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