o
VOL. XXXII
HOOD KIVKK, OREGON, THURSDAY, MaY 5, 1921
No. 49
CONDENSED REPORT OF
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF HOOD RIVER, OREGON
AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS APRIL 2Hth. 1921
Resources :
Loans and Discounts $474,739.58
United States Bonds and Other Securities 268,146.75
Bank Building and Fixtures 50,500.00
Other Real Estate .. GOO 00
Cash and Exchange 142,622.85
$03(5,600. 18
Liabilities :
Capital Stock $100,000.00
Earned Surplus and Protits 27,150.29
National Currency 92.fi00.00
Rediscounts none
Borrowed Money none
Deposits . 716,858.89
$936,000.18
Cash Reserve $142,622.85
Legal Reserve required 38,000.00
Excess over Legal Requirements $104,622.85
TAKE A KODAK WITH YOU
KODAK
Photography the Kodak
way is lessexpensive than
you t hink- our price cards
demonstrate it. And any
Kodak in simple to work
we can readily show you
how easy it is.
Autographic Kodaks
from $8.00 up
Brownies- $2.00 up
KRESSE DRUG CO.
The t&xaJLSL Store
Come in anil hear the latest May Victor Records.
WE GROW
VEGETABLES
AND PLANTS
the best varieties that are adapted
to this locality, have them on the
market as the season permits and
they are
NONPAREIL
Twentieth Century Truck Farm
J. IL KOBERG, Proprietor
Statement of the Condition of the
Butler Banking Company, of Hood River, Ore
at the close of business, April 28, 1921
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $778,567.84
U. S. Bonds and Treasury Certificates.. 23,028.60
Bonds, . Warrants and Stocks 87,229. 16
Savings Department Loans 287,392.76
Safes, Furniture and Fixtures 9,153.25
Real Estate 26,75(7.77
Cash on Hand and in Other Banks 115,011.76
$1,327,134.14
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $100,000.00
Earned Surplus and Undivided Profits 42,893.80
Deposits 1,029,728.23
Rediscounts and Bills Payable 154,512.11
$1,327,134.14
Member Federal Reserve System.
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
Genuine quality is usually
the choice of people who
have had experience with
the just-as-good-kind.
Icbobl
laool HI
f
We Have
Genuine Ford Parts
DICKSON-MARSH MOTOR CO
HOOD RIVER, OREGON
Tel. 1111
See us before buying
Arsenate of Lead
We handle
"CORONA DRY"
The Universal Insecticide
Orchard Supplies
and
International Harvester Supplies
The Kood River Fruit Co.
Hose - Lime - Sulphur - Bluestone
Spray Gloves - Lime-Sulphur
Whale Oil Soap - Dusting Sprays
Arsenate of Lead Bordeau Mixture
Hydrated Lime Du Pont Powders
"Friend" Sprayers
"I have used three different makes of Sprayers but
never got Real Satisfaction until I bought a 'FRIEND.' "
A Reliable Hood River Orchardist
Hood River Spray Company
Phone 2421
FLUME LUMBER
We have in stock sound,
rough, Fir Flume Lumber
in all sizes and can make
prompt delivery to your
ranch.
We want your
Business
EMRY LUMBER & FUEL CO.
Successors to
HOOI RIVKR Fl'EL CO.
BRIDAL VUL LIMBERING CO.
I'HONK 2181
FOl'RTH AND CASCADE
Rubber Stamps
APPLE TREES
NOW BLOOMING
BUDS BURSTING IN ALL SECTIONS
Large Number of Tourists Expected Rest
Of the Week With Big Day On
Sunday
1
This is blossom week in Hood River,
although the blooms us yet are only
showing pink except in esse of early
varieties. Continued cold and cloudy weather
has caused the apple blossoms to de
velop unusually slow this season. Thev
have reached the point now, however,
where even the continuation of the
cool weather will not prevent them
irom bursting soon. A week ago it
wus predicted that last Sunday would
be blossom Sunday. Orehardists now
declare that next Sunday will he th
best Sunday for witnessing the valley
in oioom.
The weather is some warmer and the
blooms are opening fast in the Lower
Valley. Visitors will rind the district
appealing any day this week or the
eary part of next week. With a few
days of warm, sunshiny weather the
buds will burst as if by magic, and the
valley floor will be fairlv a sea of
sweet-scented pink and white.
The apple trees of the valley hav
never been so loaded with DOM ting
buds, and the blossom of the distnc
this season indicates a record heavy
yield or fruit. If weather conditions
are such as to bring out the blooms of
all Lower Valley trees simultaneously
the spectacle presented will be worth
many miles of traveling, according to
growers.
Sightseers are expected here in large
numbers the remainder of the week
Provided weather conditions are good
a record large number of visitors is
expected next Sunday.
BONUS EDUCATION
PROGRAM PLANNED
The work of the Hood River Post of
the American Legion, now the fourth
largest in the state, on the Bonus Bill,
to be voted on June 7, will not be di
rected as a fight for the bill but rathei
as a campaign to educate the elector
ate. The twst, through its adjutant.
Robert (j. McNarv. has just made the
following announcement:
After considering the matter from
all angles, the executive committee
has decided that it is best that the
post does not go on record as actively
campaigning lor support of the bill.
Our campaign will take the form of
general educational program for the
express purpose of acquainting tin
voters with all provisions of the bill
We do not expect to get out and plead
for votes in support of our bonus."
1 he executive committee in charge
of the educational campaign will con
sist of Harold Hershner, Sidney Car
nine, Robert (i. McNary, Kent Shoe
maker and Dr. J. W. Sifton. Addi
tional members, as follows, will aid in
the program: Fordham and Stewart
Kimball, Ghnn Hunt, Harold Black
man, l.J. Annala, Stanley Howlby,
r;ari Dunbar, w. Dowd, Ceo. K
Wilbur, H. D. W. I'inco and Emmett
'orsythe.
APPLE MEN SEEK
WATER SHIPMENTS
Yakima, Wenatchee and Seattle fruit
growers, shippers and business men
representing probably 90 per cent of
the fruit tonnage of Washington, met
in Wenatchee last week and decided to
pool their efforts with those of the
California citrous fruit growers to pro
vide water transportation for perish
ables or the hacihe Coast. The We
natchee Commercial Club and Wenat
chee Valley Traffic Association have
apitointed a committee consisting of
one business man, one grower and one
shipper to cooperate with other west
em fruit growing regions in forming
plans to charter refrigerated vessels.
The action of Yakima and Wenatchee
follows the proposal of C. S. Whit
comb, vice president of the California
Fruit Growers' Exchange, that the
whole coast region combine to guaran
lee 1 u.iRAi cars or snipping to any
steamship company which will supply
refrigerated vessels. Mr. Whitcomb
has been traveling all over the Pacific
Northwest and the idea is spreading
like a prairie fire. The citrus growers
of California are readv to go a stei
farther and buy ships if they canget
tbem in no other way.
CALKINS OPTIMISTIC
OVER FRUIT DEMAND
AT THE
GLACIER
OFFICE
While the loss of the crops of com
nu real fruit sections of the east and
middle west is a serious thing for
growers of those districts, according to
C. J. Calkins, who is just back from
Detroit, it will naturally result in an
increased demand for the fruit products
of Northwestern districts. Mr. Calk
ins says that the heavy recent freezes
have completely wiped out eastern
fruit crops.
"Business conditions," says Mr.
Calkins, "seem to make a steady im
provement in the east. While we were
in Detroit the automobile factories
were constantly putting on more men.
One day while we were there 12,000
men were added to the pay roll by a
ingle company."
Mr. Calkins was accompanied to De
troit by W. A. Booker, chemist of the
vinegar concern. The two men were
engaged in investigating a system of
utilizing the pomace from vinegar
plants in jelly making. Their research
may result in the addition of a pomace
reclamation plant at the vinegar factory.
WAREHOUSE NEEDED
SAYS Nl'NAMAKER
J. R. Nunamaker, owner of record
large apple and other fruit acreage
here, has returned trap California ex
ceedingly optimistic over 1921 pros
pects, not only from the standpoint of
yield of orchards but from the market
ing outlook. Mr. Nunamaker, who is
a veteran director of the Apple Grow
ers Association, after a tour of inspec
tion of the valley, has began agitation
for additional warehouse and cold
storage space.
"Our greatest need, in view of the
1921 crop, which, in my opinion will
be considerably in excess of the 2 000.
000 box crop of 1919, is for more facil
ities for handling the apples. We
should begin at once to erect a bir cold
storage plant, in order that our big
crop of Spitzenburgs can be harvested
and stored at once. Otherwise we will
have this high quality of fruit reach
ing the consumer in poor condition."
Mr. Nunamaker believes the valley's
1921 apple crop will touch .the 2,600.000
box point. He also predicts a record
yield of pears.
"We will have three boxes of pears
where we harvested one last year,"
says Mr. Nunamaker, "and the ton
nage will go close to 400 carloads.
The cherry crop has been cut shori to
-ill! . pvtont uu 11 i i f i Mi .rid i f i. i a
while the fruit was in bloom prevented ' w0 "
MMttM nnllunlaulw.n ,.f lkU U. Ue Ot mOrC
f'"'V ' I ' ' I I I '. . . t. 11 I I i I I I V. till ll-'Wtl
branches. Top branches will be leaded.
The Spitzenburg crop of the Hood
River vallev this season is going to he
the largest we ever raised."
Mr. Nunamaker says fruit raisers
ought to talk with farming interests of
other sections of the country in order
to grow optimistic. He declares North
western apple districts in comparative
ly good financial circumstances.
. "I hear at home much disappoint
ment over 1920 prices for apples," says
Mr. Nunamaker. "In fact, It Htl
to me, we ought to be as happy as a
woodchuck In a cherry tree. Cotton,
corn, grain, livestock and wool inter
ests are so much worse olF than we
are, that our condition is rosy. At no
time during the war period were we of
the fruit sections helicd. The war all
the time had a depressing elTect. In
the other agricultural seel ions, prices
of products seated so high that "it
boosted values out of sight. The per
iod of dellation has struck the other
agricultural districts two ways. But
we were not invited to the party, and
as a result we haven't the headache of
the morning after.
"In face of the record tonnage of
the eastern fruit sections last year, it
is remarkable to me that we got any
reasonable prices for our apples. With
the worst frost damage of this year
thinning the ea-tern and middle west
ern crop to almost negligible quanti
ties, I believe we face a wonderful
market year."
On the way north by automobile Mr.
Nunamaker and his wife toured through
the principal fruit districts of the
south. He says he found that recent
frost damage reported from there not
general. Sume local districts, how
ever, he declares lost heavily. The
higher altitudes of southern California,
apples are grown, were badly
by the frost, Mr. Nunamaker
OBJECTION TO
ROAD EXPRESSED
ATHENS MEET WITH COUNTY COURT
I nless Trunk Line is Rcloi.ited Petition
ers Would Turn Down State's
Offer Kntirely
It was evidence I at the session of
county court yesterday that a strcng
sentiment against the proposed trunk
load is developing. A large delegation,
representing practically all sections'
except the Upper Valley, petitioned the'
court urging that the state's offer to
furnish a hnlf of the funds for eon-!
struction of the road be turned dowr
unless the State Highway Commission!
to a relocation, making
of the existing roads of
the valley. A number of suggestions
for aternate routes were made. Several
speakers proposed that the trunk road,
instead of entering ihe Hood river
gorge down Whiskey creek, follow ex
isting East Side valley roads to a sur
vey made several years ago by J. A.
Elliott for the Mosier stretch of the
Colombia River Highway. Others pro
posed extending the old East Side road
to tap the present Highway at the top
of a serfes of loops east of the city.
Among those objecting to a bond is
sue on the grounds of improper location
were: August Guignard, E. E. Lage,
(". A. Reed, A. I. Mason, E. F. Batten
J, A. Walter and A. W. Peters. The
speakers proposed, if the state's offer
were turned down, to bond the county
for the limit and build a trunk road on
a location selected by Hood River
county folk.
H. R. H. S. OPERETTA
BRINGS OVATIONS
where
bitten
says.
HON UNDECIDED
Dwight L. Woodruff, who for the
past three years has been New York
City and exports sales manager of the
Apple Growers Association, may leave
the cooperative sales agency, it is an
nourced. Mr. Woodruff, who left bers
by way of Portland for Wenatchee for
a conference with apple shipping in
terests, met with the directorate of
the Association M nday.
While Mr. Woodruff will remain
with us for the present," aavs E. W.
Birge, president of the board, "it re
mains unde.-aleil to whether he will
be with us next season. W e appreci
ate Mr. Woodruff a service very much
and hold him in the highest regard,
hut he has received offers of a far
greater salary from other shippers
than we have been paying him."
POWDER MAGAZINE
EXPLODES AT MOSIER
When local folk learned that a heavy
explosion Saturday night resulted when
powder magazine of the Kern ( on-
struction Co. at Mosier blew up it
brought relief to some who had re
ived reports that Mt. Hood was seen
smoking. The powder magazine, con
taining about a ton of powder, ex
ploded about 10 o'clock. Some local
folk report seeing a flash, lighting up
the eastern sky. It was generally
thought here that the rumble was that
of an tlectrical storm.
Hundreds reported in Portland late
Saturday night that Mount Hood was
smoking. Homer A. Rogers, however,
said the effect of smoke belching up
from the peak was caused by clouds
blowing over the top of the mountain.
CLUB AIDING IN
PLANS E0R SETTLERS
Cooperating with the state Chamber
f Commerce, the Commercial Club is
seeking from local residents the names
of eastern and middle western friends
who may be interested in Oregon.
The railways have granted a law rate
for settlers, and through the local
work, It (s axpactad that a large list
of prospective ?egr,n homeseekers
may lie secured.
J. W. Brewer in an address to ( luh
members Monday night, told the local
folk that W illiam Henley and other
were now at midd'e western points
interviewing it -; live settlers, who
later would lie brought here by special
tram. The prospective landowners will
be taken'hv rail to Sherman county,
and from there they will be shown va
rious sections of the state bv automo
bile.
No quota was set for Hood River
unty. but Mr. Brewer was assured
uld be raised hv private subscription
to aid in financing the settlers' plan.
EGI0N COLORS DANCE
TOMORROW NIGHT
City and valley residents who crowd
ed the high school auditorium Saturday
night declared the annual operetta,
given under directions of Mrs. C. H.
Henney. by the combined boys' and
girls' glee clubs of the school, the
most perfectly performed and enter
taining school entertainment ever held
here. The rendition of the young men
and women won them a hearty ovation.
The show held stars a plenty, but
Paul Reed, as an Englishman, three
sailors, Joshua Pierson, Rufus Sumner
and Maurice Kinsey and the three Fol
lies girls, Misses Marian Butler, Pru
dence Spight and Frances Fuller, all
were exceptionally good. Misses Mary
beth Blagg and Gertrude Home and
Frank lyn Davenport, singing leading
parts, were encored.
The entire production was unsually
elaborate for a high seohol operetta.
The boys and girls displayed the in
tense training of several weeks. The
i-tage tnlglkt have been that of a metro
politan theatre. P. L. Manser, West
Side orchardist. who has painted the
scenery of some of the Northwest's
leading city show houses, painted spe
cial scenery for the high school show.
AUXILIARY MEETING
SATURDAY A HER NOON
The Woman's Auxiliary Unit of the
American Legion will hold an interest
ing meeting at Library hall, Saturday,
May 7, at 2.150 p. m. During the busi
ness hour, Mrs. Harold Hershner, who
has been mn It Male treasurer of the
Auxiliary, will give a report from the
state conference held in Portland April
80. A Legion representative will also
be present to explain the Soldiers'
Honus Bill which comes before the
people at the June special election.
As Saturday is the day before Moth
er'sj)ay, the members of the Auxili
ary who are wives, daughters or sis
ters of ex-soldiers will entertain the
mothers during the social hour follow
ing the business session. A short pro
gram, consisting of a reading by Mrs.
L. L. Murphy, a piano solo by Mrs.
George Axtelle, and a vocal solo by
Mrs. rlofd L. French, will be present
ed and light refreshments will be
served. The mothers of all ex service
men are cordially invited and urged
to attend.
A quantity of silk poppies will be on
sale at the price cf ten cents each.
This flower has been adopted by the
Legion and Auxiliary as the national
Oower, and all members of those or
ganizations are urged to wear one Me
m irial Day in tribute to our boys who
made the supreme sacrifice for our
country.
CREAMERY MAKES
SUPER-BUTTERMILK
The Hoed River Creamery has begun
the manufacture of a super-buttermilk
which has already won a wdespread
popularity. The new beverage is made
with a "starter" from whole milk. It
is very nutritious, and is recommended
for invalid. The growing demand for
the new buttermilk indicates that the
new department may grow to substan
tial proportions. The beverage will be
sold at 15 cents per quart.
The creamery has just received its
new butter wr. topers, carrying s three
colored representation of the Uregold
trademark and a scene from the Hood
River valley. The new labels are at
tracting a widespread attention. Gro
cers de.-'are they have never seen a
more attractive butter label.
MEAT BROUGHT BY
TRUCK OYER HIGHWAY
to! II
M-'JS
tec
A dance wi
hall tomorrow
go toward a fu
for the Ann
be
ght,
given
the
colors I
t. At
L-ef, pork and lasab to A. F.
he, had no method of dispos
s offal. Mr. Davenport's
nish
rat
the n)us:c tomorrow night.
c