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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.