from the old-fashioned elevated tank whicb wurked by gravity. For the v ' j 5 leaaer water supply system la operated oy compreiu m mir rename, saia and cleanly. Your windmill pumps aatcr into the tank (which ia already full of air). The air, being eU.uc. ia compresa cd into appcr part of tha task, and forcea the water out through the pipes. Thia fires you a preasure, so that a powerful stream ef water is on lap at every faucet, no matter where it U lucaicd. And thia means abu hU4 JLrt-pnuctum tor the pressure ia alwayi and always ready. Now, the old style gravity tanks were cither put ia the attic or sit aated on a high tower out of doors. fa. tht former casa, their weight when full, cracked the plastering;: or they overflowed or leaked, flooding the roome below. Ia the casa of the outside tanks, the water often froze solid in winter, necessitating eapensive plumb. ing bills; or it became hot and stagnant duruig the summer and unlit lor use. The m m mam Leader Wa er VTo Supply System MM avoids ail this, neranse tne air-tignt tana ia either in the basement or buried unacr ground Itelow the frost line. Every outfit U complete, with full directions, and is easily installed. The Leader System needs no repairs, ta suited to small buildings off large, ana is moacratc ta price. Lt us send yon our frea booklet. "How I Solved the VYatar feupply Problem," the story of a man alio aucreaafullv equipped his country home with modern water wurks. w Write for It today, before you forget fS. ltVV r 11 lil ' Tr- irfr & l' n LEADER TANK mmmmm Apple Land and Orchard Company Office, No, 9 Oak Street, Phono 26 or 2002K, Hood River For Lime, Cement and House Plaster See STRANAHAN & CLARK WHEN YOU WANT Manufacturing and Repair Work OF ANT AND EVERY DESCRIPTION We are prepared to do it in our large and well equipped Manufactur ing and Repair Lstabllshment. We would be pleased to have you call on us. HNE HORSESHOEINa SNOW & UPSON Shops 141-143-145-147 Fourth St.,Op. Oilbert-Vaughan, Hood Rlver.Or. MSsQD R.IVER ABSTRACT CO. J. IS1 . SCHMELTZER, Sooretary Abstracts, lasur.cec, Coiveyanclng and Surety Boids We have the only comjilete set of Abstract Books in Hood Uiver County and are in- position to execute all work with promptness and accuracy. M'e represent some of the best old line Fire Insurance Com panies doing business in Oregon, and can give tlie fire insurance obtainable for the money. Our reputation as conveyancers is krtou-n to all. .ill of our work is guaranteed. Come to us when you want Surety Bonds of any description . Office In tha DAVIDSON BUILDING, N. E. Corner Caicadi Avtnut ant Third Strett Homo Phono HOOD RIVER, OREGON SMITH BROS. Successors to JACKSON & JACKSON We have just put on our shelves complete new stocks of Canned and Bottled Goods, Teas and Coffees and are prepared to give prompt attention to orders. PHONE 47 FREE DELIVERY NOW ON DISPLAY Our new line of Christmas Goods can now be shown to you at our store. It is finer and larger than ever before. See It Before You Buy We have presents for young and old games, etc., for the children, useful presents fur older ones, beautiful gifts for the beautiful ladies (and also for the handsome young men), and still nicer gift for the elderly people. Let us show you. Keir 8 Cass RELIABLE DRUGGISTS & Smith Rlock.JIood River, Oregon