VOL. XS III
HOOD MVER, OREGON, TlIl.'liSDAY, MAY Km
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-at-
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AT 8:30
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UPPER VALLEY NOTICE
... List Your Places for Special Attention With
WARD IRELAND CORNELL
Upper Vallwy Real Estate Insurance
Improved and Unimproved Orchard Land
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U. C. M. RANCH
Hood River Connection - Parkdale
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.