me VOL. XXXIII HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1921 No. 1 State Aid for World War Veterans "The Devil sick, the Devil a saint would be ; The Devil well, the Devil of a saint was he." In those dark days of the world war when our boys with the allied soldiers were straining every nerve to hold the line, and when for those few days we feared that Hindenberg would yet through, we were loud in our praises of the men at the front, and we would have voted unanimously for any measure that would have expressed in some small degree our feeling for the men who were offering their lives that we might continue to enjoy the blessings of Liberty in America. Just how we feel about it now will be shown by the vote on the Bonus Bill which conies before the people of Oregon at the Special Election on June 7th. Kresse Drug Co., TAe sJUL sto HARD TIMES? There seems to be a well defined effort by chronic calamity howlers to continually dis seminate propaganda that times are "hard" in Hood River Valley, but a careful analysis of the situation belies such statements. While the results of the 1920 fruit crop have been a setback to many, it has not seriously impaired their resources or credit. The First National welcomes applications for legitimate loans, not for speculative or luxury purposes but for farm and commercial needs. You are invited to call and talk over your requirements. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK E. O. BLANCH AK, President. S. J. MOORIi, Cashier. Reed the Legions' explanation of the Soldiers' State Aid Bill KOBERG'S ASPARAGUS SPRING SOWN TOMATO PLANTS CABBAGE PLANTS THEY ARK NONPAREIL CROWN BY Twentieth Century Truck Farm J. H. KOBERG, Proprietor Hose - Lime - Sulphur - Bluestone Spray Gloves Whale Oil Soap Arsenate of Lead Hydrated Lime Lime-Sulphur - Dusting Sprays Bordeau Mixture 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 State Aid For m World War Veterans M If the Bonus Bill had come before the jJP people of Oregon on June 7th, 1918, v$ I If the Bonus Bill had come before the people of Oregon on June 7th, 1918, can you Imagine the mental process ol the voter who would have voted against it? Surely on June 7th, 1921, we will wel come the opportunity to express, even In this small decree, our appreciation of the services of the men who, by reason of this service, are now confronting many serious problems In returning to civilian life. Vote 302 Yes I Si?0' ,:(IJ ;,m SLABS Now is the time to place your or der for slab wood so as to allow time for proper seasoning during the summer months. We handle the entire local output of the Dee mill. Special prices on car load lots of ten to twelve cords. F. 0. B. car shipments to ranchers at points on Mt. Hood Line. EMRY LUMBER & FUEL CO. PHONE 2181 Successors to HOOD RIVER FUEL CO. FOURTH AND CASCADE All accounts must be settled monthly or no further credit will be extended. Effective this month. N. H. MacMILLAN ON THE HEIGHTS Native Ortgonian Passes Here The body of W. H. Calavan, aged 69 years and native of Scio, who died at bia West Side home on Friday, was ahipped to Carlton by C. C. Anderson Sunday for funeral services and inter- I ment. Mr. Calavan, who bad spent moat of hia life at Willamette valley pointa, came here three years ago for hia bealtb, baying a West Side orchard. In addition to hia widow, be is survived by sever, grown children. NEW HOTEL READY SOON RESORT TO OPEN ABOUT JUNE 11 Red Tile Roof of Columbia Gorge Hotel ' Forms New Landmark for Wayfaring Motorists The red tiled roof of the Columbia Gorge Hotel forms a new landmtirk for the wayfaring motorist on the Colum bia Kiver Highway. Except for finishing touches to the superb interior and the cleaning away of debris left by carpenters, masons and painters on the outside, the big tourist hotel, the most elaborate of its kind in the Pacific Northwest, is all ready to greet the tourist, attracted to the scenic Cascades by smoothly paved links of highway. California, long noted for its tourist inns, has larger resort hostelries than the Columbia Gorge Hotel but bonifaces of the south can boast of no greater comforts or conveniences than have been provided here. ine new .s-story ounaing, wan a frontage of 185 feet, is of fireproof concrete and stucco construction. It has 48 rooms with 44 baths on the sec ond and third floors. On the first floor are the huge dining room, which will accommodate 600 guests, and elaborate reception and lounging rooms 1 he gueal at mealtime may look from a series of French windows over an ex panse of the Columbia to the north, and Wau Guin Guin falls of Phelps creek drops perpendicularly 125 feet down the canyonside to the level of the Columbia. The O.-W. R. & N. track runs directly beneath the hotel. The structure is overtopped by a look out tower from which unusually ap pealing views of the Columbia's can yon, both east and west, may be had. In time guests, it is likely, will be atttracted to the new hotel just to see the sunsets in the gorge. The Columbia Gorge Hotel's cost will approximate $300,000. S. Benson, who financed the hostelry for Henri Thiele, former chef of the Hotel Hen son in Portland, declares that his in terest is for the purpose of demon strating the possibilities of such re sorts in the scenic northwest. Mr. Kenson declares that the hotel was a vital need to supplement the invest ments Oregon has been making the past rive years in highways. Both Mr. Benson and Mr. Ihiele are now busily engaged, aiding full crews of workmen in completing the hos telry. It is now planned to open the resort about June 11. Mr. Benton may be found daily removing debris from the grounds or some other task. The other day armed with a crow bar he was removing timber moulds from con crete Btairs on'the Highway side of the structure. Mr. Benson was asked to join Hood River citizens and offer sug gestions for plans to boost the $360,000 road .bond issue, to be placed on the ballot that the June election. "Are you going to have a real worth while meeting: he asked. "1 meai are you going to get enough together to really accomplish something: If not I do not want to attend. 1 am pretty busy here. But if I can do something benefical in aiding the bond issue I will be present." The proposed highway bonds, if voted, will enable Hood River county to join the state on a 50-50 basis in constructing the valley trunk of the Mount Hood Loop Higwhay. Mr. Men son declares that he doesn't see how the county can afford to decline the offer, which will result in a trunk market road from one end of the Hood River valley to the other. When a visitor to the new hotel calls for Mr. Thiele he is always directed to the kitchen. There the noted chef may be found at any hour of the dsy supervising fhe installation of equip ment that will make the new hotel's kitchen one of the finest in the land. Mr. Thiele knows that Oregon rial ton must be provided with more than a feast for the eves. It is his plan to make the cuisine of his hostelry as famed as Mount Hood or Multnomah Falls. The new hotel has a private water system, springs, affording more than 100,000 gallons daily, having been tapped on the high plateau south of the building. A huge storage tank, with pressure maintained by electrical equipment has been placed in the great basement, carved from almost solid rock. The new hotel, which has just been connected up by crewa of the Pacific Power & Light Co., will be the largest individual user of electricity in the county. The lighting system is elaborate and an elevator ia operated by electrirty. The grounds of the new hotel com prise 21 acres, extending to the west along the gorgeside. Several years will he required in landscaping the sur roundings. Much native hrubtery and a grove of rugged oaks will be left in tact. Flower gardens, tennis courts and croquet grounds will be established. An entrance road from the Highway will penetrate the native shrubbery and bordering flowerng I . A porte cochere has been constructed at the southwestern corner of the new hotel. The need for the new hostelry ia already manifest in the reservations for accommodationa extending through out the summer. Thousands have al ready applied for rooma at various times. Mary Roberta Rhinehart, ac companied by her husband, Or. S. M. Rhinehart, and sons, will make the hostelry a base in August while view ing Cascade wonder apoto. Peter B. Kyne, another nationally known author. a expected here at an earlier date. Well known men and women from the four corners of the country will be guests of Mr. Thiele before fall, he says. Mr. Ihiele aays the hostelry could be filled with permanent guests for the season. He will discourage thia, however, and maintain the ac commodationa for the general public aud transient tourist. The tariff at the new hostelry will be exceedingly reasonable, and the cit izen of ordinary means will be able to partake of the mid-Columbia's hospi tality without embarrassment to hia finance. Mr. Benson has panbably act a pace that will be followed, by others in the construction of mid-Columbia tourist hostelries. A large mart proposition, it is announced by J. H. Fredriry, president of the Commercial Club, hinge on set ion of Hood River county voters the election of June 7, when a bond issue of $350,000, to provide funds for connecting the Columbia River and Mount Hood Loop High ways, will be passed on. He state .l... c : I i . I i I- umi ooHMciai interests nave aireauy selected a site in the forested area in the southeastern part of the county, where an inn every bit as large as the Columbia Gorge Hotel will be erected if the Loop Highway is assured. The new hostelry, increasing the taxable property of Hood River county by nearly $300,000, is being cited as an appealing argument for the road bond issue. The tax collected on the hotel already built, it is declared, will more than pav interest on the county's bond issue of $71), 000 voted to aid in opening the Columbia River Highway. In increase in assesesd valuation from hotel property in the mountainous area citziens favoring the bonds declare, will eventually finance the issue. APPROVAL OF BONDS SURE FAVORABLE SENTIMENT GROWING Former Opposition Swings in Line When Practicability of Location for Trunk is Shown TWO HURT IN SUN DAY AUTO WRECK Mrs. Ida Ooyle and H. A. Orleman, both of Portland, were injured, the former seriously, in an automobile wreck at 5 o'clock Sunday morning at Wyeth. ine crash ol the overturning car aroused the family of A. Fin, Wyeth merchant. Both victims were found unconscious, the body of Mrs. Doyle under the car. Mr. Orleman had been thrown'clear of the wreck. Liquor was found in the car. Physicians of this city were called and the man and woman were removed to the Cottage Hospital. Both soon recovered consciousness, but Mrs. Doyle suffered a fractured pelvis and serious bruises. Mr. Orleman s body was covered with painful but not seri- us bruises. I he road is straight m the vicinity of Wyeth, but tracks show thatZthe car, badly wrecked, swerved to the left of the pavement and then quickly back to the right, leaving the hard surface. riie victims are unable to account for the wreck. They state that they had been engrossed at the time in watching the sun rise. 1 raffle Officer Murray, who investig- ated the wreck, says the crash was witnessed by a resident of Cascade Locks, who was motoring home from here and met the ill-fated machine just before the accident happened. 1 he Lock! citizen, whose name Mr. Murray did not obtain, reports that the machine was going at a high rate of speed and was swaying from one side of the road to the other. Alarmed he hurried his own machine to the road side. Although the ditch at the point is shallow the turned over three times, a wheel being removed by a telephone Kle in one revolution. The wrecked ear was on the High way and caused such a jam of eqrious automobilists that Mr" Murray had it removed by J. F. VolstorfT as early as possible to this city. The top was-a mass of wreckage and it is miraculous that Mrs. Movie was not. killed. The wrecked machine was owned b Ken C. Wing, 1121 Knst Yamhill St roruanti, wno rented it to iikrinuii wno, ii was staled, had rented curs on former occasions. Authorities state that Mr. (Herman as soon as he is able to leave the bos pital, will face a charge of reckless driving. WAGES EOR BERRY HARVEST REDUCED The schedule of berry harvest wages, showing a material decrease over last year, has been e.-tahli hed by the A pie Growers Association as follows: For picking,, nine cents per carrier of six hailochs, with a bonus of two cents per carrier for all who complete the season with a grower; packing, 17 cents per crate with a honiM of three cents. The respective wage for last year were 12 and 20 cents with the same bonuses provided. The Associa tion has established a free employment agency wun mrs. j. w. ingalls in charge. While no changes will be made in this season's grading rules, the ship lung agency a loiices that a more rigid inspection will be maintained. I lir receipts oi heme iii' growing laily now. A total of 115 crates was shipped Monday. Shipment of a car ot, however, is not expected before Monday, June j. The demand for transient harvest hands will not be very keen until next week, when em plovment will be available for at least 50 girls and women. Tuesday F. K. Jones, who follows the harvest seasons of fruit areas ui and down the Pacific Coast, and his family arrived here by wagon from Sarramento to participate in the berry harvest. The family will nick for Ridgewood Farm, where last season they were employed in the cultivation of the 25 acre tract, one of the largest in the district. Many Indians are ar riving from nearby reservations to pick berries. POLLING PLACES NAMED BY COURT The county court has designated the following places as polling places forJ the special election June 7: Baldwin, Wyatt's hall; Barrett, Bar rett school house; t'erter, Taylor's hall; Dee, Dee school house ; Falls, I. O. O. F. hall ; Height--, high school ; North. Library hall: Odell, Grange hall; Oak Grove. Oak GroTe school house; Park, Baptist church; Park dale, Mclsaac's hall; Pine Grove, Grange hall; Waucoma, court house; West, Frank ton school house. Precinct boundaries within the city re: North, north of State street within the citv; Waucoma. Iietween I State and Montello streets; Heights, between Montello and Pine streets: ! Park, south of Pine and Taylor within the city. While a week ago the expression of opposition to the $350, 000 valley trunk road which will enable this county to participate in the state program for constructing the Mount Hood Loop Highway was rather alarming to citi zens who view the plans as the most important ever before taxpayers, a trend favorable to the issue has set in strongly in the past few days, and now many citizens who formerly expressed disapproval or who were in doubt have become strong adherents of the bond campaign. , Those who view the bond campaign from every angle and from a close canvass of all parts of the county now consider a favorable vote assured. The activities of S. Benson in the mat ter and the Pine Grove meeting last Friday night made many votes for the bond issue. Many have opposed the bond issue or have remained lukewarm on the proposition because they consid ered the location wrong. Since they have been shown th;it the state could scarcely participate in the construction of a trunk line on any other routing and that the location as made by En gineer Scott is the best for all practi cal purposes over an indefinite period they have confessed the errors of their layman's viewpoint and are now work ing tor the bond iseue. Lven in cases where men are still not satisfied with the existing location, they are still for the bond issue, declaring that the gen eral program of the trunk route and the Loop Highway is too important for them to take the responsibility of de feating it. An element of voters has found it impossible to warm up on the bond issue because of the existing burden of high taxes. Indeed, some citizens of this class are so firmly opposed to any increase of taxes that they still declare an opposition to the bonds. Others, however, are analyzing the isspe from a business standpoint and declare they will vote for the bonds as an invest ment that the valley cannot afford not to make. A voice of cheer was brought from Cascade Locks Tuesday by A. O. Adams. '1 understand." he said, "that you folks are coming down Wednesday night to convert us on the road bonds. We do not need any teaching. So far as I can gather everybody in the Locks ia for the bonds. We are not so un grateful as to oppose tho issue. The Highway has been our making. We realize the worth of roads, and Cascade LockB is going to turn out. and do her part for the trunk road bond issue." BENSON TO ADDREES BARRETT1TES TONIGHT A rallv for stimulating interest in the $350,000 bond issue, proposed for raising funds for Hood River county's participation in the Mount Hood Loop Higrway program, will be held to night, Thursday, at Park Grange on the West Side. The chief speaker of the event will be S. Benson, ex-chairman of the State Highway Commis sion, who is now making his home here and who is taking a keen interest in the success of the bonds. The meeting was arranged by County Judge H. L. Hasbrouek. Last night J. H. Fredriey and a party of citizens from all parts of the v.i I ley motored to Cascade Locks for a meeting. STATE WILL PAVE THE TRUNK ROAD If the county votes the $350,000 bond issue and joins the state in the con struction of the valley trunk line of the Mount Hood Ixop, the state will take over the 20.8 miles of road and maintain it. This is assured local vot ers by official announcement ol infl Highway Commission. Hood River county voters, who hesi tate on voting the bonds because the program as now outlined does not call for ultimate paving, may rest assured that the state will hardsurface it as soon as the grades have settled suffici ently. They cannot afford to do other wise. The members of the State High way Commission will make just a such a statement to you, although at pres ent they do not feel justified in making such an official annoucement. When the Columbia River Highway grade was cut, nobody had any official assurance that it would ne paveu Dy this time, but today it is hardsurfaced to the Pacific By 125 the trunk line if the Loon Highway up and down the Hood River valley will be paved. Can any one vote against the $jfn,00U and thus defeat all chances for this paved highway? PETERS AND REED SUPPORT BONDS Week End Traffic Offenses Many Traffic offenses over the week were msny. Officers apprehended following : E. f light: H. EL C John K. Kobb and W. P. Rob parking on Higl Isaacs, imprope Zf k, of Portland Bert, no Uil Portland, no U Hay don. Bend, i end rehended the ut one head o Uil light; uver. Wash., nona. Wash., ment; II C. ; A. R. Wat- tout; A. C A. W. Peteis and C. A. Reed. Fast Side ranchers, who were members ot the Pomona Grange Loop Highway Committee, which has been waging the only organized opposition to the -'50,-000 bond issue, have resigned from the committee and have announced that they will support the bonds. These men were originally opposed to the bonds because the location eonilicttd with their views as to selection of a route. They both declare that they have never opposed the general plan of a vallev trunk and the Mount Hood I.- i road. Man i Hurl at Losing tamp A. H. Canfield. aged S brought to the Cottage H ears, waa ital Sot ur ic en ankle Lines were -aught be Mt Hoed F. Wright.1' camp of the Waucoma Lumber Co. He and Harry had bee) working for the company t ut 24 bouts when the accident occurred. oot. His inj the leg was tween rolling logs st the c