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1 VOL. XX XII I II(M)I) RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY II, L921 Xo. 7 1 Thi leves know it Is folly to steal Travelers Cheques be cause they are valueless to any person save the original purchaser. Not infrequently robberies are reported in which the victims lose all of their valuables except their Travelers Cheques. Users of Travelers Cheques sign them at the time of purchase, and again In the presence of the per son cashing them. This adequate system of iden tification makes it impossible for persons other than the original purchasers to cash Travelers Cheques except through forgery, for which crime there is a severe penalty. However, Travelers Cheques should be guarded as carefully ds cash. Because they are a protection against loss through theft or fire, and because they are negotiable any where that travelers go, this bank is glad to re commend Travelers Cheques. We feel that they form an important feature of our complete baliking service. You can procure Travelers Cheques, Letters of Credit and general travel information at this bank. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK HOOD RIVER, OKI c;ON Savings and Checking Accounts Safetg Deposit lioxes Loans, Exchange and ISonds 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 Orcbardist Hood River Spray Company Phone 2421 0 See us before buying Arsenate of Lead We handle "CORONA DRY" The Universal Insecticide Orchard Supplies and International Harvester Supplies The Hood River Fruit Co. ANNOUNCEMENT Having taken oyer the LOTUS GRII I I . we wish to announce that the place ill be maintained lor the convenience of Hood River folk desiring Its use for en tertainment ol parties of blends. The LOTt S GRILLE Is ideally equipped for banquets, meeting of civic and fraternal organizations, and such bodies in Hood River contemplating such meetings are In vited to meet us. MT. HOOD HOTEL FREE! Cake of Klenzo Toilet Soap with each purchase of the New Large Family 50c Size KLENZO DENTAL CREME Next Saturday and all week until the next Saturday July 2nd to July 9th you can buy Klenzo Dental Creme iu the new, large family size tor 50c and receive one cake of the new Klenzo Toilet Soap, full size, FREE. This Economy Otter is mabe to introduce 1.: .011 this convenient new size of Klenzo Dental 'Cvv' and to acquaint you with the new K lenzo Toilet Soap. KRESSE DRUG CO. The tt&naJUL Store Come in and hear the July Victor Records ryrt - -1 VMm a 1 SUMMER BANK AD Our Ad man is thinking of babbling brooks, Cool shady nooks and the right kind of hooks, When he ought to be thinking of bank ing books, Apple hox shooks and how everything looks. He thinks a lot of other things that will keep till he gets home. BUTLER BANKING COMPANY Member Federal Reserve System I IJniTllMIMirilinTTrrTTTT 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. IMIONK 2181 t Successors to HOOD RIVER R1 BL CO. FOURTH AND CASCADE 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! prizes, for men, four for women. Four standing QPPTI I 1,11 f"rtf r notice we tvill sell our $6 bowling kJICVIrYL ticket h,,ks for S4.SO. Hood River Alleys for Hood River People E, E. HOUSE, Sole Manager APPLE OUTLOOK IS VERY GOOD CLARK ANTICIPATES HEAV Y DEMAND Crop of Valley Estimated at Approximate ly 2,000,000 Boxes Apples Will Be Extremely Clean Increasing activity in the season's apple deal is being noted here each suc ceeding week. t F. Clark, new sales manager of the Association, says that inquiries on crop conditions and infor mation that prefaces buying are com ing in. "Large eatern operators" states Mr. Clark, "are expressing a desire to buy at reasonable prices and every indica tion points to a steady, healthy demand for Northwestern box apples. With the eastern and middle western crop very moderate in supply and the crop of the northwestern states no larger than that of 1919, the stage seems to me to be set for a constant consumption of our boxed apples. " Mr. Clark says that the early esti mates of all Northwestern districts, based on the heavy blossom, were en tirely too high. After talking with growers and observing the orchards himself, he declares that the Hood River valley will not park in excess of 2,000,000 boxes of apples. The heavy set of apples is irregular except in the Upper Vallev, where trees are loaded with a record crop, and where all grow ers will have to employ thinning crews. Some growers and shipper! estimate the crop as low as 1,750,000 boxes, while the more optimistic in instances place the yield at 2,260,000. The gen eral consensus of opinion of leading growers and representative shippers puts the 1921 tonnage of commercial fruit at an approximate 2,000,000 box es, the mark set by the record yield of 1 '.II it. Mr. Clark says that he has never seen a cleaner crop of apples than pre vails here this year. The efforts of growers to eliminate anthraenose. which in former seasons has caused the deterioration of a heavy percent age of apples after they were packed, are declared to have been entirely suc cessful. The Apple Growers Associa tion and other shippers, working in conjunction with the Hood River Ex periment Station and County Fruit In spector Armstrong, have caused grow ers to cooperate to the extent that this disease is being weeded out. By th application of a Bordeaux Mixture spray at certain periods of the year it is said, this pest, which two Years ago was a serious menace to this section, can be entirely eliminated. The Association, according to ex pression of ofticals, will apply more rigid packing rules that ever this year With the clean crop of fruit available it is anticipated that the fruit shipped will be of an extremely high standard. F. L. Kent, observer for the Unite States Deparment of Agriculture gives the following report of apple crop con (litmus : Indications are that the apple crop will be larger than last year in prac tically all parts of the state. Hood River reportH about the same number of apples as last year, but a littl larger size is expected, which should increase the actual number of boxes I tie Kogue Kiver district promises a 2f per cent increase over last year, and some of the Willamette valley orchards will probably produce nearly doublt the crop of a year ago. Others, how ever, will apparently produce less than last year. r uncus has been more prevalent in the western Oregon orch ards this year than last. CHAUTAUQUA WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL The annual chautatx.ua closed six days of interesting programs Sunday night with a concert by grand opera singers headed tiy Mary Adel tlas. noted coloratura soprano. The big auditorium was overcrowdel. It is estimated that 1,600 were present Fri day evening, when "It Fays to Adver tise," a comedy drama presented with unusual merit, was given, and the same number crowded the open air auditorium Sunday night. Many were turned away. The theatre was also packed Saturday afternoon and night, when Dr. K. 1.. House gave addrcss Members of the chautauqua com mittee, who have signed for an en gagement next summer, plan on in creasing the capacity of the open air auditorium, occupying a natural am phitheatre on a city park and canopied by huge native maple trees. An interesting feature of the Chau tauqua occurred Saturday v, morning, when about 100 children, who have at tended junior programs each morning, participated in a parade. The children wore unqiue costumea. Sixty citizens signed a contract for the coming year. Officers of the I'.C'J Chautauqua organization were named as follows: Geo. M. Callaway, presi dent; Glenn B. Marsh, vice president, and I.. B. Gibson, secretary-treasurer. LOOP CONSTRUCTION EXPECTED SOON Business and Professional Women's club to Mrs. G. J. Frankel, president of the State Federation of BustlHMM and Professional Women's club-!, mem bers of the Portland club and heada of local civic and business organ iutioni at the Columbia Gorge hot! 1 was an address by Miss May Davidson of the local club, who talked on "Why a Bus iness Woman's Club?" Miss Davidson declared that the first record of business conducted by human beings showed that a woman had been the principal participant. "The first harvest," she affirmed, "the first picking, packing and distrib uting to the consumer was conducted by a Woman, and she received the first brokerage fee. Kve harve.- le,! the first apple crop." Fifty-four were present tor the din ner. Mrs. Rowland Wiley esident of the club, welcomed the visitors and presented them to the dinner party. Mrs. Susie I. Lynn, first vice presi dent, then took charge of the dinner and program. In addition to Mrs. Frankel other out of town visitors were: Miss Adelia Pritchard. presi dent of the Portland club, and Ml -, Marie Summers and Bessie F. Cald well. All of the viators gave short talks. Miss Pritchard told how the Portland club grew out of war work. She declared the organization had giown from an original membership of 87 to nearly t00. A clubroom, she stated, has been furnished and other activities entered into in the interest of business women. Mrs. Frankel spoke especially of the opportunities available for business women to work with civic betterment organizations. Mrs. William Munroe, J, H. Kred ricy, Harry Connaway and J. W. Crites responded. Mrs. Munroe, as did all the speak ers, wei'lomed the new organization of women into Hood River activities, promising their sincere cooperation in all matters of civic and public interest. Mrs. Munroe told the members of the new club they should pursue their ca leers of business until they were grey haired and ready to retire, and that then they would be eligible to join the Women's club and remain in peace the remainder of their days. Mr. ("rites was introduced as the president of Hood River's baby club, the Tuesday Lunch club, only recently Organised. He declared, however, that he felt the business women's club and his own organization, inasmuch as the former came into being only a few weeks previously, should le considered twins. A pleasing and appreciated feature of the evening was several piano selec tions rendered during dinner hy Lowell Patton, here with the Chautauqua entertainers While no formal word has been re ceived from the State Highway Com mission, county authorities express the hope that work on units of the trurk line of the Mount Hood l.oip Highay will be under construction by this fall. W. A. l.angille, county right of way agent, says that formalities of secur ing rights of way deeds is being rapid ly facilitated. He expects actual con struction of the Booth -Hill unit of the road, which will i.irninate a heavy grade between the Upjer and Lower Vullejs, in August. YAKIMA-HOOD RIVER ROAD PROPOSED Good roads enthusiasts from Port land were in Hood River Tuesday en route to Yakima on a pathfinding ex pedition, for the purpose of opening up shorter highwav connections between Portland and central Washington. Th party left Hood Ktver tietore noon on its way to Glenwood to meet a delega tion from Yakima. The principal connections between the Colombia River and the Yakima valley now pass through Goldendale, one extending through Biekleton to Mabton and Sunnyside. and the other running in a more direct route from Goldendale north over the Satus pass and thence to Toppenish. Both of these routes are lung and circuitous, and when wheat hauling begins In the summer the roads become badly cut up. The commercial bodies in Portland and Yakima have in mind a short cut from Hood River and White Salmon north through Glenwood, thencj across the western end of the Yakima Indian reservation to Fort Simcoe and White Swan, thence to Yakima. This route from Hood River to Yakima would be approximately l" miles shorter than from Hood River to Yakima via Got deridale and Saint I'ass, and hi miles shorter than by way of Goldendale and Biekleton, The advantages to through traffic are obvious. The Portland party consisted of Ihl mar I'apst gem ral manager of the Portland Gas Coke Company, A. K. Shearer, RUUMfl r of the Oregon State Motor Association and Lewis A. Mc Arthur, general manager of the Pacific Power a Light Company. They plan ned to meet 0, C Soots, secretary of the Yakima Comrrercial Club at Glen woixf Tuesday noon, and get into Yaki ma in the evening. FINAL HEARING OF WATER CASE NEAR The final hearing in an adjudication f BOOte-tcil . laim-t to water rights-. on Hood nwr and its tributaries will In- held by ('in 'ill ludge Wilson here July While formal notices of the ses sion have tun in alien py me mhic Water Board to all property owners of the vallev. whose lands possess water FAIR BOARD WANTS HELP STATUS OF YEAR'S EVENT IN D(T T s Directorate Declares that Buildings, fc mated Cost of Which is $5,000, Are Necessary The Hood River Fair Board, com posed of P. L. Manser, A. W. Peters and E. F. Batten, declares that the success of future fairs is doomed un less the community by some means raises an approximate $5,000 for the construction of permanent buildings. At the instance of the board members and citizens the county court recently authorized the board to spend a maxi mum of $1,000 in purchasing the site of permanent fair grounds. The hoard members state that they have located suitable suburban acreage just west of the city, but the county officials are powerless to appropriate funds for the construction of buildings. A vote of electors would be required for such an appropriation, and such ac tion would be too late for this year. The fair board has suggested the plan of rais ng the proposed building fund by private subscriptions. Mr. Manser in a comment on the sit uation sas: "One glance at our ex penditures, showing the amount of money spent annually on temporary Hcommodations is sufficient justifica tion for permanent buildings." ''When the merchants and exhibitors of Hood River county demand safe and adequate buildings In which to exhibit their goods, it is time for us to aban don the costly and inefficient tent," says E. F. Batten. "Jf the county wants an annual fair it must have permanent buildings in which to house its exhibits," says A. W. Peters. LEGION TO STAGE MOUNTAIN CLIMR rights, tlx the M ui Fork and and the laims to v Ho.i river Th. ad i re the M Board sine insofar as within tht :ision. set Judge Wib ig touches dire ater V')., th r Irrigation l Lumber Co., wli the Fast Fork which h According to announaements made Saturday by Commander Edward W. Van Horn, the Hood River American Legion Post will inaugurate the cus tom of annual ascent of Mount Hood for legion members of Oregon and other sections at some date during August. With Kent Shoemaker made chairman of the 1921 committee, invi tations are going forward to every Oregon Post, to Governor Olcott, members of the Oregon Bonus Com mission and to National Commander Emery. "It is our purpose," says Mr. Van Horn, "to make the climb a red letter event every year in Oregon American Legion circles. While we haven't time to attract Legion members from other parts of the nation this year, in subse quent years it is our aim to make the affair national and attract former doughboys, gobs and Devil Dogs from all over the country. "We expect to delegate Mark Wey gandt, veteran Hoik! guide, to take full charge of selecting the camp. He will be our commander in chief while making the climb. The women folk of Legien members will be welcome to join us. We will journey to the camp by automobiles and trucks. From in terest in the plans, it is likely that our party will form a record number for climbing the snow peak at one time." RECREATION ISTS PER PETRATE VANDALISM I'he acts of vandalism of motor tour ists who visit Multnomah Falls, ac cording to S. G. Oxborrow, who. en route home from Portland with his family stopped the other night and talked with the caretaker there, are astounding. 'we stopped to prepare a lunch and boil some coffee," says Mr. Oxborrow. I he caretaker immediately ap peared and apologized that the wood upply was exhausted. He told us that two cords, enough, if used for the purpose for which it had been pre pared, for mote than a week, had been available two days before. But one night a party of hoodlums visited the park around the falls. They had burned all of the Wood and had then thrown lunch tables on top of the fire. The action has resulted in the new tables being ladled to the rocks. Hi sntly the drinking fountains, construe'. id at considerable expense. were found to he dry. A crew of men spent three days digging up the nie in a vain endeavor to find the obstruc tion. Finally it was discovered that practical jokers had unscrewed the caps of the fountains and plugged up the pipes w ith pieces of wood beforil replacing them. The caretaker recited to us the lark of regard for their fel low recreationists in the recent acts of h parts that came out from Portland one Saturday night to climb Larch mountain. The big crowd came in 40 automobiles. Without thinking of how they might congest the already limited parking place, they strung out their cars in an awkward Baas, chaining circuit court is eei two months in a de- tested claims, by j ilV V MVATR Tl .vsikJkJ .iii;ii.iijii iv IOWA MERCHANTS ATTEND CONVENTION THRIVE I.N WEST ; d w. re and for C V. H. NEW WOMAN'S ( LI B GIVES RECEPTION The feature of a reception tei Thursday evening by the Hood L. Monner will leave eland. O.. with Mrs. G. Portland, president of ration of Business and omen's Clubs, and Miss ird. president of the and other Oregon dele I the convention of the ation of the organ i ta lon ner. who represents r chapter of the Oreeon m, will join the Port n in appealing for Use t-id as the lie fimt The who wood Mr a mo roast pa ted ip bu- ef.- men are the only survivors Miss Monner will carry letters fr m engaged in business in Glen- ; the Hood River Commercial Club and elate 60a. other rt vie organizations. Ska wwl sway recently aeturned from 'distribute strawberry-fi'led chocolate 'Aillamette valley ard sa of cherries grown ta. Wfcjie away he partict- J beta. Before retominc beast, Mita a raaniaa with his old Iowa Monner will visit Chicago, New York fellow. I City and Washington. D. C t ,i