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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1916)
51 nit nit rfr VOL. XXVIII HOOD RIVER, OREGON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23. 19 1G No. 2G '"iSf Symphony Lawn Stationery la Holiday Packages, New Styles, Large Assortment Just Arrived. PRICES FROMSOct0$3.OO tv. u ik. Tlcltoli VIII, S40 Get a Victrola for the children' this Christmas They'll have a jolly time with it and their parents will enjoy it too. There are special Victor Records for children that will delight the little ones. And with all the other wonderful variety of Victor music at your command, it is easy for you to develop the musical, tastes of the children. j . Demonstrations daily come in any time. There's a Victrola for YOU $15 to $350. Viaois $10 to $100. Easy terms if desired. KRESSE DRUG CO. The 3&StaJUL Store EASTMAN KODAKS AND SUPPLIES VICTOR VICTROLAS AND RECORDS COME IN AND HEAR THE LATEST NOVEMBER RECORDS Victrolas f rom $15 to $400 MonthlyVayments Pay twenty-five dollars for your next suit of clothes. Pay that much to insure better, longer wearing fabrics; a touch of style that stands out from the crowd; tailoring that has taken a little more time to finish off the fine points; and pay twenty-five to find out how fine a fit is possible in ready-to-wear clothes KUPPENHEIMER CLOTHES at offer a man real true, through and through satis faction. We like to sell them at this price. J. G. VOGT The First Frost Has Fallen With the season's change will come a desire to change your menu. You will find everything desired in the line of good things to eat at our store. Just give us a call for the best Hot-Cake Flour, Syrups of all kinds, Breakfast Foods, Oatmeals, Cereals of the Season, Breakfast Bacon, Etc. The atmosphere of autumn will sharpen your ap petite we will furnish the foods. Telephone 2121. ARNOLD GROCERY CO. Frederick & Arnold Contractors and Builders Estimates furnished on itll kinds of work Phones: EES- S5 M. E.WELCH, . LICENSED TETERUiRT SURGEON I prepared to do any work In tin vaUrln ary Una, H can b. found by aaUlna at or pboolni to tb Faibloa 8 tab 1m. Warming Up Time Finds us with so many heaters well bought that we are using old prices. This saves you several dollars. Also if you want to use coal we have a number of fine coal heaters but slightly used one-third to one-half price. We will trade for your wood heater. Apple Men We have a family cider press, No. 4, regual $11.00, you can have for $9. 00 We have a good supply of box nails, $4t50 per keg. AH sizes in wagon covers, tents. A fine assortment of prun ing tools and no advance of prices. ' What Are You Paying for Electric Lamps Our prices are 25 and 85 cents. 5 per cent off for cash. See us about njofing. A car load of the most popular $2.25 goods. Our price $1 .60. Hydro-sed will repair all leaks. We sell in quantities required. Guns have advanced 10 to 50. We are closing out all shot guns and rifles at one half present value. Full stock of amunition. We would take pleasure in showing you our Rugs. Very complete and priced low. Table Oil Cloth, Wall Cover ing, Carpets. Linoleum." Stewart Hardware & Furniture Co. DO IT NOW Now is the time to buy that Fall suit while our stock is complete. Absolutely the largest stock of fine woolens to select a suit of all wool cloth. Over fifteen hundred samples to select from. Also bear in mind we make these suits in Hood River, tailored in the latest fashions. Pinchbacks as well as English, and the ever popular Boxbacks, made for you and to fit you. Dale & Meyer 108 Third Street Tailors to Men Tailors to Women The Fashion Stables Cars To and from Parkdale are running on changed schedule. Automobile now leaves Hood River daily at four o'clock instead of four-thirty. Cars leave Parkdale daily at seven thirty a. m. except on Sunday. Parkdale-Hood River trips are made every Saturday night, machine leaving at six-thirty. Travel right, when seeing the Mid-Columbia district and tell your visiting friends about the excellent service of The Fashion Stables Telephone 1201 Hood River, Ore. APPLE SHIPPERS ARE LEARNING 16 FRAUGHT WITH COSTLY LESSONS Car Shortage and Cold Weather Point to the Need of More Storage Ter minals in Northwest charged from farther duty. Dated this 15tn day of November, 1918. H. C. Diets, chairman, D. L. Rowtitree, W. H. furrow, E. W. Dunbar, J. H. Day, Frank Van Horn, n M. J. Foley. While the beginning of the 1916 mar keting aeaaon for the huge 20,000 ear load crop of Northwestern boi applea In been fraught with expensive lee- aona for growers, because of the ab normally cold weather and a shortage of refrigerator cara, aalea agency offi cials are coming to the conclusion that ibe lack of rolling stock to move the fruit to market baa been really a bless ing in disguise. Had a sufficient num ber of refrigerator cara been available nearly all of the bumper crop of ap plea would have bee rushed to market ing centera before this date, and a chaotie market condition would moat certainly have resulted. Despite the much talked of car shortage, the total number of cara moved from the North west up to Monday, according to a re port of the Fruit Growera Agency, of Spokane, reached 9,726. On the aame date last year the total shipments reached 8,406 carloads, far in excess of a halt of toe total yield for 1915. The car ahortage, officials aay, bai tended to prevent disastrous gluts, and a price, such as will return profits to growers, baa been maintained. While orchardista have lost heavily from frost damage and have incurred the added expense of having to move their prod uct to market in ordinary box cara that have to be heated and attended by crewa of men to look after them, their losses might have been extremely heavier, had the condition of over sup plied markets and sacrifice prices prevailed. On November 20 last year shipments from the Apple Growers Association had totaled leas than 350 cars. Up to Monday a total of 600 carloads of the 1916 crop of apples had been shipped, a figure somewhat in exeess of the total tonnage for last year. As a result ol the severe freezes throughout the fruit districts of Ore gon, Idaho, Washington and Montana which have taken an estimated toll of 11,500.000, the construction of storage plants, the cost .of which will reach well up into the hundreds or thousands of dollars, will follow next year, it is predicted. With storage facilities. commensurate with the crops of apples produced, growera agencies will be in a position not only to combat the ele ments, but to prevent a glut of mar kets, which heretofore has caused ap ule growera a greater loss than all other conditions combined. While the Hood River valley coopera tive agenciea of growera have terminal storage warehouses capable of handling approximately 600,000 boxea of apples, these buildings nave been inadequate this season. No increase in local ator- age plants, however, Is predicted for several yeara to come. But scores ol individual grnwera are already making tentative plana to erect private plants to care for large portions of their ciop. Hood Kivcr s total loss from the cold weather is placed at a maximum of 15 per cent, a money loss ol tzzo.uuu. Less than halt ol this sum would pro vide an adequate space for the protec tion of the apple crop. For a period of five years apple grow ers have been studying and groping for some means that will make more stable their industry, which has frequently felt the touch of disaster because of an inability to maintain profitable values for their fruit. In a period of less than six weeks a car ahortage aituation and an early winter freeze have directed their eyes in the right direction. Tne vital need, aa is now agreed by all rep resentative apple shippers of North western fruit districts is ibat of more storage warehouses. This phase of an industry, reaching far into the millions of dollars in the four Northwestern states, will from now on become one of the chief topics of discussion. It will, according to statements made by local men, form one of the chief problems to be touched on at Spokane this week. The Growers' Agency, the clearing house for market data and progressive ideas, will give the new movement an impetus. NOVEMBER TERM GRAND JURY REPORT To the Hon. W. L. Bradshsw, Judge of the above entitled court: We, the grand jury called and sworn for the above term of court, report that we have examined into all mattera coming before us andLave made report on the same from time te time. We have examined the county records and find the same neatly kept. We have examined the county jail and find that the same is a dangerous risk from the standpoint of possible fire. We therefore recommend that at all times when a prisoner is confined therein a man be kept constantly on duty. We recommend that a competent person be employed by the county to supervise the county road work, to whom the people may look for explan ations in regard to the expenditures of county road money. We recommend that on all grades and angles in the county roada a sign be placed - by the county reading. "Obev the Law. Turn to the Right." and especially on Tucker and Davidson hills and at btiuck a corner. We further recommend a policy of expending all county road moneys on roada leadii.g from the center of traffic, and we believe this to be sound policy and productive of the best resulta to the taxpayers. We recommend that all elevated flumes on the county roads and high ways, where the same are onaigbtly or dangerous, be required by the court to be placed underground. We recommend-that all bills against Hood River county be accompanied by a reauisition for the supplies required. which requisition shall be aigneu by the proper peraon in authority, and that no bill be paid unless accompanied by the reauisition. and further thai this requi aition in all cases be filed with the bill in the county office of the county clerk for reference. Having completed our labors, we respectfully request that we be die- SKAMANIA RECALL UP TO SUPREME COURT It ia likely, according to viaitors here from the Underwood orchard district that the proposed recall of J. M. Boyd and J. W. Shipley, commissionera of Skamania county, Washington, may be carried to the aupreme court of the state. Petitions calling for a recall election against the Sksmania county officials were recently filed with County Auditor C H. Nellor, of Stevenson, recently. The petitiona were canvassed and a count of the signatures were made last week. While it waa found that the signaturea exceeded in numbers the necessary 35 per cent required before an election could be legally called, Messrs. liovd and Shipley and their attorneya, E. E. Shielda and Geo. E. O'Brien, presented counter petitions from aignera of the original document, asking for tbe election, who asked that their names be withdrawn from tbe latter. Auditor Nellor ruled that tbe names appearing on both petitiona should not be considered in that calling for the recall relection. ' H. W. Arnold, aa attorney for the recall element, which was led by H. V. Rominger and H. W. Arnold, resisted this ruling, and it is now declared that the aupreme court will be called on to settle the question. The term of office of Mr. Shipley will have expired before a de cision ol the Washington aupreme court can be rendered, Mr. Shipley go ing out of office January 1. The recall petition waa precipitated in Skamania county early last aummer, charges of misuse of their office in the construction of new roads and in the exenditure of a 1210,000 bond issued voted in the county last year having, been made against tbe commission. MUNICIPAL ELECTION ON DECEMBER 5 This has been a year of many elec tions for Hood River. Next cornea the regular annual municipal election, De cember 5. For tbe office of mayor, three councilmen, treasurer and re corder the following are the respective nominees: Dr. rl. L. uumnie, for re election; Kay W. Sinclair, Walter W altera and (J. (J. cudrieiord; L. A. Henderson, for leeleclion and H. L. Howe' for reelection. The greatest interest at the coming election, however, will be created by the proposed charter amendment, pro viding for the exclusion from tbe bounds of the corporation of all terri tory east of Hood river, including the Bast Side grade and ateel bridge. Tbe Monday night meeting ol the council, touching slightly on the ap- pioaching electinn waa of short dura tion. Among other items of business the council passed an ordinance amend ing certain paragraphs of the recently adopted traffic ordinance. Under the provisions of the new rules, vehicles will be permitted to Btana on tne re stricted part of Oak street, between First and Fourth streets, but 20 min utes. The maximum speed of motor cars is placed at 15 miles.snd machines must travel at a rate or speed mat w.n enable the drivers to control tbem at all times while turning corners. The maximum rate across the steel bridge must be eight miles per hour. Agencies Deny Early's Charge Officials of apple sales agenciea deny the charge recently made by Chaa. 1. Early.who declared that apple shippers were not loading to capacity refriger ator cara. "In every instance where it ia possi ble," saya Wilmer Sieg,"we have filled our cara to the utmost capacity. Re frigerator cars cannot be loaded, bow- ever, to their cspscity in weight, when apples are hauled. A space must be left for the proper ventilation of the fruit. But in tbe larger portion of our shipments, the cara have carried 864 boxes of apples, and above i.uuu boxea, where ordinary box cars were used. 'In many instances, too, we have connectiona with limited marketa that will take only tbe nvnimum loading of 630 boxea of fruit. We have to take care of these small buyers and of course load accordingly." Winter in Artistic Mood Winter waa in an artistic mood' in the mid-(k)iumbia Tuesday. The breath of the chill Walla Walla ehinook on huge fog banka hanging well down the aides of tbe Columbia river gorge turned the moisture into daytime frost. Vast for est areas, every branch and bough cov ered with a thickness of the frosts, be' csme great expanse of fairyland bril liancy. Tbe metamorphosis touched the tops of rock pinnacles, to tue fog line the canyon sides remained brown and gray, but above, the frozen goaaa mer limned every crag and crevice, and the gorge of Wauna waa never more beautiful than in the wintertime garb Off-Grade Demand Heavy Frank Waters, fruit processor of Portland, here Monday in an endeavor to secure a supply of cull applea for the manufacture of apple butter and for evaporating purposes, wss unable to make purchasea. Apple salea offi rials declare that the low grade prod uct of the valley waa never better taken care of than tbia season. The Apple Growers Association baa con traded up to 6,000 tone of cooking grade apples to tbe Wittenburg-King Co.. of Tbe Dalles, and the Hood River Apple Vinegar Co. will take the re mainder of the cull product, consisting of windfalls and frosted fruit made unfit for commercial shipments. Sacred Concert A saered concert will be rendered at Asbury M. E. church Sunday evening st 7 30 o'clock, under the direction of Mrs. Chas. H. Sletton. Some of tbe best musical talent of the city will as sist in tbe program. These services are becoming very popular and if you want a seat come early. RECORD COLD I1ITSVALLEY NIP IS GENEERAL IN NORTHWEST Heavy Toll is Taken of Apples and Po tatoesSunday Was a Perfect Winter Day According to the statements of pio neer residents, the cold weather of last week,wben tbe thermometer registered as low aa 13 degrees on the West Side at the place of E. W. Birge both Wed nesday and Ibursday nights, set a rec ord for autumn in the Hood River val ley. Usually the days of November are warm with more or less rain. Rarely are any Hood River applea in- jurel from frost. But the cold of last week took a heavy toll, not only here but through out the northwest. While Hood River damage is placed at a maximum of 15 per cent, the maximum estimates of some other districts ran well up toward 50 per cent, and the total crop losa fnr the four Northwestern states, Mon tana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, has been placed at an approximate $1, 500 000. It ia stated that no less than 1,750,000 boxes of apples were made unfit for commercial use by tbe nip of the frost. With the prevailing acute potato shortage, the toll taken by last week's frost on the local potato crop will fall very heavily. Poatoea will probably sell for unprecedented prices here next spring. More than a half of the esti mated 30 carloads produced in the Hood Kiver valley the past year were frozen. Ibe cold weather, however, failed to delay to any - considerable extent tbe movement of applea from unprotected waiehouses and barns to the city. While associations were receiving ap ples only in limited quantities at their storage plants, dozens of vacant busi ness properties and basements were pressed into service. William Rand was stationed at the corner of Third and Oak streets to act as traffic manager. A silver thaw threatened in Hood River Saturday morning, tying up traffic on country roads and city streets. The precipitation of the night before, when the temperature had climbed with an accompanying west wind, had frozen solidly on street and road surface. Au tomobiles participated in freak skid ding, such as one sees in moving pic tures. At one time nearly a hundred loaded apple wsgona were baited on the East Side grade. A more perfect winter day than Sun day never prevailed over the mid-Columbia district. Saturday's ligbt pre cipitation was turned into record thick hoar frost that lasted well toward noon on sidewalks protected from the sun, snd on the sleep gradea children were privileged to enjoy good coasting. Scores of the youngsters carried their ftleds with them to Sunday achool and rode the flyers homeward. I he low temperature of the past week had frozen the surface of Colum bia sloughs to tbe thickness of nearly an inch and many venturesome young men and women were out on skates. perfect calm prevailed, and Sunday afternoon the roads were lined with motorists. BOX MISUSE MAY BRING PROSECUTION Shipments of diseased and improperly branded apples from the Hood River Valley in boxes bearing the imprint of local co-operative aalea associations msy end in prosecution. Association officials declare that the practice is in conflict not only with tbe Oregon pure food lawa but with federal regulations. Portland dealers are accused of com ing here and buying low grade fruit that growers cannot, under strict grad ing rules, dispose of except to vinegar factories. Attracted by the larger margin of profit in selling to Portland buyers, many growers have disposed of windfalls and diseased fruit, shipping the applea in boxes marked with asso ciation brands. Growers and purchas ers alike, it is atated, are thua violat ing the law. 'Protests will be made to J. D. Mickel, state food and dairy commis sioner," says Wilmer sieg. "ibis flooding of the Portland market has put Hood River in bad with the con suming public. Hood River's displays at the Pure Food Show have created a furore, and we find that the reputable grocera of tbe city are willing to co operate with us in selling up-to grade apples, but the indiscriminate offering of tbe frosted and low quality product has practically ruined the market. The housewives of Portland, them selves, only can remedy conditions by making a demand for the best quality fruit, which is being offered at most reasonable prices." Kenneth McKay, manager of the Fruit Growers' Exchange, declares thst independent buyers have abipped fruit from Hood River that should have been confiscated by fruit inspectors. "It is a crime," says Mr. McKay, that auch nroduct has been allowed to leave the Valley." Parent-Teacher Meeting Tbe November meeting of the Par ent-teacher Association will be held at tbe high achool tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock aharp. At this time Dr. Waugo will speak upon health meas ures, prevention of disease and give us some enlightenment upon tbe subject of infantile paralysis, about which ao little la known. Prof. McLaughlin wishes to present to the parents the subject of school aavinga banka for the children. This is a very important matter in the training of the child and one in which all should be interested. . Tbe musical program is in the hands of a committee composed of Mrs. Lemmon and Miss Kopan. You are cordially invited te be" present and help to make thia evening a aucceaa. Please come prepared to register. If you are not a member of thia organization you are a "back number" in progress. Pine Grove Dance Saturday Night For a good time attend tbe Pine Grove dance Saturday evening, Chandler's orchestra.