VOL. XXIX
HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2S. 191 8
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ON -Saturday morning, l:eLruiry the sixteenth,
we had the misfortune to suffer considerable
damage due to the snow sticking to the wires.
j& The damage was such as to put out of order
fifty of our lines and burned out sixty telephones.
The total expense to the Telephone Company for
repairing this damage will be close to $500.00.
j& We have done everything possible to hurry
up the repairs so as to inconvenience the sub
scribers as little as possible, and wish to thank
those who hPve been troubled by the loss of their
telephone for their forbearance in this instance.
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CHEVROLET
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will be your saving if you
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.
i tiipbt win np xin ruAwr.i? cnniu 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 Mpdel "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
SUPPLIES
In accordance with the policy adopted last year, this
company desires to announce that it has made arrange
ments to furnish growers with all supplies, such as
BOX SHOOK, PAPER
SPRAY, ETC.
which may be necessary for the proper care and harvesting-
of the apple crop.
Growers are urged to get in touch with us in order
that their wants may be taken care of.
DAN WUILLE & CO., Ltd.
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Anderson Undertaking Co.
C. C. ANDERSON, Sole Proprietor
Licensed Embalmer and Funeral Director
312 CASCADE AVE. PHONE 1394
WILLIS BRADLEY
MANUFACTURER OF
Concrete Blocks, Drain Tile,
Sewer Tile, Chimney Blocks, Brick, Etc.
Phone 2373
I also make Cultivators combined with riller and
knives to cut the runners all in one. Save half your work
in caring .for Berries and Garden Truck.
I also have a contrivance to protect fowls from mites
and lice. Save doping every little while. Will send
plans for 50 cents. Any one using them one month will
not do without them.
S. E. BARTMESS
fni
Licensed with Oregon's
R. FLAUGIIER
VISITSMOTHER
MAN SAW 2 YEARS TRENCH SERVICE
Record of American Son in British Army
Brings Pride to Principal of
Udell School
The mother heart of Mrs. M. B.
i Yeates, principal of the (Well school,
1 rejoiced Saturday morning, and tears
i of gladness welled in her eyes as she
was seizea in me emorace ox ner son,
Serjeant R. i laugher, on a journey to
his homeland after three years of ser
vice in the British army, "two of which
were spent in actual trench warfare.
Sergeant Flaugher, whq came west
direct from New York City for a visit
with relatives and friends " at his old
home in Baker, armed from the east
ern Oregon city Saturday morning.
At the meeting, the hearts of both
were teo full for utterance. Although
Sergeant Flaugher is 42 years old and
his heavy black hair is streaked with
gray, his mother, a cousin of the noted
Brooklyn minister, Jewell Dwight
llillis, who had not seen her son for
years, beheld him with eves that
sparkled with pride. He mikrht have
been a little boy who had just returned
from boarding sehool.Jloaded with hon
ors of scholarship and deportment. It
was even better than that.
mask on before he had inhaled the
merest whiff, for he declares that g&
poisoning is one of the things a soldier
dreads most.
Wten asked of the German atretics
that hud come under his observation.
Sergeant Flaugher stated that the
worst thing he saw was the bayoneting
of Scotch wounded by Hermans. The
Germans hate the Scotch, he declares.
and thev vented their hatred bv mur
dering the fallen wearers of the
kilties.
Sergeant Flaugher left Monday for
Portland, where he will probably again
offer his services to his count rV His
wounds will probably prevent him
from again seeing active army ser
vice. But he may be useful to the
government because of his practical
knowledge of navigation, and he will
investigate this branch of work.
"The young man of this dav who
doesn't go and help his country is go
ing to be apologizing for it ever after
ward," says Sergeant Flaugher. "And
his children will do likewise. Just
look at a man past 70 today w ho is not
a member of tne Grand Armv. Don't
you often wonder why There may-
have been the most excellent reasons,
but the suspicion remains. My father
fought in the Civil War in the uniform
of Blue, and 1 look back at his record
with the greatest pride. I can feel
that he wouldn't be ashamed of nie,
and 1 am glad."
PYTHIAN ANNIVERS
ARIES CELEBRATED
irst class of Embalmers. Phone 1381, 3821
HOOD RIVER, OREGON
"Of course 1 am proud of him," said
Mrs. Yeates. "1 believe this is one of
the proudest moments of my life. He
has done his duty as he saw it. and he
is back here to tell me all about it."
But the first moments of the meeting
there in a corner of the lobby of the
Mount Hood hotel were silent. Both
the soldier man, back from the grim
realities of trench warfare, and his
mother were thinking. About what?
Who knows--ierhaps of the days when
the veteran, whose body today bears
three wounds from German shells and
in whose right arm still remains a bit
of sharpnel steel, was a little tad.
Other hotel guests hurrying to the din
ing room took no note of the quiet pair.
And then the conversation began.
There was so much to tell. K. Flaugher
enlisted as a private in the British
army in October, 1914.
1 am really a seal unrig man and
not a fighting man at all," he says,
"and when the war broke out 1 was
bosun on a British vessel at a port in
German East Africa. Before my ship
touched at an English port I had al
ready made up my mind to enlist.
What made me do it? I can't define it
exactly. It was just a plain call to
duty. And I think it was the best
thing I ever did in my life. 1 hat two
years in the trenches has made a dif
ferent man of me. And let me tell
you, 1 am just an ordinary soldier like
anybody else. The sacrifices and the
lighting have had the same etject on
my comrades. As 1 sailed the seas
was an indifferent cuss. 1 neve
thought much of religion, and the war
hasn't, perhaps, made me a religious
man after all. I haven't become a
Methodist or Baptist or anything of
that kind, but 1 am looking on life
and the great mystery of the hereafter
with a different, viewpoint. Whatever
may have been the character of a man
when he goes into that strife over
there, when he has seen service for as
long as 1 did, his heart is softened more
toward his fellow man. He may tip
pear a rough, hardened sinner, but
that's all on the surafce. The words
of sincere parsons, whatever may be
his preachings.are hereafter to be held
in deepest reverence by me."
Sgt. Flaiigher says that he met in
all about 30 olher Americans who had
enlisted as he had.
"And I was always proud of them,"
he declares, "for every last one of
them had proven that he could be a
good 6oldier by having been advanced
to rank of sergeant. "The average
Tommy is the finest fighting man in
the world, but he hasn't the knack of
leadership that is possessed by the
Apierican and the Canadian. He in
a sticker and doesn't know what it is
to give up, but when an emergency
arises he hasn't the knack of collecting
his wits and acting as quickly as his
American or Canadian cousin."
Sgt. Flaugher was in some of the
heaviest fighting at Ypres, and he was
in the battle of the Somme.
"But after all of it." lie says, "1
haven't the horror of battle that 1 find
so often evidenced by the American
people. Too many of us Americans
over here and far removed from action
have reached the opinion that trench
life is far more terrible than it actu
ally is. They have an exaggerated
idea of the fatalities sustained and the
awful hardships the wounded have to
undergo. Why, the wounded British
Tommy has the finest care in the
world. In average cases, provided he
can stand the transportation, the
wounded man is back in England,
'Blighty' as he calls it, within 30
hours after he has been shot by a rifle
bullet or struck by shrapnel or machine
gun fire. The Red Cross organization
is wonderful. When a battle is on,
stretcher bearers and ambulances are
always right at hand, and Red Cross
nurses at first aid quarters and the
emergency posts are watchful of the
comfort of the wounded men.
"Too much cannot be said for the Y.
M. C. A. and Salvation Army huts that
have been established just behind the
lines. With their writing rooms, their
amusements and the opportunities of
ered the soldier to secure such delica
cies as chocolate and other hot drinks
at a moderate expense these huts keep
the soldiers in fine spirits."
Sergeant Flaugher says the British
Tommy looks forward each week to the
distribution of cigarettes and each day
to the allotment of rum.
"Nothing so cheers the men as this
morning draught of burning liquor,"
says the returned sergeant. "After a
night, of tense waiting and watching
sometimes knee deep in jnud and water,
the soldier is in need of something
stimulating. For a while an attempt
was made to substitute hot cnflee,
brought up in huge thermos bottles,
for the rum ration. This came about
because of the activities of prohibi
tionists in England. But it was found
that the coffee usually reached the
men after it had grown cold, ard the
daily rum allotment was again insti
tuted, and I want to say that this cus
torn and the distribution of cigarettes
are two of the finest things the Eng
lish are doing for their soldiers."
Sergeant Flaugher on two different
occasions was slightly "gassed." He
says he was fortunate in getting bis
The 54th anniversary of the founding
of the national order and the 2th an
niversary of the organization of Wau
comadge, Knights of Pythias, was
celebrated here Tuesday night jointly
by the members of the lodge and mem
ers of Wauna Temple, Pythian Sisters.
The meeting was characterized by its
spirit of patriotism. An impressive
function was the unveiling by officers
of the lodge of the honor roll, on which
had been inscribed the following 11
names of men in the service :
4 -Minute Men -4
"THE DANGER TO DEMOCRACY"
J . II . HAZI.ETT
S.VIIRDAV
li R M
AND Sl'NDAY
TIIEATR E
AT
Capt. Geo. R. Wilbur, Sgts. Walter
Ford, Kent Shoemaker and J. K. Car
son, Flying Cadet Lueien Carson, Al
bert Gibbons, Earl Spaulding, Kirby
Ross, Chas. looser, Winfield Olinger
and William F. Wahrer.
Stirring addresses were delivered by
Judge Wilson, of The Dalles, and C.
11. Calkins, formerly Grand Chancellor
of California Knights of Pythias.
Following the reading of the Procla
mation issued by first Supreme Chan-
. cellor, John Joseph Brown, by Jasper
Wickham, the officers of the lodge de
'f I u,,,...,,..'., -n i i
ant on this ceren, my the following
program was rendered : Presentation
of service flag made by Pythian Sis
ters, singing of the Star Spangled
Banner and formal dedication service
as issued by the insurance department
of the lodge.
Lincoln's Gettysburg address was
read by James H. Hazlett. Miss Geor
gia Lynn, whose mother, Mrs. Susie
Lynn, is president of the local Temple
of Pythian Sisters, gave a reading and
rendered solos. Mrs. Thomas I). Wal
die accompanied her on the piano.
A feature of the meeting wab the
presentation of a veteran jewel Jto W.
G. Graham, of Portland, who has been
a member of the local lodge for more
than 25 years. The presentation was
made by Judge Wilson.
W. L F1NLEV WILL
SHOW GAME PICTURES
State Biologist W. L. Fitiley will
arrive here the latter part of next
week and deliver a series of lectures
at rural centers on the economic phase
of hsh and game protection. Mr. Fin
ley's meetings will be held under the
auspices of the Hood River County
Game Protective Assoeiaton, and while
here the biologist will be the guest of
members of the organization.
Lectures, to be illustrated by Mr,
Finley's noted reels of moving picture,
depicting scenes and haunts of wild
bird and animal lite, will be at differ
ent communities respectively as fol
lows : Odell, Saturday evening, grange
hall; Oak Grove, Sunday evening.
school building; Pine Grove Monday
evening, grange hall.
THE RED CROSS
PARTY SUCCESS
PROCEEDS CO TO SUPPLIES FTD
More than 300 at Washington's Birthday
Event -A Spelling Bee is test
Function on Docket
A success from every viewpoint is
how the officials of the Rea Cross
Chapter characterize the dance and
card party given Friday night at Heil
bronner hall. The net proceeds of the
party, attended by more than 300 pet v.
pU a number having been here from
The Dalles and out lying valley points,
was $125. The entire fund will b
used to replenish the fund with which
the Chapter purchases supplies for its
classes in knitting and sewing.
The next Red Cross benefit function
will be a spelling bee, which will bu
given early this spring. A Red Cross
spelling bee, suggested by a recent
Oregoman editorial, is creating a live
ly interest, it is proposed to impress
all prominent men and women of the
city and valley as contestants. Judge
Wilson, of The Dalles, has promised to
be present and pronounce the words.
'1 he beauty of such an entertain
ment, says C. N. Kavlin. "is that it
will not cost a cent to make prepara
tions, and from the interest aroused,
I feel sure that the attendance will bo
as large as the biggest Hood River halt
can accommodate. A moderate admit
tance fee will be charged."
A handsome quilt, donated by the
Pythian Sisters, was raffled off. the
aggregate proceeds of the chances net
ting the organization $13.50. Mrs. R.
B. Pungo won the handsome quilt.
1 he success of the dance is due in
great part to the work of Mrs. Harry
T. I'eWitt, of the ways and means
committee, and Secretary Ravlin. The
Kolstad orchestra, which furnished the
music for the event, also deserves a
large share of credit.
THRIFT COMMITTEE
MEMBERS NAMED
Failure to receive supplies neces
sary ror the uouse to house cam
paign on March Oth to 9th In behalt
ot the 1 hrit't Stamp campaign has
made it necessary to postpone tha
campaign two weeks to March lHtli
to :;ird. '
In preparation for the campaign.
the Hood lliver county executiva
ctiumittee has districted the city and
county and appointed the following
sub-committees:
District No. 1, Cascade Locks
Joseph Buttz, Chairman, Harriet
11. Wait, 4han. C. Hon, 11. V. Taylor.
District No. 2, Frankion
M. H. Noble, chairman, Joe Frai
ler, j. it. j'lniiips, Mrs. fcj. j. ruicnoi-
son.
District No. 3, City of Hood River
Special committee as follows:
Novih of State street aud east of
4th: J. H. Norton and C. F. Gilbert.
North of State and between 4tli
nd !Uh: A. S. Kelr and George W.
1 hoinsou, j
North ot State and west of 9th: J.
U. Kinsey and V. M. Sylvester.
Between State and May and. east
of 2nd: C. C. Cuddeford and Frank
I Inward.
Between State aud May and 2nd
uid 7th: George Howe and AlvaDay.
Butweun State and May and be
tween 7th and 12th: O. r. Dabney,
and J. M. Culbertson,
Between Sh to and May and west
ot 12th to school district llmltfl:
Earl Franz and Fmd Blagdon.
South of May and east of 8th st:
A. W. Onthank and John Baker.
BIG RUTHTON BLAST
WAS SUCCESSFUL
Crews of the Kern Contracting Co
successfully exploded blast charges of
many pounds of powder on the Kuthton
hill link of the Columbia Kiver High
way Tuesday, moving hundreds of tons
of rock on the basalt cliff around
which the new grade of the highway
winds.
The O.-W. R. & N. Co. was ready in
case debris had been hurled on the
tracks, steam shovels and crews hav
ing been stationed on both bides of the
big blast, which, however, caused no
traffic interruption. General Sunerin
tendent Buckley. Sunerintemlent Fulm.
er and Chief Engineer Murray were
present for the shooting.
SCHOOL CHILDREN
FIND 671 HARES
South of May and between 8th and
12th sts: L. E. Tatt and Albert Canr
field.
South of May and all west of 12th
to school district limits: A. C. Staten
and A. R. Cruikshannk.
All south of boll pnrk to school
district limits: C. S. Fields and F. M.
Blagg.
All east ot Hood River bridge to
sJiool district limits: C D. Hoyt
and C."A. Reed.
District No. 4, Barrett
F. E. Miller, Chairman, David
Pyles, A. G. Wing.
District No. 7, Pine Grova
W. C. Keck, Chairman, C. King
Benton, Mrs. R. E. Scott, R. H.
Waugh.
District No. 9, Middle Valley
W. F. Mcllwraith, Chp.irman, R. W.
Ames, Mrs. Belle S. Walters, L. O.
Rhoades.
District No. 10, Viento
B. F. Currau, Chairman, M. I. Oste
gard, Mrs. C. H. Kvavle, Mrs, M. I.
Ostegard.
District No. 11, Oak Grove
I,. H. Arneson, Chairman, AeX
Hukarl, D. L. Plerson, Elno Jakku.
District No. 12, Rose Hill (Viento)
R. C. Elder, Chairman. F. G. Stew
art, Mrs. Myrtlif duft'y, N. 8altman.
C. B. Compton. chairman, A, E.
Williams, R. A. Collins and J. R. Ed
gar. District No. 15, Wyeth
E. M. ..Noble, Chairman, A. C.
t'pstel, F. Williams. C. S. Morgan
District No. U, Fir
C. E. Sutherlin, Chairman. I. A,
Imngey, E. A. Cole. Mrs. C. E. Suth
erlin. '
Union High School No. 1, Parkdale
A. M. Kelly, Chairman, Mrs. R. J.
Mc.lsaac, J. D. Smullin, W. H. Edlck,
James F, Candee, Marlon W. Shear
er, Mw. Earl Shahan, Charles E.
Croven.
Union High School No. 2, Odell
According to a census just completed
by the children of the city schools. Dis
trict No. A contains 66 families who
are raising rabbits for meat. The total
number of adult rabbits found by the
young census takers reaches 671.
Most of the rabbits, as enumerated
in the census, are of the Belgian he
brped, although a large number of
Flemish giants are noted. A few New
Zealand Reds have recently been Im
ported by rabbit fanciers.
n T. WoKer. Chairman. ChnrlflA
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DeWitt Motor Co. the first Ford one , F,ll,er' J' P iimes, H J' T?'
ton truck to be used in Hood River. Clayton Fletcher; Charles HounseU,
The new machine arrived last week, IM, D, 0dU,
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