The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, August 27, 1914, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textc VOL. X.N VI hood mvEii, oregox. tuukshay, .rcrsT lt. ioh No. 13 s A Store Full of Bargains Large buying and small expenses make low prices. Orchard Needs Barnett Picking Pails at 25c 35c, 50c Large stock slight ly used.- Barnett Pails, now - $1.00 Palmer Picking Pails 1.00 16 and 18 qts. Heavy Pails, 30c and 35c; worth 50c, COc 8 ft steel braced fruit lad ders - - - $2.50 Full stock Security and Nut chell ladders. All Summer Goods At big interest saving prices, including Refrigerators, Lawn Mowers Cream Freezers Gas Stoves, Water Hose, Sprinklers. We are clearing these lines at 10 to'c 25 saving to you. Your Credit Is Good. 5 off for cash looms up in big figures Stewart Hardware i H The word "Bank" seems to awejmany people, they feel the steps that lead to the inside are not intended for them. iMake up your mind to get acquainted with us and our methods. Make up your mind to come in.' Make up your mind to have a Bank account in this strong bank. It makes little difference how much money you have or earn, let us explain the way to make this Bank your Bank. $1 will start you. 4 Interest Paid on Savings FIRST NATIONAL BANK Capital $100,000 LESLIE BUTLER, President (ML VAl'CillAN, Cashier BUTLER BANKING COMPANY ESTABLISHED 1900 Capital, Surplus and Profits Deposits over ... Four per cent interest compounded semi-annually in our Savings Department. Safe Deposits Boxes in Modern Steel Chest. NOTHING DOING The carpenter who would try to saw wood with a ham mer would be about as foolish as the fellow who winked at his girl in the dark. Neither would accomplish anything. It is the same way with a bank account. It has to be handled right, your balance will never grow if you check your money out as fast as you deposit It, and occasionally overdraw. Let it grow until the fund has amounted to enough to make an in vestment, is the right way. We will guard your funds care fully in the mean time. Hood River Rubber Stamps for Apple Boxes Made to Order at the Glacier Office Furniture Depart ment Specials Bed Spreads one-third below market Lace Curtains 1-3 saved. New Rug Patterns at money saving prices. The Fall Furniture showing is tasty and suprisingly low in price. ROOFINGS A little work on your roof now will save a big expense later. We have mending strips and cement, paints, and a car load of Malthoid Roofing at prices 10 "i- to 50 'h off. & Furniture Co. There's a turning point in time-be ready for itr Have some money in the Bank. Surplus $45,000 TRUMAN BUTLER, Vice President $125,000 450,000 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 Packing and Grading School Will Open Monday, September 7 And Continue for One Week Tuition -Residents $2.50; n?n residents $5.00 $2.50 refunded to non-residents if they work in Hood River through the season. Any parties desiring to enter the School should notify the Association at their earliest conveniences. For particulars address The Apple Growers Associaton Hood River Oregon Bonds! Bonds! Bonds! Whatever kind of a bond you may need, surety, contract or court, we are able to furnish it to you. Bear our service in mind. Fire Insurance and satisfactory abstracts of title. Hood River Abstract Company mm mm I The Best at mmmmm ammu i i iitimi fSfhe No other baking powder will raise nicer, lighter bis cuits, cakes and pastry, none is more pure and wholesome Z-ssa pure auu wnoiesome gum.:... -j Then Why Pay More?Y 1ve Greater OrcgovC With new building, better equip ment, enforced erounda. and many ad dition! to ita faculty, the University of Oregon will begin ita thirty -ninth year I ueauay, September 15. .Special training for Dntinru. Jour nalism, Law, Medicine, Teaching, L. hrary Work, Muaic, Arthite5ure, Physical Training and Fine Arta. i argekt ana ttrongett department! of libetaJ education. library of more thin Sft.OOt volumes, two eplendid gymnealume, elevto hulltlinga fully I equipped. New f Ite.eoe Arlmirjietrsnoo J Building In course ol coottrunloo Tuition Free. Dormitories for men end for women. Expenses lowest Write for dialog end llluitreted booklet, Addressing Registrar, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FUOENC OREGON Any Price lO 5ljiv '1 Tdavidson back FR0MB0ST0N JHE WAR SCARES APPLE BITERS ! . Declarations Cause Convention to Fall Flat Peach Growers in Need of Co-operation, Says Distributor Pres. i j That the apple crop of the world in j as large this year as in P.U2 and that the wan abroad and financial diiticul ; ties in Africa and South America will affect unfavorably the price to be ob tained by the growers, is the prediction of H. F. Davidson, who returned Fri : day evening after having been to Bos ' ton, where he attended the Interna I tional Apple Shippers' convention. ' War was declared about the time lour convention was called to order," j fays Mr. Davidson, "and as a result I it fell very flat. A large number of Continental European and English fruit tirma were represented. Of course, When the declarations of war were made they were instructed Vy cable to make no purchases of fruit of any na ture. Thev even refused to guarantee the inland freight as well as the ocean freight. If we make any sales of fruit abroad this vcar, we will have our European agent, S. K. Moomaw, on the ground to make collection on delivery. "1 figure that about f0 per cent of our normal exports to England will be made this year, and that no fruit will be cent to the continent of Europe. "Without the influence of an organ ization such as the North Pacific Fruit Distributors, the results of marketing this year's crop of apples would be far worse than in l1.' 12. Hut if enough Northwest growers decide to make lite of the facilities for organized market ing to make proper distribution and maintain orderly contrel of the situa tion, results will undoubtedly be ob tained thut will show growers a fair profit. "The 50,000.000 barrel crop of 1912 will probably be equalled. "In 1912 Washington, Oregon and Idaho had about 12,000 cars of market able fruit. This year 1 think those states have 15,000 curs. In 1912 the grower received about 05 cents a box. or barely cost. This year we can and will get a better price. "Fruit is not a necessity like wheat and meat, therefore the wars of Europe can be expected to curtail the market. Between five and 10 fper cent of all Northwest fruits haa been exported each year. "A warning should be sounded right now to all growers. In 1913, a light crop year, the Distributors encouraged growers to pack and grade their ship ments on a much lower grade than is required by the rules as to quality and size. This year the situation is re versed. It is a big crop year, and it would be folly for the growers to go to the expense of packing and wrapping inferior fruit, as that kind of output will not bring more than freight ex penses. The Northwest muBt send out nothing but the highest quality of ap ples, complying with gradu rules most minutely." Up to Saturday night the North Ta cilic Fruit Distributors reported the sale of .1000 cars of fruit from the states of Washington, Oregon and Ida ho, the shipments being made of up largely of strawberries, cherries and peaches. This is more than H00 cars in excess of shipments on the same date last year. "When 1 was on the way back east about the first of the month," says Mr. Davidson,"! found a ready demand for peaches at 45 cents a box. Hut on the return journey to Hood River I found the independent shippers of the Yakima district had cut this price to 30 cents, and when I arrived at Spo kane they were making oilers at 27, cents per box. 1 really believe there are not tnough peaches in the North west to supply the demand at 45 centB, f. o. b. shipping point, if the fruit was under orderly control. The price of the Distributors is always about five cents above that of the independent shippers, but the growers ought to get the full price of 45 cents. As a 'result the Yakima valley is losing about $150,000 this year. "1 talked with buyers back in the middle west and they told me they thought the shippers of the northwest ern states were foolish to otTer their fruit at a price below 45 cents per box." Wilmer Sieg, who was in Boston to attend the International Shippers con vention, but who had returned to Port land, where he will have charge of the Oregon oflice of the Distributors, was in Hood Kiver Saturday confer ring with the ollicers of the Apple Growers Association. Association to Charge Fee After Monday According to the by-laws of the Ap ple Growers Association, a fee of $10 will be charged all new members allili ating after Monday. The Association packing school will begin on Moflday, September 7. All growers are urged to attend and to familiarize themselves with the grad ing and packing rules. On Saturday afternoon the directors of the Association will hold an open meeting at the rooms of the Commer cial club. These meetings will be held monthly. Notice to Growers A meeting of the board of directors of the Apple Growers Association will he held at the rooms of the Hood Kiver Commercial club on Saturday, August 29, at 3 o'clock p. m., which will be open to all members of the Association. The management requests that all the members make it a point to be present, as this meeting is called for the purpose of giving the members an opportunity to present such matters to the board as they may desire. STORY TELLS OF KLEMER'S PROGRESS - In a recent issue of the Sunday Ore gonian was a story telling of the Alva dore district in the Kogue Kiver coun try. - E. L. Klemer, formerly of this city, who has been instrumental in the progress of the community, is given a lion's share of the praise for the devel opment of the orchard community. A portion of the article follows: Mr. Klemer ia the orchardist who has superintended the laying out of this great community orchard; mho for three yean has kept a force of 40 men and 20 teams at work preparing the giound. keeping it cultivated to de gree of pulverization and preparing the orchards for the new fruit growers who are about to come. He is a youth, in his 30s, who is a fruit expert be cause he loves it. And his love for it is contagious. "Oh, we'll build a tchoolhouse whether they vote us a district or not," he said, referring to trouble with the school district. "It'll be used all right." Mr. Klemer built the community civic center building en two week's notice. He waited until the residents found a need for it; let them believe they wanted it, and offered to help them. "We want to hold a dance," they said. So Mr. Klemer ordered the com munity centre, and in two weeks they held the dance. He does things scientiticially'hecause its' cheapsst. "1 have to have good roads in order to get around the place," he says. "They save me money. "It isn't the man who comet in and preaches better farming that the farm ers follow," he says. "Its the man who comes in and does it himself. The neighbors watch him, and the next year they do it too." Mr. Klemer took several hundred acres of land, not set to orchards, that until now has always been pasture land, and planted clover. In the past year the residents around Fern Ridge have planted more than 500 acres of clover and more is being set out this year. "It makes feed cheap, and this re duces the cost of plowing," said Mr. Klemer, who believes that the finer the soil is the better the trees grow. He is an advocate of dry farming, and in the middle of a hot summer day the soil in his orchard is wet an inch under ground. "The farmers are tickled to death at this new product. They're producing dollars on lands where noth ing grew. They're keeping cows in the barn where cows belong." Mr. Klemer is the son of a wealthy manufacturer in Minnesota. He edu cated himself at Cornell and at other eastern universities, studied fruit grow ing and horticulture and came west. He picked up a tract of land at Hood Kiver, earned money one winter by cutting wood, and in three years sold his orchard at a tremendous profit. With capital and five years of fruit ex periences, founded on a college educa tion, he came to Kane county and is in troducing scientific fruit growing on Fern Ridge, where ferns are now as scarce as they were thick four years ago. Each winter Mr. Klemer travels abroad to educate himself ; nine months of the year his orchard is his soul. He believes in getting behind things; not in leading. His name is not even among the incorporators of the great fruit organization. He haa declined olTers of community political positions. He has had interesting experiences with district school meetings and the intrusion of the newcomer who cleared the generations of pioneers off Fern Kidge has caused some stir in the com munity. But these are his playthings. His orchard is planted; his commun ity is in the process of development. His next problem will be the dumping of possibly a million boxes of apples, 10,000 tons of prunes, a thousand car loads of pears and hundreds of tons of berries. Small fruits, which are inter cropped between the trees, form an enormous factor in the markets of the world. The cooperation of the entire north west will be sought through the North Pacific Distributors. Representatives will be scattered throughout the world and direct the placing of Oregon fruit. "It is not a question of market," said Mr. Klemer. "The world wants fruit. It's a question of distribution and organization. We can t dump all our stuff into Chicago or New York. It's a matter of not shipping 10 boxes of fruit where one will sullice. "The refrigerator cars in express trains direct from Alvadore to the cast, and refrigerator steamships. capable of carrying from 100 to 200 carloads through the Panama canal. will be the chief factors in our distrib ution." REQUIREMENTSTOR STANDARD SCHOOL County School Superintendent Thomp son has received the list of instructions given below for a standard school. An effort will be made to have all the schools of the county come up to the requirements. v Flag -Must be (lying, weather per mining. Schoolhouse Properly lighted. Equipment Teacher's desk and chair jdesks for pupils properly adapted ana piacea; suitable blackboards; win dow shades in good condition. Heating and Ventilating Jacketed stove properly situated, minimum re quirement; window boards or some other approved method of ventilating. Kooms Attractive at all times. Standard picture One new one, un less three are already in the room, framed. Grounds To be clean, free from pa per, etc. At least three features of play apparatus. Walks, if necessary. Sanitation Pure drinking water. either drinking fountain or covered tank and individual drinking cups: in dividual, family or paper towels. Out buildings At least two good ones, to be sanitary at all times and free from marks. Teacher Must maintain order at all times, supervise the playground; have her work well prepared; follow state course of study; take at least one edu cational journal; have program posted in room ; keep register in good condi tion ; be neat in attire. Library Good selection of books from state list. Case for the books. Books kept upright in good condition and recoided according to rules speci fied by Oregon state library ar.d re quirnl by law. Atendance Average 92 per cent for year and not to exceed two per cent in tardiness for year. Length of Term Not less than eight months of school each year. As soon as a district fulfills any re quirement it will be marked with a star. When all the requirements are fulfilled a suitable pennant or certifi cate will be awarded by the county superintendent. A community fair will be held at the Central Vale school house on Saturday, September 12. FOREST FIRES SPREAD ANEW ADDITIONAL MEN BUSHED TO SCENE Burn Endangers Timber of SUnley-Smith Lumber Company Smoke Poun I'p the Columbia The wind bavins- fanned the smnul. dering forest fire in the Cascade re serve near the Green Point mill of the Manley-Smith Lumber Co. into menac ing proportions Tuesday afternoon, the government rangers in charge of the tire fighters of the region telephoned the local headquarters of the fubmer company and 38 additional men were hurried to Green Point. The fire, which started on the headwaters of Herman creek and which destroyed a large body of green timber there, al though it has not burned over a great amount of the Stanley-Smith tracts, ia now endangering them. Thomas Shreeves, a foreman of the company, ia now in full charge of the fire fight ers. The government has had a crew of 00 men in the forests for the past week. A heavy smoke has been blowing up the Columbia gorge for the past several days. Local citizens who have been on the Washington side of the Columbia, state that a good, clear view is had of the Hood Kiver .valley but that the smoke obliterates all view of the river, and when one is once down in the gorge it is impossible to are the opposite bank. People in the city cannot see the Washington bank at timet. A good part of the smoke is coming from the forest fire that ia raging on the south slope of Larch mountain and sweeping through the timber owned by the Bridal Veil Lumber Co. A crew of 150 men have been ordered to fight the fire, and Commissioner Daily, of the Department of Public Utilities of Portland, has ordered men to the scene to prevent the flames from spreading to the Bull Run reserve. FIRE DESTROYS ONE OF OLDEST BUILDINGS "Until fire broke out in the old frame building occupied by the Hood Kiver Plumbing Co. at the corner of Second street and Cascade avenue Tuesday af ternoon, but few people of the city ever realized the age of the structure. It ia perhaps the oldest structure now re maining in Hood River. According to J. L. Morrison, who occupied th place for a number of years, having a saloon there, it ia 28 years old. It was built by Robert Rand, an early proprietor of the Mount Hood Hotel, and was occu pied first as a barber shop. The long telescopelike addition was built for a bowling alley. The frame structure was later occu- ' pied by Ed Fewell and William Allen, and Mr. Morrison entered business there in 1901. 7 William Rand made his home there for a while. Tuesdays' afternoon's Are was one of the quickest ever seen here. The flames were first seen in a bunch of oakum under a work bench. B. B. Powell, member of the plumbing firm, attempt ed to throw the burning waste out of window, but it scattered, and by the time he hud finished telephoning to George Ertle to sound the fire alarm, the room was filled with smoke. He slammed the door of his safe, In which his accounts were kept ,snd fumbled over the top of his desk, looking for his day book, but the smoke was so stifling that he was forced to leave the building without it. In an instant the flames were running up the old walls, which were dry as tinder, and shooting from the windows. The Volunteer Fire department, how ever, made record time in reaching the scene and before the business section of the city was alive to the fsct that the fire was raging two streams of water were playing. The flames were quickly extinguished. The force was exellent and the shingles were ripped from the roof as though they had been itraws. "1 do not yet know just whare we will locate," says Mr. Powell. "My fartner, Mr. Snider, is out of own and cannot tell denfiitely until he returns. But we will soon be ready for business again." The loss of tho plumbing com pany was partially covered by insur ance. McKAY ELECTED EX CHANGE MANAGER Kenneth McKay, a member of the ranch firm of Henderson & McKay, has been elected manager of the Hood River Fruit Growers' Exchange, re cently organized to handle a portion of the tonnage of the local apple crop. Mr. McKay, as his name would indi cate, is a Scotchman. However, he has been on his ranch in the Central Vale district for the past eight years. The Exchange is affiliated with the Northwestern Fruit Ecxhange, through the channels of wheih its fruit will be marketed. Cloud Cap Guest List The Cloud Cap Inn guest list during the past week has been as follows; Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Darnell, Mr. ai d Mrs. C.C.Colt, Miss Chamberlain, Eva Knapp, Dan J. Malarkey, J. B. Gross, Miss Gross, Mrs. Frank Baltes, Miss Frances Baltes, Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Fanning, Mr. ami Mrs. A. K. Watzek, all of Portiai.d ; Miss Jennie Cole, E. A. Cole and Lillian E. Crisp, Hood Kiver; Miss Marjorie L. Pinen, Ed monton, Alta. ; Robert H. Fox, Worces ter, Mass.; Ada B. Cochran, Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs. Anna Crisp, Carlton 'Crisp, John Goldabury, Parkdale; Mrs. I L. S. Wolf and Miss Wolf, New York City; Miss Barber, Baltimore; Miss Lamb, Omaha; F.W.Allen, Miss Chass, Philadelphia; Miss Margaret rabrick, Medford; Geo. Neff, Johnston, Pa.; Miss lrma Yates, Kit-hard Yates, Miss Eva Y'atea, Olaf Hansen and W. E. Nelson, Dee; Myra H. butler, Mabel G. West, Katie Dunsmore, Howard Morlan and O. A. Macey, Monmouth; Jennie F. Suter and J..W. Matsek, Da venport, Ia. Don't forget Mrs. Miller's concert at the Valley Christian church next Wed nesday night.