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o HOOD RIVER, OIUXJON, THURSDAY, 1PRIL 15, L920 VOL. XXXI No. 40 I A. Good Name is unquestionably a priceless asset. And like most things of real worth, it is not gained in a hurry, but is rather the result of hard work and infinite perseverance. The good name we have achieved tor ourselves - and in which we take a pardonable pride we are dally uphold ing by a still broader and better ser vice. It you want the best, we want your account. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK HOOD RIVER OREGON THIS IS THE TIME TO Dye That Straw Hat WE HAVE THE DYES Colorite Vogue Elkay's WE HAVE ALL COLORS Kresse Drug Company The ft&xaJUL Store Come in and hear the Latest March Records SPRING SUITS BUY A GOOD SUIT - IT PAYS We are now showing a wonderful assortment In the three best known makes: 99 "Kuppenheimer " Fashion Park" "Style Plus" As to fit and style they surpass anything we've ever shown ; and as to material the best that money buys $40 to $70 NEW TIES AGAIN 30 DOZEN TO SELL AT $1.50 J. G. VOGT Did You Participate in This Distribution? On March 1st we distributed among the Depositors in our Savings Department $6111.06 being the semi-annual interest payment at 4 per ctnt. The largest amount paid to any one depositor was $567.15 and the smallest amount was two cents which was the interest on one dollar for six months The two facts we want to bring, out is that you can start to save if you have only one dollar and that if you add regularly to the account you can soon have a substantial share in these distributions which are made on the firat of march and the first of September each year. BUTLER BANKING COMPANY Member Federal Reserve System THE PINE GROVE STORE WILL BE OPEN EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY EVENINGS until 7.30 o'clock. On all other nights we will close at 6. 1 5 p. m. PINE GROVE STORE A. F. BICKFORD, Prop. For Efficiency and Convenience THE "FRIEND" SPRAY GUN Order your "Friend" Sprayer Now PRICES WILL ADVANCE SOON Come to us for all your Spray requirements. Hood River Spray Company Phone 2421 PICTURE FRAMING We will open our Picture Framing Department April 12th with a NEW LINE OF MOULDINGS All back framing will be brought up Imme diately and all new work will be promptly attended to. This Department will be In charge of an experienced Iramer and we Intend giving Hood River a thoroughly up-to-date Framing Store. Slocom&CanfieldCo. We have taken the Agency for the SAMSON TRACTOR and expect a shipment in about THIS WEEK The Heights Garage J. F. VOLSTORFF. Manager CORNER OF TWELFTH AND C STREETS O Telephone 3151 SINGLE CONTEST IS IN PROSPECT FILINGS MADE FOIMOUNTY OFFICES Registrations Bid Fair to Reach Record Mark County Clerk Estimates Total at 3,000 From present indications but a single conlest will take place in nominations for county offices at the approaching primaries. George ShCpard and J. O, Har.num, incumbent, are Iwth seeking the Republican nomination for comity commissioner. While Mr. Hannum has secured the endorsement of Upper Valley citizen. Mr. Sheppard is being strongly boosted by residents of Lower Valley orchard districts and of the city. No candidate has been proposed for this office by Democrats. J. K, Ferguson has been proposed. Other county candidates who have announced their candidacy are: Coun ty judge, H. L.'Hasbrouck, Republi can ; sheriff. Trios. F. Johnson, Repuh lican incumbent; clerk, Kent Shoe maker, Republican: engineer, A. R. Cruikshank, Republican incumbent, and treasurer, Mrs. Jessie M. Hishop, Re publican incumbent. Friends of Dr. J. W. Sifton are getting out a petition f( r his candidacy on the Republican ticket for coroner. Filings have been made from here through the secretary of state as fol lows : Joint senator from Wasco and Hood River counties, Republican. J. R. Nickelsen; Democrat, J. H. Hazlett; district attorney, John Baker, Republi can. While the increase of registration in dicates that the vote will be a heavy one, local electors are still apathetic over the presidential nomination. Hoover, if interest indicates anything, seems to have taken the lead here with Wood and Lowden, re-pectively, second and third choice. Indications are that registrations for the primary election will reach 20 per cent increase over that for Hh.y former election. At the close of registration two years ago, a total of 2.502 electors were registered. To date County Clerk Shoemaker reports that more than 2, 800 electors are registered, and new voters are rushing to the court house daily. Mrs. Shoemaker estimates that the total registration will exceed .1,000. Seventeen employes of the Kern Construction Co., engaged on the High way, visited the courthouse Monday morning to register. W. R. Winans, the first Hood River county citizen to tile for precinct com mitteeman, Tuesday upplied to have mm name placed on the ballot, seeking to represent the Ruhlican party of the Dee precinct. Mr. Winans asked that the following be placed alter his name: "If nominated and elected I will uphold Kttulilicum . principles, which 1 have actively practiced Mnee voting for drnnt. County officials, to avoid the clerical work necessitated when nearly every man In a precinct receives at least one vote for committeeman, are encourag mg the filing of other.aspirants to pre cinct committees. relations committee, which he declares I has killed the peace treaty and hat caused a calamity to world alFairr. almost as momentous as the war itself. "The tactics of President Wilson and the obstinate senators," he declare., "have turned me against such party iioliiii-H I .-nil wil hnir to n ace mv confidence instead in a man who will i HEILBR0NNERBU1LD1NG PURCHASED not allow party prejudices io oe piaceu in advance of Americanism. He declares that the decline in ex change almost ruined the export apple market this season. However, he says, the rally in the pound sterling is bringing returns on late sales back to the point of a profit. PYTHIANS CLOSE REALTY DEAL Waucoma Lodge Will Dedicate their Ntw Home in June - Fraternal Order Has Grown Rapidly SPECIAL ELECTION IS NOT REQUIRED An opinion received from Attorney General Hrown last week indicated that the initiative bill, fostered gener ally over the county for an increase of the salarv of Supt. uibson, could not In- placed on the ballot at the May pri maries, as it was not filed 60 days be fore the election. Promoters of the bill understood that the law required only ".'i days, and because of apparent contradictory laws, the Attorney gener al was asked to investigate before a final ruling. Wbile the petition and bill were not filed in strict teifcnical conformance with the letter of the law, Attorney Ceneral brown, following a personal conference with J. H. Halzett, has agreed tojirepare thejballot title. Mr. Hazlett tin's that the Attorney Ceneral believes the spirit, of the law will probably be more fully complied with by m curing a full vote at theJMay pri maries than an expression of a neglig ible portion of electors 'at a special election, whih wotld be necessitated if the measure were eliminated from the primary ballot. MOTORISTS ENDAN GERED ON HIGHWAY Although it will probably be two weeks before the stretch mi new road is 04 ten for traffic, the near-impassable condition of the old road over the mountain between here aurl Mosier. is causing numerous motorists to brave the dangerous condition of the Hood River-Mosier stretch of the Columbia River Highway. Sunday driver of more than a dozer, cars paid no heed to warning sign and broke barriers at either end of the new highway. Contractors and state officials en gaged on the work have warned motor ists to stav oft the new stretch. Unless tho warning is heeded, it it said, a serious accident from an ava lanche of overhanging rock may result. DAVIDSON LOOKS FOR GOOD CROP H. F. Davidson, who is juet back from New York city, says conditions of orchards at the present time indi cate a normal crop the coming fa4l. "I have madean investigation of all of our tracts,"' said Mr. Davidson "and 1 believe we 'will have as manv anple as we harvested last year. The pear crop does not look 00 promising." Mr. Davidson save the continued cold rains that are prevailing over the dis trict are aiding the tree in recovering fmm injury can ad by the December cold weather. Continued warm weath er. lie declares, might cause the leave and blossoms to develop so raptdl? that aap could not be drawn fan enough through damaged trunks' to mature them. Mr. Davidson deprecate action of President Wilson and the senate foreign STORTSMEN VISIT UP PER VALLEY FELLOWS Aboa.u a special rail auto over the line of the Mt. Hood R. R. Co., thirty city members of the Hood River Coun ty Came Protective Association visited l'arkdale last Thursday night, when tliey were guests at k banquet spread by Upper Valley members of the or ganization. J. F. Thompson, Ralph I la vies and Robert Leasure composed the committee in charge of entertain ment. A feature of the nieelinu whs a; reel of motion pictures of Cascade wi d animal life. The chief speaker of the efening was Rev. W. H. Bedy, pastor of the Riverside Comunity church, who drew the distinction between sputsmen and sports. Declaring that the preservation of natural scenery and the conservation of wild animal and bird life liei in a proper education of the children, the Hood River County Cume Protective Association has asked the cooperation of teachers and parents. The game association has appointed the following members to conduct campaigns for interesting boys and girls in their respective communities : R. A. Collins, bee; Ralph Davies, Parkdale: A. J. Craff, Pine Grove, and D. L. Pierson, Oak Grove, The local men returned last week with iavish praise for t he Upper Valley citizens who turned out in laetl num bers as to crowd the Mclsaac hall. A fine lunch was served, and the Upper Valley citizens, whose ho.pitality if. known far and wide, left nothing un done for the comfort and pleasure of the visitors. DR. KERR WILL AD DRESS LOCAL CLUB At the next meeting of the Commer cial Club, Monday night, Dr. W. .!. Kerr, president of O. A. C. will de liver an address in support of the High er Education Millage bill. With alum" ni of the three institutions, the agrl cultural college, the University of Ore eon and the Oregon State Normal, ac tively engaged for Cc bill tluoUdh Hti allied alumni a- social ion, it is expected that Monday Bight's meeting will draw a large crowd. Committee on street lighting and on the local housing situation will report next Monday. Monday night agitation for a bond issue for construction of trunk line highways in Hood River county will be resumed. K. W. Hirge, h direcor of the club and president of the Hood River Civic Leagejp, engaiedjin b 0-1 Ing for better roads, will give an ad dress. While road bondt are the FOUrc of considerable discu si m. definite ac ticn toward submitting an issue to the vote of the people has been postponed until after the May primaries. SWITCHMEN'S STRIKE DELAYS CLEANUP Tendering a $10,000 ehejk and exe cuting necessary papers, officers of Waucoma Lodge, Knights of Pytbia?, Saturday formally took possession of the Hefibronner building. The frater nal organization purchased the budd ing, which is three stories in height and built in 1010 bv J. H. Heilbronner, for $27,000. The entire top story is given over to a large assembly hall and ball room. This is being remodeled and will be used as a lodge room. Originally rooms of the second story Were equipped for office quarters. Dur ing the past few yr ar3 the demand for living quaiters has resulted in a num ber of the office suites being turned in to apartments. The new owners say, however, that no more leses for apart ments will lie grunted and that all ten ants will be a ki d to vacate as soon as their leases expire. The second story will be devoted exclusively to offices again. Offices of the Apple Growers ociation occ upy a large portion of the first story. q The Knights of Pythias Logide, the members 01 which are planning a for mal dedication of the new building in June, has grown very rapidly the past live years. It now has .'530 members and ij the largest fraternal organiza tion in the city. The puichaee of the new building will be financed by $100 life memberchip bonds. The Ixidge has ! ruled to dispose of its old Castle, a two story frame structure. WATER ENGINEER ASKS CONSERVATION Percy A. Cupper, engineer for the State Water Hoard, has asked all ranchers to observe strict rules of con rorvation in use of irrigating water this statsro, Mr. Cupper's rules, how ever, are It ss applicable, it is said, to Hood River Valley, where melting gla ciers furnish most of the flow of Hood river, than to other Oregon communi ties. A portion of Mr. Cupper's warn ing follows : water for irrigation present indications normal this season. not be surprising if the dryest season on The rupply of according to the will be far below In fact, it will 1920 proves to be The freight embargo placed as result of the switchmen's strike will delay the cleanup of last season's apple crop. While pract ieallv all fruit has been sold about i '. . carloads were held in storage here for instructions of shippers. The apples, however, are principally New towns held in refrigerator plants of the Apple Growers Association. They can be kept in good condition for a number of weeks. In case of a prolonged embargo, merchants were prepared to utilize river boat and motor trucks for trans portation between here and Portland. LAW PROVIDES FUND FOR A MEMORIAL Under a law adopted by the legisla ture at it last reuiar session, county courts of Oregon are now empowered to appropriate from general funds raised by taxation monev to be used in constructing a memorial tribute to sol diers who made the supreme sacrifice during the great war. The appropria tion, however, is limited to $5,000, and it is further specified that the memori al must be located on county property at the county seat. Under the new law. in case of a me morial here, it v. ill have to be located on the court iiouse lawn 11 county funds are appropriated. MERCHANTS ENDORSE CITY HALL RONDS KuAuwing an address by Mayor Sco- bee, who declared an absolute neces sity the nropoteJ construction of a city hall, containing a comfort station for visiting motorists and quarters for a motor truck fire engine, which the city plans to buv, the Hood River Mer chants' Associstion Monday night en dorsed a bond issue of $40, K) to be submitted to a vote at the May pri marie. The new merchants organization ap pointed a committee to work with the city council in effecting civic improve ments and the advancement of all pub lie enterprises. VHi!f Salmon rrnaperts Good I Pro pert for a good fruit crop in the white Salmon district are in evidence, according to Dr. C. C. MeClure, grow er of Bingen, a ho was here Monday on business. Earlier arietiea of fruit, according to Mr. MeClure, are now loaded with blossom just opening. He brought with h m a tw e from a d'An joa pesr tie. The cluster of b! rem normally healthy. record for irrigalionists. The heavy inowt of early December seem not to have reached to any 111. irked degree the higher altitudes, and most of the snow seems to have already disap peared. In some sections it fell on un frozen grouul and was almost entirely absorbed by t'e soil, wh'le in other sections the reverse was true and un USUttl floods' followed the melting of Hie snow. Report! from various sections of the state indicate a very light snowfall in the higher mountains upon whiah we must rely to maintain our irrigation itreami and fill our reservoirs. It seems, therefore, not too early to cheek up on see available tupply and to take such practical precautions as we may to avoid undue shortage for the irrigated crops. The use of water early in the season nerves a double posopssi It saturates the soil, much it' which rematm to supply the plants and also serves us a reservoir, the wa ter gradually returning to the stream as seepage arid maintaining its flow for the benefit of those below, which in turn enables the upper apprejpriator to longer divert water without infring ing upon prior rights. CITIZENS SAVE LOT FOR AUTO PARK To prevent the construction of a gar age an a lot at the edge of the free automobile camping ground, six citi zens have each subscribed $25 toward a fund for holding the lot until the city can by charter amendment purchase the plot. The lot was recently pur chased by E. J. Copper from L. M. Morse, the former starting construc tion of a building, when members of the council and citizens protested that such a structure would result in a nuis ance for campers. When in a position to legally buy the place the council will make the let a part of the camp ing grounds. The citizens underwriting the prop osition were: Councilman Sinclair and Cameron, Mayor Sconce, City Attorney Smith, C. W. McCullagh and C. N. Ravlin. CITY HALL RIIILDIli PLAN DISAPPROVED Plans of the city council to call for a bond election for raising funds to build a cifv hall are meeting with general disapproval. The proposal, however, of bonding for $12,000 for buying a motor fire truck is favored by most taxpayers. Ex city officials, serving in 1908 &en Hood River county was estab lished recall that it was agreed then that eventually the city and county should join hands in constructing a joint court h.use and municipal build in 1. ' Hoover Hub Under Way With R. E. Scott and Mrs. A. G. Lewis heading an organisation here, plans have been launched for a volun teer Hoover club. Mr. Scott says that indications point to more than 50 per cent of Hood River Republieaua io fa vor of Hoover for president. "We have circulated two'oetitions, asking fur the Mgnatures of all people we happened to meet," says Mr. Scott, "and out of 34 vutera approached, 25 have signed for Hoover. We are not proposing a big hurrah club, with po litical meeting snd parades. We sim ply aak that all in support of his can didacy sign our cards and atart a little word of mouth campaign and try to get all tt mvrr supporter registered before April 21. Cards may be 1 at my office.