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THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 19, 1913 After the Doctor-- THE DRUGQIST The doctor's work is only half what has to be done for the pa tient. And if the druggist be lacking in ability and care the prescription might as well have never been written. But we make a special study of each case and our own medical knowledge is thorough enough to be of great use to us in those sometimes oc curring cases when the doctor, in his haste, makes a slight error. CHAS. N. JLM.M.MZ M. 71V R. E. OLD'S CROWNING SUCCESS t Place your order for one with D. McDonald HOOD RIVER, OREGON Hgcnt for Hudson and Rco Cars NOW IS THE TIME We have just received a full line of D. M. FERRY'S SEEDS- also have C. C. MORSE'S SEEDS from California "The Seeds That Crow" j Wool's J. M. WOOD, Proprietor "Uhc Hest Things to Eat" PHONE 1221 4th & State St. 0. P. DABNEY & SONS FURNITURE, FURNITURE, FURNITURE, STOVES AND RANGES We buy, sell and exchange everything In House Furnishings, Campers Supplies, etc. Don't forget the placc-Cor. 4th & State J. M. SCHMELTZER HOOD RIVER ABSTRACT COMPANY ABSTRACTS Insurance Surety "Accuracy" Office In New Hellbronner lluildlnir For Lime, Cement and House Plaster See STRANAHAN & CLARK CLARKE KJ VJVJIO X TO MAKE GARDEN ! Grocery FREE DELIVERY Phone 3281 F. A. BISHOP 5 Conveyancing! Bonds is Our Motto Phone 1271 Hood River, Oregon rk i DOESN'T SEE NOW CANAL WILL HELP Editor, Hood River Newt: In your Issue of March 5 you mention under "Telegram" about apples from Oregon and the Northwest going through the Panama Canal for the Atlantic sea board and to Europe. The same mail brought In a letter from a correspon dent at Seattle, wherein the writer, In speaking about the Northwest be ing organized Into associations and commenting on them, says "To the writer's way of looking at It these as sociations will 'bust' the growers if they keep up their present tactics of misleading the growers and getting them to ship their apples, I may say all over the world and running the chance of taking what they can get, as that Is what they have been doing." During the past three or four years we have heard a lot about aviation, parties trying to float in the air and coming down heavily and sometimes breaking their necks. To those who do not know W. N. White, let me say ttiat I care nothing for any man In America when it comes to apples, the way to market them and the markets that can take them, as I believe I am better posted on the conditions of ap pies through the whole world than any other person In America. Of course, your readers will say "Yes, Mr. White, you are driving your own wheelbarrow and talking very strong." One sometimes has to drive your own wheel-barrow, particularly when these aviators come out with their fairy tales and talk about flying to the moon. Someone has told your "Ad Club" about shipping ten to fifteen thousand carloads through the Panama Canal and that It can be done to the At lantic seaboard at from 25c to 30c a box and to Europe at from 45c to 50c a box. Let me ask that gentleman how much it Is going to cost to get those apples from Oregon and Wash ington to the seaport where the steam er has to be loaded to go through the Panama Canal (such charges to in clude dock dues) and what kind of steamer is he going to get to go through the Panama Canal? What Is she going to carry besides apples? Wheat? Yes, a certain quantity. Hops? No, because they are wanted at St. Louis, not New York. Pota toes? They would not pay the freight Cattle? They would not pay to ship here. What else? What size steam er is he going to use? How long Is that steamer going to take from the loading placs in the North Pacific down the coast through the Panama Canal and then up the coast to New York? Let me tell him that if his steamer could do It In half the time that will be required, then these goods would have to be carried under re frigeration and such refrigeration can not be done under 40c a box. Let him make inquiries from any steam ship owner, steamship builder or steamship agent and find out how much the freight is going to be and remember that is In half the time. It will certainly take not less than fourteen days and they must be under the refrigeration. If he talks of send ing some direct to Europe he has to be sure that Europe will take the fruit. These steamers that are built with refrigeration generally get their freight booked months in advance. They are not waiting for parties to come along at the last moment to load their ship. They want to know if they are going to have a full cargo or half a cargo. A full cargo of boxes of apples? Po you know how much it would cost to put In refrigeration In a stieamer of that description? Then when the steamer came here there is the question of unloading the goods and carting them to the steamer that goes to Europe, and then they must go in refrigerator from here to Europe. That space has to be booked In ad vance and there Is no refrigeration space today between New York and England at less than 25c to 35c a box at the port to which they are go ing. Now about associations and what they have been trying to do. I have heard of parties out West setting up their offices and calling themselves "bankers." They say "We want to receive your apples to go to various places on consignment. We will charge you 10 per cent for selling your goods and we will advance you so much per box on your apples. We will take your note for that advance and the note shall be a mortgage against your property." I am told that quite a number of people have given their notes this year and ship ped their goods, as my Seattle cor respondent states "all over the world" with very little result, except that the man who advanced the money holds a note against the land. This seems to me like some more aviation. In fact It Is like some of the automo bile buyers. Some of the buyers of automobiles who live In the country and have a house and land, have been known to mortgngo that house and land to buy an automobile. In three years the automobile is worn out. but they still have the mortgage on the house and land. If your lecturer will tell me more about the Panama Canal than I have written or answer my remarks In your paper. If he can prove that I am wrong, I shall be very glad to see his proof and whatever he says I can guarantee to rply to to the best of my ability. As regards the associa tions I may have more to Bay about them before the next season com mences as I am taking quite a num ber of notes now on apple aviators and shall be prepared to lusue those notes later on. Yours faithfully, W. N. WHITE. WHAT YOU CAN MAKE OF EM . BROIDERY OR BORDERED MATERIAL Not so long ago, there was the broad four and five and even six yard wide skirt that consumed much goods and was so heavy and awkward that one invariably came home exhausted after the least shopping expedition. Now you can have a skirt with a number of plaits so made that the lower edge measures less than two yards. And it Is so easy and simple to make that even the inexperienced sewer need not hesitate to undertake it. Take for an example a skirt like the model shown here. No. 7052. It is made In one piece, a fact always reas suring to the home dressmaker, for she knows that very little trouble at tachs to the making of such a skirt or dress. Then the lower edge of the skirt is straight so that you can use flouncing, embroidery or bordered ma terial, for which It is specially adapt ed. With a little skirt like, that nothing could be prettier than a blouse made after the model 7013 In peplum style and thoroughly adapted for the use of bordered fabric or embroldry. Com bined, and worn with a soft nell rose satin girdle, you have a most fetching little costume for warm afternoon wear. For your bordered voile or challis, the model No. 6653, which is made in the peasant style, is really charming. WENATCHEE MAN INTERVIEWED Manager of Union Reviews Market Conditions of the Year George W. Coburn. manager of the Wenatchee Valley Fruit Growrs" Asso ciation, when in New York City, was intrviewed by the New York Fruit and Produce Journal regarding Pacific Northwest apple conditions. Mr. Coburn said that while market ing conditions were not as good as could be hoped for, the situation might be worse. He said that nearly 3,800 cars of apples have heen moved from the Wenatchee Valley this season. Of these not more than 700 cars are left In storage. These are all late varie ties and are keeping well. The Wine saps, he said, will hold until June. So far as the Wenatchee Valley Fruit Growers' Association is concerned, the season has been fairly satisfactory Early prices were good. The associa tion netted the growers an average of $1.08 per box up to January 1. Since then, of course, prices have not been as satisfactory. Mr. Coburn said there Is no danger of overproduction of apples In the Northwest. The sec tions that are peculiarly fitted for fruit will succeed and th others will not It is simply a case of the survival of the fittest. GIVES INSTANT ACTION Charles N. Clarke, Druggist, reports tha A SINGLE DOSE of simple buck thorn bark, glycerine, etc., as com pounded In Adler-i ka, the German ap pendicitis remedy, stops constipation or gas on the stomach INSTANTLY, Many Hood Itlver people are being helped. England Is In acute need of elastic window glass. fjK"?M ill1) im 'fin I essa SFfVw 7013; 37 7052 LOG COURTHOUSE HERE IS SUGGESTED Editor of the News: The other evening I attended a picture show and In one of the presentations was one of a Jail. Like all other jails it had bars at the windows. But like no other Jail I ever saw it was built of logs Instead of stone. So this makes the suggestion that when Hood River builds a Jail why not make It of very very heavy logs and timbers. Cer tainly a very much more attractive building can be built with logs than of stone, if we look at some of the stone attempts around here. And this leads to further Ideas. Some day we will build a courthouse. Much has been said about a court house the last few days caused by the furore over a site for the library. We are not yet ready to build a courthouse so perhaps it Is we'l to do a little thinking now rather than much thinking quickly about the time we are ready to build. No one thing at the Lewis & Clark Fair attracted so much attention as the Forestry Building of Oregon. Ev erybody saw it. Every Easterner who made the trip remembered it above all else. Now we have the lumber right here to build a courthouse likewise and certainly anyone who remembers that building can not but admit his and others admiration for it. Now for the Anvil Chorus. First they will say courthouses are never built of timbers. Second, that it would not be fireproof. Answering the first, is there any reason why we should be bowed down by prece dent, when we can do something bet ter? Answering the second, will ask whether San Francisco did not fall and burn down some years since, as did Baltimore previously?' Also, with a tile roof, nothing would withstand fire better than solid timber construc tion, and the vaults are the secret of your courthouse anyway, these being built of fireproof materials. Ask any architect if mill construction is not better for warehouses than steel con struction. Now as a matter of lasting the ages, anyone of the chorus can be referred to hundreds of buildings In older coun tries than this that are built of wood and are hundreds of years old. Also they are good to look at. Now that the movies have been taught to talk, picture show patrons who sit in the dark an J hold hands will have to be more discreet For Sale 60-DAY BARGAIN 15 acres four-year-old mer- charitable orchard 2i miles south-west of city. Any f -LI V reasonaDie oner win De con sidered. J. W. Anderson, 626 E. 19th North, Portland, f Ore. Phone East 4006. Pine Grove Box Go. I Phone: Odell 116 BEST GRADE OFf APPLE BOXES AND BUILDING MATERIAL LUMBER YARDS i AT ODELL - FACTORY ALSO AT. MT. HOOD P.O. ii ii ii iji ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii" Blacksmithing and Wagon Work Gasoline Power Sprayers Steam Power Sprayers Equipped to Repair all kinds of Sprayers Howell Bros. Two doors east of Fashion Stables Hood River, Ore. Phone 227-X Wire Wound Continuous Stave WOOD STAVE PI PL; KELLY BROS., Agents 4th St. Bet. Oak and State Phone 4443 Hood River, Ore. We have a complete stock of Pruning Tools Including Rhodes'" Double with 30 inch handles Also Pruning Shears and Tree Pruners. Regular price on 8-foot tree pruners, 55c We also have our new stock of SPRAY HOSE In and we know by expressions from satisfied customers on this line that we have the goods that make good. Blowers Hardware Co. The Firm that Phone 1691 I Butler Banking Co Established Capital One Hundred Thousand Dollars 0 Safe Deposit Boxes Leslie Butler, President Truman Butler, 9 0 FOR BABY'S COUGH Relief is quick when youjase K.-C. 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For sale or rent on easy terms. A. W. ONTMANK, Agt. 104 Oak St. hood River, Ore. J 0 t