The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, September 02, 1920, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextSBhe hood RIVER. OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, L920 No. 14 X X X 1 1 I I -I ' " I 111 1 III i II I 111 I CAN YOU SWIM.? or when you take to the water do you sink like a stone? Knowing the stroke is not enough; to swim one must have confidence in the buoyancy of water. Then it's easy, and practice makes perfect. CAN YOU SAVE? Like swimming it requires practice but, like swimming too, it is confidence that makes prac tice effective. Confidence in this bank makes effective the savings practices of a great many people. Be one of them. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK HOOD RIVER, OREGON ' i s We are now showing the first advance assortment of FASHION PARK SUITS for Fall 1920 Positively the highest grade ready to put on clothing ever offered, l'lease don't take our word for it, but step in, slip one on. Note the grace, the artistic lines, the unusual fabrics, for not since before the war have we had such Woolens, and best of all, less in price than six months ago. $SO to $65 SEE THE WINDOWS J. G. VOGT Eversharp Pencils and Waterman's Fountain Pens FOR SCHOOL USE September Records J (Iflp) I ' 1 .... - i :, Kresse Drug Co. The G4tCjj2& Store WHALE OIL SOAP for your Aphis Spray SOLID OR LIQUID Fresh Bordeaux Paste Bluestone Lime "Friend" Sprayers and, Spray Guns Hood River Spray Company Phone 2421 If its for Spraying we can furnish it &fe Liberty Q . r n Monday and Tuesday ijSDL 0" I "The Law of the Yukon" A Super-Special Production that peer of directors CHAS. MILLER who produced the screen's great success "The Flame of the Yukon" ALSO Topics of the Day Go Go Q It i y; -4 OME people commence to think seriously about getting their empty jars filled up and Tomatoes are about the only fruit left that is at all reasonable. In the higU'i- lo cations the nights are quite cool now, just the. thing for coloring apples, but it wojrt ripen Toma toes. A great many of them have been cracked by the late rain and are not fit to can. The idea that anything is good enough to put in the can is all wrong; the price you pay for Tomatoes and the differaneesbetween junk and first-class stuff is so small that it is poor economy and really a waste to not can the best. We are only picking good stuff, and when you want to can Tomatoes and have none of your own, you should try to get some of ours, it will pay you; they are NONPAREIL The 20th Century Truck Farm JOHN KOBERG, Owner. . . -" - 1, . , 1 Dick Smith Nail Stripper Saves its cost in a few days' time $9.00 New Cutler Box Press $45 and $70 Is a-big improvement over the old style. Press now on dispjay. Skookum Picking Bags With elastic baffle system prevents bruises and stem punctures $3.50 PINE GROVE STORE A. F. BICKFORD, Prop. REMEMBER LAST WINTER When coal was parcelled cut by eity officials in fifty pOOad lots ? Prospects for next winter are not any brighter. Stock up now while Cal is available and be fore new freight rates drive up price. HOOD RIVER FUEL CO. Phone 2181 4th and Cascade VISIT YOUR HOME BEFORE YOU BUILD IT Over 500 designs from which to make your selection. ATTRACTIVE EXTERIORS STEP-SAVING INTERIORS Eliminate Guesswork Secure complete plans and information contract. the SAVE TIME, MONEY WORRY AND WASTE BRIDAL VEIL LUMBERING CO. PlioNK 11 1 M I SON I MKV. Manager- For urn AND CA-CAM RxriAsive Rrpmtrntatitcs of N ATIONAL BCILDF.RS Bl Rr. M ON HIGH GEAR ACROSS COUNTY TRIP IS MADE IN AN HOUR'S TIME Hrdt Pitotl Nash From Multnomah to Wasco County Line Mosier Rowena Road Viewed A newspaper man, just like other folks, has a led letter day occasionally. A recent Thursday was red-inked in the memory of the writer because of a joy ous ride over the newly paved Highway with E. E. Brett in h Nash touring car The company became a crowd when George M. McMiillin accepted Mr. Brett's invitation and held down the tonneau with an assortment of refresh ments. The party started from Hood River to the Multnomah county line before the sun was high enough to shorten the shadows of cliff promontory and lir t.ipped crags down the Columbia. Al though the morning was pleasantly cool, a dead calm, that left the wide expanses of the Columbia as placid as a clean mirror, forewarned of an unus ual mid-day and afternoon heat. Other motor parties were met out on the long stretches of pavement only at in f re -queitt intervals. No hour could have beer) more charming for pleasant mo toring. The party was bent on an experi ment. They were determined to turn around at the Multnomah county line and motor as far east as possible in high gear. In view of the fact that hundreds of automobiles are now weekly motoring from the Multnomah to the Wasco county line, or vice versa, in high gear, the feat was in no way startlmg. It is interesting only when considered in comparison with the for mer time required in negotiating the canyon of the Columbia through Hood River county. As a result of the new paving on the Highway between here and the Multnomah county line and the new grade between Hood River aial Mosier. the 2H.15 mile distance between the borders of the two boundary coun ties wbs made in an hour and four min utes. 'Eight months ago a mountain goat would have met with difficulties in traveling over some of the precipi tous gorgeside east of Hood River. Six years ago only a pedestrian or a passen ger on the lino of the O-.W. K. & N Co. could travel east and mt across Hood River county. Even the rider of a sure-footed mountain pony, unless he took to the railroad right of way at numerous point!, would have been haired. From the early eighties) until Hood River county citizens in 1!H4 vot td a 176,000 bond issue, providing fund for opening impassable lengths of the gorgeside, the Columbia gorge, one of the world's most wonderful waterways, remained remote and unknown. Pass angers of the rail line caught Heeling glimpses of waterfalls and indent in us, where tributary gorges broke through into the main canyon. Passengers of river streams, given more leisure for pondering on the glory of the towering Cliffs, waterfalls and forests, had hazy dreams of some far distent day when a highway would open the fairyland door. Eventually the vision of far-seeing Multnomah county and Hood Kiver county citizens began to draw to a fo cus. Multnomah county's proposal to huild with her own funds all of the road within her holders stimulated In terest here. Still the skeptical" de clared that the cost of building and maintaining a highway around Shell Rock mountain, Vi miles west of here and other similar points, would he pro hibitive. It was then that S. lienson, who will be a guest of honor at the Hood River Labor Day celebration, de termined that he would experiment a bit at his own expense. He paid $10,000 for the kev that opened the door to mid-Clumbia Cascade scenery. That key was a mile of construction, .accomplished by the labor of honor men of the Oregon penitentiary, detailed from Salem by Oswald West, then gov ernor. Mr. Benson paid the big price for the key and then threw it away, Ills mile of road withstood winter slides and demonstrated that a highway could be maintained at the base of Shell Rock mountain. Hut the new survey of the State Highway Commission chose a different grade and the mile of load built by the convicts had a Worth onl from the standpoint of an experiment. This mile of highway whs built in IMS. When the wagon trains, loaded with the belongings of men and women seek i ng new homes in She benign climate of Oregon, Crept across the plains and thence down the Columbia gorge in pioneer times it was possible to negoti ate the trail along the foot of the south Columbia gorge, but the river itself carried most of the early day adventnr era, who made a portage at Caacedi Leeks. It was in the 70s that the state completed the old military road from The Italles to l'ortland. Its life was brief, for much of its right of way was appropriated by the line of the (). K. & N Co., the tiains of which began oer ation in the HOa. Except at Shell Rin k, where dry ma sonry retaining- wall and a fair grade perched UO feet above the new grade, no trace of the old road remains. If it were possill.le to hoist a motor car to the old road it might travel comforta bly for several hundred feet Hlotig the oldroadbed. Successive winter slides for the past half-century liHve obliter ated the old approaches, leaving the old walls as a monument and relic of past usefulness, if the passing motor ist would gain views as pictures-pie as any along the route of the new high way, he should climb the Inn feet anil walk long the old rock roadbed. The walls are overgrown with bushes and rodents make their home in the very center of the former main highway artt ry. The views, both up and dow n the ( olumbia, however, are grand, aiai one. if he is so inclined, may be in spired to sublime thoughts. On our way west we could not resist the temptation to proceed through to Eagle Creek prk, where we lingered for a time to watch the ailivity of scores of camping; pa'ttes, whie li cense tags indicated homes in a dozen far distant states. It .wa SM" wiien we chugged oil fro-n the H'd River Multnomah county line and the follow ing is the distances from the oint of ig inning : Cascade Ixxks, 2.5 miles; Wveth. 9. miles; Vicnto, 15.2 miles; Hood River. 23.7 miles, Wasco county !;ne, 2H.6 miles; Mosier, 31.5 miles. The opening of the Highway has started a new epoch in the vallev. Formerly the growing of apples was considered the only industry worthy of any great consideration. Today citi zens are discussing plans for realising on the great scenic asset. New garage buildings, at a cost of more than $75, 000, have been built since the road was ODered. Hotels have improved. A large resort hotel will soon he con structed by S. Benson for Henri Thiele, popular chef of the Henson hotel in Portland, on the site of the old Wau-Guin-Guin hotel. Portland folk are looking wistfully for homesites alone: the great highway. They are also seeking summer homes .in the apple district. The .highway has made Hood River a suburb of Portland in a sense. Cascade locks and Mosier have bene fited proportionately. Formerly the residents of the riverside towns, separ ated by unconquerable mountain peaks, were strangers to each other. Today they are becoming well acquainted. When we reached Mosier we were not satisfied, and our journey was turned to one of exploiation along the new grade of the Highway between the Wasco apple town and its county seat, The Dalles. While graveling, al ready begun by the Kern Construction Co., will soon render this new grade as convenient of passage as that between Hood River and Mosier, the new grade made going difficult. Yet we were aide to travel in high gear for two miles more. Mr. Hrett had to slip into intermediate to overcome a detour grade at the home of Mark A. Mayer, where a steamshovel was cutting into the hillside. After passing through the irateway tunnels just east of the Hood Kiver county line and entering Wasco county, the motorist suddenly realizes that he has entered eastern Oregon. The gorge sides are no longer fir-clad. They are brown and gray and at noontime the sunshine simmers on vast expanses of wasteland. After Mosier is passed tir trees become rare and ony jack pines and oaks border the roadside. The new Mosier-Rowena grade is 9.2 miles. It passe3 through the famed Hog Canyon, now known as Rowena Dell where some decidedly scenic points will be developed. The new stretch, which will soon be completed by the Johnson Construction Co., will cost about $225,000. The graveling will coat another $45,000. U. R. Grey is the state highway engineer in'charge. From Rowena the Columbia Highway will proceed to The Dalles for most of the way over an old O -W. R & N. grade. My n xt year travel from Port land to The Dalles by automobile will i.e pleasant. All the old mountain de tours will he eliminated. This year Hood River celebrates the completion of paving. Soon The Dalles ran do likewise, and it is oi.ly a ques tion 'of a few years until all eastern an 1 western Orego.i can join in cele bratinglhe completion of a highway paved the entire distance from Astoria lo the eastern boundary. UNANIMOUS SUPPORT FOR LEGION HOME At a special meeting of the American Legion Post Monday night, which was attended hv representatives of all civic and public or utilizations and represen tatives of different business interests. It was unanimously decided that Hood River county's memorial to the eight young men of the county who made the supreme sacrifice during the war should lie a community center house under control of the l-eyion. Plans call for quarters for the Legion, the Grand Army, Woman's Relief Corps, Woman's Auxiliary and Hoy Souls, a large pnbbc auditorium and n swinmming pool. The display of a geheral community enthusiasm, was indicative that, the plain will be pushed U an early suc cessful materialization. Fun Iswill be raised through eit v and county appro priation anil public subscriptions. A nucleus of more than $1,000 has al ready been raised by patriotic women and through other sources. Following a general discussion the following gen eral committee was appointed: E. W. Van Horn, commander of the Legion I'o.st; Glenn M. Hunt, secretary of the Most ; Reuben Frasier, commander of the Grand Army : Mrs. G. W. Pilfer, president of the Relief Corps; Mrs. V R. Abraham, president of the Woman's Auxiliary; Frank Davenport, repre senting Boy Scouts; Walter Kimball, Red Cross; J. H. Kredricy, Commercial Club: Mrs. ('. O. Huelat, Woman's club; C. O Huelat. Merchant's Associ ation; I.. B. Gibson, A. M. Cannon, lodge Blowers, Mayor Beoboo, Truman Butler, E. O. Ulanehar. Rev. W. H. Roddy. II. G. Ball, Joe I). Thomison, Dr. J. F. Watt, J. H. Mohr, represent ing county granges; A. W. Meyer, Cascade Locks: R. J. lielsaae, I'ark- dale, and Mrs. ("has. Fuller, Odoll. Most of the members of committees appointed v. re present and following an outline of the general plan that was suggested hv Ceo. R. Wilbur, ex pressed hearty support of the proposal. It was cited that a law of Oregon gives the county eoart power to apoeopriate $10,000 to such a memorial fund. A luncheon was served by members of the Auxiliary. In City Sunt. Cannon, who was en gaged in community war work and who has lieen actively associated with the organization of two such commun ity houses, the committee has a decided net Arthur l,ewis. member of a San Francisco Poet, U II how the Standard oil (V had donated a tenth of Post home funds in all California cities. THE MULTITUDE IS TO BE FEB VAN HORN GETS AN ARMY OUTFIT Stage All Set for Ovation to S. Benson and the Columbia River High way Celebration HcHUUJN HEADS EX ECUTYE COMMITTEE At a meeting at the Commercial club Thursday night, G. M. McMuilin was elected chairman of an executive com mittee wh ch will wage a campaign of education in every precinct of the comity io combat the Non-Partisan Leecne and the five tier cent interest bill, which will come before elector in How mber. J. H. Haslett was elected secretary. Other memlcrs of the com n iRtee are J. R Nunamaker, A. J. Graff and N. H. MacMillan. later the general r remittee will appoint t . m nut tees and addresses will vt red at valley centers. precinci n,wm be deliv.red at A survy failed to find a sentiment here has sppatt of the inter est measure. Members of the com mittee in sounding out sentiment have failed to find a citiien who says he will note for the measure. Sympathy with the N n-l'ai tisan League, however, tea free n expre.-sed by several orchard -its. It is hoped that the celebration will draw the largest a teidance ever held in Hood River county. It is in commemorat'on of the act Hint opened the door to Hood River and the surrounding scenic treasure chest of the Oregon Cascades. It is planned as an ovation for the man who furnished the key that opened the door S. Benson. Every man, woman and child in Hood River county out of a respect and to express the appreciation that all of them ought to feel, owe to Mr. Henson their presence Monday All men, women and children of the county owe it to themsevlea to be present. They should become belter acquainted with one another and with their neighbors, residents of Mosier and Cacsade Locks. Glance at the program and you will at once realize that a feast of wit and felicitations, such as may never be your privilege to hear again on a Hood River stage, will be provided Monday afternoon. Bring your own family and per suade your neighbor to join you. The picnic will be a great demo cratic gathering. Lunches are not to be pooled, but participants are to spread their own cloths, making a great expanse of a feasting crowd. Lunch will start at 12.30 p. m. All picnickers are requested to be sure and supply their own spoons and cups. Committee will serve coffee, cream and sugar. Hood River county citizens who will be joined next Monday by residents of Mosier in celebrating completion of the Higwhay from l'ortland to the two ap ple centers of the mid-Colubmia, are determined that the multitude shall be fed. Ned Van Horn left Tuesday for Vancouver, where he secured a rolling kitchen to be utilized Labor Day for making coffee. Providing the weather is good, and all indications point to an ideal Sep tember day, a record breaking crowd is expected. While all Hood River and Mosier participants are expected to bring their own well-tilled lunch bas kets, the committee will be prepared for the emergency of a possible few coming unprepared, and the members of the Woman's Club are cooperating with the canteen committee and wiH provide a bountiful supply of sand wichca: A large number of prominent citizens of Multnomah county and other parts of the Northwest who have been prominently identified with activities lending up to and attendant on con struction of the Highway will be guests of the day. These will be billeted among Hood Kiver families and feasted on the fat of the land. The canteen committee will dispense steaming cof fee, Jersey cream and sugar. Apples will be passed thiough the crowd of picnickers. S. Henson. to whom Hood River peo pie fei I a deep appreciation fnr the aid be gave this county in performing its necessary part in constructing the great highway, having donated $10,000 for putting an exjierimental mile of road around Shell Rock and for much other financial assistance, will be guest of honor Monday. The order of exercises, to be held at I he open air theatre in Chautauqua park, where the picnic will he held, immediately following lunch, has been announced as follows : Invocation, Bishop Paddock; A Com munity's Gratitude, Rev. Boddy; Our Scenic Asset, Hon. Nick Sinnott; High ways of the World, Samuel Hill; The Mosier Link, Ju ige Wilson ; Poetry in Concrete, Samuel C. Lancaster- The Erasure of Distance, Edgar H. Piper ; The Builders of Highways, Anthony Bowel ; The Loop Road, Rufus C. Hot man; Federal Aid, Dr. L. I. Hewe ; Highways and I'ublic Progress, Hon. C N. Mc Arthur; Citizen Benson, Hon. Geo. L. Baker; Labor Day. Rev. Billy Sunday. All committees are working faithful ly in preparations for the fete. The theatre will be decorated by the Wo man's Club and American Legion mem bers. Boy Scouts of the city and val ley will assist the canteen committee in distribution of food and Will act as mes -engers and ushers. The Hood River business interests have subscribed liberally to the fund to care for expenses of the celebration. C. H. Vaughan, chairman of the 11 lance committee reports a fund of $515. The Knights of Pythias band will give a concert while the cfowd is con gregating for luncheon. SEN. CHAMBERLAIN IS COMING MONDAY Senator Chamberlain, just back from his motor tour of the interior, hss writ ten to Truman Butler that he will be present Monday to participate In the Benson Day picnic. Senator Chamber lain w ill deliver a short talk. MERCHANTS WILL AID WITH f AIR Merchants will ccterate heartily in Mivitioa if lh ho: r r-hif L' COUI'W ! fair. The Merchants Ast ocietion bas anp doled the following committee to ' solid displavs from '! merchants of the city: 1. L). Parkins, Joe ML John sen and A. L. Vincent. I i.e Woman's club, ton, wiil stage an etensive exhibit. Mr. Traffortf K. Smith. Mrs. Hugh G. Ball and Mrs. . W. It. galls have been appoined on a committee tr stimulate interest among women. Mr. Sunday at Vallev Oiurcfc Rev. Billy Sunday will deliver hie farvwell sermon for this year at the Vallev ChristHUi church Sunday, r.d and Ma SAnday planning to leave so n for a visit at their home at Wirwna Lake. Ind.. where they wil! spend a short time before resuming tic work.