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HOOD RIVER, OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1921
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APPLE GROWERS:
We congratulate you upon the favorable apple crop
and price prospects. Your faith and energy should
reap a substantial reward.
The resources of The First National Bank are at your
service for APPLE HARVEST EXPENSES.
Ample funds have been provided to meet your re
quirements. USE ALL OF OUR SERVICE THE FIRST NATIONAL RANK
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Compare them-all ways
the calfskin stock the lining the tnsbles the
lasting the beautiful designed model Itself.
Then you will know why we've sold them
for years and your next pair will be
Walk Overs
J. G. VOGT
Nationally Known Merchandise
APPLE
BOXES
We are handling the famous Bridal
Veil Boxes again this year. These
Boxes have been sold to Hood
River Growers for 10 years and
are most favorably known for both
material and milling. See us for
large or small orders. We operate
three big trucks for deliveries to
any part of the Valley.
Emry Lumber & Fuel Co.
Successors to
BRIDAL VKII. LIMBERING CO.
Phone 2181
Fourth and Cascade
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FINANCIAL OUTLOOK
Secretary Hoover is quoted by "The Fi
nancial Age" to the effect that the country's
business has fundamentally turned the corner
and that we are once more on the up grade.
The same Journal editorially, under date of
August 14th, says:
" The American people are quietly laying the
basis for sustained prosperity in many lines and
although there is nothing the situation to indicate
that there will be a violent outburst of speculative
enthusiasm or sensational improvement in various
directions, the fact is that basic conditions are sound
and that slowly but surely a foundation is being laid
for a revival in many directions."
BUTLER BANKING COMPANY
Member Federal Reserve System
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John C. Duckwall
Wm. S. Duckwall
It matters not so much what you pay
as WHAT YOU GET.
I do.
In my business what I get depends on what
BUSINESS IS RUSHING
Four Studebaker owners and three Ruick
owners added to my growing list of regular cus
tomers the last week.
SATISFACTORY SERVICE did it.
Get your share reserved at
Shay's SERVICE Shop
AT THF
FASHION STABLES
Shop 121
Res 2"2
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.
DUCKWALL BROS.
Phone :2) Odcll
Rubber Stamps
AT THE
GLACIER
OFFICE
Fine for the Picnic
You have drunk our buttermilk at home. Had
you ever considered how refreshing a draught ol it
9 1 ndd be on the hike or the camping trip. It would
make an excellent beverage for the motor trip.
Just fill your thermos bottle with th dHlclous
and wholesome drink the next time you start on an
outing.
HOOD RIVER CREAMERY
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.
KRESSE DRUG CO.
The ffioClC Store
Come in and hear the August Victor Records
PINE GROVE
EVENT SUCCESS
HARVEST MOON FIESTA BEAUTIFUL
Approximately 1,000 Attend hast
Event Billy and Ma Sunday
Active Workers
Side
With an approximate 1.000 folk mo
toring from every part of the valley
and a sprinkling of out of town parties
present, the I'ine Grove Harvest Moon
festival, staged last Thursday on the
lawns of the church and school house,
was voted the most successful and
pleasant community entertainment ever
held in the Hood River valley.
Old fashioned sports and two base
ball games characterized the after
noon's activities. Kev. and Mrs. Wil
liam A. Sunday, were active in the
day's events. Mrs. Sunday had charge
of an Oriental tea room, where a bevy
of young girls sold confections and
served the merrymakers with tea.
Mr. Sunday was ever the center of an
animated, laughing group. He um
pired two baseball games, one between
the married and single men, with the
former winning by a score of 18 to 9.
The Odell Boy Scout team defeated the
Fine Grove Scout team. A swimming
contest was won by Kenneth Malloy,
while George Lage won a diving
match.
The fiesta closed with musical and
literary programs. Bathed in the light
of one of the most brilliant harvest
moons ever beheld here, the scene,
amidst laden apple trees, was one of
appealing beauty.
Other winners of sports events were:
William McElroy ; relay race, Henry
Forsburg and Max Hanley : wheelbar
row race, Geroge Lage and Max Han
ley; bilndfold race, Charles I.age.
Tony Mohr won the award for the best
groomed horse.
Chairman of committees in charge
of the successful affair were: Mrs.
James E. Clark, Russell A. McCully,
Mrs. J. E. Andrews, JEdw. W. Van
Horn and Mrs. Geo. Axtelle.
1,600,000 BOXES
IS APPLE ESTIMATE
A. W. Stone says that estimates of the
season's apple crop for the valley,
based on observations of inspectors of
the Apple Growers Association who are
familiar with conditions in all parts of
the district, now place the tonnage at
an approximate 1,600,000 boxes.
"Certain weather conditions, su -h
aa a prolonged period of drouth," says
Manager Stone, "might result in the
cutting of this tonnage to something
less than 1,600,000 boxeB. While on
the other hand ideal growing weather
may result in the continued rapid siz
ing of the fruit and bring us more than
the present estimate. If anything
think indications point to a swelling of
the estimate. Weather conditions now
are excellent. We have begun to have
extremely cool nights with hot days.
Heavy dews form at night. I his cool
ing moisture is fine for the apples. "
Growers have begun the harvesting
of Hartlett pears, and daily Quantities
of the fruit are delivered to cold stor
age Quarters of the Association. A
crew of pickers is at work on the
pears. While carlot quantities have
been assembled, the Association wi
make no shipments until the eastern
markets are relieved of the congestion
of pears of other districts, where the
fruit ripens and is shipped earlier than
from local orchards. The Hartlett and
d'Aniou pear crop of the valley will
approximate 120 carloads.
HOSIER HAS FINE
CROP OF APPLES
An investigation throughout the
Northwest, where eooiierative fruit
sales agencies have been developed to
a point exceeding that of moHt sections
of the countrv, will not reveal any or
ganization of spple growers working
along lines of more thorough coopera
tion than the Mosier Fruitgrowers'
Association. This cooperative institu
tion handles 100 per cent of the fruit
produced in the Mosier vallev orchards,
Wasco county's banner fruit section.
On September 20, according to an
nouncement of K. D. ChathVId, a
grower himself and veteran manager
of the Mosier Association, the INHVI
of the district will begin their third
season of harvesting their crop ami
parking them , thriMigh a large com
munity packing house. Except for a
few growers, who are able to pack out
their small crops with help furnished
by their own families, the entire Mo
sier valley apple crop passes through
this community packing hou--, equipped
with three big Gutter grading ma
chines. H. H. Kretz, skilled both in
apple and orange packing, who for the
past two year has had charge of put
ting the Moaier crop in boxes, has
again taken the contract for the task
this year. He will import about 2"
professional packers from California.
His crews spend the falls here in apple
harvest. They leave immediately for
the south to re-enter citrus packing
houses. This system of handling prac
tically the entire crop of the district
through a single standardized packing
house, results in a marked uniformity
of grade, and, according to Mr. Chat
held, the trade has come to recognise
as standard a Mosier box of apples.
The big plant of the Mo-itr associa
tion, the second story of which is
equipped for the i a g crews, also
includes storage spare for a large por
tion of the crop. The building is so
located on the flop of the (Columbia
gorge that wagons deliver the freshly
picked fruit on a level with the second
story. As the apples are packed out
they are sent by gravity to the storage
chamber below. They can then be
loaded out to cars by use of roller con
veyors, thus eliminating much labor.
The Moaier apple crop this year is
showing up in fine shape. The fruit is
well sized, clean from disease and al
ready is taking on the characteristic
colors of varieties in a marked degree.
The estimates rsnge fr lm 125,000 to
150.000 boxes. One of the best looking
tracts of the district belongs to Dr. C.
A. Mac rum, who is president of the
Moaier cooperative association. Dr.
Mar rum mas formerly horticultural
commissioner of the Fourth district of
Oregon. He is constantly engaged in
experimental work for the control
diseases and insect pests. LfT. Macrum
several years ago determined by tests
on his place that the application of a
combination of Bordeaux mixture and
rniseible oil would control many fruit
pests. He is now engaged on other
sprays, which, it is said, will be of
great benefit not only to the growers
of his own district but to orchardists
of all parts of the state.
Mosier has developed a nation-wide
reputation for the excellency of its
Italian prunes, shipped green to nu
merous metropolitan marKeis. While
the crop of prunes this season will
reach only about five carloads, the size
and quality are better than normal,
due to the small numbers on each tree.
The prune orchards are still showing
the effects of the damaging freeze of
1919,
The prune harvest of the district is
now under way. Before the war
prunes were packed neatly and with
much effort. During the period of
hostilities, while labor was scarce, a
system of "suitcasing" prunes was de
veloped. Peach boxes, set in doubled
rows, edgewise and with one side
knocked off, were filled directly from
the lug-boxes of .the pickers. The
sides were nailed on the end and the
boxes were ready for shipment. The
system has had the approval of the
trade and this economical method of
handling the district's prune harvest
continues.
Mr. Chatlield says he hasn't in many
years seen as many prospective or
chard laborers available as this season.
Numbers of families apply at the asso
ciation offices weekly, he says. The
harvest of this year, according to indi
cations, will be about a week earlier
than normally. It will take about 60
days to pack out the district's apple
crop.
ADAMS HAS NO
VOLCANIC ACTION
; SCHOOLS BEGIN
NEXT MONDAY
ONE TEACHING VACANCY REPORTED
A party of University of Chicago
geology students, who returned to
White Salmon Sunday after a week
spent In studying rock formations
around the base of Mount Adams and
on the peak, report that no evidence of
any volcanic action was discovered in
connection with the huge slides occur
ing on the mountain late last winter.
"We spent two davs on the moun
tain," writes Richard Foster Flint, one
of tho students, "and the party has
come to the following conclusions:
That the 'slide' in question is not a
mud How, as stated In recent reports,
nor is it an eruption of any sort. That
the slide is merely an avalanche of
larger proportions than usual, consist
ing mainly of snow and ice, with a
good deal of mud and rock debris.
The avalanche originated in the roi k
at the bead of White Salmon glacier,
going through a notch in the narrow
divide between that glacier and Ava
lanche glacier, and down the path of
Avalanche glacier to a point well be
low the timber line. The glacier is
muddied and dirtied, and the trees at
the lower end are snapped short by
fulling debris. The total length of the
avalanche is perhaps live miles.
"The disturbances occurred, accord
ing to foresters, some time in Febru
ary and was apparently caused by slip
ping at the head of the glacier, over
loading and consequent breaking off at
the cirque. "
MASONIC PICNIC AT
LOCKS ON SUNDAY
Families of Maons of all valle
points and mid-Columbia points at
tended the seco.id annual picnic of the
Hood River Masonic Lodge at Cascade
Locks Sunday. AH of the 250 present
motored to the government grounds,
where about 1,90 lunch was spread in a
grove within sound of the roaring Cas
cades. Gallons of steaming coffee were
prepared by Geo. I Slocom. Ice
cream was served by Walter Walter.".
Before lunch the members of the
party participated In sports, the climax
of which was a tug of war between
rural and city teams. The latter, cap
taind by F. H. Hlackman, was victor
of the city team, headed by C. C. An
derson. After lunch a baseball team,
OMBpOiM of single men, defeated the
umarried men by a score of to 5.
Herman Kresse was raptain of the
benedicts and Vern Home headed the
single men. The game was one of the
best seen around this section this year.
LOCAL HUNTERS' SEA
SON NOT VET OPEN
Receiving reports that the forests
around Mount Defiance in this countv
fairly swarmed with hunters. Sheriff
Johnson Tuesday summoned aid from
Deputy Game Warden Hadley, of 1 he
Dalles. The local hunters, Mr. John
son thinks, have been confused because
of presM reports announcing the open-
ing of hunting season west of the Cas
cades. The loral season does not open
until September 1.
It be may, too, says .Sherilf John
son, that hunters starting n on the
other side -f the mountain have pene
trated this county without knowing
they have crossed the border. Any
how, according to reorts, there was a
fair funilade in the woods up around
Green Point.'
City and Three Valley Points to Begin
Work Other Schools to Open
Labor Day
With the exception of the principal
ship of the junior high in the city, the
faculties of all Hood River valley
schools have been supplied for .the
coming year, according to County Su
perintendent Gibson. The schools of
the city, Fine Grove and Central Vale
and the union high school at Odell will
begin next Monday. All other schools
will start one week later, Labor Day.
City School Superintendent Cannon
says that a record registration is ex
pected in tho city schools this year.
The attendance at the high school is
expected to reach 300. Indications are
that the freshman class will reach 150.
Prospective high school students are
registering this week with Principal
Cookie, who is maintaining office hours
at the school building. Mr. Cannon
announces the faculties of the city
schools as follows :
High School B. H. Conkle, princi
pal, history and economics; E. E.
Fleichman, languages, physical train
ing and athletics ; Malcolm I). Brode,
history and science: E. E. Forsythe.
science ; A. L. McCauley, commercial ;
R. C. Goodman, manual training; Miss
Bertha Hunter, languages; Miss May
belle Phillips, mathematics; Miss Ethel
Hickford, English and algebra; Miss
Frances Baker, girls' physical train
ing; Miss Grace E. Smith, home eco
nomics; Mrs. Belle Henney, music.
Junior High Mrs. Harriet Blash
held, assistant principal ; Miss Lottie
Kinnaird and Miss Mane Andersen.
Park Street Grammar MiHs Bessie
M. Goyette. principal; Miss Velma
Wilkinson, Miss Lulu Piather, Mrs.
Tina L. Cramer. Miss Beatrice Pogue.
Miss Sarah Nealeigh, Miss Edna
David, Miss Emma Schiemedeskamp
and Miss Ethel Kellehar.
Coe Primary Mrs. Henrietta (xir
nelius, principal; Mrs. Margaiet ('amp
bell, Iiirs. reari Gladden, Miss Marion
Howe, Mrs. J. H. Chappell.
Janitors have been appointed as fol
lows: Chas. S.Jones, high school ; C.
A. Puddv, junior high; Isaac Ford,
Park Street, and Walter Waddell, Coe
primary.
DAVIDSON BACK
SINN0TT CALLS FOR
LEGION PHOTOS
H. F. Davidson, first Hood River ap
pie shipper to return from the east af
ter attending the International Apple
Shippers' Association convention at
Cincinnati, says that the session, from
the standpoint of attendance has been
one of the most interesting ever held.
On the first day, Mr. Davidson says,
the delegates seemed very enthusias
tic, and it seemed that they were go
ing to start apple sales rolling at a
rapid rate.
"On the second day, however," Mr.
Davidson says, "the delegates seemed
less enthusiastic. When the third day
came around, the activity had all
burned out and it was apparent that
dealers were not in any way eager to
begin a speculation on this season's
apple crop."
Mr. Davidson says that with few ex
ceptions dealers have lost money in ap
ple speculations the past two years.
None of them, he declares, have any
desire, if funds were available for the
purpose, to buy heavy blocks of fruit
before the harvest. He predicts, how
ever, that sales will begin freely about
harvest time and that apples will roll
to consumption in a steady stream,
lie declares that growers at present
in most instances are holding their ap
ples at figures higher than market con
ditions will justify.
PVTHIANS TO HOLD
BONNEVILLE PICNIC
With Waueoma I .odce of this city as
hosts. Knights of Pythias of Portland
and all' Columbia River Basin points
will participate in a picnic at Bonne
ville on Labor Day next Monday.
"We are expecting 1,500 people at
the celebration," says Harry Wood,
chairman of the Waueoma Lodge com
mittee in charge of preparations for
the event. Most of those attending
the picnic will motor down. Manv
will leave home on Sunday and will
camp at r.agle Creek park. We will
enliven the day by sports of all kinds
and a baseball game between the Hood
River and The Dalles Lodges has been
scheduled. The Hood River D. O. O.
K. band will attend the Labor Day
fraternal picnic and will render con
certs and play for open air dancing."
Numerous concessions will be pro
vided. Dancing will be featured both
afternoon and evening. The general
public has been invited to participate
in the big picnic. No admission charg
es will be made for entrance to the
ground". While all are asked to bring
their lunches, the knights will furnish
coffee.
Other members of the committee
are: N. Y. Tistevin, A. G. Thompson
and J. CaldwelL
CREAMERY INTERESTS
WASHINGTON FOLK
Photographs of the
American Ltg on
cent of Mount H
the walls of i ,
of picture, charact
per men M one of i
try, already graced
declared, however,
mous mountain, II
be properly repre
nott's suggest
carried out by local
members of the
their recent f
nay lie placed on
f the congree
lblic lands. Re
mott, reading of
ed W. Donner-
Truman Btler,
' mmercial Club
o be displayed in
action
a pa-coun-L
He
i s fa
-boo Id
be
-ented. Mr.
it is said, i
boosters.
Planning the participation of ranch
er of Klickitat county, Wash., in an
expansion of the of the plant here.
Manager W. M. Black and members of
the directorate of the Hood Rirer
Creamery have iited ranchers of the
neighboring Washington section the
past week. The Washington growers,
who for more than a year have been
shipping increasing quantities of cream
here each week, express friendliness
toward the creamery and msny of
them are signing for blocks of stock.
The Hood River Creamery has made
a steady growth for the past four
years. With a monthly output of 20.
000 pounds of butter, the creamery has
outgrown the plant now occupied. The
creamery is now making twice as
much butter as for the sane period a
year ago.
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