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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
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$(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
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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.