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Christmas Suggestions of Real Value and Beauty
GENUINE IVORY PY-RA-LIN SETS AND INDIVIDUAL PIECES.
SYMPHONY LAWN STATIONERY IN BEAUTIFUL BOXES.
KODAKS, LEATHER CARRYING CASES, TRIPODS, ALBUMS, ETC.
WATERMAN FOUNTAIN PENS, EVERSIIARP PENCILS -A LARGE ASSORTMENT.
VICTOR VICTROLAS C0?'IE early AND MAKE YOUR SELECTION.
PERFUMES, DOLLS, THERMOS BOTTLES AND LUNCH KITS.
CIGARS AND CIGARETTES IN CHRISTMAS PACKAGES.
JOHNSTON'S, LIGGE1TS AND HOEFLER'S CHOCOLATES.
KRESSE
Desirable Bond Offerings
YfF. have rwontlv a'Mt'd Sfvcjil new issiu-s to our list
VY .f .l.-sirab!.' Ml'NICH'AI, l'.ONDS and w can now
oiTer from our holdings sonu v'iy attractive irm-stnu'tits
to yiold from f to ('). 12.").
We also call attention to the fact the U. S. Lil-erty
Honds of the third and f'uurta leans at the present market
price will ii ld over .r' .
In addition to the above sujrn'e?tinns we will he lad
to receive orders fur the oUVrinps of any of the reputable
bond houses operating in this district.
If your Liberty Bonds and other bearer securities are
not in a pood safe place v e will be plad to care for them
in our lU'RCLAK PROOF SAFK on wl.iVli v. e ;ue carry
ing Burglar Insurance encoring both cash ami securities.
BUTLER RANKING COMPANY
Member Federal Reserve S stern
FOR
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 ligM 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 stravberry land,
or for fruit. Good hou3e and fair barn. This is a
good buy.
HOOD RIVER ABSTRACT
J W. ( HI I I S, PrMulenl
J. G. VOGT
ALREADY FOR
friun thin txrlinuur fitrtui Starr
Icziorrp
RICH S1I.K SHIRTS
I'nusiiiil colorings, beautiful
assortment in tine weaves.
$7.50 to $17.50
MONOGRAM STERLING
BELTS
Big assortment in Seal and
Horseliidc.
' $1.00 to $4.50
HOSIERY
He never had too many - why
not a box?
5 V to $2.00
Sweaters, Pajama?, Underwear
Flannel Shirts, Fur Lined Caps
Shoes, Gordon Hats
Kuppenheimcr Clothes
DRUG CO.
Come in and hear the
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SALE
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K, W. SI M.I Mil, Svrrct.iry
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CHRISTMAS NECKWEAR
A Wonderful Showing at
$1.00 $1.50 $2.00
$2.50 $4.00
NEW SCARES ANT)
REE1ERS
The ery newest in Silk and
Color Combinations
$3.50 I ) $6.00
HAM) BAGS
Walrus, Cowhide, I.ogskin,
Mule by M. C. I.illey & Co.
and an unlimited gvaraniee.
$17.50 to $42.C0
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December Record.
'ulir Siapptrjat (Christmas
whirl, tuut liaur bad fur many a Jrarl"
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HIS is our Yuletide greeting - and then1 are so many
reasons why it seems
jZ? Last year, deliverance from war gae the season
more of the Christmas spirit than had been possible
during four years of world strife.
? 'f year, there is a realization that much of the
stress of after-the-war reaction is passing and that we
are to emerge at last into a world stronger in the prac
tice of those expressions of brotherhood which underlie
the feeling of Christmas.
? It is fitting then that all rejoice at this Christmas
tide, ami to this end we join with all of our friends, and
with the people of this entire community, in the TRUE
SPIRIT of the season. Through such associations, and
the friendly thought pervading them, national harmony
is developed.
Again, let us wish you a joyous Christmas and a
New Year of happiness and of hopes fulfilled.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
C.IVK I'M 111) STATICS WAR SAVING SI AMI'!. ON CHK1STM AS
TOR SALT. AT THIS RANK
are now working on our New Directory.
As the Telephone Directory in the Hood
River Valley is made up of about Thirteen-Hun-dred
of its leading citizens, it has considerable
value as a directory of names and addresses.
This value largely depends on its accu
racy. If your name is misspelled, the initials
or given name is not as you sign, or location
wrong, let us know at once so that it may
be corrected in the new issue of our Directory.
OREGON-WASHINGTON
TELEPHONE CO.
We Wish You
Al Merry Christmas
and
Happy New Year
Our Store is stocked with goods that will
enable you to carry by substantial symbol
cheer to friend or relative. We mention a few :
For Him: Safety Razors, Cigars,
Xmas packages of his favorite to
bacco. For Her:-Uneida Par-Plate Sil
verware, 10 years guarantee; Community-Plate
(one set of 48 pieces,
$60, or will sell individual pieces)
50 years guarantee.
For the Kiddies: Candies, Nuts,
and other goodies.
PINE GROVE STORE
A. F. BICKFORD, Prop.
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IN TliK DOLL tViMKi-r
a .von:
FOR 1.YFRY I'KNNY'S ITRCHASK''
especially appropriate.
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RECORD COLD
WAVE STRIKES :
NEW LOW MARK OF 27 BELOW ZERO
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Ni.ceiy Per Cent of Homes Suffer Frozen!
Water Pipes-Fuel Oil Hushed
Here by Special Train
When the babies of today reach old
ate they will tel their jtranjrnildren
ol the cold winter of 191U, when on the1
n.''ht of liecemtier 12 trie Kovernment
rmomeUr of Leroy Chillis registered
below zero, and in the Upper Val-
lev the menury of a rt cording instru-
fit of the weather bureau reached
it - limit in the registration of a low
te.nperature, showing; a minimum of
30 below.
.N'ot in recorded hiftory of the white
in has the Hood River valley ever
terienced eo severe w inter weather,
ilowmir the snow ftorm that botian
ti j latter natt of week before last and
ich piled up a total depth of 3i
hes in the Lower Valley and four
ft 't in the Upper Valley before the
cl-uds had dispersed, the east w ind
tinued to blow with increased chill
W th nights beautifully cold and clear,
emperature of Hi degrees below was
iched Wednesday night and Thurs-
il, y night, il-lj. Saturday night the
tl-ermomt'tern showed a slight moder
at on. Mr. Childd instrument showed
2; degrees beljw the zero maik.
r.iughout the cold weather instru
nts of the lower levels of the city
mistered about 10 degrees lower than
I at of Mr. Childs, who resides on Al-
ieda Way in the Ira K Williams
I (igalow. At Odell. the temperature
is from two to three degrees higher.
Hie storm, of blizznrd prom rt ions,
is general over the Northwest. In
ne eastern Oregon communities the
1 .nperature touched the low point of
f l degrees below. Portland ex peri
led three degrees above zero, while
iom the Cobimbia at Vancouver the
rcury dipped below the r.ero mark.
A'hat effect will the unprecedented
1 'tiu have on next year s apple crop;
T us has worried all growers. W hile
pie orchards of other parts of the
untiy are frequently, some of them
h immlly subjected to teemperatures as
L w, growers have feaied the irost
might kill fruit spurs and result in a
s'lort crop next seaon. While no ex
prrts are able to give any conclusive
ita, it is not thought apple trees will
a affected. The cold wave has been
' jin.nn on gradually and it is said that
I ,e Si.p has been practically entirely
withdrawn from twigs and branches
I :i em h a state of dormancy it is be
l eved the freeze will have no effect.
I each trees, some of the old time resi-
;'nts are prone to believe, will sutler
t':om the freeze. Hut only a negligi
ble quantity chiefly a few trees
planted bv growers for home use of
peai'hs are grown here. The snow has
been a godsend for strawberry grow-
rs. With the earth bare the heavy
freeze would have been disastrous.
Under their blanket of snow the berry
plants will go untouched.
I he heavy snow covering ftl rose
gardens have saved them from almost
sure death. Kose growers say the ex
cessively low temperature would have
killed the roses but for the blanket ol
snow. All branches or roses expend
ing above the snow line, it is declared
by tlorists, will be killed.
The Bnow, too, has prevented a
water famine. With the earth bare
the municipal water system, it is
likely, would have been put completly
out of commission.
Since early last week the ferry sys
terns have been blocked by ice in the
Columbia. For one to visit either of
the Washington towns, in plain sight
of Hood River, a journey of Kif miles
by way of Cortland, or a shorter dis
tance by way of The Dalles, has been
necessary.
1 he Columbia has frozen over here
on former occasions. In 1910 peiies-
trains walked across it. Twenty-live
years ago, when Joe Aleck held a con
tract for carrying the mail from Hood
Kiver to White Salmon, he crossed the
river one winter drawing nis mail
sacks on a sled over the ice.
Growers and horticultural experts
who have clipped twigs, giving them
a minute examination, do not believe
the freeze has caused any damate to
fruit spurs. The twigs are so dry, it
is said, that frost did not form and
thus cause a destruction of cells. Val
ley peaches, however, may have been
ruined.
Everyone, without any precedent to
work on. is unable to make any definite
conclusion as to the cold weather
Trees in orchards where heavy appli
cations of nitrate have been made may
have suffered, as the sap had been
timulated to action in the orchards.
G 'i wers are clipping fruit spurs and
potting them in warm temperatures.
In case of damage it can quickly be as-
ct'tnined by these experiments.
Hundreds of families have lost their
supply of potates, vegetables and can
ned fruits. Ihe frost has penetrated
biisements, ordinarily secure, and much
canned fruit has been frozen, the cans
bursting. Hundreds of boxes of ap
P iii reserved for home use have been
dozen.
The city is now beginning to turn its
attention to prevention of floods wnen
a thaw comes. Many flooded base
ments are in prospect. Citizens have
bunked the snow high around their res
niences as a protection against the
irost.
An inch and half ice crust was added
t i the snow blanket yesterday as re
suit of a constant sleet storm for the
previous 18 hours. A slight rain mixed
with the sleet froze on wires and
trees, but in insufficient quantities to
cause damage. The minimum te.nper
ature Tuesday night was 13 degrees
t-.uove.
Schools will resume work here today.
Snow Flurries
Residents of the city were not alone
in feeling the inconveniences of a fuel
famine. A number of or hardists have
been caught by the deep snow with no
wood in their basements or coal in
their bins.
' We were without wood at our
place," said Tratfoid E. Smith. "It
was a case of burning the lawn fence
or freezing. We saci ificed the fence.
When it is consumed we will have to
burn the front porch."
A frozen and inowcoverel street
the antithesis of an automobile tiie
even though the laid tire is wrapped
with chairs. During the past week
numerous near-serious accident have
occurred here. and automobiles have
figured in numerous comical gtui ts. A
motor truck, headed bv its driver u.to
basement machine step entrance.
! w hen the r.ght angle turn was made
irotn an extension ci Second stre.t.
kept skidding sideways until it rested
forly across the concrete steps kadn -g j
down to the passenger station. i
The snowstorm jut cut of commis 1
sion u(.ieii oik ifioitir iiucks iieir(
used in Burfaciru the Hood River-!
Mosier extension of the H ;hwav. 1 In
bitf ears, overlaid with the snow-blanket,
parked alongside streets near the
hotels.
Some say that the snow hai taught J
autombiles how to do the Shimmy
dance. The last passerger vehicle
seen on the stretts, a big Cadillac tc-1
cupied by C. Dethman and his on, I
rred, danced all over a street intersec
tion when young Mr. Dethman tried to
turn around. finally a half doyen
friends, all of heavy weight, occupied
the tonneau and with the traction thus
given Mr. Dethman was able to get bis
car bacK to the home garage, where he
said he would leave it till the weather
moderated.
One Hood River man hasn't vet
donned a coat. Spectators shiver when
they see Commodore lean walk along
the streets in his shirtsleeves. Hut
the Commodore seems as warm as hot
toast. He has a system all his own.
Commodore Dean probably has more
pairs of woollen underwear than any
other man in Oregon. When the win
ter months come on and the tempera
ture reaches toward the freezing point
he doesn't rush for a coat and an over
coat. With ever 10 degree drop he puts
on an additional pair of woollen under
wear. His requirements for the freeze
were four suits of "heav es." Com
modore Dean, fortunately, has saved a
handsome competence from his years
of service as a ferryman, and he is
said to have laid in an extra supply of
linderwear lat week.
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1 or t'niy uioe hiiudu) eer can nes
Commodore Dean in coats is when he
is bound to I'oitland on business or to
attend to a ceremonial of the Mystic
Shrine, (if which he is a wi ll known
member.
Hood River had one citizen lust Fri
day who claimed that a record lor low
temperature had not been established
the night before. John Gerdes, pio
neer int reliant and hotelkeeper, de
dared that in lKs-1 the temperature
was lower in Hood River. Mr. Gerdes
says that the Hood river, despite the
swift current, frose over here, and
that he hired men to use a hand saw
and ci.t a large supply of ice, which he
stored for a meat shop.
"Our cold weather that year came in
February," said Mr. Gerdes "The
climax of the freeze was reached on
St. Valentine's morning."
The recent cold wave has played
some queer tricks here, but none of
them any queerer than that happening;
to judson G. Rugglcs. Mr Ruggles is
an addict to the pipe. After lunch
Friday he lit up his briar on leaving
home. He stepped jauntily into the
office at the end of a walk of eigh
blocks, sucking on the pipe. He pulled
the stem from 'between his teeth and
twisted into the bowl with a finger.
"Well I'm dratted," said Mr. (tog
gles, "I thought that pipe was alight.
Here 1 have puffed all the way from
home. The fog of my breath fooled
me. 1 haven't been smoking at all."
Once uprin a time the head r.f the
family could take a rest indoors and
get a boy to shovel oft his walks for
1(1 cents, or at the most 125 cents. Rut
those good old days are gone. Two
men shoveled off the walks of K. A.
Franz. Thev worked 45 minutes.
Their charge to Mr. Franz was $4.
Attorney Dirby became alarmed over
his roof. It co.-t him $'J to have the
snow removed, hnowshovelers charged
at the rate of $1 per hour for their
toil. It is a record fof Hood River.
The lack of horses was emphasized
last week when the snow storm bloke
and paralyzed motor transportation.
Rural mail farriers, all of whom now
make their daily rounds in automo
biles, unable to get horses and bob
sleds, had to discontinue service while
the roads were unbroken. Delivery
service of merchants had become ex-
lusively motorized. The merchants,
unable to get horsedrawn vehicles.
were forced to send out goods by mes-
1 nger. Some were unatue to make de
liveries.
Two drivers of motor trucks, en
gaged in graveling the Highway, dug
their big chariots out of snow drilts
lust Monday and started for I'oitland.
The men, depsite the fact that they
would have to break the road for mo.-t
of the distance, were bold enough to
undertake the trip.
Garage men, who warned against
the trip, declared that it was fortunate
that the motor trucks were unable to
get out of the city limits. The task
was considered tiy motor experts an
impossible one. The bold adventurers
turned their trucks into other drifts
and there they awaited the thaw.
It is an ill wind that blows nobody
good, and plumbers have been having
more business than they could attend
to the past week. Zero weather has
given practically every home its
trouble with frozen water pipes. The
damage at some homes has been se
vere, where pipes burst. In most in
stances father and the boys could thaw
out the pipes. Frozen water systems
in the country have caused more troub
le than in the city.
The local home that could boost of
no frozen water pipes last week was
an exception. Numerous explosions
followed tires in ranges which prevent
ed the release of steam. A bursting
pipe of the heating system of the Uro
sius building, left the offices and stores
like refrigerators for the greater part
of Friday.
The big storm may delay the open
ing of the Mosier Hood River section
of the Highway, expected about Feb
ruary 1, until next spring. Transpor
tation of gravel and crushed rock, with
which the road wis being surfaced, by
motor truck has ceased. Hatteries of
the big trucks used in the work were
tied up in enow banks around town.
City Recorder Howe declares that
someone should invert electric trousers,
working something like the newfan
gled bed pads and supplied from pocket
is 1 storage taJencs.
'offi'e la-t week
Mr. Howe left his
without an overcoat
and came near catching rheumatism.
TOURIST HOTEL
IS PROPOSED
COMMERCIAL OAT! MSCI SSLS Pi S
Paradise Farm Option Has Ccin Setu.eJ
New Directorate FliCti'd Lbt
Monday .;;ht
IVspite the cold weather the C
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merciul club rmms were erowdel M n
day night when rmn,l.ers of that -r-garzatnm
met to cli-cuss a pro;v el
biir tourist hotel for Ho-.d River.
With the 1'ortUrd Charn'-er of Com
meive bavkii g plans for the pr. s, ,-
construction of a ch 'tin 1 f ti.uri-t '10
1 teU along the C 'birulna Highway, h.
I proposed Loon H;ghwv an I in the
I Crater Lake distri. t, Hoo I River cti-
zens are enthusiast ie in their plans for
cooperation. It was announced t'lal
an option had been secure 1 on l':ir.io.s'
farm. Ci- If links a'ld tennis courts ir
contemplated. A committee corrq 0 i d
of K. V. lilanehar. C. W. McCull.h
nnd Leslie Hutier will nitet with a
I'ortlaiul i-ummitiee next week.
It is undi r.-tood that HoodRivtr's
hott I w ill be the first to be constru. it d
in the prono. ed chain.
Director elected for the ensu 1 g
year were: K W. Kire'e, ,1. 11. r'red
rirv. C. J. Calkins, J. M. Culberts n,
C. W. MeCuilagii. A. S. Keir and S. J.
Moore.
STEAM ARISES AT
WHITE SALMON DELTA
Hood River people witnessed a pe
culiar phenomenon at the ci-nfLieiice of
the White Salmon mi I l' I .i.-nlua nv. rs
Sunday. Wrule the C .1 onloa has f t . x
en over at Hip s ma Her river's e-itran c,
the White Salmon's tl iod. n ..deie I all
the bluer with the suriuunding ice, lrn
overflowed the frozen surface of U10
larger stream.
Sunday a column of steam was c in
stantly rising from the p.dnt wler
the small river's cunent stiuck the ice
floe. Apparently the runnintr waur
was so much warmer than t' e arcticise
Hoes that the emit act of t lie two creat
ed the steam clouds.
Election Held I'.y Candle
As a result of interruption in service
of the Northwestern Fleet ii- Co., Mt.
Hood C.mncil, Ii. & S. M., held their
annual election Tuesday nuht 111
strictly ancient form bv the bt'ht of
candles. Nfw ofii -crs a'e : W. F.
Laravvav, 1. M. ; A. F. Ilo.ves, I). M. ;
K. L. Seobee, I'. C. VV. ; K. O. lilaneh
ar, treasi. ; A. D. Moo, rec.
The interruption of the clrctr .-il
service was caused by ruii' iii 'i; of
the company's wire l e'wi e i the bite
Salmon plant and Portland. 'This
shortcircuited connect inn supph iiir
the Rai itic l'ower & Light Co. 'I tin
latter concern's plants on Hood river
and White river aie out of coiiunis am
as a result of the freeze, ami but. tor
an aerial cable f xtemlcl across the Co-
lumhia two years ago, the mid-Cob. n
bin Oregon towns w uld be with lit
electric power while the storm is on.
Duties of Visiting Nurse
In view of the concerted movement
being made to secure a visiting nurse
for this ruuntv, the dut;es and export
ed economies of sucl. au appointment
are interesting lit the present time.
The following hii'i been submitted to
The Glacier for publication :
She will act in comunetion with
county health otlieer as guardian of
the health of the community, especial
ly the school chil Iron.
She may act as deputy health ofli er.
She His the county court in invtsti
gatioriof families receiving pens una
from court and in many cases has
saved county money by advising court
of cases riot elieib'e for such aid.
She reports to the health otlieer any
Biisniciensi she may have concerning
sanitation, violation of quarantine or
other conditions inimical to commu-iity
health.
She conducts an inspection of school
children and reports tu parents and
teachers any defects she may find.
She procures medical attention for
cases not financially able to proeuie
same
She has a committee of representa
tive people in each district to cooper
ate with her on all charitable cases
lice ling medical attention.
She will be under the jurisdiction of
the cetirt as a whole. Her ofl'h ial title
will he "Hood River County's Visiting
Nurse."
Hood Kiver Loads in I!-d Cross
With three districts tu hear from
Hood River county's drive for I'.tJO
memberships in the Red Cross Chapter,
despite the frigid weather, has result
ed in 1,WH) gnrnertd ddlars. It is ex
pected that at least iUO moie iruunuers
will be reported. Already Hood River
county, with 80 per cmt of the 191'J
membership, leads the Northwestern
Division. The Dalles is second with a
membership of 70 Per cent of last
y ear.
City to Buy Property
At a meeting Monday night, the city
council authorized the purchase of
property G7xD 1') feet on Second etieet,
just opposite Tiernari hall, the Ma-. ..inc.
building. I'lans have b en outlined
for the construction of a it y ball an 1
home for the new motor-driven toe
engine. Quarters will also be provided
for members of the lire department.
The property is owned bv Mis. M.
I. Rroariht ad, an Idaho resident. Tf.e
price is $3,700.
Dues Not Frieze While
IWo-.isig
Ole Nelson, carrier of rural ruiita
No. 1, attracted attention when he wa
seen driving along the valli ;.' high
ways with several boxes of a, plus, lie
ing transported by pau-el post.
' W hy don't you cover t.iein up'.'" Iij
was asked.
Mr. Nelson replied that it wasn't
tiece-sary. As long as fruit or veg
etables are in motion, he txtu.oiie.l,
there is no danger of their 1'rei zi.ig
even in a lower temperature than pr
vailed here. Mr. Nelson sail lint ha
had learned this trick in Minnesota.
Fruit and vegetables, however, hfl
i said, must be well covered in ca ; the
: nr is going to slopped for anv length
of time.