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tools for
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Bank account
1 jf proves nemier
f were wasted.
A Why don't you learn the advantages of having a Bank
account in a reliable Bank?
UTo start is the thing don't be backward because your
beginning may be small, all big things had small begin
nings and there is a pile of satisfaction and comfort in
watching your bank account grow. We want to help
you save and be somebody, if you will give us the chance.
Begin with one dollar.
4 Interest Paid on Savings
FIRST NATIONAL
BANK
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 39700-5Jd-31000
6d23G00. You can lose
25 on wrong count. -
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.
Vylvbe 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'c it enables us to reduce prices generally.
The gain is all yours. Cash payment saves expenses
which enables us to sell cheaper.
We arc always five per cent lower.
Capital $100,000
Surplus $37,000
Bank Advertisement No. 61
The following amounts have been left
with us by our customers to be invested in
high grade first mortgages:
$4,000
2,300
2,000
2,000
$1,400
1,200
1,000
1,000
$1,000
1,000
800
700
$600
600
500
500
Most of these customers have specified
that their funds shall be placed on improv
ed income bearing farm properties; some
of them, however, are willing to consider
loans in the City of Hood River and a few
of them will consider loans for the purpose
of developing and improving land in this
vicinity.
BUTLER BANKING COMPANY
Stewart Hardware & Furniture Co.
Furniture, Hardware, Oils, Paints
Orchard Supplies
APPLES NOW
BEING PICKED!-
ORCHARDS SCENES OF ACTIVITY
houses in different parts of the valley
re now open for receipt of fruit. W.
K. Cunningham is in charge of the
Odell warehouse, and Kenneth McKay
locking after the citr warehouse.
The otlices of the Exchange will be
removed next week from the Frist Na
tional Bank building to the new tile
plant on State stree t.
Orchard Duxes Glisten in Vista of Trees CTHR A HP FAPII
kJlVtlilMLJ I 11V1UIIILIU
as Army of Han est Hands Attack Trees
Rearing Red and Golden Fruit
1 Make Every Minute Count
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KRESSE DRUG CO.,
The fioxaUL Store
Victor Victrolas apd Records.
Come in and hear the latest Oc
tober Records.
Fords, Dodge Bros.,
Cadillacs, Franklin
Motor Cars
Columbia Auto & Machine Co.
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 Bonds
Schilling's Coffee and Baking Powder
Are guaranteed. If after using it, you are
not satisfied we will refund you the
full price you paid. Give these a trial.
CASH GROCERY
ice uream
Until further notice we will make
Ice Cream only on special order.
Kindly give us notice two days
in advance.
Hood River Creamery Co.
Grocery of Quality
E. E. KAESSER, Proprietor
Phone 1012
Meats and Provisions
may be ordered from this market ly
telephone with the same confidence as if
selected in person.
E. M. Holman
The Sanitary Market
Phone 2134
VERMONT MAID
PURE MAPLE SYRUP
New crop just received:
Pint cans 35c Quart cans 65c
Half gallon $1.00 One gallon 52.00
There is nothing better in Maple Syrup. New crop Log Cabin
Cane and Maple Syrup just in.
THE STAR GROCERY
"GOOD THINGS TO EAT"
PERIGO ta SON
AN AID, SAYS SIEC.
COUNCIL CALM
DOCK SITE CREATES DISCISSION
City's Offer Fails to Meet ith Approval
of Commodore Dean, ho Offers Wharf
Fawn License Not .Needed
Ftcktrs are busy now in the orchards
of Ihe Hood River valley. Perched
on their strung ladders, men and
women, boys and girls are clearing the
tree cf their attractive apples. After
the trees of the eariler varieties, such
as Jonathans and Snows, of which the
IucbI production is limited, the New
towns and Winter bananas are at
tacked. The latter variety is now very
nearly harvested. Every orchard is
the scene of activity. Hows of field
boxes rtiHV be seen glistening white
up and down the visU of the apple
trees. Wagons, with their flat tops,
resembling the trucks that one may
see at railway stations or in the whole
sale district of a city, are driven in
and out of the orchard fields, bearing
the fruit to the private packing house
nf the owner or to some neighboring
co-operative warehouse, where the
fruit will be sotted and packed. After
the last process, having been carefully
inspected by ollicials or the VBlley's
shipping organizations, it is ready for
the markets of the world. If it be a
Newtown it will in all probability be
eaten by an Englishman ; if an extra
fancy Spitzenhurg, the bet may be laid
that it will travel to New York to
grace the breakfast table of some
wealthy American, or u may nno lis
way on the stand of some fancy fruit
merchant to allure the passerby.
In the autumn months, arter the nrst
rains have washed away me summer b
dust from fruit and foliage, and the
deep red Arkansas Black, the vividly
colored fcpilzerburg, me uunien urucy
and red Hushed Winter Banana are
nefted in the green ot the leaves, the
Hood Kiver orchard comunities are
very beautiful. Indeed, many people
prefer the trip through the valley at
this season of the vear to that of the
spring, when the orchards are a sea of
white and pink blossoms. Hut before
the armv of Dickers, who now number
in the thousands, the beautifying
spheres of red and gold are last dis
aunearinir.
A number of nomad families of the
Northwest harvest strawberries here
in the suriiiBtime. They remain for
portion of the summer to thin apples.
then thev will load their canvas cov
ered wagons on boats of the Columbia
and drop down to enter the Willamette
valley and participate in the picking nf
the lions. Ihey are nere again now,
and their tentB and wagons are on the
same spots where they might have
been found last year this season. Some
of the families have numerous chil
dren. cleanly, well dressed little fel
Iowb. Une might wonder how a family
could be cared for under such condi
tions. everv gipsy-like member of
which seems happy, healthy and con
tented.
The tasks of apple harvest time for
the orchardist's wife, may be compared
to those of the grain rancher's wife in
eastern Oregon or Washington. The
men are fed and housed on the orchard
ists' blaces. Some growers as yet
have no permanent quarters for their
extra hem. and numerous lents now
rint the vallcv. Most growers, how
ever, have niBiie provisions for their
nickers and orchard laborers, and coin
turlable bunas may ne lounu in wie
backing plants.
In the past two or three years, too,
there has been a shifting of the meth
od of caring for apple crops. It
predicted that in time none except the
larger orchardists will harvest 11 in ap
pies for himself, the smaller men
banding together as have been done in
the l)Hk Grove district. Here the I'io-
neer Packing Co., a co-operative con
cern. composed 01 orcnaruisis 01 me
immediate vicinity, have combined to
harvest their fruit, 'this season the
company will pick and pack the crops
of 12 erowers.
In the Van Horn district, five of the
largest growers have combined in the
construction of one of tho most com
plete packing houses and storage
nlants in the Northwest. The fruit,
after it reaches the plant of this com
pany for the most part is handled
luhnr savins machinery.
The BDbles are taken from the fields
directly to the packing houses, except
in the case of the Van Horn storage
plunt, where a large percentage of the
apples are placed directly into cold
rooms, to be packed out later in the
season. At the packing houses, they
are sorted by the packers, themselves
or bv the use of mechanical devices
The latter, because of their accuracy
and the moderate prices for which they
are now being made are coming into
oeneral use.
The last handling of the fruit is done
bv the backer. Be it understood
annle crower of the Hood River valley
cannot pack his own apples. The rules
of the association are made on the
theory that if he is honest, he should
not be tempted. The fruit is placed in
boxes bv licensed packers. Each pack'
. " LI
er is given number ana a ruuuer
stamp bearing the impression of this
number the hrst ol eacn season, tv
ery box of apples he puts out bears the
number, and ir baa renoris come oacn
relative to anv of those boxes of fruit
it is nrobable that the pucker involved
will not find a job the next year. The
stamp of each grower, too, is put on
the box. and he is held responsible also
for nonr nackins.
As the fruit is packed it is stored
away into the growers pac.King nouse
or barn. Some of the prepared product
being hauled to the huge storage houses
and refrigerating plants or the city
In a few weeks the activity of the or
chards will give place to that of these
houses. At the busy hauling season
lines of WBgons reaching for several
blocks may be seen drawn up to unload
their precious loads of Hood Kiver
extra fancy apples.
Frost prevailed over the Hood River
valley Sunday night. The weather,
according to orchardists, is ideal. The
cool, snappy nights following the rain
of last Friday night will give the color
desired for red varieties of apples.
Saturday, from reports that hive
come in from different parts of the val
ley, a gale prevailed in apple districts
for about half an hour. Many hun
dreds of apples were shaken from
trees.
Hood River apple growers are realiz-1
ing returns this year on their well
equipped storage and refrigerator
plants, equipped to handle a crop 01
nearly twice the size of that of the sea
son now under way. Eastern markets,
according to reports of local dealers,
are in a very bal condition due princi
pally to the fact that the markets are
overloarded with fall varieties of fruit,
a very large proportion of which goes
to market in bulk.
"The local apple men are extremely
fortunate," declares Wilmer Sieg, "be
cause the progenitors in the orchard
business conceived the necessity for
building these terminal facilities. Con
sequently during the depression of the
fruit markets we can sit tignt and piay
a waiting game until after the early
varieties of the middle west are cleaned
P.-.
IHher sections without storage ta-
cililies are forcing their apples on the
market!, and this is adding to the gen
eral confusion.
'The great trouble with Hood Kiver
that it is suffering from a lack of
concentrated eflort. Its shipping asso
ciations are working for values that
are being undermined by independent
growers shipping direct. It is bothered
also by an influx ol buyers who try 10
purchase fruit fur about halt us leal
value, and in many cases iney aei away
with it. These buyers in turn quote
the trade prices at ot) cents lower than
the ruling (mutations of associaions at
the same time making a guarantee ol
the Association's grade and psck.
Conditions that rule this year show
imperatively the necessity of growers
aligning themselves with some stand
ard shipping agency. Using the purely
German expression : 'Unless we hang
together, we will hang separately.
APPLE & FAIR BOOST
ER, PIONEER MOTORIST
After a two days' pioneer automobile
trip from North Yakima, Almon E.
Smith, who is touring the northwest in
his car in the interest of the San Diego
exnosition. arrived here Monday morn-
iniz tired and dusty. Mr. smith came
by way of White Swan, Simcoe and
Glenwuod.'
"Thev tell me." he says, "that I am
the first motorist ever to make this
route. Mv driver and 1 wuuld never
have taken the trip if we had known
what we were getting into. It is true,
as we were told, we cut the distance
considerably, hut we wuuld have made
far better time if we had gone by ftiab
ton and Bickletun.
'The rosd we took leading down
through the Yakima Indian reservation
to Glenwuod wbb nothing more than a
trail. We had to jump stumps and run
our car over good sized Iors. Our most
serious accident, however, was the
breaking of our crank rod. We were
using a high powered Locomobile. 1
don't think we could have made the
trip with a muchine of ordinary power.
Mr. Smith says that they met up
with a forest ranger in the pine forest
north of Glenwuod. " I his man told me
that efforts were being made to have
the government appropriate money to
construct a road from North Yakima to
Glenwood, or rather complete a link in
passhle way that is already open.
When this is done, it was stated, the
oad between the two points will be les
sened ii Lout 60 miles.'
Mr. Smith is traveling through all
nortwestern fruit districts securing
fruits fur display at the Panama-Cali
fornia exposition.
We are trying especially to interest
the shipping organizations, he says.
"During the fall months, as the com
mercial varieties of apples ripen and
are harvested we will have at the San
Dieuo fair the largest representation,
in labeled packages of fruits, of fruit
shipping organizations ever before
seen at any one time."
Whi e here Mr. Smith called on the
shipping associations and representa
live crowers.
I have alloted a space to Hood
River in tho booth maintained at San
Ditco." he sbvs. "For this space I
have been offered $10 per month. Al
ready I have bought with funds at my
disuosal $70 of fruit from the Hood
luver valley.
Hond Kiver cummon cuuneil meetings
for the pant several years have passed
off in a calm that had grown into a cus
tom. Hut precedents were shattered
by a display of fireworks Monday bight
when Commodore Dean, in words that
contained no modifying statement:1,
refused to accept proposals made by
members cf the city council relative to
the construction of a public dock for
the city.
The city of Hood Kiver owr.s'a forty
foot strip, for street purposes, to the
water's edge of the Columbia. The
council has granted all the different
buat companies the privilege of landing
their steamers on this strip. The
Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navigation
Co., which has a whart'sUe leased from
the Oregon Lumber Co., uses its own
wharfboat.
Commodore Dean declares that he
has secured the funds with which to
erect n public duck at Huud River. He
proposes to build a structure that may
be used by all river bust lines that
agree to pay charges necessary to
maintain the dock. Members of the
council offer to aid the river boatman
in his project. However, Commodore
Dean asks that the city deny all boat
companies the privilege of using the
city strip.
"We assured Commodore Dean that
we would do this immediately hu mado
ready his public dock," sBys 1 luman
Duller, "but we will ret deny any
privileges of landing freely until this
is done. We want to tell all river
boatmen that they are perficlly free
to land at our city and get rs much
freight as is obtainable. We want to
tell the apple growers that they ate
privileged to use any boat line they
may see lit to use at any time."
- Commodore Dean declared that his
proposal of constructing a public dock
was off unless the city closed the street
as a landing place at once.
A recent investigation of recordu
shows that the city at ptesent does not
have title to the water's edge. The
error, however, was mado in a survey
and description of the property. Chas.
T. Early, manager of the Oregon Lum
ber Co., has informed the council that,
since it was the intention to transfer
the property to the water front by tho
original deed, the company will correct
the error.
J. K. Carson, city marshal, advised
the council that the stove at the city
hall building, in which is located the
city priusn, was in a dangerous condi
tion. Unless the stove is replaced Mr.
Carson expects tho possibility of a
roasted prisoner thiB winter.
The city Monday night purchased
$8 Ml of its own street improvement
bonds. The bonds, for whichjuooutside
bids were received, are for the im
provement of West Sherman avenue.
J he investment was made tor tne
water bond sinking fund.
The fullowing ollicials for tho No
vember municipal primary were ap
pointed: Judges, li. A. MacDonald,
John A. Wilson and Mrs. 0. L. Morse;
clerks, Mrs. George Mellon and Mrs.
R. I). Gould. Three councilnien are to
be elected fur next year, the following
city fathers' terms expiring: Dr. E.
L. Scotiee, J. hi. culbertson and u a.
Hell. Louis A. Henderson and H.U
Howe will be candidates for reelection
for the respective offices of city treas
urer and city recorder. No annonee
ments have been made for'tf.e candid
ates fur councilnien.
H. Gross, proprietor of a second
hand store, who was recently granted a
pawn broker license, applied to have
his money refunded. Gross declared
that he was'unable to use his license in
Hood Kiver.
CHILD TAKEN, WOMAN
THREATENS SUICIDE
A possible tragedy was averted here
Thursday by local authorities, who by
taking boison and weapons from Mrs.
Anna Snarr. a woman living in a shack
on the Columbia lowlands, probably
orevented her from taking her own
life. The woman, with her little four
year old daughter, was found living
with a half breed Indian. The man
was made to leave town early in the
week. The child was taken to Port
land Thursday by J. G. Kilpack, of the
Portland Boys and Girls Aid society,
and placed in the organization home.
"I will kill myself if you take my
child," the the woman told the officers,
when they went for the little one.
Officer J. K. Carson, searching her fil
thy hut found a note pinned on a table
tup. It was addressed to a son, Cecil.
"Forgive me for what I am going to
do," it read,"but I am broken hearted,
thev are taking away my darling
baby." The officer found the woman
and took from her a bottle of poison
and a knife. She has been watched
closely since. With the half breed out
of the way the officers express the
hope that the woman reforms and be
comes worthy of having the child re
stored to her.
HANS HOERLEIN TO
RENDER PROGRAM
The next concert of the musical de
partment of the Woman's club will be
held at Riverside Congregational
church on the evening of Tuesday, Oc
tober 19, when Hans Hoerlein will ren
der an organ recital. Mrs. C. H. Hen
ney will Bing several solos.
At the close of his concert Mr. Hoer
lin will give a talk, explaining organ
music and especially that of the selec
tions rendered. The general public is
invited to attend the recital. However,
a guest's fee of 10 cents each will be
charged all not members of the Wo
man's club.
The musical department will huld a
business meeting next Saturday after
noon at 4.30 o'clock at the libraiy
building.
STAMP LAW CALLED
The anti-trading stamp law passed by
the last legislature was on Monday de
clared unconstitutiunal in a decinion
handed down by Federal Jude VVolver
ton in Portland. The case was being
watched with interest by a number of
local merchants who use the stamps m
their business.
It was decided that the law, which
levied a tax of five percent on the
gross sales of stores using trading
stamps, was in contravention of the
equality clause of the federal constitu
tion, and therefore void. Monday's de
cision restores tradirg stamps to the
status that existed before the enaction
of the law, which was found invalid.
BEAR STEAKS ARE
NOW LN SEASON
Exchange Warehouses Open
The Fruit Growers Exchange ware
Thurston Laraway Wins Honors
Thurston Laraway, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. F. Laraway, has won marked
honors at the University of Oregon,
where he is now sutdent of the de
partent of commerce. In two recent
testa Mr. Laraway has received a mark
of 100 per cent.
Mr. Laraway has been pledged to the
Delta Tau Delta fraternity.
Bear steaks and roasts are now in
season. Numerous hunters are 1 ring
ing in big fat carcasses of bruins.
Chas. Abernathy, of Mosier, who
killed his animal in'the range east of
the valley, brought a huge beur to the
Holman market the first of the week.
The bear, which was the fattest, ac
cording to thoes who have seen many
carcasses, seen this season, weighed
240 pounds dressed.