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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1912)
VOL. XA'IV HOOD IVEKOBEGnx.jHnyi)AYt .JTLY 18. NO. 7 i UPPER VALLEY NOTICE List Your Places for Special Attention With WARD IRELAND CORNELL Upper Valley Real Ftt ate-Inranc, Improved and Unimproved Orchard Und Phon Odell 77 Hood River Connection Guy Y. Edwards & Co. V. C. M. RANCH Parkdale Upper HooJ River Valley The Vitrified Brick Paved Street or Highway! Possesses the Greatest Merit because: It is impervious. It is the most sanitary. It is smooth, but not slippery. It is equally adapted to heay and light traffic. It does not require traffic lightened by legislation. It is in no wise effected by climatic influences. It originates no mud, can be washed clean. It originates no dust to destroy furnishings. It is equally satisfacory at all seasons. It does not soften in heat, crack in cold or rut up in Wet WPAthpr And there are a great many other reasons, for which ask the The Time to Buy Real Estate is w ,'hen the seller is forced to sell For various reasons the places mentioned below urn-l ' l ouce: 2 Acres fij miles from town on main road ; 1 acres in -H-year-old trees; balance hay land. Price 110,'XW. Terms. 29 Acres in Willow Flat; 9 acies in 4 and Si-year-oM trees, very tine; balance brush land; well located on main road, 1 miles from Odell. 1'rice t,500. S Acres 2 mi'"01" Belmont road, allinfi':i;?r'jd,r''; fair houe. r"Ml Pri.-e ' 4,2'0. Term. 2 Acres in Oai ''li-'riet; 5 acres 5-year-oU lJ'f U!nWi i and avearsir1 barn, etc.; on min r;iwl, .ij ,,,,, from town. FrKtl?,Vm Trrnm. We hav some very desirable residence lots, close is on Gwad . an,j Uolnuibia that we are placing on the market at very f r"w ajuW e ceptioiialit env terms of pavment. , , K'XCII AN'GK A very finely improved Iowa farm of ' iw; r:.!, river bottom land; excellent buildings; cIoh to good to" 'M I:'5 p.r acre. Our client wants Mood River land of about equal value, or aouhl pay some cash difference. If interested take this up with t once. MONEY TO LOAN GUY Y. EDWARDS & CO. o V r-'.M .'o '-;'?.'. Western Clay Co. Beck Bldgf. PORTLAND, ORE. AUTO LAUNDRY Cascade Garage For First Class Work Live and Dead Storage Telephone 176-L LOCATION AT CORNER OF EIGHTH AND CASCADE The Mount Adams Jersey Farm) FOR SALE One of the very best farms in the valley, located at the head of the valley in Barrel District, consisting of (it) acres, all tillable land, 42 acres in culti vation, growing clover, timothy, alfalfa, oat, wheat, gardens, etc., 100 young fruit trees. Considered by mot settlers the best land and dairy farm m the settlement. 12 head of Registered Jersey cattle cf Golden I-ern and family; 15 head of medium type Polan China hogs, brood sows, .-oars and pigs, all registered stock; one registered Clydsdale stallion, best breeder in western Clickitat countv. llisgetBhows for itself; two good mares, five and eight years old and well matched, a JWM) 00 team; good harness, one hack, one sarah, three ranch wagons, mower, plows, harrows farm tools, etc. Buy a farm where it pays a dividend the moment you make the purchase. Why wait for years to get interest on money invest ed. There is close to $5,000.00 worth of breeding stock that will be sold with this farm, the very best in the coi.nty and as good as I could find in eastern states. Good buildings, good fence, part of farm fenced with 58 wove,n wire knve 1,11 K'9 or 1 2.000 00. Would consider JC.oOO.OO in Hood River or White Salmon city property in this sale. Write or Call For M. L. Adams Jersey Farm Reference GILLETT STATE BANK, White Salmon. CASH . GROCERY JUST A FEW OF OUR PRICES THIS WEEK 15 pounds Best Fruit Sugar for . ...$1.00 2 cans Jersey Queen Milk for 15c; per case $3.50 3 cans Carnation or Libby milk for ' - 25c The Diamond Crown and High Flight Flour per sack -. . $1.45 SPECIAL PRICES ON FRUIT JARS. Mason - Pint 55c Quart (55c Half gallon 85c Ecomomy-Pint85c Quart-$1.10 Half gollon $1.40 Shrams - Pint 75c Quart 85c Half gallon $1.30 Come to Us for Bargains in Groceries L. H. HUGGINS Land For Sale 1 have about 1,000 acres of No. 1 Apple Land, most of it under ditch at prices ranging from $G0 per acre up. In tracts from ten acres up. J. R, STEELE Hood River - - - Oregon Lights at Reasonable Prices ,The Hydro-Electric Co., doear&V the consumers of electrical energy for fight 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, nor any 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 Company Phone 134 Third and Oak DAVIDSON FRUIT CO. is now ready to talk to you about Apples i Call at our office, or phone us and we will call on you. We are selling Apple Paper, Boxes, Twine, Spray, Ice, Etc DAVIDSON FRUIT CO. HOOD RIVER, OREGON For Sale by Owner 200 acres, GO acres cleared, 11 acres planted, balance unimproved. Price cheap and easy terms. J. P. Thomsen It. F. D. No. 1 box G9 Phone 29G Odell AUTO OWNERS! The Tire Shop Makes a specialty of Tire Re pairing All Work Guaranteed We use the only plant upon which can be produced the guar anteed dry cure tread. POTATO CROP WILL BE LARGE WC ACREAGE PLANTED IX TIBERS Weather Conditiuns Will Cause Enormous Vh!J 1 nit a May Market Spuds -Crop Intimated 25,000 Sacks This will certainly be a "Murphy" ei.r m Hood River valley. The d'is-H'-t has never had such an acreage of potatoes in all of its history, nor has ' y past season ever been more favor-al.-.e for tetter returns from the har wst. The tuber plantings over tne iistrict last year were rather light, owing to the low price received for them the year before. However, those who had "spuds" for sale last year struck the market right; for a bag of potatoes was worth just ubout as much ai a box of apples, and as a result the potato acieage of this season was swelltd material. I The greater portion of the Hood : River valley's potatoes are grown on I the West Side and in the I'pper valley. Nearly every rancher on the West Side in !.... I - - . .1 in the dak drove district has a small tract of potatoes. Some have them planted m the new cround iust cleared. while others have grown them between the trees. J he extraordinarily wet spring has been the very thing for the potato grower and the spuds have reached tine sizes without the expense ami irouijie 01 irrigation. Most ot those growing potatoes do so as a side issue, planting small tracts for their own use, with the expectation of having a few for sale A few, however, have planted the tubers this year on a large comtnercia basis. Albert Crocker has about HO acres on the 1'aradise farm west of the city. Mr. Crocker, who has been associated with Henri de Riding in the lancy apple and produce business dur ir.g the past two years, has found the handling of Hood River potatoes good business and thinks the crop this year will prove successful from the standpoint of marketing. Other heavy growers are b, H. liutton and J. H hoberg, who grow the spuds in the river bottom soil on their places cast of town. Mr. liutton shipped several carloads or potatoes as tar east as Texas last year, receiving excellent returns. Indeed, it is thought that a great portion of the local crop this year will go east. The conditions over the east and middle west, have not been so good for potatoes and the prices there are very high. " It is probable Jthat the Hood River Apple Growers Union will handle the sales of potatoes this year. WUmer Sieg, the manager, states that he will endeavor to establish relations and open markets that the local crop may tie dimed ot to advantage. NOTES OF APPLE macadam. The lack of communications to the counc il is an evidence that it is the height of the vacation season. Several pay resolutions were passed to care for improvement work that has been dure. The incinerator matter was left in the hands of the committees for fur ther investigation. Mavor K. O. Hlanchar will take the matter up with Mayor Kushlight. of 1'ortland, and make a thorough investig: tiou of methods used in the Rose City for the disposition of garbage. SCOUTS LEAVE ON TWO WEEKS' OUTING At a quarter past five yesterday morning, to be exact, the Hoy Scouts Troop 1, with blankets and other paraphernalia slung across their backs. tarted on 'their long hike to Lost ake, Jwhere they will spend the next two weeks camping. Those who have left for the summer encampment are: Mark Moe, Rodger Simtison. I'aul Harris, Rav Wickhini. Arthur Lofts. Ponald Cochran, Glen Hunt, Newton Clark, Bayard Stone, (lien Coodall and Samuel Thomnkins, the latter of Cas cade Locks. The Scouts were accom panied by Rector Kdmund T. Simpson. of the Kpiscopal church. Albert L. Crof ker and W. W. SchulU, the former icing Scoutmasters of local troops. Mr.s-chultz was interested in the Scout work in l'ennslvunia. where he was a master of a troop before coming to Hood River. The boys camped last night just be yond the confluence of the Lake Branch and the West Fork. Ihev will reach their destination at the lake to day. A wagon was taken along to beav.the provisions and camping outfit. lr. I'.. It. hanaga will loin the Scouts later and they will be taught the elements of surgery, such as mav become necessary when parties of the hoys are away in the woods and an ac cident happens to one. Many will pay visits to the Scout camp. Mrs. Simp- s m ana Douglas Mmpson, the latter being unable to leave with the bovs yesterday, having been ill, will prob ably join them tho latter part ot this week. PHf NE CO. PLANS kirnr V u 1 nvi NATIONAL OFFERS STORAGE SERVICE Wiln. er Sice, manager of the Union has appointed 8am G. Campbell as in spector general of the packing of Union apples this fall. Mr. Campbell will n tot with the board of directors Saturd.iv, when packing rules will be made. Ihese will ee distributed to growers as soon as possible, in order that they may become thoroughly ac quainted with them. Mr. Campbell will appoint his deputies. Mr. Sieg, accompanied by a number of directors, met the residents of the Park grange district Tuesday evening. Last night he and a number of the members of the local Commercial club were at I'arkdale, where a meeting was held to discuss the problems of apple marketing after which a smoker wus given by the Upper Valley Pro gressive Association. Mr. Sieg left this morning for Port land to interview fruit merchants there and to get a better linc-up of the northwestern crop. He leaves Port bind for an extensive trip of the east. On his return Mrs. Sieg will accom pany him. With a large crew of meri at work, the concrete construction- of the new storage house is progressing rapidly. L. A. Woodard has the contract fur the erection of the building and for the installation of the refrigerating machinery. The apple packers of the valley have announced that they will establish a union. This fall, they suy, they will not wc-k at packing on ranches where proper loJging facilities have not been provided. A Rreat amount of the Hood River cherry crop has been shipped to can neries at The Dalles. Some of the lo cal product, after having reached The Dalles, has been packed in fancy boxes and shipped out from there. PROF. TaWRENCE URGES MORE BEES "For the assistance in pollenizalion, there should he a hive if bees to every five acres of orchard in the valley," says I'rof. W. H. Lawrence, county plant pathologist. According to the data of the county assessor, the dis trict has 13,000 acres of orchard. Therefore we need 2ii00 honeymakers' homes here. Professor Lawrence is not alone in urging that the commun ity have more bees, most all of the ranchers realize that the insects will make perfect pollenization possible. One of the difficulties of maintaining the hives of this many bees here now, according to Professor Lawrence, is that the valley does not atford enough pasturage the year around. After the blossoming season, the bee food and source of securing honey if very scarce. To remedy this, experiments will have to te conducted to determine what plant is successful here. It has been found that buckwheat dues not thrive here. Prof. Lawrence, while in the I'uget Sound district, worked out the problem of bee food plants there. Council Meeting Short Practically no new business came before the Monday night meeting of the city council. The most interesting matter presented to the attention of the city fathers was the communica- tion from the Humane society, recom- mending that in the street work pro- posed, the paving used be oil bound To the apple growers of Hood River: Growers who aie without home stor age facilities will be greatly interested in learning that the National Apple Company will institute entirely new methods in Hood River the coming season in the way of taking cure of the growers, who, lor various reasons, are not prepared to care for tho storage and packmu of their own apples at picking time. To such growers the National Apple Company will extend the following privileges, which will apply to Newtowns, Hen DavMa, and 1 other long keening varieties but will , tnbt apuy to Jonathan, Sytietiuurn, Baldwins or Ortleys : The grower may grade at tho orch- aru nis appies as to extra iancy ami fancy, but need not grade for size, fill his paper lined boxes, using cleats un der top cover, and deliver to our ware house and receive proper receipts for same. Uefore packing, these apples will he passed through our sizing ma chine, and will then be packed in season. Hy handling apples this wav. the troubles of the grower will be materi ally lessened, his apples will be re moved from his open sheds immedi ately after picking, and placed id coin rooms at once, thus adding irreallv to tneir keeping qualities, and avoiding, lirst, the danger of over ripeness bv open weather heat, and also, the iur ther dairger of having his apples frozen in his unprotected building; and the greatest benelfl of all will be a very much reduced cost of packing. We will have a regular trained force of packers working steadilv in the warehouse. Such varieties as will need to move early will, of course, receive first attention and liberal advances of money will be made to growers upon their warehouse receipts. We therefore BUL'uei-t to the orowers that it will lie greatly to their interest to have a talk with us as soon as possi ble relative to this matter. National Apple Company. THE DALLES INDIANS WIN THIRD PRIZE The members of Lodge 303, the Klks from The Dalles, created a greater sensation at the parade in Portland last Thursday than any other aggrega tion and captured the third prize for having the most unique garments and performing the most novel stunts in the line of march. The Dalles , mem bers, among whom were a great number of local Klks, wore (lowing robes on which were represented the heads of elks and carrying out the pur ple and white color scheme, lhrough- out the five milts of line of march the improvised warriors did "heap much" dancing and whooped until their throats were almost raw next day. On luesday evening the cork was pulled from the bottle of joy," said J. H. rredney, and all the little fairies of pleasure came flitting forth to twitch the corners of. our mouths and pull the wrinkles of worry from our coun tenances. In all my life 1 never rolled up so much fun in such a short time as 1 did last week. My face is still sore from smiling and laughter has loosened the walls of my inner man. Portland policemen cannot be too highly com mended. They did everything toward making the reunion a success and kept down all forms ot hoodlumism." NEW EXCHANGE READY NOV. 15 Auto-Manual System, Which It Is Declar ed Will (live Quicker Service, Will Be Installed this Fall When the Home Telephone Co. has installed the Auto-Manual system of exchange in the local office, Hood River will be the hist city west of Gales burg, 111., to have such apparatus. The local company has been considering the new system for several months and about the middle of June Chas. Hall, president of the company, left for a visit to the four eastern cities, where the apparatus has been installed and found successful. "Everywhere the Auto Manual system has been applied it has been found to be very success ful," says Mr. Hall, who returned last week. lhe patrons are highly pleas ed with the quick and efficient service it gives and nowhere did I find any complaint against it." I he Auto-Manual system is a combin ation of the system at present used in the local exchange and the automatic ecxhange devices. It eliminates all of the plugs used by the manual system, the manipulation of which consumes so much of the operator's time. One op erator can attend to as many calls and do the work more quickly than could four working under the old system. The patron takes down his receiver just a- though using the present system pives his number to the operator, who by pressing the keys of a board resem bling very much that of an adding ma chine, starts tn work the automatic machinery, which places him in con nection almost instantaneously with the phone of the party desiied. As soon as the operator presses a lever that starts the bell of tho box called to ringing, she is at once cut out. She doesn't know who has made the call, nor can she hi'ar the conversation. 'I ho bi ll of the telephone of the party called will ring for three seconds, re-' main silent tor six seconds and then . repeat the operation until answered or until the party making ti.e call hangs up and the disconnection is made auto matically, 'lhus by the continual ring ing a quicker service will he brought about. If the telephone is busy, when the operator makes the connection for the one calling, the busy buz?, notifies the party calling. Mr. Hall elates that the average time taken by an expert in receiving a call and making the con nection takes about three seconds. The in- tallatiou of the new system will nut require any changes made to the out side system of wires, and as soon as the new apparatus is installed in the new exchange building now under con struction, the wires will be gradurally cut in on the new system. lh operation l the Auto-Maunal telephone exchange apparatus is very simple and is easily learned as that of an adding machine. Of course, the beginner will bo slower than one used to the mechanism, but it takes but a few hours of experience to become expert. "When the new system is ap plied to the local exchange," says Mr. Hall, "we will fear no complications from hick of operators or strikes; for in such cases, Mr. Winter, the man ager, of the system, or I can take, the exchange and handle the service." lhe excavation for the new exchange building at the corner of t il th and state streets on the property formerly owned by Dr. J. K. Watt, has already leen dug and the foundation is beinfl- laid. 'I ho designs, drawn by R. R. Bartlett, call for a brick structure two stories in height. The lower story will ho occupied by the offices of the tele phone coirpany, while the second story will be constructed for flats. The members of the University club are considering the rental of the second story for club quarters. The buidling will be so constructed that a third story can be easily added. The architecture of the new building is of handsome design. The structure will be completed this fall not later than the middle of November; for by this time the company hopes to have all installations of the new system made and to have it in operation. "The most of the companies of the eastern cities," says Mr. Hall, "have taken advantage of the opportunity offered them by the installation of the new service, and have raised their rates. The Home Company rates will remain the same." Forest Fires Feared The warm weather has caused a few small forest fires to develop in the Green Point hills. Rangers, however, soon extinguished them. Yesterday morning Julian P. Scott telephoned County Judge Geo. R. Castner, stating that a serious fire was burning near his ranch at Dee. The blaze was found to be of small consequence, however. If the waim, dry spell continues APPLES OF ANGELS OT VERY HIGH The apples of the Angels, as they are termed by the people of Iowa, judging from a letter recently received by the National Apple Co. from a firm of fruit merchants there, are noted for the good prices they demand on the market. The letter follows: "It is very likely that we can handle a few ?ars ol Spitzenburg apples from Hood River, if the price is low enough to enable us to do so. Heretofore, we have never been ahlo to handle these apples that are grown by the Angels up at Hood River, because of the ex tremely high prices. Our people, who make their livings hy the sweat of their brows, raising corn anj hogs in Iowa and Dakota, as a rule do not feel like trading a carload of corn for a box or two of Hood River apples and con sequently, we have never been able to place them in this territory, but if your prices are going to be more reas onable, then we might do some busi ness with you." COXGREGArLCHDRCII NEAIIS COMPLETION Within a short time the carpenters will have finished the interior furnish ing of the new Congregational church. On Monday night Prof. V. W. Good rich, of Portland, played the big pipe there is danger of fires spreading over j organ, which has just been installed, the fore:t belts, First Astrachans Make Appearance Hood River will soon beign to mar ket the apples of the reason's crop. The first Red Astrachans have made their appearance and within a short time may be Jpiektd in commercial quantities. Kaily June apples and pie fruit have appeared in the local market. for the first time. A number of the congregation were present and all of the lights of the interior of the church were turned on, making the handsome religious edifice shine forth in a glory of light. With the exception of the churches in Portland, the local edifice will be the handsomest Congregational church in the state. Its cost will be ubout $20,000. I si X