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VOL. XXIV
HOOD RIVER, OREGON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 23. 1913
No' 34
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And Still
We had two "Old-Timers" in our store this
morning, and they both agreed we were liable to
have this snow for two or three weeks yet. Well,
there's nothing like being satisfied we'd just as
soon have snow as slush in fact, we'd a little
rather have the snow. It makes business cut
ters, bobs, etc.
We've put up a sign in our front window
(painted by our own artist) which says: "Tell Us
Your Sleigh Wants Before Our Stock is Broken."
It's a mistake to leave it there it is liable to mis
lead somebody. But when we put the sign up,
we DID have a good stock. Here's what we've
got left:
TW1
If
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On No. 1 "Gobi Seise" Hot,
T'ftoiW BolliSSSJLWi
When you consider that we had a fine and
dandy assortment of all the above lines to start
with, it looks like the snow has done somebody
some good. "It's,an ill wind, etc." we have'nt
the nerve to spring all the rest of the old saying.
But, to get down to "brass tacks" we want to
sell the sleigh goods we have left. In other words,
its a "Clearance Sale." Yes, we know you have
been looking those words "Clearance Sale" in
the face for the past four weeks every paper and
every show window flashes it at you till you hate
to see it. But just the same and so forth, and so
forth and. so forth! All right! Now you know
the story. TAKE ADVANTAGE! "NUF SED."
Let's Change
Maybe you aren't interested in sleighs and
bobs and cut prices, anyway. Let's talk about
what is coming next spring.
From the present outlook, there is the best
spring coming that Hood River has ever seen for
many a day. Maybe there wont be a lot of luxu
ries sold but there will be a lot of necessities sold.
That's where we come in. We dnn'r spII Iiiyii.
iries, but we do sell the
along witnout a plow sure tning: Must nave a
buggy can't walk all the time! Need a wagon
to haul stuff can't carry it on your back sure!
If you have a wagon, or a plow, or a buggy, you
can't pull 'em yourself, you use a horse, and
MUST have the harness. Here we are again!
We've got the whole line of necessities every
thing you need from the time you get your place
till you sell it again. Mighty good time to look
around now and size 'em up. Lots of interesting
things in our store always a good fire in the
office, and a glad hand of welcome.
GILBERT
IMPLEMENT
COMPANY
HAVING purchased the entire interest of E.
Brayford in the Rockford Store about three
months ago, we are now in position to serve you with
all the highest class groceries at reasonable prices.
We invite your patronage and will serve you to the
best of our ability.
Give Us a Trial
MERCER & CO.
It Snowed
li $45a ililli
$11 w set
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The Subject
necessities. Can't get
i
One-Half Million Dollars
represent in round numbers the amount of land which we have
succeeded in disposing of during the past two yea" lor our client
in Hood River Valley. Not at all bad we are thinking, eon, jer.
ing the rather unsettled condition of the general real eat"" mar
ket of the country during that time. We are rather proud of the
record, whkh accounts for our ''blowing our horn' in this manner.
1 In view of the fact that to moch property hat been sold Iron,
our list, we find that we are short on tome few oUssea ot Meet,
and would be very glad to have listing on any good properties
that are for caltt in the valley, which we do not now have.
We are now making up our list for the coming teason'l work,
which we anticipate will be a good one, and would be gla.l to
have those who have their property listed and those who ,!,
to give us new listings call on u a t on a convenient.
Insurance of All Kinds-In Standard Companies Only
MONEY ;: TO :: LOAN
ROBERTS & SIMMS
SUCCESSORS TO
G. Y. EDWARDS & CO.
Phone 3111 Hotel Oregon Bldg.
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Every effort that can be made to
make a store a thoroughly sat
isfactory place to deal is be
ing .made here.JWe want ,
your shoe though ts to
be pleasant and
to be of
WALK-OVER SHOES
J. G. VOGT
Lights at Reasonable Prices
The Hydro-Electric Co., does not want
the consumers of electrical energy for light
ing or power purposes to pay Jor the plant
monthly, yearly or bi-arinually, 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
Phone 134
. Call at the Glacier
Office when in need
A
REGISTERED
Company ,
Third and Oak
o, Rubber Type
CITYOFFICERS
COMMITTEES NAMED FOR THE YEAR
With the Exception of Councilmen Taft
and Schmeltzer, Citj Official Person
nel Remains the Same
The new members of the city court
il, W. II. Tuft and J. M. Schmelzter,
isat for the first tiine with the body at
its Monday night deliberations. With
' the exception of these two members,
I James Stranahan having been re-elect-.
ed, the council continues with the same
j personnel of last year. W. J. Baker
i and C. II. Sprout are the retiring
; members of the body.
The appointive offices of the city
government were filled as follows:
Judge A. J. Derby, city attorney ; P.
M. Morse, city engineer; Dr. Jesse
EdjiinRtun, physician; Robert T.Lewis,
marshal and street commissioner; Miss
I.neile Johnson, water department
clerk, and Hugh Smith, water depart
ment superintendent.
The appointments were confirmed,
when Councilman Staten, who had
voted no against the confirmation.arose
sod stated that he was forced to vote
no as to the appointment of the city
marshal. Councilman Staten declared
thHt he did not hold anything person
ally against the present marshal, who
had been re-appointed, but stated that
he had talked with a number of tax
payers and that the time was now ripe
for a change in this department of the
city government. He called the coun
cil's attention to the fact that a peti
tion largely signed, wag before the
council, asking that a change be made.
the reading of the petition was called.
When it was finished Councilman
RobertsoT took the floor and pointed
out that at least 75 per cent of the
signers of the petition were not tax
payers. "I do not believe in petitions."
said Mr. Robertson, "the citizens of
the city have elected the mayor and
council and have signified their desire
that we work harmoniously for the
good of the entire town. This petitions
has been signed by men, who do not
know whether or not the officers asked
to be appointed will work in coopera
tion with us." Councilman liobertson
asked Councilman Staten if the tax
payers with whom he had talked fav
ored the appointment of the men
named in the petition. His answer
was that not all of them bad expressed
such sentiments. Councilman Mayes
stated that as far as petitions were
concerned the matter could be laid
over for another week and he was sure
that the appointed officer could secure
a petition with a great deal better
showing than the one submitted. He
suggested that the appointments tie
allowed to stand without further ado.
A number of thosa Bitmina the Petition
had thought that Marsha) Lewis was
going to resign. When it was learned
that such was not the case they signi
fled an intention of withdrawing their
names, However, a motion was made
that the petition be granted. It was
lost, Mayes, Robertson, Schmellzer
and Taft voting no, end Stranahan and
Staten voting yes.
The petition asked Hint John B.
Castner be appointed marshal at a sal
ary of 80 per month, and G. A. Van
A nda street commissioner at a salary
of $ti0 per month. Marshal Lewis, the
present incumbent, is receiving a sal
ary of $i(J0 and the expenses of bis
horse, which amounts to about f 12 a
month. He attends to both the police
duty of the city and superintends the
street construction.
The appointments of committees
made by Mayor Blanchar were as fol
lows: Finance James Stranahan, J. M.
Schtneltzer and A. C. Staten; Fire and
Water J. E. Robertson, E. S. Mayes
and W. H. Taft; Streets and Public
Property E. S. Mayes, J. E. Robert
son and J. M. Schtneltzer; Judiciary
A. C. Staten, W. II. Taft and E. S.
Mayes; Health J. M. Schtneltzer and
J. v Robertson; Police and Public
Printing-W. H. Taft, A. C. Staten
and James Stranahan.
The salaries of the appointed officers
will be set at the meeting of the coun
cil Monday night.
G. L. and W. L. Kirkpatrick were
granted a permit to open a skating
rink in the old armory building, pro
vided they establish fire escapes that
would pass the approval of the fire and
water committee. They also agreed
to close the place at ten o'clock every
evening and that they will allow no
mubic there. The armory was closed
by the city authorities year before
last, an electric piano having Deen de
clared a nuisance.
Councilman Taft was granted a leave
of absence for two months. He left
Tuesday morning for San Francisco,
where he will take a boat for the Pan
ama canal zone.
F; II. BUTTON GETS
VERDICT OF $11,300
In the condemnation proceedings of
the O-.W. R. & N. Co. vs. F. II. But
ton, which has been the most import
ant case before the circuit court at the
present session, the jury Tuesday
morning awarded to Mr. Button, the
defendant, damages to the extent of
$11,300. Tha railroad is to have as
much land as is desired, six and forty
eight one-hundredths acres, in making
the change in their lines. The case
began last Thursday and it was Mon
day afternoon before the witnesses had
been finished with and the case given
to the jury.
The case was interesting in many re
spects. It brought out the market
valuation of Hood River lands. The
tract in question is just east of the
railroad bridge across the Hood river.
A portion of it is covered with three
year old pear trees. The soil is known
as river silt and is said to be very fer
tile. Two of the strong witnesses for
the defendant were J. H. Koberg, who
owns a similar farm just east of the
Button ranch, and J. H. Locke, who
owns a riverside ranch about five miles
west of the city. These two ranchers
placed valuations on the farm as high
as $5,000 an acre. However, the tes
timony of Mr. Locke was not allowed
to go before the jury, since he testified
not as to the general market value of
the land, but as to what he himself
could do with such a place. In giving
his testimony Mr. Locke stated that
he bad a pear orchard of three quarter!
of an acre on hi ranch from which he
had netted f 12.000 in the past 20 years.
The 0.-W. R. & N. Co. showed
through its engineer of construction,
J. P. Brandon, that the improvements
were desired to straighten out the
many curves existing between here
and Troutdale. T he road for the pres
ent, he said, will not be double tracked
between The Dalles and Portland.
However, the double tracking will be
gin very soon between Deschutes cross
ing and Blalocks. Mr. Brandon stated
that during the past few years the
road had taken out enough curvature
to make two complete turna between
here and Portland. One can get an
idea of the magnitude of the work
done when viewing it in this wav. (V.
W. R. & N. witnesses, for th mml
part local ranchers and real estate men,
testified that the property was worth
II the way from $750 to $1000 an acre.
Both durine the nuestioninwr of wit
nesses and during the arguments a few
good naiurecs tilts took place between
the attorneys. Ernest C. Smith and
H. S. Wilson re resented the defend
ant and E. C. Cochran, of Portland
conducted the case of the plaintiff corn-
any.
The case of the Columbia Securities
Co. vs. the Baker-Ross Co., involving
an alleged unlawful detainer of the
Hotel Oregon, has been refenred for
the taking of testimony.
lne case ot sami vs. Mclsaac, in
vhich Vincent Sami had secured an in
unction preventing R. J. Mi-lsanc
from keeping blasting powder within a
certain distance from the plaintiff's
reisdence was settled.
The court ruled that the powder
ihould be kent from 800 to l.r()() feet
from the home of the plaintiff.
HALL RECOVERS
FROM C. P. M'CAN
In the case of E. O. Hall vs. Cupt.
C. P. McCan, which was tried here
last week, the jury returned a verdict
of ?lH2!l.2tt in favor of the pluintiff,
who usked that amount in payment for
services in the construction of a dwel-
ing for the defendant. This amount
was eight per cent of the amount of
the cost of labor and material used in
the construction of the building; for
which amount the plaintiff testified he
had been employed to construct the
building.
the defendant had set up as counter
claim damage caused him in the col
lapse of a garage previously erected
by the plaintiff. The garage, he al-
eged, had been improperly constructed
and nad been cruhsed by the weight of
the heavy snowfall here last year.
The defendant was represented by
Geo. R. Wilbur and W. H. Wilson, of
the Dulles, while Ernest C. Smith and
11. S. Wilson, the latter of Portland,
represented the plaintiff.
HYDRO CO. GETS
WASCQ FRANCHISES
Authority to construct power trans
mission lines on certain of the high'
ways of Wasco county has been grant
ed to the Hydro-Electric Co. by the
county court of the neighboring county.
The city of The Dalles has granted
them a franchise over certain of its
streets, the time limit of beginning
work fixed at March 1.
The Hydro Co. has ordered a large
amount of supplies and is getting ready
to carry out terms in the stipulation in
the grant of franchise.
BOGCESS RECEIVES
CARNEGIE MEDAL
Ernest E. Boegess was last week
granted by the Carnegie Hero commit
tee at Pittsburg a bronze medal and
$425 disablement benefits and $1(100 as
needed hecause of the valiant efforts
made by him in the year of 1910 to save
the life fo a fellow mechanic when an
explosion of gasoline caused the de
struction by fire of the garage of the
Hood River Manufacturing Engineer
ing Co. Mr. Boggess almost lost his
life in the flames and the companion,
Ray S. Utter, met death.
HOOD RIVER HAS
25 AT SHORT COURSE
Hood River valley is represented by
25 at the winter short course at O.A.C.
The men for the most part have regis
tered in the agricultural and horticul
tural departments, while the women
are making art and domestic science
their major subjects.
There are not quite as many attend
ing the short course this year as last,
due partly to the farmers' week a
short time ago. Those in attendance
from Hood Kiverare: Dr. and Mrs.
Stanton Allen, E. I. Apgar, J. It. lian
all, Jr., Sarah N. Butchart, Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Butchart, Henry L. Ca-
iclle, Wm. Davidson, Chas. W. Hart,
I. M. Hosick, Miss Helen Howe, Mrs.
H. L. Howe, J. E. Kennedy, Chas. C.
Lemmon, Frederick J. Patterson, Wal
ter Plog, Leo. M. Thielan, O. T. Wed-
emeyer.
lne following are from rakrdale:
Clarence F. Busch, Don D. Green,
Howard H. Green, John Goldshury,
Lester P. Harris and Geo. W. Blodgett.
SNOWSHOE CLUB
ON ANNUAL TOUR
On their annual tour to the mountain
club house near Cloud Cap Inn, the
members of the Portland Snowshoe
club passed through the city yesterday.
They will spend several days at the
unique winter club house, enjoying the
sport of skiing down the steep trails in
the region.
The members of the club, J, Wesley
Ladd, Elliott R. Corbett, Henry L.
Corbett, Walter B. Honeyman, David
T. Honeyman, Jordan K. Zan, Brandt
Wickersham, Horace Mecklen, Dr. H.
S. Nichols and Rodney L. Clisan, ar
rived here on the O.-W. R. & N. Dalles
local and last night and immediately
took a special train over the Mount
Hood line to Parkdale. They will
spend the night at the Mount Hood
terminus and journey to the McRush
homestead this morning. The journey
to the club house will be made on snow
shoes. Mark Weygandt and William
Edick will accompany the Bnowshoers
as guidei.
GROWERS MEET
DESPITE &W
WEST SIDERS DISCUSS PROBLEMS
Community Packing and Boarding Houses
Proposed -Hitching Racks Wanted
- Benson Talks on Pruning
Neither a heaw snow on the vround
nor the steady fail of additional big
wet flakes that melted on their hats
and over their coats prevented the
members of the Went Side Improve
ment club from gathering Tuesdiiy af
ternoon at the Park grange hall to dis
cuss the future needs of the apple
district.
During past harvest seasons, both of
strawberries and apples, difficulty has
been found in feeding and housing the
transient laborers who are needed hero
at that time ot the year. At the meet
ing of the West Side citizens the plan
of building community packing houses
and to combine with them boarding
and bunk houses for these pickers and
other laborers was discussed. The
matter of packing houses was first
brought up by Geo. I. Sareent. who
stated that in a few years the district
would be producing a great deal more
heavily than at present. Because of
the many young orchards of the West
Side, neighbors whose orchards have
not been bearing have bet n able to
assist those who found more work than
they themselves could do. Mr. Sargent
believes that the community packing
house, similar in respect to that erect
ed on the East Sidi by the Hood River
Apple & Storage Co., will be economi
cal for the growers. It will cheapen
me cost oi packing, grading and. haul
ing the fruit to market. The growers
will tnus be able to purchase their
boxes and other material in larger
quantities. The community packing
bouse, he said, will insure a more uni
form pack. The growers will he able
to hold their odd varieties longer, and
tho houses will offer a meeting place
for the club.
J. (i. Earl followed Mr. Sareent and
brought out the point that the boarding
and lodging of laborers would become
problem at harvest time, and sug
gested that at the community houses
might also be constructed a kind of a
hotel for these laborers. A cook could
bo employed and the men cared for at
the central point.
On the motion of Carroll Hurlhurt
President R. H. Wallace appointed a
committee, C. W. Hooker, chairman.
to investigate the methods used in
other fruit districts.
A number of other growers spoke
on these houses. It was thought that
they should he about a mile and a half
apart. E. N. Benson stated that in a
square mile of orchard, when the trees
came into bearing, three hundred and
twenty thousand boxes of apples would
be produced. "Cut th'iB Into half," he
said, "and you will see how I urge a Jot
of friut you will have to handle."
Tha principal talk of the afternoon
was the address by Mr. Benson on
pruning. Mr. Benson prunes as many
or 'hardB as any other man in the dis
trict. Last year he cared for 12 orch
ards in all parts of the valley. He
said in part :
"The question of pruning is one of
the moBt delicate that can be talked
about, and 1 do not doubt that I will
be criticised when I have finished, but
1 don't mind being criticised. Some
men believe in pruning apple trees and
others do not. Some will tell you that
nature will take care of the pruning.
Indeed, nature prunes. Notice the big
forest trees, and you wlil find that they
have lost the limbs next the earth.
and that these fulling away have left
the straight trunk. It is the work of
the pruner to help nature and to make
tho tree strong by
ng by doing n part of na-
ture's work.
"A great deal of pruning is done to
shape the tree. Of the two systems in
use, the top and central shoot systems.
I personally prefer the central shoot.
Mr. Benson then told the growers how
to shape a tree v ith the central shoot.
Many make a mistake, said Mr.
Benson, "with their summer pruning.
I do not believe in pruning a tree to
get fruit until after it has reached an
age at which it may be allowed to
bear. Then only water sprouts and
cross limbs should be taken off. To
prune in summer to get fruit the
grower should watch for the formation
f the terminal hud and do the work at
just about this time."
Pear pruning, the expert, told the
West Siders, because of the shape of
the trees, is different from the work
that is necessary for apples. He ad
vised as little cutting as possible on
cherries because of gumming.
I he reading of a communication
from the Odell Development League
which asked that the club take some
action toward securing more hitching
posts in the city of Hood River created
no small interest among the members.
t is said that hitching facilities are
very poor in the city. On market and
hopping das, such as Saturdays, it is
almost impossible to find a place to
i'8ve a team. 1 he club will communi
cate with the Commercial club and
some action will be taken to get the
cooperation of the city officials in se-
curing gruunu lor rniunitig pi nets ariu
perhaps hithcing sheds for the orch
urdists. The club will also cooperate with the
Odell Improvement club in an endeavor
to secure a law tor the protection of
China pheasants in the valley. The
handsome fowls are becoming very
plentiful here and the ranchers think
that they will thrive and increase rap-
illy if protected three years longer
than at present by the state law.
Prof. C. I), lhompson asked if any
of the West Side growers had ever ex
perimented with thousand headed kale
as green feed for fall and winter use.
He and others that have tried it believe
that it will grow sucessfully here and
will furnish an excellent winter green
feed. It is suggested that it be planted
about the middle of May.
Commission Will Hear Case
The Oregon Railroad Commission
will convene here Saturday morning to
hear the facts of a complaint filed by
O. M. Bailey, an Upper Valley ranch
er, against the Mount Hood Railroad
Co. Mr. Bailey alleges that the road's
service is inefficient, freight rates too
high and that a freight agent should be
appointed at Parkdale.
Rubber Stamp Inks and Pads at this
office, also stamps made to order.
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