VOL. XXXIII
HOOD HI V EH, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1 i
No. 1 6
III
CONDENSED KI.I'OKT t)E
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF HOOD RIVER, OREGON
AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS SEPTEMBER 6th. 1921
Resources :
Loans and Discounts
United States Bonds and Other Securities
Rank Building and Fixtures
Other Real Estate
Cash and Exchange
$528,748.44
256,890.33
50, 500. 00
600.00
109,063.59
$045,802.36
I.iuhilii ics :
Capital Stock $100,000.00
Earned Surplus and Rrofits 26,251.75
National Currency 100,000.00
Rediscounts 20,000.00
Borrowed Money 50,000.00
Deposits 649,550.61
$045,802.36
GORDON
HATS
In Beautiful Felts
and Velours
New colors and new blocks.
$5.00 and $6.00
Everywhere in America
J. G. VOGT
DRAIN TILE- SEWER TILE
CHIMNEY BLOCKS
BUILDING BLOCKS
Everything in Cement Products
Manufactured right in Hood River
by Willis Bradley in new plant on
Cascade Ave. between 4th and 5th.
Sold by
Emry Lumber & Fuel Co.
Successors to
BRIDAL VEIL LI MBERING CO.
Phone 2181 Fourth and Cascade
The PAST is gone the FU
TRRE will take care of it
self, so for the PRESENT
bring your auto repairing to
me and demand Satisfactory
Service- you'll get it at
Shay's SERVICE Shop
AT THE
FASHION STABLES
Shop 1211 Res 0H
FOR LIMITED TIME ONLY
Big 50c jar of Wonderful COMBINATION CREAM JON-
TEEL with the purchase together of one 50c box of Face
Powder Jonteel and one 5oc compact of Roiige Jonteel.
Three Famous Beau tillers for the Price of Two.
We make this exceptional offer so that you may get ac
quainted with this most delightful face cream. A cream
for softening, healing, beautifying the completion. Sim
ply wonderful as a base for powder, you love to use it
it's so fragrant, cooling and refreshing. Stimilales the
tissues and makes you feel as well as look lots yonger.
FACE POWDER JONTFFL is a soft, invisible powder
with aremarkoble clinging quality. You notice the differ
ence at once. ROUOE JONTEEL is so lifelike. Matches
your own natural flush perfectly. Comes in convenient
compact form to carry in purse or pocket.
You can secure these Jonteel Beauty Requisites only at
KRESSE DRUG CO.
The tt&xaJlZ Store
Come ii and hear the September Victor Records.
Statement of the Condition of the
Butler Banking Company, of Hood River, Ore.
at the close of business, September 6th, 1921
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $819,071.00
U. S. Bonds and Treasury Certificates.. 8,028.00
Bonds, Warrants and Stocks 102,048.65
Savings Department Loans 266,547.81
Safes, Furniture and Fixtures 10,026.25
Real Estate 24,750.77
Cash on Hand and in Other Banks 97,053.79
$1,328,126.93
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $100,000.00
Earned Surplus and Undivided Profits 38,707.02
Deposits 914,977.00
Rediscounts, Federal Reserve Bank ... 204,100.37
Other Bills Rediscounted 7' 275. 94
$1,328,120.93
Member Pederal Reserve System.
The Experiment Station advises the use
of a
Caseinate Spreader
with your next Lead Spray.
Hood River Spreader
MEETS EVERY REQUIREMENT
BESIDES It is put up in packages containing just the right
amount for your spray tank. You don't have to
measure or guess at it.
Ask your dealer or get it from us direct
HOOD RIVER SPRAY COMPANY
Phone 2421
John C. Duckwall
Wm. S. Duckwall
DUCKWALL BROS.
Cash Buyers of Apples and Pears
We do not want consignments.
Apple and Pear Boxes
Spray Materials
Paper
All of our Newtowns will be wrapped in the
New Oiled Paper to prevent Scald. Order your sup
ply early.
We want a few more lots yet of Delicious.
DUCKWALL BROS. Phone Odd 229-232
Hood River after October 1st.
Overland Touring Cars
$767.00
Delivered to you in Hood River
ELLIOTT-OVERLAND CO.
Telephone 3524
FINANCIAL PLAN
$6,000,000 PROPOSED FOR BIG FAIR
Hood River County's Apportionment to be
$27,000. An Opportunity for a
(ireat Investment. Kutler
11
I runmn Butter, Hood River county
I representative it the conference called
in Portland last Thursday to consider
I ways and means of financing the L92S
world's fair, says the outstanding feat
' ure of the meeting was the unanimity
I of support from every county in Ore
j Ron.
"I have never seen a group of Ore
gon citizens so thoroughly in accord,"
says Mr. Rutler, who characterizes the
problem of netting ready for the great
fair as solely one for Portland.
Portland, continued Mr. Rutler,
"will furnish two-thirds of the fund of
18,000,000 proposed. Of course Pbrt
lund will be the chief benefactor, hut
every part of the state will benefit
proportionately. As for us hen in
Hood River, who will be called on to
raise 8,000 each year for three years,
the question, when analyzed, is one
that isn't at all debatable. While we
realize that taxes have reached the
point where they are burdensome,
when we stop to consider how we are
situated on the Columbia River High
way and how we will benefit from the
great fair, we must look upon the
$27.tW)0 as an opportunity for invest
ment. "
Indeed, Mr. Rutler states, the I'ort
land conference looked upon the fair in
this light. I he cost of Oregon over
head governmental expense has reached
the point, he cites, where the popula
tion must be increased and the volume
of business of the commonwealth made
larger.
"We have 1)6,000 square miles of ter
ritory, five times as much as many of
the eastern states, " said Mr. Rutler,
"but wo have less people than any
number of the large eastern cities.
We must find some way to increase our
population."
The plan of the financing of the big
fair was given in last Friday's Or,
gonian by W. H. Warren as follows:
Formally adopting a resolution
drafted by a committee named at the
morning . session, the conference au
thorized a financial plan that will pro
vide a total of $6,000,000 within three
years with which to build and operate
the exposition.
Under the plan, which was evolved
by a committee appointed by .Julius 1..
Meier, unanimously chosen permanent
chairman, and of which Emery Olm
stead was chairman, I'ortland will con
tribute $4,000,000 of the 6,000,0O0 or
66S per cent of the whole amount.
Immediately following the adoption
of the financial plan, a resolution
drafted by a committee, of which K
E. Rrodie, of Oregon City, was the
chairman, received a unanimously fa
vorable vote, "indorsed, approved an
recommended the holding of the ex
position. "
As voiced by Governor oleott, who
acted as temporary chairman, the sur
prise of the conference was the unan
imous and enthusiastic demand for the
exposition on the part of county repre
sentatives, many of whom spoke at
length when the discussion of the h
nancial plan as proposed bv the com
mittee was in progress. Not one dis
aenting note was nosro irom up
country, but all agreed that Oregon
should throw its strongest support to
the project. Not the least important
of sentiments expressed by several w as
that this undertaking has already done
highly valuable work in cementing
friendships between out lying districts
and the more populous centers and
that as it continues toward perfection
nd the realization of the great dn Ml
comes true it will have more and more
effect along this line.
While there was some little differ
ence ot oiuinon as to now the (d.OUU, -
0X capital should be obtained, K. ( .
Kirkpatrick, of Dallas, contending for
the subscription plan, the large major
ity of delegates favored the Olm-' ,i. i
plan of a tax levy covering a period of
three years, which will call for about
1 mill on a capitalization of propert
valued at $1,1 ,000,000. Many said
they had already sounded out the sen
timent of their communities and found
the exposition project in high favor,
hence thev had no hesitation whatever
in giving it their unqualified approval,
Primarily, the conference was held
with the object of obtaining the m i,t i
ment of the various counties of the
state as to holding the exposition and
of rounding out, should they indorse it.
a comprehensive program of adequate
finance, thereby insuring it the neces
sary barking of all Oregon and making
its success certain. All that was
sought was accomplished with most
gratifying expressions of loyalty upon
the part of delegates FSpfl renting even
the most remote communities ; all
agreed that a project so gn at can but
ultimately be of unmeasured benefit to
all sections of the commonwealth, al
though it is true that it will cost some
thing as initial outlay.
That Portland and Oregon have pro
gressed nearly as far as they can with
out further development t. be brought
about by increased (copulation and the
settlement of the land, and that the
1925 exposition with a scope sufficient
ly broad, will accomplish this, was the
gist of a number of brief speeches by
representatives from widely-scattered
parts of the state, l.'se of the magni
ficent system of modern highways now
in existence and to bp built and a well
constructed and thoroughly-executed
plan of bringing tourists in much
larger numbers into the numerous
scenic beauty points of this region was
urged by several, including W. VV.
Harrah, of I'endleton. representing the
farmers' union.
A common understanding, to be de
veloped by mutual cooperation anl
good fellowship between the counties
of the state and Portland, whs advo
cated by speakers during the afternoon
ession, when practically all of the
to what tneir br"t
Mrs. Collir. Elkin
to say. It was n
pleasing, too, vii
point of a pro
standpoint. Kver
tailed in whipping into shape the reso
lution carrying the financial plan of
the exposition, approved with unani
mous vote, with F. W. Mulkoy of Port
land, Qualifying with the statement
that he would reserve the right to op
pose the taxation plan, and A. L.
Mills, president of the First National
liank of Portland
personally favor the
it the referendum, as he called the
finance plan, carries, he "will takeoff
his coat and work as hard as any of
them."
The committee which drafted the
resolution was composed of Emery
OJmstead, president of the Northwest
ern National Rank "of Portland; A. J.
Johnson, Corvallis; J. A. Thornburg.
Forest drove; E. C. Aptierson, Mc
Minnville; Frank G. Deckubaugh, Sa
lem; ('. K. Gates, mayor of Med ford;
J. ft Hosteller, The Dalle i; Nathan
Strauss, C. C. Colt, David M. Dunne,
John F. Daly and Guy W. Talbot,
Portland.
Following is the resolution in full :
the amount to be raised for the exposi
tion be $6,000,000, and that this amount
be raised m the following manner:
"One million dollars to be raised by
private subscription of sale of stock in
the City of Portland.
"A tax levy on the property in the
City of Portland- to yield $2,000, 0(H),
which will require an animal levy for
a period of three years of about 2i
mills on assessed valuation of about
$314,000,000 yielding $2,000,000.
"Contingent upon a tax levy of 1
mill on all property in the state each
year for a period of three years on the
assessed valuation of about $1,000,000,
000, yielding $8,000,000.
inasmuch as the city of Portland
pays about one-third of the stattr tax
levy, this means that of the total
amount of taxes to bo levied the city
is to raise $8,000,000 and the state,
outside of the city, $2,000,000.
"Adding the $1,000,000 subscription
additional to the city's share of taxes
will mean that the city's proportion of
the $6,000,000 will be $4,000,000, or Ctijj
per cent. "
Another committee named by Chair
man Meier was that on resolutions. It
consisted of K. K. Rrodie, Oregon
City, chairman; S. C Morton, St.
Helens ; Truman Rutler, Hood River;
C. EL Ingalls, Corvallis; George Neu
er. Rose burg; E. A. Keen, Dallas;
A. T. Hill, La Grande; Franklin T.
Grillith, Otto Hartwig, Edward Cook
ingham and George L. Baker, Port
land. To this group was assigned the
duty of recommending whether an ex
position should be held and an outline
of what it should be.
Following is this resolution full,
it nemg unanimously adopted:
Whereas, We. the delegates from the
various sections of the state of Ore
gon and the northwest, in conference
assembled, deem it proper that a
world's exposition should be held in
the year 1926, for the purposes, amontr
others, as follows :
1. As a peace jubilee following the
world war.
2. Commemorating the centennial
of flu- diseo ei v of the electro mairnet.
3. Celebration of the completion of
the transcontinenal highways joining
the Atlantic and Pacific oceaiia.
4. Restoration of commercial inter
course between the nations of the
world.
And Whereas, the congress of the
Dinted States passed a joint resolution
authorizing the president of the Unite
States to invite foreign nations to par
ticipate in the Atlantic-racilie High
ways and Electrical exposition to be
held in Portland, Ore., in 11)25, and
Whereas, all of the states west of
the Rocky mountains have, by official
voire of their legislatures indorsed
Oregon s 1925 exposition, and
Whereas, the state of Oregon has
been given the official sanction of the
nation to present the rrst peace-loving
rleu onstration since the close of the
war, by the elimination of conflicting
exposition dates in other parts of the
country, and knowing the readiness of
the American people to participate in
I movement that is destined -to bring
the world into closer relations.
Now, Therefore, He it resolved, bv
the delegates here assembled, that this
convention does hereby indorse, ap
prove and recommend the holding of
the world's exposition in the atv of
Portland, in the state of Oregon, dur
ing the yaaf 1926, for the purposes and
to the ends hereinbefore enumerated.
In keeping with the central idea of
the conference, that of tying the en
tire state with the expositi in uroiect.
resolution was adopted, authorizing
Chairman Mafat to appoint at least
one representative from each county
on the general board and to name an
seen tire committee of 15 which shall
have charge in the absence of the
main board. This will weld the differ
ent communities into the plans and
keep them f u 1 1 v informed on develop
ments at all times.
ROAD BONDS
SELL HIGH
Ssojee? fittK BLYTH' WITTER & f0- GET ISSUE
Trunk Road Apportionment of $150,000
Sold for Par and Premium
of $1560
A new record for sale of Oregon
county bonds since the great war be
gan was set here Saturday when
Rlyth, Witter & Co.. of Portland, paid
a premium of 1560 and par on a $150.
000 apportionment of the $350,000 issue
voted in June for participation by the
county on a 50-50 basis with the state
in construction of the valley trunk of
the Mt. Hood Loop Highway. The
sale is the first of county bonds sold
above par in over a year.
The successful bidders competed
with seven other large bond houses,
representatives from all of them being
present. No bid was for less than par,
and most of them offered premiums.
The next highest offer was made by
the Western Bond & Mortgage Co. and
Ladd ft TIRon, of Portland, who of
fered a premium of $710.
The bonds, bearing six per cent,
will be delivered, in- denominations of
$500. n half November 1. The remain
ing $75,000 will be delivered not later
than April 1, 1922, in denominations
to be determined and at the option of
the county court, which, however,
must give the bond house a notice of
30 days. An approximate $46,000 of
the issue sold will be needed in paying
for the Booth Hill unit, contract for
grading of which has already been
awarded to Joplin fc Eldon and for pur
chasing rights of way. Local officials
express an eagerness for further early
awards of units of the trunk road, now
that tunds are available, in order that
as much as possible of the 20 6 miles
of grade may be finished this winter.
The $860,060 road bond issue was
based on estimates made early in the
year. Cost of construction, as was
shown the bid of Joplin & Eldon, more
than $20,000 low on work estimated at
$78,000, has materially decreased. If
the rest of the work is secured on the
same proportionate low basis, the
county will have neatly $100,000 of the
bond issue left.
Local bankers and members of the
county court express gratification at
the bond sale. The figures of other
bidders on the issue were as follows :
Joint bid of Lumbermen's Trust Co.,
Ralph Schnelock Co. and Freeman,
Smith & Camp, of Portland, $1,003.10
on each $1,000 of bonds; Ferris &
Uardgrove, of Spokane, par and an op
tion to take the remainder of the issue
at a similar figure; Hill & Scritmier
of Detroit, $55 premium; joint bid by
Detroit Trust Co. and Robertson &
Swing, premium of $135; E. L. Dever
eaax, premium of $337; Union Trust
Co., premium of $180, and premium of
$710 by Western llond & Mortgage Co.
and Ladd & Tilton.
T. H. Bojfd. representative of the
-: n ssful bufdei s, w as here for tho
opening of the bids.
MIDDLE FOliK KKillT
OK PRIORITY GREAT
It was stated in the Glacier last
wetk that the Middle rork Irrigating
Company was given "rights of priority
n sufficient water to irrigate 2.4WI
acres, of which 1,800 are now devel-
oped. The right of this company's
priority dates from November 19,
1906."
The facts are that the deer
nizes that more than 2,90(1
land under the Middle Fork Ii
Company's ditch has bean d
TIMBERS OF 0.-W. R.
& N. TUNNEL BURNED
cog
s of
While fire in timbers of the O.-W.
R. & N. tunnel between here and Mo
sicr has burned itself out, the terrific
heat left the rock so badly cracked
that it will be completely lined before
trains are operated through the bore,
t lews have been working night and
day building a temporary track around
the tunnel and the O.-W. R. & N.
Co., which had been detouring its
through trains over the S. P. & S.
line, resumed service Tuesday night.
A part of the new track rests on
trestle work over the Columbia river.
The tunnel, it is said, may be shored
up w ith concrete masonry.
Passengers for through trains of the
O.-W. R. & N. Co., have been trans
Eerred from here by Columbia river
ferry to White Salmon. The rail
blockade has resulted in a great in
crease of passengers for motor buses
operating between here and Portland,
Monday's schedule calling for extra
equipment. The Pendleton local, run
ning as a stub, has served Hood River.
The lire was discovered about 3.15
o'clock Saturday afternoon, and the
westbound local was halted just before
reaching the tunnel. Driven bv a
strong east wind, the bore acting as a
flue, the flames spread rapidly and for
a time Saturday night the west end of
the tube spouted a column of flame 75
feet high. The heat, as intense as
that of a blast furnace, prevented
crews from fighting the tlames.
The cause of the tire, the damage of
which will reach $10,000, has not been
determined. It is thought it was set
by a spars, from a passing locomotive
or from a grass tire that was burning
near by.
FIRE MARSHAL RE-
FORTS CARELESSNESS
Citv
Fire Marshal
1 that he h
st gross care
liM.
1902, and 1906,
The Middle
pany is given t
that is g
the suit for ha'
ditches develoi
r portions of its
1 R92,
lieient to irri
acres of land,
everal priority
water rights,
U. 1897. 1898, 1900.
ity. He
head ana
find bui
nt. On
neath a i
Morgan Friday
I found a case of
essness that had
bservation. Mr.
nd house reno
lis official eapae
doyed to prepare
vacated, for a
ng closet, lo-
leading to over
was startled to
F
irrigate 1.
Airman I nahle to Alien!
in the general
A vast of
upbu
a mo i
i. I turned th
en- and sped
th? field
ischine at
"The ashes and charred pieces of
unhurned fuel." says Mr. Morgan,
"partly covered an old abandoned
couch, which was stuffed with a very
inflammable material. Such careless
ness should be punished."
Kdgipgton Family Has Reunion
Dr. and Mrs. Jesse Edgington and
th ir daughters. Mrs. A. W. Keck ley,
of Tampico, Mex., and family, and
Miss Grace Edgington. member of the
Cniveisity of Oregon faculty, have
just returned by automobile from a
family reunion on Elk Lake, west of
Rend. All rive of the children of lr.
and Mrs. Edgington were present for
the eating. The others are: Ellis
igfngton, of Sisters, Mrs. James
Scarth. of Portland, and Gilbert Edg-
ington. The families of all
children were ; resent.
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