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,HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7. 19J8
No.
The Busy Hour for Telephoning
IF we comprehend that residences are ordering their gro
ceries and supplies that retailers are ordering from the
wholesalers that freight depots are notifying their con
signees, and professionals making their daily appoint
mentsat just the time we are doing our own ordering, it
must be between nine and ten o'clock in the morning.
If theline is busy when we call at that time, it is also
busy for others when we are using it, and the whole situ
ation might be relieved if we called later in the day.
If the persons who persist in visiting during the busy
hours will have fine consideration for others, they will do
it later in the day. They will not under any circum
stances talk over five minutes. And they will use the tel
ephone on party lines for reasonable and necessary pur
poses only.
Oregon-Washington Telephone Company
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and
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and
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or
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AT
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; Kodaks
, and
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i
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' Lawn
Stationery
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Bottles
THE KRESSE DRUG CO.
The ettaJUL Store
Come in and hear the latest January Records.
Stand by the
Flag!
"The duty of every American
today is to work with and
, for the Government."
Each Individual can help by avoiding waste or
extravagance; by spending less and saving more;
by practicing Thrift.
This Institution invites you to "do your bit" by
opening or adding to a Bank Account here.
FIRST NATIONAL
BANK
HOOD RIVER, OREGON
Member Federal Reserve System
CHEVROLET
$51.30
BUTLER BANKING
COMPANY
ESTABLIHED 1900
MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE iSYSTEM
will be your saving if you -y
Purchase Your Car
NOW!
The Chevrolet Motor Company notify us that
owing to the increased cost of materials, labor,
etc., they are compelled to advance prices.
! Tuunp win nv Mr rxxxfcnv iranif thp
PRESENT MODELS.
As long as the cars we have on hand last, they
will be sold without the advance in prices
We now have on display
The Famous Model "490"
5-Passenger Touring Car
Present price:
$715.00
War tax not included. '
World's Lowest Priced Electrically Equipped Automobile.
HOOD RIVER GARAGE
Phone 4444
SECOND & CASCADE STS.
NOW IS THE TIME
to have that automobile repaired. Why
wait until spring to have this work
done and lose the use of your car when
automobiling is a pleasure? All Ford
repairs made on Ford Factory Schedule
for labor charges. We can give you
prompt attention now.
Hood River Garage
SECOND AND CASCADE STS.
Phone 4444
THE DEMAND OF THE HOUR
Military Wrist Watches
for
U. S. Soldiers-
Elgin Military Watches are especially adapted to lsurd
outdoor use.
Complete in sturdy, compact case of special design.
Strong, mannish looking, silvered dial with luminous
hands and figures. Heavy cow-boy style strap of battle
ship gray.
Other designs, built upon substantial lines, all of
- moderate price and time-keeping qualities. .
Come in and let us show them to you.
W. F. LARAWAY
JEWELER
Dissolution of Partnership.
This is to announce the dissolution of the partnership
between myself and C. A. Tucker in conducting the Cas
cade Garage. I have purchased the interest of Mr. Tuc
ker and have assumed all liabilities and will collect all
debts owed the firm. In order that the business may be
settled at once will all who have accounts due the Cascade
Garage please remit by mail or call at the Heights Garage
where I am continuing in business. - -
J. F. VOLSTORFF.
BIG CROWDS
HEAROFFICERS
TWO BIG CHURCHES WERE FILLED
Overflow Audience Sent from Asbary
Charci to Congregational Cana-
dial Stories Impressive
Even!before the time announced for
the beginning of the addresses of Capt.
Gook and Major Edwards, Canadian
officers touring the state under the
auspices of the Oregon Council of De
fense, the Asbury Methodist church,
selected for the meeting because of its
large seating capacity, was overflow.
ing bunday. ana the Congregational
church, was opened and filled to the
doors. It was hastily arranged for
each officer to appear alternately at
the two churches, and thus the mes
sage of both men were made available.
The visitors graphic stories were
shortened when it was learned that the
late O.-W. R. & N. train to Portland
had been annuled and the party would
have to cross the river and catch a
North Bank train at White Salmon.
The officer were accompanied by or-
derlies, and their party was in charge
of Bruce Dennis, of Baker, secretary
of the Oregon Defense Council, who at
bunday a meeting stated that the or
ganization asked the military depart
ment of Canada to detail invalided offi
cers that they might tour the state and
tell fathers and mothers of boys in the
service their story of actual conditions
at the front.
'The mission of these hi?h British
officers," said Mr. Dennis, "'is not for
the purpose of promoting any specific
campaign, but to stimulate all work,
to awaken the people or Oregon who
in some sections may be in a dangerous
lethargy or indifference."
' a a. I 1 . J a i
looming ii nil nanueu, me measured ui
Capt. Gook and Maj. Edwards deeply
impressed the two Hood River audiences.
Capt. Gook opened his address by
telling of the terrible wastage one saw
on first entering the war zone which is
four to 100 miles wide and 400 miles
long from the English Channel to the
Swiss frontier.
"The French peasants." he said,' are
ideal farmers, and have been practic
ing, perhaps, the most intense form of
agriculture known. Now those farms
are ruined. Towns in the zone are
flattened out Some unfortunate resi
dent on returning after the war may
find brick dust remaining from his for
mer borne, but he win never nnd any
of his farm The face of the earth has
been changed by the shell fire. No top
soil remains, and the mass of shell-
nocked earth Is filled with tons of shell
bits, unexploded shells and other de
bris."
CaDt. Gook stated that he left Ene
land, after training, open minded dog
nite the numerous rumors that be had
heard as to German atrocities, but that
arrival in France brought liim face to
face with tint hand evidence of the
fact that the Germans had a well form
ulated policy, of warring not only on
armies, but on the civilian population
as well. He declared that his men
were filled with a repugnance and a
desire 10 revenge ineir wrongs auer
hearinir of the stories of wronged wo
men and girls of the frontier, me
officer told how the Germans, firing
huire 1200 pound shells, wiped out vil
lages, killing and maiming hundreds of
women and children, although the con
centrated fire had no military value.
'And I am not telling you of isolated
cases," said capt. book, "Dut 01 tne
usual occurrence on the front. After
such experiences my opinion of Get"
mans was altered and I have come to
the point where I do not want to see a
German unless l am armed wan a Day'
onet and can stick him."
Capt. Gook ended his lecture with an
appeal to Americans to be willing to
make the same sacnnces mat otner
allied nations have made. He told of
the English National Service work by
which every resource of the country
was put into play for winning the war.
"When you write your boys," he
said, "do not worry them with recitals
of petty annoyances of home. But
show them that you are back of them,
and support them by' sending muni
tions, food and supplies. I am made
blue sometimes by men asking when
the war will end. That is a matter in
the hands of the individual. You do
your part and you will help end the
war all the Quicker."
Capt. Gook praised the women of
England, who are entering into an
forms of war work. Large todies of
women, he said, were now engaged in
France as carpenters.
Major Edwards won the hearts of his
audience at the outset when he said :
"As I travel about I find myself
watching the faces of the men trying
to judge as to what kind of soldiers
thev will make. I have looked into the
faces of the Oregon boys and I want to
assure you that Germans are going to
have a rough time when they meet
them."
"The men at the front are keen for
tetters." Maj. Edwards continued,
"Just after dark, when the mess train
comes up the boys, hungry as tbey are,
always wait until the mail sack is
opened before they eat. There is
difference between the roan who gets a
letter and the one who does not. As
to parcels for your boy, allow me to
make some suggestions. Send him
socks, socks, more socks and then some
more socks. Make the socks long in
the lee and tisrhter at the top so that
thev will not si Id down over the calves.
Candles, the short Kind, win aiways pe
welcome and he will be glad to receive
some hard cake chocolate."
Maj. Edwards thrilled bis hearers by
relating his experiences in a trench
battle, where hundreds of his brigade
were killed and where at one time his
men were almoBt blinded by German
tear shells. Soldiers, however, are
equipped with a Bpeically made goggles
for this gas that temporarily blinds the
men, and the wearing of these relieves
the pain and itching that almost drives
men insane. He told of how terrible
was the suffering of men who were
victims of German poison gas, which
tended to liquify the victims' lungs.
Writhinsr in aeonv. he stated, those
who had breathed in the gas would spit
up their lungs in a kind of froth. The
victims would often suffer terrible
mniM frtr twA riav
Maj. Edwards, reaching a poinf of
climax, declared that oermany, De
cause of her atrocities and the inhu
manity of her armies, had lost the
right to stand among God-fearing nS'
tiona. He warned against hasty con
sideration of peace proposals.
"I want to live to see this war car
ried onto German soil," declared Mai.
Edwards, "in order that her people
may know of the sufferings of Belgium
nd France. The peace terms must be
written by our leaders and signed in
Berlin." Both Maj. Edwards and
Capt. Gook will carry to their graves
terrible wounds. The former has lost
both arms from the explosion of a
shell, and the latter was all but killed
by being struck by an expanding sell,
the use of which is contrary to rules of
nations, that tore a hole in his side as
big as a man's fist.
Maj. Edwards told of a fellow British
officer who was captured by the Ger
mans. While he had been wounded in
the forearms, the wounds were not ser
ious. "Yet when he wsa sent to a hos
pital," -said Maj. Edward, "he fell
into the hands of a doctor who was a
beast rather than a man, and my
friend's arms were taken off at the
shoulder sockets."
The Methodist church meeting was
presided over by Mayor Dumble. E.
O. Blanchar presided at the Congrega
tional church. Hans Hoerlein rendered
organ numbers at both churches, and
Mrs. C H. bletton sang patriotic songs
at the Methodist church.
The visitors, while in town, were en
tertained at the Mount Hood hotel.
Thev were taken for an automobile
drive by J. H. Fredricy.
Denutv County Engineer Cruikshank
has received from the State Highway
Commission plans and drawings for
tne new concrete bridge that will span
the Hood river just east of the city.
The proposed structure, bids on the
construction of which will be called for
on March 5, will be composed of three
artistic arches with slab approaches.
it will be located lust north of 4he old
steel bridge and the level of the drive
way will be four feet higher. The
plans call for a series of artistic lamp
posts.
The cost of the new bridge, which
will be completed next fall, is esti
mated at $40,000. Of this amount
Hood River county will appropriate
8,oou.
OVER SUBSCRIPTION
INY.W.C.A. DRIVE
4 Minute Men-4
"The Man of the Hour
the Shipbuilder"
E. C. SMITH
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AT
GEM THEATRE
LANS FOR NEW
BRIDGE ARE HERE
The county drive for a $400 quota
of the Y. W. C. A.Ihostess house fund.
conducted the past week, in charge of
Mrs. Truman Butler and Mrs. U S,
Ainsworth, closed" Saturday with $17
oversubscriptions reported. Canvass
ing teams declare that they were met
everywhere with a hearty response.
JUNIOR RED CROSS
CHAPTERS FORMED
Junior Red Cross organizations are
now being formed at all Hood River
county schools. Superintendent Cib
son reports that the Cascade Locks
school has been the first to qualify with
112 members.
"But the children are taking a keen
interest in the work, said Mr. Gibson,
and we will have organizations in all
schools within a very short time.'
;0UNCIL PREPARES
FOR SMII.EAGE SALE
With W. A. Isenberg, chairman, pre
siding, the Hood River county organiz
ation of the Oregon Council of Defense
met Thursdav nieht for the purpose of
arranging for the local sale of War
bmileage books and to register all
available men of the county who will
be willing to work as shipbuilders or in
timber operations. J. M. Culbertson
was named enlisting officer for the
registration of laborers. C. C. Ander
son was named secretary of the local
organization.
ALIEN REGISTRANT
WAS SHIPWRECKED
K. C. DfUYE
IS LAUNCHED
TEAMS BEGAN CANVASSING MONDAY
Plans Made at Friday Night Meeting Ad-
dressed by The Dalles Visitors
Valley Quota Set
At a meeting at Library hall last
Thursday night plant for the Knights
of Columbus war fund drive, to raise
money for the construction and mainte
nance of recreational huta at army
cantonments, were outlined. Appeal
ing addresses were delivered by u. K.
Schanno and J. L. Kelly, of The
Dalles, the latter formerly joint repre
tentative in the Oregon legislature
from Hood River and V aaco counties.
The Knights of Columbus drive was
launched Monday, when canvassing
teams started their work in every sec
tion of the county. The drive will
close February 15.
While the Hood Kiver county quota
for the'great war fund was first placed
at $1,000, it was later decided to cut
the amount to $500. The soliciting
teams now think that this sum will be
oversubscribed by 60 per cent.
The canvassing teams have been met
the heartiest response from all whom
they have approached. P. J. Mohr and
Geroge Mellon, soliciting in a down
town district a few hours Monday af
ternoon quickly assembled $192.
"It is certainly gratifying," said
Mr. Mohr, "we simply have to state
that the funds are to be used in helping
the soldiers, and everyone gives to the
limit of ma or her ability, we mem
bers of the campaign committee cer
tainly appreciate the generosity of the
Hood Kiver people."
Robert William Strubel. 23 year old
checker at a Cascade Locks lumber
vards. who was here Monday to regis
ter with Postmaster Reavis as a Ger
man enemy alien, was stumped when
he reached the question on the registry
document demanding the name of the
port at which he entered the United
States.
Strubel. who is a native of Cologne,
took his registration blank to the post
master and explained that bis entry on
United States sou wac most unconven
tional. In April. 1913, the young Ger
man was aboard the tramp steamer.
Mimia. which was wrecked off Nehal-
em. But for the quick work of the
United States life guard Mrubel says
he would have found a watery grave,
He was carried onto Oregon soil in the
strong arms of a husky guard.
Postmaster Reavis has received ap
plication for registration from three
Germans.
County Loses $8,000 Road Money
Through a decision of the Supreme
court Tuesday of last week in the case
of the O.-W. R. & N. Co. vs. Sheriff
Johnson, the county court will lose an
approximate $8,000, the amount of a
special road tax levied year before last
in tne cascade locks aismcu re
versing the decision of the circuit
court, the supreme court held that
road districts would have to follow i
budget law enacted by the 1915 legis
lature.
The special road tax of the Cascade
Locks district was assessed for use on
the Hood River section of the High
way.
LANS BEING MADE
FOR BOND DRIVE
While the time, amount and rate of
interest have not been set, the banking
machinery of the nation ia being set in
operation for the first Liberty Loan
campaign or ms, which win be
launched within the next few weeks.
The Hood River campaign will be
headed by Truman Butler and E. O,
Blanchar. respectively this county's
representative on the state central
committee and chairman of the Hood
River executive drive committee.
Recently W. G. MeAdo, secretary of
the treasury, called to Washington
members of the boards of all the Fed
eral Reserve banks. These represent
atives returned to their respective ter- ,
ritories and in turn were called to a con
ference with them Liberty Loan state
executive committees. These execu
tive committees carried the' message
of the approaching great loan to the
respective states of the Union.
Mr. Butler was in Portland last week
to attend a conference of the Oregon
executive committee with central com
mitteemen from all Oregon counties.
While he states that the definite
amount of the big issue has not been
decided A. L. Mills, prominent Port
land banker and member of the state
executive committee, estimates it at
around $7,000,000,000. This will place
Oregon's quota at $50,000,000. and will
mean that the Oregon per capita sub
scription will have to reach $05. Dur
ing the last drive last year a total of
approximately $25,000,000 was sub
scribed by 50,000 people.
"it was the concensus of opinion at
the Portland meeting," said Mr. But
ler, "that we could not hope to secure
the state's quota from 50,000 subscrib
ers, but that we will have to get busy
and increase those subscribers to lou,- .
000. In our last campaign Hood Riv
er's $140,000 Bhare of the second Lib
erty Loan was subscribed by a few
less than 900 people."
In the coming campaign, which will
be launched only when machinery has
been perfected in all thejstatea of the
Union, all counties will be divided into
subdivisions, the boundaries conform
ing either to those of voting precincts
or school districts. Mr. Blanchar will
appoint a captain for each district, and
these respective appointees will each
appoint nine associate team members.
According to the plans not an adult of,
the country will be overlooked in the
approaching canvass. The members
of the drive teams will be equipped
with three sets of cards, blue, red and
yellow. If. in their estimation, the
subscriber whom they have -visited
does his full duty, bis record will be
sent in on a blue card ; if he subscribes
but it is thought that he might do bet
ter, he is entered on a red card. The
man who fails to subscribe, although
be has no good reason for not doing so.
is entered on the yellow card, which
may eventually find its way into the
hands of the department of justice.
Another matter that has definitely
been determined on for the approach
ing campaign, the name and amount of
subscription of every subscriber will
be published. While it was stated mat
some of the proposed plans may smack
of coercion, those who have attended
the conferences deem it absolutely
necessary.
"The sigmncant thing about tbe
Portland meetting," says Mr. Butler,
was the seriousness of the men who
were in San Francisco to meet with
th board of governors of the Federal
Reserve Bank. They have been given
an insight into the seriousness of tbe
great war, and have returned im
pressed with the necessity oi selling
the great war loan. They point out
that we are at war. that normal times
do not prevail and that we must resort
to methods that may not oe considered
normal in selling the great issue."
To stimulate public interest the cam
paign of publicity accompanying the
drive will be on a more extensive scale
than undertaken in former drives. It
is proposed to organis a singing squad.
and the talent of the county will be
called on to assist with these plane.
It is proposed to have boys of tne
county away at cantonments visit their
home towns and deliver addresses in
uniform. CoL John Leader, in charge
'of military instruction at the Univers
ity of Oregon, will be called on to tour
the state in the interest of the cam
paign. Col. Leader ia an eloquent
speaker and his work will be effective.
The state manager ior the drive is
Robert E. Smith, of Roseburg.who baa
already established quarters in Port
land. Ed B. Wood, O. W. R. 4 N. detec
tive, was here last week visiting
friends and on official business.