MOS1ER BULLETIN PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY ROGER W. MOE SUBSCRIPTION RATES On* Y w . *ix M onths Thrase Months 11.5s. E ntered ss se. orwJ clsss m stter M srch 12, 1»# st the post office s t Mosier, Oregon. under the Act of M srch 3. 197». Fourth of July This bank will be closed all day on Tuesday, July 4. It is good for us all to stop and remember what we owe our country. We can be patriotic in our celebration of the day, and perhaps for one day we can forget the troubles we have had of late with the Weather Man. HOOD RIVER PLACED SUMMER PRUNING NEW SYSTEM ON CIRCLE ROUTE SUGGESTIONS GIVEN TAKES HOLD A 600 mile By Gordon O. Brown circle route from Seattle to Portland-Hood Kiver, Glenwood, COMMINITY PACK ADVANTAGEOUS hack North Yakima, Kllenaburg and thence to the Sound is being given wide H orticulturist E xperim ent Station. Hood Kiver The orchardist is approaching the I publicity by the Seattle Post-lntelli- season when he must decide for him-; Pioneer Packing Co., First Central Insti- gencer. The Seattle paper recently sent a ' self whether or not it Is desirable! tion, Ls Successful and Adds party on the tour to make a log of the ¡under his particular conditions to par­ MOSIER VALLEY BANK route. The party consisted of Douglas ticipate in summer pruning. With | New Members Shelor, automobile editor of th e P -l.; this idea in mind the writer shall at-j M osier O regon E N. Turnell, a Seattle photographer, (From the Hood Kiver Glacier) and Kay MacNamara, noted driver,who tempt to present as clearly and brlef- the Maxwell automobile which | ly as possible certain well known Judging from the present trend to­ drove carried the sightseers. The following ; principles that have been established ward the new system, the day is not is a portion of Mr. Shelor'a story of ’ and various theories that are being » far d stant when all orchardists in the the trip appearing in the P-1.: Hood Kiver valley owning tracts of 10 “ When the motorist fully compre­ advanced with reference to u prac- acres or less will harvest their apple hends that the great Northwest crops through community packing Î * houses. Three years ago the commun­ within its borders a four, five or has six | lice of this kind. day tour of 600 miles, including every Since the underlying principles I ity system was first proposed by grow­ A good line of each at prices you can’t beat * ers of the Oak Grove district. Five ow known variety of scenery, from mead­ j governing the pruning of fruit trees along the Duwamiab to in most respects the same the grow trs, Geo. C. Gladen, H. M. Fran­ the lowlands great desert r-d wheat country of ! ! are cis. Paui R. Hughes and D. L. Pier- eastern writer w ill for the sake of brevity I Wn«hi'-pt'>", through rugged son, formed a cooperative organization m ountain m i ic u u l valleys, at all i confine his rem arks to the apple, hop- called the Pioneer Packing Co. At the times wmnii ai*ut of one or more of j ing that certain conclusions may be time it was not convenient for the gre . :.o* cipped peaks—Mount I drawn that will receive a wide Inter orchardists to secure funds for the con­ four Mount St. Helens, Mount struction of a new plant. Space, how­ Rainier, Hood and Mount Adams—then they pretation and application. ever, was secured in a centrally located will stuck dun their khaki l-caving aside for the time being blacksmith shop, and the new enter­ clothes and the be machine, off on the great Cascade- the mooted question of the relative j prise has been successful. circuit tour path found by Last season the Pioneer Packing Co. Columbian automobile department of the Post- advantages of summer vs. winter handled 8,!>00 boxes of fruit for its the on June II, 10, 11 and 12. pruning the fundamental aims of the affiliated members. During the past Intelligencer “ The tour outlined and logged in this fruit grower should be as follows: week it has added three new members, section traverses nationally known l). T. Wedemeyer, W. F. Andrews and routes —the Pacific five highway from Seat­ (1) For young trees one to four T. J. Annala. Portland, 210 miles ; the Colum­ years of age ta secure a vigorous, The success of central packing lias tle to Kiver highway, Portland to Hood well directed wood growth; (2) For stimulated growers of other parts of bia Kiver, 68 miles; the Inland Empire the tree four to seven years of age | the valley to initiate plans fur such or* highway, T H E DALLES, OREGON Salmon to North Yak­ ganizations. Meetings were recently ima, 140 While miles; Yellowstone trail. to not only continue a vigorous, well | held in the Pine Grove district, and al­ North Yakima to Ellensburg. 50 miles, directed wood growth but also to en- [ members of the Apple Growers Sunset highway, Kllenaburg to Se­ courage the fruiting habit. In other Associaton located in that section of and Doctors Wood and Be vis ready the apple district have offered to furn­ attle, 126 miles.” words, to take such steps as will ish 75,000 boxes of apples to a new eventually bring about a proper bal plant that will be erected at some cen­ ance between the vegetative growth tral point there before the harvesting season of the coming autumn. A on the one hand and fruit production meeting was held a1 the 1 human Flag­ on the other: (3) For trees older, to ler home in the Barrett district the maintain such desirable balance and past week, when Barrett growers started a campaign for a central pack- where lacking to establish same. • (By Leroy Childs) i ing plant. advantages may be gained by According to Professor C. I. Lewis Without a regard to the appealing not Several the apples too early this in Bulletin 130 there are three lessons Baving in cost of handling the fruit, year. thinning Hound-trip Tickets via the From a purely horticultural of primary importance which every community packing houses are justified standpoint greatest advantage from yruner should know and apply with because of the advantages accruing a practice of the this sort can he gamed by from a uniform pack, C. W. Hooker early thinning in that by removing the reference to non-bearing trees: First; and William Dickerson, representaives unnecessary fruits growth choose and space the scaffold ¡of the Association the past season re­ into the remaining apples ia and thrown tree, To spectively in I.os Angeles and San However, consideration of the crop branches. This -efers to the deslra in Francisco, declare that the community is equally important. Karly thin­ Iniity of selecting those shoots on the ! packing house is one of the best assist- hand ning does not give the grower a chance main trunk or branches which will ants the salesman has, Wilmer Sieg j will be sold July 1,2, 3 and 4 remove scabby, wormy or spray- Insure good distribution of laterals j | the is a heart exponent of the system, and to burned fruit and thereby increases his and avoid the crotches so painfully sales organization is fostering the crop production with return limit of July 5 at grade. plans of growers of different districts The combined and rains of the past few evident almost everywhere. Four or I excursion fares to points in their efforts to finance central pack­ days will undoubtedly increase scab in­ five branches on the main trunk will ing concerns. wjiich will not show on the be within 200 miles. Where an individual grower has a fection, enough for this purpose. The for about fifteen days. Growers small crew of men at work engaged in fruit further apart they are spaced tho who have used liine-sulphur recently the harvest and packing of his crop, should also wait through a spell of hot the apples oftentimes are allowed to weather in order tliat they mavThin stronger and better will be the trunk remain several days in orchard boxes out the sunburned apples, for there and the tree obtained. Most mistak­ before they are ready for delivery to A gent of th e O -W . K. K. A N. es are made in that the grower after undoubtedly he some. association warehouses and placed in will Between 1st and 10th of July heading back the main whip give no cold storage. This delay, it is said, in most of the the codling will have further attention to the tree until the for Information and Tickets many instances results in bad condition hatched and the wormy mothB apples will he following of apples at time of distribution. dormant period. It Is much I “ spotted.” Wormy apples should The community system appeals alike easily better to watch such trees carefully I all he removed from the orchard and to grower and to the harvest laborer. UNION destroyed. Development o f the worm for a month or so after planting and The orchardist is freed from the bother PACIFIC if the apples are thrown on of caring for a host of pickers and continues LOW PARES EAST ground, thereby increasing the rub off undesirable buds or shoots SY STEM packers. Sleeping and mess accommo­ tho numbers of the second generation of and to suppress those which are mak­ and YELLOWSTONE dations are provided tor at the central moths. packing house. The harvester is as- At this time the activities of the ing excessive growth at the expense NATIONAL P ARK. l Burdd of steady work uver a longer leaf-roller will be over and the injured of the others. Second, To keep main Tickets now on sale. period. Better help is thus obtained Hpples should he removed. Thinning branches or sections of the tree prop­ and held. Ask for literature and he attempted in orchards erly dominant. If one branch grows Ihe community system also makes Bhould never with leaf-roller until the feed­ at the expense of the rest of the tree full information. j its appeal to larger growers, because infected ing worms are entirely gone, for in then the weaker branches gradu­ of the resulting smaller cost of hand­ disturbing they are quite liable ling the fruit. The first example of to leave an them the community system on a large scale sound one. injured apple and attack a ally become side branches of the two or three. In connection with this Idea in the huge packing plant of If you would make your home is the found Hood Kiver Apple & Storage Co. will say the average pruner makes Brother of Mrs. McGregor Dies which is not only equipped with ma­ beautiful and need some either mistakes: chines for grading the fruit, but haa While in I’ortland two weeks ago, first, he of may the cut following plants call at the tree level across \ ite own refrigerating plant, where the Mrs. J. K. McGregor received a tele­ crops of its members may be held in the top. In other words he cuts all Prepare for the renting storage throughout the season. gram announcing the sad death of her branches at the same height. In do A second Dak Grove community pack­ brother, D. W. Cross, in Oak­ ing so a well balanced tree Is preven­ season during “Wire Your ing house will he erected this summer oldest Hood River, Oregon land, Calif. While driving a spirited ted on the HltU off place. It will be In that no attention Is paid the Home” month. March loth equipped with a new grading machine horse, the animal became frightened relation of one branch to another. Geranium 75c and $1 per doz., and the crops of a number of surround- and ran away, throwing Mr. Crosa out Again, he may cut the weakest wood to April 15th. ing orchards will be handled. and trampling on hia cheat. He suc­ most and the strongest wood the Heliotrope 75c and $1 per doz., Under the community system the ap­ cumbed Electrically e qui pp e d to the internal injurica 48 least, hoping that by doing so he may ples, if the individual does not happen Petunia 75c doz., Salvi 7cc doz. to have teaming facilities, are taken hours later. Hia widow survives him. houses are seldom vacant. the former and discourage from the trees and delivered, properly Mr. and Mrs. McGregor visited at the stimulate growth In the latter. The reverse Is graded and packed, at the Association home of her brother on their last trip Insure your p r o p e r t y warehouses. Ihe case, however. Many make this The committee in charge of the Pine to California four years ago mistake because of the standard rule against undesirable tenants Grove community arrangements is com­ which reads as follows: Cut hard to D r e a m s That Wert. posed of Dr. Stanton Allen and Clar­ The dittne or no tenants at all by hav­ bus dlsnpiieared from the induce heavy wood growth and light­ ence E. Coffin. Physician and Surgeon The Pioneer Packing Co. recently schools and Is not even (minted out lu ly to discourage the same. It Is Im­ ing it wired for Electric Ser­ purchased one of the large size Cutler the streets as erstwhile. grading machines. This purchase will And the deur old uniu who used to portant to know that this rule holds vice. The investment will enable the company to care for all the drop In a few hours before sup|«r true when we consider the tree as a Telephones: fruit in the Dak Grove reighborhoou. and decline to remove his topcoat whole but It has little to do with the not be great and the income Residence I#31 Office 1241 because be find hut a few mluutea to relation of one branch to another. will be increased. atop and who lingered until he was Put the strongest branch hardest and Invited to eat, when he accepted, and the weaker ones less so. The prln- [ We have unusual induce­ Office in Hroiiui Bldg. who remained until 10 o'clock In the clple involved is to discourage wood evening and then remarked thut It was growth Hood River ments to ofTer if you arrange by decreasing the leaf aurface lime for him "to be shovin' up the I and buds and tfl encourage wood for the work now. The board of directors of the Apple creek." Growers Association Saturday decided And the fine old gentleman who growth by leaving same. Of courae to allow the growera of the cooperative of horse drawn vehicles, from 6 a m , ITatte Fongere lighthouse station comes to the critical point*; namely, to 12 m., and from 1 p. m. to 7 p. m. someflmea as many an eight persons these numerous balanced crotches Blacksmith The road will be open to all traffic on sit down together to hear the telephone DAVID ROBINSON. M. D. Horse Shoeing and General Sundays. from a church five miles away. To avoid this choose a leader for each I would appreciate it very much of service Repair Work. —Popular Mechanic*. Physician and Surgeon branch just as yon would do for the you will have this appear in your paper tree itself (If the leader type ia choa M o s ie r , - - O r e g o n as often as convenient, so thst the M o s ie r »• * O regon enl and suppress the other laterals tourists may be kept properly informed Notice •I as to these hours. accordingly If you continue this We are going to pave 12 houra instead Unless all dog licenses in the city of plan you will have a much stronger DR. C H. JE N K IN S Mosier are paid to the city treaaurer, of eight hours per day, so as to have D erby & S tea r n s DENTIST this work completed as soon a a possible J. E. Cole, by July 10, the nc votary tree because the identity of the orlgl and not delay the traffic any more than -tepa to enforce the city ordinance will nai, naturally stronger scaffold L aw yers HOOD KIVER. OREGON is necessary. Very truly yours, be taken. Roger W. Mo*. branch Is retained. J. R Yeon, Office Phone IONI. Ret. Phone 433 City Marshal. (Concluded next week) Koadmsater Multnomah County. HO O D RIVER. OREGON I Base Ball Goods and * Fishing Tackle / _ • I ; i I The Mosier Book Store ) The Dalles Sanatorium ADVANTAGES GAINED BY LATE THINNING OURTH OF JULY i l y i. I-I- H-I-H '-I-I' I I I I I I I I I I I 1 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 1 I I I I I I m Nichol & C om pany -DEALERS IN - G eneral Merchandise MOSIER Don t Forget Rented H eights Greenhouse - - YVe carry a large assortment in both amber and smoked lenses. Tortoise Shell still holds the popular fancy and we are showing a number of styles in these mountings. YVe invite your inspection while our stock is complete. W. F. Laraway, Jeweler and Optician EX PER T SWISS W A TCH REPAIRING HOOD RIVER - & C. J. E. CARLSON - OREGON Suits to be cleaned, pressed and repaired may be left at Mosier Book Store. Will be taken to Hood River Monday returned Thursday. Special club offer—four suits per month, sponge and pressed, for $1.50. The Bee Hive C lean in g an d P ressin g Parlors Hood River, Oregon Personal Service Dentistry W hy go to Portland for dental work? D o y o u s to p to r o n s id e r the service you receive from the hands of the d e n tis t w h o is h ire d by the week to operate for you? Have y o u r w or'i d o n e at hom e h y the dentist who does the w ork from start to fin is h . 22k Gold C row ns - - K.'< Porcelain Fillings - - ft 1.511 Bridge W ork, per tooth ft.'» .Silver Killings s i . i l . 50 Gold Fillings .- - Ili to ft.'» Plates . . . . « 0 to S l ­ Porcelain C row ns - - K6.5lt Extracting - • - oth Dr. Wm. M. Post Phone 2401 Office Hours 9 to 12, I to 5. Rooms 1-2 Hall Bldg. llood Kiver, Oregon Fruit Growers Attention YVill sell direct to planters, less agents commission, choice lot of cherry, pear, apple and prune trees in one year old 3-4 and 4-6 ft. grades budded and grafted on best whole roots and guaranteed true-to-name. Please write or phone TRUE-TO-NAME NURSERY, Hood River Dr. H. L. Dumble GROWERS TO VOTE ON CENTRAL AGENCY OREGON Auto and Spray Time Demand Goggles 0-W. R. R. & N. Union Pacific System Call upon F. A. Allington ProfsMtuoal C s r d s ............................per month • .90 O nesqusre ........................................ “ “ l.M O ne-qusrter Column ... .............. " “ t.C I O ne-hsif Column ..............................- 3 .« One Column........................................... - - 10.« Business locsls will be charged s t 6 sents per Ha« for each insertion. Le*ai advertisement* will la all cases be charred to the party ordering them, a t legal rates, and paid for befors affidavits are furnished. No: 17 MOSIER, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 30. 1010. VOL. Vili ADVERTISING RATES Enjoy The Good, Long Smoke k 7 A Full Value cigar affords and you’ll say It is the Itest smoke for the money to be hail on earth. The Full Value it not just an ordinarily good fie cigar. It is a smoke that yon cannot match lor the price the world over. S . E. F r a n c O is A K c S o * * P roprietor " T H t RAIL AUTO STEAM ER p e o p l e ’ s TAHOM A n a v ig a t io n C o m p a n y 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. I»eaves I’ortland on Mondays, YVednesdays and Saturdays from Oak Street Dock. Passengers and freight. Mosier Dock in charge of J. YV. Huskey, who will meet all boats and attend to transfer. Phone No. 85. Every Article of Furniture without Re­ serve Must Sell in Thirty Days Don’t Miss This Chance Come in hmk over our stock. Nothing above wholesale, majority oelow ixwt. Everything must go, building leased and commence remodeling July 1st. 26 years in business in Hood Kiver—the oldest merchant. Still have Undertaking Parlors; prompt and beat ol aerviee. vV. C . B A R T M E 5 S , H o o d R i v e r