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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1915)
Isle VOL. XXVII HOOD MVEU, OltEGOX, THURSDAY, SEPTKMIiKU Ki. l)ir No. 10 1 1 1 Vii x r i """ BK68 SI I Safety is the watchword for up-to-the minute banking. I If you are looking for absolute safety combined with all the essentials of sane banking, we respectfully solicit your patronage. Every precaution is taken to safe guard the interests of our depositors and in this con nection we urge our customers to consult us regarding transactions involving the investment of their funds. 4 Interest Paid on Savings FIRST NATIONAL BANK Capital $100,000 Butler Banking Company Capital One Hundred Thousand Dollar Established nineteen hundred Four per cent interest OFFICERS AND LESLIE BUTLER TRUMAN BUTLER C. H. VAUGHAN F. McKERCHER E. H. FRENCH FALL 1915 Millinery Opening Your are cordially invited to the formal opening of our new store Friday and Saturday, September 17-18 at which time we will be prepared to show the latest in Pattern Hats Novelties The Ha F. Smith Millinery New Location Hellbronner Bldg. Fords, Dodge Bros., Cadillacs, Franklin Motor Cars Columbia Auto ?fiaS taught you teach vour LMJ 9 Surplus $37,000 paid on Time Deposits DIRECTORS President Vice President Cashies Director Director & Machine Co. Meats and Provisions may le ordered from this market by telephone with the same eonfi'lenre as if selected in person. E. M. Holman The Sanitary Market Phone 2134 Orchard Supplies Security ladders 40 cents a foot to close out We have found a much better ladder -examine it Monroe Picking Sack $1.50 Palmer Picking Pails 1.00 Barnett Picking Pails 1.25 See that the nails you buy are full count. 5d 3970O-5d-31000 6d23G00. You can lose 25 Vt on wrong count. YVflvbe satisfied with a trading stamp, costing some ' " J body 1 to 3 per cent exchangable for goods you don't want, when we return you five cents cash for every dollar you pay us? And every time our cash receipts increase 5'- it enables us to reduce prices generally. The gain is all yours. Cash payment saves expenses which enables us to sell cheaper. We are always five per cent lower. Stewart Hardware & Furniture Co. Furniture, Hardware, Oils, Paints Orchard Supplies $3,000 in Cash Prizes For Picture Illustrating Kodak Advertising Slogans For tho best photograph illustrating an' one of the five following slo gans we will pav $300.00. r For the second host photograph illustrating any one of the live following slogans we will pay (200.00. THE FIVE SLOGANS-Class No. 1. Take a Kodak with yon. Class No. 2. All outdoors invites your Kodak. Class No. 3. There are no game law s for those w ho hunt with a Kodak Class No. 4. Let the children Kodak. Class No. 5. Write it on the film at any time. (For autograph ad.) A NEW SLOGAN Class No. (5. For the best new slogan, together with a picture illustrating same, we will pay $500.00. , . Literature pertaining to cash prizes may he had at the KRESSE DRUG CO., The Rcxall Store Victor Victrolas and Records The Only Place to get Accurate Abstracts of Land in Hood River County is at the office of the Hood River Abstract Company Insurance, Conveyancing. Surety Bond 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 Creamery Co. . uiisr i I Special Price One Dollar Clean, Convenient, No Waste THE STAR Automobile Owners are realizing that we have the oils of quality, and also the price. Neatsfoot and hard oils, alcohol and tur pentine, paints, oils and a most complete line of paint ing supplies. Hard and soft greases, non-flowing oils. Come in and hear the new August Records Neverfail Patent Pump Galvanized Five Gallon Cans AT: GROCERY STOCK INCREASE VERY NOTICEABLE WITHVfOMBE'S ADVICE FOLLOWED flrchardists Become Real Farmers-l nique Kigs fur Harvest Found on Farms Throughout the Valley On a bright October morning in 11112 Governor Withycombe, at that time director of the Oregon state experi n.er.t station, in company with a party f Hood Kiver men, motored to Park dale, whither he had been called to ad vise the I'pper Valley orcharidsls as to contemplated purchasers of dairy cows. Over the entire 25 miles' distance of country roads not a half dozen milch cows were seen. Today the animals are numhetcd hy the hundreds. This meeting of I'pper Valley ranch era mentioned, at which Ur. Withy combe delivered an address urging thein to adopt methods of a limited di versified farming along with their pre dominant industry of orcharding, was the initial step toward a profitable side lire for the fruit growers of the Upper Hood Kiver Valley, as well as the ranch owners of the Lower Valley. (iovernor Withycombe, or Dr. Withy combe, us his friends the state over were accustomed to call him then, is never more enthusiastic than when dis cussing farm life. And cows with him form a favorite topic. "Gentlemen," he said to the assem bled fruit growers, "1 love a cow. 1 can find only one flaw with this beauti ful valley of yours. A9 1 rode here to day I gloried in the magnificence of your scenery, and 1 was truly amazed that 1 did nut see more cows peacefully grazing in your meadows in the midst of your great orchards." In the course of his talk Dr. Withy combe told the orchardists that every one of them should at least own a cow for the production of butter and milk for home use. And today the rancher who docs not possess a family milcher is the exception rather than the rule. The row owner was the exception when Governor Withycombe was here. Great changes have been made in ranch life in the Hood Kiver valley during the past three years. Three years ago the total number of pigs, sheep, cows and horses was less than 51)0. To be exact, the county tax as sessor's statistics four years ago showed but hi cows in the community of 8,000 population. The number of swine was even less. Three years ago apple growers met for the purpose of discussing apple cul ture. Livestock was rarely mentioned. The lirst Industrial school fair was held in September, 1912. A half dozen chickens and rabbit constituted the live exhibits. Next Saturday, while scoreB of pigs and chickens will be shown by the pupils of the Hood Kiver county schools, the live stock fair of the adults will overshadow the conteets participated in in the Industrial school fair. The first silo in the valley was built a little over a yeHr ago by Howard Pealer, a West Side rancher, today thtse ranch structures may be counted in the twenties. During the past two weeks the following orchardists and ranchers have constructed huge silos: P. Ihomsen, VV. A. Sunday and C. P. Johannsen. Because the region was less devel oped in orchards, the greatest advance ment alung lines of general farming have been noted in the Upper Valley. A type of the model orchard and dairy farm may lie' found in the place of Mr. Johannsen, who has just completed a i80 foot dairy barn, lhe enormous loft has space for 85 tons of loose hay. He has built twin silos, of 05 tons each. These latter constructions aid the ranchers in utilizing their late crops of alfalfa and cover crops. The feed material, which cannot be cured in the late season, may be put into the silo even though it be cloudy weather. Mr. Johannsen a tarn will accommo date 30 cows. He has a basement 20x which is equipped for a separating room, and a large root cellar, in which to store his carrots and rutabagas for winter feed. With the advance of diversified farm ing many unique methods of handling crops may be noted throughout the val ley. In the Pine Grove district ti. 5. Galligan has been grinding feed for his herd of purebred swine with his auto mobile. On his barn floor he has marked the eaxct location for the rear wheels of his machine, a Studebaker The car is backed up to the point. A rear wheel is jacked up from the floor, belt slipped on it, and the car cranked. Then the hum of the feed mill may be heard for hours. "1 can grind six tons or feed a day. says Mr. Galligan, "who for several years has been producing corn enough for his herds of animals. Mr. Galli gan, too, has been making successful experiments with barley this season. In a live acre young orchard he has grown between the trees 300 bushels of this grain. J his bast bide rancher has corn that equals the mangniticent fields of Iowa. The maize was planted in clover sod land. It is eight feet high. and the stalks are loaded with two and three well filled ears. "1 am going to continue the culture of corn," says Mr. Galligan. "I Dlanted mv held on May 20. It is now- mature in a period of four months' time. This demonstrates to me that corn may be made one of our most pop ular crops. Delhman tiros., on their bast bide ranch, are operating a feed mill with the engine taken from an old automo bile. . Corn fields are to be found over the entire district this season. Three years ago the patches, the culture having been inaugurated by billy bunday on his Odell country home place, were very scattered. Until this summer 50 per cent of the children of Hood Kiver valley had never seen a threshing machine at work. Because of the increased acre age of grains, Lage Bros., hast Side ranchers, brought to the shop of Howell Bros, an old thresher that had been out of commission for more than a decade. Before the days of orchards the thresher had been used to harvest the grain crops of Hood Kiver valley pioneers. This year the record crop of grain fur the community was threshed a little more than 9,000 bushels. Excursions were made by families from this city to see the old thresher, horse power driven, at work in the fields. "Our best crops were threshed in the Upper Valley," says Ben Lage. '"The f 'ranch owners there should be encour aged in the production of more grains, fur they will always rind a ready mar ket for their product, and at good prices. The orchardists of Howl Kiver val- ley, who several years ago were accus tomed to purchase their vegetables and butter at the city's grocery stores, have by gradual process of evolution been turned into real farmers. Pastoral scenes, pigs in the barnyards and cows in the meadows have taken the place of the landscape garden effect of the orderly orchard tracts; barns have sprung up beside every ranch home. and waving Ileitis of ripening grain and shocks of harvested corn greet the eve of the traveler as he motors over the little, well known valley in the heart of the Cascades. A picture that the traveler over the Hood Kiver county roads now rarely ever fails to see is that of a covey of I lima pheasants feeding in the grain Ileitis, l 'jese beautiful birds, protected by law here, have increased by the hundreds in the past few years. They have become so domestic as to pene trate barnyards, and with the arms of the law forming a protection, and the ripe corn providing fattening food, they find the community a veritable paradise. Still, the orcharidst does not begrudge them the feed of corn- he even scatters grain around their haunts during the winter months for the (,hma pheasant returns the favor in the spring months, feeding on the dan gerous insects of orchard fields. TENT IS STRETCHED FOR STOCK SHOW With C. C. Carpenter superintendent of the stock show, the big tent for the first exhibition of Hood Kiver's live stock, to begin tomorrow, has been stretched on the Hartley block. The stranger in town is made to believe that a circus is here. The directors of the stock show an nounce that all entries must be in the tent tomorrow by 10 o'clock. Pens will be ready for animals. Pig owners must furnish troughs. Charges for pens and stalls will be prorated after the total expense is determined. The animals will be judged by Profs. Fitts and Keynolds, of the Oregon Ag ricultural College. An effort will be made to have all ribbons in place by Saturday. An admission of 25 cents will be charged all over 15 years of age. Over 100 entries have been made as follows: Gust Westerberg: all Jerseys, Lot 24, Bull, Meliua's Rosaline Boy; 25, Bull, Gizley of Hood Kiver; 29, Lady Winoe 3rd; 33, heifer calf; 79, grade cow; 82, grade heifer. S. B. Sutton, Parkdale: Lot 25, Jer sey bull. Kussell G. Pond, Parkdale. : Lot 105, Poland China boar. L. F. Parker, Dee: Lot 105, "Poland Chinaboar, Jerome 1st. K. A. Collins, Dee: Lot 25, Jersey bull, Zilles Starlight ; 29, Jersey cow, Lukeanutes Kuby; 28, Jersey cow, Lukeauntes and Buttercup; 77, Guern sey cow, Muckle. Mrs. Alma Howe: Lot 91, Berkhsire sow ; 98, four pigs from above. E. U MeClain, Jr. : Lot 81, 24 hour test. Joe Katagaina: Lot 33. Jersey heifer calf. Barclay I.. Henderson, : Lot 25. Jer sey bull; 85, llerkshire boar. Howard Pealer: Lot 25, Jersey bull; 89, three boar pigs. J. 1. Ihomsen: Lot 20, Jersey bull : 82, one year grade calf; 82, one year grade calf; 84, 24 hour milk test; 124 lluioc Jersey boar; 134, four pigB, pro duce of one'sow. Cutler Bros. : Lot 80, Berkshire boar; 90, Berkshire sow. G. H. Stanton: Lut 90, Berkhsire sow, Nieewood Duchess 3rd. : 92. Berkshire sow, Belle of Hood Kiver. L. A. Merman: Lot 105. Poland China boar; lOli, Poland China boar; 108, I'u I a nil China sow; 111, Poland China sow; 114, Poland China boar and three sows; 110, Poland China pigs, produce of one sow. P. H. Mohr: 139, Chester White boar, 2 years; 111, Chester White boar, 18 months. Galligan Bros. : 105, Poland China boar, 18 months; 10(1, Poland China boar, 1 year; 107, Poland China biar, under 6 months ;"110, Poland China sow, 18 mouths.; Ill, Poland China sow, 1 year; 112, Poland China, four pigs, same sire; I Hi, Poland China four pigs, same mother. E. F. Batten: Lot 87, Berkshire boar, 18 months; 89, Berkhsire boar, under 6 months ; 90, Birkshire sow, over 2 years; 92, Berkshire sow, 18 months; 92, Berkshire sow, same; 94 Berkshire sow under 6 months, (two entries) ; 95, Berkshire boar, and 3 sows. F. E. Battey: Lot 92, Berkshire sow, 18 months; 90, Berkshire boar and 3 sows; 98, Berkshire pigs, 4, produce of 1 sow ; 97, Berkshire pigs, 4, pro duce ot 1 bonr;89. Berkshire boar, un der 6 months; 94, Berkshire sow, under 6 months. E. R. Moller: Lot, 77, Grade dairy cow ; 83, heifer under 6 months, grade; 90, Bershire sow, over years. A. W. Peters: Lot 98, Berkshire, 4 pigs, produce of one sow ; 97, Berk shire, 4 pigs.get of one sire; 27, Jersey bull calf; 28, Jersey cow over 4 years; 30, Jersey Heifer, 2 to 3 years; 3., Jer sey heifer, 1J to 2 years; 35-30-37 will also compete for Championship honors; 38-39, Jersey bull, any age, Jersey heifer, any age; 79, grade heifer 2 to 3 years. Dickerson & Peck : All Jerseys, Lot 25,'bull 2 to 3 years; 26, bull, 1J to 2 years ; 29, cow, i to 4 years ; 29, same ; 30;heifer 2 to 3 years; 31, heifer 1 to 2 years ; m, i heifer calves ; 40, bull and four animals, 1 to 4 years; 41, bull and four animals, 1 to 2 years; 77, grade cow ; 98, Berkshircs, pigs produce of 1 sow. Clare Bickford: Lot 198, Berkshite pigs, 4, product of one sow. W. M. Hosick: Lot 143, Chester White boar under 6 months. H. C. Ritz: Lot 25. Jersey bull. 2 to 3 years; 44, Holstein bull, 1 to 2 years; 49, Holstein heifer, 1 to 2 years; 53, Holstein bull, championship; to, Holuein heifer, championship ; 59, Holstein, exhibitors young herd, 5 an imals; 77, grade dairy cow, over 4 years; 82, grade dairy heifer, b months to 1 year; 83, grade dairy heifer, under b months. Thomas Scott, Lot 130, Duroc Jersey sow, under b months. Chicken dinner at Congregational church from 5 to 7 Friday evening, Spntpmher 17. 3fi ennts. Cnmfiiniitinn I tickets to include mock trial, 50 cents. PACKING SCHOOL BEGANMONDAY AFTERNOON DISCISSIONS FEATURE Fair Daughters of Ranchers and Portland Young Women as Interested in School as Prospective Professionals With a corps of field and warehouse inspectors acting as instructors, kin dergarten classes of the annual pack ing school of the Apple Growers Asso ciation began Monday morning. Two large rooms of the Association's stor age plant were well tilled with stu dents, a cosmopolitan lot. lhe fair daughters of orchardists worked as hard over the intricacies of the pack as prospective professional packers. A number of Japanese ranch ers were learning very rapidly how to properly place the ruddy and red spheres of demonstration apples. Mibi KateW. Failing, member of a promi nent Portland family, has registered as a Btudent. and was intent through out the day, learning apple packing. 1 he school will last throughout the week. T he mornings are devoted to actual work of packing by the stu dents, while the afternoons are given over to talks by the instructors and Sain (i. Campbell, chief inspector for the association, and discussions among the students themselves. Those registered at the school are: Alice Merrill. T. R. McNair. Port land, Mrs. S. W. Heppner, A. F. Ma son, Lorvallis, u. II. Dean, Arthur H. Dean, Wm. E. Barr, Jas. Bolen, H. L. Murphy. Mrs. Brooks. L. H. Hawk. Ike Lewis, Arnold Berry, Charles Lawrence, Mduey Miller. White salm on, Jessie Stanton, Otto (Jja, E. W. Morn, II. K. Arnold, Helen M. Cox. Kate W. Failing, Portland, F. M. Peugh, Y. Mari. T. S. Akayama. W. M. Walter. H. C. Lowden, Under wood, Wash., Mrs. P. O. Springton, Portland, T. Matsamoto, Roy Howell, K.ILIurdick, White Salmon, B. A. Zeek. S. Ishikswa. Chas. S. Bowe. F. C. Fenwick, Geo. W. Ledford. E. T. Hin- shaw, White Salmon, I. L. Newton, Portland, W. K. Anderson. Portland. and Martha A me. BANKERS FIND CONDITIONS GOOD Hood River bankers, Leslie Butler and E. O. Blanchar, who returned the latter part oflast week from the annu al convention of the American Banker' Association at Seattle, declare that it was expressed by the big financial men of the country that condition! are In excellent shape; but that U.he wheel of commerce are braked by the uncer tainty caused by the great war. "From the assertions made our coun try was never better off," says Mr. Buikr, "but with the uncertainty of the war, there is no expansion. It was a great convention. There were great financiers from the whole coun try. All of them expressed their ap preciation of the hospitality with which they were received everywhere in our northwest." Mr. Blanchar declares that from hit standpoint as a banker of the Hood Kiver county the most promising thine noted at the Seattle convention was the manner in which the bankers of the east and middle west were impressed with present valuations in the north west. "1 talked with at least 15 men'from the east," says Mr. Blanchar, "all of whom, as soon as they secured definite facts as Evaluations, expressed them selves as believing the country had great opportunities. These men plied me with questions as though 1 bad been a witness on the stand. Some of them jotted down notes, and they 'will return home to tell prospective pur chasers. The settling down of valua tions from the boom prices or inflated valuations of five years ago will stim ulate an interest in other parts of the country that will result in good for our districts." MAMMOTH VEGETA BLES SHOWN AT FBANZ' A display of monster specimens of fruit and vegetables, stalks of corn ot great height and immense potatoes, made here this week at the store of E. A. Franz & Co., have been attracting unusuaK attention. A winter squash, grown by Babson Bros., of the Upper Valley, weighs 105 pounds. Mrs. Ida Sifton.who displays four potatoes, each of which weighs two pounds, also ex hibits the largest Delicious apple ever seen in the Hood Kiver valley. This specimen, the largest of the variety ever heard of, according to local ex perts, weighs 24 ounces. G. M. Ellis and Hosmer K. Arnold are both exhib iting mangel wurzels weighing from three to six pounds. The largest and tallest stalks of corn ever Been here are shown by F. M. Peugh and G. M. Ellis. The stalks are from 10 to 13 feet high and are loaded with from two to three well filled ear. It is of the "Pride of the North" vari- TEN CARLOADSOF SHEEP LOADED HERE Ten carloads of sheep were brought from the national forest reserves in the Trout Lake district, arriving here yesterday, and loaded on cars at the lo cal O-.W. R. & N. yards. The cars were double deckers. The sheep were the property of A. Wheelhouse, of Arlington. They wilt be taken to eastern Oregon for short period of feeding before being carried to the Chicago market. The sheep that have been pastured on the Washington side of the Columbia were joined here by six carloads from Dee, the latter drove having spent the summer on the range west of this city. This is the largest drove of sheep ever seen in Hood Kiver, and the load ing process created as much excitement among youngsters and adults luesday as a circus. ' The M. E. church ladies will serve one of their cafeteria dinners at Ithe church Saturday, Sept. 18, from 14)0 till 2 o clock. ,