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mew. HOOD IYER, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1915 No. 25 Will There Be f w l ill lp y Th $75 Victrola V i ;t 14 J 'F II Make 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 Capital $100,000 , Surplus $37,000 arrow Shirts NEW shirts look pretty much alike. The stuff that's in them that means wear or worry does not show. There is only one sure guide on shirt quality; the label of the maker of the gar ment. The ARROW is the O. K. mark of the largest manufacturer of shirts in the world. It's your guide to shirt satisfaction. Insist on the label because it means that you will get a garment guaranteed in every respect. $1.50, $100, $2.50 and hifcher . J. G. VOGT A "VICTROLA" The instrument that brings you the world's best music in all its beauty. The act ual living voices of Caruso, Farrar, Gluck, McCormack, Melba, Schuman-Heink and other famous singers. The superb art of Elman, Kreisler, Paderewski and other noted instru mentalists. The brilliant music of Sousa's Band, Pryor's Band, Vessella's Band, Victor Her bert's Orchestra and other celebrated organizations. The inimitable witticisms of Harry Lauder, Nora Bayes, De Wolf Hopper, Raymond Hitchcock and other leading comedians. ONLY the Victrola brings you ail this wonderful variety of music a delight every day in the year to every member of your family. o Victrolas $15 to $350 on Easy Terms KRESSE DRUG CO., Victor Victrolas and Records. Come and Hear the Latest November Records. does not of what he earns; to-day., starts. life anew tormorrowi,. in Your Home this Christmas? SAFETY FIRST The request has already gone out to "do your Christ shopping early." Have you made up your list? Are you preparing it now? mas Be sure and place in this list a PYRENE FIRE EX TINGUISHER. By doing this you will have one present that is for every member of your family yourself included one that will last forever and, should the occasion require, may save you thousands of dollars. If we knew a fire was coming we would certainly be prepared- e not now- A man told me once he had no fear of fire because he had nothing to cause one. In less than a week his place was a total loss and he was a heavy loser financially. . "Be prepared" applies to the individual as well as the Nation and you cannot be better prepared against fire than by having a PYRENE FIRE EXTINGUISHER in your home or place of business. ; For sale by Frank B. Cram, Heilbronner Building. " , v Light up but don't Pay Trust Prices 15-20-25-40 w. Tungston 25c 60 watt s - - - - - 35c and 5 more for cash 10 Lamps from us - $2.40 10 Lamps from Trust $2.70 You save 12 per cent Help us get prices. Fix Your Roof Hydroseal will stop any leak permantly, 15c a pound Roofing 50c to $5 a square. Roof Coating. Try Pabco Red for Roofs. Burns Bridges the latest, cheapest and best ever. Your credit is good 5 per cent off for cash. We are always-5 per cent cheaper. Stewart Hardware & Furniture Co. Furniture, Hardware, Oils, Paints Orchard Supplies 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 Good Tillamook cheese 20c per pound; cream brick, block Swiss and limburger, 30c per pound; fresh home made mincemeat, 15c per pound ;Hein?.sweet and mixed sweet pickles, 20c per pint; homemade saur kraut, 10c per quart. Just telephone to- Arnold Grocery Co. Phone 2121 Hood River, Oregon Rubber Stamp Ink 4 Guns & Ammunition .... ...... . .... Shot Guns and Rifles Slightly used and new at J and values. ' Winchester, Marlin, "' Sav age, Ithaca, Fox, all dump ed into a grand clean up sale All kinds of ammunition FURNITURE CARPETS RUGS Carpet Sweepers, Vaccum Cleaners--reducing stock for inventory our prices will v do it. Buy now for Holidays. gs to Eat at Glacier Office FIRE DEPART MENTADVANCES HISTORY SHOWS VALUABLE SERVICE Volunteer Organization Perfected Eleven Years Ago Festivities Scheduled for Thanksgivinjf Hood River has a volunteer fire de partment of which the town ia proud. Considering the size of the city and the accommodations of the members of the organization, ita work haa been very succesBful.and fire losa in the capitol of the Apple Valley haa been compara tively small. The Hood River Volunteer fire de partment was organized on November 14, 1904, at the store rooms of White head & Sheets. The charter members of the tire fighting brigade were: Ar thur Cole, Mel. Foley, L. G. Morgan, M.J.Wright, Clarence Shaw, W. C Kelsay, E. A. Henderson, Winfield Olinger, Will Shipman. Will Morgan, Earl Clark, Earl K. Bartmess and D. R. Norton. The first officers were: Walter McGuire, prea. ; L. G. Morgan, vice pres. ; Earl K. Bartmess, sec. ; Will Sheets, chief; Sherman J. Frank, assistant chief ; W. I. Gadwa, chief en gineer ; Clarence Shaw, first engineer ; Will Morgan, second engineer; Winfield Olinger, third engineer; Percy Cross, treas. Because of the progressive tendencies of those who have been at the helm of the fire department, it has made steady advancement. Today the organization is recognized as a beneficial institution, and support is received from the mu nicpal government. Formerly firemen received no remuneration for their ser vices, although clothing was often ru ined in fighting flames. Today the city p ays the sum of $2 to each member of the department present at a fire, where hoses are attached and water is thrown. Formerly the department had no reg ular meeting place. Sometimes its ses sions were held in the city hall. Today its regular meetings are held at the quarters of the Commercial club. The organization has always prided iaelf on success at contests with neigh boring citiess. In 1905 at a Fourth of July celebration, the first prize of $10 was won for the best fire drill. On July 4, 1912, the sum of $75 was won in hose races with the fire department of The Dalles. The firemen now enjoy a social life. They have also organized atheltic teams, and on Thanksgiving day the firemen's eleven will meet the high school football team. The first annual ball of the fire de partment was held January 1, 1905. The proceeds from the ball, over and above expenses, umounted to $124.50. The next annual dance of the depart ment wtll be held next Thursday even ing. Elaborate preparations are being made for the event.and the firemen are expecting to increase the funds of their treasury. The annual firemen's ball is becoming a social event. Hood River citizens attend the dancing party, not only because of the good time afforded, but because of the knowledge that the money paid for a ticket goes for a good cause. The apparatus of the department to day is as follows: Three hose carts, 1,500 feet of hose, a hook and ladder wagon, a chemical engine and six rub ber coats. The first hope cart was pur chased by subscription on Nov. 13,1905. At a cost of $150 the fire bell, now hanging .above the city hall, was pur chased during January, 1907. The fire department has always had the active co-operation of residents of the Heights. Company No. 2, of the Heghts, was affiliated wih the depart ment on June 14, 1909. Members of this company were: D. A. Cook, D. M. McCIancey, F. E. Harris, James Haw thorn, A. Morton, Fred Larwood, J. W. Kulp, A. C. Stevens, N. T. Chapman, D. J. Treiber, A.- L. Carmichael and R. E. Chapman. This company partic ipated in races at The Dalles in Sep tember, 1911. The roster of the Volunteer fire de partment is at present as follows: W. B. McGuire, pres.; Walter Shay, vice pres. ; R. B. Ferigo, treas. ; Walter Ford, sec; W. B. McGuire, chief; R. B. Perigo, asst. chief. Hose Company No. 1: L. G. Morgan, foreman; T D. Waldie, assistant; William Bailey, Sebil Hickey, Joe Hayward, Geo. Ertle, Wal ter Shay, R. H. Husbands, Sam K ling er, A. D. Dabney. Hose Company No, 2: A. L. Vincent, foreman; Walter Ford, assistant; E. C. Ebnrly, Will iam Baker, B. H. Crump, Earl Franz, W. B. Coulter, Will MrGuire, F. B. Snyder. Hose Company No. 3: Hub bard Taylor, foreman ; E. M. Holman, assistant; Jay Burtrow, J. F. Vol storfT, Chas. Carson and Harry Dob son. The first fire on the records of the department occurred on the Heights, September 24, 1905, when the confec tionery store of H. F. Jochimson burned. Other fires of the city since that date have been: May, 1909, Luckey's blacksmith shop.in which Ray Utter lost his life; May, 1910, Gess ling's flouring mill ; June, 1910, Coun try Club Inn; Ramona Hotel, June 16, 1912, at 2 a. m. ; old Armory building at midnight of June 29, 1915. All members of the fire department are allowed $1.50 per day in case of in capacity caused from injury or sick ness sustained white on duty. Through an arrangement with the city all hos pital bills are paid during such cases. BUTLER OUTLINES THE NEW PLANS OF COUNCIL While the Northwestern Fruit Grow ers' Council, organized last February at a meeting of fruit growers at Ta coma. Wash., will remain intact, ac cording to Truman Butler, a member of the executive committee of the or ganization, who returned Thursday from a session at Seattle, it will cease active measures. "We feel," says Mr. Butler, "that the Growers' Council has justified its existence since it has brought about a co-operation between the shippers of the northwest. The agencies conform ing to the principles of the Council are handling 75 per cent of the tonnage of the orcbardists of the northwest. How ever, in the future, we expect to ac complish all of our results from a eloser co-operation among the market men, working with an advisory board, com posed of representative cusioeu man from each of the cities of Seattle, Spo kane and Portland. We will keep the Growers Council intact, aa an organiza tion, in order that, in case plana fail to carry, we will have something to fall back on." According to the plans advanced, a member of the Portland clearing house will be chosen aa the Rose City a repre sentative on the apple men's advisory board. "The magnitude of tht fruit business in the northwest," says Mr. Butler, "is not comprehended until one ia present ed with the amount of the investment involved. A tptal of $200,000,000 is tied up in orchards and storage machin ery in the fruit industry. "All market men and growers versed in the status of affairs realize the vital necessity of getting a working machine ready for the handling of next year's crop ; for it is estimated that the crop of apples from all northwestern dis tricts next year will treble that of this season, when we will market about 6.000 carloads." By means of a tax of one cent a box on all apples a fund will be raised in 1916 to be used in market extension and market development. This fund is to be administered by a committee of three leading business men, one from Seattle, one -from Port land and one from Spokane, with W. H. Paulhamus, chairman of the Growers' Council, aa an ex-offkio member. The business men are to he the joint selec tion of the clearing house associations and chambers of commerce of their re spective citjes. This committee will have the advant age of the complete figures on the dis tribution of the 1915 apple crop now being gathered by the united States office of markets and the benefit of the data and experience of the shippers composing the council. From these facts they are to prepare and carry into execution a broad plan of market extension and market devel opment that it is hoped will send north western boxed apples into many domes tic and foreign markets where they are unknown and will greatly increase their sale in domestic markets where they are now little used. Chairman Paulhamus and a number of his associates of the Growers' Coun cil participated in the several meetings held to work out the marketing plan, and as perfected, the plan has their full indorsement, subject to the approval of the meeting of the entire membership of the Growers' Council, to be held in Spokane this week, at the time of the National apple show. A joint committee composed of Wil mer Sieg, of the Apple Growers' Asso ciation of Hood River; W. F. Gwin, of the Northwestern Fruit Exchange, and George W. Coburn, of the Wenatchee Valley Fruit Growers' Association, to represent the Shippers' Council, and W. H. Paulhamus, of Puyallup; Tru man Butler, of Hood River, and Gordon C. Corbaley, of Spokane, to represent the Growers' Council, was appointed to present the details of the plan to the respective organizations.' The following Hood River men are attending the Spokane meeting : Wil mer Sieg, E. H. Sheppard, H. C. Ritz and Truman Butler. CIRCUIT COURT AD JOURNED SATURDAY The last term of circuit court for the year, and with the exception of one former term, the longest -in the history of the county, closed Saturday morn ing, Judge Bradshaw, of The Dalles, having to race down the street from the courthouse in order to catch the local for his home. A day and a quarter of the time of the court was taken up with considera tion of a case involving suit for recov ery of $96. The case, the title of which was Graham vs. Graham, was very much of a family affair. ' Mrs. C. M. Graham, plaintiff, the mother of Allen R. Graham, brought suit aginst Mrs. Elizabeth Graham, her son's divorced wife. The defendant answered the comlpaint by interposing a counter claim' of $96, alleging that she had rendered services of this value. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant. During the bearing of the case of William Blair vs. W. Margulis, the case Involving an accounting as to the operation of a farm in the Middle Val ley owned by the parties to the suit, Mr. Margulis, who is well known in Portland, where he operates a jitney eating-house on Burnside street, con cluded that attorneys in the case!were having some fun at.his expense. With out the least wsrning he arose and ad dressed the court. "I am a civilized American citizen, your honor," be said, "and I want these men to understand it. I ain't got time for joshing. If it don't stop I'm gonna leave the courtroom." Judge Bradshaw replied that if Mr. Margulis considered that the attorneys were displaying a levity and that if he felt it would relieve his feelings to leave the room, the court would inter pose no objections. Mr. Margulis hur ried out of the building. The case was taken under advisement. The January term of court in 1913, when a case involving the condemna tion of a water system being taken over by the city Ws being tried, lasted longer than a week. - LOCAL BANK GETS IRRIGATION BONDS The East Fork Irrigation District Monday afternoon sold to the First National Bank, of this city, $25,000 worth of six per eentbonds for $92.61 on the hundred and accrued interest The bonds disposed of are a half of a recently authorized issue, the remain ing half of which will be sold later as funds are needed for contemplated im provement and extensions of tho big water system, which covers 13,000 acres of East Side orchard and farming land. A contract for the construction of headgates on the irrigation system and seven and a half milea of small lateral ditches was awrded to the Central Timber & Contract Co., of Carlton, the cost of the extension work under the contract reaching $6,700. The remainder of the proceeds from the bond sale will be used in mainte nance of the system and further exten sion work, contracts for which will be advertised soon. The figure paid for the bonds waa the highest ever received for the securities of the District. HOOD RIVER IS PROSPEROUS 1915 WILL BE VALLEY'S BEST YEAR Returns from Soil of the Apple Valley Will Reach Over a Million Dollars As Shown by Figures From present indications it will be found when the pools for the year's ap ple crop have been closed that the year 1915 has been the most prosperous in the history of the Hood River valley. From the prices that have been re ceived and judging from the present outlook for the apple market as the season progresses, the total net re ceipts by sales agencies for the year's yield from local orchards will exceed $700,000. The Apple Growers Association 'ex pects to return to growers approxi mately $600,000. Approximately 100, 000 boxes of apples will be handled by the Fruit Growers' Exchange, and a conservative estimate of this agency's returns for apples may be placed at $100,000. On other fruits the Apple Growers Association has reported the following returns: Cherry crop, $15,000; straw berries, $125,000; and more than $25,000 for pears. The Fruit Growers' Exchange has already distributed for other fruits since May 1, the sum of $20,000. For the first year in the history of the valley the eomunity has been large ly supplied by butter made in a home creamery. During the year's operation of the creamery. Superintendent Bluhm reports a total output of 42,219 pounds. The estimated net returns to orchard ists for their butter fat is placed at $15,000. The total sum of all these receipts reaches the figures of $900,000. When to this amount ia added the receipts from sales made by independent ship ping concerns, it will be found that re turns from Hood River county's farm lands for the-year will have exceeded a million dollars. The prosperous condition among the orchardists may be said to result in a large degree to their co-operation and their 'decision 'To specialize in the dis tribution of their main commercial varieties of frui. There haa also been a settling down' of conditions. Orch ardists have become more frugal. Money that on former years has been sent away for produce and for meat ia being kept at home this season. The production of garden truck has in creased, and a considerable portion of the pork consumed here haa been raised by local orchardists. Numerous herds of hogB have been sold also in the Portland markets. The present population of Hood River county is placed at 7,500. Thus the year's increase in wealth, per capita, would reach $133.66. In many cases the prosperous condi tions are not felt because of the indebt edness assumed during boom times and because of the necessity of turning over the year's proceeds to lift these bur dens formerly incurred. Still, the tide of prosperity is daily becoming more apparent, and not since local apples were bringing miraculous prices has there been such a feeling of optimism among the leading orchardists and bus iness men of the community. PHILLIPS CORN MILL BEGINS OPERATIONS The first corn meal to be ground in the Hood River valley by a water driven mill in many years was made Monday by J. R. Phillips, of the Frankton district, who has just in stalled a set of stones in his sawmill. The first turn of corn was brouhgt to the mill by D. W. Vinson, who is farm ing the ranch owned by the Pacific Power & Light Co, on Hood river. An old building in which WBS operat ed the first grist mill of the valley is still standing. It is within 100 rods of the present Phillips mill. The pioneer miller of the valley was Daniel D. Rodgers, grandfather of W. D. Rodg ers, at present a merchant of the city. After the grain fields of the district were turned into orchards his plant for lack ef cuRtom ceased to run. Corn acreage, however, has again grown to assuming proportions, and hundreds of bushels of home grown grain will be -hauled to Mr. Phillips' new mill. Mr. Vinson brought a bag of the first' meal to the Glacier office Tuesday. Members of the Glacier force are now eating delicious corn cakes. ASSOCIATION WILL SEND GIFT CARS The Apple Growers Association ia maKing preparations to send out two carloads of gift apples, one to Chicago and one to NevvYork. From these two points the gift boxes will be expressed to neighboring towns and cities. Local growers may furnish their own fruit or the apples may be purchased from the Association. A. W. Stone, manager of the Association, announces that spipments for the gift cars will be received up to November 27. "However, saya Mr. Stone, "if you ae going to ship fruit on either of these cars, tell us at once. Don't put off listing your shipment until the last day." BISHOP PADDOCK VISITS ST. MARK'S Rt. Rev. R. L. Paddock, bishop of the eastern Oregon diocese of the Epis copal church, paid an official visit to the local pariah Sunday, holding con firmation services at St. Mark's church in the morning. Tho following class was received into the church : Murray Kay, Mrs. W. Fort Jackson, Mrs. D. H. Drewery, Miss Florence Gould, Miss Miriam Flagler, Este Bro sius, S. G. Oxborrow, Mrs. Geo. A. Stranahan, Joseph Fisher and J. Akin. Mr.. Kay is leader of the choir of the church. At the services of yesterday morning.a solo, "Hold Thou My Hand' waa rendered by Mrs, Drewery,