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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1912)
VOL. XS III HOOD MVER, OREGON, TlIl.'liSDAY, MAY Km 'AO. ."2 CAMAS PRAIRIE We Rich Bottom Have the Time of Your Life And Go to See "The Time of His Life" -at- Pine Grove Grange NEXT TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 28 CURTAIN WILL RISE PROMPTLY AT 8:30 Admission 50 Cents UPPER VALLEY NOTICE ... List Your Places for Special Attention With WARD IRELAND CORNELL Upper Vallwy Real Estate Insurance Improved and Unimproved Orchard Land Phon Odell 77 U. C. M. RANCH Hood River Connection - Parkdale Guy Y. Edwards & Co. 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 60 " " " 75 100 " " ".. i.io 150 " " " 1.65 250 " " " 2.30 EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL Engineering, House Wiring, Repairing, Contracting, Fixtures, Lamps, Motors, Heating and Cooking Apparatus ELECTRIC WIRING & SUPPLY CO. A. L. DAY, President and Manager Estimates Furnished on Request First National Bank Bldg. PHONE 3 Accounts of Organizations I uuTrs tuns itSvS- First National Bank HOOD RIVER. OREGON Money Sell Hay and Dairy Lands Land for Half Church societies, fra ternal organizations, clubs and business asso ciations will find it con venient and desirable to have surplus funds in a savings account subject to the control of proper officer. Savings accounts receive Z interest, pay able semi-annually in March and January of each year. DUNCAN in Hay the Price of Timber Clearing & Are you in the Market for a Snap? Look These Over. 100 acres in Upper Valley, near Mt. Hood Store. Cost to clear not to exceed $75 per acre, all good Apple Land. Two-thirds under ditch. No waste. Price, $0 per acre. Terms, $3000 cash, balance to suit. 40 acres, V acres in 7 year old Spite and Newtowns. linlanee partially cleared. Very fine red shot toil, none steep or rocky. 25 inches Free Water. Friee for short time only, $200 per acre. Terms, half cash ; bal ance 5 years. 5 acres close to town, on West Side, all in high class 2 and 8 year old commercial orchard. Fair house, good barn, etc. Price, f (250. Terms on part. 10 acres in Belmont District, fl acres in 4 year old Spitz and Newtowns, 1 acre timber reserved for building site. On main road. Price, $"5M). Terms $10(H) cash. Balance to f nit High clss Central Oregon ftock ranch, value about $ 1500, to exchange for llojd River Valhiy property. This is not Junk and is not plastered with a heavy mortgage. GUY Y. EDWARDS & CO. Insurance of All Kinds Written in Standard Companies Only CASH GROCERY Th? Best Sugar, 15 lbs. $1.00; per sack $(U0 The Best Patent Flour, per sack 1.45 Cloverleaf Butter, per square... 70c Good Oranges, per doz 20c 10 Bars good Laundry Soap for." 25c Otter Brand Clams, flats, per can 10c Otter Brand, medium, 2 cans 25c; large 25c If you want to Save Money on your Grocery Bill trade with us. L. H. HUGGINS Lights at Reasonable Prices The Hydro-Electric Co., does not want the consumers of electrical energy for light ing or power purposes to pay for the plant monthly, yearly or bi-annually, they only want a fair, reasonable price on a live and let live basis; and are not asking its custom ers to buy our competitor's plant, norany- one to pay them a price with which to buy our plant; all we have to sell is electrical energy. Hydro Electric Co. A Home Phone 134 For Sale by Owner 200 acres, GO acres cleared, 11 acres planted, balance unimproved. Price cheap and easv terms. J. P. Thomsen Ii. F. D. No.l box CO CAMAS PRAIRIE CO. Company Third and Oak cheap and Phone 2t)G Odell ROAD BOOSTERS VISITJ1ARYI1ILL JOIRNEY IS MADE BY AUTOMOBILE Samuel Hill Entertains Visitors and Ex plains Experimental Roads - Party Returns Via Goldendale. Mary hill, the country estate of Samuel Hill, was the goal "f a party of the members of the Hood River Commercial club last Saturday. 'Ihe Hood Kiver men. who journeyed to the eastern end of Klickitat rountj to in spect the experimental roads of Mr. Hill, who has devoted much time and money during the past few years in an effort toward procuring a perfect high way for the Northwest, left here at five o'clock arriving at The Dalles for breakfast. With a few exceptions the road to The Dalles was excellent and the long stretches were inviting. Shortly after eight o'clock the men had finished the mori.ing meal and with Judge Rorick as a pilot to lead them across the sand hlows near Granddalles, had crossed the Columbia by ferry and were on the first lap of the journey across Klickitat county. Just north of Granddalles on the North Hank railroad stretches of sand of acres in extent must he crossed he fore the range dividing the river Rorge and the Klickitat valley is reached. To make a passahle way the ranchers of the district have built fences to catch the drifting sand, when the wind hlows. However, on Saturday morn ing, despite the wind breaks a number of sand barriers appeared on the road. Every car had trouble in crossing. The most difficult time was had when the flying wheels of C'apt. McCan's heavy Alco touring car, reaching no solid ground, buried themselves in the fine sand until the dust pan of the ma chine was resting on the gray surface glistening with silica. The members of the party scratched, dug, pushed, pulled and muttered ejaculations-all to no avail. The hot sun caused streaks of perspiration to run down sand.cov ered faces. Walking at the road side, the feet became buried and sand in large quantities filled the shoes. A road supervisor on a bronco passing by, stopped to laugh at the predica ment. One of the party climbed a sand fence with a hammer and began to knock off some of the broad planks to be used under the wheels of the ma chine. His excellency, the duty loving ofiicial, with pointing finger swore that he would do things right then and there if a single splinter of one of the boards was touched. No entreaty or promises to make repairs to the fence were of avail with that Klickitat road guardian and the party gave up and proclaimed him the meanest man in Washington. Although a few Rteep grades were encountered and ruts in the road in some places, the remainder of the route over the range and through the Klicki tat was delightful. Still the exercise in the sand placed the travelers in a frame of mind to get more real pleas ure out of the last lap of the iournev over the poifect roads of Mr. Hill. Mr. Hill is a big, whole sou led man with ruddy cheeks displaying his love of the out of doors and his perfect health. He has known how and. has made money. A snug sum of his for tune is now being used experimenting with roads to ,he used as models for the development of the Northwest. However, these experimental roads will not only be of benefit to the north west but they will have their effect on the road building of all America and even in European countries, for Mr. Hill has had visitors from England and Canada and other countries, who have come to inspect his highways and carry away the plans of his methods. The progressive citizens of the Klickitat valley just beyond the Cas cade range, where Mr. Hill has chosen the scene of his operations and where the soil is productive in grain und alfalfa and where the ranchers build up bank accounts by the sale of live stock, have adopted as the trade mark of the region, "Where the rain and the sunshine meet." There in one of Washington's largest and most pros perous counties, where the early spring sunshine ia already causing the straw berries and cherries to ripen, where the winter rains soak the earth with water to mature bumper hay and wheat cropi, Samuel Hill has been consulting with, experts and experi menting with their advice. He has sifted, weighed and pruned the best of all the theories and garnering them has constructed his roads according to their instruction. The highways that he has built are good to look at. Ihev soothe the soul of the motorist. Hut to gel the full effect of the result of Mr. Hill's experiments, the automobile owner should take his car along with him. After a spin from one end of the Maryhill estate to the other at a clip of 65 miles, as Capt. McCan made Saturday, he is ready to join the lists of the most enthusiastic boosters of good roads. "Safety, durability and beauty," and "Make the road to match the country," are maxims followed by Mr. Hill in his road construction. Ilu roads are characterized by long grace ful curves. The motorist on one of his highways that is running around a bluff or a steep hillside is not every moment' afraid of running into an un seen vehicle, when he turns a sharp curve; ;for the road does'not hug the hank but swings out far enough away from jutting points that the driver of a machine or vehicle may t.ee up and down the highway for long stretches. Garbed in a suit of corduroy Mr. Hill met his guests Saturday and escorting them over the roads that have been built and that are under construction explained the methods of building. He maintains a large crew of experienced laborers, who were applying rock, sand and oil to the roads. He has large workshops, where he works out Im provements for road building ma chinery. 'The visit at the Maryhill estate was made decidecly pleasant because of the hospitality of Mr. Hill's entertainment. Crowning one of the hills of the estate, where from broad, cool verandahs one gets a splendid view of the Columbia just north of the dalles around which The Dalles-Celilo canal is being built, and the skyline of the central Oregon country, Mr. Hill has erected commod ious and comfortable quarters for the entertainment of his guests. Here a luncheon, with Sam. his colored ser vant, and Mrs. Sam, regaling them with food cooked as onlv southern! darkies know how In nrfaM if Ultia ! served the visiting Hood Rivermen. ' Hut as the meal progressed not another, topic other than good roads was d.s-1 cussed. "I think of good roads and ! nothing else when I'm up here," said I Mr. urn, and j m up here every r8dkde"tdo highways." lou can make lasting and beautiful j MKumH.vi oere in wie normwest lor an i average cost of $7,000 per mile with convict labor and for $10,000 per mile with free labor, according to the fig-1 urea compiled by the road enthusiast.! tine of the stretches of hiehwav at i Mary Hill is constructed of heavy ! basalt taken from a near by cliff and i an asphaltum of a certain grade, both , heated to a temperature of 200 degrees i and poured together in a mixer. The ! hot oil penetrates to the center of the fragments of stone, while if the stone were cold it would only form an outer coating. With the exception that the English road is made of iron furnace slag the Hill highway is an exact dup. irate of the Great North Road of i Englard, which has Btood the tests of : heavy traffic for the past 18 years. Mr. Hill hits taken photograpphs of the j highway every year for the past five years and deelaies that scarcely a change can be detected in its surface. "'Ihe building of roads, or the value of them is impossible of estimation," says Mr. Hill. "Until after the Co lumbia river road is completed the people of the communities through which it will pass will not begin to realize its worth. I wish that 1 could secure an option on the wealth of the dates of Oregon and Washington and after having adequately supplied them with the best or roads realize the dif ference in the value of the land and other property. The return trip was made by way of Goldendale.Glunwood, Husum and W hite Salmon. Tire trouble was had with one of the three machines making the journey and the party was delayed for over an hour at Goldendale. From Maryhill to Glen wood, the roads are good. The party drew up at Glen wood at about seven o'clock and after a con ference decided to motor toward Hood Kiver instead of spending the night there. It was eleven o'clock when the bluff of the White Salmon was reached andthe brilliant lights of Hood Kiver were seen across the river. 'Ihe ma chines had covered a distance of 150 miles. Every man who made the trip re turned more enthusiastic in his desire for good roads. So well were they im pressed with the highways Been at Maryhill that it is planned to send a special committee there in the near fu ture to make a study of the details of Mr. Hill's construction of highways. Those who made the trip were: C. K. Marshall. Leslie Hutler, Capt. C. P. McCan, Clarence H. Gilbert, W. E. King, G. A. McCurdy. Roy D. Smith, nay r,. bcou, w. u uark, U. H Khoades, Murray Kay and Joe D. Ihomison. GAS & ELECTRIC CO. ASKS NEW ORDINANCE At the Monday evening meeting of me city council, the Hood River Gas & Electric submitted a blue print of the changes that it will make in its dis tributing lines, in order to conform with the recently enacted city ordi nances. H. M. Wolfe, construction foreman of the company is ready to begin the work of making the change. In a communication to the council from Alberts. Hall, manager of the Hood River Gas & Elcetric Co.. and from one of the engineers of the Pa cific Power & Light Co.. it was staled that the cmpany had been huv. ever since the passage of the ordinances, in the assembling of the proper material here to make the change. Surveys, too, had been worked upon, it was stated. The communication, however, stated. that sections of the ordinances weie incomplete. In places, according to the letter frdm the Gas & Electric Co., the Home Telephone and Gas & Elec tric wires arc on the same aide of the street. The ordinance states that they shall be on opposite sides of the street without declaring which shall make the move. Where the two electric companies have lines on the same street, one company will have to use extraordinarily high poles. The or dinance has not covered the details of making these changes. The letter stated that the company was ready to comply with the ordinance as soon as it was made clear and asked that a committee be appointed to confer with representatives of the different com panies involved. Councilman Robertson, chairman of the fire and water committee, stated in a repoit to the council that he and Judge Derby had consulted with Guy Talbot, president ot the Pacific Power & Light Co., who was ready to receive the warrants for the water plant and close up the purchase of it by the city. Mr. lalbot has always shown a dis position to be fair with us in the granting of delays for the assistance in closing up the water deal," said Mr. Robertson. L. H. Huggins was elected president of the council to take the place of Dr. lirosius, resigned. A remonstrance was received from the property owners along Sherman avenue between Sixth and Ninth streets, who asked that the ordinance calling for an improvement of this property be repealed, since they had not petitioned such improvement. The remonstrance was referred to the street committee. A petition was received from J. M. Wood and J. W. Wickham, wno asked to be allowed to place water pipe across Eugene street and Montello avenue these citizens desire to make use of the water of a spring on Mon tello avenue for sprinkling purposes. A reservoir will be built and the water piped from it to their places. The petition was granted. City Recorder Howe stated to the council that up to the present time the returns from the water department had amount! d to $1,200. C. H. Sproat was appointed by May or Hlanchar to take the place of Dr. F. C. Lirosius on standing committees. Miller Receives $10 for First Crate. Hood River strawberries, when they are the first on the big markets, bring marvelous prices. Gus Miller, who shipped the first crate to Portland last Thursday, disposed of it for the sum of $10. The berries were purchased by the Multnomah hotel. HOOD RIVER TO VISIT PORTLAND I LADIES WILL CO WITH PARTY . Luncheon ith Ad flub, Auto Ride and Banquet ith Commercial flub Straw berry Junket Wednesday. Next Wednesday, May Z, the Hood Kiver Commen i;il club will go to Tort land and pay a call to the Portland Commercial club, returning the vir.it made here by the members of the lat ter organization during the recent Blossom Festival. The plans are now well under way for the excursion which will b, th. l ,ir!l1 tlme that a booster organization froi the "out districts" has attempted a big junketing trip to the metiopolis and the Portlanders seem to be making preparations to entertain the callers in tine style. The wives ani ladies of the Hood River club members are invited to go on the trip and Secretary Ray E. Scott hopes th'tt there will be at least l'.u persons go from here. The day will be a full one, leaving Hood River on special cars attached to the Soo-Spokane train at !:;I7 Wednes day morning ami arriving in Portland about two hours Inter. The men of the Hood River party will lunch with the Ad club of Portland at the new Multnomah hotel at noon, while ar rangements are being made for a spe cial luncheon to be given the ladies. Ihe Ad club is made up of the adver tising writers and experts of Portland and they are live wires, every one. 'ihe people from here will be enter tained during the early part of Jhe afternoon by the Portland chili and it is rumored that an automobile rule over the city is to be the order. From 4 to 5:H0 in the afternoon a reception will be held in the club rooms of the Portland boosters when the Hood Riv erites will meet the business men of the Rose City. At six in the evening the two clubs will gather in the ban quet room fur the closing event of the day. The wives of the Portlanders will be present and a number of mus ical numbers will be on the program as well as several prominent speakers. The committee in charge of the ex cursion expects to secure a number of crates of fancy Hood River strawber ries and treat the hosts to the very best the valley affords. Messrs. James E. Montgomery, W. L. Clark, V. C. Brock and Charles T. Early are working out the details and expect to spring some surprises which will make the big town fully aware of the visitors from the orchards. .' s whs the case when Portland vis ited Hood River the members of the excursion from here will pay for the luncheon and banquet to be served in Portland. Special nites have been secured from lha O.-W. R. & N. Co. and the ticket including all expenses of the trip will be sold by the Commercial club for $!. The railroad tickets will be good returning as late as Friday, May 31, thus giving thoso going from here an the opportunity of remaining in Portland over Decoration Day. All persons wirhirg lo make the trip shruld notify Secretary Scott at once and buy their tickets by Monday so that the proper reservations can be made. All those interested are being urged to attend the weekly luncheon at the Commercial cluu Saturday noon when the plans for the trip will be dis- cussed fully. A large delegation is expected from the Upper Valley and the club is anxious to make a biir showing. Many Portland residents who are interested m the valley ure being urged to meet the parly and spend the day as part of the delega tion, and they should make early res ervations for the luncheon and banquet. HIGH SCHOOL CLOSES YEAH On Tuesday evening, when Mrs. K. H. Button presented the graduates with their diplomas as F, A. Bishon read the roll of their names, eighteen students finished thier high school ca reers, some of them with plans to enter college and pursue further education and others preparing to take uo im mediately the tasks of life work. Al though a good many more have tenta tive plans of university education only two huve dehiutly decided to entee school next fall. They are Miss Edith Steinhoff, who will register at the University of Minnesota, und Will Shepp rd, who will go to O. A. C. A large crowd was present at the Heilbronner hall. Indeed, there were not sufficient chairs for all who came. The room was decorated in the class colors, white and red, and a big" '12" hung over the stage. Miss Viola Nickelsen was the class valedictorian and delivered the class address. A declamatoin was delivered by Ed Struck. Misses Ruth Morrison and Elizabeth Thomas played a oiano duet. The graduating young Indies and young men were the recipients of many beautiful presents as well as handsome boiiuets of roses. The senior play given at the Monroe opera house Monday night was a de- iucu success and displayed a great deal of histrionic ability brought out by earnest rehearsals. Those who took part in the play were: Miss Elsie Mcl,ucB8, Miss I.enin, Hukari. Miss Viola Nickelsen. Waller Shnv. John Coshow, Glen Corey, Orland Morse and bmmet 1 nomas. Rev. E. A. Hirris directed the re hearsals of the play. The evuning was made greatly more pleasant hy musical selections by Miss Eva Brock. Miss Vida Bennett. Miss Aldine Bartniess and a recitation by Miss Adrienne Ep- ping. So successful was the play that it will be presented again at the Pine Grove hall, Tuesday evening. May 2H. Gastronomic Enigma Promised Mystery! The ladies of the Unitar ian chuuch are to give a covered dish supper Wednesday evening. May 211, at 6:30 o'clock, in the church. Do not Bsk what kind of edibles, for that is the mystery. A good supper is assured whose character is to be disclosed alter all are seated. And do you know the ladies are going to try not to tell be fore hand. I'll wager the men will find out. The supper is to cost 25 cents but on top of it comes stunts of all kinds. Musical monstrosities, literary fieaks, facial contortions, feminine ab surdities, free to all supper eaters. Wednesday, May 29, 6:30 p. m.