The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, January 18, 1917, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texti I II I . I kka . tj i VOL. XXVIII HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1917 No. 34 AN OPEN LETTER - Dame rumor with intent of filling: in a dull period has misrepresented some facts. It isjdue to you and to our future, that these be correctly stated, and briefly as a true version will permit In 1908 we completed and. occupied buildings through Second to Third streets. This enabled us to store an immense stock that had to be bought far ahead in carload lots. Then came two important changes. We sold out our stock of heavy building material, such as doors, windows and mouldings, and many large factories opened distributing warehouses on coast, thus mnking car load buying unprofitable, except in heavy stuff like nails and roofing. This left us surplus floor space not earning full measure. For insurance economy our store is divided by fire walls, the first wall 100 feet west from Second street, the next wall 150 feet. Beyond this is 50 feet extending to 3rd street, making on short notice three, two, or all one, distinct and separate buildings. This last section we have leased for a long term of years to J. C. Penny Co., Inc. We will give possession March 1, 1917, and make the fire wall solid. We have not sold them, or any one, any part of our business or merchandise. We still have room to double our stock and will be in shape to serve you more efficiently under a much reduced expense. While receiving a nice income as rental from a concern very highly recommended in 10 cities where we made inquiry, we have no interest in their business beyond that of landlord, but was glad to learn that the manager here is also a partner. This is all there is of the many tales in circulation. Respectfully submitted, STEWART HARDWARE & FURNITURE GO., By W. M. Stewart, Owner. kEXALL WHITE PINE AND TAB. MENTHOLATED COUGH SYRUP REXALL CHERRY BARK COUGH SYRUP For Colds and Grippe Guaranteed to give satisfaction or your money will be cheerfully refunded. i Kresse Drug Co. THE REXALL STORE Come in and Hear the Latest January Records Eastman Kodaks and Supplies Victor Vic trolasand Records-$15 to $400 REXALL COLD TABLETS REXALL GRIPPE PILLS We Have Your Suit HERE There is not a single doubt of that. The best clothes makers in America have foreseen what you will want, have anticipated your every whim and fancy. We have hundreds to select from at this Live Store The Beaufort, The Lenox, The Beltsac The Suffolk-all made by The House of Kuppenheimer Prepare to look prosperous for the holidays. Now is the time for you to get the best selections of style and fabrics. Our stock is most complete, our service is at its best right now. Meet clothes satisfaction face to face at this store. You will know real service after purchasing. $20 $22:50 $25 J. G. VOGT JUST ARRIVED! A new line of samples, including all the latest designs in Tweeds, Worsteds and Cheviots. Come in and look them over. MEYER, The Tailor 108 Third Street 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. lp A, Jranz (En. Sfarmturr anil Hug Srpartmttrt ANNOUNCES ITS ANNUAL CLEARING SALE Lowered prices on almost every arti cle in the store to reduce stock to lowest possible point before inventory February 1st. A good opportunity for investing Christmas money. You've never been disappointed in this event. You'll not be this time unless you delay too long. Receiver's Sale BMa aca On Friday, January 19, 1917, sale beginning at 1:30 p. m., I will offer for sale at Oak Dell, the former Oak Grove home of E. E. Stanton, the fol lowing articles, property of the Associated Fruit Growers: One team of horses. Two sets of double harness. One set single harness. One heavy wagon. Three light wagons. One hack. One buggy. Three turning plows. Two spring-tooth harrows. One peg-tooth harrow. One 12 tooth cultivator. One 5 tooth cultivator. . - One Monitor seed drill. ' One 2-horse power gas engine. Picking buckets. Step ladders. Orchard boxes. Tree props and many other articles too num erous to mention. All articles will be sold to the highest bidder, for cash in hand. ' E. N.BENSON, : L S. Isenberg, AacL Receiver for Associated Fruit Growers. SIEG DENIES RECENT RUMOR SALES MANAGER RETURNS MONDAY Nothing to Earle Managership, He D dares, but Admits Receipt of Flattering Offers Hay, Grain, Mill Feed, Flour and Corn Meal CORN MEAL Made from corn grown in Hood River Valley, milled . and sacked by Kelly Bros. No better, fresher meal than this. Get it from your grocer KELLY BROS. CORN MEAL. Wllmer Sieg, who lince 1912 his been iilei manager of the Apple Groweri Association here, makei a flat denial of reports to tbe effect that he has ac cepted a position at a salary of $10,000 per year as Northwestern manager of tbe Earle Fruit Co. "There la absolutely nothing to tbe report," says Mr. Sieg. who returned Monday from a business trip of several weeks to hie old home in Milwaukee, Wis., and other eastern points. Mr. Sieg's contract with tbe Apple Growers Association, from whom he baa recieved an annual salary of $6,000, will end May 1. When asked if he was considering a severance ot his connec tions with the organization between now and then, he waa non-committal. He admitted tbat he had received flat tering offers from other fruit concerns. Mr. Sieg traveled aa far east as New York city. He reports that the fruit market in the eastern metropolis is -In one of tbe worst conditions he has ever witnessed, because of tbe enoromus receipts of frozen fruit. "Never in history," says Mr. Sieg, "has tbe northwest been so badly dam aged as this past year. Tbe glut ot the market with injured fruit and tbe annual dullness following the holidays, when all buyers are taking an inven tory and are purchasing small stocks makea the situation doubly bad. Still the consumption of apples is very heavy, and with this condition in evi dence, 1 have no doubt tbat the way will be paved for fair sales ot apples in tbe future. But it will take at least another 30 days for an edge to be put on the market. Out of the approximate 2,000 car, loads of apples produced in the Hood River Vailey last season, a yield al most twice tbe tonnage of any former year, but about 350 carloads remain unshipped. Tbe f ruit Growers Ex change has praciically cleaned out its holdings, having shipped atotal of 160 carloads. A. E. Woolpert, of White Salmon, mid-Columbia representative of the Dan Wuille Co., an English im porting company, wbo was bere last week, reported that he had purchased a total or approximately no cars in the mid-Columbia the past season, all but two of which had rolled to eastern seaports. J he Apple Growers Association yes terday reported that an approximate 350 carloads remained in its storage plants. While some of this fruit is made up - uf extra fancy and fancy Spiteenborgs,- the larger portion of it is of the first grades of Newtowns. NEW. YORK PRAISES OREGON APPLES (By Isaac Russell in the New York Evening Mail.) If you are a consumer of food in New York city and have read the papers lately and have to watch your food bill, you are probably pretty mad by tbis time about the situation and are likely to bave it in for the middleman. Well, here's a set of facta that should change your mind a little bit. They concern folks that were to show up the middle man. They got me to help them and 1 started out to do just that. Instead we showed up his Royal Ex cellency the Great American Farmer in grand style. We showed bim up in this ease as a fakir, a grafter, and a manip ulator of the lowest order who would make a Wall street bucket shop broker blush for shame. If you want to know what makes the cost of living soar up higher and higher just get a good look at some ot the tricks the farmer plays on those wbo bave to buy his goods. In this case the goods were one bar rel of extra quality apples. They were extra quality, too. Tbe firBt four lay ers down from the top were extra good quality. The other layers were extra bad quality. In tbe middle there were layers ot culls and rubbish. Tbe farmer who packed those apples they came in this case direct from tbe farm packed them to deceive tbe city buyer. The apples on the top were tbe kind of apples that you pay 5 cents or more for retail. Tbe apples in the middle were of tbe kind tbat no retailer would dare to display at any time. Tbe "show-up" scene started out to be a demonstration against 5 cent ap ples. The barrel waa opened before a mass meeting of citizens, who had priced apples on the way to tbe meet ing. This barrel came at $3.60 from the auction market of John J. Dillon, food and market commissioner. It was purchased by me on tbe surface show ing after digging in three layers deep and finding tbe goods ran true to rorm. I figured out that I could sell tbose fine apples at one cent each and tbat the people who bought at a cent would be getting just wbat the buyers at tbe retail atores paid five cents for. So folks were invited to fill paper bags, each worth 25 cents, with 25 fine apples. The first four men to dip into the apple barrel were shocked and but prised. How could such fine apples go so much lower than any price they ever beard of! Tbey bubbled their delight. It waa about time to explain tbe manipulative moves of the produce speculators and the many sales of a barrel of apples between tbe farm and tbe consumer and bow this barrel was low in price because it came in a direct line from farm to consumer with no body's needless toll taken out But something happened; Tbe fifth man to dip into tbe barrel began to complain and wail aloud. ' The apples were no good any more. Instead of large, red ones, he was running into little green, shriveled up ones. I carried tbe case back to Commis sioner Dillon'a office. "What are we going to do with tbe fraudulent apple packer was asked. "Now you've asked something," Dil lon replied. "Wbat are we going to do with himT Why be s one of tbe big problems of tbis higher cost of living. Yes. he fakes tbe middleman. Yea. tbe retailer suffers from him. Yes, it is only tod true that packing the out aide of t barrel to look good and tbe in side to use up the calls it an old New York state farmers' trick. Only a few still practice it. but enough to bring discredit on the New York state farm produce. - - "A law , now forbids the practice. We can follow op thia case and punish tbe offender. Reforms are coming slowly. 1 wish they could be forced and that honest packing could become the invariable rule in New York state." There you have the aspiration of a public official wbo above everything else is tbe farmer's friend, represent ing primarily the farm viewpoint Andin tbe facta presented above you have, primarily, a picture of the rea son Oregon apples crowd New York state apples out of tbe New York city market A peddler brought to my home in thie town two fine apples, offering to sell a box "of the same quality." 1 happened to be present. I thought 1 would catco bin cold in tbe usual New York atate trick. I said 1 would buy provided "the apple in tbe middle waa as good as tbe apple on top." He gladly accepted tbe challenge and poured out a whole boxful of tbe apples down to the last apple in it. Sure enough every apple was as good as every other apple. These were graded, standardized goods. Needless to say tbey were not from a farm around thia part of tbe country. Tbey were Hood River apples, sold under a brand tbat has been standard ised-that baa been put on the market to win tbe consumer's, confidence. Honest goods honestly marked were here, and there seemed a real fight to make them so. . "How can the farmers out in the, northwestern states do it when New York atate farmers can't?" 1 asked Charles McCarthy, who ia associated with tbe National Conference of Mar keting and Farm Credits. "lt'a tbe ex pet t," was'his answer. "Down in Maryland, for instance, tbe farmers are all organized. Toey plant potatoes from seed their expert recom mends. They harvest potatoes when tbey are told that, scientifically, tbe time ia ripe. They grade their product and their expert passes on every box before it can go out under the cooper ative brand. No farmer can crook the whole farmer's alliance. They will not let any individual farmer bun tbe good name of all of them. The cooperative organizations of farmers to sell their product bave all failed, save where tbey bave employed an expert manager to keep every one of them straight in the interests of all of them." Tbat view of it waa substantially the view cf the management of the North west Fruit Exchange. Tbe Northwest Exchange puts its apples on the New York city market under certain stand ardized brands. By these branda the consumer can tell precisely whether he is getting first grade goods or second grade goods. He cannot get a mixture of both out of the same box. V "Yes." said Wallace Rule, at the Northwestern office, 90 West street, ' 'it ia no accident tbat you found our goods packed right and packed honest ly with no deception. If any goods of ours were packed, that way we would redeem them in a minute to keep op our good name. We back up every line of our advertising by delivering the goods to the last apple called for." , And there you have a live New York marketing problem, as vital as any having to do with the high cost of liv ing everything to eat in this town. H rvtai nan uniia volailuw rlanoiwafl Kit fr h a MV" JWM SVWIIV1 U I T V apple packer and the farmer up state, sell low when be pays high for culls and rubbish; POWER CO. MANAGE MENTS ARE SHIFTED Friends of A. S. Hall, district mana ger of tbe Pacifio Power & Light Co. at Hood River are congratulating bim on his promoiton to the district man agership at Pasoo. Mr. Hall will leave Saturday to take up bis new duties. He haa been in Hood River for seven years, and has weathered the storms of various competitive fights that have oc curred in tbat time. He has been greatly interested in tbe problems of extending service into tbe rural dis tricts. Ibis is a big feature of the Pasco-Kennewick district, where the company serves several thousand horse power in irrigation motors. John V. Strang, former district man sger at Prosser. will be the new mana ger at Hood River. Mr. Strange is an old uregonian, and waa a football play er at the University of Oregon a num ber of years ago. He bas been at Prosser about three yeara as district manager and for some time prior to tbat waa the company's general store keeper at Kennewick. Mr. Strange arrived in Hood River Monday. He haa been very active in organization amtters at Prosser, and haa had charge of the Prosser hog and eorn show for several years. rs Rot F. Dean, meter man and solic itor of the Hood River branch office, has been appointed manager at Pom ery. Mr. Dean is well known in Hood River, where he haa been a resident tor many years. He expects to leave for Pomeroy about February 1. More Money for Inspection Desired A atrong and concerted effort will be made on the part of fruit growers at the next regular session of tbe county court to secure increased appropria tions tor tbe work of horticultural in spection in the county. Statistics are now being gathered by tbe apple inter ests of Hood River from other North western fruit districts. It is stated tbat Hood River is paying far less tharr any other fruit community for such work. . The budget of county expenses for the year contains an item of $600 for a fruit inspector. Prof. L. F. Hen derson, the incumbent who has tend ered bis - resignation, ssys that an amount so small.for the.task is a mere waste. . : ; Grearaery-Gnicer; Peace Declared ' ; At a meeting last Friday, when J. D. Mickle, dairy and food commissioner, was present, peace-was declared be teen the Hood River creamety inter ests and tbe grocers of tbe city. The bresch that several weeks sgo hsd re sulted in a boycott of tbe butter by tbe merchants and the retail of tbe product made by tbe creamery at wholesale prices at tbe plant was entirely healed. It is stated that the hatchet will be buried.and the grocers will sgain begin handling the product of the local con cern. NEW COUNCILMEN AREJiWALLED S. A. MITCHELL GETS APPOINTMENT Reed is New (Ity Attorney-Mayor Dura ble MakesJAppointments of Committees for Year . Three new members of tbe citv coun cil. C. C. Coddeford, Walter Walters, and Kay w. Sinclair were installed Monday mgbt. b. A. Mitchell was appointed to bli out the unexpired term of J. F.Carnes, wno resigned. Mayor H. L. Durable, who was elect ed, made the following appointments to city offices: A. P. Reed, city attor ney: W. T. Price, water superintend ent; A.Samuel, street commissioner; ur. Jesse &dgtngton, health officer; J. K. Carson, city marshal : A. W. On- ' thank a member of tbe library board. All were reappointments except In tbe case of Mr. Reed, who succeeds Sena tor Wilbur. Mayor Dumble'a committees for the year are aa follows: Street, Strana nan, Scobee and Cuddeford ; Fire and Water, Scobee, Sinclair and Walters; finance, Mitchell, Sinclair and Scobee; Health. Cuddeford, Walters and Stran- aban; Judiciary, Sinclair, Mitchell and Cuddeford; Police. Walters, Mitchell and Stranahan. Councilmen Cuddeford. Waltera and Sinclair, were regulary named as city fathers at the municipal election in uecember. Mr. Mitchell, wbo takes the seat of Mr. Carnes, bas been a res ident of tbe city since 1913, when he moved here from Kock Kapids, la., with his family. Mr. Mitchell, who was formerly in tbe banking business In Iowa, ia now vice president and manager of the Hood River State Bank. COUNTY COURT WILL BUILD SURFACED ROAD Tbe county court has announced their intention of building a half mile of hard surface road on the East Side thia sum mer. Tbe exact location of tbe half mile haa not been decided upon, but will be inside the mile from the Pine Grove store north past the warehouses along the Mount Hood railroad and east past A. I. Mason s, ending with the East Side what-used-to-be macadam. Probably no piece of road in the val ley carries heavier travel than this, and no better location could bave been se lected for a piece of permanent road. Tbe court will go over the route a little later and decide upon the exact part to cover, at which time tbey will confer with the neighboring property owners. and find out bow much labor, if any. and team work will be donated. A con siderable fill will bave to be made at one point and dirt must be secured from a cut further east. It is estimated that between 225,000 and 250,000 boxea.of apples passed over tbis road last fall to the warehouses. Tbe road for a quarter of a mlie east of tbe railroad track has been impassbale for the better part of the last two months. SENATOR WILBUR INTRODUCES BILLS Senator Geo. R. Wilbur, who has introduced a number of bills since the legislature convened, bas created great interest with that containing provisions tbat will exclude any alien, not eligible to naturalization, from holding land in Oregon. Senator Wilbur's bill is simi lar to that adopted by California and which created international discussion. The bill will prevent further holdings of land by Japanese, wbo are rapidly acquiring large acreages of orchard land in Hood River county. senior Wilbur bas also introduced bills pertsir.ing to the manner of filing for record certain alien mortgage pa pers and another changing the age and time of enlistment in the naval militia. ' Women Entertain Husbands The following report of the meeting was banded in by the press committee of the Woman's club: Hypothetically and theoretically, club women are shirkers and dreamers and neglect practical things, home duties. cooking, etc., but after the evidence ia all in, this hypothesis and theory are found to be incompatible with tbe truth as was convincingly demonstrated on the evening of the tenth, when the lo cal Woman's club entertained their husbands. It was an annual event and everything was done to entertain them and to place tbe club's work in tbe proper light before them. Tbe affair took place in Library ball which was most beautifully decorated with ivy and potted palms and set with numerous small tables around which the large number of members and guests grouped themselves and listened to an excellent program. The entertainent of the evening was in charge of Mrs. Arthur Lewis, who proved a charming hostess and an exel Ient preaider and presented the fol lowing program, which was keenly ap preciated and enjoyed in every detail: Address of welcome, Mrs. W. F. Lar away; music, . trio, Mrs. Kanaga, Messrs. Wuest and Warner; address, Mrs. Chas. H. Castner; music, duet, Mesdaroes Henderson and Kanaga; New Year's resolutions, Mrs. Wm. Monroe; music, solo, Mrs. C. H. Slet ton; reading, Mrs. J. W. Sifton; im personation, Truman Butler. Mrs. D. G. Jackson and a committee of ladiea then served delicious refresh- ments,young girls assisting with tbe serving. Although the company num bered about 200 the serving wss affect ed without the slightest irregularity or hesitation. The decorating committee, with Mrs. C O. Huelat aa chairman, accomplished a wonder, beautiful decorationa in mid winter without money expenditure. Considered aa a whole or in parts, the evening was extraordinarily suc cessful. Roy F. Dean, who has been appointed manager of the Pomeroy. Wash., plant of the Pacific Light & Power Co., after a two-day visit in the city, left yester day for Goldendale, where he ia tem porarily in charge of tbe company's business while Manager Naylor ia away on a honeymoon trip.