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HOOD KIVEi:, OREGON. TilCHSDAY, MAY N, 11W
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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.
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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.
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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.
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VICTORY LOAN
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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.