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About Mosier bulletin. (Mosier, Or.) 1909-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1917)
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ROGER W. MOE S IB S C R IP T K IN H ATES fl.» On* Y r t r <ix Month* Three Month* Filtered as se ond class matter March ¿2. IVa* at the poAt odlce at Homier, Of « under the A c t of, March 3. 1 KT* MOSIKK. WASCO COUNTY, oRKGON. FRIDAY. APRIL fi, 11*17. I\ cheaper because it makes more loaves o f bread. Don’t Is be fooled into buying the low priced flour thinking you are getting Something cheaper than R iv e r F lo u r FOR SALE BY Nichol a n d Company Mosier, Oregon R o y a l C lu b C o ffee SPECIAL ADVERTISING OFFER 3 pound tins $1.10 One lu cent can o f pepper and one 15 cent U V c t r * can o f c i n n a m o n .................................. F I t v i 1 pound tins 40c One 10 cent can o f pepper, mustard or g i n g e r ................................................................... 1 I C C NICHOL & COM PANY Do you Know What these Art Posters are for? i r w r n ; ; iO fl 1HU . -fa j * j E j ;MJ : /. J : V* J§ g DLReiu \ ; !■ ''¿ M \ '-• ) ? i. MOSIER BOOK STORE. now running sen advertisement form in Collier j , S at unlay ..vening Post and other natio .! magazines of the building of li e Union Pacific9 Union Pacific is a national achieve ment upon which depended the safety of the Union and the holding of the Pacific States. M ► a i T ie (Tories ire riel in intimate :»ct» of U n ite! States kirtocv. When rou r e »! them too will realize wh»t a great part Union Paciic played in the growth and welfare o f oor Nation: and how trulv serviceable Union Paciic is and will be— in peace or war— to the people of oaf United States, as individual travelers, or ahippers. and at a Nation. , n io n P a c if ic S ystem . » <. A. PATREAU HERE FROM FRENCH FROM if 1 choose to return to France, but 1 must leave here at the end uf that time. Rut 1 am given the privilege of remaining and offering my service to America, if needed.*’ The boy declared that he bad never in his life made a speech until Friday night. “ 1 am more frighten ed.’ he declared, ' ‘than 1 was when 1 first entered the trenches. I can’t keep my knees from shaking. Rut his few quietly spoken words, carrying an earnestness brought prolonged cheers. He ended his speech by declaring that from what he hail seen o f the spirit o f the country as expressed at the meet ing he thought he was needed at home, and the closing words o f his talk v»**re : “ I am ready to otter this right arm to protect the honor o f the American Hag.” P *r toe nth I .to “ o r e-quarter Column One h alf C'o’umn 1M 1 . 1 % . On# Column 111.00 Busin««« local« will be <*bar«od at S fonts per Hoe fo r each insertion. ■ I .* No. 5 to the party ordonna them, at leaml ratea, paid for before affidavits are furnished. BEACHES OF SOUTH ERN CALIFORNIA I- rum the I I imk I River Glacier Arthur Kuhn, ill the followmg arti cle describes some o f the beaches in Tears o f untold joy welled in the eyes southern California which were visited I o f Mr. and Mrs. A. Patreau, o f the VIt. by him self and Mrs. Kuhn in their Hood district last Thursday night, recent tour during the winter in that when they were aroused from then state sleep, filled )ierhaf>s with dreams o f Coronado Beach, near San Diego, ! battlefields, to answer a knock at their starting at the Coronado hotei, runs, homestead home. The alarm at the east to the mainland, a distance o f 10 doorstep at the home in the quiet rural miles, as Coronado Beach is a penin community was sounded by their son, sula anil partly forms the bay o f San A. Patii.au, Jr., just returned from Diego. Also this neck o f land is France, where he fought for two years called the Strand, having an oiled road in the trenches. that is a meooH for autos. The s u r f: For three months he was in a French bathing is very fine here and there is a hospital. The young man accompany life line that runs about 1000 feet into ing 22 other Americans returning from the breakers, in the regular season! service in the Allied armies, reached the life savers watch the bathers. New York on Thursday night March 22. Here was the original tent city, nearly A fte r a rest from the sea journey he 700 ten ts; the roofs have for coverings started immediately for his Oregon limbs or blades o f date palms. Claus home. Spreckles, the multimillionare, has a Armand Patreau Jr. whose father A fte r thoroughly considering all the fine home near the noted hotel; his ami mother natives o f France reside fine private yacht was anchored in the on a homestead in the Middle Valley bids for Wasco county's $200,000 road bay near the San-Diego-Coronado ferry was the honored guest o f the people of bonds, the county court Monday after landing. The only danger to the Hood R iver Thursday night. Armand noon accepted the bid o f the Lumber bathers on the California beaches is Patreau, the younger, returned the men’s Trust company o f Portland at a the small sword fish and the little dan evening before yw leave o f absence premium o f $ 7830 , says The Dalles gerous stingeries once in awhile cul from the trenches o f France. He came Chronicle. The Portland firm was the only bid the foot but it is very seldom. To the quietly not seeking notoriety nor the left o f the hotel and about four miles plaudits of his fellow' Americans der to submit an absolutely uncondi in the ocean are the kelp industries, w hether they were actuated by their tional bid and otherwise comply with where they make potash to be used in own new horn feelin g o f patriotism or the requirements specified by the making powder and fertilizer from the by curiosity. The young American county court. A New York bank was sea weeds and kelp. citizen who has been doing his bit in the other bidder whose hid w as uncon Ocean Beach, near San Diego, has a the armies of France, had hut one ditional, hut the failure to accompany fair beach but smaller. thought, and that was to get as soon , the bid with a certified check for five I.a Jolla Beach and Sunset Cliff as possible to the simple home o f his l>er cent o f the total bid made the pro Beaches are Inith pretty and interest father and mother, for his homecom posal illegal. Although nearly 20 bide ing beaches. Here may lie seen the ing was a surprise for them. He was were received, some were not consid '«•«■an gold fish from the rocks anil the told that roads to the remote Upper ered at all, due to the fai t that the water at places is very d ear and one Valley community o f his parents were bond buyers made their bid conditional and see into the oeeHn to a depth o f 111 so bad that an automobile could not upon the approval o f their attorneys. to 15 feet. The meks at one end of carry nearly all o f the distance. Rut The supreme court having decided on the beach are partly formed into caves ' that did not deter young Patreau, and the validity o f the bonds, a conditional from the constant dashing o f the waves after he had been set down by the bid was*uncalled for. The bonds, when first advertised, against them. Once fill years ago when motor car Thursday night, the returned l was fishing off o f one o f the rocks, a soldier walked six miles through the brought a premium o f $10,77.5.20. The sale o f the txmds means that wave struck me und I slipped off anil darkness to tap at the door o f his old road improvement in Wasco county got a ducking. home. IWI Mar has one o f the finest anil H ihh I River had planned for a p atri will soon be under way. The first unit most popular beaches outside o f Coro- otic meeting Friday night. The home- ready for work, all rights o f way hav nada Beach, in southern California. coming o f youg Patreau, known to the ing been granted, is the route between Tw o line hotels are located here. and Lateral,nr*, people <4 lilt M 1» Id 1« ■ Valiev and many I Chenowith creek Can you blame tourists with autos were « (*ned by the o f the older residents i Of the city as a Uld\ for for seeing southern California? Near i ednesday. little French boy whose English, with (,,U!'T\ court Wedi Iy all the roads are either paved, oiled, its quaint foreign inflection was pleas graded or well sprinkled so that no! ant to listen to, was learned. It was Petticoats Still Menact“ Mails i dust w ill get m your eyes. I talked deeided to invite him to come and de Miss Uenora Hunter, local postmis with many ranchers, fruit growers, liver an address. Still tired from his j business men and asked in regard to ! long journey across the Atlantic and tress, in the past two weeks has re j their taxes. They all claimed their! the continent, and hungry for the sol turned many letters mailed to the | taxes were reasonable and especially National Mail Order Brokerage Kx itude o f his rural home, young Fat ranchers claimed that with such roads reau tried gracefully to decline, but change, to the genders whenever she 1 they saved money in getting their , when told that he might stimulate an happened to see such letters mailed. , produce to market. interest on the part o f local young men The concern has I»een doing a fraudu ! The Palms, Capistrana and Baden in doing their duty for their country, lent business and local people have Baden have fair beaches, he accepted the invitation. When an been induced to send their money t< j Near I .os Angeles there is Unrig indirect appeal to his sense o f duty was further the »hemes o f this concern. Beach, lb miles out. The business and made, the boy who has fought and bled Hood River, The Dalles and in fact, I resident districts overlook on the in the trenches o f the great overseas from practically every city in the (« can. There are about eight blocks United States replies to this fake war responded instantly. of bath houses njit 1 piers at the edge of Armand Patreau, Jr., was the guei-t proposition have been forthcoming. the water. Intermingled with refresh o f a banquet at the Mt. Hood Hotel. The postmaster general has instr «cied men* stands, all kinds o f curio shop.» Twenty four o f the prominent business all postmasters to return all mail ad merry-go-rounds, rolla coasters, figure men o f the city gathered to shake his dressed to this mail-order house the eights and some other kinds o f figures i hand and hear him talk. “ I haven’ t address uf which is given as .520 Globe promenading the board walk an d ! any clothes to w ear,” he said, “ when building, Minneapolis. Minn., the flow ! thousands o f bathers and thousands o f he was invited to lie the guest o f the of letters having been inundating the people sitting on the beaches listening Hood River men. " I only have mv Minneapolis postoffice at the rat* of to the concerts given daily by a high j This old uniform and my h elm et." And so ; four to ten thousand daily. class band. he came, and men o f this town have action grows out o f a novel endless At Rodona Beach they have just never listened more eagerly to conver chain letter scheme started last fall. Someone chose the name o f the completed a municipal pier, all finished sation. Rut first o f all young PHtreau in cement, about 1000 feet long and is a soldier and has learned the lesson .National Mail Order Brokerage Kx the end is shaped like a large O. One o f discipline. Until the great war in change, an institution having no exist side is reserved fo r fishing and has a Europe is over, he says his lips are ence whatever, as the guise under placard which warns the fishermen to sealed on some o f the most absorbing which to send out letters promising look out for the iiedeatnans, but I that a $4.75 silk petticoat would be topics. noticed that the pedestrians were look “'I am pledged not to tell of anything furnished in return for ten cents, pro ing out for a fisherman who had just that may get hack to our enem y,” he viding the person rem itting each dim* landed a hah. This pier is used only says. ” 1 might tell you o f some o f would make five copies o f the letter for amusement, to stroll out into the these things o f which I know, and they and mail them to five friends. O f breakers and is one o f the finest piers might seem to you o f no great conse course, each o f the five secondary re in southern California outside o f the quence, even should they be known, cipients o f the letters were also to get new municipal pier just completed in but I follow the orders that I have petticoats if thev in turn put uji ten San Diego. A ll kinds o f amusements cents and mailed five copies o f th*- received ." at all o f the beaches. Within 14 days after France had de letter to five additional persons. And Venice has a fine beach and also the clared war on the imperial armies o f so on to infinity. show lieai li o f them all. Here one can A ll replies were to be addressed to (ierm any, young Patreau was enlisted go out in the ocean in the glass bottom for Francne. He served for h time in 52o Globe building, Minnea|N>lis. Then* boats and view the sights under the a Red Cross corps. A t the time he is no such number or tenant in the water. Globe building, out letters containing had barely turned his majority. Ocean Beach is another fine bathing Since delivery at " I t was frigh tfu l work,” he says, dimes poured in. beach and the city is right across the “ that o f gathering up the maimed and the Globe building was impossible, th** street from the edge o f the surf and the living. Many and mHny times letters went to general delivery. The is partly maintained by the people who have I had men tell me to kill them mysterious promotor o f the scheme come out to the beach for amuse ami put them out o f their misery, and called on.’e at the general delivers ments. often it would perhaps have been an window o f the Minnea|M»lis office for Another fine beach we were at was act o f humanity, but I told the poor this mail and obtained a quantity o f it. the C liff House at San Francisco. sufferers that it was my duty to get Soon after, apparently, he took alarm , Near the entrance to the Holden Hale them to the hospital, and listening to for never yet has he made a second are the Seal Kooks where thousands their moaning 1 and my companions call for his dimes. Although postmas o f seals may he seen sunning them ters have had instruction since last Imre them to the rear.” selves on the rocks. To the le ft the Then young Patreau became a mem Octolier to withdraw all such corres- beach starts and runs for miles. To ber o f a machine gun company o f a jamdence from the mails whenever the the rear is one o f the main state high regiment o f infantry. On the right sender is known, and the matter ways. This excellent highway leads sleeve o f his coat he wears inverted semed to be nearly ended, a new wave to San Mateo, Burlingame, and on to chevrons, the sign o f two wounds. «•f the correspondenee has broken over San Jose, a distance o f 65 miles. The For three months he was in a hospital. the Minneapolis office. Hundred» and even thousands o f pavement is as smooth as glass and in "T h e most terrible o f my exiieri- the four hours drive we must have ences,” says the returned boy. "h ave peofde are being defrauded o f their seen 90,000 autos coming and going. been with the poison gas fired by the dimes and the poatal service is l**ing Herman soldiers. One time I saw 22 put to great expense and labor to Sunday School (lathers Papers companions, as they slept fill their search out the senders and return them lungs with the deathly vapor'and die their money. In the m ajority o f cases I The .Sunday School class o f th** Im the iiostmasters are power leas to pre- j in an instant. 1 happened to be awake manuel church are asking that the ‘and saw the approach o f the ghostly vent the deposit o f the letters in the (Kfople o f the city a mi valley save all mist that men in the trenches fear mail, and, once they are in, it fre- ' their old ne»*f»|**tj***rs, magazines, cat more than exploding shells or the bul qucntly happens that the sender can a logs, etc., which will be taken charge lets o f machine guns, before 1 could not I k * identified or located. Hence j o f by the Sunday school class and will give an alarm it was on us. I barely hundreds o f the letters and dimes arc I k * « rated and «hipped to a firm who had time to adjust mv mask. The going to the dead letter office. The will pay for all such waate pa|»er by Herman army has three kinds of orphan dimes that reach the dead lei I the |>ound( the money reverting to the poison gas, I understand. Some o f it ter office are turned over to the dead j Sunday school class. In the city m fund o f the United States i is visible, while other kinds cannot l»e letter wagon w ill l*e sent around to gathei seen and are thus more deadly. The Treasury. It is to I k * hoped that sufficient pub- ' up this paper, and fieople living in the French government has manufactured country who will g ive this waate such death dealing fighting apparatus, licity will now be given the matter to material to the «-lasa instead o f burn k ill off the scheme effectively. No but its use has not been permitted. ing it are asked to leave the vamc at "W e soldiers, before entering the one complying with the terms o f the the building north o f the Mosier Hook trenches are all given a gas tent. With letter has received a fietticoat. Store, commonly known an H ail’ s our helmets on we ar* made to enter a o ff i c e building room filled with a gas, not poison, but Card of Thanhs Mrs. W. A. Husband* and Mra. F. A. fatal, if too much o f it is inhaled and Allirijrton made a house to houae can We wish to extend our sincere anpre no aid given. The test is given both vas* Wednesday in the interest* o f the to try («it the masks and to test the ciation for the msny »-*.* o f kirwlne«* Sunday school class and secured the shown during our recent bereavement vitality o f the w e a re r." names o f every one in the city who ia " I find a great love and admiration and for the many floral offering* j willing to co-operate. It is hoped by for Americans in the rank o f the tendered. them to secure considerable quantity H. H. Rordcn, French army. Thev think this a most so that a large shipment ma> he Mr. and Mrs. Arnw Root, magnificent land. Y e t they do not l*e made the latter part o f next week. and Family. lieve we can best serve the ends o f defeating Germany by actively par Annual Merting Saturday ticipating in the fight. They want us At the Hood River Electric Theatre to furnish food and money, and France H. H. Fletcher, K*meral .ales mao has the men to carry on the battle*. Friday and Saturday after o f the Northwestern Fruit K x - , It is my belief that victory for the U* autiful Blanch*» Sm*ei in h«r lat- change, o f Seattle, will he here Satur allies w ill come this fall, and I believe P a ra m o u n t atic rat, * ‘The Sturm. ’ day to talk to the grow er« at the an the western lines w ill be the first to he the M*mier Fruit l - will \>e !weri s a harum-araruvn nual meeting o f crushed. I have heard that the opinion Id o f natur»*, li 1t hearted and care Growers AKjwtfdatlon which w ill U expressed in this country that the held at lb .30 a. m Reside* the rear! *. Th* ace es o this urtumial dranrt» French |ieople are going hungry. Thi* r** laid in U ■ Maine wooda and Miss mg o f the manager's refiort, there will is a mistake. O f rour*c aycri <- n be election «*( officer!» and voting on omy is practised, but no one in es Sw*-t t ta seen jt« a daughter o f an äh amendments to the by laws. Indtra- hungry. But the German soldiers fw*nt minded, ret i red old profesaor. tiona are that a good representation of whom w# have reently raptured, seem How she falls in luv* a rlood ia > t*l growers will be pr*-**-itt. to express no regrets They are all *»ver her life , * nly to he diapelied t»y th* man her h, rart deairea ta unM^ed hungry.” I f.rii i t in g II at Patreau say* that his furlough w ill and « »plained n an fntenac and irtar AU** a dandy comady. The Halletiii ■df.M •xpira in 23 days. "T h a t la, ” he say». ♦•«tin g marjr-er ROAD BONDS BRING $7830 PREMIUM Every Sack Guaranteed. U ProiensK-nal t a d s.. l eva, advertisements will in all case* to VO L. White R i v e r Flour W h ite ADVERTISING RATES MOSIER BULLETIN BY i . in£ Ha<Uaat(jciU Thru ttM EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL Pacific Power and Light Co. "A lw a y s al Y o u r S trv lc s " BOX C A N D Y •a Specialty A Fresh Supply on band now—prices from 1 Oc to $ 1.00 The Arth ur Pharmacy MOSI ER MEAT MAR KE T Under N ew Management J. W. McDONALD, Proprietor Fresh Supply of Meats Always on Hand Your Patronage Solicited F: have a LARG E ASSORTM ENT o f W N E W E ST FABRICS on the Market. your order now for Early Delivery. the Place MEYER, The Tailor 108 Third Street HOOD RIVER, OREGON M o n e y in the B a n k “ Money in the Lank" in a good protection againgt future uncertainties. At thin time we must prepare for unknown needs that may arise in case of war. Increasing a hank ac count is a good way to prepare. MOSIER VALLEY BANK M o sie r, Oregon Fruit Growers Attention Will «ell direct to planter*, lea* agent* commission, choice lot of cherry, |iear. apple and prune trees in one year old 3-4 and 4-<i ft. grade« budded and grafted on best whole roots and guaranteed trd^-to-naine. Please write or phone TRUE-TO-NAME NURSERY, Hood River You Needn't Care A Continental how wesritotna the <l»j has baan. Com» home tired In mind and body *« you < .n 1», a Saherosarigar will sat you right V yon ia»ta tba flna flavor and inhnl« It. soothing fragranca vnu Oerome at w ith tba world and v. rtraalf, Trv a •“aliorosa tonight and at last von’il raufly know th« comfort of a fins cigar. "THE OAKS ft W W a tch . Prop., Mosiar. O regon