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VOL. XXIX
HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29. 1917
Our Next Directory
goes to print the latter part of this
month. Will our patrons please notify
us immediately of any desired changes,
corrections, new installations, or adver
tising. Telephone 1001 for our adver
tising rates.
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TODAY
has been proclaimed national Thanksgiving Day
by President Wilson.
Let All Give Thanks
For the ready response of American manhood to
the call to arms :
For the effective work of our farmers toward In
creasing food production:
For the loftiness of America's Ideals and the fair
ness of her purpose:
For the mighty resources which we have availa
ble for the defence oi democracy:
The Officers of this Institution loin with the citizens
of this community in a hearty Thanksgiving.
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HOOD RIVER, OREGON .
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20th Year
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within their time, have found Olds
mobile durability, endurance and com
fort inseparably woven among their
fondest family traditions.
DEMONSTRATION OR FURTHER INFORMATION BY
J. W. ANDERSON
'Plow Deep
While Sluggards
Sleep"
We must have labor that won't strihe,
slach or quit to raise next year's crops.
We must have
Iron Men
For the Farm
How tractors cantaKe the place of men
and horses is told by Philip S. Rose in
the issue that is out today.
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Work called for and delivered anywhere, in the city.
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HOOD RIVER
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All Grades and Varieties
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Telephone 1 34
J. E. HALL.
Representative
APPLES
Spitzenburgs, Newtowns, Arkansas Blacks, other
standard varieties, standard grade and pack,, now
ready for shipping. We reach all available export
and domestic markets. Arrange your shipping ac
count at once. Liberal advances.
KELLY BROS., 'ZVfS? J,h " ",1",d 8,
UNION SERVICE
AT lO) TODAY
PATRIOTIC ADDRESSES PLANNED
Durable, Gibson and Button Will Talk
At Asburj Church Special
Hymn to Be Sung
, With the cooperation of local civic
and educational organisations, the
Hood Kiver Ministerial Association
has arranged for a Union service to be
held at the Asbury Methodist church
this morning, beginning at 10.30
o'clock. It has been announced that
patriotism will be the keynote of the
meeting.
Three addresses have been planned.
Mayor H. L. Dumble will represent the
civic life of the city on the program ;
L, B. Gibson, county school superin
tendent, the educational life ; and the
churches of the city by Rev. M. L.
Hutton, pastor of the Riverside Con
gregational church. A hymn, dedicat
ed to America's soldier boys by Rev.
E. H. Longbrake, will be sung to the
tune of Garabaldi's "Come Thou, Al
mighty King."
. In announcing the meeting the com
mittee of the Ministerial Association
says:
"We should like to call attention to
the spirit of the union Thanksgiving
service to be held at the Methodist
church Thursday : morning at 10.30
o'clock. Attendants will find absence
of sectarian religious thought, but will
breathe the atmosphere of the greatest
of all religious ideala that of democ
racy. The service will be a champion
ship of those national and international
ideals in whose name we have entered
the war. Our attendance may be
thought of as a unique patriotic ser
vice to the highest ideals of civiliza
tion, and one more factor in helping
win the minds of men and women to
the essential principles of internatonal
brotherhood.
: The words of Mr. Longbrake's song
are as follows :
Our National Thanksgiving.
To God, our only King,
Thanksgiving praise we bring,
To Thee alone.
Thou King o'er all the earth,
Let Thy eternal worth
Be known to all mankind
For e'er and aye.
For food and earthy store,
Ulch harvests the earth o'er,
We give Thee thanks.
Thou trom Thy bounty gave
To men from hunger save,
Great gratitude to Thee,
Kind Providence. .
Thou God of Liberty,
We pledge our loyalty
For all mankind.
Life and prosperity
That the whole world may see
That God "and rigtki shall reign
O er all the earth.
With Freedom's banner bright,
Whose stars and stripes the right
Foreer shall stand;
For men whose cry and groan,
And not for us alone,
We fight In warfare brave
Their right to save.
Hear Thou our prayer and vow
We bring before Thee now;
Save the whole earth
From tyrants' awful heel;
To all men bring Thy weal,
And Thine own will reveal
In Thy dear Name. 1
Thus would we give to Thee
Fraise for prosperity,
. Giver of life.
Our thanks in life we give,
Our sons that men should live,
Our offering now we give
For all the eartn.
FIELDS, AFTER VISIT,
PRAISES LOCAL ROADS
C. S. Fields, an enthusiastic local
motorist and West Side orcbardist, who
with Mrs. Fields has just returned
from an extensive tour of Illinois and
Wisconsin, declares that he has seen no
roads any better than those of Hood
River county.
"While visitine relatives at Rock-
ford. 111., a bustling city in the midst
of a wealthy agricultural district,"
says Mr. Fields, "I wag particular to
find out just what they were doing
towaad bettering their roads. I had
ofteit beard the criticism that we were
doing too little for our highways out
hem. I na mat our roaas are noi
only already better but that we are do
ing several times as much toward mak
ing our highways permanent, ine
most of the work 1 saw under way
there nniuintpd of the scranincr of or
dinary earth roads that were fast be-
Mr. Fields says that Wisconsin roads
show more care than those of Illinois.
LAWYERS TO HELP
WITH QUESTIONNAIRE
Every man registered for the draft
will be sent a questionnaire in the next
two or three weeks that he must fill
out and return within seven days to
his local exemption board.
These questionnaires are long and
the answers of some of the questions
may require considerable study. But
thnuph Uncle Sam will insist that all
the questions be answered he ia going
to safeguard the rights of every man
hv nmvidin? him with free legal as
sistance and advice in writing out his
Answers
To this end the government is about
to mobilize all the lawyers of the
country for patriotic service. The
(sobituation will be voluntary, but ev
ery lawyer will be expected to do his
bit and volunteer.
State, county and district legal ad
visory boards are to be formed at once
i m Oregon, as in all other states, to
take charge of this work within each
.district.- The chairman of each county
hnftrd will be. whenever practicable.
' the county judge or a judge of the cir-
li These legal advisory boards will be
beld responsible for teeing that a com
petent force of lawyers, or qualified
laymen, ia at all times available for
consultation by all registrants desiring
their services, during the period when
the questionnaires are to be answered.
Not only that, but the legal advisory
boards will delegate these duties to
lawyers in the smaller towns and vil
lages, so that wherever a registered
man may be. he will have available a
competent legal advisor to help him
make out bis questionnaire.
- So far as the lawyers are concerned,
it will all be a labor of patriotism on
their Dart.. Not a cent will they
charge any registrant for their ser
vices.
"It should be the pride of every law
yer," says a statement by the War
Department, "that no registrant, in
preparing all papers that such regis
trant is required to submit in the pro
cess of the selection of citizens of this
nation for duty in the present emer-eencv."
The prompt filling out and return of
questionnaires to local exemption
boards by registrants is of the great
est importance. Un tne information
obtained through the questionnaires
will be based the new system or classi
fication on which selection of men for
military service under the draft here
after wU be made.
ALL MEN PRAISE
WORK OF DR. KERR
Expression of hopes that Dr. W. J.
Kerr, who has been tendered the pres
idency of the Kansas Agricultural Col
lege, can be persuaded to remain at
the head of the Oregon Agricultural
College is universal here. Merchants,
ranchers,' educators and bankers as one
declare that Oregon would feel a dis
tinct loss if Dr. Kerr were-to leave the
institution, characterized as a reflec
tion of his strong personality and ex
ecutive ability. Plans have been made
for resolutions by local civic organiza
tions urging Dr. Kerr to remain in Or
egon and expressing the strong appre
ciation ot his work for the Btate's
general welfare.
"It would indeed be a great misfor
tune," says E. O. Blanchar, "for Ore
gon to lose Dr. Kerr, whose genius as
an executive has gone far toward mak
ing the Oregon Agricultural College
what it is today. The tact of Dr. Kerr
has brought about a unification of all
interests working forthe general good
of the state. His words have brought
to us bankers of Oregon a realization
of the benefits of the cooperation of
4-Minute Men-4
"Carrying the Message"
C. H. VAUGHAN
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AT
ELECTRIC THEATRES
ourselves and the college." ... ,
Prof. J. O.. McLaughlin says :
"Dr. Kerr has been the man who has
built up the Oregon Agricultural Col
lege. The progress of the institution,
the strides of which have been remark
able, under a new man would have
been speculative. Dr. Kerr has been
ble to effect harmony Btraight down
the line and has gathered at Corvallis
a corps of faculty men and women sec
ond to none. I cannot conceive of the
Oregon Agricultural College with Dr.
Kerr at its head. "
Judge Blowers says he would consid
er the leaving fo Dr. Kerr as a distinct
loss to the agricultural and horticul
tural interests of the state.
"We have won a place throughout
the nation for our progressive farming
and orcharding," says Judge Blowers.
"To Dr. Kerr should go in great part
the credit for this advancement."
NICK SINN0TT TO
GET FINE APPLES
Representative N. J. Sinnott and
family will be provided with Hood
River apples for their Christmas din
ner. When the two carloads of gift
fruit, sent east by the Apple Growers
Associaton, one to New York city and
the other to Chicago, left here Mon
day night, the former carried a con
signment of the valley s finest apples,
selected by officials of the sales organ
ization for the eastern Uregon con
gressman. The apples on arrival at
the respective destinations of the re
frigerator cars will be distributed by
Association representatives by ex
press.
' We are remembering Mr. sinnott,
says U. W. Mccuiiagh, "because oi
his efforts to secure a modification of
the British embargo on apples and for
numerous other services rendered for
northwestern apple growers."
COUNTY TO HELP
BUILD NEW RRIDGE
At a conference Thursday with State
Bridtre Engineer Purcell. representing
the State Highway Commission, the
county court executed an agreement to
appropriate $8,000 toward construction
of a Columbia. River Highway bridge
across Hood river. It is estimated that
the total cost of the proposed structure.
of ornamental concrete design, will
reach between $25,000 and $30,000.
The agreement calls for beginning of
construction by September 1, 1918.
Ill at a Portland bospital.btate High
way Engineeer Nunn was unable to at
tend the meeting as planned.
The agreement provides that traffic
will not be retarded in the construc
tion work, and the old bridge will re
main the property of the county.
Mrs. McGuire Red Cross Worker
Mrs. Maria McGuire, a pioneer resi
dent of Hood River, who spends the
winters of each year in Salem, accord
ing to her daugher, Mrs. Laura Bald
win, here on a visit, has joined the
Salem chapter of the Red Croat and is
spending a part of each day sewing on
bandages and other hospital supplies.
Mrs. McGuire is probaby the oldest
woman in the state who is actively en
ir aired in Red Cross work.
Mrs. McGuire had the reputation of
being one of Hood Kiver s finest
seamstresses. Despite her extreme
age her eyesight is good and she is
able to handle the most . delicate
needles,
THE RED CkDSS
BALLTONIGHT
12TH CO. FOOTBALL TEAM IS HERE
Big Crowd Expected at Game Heilbron-
ner Bonding All in Readiness
for Big Event
If .the weather is bad and Boreas
takes a hand in disturbing plana keen
disappointment will prevail in nearly
every Hood River valley household
this afternoon and tonight Never,
perhaps, in the valley's history, have
any two events created such universal
interest as the football game, to be
played this afternoon at Gibsoifleld
between the 12th Co. team and a team
made up of players from the high
school and Volunteer fire department,
and the big ball the Red Cross Chapter
will give tonight at Heilbronner hall.
If the weather is good the football
game will claim a record attendance
for such an event. And even if the
weather ia bad, hundreds and hundreds
will roll in from all parts of the valley
and join the families of the city for
the pleasant diversion offered by the
Red Cross ball.
Talented decorators have been at
work for more than a week in prepar
ing the ballroom and the office rooms
of the second floor where card tables
will be placed and lunches served by
the Honor Guard girls. The greens
were gathered by the Boy Scouts.
L. C. Heizer with the big Billy Sunday
Packard truck spent a good part of
Sunday hauling in the miniature
Christmas trees.
The tentative players on' the high
school-fireman team are named as fol
lows: Blowers, Hicks, Ed. Franc and
Vonder Ahe, backfield ; Blagg Bros.,
Bailey Bros., McBain, Waldie, Young,
Mooney and Hoerlein Bros., line.
The men to form the 12th Co. team
have been named as follows: Imholi,
Button, Lancaster, Coshow, Eckstrom,
Gibson (5th Co.), Alexander, Bilyeu,
Bentley, Howard, Bragg, J Ford and
Sonnichsen. With the exception of
Ford and Howard, who have been
claimed by their mothers for the
Thanksgiving meal, all of the young
men will be guests at dinner of Mrs.
W. E. Imholz and Mrs. F. H. Button
at the Cascade avenue home of the
former. The following young ladies of
the city will attend the pleasant din
ner, to be served following the football
game : Misses Imholz, Cravens, New
man, Baker, Berry, Chipping, Jackson,
Gould, Brock, Robbins, Nichols, Lan-'
caster, McCully and Castner.
ENORMOUS BUILDINGS
FOR ARMY OFFICERS
One of the manifold problems pre
sented by the war is that of furnishing;
adequate office accommodations fur the
thousands of additional officials, clerks,
and other federal servants who are .
pouring into Washington. The gov--ernment
is exercising its Derogative in
this direction and has commandeered
conveniently located office buildings
and apartment houses with a free
hand. In addition, it ia erecting huge
temporary structures for use as offices,
and in the building of these contract-'
ors are breaking time records for con-'
struction work. A building to house '
the six hundred officials and clerks of .
the Council of National Defense, con
taining more than 100.000 square feet '
of floor space, was erected and fully
equipped in 53 days. Similar buildings
nearby are for the use of the forces of
the food administration, fuel adminis
tration, and army ordnance. Work is
well under way on a mammoth struc
ture which will cover three city blocks
to house the overflow of the war and
navy departments, the contrast for
which calls for completion in four
months.
Bv these methods the government
keeps in advance of its actual needs.
At the present rate of increase the'
usual 35,000 federal employes in Wash
ington will be more than doubled if
the war continues another year. Work
ers of all kinds are being appointed,
stenographers and typewriters and .
draftsmen for the service generally,
and what are known as schedule
clerks, index and catalog clerks, clerks
qualified in statistics or accounting.
and clerks qualified in business admin
istration for the ordnance department
of the army, being in great demand.
Representatives of the federal civil
service commission at the post offices
in all cities are the official recruiting
agents for the great civilian army, an
army of a half .pi "ion behind the men
behind the guns.'
SUGAR PURCHASES
LIMITED TO DOLLAR
To conserve the supply of sugar and
make it possible to send the commod
ity to France, a limit has been set on
sugar purchases in Oregon. Grocers
are permitted to sell but $1 worth to -any
customer. To farmers residing in '
remote sections as much as Z5 pounds
may be sold. Hotels and restaurants
are. permitted to buy only a ten days'
because of the world shortage or
sugar and the urgent need of conserv
ing the present supply in the United
States, so that we may respond, in a
measure at least, to the appeals of our
allies for additional sugar, the United
States Food Administration has re
stricted the use uf this commodity for
the manufacture of candies to 50 per
eent of the amount normally used.
This restriction is being drastically en-'
forced through government supervision
of wholesalers and their inventoried
supplies. With the holiday season ap
proaching, the confectioners of the
United States are facing the problem
of meeting the largest demand of the
year with 50 per cent of their most es
sential ingredient curtailed.
' Assessed Valuation More
i The 1917 assessment roll of Hood
River county, just completed by As
sessor Wickham, shows an increase in
valuaton of only $100,890 over last
year. The total assessed valuation of
the county last year, exclusive of pub-,
lie service corporations, which are as
sessed by the State Tax Commission,
was $7,824,340. The 1917 valuation is
$7,428,230.. ;