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Jj,JpJ0jyj vol. xxwni HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 22. 1917 No. 43 BurpeeYSeeds Grow The most complete assort ment we have ever shown from this world famous grower, is now on display and at growers' prices, with permit to exchange or return your over purchase. Our stock of Spencer Sweet Peas include the latest novelties. , Crockery, China, Glassware Broken lines in thousands of choice pieces at prices be low factory cost. Your chi n a closet can be restocked at small outlay by taking ad vantage of this less than one-half price.. t No Trading Stamps But . All bills subject to 5 cash discount or 2 if accounts are paid at end of the month. Stewart Hardware Attention Orchardists! ; Our warehouse will hold only a limited supply of spray materials. In view of the serious car shortage situation and a possible tie up from a railway strike, we urge that growers begin to haul their spray, in order that we may refill the ware house and thus secure enough stock to supply the needs of growers for 1917. Your co-operation is needed to prevent a possible bad situation. Your purchases of spray may be made through Gilbert & DeWitt, Kelly Bros., Fruit Growers' Ex change and Apple Growers Association or direct. J. C. BUTCHER. ASK US THE INVISIBLE IfRYPTOK IA. GLASSES J1A Do you really know how conveni ent and attractive KRYPTOKS are? They combine near and far vision in one lens. Yet they have no lines nor seams to blur your vision give you a -freakish appearance or accentuate your age. And they free you from iussing with two pairs of glasses. We invite you to come in and see them. W. F. LARAWAY, Optician Jeweler Dan Wuille & Co. Ltd. Fruit Exporters of LONDON -LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND1 advise Growers that we are in Hood River Valley PERMANENTLY We are prepared to take all the tonnage we can se curethe larger as weH as the smaller sizes. We have Branches in South America, the Scandinavian Countries, Austra lia and Domestic Markets, be sides Covering all the Mark ets in England. Any Statement that we will not be able to Ex port Next Season is incorrect. We ae ready to assist our growers in every way possible and will furnish them with spray, boxes and paper. We have ar ranged with the firm of GILBERT & DeWITT, of Hood River, who will supply all spray material for our account. We invite the most thorough investigation of our reliability financially, or moral integrity and business methods. DAN WUILLE & CO., Ltd. A. L WOOLPERT, Northwestern Representative. Prices on Garden Tools & Ranch Tools And steel goods, generally are high. But our contracts were in excess of the year's needs, so we are able to of fer prices that show a large saving. A wonderful line or orchard tools. Furniture Is always" odd if desir able and this department is overloaded with goods! at ! prices we can never hopeto repeat. The best bargains we have been Me to offer in years. & Furniture Co. ABOUT BIFOCALS KODAK TIME Always use Autographic Films with Autographic Kodaks We always carry a complete stock of Speed and Non Auto graphic Films. If it isn't an Eastman, it isn't a Kodak. Bring your films for developing and printing to us as we do it right and promptly. . , . Kresse Drug Co. THE REXALIv STORE Come in and hear the latest March Records Eastman Kodaks and Supplies Victor Victrolas and Records, $15 to $400 CONDENSED REPORT OF THE First National Bank of Hood River, Oregon at the Close of Business, March S, 1917 RESOURCES Loans and Discounts. .$282,887.99 United States Bonds... 100,000.00 Other Bonds and War rants 34,504.14 Bank Bnilding'and Fix tures ' 61,250.00 Other Real Estate 3,400.00 Cash J22.845.29 Due from Banks .J fi5,5Hfl.75 108,412.04 tS80,454.17 Gain in Deposits Over a Year Ago, $65,000.00 Attest: E. O. BLANCHAR, Cashier. Board of Directors: A. D. Moe, C. Dethman, O. H. Rhodes, C. E. Copple, E. O. Blanchar. How About that ' W1 !E have a LARGE ASSORTMENT of the "WF.WF.ST FARRTflS nn the Market. Place your order now for Easter MEYER, The Tailor 108 Third Groceries of Quality Prompt service and satisfaciion for our patrons. These are some of the things that we incorporate in the principles of our business. We invite your better acquaintance during the year, 1917. ARNOLD GROCERY CO. The Stanley-Smith Lumber Yard ON CASCADE AVENUE Is still doing business, and .we wish to announce that we have on hand a fair stock of lumber. The opinion that seems to have prevailed in the Valley that the yard was closed is altogether erroneous Give us a call or phone us your wants. Yard Phone 2171 Office Phone 4121 invitations are out ior a aance to oe given Friday evening at the K. of P. tion of M. W. A. and R. N. A. I -LIABILITIES Capital '. 1100,000.00 Surplus and Profits. . . . 14,438.39 Circulation 100,000.00 Rediscounts........... None Deposits .....366,015. 78 J580.454.17 Suit for Easter? Delivery. Street we nave vnres tcium Sprayer for ale at price that are Gilbert & DeWitt, Inc. FIVE AGENCIES TO SHIP FRUIT UNUSUAL ACTIVITY IS PREDICTED Association is Far in the Lead in Mem bership, Tonnage and Control of Storage Facilities Activities on -the part of fruit sales agencies, which have reached the larg est number in the history of the valley, will be more marked the coming sea son than on any former year. Five concerns will participate in the fruit deals of 1917 the Apple Growers As sociation, the Fruit Growers' Ex change, the Hood River Fruit Co., the Pacific Fruit & Produce Co. and Dan Wuille & Co. With a membership of 850 growers, the Association, which controls all but a small percentage of the valley's cold Btoi age space, will handle the largest portion of the Hood River tonnage. The Fruit Growers' Exchange, the fruit of which is shipped through the Northwestern Fruit Exchange, of Se attle, handled, approximately 150 car loads of apples last year. This agency plans a material expansion the coming season. A new receiving station ana warehouse will be erected at Odell, and tentative plans for a simlar plant at Van Horn, another station on the Mt. Hood Kail road Co., are under way. The Hood River Fruit Co.. which will be managed by H. F. Davidson, who has been the export representative of the Apple Growers Association with an office at New York City, will make provisions lor receiving stations here and at Van Horn and Odell. The Pacific Fruit & Produce Co., the head office of which is in Portland, has opened a local office in charge of R. R. Uill.formerly a produce man of Marsh field, and has made preparations to Barticipate in the strawberry deal, an Wuille Co., English apple mer chants, who are represented in the Northwest by A. fc. Woolpert, of White Salmon, announce that they will continue to purchase apples despite the fact that a Bntmh embargo is on. ORCHARDISTS BEGIN THE SPRING DRIVE "The spring drive" on the part of orchardists has begun in earnest. Thousands of barrels Of spray material have been hauled to fruit tracts the past week, and nearly 60 new power spray machines, purchased this year at an accreirate cost of $20,000. will be put into operation. While the fruit growers devoted great attention last year to methods of thorough spraying, inrliinHnna nnint fn evpn mnra t.hnr. ough applications the coming season. several innovations in me modes oi application will be introduced in local orchards this season. Numerous grow ers, whose trees have reached a large size, will apply materials to the top- mnat hrnnrhpa hv mpnnfl flf tWArfl erected on their spray machines. Sev eral growerst have purchased machines that apply fungicides and insecticides in a powuer iorm uy means oi uiuwers. Strawberry growers are beginning tha niiltivfltinn nf thftir tructa. The numerous sales of berry plants that are oeing maue indicate umi a mrge acre age of new strawberry fields will be set out this spring. NOW IS THE TIME TO APPLY FERTILIZER (By G. G. Brown) A great deal of commercial fertilizer such as nitrate of soda, has been pur chased by apple growers this spring. Sales have exceeded that or iormer years. The brisK demand ior mis ier- tiLzer has been prompted largely oy the excellent results secured on the experiment station plots during the past three years. The time to appiy mis ieriinzer is now. Don't put tne mailer on. as vet we have accumulated but little data showing other Jthan the approxi mate dates between which satistactory results may be secured from such ap plication. Experiments are now under way bearing upon this point. How ever, dennite Knowledge nas Deen gained showing conclusively tne marked superiority of early applica tions compared with the late. To be more explicit, March or early April may be considered early. Late April and May may be considered quite late. Regarding amounts: Those who have studied the report of the Hood River Experiment Station for 1916 will have noted that there is apparently much satisfactory evidence to support t i i . i i:.l. -1 : me praciicaoimy ui me uguier appli cation. For mature trees bearing full crops three Dounds may be consid ered light. Double that amount may be considered heavy. Attention was called to the factjthat in one orchard where a lierht crop was borne, three pounds applied early gave just as sat isfactory results as seven pounds. Jin the other orchard, where a heavy crop was borne, the lighter application gave nearly as good results as the heavy. Both orchards had been previously clean tilled excessively with no cover croD. The statements regarding re sults are based on .the extent of ter minal growth, leaf development, per centage of fruit set, character and quantity of fruit. Where the crop was small, the character of Spitzenburgs wad somewhat mierior to mat on trees receiving the smaller amount. This was due slightly to excessive size of fruit ; largely to inferior color. Where the heavy crop was borne the yields were in proportion to the amounts ap plied, the heavier applications being accompanied by larger yields. In this case there was no evidence of oversti mulation in any rcBpect. From these results we may with more safety apply the heavier amounts to older trees giving evidences of heavy bloom. However, where trees are making a normal growth and giv ing a good percentage of fruit set, there is nothing to encourage large amounts of fertilizer. Moderation is to be recommended. Where trees - are thus giving such desirable results either in the presence of clean tillage following clover or other such crop, or in the presence of alfalfa, which has been established sufficiently long to make its stimulating influence felt, the practicability' of applying nitrate of soda is a mooted question. Seem ingly there is nothing to be gained by this fertilixer. However, it is possible mm small amounts may De used with gain to aid in setting fruit as the main aim. Experiments bearing upon this point are under way. To the apple growers whose trees are just entering upon the bearing stage, the writer urges moderation. Any greatly stimulating influence.such as pruning, irrigation, clover or shade crops practiced excessively will pro long the bearing age. This is especi ally true with nitrate of soda. In conclusion the writer urges the grower to size up the tree as the unit rather than the whole orchard. In this way fertilizer which is now quite expensive, may be made to cover a larerer area with nun Hoaii-uhlo re sults. COOPERATION ASKED IN WRAPPING DEAL The Apple Growers Association has received a letter from the organised fruit interests of the Yakima valley, which asks the local fruit men to co operate with the Washington growers in their resolution to ship at least 65 per cent of their lower grade apples the coming season without wrappers. The letter states that paper used in wrapping the fruit has increased 100 per cent in price since last season and that the cost for paper to be used on the lower grade product is such as to make this preparation of the apples for market prohibitive. Whether the local growers will join a movement to curtail the expense of purchasing apple wrappers has not been decided. No action has been taken by the boards of directors of shipping concerns. Growers express the opinion that it would be very un wise to make shipments of any of the higher grades of Northwestern apples without the protection of wrappers. However, a Bentiment favorable to discontinuing the use of papers on the lower grade apples prevails. COLUMBIA RIVER IS UNUSUALLY LOW "We will certainly have no spring freshet on the Columbia this year, said Commodore O. C. Dean Tuesday. "The water is now lower than I have ever seen it here at this season of the year. This morning the river lacked but 261 inches of reaching the record low water mark. I am told that the snow in the mountains is very light and the rise will be very slight. Commodore Dean, who has been op erating a ferry between here and White Salmon for the past 15 years, says that the low water has not hin dered the river steamers from reaching the local landing because of a bar out side the mouth of the Hood river. The big government boat, the Umatilla, which is being used in making a sur vey and soundings of the stream, was able to stop at the local dock yes terday. ' t-H-I-I-H-M. 1 1 M i H' M -M "M i H' l MERCHANTS DENY DETRIMENTAL REPORT Rumors that became circulated throughout the vallev last week with out any appparent foundation caused numerous citizens, who heard and be lieved true the reports that several Hood Kiver business men of uerman names had expressed a sentiment of American disloyalty to threaten a boy cott on the alleged offenders. The threats of boycott were directed against W. J. Filz and George Ertle. Mr. Filz, who is native born and an American citizen, was first apprised ot the rumor Saturday, when one of his customers, a valley woman, came to his place of business and announced that she would transfer her account, giving as her reasons the charges made in the rumors. "It was a shock and a surprise to me, ' say 8 Mr. ruz, "and alter assur ing mv customer that such charges were without foundation and absurd, I began an investigation, hoping to find how the report gained circulation. I cannot figure out now the report was begun unless some one made some re mark about my German name. I am an American citizen and a loyal one and nothing that I have ever thought, much less expressed, could be inter preted otherwise. 1 have a brother who has served an honorable term in the United States navy." Mr. Ertle declares that the only act of his that could possibly have been in terpreted as smacking or a lack of patriotism occurred recently when he was solicited to make an appropriation of breads and other supplies to be used as refreshments at a dance given un der the auspices of a Red Cross organ ization. "Mv action." says the baker, "was not impelled by any thought of being unpatriotic. I would have willingly made a contribution to tnem at tne time, but I felt that I could not afford to meet the demands that were made on me in the solicitation. The rumors that have branded me as disloyal to my native land of America do me a grave injustice. Sigurd Nelson Praised Commenting on' the work done by the students of Whitman in their re cent presentation of Lortzing's operaH "Uer wanenscnmied. we nana waiia Bulletin says the following of Siguard Nelson : "Sigurd 'Nelson, who had the title role, the Armorer, possesses a remark ably rich and beautiful bass voice of rarely beautiful quality, and he sang and acted the part with skill and cer tainty. His beautiful solo just before the finale railed forth much and very sincere enthusiasm. His work through out was most d raise worthy." . Joe M. Johnsen and George Ledford also took part in the opera. Frank A. Cram seems to'touch the magic secret of correct buying; the right goods at the right prices. IS fn PLANSARE MADE BUSINESS HOUSES WILL DECORATE Members of Artillery Club Initiate Move ment-Representatives of Three Banks to Judge Displays Hood River will observe Patriotic week and the national colon will be displayed here all next week by all business houses, ihe movement was initiated by the members of the Artil lery club, composed of the enlisted men of Co. 12, C. A. C. Robert Lee Foust and Joe C. Hayward were busy yesterday morning visiting all places of business and their proposed plans were met witn enthusiasm. The artillerymen will give a first prize of $10 and a second of of $5. both cash. Judges for the event have been named as follows : Truman Butler, s. A. Mitchell and E. O. Blanchar. All decorations must be completed by next Wednesday evening. The judges will make their awards next 1 bursday morning. A personal canvass will be made of all the business houses not only in the lower city, but on the Heights. 1 be merchants of Hood Kiver have already made a loyal response to the recent proclamation of Mayor Dumble, and flaps have been flvinc from almost all of the business houses. On their visits yesterday Messrs. Foust and Hayward found all of the business people ready to cooperate in the move ment to their fullest extent. Mayor Dumble has expressed an approval of the proposed plans and all city officials will lend their assistance in carrying out the schemes of decorations. By next Wednesday night Hood River will be a town of flags. It is likely that patriotic meetings will be held throughout the week. WOMEN'S VAUDEVILLE SHOW SUCCESSFUL The vaudeville show given exclusive ly by the women of the Pine Grove grange at the grange hall last Friday evening was a marked success. 1 be sum of $41.25 was netted by the novel entertainment, the fund to be used in improving the big hall. One of the most entertaining fea tures of the show was the exhibition of club swinging given bv Miss Mav Dick- erman. Mrs. Edgar Franz was appre ciated in the rendition of classic danc ing. Mrs. Franz, before she partici pated in the dance, illustrated the work she is doing among Hood Kiver chil dren, by the presentation of her little brother, Leonard Ihomson and little Miss Agnes Chipping. The comedy stunt out on under the direction of Mrs. C. K. Benton, sur passed expectations. Following the show music was donated for a dance by the following: R. E. Scott. Morris Graff, Mrs. F. H. Blackman and Miss Annamae Chipping. Uther numbers on the program were as follows: Chorus, "I Will Love You:" Song. quartet, Stanton, Jarvis, Fertig and uraff : piano solo, Mrs. (J. b. Comn : quartet. Mason, Howe, quintet, Mason, Howe, Kinnaird, Fertig, Bauer. U. S. GETS SECRET OF CULTURE PEARLS Loral people have been interested recently at the display at the store of W. F. Laraway of Japanese culture pearls. The United States govern ment is the first in the world to be come co-possessor with Japan of the secret of pearl cutlure through sugical operations on bi-valves, according to a statement made recently at Berkeley oy rroiessor v,. a. ivoiohi, oi tne uni versity of California. Professor Ko- foid, as a member of the bureau of Fisheries, spent a considerable part of his sabbatical leave last year in Japan and was intrusted with the transmis sion of the pearl culture secret to the United States. The Japanese govenment enjoys a monopoly of the industry in Japanese waters. Prof. Kofoid refused to dis cuss the nature or the operation through which the oysters are made to produce perfect pearls, saying that the information was imparted to him solely for the information of the government. The secret has never before been given to another country. Prof. Kofoid was given a set or delicate surgical in struments with which the operation is performed. With the Japanese system the pearls produced need no action ex cept that which naturally developed pearls are subject to. SEVERAL ARTILLERY MEN PROMOTED Captain Wilbur. Co. 12, C. A. C. announces the following promotions in the company: Forrest L. Moe, from corporal to sergeant; Robert Lee Foust, corporal to mess sergeant; Wm. B. Clark and Glenn B. Shoemaker, pri vates to corporals. Appointments will soon be made of 12 first class privates. Captain Wilbur has made the follow ing appointments: Cooks, Arlo Brad ley and J. H. Surrell; mechanics, S. M. Dick and L. F. Parker; bugler, Sidney B. Camine. An officer from headquarters of the Oregon National Guard will be here in the near future to hold a court and hear charges preferred against some of the members of the company, who according to allegations, have been re maining away irom druis witnout proper excuses. Sunday Wreck Delays Trains When several cars of O.-W. R. & N. train No. 11, the westbound Spokane limited, were derailed early Sunday morning at Troutdale, all trains were delayed several hours. The eastbound Pendleton express and eastbound Oregon-Washington limited were delayed about three hours. Three-eighths Spray Hose at E. A. Fran Co. for 16c per foot. PATRICK WEEK