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THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Or MOO! K1YF.K. OIU (.ON
A I lilt I OnI l HISINhSS JIM" 2.
lt'soiir-H :
Loans and Discounts S.-UV.KL-o
United States Bunds 11h,S."ii.(K)
Other Bunds. Securities, etc 77,7(51. l.'
Bank Building and Fixtures ."iL'.H'.'S.i'S
Other Real Kstate 17.077.:tt
Cash and Exchange 133,704.49
$72T.(512.i:
1. nihilities :
Capital Stock $U)U,imh).(mi
Surplus and Undivided Profits ;',:'". 7(5
Reserved for Taxes and Interest 2!fliS.2(j
Circulation IW.2imi.im
Rediscounts with Federal Reserve Bank .. . 5. 1:;(5.54
Deposits 515,411.77
$725.(512. l;i
A. I). MOK, President K. O. lU.ANCHAK, Cashier
C. DITHMAN, Vive-President S. J. MOORE. Asst. Cashier
Perfumed with the Odor of
26 Flowers
TALC
ONTEEL
Very Finest Quality Imported
Talc, 25 Cents
THE KRESSE DRUG CO.
Tie oxedtt Store
jniiic iii and lour the July Rich N.
A complete stock of
GOODYEAR
TIRES AND
TUBES
together with our ser
vice, makes this an
ideal place to pur
chase your tire re
quircmcnts.
DeWITT MOTOR CO.
STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION
of Tin-:
Butler Banking Company
of Hood River, Oregon
tit the Close of Iitisim-ss, June 29th, 1918
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $r0:?,100.11
Bonds, Warrants and Stocks llUW.IU
Savings Department Loans 117,M")7.!!i
Safes, Furniture and Fixtures (,1(!U)1
Real Estate 3!),r,fi2.8-t
Cash on Hand and in Other Banks H7,.T7."i.fll
1)20, 4(54. ft!
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $100,000.00
Earned Surplus and Undivided Profits.. 2.,GS7.i)2
Mills re-discounted 3-1,550.00
Deposits ;.. 7GG,22i;.(il
$)2G,4G1.5G
Urgent Call to
Orchard ists
Si!
Magnus Root Beer
Healthful, Refreshing and Thirst Eradicating
Have You Tried It ?
JUST STOP AT PAT'S PLACE
where many other hot day specialties are ottered and
Kot a Hn" glassful.
You jire missing soniethiiiK that's 'ood for you when
ou fail to drink Mavrnus.
We have just laid in a line of
OPTIMO CIGARS
Nothing hetter made in smokes than these at
10c, three for 25c, two for 25c, and 15c
THE HIGHLAND MILLING CO.
M. unit. it tun is .uid Dcalcis 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
Proprietors
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 he
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 who have
used it on past seasons.
We have a machine all set up and ready to
at our packing house any time. We
pleased to have you call and see us and
us to place you on our list; for we are
ing to be able to fill late orders, on ac-
lack of help.
CELEBRATION
WAS SL'CEESS
L LT PROHTACLE FOR RED ( ROSS
Liberality uf Crowds and Spirit of Their
Observance of Independence's
liirthdav Sets Record
AH former mid-Columbia Indepen
dence I'ay i- Iterations were eclipsed
by that nf Thursday. Augmented !
delegatioi.s fr.m all neighboring riwr
towns ami logging camp populations.
.Apflf Valley folk to the last baby
thronged the city. With the knowledge
: that all fir- Is wt-re destined tor a
work of mercy even the most cautious
loosened his purse strings aiiil spent
! money like a sailor on shore leave. It
was a reut day for everbvodv and a
profitable one for the lied Cross, with
j net receipts placed at ST.;, aim.
! Radiating from a child" business
'street intersection, where the large
i hoard shack replica of a niinitig ramp
I combined barroom and i;am t.li titr hall
held lorth and where logger and dig
nified matron rubbed elbows at faro
bank or roulette wheel, a score of con
cessions, ranging from the popular
sjK'itJof swatting Kaiser Hill to a high
iv tncritorious minstrel show, reaped a
steady harvest if dimes. The Woman's
club and church organizations sold ap
petizing foods, riift of them donated.
Hut all was not frivolity, and a trib
ute to the o,il Hood River county beys
i:i service, more than lob over there,
was not forgotten. Stirring addresses
were delivered by Mrs. C. 11. Cast ner
and by Judge t'has. 11. Carey, of I'ort
land. In the midst of Judge Carey's
address the tire alarm sounded calling
the department to a grass lire result
ing from a child's tirecracker and
tr.ienlcr.il. n Heights homes.
The celebration will be remembered
perhaps for years as a record for the
masses present and their liberality.
Lxcursiun boats, loaded to the gun
whale brought merrymakers from Cas
cade Locks, Stevenson, White Salmon,
I'nderwuod, Cooks and l.yle. Special
trains of the Mount llood brought
hundreds from 1'arkdale and way .-ta-tiolis.
The chief feature of the day's enter
tainment were tugs of war, staged on
a raised platform at the intersect inn
of Oak and fifth streets. Loggers and
different valley communities sent
trained teams. The victory was won
by I'ine drove. Amateur minstrel's
hsh ponds, ice cream parlors, fortune
telling booths and many other attrac
tions were offered for the entertain
ment of the masses. Much wrath was
worked oil' on effigies of the kaiser, his
princeling' progeny and old von llin
detiberg. From the standpoint of merit, the
Gilbert & Culbertson minstrels were as
good as have ever been seen in the
mid-Columbia. Running the Red log
second place for attention and making
a greater percent of clear profit than
any other concession, the Odd Fellow's
ducking; stool netted the Red Cross
sM'.i'i'. The members of the fraternal
organization who allowed merrymakers
to toss balls and spring a trap that
hurled them down a chute into a tank
of water were, A. 1.. Vincent, F. M.
Hick, H. F. Moses. O. A. Lake, Geo.
W. Thomson, Clyde Arnold, Frank
Howard, J. H. Surrell, VV. O. lligman
and Ralph Barton. Although not Odd
Fellows, W. 11. Stone and Gilbert Fdg
inglon took turns on the ducking stool.
Mr. Stone won the Red Cross $10 by
going into the tank backwards.
The parade was an excellent one,
participated in not only by city folk,
hut by citizens of rural communites.
The Ford sedan was driven away by
Gordon lloisington, of White Salmon.
The Red Cross Chapter wishes to ex
press its thanks and gratitude to trie
loyal people of the county for their co
operation and the spirit with which
they joined in making the Fourth of
July celebration a success. To those
who worked indefatigiiably on commit
tees and to the women of the Woman's
club and members of other organiza
lions we especially express our appreci
ation of your helpful work.
Hood River Chapter
American Red Cross,
K. O. Hlanchar, Chairman.
operate
will be
allow-
not go
count of
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 S HOOKS
Give us yuur order at onoi? that you can depend upon
your supplies for tius season.
Kelly Bros.
Phone 1401'
MITTEE APPOINTED
As a seqiic
orchardists, C
ping, E. N.
F. McLean,
'1 of the arrest of seven
. it. Hone, W. H. Chip
I'ehsnn, ( . N. Ravlin, J.
Albert Meier and Aug.
and tit u. P. Cutler. Kp: rana A M !- 11 r m t 1
U-r. if Port land, and Jut' . 1 ...... r, ! V If, I
.f t onil-ti, were inUJtc.-d by i.H..lt " k k
!F IS 10
pych i.Mch of whom was fined
for failure to observe a horticultural
law providing that all primings shall
be burned within :ii days Hfter cut. a
committee has been appointed by the
comity court to investigate the law
and draw up an amendment. F. W.
Angus, fruit inspector who reported
the orchadists to the grand jury, is an
appointee of the county court, and
works under their general orders. The
orchardists, all of whom pleaded guilty
to the charge, while they believe the
existing law too arbitrary and strin
gent, declare that some measure should
be on the statute to prevent careless
ness. The existing law, which if tech
nically enforced, would, it is said,
catch more than '..mi per cent of the
orchardists of the Hood River valley,
was adopted in ISM!'. When orchards
were numbered by the dozens it was
an easy matter to keep prunings
burned. Now, with trees covering
thousands of acres, it has become al
most a"physieal impossibility to follow
the statute.
The .committee appointed by the
court consists of A. W. Stone, II. F.
Harvid.soii, F.. N. Henson, J. H. Mohr.
O. I!. Nye, A. W. Peters, M. M. Hill
and Ar.. V. flatten.
DRAFT QUOTA OFF
FOR CALIFORNIA
Amid the cheers of friends and rela
tives, who thronged the platform, the
following Hood River young men en
trained Saturday for Fort McHowell,
Calif., tilling a county draft quota:
H. F.dgar Shultz, Clarence P.mgham,
Lee Ldward Allen. Jamet Lester Wick
ham, James R. Kiser, Carl Crioks,
lVlbert Tomlirson, Robert McCuistion
board. W;lh the t'V'
and Cooper all of the n . -t arc f.,rv ct
Uitht.'.elT men named p. ,.'r:.
for I amp Lewi the la!', t i ar f ii -tiH.I'.th.
Hood River Ceu.; .- n.. ;, i i
'lass I have been exhau-t.-d.
Clarence Lingham, of 1 , r. f.t i. I !.
".tram, thus beCotr.i!;g a o'-erttr.
otlicers are seeking James I I'U.irS .
who failed to report for en! raouvi t
with the June draft.
l!."tham arrived here M.ji. I. y t;..t:;
i' g. lie had just received h: n .t..t
from the local board. A a i.e
al.d vended his excise, th-- --: l- m
was inducted into the service and - 'i
imn.eiiiately to the Calib rnui f. :'.
HE SI'AtII)I; IS
CITED FOR IBIAVERY
Local friends of Lee Spauhnng, cor
poral in the mari'ie corps, who w i
awarded a distinguished service cr. s
last week by General Per.-hsng, ie
Joiced at the news.
Young Spaulding, now 1:1 y,-ars ,..i
enlisted in the navy during Apt :!, l'.MT,
having been permitted to trar..-fer from
ll'th I'o. At the tune he a- a om.or
at tile high school. He was a leader m
scholarship and student act i i: ie-. a:nl
bei-aus' of his interest in student
a'Vairs was very popular.
Although seven I w. '.n ii.i aid.i
dered to ihe rear, '.otiuu --pauldii ,i i -turneil
to ti e lirirg Ir e ;,. a: 1 and
cheer his -"iiiad on m a dilhcult ini.a'
w ith th enemy.
HABIT OF MED
DLERS DECRIED
t L
Uif
ut 1 1
alot.ti in l in -;diy
hear the
Prohibit ioni-1
..lit the liquor
I From the Oreui
In the old davs of the
goii one would occasioi
argument that if the
once succeeded in w iping
tralhc they would next turn upon to
bacco, the theatres, card playing and
other incidents that seem to thi 'i p.
make of this a wicked world, it wa
then thought to be ipnte a preposterous
argument a false idea pi omulgaled by
the wily liquor interests. Ihu liquet
prohibition is here and now we have a
county Prohibition party resolution,
adopted in all gravity, against the use
of tobacco. Tne realization seems just
as preposterous as the prediction. Tlu
movement can never gain much head
way beyond the bo persons who attend
ed the convention, but it may be said
that if a tobacco crusade had been
definitely linked with the iapioi prohi
bition campaign several years ago it
would have been with disastrous con
seqences to I he lattei .
It is significant that in every instance
w here liquor prohibit i in has been suc
cessful the Prohibition party, as a po
litical organization, has had very 1 tile
to do with it. The purpose to close the
saloons has been taken oi't ..." ihnt
party's hands. In its long id, ..ory u
lias achieved nothing practical. Prohi
bition sentiment is growing. A dry
nation is on the way, out the final
gloiy of the achievement will belong
toothers. The main trouble with the
Prohibition party, as an active nation.. I
force, has been its nari'ow-miii.h dness,
now so well exeuip lilied bv the Multno
mah county resolutions. It lias repelled
those who despise vice hut cannot take
alarm at foil ks.
I'se of tobacco is a useless habit in
the main, but it is pot a curse nor a
grave injury to those w ho acuire it in
maturity. It is one of the many othi r
mainly melons habits. It is no nit re
hai infill than collee drinking or candy
eating or gum t i.ewin.g, none i f which
is particularly bent In ial. Ihe only
substantial m lid merit against it is that
it produces an odor ollonisve to some
persons. Still we have known of non
smokers who do not mind the odor of
tobacco but coiild not remain in a h'.Usi
where onions wore being cooked.
The proposals of the county Prohibi
tionists art- that tile "indiscriminate"
supplying of tobacco to men in the mil
itary service shall cease, and that, be
cause smoking has a nun productive
element attached, there be smokeless
days and that the money thereby save;!
be devoted to pat rot jo purposse. AJ
for the civilians we doubt not that
when the need arises, if it ever does,
they will make the necessary sacrilice
in order to obtain more money for
patriotic purposes. Put what of the
soldiers?
The government has classed tobacco
as a stddier's necessity; the Red Cross,
the great mother of the world, uses its
good ollices to distribute it ; the Y. M.
C. A., which will not permit smoking
in its buildings in America, sell tobac
co at its cantonments in France, liv
ery military ollieial, every sincere in
vestigator on the ground has upheld
the policy of supplying its It, is only
those far removed from the turmoil of
war, those v im know not its solace to
the nerve racked, those who are as
surded of their tea and colfee and nut
sundaes and other objects of trilling
habit it is only such who would de
prive the soldier of his tobacco.
Your Prohibitionist will say, of
course, that it is the indiscriminate
supplying of tobacco to which he ob
jects. Hut it 'S not, in real, down
right truth, lie knows of no way in
which discrimination can be made; he
suggests none. There is no way, ex
cept by unseemly regulation that those
j who have not yet smoked shall not
j smoke a regulation tiiat they have
! not yet had the courage to propose for
! civilians. " I incrimination" means no
tobacco for soldiers.
j If there be waste in the use'of land
! and transportation in furtherance of
the tobacco trade, there is also waste
'in the use of land arid transportation
; in the production anil distribution of
countless other things we can in a
j pinch do without. Put there is also
! waste waste of time, energy, money,
' printing in shallow meddling. It. is a
: habit as truly as tobacco smoking is a
habit, and from it may the good Lord
deliver this writer, who now has
! neither.
IIii!rinov,s!.St;!.i-ii!i:
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trust- th :r i'i ! ,rs ( ..;,.-.-'.Ut -
to 'U'lU'v ''VT Vi . ; i,
V ar Me - , .;- v- .
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, when t' s will I ;,. ci .il l .
Mr. Yaut'iii-i. ''hi; :.'! p
coiti mn t . l s iir 1 . m
: 1 hei r c, i .! , s a : si . .l. i e .
j Mr. Well n.- . . v I m- tl. .:
, i ! ies et' ti.e coin U , ;- i
j ! l's i-lc i.e.. lnl.c.1, in i:,. i
liHI per cel. I . .! i n
new s cane md led
! tne la i-nie-d c, , , :' ! : e
j c,, :.n i s I),,-,,, v , . i . ,
: l.a:;ks to .: ' n ! l:e -r . n
I L: -: them n. e. n ,: -la,,
i : d K" ' .n !, P.- ! to -!
I !t is nhU ,! c l.i ., ,. 1;-. .,
j pa. : i t ..iitin'MUS .nil. .ens ;,,
I illi nas, 'f.e.r pirdt . s. I.
com i g i , i.. ! Pn.. r I-. '
i ach wee!, ft ten :.. c n 1 1 , i
Pner bo s, all ,.f , l,,,:ti ,
pride in then- iiotae con:,;
I nek i; ,r Uiev are P n 1', it,: ;
Th. few - i I., W t ; ;
u ..I !,.. s,., , : t ,, ,n
t I ine-e s,,', I ,;r ..
Ilooil Pixel :,tl W.ii '. e' :
t. p w ill iri!;g ei.t t r ...:an:.
Orange Growers Protest Freight Advance
Officers of the Citrus Protective
League are preparing a formal state
ment for the federal officials seeking
to show that the increase in freight
rates will place too large a burden nit
on the citrus men of the coast. This
increase will include iut only the 2"i
per cent raise, but will l.e paid or, a
box of oranges of 7S pounds instead of
"2 pounds as heretofore t'lassilied.
LL0YD-CE0K(.TS
KINSMAN TALKS
No more pair, e( ic a 'an -s , i vt r
Ji hveied b, a II I Km i an 'in- .;
than that of Arilmr V. it a n I n. an-,
native Fug I i'-bttian and n.-pn of
1 'av lil I lo d Geort. e. Hr,Us(: i i ina
minister, who appealed in a cha i an-iju.-t
lectr.re Tuesday vveiqiic. Adt, a
rapidity of delueiy ami wild im-.-s ; i ; . t
thoughts bui.o ling ir..m him ce.-ii-like,
,Vr. Kv .ti.st. v. in- .s now .1 1 atni n!
ized Ainei'ican citii.en, pr. rii hed :i
pie of guv eminent siipp.-it Wi',!i an
much vehemence as l;i;i Suiiil i ;ip
peals to sinners,
Mr. Kv.ms pan! u I inbute in id, id- of
America, but. war.ied Im- h.a:ets
aeaiiist too muni, brag gedocm. ! I :s
is a creed of e;-l, s with I" -i words.
He taunted out the v'saii;'-' of v vv
point that. I lie ginai w.,, .a ,i. .,1 1.,
bringing about amoi g the peoples of
re'-pi ciave 1 id tons.
" V i.en 1 ltd"; fin: kind, I v. .,. i!in,i.ed
with bill one ol..sessi,,i, (tat Jv.gland
was the only nation of the world,"
said the llueni W 1 i-1,111,, 1. "I m t over
to America ai.,i feiind I h .1 I ,'. as ail
wrong, for Anietnca held that phice
hei-vlf. And mi tin; llchatt ll.oii.riit
no oilier nation of m con.-, .rience Put
Italy. Ulhtli' people Aero of the sline
muni. This war has impressed on us
the Wot ill of ot la I" pet rh ., inui that
they have great qualities ;a it ; uur
1 .wit citizens. ' '
While Mm Invans paid a yrcut l il
n ' e t'. the A met man tnt i. " f.,r ! r. ng
a leadn g I at I to I in- w ar again 1. p' :ls
sianiLiiii, he warned against P o many
st If - thrown bouquet-1, iiwhirpiv:
"However we may view it, tins war is
ours just as much as it is ihnt. of any
of the Allies. Uaf ei - , lice li. .. ii.ls
on a (niu-liHive victorv, j,. ;j .'. If,, I I; -must
be m.ide 1 . tin,, and w,.ri
solely toward 1 h n- . nu. ' '
JOHN P.. K1NSKY
BURIED VES'lEiill.lY
John It. Kinsev, who would iiave cel
ebrated his .V.I M iiii'lhd.i'. on A tin- 1 1 1
had he survived IlllliJ l'i.:l t ;!:,. , p. -e.i
av. ill al his Cascade avenue !:.,!;, ;.., ,
civ nigiil. Mr. Kinsev, a naGv. of
l-"'rs Valley, Ohio, hud' n ! in ihe
Hood River valley for the p;ei 1
years. For the first eight, veaia he
was a resident of t lie ( lak aimI.s
t rift . P.efore rural free i;e!r.eriiM
were established he conducted the star
route that stipp.lted the Oak Grove peo
ple with mail, la cause of h. Willing
ness to obi, go his nelg a ;d his
many nets of courtesy he won a c. ..(. of
friends. Ten years wtto .Vr. la: , v
ellteled business here H a I"' 11 , ia -
iiig been thus engaged when fatally
St ricketi.
V Idle Mr. Kin.-ey had been ill f.,r
about two Wieks, his ileath cnines as a
great shock In h;.- tmcy (rii'inln His
condition became alatinii g' Sii!a-, and
from that to the end he grew gradually
Weaker.
Mr. Kmsey is survived bis w i low
and two fo-t'er children, Catheiine and
Maurice K iic-ev . 'three r isters and a
; brother al-o survive.
'; f ollowing funeral si rvict s ve-ti rdav
riioruini..', when 1,'e'.. M. L. Hutioo o!li
chited. interiiieiit. was held al. hdiM. ilde
i cemetery.
I Paying a iast tribute to their fi liovv
; merchant, "business men (dnS' d itiinr
stores for the funei a! serv ices of Mr.
' Kitiscv. 'Ihe Id.' cliiirt h v. a- c v. '-.
With i lly and country friends of Mr.
Kihscy.
Three Aviation Mea in Ktuninii
i An iuterestiiur ri'i-doi. ;n held here
this week lo t .ve il tnree friends, Itorne
on furlough, all of wlcm are .p: H e
aviation service J.ut in d ill erent -1 c-tion-".
The young men wee .:,nt.
' I.ucian I 'ar-on, g riahiat " 1 . f the 'v .1 mi a
Falls, Te , tlyii.g In Ids, v. ho cq., -Is
service oveiseas soo, ; Hdvvm ('. In ..-r-ly,
member of the unmet- tlivision, f.
tio'iCl at. Vancouver Par lacks, rt,i
William Mi G, lire, of the t;avv aymiimi
service, stailoned at an Atlantic .ii.i.
place of t ''.lining.
Mr. McGiiire has arrived f .-, ...-u
the eat. A t ter a tew d ays visi' tviili
local trends and relatives, he v, ill pro-,
ceed to an uncle's farm al Thorn'. in,
Wash., for his vacation,
I