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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1921)
iiHIjjiij' J HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1021 VOL. XXXII No. 43 WE'RE MAKING HISTORY With the F.astcr season we come again to the open door way of Springa season of renewed life and activity is ahead of us. This Spring the nation has a new president to guide its affairs. He needs the support and cooperation of all its citizens. Suppose we rememher, as we take up this new season's activities, that the eyes of the world are upon us. We are making history in the way we shoulder our responsibilities. Let's write a record that the whole world will read and admire. This Institution is ready to do its share, through its service to individuals and the community. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK HOOD RIVER, OREGON Open Season for Trout Will Soon Be Here-April 15th. jet us supply your wants in good Fishing Tackle with Good Fresh Stock. Fly Rods Casting Poles Reels Snelled Hooks - Spinners Fly Books Gut Leaders Wire Leaders Creels Silk Lines Cutty Hunk Lines Tyee Brand and Star Salmon Eggs We issue Oregon Fishing Licenses. KRESSE DRUG CO. The ffiexalJfoy Come in and hear the latest March Victor Records. f Every One lip7 His Bit Doing We quote the closing paragraph of a let ter received this morning from a well known financial institution : "A most satisfying thing is the air of confi dence and optimism that pervades the entire state, the willingness of all to carry the loads imposed upon them and the realization that with much conscientious thought and effort, conditions will soon be righted." Butler Banking Company Member Federal Reserve System n r jmrmnTTrrrranTmrTrirprmmrrr SWIFT'S RED STEER FERTERLIZERS Will furnish a balanced ration of Plant Food to your trees and berries. The continued use of Nitrogen only has a tendency to make fruit lose color and keeping qualities. A balanced ration of Nitrogen, Phos phoric Acid and Potash is necessary to obtain the best results. Get our booklet and look over our brands. We have a number of balanced ration formu las for practically every need. SWIFT & CO., Fertilizer Dept. North Portland, Oregon Get in touch with our dealers The Hood River Fruit Co. CLOSING OUT AT LESS THAN COST Simmons Steel Beds It is seldom this store indulges in such extravagant state ments as the above but we merely state facts. You're not interested in the . Simmons Beds are probably better known than any other make. We have about 100 various patterns and sizes which we are going to close out at about One Third Less than they can be had for elsewhere. In every instance the price is less than factory cost today. 0 an Continuous Tube Bed with 1-in. Fil L 111. ler Only $12.45 11-2 in. r,.' $10.75 1 1-16 in. ; $8.95 A good time to secure an extra bed for summer guests. See our window display. E. A. FRANZ CO. "FRIEND" SPRAYERS WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR THE "FRIEND" We have on display in our show room a "Friend" Sprayer. Our salesman will be very glad to tell you all about it. It is not something new, but one that has been on the market for the past twenty-five years and has proven to be one of the best. In fact it is adding "Friends" to its list every year. Call at our store. Look it over. Ask for a booklet. it FRIEND SPRAY GUN WE HAVE THEM OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT KELLY BROS. CO., Inc. There is no profit in cull apples Dcryou realize that your losses in time, materials and labor due to inadequate sprayer equipment would pay for the best sprayer made the spray er that combines with capacity the greatest econ omy and freedom from lost time? P. EL We ?.re now ready to deliver Dormoil (the miscible oil for dormant use) and lime sulphur. Use a "Friend . Hood River Spray Company Phone 2421 Don't Wait until your supply of Coal is entirely exhausted he fore you order more. It is always wise to leave your order early and we will hold the delivery as long'as you wish. Just now we have on hand some particularly FINE COAL FOR THE KITCHEN RANGE KING COAL NUT SIZE Does not slack in your bin EMRY LUMBER & FUEL CO. Successors to HOOD RIVKR VVn. CO. BRIDAL VEIL LUMBERING CO. PHONE 2181 FOURTH AND CASCADE PARTY PLANS ARE ELABORATE SHRINE RECEPTION TO BE APRIL 2 Lower Floor of Mt. Hood Is Chartered -All Masons Invited to Big Dance Committees Are Busy According to the present ambitious plans the moet elaborate party ever staged in Hood River will be held Sat urday evening, April 2, when the members of the Hood River Shrine Club will be hosts to Nobles of Al Kader Temple in Portland and all members of the Masonic lodge in the Hood River valley. The visiting Shrinera will be accompanied by 30 chanters from Al Kader Temple. Wives of most of the visitors will be present. , The local 'club of Nobles, which num bers about 75, has chartered the entire lower tloor of the Mt. Hood hotel and the Lotus Grille for the evening. At six o'clock a dinner for the visiting Shrinera and all local Nobles will be served. Plates will be laid for about 260. Dancing will be commenced at !t o'clock. At 11 o'clock a buffet lunch eon will be served. Attendance at the party, it is anticipated will exceed 500. Following the dinner, the hotel's big dining room will be turned into a card and smoking room. Sample rooms will be utilized as wrap rooms for the merrymakers. Geo. H. McMullin, president of the club, has appointed committees for handling the social event as follows: Decoration committee: H. 0. Kresse, Geo. Sheppard, K. W. Sinclair, J. K. Carson, C C. Anderson, Oscar Hukari, Glenn H. Marsh and W. E. Sherman: invitations, J. H. Hazlett, Harold Hershner, A. W. Peters and M. M. Hill ; entertainment. Chas. H. Castnor, J. W. West, C. C. Anderson and C. G. Cornelius ; badges, C. P. Sonnichsen ; Frogram, I'. !s. Davidson, Dr. J. D. Guttery, N. H. MacMillan, Harry T. DeWitt. W. E. Sherman and H. F. Davidson ; reception, C. W. McCuI lagh, E. O. Manchar, Truman Butler, W. L, Clark, E. L. Scobee. .1. W. Sif ton, A. C. Staten, G. R. Castner, II. L. Hashrouck, A. G. Lewis, M. S. Smith and H. L. Dumble. Fresident McMulin has named standing commit tees for the year as follows: "Pep" committee, C. H. Caatner, A. G. ewis, W. L. Sherman. Harry 1. Da Witt, C. C. Anderson, Geo. Sheppard and H. L. Hasbrouck ; Executive, E O. Hlanchar, F. H. Blackman, J. H. Hazlett, O. B. Nye and J. W. Sifton ; and finance and membership, E. L. Scobee, O. C- Dean'and C. G. 'Corne lius. The reception and dance, Mr. Mc Mullin announces, will be strictly in formal. All Shriners, however, are requested to be sure and wear their fezes. MASONS PAY HONOR TO CAPT. SCHETKY A large delegation of members of the local Masonic Lodge motored to the West Side home of Scott F. Aitken Tuesday afternoon to convey their greetings to Capt. C. A. Schetky, Mr. Aitken's father-in-law, in celebration of his 94th birthday. Capt. Schetky served in the United States Navy and the Merchant Marine for 47 years. He waB stationed during the Civil war with Farargut's fleet on the lower Missiseipi. He retired from active naval life !12 years ago. Capt. Schekty, who has been a Mason for 66 years, was initiated at Philadel phia. Having sailed the Seven Seas, he has visited Masonic lodges at var ious Hirts of the world. Capt. Schetky carries his age well. He frequently visits the local lodge, always enter taining his brethren before the evening ia over with stories of his seafaring life. Hie voice remains atrong and he can be heard in the furthereat parts of the room. Capt. Schetky ran away to sea at the age of 15, shipping on the Venice, bound to Sidney, China and Oriental porta. The youngest of eight boys aboard the old sailing vessel, he wa out for 17 months with a captain no torious along the Atlantic coast as a hard taskmaster. In apite of the hardships and brutal treatment, he went on another voyage. For 21 vears he was in the merchant service, going through many atrange and exciting ex periences with storms, shipwrecks, mutinies and piracy. Some of the trips across the Atlantic in those days required 80 days. The ships carried no doctors, and ('apt. Schetky, following a natuarl gift, was medical man for the crews of all ahipa on which he sailed. He accomplished some re markable aurgical operations and med ical cures. He was also a keen and skillful navigator and saved his vessel from disaster many times. In 1863 Capt, Schetky volunteered for service in the United States Navy. Until the end of the Civil war he was on gunboat duty on the Mississippi, serving on the New Era, a converted merchantman. He took part in the engagement at the massacre of Fort Pillow, when the New Era, at the erd of the fight, had only eight rounds left to serve its four guns. In 1875 Captain Schetky went down with the United States man war, the Tuscarora, commanded by Captain Erben. to seat King Matirtoa on the throne of Samoa. The Germans, who had a rob ny there, desiring to run things had created some dissent as to his regency. They had made heavy rirancihl di n :, H e ountry ard tie Samoans had appealed for relief from this oppression to the United States. Following a tri-treaty between the United States. Great Britain and Germany the United States tecured tfce only harbor of any importance in Samoa. Captain Schetky has noted with in terest a recent discussion of the recon sideration of the Nicaragua canal. In 1872 be was sent as executive officer to survey Nicaragua with a view of con structing a canal there instead of at Panama. The proposed canal had sev eral points of superiority, he says, at the tonography of the locality made it leas liable to slides. It took in higher ground, and though longer it had the advantage of including the San Juar. river and Lake Nicaragua. In 1873 Captain Schetky was mimd. as navigator, of Mexico, which had for 200 years, the Spanish having 1 mapped it. He round many errors discrepancies in distances'in esses be ing as much as 40 miles. Captain Schetky 'a charta of this coast are in use today. It was during the Nicaraguran sur vey that Captain Schetky wentsudden ly blind, due to the blazing sun on the dazzling white sand and because of the close observation work he had to do. He was blind for many months and was ordered home on sick leave. He has never fully recovered, his eye sight. On two occasions Captain Schetky has received thanks for saving vessels on which he sailed. In the fi t case be brought the bark Texas from Bor deaux to New Orleans. The merchant man carried a cargo valued at $170 000. "We carried 87 passengers arid 14 'jacks and iennies,' " says Capt. Schetky, recalling with a smile the in cident of long ago. "1 was the only navigator aboard, with only a green second mate to relieve me. Rut we landed the cargo and all hands under extraordinary circumstances. Upon our arrival 1 received a letter of thanks signed by everyone on board." The second occasion was when he saved the City of Houston (New York to Galveston) in a'hurricane, landing her safe with all her passengers. La ter he was sent by the Navy with a draft of ;!8 men and two junior officers to Key West, r la After a narrow escape from foundering he made port at remandina. Ha. r or this work he received official thanks and $500 from the department for a new uniform. The achievement was incorporated in the naval records. Captain Schetky has served in the Navy in all parts of the world. In 1889 he was retired from active ser vice on the age limit of 62 years. He is now one of the oldest officers of the United States Navy. Captain Schetky has visited Masonic lodges in all parts of the world, hav ing attended fraternal Communication! in Spain, Holland, Germany. England, Ireland, Scotland, France and Hawaii. In spite of the natural inlirmitir; of old age he is active in mind and body and keenly alive to questions of the day. It is interesting to know that this old officer, at the outbreak of the world war, wrote to the Navy Depart ment, offering his services to his coun try for any work they could rind for an old man to do. In appearance, though showing his age in a refractory knee, which obliges him to use a cane. Captain Schetky bears many signs of extraordinary vi tality and past physical strength. Hie deep chest, broad shoulders, upright carriage and big, booming voice, which peaks of theea, these arc all charac teristic of the youthful vigor and viril ity which a sea life developed in "his mother's most delicate child." STREETS WILL BE IMPROVED, PRESENT PROGRAM IS AMBITIOUS Columbia (Jorge Hotel Wants Water New Lighting Contract Up Fire Chief to Get $25 Salary MOTORCYCLE ACCI DENT NEAR WYETH The blood-drenched wreck of a mo torcycle beside the Highway near Wyeth created considerable speculation Monday on the part of motorists. The condition of the mangK-d machine and the amount of blood present gave rise to the,' deduction that someone was seriously hurt. Vernon Murray, traffic ollicer, says the wreck occurred Sun day afternoon, but his investigation did not develop the identity of the driver of the car and his passenger. Mr. Murray says he saw the cyclist and hiB passenger, both hoys, stopped beside the highway this side of Wyeth. A few hours later, while patrolling the road, he came on the wreck. The motorcycle bore licence number R 59 and a cap found on the scene bore on the sweathand the initials "R P. M." Through hearsay testimony Mr. Mur ray gathered that the sidecar had swerved from the road into a 6 by 8 post in ord r to avoid another motor cycle on the wrong side of the road. The impact broke the post, completely detached the side car and whirled the motorcycle ar unci into a barbed wire fence. Blood had been sprayed several feet in every direction artery wound. It was reported to Mr. Murray that the driver's throat had been cut from ear to ear. The injured man, it was said, was taken to Port land. While Mr. Murray was investigating the wreck, a westbound car, traveling beyond the speed limit, passed. The driver failed to halt at Mr. Murray's signal. A complaint was riled on the license number, and Monday William IHmann paid a tine to Justice of the Peace Onthank. Mr. Hamann waa hurrying to Cascade Locka with Mr. and Mrs. Rohley Hurst, newlyweds, who caught an O.-W. It. & N. train there. While no additional clue was secured as to the identity of the young men, Traffic Officer Vernon Murray Monday night ascertained that the victims had their wounds dressed by the Wind River Lumber Co. physician at Caa cade Looks, He did not get the name of the physician, who only visits the Locks at intervals from Portland to look after the lumber concern's em ployes. Mr. Murray, however, ascer tained that one f the men sustained a broken ankle and the other's face was badly cut by barbed wire of a feme into which the car waa burled. HEAVY RAINS SLOW DOWN FARM WORK The city council has outlined a stre 3 improvement program that is the mo . ambitious of any year since the w period. Plans under consideration by the council and street committee in clude the grading of lid blocks of resi dential streets and the placing of two miles of concrete curbs and gutters. Work will be started, it is said, as soon as legal formalities can be car ried out. The most recent addition to the im provement plan was brought up Mon day night, when F. R. Howard and J. H. Surrell, representing property own ers of the Fast ESugono district, asked for improvement of that street and portions of Sherman avenue. The own ers wish connections made with the Serpentine road that will pe mit the new motor driven lire engine to reach that end of town. Intimating that the new hostelry will use from 12,000 to 20,000 gallons per day, Amos S. Benson has written the council asking for proposals on ex tending city water mains to the new Columbia (Jorge hotel. Mr. Benson stated that the hotel management would like to secure city water instead of developing springs controlled by them. The city, however, according to expressions of the officials, will be unable to spare the volume of water needed by the hotel, as the supply is needed entirely here during summer months. The Pacific Power & Light Co. haa placed before the council a new con tract for lighting business a id resi dence sections. While the new con tract provides for a rate in accordance with the published tariff of tho com pany, slightly above the rate of the existing contract, a number of im provements in service and the installa tion of better lights is provided for in the new document. The contract has been referrel to the city attorney, E. C. Smith, and lire and water commit tee. Manager Snow was at the council Monday night to explain the new con tract. The council on recommendation of the lire and water committee and at the instigation of the Volunteer Fire Dc par t ment. has voted to maintain the city tire marshal and fire chief has sen arate offices. Kire Chief Volstorff will receive a monthly salary of $25. L. G. Morgan, fire marshal, will be paid for the time he expends in investigating tires and in work of prevention. The vuncil instructed the city at torney to write the Mt. Hood R. R. Co. relative to securing a right of way for a sewer, fron storage plants and manufacturing concerns at the foot of State street to an outlet on Hood riv er. The line was extended under an embankment of the rail line several vears ago without first securing a .right of way. RAIL LINES GET PROFIT OF GROWERS The loop that apple growers have sustained the past year, says H. F. Davidson, who has just returned from New York City, where he spent the winter in charge of an eastern domes tic and export sales concern, has gone to the coffers of the railway compan ies. To the extent that fr ights have advanced, he says, just so much the growers lost. But for these increased freight rates, he says, the northwest ern growers would have come out this season with as trood profits on their as if from an I crops as last season. "We have hope that the rail rates are going to be reduced before the movement of next season's crop," says Mr. Davidson, "but there ia no cer tainty that such will happen. The high freight rates of the rail lines have had one good result. A service is being developed by steamship compan ies to handle a fair percentage of the Ogpofft tonnage the coming year. These lines, receiving the apples at northwestern ports and passing through the Panama Canal, offer a very satis factory rate. Their refrigerated ser vice will also be efficient.' Last week's heavy for the ardists seriou.-l The total preci reached 3.25 inc laed in cultia rains, unprecedentedly season, retarded orch r in their spring work. dUtion for the week ties. Growers were de tion. pruning and the DAN WUILLE & CO. COMPLETE EXPORTS Dan Wuille Co., announce that their final shipments abroad have been mHde and that the concern is now engaged in closing accounts and forwarding ma terials and supplies to growers for the current year's harvest. The company, in addition to its warehouse and stor age plants here, at Odell and Parkdale in this valley, has warehouses at Un derwood and at New berg. Apples are also received at Dufur, Sheridan, Stan field and I .vie. Wash. "We are anticipating a good crop of apples the coming season," says A. E. Woolpert, "With a farther return to normal, we anticipate that growrs are going to receive more for their fruit harvested this fall." Asbury taster Program The Asbury M. E. choir, assisted by Mrs. Ieon FoOst, Mrs. Flovd L. French. Mrs. Geo. Gladden, D. G. Metxgus and Walter Wells, violinist, will render the following program at 7 30 Sunday evening, Mrs. S. G. Ox borrow, organist, Mr. Oxbirrow, di al among local -hards. Arm- a campaign to ?st. The rsins now in general d growers. The health cone according to Wit strong, are good, show ravages ol growers are engagi rid the district of t have delayed appl oil spray, used in sects as leaf roller the weather clearir will be going the parts of the valley. During a crm period of two weeks ago. many local householders started Van Dyke, Dr. i their vacant lot gardens. The cold Anthem. Cot showers, however, have spoiled the Lord, by Schoeb early preparations, excepting where Postlude, A lie hotbeds were Oar ted. , Ox borrow. Orgon Prelude. Hosannah, by ;Wach Mrs. Oxlrrow ana apmaa. n : t h g, spray machines coming week in all Violin Wells. punod. Veihv Paul solo, Seranarde Drigo, Mr. by Rufus Su- n. Redemption, It Was for Me. ty Chaa. B. n. There A as a Green Hill, by Asbury Choir. Offertory, Easter Dawn, by ussman, Mrs. Ox borrow. Solo. Souvenir, by Dry la. Mr. Reading. The Ixst am e and Boy, by Henry Worship the v Choir. . Steam. Mrs.