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o Ihe VOL. XXXIII HOOD RIVER, OHLGON, TW'KSDAY, Jl'NE 9, 1921 No. 2 WHEN A MAN MARRIES At a recent notional conference of savings bank officials, it was said that married men save more than single men- and more savings accounts are opened In June than in any other month. So J i ine, the month of hrides-- and sweet irl grad uates and eager boys with the liht oi the world's battles in their eyes-- is also the month of Sayings Accounts. But why limit this advantage to married folks? Everyone needs a savings account and now is the best time to start one and here is a good place where good service and security of funds make our interest rate doubly attractive. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK HOOD RIVER, OREGON Jontee! Toilet Requisites Perfumed with the wonderful new odor of 26 flowers Jonteel Combination Cream Jonteel Cold Cream Jonteel Face Powder Jonteel Face Powder Compact, and Rouge Jonteel Talc Jonteel Extract and Toilet Water Jonteel Soap Jonteel Manicure Sets KRESSE DRUG CO. The &jQ&SL jtorc Come in and hear the June Victor Records The Apple Blossom Cafe Since we came to Hood River, we have been pon dering ouer a name for our Oak Street cafe. Finally it dawned on us that nothing could he more significant of the Hood River Valley and its wealth of pastoral and scenic beauty, the orchards, surrounded by fir-clad hills and ranges, overtopped by the sentinel peak of Hood than The Apple Blossom Cafe In our choice of a name we expect to live up to the Hood River and Apple Rlossom standard. We intend to make the name "Apple Blossom Cafe" popular in Hood Kiver and a name that you will sincerely respect. R. V. FOREMAN 1 w ! L : - i, $(5500 Hood River School District No. 5, maturing 1927 to 1931. Price par and interest to yield 6. $3000 Clatsop County, Ore., Road Bonds, maturing 1931. Price par and interest to yield 6. $3000 Port of Umpqua, Douglas County, maturing 1927. Price 98 and interest to yield 6.40. BUTLER BANKING COMPANY Member Federal Reserve System M4M RLStivl I -JIHH : innir imm i : n mi i mmmrrrmmrmtma Thousands will go Back East this summer because of the Low Round-Trip Fares offered by the big cross-continent railroad Union Pacific System Serving the transportation needs of the Great Pacific Northwest anil giving through service via the pnp.ilar direct routes to Salt Lake City, Denver, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Paul, Minneapolis ami Chicago on these two strictly first class trains "Oregon-Washington" Limited and "Continental Limited" Tickets on Sale Daily Until anil including Vug 15tli. Return limit N ilays but not later than October .list. Chicago $106 80 Memphis $111.60 Pueblo $ 77.40 Denver 77.40 Minneapolis 87.60 St. Paul 87.60 Kansas City 87.60 Omaha 87.60 St. Louis 101.40 S per rent war Tax to le add I Proportionate reductions to manv points Kast. Stop-overs at plea- in-. Side trips may be arrange.! for Yellowstone, .ion and pinky Mountain National Parks. For complere details as to routings, train sc hedule, side trips, slei p Ing ear rates and reservations, and other travel information desired rail on or telephone J. H. Fredricy Phone 1151 HOOD RIVER, ORE Wm. Mt Murray. General Passenger Agent- Portland. Oregon 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. I'HONK 2181 Successors to HOOD RIVKR KWi. CO. FOURTH AND CASCADE It's A Wise Woman who offers hor husband an after ner cifrar from a box pur chased here. He'll slay home all right and be so rood natured that tfettinfr a new gown or hat will be as easy as can be. for our ci gars are a real man's smoke. They soothe, comfort and satisfy THE ELECTRIC KITCHEN H. S. GEORGE. Prop. Clean, Friendly Place Clean, Friendly Game COOL The Blue Diamond Bowling Alleys is the coolest place in town in the summer months. And our new electric ventilation absolutely does away with the smoke nuisance. Have you yet won one of our prizes? Four standi ng prizes for men, four for women. PFPIAI Till further nortec ice wilt sell our 16 boui ting Ol LAjIIWj tit k, I t.,ks f.,r CM Hood River Alleys for Hood River People E. E. HOUSE, Soe Manager BERRY HARVEST IS UNDER WAY PICKING AT HEIGHT THIS WEEK Delayed Season and Protracted Warm Weather May Result in Short Harvest Quality Fine I lP High Grade 1 m Municipal Offerings H H We offer subject to prior sale, the following U) desirable MUNICIPAL BONDS: U W W The Hood River strawberry harvest, delayed longer than normally because of continued cool spring weather, is at its height this week. The Apple Growers Association shipped the first carlot of berries Saturday night, and carloads have followed each night since. Three carloads were shipped last night. the delay or harvest resulted in many transient families, most of whom motored here over the Highway, rc turning before berries were ready to pick, Prospective pickers began ar riving two weeks ago. The free auto camp has been crowded with their cars. Not until the latter part of last week did growers legin calling for help. For a time it looked as though the premature arrival and disappoint ment of nickers, who lett hy the score the latter part of last week might re sult in a labor shortage. The berry harvest, as a result of the late season, will probably be shorter than usual. Especially will this be true if the weather turns and remains very hot. The berry fields of the foot hills in the Willow Flat and Mount Hood district will be ripening this week, and their harvest, usually a good bit later, will occur at the same time as in the fields of the lower elevations of the valley. The short season, too. may cause the tonnage to be somewhat lighter than the estimate of 80,000 crates. The quality of berries so far market ed is above the average. The fruit is firm and of a uniformly large size. COLUMBIA FLOODS LOWLAND GARDENS Seeping through a gopher hole on the upper end of the dike Sunday night, the Columbia flood inundated the extensive truck gardens of Harry Munemato, who has the lowlands on the F. H. Button place just east of the city leased on a share basis. the small leak was soon worked into a large break in the levee and the wat ers poured into the field. Monday morning the diked-in area had become a lake, and Mr. Munemato's borne was cut off. The damage is variously estimated as from $2,500 to R000. Harry picked his crop of peas last Friday, the prod uct selling in ready demand here for 20 cents per pound. He had a large acreage oi tomatoes iruiting, ana nis early potatoes would have been on the market in a few weeks. His aspara gus was not all harvested. Harry had made a game tight to keep his tracts clear of seepage water and had gone to considerable expense. Since the flood water had begun to climb the dikes he had kept an electrically driven pump going at his place. FLOOD INUNDATES KOBEKG'S GARDENS With the water still a foot from the top. the dikes around J. H. Koberg s Twentieth Century Truck Farm, one of the moat renowned truck gardens in Oregon, broke Tuesday morning, inun dating his extensive tracts and caus ing a damage estimated at nearly $10,000. Now under many feet of water, the lug truck farm, alongside the O.-W. It. & N. track just east of the city, has the appearance of a lake. Mr. Koberg's crop loss includes string beans, potatoes, cabbage, large aspar agus tracts, tomatoes and other vegetables. The flood water of the (Columbia, now higher than any time since tVlS, has practically wiped out truck gar dening on the lowlands Itetween The Dalles and points west of here. these districts have been accustomed to sup ply the local market and to ship huge juantities r produce to northwestern metropolitan points and the interior. The crop loss, which will reach upward of $100,000 along the mid-Columbia, will result in a serious shortage of vegetables. Mr. Koberg's place has not been flooded since 1910, his dikes having held during high water of 1913. 1917 and 1918. He declares that the gov ernment service is remiss in reporting the upstream raise of the river. "I did not know untir last night, when I came to town and secured a Telegram," he said TueMlav, "that the Snake and Odumhia had shown such a raise. As soon as I saw it I immediately wetit home and removed my pumping plant and apparatus that would have been lost if they had been left. I did not get the government re port of the upstream condition until this morning. It seems to me that the wires should be used in such in stances." The Koberg home is cut 'off from ve hicular traffic, but the family uses a floating bridge across the floods, reaching the O.-W. R. ft N. track. The home, on an eminence, is out of reach of the water, utiles the stream raise very much. will be formally opened to the public next Wednesday. The big dining room, overlooking the Columbia ami Wau-Guin-Guin falls of 1'helps cr k, will be in commission, and a luge guest list of local and Portland folk is ex pected. At a very early date the hostelry will be the scene of a banquet given by Julius I.. Meier, of Portland, and associates in good roads movements of the past decade, in honor of Simon Benson. The new hostelry, erected at a cost of $300,000 bv Mr. Benson, will be managed by Henri Thiele, former chef of the Hotel Benson, Portland. Mr. Benson made the choice of Ihe loca tion a mile west of the Hood Kiver city, limits, laft summer. The first announcements of his pluns for a mid Columbia, tourist hotel were made Sunday, August 8, last year, when Al Kader Temple of the Mystic Shrine entertained members of the San Fran cisco Shrine Temple at a picnic ar ranged by Mr. Thiele on the grounds of Wau-Guin-Guin. ROAD BONDS HAVE CARRIED THE VOTE 1257 FOR, 898 AGAINST tipper Valley Precincts are Unanimous And Lower Town Electors Roll Up Big Majority d River county by votiu"- a bond VAUGHAN VICE PRES. OF BANKERS' ASS'N LEGION POST HOLDS DELEGATE ELECTION Huod River Poet of the American legion held an election of delegates, to attend the anual state convention, at the regular meeting Monday night. A committee, composed of George E. Barr. Robert J. Barr. Valentine Bear son and Hayes L. Bickford, provided teas for the Monday meeting. NEW HOTEL TO BE OPEN WEDNESDAY The Columbia Gorge Hotel, which is now receiving the finishing touches, C. H. Vaughan was elected vice president of the Oregon State Bank ers Association which met at .-veaside last week. Mr. Vaughan and S. J. Moore were in attendance from here motoring down in Mr. Moore s car, They were accompanied by their wives. The convention, it is paid, was one or the most interesting ever held. Speaking of it, Mr. Moore says: We were addressed oy some emi nent bankers from the east. Vice Chairman Grant, of the board of the Irving National, and Vice President Cox. of the National Bank of Com merce, both large New York City in stitutions, made talks. All declare that the crest of embarrassing days due to deflation has parsed, and t hat nationwide the status of legitimate credit is wholesome. 1 think 1 gath ered mv most interesing information from Mr. Cox, who pleaches higher quality and a cheapei ing of costs of production in fruit districts. Mr. Cox, who is interested in what the raisin growers have been doing in California, declares that fruit products must be distributed widely and kept out of the luxury class. He told how the raisin men had seen the evils attendant on recent high priced raisins, and how they were working toward bringing back their commodity to the status of a staple and putting rat-ins again on the pie counter. He urged apple growers to do likewise." lection o lain of lAR IN PLUNGE, OCCUPANTS UNHURT Accompanied by his wife and two children, S. A. Jones, of Burns, drove his automobile over an embankment near Wyeth Saturday. The car turned over three times, plunging through a barbed wire fence on its way to the foot of a steep embankment. The oc cupants were left scattered all along the track of the machine, but not one of them suffered a scratch. Mr. Jones savs he and his wife were both looking at. a wooded spot, where they planned camping for the night and did not notice the curve they were approach ing. Aided by Traffic Officers Murray and Wood, Mr. Jones had the car drawn back to the Highway. After compara tively small repairs, BOTH Hating its escapade, the family party continued to l'ortland to see the Rose Festival. SCHOOL GROUNDS BEING IMPROVED The city school Ixjard has awarded to J. L. Walker, of the Heights, the con tract for grading and terracing the grounds of the new Park Street school. A lawn and shrubbery will be placed immediately around the new brick building. Divided by a walk, boys' and girls' playgrounds will be ar ranged along Ninth street. The school grounds comprise a full citv block, and the board plans on making them the handsomest of the city. Mr. Walker will receive $1.40 per hour for work with two men and a team. Stranahan & Slavens have begun re pairing of the Junior high school, dam aged several weeks Bgo by a roof fire. Insurance companies paid a loss of $1,800, of which $1 40O was on the structure and the balance on furniture. FAIR BOARD TO GO ON JUNKET Saturday, June 18, the County Fair Board, accompanied by many citizens, will make their annual motor junket ing tour through the valley, inspecting stock farms, ranches and orchards Last year's tour, whirh resulted in greatly increased interest in the fair, will be eel i pM d by this year's junket, it is said. Ail who intend making this trip should communicate with Secre tary Manser, Telephone 5497. The for tSffe will leave the Commercial Club at 9 a. m. Ice cream and coffee will be served at 1'arkdale, and all who will make the touY are at-ked to take picnic kindtes. UPPER VALLEY POWER SYSTEM COMPLETE Work of installing an electrical er distributing ijatsss fat Upper lev orchard f i-th of I'arkdal been completed st an si proximal DOW- Vsl ouou uiver county ny votin issue of $850,000 at Tuesday' Ej forged the last link in the events that will lead to tt- Mount Hood Loop Highway encirclirj;; Mount Hood. The local bond issue w ivoted on an invitation from the Stai High way Commission asking the ity to join on a 50-50 basis with the j-g te in constructing a 20.8 mile trunk! id uo the East Side of the Hood Ri val ley,' over Booth Hill and thrd tithe Upper Valley orchard section, delect ing the Columbia River Highway with the Loop road at the bounds of the national forest. The estimated cost of the trunk, work on which will begin at once, is 1632,000, Hood River made available extra funds for the possible cost of rights of ways, but orchardists for the most part have already signi fied, their intention of donating rights of way, and W. A. Langille, who has been engaged by the county to canvass growers whose places are traversed by the survey, estimates that the total cost of rights will not reach $15,000. Hood River voters, who supported Ihe blind issue, considered the trunk road from a mnrket standpoint as well as from the point of its importance as a tourist trunk route. The highway had its greatest support in the two Upper Valley precincts, the voters realizing the benefits they would de rive from a trunk maiket route that will enable them to reach Hood River on a five per cent grade. The new trunk will eliminate tortuous grades of the old road, which is fairly impass able in the winter months. 1'arkdale precinct of the Upper Valley gave the road bonds 285 to 9 against, and vote in Mt. Hood precinct was 98 for and only 4 against. The opposition was noted in districts remote from the trunk road and from the Odell section. where voters expressed disapproval beause the survey passes a mile to the east of the marketing center. Gen- ral rejoicing prevails in the Upper Valley sections. The business popula tion of Hood River, too, recorded a strong majority for the bonds. While the opposition to the bonds. casting aspersions at the honesty of the State Highway Commission, con ducted an organized last moment cam paign against the bonds, the efforts of supporters were never as strongly organized as in the road bond cam paign of 1914, whin the county voted an issue for dnening impassable stretches of the Columbia River High way. Several meetings were arranged and held by J. II. Fredricy and an ac tive part for the bonds was taken by S. Benson, ex-chairman of the State Highway , Commission, who is now making his home here. Mr. Benson's participation is recognized to have had a strong influence on voters. The vote on the bond issue by pre cincts for and against respectively was as follows: Baldwin, !18 and 4; Bar rett, 67 and 107; Center, 82 and 83; Dee, 25 and 37; Falls, 27 and 67; I'ark. 20 and 60; North 180 and 46; Odell, 98 and 177; Oak Grove, 39 and 63; Heights, 71 and 47; 1'arkdale. 235 and 9; I'ine firove, 153 and 103; Waueoma, 123 and 00 ! West, 35 and 35. "1 am exceedingly pleatied with the ri suit of the ejection," declared Mr. Benson yesterday. My observation of Hood River valley folk leads me to say that you can trust them to do the right thing in the long run. Everybody ulti mately is going to be proud of the action taken Tuesday." The Loop Highway was first brought before the public in 1910, when, at the instance of J. O. lLuinum, then countv commissioner, a horseback trip over the proposed route of the road was ar ranged by T. H. Sherrard, state forest supervisor. The following participated in the ride: Mr. Sherrard. Rufus Hul man, Leslie Butler, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Clark, Kngineers Finch and Schuy ler, of the United States Fort strv Ser vice, C. A. Bell, Mr. Hannum, Mrs. Anna K. Baker. Ilee Worgltt, Warren Cooper and Kd Spencer. The party entered the forests June 25, 1916 near Mount Hood Lodge and spent the right camped at Flk Meadows. Mr. Sher rard had had trails slashed over por tions of the route and an elaborate camp was provided. The snowfields of Mount Hood and snouts of glaciers were within easy access of the party much of the time they rode around the east base of the peak. The stories of high praise for the magnificent mountain scenery, the acres of wild fioweis, including huge expanses of fragrant Mt. Hood lilies and the wild grandeur found there resulted in early agitation for the Loop Highway, and the constantly in creasing agitation resulted in the pro gram considered at Tuesday's election. NEIGHBORS OF WOOD CRAFT MEET HERE With L. B. Gibson delivering sn si- j dress of welcome, the snnual eor.ver. ! tion of the Oregon district of Neigh bors of Woodcraft comprised of t rook, Wasco, Hood River Mult'Mmaii. Co lumbia. Clatsop, Tillsmook, Sherman, Clackamas arid Wsthir.gton counties, was opened at the I'ythian hall Mon day. With s single exception, dele gates, numheiing 214, were here from each of the 31 circles in the 10 com ic . iMtors were tei icreu a n on Monday right, the of which was a strawberry ti iture ist. of W.OKI. Right miles of line were built, and an area of orchards of the section. 2 by 1) miles will be served. The growers of the section have formed a company for the purchase of energy in wholesale quantities. They bore the expense of the distrib uting line are! will distribute the power to themselves. The orchardists will use electricit not only to light their homes snd for other domestic pur Doaes. bat thev plan on Aerating van er ; del ous apple harvest a Max L Moore I Upper Valley men. officers igam, past dis th Wise, dis Jones. dist'ict district bank r.noff. district 'ict magician ; rt captain of p man, district lis, district in-K-ken, district earn, Theresa , district man- .1 .tnct du ctus!. trict inspector.