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HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1917
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Krene Drurf Co.. Modern Walrus Sod. Fountain.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Opening of our Sanitary Walrus Soda Fountain.
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We serve the Famous
Bulk and Brick Ice Cream of Assorted Flavors.
Sodas and Sundaes served in a most Modern Sanitary Way.
We use the Vortex Sanitary Soda and Sundae Cups at our Fountain.
Special Ice Cream Sundaes and Sodas on Saturday.
FREE! For the Children, with every Ice Cream cone, Balloons and Rulers.
RRESSE DRUG CO.
Store
Come in and hear John McCormack's latest, "The Star Spangled Banner." 64664
KOBERG
Non Pareil
Vegetables and
Plants.
COMMENT on our last week's advertisement is, that
we are not observing the etiquette that should be
prescribed. Our ads are made on the farm ; they are
not canned stuff. And the American farmer will have
to get out of the rut and make a place for himself where
he belongs ahead of any other business. Any true
American ought to boost to get him there. Approxi
mately 75 per cent of truck farming is carried on by
renters and aliens. How long will it be before we read
about the small American farmer that once was?
We grow Vegetables under modern methods as near
to perfection as conditions will permit. We grow them
to sell, and advertise to sell more of them, and today
our Non Pareil Brand Is known and esteemed all over
the Pacific Northwest.
We give notice hereby that all orders for more than
s one dozen of our Tomato Plants to one family be can
celled until we see how our supply is going to hold out.
We only grow a limited amount and have adopted this
method to make them go around, & dozen plants un
der good treatment ought to grow 200 pounds of Toma
toes. Of course we could raise the price and would be
perfectly justified under existing conditions, but will
stick to our motto, "Live and help live."
The Twentieth Century Truck Farm
J. H. KOBERG, Owner.
BARGAINS IN LUMBER
As I am moving my sawmill and lumber business
to Post Canyon, I will offer my Frankton mill stock,
consisting of first class flume lumber and odds and
ends, at bargain prices at a special sale beginning
tomorrow, May 11th, and continuing for three days.
This is one of the best opportunities to fill your
lumber needs you have ever had, or probably will
have for many days to come. Don't miss it.
J. R. PHILLIPS
Telephone 5954
Lumber may be seen at Frankton Mill.
i Condensed Report of Condition
OF THE
First National Bank
Hood River, Oregon
at Close of Business May 1, 1917.
Resources:
Loans and Discounts : $272,961.51
.Banking House, Furniture and Fixtures 51,275.00
U. S. Bonds 100,000.00
Other Bonds and Warrants
Real Estate ,
Due from U. S. Treasurer
Due from Banks $132,541.69
Cash on Hand .. 32,226.27
Liabilities t
Capital Stock
Surplus Fund.
Undivided Profits
Circulation
Deposits
69,510.74
3,475.00
5,000.00
164,767.96
$666,990.21
$100,000.00
12,500.00
3,250.47
100,000.00
451.239,74
$666,990.21
MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM.
LABOR PREPAR
EDNESS MEETING
VALLEY WILL NEED BERRY PICKERS
When In Portland
Stop at the Palace Hotel
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One of the best hostelries 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.
Spring
Suits ...
w1
rE have a LARGE ASSORTMENT of the
NEWEST FABRICS on the Market. Place
your order now for Early Delivery.
MEYER, The Tailor
108 Third Street
HOOD RIVER, OREGON
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.
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School Children and Honor Guard Girls
Will Help to Fill up Vacant
Ranks This Spring
With the labor problem upermost in
the minds of Hood River business men
and apple growers, a meeting.charac
terizqd by its seriousness, was held
Friday night at the Commercial club.
H. G. Miller, assistant to J. W. Brew
er, of The Dalles, who is organizing
the forces of Gilliam, Sherman, Wasco,
Morrow and Hood River counties for a
maximum food production, addressed
fruit sales agency representatives,
orchardists, business men and their
wivse and members of local food pre
paredness committees.
As was shown at the meeting, Hood
River is going to meet with a serious
labor problem when the stawberry
harvest comes on. Although the stu
dents of the local schools, which will
have closed this season before the ber
ries ripen, will be available for berry
picking, the demand for outside labor
will be as acute as in former years.
Adults of the valley will be needed to
care for orchards and to cultivate the
greatly increased acreage of such
crODB as potatoes and beans.
In order to appeal to city residents
who may participate in the strawberry
harvest for the outing it may afford,
local berry growers are mak lng more
adequate preparations than ever before
to provide their harvest hands witji
comfortable quarters. A. W. Stone
says that the weather of the approach
ing berry harvest, because of the late
ness of maturity of berries, will in all
probabilty be better than in former
years, when the rains that usually pre
vail in late May have discommoded
transient harvest hands and injured
the berries.
"From my observations of past sea
sons," says Mr. Stone, "I would pre
dict that our harvest the coming sum
mer will be characterized by good
weather."
Local participants in the berry har
vest will in all probability be limited
to a large extent to women, girls and
small boys. Prof. McLaughlin says
that all of the boys of the high school
and older boys of the grades have al
ready secured places for ranch work
this summer, and will leave immedi
ately for the fields as soon as school
work is over. As they are needed, a
number of the students will probably
drop out before school work is over.
The members- of the Hood River
Girls' Honor Guard, who now number
108 and who are working some tracts
of vegetables in and near the city,
have offered their support in harvest
' ing the berry crop.
The Apple urowers Association is
again expecting a beneficial assist
ance from the employment agency of
the United States Immigation Bureau
of Portland, which last fall furnished
the cooperative organization with 1,700
men for apple harvesting.
"The war in which the United States
is engaged with Germany will be won
by the farmers of this country," is
the way the existing crisis is summed
up by one of the best authorities of
the country.
It is hard to convince the people that
a shortage of the foods necessary to
sustain life can exist in this land of
plenty, but such a condition stare s the
people in the face at this moment.
This unbelief is caused by the fact
that heretofore with money in his poc
ket the consumer could go into the
public market and fill the household
larder with the best products of the
field and orchard. A different situation
now threatens. Without doubt pros
perity among the wheat farmers now
exists and there is plenty of money on
hand but of what good is this money if
it has no purchasing power? If the
rancher cannot get his winter supply
of canned goods what is he going to
eat if he has the money to buy any
thing that his appetite might crave?
The canneries of the United States
at the present time are facing a tin
can famine that is without precedent.
It is estimated that this industry at
the present time is 5,000,000,000 cans
short for the coming year. There is
absoutely no indication that this short
age can be eliminated, therefore peo
ple "who have heretofore depended on
canned products for their winter sup
ply of vegetables and fruits are in
danger of being deprived of that source
of supply.
It is being urged by representatives
of the United States Department of
Agriculture under the supervision of
the Oregon Agricultural College with
this institution's president. Dr. W. J.
Kerr, in charge, that every family in
the state!wherever possible plant and
produce enough vegetables to supply it
daring the coming winter so tnai mere
may not be a shortage. If such action
can be brought about it will relieve
that situation and allow the huge sup
ply that otherwise would be consumed
by the farmers and city people in the
winter time to tro to the centers where
it is impossible for the householder to
grow his winter s supply or vegetaDies
owing to lack of land.
During the past week the message
of "food preparedness" has been
preached in this county by representa
tives of the government and the agri
cultural college and an organization of
what is known as an Agricultural De
fense Council is being perfected. Lo
cal business and professional men,
members of the Red Cross, the Girls'
Honor Guard, teachers, euperintendent
of schools, newspaper men and promi
nent farmers are taking an active in
terest in the work.
Saturday, May 12, has been desig
nated as Agricultural Defense Day
On that day, in every community in
Oregon will be held meetings at which
will be presented statements by agri
cultural authorities and statistics re
garding the food shortage of the world.
It is expected that every patriotic
citizen will do his duty and be present
' at the meeting which will be held in
his particular district and that, having
heard the message will go, do his part
m the campaign for the production of
more food stuffs, for the conservation
of that produced and the solution of
another problem which will confront
him later, the labor question.
, The solution of the shortage of labor
which now confronts the farmer is to
!be attempted and every farmer can
' help by being present at the meeting
t May 12 to receive the blanks which
H. F. Davidson, manager and chief
owner of the Hood River Orchards
Company, plaintiff in a lawsuit against
the Apple Growers Association, re
turned Monday night from New York
city, where for the last two years he
has operated an office lor handling the
eastern and exxrt business of a num
ber or Northwestern apple districts,
including that of the Association. The
suit brought by Mr. Davidson's distrib
uting concern asks for an accounting
of the business of the Association and
the distribution of an $80,000 surplus
fund. It is asked that the cooperative
sales agency be restrained from using
any portion of the fund in purchasing
the storage property of the Hood Kiver
Apple Growers Union.
In an answer to the plaintiff s com
plaint, it is alleged that Mr. Davidson
has instigated, the litigation for the
purpose of harrassing the cooperative
sales agency and obtaining control of
valley storage plants for his own ends.
This the fruit man emphatically denies.
"We simply brought the suit as a
matter of business, in order that we
might recover money that we believe
is due us, since our tonnage earned it.
There is no question in .my mind but
that we are entitled to our proportion
of the surplus fund, based on tonnage,
according to the by-laws or the Associ
ation. 1 corresponded at length with
A. W. Stone, manager of the ssocia
tion, and made every endeavor to settle
the matter out of court. I regret very
much that litigation has been neces
sary. As far as harrassing the sales
agency is concerned, or endeavoring to
get control of its business, Buch con
templations have been foreign to our
mind."
Replying to the charge made in the
Association's answer to the Hood River
Orchard Company's complaint relative
to the statement that Mr. Davidson
has violated a contract in organizing
the Hood River Fruit Co. for the sale
of local products, Mr. Davidson says :
such a contract was in existence
when the Association was first organ
ized, but in 1914, when the Davidson
Fruit Co. released to the Association
3,500 shares of stock of a dollar a share
in consideration that the atrencv would
be conducted on strict non-profit, co-
wilt be handed out at that time. It
will be necessary that the Agricultural
Defense Council of this county have
full information regardintr the labor
needed before the need can be satis
fied. DAVIDSON DISCUSSES
INJUNCTION
Read the Announcement of the
Aurictltitral Defence Coi'scir, on
page 7. United (States has food in
sight for 5 month-. Labor is needed
for harvests.
operative plans, the company received
back brands and other business assets.
and the contract was abrogated. In
stead of entering the distributing field
as the Davidson Fruit Co., we sought
a name that would include the name of
Hood River, because of the known
quantity of that name. There was.no
intention to resort to a subterfuge, in
fact no need for it. We are not going
to solicit the fruit of anybody that is a
member of any other concern. It was
organized primarily to ship the ton
nage of our own orchards, which will
average 100 carloads a year."
Mr. Davidson says that it would be
mpossible to guess at what the pros
pects for the coming autumn's apple
business will be.
The New York distributor during the
past season handled 1,000 carloads of
apples, of which 300 went to export.
"some marvelous prices were real
ized on cargoes that reached England
just before the recent embargo was
clamped down," says Mr. Davidson.
On one carload of apples handled for
the Association, Mr. Davidson states
that more than $2,300 was returned net
to the agency. The gross receipts on
a number of cars of the late exports
exceeded $3,000.
SMOKE AND WATER
DAMAGE BIG STOCKS
But for the efficient and speedy work
of the Hood River Volunteer fire de
partment, Hood River would no doubt
have sustained serious loss Saturday
night, when a tire was discovered in
the basement of the F. A. Cram dry
goods store. The Cram store had just
been closed up. W. r . Laraway, whose
adjoining stock of jewelry was badly
damaged by smoke and flames that
were drawn into the store room by the
draft coming up registers of the heat
ing system, discovered the presence of
the fire at 10.10 o'clock, while he was
getting out some rush work. Within a
very few minutes the firemen were at
work. Because of the dense smoke of
the fire, which originated in the back
part of the Cream store near the fur
nace, the fighting of the flames was
made exceedingly difficult. -
1 he damage to the two big stocks is
estimateid at several thousand dollars.
Both stocks are insured.
J. W. Gatchel Passes
John W. Gatchel was born July 11.
1850, at Clara, Md., at which place his
boyhood days' were spent.
July 30, 1874, he was united in mar
riage to Mary F. Fredell, of Chester,
Fenn. lo this union were born four
children, three of whom survive Frank
W. Gatchel, of Calexico, Calif. ; Will
E. Gatchel and Mrs. Katie B. Vincent.
of this city. Mr. Gatchel was for a
number of years a member of the
Methodist church and for 25 years a
member of the Odd Fellows lodge, hav
ing joined that order at scandia, Kansas.
In 1909 he came with his family to
Hood River, where he resided until his
death. May 3, 1917, aged 66 years, 10
months and 3 days. Beside his wife
and three children he leaves to mourn
his loss four sisters, all of whom are in
the east, and a nephew, F. J. Mills, of
this city.
The services were held at the I. O.
0. F. hall Friday, May 4, at 1.30 p
m and conducted by Rev. Morris
Goodrich and the Odd Fellows. The
burial was in Idlewilde cemetery.
LUMBER COMf ANY
OFFERING LAND
COLONIZATION SCHEME ANNOUNCED
Oregon Lumber Company Will Sell 2,000
Acres on. Dee Flat and at
Boneboro
Chas. T. Early, manager of the Ore
gon Lumber Co., announces . thatjhis
concern plans on opening for immedi
aet colonization two tracts of logged
off land, one on Dee Flat and the other
at the edge of the Upper Valley, near
Boneboro, totaling approximntelyj2,000
acres, the largest bodyf land ever of
fered for colonization in the mid-Columbia
district.
Mr. Early announces that the plans
have been worked out following in
quiries from middle western and east
ern points, and it is expected that a
fair sized block of the property will be
sold in small tracts to natives of north
ern Europe who are seeking locations
such as will be offered by the Oregon
Lumber Co. All of the land is level.
It is of a coarse loam, known locally
as red shot soil, which has been found '
peculiarly adapted to fruit trees of all
kinds "and for strawberries. All of
the land lies under irrigation sytems.
One of the features of the Oregon
Lumber Company's plans is expected
to make an appeal to prospective
purchasers. The company offers in
ducements of permanent employment
throuhgout the seasons of operation
to buyers of the land, in its' big lum
ber mill at Dee or in the logging
camps on the headwaters of the West
Fork of Hood river. During the past
10 years many of the lumber com
pany's employes have purchased logged
off tracts that have since been devel
oped into profitable farm plots.
It is declared that no speculators
will be allowed to purchase any of the
land offered under the colonization plan.
The sales campaign contemplates the
disposal of tracts of a minimum of 10
acres, since experiene has taught it is
not profitable to farm a smaller acre
age. A maximum limit will probably
also be set. No exclusive agents will
be appointed by the lumber company,
but the sale of the land will be placed
in the hands of all Ural real estate
agents.
Hood River men, it is said, will be
permitted to get first choice of the
logged off holdings. Because of the
plentiful water supply available, a
number of local orchardists, it is said,
are contemplating the purchase of
small blocks of the Boneboro tract for
the production of hay.
CALKINS OFFERS HIS'
GARDEN EXPERIENCE
Douglas Fairbanks at the Electric
Sunday, and Monday, May 13 and 14.
Editor Glacier: Having been exten
sively engaged in field crops, dairying
and truck gardening in llood River
valley for over 20 years, I would like
to oner suggestions on crop production.
One of the most important and vital
problems at present is forage crops
for all classes of livestock.
From the fact that the valley has a
good system of irrigation we are in
position to have gieen feed from April
until January. Following aresome of
the crops that grow and have been
tested out in the valley. '
Ihe hrst and best all around forage
crop for hay or green feed is alfalfa.
following this in the legume family
are red clover, white clover, crimson
clover, vetch, and Canadian field peas.
These can all be used for green feed
or hay except white clover.
In the small grains for grain, hay.
or green feed, wheat, oats, barley
and rye all fill a very important
place.
In the corn family are held and
sweet corn, kaffir corn, sorghum and
Hungarian and Siberian millet. Ihese
can all be used for fodder, grain or
green feed.
In the cabbage tribe tor pasture or
green feed for all classes of stock are,
cabbage, cauliflower, thousand headed
kaleitwart hssex rape and kohlrabi.
r or rape crops for stock are : Man
gles, sugar beets, carrots, parsnips,
turnips, rutabagas ; also potatoes, arti
chokes, squash and pumpkins.
A great manyrof these crops can be
grown in combination and succession,
making a continuous and balanced ra
tion for all classes of stock.
In the main crops used for field or
garden, we can raise second to none,
potatoes, beans (pole, bush and lima) ,
onions, cabbage, beets, carrots, sweet
corn, field corn, peas, parsnips, squash
and pumpkins.
Uf the more exacting and fancy veg
etables we can raise the following to
perfection : Asparagus, rhubarb.globe
artichokes, tomatoes, beans, peas, caul-
mower, brussel sprouts, cabbage, cel
ery, peppers, cucumbers, egg plant,
garlic, kale, lettuce, radishes, (spring
and winter), spinach, salsify and ground
cherries, sweet potatoes and peanuts.
Those addicted to the "weed" can, if
necessary, raise tobacco. It seems to
me with all these and our fruit that
this vallev is narticularlv well fixed to
go through the present food crisis. '
1 hereby offer a part of my time, all
of my experience, . and what little
knowledge I have of any or all of these
problems free to the public. My phone
number ia 5928.
Sincerely yours,
Thos. D. Calkins.
LIBERTY WAR BONDS
ARE OFFERED HERE
The boards of all three local banking
institutions have decided to take a
substantial block of the three billion
dollar Liberty War Loan. The banks
will subscribe for the bonds not only
for themselves but for their customers.
On last Saturday the banks all re
ceived telegrams from the Treasury
Department announcing that subscrip
tions would be open until June 15. All
depositors of local banks should make
known their desires for the Liberty
issue.
The First National Bank has already
subscribed for $10,000 worth of the
bonds and a second subscription and
perhaps a third will be made. The
banks are securing bonds of small de
nomination for the accumulation of
their customers. The bonds are in de
nominations from $25 up,
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