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VOL. XX IX
HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1917
No. 12
KOBERG
Non Pareil
Vegetables and
Plants
yE are picking green beans now
Burpee's Stringless Green Pod.
True to our standard we don't grow any
thing but the best in quality, and this
bean as grown by us for many years is
certainly Non Pareil.
j& Have you tried some of our Cauli
flower? The seed was sown on March 20th, and it ought
to be tender ?
j& How are your plants doing that we grow for you?
When we sell plants we want you to get the most out of
them, and if you have any trouble that we can help you
out on, you are welcome and entitled to our advice and
service.
Twentieth Century Truck Farm
J. H. KOBERG, Owner
PRESTIGE
THERE IS NO SAFER or Better way of Paying
Bills than by check. Your check acts as a receipt
and keeps you from carrying around an extra
amount of money. A checking account is a valu
able asset to any business man, and a checking ac
count in our bank will add prestige to you with
other business men.
THE
FIRST NATIONAL
BANK
HOOD RIVER, OREGON
Your Kodak Busy !
"The Army lives on letters" is the way the boys at the
front put it. And when those longed for envelopes with the
home town post-mark contain pictures of the home folks and
home doings; they go far toward making lighter hearts and
happier faces.
Keep your Kodak busy for the sake of the lads in the
trenches, the boys in camp and on shipboard. Help keep
tight the bonds between the home and those who are fight
ing for that home.
NEW SAMPLES
Just arrived. Nifty woolens, latest patterns, correct styles
and right prices. What more do you want? You don't have
to go out of town to get good clothes. Let us make you a
suit. We guarantee our clothes in every detail. Before you
buy that new suit, see what we can do. If we can deliver
the goods at the right prices, why shouldn't we have the
business.
Volunteer Suits
We have about fifteen on hand. Some are almost new,
many of them tailor-made, every one a good bargain. A
little money goes a long way here. From $4i00 to$10i00i
Cleaning and Pressing
The only power machine dry cleaning plant in the
county. Send it to us, we'll clean it. Prompt service
assured.
MEYER & WOOD
HOTEL OREGON BUILDING. SECOND STREET
HOOD RIVER
"OUR TAPE LINE IS WAITING FOR YOU,"
BUTLER BANKING
COMPANY
Established 1900
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
LESLIE BUTLER
F. McKERCHF.R
(Secretary F.tiui table Savings and
Loan Association, Portland)
E. II. FRENCH -
(I'rosident French St Co., Rankers
The Dalles, Oregon)
TRUMAN BUTLER - -C.
II. VAIGIIAN
President
Director
Director
Vice-President
Cashier
Meats and Groceries
Delivered at any residence in Hood River
Prompt service and courteous treatment
E. M. HOLMAN, 3MS5&-
Telephone 2134
Vest Pocket Kodak -it Fits the Uniform, $6.10
Other Kodaks, $9.00 and Up
KRESSE DRUG CO.
The RonaJUL Store
HOTEL
BENSON
PORTLAND, OREGON
Headquarters for Hood River Valley Folk
Get the custom of meeting your home friends at
The Rose City's most pretentious hostelry
RATES REASONABLE
8. BENSON, Owner
A. LUNDHORG, Makaoer
Summer Camp
Made Possible.
npH ROUGH a proposition that I am this week
able to make to the people of the Hood River
Valley, adequate camping grounds in virgin forests
on the headwaters of the West Fork of Hood River
may be preserved for the pleasure of us now resid
ing here and then handed down to posterity.
Briefly this is my proposition :
On the wooded portion of my liiO acre homestead I will plot at
least 100 lots, each 132 by 60 feet, which 1 will sell to Hood River citi
zens, the sum of $10.00 to be paid down and the balance of $30.00 in
one year. I will convey to each purchaser an undivided interest in a
free water right of 40 inches and will also deed to the purchasers as a
w hole 20 acres of timber to the west of the park, to be used by the said
purchasers as wind break and for itfl natural beauty. I agree to brush
and remove fallen logs and tree trunks from the lots.
This is an opportunity that pride of Hood River men and women
will not permit to pass unnoticed.
D. I. STONE, DEE, OREGON
C. N. RAVL1N in charge or plans.
Mr. Apple Grower
Be sure you see us before contracting your canning
grade apples. We will give you as much as any
one. A home industry conveniently located at the
east end of State street.
THE NEWTONIA COMPANY
RUTHTON GOES
UP JN SMOKE
MANY WITNESS SPECTACULAR BLAZE
Damage of Fire Early Friday Night Will
Reach $30,000, With hsur- -.
ante of $15,000
For the third time in its history the
30-year old town of Ruthton, home of
a big planing mill of the Stanley-
bmith Lumber Co.. burned early rn-
day evening.
lhehreis thought by families re
siding at the lumber station to have
been started by a passing train. It
was discovered about six o'clock, a
small blaze on a loading platform.
Several weeks ago a large flume used
in transporting lumber from mills in
the southwestern part of the county
was partially destroyed by a forest
fire, thus eliminating a water supply
that had it been available could have
been used in extinguishing the small
blaze. A strong west wind soon car
ried the flames to the main plant and
thence to surrounding fir trees, office
structures- and homes. The wind car
ried large dead brands the three and a
half mile distance to the streets of
Hood River. A culvert on the line of
the O.-W. R. & N. Co. was slightly
fired, and trains were held a short
time. The plant and loading station
was located for a distance of several
hunderd feet along the railroad and
ties were ignited. A long stretch of
the long distance trunk lines of the
Pacific Telephone Co. were melted
down and put out of commission.
Most of the surrounding mill town
residences were vacated, the plant
having been idle since last year when
the lumber company went into the
hands of a receiver. The few families
residing at Ruthton were given time
to remove their furniture which was
hauled in automobiles and trucks to a
plHce of safety at the top of Ruthton
hill. Members of the local volunteer
fire 'department responded to the alarm
and hurried to the fire, but with no
water supply available little could be
done. Shacks were dynamited in an
effort to stop the progress of the fire,
witnessed by hundreds of people who
journeyed to the top of Ruthton hill in
automobiles. Live brands carried by
the wind set numerous fires in wood
land patches along the Coulmbia gorge.
An old root house belonging to T. D.
Calkins was burned.
On one occasion when the lumber
station burned, 2,500,000 feet of lum
ber was destroyed. The lumber loss
at Friday night's fire was light, most
all stocks having been shipped.
Geo. E. Johnson, of Portland, re
ceiver for the lumber company, Btates
that $15,000 of insurance was carried.
The cost of constructing the plunt
alone several years ago was approxi
mately $30,000. The mill was driven
by a costly electrical system.
of the ranchers and no doubt will con
tinue so until after the apple harvest.
Under the pressure of such conditions,
one's first thoughts and impulses sug
gest that all boys and girls able to no
any amount of physical work should
remain out of school and help, that the
immediate welfare of Hood River de
pends upon the successful handling of
the harvest and as much as possible by
our own people. "
1 here are some other considerations
worthy of notice. As early as May 1,
soon after the first call for volunteers
for the army, the U. S. Department of
Education, acting with the War De
partment, issued a circular letter to
school principals and superintendents.
urging that students in high schools
and colleges remain in school. Similar
letters have been received from the
government during the summer. About
month ago the governor and state
superintendent of Oregon issued a smi-
uar call to the people oi our state.
1 he reasons given are that the pres
ent warfare is a contest of mental
strength and ingenuity ; if the war is
of short duration, students novnfnder
maturity will not be needed : if the war
continues long, as the leaders believe
it will, the educated and trained per
sons will be needed at the front to help
to make the world safe for democracy.
and they will be needed at home on the
farms and in the industries, lor many
directors of industries, their assistants
nd successors have already volun
teered. As soon as the war closes we
must be able in as large a measure as
possible to meet the demands of the
world for trained workers, both in the
countries depleted by the war and at
home, for the years following the war
will bring to us the greatest commer
cial prosperity ever known.
f rom a standpoint of patriotism.
clearly every student should remain in
school. Ovr young men and women
should not be handicapped, but pre
pared to perform their largest measure
of duty in whatever way it may be.
CITY SCHOOLS TO
OPEN MONDAY
The city schools will opeu next
Monday, August 27th. Pupils above
the beginning grade who attended
other schools last year should come
to the oftices iu the High bcliool
Uuilding on Wednesday, Thursday,
or Friday o this week to be register
ed and assigned to rooms. Kxamina
Mens for those conditioned in the
grades will be given Friday at 8:30
a. ni. in the High School Building.
During school days bells will ring at
8:30 and 8:55 a. ni. and 12; 30 and
12.55 p. m.
Pupils belonging to grades IB, 2B,
3D, 4B, and 4A who live on the south
side of and south of Montello Avenue
will report to the Pleastint View
bldg. All pupils in the district be
longing to the 1A and those belong
ing to the IB, 2B, and 3B grades
who live on the north side ot and
north of Montello Avenue will report
to the Coe Primary School. Pupils
belonging to the 6A and 8A grades
will report to Room 2, High School
Bldg. All pupils in the district be
longing to the 2A grade and all
others not mentioned in these di
rections will report to the Park
Building.
All pupils should report on the
first day, as that day will be given
to enrollment and arrangement of
classes. Textbooks and supplies
should not be purchased until di
rections are given by the teachers
as to what is needed.
The following is the assignment of
teachers:
Pleasant View: Mrs. Cornelius,
Room 1, Grade IB; Miss Hart, Room
2, Grade 2B; Miss Forry, Room 3,
Grade 3B; Miss Goyette, Room 4,
Grade 4B and 4A (Principal).
Coe Primary School: Miss Poole,
Room 1, Grade IB; Miss Vannet,
Room 4, Grade IB and 1A; Miss Mc
Donald, Rood 3, Grade 2B; Miss
Evans, Principal, Room 2, Grade 3B.
Park Street Bldg: Miss Laurerson,
Room 2, Grade 2 A and 3A; Miss
Brag, Room 1, Grade 4B and 4A
Miss Wilkinson, Room 4, Grade 5B;
Miss Halvorsen, Koom 7, tirade oa
and 6B; Miss Rielly, Room 8, Grade
6B; Mrs. Blashfield, Room 3, Grade
7B; Miss Welland, Room 9, Grade
7A (Principal); Miss Venus, Rocm 6
Grade 8B.
High School Bldg: Miss Kopan
Room 2, Grade 6A and 8A.
High School: A. C. Crews, Princi
pal, Commercial Work; W. C. v.o-
hoon, Manual Training; L. B. Gibson,
Literature, Civics; G. R. Mclntire,
! Science; Miss Case, Mathematics and
Spanish; Miss Tripp. English and
History; Miss Prather, English; Miss
Jones, Latin and English; Miss her-
lidan, Domestic Science; Miss Busch
German and Commercial; J. 0. Mc
Laughlin, Normal Training.
i Mrs. C. H. Henney, music surcrvl
sor.
Families wishing to have High
School boys or girls live and work in
their homes during the school year
will please call Number 2791 83 soon
cs possible.
War Conditions Met
The attention of high school and up
per grade pupils and their parents is
called to the condition imposed upon
our schools both locally and nationally,
due largely to the war. The labor sit
uation in our valley is acute with many
BOOM IS NOW
ONAT ODELL
MANY BUILDINGS BEING ERECTED
Will Help In Harvest
In our local situation the line of duty
idrv not be so well denned. Uur bovs
and girls should not lose out in their
education, tor the demands for the ed
ucated and trained has never been so
great and the opportunities for the un
trained person are becoming more lim
ited each year. Our observation has
been that pupils who drop out for a
half-year or a year, or come to school
incidentally for a subject, soon lose in
terest and stop going to school. Our
school wishes to retain all of our boys
and girls this year. We plan to dis
miss our high school for two weeks
during the apple harvest, if this is
necessary, and we are willing to do
anything else within reason to help to
meet local conditions.
We do not know the conditions at
each home, but we ant to urge careful
thinking and canvassing of the situa
tion before a pupil is withdrawn from
school. Come .and talk the situation
over with the high school principal or
with me. We want our schools to do
their educational work this year and
we want to help our valley.
J. (J. McLaughlin,
City Superintendent.
HOOD BOYS BUSY
AT AMERICAN LAKE
The Hood River contingent of the
Portland Hospital Corps, Company B
Joe B. Canfield, Harold Hershner and
Bert Thornsbury now at American
Lake, are exceedingly busy men, ac
cording to A. D. Moe, who visited the
contonment last Saturday.
"We found Mr. Canfield busily at
work as acting quartermaster ser
geant," says Mr. Moe, "and Mr.
Hershner, too, was very busy. Camp
was being moved, and the men of the
and quartermaster s department had
$80,000 worth of property in their
charge. Francis Wade,- son of D. W.
Wade, of Wasco, was engaged in the
work at the held hospital.
' Donald Onthank is also at Ameri
can Lake, but we did not get to see
him, as he was busy checking up the
time of crews of men. They were just
making preparations to pay off about
8.000men. We also saw E. E. Coad,
formerly superintendent of schools
here, who is in the auditing depart
ment. Mr. Coad made application to
join the Officers Reserve Corps, but
was rejected on account oi breaking
his leg, which happened some years
ago at Hood Kiver.
"Mr. Canfield told me that the Hos
pital Corps was gettting some mighty
good experience daily. All cases of
sickness and accident are treated at
the field hospital. The cases ranged
from eight to 25 daily, and according
to Mr. Canheld every kind of disease,
from mumps to the more serious dis
eases, had been handled. Automobile
accidents are numerous, as a stream
of cars is continually passing the can
tonment.
"One cannot comprehend the magni
tude of the great army camp until he
has visited it. Crews of men are put
ting up a large barracks building each
hour, or eight a day, lor soldiers
quarters. Sewer systems and water
mains are being laid to keep up with
the carpenters. The city of Tacoma
raised S2.000.000 and made a donation
of 70,000 acres of land to the govern
ment.
Both Mr. Hershner and Mr. Canfield
expect to make visits home on furlough
soon.
With Mr. Moe on the trip to Tacoma,
made by automobile, were Mrs. Moe
and their .daughters, Misses Florence
and Frances. Mrs. Laura Clapp and
daughter, Miss Charlotte, accompanied
the party as far as Portland, going
from there to Camas, to visit Mrs,
Clapp's son, Harry, and wife. She re
turned home the first of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Moe and daughters
were guests at lacoma of Mr. and
Mrs. Ben Snyder, who were of the S.
S. Minnesota party on the Orient trip.
While away they participated in
"Minnesota" picnic at Point Defiance,
at which were also present Mrs. D. L.
I)emorest. Mrs. Hamlin and others.
Mr. Demorest with Mrs. Demorest
was host at dinner and Mrs. Hamlin
hostess at lunch Saturday in honor of
the guests.
The Pacific highway, except forthe
paving out on either side'of important
cities is worn out. It was built of
waterbound macadam, and it has been
almost Jentirely Jworn out by the ter
rific traffic.
"One of the things that interested
me exceedingly on the trip, says Mr.
Moe. "was a free ferry that we struck
on a detour in order to avoid some con
struction work. The ferryman told me
that 225 automobiles in one day had
used his boat in making the detour.
Centrally Located on Mount Hood Line,
Town is Becoming a Large
Shipping Point
Odell, in the geographical center of
the Hood River valley, is one of the
boom towns of Oregon today. Fifteen
years ago the Odell community, which
received its name from William Odell,
the community's earliest setlter, was
an ordinary sparsely settled rural com
munity barely able to support the
little general merchandise store estab
lished by Roswell Shelley.
Today Odell has a factory with the
largest payroll, outside of lumbering
mills, in the county. At the plant of
Asa B. and Frank W. Cutler 30 car
penters, cabinet men and mechanics
are building machines used for grading
and sizing the apples or all northwest
ern fruit districts, and graders have
been shipped to Australia. California
and far eastern apple producing sec
tions, big warehouses of four apples
sales agencies have already been erect
ed at Odell. Additions to most of
them are being made this season, and
two other fruit w alehouses are being
erected. Work has just been com
menced on the plant of the Hood River
Valley Products Co., which will manu
facture vinegar, cider, jellies and
evaporated apples. A new hotel build
ing is rising, and the town supports
two mercantile establishments, meat
market, barbershop and confectionery
stores.
The Odell postoffiee was established
in 1910. In honor of the famed Hood
River apple, the town was given the
name of Newtown. This name did not
kiave the approval of most of the old
residents, who thought the man who
developed the first Odell ranch, Wil
liam Udell, should have the honor and
when it was found that the apple name
conflicted with the designation of
another postoffiee of the state, thus
liable to create postal confusion, the
pioneer name was applied.
Udell chiefly owes its development
to the Mt. Hood Ry. Co., on the val
ley line of which have sprung up the
stores and fruit warehouses. The com
munity of Odell itself, the land being
adapted especially to production of hay
crops, produces a comparatively small
quantity of apples, but the surrounding
districts of Summit, Dukes Valley and
Willow i lat are banner apple sections,
and good roads, down grade, led to the
shipping point. In time to come, ac
cording to predictions, cold Btorage
plants will arise at the valley station
and Odell may become almost as large
shipping point as Hood Kiver, now,
from the standpoint of freight origina
tion, the third town oi Uregon.
In the sense of a population Odell is
no town. The residents practically all
have orchard places. . Near the stores
i . ! . . i
ana posiomce, u is true, some ox vne
homes are so closely adjoining as to
give the appearance of a village. While
all homes are supplied with a sufficient
water for domestic purposes, Odell cit
izens have become worried during the
past year as the number of buildings
rapily increase over a supply of water
for fire protection. Agitation for an
incorporation for the purpose of financ
ing a water system has been started.
The people of Udell and surrounding
orchard districts are progressive in ,
matters of educatioin and religion.
One of the state's most successful
uion churches is located there. The
Methodists also have a handsome
church structure. The Odell, Central
Vale and Dukes Valley school districts
have formed a union high school dis
trict, and a modernly equipped bunga
low home for the institution was com
pleted the first of this year. The Odell
grangers are among the most progres
sive of the county, and a new grange
hall has just been completed.
Water for irrigating purposes is rur-
nished the Odell district by the big
ditch of the East Fork Irrigating Dis
trict. Of the proportions of a small
canal, the big ditch passes above the
town. The path along its bank, wind
ing around hills covered with oak, Ore
gon grape and vine maple, is a lover's
lane.
When Rev. Billy Sunday sought a
country home, he went to Odell. The
people of the mid-valley town are proud
of the Billy Sunday ranch, less than a
mile from the railroad station.
One of the most ardent and consist
ent boosters of the Odell community is
Mrs. L. A. E. Clark, now postmistress.
Mrs. Clark came here with her family
13 years ago from Kansas. For the
most of that time she has been rural
correspondent for the Hood River Gla
cier. Mrs. Clark has never missed a
week getting "her items to her paper
punctually and her publicity has gone
far toward putting Odell on the map
of Oregon.
PUBLIC ASKED TO
AID. BETTER SHOWS
Hood River, Ore., Aug. 20, 1917.
Editor Glacier: In justice to Mr.
KolBtad, of the Electric theatre, who
has cooperated with us to the extent or
his ability, we wish to apprise the
public of the movement we nave set in
motion to secure better moving pic
tures for the children of the town. At
various times a committee, composed
of representatives of the Commercial
club. Woman's club and Parent-Teach
er Association' have tried to solve the
problem. At the risk of a loss of
money Mr. Kolstad offered to aid us,
and a series of 12 films, children's pic
tures, were secured to be shown each
Tuesday. The first picture was a dis
appointment, but the second was excel
lent, and we are hoping that the others
wil prove as good.
We are determined to secure a day
for children, when mothers will be free
to send their children to the picture
shows, knowing that they will see only
the best. If the pictures continue sat
isfactory and parents approve of the
idea, Mr. Kolstad intends to make fur
ther improvements.
We beg that you do not be too criti
cal if one picture of a series does not
happen to be up to the standard.
Mrs. A. G. Lewis,
President Hood River Woman's Club.
Rubber stamps for apple boxes made
to order at the Glacier office, ,