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HOOD MVEK, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21. 19i:
No. 34
A Keep money in
lifetime, it will
11 A few dollars is frequently sufficient to take advan
tage of an opportunity which may mean your fortune.
We are always willing to advise our customers re
garding a contemplated investment as we are in a bet
ter position to pass judgment on its security than a
single individual. At least our opinion will be helpful.
Bring your money problems to us. Be ready for an op
portunity. Open a Bank Account with One Dollar or
more to-day.
4 Interest Paid on Savings
FIRST NATIONAL
Capital $100,100 BA-JK.
Surplus $36,000
Bank Advertisement No. 41
Our letter of a few months as?o on the im
portant matter of drawing your will was so well
received that we now want to quote from our
former advertisement as follows: .
"It is not our purpose to divert any busi
ness of this character from its natural channel.
If a member of your family is capable of prop
erly taking care of the business of your estate
and is not averse to the cares and responsibili
ties incident thereto, you will have no trouble
in selecting your executor. In many cases, how
ever, either the ability to handle an estate to
the best advantage or the inclination to do so is
missing, and we are led to believe that many of
our customers will be pleased to know that this
work is included in the service we are now pre
pared to render.
There are several advantages in having the
Trust Department of this bank act as executor
of your will. Outside of your own family, the
man who could perform this service as you
would have it done is probably very much en
gaged in his own affairs. You have the com
bined ability of the officers of the bank, and the
system and facilities which are available to them
insure every detail of your estate having the at
tention it requires. Unlike an individual, the
bank is always well, always at home, of un
questionable integrity, never dies and has a
complete record of all its transactions."
BUTLER BANKING COMPANY
1200 Pocket Knives
Scissors and Razors
Late arrivals for the Holiday
trade. These are factory
samples and very fine; will
be offered until Inventory,
February 1st, at most attrac
tive prices. Manicure sets,
carving sets.
Toys
At the prices we made broke
our stock so badly that we
conclude to help out your de
layed present list by contin
uing the sale at 1-2 price on
what is left Our 28 erec
tor sets were all sold but
we have lots of interesting
toys for 1-2 price.
Furniture, Rugs
A clean up sale regardless
of cost will continue through
out January. Our expenses
are light, cost is low. All
odd pieces must go.
Prior to February 1st, In
ventory, we shall offer prices
on odd china, porcelain, glass
and pottery, 1-4 on" on the
choicest pieces, will replen
ish your cupboard at low cost
SEEDS -We are sole agents for Burbanks wonder pro
ductions and their full line of staple seeds and have our usual
full stock of Burpee's Seeds.
Stewart Hardware & Furniture Co.
Satisfy Yourself
We want you to thoroughly investigate the claims made
by our bank. Measure us up any way you choose and you
will find we can meet any claims made as to the ability of
our officials or as to their business integrity.
Any officer of our bank is worthy of your trust. Any
business intrusted to any one of them will be attended to
with promptness and fidelity. We pride ourselves on be
ing able to measure "up to the banking requirements of this
community.
Take pur measure any time and test our ability to make
good.
Hood River State Bank
Ford, Bodg'e
Bros., Cadillac
FraxiKlin
MOTOR CARS
Columbia Auto & Machine Co.
ill liljfm
Kodak and Let
the Children
Kodak
We carry the Genuine Kodaks
and supplies. Come in and see
the New Autograph Kodaks, the
very latest in kodakery. Date
and title your negatives any
negatives permanently at the
time you make them. The great
est advance in photography in
twenty years. We have a com
plete stock in Autograph kodaks
and films.
Victor Victrola's and Records
Kresse Drug Co .rW& js
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The More You Know About Watches
the more you will be pleased with what we have to
show you. We sell watches that stand for year in
and year out service. We will give them to you at
the lowest possible price, combining both service and
quality. 16s Thin Model Elgin Movoment, guaran
teed, nickel case, only $5.50. Others in proportion.
LET US SERVE YOU
W. F. LARAWAY, Hood River, Oregon
Satisfactory Titles
arc demanded by the wise buyer. Our work is unquestioned
and guarantees protection.
Satisfactory Insurance
i deemed a necessity by the wire property owner. We represent
10 strong companies and have millions of insurance in the Valley
Satisfactory Bonds
may sometime be required of you, contract, court or security.
When in need of such service inquire of us.
Hood River Abstract Company
This is the Ham
with the surplus salt left
out. Mild, sweet and
juicy, 8 to 10 lbs. in size.
Buy one today and taste
a real ham. They can't
be made better.
GROWERS WANT
AGENCIES FAIL TO GET RESILTS
At Mass Meeting Growers Express Dissatisfaction-Delegates
Will Be Sent
to Seattle Conference
The strong dissatisfaction among
growers with prices that rave ceen
received foi the apple crop this season
was emphatically expressed here mh
urdsy afternoon at the mass meeting
of growers called together at the Com
mercial club by Truman Butler, Hood
River's member of the northwestern
by-products committee. Growers were
present from White Salmon, Under
wood and Mosier. The purpose of the
meeting was to select delegates to
meet tomorrow with the by-products
committee in Seattle just previous to
the conference of that committee Sat
urday with the heads of the north
west'! six selling agencies, a doner co
operation of which ia aimed at.
In explaining the meeting Mr. But
ler, who was elected chairman, said:
1 be members of our committee are
unanimous in their belter that the
growers of the northwestern apple box
districts are not getting the return
that they should, not only because of
the competition existing between the
different districts, but because of the
competition between agencies in the
districts themselves. Hood River ap
ples are competing with Hood River
apples, and the same conditions prevail
in Wenatchee and in Yakima.
'We believe that the six large sell
ing agencies can tie brougnt tugemer
and that a plan for the betterment of
cooperation can be worked out. We
have called on growers lor suggestions
and for their moral support.
The six large agencies which control
the majority of the tonnage of north
western box apples and the coopera
tion of which is the aim of the Seattle
meeting are the North Pacific bruit
Distributors, the Narthwestern Fruit
Exchange, the Horticultural Union of
Yakima, Hiehev & Gilbert, of Yakima,
the Wenatchee 1'roduce Association
and the Wenatchee Fruitgrowers' As
sociation.
1 am of the opinion," said E. H
Shepard, "that if we growers want
harmony among the apple selling
agencies it is up to us to voice a Btrong
expression or our sentiment, i ne ran
road companies never mane any tnori
to change their rates unless there is a
demand by the people. We can see the
effect of the voice of the people in our
recent prohibition laws in Oregon and
Washincton. In the present case the
apple growers are the people, and they
must make demands beiore tney ci
what they want."
Mr. Shepard outlined the proposed
operations of a league that has just
been formed among the Wenatchee
growers, and which will prevent its
members from shipping through cell
ing agencies whose rules of marketing
do not conform with those laid down
by the league. He said he did not be
lieve that orderly control of the major
ity of the apples of the northwest
would be obtained until there was a
solidification of units composed of
closely cooperative local districts.
Dissatisfaction with the North Paci
fic Distributors was expressed by a
number of growers.
"1 have been a member of our local
union since it was organized," said J.
L. Carter. "We have progressed and
each step seemed for the better. We
thought when we organized and be
came a member of the Distributors
that we were going to arrive at results
that you are proposing to bring about
now. 1 do not know that anybody is
to blame, but we have failed and 1 am
now ready to do anything toward get
ting together at home. Ihen wo can
atiiiroach other districts and ask their
rnnneration."
A similar sentiment was expressed
by W. W. Kodwell and J. 11. Jeffrey
Kemresentatives 01 an selling con
cerns expressed themselves as desirous
of obtaininc better local cooperation.
"The Northwestern fruit exchange
is not brimzintr me enough money
said A. I. Mason, "and yet I think it
will return me about 10 to 'ib cents
more tier box than to the growers of
the distributors. 1 don't believe any
thing will result from our Seattle
meeting, for before we can ever get on
the right basis we must get together
at home."
A number of suggestions were made
as to the choice of delegates for the
Seattle meeting: finally after collab
oration beween Mr. Mason and Mr.
Shepard, the former put the following
motion, which carried : that two del
elates be selected by each of the fol
lowing, the respective organizations to
pay expenses of delegates: Apple
Growers Association, Fruit Growers
Exchange, Hood River Apple & Stor
age Co., Independent Growers, and the
associations or Mos'er, wnue nan on
and Underwood; that delegates must
be actual growers and not paid officials
of anv oreanization. As the meeting
was breaking up a motion to the effect
that it be the sense of the meeting
that no delegate be a member of the
board of directors of any organization
was carried. However, after consid
eration those present at the meeting
declared that the latter should not he
effective, since it will eliminate dele
gates from the Hood Hiver Apple &
Storage Co. And on this account, it is
stated that the motion's effect will be
void.
METROPOLITAN PAPER
TELLS OF SK00KUM
The Star Grocery, Perigo & Son
GOOD THINGS TO EAT"
(From the Tammany Times)
There ia no denying that the North
western Fruit Exchange has made the
word Skookum quite as famous as the
mystic "23" became a few years ago.
About this newly coined specimen of
American nomenclature is a some
thing that attracts us rivets our at
tention, sets us to thinking. Some
have said that it is novel and unique,
but it is mora than that. It is magical.
It falls upon tho ear with a forceful
pleasantness provocative of smiles and
good humor. Its combination of conso
nants and vowels being responsible for
this, even orth'orgaphers and philolo
gists who ordinarily rebuke attempts
to coin new words and names have ca
pitulated gracefully to Skookum.
School children who never fail to grasp
a phrase or word signifying that which
is good to eat. that which means d e
light to them at all hours of the day.
have feized.Skookum with such a te
nacity as to make doubtful the rcba
Lility cf the word apple leing ever
again used very generally.
A specimen of this popularity cf
Skookum is contained in the story told
by a teacher in one of the largest put -lie
schools of New York. A few davs
ago she detected an tlevin-yoar-uld
girl pupil in the act of chewing.
"Elizabeth , remove the gum
from jour mouth!" he commanded.'
"I'm not chewing gum," replied
Elizabeth, smilingly.
Well, if it is not gum, what is it:
ir.quired the teacher.
Skookum ! replied Elizabeth, mer
rily, while the room rang with titters.
skookum ! cried the teacher now
much embarrassed. "Bring it to me
immediately."
Little Elizabeth .tripped gailv up to
the desk and from her pocket brought
rosy apple a Spitzenhurg that was
indeed ,a beauty, a perfect ;: n i le t f
the wonderful northwestern fruit. Ev
ery eye in the room was on that apple.
W hat would happen to Elizabeth was
not nearly as important i.s the fwte of
that Skookum.
Betcher the teacher cats it," said a
little ft How in the back.
He hud hardly finished the sentence
when, to the wild satisfaction of the
class, the leather proceeded to devour
Elizabeth s Skookum, promising her
that she would replace it the next day
provided Elizabeth would not attempt
again to eat in the class room.
Io a newspaper reporter this teacher.
whose name is withheld for obvious
reasons, admitted the fascination of
the apple was too great for resistance,
that she just had to eat it and like lit
tle Elizabeth and many of the school
children, she now takes a Skookum to
scnooi un ner every nay.
I his little episode furnishes an idea
of the swiftness with which Skookum
has taken hold of young and old in
New York. Most of us have always
eaten apples, and all of us have known
an apple when we saw it, but seemingly
to the lot of the Northwestern Fruit
Exchange has fallen the ait o making
us eat an apple when we are not aware
that we want or need it. That's where
the magic of the name Skookum comes
in. It is a sort of allurement, an
awakener of imagination, an exciter of
our curiosity and our wonderment,
while a Skookum itself is a balm to
the optic and olfactory nerves and con
sequently a stimulator of the stomach
icumcua. In other words it creates
hunger as well as appetite, therefore
benefiting both the body and tho mind
and making it a boon to mankind.
That the enormous consumption of
these wonderful Skookum apples is go
ing to work a very important and de
sirable physiological change in the
American people if persisted in medical
science has perceived. A well known
New York physician whise practice is
extensive on the upper W est Side, re
cently expressed the opinion that ap
ples of the varieties sold under the
name of Skookum niv t 'the constant
changes of the tissues of the body ad
mirably, that from month to month
these chances are such as to require
equivlunt changes in tho proportions of
of chcir.icul combinations in un Hpplc ii
maximum ot lood value, is to be
miiiiituined and the veiy important lax
ative quality of the fruit is to be pre
served. In other words, iiinn can make
no mistake follow ing nature, unil na
ture has given to man different apples
for different periods of the sear to
meet the demands of this system. The
human system, this doctor said, re
quires in February nourishment differ
ent in cliarcter and constituent propor
tion from that it needs in November
and that this change must prevail in
the fiuits we eat as in the nitrogenous
substance we consume. Hut while na
ture provides for us seasonul fruits of
all kinds it seems she has ordnined
that the apple shall be a fiiend to us in
all seasons. And it seems, too, that
nature Iihs ordained that tlie.ternperiite
zone of North America shall produce
for mankind the bulk of this inde
spensable fruit, for the recurd shows
that American apples have superseded
native fruits in popular favor in must
of the civilized countries of the world.
Twenty veais ago American apples be
gan to find their way to all purls or
the woild, but not until the seienlinc
prowers of apples in the northwestern
part of this country began to produce
varieties f uch as those sold under the
brand name of Skookum, did the popu
larity of this American fruit become
what it is today everywhere on the
a lobe.
'I his ia attributable to the fact that
there is no fruit in the woild so de
servedly popular as the Skookum ap
ple. Skookum apples ate picked when
ripe in their seasons. They contain
abundant uotassium and sodium salts
as well as those of lime and magne
sium : also a truce of iron, all of which
are essential in tho making of healthy
blood. The acid of tho Skookum, while
termed malic, is in reality a combina
tion of several vegetable acids, includ
ing gallic, and the mixture of these
makes a mild and agreeable vegetable
acid the presence of which adds much
to the flavor of the fruit.
Dr. W. Gilinan Thompson, professor
of medicine in Cornell University Med
ical College, in New York city, a few
years ago issued a highly instructive
work called "Practical Dietetics in
which he (poke of the value ot Hpples
to man as follows :
"I hey also contain salts such as ma
lates, citrates and tartrates. They al
so contain lime phosphates, plant albu
min. gum and chlorophyll. I hey are
good anti-scorbulic remedies and are
laxative esneciullv when taken into an
empty stomach. There are many dys
nentics who thrive upon apples even i
eaten raw and who can rcgulute the
action of the bowels w ith them tffec
tivelv."
From this the deduction is justified
that the cause of ailments from which
a very large percentage of New Y'oik
suffers can be removed by the eating
of Skookum apples. Were this valuable
information from the pen ')fvso learned
a man and bo competent an authority
as Dr. Thompson in the possession tf
the millions whose livea are made mis
eiahle bv constipation, what a demand
there would be for Skuokums! What a
quick end there would be to doctors
and drug stores. liut even if the pos
sibility of abolishing doctors and di us
stores seems at first glance ridiculous
it is not aboslutely so. The people can
be educated up to the full value of ap
ples and may the day be hastened whsn
they will. "A Skotkum a day keeps
the doctor away," is a song that may
sing the world to freedom from ills
and pills. I
The origin of the apple dates back to
the wild crab apple tree of Europe.
MEETS MONDAY
MAYOR Dl.MCLE APPOINTS OFFICERS
Except for Slight Passage at Words First
Meetiug Passes Without Any
I'nusual Interest
(Continued on Page Two.)
With the exception of a little good
r.atured bandinage, pointed and yet
creating no ill feeling, between t'oun
ciln.en Hell and Culberlson, who with
Dr. Scnbee form the hold over mem
bers of the city fathers, the initial
meeting Monday night of the newly
organized city council passed off with
out excitement. Couneilmen Bell and
I'lilteitson locked borna on the pro
posed acceptance of the verdict of the
jury in the case ct W. I.. Nichols
Hgmnst the city, Involving the condem
nation of a portion of Mr. Nichols' lot
at the corner of Ninth and Sherman
avenue. Mr. Pell declared that it
would cost the city too much money.
lie urged that the street improvment
tic turned down, especially this year
while business conditions were de
pressed. Councilman Culberlson stated that a
former city council had offered Mr.
Nichols the sum of $h00 for the same
prnpci ty, and that deed had been
made ready for execution, when the
city attorney had apprised the council
that the property could not be pur
chased except through condemnation
proceedings. Mr. Culbertson further
stated that he supposed Mr. Pell was
against the proposed improvement
since it was not in his end of town, cit
ing an instance when Mr. Bell had
strongly supported the proposition of
securing lots for street improvement.
Councilman Bell then stated that the
cau referred to by Mr. Culbertson
was when he had supported the im
provement of Railroad avenue by ac
quirement, of lots belonging to the Ap
ple Growers Union. "No improvement
was ever made of more value to the
city," said Mr. Bell, "but in this case,
1 think we will be called on to make
many other similar improvements."
City Attorney Wilbur stated that the
city, if it ever expected to make the
street improvement, should take the
property ; for so low a figure would
never be secured again.
A motion to accept the jury verdict,
allowing Mr. Nichols the sum of $550
for the property, was carried.
Immediately afterward Councilman
Bell placed in nomination Councilman
Culbertson as president of the council.
and Mr. Culbertson was elected to this
position.
Mr. Ue.ll then suggested to the coun
cil that the city should provide for the
appointment ot an electric wiring in
spector for the city. "In case we do
not take such steps," said Mr. Bell,
the Portland board of fire insurance
underwriters are going to find It neces
sary to send a man here from Portland,
and it will be a great deal more expen
sive to those who are building or mak
ing changes in wiring of buildings now
standing," At Mr Bell's suggestion,
an ordinance providing for such an ottt
cinl in the city of Marshfield was read.
The council, however, thought that
it would be well to include in the ordi
nance provisions for a general builidng
inspector, whoso duties it woulud be
to supervise installation or wiring ana
plumbing. It was suggested that the
city engineer bo appointed to the
office, fees by property owners form
ing his payment tor services, the
mutter was referred to the judiciary
committee and city attorney for in
vestigation.
The matter having been called to the
attention of the council by Councilman
Scobee. the fire and water committee
wus given power to act in the installa
tion of a light on the hill steps where
they cross the Serpentine road. Coun
cilman Scobee stated a dangerous
place existed there, and that unless a
light was installed, some one would be'
likely to sustain an injury from falling.
The matter of repairing sidewalk at
the corner of Front street and Sher
man avenue was referred to the street
committee. At the present time the
council has no ordinance providing for
the maintenance of the old wooden
sidewalks. It was suggested that
this matter should ue thoroughly in
vestigated and such an ordinance
pusstd.
Mayor uumuie maue ine louowing
committee appointments: Street-
Franz, Culbertson and Nickelsen; Fire
anJ Water Bell, Scobee and Butler;
Judiciary-Culbertson, Nickelsen and
Franz; Police Scobee, Bell and Cul
bertson; Finance, Butler, Bell, and
Scobee; Health Nickelsen, Butler and
Frutiz. No change was made in the
city force of officers, with the excep
tion of the Heights policeman, Harry
Bsiley succeeding W. D. McCrory.
Allan Hart was the former regular ap
pointee for the Heights. He, however,
recently left for a visit in Kentucky and
Mr. McCrory was made tcmpoiary ap
pointee. Tho full list of city officials are:
J. K. Carson, marshal; night officer,
H. B. Smith; Heights officer, Harry
Bailey ; city engineer and water super
intendent, P. M. Morse; city attorney,
Geo. P.. Wilbur; health officer. Dr. J.
Edgington, and T. B. Chambers, street
commissioner.
Since the Pacific Telephone Com
pany's long distance office was re
moved from the Brosius building to the
exchange building of the Oregon &
Washington Telephone Co. there has
been t o provision for operating the red
light :U the corner of Second and Oak
streets for calling the night officer.
At the Monday night meeting ot the
council, the matter was referred to the
police committee, who will make ar
rangements for such a service with the
Oregon-Washington company, who un
der their franchise have agreed to op
erate such a light for the city. The
telephone company has notified the
council that it is ready to follow the
instructions of the city officials in
again maintaining the service.
Since the Home Telephone Co., the
predecessor of the Oregon-Washington
Co., moved from the Brosius building,
the light service has been maintained
by tho Pacific company as a matter of
courtesy, it is said.
The new members of the city council
are M. H. Nickelsen and Truman But
ler. E. A. Frani was reelected to
office.
Talk with Heed & Henderson about
nsti ranee. Money to loan on iann
laudi.
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