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No. '21
VOL. XXVII
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Mi2fe save part
asSTfi' of what he
earns
to-day
I KS&tfWtt Starts
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5ife anew
to-morrow.,
flMake up your mind to take just so much out of your
next pay and put it in the Bank, then get in the habit
of doing it regularly.
11 If you will make a little investment now and then with
good habits or money you will be repaid in rich divid
ends, among them, comfort-respect and wealth. Start
with One Dollar.
4 Interest Paid on Savings
FIRST NATIONAL
BANK
Capital $100,000
Surplus $37,000
Bank Advertisement No. 63
We have juHt added a remarkable machine to our equip
ment. A machine that posts ledgers more neatly, quickly
and accurately than a human being can do the work.
People who are not acquainted with the inside workings
of a bank will not fully realize the great advantages of ma
chine work over hand work in Posting to the Ledger. The
big advantage of using the machine is the saving in time
and in the improvement in the appearance and legibility
of the ledger sheet.
Heretofore the clerks when posting to the ledger had to
make a list of checks on each account, then a list of de
posits, add each list separately and then substract to get a
balance. This is all accomplished in one operation by the
new machine.
One of the remarkable features of the machine is that it
automatically detects and marks overdrafts with a minus
sign. When the checks exceed the deposits, no result can ,
be printed unless the lever is in the "substract" position.
The machine automatically adds the deposits to the old
balance and eubstracts the checks us they are listed. The
new balance is computed and provided siuiplv by taking a
total.
Our bookkeepers will take pleasure in demonstrating
this machine to you if you will call at that department.
BUTLER BANKING COMPANY
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 39700-5id-31000
6d23G00. You can lose
25'c 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.
Ynivbe satisfied with a trading stamp, costing some-
V 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
UPPER YALLEY
MANY NEW HOMES BEING MILT
Citizens of Thriving District Would Cap
italize Scenic Assets Around Hood's
Base - Rogers Active Booster
(Continued from I-ast Week.)
The Upper Valley district has two
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founWnPen
KRESSE DRUG CO.,
The QoxalZ, Stors
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Victor Victrolas and Records.
Come in and hear the latest Oc
tober Records.
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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
COPYRIGHT 1118
THI HOUII OP KUPPINHCIMIH
You're Wrong!
Yes Sir, decidedly wrong!
The suits and overcoats you see in our windows
this week are not $50.00 nor $40.00-nor even $30.00
They're the special showing we're making on our
arrivals from the famous line of
Kuppenheimer Clothes at
$18.00, $20.00, $25.00
You'll do well to come in and give them closer in
spection. There's safe sure satisfaction awaiting
you in the men's wear carried at this Live Store.
J. G. VO GT
Ice Crea
Until further notice we will make
Ice Cream only on special order.
Kindly give us notice two days
in advance.
Hood River Creamery Co.
THIS IS NATIONAL COFFEE WEEK
A good time to tret acquainted with the FINEST COFFEE ON EARTH
1
SOLD ONLY AT
postoffices. Mount Hood and Parkdale.
The former was the center of the early
settlement of homesteaders. Within a
radius of two or three miles of the spot
located for the eaily postotlice and
store building were the attractive areas'
of natural meadow land. These were
easily cleared ani all were quickly
taken more than 25 years ago. Here
was found the valley's French colony,
Ine Dumas family and the Nex family
Some of the thrifty Frenchmen sold
their holdings for orchard land Beveral
yours ago and returned to their native
country with snug fortunes. M. Du
mas, who won fame in the community
in the early days for the -excellent
wines from his Mount Hood vineyard,
returned to Paris to enter the mercan
tile business.
Others of these Frenchmen who have
kept their lai d, have practiced unupie
nit thuds to obtain lunus tur us ievi i
opment. Louis Nex and some of his
neighbors are favorite waiters in tde
cafes of Seattle. However, they spend
only the winter months on the bound
From the work of gareon. as sonn as
early spring sunhsine comes, they turn
to that of ranchman, and the wages
and tips of a winter's work are spent
in nurcliasing supplics.and hiring labor
for the spring and summer's farm dc
velopment. these Frenchmen grow
excellent strawberries, and their fruit
is often shipped to the Seattle restau
rants, where a few months before they
were waiters,
While the larger of the two Upper
Valley villages, I'arkdalu, the terminus
of the Mount Hood HuilwBy Company
line, is but five years old. The ranch
homes of the newcomers have sprung
ud around it
W hen the railway line, uuiu primari
Iv to haul the region s lugs tu the turn
ber mill of the Eccles interests, the
Oregon Lumber Co., at Dee, was con
structed to the point in 1010, the town
boasted of but two buildings, the
schuolhousc and the storehouse of R. J.
Mi-Isaac & Co. The two story coin
bined station and hotel of the Ci.rrpany
was soon completed, and in the five
years of its existence the village hue
enioved a steady growth. .More than h
score of residences have sprung up. A
Parkdale addition, which already has
three modern residences on it, lias been
platted by J. F. Thomnson. Th
schoolhouse is no longer that of the
day when the railway line was com
pleted. It has been enlarged to accom
modate the increased population of
children. Two churches have been
built, one a handsome structure fur the
union services of Upper Valley Protest
ants and the other a neat little Lutho
lie rhatiel, where masse are BHid by a
mission priest from Hood Kiver.
And tudiv the Upper Valley lias a
rural liiurh school, one of the few insti
tuliotis of its kind in the state. The
school districts of thu'Mount Hood Hnd
Par kdu u communities combined to
make nossible this institution, five
acres of wooded land have been pur-
.hiis.'d. anil a $7,000 building has been
Inn t.
One may k what has been the in
centive to draw all these new people to
the Unner Hood River Valley, Ihe
fame of Hood Kiver caused their quest
for land in this region, and the tower
inn peak of old Mount Hood was the
charm that kept them, when they
came. Ask any one of the members of
the 50 families of former city residents
of this community, one ot the most
beautiful of Oregon, and he or bfcu will
tell you that the mountain did it. J he
snowline of the mountain is not more
thai It) miles trom Parkdale, and wnen
rluu ar rleur the peak fairly looms
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above every nome in me insiiiii. n
MilwRt maneer of the district never
tires of watching the ever changing
shadows and the scintillating ice points
r,f nlupima on Hood 8 side. Under cer
tuin HtmosDheric renditions the snow
fields of the rnontair. fairly dazzle one
in.ikinir at thf.m from te Upper Val
lev. At other times, when a gray mist
hangs over the land, the mountain
stems to recede to a distance. It is
,i l un th npuk is veiled in clouds, it it
aid. that the ranchers and orchards of
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this district are auacKeu uy times. n
, utter how severe may have been
their attack of depression, however
hen the sunshine dissipates the irnsis
and ihe mountain loom above them,
phr comes auickly again.
While a large percentage of the new-
tmiHentu of the Uniiur Valley have
nossessed sufficient funds to develop
their ulaces and have not been cauesd
uinrru over returns for interest money
for the most part they have not been
prodigal in the expenditures. The
places have been conducted on a paying
basis, and where orchards are in bear
ing they have fared as well as growers
of any district, me upper vaney h,i
nle. which because of the extreme alti
tude.is of an excellent keeping quality,
has been given a boost in the reduction
in freieht rates made by the Union Pa
.inn lines and the Mount Hood Hallway
Co. Heretofore, it has cost me upper
Viillnv crower. whether he shipped n
rert or first shipped to Hood Kiver and
then reloaded the cars, nearly $50 more
to get a carload of apples to points
east of the Miaisssippi river than the
grower of the Lower Valley, ine most
of the local charge has now been ab
sorbed, wheie shipments aie routed
through over the two lines, and as Up
per Valley young orchards come inlo
bearing rarnuaie win, n is ijicuh i,
have its own apple etoruge and ware
houses. Today, however, the Upper Valley
residents are capitalizing thtir scenery
at a creator figure than their orchards.
"The' Mother of Streams," Mount
Hood, not only because of her Eource of
waters with which to irrigate the fer
tile acres, but because of the spell she
xuKta over all who come to pay her
homage, is considered the region's
chiefest asset.
Homer A. Rogers, a
rorsdieration with me was the accessi
bility to a thriving your.g metropolitan
city "like Portlaid. Ir less than a dec-
ade. unless 1 am visionary, we of Hood
Kivtr will in every sense of the word
be suburban to Portland. Portland
people, who war.t homes in a scenic lo
cality around the mountain must come
to the lluo.l River valley. There are
no available rpnta bewteen here and
the Rose City.
"Indeed, we have a wonderful situa
tion here. Where ile will you find
mi-h grandeur so aice?ihle tu a large
city'.' Portland is rvt more ti an 0
miles away from the snowline of
Mount Hood. Finished automobile roads
will soon lead directly from the city
pavements tu the mountain retreats.
ihe construction of the proposed loop
rod around the east base of Mount
Hood will do more toward bringing
about a realization of this great scenic
asset than anything else. 1 don t be
lieve Portland now has 100 men who
begin to comprehend the grandeur of
Mount llund s scenery. And the Hood
River valley has a less number. 1 have
spent weeks in the district, and 1 be
come more enthtisiatsio every time I
see some new wonder place.
llefore I settled in the t'pper Mood
River Vallev 1 contemplated a location
in the Hitter Rout valley Hut the
scenery there is not su good as that of
Mount Hood. Ihe possibilities ot ac-
cssibihty eanni't be compared with
that of this community. I am dream
ing of the day when the government
ill establish a Mount Hood national
park, when we can hope tu have some
tine roads, constructed by mieral aid.
vVe have scores of national forests, and
the government expends money only
for utilitarian roads. While the loop
highway around Mount Hood will be a
wonderful thing for the traveler, it
will be an hid to the forest ranger in
controlling nres.
Mr. Rugers, who is a me'iiber of the
American Alpine club, the Sierra club
and of the Muzamas, has established
bis lodge in the Upper Valley at a
point of INK) feet elevation overlcoking
the entire Upper and Lower Valleys.
From the lookout over the lodge one
can see the snow peaks of Rainier, St.
Helens and Mount Adums, while while
fields of Hood loom al c ve him
Mountaineering is an obsession with
the young Yule gradubte. His ambition
in life is to make the visitor to the
Upper Valley see the wonders of the
listrict as he has seen them. Next
summer Mr. Kogers will conduct a
unique party of sightseers from his
place down the Cascades to Crater
I. nke.
We will travel op ponies, he says,
"carrying our provisions on packhorses
Supplies will be packed from Willhm
ctle valley towns. The trip will take
a month. 'I here are 3tKt clear mountain
lakes on the route. We will pass at
the bnse of Mount Jefferson, the Three
Sisters Hnd Ihree Fingered Jack. The
route we will take will really be a sky
line road.
In the development of the past five
years the roads ot the Upper valley
community have been greatly im
proved, brum winding trails, full of
chockhulps. thev have changed to well
laid out, well drained highways. Ihe
county has supplied a rock crusher and
much macadam is found. Ihe ranchers
are eager, to cooperate in thu construe
CAMP MOVES
THIS WEEK
ELLIOTT READY FOR LOCAL SURVEY
Hood River-Mosier Portion of Columbia
River Highway May linn Surprises
in Wav of Scenic roints
tion of highways. Bid" the county is
THE QUALITY DRINK
THE STAR GROCERY, Perigo EL Son
o.Vin hHH Htient five summers in the Al
pine regions, having climbed all of the
principal peaks of the Kurop nn mm;i -tains,
telis tke tor I1. ' '
who now operates Mount Hood i.onee,
when asked why he located in theJUp
per Valley said:
"Ihe scenery did it. And another
made the offer that if it will furnish
(he crushed btone, the ranchers, will
haul and spread the imileriul tree n
charge. Kv next summer it is the
dieam of the Upper Valley residents
to have a wauon road constructed to
the snowline on the northwest side of
the mountain near the foot of Cooper's
spur. It is now possinie to rencn me
snowline on hoischack, but with the
tortuous trails one haB to travel over,
the undertaking is hazardous
After the gorgesidtB and hills have
been touched with frosts in the autumn
months, the Upper Valley becomes a
veritable fairyland. A human arl'st
might approach, but never attain, the
wonderful scheme of colors made by
the scat let of dogwood leaves.the golds
and crimsons of maples, the greens of
willows, hemloc ks, pines and firs, and
the browns and grays of moss covered
rocky craes.
Ihe Upper Valley people are unsell
ish; tl.ey are hospitable; and it is their
iiiijst longed for wnm to have numerous
hinhways leading their way that they
may share their beauties with the out
side world
Among the Upper Valley orchardist
ranchers who are now engaged in mah
ing improvements or who are planning
new barns or houses are the lollowing
K. N. Shahan is erecting a large
barn for Coulter and Riekman.
(1. M. Uptegiovu plans on building 111
the near future a house and barn
C. C. Polk and Clyde Perkins have
constructed a new apple evaporating
nliint iust south of Parkdale,
Dr. tj. I., tsconee, who recently pur
chased the Spencer place, plans on
numerous impiovements.
A. MiiJacd has just completed a new
Htmle house un1 barn.
C. J. Cordon js Diinuing a i,uuu
modern home.
A. C. Sallenbnch plyna the con
struction of a handsome new residence
One of the must unique structures of
the district will be that of li. 1. Coit
who is building a hewn log house. Tti
new building, will be 40 feet square
Because of the special care taken
the preparation of the logs, the home
has been under construction all sum
mer. J. F. Thompson and Paul Aubert
have each built new houses on the
lhornpson addition to Parkdale.
C. P. Johannaen, who has completed
a new ham and twin silos, has done
much to swell the volume of improve
ment in the district.
'Ihe larger portion of Upper Valley
buildings have been erected Ly Lou
llaldwin, who fur several years has
been operating in this district.
Mtny of the new homes are heirg
built bv voung bachelors, and authentic
reports indicate the eaily ringing ot
widdiug bells.
Portion of Sandbar Sinks
A portion of the huge sandbar north
of the city, the phenomenon probably
brought about by the low water of the
CcLuiibin or a change in the current,
sank last week. About 100 square
yards of the bar was affected, the part
sinking taking in the little house built
by the Hood River-Urderwnod ftrry
com any on this side of the river.
Nil one s:i the deluue of the bar.
Yale graduate, v'hen one of the ferry boats approached
of the river on one of the
the ini'm dntiiin of tte fa d
Further realizations of a well laid
out, passable Columbia river highway
extension from Hood River to Mueier
and thence to The Dalles, are immin
ent. J. A. Elliott, engineer in charge
for the state, will complete tne Mositr
Rowena survey this week and will re
move his ramp to a convenient location
for the survey to be made from Hood
River city to the Wacso county line.
He estimates that the cost of this work
will nut exceed $l,5uo.
State Highway Engineer Cantire,
who was here last week to attend the
sestion for the settlement of the New
port Land & Construction Co. claim,
says that some surprises will be sprung
hen the road is extended east of liood
River. On the Columbia bluffs, rear
Mosier, according to the highway en
igneer, will be found a scenic spot that
ill rival the renowned Lrown Point.
With the State Highway Commission
promising S'JO.OOO for a road from Hood
River tu Mosier, work can start on this
unit of the Columbia river highway in
the spring, lhere will be approxi
mately nine miles, which will have a
five percent grade. Ihe state funds,
however, are contingent on Wasco
county bonding itself for $Z,000 for
road improvement. Pending the avail-
bility of the state money, h. lienson
will advance the funds to meet the
payroll as it is needed.
It is the plan or the good roads en
thusiasts in Wasco county to construct
road from the Deschutes river to
Mosier from part of the proceeds of
the bond sale, and improve feeder
lints. From Mosier to Hood River the
state will finance tne road. When these
Hie completed, vehicles can go from
Portland to the Deschutes on a water
grade, except lor a sainll part ot tne
way west of Hood River, the spot
known as Ruthtun hill.
From The Dalles to Rowena, the old.
abandoned grade of the railroad can be
used, but from Roweua to Mosier thete
will be heavy rock work, and about
$110,000 will be required to close the
three-mile gap. The only way of go
ing from Ihe Dalits to Mosier row ia
by a very lung detour over mountains.
ihere is a road from Mosier to tlood
liver, hut it is circuitous and has many
steep grades. Ihe State Highway
Commission wants to shorten tins dis
tance by the construction of a direct
road on an easy giaJe. The Moner-
Hood River unit is dependent on the
voting of the bonds by the citizens of
Wasco county at a cuming election,
which will probably be held in Novem
ber .
Leslie llutltr, member of the ad
visory board or the Mate Highway
Commission, was in Salem last week to
attend the budget session, at which the
above appropriations were announced.
In the case of the Newport Land &
Construction Co. claim of a balance due
of $u3,000, the state highway engineer
and county officials last week came to
an argeement, allowing the contract
ors, who built laps in the Columbia
river highway between the Multnomah
county line and Viento witn the $75,000
bond issue sold to h. Uenson, the sum
of $2H,02.04. The dispute was brought
on because of a difference of opinion in
classifications.
Hut the sum of $15,000, approximate
ly, however, remains in the fund, and
Mr. Cantine at lust week s session de
clared that unless Hood River county
assumed the responsibility, Mr. lien
son, who made the guarantee that the
road would not coHt a sumto exceed the
amuunt of the bond issue, would have
to make the amount good.
Claims of the O.-W. R. & N. Co. and
the Western Union lilt igaph Co. are
still somewhat in dispute As soon as
some technical points can be cleared up
the county will be free to proceed with,
giving the highway, where points are
bad on account of the sharp edges of
stone surface, a top dressing of earth
or sand.
EARLY SALES BRING
GRATIFYING PRICES
this side
usu il trip
strip
w..s
strtau , piohubly a u 20 Uel ot water
etooo. over the sunken area.
While the movement of apples is by
no means as large as that of last year
Wilmer Sieg says that the fruit is go
ing out as rapidly as could be expected
witn the light crop of the community.
"While our warehouse men are not
being pushed," says Mr. Sieg, "we are
loading as much fruit as we desire,
and our sales are at prices that are
satisfactory"
While deals in local fruit have not
been extensive as yet this year, enough
business has been transacted to estab
lish preliminary prices on extra fancy
Spitzenburgs, according to the Fruit
Growers Exchange. The Exchange has
sold small blocks of small sized extra
fancy Spitz at $1.85, f. o. b., and a
small lot of large sizes of the red
Christmas apples have been disposed of
at $2. All the fruit of thu Association,
as well as the Exchange, will be held
fur this price or at a greater figure.
Selling agency managers declare that
the eastern buyers seem to rtBt under
the opinion that they (the sales mana
gers) are trying to bull the market.
"They don't realize the scarcity of
this grade of the red apples," says
Kenneth McKay. Mr. McKay says he
is trying to get -rid of the loer grades
as fast as pos-sitile
"Wecamot i.fiVtd to pay i-l . .
charges on thein and i ai qt"t
of possible repacking next spnng,
whereas we can bear the storage cost
of the first class fruit "
The movement of Newtowns has not
begun. Market men refuse to purchase
this long keeping variety at the pres
ent time However, it is thought the
Newtown crop will begin to move in
the course of about six weeks at pref.t
able vii lues.
The Fruit Growers Exchange the cast
week red ived an order from Cope lit."
gen, the apples to be shipped from that
point to Lremen. Atter accepting a
connect for three carh-ads the Ex
pi, , , l.-l r1- r, f t:i-e I'-
Wood heaters, K. A. Franz Co, tf
Combination coal and wood beaten at
E. A. Fran Co. tf