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one it is, as it pictures the return of the troops
from the greatest war in history, amid the
ringing of bells and the songs of victory.
Harry wrote it, and he sings it in a way that
nobody else in the world could do it.
VictorDonceRcconh mthbfs of "Jazz
Two numbers by the original Dixieland
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compel you to dance. Both distinctly differ
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FRUIT GROWERS EXCHANGE
Telephone 2221
THE HIGHLAND MILLING CO.
Manufacturers and Healers in all kinds of
Poultry and Stock Feeds
We extend a cordial invitation to the orchardists of the
Hood River Valley to visit our new plant, now open at the
foot of State Street.
J. P. & L. B. APLIN
Proprietor
Telephone 1751
HOOD RIVER
We again urge you to make up your mind
whether you are going to need an IDEAL
FRUIT GRADER this season. For it will be
impossible to get help to harvest your crop as
you should.
By using an IDEAL GRADER you can
cut the cost of packing greatly, and expedite
your work to such an extent as to make up the
cost of the GRADER, which is less than one
half the price of others. And the IDEAL
has given perfect satisfaction to all Vho have
used it on past seasons.
We have a machine all set up and ready to
operate at our packing house any time. We
will be pleased to have you call and see us and
allow us to place you on our list; for we are
not going to be able to fill late orders, on ac
count of lack of help.
Ideal Fruit & Nursery Co.
GUIGNARD & ROSIGER
Proprietors
OLIVER CHILLED PLOWS.
Orchard Hay Rakes, Mowers. Disc Plows, Harrows.
Winona Wagons. Orchard Trucks.
KELLY BROS- Distributors. Phone 1401.
HOUSE PLASTER, CEMENT
ARSENATE OF LEAD SPRAY
BOX SHO0KS
Give us your order at once so that you can depend upon
your supplcrs for this season.
Kelly Bros.
Phone 1401
GROWERS FIGHT
RATE INCREASE
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HIGHER RATES W ILL Hl'RT BUSINESS
to apeal every ca-e where
sitication is not convincingly
I. S. Agricultural Bulletin Put in Evi
denceDavidson Points Out
Increased Minimum Load
All Ucal apple shipping concerns are
cooperating in work of gathering evi
dence to be presented in a protest
against the proposed 25 per cent in-
crase on fruit freight rates. All ship
pers and growers are united in declar
ing mat me increased rate, n auoweu,
will be a serious blow to the industry.
Shipping concerns have produced a
goverment document, a bulletin of the
United States Department of Agricul
ture which, it is declared, will stand
as a strong support for their conten
tions. This bulletin, issued last year,
gives the cost per box, of producing
apples in the Hood Kiver valley at
$l.(i Statistics gathered show that
the growers received an average re
turn of but $1.01 on the crop on which
the government cost figures were
based.
The final fight for a modification of
the f reight"increase as 'regards apples
will be made by all Northwestern
growers, through the Fruit Growers'
Agency, of Spokane, an institution or
ganized under government auspices.
H. r. Davidson has produced figures
to show that the railways, exclusive of
the freight war tax of three per cent,
will derive a Zb jier cent increase in
freight earnings on every car of ap
ples, because of the increased mini
mum box limit.
"Formerly," says Mr. Davidson.
"the minimum weight for a refrigera
tor car was 30,XK). With the mini
mum limit now placed at T.rt5 boxes, or
HT,.r)()0 pounds, instead of the former
$1100 per car, the railroads will be get
ting $375. Add to this the three per
cent war tax, and it will be shown
that the grower will have to pay S(.25
per car more for having his apples
shipped than in former years. W hen
the increase of freight is added to
this, the apple grower will have difti
culty in surviving.
"Taking the weight of a car at 45,
000, and the car must be hauled any
how, both loaded and unloaded on the
return, it will be seen that the in
creased tonnage is but 10 iter cent.
while the increase in freight is 25 per
cent.
WILL COOPERATE
instructed
the reclas
correct. (
"Local boards, government appeal i
agents and men. bers of legal advisory)
hoards," (.'apt. CuIUson's instructions
advise, "are requetsed to d.rert special I
attention to the following classes efj
cases : Class 2, A. ad R. ;
B. and C. ; Class 4, A."
For the benefit id' all these defini
tions are given : Class 11-A, married
man with children or father of mother
less children where wife and children
are not mainly dependent on him fur
supjKjrt; ll-ti, married man without,
children whose wife is capable of sup-j
porting herself ; lll-A, man with de
pendent children (not his own) but
toward whom he stands in relation of
parent; Ill-i;. man with dependent,
aged or infirm parents; 111-C, man
with dem-ndent helpless brothers or
sisters; 1-A, man whose witeor chil
dren are mainly dependent on his la
bor fur supiort.
ew standards of physical examina
tion are being issued by the provost
marshal general. These will, it is be
lieved, not merely add to the number
of men eligible for military service
but will largely increase the roster of
those held for limited or special service.
MR. AND MRS. COPPLE
HOLD CELEBRATION
Amid their children and grandchil
dren and receiving the felicitations of
a host of friends Mr. ami Mrs. Simp
son Copple celebrated their golden wed
ding anniversary Ht their home Satur
day. With the exception of the chil
dren of R. A. Copple. former mayor of
Marshtield, whose family recently
moved to I,os Angeles, Calif., all of
the 2N children and grandchildren of
the couple were present for the jubilee
event.
Following a family dinner, Mr. and
Mrs. Copple received their friends and
neighbors and members of the Post and
Relief Corps. Refreshments were
served beneath big trees of the large
lawn. The delicious golden wedding
cakes had been baked by members of
the Relief Corps.
Mr. Copple, who is a past commander
of Canby Post, (1. A. It., enlisted with
the 11th Illinois Infantry in lsiil. Mrs.
CoppIe'B maiden name was Alice Will
iamson. Moth she and her husband are
natives of Illinois. The wedding oc
curred in Marion county, llinois. Mr.
and Mrs. Copple came directly from
their Illinois home to Hood River in
l"Stj.
In addition to R. A. Copple, Mr. and
Mrs. Copple have the following sons
and daughters: Claude E. Copple, of
Hood River; Mrs. Cora I,. Norton,
Mrs. Bertha Taylor, Mrs. Lilly Fisher,
Miss Caroline Copple and Mrs. F.dith
Kepler, all of Portland, and St. Hugh
CAMP OF '49
4TII FEATURE
a . I IMPENDENCE fl'RKENCY PLANNED
message from
representatives
now resident
The County Council of Defense will
cooperate with the Red Cross Chapter,
in making the rourth celebration an
impressive one for all the foreign born
population of the community. Efforts
are being made to have the Japanese
play an important part in the celebra
tion. Leaders of the valley Japanese
aid meeting the proposals with enthus
iasm. The orator for the Fourth will be as
signed from Portland by the State
Council of Defense.
The following is a
President Wilson (to
from 21 nationalities
Americans:
"I have read with great sympathy
the petition addressed to me by your
representative bodies regarding your
proposed celebration of Independence
Day; and 1 wish to convey to you, in
reply, my heartfelt appreciation for its
expressions ot loyalty and good will.
Nothing in this war has been more
gratifying than the manner in which
our foreign born lellow citizens, and
the sons and daughters of the foreign
born, have risen to this greatest of all
national emergencies. You have shown
where you stand, not only by your f re-
qucnt professions of loyalty to the
cause for which we tight, but by your
eager response to calls for patriotic
service, including the supreme sacrifice
of offering life itself in battle for jus
tice, freedom and democracy. Before
such devotion as you have shown, all
di itmctions of race vanish, and we feel
ourselves citizens in a repulic of free
spirits.
"1 therefore take pleasure in calling
your petition, witn my nearly com
mendation, to the attention ot all my
fellow countrymen, and 1 ask that they
unite with you in making the Indepen
dence ..day of this, the year when all
the principals to which we stand
pledged are on trial, the most signifi
cant in our national nisiory.
"As July 4, 177G, was the dawn of a
democracy for this nation, let us on
July 4, 1918, celebrate the birth of a
new and greater spirit or democracy,
by whose influence, we hope and be
lieve, what the signers of the Declara
tion of Independence dreamed of for
themselves and their fellow country
men shall he fulfilled for all mankind.
"I have asked the Committee on
Public Information to cooperate with
you in any arrangements you may wish
to make for this celebration."
CLASS 1 WEEK
CALLED THIS MONTH
A "Class I Week" is to be held
sometime this month by every local
draft board in Oregon, under instruc
tions received from the war depart
ment and communicated to local boards
by Capt. John E. Cullison, officer in
charge of the draft, in the office of the
adjutant general.
The purpose of Class I Week is to
correct any errors in classification that
may have been made previously. In
correcting these errors, many regis
trants previously placed in lower class
ifications will be transferred to Class I.
At the same time, the reclassifica
tion will work both ways. Where the
evidence justifies, local boards will re
open the cases of men wrongfully
placed in Class I and place them in
lower classifications, as the circum
stances warrant.
Government appeal agents and mem
bers of legal advisory boards hajie
been directed immediately to make a
careful examination of all question
naires and records in all cases m which
they are satisfied that reclassification
should be made. Thousands of regis
trants are now in Class V, the war de
partment believes, who should be in
Uasi II ofrV'lass I. Appeal agents are
TIIK REI CROSS is Koing to
PUT. OKI the (.KEATE1' AEG
TlO.V SALE on the FOI'KTII !'
il l.V. If VOL' lave ANYTIUXtl
tip YAI.I'K that can be Auctioned,
advise any of the Auction Commit
tee. We' already have a HOh'-E,
Ul'tiOY and HARNESS, a Prize
Winning Cockerel and many other
things too numerous to inn, linn, but
the Auctioneering talent available
WE NEED I.OIS MiiRE--lon't
wait, look over what you have and
ADVISE AT ONCE
RED CROSS
Al t TloN COMMITTEE.
Frank A. Cram.
Knit st ( '. Smith,
C. W. McCullagli, Chairman.
W. Copple, member of a battery of ar
tillery at. Fort Stevens.
The happy couple were the recipients
of many valuable presents. Canbv
Post members presented a gold-headed
silken umbrella engraved by W. F.
Faraway: "S. Copple, from Canby
Post, G. A. R., June 15, HHx."
Mr. and Mrs. Copple Icoated on a
farm in the Odell settlement. Hood
River, where Mr. Copple cleared the
land and set out a large commercial
orchard. A few years ago he sold his
ranch and retired to the city, making
his home at their lovely residence site
known as the Firs, at the head of
Ninth street.
Mr. Copple's regiment was known
as one of the fighting regiments of the
Civil war, no regiment making a bet
ter record. His age is 7t, that of his
wife, 71.
MRS. PAASCI1 HAS
5 SOLDIER BROTHERS
Compyling with the country's laws,
Mrs. Fred Paasch, wile of an unnatur
alized Pine Grove on-hardist of German
birth, applied to Postmaster Reavis
Monday to register as a technical alien
enemy. But. at the same time Mrs.
Paasch expressed an unswerving loy
alty to the United States and pointed
with pride to her family record. She
has five brothers in the United States
army, four of them in France. The
brothers are (Jeorge, John, Theodore,
lien and Peter Altman. George Alt
man is a member of Spruce Division of
the Signal Corps anil is stationed at
Raymond, Wash.
"I dislike very much to have to reg
ister as an alien enemy," says Mrs.
Paasch, "but 1 realize that it is simply
a technical rule, and cannot be helped.
The law was made for the protection
of my country, and I am perfectly will
ing to comply with it."
The father of Mrs.Paasch's husband,
Aug. Paasch, owner of one of the larg
est Hod River orchard places, while a
naturalized citizen, failed to take oyt
his papers before the son reached his
majority.
ALBERT GIBBONS IS
SEVERELY WOUNDED
An official telegram received Monday
night bv Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Gibbons
announces the severe wounding of
their son, Albert, member of an engin
eers' regiment in France. The mother
had received shortly before the tele
gram a letter from her son, relating
interesting experiences of the war zone
and telling his parents not to worry.
The wounded man has a brother,
Charles Uihbons, with the Canadian
forces in France.
Hundreds of Lowers Expected to Cele
brate With Hood River Red
truss Chapter
"A Camp of '!:" will be one of the
chief attractions of the Fourth of July
celebration, to be staged under the
auspices fof the Red Cross Chapter.
All games of chance popular in the
early day mining camps will be al
lowed for the occasion. Special Inde
pendence Day currency will be provid
ed by the committee. This currency
will be good for all concessions.
Almost I'lOO men from logging
camps of the county and neighboring
mid-Columbia districts are expected
here to celebrate lndeiendence day.
One of the features of the event will
be a tug of war between teams of log
gers. The city council has allowed the
Red Cross Chapter the use of one of
the principal business streets of the
city, and no traffic will be allowed over
the thoroughfare on the Fourth.
All fraternal and civic organizations
of the valley are represented on a com
mittee which is assisting the Red
Cross in making preparations for the
big celebration.
The committee will term the chief
amusement feature of the Fourth cele
bration as "The Red Dog." The com
mittee issues the following statement:
Every one has heard ot "Happy
Cation,' the- biggest carnival feature
of the Pendleton Round up, a regular
"forty-niner" mining camp in style
and features, will all the old familiar
lames of chance, its entertainers, Us
"bur," all the life and excitement of
Monte Carlo and the "foryt-niuer"
rolled into one.
In the coining Red Cross carnival
on the Fourth Hood River is to have
its own "Happy Canon," but it will
ht culled "The Red Dog" instead.
It v ill have all the famous "Happy
Canon" features and there is no
doubt in the minds of those who
have the project in hand that it will
furnish all the fun and excitement
that smyone will be looking for on
the Fourth,
The opening of "The Red Dog"
will introduce to Hood River the
famous lionhams, banjo and piano
artists of unusual ability, who have
boon, until recently, entertainers at
Hie Hotel Davenport in Spokane.
Seeking a rest for a few weeks, they
decided upon a camping trip to re
juvenate on the slopes of Mt. Hood
end have consented to come out ot
their mountain retreat on the Fourth
to add "pep" to (he Red Dog festivi
ties, l'loiii the time the Bonhams
strike their first number until the
midnight hour the fun at the Red
Dog will not subside for an instant.
t)io Whneoodlo Minstrels are
hard at work rehearsing under the
personal direction of Clarence Gil
bert, assisted by Duck Kelly and
Jack C'ulhertson. There will be a
score or singers and dancers and an
orchestra. It promlsps to he a show
of some moment.
The children's pageant in the fore
noon, under the direction of C. C.
Anderson and committee, Is rapidly
assuming definite shape. In con
nection with this there will be
sports, including a four-mile bicycle
relay race between teams from the
Roy Scouts and others.
The big tug-of-war championship
is arousing much interest In the
various lodging and lumber camps
that are preparing to enter teams
and It Is expected that each camp
will have a crowd of admirers pre
sent to cheer on their respective
favorites.
Special excursions will be hand
led by the Steamer Tahoma from
Cascade Locks, Stevenson, Wycth
and other river points. An excur
sion will also be run from The
a team is entered
as has already been
Dalles, In case
from that city,
signified.
All decorated
siring to enter
sr-mhle on 12th
fere 10 a. m.
autos and trucks
the parade will
St., the Heights,
A good showing
de-aa-be-Is
loped for by the committee.
WAR SAVING STAMP
CAMPAIGN IS ON
The War Savings Stamp drive for
rural sections of Hood River county
will be launched tomorrow morning.
City canvassers will begin their tasks
this morning. More than f0 enthusi
astic men and women comprise the
teams of solicitors. The country rep
resentatives met with Chairman
Vaughan Saturday afternoon, while the
city canvassers conferred with their
chief Monday night.
Mr. Vaughan says that he is confi
dent that Hood River county tfill be
able to report pledges of the full bal
ance of $!:iO,(io) of the county's quota.
More than ?'!0,HK) have already heen
purchased by local people.
New Red Cross Quota
The Red Cross Chapter has received
its new quota of bandages, supplies,
etc. All workers are urged to assem
ble Ht the Commercial club quarters
Tuesdays andW ednesdayu.
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