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VOL. XXVIII
HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 29. 1917
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No. 44
Burpee's-Seeds 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 china
closet can be restocked at
small outlay by taking ad
vantage of this less than
one-half price.
No Trading Stamps But
All bills subject to 5 cash discount or 27c 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 bemade
through Gilbert & DeWitt, Kelly Bros., Fruit Growers' Ex
change and Apple Growers Association or direct.
J. C. BUTCHER.
ASK US
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THE INVISIBLE
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
fussing with two pairs of glasses. We
invite, you to come in and see them.
W. F. LARAWAY,
Optician Jeweler
When In Portland
Stop at the Palace Hotel
One of the best liostelries of the Rose City.
Washington Street at Twelfth
The cleanest rooms in the city, first class service,'
fireproof, strictly modern, free phones, large ground
floor lobby, steam heated rooms, with or without bath,
hot and cold water, in shopping and theatre district,
50 cents per day and up, and special weekly rates.
An inspection will convince you.
Dan Wuille & Co.
Supplies its Growers with Spray, Boxes and Paper
Go to Gilbert & DeWitt for
Spray Material
A. E. 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 td of
fer prices that show a large
savinx. A wonderful line
or orchard tools.
Furniture
Is always odd if desir
able and this department is
overloaded witru goods at
prices we can never hope to
repeat. The best bargains
we have been able to offer
in years.
& Furniture Co.
ABOUT
DIFOCALS
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 REXALL, STORE
Come In and hear the latest March Records Eastman Kodak and
Supplies Victor Vlctrolas and Records, $15 to $40 :
CONDENSED REPORT
OF THE
First National Bank
of Hood River, Oregon v
at the Close of Business, March 5, 1917
RESOURCES
Loans and Discount. ,$l!82,887.P9
United tates Bonds. . . 100,000.00
Other Bondg and War
rants 34,504.14
Bank Building'and Fix
tures 51,250.00
Other Real Estate 3,400.00
Cash t22,84T.29
Due from Banks
185,5(8.75 108,412.04
1680,454.17
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
rE have a LARGE
NEWEST FABRICS on the Market. Place
your order now for Easter
MEYER, The Tailor
108 Third Street
Groceries of Quality
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Prompt service and satisfaciion for our patrons, j
These are some of the things that we incorporate in i
the principles of our business.
We invite your better acquaintance during the !
year, 1917.
ARNOLD
The StanleySmith
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.
Yardlhone 2171 Office Phone 4 121
Abstracts accurately made. Our re
cords are complete and to date daily.
7 per cent loans. All kinds of insurance.
1 Hood River Abstract & Inv. Co. oibtf
LIABILITIES
Capital ... 1 1100,000.00
Surplus and Profits. . .V 14,438.39;
Circulation 100,000.00
Rediscounts............ None
Deposits 366,016.78
$580,454.17.
Suit for Easter?
ASSORTMENT of the
Delivery.
GROCERY CO.
Please vonr wife. Mr. Citiien, by tug'
sestine Sunday dinner at the Oregon,
for 80c, that you may avoid the worries
or Sunday cooking. . j-O-u
DR. M. E. WECH
KNEW STEVENSON
AUTHOR S ECCENTRICITY RECALLED
'Doc" Welch, Physician to Han's Animal
Friends. Was Long in The
Racing Game
For more than the past decade in the
Hood River Valley and other neighbor
ing communities of the mid-Columbia,
when anybody's horse has overeaten of
green alfalfa or has fallen a victim of
an injury or the ailments peculiar to
dumb beasts of burden, it has been the
universal custom to summon Dr. M. E.
Welch, veterinary surgeon and county
veterinarian. Through the days of all
the lour seasons of the year Dr.
"Mike", as the physician to man's
best friends, does, cows and horses.
has become familiarly known, is ever
ready, and be the call to the barnyard
of a neighboring farmer or to some
locality that requires a day s ride he
goes. . Somewhat like, the oldtime
country doctor he has grown into an
established institution. In speech Dr.
"Mike" is all but abrupt and his re
plies to the questions of newly arrived
ranchers, seeking his professional ser
vices, have at times provoked resent
ment. His more lovable traits are
displayed when he is thrown among
children. Dr. Mike loves children and
animals, and how his eyes light up
when he talks of the fine points of
horseflesh. " As the duration of an ac
quaintance with Dr. Welch extends
over a period of considerable time it is
almost sure to ripen into a friendship,
that is, if you measure up to the old
man s standard. You may swear in
ordinately aud even chew tobacco : you
may never have donned a pair of kid
gloves and your best suit may be a
woollen shirt and overalls pants ; your
use of language and lack of knowledge
of approved etiquette may be such as
to brand you as one who has never en
tered the door of an institution of
learning ; but if you can look your fel
low man straight in the eye and are on
the square, displaying no evidence of
an affectation then you are ace high
with Doc Welch. His is a. character
that improves with age.
liut Dr. Mike is not just a common.
ordinary village horse doctor. If he
were this sketch would never have
been written. The foregoing reference
to the subject under discussions as an
old man may bring the writer the
threat of cudgeling. Doc Welch is 61
years of age, but even those who have
known him for 10 years would never
know it. and he has spent at least 40
of those years traveling down the
stretch of life at a fairly record gait.
Yet he is a young man, despite the
fact that little crow-feet wrinkles
are settling around his eyes. His face
is covered by a beard somewhat
browner than nis hair, a beard, as well
as hair, that seems not to know how to
turn gray. When men have reached
the age of three score years they begin
to talk about how old they have grown
and they like to tell about the good old
times or the days that have passed.
Doc Welch, whether from a natural
desire or from policy, abstains from
the fomer old man's hobby, although
he likes no occupation better, when he
knows there is no stranger present,
than to hold an audience, spellbound
with his reminiscences. Still, in the
prophesies of the time honored veter
inarian, the days that are coming are
going to be even better than those that
nave passed.
Doc Welch saw the first pink dawn
of summer in Medina county, Ohio, on
June 15, 1856. When he was nine
years old he was a circus boy. For
two years he rode in the sawdust ring
of Dan Costello's famous road circus.
"Old Dan," you may hear him say, as
he calls up those vivid pictures of boy
hood "I'll never forget him. How
kind he was to us children with the
circus." Dr. Mike might have grown
into a veteran of the big tent but for
an injury that forced him to retire to
a lite less strenuous. Kecuperation,
however, was fast, and in 1867 he was
at Dexter Park, Chicago, a jockey,
riding thoroughbreds.
"There at Dexter Park, says Dr.
Mike, I first saw Bud Doble drive
Dexter, the forerunner of the great
days to come for trotters."
Names of great race tracks, oi
famed horses and the owners come as
readily to the tongue of Doc Welch as
the personnel of a municipality's prom
inent citizenry to a veteran city editor.
He has ridden in races at bheepsneaa
Bay, at St. Louis, at Cold Springs
Park in Milwaukee, at New Orleans,
at Syracuse and Chicago, not to men
tion scores of other places. He can
recount incidents of a personal nature
connected with such noted owners as
General Withers, Dan Mace, L. L.
Dorsey, McKern, Chas. ureen and Mc
K in non.
"The greatest aggregation of trot
ting horses that I ever saw at one
place, says Dr. Welch, "was at bt.
Paul when May Queen, Hopeful, Lulu,
Santa Claus and Woodford's Mambrino
vied for honors. Bonesetter, the
8100.000 stud, was there.
"In 1894 I saw Bud Doble drive
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And bv the way. Bud Doble, who is
now 75 years old and who was recently
seriously Hi, as 1 noticed in the papers,
is one of the greatest drivers oi trot
itne horses the turf ever produced.
For several years the veteran has been
in charcre of Hammet farm, which he
established in southern California.
His sires have been famous."
From a rider of running horses. Dr.
after he left the big circuits of the
east he drove on Pacihc coast circuits
for about five years. He has since
been a prospector. While mining in
California in the 90s he became for a
time the boon companion of Robert
Louis Stevenson. No man living today
is a greater admirer of the author of
Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, and Doc
Welch is just as familiar with the
other characters of btevenson.
"Stevenson and his wife. Fanny.
were ensconced in an abandoned bunk
house of the old Calistoga mine in
Nana county when I had the good for
tune to meet them,' says Dr. Welch.
The old riddled shack, with the rubbish
left by miners cleared away, seems
to me today rather a funny place in
which to find a man who has since
grown so famous. But Stevenson was
there on the high side of Mount St.
Helena for his health. The bunk house
consisted of three rooms, so set against
the mountainside that the rooms were
set on top of each other with the en
trances on different levels. The first
story formed the kitchen and Steven
son's studio, or at least the place
where he wrote, while the upper stor
ies were sleeping chambers.
"I used to visit Stevenson there in
that kitchen and we would take a glass
of whiskey together or split a bottle of
wine. He talked with a broad Scotch
accent He didn't seem to take any
great fancy to the Calif ornians. 'Let
me have the Samoan Islands,' he
would say, 'that's the place where a
fellow can do as he pleases without
regard for any conventions. They say
I'm sick, up here for consumption.
Bah, a man's not going to have any
consumption as long as he has any of
this, and he would pat fondly a bottle
of whiskey. He was very fond of
onions, and Mrs. Stevenson, Fanny, as
he always called her, as we talked
would often be called on to produce
some of these favorite vegetables.
"I have seen Stevenson engaged in
his, writing there in his kitchen study.
His long fingers cramped over the pen
would fairly fly over the sheet of paper
and each sheet, as .fast as he had fin
ished it would be cast upon the floor.
Fanny was kept busy picking up and
putting together his manuscripts.
When we would talk Stevenson would
always keep a pad before him, and
sometimes in the midst of some out
burst of speech he would abruptly stop
snd jot down some pleasing thought.
The author seemed very fond of a
daughter, who was then in a Catholic
convent, Notre Dame, I believe it was,
at San Jose, and often would tell me
how he longed to see her.
"I wonder what Stevenson would
think of California today. I have juBt
been reading of the purity campaign in
San Francisco. The City of the Golden
Gate has indeed changed almost beyond
comprehension since those days of the
90s. They tell me that California is
going dry when another election comes
along. I am made to recall the words
of Stevenson in Silverado quatters,
where he said : 'Some of us, kind old
pagans, watch with dread the shadows
falling on the age. His fear, as ex
pressed there, however, was not one
of prohibition. That contingency was
then undreamed of perhaps. Instead
it was a protest against dilution of the
wines given by nature. The entire par
agraph of this protest in a chapter
entitled, 'Napa Wines,' was: 'I was
interested in California wine? Indeed,
I am interested in all wine, and hayje
been all my life, from the raisin wine
that a schoolboy fellow kept secreted
in his play-box up to my last discov
ery, those notable Valtel lines that
once shone upon the board of Caesar.
' "Some of us, kind old Pagans,
watch with dread the shadows failing
on the age; how the unconquerable
woim invades the sunny terraces of
France, and Bordeaux is no more, and
the Rhine is mere Arabia Petraea.
Chateau Neuf is dead, and I have
never tasted it. Hermitage a her
mitage indeed from all life's sorrows
lies expiring by the river. And in
place of these imperial liquors, beauti
ful to every sense, gem-hued, flower
scented dream compellers behold upon
the quays at Cette the chemicals ar
rayed; behold the analyst at Mar
seilles, raising hands in obsecration.'
"These words may have been more
prophetic than we believe. The ereed
of the seller of liquors, his array of
chemicals, the distilling of poisons. He
sinned away his day of grace, and in
many parts of the land the prohibi
tionist with his ballot has arisen more
destructive even than the worms on
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the sunny terraces of France to sound
the knell of John Barleycorn and with
that sinner those imperial liquors of
btevenson."
Dr. Welch is very ODtimistic over
the future of the horse in America.
"Horse racing." he declares, "is the
sport of kings, and all of us here in
the land of Columbia are blessed with
a liberty that makes each of us a king.
in my opinion the climax of racing the
last century reached a state of climax
for the trotting horse in 1890. In 1895,
it was first realized that the pacer as
a money making' proposition was to
the front, Bookmakine and the thor
oughbred, ever the gambler's little
white marble, caused the temporary
downfall of horse racing. But mark
my words the great sport is coming
back.
"I still like to get my horse journals.
It is my greatest delight to read of the
exploits of fop beer. There is a man
for you. I do not know Ed Geer very
well personally. I have merely met
him. But I have seen enough of him
to know, coupled with what I read,
that he is a true gentleman."
There's perhaps one topic that Dr.
Welch likes to discuss better than his
reminiscences of Robert Louis Steven
son and his days spent in following the
big racing circuits. That topic deals
with his son, Frank M. Welch, editor
and publisher of the Stillwater, Minn.,
Messenger. I he paper, is one of the
thriving journals of the state of Min
nesota, It is semi-weekly, and Dr.
Mike knows well the days when the
issues will arrive at the Hood River
postoffice. He experiences no prouder
moment than when showing copies of
that well set up and edited paper. The
aggressive spirit that the Messenger
breathes even at this distance to an
utmost stranger to the son is an evi
dence that it has a host of satisfied
subscribers, but none of them reads its
columns with greater test than Doc
Welch.
EXCHANGE MEETING
NEXT SATURDAY
The annual meeting of the Fruit
Growers' Exchange will be held at
Libray hall next Saturday, when direc
tors for the ensuing year will be
elected. W. F. Gwin, general man
ager of the Northwestern i ruit Ex
change, with which the local orasrniza
tion has renewed its contract, will be
here for the session.
The following fruit growers are
mentioned as Exchange directorate
candidates : H. H. Hann, of Park
dale; F. W. Buff, of the Oak Grove
district; J. P. Naumes, of OdelL The
members of . the present board of
directors are: J. 0. Mark, F. P. Fri
day, W. R. Warner, 3rd, O. M. Bailey
ana &enneia nc&ay.
HOOD RIVER
ISPATRIOTIC
HUNDREDS OF FLAGS ARE UNFURLED
Climax of the Week's Celebration Will Be
Reached Tomorrow Evening in
Meeting at Armory
Hood River is unanimous this week
in an expression of patriotism. Men
of Company 12 initiated a movement
ior a local expression or loyal feeling
even before the proclamation of Gov
ernor Withycombe was announced and
the plana of the artillery men for all
mercantile establishments to enter into
a patriotic window decoration contest
met with a most hearty response,
and as early as Monday morning win
dow decorators might have been seen
at work. Men got busy with saws and
hammers and many new flagpoles were
erected. The March winds that blew
with equinoctal fervor up the Columbia
gorge from the Pacific rippled hundreds
of flags, unfurled from every place of
business in the city, both in the lower
town and on the Heights. Nearly all
residences displayed the colors.
Hood River windows have never been
more beautiful than today, when prizes
will be awarded following he judging
to be done by Messrs. Blanchar, Mitch
ell and Butler. In a number of the
displays are seen relics of Civil and
Revolutionary War days.
The week's patriotic demonstrations
in Hood River will reach a climax to
morrow night, when a great mass meet
ing will be held under the auspices of
the artillery company, the members of
which before the assembling at the
armory will participate in exhibition
drills on the street. The meeting will
be presided over by Rev. R H. Long
brake. Short talks will be made by
the following: Capt, Wilbur, Mayor
Dumble, Judge Blowers, Major Bro
sius, Roy D. Smith, J H. Hazlett, S.
A. Mitchell, Truman Butler, EL O.
Blanchar and Dr. Guttery.
A musical program will be partici
pated in by Mrs. C. H. Sletton, J. A.
Epping, Miss Lillian Brock and a cho
rus of high school girls.
A dance will follow the program.
Each couple will be assessed the sum
of 25 cents to pay for the music.
All Civil and Spanish-American War
veterans, members of the city council
and county commissioners are invited
to sit on the stage.
The artillerymen are preparing an
exhibition, one not to compete in the
contest, however, at the former Kaes
ser store in the Jackson building.
OLD UNION MAY
CEASE TO EXIST
The Hood River Apple Growers'
Union, through the agency of which
the fruit of the Hood River Valley
was given a prestige in world mar
kets, may cease to exist after the an
nual meeting of the stockholders of
the cooperative concern on Saturday,
April 7, on which date, according to
present plans it is proposed to sell the
properties of the Union to the Apple
Growers Association and dissolve the
older corporation.
The Union ceased active participa
tion as a sales agency in 1912, when
the Association, an amalgamation of
all extisting snipping agencies of that
time, was organized. Practically the
unanimous membership of the Union
became affiliated with the larger snip
ing concern, which leased the ware
iouses, refrigeration plants and a
water system of the Union for a period
of 10 years. The total Union proper
ties are valued at approximately $125,
000. The proposed purchase is made
on a basis of paying a sufficient amount
for the property of the Uinon that the
stockholders of the organization will
receive the full face value for their
stock and seven per cent interest from
the date of June 1, 1913, when interest
payments were discontinued. While
the terms of the proposed sale and all
details will be left to the board of di
rectors of the organization, the resolu
tion for the deal will provide that not
less than $10,000 be paid down on the
purchase price and that a minimum
of the same sum be paid annually on
the principal.
The annual election of members of
the board of directors of the Associa
tion will be held on the same date.
Nominations have been made as fol
lows : E. W. Birsre. P. S. Davidson.
W. b. Dickerson, A. G. Lewis, J. R.
Nunamaker, U. a. Nye, J. U. Porter,
C. A. Reed, E. H. Shepard. R. H.
Wallace, A. F. Bickford, C. Dethman,
W. L. Nichols, C. W. Reed, W. F.
bhannon, A. c. Staten and H. M. van
nier. W. J. FURNISH GETS
MILLARD INTERESTS
W. J. Furnish, a capitalist of Port
land, has secured through an exchange
all of the local holdings of A. Millard
and sons, A. Millard, Jr., and Hugh
Millard. Mr. Furnish has transferred
to Messrs. Millard properties at Esta-
cada and at Seattle. The valuation of
each of the properties figuring in the
exchange is placed at JSU.wu.
One of the Millard tracts, compris
ing 160 acres, is located in the Upper
Valley south of Parkdale. It is crossed
by a fine mountain stream which furn
ishes water for the modern dwelling.
The farm is partly in orchard, partly
in alfalfa and partly uncleared. The
other tract, of 110 acres, is on the
West Side. Of this place all has been
cleared and planted except 30 acres
which has been left a natural park for
a homesite.
Mr. Furnish and son, W. E. Furnish,
were here over the week end looking
after their property interests.
Henderson Gets Commission
Louis A. Henderson, who served as
a civil enigneer in the employ of the
government at Mindanao, P. I., has
received notification of his appoint- '
ment to the commission of first lieu
tenancy in the Engineers' Reserve
Corps, U. S. A. Other local men who
have recently received appointments
as reserve officers are C. M. Hurlburt
and Charles Steinhauser.
Lillian Gish at the Electric Sunday
and Monday in "The Children Pay'