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VOL. XXIX
HOOD KIVEIt, OREGON, THUKSDAY, MAKlH 14, 191b
No. H
V
Musical Bargains
for a ueekUinnin IHl RSDAY. MARCH
14. TIIF1 BT.f l -f Rt NCH PIANO CO.. well known
Portland firm, will display at the lioirx- of MRS.
M. F.. TAVLOR. 1111 W ilson Street, near -frill
Park. .
PLAYER -PIANOS AND
PIANOS
which we will sell on any reasonable terms.
We also carry a complete line of FtJison Dia
mond Disc. Columbia Gratonola, find Pathe Ma
chines. We would consider exchange of Gralonolas
for Pianos.
See me atternoons or evenings.
G. E. CORSON.
Representative.
tOMlKNstl) HMDRT OK
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF HOOD KIVI K OREGON
A I lltK. l.l.OSK Of BI'MMJSS MARCH I. Il
K. I MOE, President
C. DF.TIIMAN, Vice-President
STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION
OF THK
Butler Banking Company
of Hood River, Oregon
at the (W of Business, March 1th, 11)18
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $47!), 051. 81
Bonds, Warrants and Stocks 70,320. 83
Savings Department Loans 118,63-1.10
Safes, Furniture and Fixtures 5.810.00
Real Estate 3-1,434.23
Cash on Hand and in Other Banks 118,491.59
S832,;51.02
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $MO,000.00
Earned Surplus and Undivided Profits.. 21,407.27
Re-discounts with Federal Reserve B'k 19,300.00
Deposits 691,887.35
$832,054.02
NOW IS THE TIME
tefchave that automobile repaired. Why
wait until spring to have this ork
done and lose the use of your car when
automobiling is a pleasure? AM Ford
repairs made on Ford Factory Schedule,,
for labor charges. We can give you
prompt attention now.
W
Hood River Garage
SECOND AND CASCADE STS.
Phone 4444
Eer Ready
Flash l ights
and
Batteries
Johnston's
Chocolates
Rexall
Remedies
for all .
Ailments
Yktrolas
and
Records
STANDARD
GOODS
or
KNOWN QUALITY
Eastman
Kodaks
and
Supplies
Symphony
Lawn
Stationery
Pyralin Ivory
Thermos
Bottles
AT
THE KRESSE DRUG CO.
The oM. Store
Come in ami hear the latest lamia rv Records.
IteMinrc-ei :
Loans and Discounts 3il.i)2!).()!
U. S. fknla and Certificates of Indebtedness . 1:7.30.00
Other Ifcmds. Securities, etc 85,7 11.18
Hank Building and Fixtures r2.2W.OO
Other Heal Estate 17.177.:tt
Cash and Exchange lll. lQC.o:',
$(;t;r.si7. i:i
LiabiliticNt
Cajiital Stock - $1uo,x0.ik)
Undivided Profits 2.709.07
Circulation !)7,t;ii0.(H)
Re-discounts and Bills I'avabie 18,721.00
Deposits OG.,SUi.7j
$r;r,Ki7. 1:5
B"serv'
Reserve actually carried by us $111, 40C..03
Required tmount under U. S. Gov't
regulations 'J7.1i.(M)
Reserve ctrried by us in excess of ....,.,
requirements . . . 94,zi..uj
F O. BLANCH AR, Cashier
S. J. MOORE, Asst. Cashier
The Orchardist
in the market for a grader and apple sizing
machine will save money by seeing me at
the earliest opportunity.
My machine is no experiment.
After severest tests with competing ma
chines, my sizer has won the approval of all
fruit districts.
Just yesterday I had an order for four
graders from Idaho.
I
Ideal Fruit and Nursery Co.
Grader
will make you money because of the low
cost of original investment as compared with
other machines, and another item its cheap:
ness of operation.
CALL
AUGUST GU1GNARD
IDEAL FRUIT & NURSERY CO.
Tel. 5832
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 har
vesting 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.
Anderson Undertaking Co.
C. C. ANOFRSON, Solo Proprietor
Licensed Embalr ner and Funeral Director
311 CASCADE A VK. PHONE I.VM
GOVERNMENT HOUSEHOLD Qt'ESTIONAIRE
1 To lie used in Third Liberty Loan Drive)
Name Town or District
Occupation Business Address
Residence Address
Family Assessment f Atito
First Loan t Second Loan $ Rating $ .
Third Loan $ Bank
Why no subscription ? Nationality
Remarks
8
.Solicitor.
FIRE BOYS
WANT BONDS
$300 APPLICATION MADE MONEY
Organization Meeting for Campaign uf
Third Liberty Loan Held Last
Friday- Outlook Good
THE ASSOCIATION
PRICE IS GOOD
PRIMARY MEETING IS IHRMONIOIS
900 Tar Crop Lvoeft 68 Tars
Has Been Sold
The first application for an allotment
of the Third Liberty loan was received
Monday by the county committee from
the tire department, which has appro
priated $500 of its funds for the securi
ties. The ldlewilde Cemetery Associa
tion, it is announced, will make the
second application, an appropriation of
$1,500 having been made for the put-pose.
E. O. Blanehar. chairman of the ex
ecutive committee, express, an opti
mism over the success of the drive.
The county will be canvassed in school
district subdivisions, captains of drive
teams lor these respective -districts
having already been appointed. Mr.
Blanehar declares that work of organ
ization is progressing rapidly.
1 he 40 members of the Boy Scouts
are making active preparation for par
ticipation in the campaign, reports
their scoutmaster, D. d. ( ruikshank.
thirteen members of the truup won
government medals for their effective
work in the campaign of last October.
The medals have arrived and will be
presented at the Congregational church
next Sunday morning when the mem
bers of that congregation meet to dedi
cate a service roll. District captains.
other than those named below as at
tending last week's meeting, are as
follows: E. E. Ellsworth, R. W.
Arens, Geo. Gallaway, M. E. McCarty,
M. O. Boe, Frank Massee, E. 11. Green
and Frank Williams.
The Hood River organization for the
sale of bonds of the Third Liberty
loan, the campaign of which will be
launched April t to last three weeks,
was set in motion at a luncheon ut the
Hotel Oregon FrMay. Blaine Hallock,
assistant state executive manager,
who has charge of the organization of
all work outside of Portland, was pres
ent and explained in detail the tasks
that would be imposed on local com
mitteemen and captains of respective
county school districts. Those present
to meet with Mr. Hallock were:
Truman Butler, member if the state
executive committee for Hood River
county; A. W. Stone, William Stewart
and 0. G. Cruiksharik, members of the
executive committee ; R. B. Bennett
and Joe 1). Thorn ison, respectively
chairmen of the "county publicity and
speakers' committees ; and E. W.
Birge, 1). L. Pierson, J. K. Nickelsen,
George Callaway, Dr. W. T. ('oilier,
J. E. Ferguson and Rev. W. H. Buddy,
captains of district teams. (?,
When Mr. Hallock explained a sys
tem of maps, when the drive comes on,
for designating those counties and
towns of the state that first reach 50
percent of their quota, or oversub
scribe their quota.remarking that blue
would indicate those communities that
had reached the quota and oversub
scribed, Mr. Stewart declared that it
would be the aim of the local commit
tee to put Hood River first as a blue
city on the map.
It was pointed out at the meeting by
Mr. Birge that the drive will be incon
venient for Hood Kiver county, devoted
almost exclusively to fruit, because of
the fact that it would fall at a time
when growers will find their time de
manded almost entirely for the work of
spraying. However, inconveniences,
according to the suggestions made by
Mr. Butler, may be eliminated by con
centrating on respective districts of
the valley where the growers are riot
engaged in the exacting task during
the weeks of the drive. As it happens,
because of the different altitudes of the
apple sections, spraying will be a week
later on the higher altitude than on
the lower levels.
P.. O. Blanchar, chairman of the
drive committee for Hood River coun
ty, wns unable to attend the meeting,
having been called to Portland on busi
ness. Mr. Hallock talked for two hours on
the technical points involved in the
huge drive. First he distributed among
the men present a pamphlet outlining
the campaign organization for Oregon.
The foreword of this pamphlet follows :
"We are in the greatest war of all
time.
"Already the blood of our brothers
good American blood has been spilled
upon the shell torn fields of trance.
Already the German sea menace has
claimed its toll of American boys in
uniform. In the words of President
Wilson, 'The day has come when Amer
ica is privileged to spend her blood and
her might for the principles that gave
her birth and happiness and the peace
which she has treasured. God helping
her, she can do no other.'
"Oup nation's strength is the brain,
the muscle and the wealth of her hun
dred million people. To win she must
tax them all. The brain of the nation
is at work, hard, grueling, ceaseless.
The nation's muscle, acting through its
young manhood, ia training to the great
work.
"But the nation's wealth, its capital,
its surplus, its earnings are ulmost un
touched.
"Notwithstanding some five billions
of dollars subscribed to the first and
second loans, the wealth of this country
amounting to more than two hundred
billions was increased by some 40 bil
lions in the last year. Some of this
wealh, a comparatively small amount,
is needed by our government to finance
our part in the great war for the free
dom of democracy. It is needed to
clothe, feed and equip our gallant boys
on the battle line the boys who went
so freely and who are now ready to die
for us. 'Are we more tender with our
dollars than with the lives of our boys?'
"You, into whose hands this pam
phlet comes, have been chosen from
among those at home to undertake and
to perform for your country a part of
the present great work ot floating the
third Liberty loan, upon the success
of which depends the success of those
who have marched away.
"This is your call to duty."
Mr. Hallock then proceeded to tell
that as yet the quota for Oregon had
not been received, nor has the interest
rate been set, but it was expected that
it would be 4j per cent. He impressed
on the men present the seriousnes of
the tasks they were engaging in.
"In fact," he said, "you are to con
sider the instructions that vou receive
from Oregoon headquarters, and they
from the San Francisco Federal Re
serve Bank, as orders.Jfor. the organ
ization is almost military. You must
nut take your responsibilities lightly."
li distributed to those present but
tons which denote that they are oljn-!
teer workers in the disposition of the j
great loan. These buttons will U !
worn by members of the committers1
and bv captains and their team mem-'
I Pers. ine buttons cannot tie pur-1
chased. !
Because of the enormous sum that it I McCullaUB IS ComOiimented All 01 the
will ne necessary to raise at me com
ing drive, Mr. Hallock pointed out the
necessity for intensive organization
and the icrfection of this urbanization j
and the beginning of its work as soon I
as possible. . j
It is proposed in the approaching!
drive to overlook not a single cititer !
of the vallev. Steps have been taken
to secure subscriptions from all nun-!
resident individuals and cororate
property owning interests. The first
work of team captains will be to se
cure the names of all citizens in their
communities, and then to canvass the
names, acquiring by means of what is
termed a household questionnaire, the
style of which appears in another col
umn, all data.
These questionnaires will be turned
back to the county executive commit
tee, w ho will turn them over to the
rating committee, who will set the
figure they think each citizen should
subscribe in Liberty bonds. It is pro
posed by these questionnaires to smoke
out the slackers.
When the soliciting teams begin
their soliciting, if a man subscribes
what it is thought he should, his record
is turned in to the county committee
on a bluv card. If it is thought that
he has not done his full duty, his re
port will be put on a red card. If the
man or woman solicited makes no ef
fort to subscribe, and it is considered
that he is well able to do so, he is re
ported on a yellow card and this event
ually reaches the l.'n tied Stales De
partment of Justice.
Mr. Hallock announced that no funds
had been appropriated for pre-cam-paign
work, and that each community
would be expected to finance such
work.
4 -Minute Men -4
THE INCOME TAX"
II. A. M.u DONALD
SATURDAY AND SI SDAY AT
I.IKKK TV THKATKK
"The newspapers," said the visiting
assistant state manager, "will be used
considerably to carry advertisements.
It is expected and the newspapers are
perfectly willing to go just a far as
they are able that the papers will
give just as much publicity as possible
to the work, but it must be remem
bered that the space of newspapers is
their slock in trade, their commodity,
just as the Hack of flou 9 ihr.t o? til.;
ti'wc r, and too great demands must
not he made of the papers, or the pub
lishers will go broke. Therefore the
newspapers .should not be asked to de
vote both the time of those connected
with them and their stock in trade.
Funds should I raised for advertising,
and the regular advertisers should be
asked to devote a portion of their reg
ular space to carrying the message of
the Liberty Bonds. "
Mr. llallcok explained that no one
connected with the campaign was
drawing any salary. He said that a
fund of perhaps $150 would be avail
able for incidental expenses that would
attach to the maintenance of the Hood
Kiver campaign.
McKAY SAYS DIG
APPLES ONLY HOPE
Northwestern apple growers must
thin their apples and irrigate them the
coming year, in order to produce larger
sizes, was the message brought here
Tuesday by Kenneth McKay, who has
spent the past winter in the middle
west and south, developing new mar
kets for the Northwestern Fruit Ex
change, central sales agency of Seattle.
"The east as well as our Northwest
ern orchards, is due for an enormous
crop next summer," says Mr. McKay.
"While dealers everywhere have grum
bled much over our small siaea the
past season, w:e have been able to sell
them, because the east had no apple.-.
But next year, unless we can produce
larfre sizes, we might as well be pre
pared to sell our apples to cider or
process concerns. " Mr. McKay says
that the loss of exports has been bene
ficial in that it has secured a wider
distribution of fruit in the United
States. He says numerous communi
ties, where boxed apples have never
been in demand before have consumed
carlots this year.
Mr. McKay says that Northwest
growers have lost upwards of $500,000
the past winter because of fruit frozen
in transit. And this loss has indirect
ly become much larger because of the
demoralization of markets on which
the frozen stuff has been dumped,-
"Northwest growers must demand a
better refrigerator car," savs Mr,
McKay. "Those now in use have
proven wholly inadequate for winter
use. It seems to me that some kinil
of insulation can be easily installed
that will protect the fruit. I have
found that the apples always froze
around the sides and on the bottom.
The government has recently an
nounced a ruling that loss in transit
must be assumed by purchasers, who
buy f. o. b., at point of origin, basis.
But this may automatically put an end
to such f. o. b. purchases."
JOS. A. WILSON
DIES IN EAST
Manager Stone, of the Apple Grow
ers Association Tuesday received a
telegram announcing the death, at his
home old, Cherry Tree, Pa., of Joseph
A. Wilson, a local pioneer who was
well known in early day North western
horticultural circles. Mr. Wilson de
veloped a valuable water power prop
erty which he sold to the Apple Grow
ers Association.
His deCh results from illness that
caused his physical breakdown before
he left here several years ago. He is
survived bv one son.
The stability to which the Apple
Growers Association, with a member
ship of SW growers, has advanced
since its organization four years ago.
was reiWcted in the harmony that pre
vailed Saturday at the annual primary
meeting.
DespiU the car shortage and loss of
an exiHiit market, a result of war con
ditions, members listened to the best
annual reixirt in the organization's his
tory. Salesmanager McCullagh, who
came here last year from North Yaki
ma. reiKjjrW all but fiS cars, of yoo
handled, tf the 1917 crop sold and all
but 17 cars shiped. Tendering Mr.
McCullagh the compliments of the
ifoard of directors. Executive Manager
Slouc announced an average price of
$1.40 per box for all fruit of the three
standard grades sold and paid for. The
Associations's total busins for the
past season reaches $l,2iS,01X'.0il. With
the crop a quarter million boxes short
of last season, the handling cost per
box oi 11. 2N cents was only a fraction
of a cent greater.
Manager Stone declared that credit
for the stability of the organization
was due in great extent to the oiera
tion of the Federal Reserve Bank ; that
through trade acceptances, passed from
growers to the organization, thence to
local hanks and finally to the Federal
Peseve hail .radically placed the busi
ness affair? of the organization on a
cash basis.
Optimism of prospects for the com
ing year were somewhat dampened
when Mr. McCullagh Icdd growers that
their industry would be worthless un
less they niade eff orts the eomitljf year
to produce larger fruit.
"Y'uu have been able to dispose of
your export sizes in domestic markets
of the east this year, he said, because
of the small crop in eastern sections.
But it is contrary to history for two
off years to follow in succession. A
huge crop in eastern districts may be
expected the coming season, and it will
be absolutely necessary that small
sizes be eliminated by pruning and
thinning." Mr. McCullagh also ex
pressed doubt on the 1918 strawberry
deal because of the uncertainty of the
car situation.
"If we can get the cars," he said,
"I have the assurance of W. A. White
of the C. H. Bobbins & ('o.. Dakota
purchasers, who always buy practcally
all of or fruit, that the market will be
gn.,1." .
The meeting's calm routine waa bro
ken when Roscoe Miller allegwi inferior
product and profiteering on the part
of J. C. Butcher. The manufacturer's
limu-sulphur solution, handled by the
Association at a cost to growew of $9
per barrel, Mr. Millar thought too high
and he urged that the cooperative or
ganization make available a supply of
raw material, in order that growers
might manufacture their own sorav.
While Mr. Miller's sentiment had con
siderable endorsement, a talk by C. D.
Hoyt in delense ot Mr. Butcher
aroused applause.
When it was alleged that first class
apples could not be bought there, Port
land came in tor a round of criticism
on the part ot growers and the saws
department as being a dumping ground
and that jobbers declined to purchase
good stock.
Nominations for the directorate of 11
to be elected in April follow :
P. S. Davidson, W. B. Dickerson, J.
C. Porter, O. B. Nye, J. R. Nuna
maker, E. W. Birge, A. G. Lewis, E.
H. Shepard, C. Dethman, A. F. Bick
ford, A. J. Graff, A. C. Staten, C. A.
Reed, C. N. Ravlin, G. A. MeCurdy,
D. L. Pierson, W. W. Rodwell, C. E.
Oopple, II. S. Galligan, C. B. Compton
fc'd R. A. Coilins. The first 10 are
members of the old board.
Mr. Stone told the growers that they
need have no fear of securing supplies
in tine future. That the .cooperative
oragnization was in better shape in
this respect, perhH, than any other in
the Northwest. He reported the fol
lowing prices for the coming season :
Strawberry crates, Vi cents; apple
boxes, 17 cents ; arsenate of lead, paste
form about 13 cents and powder about
80 cents per pound ; lime-sulphur,
$10.50, with a rebate of $1.50 on return
of barrels.
Mr. Stone told his hearers that Hood
River could compete against the world
in fruit, if no effort were made to com
pete against itself.
Mr. McCullagh stated that the suc
cess of the tales department had re
sulted this year partly from the lack
of apples in the east and the efforts of
the organization to secure consumption
of exxirt sizes thrown h the plan of
selling small sizes along with the larg
er fruit. He stated that 150 cars of
apple had been sold to Steinhardt &
Kelly earlv in the season, these large
jobbing interests having finally agreed
to take (id cars ot their purchase in
Newtowns, an unpecedented thing in
New York city buying. Mr.. McCul
lagh declared, tha his task was made
the easier because of the cooperation
of his district sales managers, located
respectively as follows : C. W. Hooker,
IdO Angeles; W. ill. Dickerson, San
Francisco, and A. W. Woodruff, New
York city. The latter is under a threo
year contract. Mr. McCullagh stated
that he was recently offered a 100 per
cent increase in his salary by the Spo
kane F'ruit Co.
; Mr. McCullagh stated that $7,000 in
advertising had been spent the past
year in New York subways. But four
cars of Hood River apples, he stated,
had gone to auctipt.
A resolution, introduced by 0. L.
Walter, calling for an amendment of
the by-laws that would automatically
makela member of the directorate in
eligible after three years of service
and providing for the election each
year of five new inembttfj, was.voted
down.
Volunteer Physically Disqualified
Hood River county's only volunteer
to respond to the call for 100 chauffei.ra '
from Oregon, Vernon Forbes, was not
accepted by thoracal exemption board
because of physical disqualifications.
Young Forbes is a painter.
"Draft 2.," the big patriotic spec
tacle without a battle scene at the
Liberty, Monday and Tuesday.
"For Valour," a story of the present
war, at the Liberty today.
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