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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1913)
.1 ptef M VOL. XXIV HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, J- No 15 Every effort that can be made to make a store a thoroughly sat isfactory place to deal is be ing made here. We want your shoe thoughts to be pleasant and to be of WALK-OVER SHOES J. G. VOGT REAL ESTATE BULLETIN! COMBINE PLANS 5 Acrai located 2 mills out in Barrett District, - f",h vff old, 1 acre vears old, Spitz and Newtown, (food 3-room nooe, I tools. Price $5300. Will exchange for town property of e"iu" "r i'iuuImt value. 160 Acres in Trout Lake, Washington District, SO " in cul tivation, 80 acres io timber with 2,000,000 feet line aw tiraw-r, S nule from saw mill. Modern 7-room bungalow, barn and other out i.uudings. All irrigable with free water. Price $70H). Will exchange for 11 hi hiver ranch up to f 1500 ; hmg time on balance. 25 Acr near Tucker's bridge, 10 acres bearinu orchard, blmv partially cleared, located on main county road, strictly hlih el1- proferty in every respect, l'rice f 105 X); terms to suit or will exchange. What Have You? 33 Acres verv high class in Oak Grove District, 20 acres in com mercial orchard from 4 to 15 years old, 5 acres alfalfa, balance uncU-are.1 but tine apple land, fine spring piped to 'buildings. Price llpJO. di excliai ge for good cheap raw laud or other property which ai'es not re uire owners attention. The time to insure, is BEFORE THE FIRE. We are writ Tig n ex tremely liberal policy in the BEST old line compauies.and the cost it sur prisingly low. iletter see about it today. ROBERTS & SIMMS SUCCESSORS TO G. Y. EDWARDS & CO. Phone 3111 Hotel Oregon Bldg. Picture Frames The FRAME is often half the PICTURE. Why spoil the picture with a poor frame? Bring it to us and it will be framed right A lot of new Mouldings in all sizes and shades. OVAL and ROUND FRAMES. Slocom's Book & Art Store "The Place That Does the Framing" Wli-H-M-M-M HI 1 i H H ! ptl--I"M-"I"l'H-l-P I-I-l-Pl-H-t-t-l-l-l-l-l-M- FOR SALE .1 30 Horsepower tAnil I AC" 5 Passenger V LI 1 L LAV Fully equipped; completely overhauled and looks like new; 3 extra casings and 4 extra inner tubes; extra spring. .' C. C. LEMMON Phone 5552 4-i 1 1 1 wn l'iii-i .1M,,IM,-I.IH.....H.l.II.....l..l,I.4 HAVING purchased the entire interest of E. Brayford in the Rockford Store about three months ago, we are now in position to serv-PCvw 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. FYfy O AT Fl A Completely Equipped Sawmill F UlV iJ ALE1 20 to 25 Thousand Daily Capacity This mill is strictly modern and up-to-date, and is as good as new. Have just completed the cut for the Northwestern Electric Co.'s construction work on the White Salmon River and will dispose of this mill at an attractive figure. L. G. WESTFALL, DwKoOOD' 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, 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 1171 Third and Oak Groceries and Hardware Quality Good3 at the cheapest prices. We sell for Cash, and give you the best of values. Harness and Harness Repairing Seed Potatoes, D. M. Ferry's Garden Seeds -Fruits and Canned Goods t t UHT M A XT twf.lfi h d b streets J. 1. llWJLlVlA.iN On The Heights; Phone 2131 THE SQUARE DEAL STORE Mas a Full Stock of Wagons and Spring Wagons Agent for Bean Power and Hand Spray Pumps Hose, Rods and Nozzles Bluestone and Lime Oliver Plows and Extras d. Mcdonald THIRD AND CASCADE STS. HOOD RIVER, OREGON Dr. M. A. Jones DENTIST FORMERLY OF HOOD RIVER New located at 245i Washington Street U. S. Dentist PORTLAND. ORE creased planting of Jonathans and Gravenstein. '"I can't read the fu ture of the Ortley." said .Mr. Sieg. I u seems to me uui an aristocratic name for the old Creasy Pippin. in ter Bananas are sued aellersfonly when extra fancv, and most of our Winter Uununua t.nn .1, .1,.. RATIFIES CENTRAL AGENCY past year. 1 lie Delicious is a good variety. "As to pears, the d'Anjou is a profit maker. 'Ihe winter Nellis lacks the bronze color necessary to make it at tractive. "Indiscriminate shipping, must te dis coursed. We should have one ship ping concern for all classes of stun"." During the past season up to the time of Mr. Sieg'a report, the Union had shipped 380 cars of apples, which hail been distributed in 45 cities and 10 states of the t'nion. Union amdes had gone to 13 foreign countries. The organization had shipped pears to ven cities of the United states. While a full and complete estimate cannot be made on prices of the fruit. owing to the fact that all has riot been sold and that all returns are not in, Mr. Sieg's repoit was gratifying to the growers and will show a better return than any otner northwestern district. As to whether or not the local cen tral selling agency will join hands with the Northwestern Distributors of Spo kane is still problematical. The grow ers have left the mutter with the board of directors. 11. F. Davidson, who is Hood River's trustee on the Distribu tors board, in an address to the grow er baluruay told them that the plans of the concern organized at Spokane if pioperly worked out might terminate in the best results for all the districts. Pinned on the curtain of the stage of the Htilbronner hall were exhibited two interesting charts. The percentage of the Hood River alley crop as to varieties, as shov n on one of the charts, is as follows: Newtowns, .329; Spitz, .211: Hen Davis, .OSt ; Baldwin, .1174; Jonathan, 059; Black Twig, .OUT; Ortley, .027: King. .021 ; Cravenstoins, .02; Arkan sas Black, .009; lied Cheek Pippin, .(HIS; Wagner, .008; Stark, .007; Gano, ,(KMi ; Winter Itanana, .0U.r; Swaar, .005; (ireening, .005; Hyde's King, .004; Winesap, .001; Russets, .004; Northern Spy, .003. Nearly a hundred other varieties are grown in the valley, but in such small proportions as to make them absolutely uncommercial. The percentages of the main varieties as to their grades run about as follows Extra Fancy Fancy Choice At Annual Meeting Stockholders Instruct Board to Proceed ith Coalition - Old Directors Re-elecled by Acclamation When the vote of Union stockholders had been taken Saturday on the que-' torn of amalgamation, the agitation of which throughout the past month has aroused rr.ore interest among the apple growers than any other problem ever having confronted them, the audience in tense expectancy awaited the result, ami when W. H. Dickerson, president of the Union, announced that the res ( Uitmn authorizing the board of direc- Uts to lease the property of the con cirn to the federated association, had carried, a prolonged cheering followed. I The amalgamation plans were consum mated and the stockholders had finished the most strenuous annual meeting ever held. According to the laws of Oregon it was necessary that the resolution to carry receive a two-thirds majority of the stock of the concern issued, which amounted to 4,700 shares. The stock of the organization reprisented in per son or tiy proxy amounted to 375 shares. The number of shares voted favorably for the central selling plan was 3198, with 419 against. Ihe meeting lasted from 10:30 Sat urday morning until six o'clock in the evening. No meeting of the Union has ever been so characterized bv such heated argument. A. 1. Mason was spokesan for the opposition and minor ity. Mr. Mason made several address es, raising objections, on which he has based former criticisms. He declared that the price to be paid the National Apple Co. was to high and the coalition of the Apple Growers Union and the Davidson rruit Co.should be formed by a sale outright to the new concern. Ihe repartee between Mr. Mason and exponents of the federation at moments grew warm. The old board of directors of the Union, composed of W. H. Dickerson, Albert button, C. W. Hooker, r. (J. Hutchin son. I.. E. Clark, 0. L. Walter, Dr Stanton Allen, John H. Mohr and L. E. Ireland, was reelected by acclamation. However, it was announced that three of the old members will not be able, to serve for the ensuing year. Albert Sutton and P. G. Hutchinson will re sign from their positions because of the press of other business, and Dr. Stanton Allen will retire from the board because of ill health. Because of the lateness of the hour Saturday evening no ballot was taken on the ill rectors and the growers endorsed Frank Fenwick, A. Lewis and A. W. Stone, who were suggested for appointment to fill the vacancies. Geo. 1. Sargent expressed for the stockholders of the Union their gratitude for hard work done by the board during the past year, He declared that the stockholders should i nt let the responsibility rest al ne on upon the shoulders of the di 'cituri ai d officers of the concern but that they should cooperate with them. Peter Mohr said: "One of the troubles of the Union is that too many Union members ship through other organiza tions." The meeting was opened Saturday morning by tfce reading of minutes and the report of the board of directors. In this report it was stated that it had been the custom to make returns on pools of apples as soon as all sales were settled and the receipts were in. liut the board of directors recommend ed that this be changed and that the growers receive a substantial advance when the apples are delivered. The report called attention to the increased facilities of the Union and the improvements made during the past year. With the new storage building, the agency now has a storage capacity of 175,000 boxes. A new arrangement has been entered into with the O.-W. R. & N. Co., from which the property on which the buildings are located is leased. Formerly the directors were only able to secure a lease from year to year. Now the lease is extended to a period of 15 years, and the handling of bonds of the concern is facilitated. The report had the highest praise for the manager, Wilmer Sieg. Attention was called to the fact that the Blue Diamond brand of the Union had been copyrighted, and that a pen alty was attached to violations of the copyright law when an individual shipped fruit wrapped with this label. The Union has begun this year to han dle bluestone, lime sulphur and other spray materials and spraying machin ery, besides giving its members the benefit of the purchase of quantities of hay, grain and other products needed on the orchard. While the sales of fruit had not been as satisfactory as one could expect, the report stated, Hood River's apples have been excellently packed and the reputation the Uion's fruit has made in the market is an asset. All apples have been insured during the past year. The fire at Wenatchee last fall was a warning against failure to insure fruit in storage. Action hag been taken looking to a sinking fund for the bonds of the organization. The directors' report was followed by that of Manager Wilmer Sieg, who impressed on the growers' minds the importance of different methods of selling and distrbution. Mr. Sieg pointed ont the weak points of market ing during the past year and called the attention of the grower to the enor mous amount of apples still left in storage this season at the beginning of spring. It was hoped, he said, that the freeze in the Southern California orange groves would prove a saving to the apple market. "Conditions were better," he declared, "for if the many thousand cars of oranges had been sent to market with the wonderful system of distribution controlled by the citrus associations, it would have meant dis aster for the apple market." Mr. Sieg stated that the Union had been looking toward a larger and for eign distribution of the fruits. "We want to get into Philippine and Chi nese markets and enter a field that is almost too large for the human mind to comprehend." One of the most interesting portions of his report to the growers was that on warning against the planting of or dinary varieties. "We cannot expect even a fair price for the ordinary stuff," he said. -"ihe delay in top grafting such varieties is just so much of a delay in the success of the com munity.'' Nor would he advise the in- SUPPORT JflOWN F0R1IBRARY MASS MEETING IS WELL ATTENDED .155 .228 .17 .12 .129 .051 .13H .054 .120 .142 .22 .11 .23 Delicious .'. .259 Arkansas Hlack .07 .1X8 Wimsun .f.7 .i:2 Newtown .593 Spitzenburg .573 Ortley .487 Jonathan .408 Red Cheek Pippin. 341 The new central selling organization will take the form of a coalition of the Union and the Davidson Fruit Co, The plant of the National Apple Co. will be purchased for $05,000. The new concern will be controlled by a board of nine trustees. Tha nomintation of th e trustees Citizens I rged to Vote for Charter Amendment-Qualifications of Electors Explained If but an atom of the enthusiasm that prevailed at the mass meeting of men and women at the Commercial club Tuesday night pervades the at mosphere today, the special . election will result in an amendment to the city charter, and the citv council will be enabled to proceed to secure a (suitable site lor me county library. The as sembly room of the Commercial club was well filled Tuesday evening when Mayor Manchar called the meeting to order. A limit of ten minutes was placed on the time to be consumed by speakers and Secretary Scott, of the Commercial club, was made referee. Prof. J. O. McLaughlin, nrincirjal of the city schools, ai:d secretary of the library board, was the first speaker. I'rof. McLaughlin told in a peneral way of the way moneys for libraries were expended. "The success with which the local institution has already met is impressive," he said. "We have found that we need books. The library was opened six and one-half months ago. During the two weeks of .September 395 books were distributed. Now, with the branches established in the vailcy, we are distributing each month 2200 books. There are 977 bor rowers in the city now. The money appropriated by the Carnegie corpora tion was based on the population the county." J. E. Robertson, the councilman who is a member of the library board, next took ine Hoor. "l believe in a library for the community," said Mr. Robert son, "ihe time is rine for the estab lishing of such an institution. And it appeals to our pride that we should have a commodious Bite for the build ing. The problem as to financing by the council caused us to devote a great dual of thought as to the best way to work out a means of securing the money. Some of us thought that the more provisions our charter contained for the issuing of bonds, these bonds would be just that much less desireable to purchasers, However.Jwe have in cluded a provision in the proposed amendment to the charter, that the council can only spend a sum not to ex ceed $7,000 for the purchase of library or park property. When this sum ia exceeded, the matter will again have to be put up to a vote of the people. Some have been heard to say that the taxes are high and times are hard, but the tax, it $4000 cash were paid for the lot that it is thought best to buy, would be only 19J cents on each $1000 of assessed valuation in the city. The price ol the lot ottered the city is con- ti unim k i" viiw iviv uuvn:u lilt will lie made cacli year at the stock- sidered vTy'reasonahle." holders' meeting. Mr. Davidson states Mrs. K. I). Gould, chairman of the ihat he is ftierfectly willing for the Union to name the trustees, which I power is given by the Union's majority representation of stock, provided rep' resentative men from ditferent parts of the valley were chosen Yakima Fruit Pledged to Distributors All of the 22 districts represented in the Yakima Valley Fruit Growos' as sociation pledged their fruit to the North Pacific Fruit Distributors as a selling agency Friday, the tonnage represented being about 2200 cars, says a dispatch from North Yakima to the Portland Journal. The Horticultural union will make no terms with the new selling agency, and will probably mar ket through the Northwest Fruit Ex change. Though it was announced that the meeting was to be a representative airair, every fruit selling comp' ny, whether cooperative or stock, being welcome to come and discuss, it was quickly apparent that it was merely a meeting to carry through a pre-arranged piogram. Immediately following the endorse ment of the new selling agency, M. K. Shannon, a trustee of the Yakima Val ley Growers' association, rose to irove that the association be designated as the sub-central for the district repre sented by Yakima, Kittitas, Heiiton and Franklin counties, which carried. President W. M. Nelson, of the Horti cultural union then arose and said that this action shut out the Multicultural union, that his association indeed had received no notification of the meeting in time to select delegates and that he now believed that it had not been at any time desired that the union come in on the plan. He made the state ment, he said, so that if later it were charged that the union had selfishly remained out of the plan, it might be known that it hud had no choice in the matter. The union represents about 800 carloads of fruit. J. H. Robbins, manager of the Yaki ma association, who is to be manager of the selling agency if the plan goes through, was on the floor during most of the meeting explaining plans. Oregon to Remain Intact Assurance has been given from Washington that the famous old Hattle- ship Oregon will not be dismantled and broken up, as was feared, but it will be retained in commission as a part of the Pacific reserve fleet, with head quarters at the Puget Sound navy yard. Advices have been received to tnis elfect in response to petitions from this state that the old sea lighter tie saved from destruction. Cornell Buys Motorcycle Ward Ireland Cornell, the Upper Valley real estate man and one of the most enthuiastic promoters of that community s mtirest, has just pur chased from the Gilbert Implement Co. a handsome Indian motorcycle. The machine has a tandem seat and Mr. Cornell will give bis friends the pleas ure of spins over the community's roads. All Citizens May Vote Today In the election that will be held to day to submit to the vote of the people the proposed amendment of the city charter, all ciitizens will have' the privilege of the ballot, whether they are property holdeis or not. Those en titled to the ballot must have resided in the state at least six months and in the city'for a period of three months. Woman's club committee, told of how the women had always desired to se cure a library for the city and how they had worked to secure the vacated street property. "We had two things in view," she said. "We wanted the library and we wanted to save the handsome oak trees there. The women spent $90 last year in improving the property. We think the time is oppor tune to secure the additional property and to make it a beautiful site for our library. If we do not do this a change may take plaeo in the ownership of the property. We may have a Japanese laundry there, and the oaks may be cut up into stove wood." Mrs. W. W. Remington Btated that she spoke as a newcomer. "Hood River is noted for its beautiful scen ery. 1 here is no more beautiful place in ;thc world for a library," she said, "and the institution is a gem that has been otfered us. All we have to do is rear Ihe prongs of a setting and secure it for ourselves." Mrs. W. H. Law rence called attention to the fact that we did no need the library for the fic tion that we might obtain there. "We want it for reference books. And fur thermore we want a safe place. When we send our children for books we want to know that, they will be safe. The site that is proposed is in a centrally located in a quiet community. If the library were located on the county property how do we know but that our children might in their journeys to and from the place come in contact with the men and women called to the court house to trial or as witnesses? We need to estab ish the library here among our oaks and make it another rich asset for Hood River county. " Rev. .1. R. Hargreaves told the peo ple that they would not miss the $4,000 asked for the site. "We pay the teach ers of our schools, for we want good instructors. Well, our librarian is a professor of reading. Her work ia more important than that of any other teacher or preacher in the city," he said. "Don't let us have to regret in after years that we have failed to ge nre a snitable place and adequate room for our library." Rev. li. A. Warren, rector of the Episcopal church of The Dalles and president of the library board there, and who during his preparation for the ministry had 10 years of experience as a librarian, said: "Give your public institutions room to grow. Because we are a small community does not keep us from needing books any more so than if we were a large center." Mr. Warren told that the Carnegie corpora tion had no strings on the site secured for the building. "I had always thought he required that the name Ihe Carnegie Library, be placed across the front of the building but I was down at Salem recently and I find that over the door there appears the name, 'The Salem Public Library.' " Mrs. J. E. rerguson, of Udell, who has taken an active part in securing he branch library at Udell, told of the work of the women in that distiict. We have 112 people making use of our library now, said Mrs. Ferguson. She told her listeners that the plans to secure the Oak covered lot were wor thy. "We want to make the Hood River valley the garden spot ol Amer ica, we want to get more tourists, i wonder what the people of southern California would give to have such nat ural assets as we are possessed of here?" Truman Iiutler next took the floor and made the motion that the city take proper steps to secure a library site. (Continued on Last rage.)