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VOL. XXVI
HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, Al'GI'ST 13, 1J14
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The Store Where You Pay Only
For What You Get
We first buy right, then sell under an ex
pense so low that the price you pay is materi
ally effected.
Every merchant must secure a profit or fail.
That profit must be added to the total cost.
That cost includes every cent paid out from
time goods leave the factory until delivered to
you. Even down to the postage stamp used in
sending you a bill for the article.
No merchant can sell goods who is not care
fully guarding every item that goes into the
cost you buy.
We do sell goods right and will appreciate
the opportunity for showing you some money
saving prices on quality goods.
Stewart Hardware & Furniture Co.
5 for cash or 60 days credit with interest
on longer time.
You do not pay for favors extended to others at this store
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fiVe invite the accounts of growing young
business men and all industrious persons
who desire unexcelled banking service
in its various branches and the many ad
vantages an institution of the first class can
render its depositors.
HWe assure you in advance that we will
extend information courteously and cheer
fully if you will confer with us.
4 Interest Paid on Savings
FIRST NATIONAL
Capital $100,000 BA.NK.
Surplus $35,000
All Right for Corn
The farmer plants hit corn in the ground, because he knows
that it will increase thereby.
But the wise farmer knows that the ground is no place for
hia money. He plants his surplus money in the bank for the
same reason he puts the corn in the ground. Money hid or buried
about the house or grounds not only fails to increase, but it stands
a chance of being lost entirely. We make a specialty of farmers'
accounts, offering every possible accommodation consistent with
good banking.
Hood River State Bank
Reed Henderson
Incorporated
General Real Estate and Insurance Brokers
This is the dangerous time of the year for
fires. Look over your polices and see if
you are fully protected.
We are at your service with reliable com
panies. In 14 companies we carry $850,
000 of insurance in Hood River County.
We Have Money to Loan on First Class
Farm and Orchard Land
Kresse Drug Co., The Rexall Store
EASTMAN KODAKS AND FILMS
I RSI. IF BUTIFR, President TRUMAN HITLER, Vice President
C. . VAl (;MAN,Cahier
BUTLER BANKING COMPANY
ESTABLISHED 1900
Capital, Surplus and Profits
Deposits over -
$125,000
450,000
Four per cent interest compounded semi-annually
in our Savings Department.
American Bankers Association Travelers Checks,
payable in any civilized country on earth.
Safe Deposits Boxes in Modern Steel Chest.
Cutler Fruit Graders
Have been purchased by the following
' Hood River Growers:
Frank Stanton, Graff Bros., J. E. Malloy, J. A.
Wuest & Co., E. C. Brownlee, A. F. Bickford,
J. D. McCully, J. H. Day, J. G. Jarvis, E. A. Van
net, W. C. Keck, Laraway & Son, Cooper &
Walter, Peter Mohr and Lawrence & Smith. Four
orders have been received from Spokane, two
from Medford and one from California.
This is Only a Starter
Give your order now and insure definite de
livery. A machine is on exhibition at the Gil
bert Implement Co.
"Quality and Service"
Is the Motto of Our Market
The courtesy with which we endeavor to use
on all occasions in attending the wants of our
patrons, the cleanliness of our shop on Twelfth
street on the Heights, and the quality of the meats
and other articles that we handle have been the
making of our successful business.
Join our band of satisfied customers.
Free delivery to any part of the city.
E. M. HOLMAN
The Sanitary Market Tel. 2134
Rubber Stamps for Apple Boxes Made to Order at the Glacier Office
BOTTLED MILK
and
CREAM
The Tip Top Dairy
Phone 5844
INDICATIONS FOR
BIG APPLE CROP
DROUTH HIRTS CENTRAL STATES
All Other Districts Show Good Prospects
- Pacific Districts Will Have
Bumper Yields
Apple Men Optimistic
The Hood River fruit marketing
offices while they have assumed an
attitude of watchfnl waiting as to
the foreign markets owing to the
war, are making every preparation
toward handling the Hood River apple
crop in domestic markets. It is de
clared that the amount of American
apples exported have been exaggerated.
A great demand is expected for canned
fruits of all kinds, and as a conse
quence a larger percentage of fresh
fruits will be consumed in home mar
kets.
With the Internationl Apple Shippers
convened at their annual convention in
Boston last week, all fruit and trade
journals of the country paid espceial
attention to apples. The pages of the
publicaions presented one apple advertisement-those
of buyers as well as
sellers-after another. Jn the Packer,
one of the largest fruit and produce
journals of the coutnry, the North Pa
citic Fruit Distributors had a double
pane space, showing the trade pictures
of the 90 cold storage plants controlled
by them in the Northwest. Among
these cuts appeared the likenesses of
all local warehouses and lant.
From a genreal viewpoint, the apple
market will be enormous this year.
Ihe New York crop eems in excellent
shape, as does that of Virginia. All
western and northwestern districts
point to a good yield.
Ihe I'acker sizes up tne situation
state by state, lielow are given ehort
items taken from its articles aim bulle
tins of last week :
The Kansas crop is scattering, borne
sections will have a gooil yield, wnne
other districts will be cut short. Such
condition on account of local droughts
will prevail all through the south and
middle west.
A big yield is looked for in Canada.
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick orch
ards ure loaded.
Nebraska's crop is in fair shape. Ihe
average is better than that of last year.
Ihe Maine estimate at the present
time indicates that the crop will be
argur than that of last year.
Nearly all reports from districts in
Utah indicate an increased yield over
that of last year.
Ihe Michigan apple crop is normal
Several sections have been badly at
fected with scab.
Montana's crop is good, and several
hundred carloads will be shipped this
year from producing belts around Ham
ilton.
In New Mexico, where the growers
have been paving more attention than
ever to the culture of their trees, the
biggest crop in years will probably
result.
Indications are in Arkansas produc
ing bells that tne crop win ne neavier
than that of last vear.
Missouri s crou is reoorted as normal.
The Indiana crop is short of that of
last vear.
Having escaped the aroutns ana no
serious storms having prevailed, me
Virginia orchards will exceed yields of
several years cast.
With an increased interest in truii
growing throughout the state, Texas
will have more apples than last year.
The outlook for an apple crop in the
Rockv mountain districts and i'acinc
const states is much more bright at
this time than lust year. This is es
necially true in Colorado, New Mexico,
Utah and Idaho.
'Ihe ureal Central Western states,
occupying the territory known as the
Mississippi and Missouri valleys and
the Lake region, will have a good crop
onlv in snots this vear.
Drouths will out short the crops of
Tennessee and Kentucky.
The Packer's estimate for the Ore
gon crop is as follows:
Reuorts to the I'acker from various
sections indicate a very good crop, al
though not what might be called an
extraordinary yield. Hood River says
the crnn is a little lamer than last
vear. with a nromise for a total of
around 1,300 car. Medford reports a
likelihood of 7(H) cars, the crop being
somewhat shortened by frost. In the
Union countv district, the crop is con
siderably better than a year ago, but
liHt vear's vie d was very short. Ke
ports from Cove estimate the yield at
hII the wav from TjO to 100 cars. La
favpttp Ynmhi county, expects bU
cars, or three lourins 01 a norniBi crop,
25 ner cent better than last year. Mo
sier estimates 60 cars, or 10 per cent
increase over last year. Dufur prom
bptter than last vear. Phoenix,
Jackson county, expects a normal crop
and about the same as lasi year, i on
calla, Douglas county, promises a crop
of 50 per cent larger than last year and
Canyunville, in the same county, an in
crease of 2.r per cent. Corvallis prom
bp a l ti e lietter vield man ibhi year
The government report for July 1 lists
Oregon at 77, compared with 87 the
same date last year, 90 two years ago
and 79 on October 1, 1913.
Sieg Expected Soon
Wilmer Sieg, manager of the Oregon
I Vice of the North Pacific Fruit Dis
tributors, who has established offices
n Portland, is expected back the latter
art of this week from Boeton. where
e and II F. Davidson have been at
tending the International Apple Ship
pers' Convention.
The local Association has received
ut little news of the convention, and
the results of the apple shows have not
been learned.
1 he conevntion of next year will be
ed at Chicago.
racking School Plans
Manager A. W. Stone, of the Apple
Growers' Association, states that the
annual packing school will open on
Sept. 7. Actual instruction will begin
on Tuesday, the day following organi
zation. Residents will be charged a
tuition fee of $2.50, while non residents
will pay $5.00. However, the sum of
$2.50 will Le refunded to all non resi
dents who spend the season working in
the Valley.
Dalles Growers See "Pride of Oregon
J. A. Phillips, who is traveling for
K. Nunamaker & Co., exhibiting
the "Pride of Oregon apple sizer
recently invented by Mr. Nunamaker,
as been at Ihe Dalles this week,
where the new machine has been creat-
ng an inteiest among the growers of
that city.
Mr. Phillips will leave later for Yak
una and Wenatchee, where the good
oints of the "Pride of Oregon" will
be shown.
NEW BOAT FOR
MID-COLUMBIA RUN
CROSSLEY PREDICTS
FOREIGN SHIPMENTS
NEW STUDENTS
ARE COMING
HIGH SCHOOL LNCREASE FORTY-FIVE
Vive Rural Districts Will Send Boys and
Girls -Improvements Made in
Local Buildings
Announcement of the placing of the
steamer State of Washington on the
run to The Dalles completes the most
notable week that the river steamboat
men have had in years. The operation
of the State of Washington on The
Dalles run will make three or possibly
four lines operating from Portland to
The Dalles, the largest number to run
there in years, says the Portland Jour
nal.
The State of Washington is owned by
F. H. Jones, president of the WillaiTV
ette & Columbia River towing com
patty, who traded the tugboat CruiBer
and a sum of money for her a few
weeks ago. Since then she has been
completely overhauled and placed in
shaped for the season's run to The
Dalles.
Plans of the new company call for
the steamer to depart each evening at
11 o'clock, returning the next day.
She has excellent passenger accomoda
tions and her owners expect her to
become popular as a night boat. It is
said that she will operate from Taylor
street dock taking the wharf formerly
used by the Vancouver transportation
company.
LOCAL MERCHANTS
GO TO PORTLAND
A good delegation of local merchants
is in Portland this week to participate
in the activities of Buyers' Week,
when Portland wholesale and jobbing
concerns will be hosts to the out o
town business men. Numerous socia
events have been planned. Yesterday
the Portland Ad Club was host at a
luncheon, when 20 of the visiting men
were allowed one minute each to boost
their home towns. E. M. Holman, of
the Sanitary Market on the Heights
represented Hood River. Mr. Hoi
man s picture appeared in the Sunday
Orruonian.
Ihe list of loci merchants in attend
ance included : R. M. Holman, J. B
Canfield, of Slocom & Canneld;C. O
Huelat. of the Bragg Mercantile Co.
W. II. McLain, of the Franz Hardware
Co. : J. T. Holman. who is in the gro
eery business on the Heights; Hubbard
Taylor, of the Handy Corner Grocery
and reed store on the lluights, and ii
A. Connaway, of the Consolidated Mer
cantile Co.
FIREMEN BURN
DRY GRASS PLOTS
A number of important improve
ments have been made in the school
buildings of the city, in order that the
increased attendance from the Lower
Valley districts may be accomodated at
the approaching fall term of tha local
schools. Forty Five additional High
School studenta are expected to to en
roll this fall, making the total number
for the year ISO. High School studenta
will attend from live of the surround-
ng country school district!. The Pine
rove, Barrett and Duke a Valley dis
tricts have voted to send all high
school students to the local institution,
paying for each a tuition fee of $W) per
year. The Odell and Oak Grove schools
will only send their studenta of the
Eleventh and Twelfth grades.
The High Sehool building has been
remodeled and recitation rooms have
been enlarged. The rooms of both the
High School building and the Park
Street structure are being retinted.
The Manual Training Department will
be conducted in the old Dark carpenter
shop on Pine street on the Heights.
This structure has been enlarged and
remodeled. It affords convenient
workshops and class rooms for the stu
dents of this department Ita dimen
sions are 45 by ISO feet.
Ihe entire teaching force of the city
schools of last year has been retained,
and in addition Miss Hazel Hollenbeck,
who recently took a course at the Ore
gon Agricultural College, aa well aa
nstruction in the Last, has been ap
pointed assistant in the Domestic
Science department. Two new classes
will be formed in this department, one
n sewing and the other In cooking.
Both will meet each school day.
fror. J. u. McLaughlin, superin
tendent of city schools, says that he ia
looking forward to one of the best
years in the history of the high sehool.
CREAMERY BUILDING
WILL BE ERECTED
At a special meeting last week of
the members of tho Board of Directors
of the Cooperative Creamery, a lease
was signed with the Apple Growers
Union for the lot just west of the con
crete garage building owned by Dr. J,
Watt and occupied by Howe St Igalla.
The creamery directora have agreed to
erect an iron-clad mill construction,
one story building, 30 x 50 feet.
Walter u. is. smith, a member or the
board of directors, has been in Port
land thia week, where he has bean
visiting large creamery planta and
making an effort to secure second hand
machinery.
"We are meeting with encourage
ment from all aides, says Clarence B.
Collin, secretary of the board. "Grow
ers are ready to buy cows, and we will
have the cream for successful opera
tion of the plant when we are ready."
The power for the new creamery will
be secured from the Apple Growers'
Association, as will the cold storage, a
pipe being laid from the plant of the
Union warehouse nearby. The cream
ery association haa agreed to pay the
sum of $48 a year for the lot and to
pay taxes on the property for the time
of the lease, twelve years.
Ilaight Buys Local Ranch
J. J. Haight and family, from La-
Grande, have purchased a ranch in the
Valley and will move here the first of
September to make Hood River their
home. Mr. Haight haa been interested
in wheat farming for the past few
years but for many years baa been
struck with a desire to live in the
Hood River Valley, after having vis
ited here some time ago. The property
purchased was particularly adapted, for
hogs, to which Mr. Haight will pay
especial attention. Mr. Haight ia also
an automobile enthusiast and gave aa
one of the principal reasons for earning
here the advantage of being on the
Columbia River Highway, and within
easy distance of Portland. He finally
determined to kuy after reading in tha
papers that the 75,000 bond iaaue had
passed. The deal was negotiated
through Reed & Henderson, Inc.
Wauna Circle Enjoys Meeting
"Foreign apple shipments may soon
begin," says William Crossly, of IJ.
Crosslev & sons, who have offices in
New York. Liverpool ana oiasgow,
"I have word from our New York office
that we have some fruit ready to snip,
but as yet have not been able to load
it I am looking- for it to move nex
week. I am hopeful of doing business
with the English markets, where we
get a good part of our business. The
insurance companies I think will soon
insure cargoes. Unless they do we
will not ship; for I do not propose to
take risks that an insurance company
will not take."
Mr. Crossley was of the opinion that
the good business of other lines would
increaae the sale of apples in home
markets.
"I have just come down from We
natchee and Yakima," he said. "They
have fine crops there, much larger than
last year." Mr. Crossley was on his
way to the Rogue River country and
to Watsonville, Calif. He will return
here later.
Stone Urges Study of Cold Storage
Manager A. W. Stone, of the Apple
Grower Association, urges the grow
ers of the Valley to make a close study
of the different storage plants.
Through experiments in the different
storage houses, it is found that apples
talipn from the same lots develop dif-
erent keeping qualities. It is thought
that some of the storage plants lack
nrnner ventilating systems and that
the air in the storage rooms becomes
devitalized, thus causing a deteriora
tion of the fruit.
Residents on the Underwood and
White Salmon heights were greatly
alarmed Monday evening, when the
sky here was made red by the grass
fires that were set in different parts of
the city. The members of the Volun
teer Fire Department, however, had
set the fires as a precautoin against
possible damage later. With buckets
and lengths of hose ready, to prevent
damage to nearby homes and barns,
the firemen burned the grass on vacant
lots on Cascade avenue and Columbia
street. The Heights department was
busy with large 10 acre tract just west
of that portion of the ity.
Great volumes ot smoke poured up
from the grass fires and the flames
rushed rapidly through the grass, dry
as tinder, making a spectacular fire.
TREIBER WILL BUILD
LARGE FERRY BOAT
Cant. Otis D. Treiber, owner of the
Hood River-Underwood Ferry system
who recently put into commission the
sidewheel freryhoat, the Bear, has left
for Port Angeles, where he will have
charge of the construction of a big
sidewheel ferrv boat. The new boat,
which will be 85 feet in length, will
nlv between Port Angelea and Lake
Crescent, a popular summer resort,
Cant. Treiber expects to be away on
the contsruction work for a period of
about 30 days.
In the absence or Lapt. lreiber tne
local ferry system will be in charge of
Chas. Foster,
On last Friday at 10 o'clock a happy
band known as the Wauna Circle gath
ered at the home of Mrs. F. C. Broaiua
to partake of the delicioua luncheon
served in honor of her mother, Mrs. J.
Williams, who is president of the Waui
na Circle and whose birthday it was.
The afternoon passed all too soon and
as the needle work progressed it was
accompanied by the merry chatter of
voices.
Mrs. Dumble gave several selections
on the piano as did also Miss Florence
Brosius.
A rousing vote of thanks was given
to Mrs. Brosius by the Circle for her
delightful entertainment and birthday
congratulatons were extended to Mrs.
Williams. Those present were Mes
dames Blanchar, Blythe, Brosius, Ben
son, Claxton, Cram, Dumble, Uianvuie,
Glaze, Graham, Johnson, McClanathan,
Munroe, McDavit, Marsh, Meld, rrice,
Sprague, Veltum, Vennum, Alice Will
iams, Young, and the Missea Kinnaird,
Collins, Ireland and Brosius.
Club Would Preserve Scenery
That the Commercial Club would
preserve the scenery of the beautiful
canyon was evidenced rjy action lanen
at the Monday night meeting oi me
organization. Ralph Root, L. C.
Ileizer and J. P. Thomaen were ap
pointed on a committee to confer with
county ottiicals as to meana by which
the timber surrounding the canyon may
be saved.
A number of different plana for the
preservation of the baautiea of the
valley's only woodland drive have been
advanced.
Transfer & Livery Co. Lays Street
The Transfer & Livery Co. is busy
this week improving the street and
drive surrounding the O.-W. R. N.
passenger station. Crushed rock,
which ia roiled, ia oeing piaceo on toe
drivea there. An application of oil
will be made later.