The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, January 01, 1920, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textlite VOL. XXXI noon KlVKIt. oKlXiOX. THUKSDAY, JAMWltV 1, lt2 f . :;i Success for XF a jo -my; man il.-irt-s t U- smve'ssful. he must submit to the ci'tiditiotK which Success imposes. These primarily tt-v Honesty, lmliistrv and Koinomy, t!ie practice f which is the c;iriin;il i.tcssity in the t'unna tion of character. No more constructive c;u he done bv a progres sive hank than to eiic mrao deaii-ih itar, honorable, ambi tious younjr men in any legitimate line of endeavor, and lo such we extend an invitation t establish hanking relations with us. BUTLER BANKING COMPANY Member ledei.d W. D. WHEEL-RIGHT ON "Asiatic Immigration" AT Community Forum ill RIVERSIDE CHURCH WlM.IAH II. HolHIY, Mllli.llT. Phone OUR TEN HORSE POWER ' ' FRIEND SPRAYER With a 300 Gallon Tank fnills easier thany Sprayers of other types with 2no gallon capacity. Look at the I arm; wide-tired wheels that carry the weight and you will see why this is so. Tlie short turn and low center of gravity, also make the FKIKND the best, ilesiued Sprayer for hillnde use. Our three an.l a half Imrse power. Jim I gallon FKIKN'I) is often drawn In one orse. , Complete StocK of Repair Tarts Carried and Expert Service Furnished. Hood River Spray Company Distributors for Oregon Phono 2421 FRIKNI) USERS are 1 HOOD RIVER MARKET Al l. KINDS OF Fresh, Cured and Smoked Meats and Fish M l MIS Ol POULTRY CKl SAUSAGES LOUIS MOSER, Telephone 4311 1 AM HERE TO BUY CIDER APPLES Cars will be loaded at all Valley Shipping Stations. . Call JOHN A. WALCREN at the Mt. Hood Hotel. Telephone 442 E Try Our Own Make of Lard rendered from pure leaf fat ." lh. pail. !.". New pack of groceries now in stock and prices are right. We are selling now (irain Fed Oovernment Inspected Reef. Take advantage of our morning delivery. L. H. HUGGINS' GROCERY AND MEAT MARKET TWELFTH SITU FT PHONF 2LU Young Men Reserve Svstcin RIVERSIDE CHURCH Sunday Evening at 7:30 Regular Morning Sermon at II RIKM) BOOSTERS l 1 KINDS Ol Proprietor THIRD STREET WE WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR Kresse Drug Company The S&xaJUL Store GREETING IIT1I the passing of one year and the opening of ) another the OFFICERS and EMPLOYEES of this institution would convey to all patrons and friends the old yet ever new wish "A ifianj Nnu m" & As the years pass we would have this institution known for its "spirit of service." We wish you to realize that in every hanking transaction, small or large, it is our intent to he constructive and helpful. Wt' are united in our aim to cause the ensuing year to hecome more fruitful and to more closely approach the ideals to which we have pledged our name, our time and our cause. uS Again we wish you A HAPPY NEW'YEAU. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK HOOD RIVER. OREGON A Telephone system like any other business is sup ported by the users of its service. Its rates to he fair should lie such as to chargo each user in proportion to the expense that his service costs the company. It costs a certain amount to give exchange service at Odell, a different amount at Hood River, and another charge to switch between the exchanges. Why should the party who only has occasional use for connection between the exchanges he forced to pay a higher flat rate so that his neighbor who transacts a lot of business shall get more for his money? Why should this same party be asked to pay interest on addi-4 tional investment of more trunk lines to furnish the ex tra service due to an unlimited use of the trunk lines? As a company it makes no financial difference which user pays the bill so long in our revenues are sufficient to run and maintain the plant. Rut we are interested in the, justness of the charges and an efficient manner of making them, so that the business will develop in a normal way. OREGON -WASHINGTON TELEPHONE CO. We Wish You A Happy New Year May all the days of 1920 be full of good things. May you be productively busy, and then you will enjoy the time of rest and recreation. Health and Prosperity To All PINE GROVE STORE A. F. BICKFORD, Prop. RECORDS MADE DURING 1919 VALLEY RETURNS REACH $8,000,000 Speculative Element Taken Out of Fruit j Industry and Business Settles to Profitable Basis The year 1911 has been one of; iiogress and prosperity in the Hood ; Riser valley. Money returns for alii and crop yield for most all product! h ive aet a new record. The small county's gross income this year, in cUding lumber from the two big p ants of the Oregon Lumber t'o. at Pee and the Bridal Veil Lumber Co. at Cascade Locks, will approach ,.-,000,000. but $2. 000, Htm less than t!is assessed valuation. Apples, of course, will lead in hinging profit to Horn! River. Esti mates on total return? from the com munity's predominant industry approx imate more than $4,ToO,tHK. VA hile the district has had a heavier yield of strawberries, the crop of Clark Seed li.tgs of last year was of excellent i lality und a new nationw ide price record was set. Except for the ship ment of the latter part of the season, the berries brought $4 per crate of 24 Standard pint hallocks. Even the held lick and canning hemes remained at f om $1.75 to $2 yvx box. '1'he high prices limiting the usual annual can i ng pack of local housewives. Hood K.ver's cherry orchards, with the ex- i ption of a single four acre tract, are Ii rnted to backyard trees. Vet the --..rpliis from home-use stocks of this t u it broUKht Hood Kiver nearly $.!, e 0 this year. Tear and potato crops s owed an unusual yield and have i outfit record prices, l'ear returns v ill reach $175,000. and the eommun l y's potatoes, the larger percentage i : which, grown in the I'pper Hood ! iver Valley, will go for seed to ( ali 1 .rnia growers. The I'pper Valley .11 have over 100 carloads of extra i alitv potatoes. The outstanding feature of the Hood l iver valley's product for the past war has been that of quality. More sprays have been applied than on for mer seasons. Growers have paid more i.ttention to scientific methods of cul tivation and irrigation. The result of proper rotation of cover crops and implication of nitrate of soda anil other commercial fertilizers have evidenced themselves in increase of yield and perfection of crop. Never on any for Mer year, even when the orchards '. ere young, have Hood Kiver apples i een freer from disease and codling moth. More than 70 per cent of the big apple crop ran to extra fancy grade the sizes most desirable in the market. Wherr it is considered that the tonnage for the year has been liO per cent greater than that of any former season, the above facts ar given additional grstifving significance The magnitude of the l'.U'J Hood Kiver valley tipple crop can he better comprehended both by local residents and outsiders when it is stated that the harvest lalior cost alone reached ?foo,oeo. Increased yield in orchards, general prosperity and the nationwide demand for soft drinks stimulated to an un prert dented mark by prohibition has resulted in an activity in cider man ufacturing. One of the rroit notable improvements in industrial lines in Hood Kiver for the past year has occurred at the plant of the Hi oil Kiver Apple Vinegar Co. Ten years ago the plant of this company occupied email two story shack on a city ltd. Today, factory, tankB, condensing plant and storage bins cover more than a city block. The company has expended $(i0,000 in improvements, and the year's grind will reach 2(l,0(Kl.im(: pounds of cull apples. Cull apple stocks have made a rapid increase in price. On former years the maximum price for low and mixed grades wa S per ton and $10 and s 12 per ton tor selected canning and cooking grades. This year the price has ranged from .f 15 to $20 per ton. Portland cider con cerns have made a demand on local cull stocks and shipments there and to The Dalles canners and process plant" will reach nearly 5,000 tons. The cull apples of the valley will bring in approximately $225,000. Th Hood Kiver Canning Co.. one of the most unique concerns in the country, is that it amis to pack a product of super-excellent quality, has doubled its capacity. Ihe season s run on strawberries, cherries and pears resulted in a total pack of 193,000 cans. A total of 280,000 cans of the valley's best grade of apples will be packed. The canning company 8 pay roll for the year's run will approach S40,0(K). The orchard industry began to show marked protits over the dull jears from 1912 to 1917 when the returns were all in from the 1918 nop, Hank ers noted the generally increasing stability of the county's financial con dition, and today Hood Kiver banks, their total deposits past the $2,000, 0(H) mark, are seeking outside invest ments and loans. A fair percentage of the profits from orcharding are returning to the business, and invest ments of growers in packing houses and orchard warehouses for the hand ling of future crop9 reached $100,000 for the summer of 1919. Such im provements will be doubled the coming year. Proportionate outlays are being made by shipping associations. The Aople Growers Association, which will ship 1,500.000 boxes of the 1919 tonnage of apples, and other shipping concerns have made heavy improve ments. The Association, sensing the n-'td for additional storage property in future years, has purchased a trackage acreage and is making ready for future building. .' An encouraging feature of Hood River's prosperity is that it has not brought in its wake anything like the sensational boom that heralded apple and fruit profits in earlier days when fruitgrowers were tasting' their first success. It is true that prices have advanced materially for commercial fruit acreage in the past two years, but one does not hear of the phenom enal prices that were formerly paid by speculators. Orchard land of the best quality is considered worth $1,000 an acre by tbe man who intends to follow horticulture as a business. Purchases of local acreage the past var have been heavier than since 1910 or 1911, but 75 per cent of the buyers h-e been experienced orchgrdists, buying additional acreage. The ether 25 pe cent is rt presented ly small home owners, new comers from other no tions of Oregon or outside states, ss!,n have settled in the valley. The davs of apple land speculation, at least in Hood Kiver. have vanished. MOSIER HIGHWAY ALMOST COMPLETED Crews will begin work on the Hood-Kiver-Mosu r stretch of the Columbia Highway as soon as the snow clears away, according to Angus McDonald, member of the State Highway fcngi neer's stall engaged on the work. Mi. McDonald walked from Mosier he'.e last Friday over the route. "One can now drive from Mosier to the west through the tunnel cut high on the clilfside," says Mr. McDonald. "The road m ooen from Hood Kiver to a point within ;iOti feet west of the tun nel. Here a rock point must be shot away and the debris cleared with a steamshovel A coyote hole about 20 teet long will be loaded with IjUU or 4ini hundred pounds of powder, and the point shot otf as soon as weather per mits a resumption of work. Mr. McDonald savs that long stretches of rock wall built at the outer edge of much of the six mile link of road have been nearly all completed. WOMAN'S' CLUB DANCE A GREAT SUCCESS The Woman's club at an elaborate dancing party Monday night cleared approximately floo for the Oregon federation of Women s C lubs Scholar ship Loan fund. The dance was at tended bv moie than lf0 couple. Scores of students here from Pacific coast colleges and universities, were present. Phtroiinesses for the dance were : Mrs. Kalph Knot, Mrs. A. G. Lewis, Mrs. II. K. Davenport. Mrs. K. K. Scott. Mrs. C. II. Castner, Mrs. F. A Cram, Mrs. E. W. Hirge and Mrs. K. D. Kanaga. The dunce committee consisted of Mrs. Geo. K. Wilbur. Mrs. l.tKoy Taft. Mrs. R. 1!. Hennett and Mrs. F. A. ('ram. The dance was the occasion for a number of attendant merrv Christmas parties. The following preceded the lance with a dinner partv : Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Peters. Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Ravlin, Mr. and Mrs. K. 11. Wallace and daughter, Margaret, Mr. and Mrs. Trallord K. Smith. Mrs. H. M. Hoi brooke. Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Moller and Miss Moller. Dr. and Mrs. K. D. Kunaga. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. McCul lagh, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hoot, Mr. Hiid Mrs. L. O. Meacham. Mr. and Mis. W. H. Dickerson, K. W. K. Hj and Stewart Kimball. BIG CLASS OF ELKS INITIATED A big class of F.iks was initiated at The Dalles lodge Saturday night, when the local delegation present, including novices, reached 12. The men who met the goat of The Dalles lodge Sat urday night were: .1. P. Naumes, ,1. P.. Carey, C. A. Richards, L. F. Kraenu, D. G. Cooper, C. .1. Calkins, Fred J. Rand. C.J. Keith. Glenn Hunt, A. K. Cniikshi.nk, K. O. Archibald, V. C. Kellcy, Walter Attwell. L. F. Ireland, a candidate from here, has left for Los Angeles, where he will be initiated. K. R. Flliott will be initi ated at Long Reach, Calif. The January class of The Dalles Flks Lodge, to datu includes the fol lowing: Karl Weber. C. C. Crew, Walter Woolnert, Mark Cameron, Clem West, Pat I.indsey. J. C. Meyer, L. S. Rovd, A. S. Kolstad, Kd. Fewel and Hugh Garrabrant. On arrival at The Dalles Saturday night lunch w as served the candidates, in order that they might be put into condition for the trving ordeal. The big hall was crowded with veteran F.Iks who awaited the business of the evening with keenest anticipation. CITY GAINS IN BOAT ROAD CASE City Attorney Smith has just re ceived from Circuit Judge Wilson a decision supporting the city council against a writ of review tiled last spring by K. E. Chapman, of Portland, following the council's action in laying out a new street to connect the husi ness district with deep water of the Columbia. The plaintiff contended that the hoard of viewers, who assessed a damage of approximately $200 for appropriation of land to be used for the Btreet, was appointed and acted prior to the lapse of sufficient time under the referendum, provided for in cases of municipul legislation. The court, however, held that the council in ordering the street layetl out were engaged in munipcal business rather than legislation. The plaintiff in the original com nlaint alleged that the council's action in as much as the Columbia at freshet stage would cover most of the length of the street, would provide an open lane for ferry boats and river steamers from the deep water to a freshet land ing place. City officials admitted that this would be true and they alleged that the plaintiff had annually gained an income from exorbitant fees for use of lands in ferry and steamer passages. TOWN'S FIRST LODGE HALL BEING RAZED Men are now engaged in razing the city's first lodge hall, a two story frame .structure at the corner of Oak and fFifth streets, 'erected in lhSU by Dr. C. N. Neweomb. Dr. Newcomb, a pioneer physician, occupied the first story of the old building with a drug store, and the upper story was leased to the valley's pioneer fraternal organ ization, the A. 0. U. W. For the past 10 years the place, tnrned into dwell ing, has been occupied by transient families. The old building will be re placed by a modern concrete gargae, to be erected by the Columbia High way Autrt & Storage Co. MUCH BUILDING ! IX PROSPECT j Ibh; CARAIiE WILL BECONSTRUTE!) j !t Postotfice Building Will Rise-Hotel Projected fur I'atkdaic- drow ers Plan Storage Houses The Hood liner ;illj u.il be ll o scene the coming year of u'.prece dented building ii. ti . il-, . T he li.e.'i cost of materials ;il l.d-or. while it will likely prevei.t th.- coiirti- t ion i f coltgaes to be leased or rented, will not prevent construction of garaie-, hotels ar.ii indivi lual apple storage plants. ( revvs of ni. fi have airadv razed an ohi. wooden residence al the corner of Cascade HVch icand Fourth streets, where C. A. Cass will I uiM a concrete Structure, a eatt id vvlpeh will house the local mstotfi.'e. The building, to cost approximately $20,. '"Hi, will be 75 by loo feet. Men l ine begun work traring douN n ol, frame dwelling at the cornir ol Fifth and Oak streets, where the Columbia Rivt-r Highway Auto Storage Co. will eie. t a new concrete garage. The new structure, with full basement and one story, w ill cost approximately $2.".ooo. Most local contractors already have arranged for as much Work as they can accomplish the coming ear in con structing warehouse and storage plant tor Hiiliv idual apple giowirs. It is estimated that the i.gg legate cost of such building the coming year will reach JJou.imii. While no' definite plans have been armed lit. a number of apple shipping concerns have tenta tive plans lor new upole slmage plants. G. D. Da is, of Portland, has drawn plans for the construction of a -10 room hotel at Parkdale. The new structure, to be three stories high, will be of colonial architecture. It w ill occupy a two acre site, on the Coper Valley ranch of Major Suke. The plans call for tennis courts and elaborate land scaping. On the third lloor of the nev hostelry will be a large dance hall. The city council has recently pur chased a frontage on Second ttrect. from Mrs. M. 1. Proadhead. tor a ci n- sideration of J.i.Tno. Toe city plain the early construction of a combined city hall and home for the fire depart ment. OLD STAGE COACH PREFERRED TO TRAIN With no trains since December 20 and the Christmas mail as yet undeliv ered, and only four trains since I'e (ember ii, win reus the schedule cads for a I iu I v train sen ire, the people of Friend, -.Wasco counts, hase appealed to the Public Service Cominis-ion t, institue an investigat ion into the ser vice rendered by the Great Southern railroad and compel the liiaiiit.'nauce of adequate service or require the road to quit business, the old stage co.ich service being more dependable and acceptable than the railroad under present conditions, the appeal State-. The (ireat Southern railroad extends from The I iiillcs to Fru ml. According to the appeal, word was received at Friend Chi i.-liuas day that a train was on its way. People gath ered from mile- around in the hope of receiving their long delayed Chistmas) mail. Hut no tram came. Passengers who had boarded the train alonip the line bound to Fritnd and who had aid their fare through were compelled to leave the train at Ihifiir, which was as far as it w ent on that tup, and make the remainder of the journey by team. The appeal to the commission, a foot note states, was sent to Dufur, 12 miles awav, by special messenger in order to get it into the mails. Appeals to the railroad management as well as to the postal aid In -i :t les. hase been unavailing, the p Ption says. The commission ss 1 1 1 investigate. 0. A. C. DANCE WAS PLEASANT EVENT About 75 couples attended the Great er O. A. C. dance given at lleilbronner hall Tuesday night. The event was ar ranged for li v Mi.-s h ranees Castner, Hood River county representative of the Greater O. A. C. organization. Voting men and women students, home for the vacation, spent 'luesdav after noon decorating the big hall with greenery and the college colors, gold and black. Manv students from other colleges were present for the dance. Patronnesses for the event svere Mrs. C. D. Iloyt. Mrs. A. D. Moc. Mrs. R. V. Wright. Mrs. T. W. Perry and Mrs. C. H. Castner. W. D. WHEELWRIGHT HERE NEXT SUNDAY W. I). Wheewright, Portland capital ist, who at one tune was prominently mentioned as an appointee to the am bassadorship to Japan, will deliver an address here next Sunday night under the auspices of the Riverside forum Mr. Wheelwright, who is President of the Pacific Export Lumber Co., has become well acquainted with the Orient through his commercial rela tions with them. His address, it is said, will be expository in nature, touching on needs for a better under standing of the Orient. ROAD WORK TO BE RESUMED MONDAY Walter Attwell, in charge of con struction camps of the A. D. Kern Co., has aiuioun.ed that work would be resumed Monday between here and Mosier. The six miles of Columbia Highway, it is said, will be made pass able in .'id days alter work is resumed. Mr. Atwell stated that his company would also begin construction within a sveek on the John Day highway in eastern Oregon. Crimps are hcirg kept open rn the paving operation west of here and sur facing will begin as soon weather permits.