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HOOD HIYEIt, OREGON. THVItSDAY, MAW 'I I .", 1U
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Depositors are always entitled to know what
protection they have. Following Is a conservative
statement of the protection to the $350,000 of
deposits in this bank March 2nd, 1914.
Loans and Discounts, well secured short
term notes - -
Bonds and Warrants, quick assets
Bank Building and Real Estate
Liability of Stockholders, under National
Bank Law .....
Cash in safe and deposited in other banks
S3 1 0,1100
.10,000
4.'t,000
100,000
U.i.000
Total assets guarding your deposits $580,000
F. S. Stanley, Pres. E. 0. Blanchar, Cashier
capital & .surplus tiroonufiiM
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WHERE WE STAND
You no doubt have heard of people who were so "stuck
up" that they wouldn't accept a peach if you handed it to
them on the end of a fish, pole. Well, we are not that kind of
folks at this bank. We are glad to stand'on the "Level of
Kquality", glad to have you drop into our bank for a friendly
visit, glad to be of service to you if we can. If you are not
already jl patron, we will he glad to explain the advantages
we have to offer you. Come in.
We Write Insurance in the Best Companies to be Had
HOOD RIVER BANKING & TRUST CO.
Every Week A Bargain
Burpee's Seeds are always a bargain. They are true and
they grow.. We have just received'the largest stock in Oregon
and a supply of Burpee's annual culture circulars.
ASK AND THEY SHALL BE GIVEN YOU
About Your Lawns
We have grass mixtur6s for shady places; open places, dry
places and wet places, 30c to 40c a lb. Get the right one. Bur
pee's Seeds will do the rest. Garden tools, lawn tools, orchard
supplies. A few money back lawn mowers, one-third off.
Regular $6.00 machine now $4.00
Look at the Improved Ball Bearing Bartlett
Furniture, Rugs and Linoleum Remnants, one-fourth off
Lace Curtains
Largest stock in the city at one-third off
Regular $1.00 at now : 66c
Regular 2.00 at now $1.33
Regular 6.00 at now 4.00
Regular; 12.00 at now 8.00
Stewart Hardware & Furniture Co.
Hardware, Furniture and
Orchard Supply House
Hood River
Oreg'on
I I' I liU I HI. !. I
THE HOME OF
QUALITY GROCERIES
Our Bill of Fare is so extensive
and varied that our patrons have
a wide rane;e for selection. Buy
select groceries that have been
selected. Fresh Fruit and Vege
tables. Also a fine line at Cookies
just In. Ask about Whipsit.
ELITE GROCERY
J. R. KINSEY, Prop.
Phone 4451. Bell BIdg. We give &t Stamps
uiu 1nu
The following sizes carried In stock
No. 1 Brownie $1.00
2 " 3.M
2 " 3.M
3 4.00
" 2 Folding Brownie 5.00
" 2A " 7.00
' 3A " 10.00
" 3A " It. R. lens '12.00
" I A Folding Pocket kind 12.00
" A " " special 15,90
" 3 A " " Kodak 20.00
" 3A " " Kodak
with Automatic Shutter 35.00
Vest Pocket Kodak mt .00
Ask for catalogue. .
KRESiSE. DRUG COMPANY
The ftexaJUL Store
Bank Advertisement No, 14
Up to this time we have deemed it advisable
to use our entire capital, surplus and undivided
profits to assist our customers in the develop
ment of Hood River Valley. On this account
we have not invested any of our capital in a bank
building. This fact has given rise to an opinion
that we are not paying our full portion of the
Valley's taxes, and a little information in this
connection would seem to be in order at this time.
The taxes paid by the Butler Banking Com
pany and by Leslie Butler and Truman Butler
for 1913 in Hood River County amounts to
$2750.90. This, of course, does not include the
taxes paid by our other stockholders. It does,
however, include the taxes paid by Leslie and
Truman Butler on their interest in 285 acres of
land, 120 acres of which is now under cultivation.
We assume that the total figures are all that
are of interest to the public, but further data is
available at our office to anyone who is interested.
Assuring you that our position with reference to
any matter of public policy is based on our inter
est in the entire Valley and hoping to have the
pleasure of discussing questions of general in
terest with any of our customers who would val
1 ue our opinions, we remain faithfully yours,
BUTLER BANKING COMPANY
SPRAY TALKS AT
TRACTGROWERS CLl'B ROOMS RLL LAST SATURDAY
Experts Advise Rigid Applications of
Spray - Experiments for Scab Relief
Will be Conducted
THE QUESTION BEFORE EVERY WOMAN
is: "Where can I find a Grocer whose service is
satisfactory; who will deliver what I send for
without substituting an inferior article?"
OUR ANSWER
is: "Here we are! Give us a call, or send along
your order. You'll never need to ask that ques
tion again."
"THE BEST THINGS TO EAT"
WOOD'S GROCERY
J. M. WOOD, Proprietor. '
Phone 1221 Free Delivery
I 1 CM
If f v$
The Call for Fish
is increasing, but the demand, too
is for better qiialitiee.Bnd we re
spond to the public call with the
finest that ever came out of water
Our Fish is famed for its fine fla
vor snd satisfying qualities If
you are not buying your Fish here
you are missini some great treats,
and may be paying more money
for inferior goods.
PHONE 4141
VAN ALLEN & FILZ
A BARGAIN IN SEED POTATOES
If taken soou of the
OLD RELIABLE BURBANKS
A few Backs left of choice seeds from offr crop that made over 400 bu.
per acre the paHt year. XI e seed that these potatoes grew from were extra
elected seed, gotten by choosing only the Iwst and truest to type speci
mens at the rate of one (1) sack out of twelve (12) of general run of crop.
Order early to lie sure of getting this bargain. Trice $1.25 per 1(H) lbs. at
ranch or f. o. b. Woodwork station.
Isaac T. Seal, Parkdale, Ore., Phone Odell 34
The spray meeting at the assembly
hall of the Commercial club drew out a
large crowd Saturday. Saturday af
ternoon the big room wsa overflowing;
orchardists stood in the doors and sat
on the floor around the edges of the
room.
Prof. L. F. Henderson, chairman of
the horticultural committee of the
Commercial club, which called the
meeting, presided. The first speaker
was H. G. Frazier, of Seattle, who ex
plained the convenience of the new
spray material. Soluble Sulphur Com
pound.
Prof. II. T. French, of the Oregon
Agricultural College, followed, Prof.
rrench, who was formerly connected
with Prof. Henderson at the University
of Idaho, stated that he had not Letn
in the Hood Hiver valley for 15 years.
"But I a glad to be here again and see
my old ttiend, 1'rof. Henderson again.
And yet I don't mean that; for he is
the kind of man that never grows
old.
'1 am glad to be out here in a coun
try where such a spirit is displayed; a
spirit of progress." In recalling pio
neer days of the fnut industry 1'rof.
Fiench paid tribute to E. J . Smith.
1'rof. rrench urged the f miners to
ook upon their work as a business and
to conduct it as such. He called at
tention to the field extension work that
the agricultural colleges would con
duct. "The colleges would not be uf
much account," he Haul ."it we couldn't
get the information that they are gath
ering to the farmers. We will have
women helping in this work.
1 note that you are taking an inter
est in dairying here. It is a good sign.
Over in Idaho I have found that the
most prosperous orchardists have a
cow or two "
C. C. Starring, who has charge of
the cover crop and irrigation experi
ments of the local horticultural experi
ment station, closed the program of
Saturday morning. Mr. Starring stated
that the men of tin station were al
ways ready to assist in as much as
they were able to act in an advisory
capacity, but that it w:s deemed best
to concentrate their efforts on prob
lems that were causing a loss to grow
ers.
The program of the afternoon was
begun by Wilmer Sieg, who told of the
need of controlling the diseases of a
fungus nature. According, to Mr.Sieg,
local growers should congratulate
themselves because their troubles are
such as do not affect their tree. He
urged cooperation on the part of the
growers in controlling scab.
1'rof. Jackson followed with an ad
dress, giving detailed information on
the different spray materials that have
been tested out by the experts of the
Uregon Agricultural College. He
urged the necessity of frequent appli
cations sprays at the proper periods,
in order to get satisfactory results.
He desires the cooperation of all orch
ardists in spray tests. The growers
will be furnished with blanks on which
to record their experiments and theit
work together with that of the station
and the cullege experts, it is thought,
will solve the problems.
J. K. Winston, pathologist of the
horticultural experiment station, be
gan his address in an optimistic vein.
In the east, where they have as much
moisture as is had here," he said,
scab is controlled, and we should
bring about such conditioriB'here." He
explained that the station would con
duct experiments in tne upper valley
and on the hast and West hides.
J. T. Seeley addressed the meeting,
explaining the materials used in the
preparation of oil sprays and in Atomic
sulphur.
At a question from trunk W. uutler,
Prof. Jackson said that from observa
tions it had been determined that scab
fungus wintered over on dead leaves
that fell from trees. The Maine ex
periment station, he stated, had found
the furgus being carried over during
the winter on twigs.
A general discussion followed the
fixed program.
Those who have been indulging in a
smoke at the recent meetings were re
buked by the chairman at the opening
of the meeting. "1 was asked," said
he, "by some ladies who desired to at
tend today s meeting, if it would be a
horticultural meeting or a smoker."
AN OUTSIDER'S
VIEW OF US
Mosier. Ore., March 2. 1914
Editor Glacier: The writer of this
letter does not reside in Hood Itiver
valley, but still he takes a great inter
est in your far famed garden spot, that
has made itself famous by the wisdom,
indetry and intelligence that has made
Hood River world renowned; famous
not alone for ita unexcelled specialty,
the apple, but also as an up to date,
progressive community, always in the
lead with progressive ideas and nieas
ures for this famed spot, and Oregon
as a whole. I have read many times of
you having in your midst hundreds of
college graduates ; 1 have read also of
vour well organized and influentia
Commercial club; also of the high
grade of intelligence of the farming
class and orchard class,. Now, know
ing and believing all this to be true
the writer is at a loss to know and un
derstand why the most important and
far reaching benefit or enterprise
namely, the construction of the Co
lumbia river highway, which is up
before you at this time, should meet
with defeat at the voting of the bonds.
The writer, however, does not be
live, notwithstanding the rumors, that
the defeat of this worthy and meritori
ous project will be accomplised name
ly, the construction of the highway
from Multnomah to the Wasco county
line. Will the high merit, the dignity,
the progressive spirit of your fair
county be lost in the hour by defeating
the bond issue, which, if carried, will
place you In a higher and more re
nowned class than before, as well as
bring to you an era of prosperity
little dream of now.
Granted that a
raise fruit for the very love of it. 1
imagine that a majority of them do so
for ttain, and to enhance the value of
their holdings by improvements; but
Hill always as a rule, hoping to sell at
a greater profit. The selling at greater
profit has brought fruit land lip from
$250 to $1 Out) per acre. This achieved
by your constant advertising and the
merit the investor saw in your lard.
In other words, the incoming of r.ew
blood and money to your vailcy created
values. Ail the advertising stunts ol
attracting outside capital l,ae already
been exhausted, and the ho of secur
ing newcomers through those effort is
practically a thing of the past, liut
you hold today within your own hands
the power to put yourselves in direct
contact with a half million people in
Oreogn alone, to say nothing anout the
thousands of others who will visit you.
People will swarm over your valley and
seeing it at various seasons of the year
in its various stages of beauty the
charm will hold many. Seeing your
orchards at budding time, and in blos
som time, and in your gulden-green
harvest, who darts to dispute the un
told benefits which will result from
those observations?
The tourist travel is building and
populating many of the eastern Oregon
towns. You most hH people to have
values and business. The writer be
came a resident of Oregon, caught by
the wonderful variety of wild flowers.
and the excellent fishing sport. Senti
ment and beauty cut a wide swatli in
human affairs.
Increased population and new devel
opments, brought about by having this
great utility and tourist road, will
greatly lessen the tax, and by the time
the bonds mature your population will
have doubled. Never in the history of
time, so far as your valley is con
cerned. will there be a project that
means so much to every property hold
er as the building of the Columbia
river highway. You are not a com
mercial center, a shipping centei, a
mining center, nor a manufacturing
center. Some towns pay half as much
as you will vote to secure an industry,
just as bonus. And that industry
would mean only a fractiun of the ben
efit as compared with your highway.
The writer fully believes that in three
years after the completion of the high
way, your valley will have to provide
urge tourist hotels, probably the finest
ii the west, to accommodate the.thous-
ands who will visit you, and who will
not be satisfied with one day's outing
in your charming valley. This belief
is based upon what the writer shw
upon recent travels, citing Kritish Co
lumbia as one instance, where the C.
K. K., the Grand Trunk K. K. and
the Canadian Northern H. K. have
built and are building tourist hotels
whole chains of them, costing in the
millions. This is the tourist age.
Countries in Kurope have been ma!e
rich by it. It ib developing our cousin,
British Columbia, and we have more
to offer to this brainy, leisure class,
mure than most places.
I he real head of the Pacific High
way, Samuel mil, favors the eastern
Oregon, or inland route to California,
and he knows whereof he speaks. They
may pour millions into the Willamette
route, but they will never present to
the tourist the wonders of the Colum
bia gorgo and the Deschutes canyon,
nor the vast fertile plains of eastern
Oregon. The whole route is of intense
interest, and can be built and main
tained for half the cost of the Willam
ette route. lis well to have both
routes, but let us have the best, sea
t ons meaning much.
Iho writer notes by the papers that
Jackson, Kenton, Josephine and other
lley counties have voted highway
bunds with a spirit. Why? Because
they realized the immense value accru
ing to them. Yet, great hb the value
would be to them, it would not be half
so valuuble as to Hood Kiver, for the
very reason that the trade and traffic
the highway would bring to them
would'be divided In; t ween a large num
ber of towns, while Hood Kiver would
receive the direct benefit fromi the
largest center Portland ; and further,
our season of travel continues half as I
long again as the Willamette route.
1 take it that nenrly all the big men
who can do things, and who do do
things, aro in favor of the bonds. They
see; they know. Let the weaker ones
fall in line.
The small or medium farmer in some
of your outlying districts seem to op
pose the bonds, claiming, no doubt,
that they should have good roads at
home fitst. 'J his ground is well taken,
from their standpoint. Will the de
feat of the bonds give them good roadB?
Assume that.it will. They will full
far short of the great, broad benefits
which will accrue to the valley as a
whole, if they fail to support the
bunds. Does the fact that the best
bruins a: d largest capacities for busi
ness of some of Multnomah's foremost
citizens approve and are working tooth
and nail, for the Columbia river high
way, unselfishly, mean nothing? One'
rich man gave $10,000 -for what pur
pose? Not to make money for himself,
or for any selfish motive. No. Hut
with inBight into the future as to the
great good and general benefaction of
all those witin reach of the Columbia
river highway. Think it over. Your
siBter, county, Wasco, is anxiously
awatiting your'decision, ready to hook
on and continue the good work. Don't
lose your grin-have faith. Your ac
tion in this great important matter is
being watched by thousands outside
your county. Make good your standard
of progressiveness.
1 have no doubt that all this herein
stated has been thought of and written
before, but even so, a repeated sermon
mayat some time convert.
One cannot fail to bear his part,
For one great cause we all unite.
No one can tell, nor can we see
What lies beyond this shadow, night.
With faith and hope breaks bright the
morn.
Dispelled our fears, and there they
stay.
The caravan, Prosperity, shall swing
along our great Highway.
J. K. McGregor.
SATURDAY TOPIC
METHODS ARE TO BE DISCUSSED
Growers ill Gather at Commercial Club
to Hear Addresses of those ho Hare
JlWcn Successful with Berries
The horticultural and agricultural
committee of the Commercial club will
again be in .the lime light this week ,
with a big all day meeting for straw- 7
berry grower on Suturday. There are '
so inany'important problems before the
strawberry growers this year that
eveiyone interested is strongly urged
to attend this meeting.
The first thing to be considered at
the morning session will be the new
package for shipping berries. There
aro two styles to be considered, pints
and quarts, and one or the other will
be adopted at this nutting. This will
be followed by a discussion as to what
the gruweiM are going to pBy for pick
ing and packing, with a probable re
sult that some definite scale will be
decided upon which will be maintained
throughout the various berry sections
of the valley.
In the afternoon E. N. Benson, who
a few years ago was known as the
Strawberry King of Hood Kiver, will
give a lecture on the culture of straw
berries. Mr. lienson is the best posted
man on this subject there is in the
whole state of Oregon and he has a
way of striking home his facts that
makes his talk of very high value to
those interested in berry growing. To
those who heard Chris Myhre, of Junc
tion City, at the creamery meeting at
the Commercial club two weeks ago,
it is ouiy necessary to mention that
Mr. lienson is to the subjectjof straw
berries what Myhre is to creameries.
Their mcthoda of delivery are similar
and both speak from long andthorough
practical experience.
Mr. Kenson will takejup all branches
of the strawberry business. Planting;
when uiid how to cultivate; when to
irrigate in 'the different, sections and
soils of the valley; proper and im
proper methods of fertilizing; when to
tup; the importance of cutting run
ners; the importance of fall work, 'tie
will also tell why it is not necessary
to pickfntT blossoms from youngplants.
After Hi years of strawberry raising
lienson knows the game from A to Z;
he has grown berries under every pos
sible condition and has experimented
with every method of berry growing
known, so that what he has to Jsay is
backed up by years of actual study and
results in the strawberry Held.
Another subject for the afternoon
session will be a discussion on straw
berry plants. It is hoped to have Mr.
Newton, of Canby, Ore., here for this.
Newton is the manager of the north
west branch of the K. M. Kellogg
Company, the largest growers of
strawberry plants in the world. He is
also to be associated with E. 11. Cloud
in the new cannery which ia coming to
Hood Kiver, and expects to make this
city his future home.
To conclude the afternoon Professor
Lewis, of Corvallis, expects to be here
to give a talk on fertilizers and to tell
us what not to do in putting on com
mercial ferilizers. Prof. Lewis spent
several days here last week in checking
up the work of thcjlocal expeiimenl
station and observed what many of the
orchardists were doing in the' way of
restoring fertility.
Prof. L. F. Henderson, chairman
of the Cummereiul club's horticultural
committee, will handle the strawberry
meeting, assisted by C. W. Hooker.
The lutter was a member of the north
west committee which assembled in
Portand last fall to decide upon a
standard package for the northwest for
berries and fruits of all kinds, and he
will be in an excellent position to ex
plain the sample packages which will
be shown Saturday.
It is absolutely necessary lor us to
decide upon that standard package here
for strawbemea, said Mr. Hooker at
the Commercial club recently. "Our
old crate shut us out of many good
markets last year and we cant' use
that any longer. We have either got
to adopt a full pint or a full quart
measure. 1 favor the pint, as with
that we can use all of our old carriers
and it gives the consumer not quite as
many berries as before at a little less
money. J he grower will make just as
much money, if not more, and he will
nut have to pay as much for picking
and he will gain two hallocks of ber
ries to every carrier. It is up to ther
gowers themselves, however, to decide
on what packages we will use."
On Saturday, March 21, the Com
erciul club is planning in its series of
horicultural and agricultural meetings,
an afternoon devoted to expert talks
on truck gardening, both tor tne pri
vate garden and in quantities to be
used by the creamery and the Produce
Kcxhange; corn growing, and possibly
a special lecture on hogs.
Those attending the Saturday meet
ing from valley points will be given
special fare rates over the line of the
Mount Hood Kailroad Co. I he local
hotels will also make reduced rates.
PARKDALE CREAMERY
MEETING SATURDAY
Clarence E. Coffin, a member of the
committee on organization, announces
a creamery meeting at Parkdale next
Saturday morning as soon as the train
arrives there from Hood Kiver.
I "We have already secured between
$3,000 and $3,500 in stock subscrip
, tions, says Mr. Coflin, "and growers
you , have offered the milk from more than
! 400 cows." The shares of stock are
number of farmers ( $25 each.
DUNCAN IS AGAIN
FISH COMMISSIONER
Ilurnette E. Duneanas again made
a member of the State Fish and Game
Commission last Saturday by Governor
West. While numerous press dispatches
have declared that the reorganization
of the Commission was a political
scheme of the governor's, local friends
of Mr. Duncan, who know his abhor
rence of politics, can see no political
significance in his reappointment.
"My appointment has absolutely
nothing to do with politics, says Mr.
Duncan. "Those here, who know me,
know that I took my place last year
on the Commission for the good of
sport in the state of Oregon. 1 do so
uguin, to work for the interest of all "
true sportHinen in the state of Ore
Ron."
Physicians Move Quarters
Dr. J F. Watt removed this week
from his former office in the Hall
building to the corner rooms on the
second floor of the Smith building. Dr.
J. H. McVay will occupy the rooms
vacated by Dr. Watt, while Dr. Dutro,
who formerly occupied the present
offices of Dr. Watt, will be located in
Room No. 11 in tho Hall building.
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