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flood ?itr Iiooi) RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1921 No. 26 VOL. XXXIII She We Give Thanks It is pood for us all to Rive one day each year to hon est recognition of the things we have to he thankful for. This November we, as a Nation, again give thanks in memory of the Armistice that brought us peace. And we appreciate more keenly than ever the privi lege that is given us all as Americans-a voice in selecting those who guide our national affairs. This Institution is thankful for the friends it has made, for its many opportunities of serving them, and for the vision of greater opportunities ahead. In keeping with the spirit of the day, we shall be closed for thanksgiving, November 24th. Use ALL of Our Service FIRST NATIONAL BANK HOOD RIVER, OREGON Wait and Watch For the Great Rexall 1c Sale Thursday, Friday & Saturday December 1st, 2d and 3rd KRESSE DRUG CO, The ffiexa&L Store Come in ami hear the November Victor Record : Truly- "An investment in good appearance. " Not too early to think of the Holiday Suit $35 to $50 J. G. VOGT Nationally Known Merchandise. IF A NICKEL COULD TALK M A, HE Thanksgiving Day in your own new home makes that day different from any other and one long to be remembered. You and your family may have this happiness next year if you start planning it right now. See us for plans and suggestions. 3Q1 ) Emry Lumber & Fuel Co. Phone 2181 Fourth and Cascade Exclusive Representative of the National Builder Bureau Lniiiiiiiiinniiy It would say, "Wait a minute; don't use me as if I were too small to be any good. It's true I'm only a five-cent piece, but before you spend me remember that I am as big as a whole day's income on $300 at 6. If you keep me today and each day keep another nickel you will be saving as much money as you would earn on a $300 investment." If you can do that well with a nickel a day, just think where you would land if you saved ten times that amount, which would still be only fifty cents a day. You'll And our Savings Department very helpful, and there's no time like the present. Open a Savings account now and adopt tt'!li nite plan of saving. A BUTLER BANKING COMPANY Member Federal Reserve System J! jrTTTTTTiTTTTTTTTHTTrrTri ' II'I' II 1h' I rTTTrTTTHTT ITTTTTTjfrrfT? IjtTtTirrnnrTTIinniMII 1 11 nTriITTTrTUTTnrTTTnT771 Jlli'UlfiSSi A Real Thankgiving Dinner for Thanksgiving Day TO BE THANKFUL- Begin to give thnnks even before you open your eyes in the morning, that a new day, another chance, is yours. And be glad in your heart of hearts that as a nation we have so many things to be thankful for. He thankful for the beauty of the morn ing that you have eyes to see it and faculty to enjoy it, and as the day ad vances, forget not to be thankful over the small joys as well as the large ones. The management of the Columbia Gorge Hotel is very thankful today to you and all your friends; also for the lessons learned through mistakes and misfortunes, and are glad that the misfortunes were no worse in fact, is thankful for every thing. The least we can give is a thankful heart, and a thankful heart is a fertile field the Lord plants the seeds of His richest blessings in just such a field. Columbia Gorge Hotel is open ail winier. HENRY THIELE Does a moment's happiness over cheap pric e outweigh the lasting satisfaction of a good job'.' YOU DON'T GET BOTH 1 am turning out ol jobs at a fair prio day after day. Bring in your trouble? and let me help you in any way I can. Satisfactory Service is what you need: why not get it at Shay's SERVICE Shop 1 THF FASHION STABLES Shop Utl Re. V.l Yours for A Happy Thanksgiving lcziorzz The Hood River Market A F. DAVENPORT, Prop. Phone 4311 RECORD STORM HirS VALLEY PRECIPITATION IS UNPRECEDENTED Sleet and Snow Bury Town and Valley, Cutting Off Communication Storm Comes Without Warning Weather history was made over the mid-Columbia over the week end. The snow and sleet Rtorm that prevailed, according to oldtimers, was unprece dented for continual intensity over a long period and for the amount of wa ter .precipitation carried in the icy showers. Up to Sunday night, when the storm was not yet 48 hours old the solid blanket, almost as hard a a cake of ice, was 30 inches deep, the snow and sleetfall representing 5. H0 inches when reduced to water. This means that floods are going to follow in case the storm breaks up ,in a change to warmer weather and a continued Chi nook wind. At this season the tem perature may be expected to rise materially. The storm was sprung with sudden ness and without warning. At ti o'clock Friday night a heavy downpour of rain, such as is usually anticipated at this season and driven by a strong west wind was prevailing. Like a Hash the wind whipped to the east and be fore 10 o'clock snow was falilng in great volume. Citizens who had visit ed the picture shows, returned t" their automobiles to rind them covered with snow. By morning eight inches of snow covered the earth. 'Still citizens did not take the storm seriously. They thought it one of the sudden fall Hurries that end as quickly as they begin. Boreas, however, and all his minions seemed released, and the storm swept on throughout Satur day, Saturday night and Sunday. Nu merous motorists attempted the High way Saturday. They have lived to re gret their journeys. It was reported Saturday night that 75 automobiles were stuck between Cascade Cocks and Multnomah Falls. About 26 machines were stalled between here and Mosier. Ten of the blockaded motor parties found a safe retreat in the Twin Tun nels. The westbound O.-W. U. & N. limit ed Saturday afternoon was the last train to pass through after the storm began. It was snowbound at Multno mah FallB. Telegraph Jam! telephone wires went down. Sunday a single railroad wire worked intermittently between here and Portland, but no commercial mess ages were forwarded. Hood Kiver was without mail and information of the outside world. The snow blocked valley roads and city streets and for a time a milk famine, dairymen being unable t . make deliveries, caused worry to fain ilies with small children. The suddenness of the storm caught many families without adequate fuel supply. Kev. and Mrs. 0, W. Kenned were caught without fuel at their home just west of the City. They were removed to the home of Edward Thornton, where they found comfort during the storm. The depth and weight of the snow alarmed many citi zens Sunday, and EE. A. Franz opened his store for a time Sunday, in ofdai that snow shovels might be available. Many shoveled with feverish haste the weight from tlat topped homes. Tne chief occupation of the city Monday was removing the weight of the blan ket from roofs and shoveling paths in the business district. The snowstorm ended Monday night with a heavy downpour of rain which left a thick crust on the heavily packed sleet, Leroy Childs reports that a to tal of exactly 36 inches of sleet and snow fell, all but .63 of an inch of the icy precipitation being dry sleet. The water volume of the precipitation measured nine inches. The sun began shining early Tuesda morning and by afternoon the sky was fairly clear, the sun shining brilliant ly. A high chinook, the effects of which were visible in the removal of u,iii; frum trees on hiirh noinls of the Columbia gorge began blowing around I'arkdale 1 uesday morning. I ne chinook gradually came lower over the valley. Orchardists fear that a heavy percentage of the young pear trees planted in the district the past season to Una the annle trees killed bv the heavy freeze of December, 191'., will have to be reset. 1 ne neavy crust, oi t I K ' St I . A I jink, I it is said will ruin the young tteea when a thaw occurs. SNOWFLAKES Fruit and produce curbside sales have been of frequent occurrence here, but Monday afternoon for the first time was milk sold to passersby on the street corner. E. J. Co; per, dairy man, whose place is on the Highway jiiKt west of the city, deposed of a surplus of milk from his bobsled. Families with small children were in dire straiU, with other dairymen un able to reach the city over broken roads, and the efforts of Mr. Copper aroused much commendation. To walk five miles through three feet of loose snow is a feat that leaves a pedestrian absolutely exhausted, as M. Valentine, orchard worker, who was on his way home to Vancouver, learned Sunday. Mr. Valentine left the place of roreat L. BOS) at the top of Tucker's hill at 9 o'clock Sunday morning. It was night before he reached the city. He was so exhausted about a mile and a half out from the city that he stopped at a farmhouse and paid $2.50 to secure a farmer's horse to bring him the remainder of the distance. Hood Kiver families will have few turkeys for Thanksgiving dinner this year. The valley probably will not pro duce 100 turkeys. These will not he available, aa ranchers will be unable to deliver their birds over unbroken roads. With no trains operating it will be impossible to ship in turkeys. Indeed, with the meat supply run ning low, local folk will he thankful to have a roast for their Thanksgiving j dinner. Cast Fridav residents of the Ixiwer I Valley continued to pick produce from their garden plots. Housewives in, several places in the city picked to ma- ; I toes and beans. Saturday flower gar- ' dens, altera, dahlias and glorious dis plays of cosmos were buried beneath the white snow blanket. The storm came with a tragic suddenness. In the valley dairymen still pastured their cows on meadows and ranges. One dairyman, F. E. Matt, whose place is south of the city on the Tuck er road, was caught when the storm came with but a single bale of hay for his ,'50 cows. Mr. Matt had teen ac customed daily to haul out, as he re turned from his milk deliveries, enough hay and grain for the night and morn ing feeding. He was preparing this week to transport several tons of feed to his place. Dr. E. D. Kanaga and C. VV. McCul lagh, who left here last Friday lor Ar lington on a goose hunt, have not been heard of by local friends or members of the family since their departure. With wires down, it has been impos sible to learn where the men sought refuge from the storm. Thev had planned (on shooting in the Arlington district and proceeding to I'rinevlle for a visit with Henry McCall. The record long time consumed on a journey from the Columbia Corge ho tel was made Monday by L. 0. Mea cham, who with his wife is spending the winter at the hostelry. Mr. Meat-ham came in to look after his city residence. He traveled on snowshoes improvised from the slats of packing cases. He made the city in just two hours. Mr. Meacham reports that the sloughs along the Columbia north of the hotel are alive with geese and ducks. Old time residents say they have never eeen so many wiid fowls on the low lands of the Columbia around here. The storm, it is presumed, has driven them from their customary haunts around (Hex and Arlington. Who will bear the loss of the new Udell school, a structure just completed at a cost of an approximate $25,000, is a present worry to members of the Odell school board. The roof of the building collapsed Sunday night from ttie burden of snow. The walls of the structure, according to those who have visited the scene of the diaster, have pulled in, and the building is practical ly a total wreck. Reports are to the effect that a firm of I ortland contrac tors, who built the school, are still un der bonds. Others say, however, that the circumstances an- such that the contractors cannot be held. Hill Johnson, driver of the United States Bakery I motor truck, which daily delivers huge quantities of bread here and at valley points, was very much worried when the snow block aded the Highway and left him brand ed here. He knew that his wife would lie badly worried. Mr. Johnson tried in vain every way of getting a mess age through. He had thought of start ing out on skiis for the metropolis. Mr. Johnson finally succeeded Monday in getting a message by telegraph tt his wife by way of Salt Lake City and San Francisco. His motor truck is stuck'in'a snowbank near Odell. The snowstorm has worked severe hardships on all dairymen. Mrs. T. J Mills and her young sons, aided by an other hoy, were kept in a feverish ac tivity Sunday, the lug hams had to he shoveled off and the cows had to be watered with pails. The boys in the evening attempted to make deliveries of milk with a bobsled, but this was found a physical impossibility. Milk was sent out to families with children, and others helped the situation by call ing for a supply. Hruno Fran, telephoned to the Hood Kiver Creamery and his city milk cus tomers Monday night that he was ready to retire; that he, his family and all of the teams of the neighborhood were absolutely exhausted. Mr. Franz' motor truck went into the ditch Sat urday and had to be abandoned. All of the teams of the neighborhood were utilized Sunday and Monday in an ef fort to break a way through to the Highway. The folk of the Frankton sections declare that it was one of the most discouraging situations they ever met with. If anyone had desired to lick City Street Commissioner Samuel or anv of his official family, they should have taMMed that desire along about Mon day night. Mr. Samuel says he would have submitted without righting back. The street commissioner and all of his assistants hail worked unceasingly throughout the storm in keeping streets clear and crossings open. They had cooperated with the fire depart ment in preventing blockade around tire hydrants. Mr. Samuel says he has never seen a harder snow to handle than that now piled up on the mid (xilumbia. L E. Taft invented a new means of coining from the Heighs to town Tues day morning. He appropriated the sled of his son, Charles, and mounted. It was a wild ride d a gay one. He sailed down across the yards and gar dens of. various folk en route. ' fences and past woodsheds. But he made the journey with speed and safe ty. Mr. Taft says he hasn't copy righted the means of transportation and recommends it to others w ho must needs come down town for business. He hasn't reiorted on how long it took him to return the sled home. Prof. I.. F. Henderson, who has been familiar with Hoed River valley life for more than 30 years and who has observed many snowfalls, declares that he has never seen so solid a sheet of ice as that now prevailing. "It is the most difficult snow to handle." said 1'rof. Henderson, "I have ever seen. 1 predict that the rail road company will have the worst time in ita history digging out after MM storm. Unless ar. aeroplane is secured to bring in the films, the motion picture shows, the Liberty and the Kiaito. will be hors de comb ricy providea II. d service again. Man his baseball mustache the usual fastidiousness, will give thanks todav f of better things to come. I Mr. with K Fr. tn kee w It is safe to say that Hood River now has more sore muscles than at any time in the history of the town. Standing on a rif in momentary feae of falling a man will keep himself rigid. The work of handling a snow ahlvel and the exercising of taut mu cle.. have an effect of leaving a man pretty well knocked out for a day or two. SNOW CAUSES NO WORRIES GROWERS HAVE DELIVERED APPLES 8 Association Has Received 1,202,203 B c es From Its Growers and Has Shipped Out 697,113 v a o o w 1 o - Jr While such intense snowstorm! early in the season have created dentation among orchardists wh the most part usually have many pies remaining in insecure warehi m s on remote valley places, the t y touch of winter that began here F jr day caused no worry this year. Never in any season have the apples of the valley been hauled to warehouses and protected storage plants with such dis patch. The records of the Apple Growers Association Saturday showed that it had received from affiliated growers 1,202,03 boxes, while ship ments from the valley by the cooper ative organization reached 697,413. The raj Ofta of individuals and independent shipping concerns indicate that their proportion of receipts and shipments are even greater. The severest winter may prevail and orchardists will suf fer no loss this season. The total number of cars of apples shippedjfrom the valley up to Satur day night reached 1,605. about 60 per cent of the crop. Pear shipments reach 121 cars. ROOFS CAVE IfT CAUSING DAMAGE Damage resulting from collapse of buildings, their roofs caved in by bur den of snow, will run into the thou sands of dollars. Monday reports from all districts brought news of collapsed barns and fruit packing sheds. The worst damage occurred at Odell, where the roof of a grade school building, constructed last summer at a cost of approximately $25,000, caved in. Those who have witnessed the structure say that the walls appear to have been damaged. A covered county bridge across the east fork of Hood river at Dee col lapsed. A portion of the roof of the Hood River ('aiming Company's plant caved in. Ileavv damage was incurred by (leorge Haslinger, whose Heights Greenhouse was broken down by the weight of snow. Kail officials reported Monday thst no rail service could be expected for a week. Numerous heavy slides are re ported between here and Bridal Veil. A rotary snow-plow arrived here from The Dalles Monday, but was halted at Mitchells Point. Every cut is filled with the (lint-like snow, and at innu maraMa p'aces the loadbed is covered with deep masses of snow and rock debris that will have to be shoveled out by hand. A seriouB slide, it is said, has swept down over the Colum bia River Highway and railroad at Shell Rock mountain. At intervals a valley resident made his way to the city Monday. All re ported that roadslides are lined with abandoned automobiles. Some here declare that the work of clearing slides and debris from the Co lumbia River Highway will require the remainder of the winter and will result in a heavy cost tj Mm state. MORE APPLES GO BY BOAT THIS WEEK Thirty-eight thousand boxes of Ore gon apples will move from Portland to Kngland aboard the S. S. Woodarra this week. The Apple Groweis Asso ciation will load 15,000 boxes of New towns aboard the vessel, and Dan Wuille & Co., who will assemble the apples from heie and other Oregon branch points, expect to fill the apace allotted them with 211. 000 boxes. The Association will ship 10,000 boxes aboard the Eenbrijk the latter part of the month and during the first week of December an additional 10,000 boxes will be routed out for the Eng lish market aboard the Nebraska. CANNING COMPANY SHIPS TO EUROPE The Hood River Canning Co. will make its initial shipment of canned pples to Europe this season on the S. S Woodarra, due to sail from Port land this week. The consignment of fruit, which is a substantial one, will l" Toward to the consumer under the brand of the local canning company, which has built up a demand for ita products that bids fair to compare fa vorably with that of the Hood River Newtown in the European trade. The shipment is the first the canning com pany has ever made direct from Port land, to Europe, by wav of the Panama canal. The local canning concern packs its apples by varieties, just as the grower packs them in boxes. It specializes on Newtowns and Spitzenburgs, and tells under these varieties. DEFICIT TO BE CUT TO $1,000 IN 1922 Acting on instructions of the eom mittee of citizens aipointed to act as an advisory board in setting the 1922 budget of city expenses, the city coun cil w ill cut deficits by the end of next year to $ l,i"00. lefieita at the begin ning of the current year reached 2 il(j. At the end of this year they will be approximately 1,000. The to tal taxes to be raised next year will be M.!'2, approximately the same as this year. The city council endeavored tn devise some plan f appropriating sufficient money to pave 1,100 feet of city street at the went edge of town. The pav ing, however, will have to be post poned indefinitely. It is said that t abort stretch by scraping and filling chuckhole may be rendered as smooth as paved road at a small expense. Nobody has heard any apple shippers murmuring about any shortage of re frigerator cars this week.