H00B VOL. XXX HOOD KIVEi:, OREGON. TilCHSDAY, MAY N, 11W No. 1'. Brick mm&iyw? Ice Cream ft,L2Srajfi . ;-; ' Quarts 16 ' " ; 1 3 60c L vLmi ' ipr Brick Ice Cream Pints 30c Rresse Drug' Go.'s Modern Walrus Soda Fountain Announcement Opening of our Sanitary Walrus Soda Fountain Saturday, May 10th, 1919 WE SERVE THE FAMOUS Bulk and Brick Ice Cream of Assorted Flavors. Sodas and Sundaes served in a most Modern Sanitary Way. We use the Vortex Sanitary Soda and Sundae Cups at our Fountain. SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY. FLOWERS FOR THE LADIES. FREE FOR THE CHILDREN -PANAMA HATS AND CAPS WITH ICE CREAM CONES. The Drug Store Beautiful RRESSE DRUG CO. The &oJUL Store Hood River Oregon FOR those Victory Gardeners that can't wait we will have Tomato Plants on sale Saturday. Although it is rather risky to attempt planting on a general scale, for those in favorable location and that are willing to care for the plants, it is reasonably safe and several weeks may be gained. We ofTer the Quarter Century variety now. be cause it is of compact growth, and for city lots can be planted 2h feet apart. This variety is almost exclusively grown by professional gardeners in the south for early market. The plants speak for themselves - 1 dozen in a basket, selling at 30 cents. The warm sunny days have made the asparagus grow and when you think of it, that under our system it lias averaged 5 inches growth per day, you may be sure it is like all other stuff we sell NONPAREIL. 2Uti? (Enttnry Srurk farm J. H. KOHFRC;. Owner You Had A Share in the winning of the War when you purchased Liberty Bonds of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th issues. By Subscribing to the Victory Liberty Loan you will share in the great work of reconstruction. Remember, the expenses of our Government did not end with the firing of the last shot. Do your part now - Buy Your Victory Bonds Today FIRST NATIONAL BANK, HOOD RIVER, OREGON We have the BEST shaker salt on the market Diamond Crystal has no equal. When you are in need of salt try shaker salt. Be sure to ask for DIAMOND CRYSTAL VINCENT & SHANK, " The Home of Quality Groceries" Pine Grove Service Station Having enlarged our storage capacity, we are enabled to sell Gasoline and Zeroline at Standard Oil quantity prices and terms. The Fishing Season is Here We have equipped our store with a large stock of tackle. Salmon eggs for sale. We will furnish you with a hunting or fishing license. Hartford Tires are Good or we would not Sell Them PINE GROVE STORE A. F. BICKFORD. Prop. 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 better, for the convenience of the vis - iting motor car as well as their own. i Mr. Slocom and Mr. Fredricy had flf-f 1 f rTf 1 l!rv I associated with them in the brewing i.f tih h IK VI X 1 1 ' the coffee for the hungry Sunday. W. UUU lilllllUilltU ACRES OF TREES IN FINE CONDITION Agencies of Man and Nature Combine to Present Blossoms at Their Best To Thousands of Guests Can Your Wife and Family Live On $15.00 per Week? If she cannot do this now, how do you think she will manage it when you are gone. Would you want her to try to get along on less than that? Shouldn't she really have more? There is a way that you can provide her with a living income when you are gone. If you live you have an estate. Find out how much income your wife would have from your estate if you should die today. Then take enough more insurance to provide her such an income as you know she ought to have. You can do it easily, if you will. Will you. or will you not? See Your Life Insurance Man Today HOOD RIVER ABSTRACT & INVESTMENT CO. 1 fBrWrWrWirWrRrWrWWifWrRWrWWrWrWrWW"PIWW' Do you rememler when you were a litte fellow and your mother told you, after you had said your prayer and she was tucking you in that night. "Go to sleep, darling, and dream about the fairies?" And you replied, "Ma nia, 1 can see the fairies with my eyes open." It was like that at Hood River Sun day. Those who tame to the feast of the apple blossoms and it is estimated that 4,500 journeyed over the Highway saw fairyland in broad open day light. Looking back over the past week it seems as if every agency of man and nature had been busy to turn the 13,000 acres of Hood Kiver orchards into dreamland. About daybreak the wind that for three days had driven with chill mists and rain clouds from the west, switched to the east and then died to a calm. The sun ascended in a cloudless sky to drive, away the cold the night had left, and thus the stage was set, with no properties miss ing for the great spectacle of an Ore' gun orchard district in bloom. After the 70-mile ride from Portland up the gorge of the Columbia through a prodigality of grandeur, it might naturally be expected that the day's jov riders would nave competely ex hhiisted the superlative ejaculations of their vocabularies. But it was not s for when they passed the Hood Kiver vj-lley gateway and spun through the cr.y out into the sea of blooms the scene changed completely. In the pas toral calm of the valley they forgot the wildness of the Bridge of the Gods oi St. Peter s Dome, and after a few sjeechless moments one began to hear wnispered expressions of wonderment. But for 11. H: Haynes, of the Port land Ad Club, Hood Kiver might thoughtlessly have enjoyed bloesom Sunday much alone. Early in the year Mr. Haynes suggested the event in l letter to Truman Butler, who enthusi astically spread it to the Hood Kiver Commercial club, that the bursting of the season 's apple blooms be formally celebrated jointly by the members of the two organizations in a picnic here. The festival was far in excess of anything originally planned. The pub lii ity given the promised jaunt of the Ad Club seemed to have innoculated ail of Portland and Hood Kiver, and Ad Club members formed a relatively small part of the great crowd. But the pleasures of the joint picnic will for many days form topics for pleasant reminiscences for the mem bers of both organizations, who with their families assembled at noon at Chautauqua park. Fragrant coffee, made in huge wash boilers by Geo. I. Slocom and J. H. Fredricy, masters of camperaft, was dispensed to the hungry picnickers. That the residents of the metropolis and the Apple City might become better acquainted, the passengers of every car in the picnic convoy were divided, half local and half visitors. The Ad Club committee responsible for the success of the picnic consisted of H. II. Haynes, Marshall N. Dana, Todd Hazen, W. B. Dodson and C. W. English. The welcoming Coinmercia Club committee was composed of C. W. McCullagh. Truman Butler, K. O. Blanchar, E. E. Brett. J. H. Fredricy, J. E. Law and C. P. Gilbert. The beauty of the blosRoms won for the district the name of "Valley of Peace. Moving picture operators were on hand to catch the coloring of bloom and the expression of thoBe who admired. Indeed, one movy concern came here Sunday especially to photo graph orchards of the East Side and groups of Pine Grove school children engaged in a May Pole dance. The filma thus secured will form a reel of an Oregon made movy. Hotels, restaurants and resorts of the valley were never more crowded than Sunday. Yet, fully prepared. they fed the hungry with a minimum of inconvenience. But the demands of picnickers left a bread famine. Hood River Boy Scouts established a camp at Ruthton hill at nine o'clock und secured the census of the motor vehicles arriving over the Highway Their records show a total of 717 auto mobiles and 30 motorcycles and side csrs. It is estimated that more than 100 cars came up Saturday night. At least 50 had arrived before the Scout camp was established. With hotel rooms unavailable, scores of visitors were entertained Saturday night at the homes of public spirited citizens. A corps of special policemen were on duty in the city and at the intersec tions of main roads, not that they were needed to quell any disturbance, but to direct drivers unfamiliar with local roads. But a single accident was re ported for the day. two large cars collided on a bridge near Wau Guin Guin. The damage was limited, how ever, to battered fenders and a broken wheel. In addition to the day's motor ve hides, nearly all families entertained week end guests, and practically all of the 750 Hood River-owned automobiles joined the out ot-town machines on jaunts of the valley. The odor from motor exhausts intermingled with the perfume of the apple blooms. More than the perishable beauty of the apple blossom was seen by the orchardist-hosts Sunday. The thick clustered sprays of pink and white are prophetic of the community's most prosperous year. With the great war ended and a world market again open to the box apple of Oregon, second to none in quality, the grower-owner of those wonderful blooms celebrated the day as one of promise. The occasion furnished a topic for the valley's min isters. Indeed, Rev. E. C. Newham preached on "Apples," expressing in his sermon a thanksgiving for the new hope of which the apple blooms are emblematic. Sunday night, comfortably tired after thier strenuous day of entertain ment, apple grower, banker, hotel ' keener, all retired ruminating on the J subject of good roads. When the great liunijo i(;iicu hciiwbiu liicj Lai i im with them hearty invitations to re turn. And they are coming back and bring thousands of others with them. Hood River roads are not bad now. but everywhere this week one hears Hood River citistrn resolving to make them L. Clark and A. R. Cruikshank. Mr. Clark, whose fame for cookery ha spread almost as far as that of Irvin S. Cobb, even a better cook than a humorist, supervised the construction of the furnace over which the coffee was boiled Coffee boiled over an or dinary furnace cannot compare w ith that brewed on a furnace fust right. Mr. Cruikshank was not seen so much about the boiling furnace. He shone out in the crowds, wielding steaming pitchers. Une of the movy operators Sunday took pictures in the Oak Grove district of the Ravlin and Hughes orchards. There the blooms were especially en ticing. The blooms in the orchard to r . H. Rlackman were filmed bv the moving picture man in the Pine Grove distr ct. I 1 i i I il I i i i I VICTORY LOAN QUOTA OVER STATE COMMITTEE AMISlll FRIDAY Local Banks W ho InoVrwrote $23,000 Bal ance, are Reselling to Individ ual (itz-ris MRS. COPPLE'S ROSES ATTRACT VISITORS Mrs. C. E. Copple. of the East Side, created one of the sensations of Apple Blossom Festival Sunday with her rose garden. Even close neighbors of the Copple family, hearing of the wonder ful display of blooms, journeyed to Mr. Copple's home to see the early flowers Business men, passing the Copple place with out of town guests. returned later with their wives. Sev eral slyly approached the roses with shears, but Mrs. Copple was watchful and no one was allowed to pluck a flower. Mrs. Copple explained thht the roses were produced by application of nitrate of soda, found very effective in in creasing the yield of orchard and strawberry tracts. And hundreds of visitors left Sunday resolved to pur chase the plant stimulant. The gov ernment, with hostilities ended, bas released for sale large quantities of nitrate, originally intended for use in the manufacture of explosives. A fair percentage of this surplus will prob ably be bought by Oregon rose fanci ers. In fact, the rose blossoms at Mrs. Copple's place Sunday, except for 12 American Beauties, were imitation, but such good ones that 10 per cent of the visitors were fooled. Mrs. Copple had spent the previous week making 1,500 paper roses which she ingeniously fastened to the bushes of her garden. The coloring, too, was deceptive. In applying nitrate of soda to a small cherry tree Mrs. Copple administered an overdose and killed it. But she turned it into a Jap-rose, and its blooms were magnificent. Aside from her clever Blossom Day hoax, Mrs. Copple is an ardent advo cate of the use of nitrate of soda for rose bushes. The Btimulant, applied moderately, increases foliage and bloom The imitation flowers were made of silk tissue paper secured n Hood River. In celebration of their l'J years of married life, Mrs. Copple displayed a dove holding a silk flag in its mouth. "This," she declared, "was to indicate that we were still at peace after 10 yeais." FESTIVAL MAY LEAD TO ROAD REFORMS The Hood River Blossom Festival with its thousands of visitors Sunday has resulted in agitation for numerous road improvementsa and reforms. Although a contract was let Tuesday for a new grade over a new alignment, between the city and the top of Ruth- ton mill, an old bridge near Wau Guin Guin. where two cars collided Sunday will be replaced with a temporary but suhstantial structure. The need for a standardized system of road signs is obvious and Onmm aore uean, wno nas suggested a sys tem similar to that used by Klickitat county, is getting the hearty support of all citizens. Commodore Dean has also suggested that a stretch of Oak street, on which are located the city's chief business blocks, from Ninth to its intersection with Cascade avenue city extension of the Columbia River Highway, be paved. Property owners for the most part favor the move, and the city council, it is said, will take steps to Becure the early improvement Oak and Cascade avenue, after the intersection, run almost parallel for several blocks and many cars take the unpaved streets. Parking space in and near Hood River was at a premium Sunday. Be cause ot isolation and lack of signs, but few cars reached a plot of land offered free of charge by Chas. T. Early, to the city and county for ar. automobile park. Ihe visit of the large number of cars has lead to a new agitation for an auto camping park and for picnic parks throughout the valley. CHAPMAN OFFERS USE OF PROPERTY W. h. Lhapman, owner ot a large body of water front property, has of fered to donate the use of a four acre tract lying Between nooa Kiver and a plot of propertyjowned by the Oregon Lumber Co., to the city and county for a campsite for motoring tourists. The lumber concern recently offered the use of its property, and a committee of the Hood River County Game Pro tective Association recommended that it be accepted. So far, however, city and county authorities have declined to act, because of the expenFes that will be attached to improvements, and the community remains without an auto mobile campsite. Amusement Park Proposed Hood River may have a Luna Park all its own. Arthur Kolstad, who stated that lie was repesenting Port land . investors, sounded out the city council Monday night on such a propo sition. The proposed park would cater to visiting motor tourists as well as local people. The council, while it passed first reading, was unable to put to final pa3 sage an ordinance that will prevent parking rf automobiles on Third street between Uak ana lascade avenue. This steep stretch of street wilA be treated with a coating of gravel that will prevent teams from slipping. W hole m so far as state authorities of the Victory loan were concerned the Hood Kiver campaign closed Friday light, the banks having eiiUcrihrd the $2,5ooo unsold balance of the fcot', 2f0 quota, resales by the batiks h e leen going steadily ahead throughout the weekend it is expected ttiat iti zens will have absorbed the entire quota U'fore Saturday night. Indeed, the committee believes that some of the prosiective largest subscribers art holding off until the last moment, ex pecting thus to top other big purchases and secure for themselves the two tier man helmets alloted to the Hood River committee for presentation to the two largest buyers. In this ca.-e. Hood Kiver count may run up an oversbscrip t ii in. While the Victory campaign has not been in keeping oversubscriptions of the four Liberty loans, the purchases made here have been absolutely volun tary. No soliciting has been conducted. TANK CUTS UP MANY ANTICS WHILE HERE J Leisurely rambling through the end of an old barn, the whippet tank, here to stimulate a ictory loan crowd Fri day, ran directly into the trunk of a dead pine tree 1 inches in diameter. The tree was uprooted and spectators, as they pushed back, were brushed by the falling branches. A few moments previously the top of an adjoining structure collapsed from its overbur den of boys. The most serious injur ies, however, were mere scratches. Several thousand spectators saw the tank in operation. A part of the day's program was the decoration by ("apt. Gw. K.Wilbur, of eight Hoy Scouts for meritorius patriotic work. fhe tank arrived early Friday morn ing. It was put through stunts on Oak street, and until it was fed on the old building in the afternoon, it stood at prominent corners, where it was vis itedjby scores of youngsters and adults as well, Sgt. Hendershott, in charge. courteously explaining its possbilities. Claire Alden, a soldier of Ihe Dalles. accorndanied the tank. The destruction of the old building. donated to the committee by Geo, W'. Thomson and M. E. McCartv, was rushed in order that the tank might be taken west attached to No. 17. It had been announced that this feature of the program would occur after four o'clock, and as a result of the charg a number of the valley residents missed seeing the tank. The Boy Scouts decorated Friday were: Myron lloyt, Leonard Thomson, Boyd Cuddeford, Walter Manville, Kenneth Deitz, Wilmuth Gibson, Jack Cram and Maurice Kinsey. BIG S. CONVEN TION IS PLANNED Ihe annual so-called twin conventions of the Oregon Sunday School Associa tion to be held at Corvallis from May 15 to 1H and at Baker from May 20 to 2U, inclusive, will be the most notable ever held in the state, according to Mrs. J. E. Ferguson, president of the Hood Kiver County Association and a director of the state organization. Musical programs will be featured. They will be conducted by Walter Jen kins, of Portland'. The Willamette University quarii t will visit each city. Among the prominent national Sun day Behind workers present will be M. A. Honline, of Dayton, Ohio, educa tional superintendent of the national organization, who is noted as an au thority on the psychology of childhood and youth; J. M. Locker, of Chicago, organization superintendent of the national association, and Chas. K. Fisher, head of the northern California association. Oregon's choicest talent will visit both conventions. Mrs. Fer guson, who will deliver, an address on Bible study for high school credits, plans on accompanying; a large Hood Kiver delegation. Mrs. Ferguson will address the Sun day school workers of Wasco county in their annual convention at Mosier next Saturday. LOST LAKE WORK IS SOON TO BEGIN An automobile road will be opened to" Lost Lake by fall of this year if plans of county authorities come to maturi ty. Al R. Cruikshank announces that a main camp for the construction of the road will be established this week. The county, at the instance of the Hood River County Game Protective Association, recently appropriated $2, 750 for opening the road to the scenic spot. Roses Are Blooming Roses are opening in numerous local gardens. Mrs. A. S. Keir brought a bouquet of climbing American beauties to her husband's store Wednesday. Thursday Mrs. W. B. Heath picked beautiful blossoms, of large size, from a climbing Richmond at her home on the Heights. Mrs. Heath says the Richmond is in bloom a month earlier than usual this season. Frost Hits Berries Reports from Dee indicate severe damage to strawberries from frost last week end. The heaviest -frost was Saturday night, when ice formed on Dee Fiat. Growers ft first believed damage nominal, but Dee growers now estimate that the yield will be de creased from 20 to 25 per cent. Hood River Garage Sales The Hood River Garage reports sales the last week as follows: Roy Hale and J. W. Crites, Chevrolets; Wm. Hanna, 1-ton Chevrolet truck ;('. W. McCullagh, seven passenger HolmeB.