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CAMAS PRAIRIE
Money in Hay
CAMAS PRAIRIE
We Sell Hay and Dairy Lands
Also have two Dairy Ranches to exchange for Hood River property
DUNCAN
The Permanent Pavement
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At a meeting of the Horse Owners' Association,
held Wednesday evening at the Commercial Club, Port
land, Ore., City Engineer Hurlburt outlined plans he
is executing for the protection of horses by paving the
streets with brick they protect the auto as well.
DENNY RENTON BRAND
Western Clay Co.
Beck Building
Portland, Oregon
UPPER VALLEY NOTICE
List Your Places for Special Attention With
WARD IRELAND CORNELL
Upper Vallwy Rgal Estate Insurance
Improved and Unimproved Orchard Land
Phone Odell 77
Hood River Connection
Guy Y. Edwards & Co.
U. C. M. RANCH
Parkdule
Upper Hood River Valley
Electricity is the Popular Subject
Our New Lamp Prices Are:
15 Watt G. E. Mazda $ .50
20 " " " 50
25 " " " 50
40 " " " 55
CO " " " 75
100 " " i.iO
150 " " " 1.65
250 " " " 2.30
EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL
Engineering, House Wiring, Repairing, Contracting,
Fixtures, Lamps, Motors, Heating and Cooking Apparatus
LLCCTR1C WIRING & SUPPLY CO.
A. L. DAY, President and Manager
Estimates Furnished, on Request
First National Bank Pldg. PHONE 3
Do You Want to
Sell Your Orchard?
If you do, and the price is right,' list your
place with us. Do not ask more than it
is worth. We have inquiries for im
proved places that are producing well.
In a few days we ' will publish a list of
good buys. If you are offering a good
buy send, phone or bring your descrip
tion to us NOW.
Charles R. Bone, James Montgomery
LAND BROKERS
OaK and 3rd Sis. Phone 16I-M
GUY Y. EDWARDS & CO,
Phone 228-K
SPECIAL TO CLOSE AN ES
TATE, we offer the following
10 acres in the Tine drove Dis
triet, all in tree, a good pud of
thin hearing, urw apple house,
near railroad, chinch, scltowj
Hint More.
Thin in ii mI he taken at once.
Price $,").VK). Terms eftry.
$170 per aere for .'I:! acres of
raw land, close to railroad and
only seven miles out. tied shot
soil.
F.asv terms.
SPECIAI Must be s..ld at
once, acres six miles nut, mi
main road, in good ni-ighhor-
h 1, near church, sel I and
More: I'., acres hi four cur
olds in good condition.
Price pe r ncic f'rj V Ka'-y Iciuw
$1400 Ten acres ncmlv all
full bearing, house, tvim, out
buildings, water ssc:ii, Ihhh
and home orchard. Only tlii'te
miles out on the main load and
vei v desii aMe.
(iet particulars at our olllce.
INSURANCE INSURANCE INSURANCE
Real Estate Moved Well Last Year
Give us a trial ami we will make it do the same tiling
this year. Figures tell. The total amount of the sales
of property handled by is last ypf r rv.-hc-, T2cr),
more than a quarter of a million. Sale prices ranged
all the way from $30,000 to $000.
WHEN YOU WANT TO T Q TVTJ-Kl
DO BUSINESS CALL ON W . a. IN lCllOl
Oakdale Greenhouse
Have elms, maples, linden, tulip, catalpaand many other
trees; in shrubs, hydrangeas, snowballs, lilacs, hollies, arbor
vitae, azalea, rhododendhron, Japanese maples and many
other shrubs.
Large stock of roses, all the leading kinds and many new
ones grown at Hood River. All two years old, and $3.50 to
$5.00 per dozen and worth the money. All kinds of peren
nial plants, and vines.
Come and see what we have, if you get away it is our
fault.
Fletcher (EX Fletcher
Phone 1972 M
R. F. D. No. 1
CORNER 11th AND El'CiENK
REV. EDMUND TREW SIMPSON. Pastor
RECTORY 11th AM) El GENE PHONE 2U.-K
Good Friday
Three Hours' Service from 12 M. to 3 l M.
Short Addresses upon the seven words of our Lord from
the cross. Hymns will be sung between the addresses. Those
who can attend for a part of the time only are requested to
enter or retire during the singing of a hymn.
ALL CHRISTIAN PEOPLE WILL HE MADE
CORDIA ELY V ELCO M E
Easter Day
Early Celebration of the Holy Communion 7 A. M.
Holy Communion and Sermon 1 1 A.M.
Sunday School at 10 A. M.
All communicants of the Episcopal Church should be pres
ent at one or other of the services of Easter day. If those,
who through sickness or distance are unable to attend, will
communicate with the pastor, he will endeavor to give them
their Easter communion at their homes.
HEAR TALKS
. A. f. MKX ADDRESS GROWERS
IIimhI RiuT Onhattli.sts Art Hose Stu
dents, Sas (iardiiuT - SatTro
Tills of Snravs.
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; 'lie hit! st formed of the Hood River
Valley's improvement clubs is that
composed i,f ll,c itizcns of the wtsl
! -ide, w ho the lirst of the year organ-
icd to study horticultural problems I
aid tl:c i ioiuotiuii (,f progress on the I
west side. One of tile most euthusi-
.isiic met ni -gs ii me new organization
; was l.i Id :,t Park grange hHll Tuesday
jatlen.ooii, when t hi' large nuinher ol
j citizens present were addressed hy
! Profs. Gaidincr and Safford. of 1. A.
:('., and Prof. 1. uwrei.ee, county fruit
ii.spccinr
Prof, Gardiner took for his suhject
"Orchard Economy." Hy a system of
statistics he showed what the orchard
ist may expect to receive in yield from
the crop. 1'iof. Gardiner hud taken
an average year and found that the
average yield per tree for New York
had been .7 of a hushel, for Pennsyl
vania .ii of a hushel, anil Michigan .5.
Coming west he stated that he found
that the average yield per tree in
creased. In California the yield had
lieen found to he 1.3 hnshels per tree.
The western and northwestern or
chardisfs are always going to find their
average yield hetter, he stated, he
cause they took hetter care of their
fruit. This average yield, he declare.!,
might he discouraging to the commer
cial orehardist. " However. " he said,
"the orclianlist should rememher that
all trees in the country were used in
computing the average yield. Many
of these are i o more than hlanks ; for
in eery part of the counliy orchards
Hie set in places never intended for
fruit. "
Prof. Cardiner advised the orchard
ist not to make the mistake of secur
ing too small a tract for his orchaid
hihor. "1 have often heard the talk
lately," he said, "of ten, tive and even
one acre tracts. The orchurdist, to
get the larget profits from his lahors,
should at least secure u tract ot as
much as 20 acres."
In the heginning of his address the
0. A. C. man stated that it was with
hesitancy that the scientist came to
Hood River to talk ; for all Hood River
orchardisls are close students of their
industry and it was a hetter place to
learn than to teach.
Prof. Salfro, who has been here fur
the past two years at intervals to eon
duct experiments in orchards, stated
that one of the great troubles with
orchanhsts that they were too pessi
mistic. "An evidence of some pest or
disease is found in the orchard and the
r-wer is leady to howl calamity," he
said, "when in fact the trouble is in
significant." Prof. Satfro's lecture
was for the most part taken up witn a
discussion of sprays and the methods
of applying them. He stated that dur
ing the coming season, if warm rains
were to fall during the hitter part of
the month, apple scab might prove
troublesome, r'or this pest lie recom
mended three sprayings of lime and
sulphur, one between the time of the
opening! ot the leaf and fiuit buds, one
after the fruit buds hud fallen and a
third in two or three weeks after the
second.
Prof. Lawrence again discussed the
anthracnosu pest ami warned the
prowers thut it should be eradicated to
prevent the premature rot in storage
caused hy it.
the college men were escorted to
and from the grange hall bv 0. W.
Hooker in his automobile.
vitation to be present for the Apple
Hlossum Carnival, by Ray K. Scott,
secretary of the Commercfal club, was
the foiowii, reference to the Columhia
river road :
"Ihere is another matter which I
wish eu would take up at once. Mr.
Miortgen, Coxernor West's representa
tive who expects to establish a convict
camp at Shell Rock mountain, was in
your city trying to locate your county
court, with a view to getting in touch
with the county engineer and also get
ting material for his camp. When
the governor and 1 were there, it was
understood that the sawmill men would
donate the lumber. Mr. J-'hortgen was
unable to do anything about it, so I
have suggested to him that he mail to
your club the bill for the burlier, and
trust that you see that this gts into
the hands of the county commissioners,
or others mtcrtcsted and that it is
tilled by the mills who have agreed to
donate the lumber. It is desiied to es
tablish the camp at once."
HUE DESTROYS""
WANTS LOCAL SLIDES
Prof. J. H. Krans len, of the dairy
husbandry department of the Univer
sity of Nehrai ka, has written to Sec
retary Ray V.. Scott, of the Commer
cial club, asking for ten colored slides
depicting scenes in Hood River valley.
Prof. Kransdon, who spent eight years
in the west, three at Portland and live
in Idaho, states that he is willing to
cooperate with the club in setting
forth the facts of the community. He
was supplied with the slides, which
were sent us a loan.
Secretary Seolt has nlo received a
communication from the Portland Rose
Festival management asking that the
club take some action toward putting
a tloat in the parade of the "Spirit tf
the (iohlen West."
SHORTGREN HERE TO
ACCEPT CAMP SITE
The homes of George Lynn and W.
I. Cpsonon West State street were
destroyed by tire stiortly before noon
yesterday. The conflagration origin
ated in a tent in the LacK yard of the
Lynn property, from what cause is not
known. It had made but small head
way when the alarm was turned in and
firemen arrived on the scene. How
ever, without a water supply, it was
impossible to combat the (lames and in
a few moments, fanned by a slight
breeze, the building was a mass of
flames. A portion of the furniture of
a single bedroom was saved. 1 be tiie
quickly smead to the adjoining resi
dence of vV. L. I'pson. A bucket bri
gade was formed and by the valiant
efforts the Volunteer Kile Department
prevented the Haines from reaching
the house of Mrs. K. R. lirydle just
east of the I'pson property. A chain
of hose was laid to the corner of Sev
enth and Dak streets, but because of
the huht press in e did biuall service.
The house of Mr. Lynn and its con
tents were partly covered by insurance
to the extent of $8U0. The Upson
house also was covered by a policy of
Slo'M and its contents by a small pol
icy. The former insurance was with
A. C. Ruck and the latter with Geo. 1).
Culbertson & Co.
One of the lirst at the scene of the
lire was Miss Hunt, who is employed at
the Hood River Steam Laundrv. She
mounted to the rouf of the home of
Miss O'Neil just west of the Lynn
house and extinguished flames started
hy falling embers.
No one was at the Lynn home. Mr.
Lynn is employed as deputy assessor
by County Assessor J. Wickham. Mrs.
Lynn, who operates the type setting
machine at the Glacier ollice, did not
know that her home was destrvoyed
until a telephone message informed
her that the buildinjj was burned t
the ground.
TENNIS CLUB PLANS
ACTIVE SEASON
The members of the tennis club are
planning an active season. At the re
cent annual meeting of the organiza
tion. J. II. Heilhroiiner was elected
president, Truman Hutler. treasurer
and Harry T. lleWitt secretary. A
great deal of interest is being shown
in tennis throuughout the Valley and a
number of new courts are being
planned and built. J. A. Entiimr bus
alueadv completed a new court. C. N.
Ravelin, ( ullcr Pros, and Chas. Hal!
plan to build courts at their country
places. A court will also be built in
the Upper Vallev.
I he tennis club is an organization ol
lenedicts. It is the plans of the men.
hers to organize a country club i;i the
near luture, where peuplu of the cilv
and from all parts of the valley may
convene lor recreation and n ensure
The members of the club are: Chas
Hall, K. C. Smith. Dr. K. I). Kiinaea.
iruman liutler, Harry I. DeWilt, J
II. Heilbrnnner, II. A. MacDonald, Dr.
II. U. W. Pineu, Geo. I. Slocum. V. A
Cram, J. A. Lpping, Tralford Smith,
r.. A. ISaker, A. P Keed, R. W. Pratt
K. R. Puoley, W. N. Winter.
AI!l!0It DAY COMES
APRIL 12
Arbor Day, the day when every child
should plant a tree, either on the lawi
or soma other spot at his or her home.
will come tins year on Friday, April 12.
The section of the state school laws
referrng to Arbor Day is as follows:
The second Friday, in theaflenoon, in
April ol each year, shall be ki own
thloiighout this state as "Arbor Dav.'
In order that the childien of our public
schools shall assist in the work of
adorning the school grounds with trees,
and to stimulate the minds of children
toward the benefits of preservation
and perpetuation of our forests, and
the growing of timber, it shall be the
duty Cof the authorities in every public
school district in this state to assemble
the pupils in their charge on the above
day and in the school building, or else
where, as they may diem proper, and
Adam Shortgen, ,of Salem, who has
chaii'e of establishing convict camps
in liillerent parts of the state, was here
lart Thursday to confer with Judge
ueo. w. i uliieitaon relative to huililing to provide for and conduct, under the
the camp at Shell Rock preparatory to geneial supervision of city suuerinten
beginning operations on thePortland- dents, county superintendents. tea hers
j llo id River highway. However, Judge and directors, or other school authori
I Culbertson was not in the city and the I ties, having the general charge and
joflicial was unable fo come to any j oversight of the public schools in each
, definite decisions. "I think i will.be 'city or district, to have and hold such
j able to see the Judge at his Portland J exercises as shall tend to encourage
home," he said, "and thus it will not the planting, protection, and preserva
be necessary for me to come here tion of trees and shrubs, and an ac-
i again. We want to bring up six or quaintance wuh the best methods to
seven convicts next week and lay out j be adopted to accomplish such results.
me camp, vve nave selected a sue ai
a spring just this side ot the mountain.
I have made arrangements to secure
our supplies of food from grucers in
Hood River."
Mr. Shortgen cama up from Portland
early Thursday morning and inspected j Ry action taken at the Monday even
the ground on which the camp will be ! ing meeting of the city council, when
built. It is an ideal spot for such a ' an ordinance was introduced to allow
place, he says. Huilding the road the initiative to be used in submitting
around Shell Rock, he thinks, will be I to the vote of the people proposed
no small task. "(Jf course, we can't j changes in the city char er, an election
tell until we get started," he said, j will be held here at un early date for
jiiM ijuw iinru uie wum win ue. i , inai purpose. ine amendments pro-
PEOPLE WILL VOTE
ON CHARTER REVISION
Rubber Stamps
tnink we will find a steam shovel verv
efficient in moving the tons of loose
stone, of which the side of the moun
tain seems to be composed."
As soon as the camp is established a
crew of twenty-live or thirty convicts
posed to be made in the charter will
change the manner of issuing bonds
for improvement.
The continued failures to make sales
of the $'.10,000 water bond issue of
!i7,2."iO for the payment of the plant
CIRCUIT COURT'S
ROCKET LIGHT
NOT A SINGLE CRIMINAL CASK
Plaintiff in Ulncrs-Rmurs Case Awarded
$C1G.(0 Damages - I'nscnce of
Crime Small. Savs Grand lurv
The ducket before the Circuit Court,
wbiih was convened here Monday by
Judge W. 1.. Pradshaw, of '1 he Dulles,
was very light and it is probable that
the business of the court will be iiin.-h-ed
today. The most important case
heard was that of Klh.ervs. Rogers, in
which the plaintiff, alleging an assault
and battery, sued for damages 1 1 the
amou t of $.'.,IHK. The case was de
cided Tuesday afternoon, the jury as
sessing damage of ifiilli.ili).
Ida F.llner. the plaintiff, claimed that
she had been peisuaded by the di fond
ant to leave her former homo in New
York City, where she had known Mr.
Rogers and his wife, and come to their
Upper Valley ranch and reside as a
n-cmher of the famliy. She prow dis
satisfied after a while ami last June
left the Rogers home to seek employ
ment elsewhere. She asserts that she
was working at the ranch of J. F. Cnn
dce, picking strawberries, when Mr.
Rogers came to the field and ordered
her to go to Hood River with him.
She refused and he grasped her hands
and arms, seiioiisly injuring and bruis
ing her.
In the evidence adduced bv the de
fense it was asserted that the plain
tiff's actions had shown a nervous dis
order and a kind of hysteria and that
fearing her mind might he affected.
Mr. Rogers bad visited the county judge
here and conferring with him secured
authority to bring her here that her
case might be investigated.
Not a single criminal case was on
the dockets of the court and (he busi
ness of the Grand Jury was exceedingly
light. Due indictment was returned.
Geo. A. Miller was found guilty of
having stripped engines of the Ml.
Hood Railroad Co. of their hi asses,
which he shipped to Vancouver and
disposed of. Miller despoiled the h co
motives of every piece of brass fitting
that it was possible to break oil and
remove. Marshall Robert 1. Lewis
and 0. G. Metcalf, an engineer on the
Mt. Hood line, made a trip to Vancou
ver Monday and located the stolen
poperty. Miller could not he returned
here because of an indictment against
him at Vancouver for a buiglary al
'iged to have been committed there.
It is thought that Miller is a member
of a gang that has b:en operating here
and other cities along the Columbia.
He admitted to having had a confeder
ate. He was probably connected wilh
attempted burglary of the Clarke drug
store and the burglary of the Young
Meat Market.
The Grand Jury returned the follow
ing report :
We, the Grand Jury impaneled at the
April, liR, term of the Circuit Court,
beg leave to report as follows:
We have been in session two davs
and have returned one true hill undone
not true bill. We have can fullv ex-
mined into all mailers brought to our
attention and have given the same our
most careful consideration. We are
pleased to say that the stale of the
county, in so far as the presence of
crime is concerned, is in an excellent
fate and hut very few comnlaints have
been made to this body.
We have examined the various eouutv
offices and the same anoear to he in
good condition but we have not had the
tune nor opportunity to make any de-
taikd investigation. In tins connec
tion we recommend and advise that the
hooks of the different county ollicers
he audited by competent experts at
least once in every two years. We
deem this but fair to the olfi'cials them
selves and certainly is but businesslike
methods upon the pint of the county
and believe it would be a good prece
dent to establish and maintain.
Having finished our labors we ask to
be discharged.
J. H. Hunt, foreman ; M. M. Hill,
J. W. Pifer. J. H. F.ggerl. II. W.
A. J. Friedly, and J. F.
K russow,
Candee.
j will be drought to the scene and placed secured from the Pacific Power &
at work. Light Co. in condemnation proceedings
i In a letter received from E. E. Coov- have lead to the action. As soon as
ert, Mr. Benson's legal representative the charter amendments are effected
j in Portland, who stated that Mr. Ben- the bond issues will be re-submitted to
son would be notified of the club'a in- the people.
IN ACCIDENTS
During the past week two children
on the Heights have sustained serious
injuries from accidents. Little Mar
jory Campbell, the eight-year-old
daughter of Mis. Floy Campbell, who
while plajinjr wilh some ( ther chil
dren, had her hand struck by a hatchet,
one of the lingers being almost sev
ered. The wound received treatment
and she will not hi e the linger.
Cecil McC rory, with a number of
other lads, exploded a piece of dyna
mite, using instead ot a fuse a tram of
powder laid to the explosive. The
youngster's face and other portions of
his tody were laceiated and it is
thought that one eye may he lost.
UNION DIRECTORS TO
BE ELECTED SATURDAY
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Hood River Annie
Growers' Union will he held here Sat
urday. The election of directors, one
of the most important matters to come
betore the meeting, will in all probabil
ity be warmly contested. For the oust
several weeks a portion of the stock
holders, who assert that thrv are dis
satisfied with the pri sent management
of the organization's all'airs. have
been using their endeavors toward se
curing a support toward a change in
the hoard to he elected this year.
On last Saturday afternoon as manv
as possible of those who were opposed
to the policies of the old hoard, gath
ered in a secret meeting in. the reading
room of the Commercial club and
slated a ticket for the election. It is
understood that those on the ticket
are: L. h. Clark, VV. H. DicKerson.
C. Dethman, L. II. Shepard, t). L.
Walters, L. E. Ireland, Albert Sutton,
C. W. Hooker and John Mohr. Mr.
Dethman, however, stales that he will
decline to allow ids name to be used on
the slate. From the interest aroused,
the meeting will in all probabilitfy be
one of the largest attended of the
stockholders recently held.
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