Mosier bulletin., January 28, 1916, Image 1

MOSIER BULLETIN
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
BY
ROGER W. MOE
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
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Enterad as sa ond-class m attar March 12. 1000 at
tha post office at Muster, Oregon, under the Act of
March 1. 187«
No. 47
MOSIER, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDA}' JANUARY 28, 191«.
V O L . V II
except to look after the general health
W h a t Tim e Is It?
Everyone asks this question many times daily.
Our lives are regulated by our watches.
You are beginning a New Year.
Begin right by having your watch thoroughly cleaned
and adjusted.
Our repair work gives splendid service and will prove
worthy of your patronage.
W. F. E Laraway,
Jeweler and Optician
X PER T SW ISS W A TC H REPAIRING
“Hello
Central-
Mhin To-Two, plea.*-.’
. "Hello, Is this the Lumber YarJ?”
“ Ye*, Ma’am ."
" I want 12 boards just like you sent before."
" Yee, Ma’am .”
"Tell Tom to bring it op right away.”
"Yes, Ma’am .”
Thii is a sample ol orders which we very often get
over the telephone.
We lately received one by mail which read as follows:
m ister turn bill lumber
ivaut you to let my mans hav de same vood vot i got
lost year and just so higer measure and i vant to pay for
it the samey day os i payd it last yesr ivant sum prises
on sum lumber and vot will it so cost me send prices
with vood
19 4buyto 12feet
24 twelve buy 1 12foot
three*! by2 twelve foots
to tousand singles
1 good glass door
"SEE J. S. ANDERSON ABOUT IT"
Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co.
Happy New Year
For your loyal support in the
past we thank you, and so­
licit your patronage in the
future. We wish each and
every one of you a Happy New
Year abounding in prosperity and
achievement.
Sincerely yours,
Pacific Power & Light Co.
"ALWAYS AT YOUR. SERVICE”
A Popular Confec-
fectionery Store
where the most delicious candies can be
pmcnred, is always a source of attraction
to the girl with a sweet tooth, which is
the reas >n for the demand upon us at
all times. Everyone that likes rich and
luscious chocolates, dainty marsh mel­
low., fine bons-bons and cream carmels,
made from high grade and pure ingre­
dients, always find their way to The Oaks
S . E . F ran cisco
Proprietor "THE OAKS”
Better Equipped than ever in our new location
for High Class Protraits. Open Evenings
T h e T 216 0 Third
w ne Street S t u d i o
The Dalles
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STEAM ER TAHOM A
P eo ples
n a v ig a t io n
C om pany
CHARLES NELSON. M a n a g e r .
Leaves The Dalles 7:00 A. M.. Sundays, Tuesdays and
Thursdays. Arrives at Mosier at 8:15. A. M.
Leaves Portland on Mondays. Wednesdays and Saturdays
from Oak Street Dock.
.*. Passengers and freight
Mosier Dock in charge of J. W. Huskey, who will meet all
boats and attend to transfer Phone No 85
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and welfare of their industry. While a GOVERNMENT
HOOD, MECCA
grower shipping through one of the
selling agencies would have the right
consult with that particular eeltii
WILL ASSIST
LAST WEEK to agency
as to the methods of marketing
his product, yet he would not be juati
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for sacn insertion.
Legal advertisements will In all cases be charged
to the party ordering them, at legal rates, and
paid for before affidavits are furnished.
Nichol & Company
General
M erch a n d ise
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tied in asking any questions of i ny
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selling agency and our experience STANDARD GRADLS ARE PROMISED
PORTLAND FOLK SPORT IN SNOW other
in the past has been that sometimes
the selling agency through which toe
•limits of Soowshoe Club and Slu Club individual grower is marketing hi* Weather Conditions and Marketing Re­
products, .claims that the low pne-'s
forms Cause Coming Year to be
Men Made Pleasant by Courtesies
prevailing were attributable to the
actiona
of
competing
selling
agencies
Viewed Optimistically
of Railway Men
This may or may not be tbe cornet
solution, but if all the growers bad an
organixation which would permit them
From the Hood River Glacier
Bv Joe D. Tbomison
to send a committee representing all .of Except for shipments of export fruit
For the pait two year« members of the growers to all of the selling agen­
the Portland Y. M C. A. Ski Club cies to investigate the methods of not that have been sent out to catch Trana-
of the selling agencies but all Atlantic steamers, business has been
have extolled the playtielda on the only the one selling
agencies, there would be at a standstill here for the past two
anow on the north base of Mount Hood. of
some possibility of getting results.
Since the winter of 1910 the Portland 1 have been disappointed in tbe re­ weeks of extreme cold weather. While
Snowsboe club hai journeyed in a body sults that we have been able to obtain cars have been well lined and equipped
to date for the Growers Council. with insulated flooring, Wilmer Sieg,
to the snug winter clubhouse, which, up
Most of tbe selling agencies have ex­ sales manager of the Apple Growers •4-1-1 I I I■■H - l - H - H . H l-'I 'l > ■!■■!■ M i l l 4-I F I-l- H 4"l I I I I I I I I I I ■l"M -l-l,'M ,|i
constructed of hewn logs well mortised pressed
a willingness to work in har­
together, Btands near Cloud Cap Inn mony with iue executive committee of Association, fears slight frost damage.
like some Colonial blockhouse or fort­ the Growers Council but 1 fail to tind "We do not use a heater service,” he
ress, except that the holea in the walla that 1 am able to point to very much says, "for this service is oniy available
for sharpshooters have been elimin­ assistance rendered by many of the as far as Chicago, and very severe
selling agencies; that their talk is
ated.
However, to judge of the pleasures stronger than their action. If the weather ia encountered between that
that the members of both organisa­ office of markets of tbe department of city and the far eastern points."
tions who returned to Portland Sunday agriculture is willing to join with the The cold weather, however, Mr. Sieg
PE R SO N A L SER V IC E
afternoon by special car over the O.- growers in helping solve the marketing and other atheists of the Association
W. K. A N. line, have experienced on problem, it occurs to me that it would think, will be a benefit to the apple
their annual jaunt to the arowtields be very advisable for the grow es to and pear crop. " It will tend to keep
this week, the popularity of winter stand back of the office of markets in the buds dormant a lunger period,"
W hy go to Portland for dental work? Do you atop toconslder
sport* week, the popularity of winter working out a satisfactory solution. says Mr. Si.y, “ and will probably take
the service you receive from the hands of the dentist who is hired
sports on the mountainside will be Possibly the experience had during the us past those late frosts that cause us
by the week to operate for you? Have your w ork done at home
made greater than eter before. And past year in working out a plan will be damage here on some seasons. The
by the dentist w ho doea the work from start to finish.
in years to come it is predicted that it extremely helpful to the growers and local peach crop may be injured, but
will be just as much "the thing” to the department of markets in getting a plantings of this fruit are very negli­
22k Gold C row ns - - ( i
Porcelain Fillings - - $1.&0
see the giant snow drifts, the ice cas­ correct solution of the problem. In gible."
cades of the glaciers, and seraces and other words—by the experience of the Because of these propitious weather
Bridge W ork, per tooth 06
.Silver Fillings - - $1,8L&0
the snowbridge-covered crevasies by past year, we have ail learned of the conditions and proposed reforms in the
Gold Fillings - - 82 to 8«
Plates - - - - 89 to 818
winter as by summer.
absolute necessity of all of the growers grading of Northwestern box fruits
Porcelain C row ns - - ((.o il
Extracting - - - - - 50e
The Snwoshoe Club men journeyed to taking an active interest in the Grow next season, the local apple men are
their annual mid-winter retreat on era Council movement, or other similar optimistic. According to Mr. Sieg the
Wednesday of last week, after having movement, that will give them a (airly government will take a hand in the
spent a time in training on the tobog- good understanding of their own busi­ standardization o f grades, and through
the Bureau of Chemistry, which will
an and steep hillsides near Homer A. ness.
ogers’ Mount Hood Lodge. For three Many of the delegates to the Tacoma enforce the rulings that are to be
days they wiere buried in the National convention did not organize their dis­ made, buyers can be assured that ap­
Office Hours 9 to 12, 1 to 5.
Phone 2401
forest, cut off from communication i tricts in a manner necessary to produce ples shipped from the Northwest in
from the outside world, but withal ex­ results—in other words, th e , Jelling 1916 will be up tn grade.
Hood
River, Oregon
Rooms
18-19
Heilbronner
Bldg.
tremely comfortable at their club agencies will listen to the grov^ks just " Ih e government has recognized be­
yond
doubt
the
standardization
of
pack
quarters, discussing in the evening by so long as the growers show a »-posi­
the roaring log tire the thrills of the tion to demand attention but it appears and grade, and the Department of Ag­
day or the beauties of wintertime nat­ that the selling organizations are very riculture will accept as the standard
ure that mortals less bold have not largely in control of the sifustinn the rules adopted by the majority of
been privileged to see.
rather than the growers thematlves, the Northwestern districts,’' says Mr.
The Y. M. C. A. party arrived at when, in truth, it is the growers’ busi Sieg. “ The rulings will be strictly
Rogers’ Lodge on Thursday aflenroon. ness and until auch time as the grower sdhered to and worked out by the or­
The meirbers of the outing party takes general supervision over his own ganization that will take the place of
declare that their first trip was made business, he cannot expect it to be en­ the present Shippers' League, which
has postponed any reorganization until
doubly pleasant because of the courte­ tirely successful.
Are your valuable papers kept safe from fire? Why not
sies extended them by the officials of 1 received a letter from Messrs. Bas­ the report and recommendations of the
the O.-W. R. & N. Co. and the Mt. set, Moomaw and Kerr, under date of Office of Markets and Federal Trades
rent
a safety deposit box in our fireproof reinforced concrete
Hood Railway Co. On Thursday morn­ January 14, advising that they han Commission has been received."
vault?
Let us show you our equipment.
ing the outing party were the guests decided upon a plan and had started for “ The Northwest,” continued Mr.
of William McMurray, genreal passen­ Washington, D. C., to submit the same Sieg, "w ants to hold out to buyers an
ger agent of the tormer company, to the Federal Trade Commission ami absolute assurance of quality, and tha
aboard his private car here. Mr. Mc­ the office of markets for approval. It United States government is going to
Murray accompanied the pleaaure seek­ this approval is granted and they come cooperate with us to this end. '
ers as far as Parkdale. Ashley Wilson, back to the Pacific Northwest with a During the past shipping season rep­
M o sier - O re g o n
superintendent of the local line, also plan, 1 believe that we should all get resentatives of the larger shipping
accompanied the Y. M. C. A. party, back of them and help put it through. concerns declare that an irreparable
providing every available comfort. The Of course, this particular plan may not damuge haa been caused the North­
Ml. Hood line furnished a special train meet with 100 per cent approval in the western box apple by the shipment of
for the Snowshoe club from this city to minds of the growers, but 1 don’t be­ uffgrade fruit. Scores of carloads ef
Parkdale last Tuesday.
lieve that we should expect such a wormy and undergrade apples were
On Thursday, when the Ski Club plan, but any plan will be better than shipped to Texas points from Wenat­
members were en route from Parkdale no plan at all, as now exists, there­ chee, causing an avalanche of disaster
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to the Mount Hood Lodge, traveling in fore, I believe it will be advisable to for the shippers, themselves, and
bringing
into
disrepute
the
district
a battery of sleighs, a halt was called accept their plan so that wo can all
at the Valley Crest school, taught by unite upon some one plan and try it sending out the fruit.
S tea m er "D a lle s C ity " an d " S t r a n g e r "
Miss Margaret Macnamara, of Port­ out for a year, after which the wrin­ Hood River, according to Mr. Sieg,
U'ftveH P ortland 7 r . in., arrive* The Dalle* 6:80 p no., S un d ay, M onday, Tuesday,
has suffered this season because of off
land. Because of the deep snow and kles can be ironed out.
W ednesday, Thiundny (not Friday J wnd S atu rday . A rrive* up at
about ft
frigid weather but eight of the hardier
W. H. Paulharnus, chairman. grade apples having been shipped to
p. in. l/4*av»-8 The D m II m 7 h m , arrive»« Portland fttJO p. in. S un d ay, M onday, Turn-
day, W ednesday, T hur*day, F rid ay, [not H afurday | Arrive* dow n a t MOlder about
England by individuals of tho Mid Co-
studenta of Miss Macnamara were in
8:46 a. in. W^dneNday » feat'll week I* net a*lde an 1 Stock Yard D ay” an d then Ihe
, iu in tn a district.
attendance. Without formality the
M u m « i > h iI m C ity” w ill tak«
*tocl foi iellv*r> to P ortland u n io n Block M ard
With tne exception of a few carloads
Portland men tiled in at the Bchoolhouse
Thi* nervine wIII perm it tho Ind iv idu al to uhlp a** few aulmalM a* deal red aud g jt the
benefit of low freight rale*. For fuith er Inform ation telephone n u m b er J2i.
{of first grade Newtowna, the Fruit
door and took their seats at the empty
Growers’ Exchange reports that Its
desks. Unabashed by the presence of ,
>ipple holdings of the 1916 crop have
so many visitors, Mias Macnamara re­
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been practically cleaned up. During
linquished her rod of authority to A.
> the past week several carloads have
M. Gnlley, physical director of the Y.
been shipped to California and the
(From Hood River Glacierl
M. C. A., who took temporary charge
of the school aud delivered a short The Clark Seedling strawberry, the Midule West. "While we are not
speech to the eight faithful studenta. famous fruit grown throughout tbe meeting with any better offers,” aaya
H. M. Huxley, of the Exchange, "we
“ This incident,” declares R. H. At­
fruit district, according are
finding the demand is getting much
kinson, city ticket agent of the O.-W. to Mid-Colmubia
Geo.
T.
Prather,
was
propagated
by
R. & N. Co. at Portland, “ was one of a man by the name of Clark, a farmer beter.
the pleasantest of the entire trip, and of the Mt. Tabor district near Port­ Kenneth McKay, manager of the
Exchange, haa been spending the past
to most of us brought back, vividly, land.
memories of our own childhood spent The first of the berries ever grown two weeks in Seattle and other coast
.
cities,
conducting a selling campaign.
in some rural district."
were planted by the late B. War­
The Ski club members spent Friday here
ren,
whose
family
now
resides
in
Borl­
i j
Prosperity is on the Way.
on abort excursoins in the neighborhood and. "M r. Warren brought the berry
of the Lodge, relieveing “ Charlie hors i plants here in either 1878 or 79," says
es” contracted on the day before and Mr. Prather.
I
Business is good.
training for the long hike to Cloud Cap "1 was acquainted with Mr. Clark,
Inn yesterday, when a visit was made whose initials I have forgotten. T.
to the clubhouse of the snowshoe men ! R. Coon later brought the fruit into
and thence to the scenic vantage points .
According to C. N. Ravlin, of thi*
prominence.”
at the foot of Eliot glacier. One of ! commercial
The yield of Clark Seedling straw ­ city, who was chief of horticulture for
the worst auffereia from a “ charlie berries
of the Hood River Valley and . the Oregon Commission at the Pans
horse" was W. J. Hoffman.
Underwood and White Salmon dis­ ma-Pacific International Exposition.
The Y. M. C. A. party had three pop- : the
of Waanington will reach more The recent noise made by the Business
ular mascots: Mrs. Gordon Raymond, I tricts
than 125 carloads during the coming Men's Association, of The Dalles, be­
Lloyd Jaeger and Allen Hoffman.
The berries are cause of an alleged use made of Wasco
The personnel of the Ski club party spring and as summer.
county fruit at the San Francisco fair
far east sa Chicago.
was as follows: A. M Grilley, E. J distributed
The snowfall of the past three by the Willamette Valley, arose over
Webb, Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Raymond, weeks,
protecting Ihe plants from the the erroneous labeling of a tingle jar
Robert E. Hilehie, J. Harold Miner, exceeding
cold weather, will alao in­ ' of processed Bing cherries.
N. A. Coleman. M. H. Barnes, Chas. sure a plenty
and growers "I discovered the m istake," aaya Mr.
W. Warner, F. H. Kiser, Arthur M. are expecting of a moisture,
yield and a Ravlin, "when we were preparing to
Prentiss, C. W. Howard, R. H. Atkin­ berry of excellent bumper
quality the coming return the fruit to tbe different state
son, J. P. Jaeger and son, Lloyd, J. P. season.
points. " It was a well known fact,
Plageman, Harold L. Wald and W. J.
i however, that the Willamette Valley
Hoffman and son, Allen. The following
made use of Moeier applet. The Wil­
Mrs. Adams Sues for Divorce
were the members of the Snowshoe
lamette people stated that they were
club: J. Wesley Ladd, Dom Zsn, Wal-
(From the Hood River Glacier)
unable to secure any of their own fruit
ter B. Honeyman, Horace Mecklim, R. Suit
that it waa necessary to get the
divorce against I.eRoy Arm­ and
P. Efflner, J. A. Doughtery, Guy W. strong for
applet from Mosier, this district having
has been filed in the local cir­ | the
Talbot, Rodney L. Glisan, D. II. Sta- cuit
only
available stocks."
by Mrs. M. Sue Armstrong, Mr. Ravlin
phenaon, Herbert Nichols, C. E. Grelle, who court
aaya that the cherriea
asks for her former name, M. Sue were
H. C. Lewis nad D. T. Honeyman.
exhibited in the Oregon building.
Adams. The complaint recilea that All other
A remarkable feat was accomplished Mrs.
exhib ts from The Dalles, he
Armstrong was tne widow of the
by Mr. Wald, a member of the Y. M.
wera properly labeled and
Dr. W. L. Adams, a pioneer of i declares,
C. A. party, who, on his arrival here late
placed according to instructions from
city who tefore hit death left to home.
from Portland at I :55 Thursday morn­ ti this e plaintiff
"To complete their display of
large farm, known as I jars of Tokay
ing. act out immediately for Parkdale Paradise Acres, a which
graper,” say* Mr. Rav-
at tha time of Im, "which were
on skit, arriving at 8:30 o'clock thor­ bis
placed according to
death waa valued at the sum of 1 inatreutiona at entrances
oughly exhausted from hie 30-mile {125,000.
the Oregon
Mrs. Armstrong alleges that Palace of Horticulture, 1 to added
jaunt.
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36 inch
Mr. Armstrong wooed and wed her with , jais of fruit belonging to the Oregon
the aim of getting possession of her Commiteion."
property, and tha complaint daclares Mr. Ravlin thinks that the Wasco
that since they were married ha hat by
club «hows bad form in the
different pretexts secured from her county
since the 9iste Commission
sums aggregating (30.000, one of which complaint*,
added to the Business Mena Association
was a wedding present for $5,000.
20 cans of exhibits belonging
Desertion and cruel and inhuman display
To delegates fo the growers’ council: treatm
the state Mr. Ravlin has photo­
ent are given as reasons for ask­ to
This is the time designated for the an­ ing
graphs showing how Wasco county
nual meeting of the Growers' roorctl Mr. a decree.
Armstrong is well krown in Halt exhibits were placed.
but in conference with Truman Holler Lake City
and ether Pacific txiast cities
of Hood River, one of the member« of aa a newspaper
man. For a time he I « 4 -H -l-tH 4 4 1 1 I I I I I I t I I I t » »4
the Esecotive Committee, we have de­ was editor and owner
of Goodwin's
cided that in our judgement it would Weekly, of the former place
APPLE NOTES
be best to hold our meeting in abey­ Los Angeles, Calif., according to the
ance until Messrs. Bassett, Moomaw complaint of Mra. Armstrong, ia now i m m i i i m i m i it ti 11-4-1
and Kerr, of the Department of Mar­ hit place of reaidenee.
kets. have completed tbelr investiga­ Mrs. Armstrong is represented by The Dufur Orchard Co-Ownera com­
tion end make a report of whet they Attorney
ia the name of the raw organisa­
John Lcland Henderson, for­ pany
believe is the best method of handling merly of this
tion which has been formed ny Ihe
city.
our apple marketing problem.
Defnr Orchard company of that city,
and which will prove to be of great
Aa you know, the Grower« Council
movement was called into eaisWnce Kodakersand amateur photographer*, beneflt to the various owners of tracts
for the sole purpose of endeavoring to brun as yoar dims. UV de\e op and I in the 7u0t>-aera orchard 10 miiea from
obtain I be right cooperative workirrg print every day. Hlooom A CanAeld, The Dalle*.
agreement between the eelling ageneiee Books, Stationery and Newed-eiera, Tbe entire orchard, 4000 scree of
and that there Is really very little that Hood River, Ore. Filins can tie left at which he* bean plantad to traea, will
the Grower* Council can accomplish he Balletic office
jbe under one management.
At the Gem Wednesday and Thursday, February 2 and 3
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Dalles, Portland Astoria Navigation Company
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