Stretching the Truth
J.C
may work for awhile, but
not for long. We give you
credit for possessing more
common sense than to believe
that we could sell shoes at a
loss and pay our expenses
right along. Things that are
sold cheaply are apt to be
cheap in quality. "The right
kind at the right price" is
our motto.
JOHIBEN, the Hood River Shoe Man
Shoes and Shoe Repairing
YOUNG GIRL DISPLAYS
LITERARY ABILITY
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Bridal Veil Lumbering Company
Building Material
and Box Snooks
Yard West of Freight Depot Phone 2181
Hood River, Oregon
The Economy of Using
Preferred Stock Canned Goods
Wtnmi Um But in Orova
is well illustrated in Preferred Stock Asparairu. There
d i i ,m ' ra aelct,el -argc White, Mammoth
icu iuic,iinurreierrea stock Asparagus Tips.
Preferred Stock Asparagus comes from the Sacra
mento River Islands, California, where the best
asparagus is grown. There it is gathered, prepared
and placed in the can, BEFORE SUNRISE, everv
morning during the season to be enioved bv oar-
ticular eaters, the year around, everywhere.
No nvaite, nt labor more jor the money in every can of PrejerreJ Stock aii your grocer
ALLEN & LEWIS, Wholesale Grocers, PORTLAND, OREGON, U.S.A.
FOR SALE. BY
WOOD'S GROCERY
J. M. WOOD; Proprietor.
Phone 1221 Free Delivery
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WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A FRESH SUPPLY OF
Nitrate of Soda, Muriate of Potash
AND ALL KINDS OF FERTILIZERS
COME TO US DIRECT FOR
WOOD.FIBERED HOUSE PLASTER
CEMENT AND LIME
AS WE UNLOAD DIRECT FROM THE CARS 1
STRANAHAN & CLARK
Hood River, Oregon
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WHEN
IN
PORTLAND
Stop at theNewand Absolutely
Fireproof HOTEL BENSON.
Central. Rates floderate.
HOTEL BENSON
S. BENSON, Mgr.
A. T. LVNDBOKC
Ass't Mgr.
L P. BYRNE
Ass't Mgr.
The Purity Dairy Co.
Yours for prompt service and
Good Milk
TliOS. D. CALKINS
torage
We have storage space for all kinds
of goods in a concrete building
Our Tranfer Wagons Will Move
Anything
Complete Tra nsfer Service ,
Transfer & Livery Co.
Phone 4111
Miss Vera Gano, a student of the
iOak Grove school in a letter written
j describing the Hood River institutions
: displays a marked literary ability.
Miss Hazel Stanton, teacher of the Oak
Grove school, has brought her pupils to
the city on tours of inspection this
winter. Miss Gano's letter follows:
Hood River, Ore.. Feb. 25, 1915.
Dear Jack: This is the dandiest
place. I have been here just a week
: and have several nice looking jobs in
Sight As 1 still have funds enough, I
i guess I'll take in the scenery a little
while longer. Talking about scenery,
well, 1 never saw anything like it;
I looks just as if it came out of a picture
! book !
Two of the places I visited today
were the creamery and the telephone
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iMiitt;. t paw vu iiiucn uuuer m mm
Hood Kiver creamery I won't need to
eat any for a month. 1 like the cream
ery very well, but the job seems to call
lor only one man, and he has to make
all the butter, only about 550 pounds to
a churning, and that, two or three
times a ween ; to make a daily test of
all cream brought in; to tend to the
boiler in the basement; to make boxes
to ship butter in; to answer the tele
phone, which is rn small item; to wait
on customers, and to be polite to the
numerous visitors like yours truly.
Guess they won't need my highly un
skilled services there; not while Mr.
Bluhm remains the artist he seems to
be.
However, it was very interesting to
learn how it was all done.
The farmers of this valley bring in
their cream, but some is shipped from
Cascade Locks, Wasco and other far
away points. A small quantity of
cream is taken out of each can brought
in and tested. The farmers are paid
according to the percentage of butter
fat per pound. They use a Babcock
tester for this. You remember, we had
one in the school for a while, only that
was tor testing milk and this one is for
cream. The process is very much the
same, but mabye I'd better explain it
to you lor 1 know you have forgotten.
The bottles containing the cream are
placed in hot water so the cream stick
ing to the sides of the bottle will mix
with the other and give an een test.
The cream is sucked up in the pipe and
put in the flasks which have been set in
a scale for the cream is weighed in
stead of measured. Then sulphuric acid
is pourvd in, and the flasks shaken. I
tried to make myself useful as well as
ornamental by shaking a few of these
for Mr. bluhm. Then the flasks are
set in little brackets iii side the Bab
cock testers, which looks like a big red
pumpkin. It is run by steam. When
that tester is going full speed it is al
most as good as an electric fan. After
it has been whizzing away for about
three minutes the flasks are taken out
and hot water added to the cream and
sulphuric acid mixture, to bring the
butter fat up in the neck of the flask
so the percentage can be read. Most
of the cream tested from 20 per cent to
du per cent.
My observing eye had sighted a big
box or chest upon a platform at one
side of the room and I was very curious
to know what it was fur. Friend
Bluhm kindly informed me that it was
the ripener, with a capacity of S00 gal
lons, which is used to Pasteurize the
cream. This is done by the revolving
of a coil of pipes through which steam
passes, heating the cream to about 150
degrees for 15 or 20 minutes. The
cream is cooled by chloride of calcium
brine pumped through the coil of pipe.
The cream is Pasteurized to kill all the
germs. Then the good ones only are
supplied by means of a starter. This is
made in the following way a small
tank is filled with Pasteurized milk.
One bottle of lactic acid germs is put
into one quart of this milk and allowed
to stand until thick; then it is added
to the Pasteurized milk in the starter.
This mixture is added to the Pasteur
ized cream in the ripener, which gives
the right sourness to Ihe cream.
1 Now the cream is ready to churn. It
flows through a long tin spout to the
churn, which is a large cylinder shaped
combination churn and butter worker
run by a motor. It takes from 30 to
40 minutes to churn about 550 pounds
of butter. The temperature of the
cream when churned differs according
to the weather, but today it was 62F.
After the butter is churned the but
termilk is drained off and put in a
large can where it is measured out to
customers. Water is put in the churn
and the butter is washed by the revolv
ing of the churn. Finally the salt is
put in, U ounce to a pound of butter.
By the way, I saw several barrels of
butter salt in the store room. The
churn revolves once more and works
the butter.
It is then ready to take out, which
Friend Bluhm did with his hands and a
butter paddle. The butter is put in
butter boxes which hold 84 pounds
each, and pounded down with a big
stamper that looks like a giant's potato
masher. This makes the butter solid,
with no holes in it.
When a box is full it is leveled off
with a string. When the churn was
finally emptied there were seven butter
boxes full and a little lett over, which
Mr. Bluhm said was the cook's share.
These boxes of butter were covered
with a wet vegetable parchment paper
and placed in cold storage until hard.
when the cutting machine makes the
one and two pound rolls we find on the
market. 1 hey are wrapped with print
ed paper, and packed in 60 pound boxes.
Mr. bluhm said that from 83 pounds
of pure fat he expects to make 100
pounds of butter, bait and water make
up the balance. There is a national law
which allows only 16 per cent moisture
in butter.
Another bit of information I gathered
was the cause of hard crumbly butter.
If the cow is fed dry feed the butter
will be hard and crumbly, but if the
cow is fed green feed the butter will
be more soft and easier worked. As
most of the cows in this vallev are fed
dry feed, the butter is much harder to
make than in the Willamette valley.
When you want to start a creamery
all you have to do is refer to this let
ter and you'll have the whole thing.
1 spent most oi my aiternoon with
Friend Bluhm, but he had told me
about the wonderful telephone system
they have in Hood Kiver, so I decided
to go up and see it.
I bade Mr. Bluhm farewell and made
my way to the telephone office. Upon
arriving there I found it to be a fine
new brick building. One very notica
ble feature was the grand Ionic col
umns that support the porch at the
front of the building.
I was conducted to a room where I
was greeted by many clicks. It sound
ed more like a telegraph office to me
than anything ele 1 had ever heard.
The wire cheif tried to explain the
main distributing frames, but all I
could see was a frame covered with
wires. Everything was wires, wires,
wires. One very interesting thing was
the mercury arc lamp, which was a
large globe in which a blue-green light
burned,.'1 The wire chief's desk, long
distance rack and sending machine
were in this room.
The wire chief said this sstem was
the only one west of the Kucky moun
tains. It was brought from Cleveland,
Ohio.
We went on into the curators' room,
where we taw the sw.uhboard and
chief operator's desk. 1 wo operators
were busy saying, "Numher please,"
and clicking off the number just as
on an adding machine.
The wire chitf asked n.c if I wanted
to see the storage batterus. Of course
IJdid, and so down we went into the
basement. There are two sets of bat
teries. While one is in u:-e the other is
being recharged.
I fguess before I apiv fur a job at
the telephone office wili take a course
in electricity and "telephci ology. "
It was almost supper tune when I
had finished my af term, .n observing,
and as 1 was pretty hui ry I decided
the best thing to do wjs to mtardtr
down town and get something to eat.
Your old phi. Bub.
FRUIT SALESMEN HOLD
TRAFFIC MEETING
of
With
the
no fuss or feathers, traffic men
leading selling injeiicies have
been manifesting a genuine get to
gether spirit for several months. Re
alizing the advantages i f presenting a
united front to the railroads, especially
in view of several recently established
requirements, the heads i f trallic de
partments have been seel ing alliance
with ore another. The aim is to coop
erate in a friendly manner with the
railroads, not annoy them with unjust
and impractical demands. Much cor
respondence has been interchancgd ; a
Yakima Valley Traffic Association was
organized; the first meettng'for the en
tire northwest was held recently at
Spokane. Although attendance was
small, the results of that meeting may
mean thousands of dollars to growers
in the way of savings in transportation
costs. The Northwest Kxchange was
represented by its traliie manager, J.
Curtis Robinson, and tne assistant to
the general manager, R. K. Ellinwood.
The method of procedure in a number
of important matters was agreed upon
after thorough discussion.
A brief was presented iiy Mr. Robin
son on this subject of diversions. It
was adopted as the basis of appeal to
the carriers, to the end that the rail
roads shall not suffer, but that the
shippers may be ublo to operate more
effectively and economically.
Certain deisrable changes in refrig
eration were agreed upon, but it was
elected to study the subject further
before approaching the carriers.
It was believed by Jill present that in
all probability the heater service tariff
could be n aterially changed or entirely
cut out the coming season. To this end
a plan was adopted whereby Mr. Rob
inson is to wait upon the officials of
the Northern Pacific and Great North
ern, while Mr. Ronan, of the Distrib
utors, and Mr Samson, of the Horticul
tural Union, will talk with the O.-W.
R. & N.
Nearly all needed changes in demurr
age have already been accomplished
and will soon be put into effect as a
result of the meeting of trallic manag
ers of fruit shipping organizations held
in Chicago several months ago. The
northwest was represented by Mr. No
nan, of the Distributors, who partici
pated in the action taken. He is to be
consulted if any other serious changes
should be submitted. ' 1
Word was received that the railroads
are now inclined to look with favor upon
a 49 pound average weight for all vari
eties of apples. This is extremely fair
and is what the shippers very eagerly
sought to put through last fall. It will
do away with the long and cumbersome
bills or lading which have been a source
of annoyance, expense and mist il e the
past two years. No definite agreement
was reached regarding ave a e weights
for soft fruits, owing to the atsenee of
several shippers vitally interested.
A proposition to seek reduction of
rate per box on C grade apples while
conserving or increasing the earnings
per car for the railroad, was presented
by Mr. Robinson. He urged a reduction
from 85 cents to 65 cents per cwt. on
shipments to points west of the Mis
souri river, jumble stock, cheaper Btyle
of box, cars to be loaded with a mini
mum of 720 boxes. It was felt that
this is no time to ask the railroads to
grant anything the effect of which will
be to decrease their earnings, '.but that
it is possible to show them how to help
the fruit industry and at the same time
protect railway income. There is reas
on to believe that at least one railroad
looks with favor upon this attitude an 1
request. The other trallic men at the
conference deferred expressing their
views until the matter U taken up.with
their sales departments.
VALLEY DAY IS OB
SERVED DY WOMEN
"Valley Day" was observed Wednes
day afternoon of last week by the Wo
man's club. Each member had the
privilege of inviting a guest from the
valley. About 200 were present at the
interesting meeting held at library
hall.
Mrs. W. F. I.araway had charge of
the program of the day and delivered
the address of welcome to the visitors.
The prorgam rendered follows:
Miss l.elia Radford, violin solo, ac
companied by Mrs. F. H. Blackman;
outline of the Woman's club past activ
ities. Miss Mary McLaren; the philan
thropic work of the oragnization, Mrs.
J. P. Lucas; response to welcome for
Aloha club of the East Side; Mrs.
Frank Davidson; reading. Mrs. J. D.
Glittery ; response from (Well club,
Mrs. K. (). Dutro: uiano solo. Miss
Olive Nepple.
A social hour was enjoyed and a de
licious luncheon served.
U. OF 0. STUDENTS
ARE GOOD IN ENGLISH
University of Oregon freshmen from
the high schools of the state have made
recorus in freshman F.ngliah composi
tion. Portland hih schools, each hav
ing far more students than any other
high school of the state, naturally lead.
Astoria and Grants Pass, each, had five
students in the freshman class, and
Hood River four. None of tht students
made a grade lower than M (medium),
in the composition work.
II The total number of entering fresh-
n:en in September was about :itH. In
February came l5 more.
A reorganization of the work in
freshman composition at the University
is contemplated. Under the proposed
plan freshmen will be divided into sec
tions in accordance with their profici
ency, which proficiency is to be detei
mined by an examination after regit
tration. The "F.nglish dcfectives"will
be put into a separate class for special
drill. It is hoped that this segregation
plan will result in an effort in many of
the high schools to improve the quality
of pre-university work in English.
Dating Stamps, Self Inking Stamps,
Pocket Stumps, Pen and Pencil StampH,
r.tc., made Ci order at !li Glacier of
fice at Portland prices.
Spring is "on the job" again and
so are we, with a very
complete stock of
Fishing Tackle,
Base Balls
Bats and Gloves
See us before buying anything
in these lines.
For the convenience of our pa
trons we have arranged to issue
Angler's and Hunter's licenses.
Blowers Hardware Co
The Firm That "MaKes Good"
Phone 1691 Oak and 1st Sts.
Get Kid of Lingering Colds, Coughs
and La Grlppo
Spring finds many afflicted with ling
ering, Lacking roughs that weaken the
system. Slueli and wet cause inoro colds
than zero weather. Croup, bronchitis,
and pneumonia are prevalent. F.very
family should have a sale and reliable
cough medicine ready for use. Foley's
Honey anil Tar Compound contains no
harmful ingredients. It ceases a cough,
checks a cold and relieves inflamed and
congested membranes. It clears the air
passages and soothes inflammation.
For sale by Chas. N. Clarke.
ELLIOTTRETAINED
FOR ROAD WORK
J. A. Elliott, who has charge of the
Columbia highway work in Hood River
county, lhas been retained by the State
Highway Commission to complete the
work. Charges were preferred against
Mr. Elliott by the Newport Land &
Construction Co., which has the con
tract. It wag claimed that Mr. Elliott
had been overcritiral and that he could
not properly superintend the work
since he was plaintiff in a f 10,000 dam
age case against the company and H.
R. Newport. At the hearing of the
case, which resulted in the retention of
Mr. Elliott. John B. Yeon and others
of Portland appeared in behalf of the
engineer.
County Judg. Stanton was present.
However, when called on by the Com
mission Judge Stanton stated that he
was more of a spectator than anything
else ana wanted to see how the county
was going to come out on the deal.
Witness After Witness
In Hood River
Such Evidence Our Render Cannot
Dispute.
As wetnke up the Glacier week by
week, we are struck by the hearty, on
inista able way in w hicli witness after
witness speaks out as Mrs. Monroe does
here, if these people were strangers
living miles away, we might tike little
notice of them, lint they are not. They
are our neighbors, living ameng us.
Their word is too easily proven to ad
mit of any doubt. They speak out in
hope their experience may be a guide
to others.
"My hack ami kidneys bothered me a
grentdeal and 1 felt run down and mis
erable," says Mrs. N. A. Monroe of tH
Cascade Ave., Hood Kiver. "Doan's
Kidney Pills helped me greatly, soon re
storing me to my usual good health.
Since 1 endorsed Doan's Kidney Pills
before, I have occasionally taken them
and have always found that they live up
to the claims mado for them."
Pric 511c, at all dealers. Don't simply
aHk for kidney remedy get Doan's Kid
ney Pills the kind that Mrs. Monroe
had. Foster-Milhiirn Co., Props.. Buf
falo, N. Y.
Ml
because the entire tyttem
become permeated with
injuriout acidt.
To relieve rheumatism Scott's
Emulsion is a double help; it is
rich in blood-food; it imparts
strength to the functions and sup
plies the very oil-food that rheu
matic conditions always need.
Scott's Emulsion has
helped countless thousands
when other remedies failed.
No AlcokoL Reran Substitutes.
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M.UJW t.T'l.T H.T.riJI
COTTAGE
HOSPITAL
Hood River's Medical
Institution
Open to the public for treat
ment of Medical and Surgi
cal cases.
RATES ON APPLICATION
Address
Cottage Hosp'tal Assn.
HOOD RIVER, OREGON.
lis iil iiil
Kt
We give Green Trading
Stamps on all
and on all bills i
by the tenth i
Ing month. Fresh and Al
1 1 r ft rti ii 1 1 rf all Llml.
and fish. Courteous treat
ment and prompt service.
3reen Trading j
all cash aalea
Ilia paid in fuU jg
i of the follow-
VanAllen & Filz A
Telephone 4141 f
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T. J. KINNAIRD
Groceries
Fresh Vegetables and Fruit in Season
Flour and Feed
Phon212l
Hood River, Oregon
Real Estate
Business and residence property in
Hood River to trade for im
proved acreage in or out
of Hood River,
T. D. Tweedy
Phone 2372
2306 Twelfth St., Hood River. Ore.
IFSSICOtf" STABLE
..Livery, Feed and Draying..
STft ANAHANS & RATHBUN
Hood River, Ore.
Horses bought, sold or exchanged.
Pleasure parties can secureflrst-class rigs.
Special attention given to moving furniture am
pianos.
We do everything horses can do.
Hunt Paint & Wall Paper Co.
Complete line of PAINTS, OILS, BRUSHES, Etc.
Heath & Milligan Mixed Paints
Glidden's Varnishes
Room Mouldings
Bulk Calcimine Mixed to Order
Plate and Card Rail
Dry Paste
JSC
KELLY BROS.
Hay, Grain, Mill Feed,
Orchard Supplies
7th and Railroad Sts.,Phonel401
Local Druggist MaKes
Many Friends
i
C. X. Clarke, druggist, reports thev
are making many friends through the ;
quick benefit which Hood Kiver people j
receive from the simple mixture of buck- i
thorn bark, glycerine, etc., known as
Adler-i-ka. ThiB remedy became famous
by curing appendicitis and it is the most
thorough bowel cleanser known, acting1
on both the lower and upr bowel. Just
one dose of Adler-i-ka relieves contipa-;
tion ond gas 'on the stomach almost
immediately. I
Oakdale Greenhouses
The first 15 days in December
is a good time to plant Roses,
Shrubs and all hardy plants.
We have them. Have also tu
lips and daffodils. Pot plants
for winter at Franz', where
orders for cut flowers will be
taken.
Fletcher (& Fletcher
Phone 4738 Hood River
Anderson Undertaking Co.
LICENSED EMBALMER AND
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
312 Cascade Ave.
Phone 1394
S. E. BARTMESS
Funeral Director and Practical Embalmer
Established 24 Years
HOOD RIVER, OREGON