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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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BUTLER BANKING COMPANY
Member Federal Reserve System
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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.
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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
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Association Has Received 1,202,203 B c
es From Its Growers and Has
Shipped Out 697,113
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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.