Jiooft timtxti. HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, L921 VOL. XX XI II No. 11 1T We are as near you as your mail box. When you can't come to this nk in person BANK BY MAIL Send your checks and drafts for deposit by the mail man and we will credit them to your account and return a receipt promptly. PAY DILLS BY CHECK BY MAIL USE ALL OF OUR SERVICE. lilJipHI k The First MTIONALdANK HoodRiver.Ore. See us before buying Arsenate of Lead We handle "CORONA DRY" The Universal Insecticide Orchard Supplies and International Harvester Supplies IW uuu:i ni j ii 1 1; u; :n imrini 1 1 J i iiimiiii The Hood River Fruit Co. SERVICE No longer is it necessary to visit several diff erent stores for material for one small construc tion job. We carry for your convenience well selected stocks of several lines of oods closely allied with the lumber business. One of our special depart ments is BUILDERS' HARDWARE Here you will find nails, brads, screws, locks, hinges, etc. We can supply your material list com plete and all under one roof. Emry Lumber & Fuel Co. Successors to BRIDAL VEIL LUMBERING CO. Phone 2181 Fourth and Cascade The Foundation for Success in any venture is honest WORK I have never been accused even by my enemies of beinjr a slacker or afraid f work. Honest work, coupled with good equipment and a thorough understanding of the work to be done makes for ritisfwtory nervier. The initial cost of fitisfactory r. io is no more than any other. Satisfactory nerrire is the only kind that you should want. Why not try it at Shay's SERVICE Shop FASH ION STABLES Shop 121 Re 2"1 THE BANK AS TRUSTEE A This bank Is authorized and qualified to act as Trustee, Guardian, Executive or Administrator. We are thus enabled to extend a ser vice that oes beyond the span of a single life. We may act as executor and trustee under the will of a customer and thus extend to his estate and his heirs the business judgment and financial respon sibility on which the customer was ac customed to rely during life. BUTLER BANKING COMPANY Ski aSBREZ j Member Federal Reserve System '. 'TTTTni ITTTTTTn M I III II 1 1 TfJ ft 1 1 1 H I ui;iiwniii:im ANNOUNCEMENT IczzroczDl It is with considerable regret that we have to announce that thru the inability to secure suitable accommodations at this time, the Hood River County Annual Fair has been postponed until next year. The Board would like to express their appre ciation to those who already have devoted consid erable time and energy in cultivating and otherwise preparing the exhibits and displays. We hope next year to be able to bring to ma turity already well defined plans for a first-class representative Fair on our own grounds, with at least a commencement of adequate buildings. The Annual School Fair will be held as usual in the High School on September 23 and 24, and the Board hope the people of the County will pa tronize and attend the School Fair thereby encour aging the young folks and at the same time pave the way for an even bigger and better annual County Fair next year. CZ30IZZ HOOD RIVER COUNTY FAIR BOARD John C. Duckwall Wm. S. Duckwall DUCKWALL BROS. Wish to announce that they will be cash buyers of the principal varieties of apples and pears this sea son and load from all points in the Valley. We furnish growers' supplies and materials. Apple and Pear Boxes Spray Materials Paper We will have a small supply of the specially prepared oil paper to prevent scald on the late keeping varieties and recommend a limited use of it this season. DICKWALL BROS. The New "Eveready" Spotlight with the 300 foot range The Light that says, "There it is!" "EVEREADY" BATTERIES Fit and Improve All Flashlights we have a complete stock. .v. KRESSE DRUG CO. The jt&GJLb iSfore Come in and hear the August Victor Records LARGE SIGN IS ATTRACTIVE BOARD 25 FEET LONG, 8 FEET HIGH Map and Comprehensive Directions Hear Immediate Fruit Another to Be Placed East of City A huge sign, eight and a half feet high and 25 feet long carrying a relief map of the Hood River valley and comprehensive data on points of scenic interest, had not been fully erected last week at the city's free automobile camp grounds when it began to bear fruit. "I was still at work on placing the big signboard," says 1". L Manser, "when an automobile, loaded with tourists, stopped to view the map and note its road directions. I hey en gaged me in conversation. When they left they declared that they were head ed for the orchards of the valley. I he new sign, protected by a roof was paid for jointly by the city and county. It resulted from a campaign started last til bv the riusiness Men s Association, a committee of which co operated with the county court in plac ing comprehensive road signs on all highway intersections of the valley last spring. Descriptions of scenic points, camping places and sites from which the tourists may enjoy fishing are numbered. They are similarly designated on the map. The signboard carries data on the district's fruit in dustry and notes that the orchard areas contain MO miles of ir.-igat'ng ditches. A similar sign will be erected at the east side of the city on the Highway, These two large boards, supplementing the system of county road signs, will, it is declared, place Hood River county in the forefront of Oregon counties for comprehensive highway directions. BLANCHAR LAUDS PARADISE SCENERY "I have never seen more magnificent mountain scenery than that in line of vision from Paradise Park," says E. O. Klanchar, who with Mrs. Hlanchar and Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Nye returned Monday from a motor trip north. "The atmosphere was so clear the day we visited I'aradise Inn that we were able, with a pair of ordinary glassc.-, to see a line of climbers ascending Rainier. "The nmd up to the inn is the best mountain highway I have ever traveled over. One is made to feel safe by the way the forestry service conducts traffic. Paradise Valley is now vury alluring with its expanses of wild flowers. Snow banks 10 and 12 feet high abound around the hotel. They are packed hard and will last the sum mer out." Mr. Hlanchar, who had not motored over the Pacific Highway north from Portland since l'Jl'J, says the route is much better going than two years ago. He says ha struck but about 15 miles of slow road on the trip. The party crossed the river from Goble to Ka lama. HARRY CONNAWAY HONORED IN COOS arise. He will also investigate unim proved lands, which carry potential water rights, but which will loHe them if owners allow the lapse of an un reasonable length of time in their de velopment. The following is clipped from a (i la cier of the period when irrigation proj ect! here were in the formative period : "Hood River farmers will own their own ditch. They will either buy out the Valley Improvement Go. or build their own system. That this should be done is the conviction forced upon the farmers bv the events of the pail two weeks. Saturday's mass meeting gave a more formal expression to the thought, and started a movement that will make the farmers complete mas ters of the situation. "A. C. Staten was chairman of the meeting in the absence of Attorney Jayne, and I). N. Byerlee filled the secretary's chair. Mr. Staten, on opening the meeting said in part: " 'Let your decision be such that it will in unmistakable tones notify the usurper, i whoever he may be, that the rights of the people of Hood River are, and will forever be, the paramount issue in all contracts whatever. Let your position today be such that they will go out as an index to capital that vou are a people who demand and can appreciate fair dealing.' " PEAR HARVEST TO BEGIN VERY SOON JOSEPH NOVACHEK While the pear tonnage of the Hood River valley has shrunk at least. 100 cars from estimates made at the blooming period, when trees were loaded with the heaviest blossom in the history of the district, all growers report that tho quality of this species of fruit of all varieties will be the best the community has ever harvest ed. The heavy blooms justified the growers in estimating the year's yield at more than 200 carloads. Some even went so far as to place the crop, pro vided the blooms set, at 800 cars. Es timates now place the yield at from 110 to 120 cars, about a 25 per cent in crease over that of 1020. Growers will begin harvesting Kart letts between August 15 and 20. Pick ing of d'Anjous will follow. Both va rieties will be packed and shipped east under refrigeration. The pears will be hauled immediately from the fields and packed in cold storage rooms. J. R. Nunamaker says he has never seen Kartlett pears sizing more rapidly or showing better quality than a present. He expects the fruit to bring top prices on the eastern markets. BOND BIOS ARE CALLED FOR PART OF TRUNK ISSUE ADVERTISED Court Will Sell $150,000 September 1 Booth Hill OUt is to Be Con structed at Once The county court has called for bids on $150,000 of the $.'S50,000 bond issue voted here in June for construction of ttie Mount Hood Loop Highway up through the valley. The bids will be Opened September 1. It is proposed to use the money in constructing a new grade over Booth Hill. A contract for this unit of the work will be let soma time this month by the State Highway Commission, which will furnish 50 per cent of the funds necessary to grade and rock surface the 21-mile trunk route through the valley. If preliminary preparations can be concluded and the winter weather re mains open other portions of the county's authorized bond issue will be sold and work will be pushed as fast as possible on the trunk. STAR OF CLIMB vlISS MONNER IS BACK FROM EAST Harry tVmnaway, who was with the D. O. K. K. band at Coos Hay points for the recent Pythian Sister, Knights of Pythias and Dokky celebration, was given a signal honor by the class of Dokkies initiated at Kandon. It is us ual for the candidate on whom is ex emplified the work to be chosen from the community that is acting as host, but the Kandon Pythians, learning of the populariy of Mr. Gonnaway and his .prominence in this community, suggested his choice for the honor. "The generosity of the Goat Hay folk, at every one of the host cities, Kandon, Marehfield, North Bend and Goquille, was something to cheer our hearts," says Joe Frazier. "The mem bets of the order and eople in general turned out to greet us with open hards. Our stay was made exceeding ly pleasant. They fed us all the deli cacies and staples of the land. The closing day of the convention Kandon fed 5,000 people at a barbecue. It was not just a threat at getting a man filled with food either. They loaded him with sumptuous helping. " FREDRICY INVITES SHIPPERS TO WEST J. H. Fredricy has voiced the senti ment of the Commercial Club in a let ter to the International Apple Shipper Association, which will meet this week at Cincinnati, urging that the body hold it next annual convention at Se attle. Mr. Fredricy assures the apple hippera that Seattle will entertain them with true western hospitality. He also cite the numerous side trip to points of naturally scenic beauty. He end his letter, however, with an appeal, if Seattle in chosen for next year's annual meeting, that none of the fruit men mis Hoid River valley, with it apple and surrounding moun tain before returning east. Mr. Fredricy in his description of we tern scenery and hi mention of Ixtat Lake grow poetic in hi letter. Miss Minnie I,. Monner, representa tive of the Hood River Rusmess and Professional Women's Club, who has just returned from a tour of eastern cities, participated in following the national convention of her dob at Cleveland, ()., says that the l!2;t bien nial convention of the organization will in all probability come to Port land. "Without exception the delegates to the convention expressed an inter est in the West, " says Miss Monner, "They had heard of the hospitable re caption the Shriners received in MB, They all want to see the Columbia River Highway and the orchards of regon. " Miss Monner visited Washington, New York Gity, Chicago, Kutfalo and Niagara Kails. It was her first trip east. She declares she returned home impressed with the Pacific Northwest as a region of a great many more ad vantages than any place she saw. While in New York Miss Monner purchased new stock for her millinery store direct from Cage Pros, headquar ter. She spent the latter part of last week in Portland attending buyers' week activities. NEWTOWNS BEING LIMITED TO OREGON H. J. Wilder, investigating work done in Pacific Coast high schools un der the Smith-Hughes Act, passed sev eral years ago by Congress, while a guest at Hoerlein Ranch, has been in specting local orchards. Mr. Wilder sbvs he believes that local growers will make no mistake in developing new tracts of Newtown Pippins. "While tli" Newtown, also known as the Albemarle, has long been a popu lar variety in Virginia," said Mr. Wilder. "I find that grower there are discontinuing it liecaip-t- it is not a re liable bearer there. It'seems that you growers of Oreconwere going to get a monopoly on this variety. While 1 find that eastern Spitsenburgs keep better than your Northwestern apples of this variety, growers of the eastern com mercial section do not take to the ap pie, and it is going to become more and more scarce there." SCHOOL BOARD ( ALLS ELECTION The Identity of the star participant in the American Legion ascent of Mount Hood Sunday before last was not revealed until late last week, when it was learned that the lone man, who was seen following the trail up Coopers Spur after the lines of the main party had formed at Tie-Up rock but who trudged steadily up the snow fields, overhauling the party and heat ing them to the summit, was J. Nova chek, young architect. The feat per formed by Mr. Novachek is considered remarkable. The architect started at daybreak at the toll bridge in the Upper Valley and walked to the Legion camp above the Hannum ranch. Although he found the climbers already half way up the mountain his determination was not daunted. Garbed in tennis shoes and an ordinary business suit, and a white collar around hi neck, he cut from a hemlock branch a stick, about the length of an ordinary cane, and was off. Mr. Novachek did not stop for the formality of covering his face with black greasepaint, nor did he wear col ored glasses. Dpapito his 10-mile walk to the camp he maintained a stride all the way to the summit that would, the line of spectators declared, have wind ed most climbers in a half hour. Mr. Novachek appeared as fresh, after his unprecedented experience, an any of the climbers who had taken the mountain at a slow pace. He suffered no ill effects to his eyes, although hia face peeled from bad sunburning. The CHi Bi hoal Board has called an election for August 27, when patrons will vote on the proposition of fun ish ing free motor truck transportation to an approximate 15 pupils who reside on the East Side. The children, it is stated, have to walk down the long East Side grade and then climb the ateep eanyonside of the city to reach school. The cot of the proposed transporta tion is estimated at $750. A. C. STATEN LONG IRRIGATION LEADER METAL NAME PLATES AFTER DISTURBANCE HOOD IS QUIET (From the Oregonian) As suddenly as it started, the re ported subterranean eruption under Crater rock on, the south side of Mount Hood, has stopped, and where, Sunday night and Monday, there were signs of hot sands and boiling water pouring from a huge crevice, Tuesday there was nothing which would indicate that unusual disturbances were at work down in the uncharted depths of the snow-capped peak. Kv long distance telephone from Government Camp hotel Mrs, L, F. Pridemore, wife of the proprietor of the mountain hostelry, reported Tues day that everything was quiet and se rene along the southwest slope of the mountain. "There is no sand visible tcday and the disturbance has, apparently, sub sided," she said. "Persons who were in that vicinity this morning eaul that the water pouring from the crevice ia cold. The water was taid to be boil ing hot. the day before." Mountain guides were to make an other trip to Crater rock yesterday for the purpose of making a complete in vestigation, lira. Pridemore said. While the eruption was in progress huge rocks and boulders shot up from the deep crevice below Grater rocK and started slides of snow and debris down the side of the' mountain. The crevice, which was discovered directly below Crater rock, is about a mile long, the hi, til euides, Chester Treichel and Orville Zimmerman, re port' d. while it ranges in width from a few inches to more than 50 feet in some places. It was from this crevice that the subterranean eruption poured. "CARUSO," SUBJECT OF LUNCH CLUB "Caruso," was the subject of discus sion by the Tuesday Lunch Club at it regular weekly luncheon at the Pheas ant. R. K. Perigo, chariman of the meeting, read a paper on the genius of the great tenor, who, he declared, had developed his mind, body and spirit for the rendition of golden song. Mr. Perigo cited how the song of Caruso would be preserved throughout the ages bv the phonograph. Homer A Roger read a letter from S. F. Woodbury, purchasing agent of the Willamette Iron & Steel Co., in praise of service at his hotelrie. Df. E. I . Kanaga will be chairman of the meeting next Tuesday. One of the interesting features of the Tuesday luncheon was a program f u trola records given through cour tesy of Herman Kresse. Phone 229 Odcll A. C Staten, who. following a con ference of the county court with Rhea Luper of the State Water Hoard, waa ap inted water master of the county, baa probably been connected with ir rigation development of the valley as long a any man of the community. Mr. Staten in early day lead in the fight of orchardista to own and operate their own irrigation system. The dutie of the water master, a position established by the last legisla ture, cortrern apportionment of water tier dispute between claimant BID FOR POPULARITY LABOR UNION IS PLANNING GREAT DAY of the America Mir- ! Post have laun-hed a selling metal tag plate name of the city, to lo The name Hood River a on a blue background, the home town name pi ha been worked out other places. Already name plate are being and it i likely that n will soon carry a Legior legion rampaiKn for bearing the al car owner. II be in white ssiuny ini i for theT program red here, j men of every car ir.e gi Organised labor will hold its first I .at or activities here this year. Tba loeal affiliation of the American Feder ation of Labor, organised last winter, announces that plan are under wax for an elaborate celebration here. A f speeches, with prominent e state here, ia planned. 1 public ha been inv.ted to participate in the