The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, October 16, 1919, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texti ill fhie VOL. XXXI HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1919 No. A fflnrfo nf HJarmttg Many slock promotion schemes are in process of develop ment. They have elegant literature, using as selling arguments glowing profit statements based upon war-time prices, which cannot maintain much longer, and showing alluring induce ments that actually seem real. Stock, in a new enterprise is always recognized as requiring careful study and analysis before one risks an investment in it. Good, well secured bonds are a much safer investment. You receive a good income upon them and can sell them at any time, whereas untested stocks are not so easily sold, and where large dividends are promised, frequently proove un saleable. The wise investors are using our bond department service and obtaining liberty bonds at the present attractive market price or other standard bonds. P IKE ARE AT YOUR SERVICE THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK I VICTROLAS and Victrola Records The October Records are Here General Pershing March ... .18607 "I've Gut My Captain Working For Me Now" IStfH ' Our Yesterdays'..., 45168 "La Travista" GlU-ftrci . .64820 DANCE UCOftDS "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" Walta..rclvin's Orchestra , 18003 F.v'rybely Shimmies Now" FotTrot. All-Star Trio 18602 Com in and hear the aew October Records KRESSE DRUG CO. The ScttotL Store FRESHLY PREPARED BORDEAUX PASTE Saves you the time and trouble of mixing your own Bluestone and Lime. We can supply you with any quantity on short notice. Hood River Spray Company Phone 2421 REMEMBER-The "FRIEND" is the best sprayer. Order yours early AN IMPORTANT DUTY Everyone will admit that his house should be put in order and most everyone will admit that he should make a will, and yet the average man or woman will defer that important duty until It is too late to give it the careful attention an Instrument of this kind should have. We are qualified to act In any fiduciary capacity and there are many advantages In making the trust department of a bank the executor of your Will. Call on us for further information and full details. BUTLER BANKING COMPANY Member Federal Reserve System FOR SALE We are offering the Dobbin forty acres, on the River Road, near Summit, for $12,500. This has 34 acres assessed under the East Fork Ditch, thirty of this in cultivation, and the rest light clearing. Thirteen acres of orchard, ten and twelve years old, about 3000 boxes this year and in good shape for next year. Plenty of excellent strawberry land, or for fruit. Good house and fair barn. This is a good buy. HOOD RIVER ABSTRACT AND INVESTMENT CO. J. W. CRITES, President K. W. SINCLAIR, Secretary We still have a limited supply of BOXES AND PAPER. If you are running short, let us know at once. DUCKWALL BROS. ODELL 59 WAREHOUSE 242 ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL FUND To the Roosevelt Memorial AMoclation, Krnest C. Smith, County Chairman, Hood Kiver, Oregon. I Ix'rewith subscribe the sum of to the KiKwrvcLT Memorial Find. Nntne - Add re vs - The above amount is inclosed herewith. Aecordlnit to th plans of the Roosevelt Memorial AssoelaHon, the Roosevelt Memorial Kund of l.oio.fl.nn is to lie iitilitrri to ertvt n Xntlonul Monument in Washington, 1. ('.; to arqtilre and maintain a public park at Oyster Bay, N. V., ml ultimately to include Snnmore Hill, the Roosevelt home, therein, to be preserved like Mount Vernon ami Lincoln's home at SprinirneliU nod to endow National Society to perpetuate the principles and Ideals of Theodore Roosevelt. Bach contributor to the fund will receive as,ertlltcate of membership In the Roosevelt Memorial Association. A certitlcate will al) be presented to every school contribution to the tund. , The name of every contributor will lie placed on the list of names deposlUd In tlM Nutconal Monument to be erected ut M aslunc'ou, II, C. WE HAVE POSITIONS OPN FOR OPERATORS. IF YOU HAVE NOT HAD EXPERIENCE WE WILL PAY 20 CENTS PER HOUR WHILE llEARNlNG. PERMANENT POSITIONS ARE ASSURED. Oregon-Washington Telephone Company Please help us give better service and avoid congestion during evening hours by trading and telephoning or ders early in the day. laoPl I PINE GROVE STORE A. F. DsICKFORD, Prop. JONATHANS We want more Jonathans, all grades, regulation pack. Also, Faced and Filled Orchard Run and Cookers. SPECIAL We want several cars combination Pack, All three grades in one. Ship your No. 2 D'ANJOU PEARS. We can sell all of them for you. Sheridan BecKley Co. 126 Front Street, PORTLAND!, ORE. Reference: Hibernian Bank. 0 You can always get an Address f? tamp free by calling at Glacier Office. CAR SHORTAGE HITSJALLEY ROLLING STOCK LACK CHIEF WORRY Banot Well Coder Way and Motor Tracks an Buskin? Frait From Pk1ub to Skftinf; Pools The car shortage continues the chief worry of the 1919 apple harvest. Since Saturday shippers have been unable to secure sufficient cart to load out their orders. Advices from Washington and the railway administration, however, are to the effect that every effort will be made to route westward sufficient freezers to prevent a loss of any fruit here. Wit orderi in for 29 can. shiDDera along the line of the Mount Hood R. R. Co. yesterday received but 14 free fr ee a. While the Apple Growers Associ tion bad received but two ears for load- ins at local ttor&re Dlants. a trainload of empties was reported due to arrive soon from The Dalles. Gasoline motors have revolutionized toe methods of transporting apples in the valley. Of the 2.000.000 boxes of commercially packed fruit that will be Harvested this season, it is likely that not more than 100,000 boxes will be hanled from packing bouses to shippine stations by horse drawn vehicles. Motor trucks are making abort work of apple hauling. it is rare that a grower owning Inrge acreage is found without a motor truck. Truck sales the past year are approach ing close to the century mark. Scores of orchardists, buying new passenger vehicles, have turned their old cars in to serviceable trucks. In a single line at the receiving sta tions of the Apple Growers Association last week 19 different makes of trucks, ranging from a huge Mack to a Ford, were counted. The total mimker of different makes in the valley is proba- oiv aoume mat number. Many out of town workers have jour neyed here with their families in trucks. While the women and children engage in apple picking the father will assist with the day s earnings by haul ing fruit from packing plant to city. Motor truck transportation is net only the most convenient and quickest way of moving the valley's apple crop, but shippers state that it is the safest. The trucks are equipped with good springs and no bruised fruit results from the journey to town. In former years shippers included in their harvest instructions specifications for springs to be used under wagon racks. The horse drawn wagon, however, is so lit- tie used at present that the paragraph of hntrnctioiw pertaining to the springs nas Decome oosoiete and has been iotor trucks equipped with durao beds are an aid in the marketins of cull and canning apples. With boxes short and difficult to obtain, the deliv ery of the cull stock in the loose state helps with the box shortage. With boxes and burlap selling at a high price the dump beds work an economy for growers. Lack or ears to clear packed apples from storage plants and receiving sta tions is growing daily more serious in Hood Kiver. With all space full, it was necessary for the Association to discontinue receipts of fruit at its Odell warehouse Monday. Tuesday the Association received but two caisat city plants. Five cars were loaded Monday and four Sunday. With more than 75 big motor trucks rushing fruit in from valley packing houses and no cars to start it on the way east, it is only a question of a few days until the big storage plants of the city will have to refuse further deliveries. The val ley needs more than 26 cars daily for loading out apples. CAR SHORTAGE HITS ! WITH A BANG The car shortage struck Hood River with a bang last Saturday. With ap ple shippers in need of more than 25 meters, not a single one was avail able! and crews at loading warehouses were at a standstill. But three cars were available the day before. The Apple Growers Association has annealed to the Oregon congressional delegation for relief and Miss Mae Davidson, in charge of the local affilia tion of the exporter, was informed by H. F. Davidson from his New York office that he had petitioned the con gressmen. Mr. Davidson stated that he hoped for relief on account of the prominence being given to movement of food products. ORCHARD SUPPLIES ARE RUNNING SHORT The Hood River valley's big spole crop; although local dealers stocked far more heavily than in any former season, has brought a shortage in many lines of orchard supplies. No nail strippers are obtainable in the city at present, althogh dealers have rushed calls by tetegpraph. Picking bags and nailing ha tenets have been sold out. During the sommermonths Hood River and other districts completely used up the northwest's supply of thinning sneers. , Dealers report plenty of picking lad ders and cement-coated box nais. "The enormity of this year's apple harvest," says E. A. Franz, "can be comprehended when 1 tell vou that we have? purchased three carloads of box nails for this season's demand. Our largest purchase in any former year waa a carload and a half." ' Green. "We estimate that 9 .000 boxes of apples were blown from the trees. While the fruit is not a total loss, the fallen apples will have to be sold at a great sacrifice for cookers. " The big orchard of 320 acres near Gilmer. Wash., ha create 1 a wide in tercet among other Northwestern fruit growers. Apple and pear trees have been planted in alternate rows. As the trees increase in size it is planned to cut some of them out. Mr. Green is just recovering from a serious accident of three weeks ago. A tractor was being used on the farm for driving machinery. Mr. Gieen had just adjusted a belt and instructed an assistant to turn on the power. Hit man put the machine in gear and the tractor, of caterpillar type, walked over the orchardist. The caterpillar treads had reached bis waist when the helper realized his mistake and stopped the machine. Then he tried to reverse it and get it off Mr. Green's body. In stead, however, he threw it in high gear. Fortunately, Mr. Green had sufficient time to pull his body to one side, or the heavy tractor might have given him fatal internal injuries. HOTELS ARE VERYCROWDED L(ir.2V EC03! OilLN AT A IT.DIIDI LEGION PLANS FOR ARMISTICE DAY The Hood River Post of the Ameri can Legion is planning on a general celebration in Hood River on Armistice Day. All stores and places of business will be asked to close. A parade will be held and in the afternoon a football game, probably between the high school team and alumni of the institu tion, will be staged. The day will !e closed with a big ball. the executive committee of the Post has appointed the following permanent committees for the ensuing year : employment, Ulenn Hunt, Kobert G. McNary, Verne H. Moon ; benevolence, Kordham B. Kimball. Hugh C. John son and Paul .Blowers ; legislative, J. K. Carson. Jr., Geo. K. Wilbur, Dr. V. R. Abraham ; entertainment, Leon Foust, Walter Ford. Malcolm Button : athletics. W. J. A. Baker, Carl Kent, HQgh W. Lopple; finance, Harold Hershner, Joe M. Johnsen, Geo. Mel lon; membership, Fred H. Bell, Glenn B. Shoemaker. Leslie F. Parker. Chas. Steinhauaer, W. M. Cochran; Memorial Uaw. Dr. H. D. W. Pineo. H. J. Blackman, Olin B. Spaulding: puldic- Ity, Geo. T. Bragg, Edwin Sonnichsen, Hark b. Moe: headquarters. Dr. J. W. Sifton, Stewart Kimball and Hayes L. bickford. H.R.H.S. HOPE HIGH WITH VETERANS BACK Buoved up"by the presence of a num ber of former stars, ex-service men back completing their high school course, the Hood River high school is hopeful of the pennant in the mid Columbia football league and a high place in the finals of state pigskin rec ords. The following old players have returned from war and have resumed their studies and football practice: Lowell Nickelsen, John Carson, Ro selle Crone, Henry Hays and Carl Huston. Earl Weber has been secured to coach the aggregation, Mr. Weber is a nephew of Kobert Murray, former coach of The Dalles teams. In addi tion to teams of mid-Columbia schools, the local football aggregation will play Camas. Estacada and Gresham teams. It is planned that Estacada come here for an Armistice Day game. Mr. Weber now has two strong teams engaged in daily practice. REAL BOOM IS ON AT GLENWOOD The high price of farm products, ac cording to men who have recently toured the Glenwood and Trout Lake districts of Klickitat county. Washing ton, has resulted in a material activity in real estate. Interest is stimulated by plans of the Camas Prairie ranchers to develop an irrigation system, draw ing their water from the Muddy and Hell Roaring creeks. Senator Haines has just purchased the old Cole homestead place. He is running 24 hours a'day wkh a tractor and gang plows, getting ready to seed the farm. Limebaugh sisters, of Portland, have purchased the Armsbury place of 520 acres. MOSIER HARVEST IN FULL SWING The Mosier apple harvest is in full sway, according to Mrs. C. G. Nichol who was here Saturday with her moth er, Mrs. W. D. Hollv. As the apples are picked they are transported im mediately to the Mosier Fruit Growers Association's new combined communi ty packing plant and storage ware house. While the new structure, one of the largest of its kind in the North west, is not complete the roof is on, and power sizing machines have been installed. The Mosier district is not affected for lack of packers as are many dist ricts, because of the new packing plant with its attached storage rooms. The apples can be picked as fast as possi ble and packed out at leisure. Mrs. Nichol states that the help situation is causing no trouble in Mosier. ROOSEVELT FUND IS FAR BEHIND MT. ADAMS CO. EX PECTS 29,0(10 BOXES Homer C. Green, superintendent of the Mount Adams Farm Co., owners of the largest orchard in Klickitat county, ' Washington, was here Friday seeking ' pickers. Mr. Green says that he will harvest 29,000 boxes of apples this fall from his trees, part of them six years , old and part nine. He has just com pleted the harvest of 7.200 boxes of pears, mostly of the d'Anjod variety. I "The wind of last Tuesdsv nieht ! caused (U heavy damage," said Mr. Hood River county people will have to hurry, according to h. C. Smith, county chairman of the Roosevelt Me morial fund committee, if they live up to their record or volunteer action made during the war. "While our quota is but 1285 for the Oregon Roosevelt Memorial fund," says Mr. Smith, "to date Iliave re ceived but $30 and it seems that some personal solicitation is going to be nec essarv. Of course, evervbodv is busv in the apple harvest. The Odell schools responded with alacrity to an anneal made there. Within half an hour after school opened the other morning the children, subscribing pennies and nick els, furnished us with 15.90. Jian) Visitors Are Turnod Away Vit'UvX Actommadatinns Nrcd .Vsn .We for New Resii!ircs The two commercial hotels of IKoI River weekly turn away se res if pros pective quests. Week" ei.d nights i:i vaiiably tind the hoetelries so ciowiii d that the i.riviteire uf sitting in i-haiia in the lobbies is at a premium. Kmniia ate Idled and cots and couches laid down in eoridors. The demand for apartment and quarters of more permanent residence are just as acute here at present. Lodging houses all have waiting lists. One cannot secure furnished apart ments at any price. The crowded conditions are easily explained by the apple harvest at t.'ia present, but even before the intlux of pickers began to filter into the valley a need for additional accommodations was apparent here. With the Colum bia Highway paved all the way be tween here and Portland next ear, the hotels will find it impossible to take care of the motor tourist patrons. While no definite plans, as yet. have been outliie.l. those who keep a weather eve out for Hood River prog ress predict that a hotel of metropoli tan proportions will be rm the way here within twelve months time. Hut for the hiifh cost of buildimr. coupled with the scarcity of carpen ters and brick masons, it is likely that an apartment house would have been constructed here before this. Hooil River has no exclusive apartment houte. The nearest approach to it is found on the second floor of the Ore gon Washington telephone building. Applications lor quarters there are al ways filed months ahead ot vacancies. The home situation has been ren dered more acute bv the return of numerous families from Portland. where they were engaged in war work during the period of hostilities. No vacant houses are available in Hood River. .Despite the high cost of labor and material, prospective builders nee no outlook for future decreases, and it is likely that several home places will be constructed here soon. NO LABOR TURNED AWAY FROM HERE The report that reached Dufur.whrre orchardists were appealing for more help to harvest their crop, that men and women in numbers were being re turned to Portland for luck of work, according to William Wilkir, in charge of the free government employment agency, was erroneous. "It is true that almost daily we hnve had a few discontents not satisfied with the high wage paid,' says Mr. Wilkie, "who do not linger very lonpr. We do not need that class here, nor does any fruit district for that matter. We can place all the men and women who real ly want to work right here in the Hood Kiver valley. Some giowers are pay-' ing from 10 to 45 cents per hour, while others are paying six cents per box for picking. Growers are even paying the six cent wage for picking up culls from the ground, cleaning their orchards as they go. Teamsters are getting from $4.50 to $5 per day. Sjme are getting $4 and board. Packers are getting eix and seven cents per box. "Our office here has been open from 14 to lti hours a day, and we are doing all we can to accommodate the people who reallv want to work. We find no time, however, to be bothered with I. W. W." COMMUNITY FORUM TO BE ORGANIZED A community forum to meet on Sun day evenings during the winter months is being projected by a number of lay men of Riverside congregation. The plan contemplates the bringing togeth er of groups who are interested in so cial andx community problems for the purpose of discussion. It is believed that such meeting will be a vital force in the creation of sound public opinion and that by creating a better under standing among men it will promote that brotherhood for which the Master lived and died. It is expected that leaders will be brought in from time to time to speak on subjects in their own field of study. The emphasis, however, is to be on free discussion. The only limitation upon anyone will be that he have a friendly, tolerant spirit and a constructive proirram con sistent with American ideals of Chris tian democracy. The first successful forum was or ganized 20 years ago at Cooper Union, New York. There are now more than a hundred large forums and numerous small ones in operation. It is said the church community forum has proved the most successful of all. Capt. Geo. Wilbur is head of the committee in charge of the project. DARIN FINDS DEAF MUTE FORD DRIVER Ivan Dakin, who drives a motor bus for the Transfer & Livery Co. between here and Multnomah Falls, had a pe culiarjexperience the other clay, lie hind time he was hurrying toward Hoed River with a load of pastengers. A little Ford suddenly (corned up ahead, merrjly buzzing along in the centre of the road. It was occupied by the driver alone. "I sounded my siren, no soft-pedaled affair, either, time after time." (ays Mr. Dakin, "but the pilot of Lizzie oked neither to Wmj right nor the ft. On a grace, when the Ford driver shifted to low gear, 1 bumped him before I realized what he was do ing. Then you ought to have teen that man. He got one look around and beheld our big bus. He steered right off the road into a fence. When we stopped to offer aid, he began to talk to us with his hands. He was deaf and dumb." :CCR PRINT