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VOL. XX VII
HOOD ItlVEIt, OKEGOX, TIIUItSDAY, AWl'ST 10. 1U15
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II Read about the lives of rich men and you'll find as a
rule the statement "he started a poor man."
11 No man, who exchanges his labors for money, is too
poor to have a Bank account. Wealth depends upon
what you save, not whatyouearn. If you will notsave,
you will not have. Having is the result of saving. Be
gin with $1 and we will help you.
4 Interest Paid on Savings
FIRST NATIONAL
SMO.tOO BA -
Capital
Butler Banking Company
Capital One Hundred Thousand Dollar
Established nineteen hundred
Four per cent interest paid on Time Deposits
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
LESLIE BUTLER President
TRUMAN BUTLER .... Vice President
C. H. VAUGHAN Cashies
F. McKERCHER Director
E. H. FRENCH Director
THE WISE MAN always prepares for a run of
hard luck. Anybody can get along when
prices are high, when work is' plentiful, when
crops are good, when business is brisk, then it is all
easy enough.
But the prudent, conservative, careful man looks
into the future and steadily piles up a balancevat the
bank to be used as a reserve in case of disaster. Rest
assured that the weather will not always be fair. We
invite you to keep your reserve with us.
Hood River State Bank
Fords, Dodge Bros.,
Cadillacs, Franklin
Motor Cars
Columbia Auto
to have done,
1.
K. SurP,u 37.000
& Machine Co.
A Cold Proposition
is the refrigerator, and we keep all of
our stock inside in cunsequenee; but if
vou aon t see what you want ask for it.
You won't aak for anything be it juicy
steaks, luscious chops, prime roasts, fresh
poultry or fish that we can't produce
ana cut up tor the most tostidious house
keeper. Safety first
E. M. Holman
The Sanitary MarKet
Phone 2134
Fly Goods
Screen Doors $ 1 and up
Adjustable window screens
all metal or wood frames;
screen wirecloth,silver,gold
or black; fly paper, fly traps,
fly poison, fly swatters
Summer Goods
Herrick Refrigerators
White Mountain Freezers
Quick Meal Gas Stoves
Perfection Oil Stoves
Hammocks
Porch Furniture
Porch Curtains
Old Hickory Chairs
Our Furniture Stock is in perfect assortment at prices that
means money saved.
A carload of Cement Coat Box Nails just received - we
would like to enter your order for estimated needs at a price
you surely want.
Stewart Hardware & Furniture Co.
$3,000 in Cash Prizes
For Picture Illustrating '
Kodak Advertising Slogans
For the best photograph illustrating any one of the five following slo
gans we will pav $:IOO.OO. For the second best photograph illtiet i .t i tijr
any one of the live following slogans we will pay f200.00.
THE FIVE SLOGANS-Class No. 1. Take a Kodak with yon.
Clang No. 2. All outdoors invites your Kodak.
Class No. 3. There are no game laws for those who hunt w itli a Koduk
C!ass No. 4. Let the children Kodak.
Class No. 5. Write it on the film at any time. (For autograph ad.)
NEW SLOGAN Class No. fi. For the Wst new slogan, together
with a picture illustrating same, we will pay $500.00.
Literature pertaining to cash prizes may lie had at the
KRESSE DRUG CO., The Rexall Store
Victor Victrolat and Records
The Only Place to get Accruate Abstract of
Land in Hood River County is at
the office of the
Hood River Abstract Company
ICE CREAM
Have you tried our Ice Cream?
We are selling it in any quantity
of from a pint up. It is going
to all parts of the valley and town
and we are also shipping it out
side. Everyone who has tried it
comes back for more.
Hood River i
PicKling Time Is Here
and you'll need some of these perhaps:
5 Gallon Kegs, 10 Gallon Kegs, 16 Gallon Kegs
v White Pickling Vinegar
Cider, Malt and Tarragon Vinegar '
Mustard Seed, Celery Seed, Cloves, Allspices
Stick Cinnamon
Tumeric.Small Red Pepper
STAR GROCERY, Perigo & Son
"Good THinrfs to Cat"
Oils
We carry Monogram oils in
any grade for every purpose.
Monogram is top of the very
few oils refined without use
of any acid - it costs no more
we have motor oil down to
40c a gallon. Lard oil, neats
foot, greases, hard and soft
graphite.
Outing Goods
Our fishing tackle line sim
ply can't be excelled and
costs no more In tents we
have all sizes at 10 less.
Camp Stoves, Water Baps,
Dunnage Bags, Camp Chairs
Cots, Bedding, Pillows.
Come in and hear the new Annul! Record
mery Co.
BIG SYSTEM
NEEDS FUNDS
A SrHM ELECTION IS CAUID
East Fork Irrigation District ill Vote on
Bund Issue and Question of Spec
ial Levy
While the big ditch, with the size of
the main lateral greatly increased since
last year, has been in excelllent work
ing order and while for the main part
the distribution of water has been
good, still because of the increased de
mand for water among the landowners
whose places are under the big system
it will be necessary to secure, either by
special tax levy or by voting additional
bonds, further funds, in order that the
business of the East Fork Irrigation
District may be properly administered
next year.
'lhe great reason, apparently, for
the increased demand conies from the
fact that land owneis now have to pay
for water, whether they make use of
it or nut. Since they are charged for
it, they are planting cover crops and
are calling for their wajer. This de
mand has resulted in an increased con
struction uf small laterals, lhe in
creased planting of cover crops, clov
ers, alfalfa and grain, the gain in the
dairy business and swine raising has all
been instrumental in creating a demand
or more water.
On September 7. the date set by the
board of directors, an election will be
held in the live precincts of the District
to determine whether an additional
$50,000 bonds shall be voted. The prop
erty owners will also vote on the prop
osition of levying a special tax of
$10,01)0 for the coming year.
Geo. K. Wilbur, secretary and attor
ney or the irrigation district, states
that it will be necessary that the prop
erty owners of the District to avail
themselves of one or the other or the
alternatives, vote both or face a deficit
of $9,000 at the end of this year.
under the existing law the district
cannot vote a general tax greater than
that of the preceding year plus six per
cent. Such a tax would amount to
$2.65 per acre, and would bring in a
sum of $29.48.25.
'If we take care of our bond interest
and the bare salaries of superintendent
and gaugers next year, with the sum
above mentioned, we woud have but
$4,300 next year for every other ex
pense. This sum will not be enough for
bare maintenance. Thus we are bouni
to have a dectiit next year without do
ing a single foot of new work. Nor
will any provision be made tor a lossi
bis contingency of a washout or broken
pipelines.
lhe:S9,000 dehcit mentioned will con
sist of $5,250 bond interest'and an es
timated sum or $J,7uO tor the remain
der of this year's maintenance.
According to ihgurea procured rrom
Mr. Wilbur, the tax levy of last year
produced a sum of $27,000, of which
$12,000 has been collected, and the bal
ance will be collected in September.
But that balance has been anticipated
and regibtered warrants are at ptesent
outstanding against it.
At the beginning of last yeBr the
board of directors deliberated as to how
much fmoney they would spend on new
construction. However, patrons of the
system began to come to them in great
numbers, urging that laterals be Limit
and they decided on a policy of first
come first served. The result was that
a great deal more was spent on con
struction than thev anticipated and
had funds for.
'lhe tax levy of last year was not big
enough. However, it was as large as
the board of directors thought the peo
ple would stand for. lhe dnectors hes
itated about any large expenditure in
view of the case brought by the Oregon
Lumber Co. and then pending. Since
the favorable decision by Judge brad
shaw, giving them about 6,000 inches
of water about which they have here
tofore been in doubt, the directors have
been given a greater degree of conn
deuce, and while making no canvass
in behalf of the proposed bond issue or
the voting of a special tax, since some
such course is necessary, they have
made it Possible for the people them
selves to vote the funds necessary for a
successful administration and mainte
nance of the District's affairs the com
ing year.
BILLY SUNDAY WILL
POSITIVELY PLAY
As the noted evangelist has pursued
the sinner and saved him from a pros
pective home within that country the
clime of which one hesitates to contem
plate, so have local fans been on th
trail of Billy Sunday, and at last the
former center fielder for the Chicago
White Sox has been signed for a base
ball game this afternoon, when local
ministers will again put forth their
prowess against that of the bankers
Billv Sunday will positively be on th
diamond at Columbia park at 3.30
o'clock this afternoon. He will play
the nosition of eft field. Other post
lions will for the most part be played
as in the former banker-minister game
when the former were defeated after
comedy of errors by a score of 15 to 12.
C. 11. Vaughan has sworn a vendetta
on the goat of the ministes, and has
vowed to cut more tally notches in his
score Btick than Rev. Macnamara.
Jim Rimmer is dreaming baseball
If the bankers are defeated today
will be more of a calamity for Mr.
Rimmer than was Waterloo for the late
uipII known Corsican.
The proceeds of the game will be
given to Mrs. Alma Howe to be used
in local charitable work.
CREAMERIES CAN-
Discrimination in the price paid for
cream by creameries of Uregon ia pro
hibited by law. The local creamery
has received the following communica
tion, covering this point, from J
Mickel. state dairy and food commi
sioner:
"I would respectfully call your atten
tion to Section 1, Chapter 344, of the
laws of 1915. in reference to the pur
rhasine of milk and cream within the
state of Oregon which reads as follow
J 'Any person, firm ,er corporation
engaged in the business of buying milk,
cream or butter fat for the purpose of
manufacture, either by himself or an
other, who shall, with the intention of
resting a monopoly, destroying the
business of a competitor or restraining
any manner an open competition in
id business, discriminate between
tne different sections, localities, corn-
unities or cities of this state by pur-
hasing or offering to purchase such
commodity at a higher price in any one
locality than is paid or ottered tor the
me commodity by aucb person firm,
corporation in an other locality after
making due allowance or the difference,
f any. in the grade or quality, and in
the actual cost of transportation from
the place of purchase to the place of
anufacture, sale or storage, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
punished as hereinafter provided.'
Me have been asked fur an expres
sion as to our inirepreialion oi this
section of the law, also what position
we might be expected to take in regard
to its enforcement
In renlv In t hi misstinn I will hhv
at this office will insist upon a atiict
compliance with the law. It is our
miino thitt where inv nerson.
t rm nr rnrnnration tiuva mi k or cream
... I
ui n.rtWpnt nnint within the state, the
nrii'n fnr anrh mi lk or cream should he
based upon quotation offered f. o. b.
the creamery or, at the place of pur-
hase minus the actual cost of trans
portation to the place of manufacture.
uompiainis nave reacnea mis onice
that the law is being violated as fol
lows: 'A' owns a creamery at New
town and quotes a price of 29 cents per
pound for butterfat f. o. b. his cream
ery. 'B' has a creamery at Oldtown
nd' pays 29 cents per pound for butter-
at at his creamery. fA' goes over to
fat
BV
territory and buys cream paying
29 cents per pound for butterfat and
does not deduct therefrom the expense
of gathering or of transportation to
Newtown. This is clearly in violation
of the law, as 'A la practicing dis
crimination by paying more or fat at
Uldtown than he does at Newtown. It
niHkes no difference whether the means
f transportation be by rail or wagon
haul.
Complaint has reached us that some
creameries purchasing.butterfat where
there la no competition, are grading
cream and paying a dinerentiai iof
lirst and second grades, while at other
places. where there are competitiors,
these same creameries are accepting
11 cream as first grade and pay for it
accordingly. We conisder this practice
so in violation of the law and will
deal with it accordingly wherever we
can obtain evidence to prove it.
Cream that reaches the place of
manufacture in such a condition that it
cannot be made into a marketable food
roduct without renovating or mixing
with good cream will be deemed unlit
for use and will be condemned.
Under Section 7 of the same law
very creamery, shipping station, milk
factory, cheese factory, ice cream fac
tory, coudensery, or any person receiv-
ng or purchasing milk or cream on the
basis of the butter fat contained there
in, shall be required to hold a licei.se
and also to employ a licensed tester.
'ARK PROPOSAL
AROUSES PROTEST
The proposed site of the civic com-
mittee of the Commercial club to pro
vide conveniences for traveling auto
mobilists at the city park has aroused
strong protests from residents in the
district of the park.
As an individual who resides close
to the park," says Mrs. C. 11. Castner,
1 want to voice my protests. I do
not think this is any place for such a
park. 1 do not think people will want
traveling motorists camped at their
very back yards, nor do 1 believe this
will appeal to the travelers."
lhe city council, which on Monday
received a communication from the
commercial club relative to the use of
the city park for autoBts, referred the
communication to the public property
committee for further investigation.
lhe council members, while favoring
the proposition in general, voiced a
protest against making the city park
vailable for such purposts. A move
merit is on foot to beautify the park by
the planting or shrubbery, and it is con
sidered too small for the use suggested.
SWlMMTNGPOOf
ATTRACTS MANY
Those who busied themselves in the
campaign to obtain funds tor the swim
ming pool that is now completed on the
city park just weBt of Twelfth street
must certainly have felt proud of the
finished place of recreation as they
watched the boys and girls sporting in
the pool Sunday. From mid-morning
until late in the evening, even until
darkness settled down, the pool was
full.
Houses for both men and womon have
been constructed beside the swimming
pool. A spring board has been erected
at the west end, where the water
reaches a depth of nine feet.
lhe swiming pool, indeed, ia now the
scene oi mucn sare pleasure tor me
small boys of the city. And many
young sons from the valley are allowed
to go swimming in its protected wa
ters.
OREGON LUMBER CO.
HAS NEW I1IGIILINE
The Oregon Lumber Co., which has
completed a section of logging road in
to the heavily timbered district along
the Lake Branch and West Fork of
Hood river, has installed a 2,200 feet
highline for transporting logs cut on
the west side of the West Fork of the
river. Monster firs, felled in the for'
est on the west bank are hauled over
the heavy line to the railway. The
line is about 400Ifeet above the stream.
The Oregon Lumber Co. has a crew
of about 175 men in the woods.
"Our plant at Dee is kept busy this
summer, says Chas. T. Early, gen
eral manager of the company for Ore
gon. "The lumber is being shipped, as
fast as cut, fur construction work on
the Ogden & Idaho electric line."
Smith Grows Large Peaches
W. L. Smith, of the Heights, hat ex
hibited at the Glacier office the record
peach of the year. It is of the Craw
ford variety and weighs just exactly
one pound, lhe diameter of the peach
is four inches and it is 10 inches in
J circumference.
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SEIG BM
FROM CHICAGO
APPLE BITERS SAID TO BE BlUJSIl
Export of Fruit will be Limited Because
of War - Hood River Takes Honors
at Green Fruit Exhibit
"Apple men are just a little bullish
at the present time," says Wilmer
Sieg, who returned last Thursday night
from Chicago, where he attended the
annual convention of the International
Apple Shippers' Association. "There
is a spirit of optimism among the trade
that is really running a little ahead of
the general financial conditiona of the
country."
Mr- sie ' no' much is ex-
pected irorn me export trade this year.
radically the onr
ijipmciius auruau
in tv i J ii -1.
w" K" u ig""u. n naiever irun
reaches the Continent must go by way
of Holland or into the Norfi Sea., and
the risk and cost will be so great to
prcciuuv must ui sui-n cargoes oi r
pies.
rrom the present outlook the New
town market in England will be fair."
be says. However, thia market must
not be fed aa generounly as on former
seasons, lhe British government baa
ruled absolutely against reshipmenta
from England to Holland porta or to
th North Sea, and if the market ia
glutted, the price will ilump, for there
will be no way of unloading the excess
fruit on the Continent aa on former
years.
Last year a good quantity of the
apples shipped from Hood River to
hngland were reshipped and ultimately
found their way to German markets.
We will have to take the chance of
having our shipments to Kngland reach
their destination in poor condition, if
climatic conditions are unfavorable:
for we will not be able to secure cold
"torage space. All such apace will be
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cnargeu ia iar neavier man appie anip-
cuul" . Ve eve" f'ac
were available. Any fruit that goes
to neutral porta in neutral ships it lia
ble to be delayed for inspection. We
had trouble of thia kind last season."
While many purchaaea of fruit are
being reported from other districts,
Hood River has told but 20 ears of
early apples, the fruit to be chipped to
South Amencan points.
1 notice that the growen of We-
natchee," says Mr. Sieg, "who are not
organixed aa we are here, where our
Association, controlling large portion
to the tonnage, ia able to put it to the
markets gradually, are selling their
fruit rapidly at from $1 to $1.25 per
box. Because of the long delay in re
ceiving poor returns lust season, this
real money looks good to them now.
But we here at Hood River are going
to wait and read the market before we
make any heavy sales."
Mr. Sieg says that the pear market
over the country it in rather poor con
dition. "Large volumes or poor rruit
are beginning to roll to central mar
kets, he saya, "on account of a slump
in the canning business. However, we
are expecting Hood Kiver pears to
bring in fair returns, for the fruit was
never of better quality. Our Bartletts
are now rolling. We have shipped out
about five carloads.
Mr. Sieg saya that Hood River grow
ers sre to be congratulated on tneir
local terimrial facilities. "I know of
no district in the entire country that is
better able to take care of ita product
than Hood River," be says. "This
feature appeals to me more forcefully
every time 1 go away and see the con
ditions of other districts. Hood Kiver
with her enormous storage apace is able
to hold her apples advantageously."
Hood River green.fruit shown at tne
convention by Mr. Sieg took second
prize. The first prize went to Wsgnet
& Co., of Wenatchee, who made a spe
cial display. Hood River's prize waa
really first in thedistrict claaa. Wenat
chee, proper, won third prize, thus be
ing second for the districts.
CITY MAY NOT OWN
STEAMBOAT LANDING
It was brought out at Monday the
night meeting of the city council that
it was possible that the city did not
have street property extending to the
water line of the Columbia. On com
plaints recently of some of the river
boatmen, who claimed that competitors
were endeavoring to monopolize wharf
see space, the city ottered to grant to
each of three lines a third of the front
age of a street that was thought to
penetrate to the water. Since an in
vestigation of deeds, it seems thst the
street does not reach the water's edge.
The matter ia now in the hands of the
city attorney, Geo. R. Wilbur, for a
thorough investigation.
'TITCIlFW'lDilAN
SEES C. R. HIGHWAY
Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, the
pitchfork orator from South Carolina,
and party spent last Thursday viewing
the scenes along the Columbia river
higwhay. They arrived here Thursday
afternoon by automobile and returned
Friday morning on an O.-W. R. & N.
train. Thursday night was spent nere
at the Mount Hood hotel. The party
consisted of Senator and Mrs. Tillman,
Miss Tillman, a daughter of the sena
tor: Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hughes, his
son-in-law and daughter, and two little
daughters, and H. W. Hughes, all of
Portland.
'Because of the long ride over the
rough toad," said Senator Tillman Fri
day morning, "we were pretty tired,
but we are glad we took the journey ;
for we will remember the Columbia
river gorge. It ia the grandest stream
I have ever seen. And you folks out
here ought to be powerful proud of
that highway."
Senator and Mrs. Tillman, who have
been on the Pacific coast for several
weeks, and who have been spending a
good share of that time with the family
of their daughter, left Saturday on the
return to South Carolina. 1 he journey
east will be made by way of the Grand
Trunk line through Canada.
Pocket Stamps, Linen Markers, Band
Daters, etc., at the Glacier othce.