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Lf ft VOL. XXV IIOODMVKK, OREGON, THl'KSIUY, JI'NK 12, 1913 v.. i r t TO EXCHANGE: Fine Dairy Ranch 250 acres, located in Douglas county, near Koeeburg; 170 acres tine bottom land in cultivation of which 30 acres ia genuine beaver dam, worth $:tuw per acre; M acres bill laud, with thousand of acrea of free range adjoining, ti-room horn, to large barn, etc.; fine spring. This is the stockman's paradise, where the grass is green all the year. Price H5 00 per acre. Will take property or equity of (0,000 or $7,000, balance long time at ixr cent. The balance can be made from the property easily. Here's Another 275 acres located 10 miles west of Rofeburg on main county road, near the new O.os Hay Klectric Ky. Alwut ) acres fine bottom land in cultivation; balance bill land and oiK'n tim Ut pasture; running water; b room house, large barn and other out buildings. Price $15,000, clear of incumbrance. Will trade lor clobe in place of equal value. See us about this one quick, it's a dandy. JFine Modern 8-Room House Close in, East Portland; bath, fireplace, full basement and furnace, all built-in conveniences. True value $ti,O00, clear of incumbrance. Will trade for improved 5 acres near town or within walking dUtance of Mt. Hool Ry. The danger of fire these dry, windy days ia great better let us insure you now. ROBERTS & SIMMS Hotel Oregon BIdg. Phone 3111 HazelwoodlceCream Made from the Furest Cream In the Cleanest Way. See our window for Department Record Try Our Three-Flavor Brick Ice Cream for Sunday Dinner Always Something Delightfully New C. A. RICHARDS & CO. Phone 1191 We Deliver Jmmmm1 REGISTERED A 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 Rexal Remedies KODAKS The Cream of all Creams ' The Famous "WEATHERLY ICE CREAM" at the KRESSE DRUG CO. Crape Mint Special 10 cents Ballard Vale Ginger Ale 10c and 25c Bottles KODAK DEPARTMENT Have your Films Developed at the KRESSE DRUG CO. We develope Monday and Thursday. We print Tuesday and Friday. Your prints are ready Wednesday and Saturday. If it's Swift's u Premium" Hams ffii! if ,vc ii it o r or if it's Swift's Lard We Have a Nice Lot Just In E. E. HAESSER Cash Grocery THE SQUARE DEAL STORE Has 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 The Scenic Columbia See it at its best from the river steamers of The Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navigation Company. Effective May 20, the following will be the Schedule of the Boats: Steamer Bailey Gatzert will leave Portland daily except Sunday and Monday for up river points at 7:00 A. M. Returning will leave Hood River at 4:1(0 I'. M. on the Mine days. The Dalles City will leave Portland on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, and will leave Hood River ou Monday, Wednesday and Fridav. Her arrival at Hood River being about 4:30 P. M., and departure about 8:30 A. M., same depending on the amount of freight we are carrying. Portland Dock at Foot of Alder Street jffi TUb Hiss, MM & Astoria Kavigaflon ft. F. B. SXVDKR B. B. POWELL Hood River Plumbing Co. SANITARY PLUMBING AND HEATING & & & Tinnintf and Sheet Metal WorK. Gasoline En gines, Pumps, Rami. Repairing Promptly Attended. Estimates Furnished. Office in Davidson Building Phone 1544 Third and Cascade Land For Sale 1 have about 1,000 acres of No. 1 Apple Land, most of it under ditch at prices ranging from $00 per acre up. In tracts from ten acres up. J. R. STEELE Hood River - - Oregon iCHAUTAUQUASPE I CIAL FEATURES i EXCELLENT PROGRAM ARRANGED Valley Event Looms Near and fasts Before It a Shadow, the Harbinger of Pleasures- Ravlin Busy From present indications this year's Chautauqua is going to far surpass that of last year, both in point of at tendance and the various attractions to te offered. I he demand for reserva tions haH already far exceeded all ex pectations and it will be well for those who exiect to attend to make known their wants at as early a date as nossi ble. Manager Kavlin has established Chautauqua headquarters at the Com raercial club and from now until the date or the opening either he or Secre tary Scott will be in daily attendance. The officers and committees who will handle the event this year are as fol lows: 1'resident. Leslie liutler: viei president, Geo. 1. Sargent: treasurer. V. G. Brock ; secretary, K. E. Scott ; general manager, u. in. Kavlin. Executive committee-P. S. David son, John Goldsburv. Leslie Butler. G. D. Thompson, K. E. Scott and Mark Cameron. Finance committee E O. Blanrhar, chairman; Carl Vaughan. Ward Cor nell and P. S, Davidson. Grounds committee C. K. Marshall. chairman; Leslie Butler and Geo. I. Sargent. l'rogram committee C. N. Ravlin, chairman; A. W. Peters, C. D. Thomp son, J. Adrian Epping, W. E. King, Ralph Root, Charles 1. Moody. Commissary committee J. H. Heil bronner, chairman; II. E. Connaway and Ray Babson. 'lhe Chautauqua Association will run its own commissary this season and a tent hotel in connection, where tran sient guests can he accommodated who may desire to spend one or more nights. A Portland chef has been engaged for the week, together with his entire crew of assistants and everv- thing in the way of good "eats" will be provided. A herd of twenty Upper Valley Jerseys has been secured for Chautauqua week and the entire output of milk and cream will be supplied to the commissary. Contracts will shortly be made a I no for a constant supply of fresh Hood River grown fruits and vegetables. The program for the entire week has virtually been decided upon. While the mornings will be left open to a certain extent, fishing trips and pedestrian tours will be arranged under competent guides, the itinerary of which will be posted at headquarters at the opening of the encampment. At the auditorium every morning from 11 to 12 a course of Domestic Science lectures will be given by O. A. C. experts. The after noon, from three to five, will be de voted to horticultural lectures and dis cussions: one special lectuie will be given on "Beautifying the Home Grounds." Friday, the 25th. will be "Oregon Manufacturers' Day," for the exploitation of "made in Oregon" goods. A large delegation of promi nent manufacturers of Portland and vicinity will come tin in a special car on that day and remain over until Sat- ruday morning. Monday night will be spent in visit ing back ami forth among the various camps, and impromptu choruses around the big camp Pres. On luesday night, the Upper Valley plavers. under the direction of Charles 1. Moody, will pro duce their well known comedy snccesa, "A Box of Monkeys." On Wednesday night, the much-talked-of Chautauqua ball will take place, under the direction of A. W. Peters. A fine orchestra will be in attendance and many surprises are promised. This will m. rk the for mal opening of the dance pavilion. Thursday night will be musical night with Ralph Root in charge. Friday night will be vaudeville night, under the personal direction of Manager Rav lin. On Saturday nicht. the climax of the whole week will be reached with a fine presentation of the famous opera "ine Mikado, produced by J. Adrian Epping. assisted by Mrs. Charles H. Ilenney. The stage will be enlarged this year, with a proscenium opening 18x24 feet, nearly twice the size it was last season. Many improvements are also to be made in the grounds. A new road is being built, about two hundred yards north of the old one, which will elim inate the steep, narrow grade tha was so objectionable last year. The new grade will permit or the passing of two automobiles. The Hood River Library Association has decided to establish a branch li brary at the Chautauqua, in charge of librarian, Miss Northy. Secretary Scott is also planning to establish headquarters of the Commercial club there during the week of the encampment. DISTRIBUTORS FORM ULATE GRADING RULES The grading of northwestern apples hereafter will be governed by standard ized set of rules ; for at the N. P. D. A. meeting in Spokane Saturday, when the board of directors, the sales managers and chief inspectors from the different districts weie present, a set of grading rules was finally adopted. The rules were drawn up by a committee of 15 expert packers. At the joint confer ence of this committee with the board these rules were adopted with slight charge. Wilmer Sieg and H. F. Davidson, the former one of the three sales managers of the central agency and the latter president of the association, were pres ent for Saturday's meeting. While Mr. Sieg and Mr. Davidsun will make their headquarters here, they will de vote their energies toward the interests of the new central selling association. One of the flint acts of the trustees Saturday, after Frank E. Sickels, for merly secretary of the Yakima associa tion, had been accepted as the Yakima subceiitral trustee to succeed J. H. Robbing, who was disqualified when he became general manager, was to draw lots to determine the tenure of office of each, as the constitution provides three-year, two-year and one-year terms, says the Spokane Spokesman Review. The drawing resulted aa fol lows: For three year H. F. Davidson, Hood River, and Harry Huber, Walla Walla. For two years-W. M. Suckett, of Hamilton, Mont., and W. N. Yost, of Meridian, Idaho. For one year-F. E. Sickles, North Yakima, and H. C. Sampson, Spokane. In an interview H. F. Davidson, president of the organization, outlined the results of the dav'i deliberations follows : "The day was apent largely in rou tine work by the trustees in conference with a committee of 15 of the best ex perts in the four northwestern states on the matter of a standard grade and pack. "This is the first attempt to stan dardize the grade and pack of the four northwestern states, and the work is necessarily proceeding with great de liberation and care in order to give every section its proper consideration. The necessity of a uniform standard of grade and pack for the four northwest ern state has been unanimously recoi? nized by every district and has long been demanded. "The trusteei went into executive session Saturday afternoon and after drawing lots to determire the tenure of ollice placed all the ollices under bond, ranging from $5000 to $25,000. or $100,000 in all. Not only officials who handle funds have been put under heavy bond, but all the officers who have positions of responsibility and trust. "Requests are received daily from territories that are not now atliliated with any sub-central, asking to have their crop handled through the central selling agency. Requests are also com ing from the various unorganized dis tricts ior consideration and they ask how their individual tonnage can be made available to the central organiz ation. We are considering this matter at ine present time. "Our finance committee interviewed the Spokane banking interests, and we are pleased and reassured by their atti tude towards our organization. We were, favorably received by them and are assured that temporary financial assistance will be available in Spokane. "Our present sales manngcrs are each specialists in their own lines. The potato problem has been called to our attention, which may mean the marketing of 4000 carloads of that commodity in addition to fruit. The representatives of the potato districts have been instiucted to take the mat ter up and report back and if the in vestigation warrants it a special potato department will be organized with an expert potato salesman at its head. If it ib added, it will be carried out so as not to interfere with the handling of our fruit product. "Our special business wi II be the handling of fruit of every kind. We nave started too late to handle this year's crop of strawberries, but will begin with cherries and handle all car load lots. The sub-centrals will take care of less than carload lots. "To be specific, we will handle in the order of their seasons, cherries, peaches, cantaloups, watermelons, plums, prunes, perns and apples. Our total tonnage already contracted, is between 8000 and 10,000 carloads and more is anticipated, so that, if we take potatoes, our total tonnage will be be tween 12,000 and 15,000 carloads. This makes us easily the largest deciduous truit shippers in America." Reviewing the various movements that have led up to the present organ ization, and expressing his own confi dence in its ultimate success, Mr. Da- ' vidson saiil : "I his matter hns been under consid eration since the fifth, annual uimlv show-, which was really the result of two years' previous agitation. Aflei many years' experienco as a grower and individual shipper, 1 am entirely satisfied with the plan as it has been worked out. "Hood River and Yakima did not so in without very careful consideration of the entire propositon. In our own district we have effected a new organ ization in the old st organized box ap ple valley of the roilh .vest, which is a federation of four ori'-inizations. and controls 90 per cent (,f the vallev's tonnage. Our dihlrict is doubtless the most highly stHmlardied specialized of any, and yet every one of our growers is highly pleased with the action of our trustees in voting to join the centiul selling agency." KIMBALL BROS. RE TURN FROM ABROAD Fnrilham and Stuart Kimball, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kimball, who left here lust fall on a tour of Europe, returned home last week. They spent the winfer in the southern part of the continent. However, their itinerary took them to northern German cities. "We touched at Naples, Rome, Flor ence, Venice, Munich, Hamburg, Paris and London, in addition to many other points of interest," said I'ordham Kimball Saturday. "Of course, 1 was iuteretsed in the fruit that 1 saw dis played for sale. And I must say that in the German cities the Hood River product Blood out as pre-eminent. We natchee apples were there, but the Hood River stuff was best. 1 saw apples from Mcadowbrook Farm, Scars & Por ter, August Paasch and the Apple Land & Orchard Co. "Despite the fact that they say the apples go through 25 different hand lings from the time they leave here until they an ive at the German mar kets they were in excellent condition." NEW WILLOW FLAT GRADE COMPLETED A new grade has been completed by Road Supervisor Harry Furrow and his crews of men from the end of the old straight grade across the property of the Davidson Fruit Co., and strik ing the old roail again at a point north of the home of Frank Massee. The old road was very difficult in places and had a grade of 22 per cent in places. The new road is in no place more than eight per cent. "Mr. Furrow ia making numerous road improvemeuts," savs F. A. Mas see, who was in the city Saturday and who began the petitions last year for the change of the route. The old ro'ite will be partially aban doned. However, it will continue open to a point where it turns south over the old Massee hill grade, in order that way may be given property owners to the east. IRRIGATION LAW TO BE OPPOSED HARDSHIP WORKED LOCAL SYSTEM Directors of Hood River Irrigation District Belize that Bills Passed by Legisla ture Should Be Contested It is very probable that the recently passed bill, providing fur a change in the administration of bonded irrigation systems in the state of Oregon, will be contested by the Hood River Irrigation uismei in so lar as that district is concerned. At the time of the passage of the law the Hood River bonded dUt rict was the only one that had a bond issue outstanding, and it ia held by Judge A. J. Derby, the attorney for the district, that the law will not ap ply to the local district, since it will impair the contracts that the district has outstanding. Under the old law the district had its own collector and assessor. L. E. Dart was collector of the system. The assessments were collected in Decem ber and were available for the January payments of interest on bonds. Now the - sheriff collects the assessments in April and October, and thus the Inter est payments of January and Juljjare both defaulted. Each interest' payment of the district amounts to $5000 and the'queBtiun of the assessments of the property in the big district is an im portant one. The district sent lobbyists to the legislature last winter, and after the passage of the bill Governor West was urged to veto it because of the hard ship it would work on the district with its outstanding bonds. However, he refusd the veto and now the board of directors think that the determination as to how the district shall act should be left to a vote of the property hold ers, and a mass meeting has been called for Friday evening, June 27, at the East Barrett school house. The citizens of the West Side, who are supplied with water from the system are taking a great interest in the mat ter and the meeting will undoubtedly be well attended. It is very propbable that the Uoard of directors will be in structed to test tho vnlidity of the law in so far as the local district is con cerned. The board is composed of E. E. Stanton, pres. ; R. W. Kelly, A. O. Anderson, r-rank Fenwick and E. W. Sweaney. CLANTON HERE TO PUT IN FISH WAY E. Tt. Clanton, master fish warden of the state, who resides in Portland, came up Tuesday to make an inspec tion of the dum of the Pacific Power & Light Co. on the Hood river and to get ready to have a new fish wav con structed there. The old fish way ia not suitable for the larger fish that come to the smaller stream from the Colum bia in the early spring, and only allows the trout to pass up stream. The state Pish Commission is using every means to better conditions in Hood river. A dam to divert the flow of the river from a newly cut channel to the old channel which will empty into tho Columbia in a down stream course is now being built. This work was begun lust fall and as a result of it mure steelhead and salmon were caught in the local waters this year than on any previous season for many yenrs. How ever, on account of the poor fishway, me tug fish were unable to go above the dam. Mr. Clanton has made many friends here because of bis elforts to improve the stream, and he was met at the train Tuesday by Burnette Duncan, member of the State Fish Commission, I). Mc Donald, J. M. Sohmeltzer, W. L. Clark, R.' E. Scott and Joe I). Thomi son. The party proceeded to the Hotel Oregon, where luncheon waB enjoyed. 0. A. C. STUDENTS RETURN HOME The following students returned home from the Oregon Argicultural College at Corvallis last week end: Waldo Arena, Floyd Nunamaker, K. C. Man ning, Ray Nickelsen, Forrest L. Moe, and Misses Roberta Friday, Eva Boyed, Helen Cox, Addio Freeman, Edyth Brunqiiist, Ruth Morrison and Gladys Woodworth. Several other O. A. C. students, who do not live here, will work in the val ley during the summer. Six of them will work for A. I. Mason, three for F. P. Friday and several for Cutler Bros. Among them are Messrs. Doerner, Hill. Schuster, Mehl, Whitehouse, Gooding and others. Students have been leaving the col lege in many ways, among which were railroad, steamboat, as pedestrians, on motorcycles, in automobiles and in ca noes. Messrs. Miller, Moe, Hill and Doerner paddled from Corvallis to Portland in two canoes. The first named lives in Portland, the second in lluoil River and the last two will work in the valley this summer. The boys left Corvallin Thursday afternoon and it required exactly two days to make the trip. They report having "the ride of their lives. They camped on the bank at night. Many thrilling encounteis were had on the way, but neither canoe tipped over once nor hit any rocks, although they had several narrow escapes. The only portage they made was at Oregon City, around the Willamette Falls. Many Will Visit Festival The festivities of Portland are the all attractive features that will not only draw people from all the north west, but from all parts of the United States this week. Delegations are present from all Pacific coast cities promoting the interests of other festi val associations similar to the Portland rose festival. Many local people are in Portland. Especially are fainlies with children taking advantage of the opportunity that the youngsters may see the pa rades. A hundred or more Hood River people will be in Portland tomorrow and Saturday. i ! 0 si r