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HOOD ltlVEIt, OREGON. THURSDAY, AUU!ST 1. 1912
VOL. XXIV
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THERE WILL BE SOMETHING
D0ING IN HOOD RIVER
Commencing Saturday, Aug. 3
The well known general merchandise
stock of the Mt. Hood Store has been
brought to Hood River to be turned into
cash regardles of cost or value.
The stock is now being opened up and
assorted for easy buying. Such bewilder
ing bargains in High Grade Staple Goods
is almost beyond comprehension There's
a reason.
To save yourself unnecessary delay, it
would be well to make a list of your needs
at home.
Read the Big Ad on Page lO Carefully
IT WILL PAY YOU
HERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY
to get and improved ranch in v-ry
tine district at about 't8 v1'"1
A l.ighlv improved 30 .m ranch in Oak rov. J'lw."
from tow., on main road. Thl. sporty hat been M. i
not unreasonable at tlmt price. Owi..f? U financial
bought np t 11 August 15tb foi Tern,B Dot '
cash. If you want a snap grab this one. s
EXCHANGES I
Hotel proposition in Portland, clow to business n";
doings busi.iess of snoot $1,200 per month. Value U,W-, ,-t im
proved place in Hood Kiver with good buildings.
New apartment house in .East Portland, fine district elo, n fi,,e
corner lot. This is a good income producer. 'V aloe lTJ,
$13,600. Want improved ranch property up to about will pay
email cash difference. ... ..
Very hih cl.ss 50 acre, unimproved red shot land in l 'W.
on main cunty road, close to railway, easy clearing no la.!,
value $150.0(1 per acre. Will exchange for improved land in alley
and assume or pay small cash difference. Piefer W est Bi.le.
GUY Y. EDWARDS & GO.
HOOD RIVER, OREGON
NEW TRACT
SHOWS PROGRESS
KAY MAKES
DITCH MAP
Rev. F. M. Aunks served the church
as pastor together with the church out
in the valley, until April iK'.li Rev.
H. F. Gilt began his pastorate in July,
Ihm'2, was ordained and installed in
September, and served until in May
18S.M for the munilirent salary of $300 a
vear. Rev. J. L. Hershner served the
ORCHARDS THRIVE WEST OF DEE ?hTh W yf,"r"- bei"ninK in s? MANY FAVOR A BONDED DISTRICT
kvniuci tuimt ilia jinriuiBiv i
the church had a larRe growth. Be-1
New Irrigation Ditch Covers 2500 Acres KnninK with 0 membership of 26 he. This System Thought to be Must Feasible
icii toe ijamuiaia wiiii m iiiciiiutripuip
of 91. notwithstanding the fact that 60
members were removed by death, let
ters and revisions. Rev. W. C. Gil
more came to the pastorate in 1904 and
served until September 1110, when
Pastor Harris began his work The
present membership is 221. lhe 21
years will see the church going in'o
ten times as pood a building with
twenty times the membership.
- Geuwth of District Noted by
Lost Lake Campers
UPPER VALLEY NOTICE
List Your Places for Special Attention With
WARD IRELAND CORNELL
Upper Valley Real Estate Insurance
Improved and Unimprod Orchard Land
Phone Odell 77
Hood River Connection
Guy Y. Edwards & Co.
U. C. M. RANCH
Parkdale
Upper Hood River Valley
CASH . GROCERY
JUST A FEW OF OUR PRICES THIS KEEK
15 pounds Best Fruit Sugar for l-00
2 cans Jersey Queen Milk for 15c; per case r -.$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 65c Half gallon 85c
Ecomomy-Pint 85c Quart $1.10 Half go Ion $1.40
Shrams - Pint 75c - Quart 85c Half gallon $1.30
Come to Us for Bargains in Groceries
L. H. HUGGINS
Laying Vitrified Brick Pavement
OR
Using Vitrified Brick Pavement
IS
Like Making Love to a Widow
"You Can't Overdo. It"
rev0"
Western Clay Co.
Beck Bldg. PORTLAND, ORE.
Lights at Reasonable Prices
. , . The Hydro-Electric Co., does not, want
jj -i a: i IK i l
uie consumers ui eiecu icai eneigy ivi ngrn-
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
K 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
White Salmon Land
H We have a client who wishes to exchange
40 acres of choice apple land for a smaller
tract on the Hood Riverside of the Columbia.
U This 40 acre tract is 2 miles from White
Salmon, has two all-year springs, good house
and barn, 16 acres orchard, part bearing.
11 We have some very good buys in orchard
land and in Trout Creek hay land. :: ::
HOMER G. DAY CO.
JELEPHONE WHITE SALMON B-5024
White Salmon, ... Washington
For Sale by Owner
200 acres, GO acres cleared, 11 acres planted, balance
. unimproved. Price cheap and easy terras.
J. P. Thomsen
It. F. D. No. 1 box G9 Phone 20G Odell
When one travels over that portion
of the Hood kiver valley Iving between
the mum stream and the West Fork of
Huod Kiver he is made to realize that
the development of the community,
despite the proportions it has reached
in the Lower Valley and the advance
ments made in the Upper Valley, has
just begun. In "this district a broad
expanse of logged otT land, where the
Oregon Lumber Co. has finished its op
eration, meets the eye. To pass
through the region, where thousands
of blacktopped stumps dot the land and
where charred bits of refuse logs, over
grown by the weeds and bushes thut
have sprung up since the hrs were
felled for their lumber, the traveler
is depressed by the desolation that now
prevails. However, the axe and grub
hoe of the land clearer have already
made inroads on the eastern portion of
the fertile area and orchards just ready
to come into hearing are thriving on
the ridge that rises just west of the
big lumber mills at Dee.
One of the prettiest and most well
kept pear orchards of the valley is that
of "Cash" Jones, of Portland, who
has tract of 20 acres set tu this fruit
in the cleared portion of this district
the rtees have been allowed to bear
this vear for the tirst time. M. M
Hill has a hardsoine tract or lu acres
here set to anules. Another beautiful
orchard is that of Chas. T. Early
Numerous other tracts have been
cleared and set and will soon'come into
bearim?. Several new homes rise al
ready in the very midst of the logged
off tract. Antoine Flint has a home
here. Mr. Flint, who is clearing his
land for an orchard, was unfortunate
enough to lose his home by fire last
fall. However, he immediately reuuiu
a neat residence.
The district soil is a deep red shot
which has been found so excellent for
fruit. It reaches from the verge of
the gorge of the main river to the
ridge surmounting what is known as
Sandv Flat, on the West Fork. Twenty
five hundred acres of fertile soil await
the advance of the apple industry in
the vallev. The community is wen
watered, the Dee Power & Irrigation
Co. havine comuleted this summer an
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tillable soil. Tne Hume takes its waters
from the West Fork of the Hood river
above the point where the Lake Branch
flnwa into that stream and from small
streams tributary to the West Fork
It has an amide suntiW for the district
mnd i hmshed piece 01 work iroin
the stsnduoint of an enigneer. The
hiir ditch follows the range of hills at
the south of tne disrict for some miles.
For a great portion of the distance
alone the river the water is carried by
nnnn hnurri flume.
Thfi nrnvress of the district is noted
every summer by the scores of local
residents who phss through it to the
alluring camping grounds on the Lake
Branch, West Fork and Lost Lake.
This district with its acre after acre of
untouched forests, its clear troui
streams where the camper may enjoy
the hottest summer duy in an inviting
ly cool retreat, is becoming more and
more famed to those who like to spend
the summer vacation "out in the
woods." Campers have visited the re-
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gion over since mere nas ueen a nuou
Kiver valley, having gone there to
hunt the bear and wildcats, which are
to be found there in some numbers to
day, and to take the trout from the
streams that teem with them. tome
Hood River families have camped on
the West Fork and the Lake Branch
for the last seven years. They declare
that the haunts of the district have
woven a kind of charm around them,
and that the impulse to return, when
the days become warm in the city are
irresistible.
W. J. Baker and family have visited
the region for many years, ror the
past three summers they have pitched
their tents at the confluence of the
Lake Branch and the West Fork on a
?oint of land that cannot be surpassed
or the beauty of the foliage of the
trees and the view that is nad ot tne
cascading wa'ters of the two streams.
It is there in the summer mourns mai
they have entertained their friends,
who have had the fortunate pleasure
of visiting Camp Minnehaha, as they
have come to call the place, rmm
their experience in campiilg they have
reduced the method of vacation to a
science and a trip to their summer,
home, for they live at the camp for
months at a time, is well worth the
time of any one, who expects to spend
a vacation camping in the woods.
STONE fflURClTTO BE
DEDICATED SEPT. 1
for Operation of Ditch of East
Side Irrigation Co.
SAVINGS
AND LOAN
r
UHKUUN
Receives deposits on Investment contracts, which it loans on
Improved real estate, returning such funds to investors at a
guaranteed definite date, with definite guaranteed earnings
thereon. An Oregon corporation. Ample Reserve Fund. Under
State supervision. Backed by Oregon business men.
DIRECTORS
Habbko Q. Pl.tt, of Putt PUtt. Attorn?
E. O, duWFOHn, V. P. liraiberniftiM ht. Hnk i. P. Jakhka, oIJmiw Fm., Jrwwtort
Hun A.Hamiit. P O. Mgr., SimondaMfii Co. W. O. MrParBnoK, Pna. W G. Mc Phonn Co.
rual . IMOLl. V P. Hibarni 8ias Hnk H. O. t'OLlOK, Mir. 11ms. MuMal Lit In. Urn.
i . B. Oook, Bacnuij
AN OREGON CORPORATION UNDER STATE SUPERVISION
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.
ARRANGEMENTS MADE
FOR CHAUTAUQUA
The Horticultural Chautaucpia pro
gram committee, composed ot t. In.
Kavlin, P. S. Davidson, W. E. King,
V. C. Hrock, Leslie Butler, Arthur
Clarke. W. N. Winter, tieorge Shep-
pard, Frank Cutler, A. I. Mason and
J. H. lleilbronner, met at the rooms
of the Commercial club Monday morn
ing and completed the airangements
for the program of the gathering.
The vulley orchardists will assemble at
WooJworth pHrk at the foot of the
lava beds in the Upper Valley. Those
who have visited this spot know its
attractions.
The program is as follows :
Auguf t 22, 2 to 6 p. m. Opening ad
dress by t resident l.enlie Butler.
Response by Gov. Oswald West. Lec
ture by Prof. Kerr, president of O. A
C, "Kelation ot the Agricultural Col
lege to the Farmer."
August 2, 3 to b p. m.--Lecture bv
Prof. Withvcombe, of O. A. C, "Ui
versified Farming as Applicable to
Hood River Orchards." Lecture by
Prof. Alderman, stute superintendent
of Schools, on "What Can the Country
School do for the rarmer.
August 24, 3 to 6 p. m. Lecture by
I rot. Cordley, of O. A. C, on Drch
ard Diseases and Spraying." Lecture
on the "Construction of Good Roads,'
by eminent authority, Samuel Hill, of
Maryhill, Washington.
The members of the different chau
tauuua committees held a meeting at
the rooms of the Commercial club yes
terday morning and discussed further
plans for the August event. The
Ground and Tent committee has made
arrangements with a Portland concern
for tents enough to supply hny demand
that mav be made fur them. These
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. , " : . iu may ue nau lor me enure nine ui toe
::," r.,1., vr .I chuutauoun for a small sum to cover
their rental and cost of transportation.
A number of the committemen spent
yesterday afternoon in the vicinity of
the lava beds in Wo dworth parte sur
veying the location and choosing sites
tor the camp.
BIDS RECEIVED ON
CONSTRUCTION WOflK
The committee recently appointed by
the board of directors of the East Side
Irrigating Co. to investigate the advis
ability of putting the big water system
under the bonded district system cf
control, has been having a survey
made of the district, in oler to ascer
tain the exact land that will be under
the ditch's service, Murray Kay,
Hood River county's engineer, who
was engaged to do this work, has com
pleted the tield work and is now tabu
lating his data and making a map,
which will show the farms under the
ditch and such as will be served by
further possible extensions of the Bys-tein.
A great mBny of the stockholders are
dissatisfied with the ditch as now op
erated and there is a growing senti
ment toward turning the big irrigation
system, which will furnish water to a
tract of approximately lo.tHHJ acres,
into a bonded district, which system will
make an equal distribution of the bene
fits of the system over all of the lands
of the district. Furthermore by placing
the ditch under the bonded system, the
debts of the ditch are more easily col
lected than under the mutual corpora
tion system. The land covered by the
district is made directly responsible
and may be reached to secure pay
ments of obligations to the organization.
The ditch is in need of extensive im
provements an i a bond issue will be
necessary to carry out this work. The
company has a bond issue of $10,000,
seven per cent bonds, coming due on
October 1. It will be impossible fur
the organization to finance another
bond issue under the present system,
it is said by thuse who fully under
stand the situation, and to put the
status of the situulion as it now stands
in tho every day vernacular, "Some
thing must be done."
lhe only feasible way out of the dif
ficulty it is declared is to establish a
bonded district. Even thou-ih a pri
vate concern should desire to take over
the ditch, it is desired by nil means
that such a thing should not cone
about. The operation of an irringtion
ditch is decidedly of a public nature
and should be under public control. In
all cases, where the bonded system has
been fully worked out it has been found
to be a success, lhe local Hood Kiver
Irrigation District, suppling a portion
of the West Side, may be pointed out as
an example of the methods of the
bonded district.
By the atatut.es of Oregon, in order
to form a bonded Irrigation district, it
is neeeesiiry for fifty, or majority of
the holder of titles to lands suscept
ible of irrigation from a common
nonrcp rir rntnhlnen Hiilirrefl nml hv t.nt
jsame system or combined systems of
At the Monday evening meeting of
the city council bids were received on
the water works construction. The
best bid on the 13 hydrants and num
erous valves required was made by
Fairbanks. Morse & Co., who will fur
nish the former for the sum of $'2S!i
and the latter for $326. The United
States Cast Iron, Pipe & Foundry Co.
made the lowest bid for the l!tti tors,
18,000 feet, of cast pipe. Their figuie
was $.r),()tiH.15.
S. I). Watts was awarded the con
tract for laying the pipe. However,
it was found that his bid had been fig
ured incorrectly and the award will
probably go to E. O. Hall, the next
lowest bidder.
Kev. Hargreavee was present and
appealed to the council to make some
provision for leimbursmg Nieritt
Thomas F. Johnson and Marshal Rob
ert T. Lewis, who expended several
hundred dollars in securing detectives
last year for the purpose of endeavor
ing to apprehend violators of the local
option law.
tour ordinances, three providing for
the macadamizing of Oak and Colum
bia streets and Cascade avenue, and
one for the oiling of Cascade street,
passed the first reading. A tiumbei of
the citizens living along Cascade
street, which has been recently graded,
desire thnt it be oiled, to give them
temporary relief, before it is macadamized.
MAZAMAS HIKE
BACK TO CITY
The dedication services of the new
stone Congregational church building,
which is now nearing completion,
will be held on Sunday, September 1.
Work has been started on the razing of
the old building, which was dedicated
in IH91. me Dell OI me oil' cnurcu
will be given to the city to be used for
public purpose. It wns purcnasea
about 15 years ago by a popular sub
scription. The last service was held in the old
church building Sunday morning, when
many citizens from dilterent pans oi
the state, who worshipped beneath its
roof in early days, came to participate
in the last meeting.
The new building stands upon the
site from which the old building was
moved last soring, when the construc
tion of the structure was begun. It
was deeded to the trustees by the
Townsite Co. and was the gift of E. L.
Smith. The cost of the old church
was about $2100; that of the new more
than $20,000. The latter is built of
the gray basaltic stone taken from a
quarry in the hillside but a short dis
tance from the building.
Rev. J. L. Hcrshner occupied the
nnlnit with the castor. Rev. E. A.
Harris, Sunday. The latter prefaced
his sermon with a historical statement :
Riverside church was organized April
29, 1890 in the Blowers hall with four
members-Geo. P. Crowell, who was
elected secretary, Mrs. Anna Middle
ton, Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Heald.
The Mazama8 broke camp Monday
morning early and hiked back to i'ark
dale.where they took the train tor this
city. The most of the party left for
Portland, where they reside on the af
ternoon local Monday. However, sev
eral left for a trip across Klickitat
county to Mount Adams, on the Wash
ington side of the river, to finish their
outing bv an ascent of that peak.
The lust climb of Mount Hood made
by the mountaineers was on Saturday,
when the day was said to have been
one of the best since Camp Sheldon
was established.
the following members of the party
returning to this city Monday left for
Portland: F. P. Leutters. C. L. Win
ter. Mrs. W. S. lieattie, Miss Kather-
ine Pooler, Miss Fidelia Davin, of
Seattle, Miss Blanche Hart, Miss Eliz
abeth Yost, Miss Gertrude Bide, Miss
(!. Richardson, Dr. F. Anderson, Miss
Mary C. Henthorne and Edmund P.
Sheldon, president of the club. H. 11.
Prouty, Misses Pearl and Edith Ellis
and Frank Branch Riley left Tuesday
morning for Trout Lake, from which
point they climbed Mount Adams.
S u. ;,.;.,. I .., U'tiito Ui,lm,.n hu
Prof E. E. Coursen and bis daughter,
Miss Geraldine Coursen.
works, who desire to provide for the
irrigation of the same, to propose the
organization of an irriagtion district.
They shall petitition the county court
for an election.
At this election any bona fide owner
of the land Directed by the organiza
tion of the dis trict, whether he be it
resident or a nun-resident, has the
right to vote. To establish the district
it tukeg a three-fifths majority vote.
Any property within the district thnt
already has irrigation from a privato
source may be excluded from the area
covered.
SUMMER SCHOOL
VERY SUCCESSFUL
West Side Improvement Club
Th August meeting of the West
Side Improvement club will be held
next Tuesday afternoon at 1 :30 o'clock
at the Oak Grove hall.
This will be the second in the series
on'diversitied farimng. the lecture be-
The session of the University of Or
egon summer school, which will end
Friday, has been, in reality, one long
convention of the educators of the
state. A large share of tho enrollment
in the summer school is composed of
principals and teachers in high schools.
One of the most popular classes in
the curriculum of the summer school
was that given in'sehool supervision
through the cooperation of J. A.
Churchill, superintendent of the Baker
schools; J. C.rGary, county superinten
dent of Calcknmas county; A G. Rnah,
ruperintendent of schools at North
Rend, and Franklin K. Welles, super
intendent of the Pendleton schools.
Among the college professors and
high school principals and school su
pervisors taking regular work at the
University of Oregon summer school
are the following :
A. W. L. Bray, professor of mathe
matics at Columbia College, New
Westminster, British Columbia; Mel
ville 1). Hawkins, professor of history,
McMinnville College; (J. W. Ager,
principal of the Phoenix high school;
Miss M. Elizabeth Perley, professor of
German, Fargo College; R.C. Ardrews,
supervisor of the Cottage Grove dis
trict of Lane county ; Ernest C. Wig
more, professor of Hebrew at Eugene
Bible University; William Heals, sup
erintendent of schools at Junction
City; Mrs. W. J. Bailey, professor in
Philomath College; Jesse Bond, assis
tant principal of the Forest Grove high
school ; F. O. Bradshaw, principal of
the Union high school ; J. A. Briggs,
principal of the Nampa high school,
Idaho; Frank Carruth, principal of the
Standlield high school ; Claude H.Giles,
piincipal of the Myrtle Point hit;h
school ; M ; Anderson Baker, principal
of the Elmira Union high school; C. H.
Hedricks, school suprevisor in Douglas
county: J. O. McLaughlin, principal of
Hiiod River high school ; A. T. Park,
superintendent of the Myrtle Point
schools; H. A. Scullen, principal of tl.e
Junction City high school; 11. K.
Shirk, principal of the Enterprise hiph
school ; George Hug, principal of li e
Eugene high school; 11. F. Wilson,
principal of the McMinnville hivh
school: Vergil Earl, head of the tb -partment
of mathematics at the Wash
ington high school, Put Hand.
About 20 of the lady fiiemls of Mrs.
A. F. Howes assembled at fr.er home
on the Heights Saturday afternoon and
gave her a pleasant surprise, it being
mo nn the suhipct of cover croos for her thirty-ninth birthday. Those pres
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cm enjoyeu music hiiu uioer lorma in
social diversion. Mrs. Howes' daugh
ters, Misses Jessie and Sarah, whu
with Mrs. J. O. McLaughlin, had
planned the surprise served dainty re-ireahments.
Hood River soils, by Professor llyslop
of the Oregon Agricultural Cobege.
Professor Lawrence will abo tell of
the results of his cover crop experi
ments conducted here during the past
two years.