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HOOD 1UVEK, OHEliOX. TIITUSDAY, FKMU'AUY 7, uu
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America at the Front
America is naturally destined tcilay a more important part in
the world's history than ever before.
It the nation is to fulfill its destiny or zenith, cooperation is
necessary.
Kvery business and financial interest represented in the country
must respond w ith a w ill.
All must be united in the effort.
The business interests of this community will find a most
effective ally in this Institution.
Test our Ser'ice it' is for you
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
HOOD RIM'.R, ORIGON
RED CROSS SHOP
RUMMAGE SALE
Begins March 3d Ends March 15th
Come Early-there will be some great bargains
Mr. Corson, the Piano man, has rented the Rod Cross
Shop, and his lease stm ts March Kith next. It is therefore
necessary that the Red Cross Shop vacate the promises by
that date.
Now tliot the activities of the Red Cross have come to an
end, as far as it is necessary to provide funds for the local
chapter, the rema'minK stock of the Red Cross Shop will be
sold during the two weeks of March .'M to March 15th inclu
sive, and every article in the stock will be offered for sale at
50 cents on the dollar.
This will be a remarkable chance for every one to obtain
unusual bargains, and the Red Cross is pleased to give this
opportunity to the people who have so handsomely supported
its past efforts.
A Genuine Sale.
Every article iti the'Shop to be sold
at 50 cents on the dollar.
Shop must be vacated March 15th
GORDON HATS
I OR SPRING
in a dozen beautiful colors
mostly Fadera's the popular creased hat. All shades
id' given are exceedingly popular this year - though we
have browns, pearl grays, blacks, and the new olive
.Irak
Thequalitj is Standard and the name GORDON means
just that. It's known from coast to coast and in most
places sells for live.
Our Price, $4.50
Mxtra fine (kettle finish they call it)
$6.00 and looks it
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Tobaccos, Cigars, Cigarettes
Wholesale and Retail
THURSDAY EVENINGS LADIES' NIGHT
AT THE BOWLING ALLEYS
PAT'S PLACE
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Utah Land Plaster
We h;ue a car of laud plaster on the way. Come
in and make arrangements to get direct
from car and save monev.
Field Seeds of All Kinds on Hand
TAFT TRANSFER CO.
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Kodak Developing
and Printing
By our Real Kodak Expert
rN'ow is the time to have your best Neg-
auves Linargeu.
We make Enlargements in Black and White and Sepia.
We do our own Printing and Enlarging and do it right.
Bring in your best negatives and we can tell you as to size
they will best enlarge.
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Come in and hear the latest January Records.
THE KRESSE DRUG CO.
The fft&aaM, Store
SPECIAL No. 121
II you read our recent announcemenl you will
know that-we expect to occasionally depart from
the beaten path of display advertising, but that
whenever we do this we u ill be usin the space
to better advantage.
Bank service is composed of a number of things
and w hile we cannot alw ay s live up to our ideals
it is helpful to keep them before us.
We placed a copy of Madeline S. Bridges' little
poem, "Life's Mirror," on each desk in our office
today, so the next time you are in the otflce if you
are served with a little more courtesy than usual,
you will know that we are trying, the best we can,
to practice what we preach.
LIFL'S MIRROR
There arc loyal hearts, then.' art" spirifg brave,
There are souls that are good ami true;
Then give to the world the best you have ,
And tln best shall conn; hack to yon.
Give love and love to your heart will flow,
A strength in your utmost need;
Have faith, and a score of In arts w ill show
Their faith in your word and deed.
For life iH the mirror rf king ami slave,
'Tis just what you are and do;
Then give to (lie world the best you have,
Ami the beet will come back to von.
Butler Banking Company
Member Federal Reserve .System
BUY
HOME PRODUCTS
made by the
The Highland Milling Co.
Cereals : Shamrock Brands
GRAHAM FLOUR
WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR
RYE FLOUR
CORN MEAL
Poultry and Stock Food :
SHAMROCK SCRATCH FEED
CRACKED, GROUND AND WHOLE CORN
BARLEY AND CORN CHOP
ROLLED AND WHOLE OATS
ROLLED BARLEY
MILL RUN BRAN AND SHORTS
HOLMAN & NASH
Who disposed of a carload of horses and
mules here last week, will return about
March 10th with a car of
CAMP LEWIS HORSES
-a little heavier especially chosen to meet
the needs of the Hood River Orchardist.
Animals will be sold at Fashion Stables.
GROWERS LIKE
S. B. NO. 89
EXPERIMENT STATION IS PROVIDED
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Permanent Institution Called for in Bill
Introduced by Senator Nickelsen
$ 1.0(H) Annual State Fund
County officials, members of the
Commercial Club and orehardsits and
business men in general voiced jubilant
expressions last Thursday when letters
were received from J. K. Nickelsen,
joint senator from Hood River and
Wasco counties, who announced that
S. li. K) had passed the Senate. Mr.
Nickelsen stated that he was confident
that the bill, which provides for a per
manent experiment station here, would
pass the House.
The Senate bill provides for an
annual appropriation of $4,0o0 by the
state. Hood River county will pur
chase a tract of land suitable for the
home of the institution. The station
will be administered by the Board of
Regents of the Oregon Agricultural
College.
1'rominent local fruitgrowers have
been working for a number of years to
place the station, formerly assured
only for each biennium following legis
lative sessions, on a permanent basis.
The full text of the bill, which was
introduced by Senator Nickelsen,
follow s :
A Bill for an Act to establish and
maintain an Agricultural Experiment
Station in Hood River County, Oregon,
and to repeal Chapter of the Gen
eral Laws of the Slate of Oregon, U'17.
Be It Knacted by the People of the
State of Oregon :
Section 1. That, in order to htudy
and carry on investigations in horticul
tural and pathological problems, as
affecting the interests of the State of
Oregon, there be and is hen by estab
lished an Agricultural Kxperiment
Station in Hood River County, Oregon.
Section 2. That the said Agricul
tural Experiment Station shall be
under the control and management of
the Board of Regents of the Agricul
tural College of the State of Oregon.
Section ;i. That there be and is
hereby appropriated out of the moneys
in the General Fund not otherwise
appropriated, the sum of $1,000.00 an
nually, for the support and mainte
nance (jf said Agricultural Kxperiment
Station, which money shall he paid
quarterly, commencing January 1,
This appropriation shall be continuing
and shall be contingent upon the people
of Hood River County through the
county court, or otherwise, to provide,
without cost to the State, suitable land
for the location of said Agricultural
Experiment Station.
Section 4. That upon requisition
made by the treasurer of the Board of
Regents of the State Agricultural Col
lege, the Secretary of State shall draw
a warrant upon the State Treasurer
payable out of said funds for the said
quarterly payment. In the event that
more than one quarter shall have
passed before requisition shall have
beer) made for said money, then requi
sition may be made at one time for as
many quarterly payments as may be
due at that time, and said Secretary
of State shall honor and pay them.
Section 5. that the said Board of
Regents of the State Agricultural Col
lege of Oregon shall cause to be pre
pared and published, on or before
December 1, licJO, and every two years
thereafter, a full and compete report
of the work accomplished by said
Agricultural Kxperiment Station; said
report to he distributed free of charge ;
and the cost of such publication and
distribution shall be deemed a part of
the general expense of said station.
Section ti. That the Board of Re
gents of said Agricultural College is
hereby authorized and empowered to
cooperate in the special work of said
station with the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, or any office or
bureau thereof, and may enter into
any agreement therefor with said De
partment of Agriculture, or any bureau
or office thereof.
Section 7. That Chapter HiW of the
General Laws of the State of Oregon
of 1917, being an act for the establish
ment and maintenance of an Agricul
tural Experiment Station in Hood
River County, Oregon, be, and the
same hereby is repealed.
, ests of the Northwest Tourist Associa
tion. W. H. Boddy, of l'arkd:!e. will , tfi-
ciate as toast master. i
The following is a list of r.tw mem
bers elected to the Commercial club
during the past week : K. 11. Black
man, V. H. Boddy, J. R. Nickelsen, !
A. G. Thompson, G. K. Corson. J. W.
("rites, Harrv Wood, Frank R. Ih'W-j
ard. Gus Miller, O. B. Nve. V. Son-!
nichsen, Hugh G. Ball. T. A. Reavis,
Cecil F. Latierty. A. J. Graham. B. D. !
Smith, Arthur G. l.ewi., Virgil A.I
Bowers, Glenn B. Marsh, t'trcy 1. !
Manser, Ivan H. Scheer, W. R. C.ieen, !
I- H. Arneson, G. A. W eU-r, W. F., i
Cauller, Medfotd Reed, M. O. Dowr ir g. j
POST, CORPS HONOR
BEES KILLED
BY DISEASES
LECAL PROTECTION BADLY NEEDED
Education Campaign to beYaged in Safe
guarding Natural Pollinators and
Allies of OrdiardiMs
A joint celebration in honor of Lin
coln and Washington was held at the
Knights of 1 vthias hall Saturday af
ternoon by Canby Bust, Grand Army
of the Republic, and Canby Corps of
the Woman s Relief Corps. S. r.
Blythe. who participated in the Civil
War through its entire four years and
who, as a member of Hancock's Vct-
erns Corps, was one of the guards at
the execution of Mrs. Surratt, nnpli-
ated in the assassination of the threat
Emancipator, read a paper or Lincoln.
Mrs. V. R. Abraham, representing
the Woman's Corps, read a paper on
the life of Washington. One of the
most interesting numbers of the pro
gram was a talk by Yale McCarty,
recently mustered out of the navy.
who told or his experiences aboard the
Arizona, one of the dreadnoughts that
steamed out from Europe to meet the
'resident s convoy. riaoo numbers
and vocal solos were rendered respec
tively by Miss Molle Frederick and
Miss Georgia. Lynn.
The program was closed by the audi
ence giving the national Flag salute.
INCREASE OF PEAR
ACREAGE INDICATED
While no activity in the development
of new apple orchards is displayed
here, many growers have planned on
setting increased pear acreage the
coming year. Bearing pear orchards
that were properly sprayed, cultivated
and fertilized the past several years
showed greater prolit than apples. In
suggestions to growers planning pear
plantings, Gordon G. Brown recom
mends that settings be limited to the
following standard varieties, Bartletl,
Anjou, Bosc, Winter Nellis and Corn
ice. More than f0 per cent of the
fruit grown here at present is of the
llartlctt variety. The Anjous, how
ever, thrive, and have returned grow
ers large pro (its.
The local Bosc crop topped the mar
ket last year, net''-!", .oh A ride Grow
ers Association ptr Dux. The
Winter Nellis is recommended chiefly
as a pollenizer.
ROAD BOND PLANS
HI-ID IN ABEYANCE
While a strong sentiment has devel
oped in Hood River county for a pro
posed issue of bonds for the construc
tion of permanent highways, it was
decided Friday night at meeting of
the legislative committee of the Hood
River County Pomona grange, h simi
lar committee of the Commercial club,
the county court and representative
citizens, to leave the matter of definite
plans in abeyance until a final and
definite interpretation is placed on
action of the legisat'.ire.
Interest in road bonds was aroused
as a result of agitation before the
legislature for a constitutional amend
ment that will increase the two per
cent limit now placed on bonded in
debtedness. As such a measure, if
adopted bv the legislature, will have
to be approved by the vote of the
people, it was decided at the meeting
that any present definite plans would
be premature.
II. R. CREAMERY GETS
HONORS FOR STATE
RED CROSS CANTEEN
DANCE APPROACHES
Complimenting soldiers, sailors and
marines just back from service, the
canteen committee will give a ball on
the evening of Saturday, March 8
Service men are returning daily and
with the arrival here by that date of
members of the 65th Artillery, now in
process of being mustered out at Camp
Lewis, it is expected that trie big ball
room at Heilbronner hall will be
crowded with men in uniform.
While no charge will be made men
in uniform, all others participating
will be admitted by fee, and all pro
ceeds will go to a fund for purchasing
fruit and other provisions to be used
by the canteen committee in greeting
troops aboard passing trains.
COMMERCIAL CLUB
READY FOR BANQUET
Everything is in readiness for the
big annual Commercial club banquet
next Wednesday night in honor of the
State Highway Commission. Accept
ances have been received from all the
notable guests of honor. These include
Simon Benson, W. H. Thompson and
R. A. Booth, of the Highway Commis
sion, State Highway Engineer Herbert
Nunn, Dr. Hewes and Messrs. Cecil
and Sherrard, of the forestry -department
; Julius Meier, regional director
of national highways for Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and Montana,'
George Joseph, one of the prime mov
ers in the Mount Hood Loop Highway,
J. B. Yeon. Amos Bunfon, Rufus Hoi
man, president of the Multnomah
county board of commissioners, and
Frank Branch Riley, main speaker of
the evening, who will also show his
wonderful pictures of the scenic
beauties of the Northwest which cre
ated such a furore in Die east last year
where he was traveling in the inter
Manager Black has just received
word that winnings of the Hood River
Creamery materially aided Oregon
creamerymen in bringing back from
the Boise, Ida., creamery display a
cup for the best exhibit of butter.
The creameries of Albany and Norway
were respectively first and second w ith
the butter exhibits at Boise. Hood
River stood third. If the local cream
ery had scored two-tenths of one per
cent higher on water and one-tenth on
salt, its score would have headed the
list by a half per cent.
Mr. Black is highly elated over the
results of the show, for the exhibit
butter was not specially prepared, but
whs taken at random from a churning
of about f00 pounds.
It shows, he says, that Hood
River, just as with her orchardists,
does all things in the best possible
manner. Last vear Hood Kiver won
first honors at a creamery show at
North Yakima.
In the opinion of Gordon G. Brown
and numerous fruit growers, the horti
cultural interests of Oregon have heen
hegligtnt in not securing protection
for bees in orchard districts. Mr.
Brown believes that the state should
have ore or more in.pecors, men
familiar with apiculture, who should
thoroughly inspect all hives at stated
periods. Bees are legally protected, it
is stated, m most of the fruit growing
states of the I'nited States and m
Canadian provinces, where horticulture
is a leading enterprise.
As a result of irfectious diseases
scores of orchardists in the valley have
lost all of their bees, according to
W. R. Gibson.
"1 formerly lied in a ('(dorado fruit
section," says Mr. Gibson, "and there,
when a hive of bees died from disease,
the hive and all old comb were hi rned.
Here I notice that orchardists, where
their bees have died, throw open the
old hives, which attract the liees of
neighbors. The insects thus spread
the (iisease and as a result of this
carelessness the orchard. sts are fast
losing their best allies. Bees rii'ist be
had in orchards, if pollonization is reg
ular. The most serious disease 1 have
found here is the so railed foul brood.
it is deadly.
"The bees of the Hood River valley
ire being exterminated simply because
the most of the orchardists who are
trying to raise them are ignorant of
method of their care. As a result of
the misfortunes with their first few
hives, many apple growers have be
come discouraged and have given up
trying to raise the inserts, so vitally
needed in scattering pollen."
While it is too late to secure legisla
tion at this session of the legislature,
representatives of experiment station
and growers who are interested in the
increase of apiaries will endeavor to
conduct a campaign of education for
the purpose of eliminating the disease.
While prominent orchardists declare
that, bees will return orchardists a
profit in increased fruit yield, even
Uvugh no honey is secured, many
growers, who understand apiculture
have realized handsome profits the
past few years from their honey crops.
RED CROSS KNITTERS
CALLED TO WORK
Orders have just been sent to all
Chapters by the Washington headquar
ters of the American Red Cross, call
ing for a resumption of knitting by all
Red Cross knitters. The articles called
for are stockings, sweaters and muf
flers for children, and shawls for
women, refugees of France, Belgium
and Italy.
Owing to the Commercial club ban
quet next Wednesday night, the local
Red Cross for nest week w ill all be
confined to Woman's Club day on Fri
day, 'those who have been working
on Wednesdays arr therefore urged to
attend on Friday.
An eironeoiis impression has been
created of late in Red Cross circles
that Red Cross work was likely to be
discontinued almost any time. Advice
from headquarters urge Chapters to
correct this impression at. once.
Following this the local Chapter has
just received instruction from division
headquarters in Seattle as follows:
"We have orders from Washington to
continue refugee garments at full
speed for the next four months to sup
plement work J hat in being done by
the wr.rr.cR the;;.; i Ives in Europe in
their efforts to supply adequate
clothing."
ON THE HIGHWAY
The first shot on the Hood River
Mosier extension of the Columbia
River Highway was fired Friday morn
ing just east of this city, where a
crew of rock men were engaged in
drilling for blasts that a-e lifting hun
dreds of tons of rock and debris off the
side of the Hood River gorge.
Steam shovels have been brought to
the work, and the debris will he
cleared away rapidly. Completing for
mal process of securing the right of
,way for the new stretch of road, the
board of viewers finished an investiga
ion of the .way last week.
, Musical Department (Jives Program
The meeting of the Woman's club
yesterday afternoon was turned over
to the members of the musical depart
ment. A recital was given' by Mrs.
Ralph Root and Miss tiith Woodcock.
Mr. E. D. Kanaga had charge of the
interesting program.
BIG BONDING ACT
PLEASES HOOD RIVER
Without exception, all business in
terests of Hood River heard to com
ment on the action of the legislature,,,
in voting the $10,000,000 road bonding
act, express delight. Local citizens,
however, are wroth with Mrs. Alexan
der Thompson, one of the five members
of the House who opposed the meas
ure. It is likely, judging from com
ment, that both numerous individuals
and organizations will ask Mrs.
Thompson for an explanation of her
vote.
COMMITTEE BUSY .
ON AUTO PARK
Accepting an offer made by ('has.
T. Early to donate to the city a Bite
for a nark for use of motor tourists a
committee of citizens has been investi
agting property along the Highway
west of the city, Mr. Early makes
his gift contingent on the auto park
being located on the Highway.
The committee consists of J. H.
Fredriry, Al ( ruikshank, J. O. Hun
num. C. A. Bell, M. M. Hill and D.
McDonald.
Mr. Early, in case the committee
does not find other suitable location,
offers to deed to the county a plot of
ground just cast of Hood River on the
boat, road.
69TII MAY COME
BY HOOD RIVER
The With Regiment may be routed to
Camp Lewis by way of Hood River.
Efforts by prominent Oregonians are
being made to secure such action on
the part of the War Department. The
men, taken to Camp Eustis, after de
barkation from the Mercury, are re
ported in excellent spirits. .A. F.
Hick ford, on an eastern tour for the
Apple Growers Association, visited his
son, Hayes, member of the regimyht.
Carl D. Newman, another Fine Grave
man not formerly mentioned, is a
member of the H'.ith.