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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1922)
0 ooqjr. tor vol. xxxin HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THI RSDAY, EEBRUA UY , L922 No. ?,7 LINCOLN KNEW THE VALUE of a liberal education and the accumu lated savings of the people . . the. two reat buffers against adversity. You aim straight for prosperity when you open an account with the First National. 4 INTEREST PAID ON SAVINGS ACCOUNTS The First National Bank HOOD RIVER, OREGON Use ALL of Our Service They are here! NEW HATS, NEW SHOES and NEW SUITS Tweeds, Worsteds, Serges, Sport models, plain models'and young men's models. Altogether the best we've had for a long time. J. G. VOGT Victor Records Reduced in List Price 10-inch Black Label, Double Faced Re cords now listed at 85c. Reduced to 75c 12-inch Black Label, Double Faced Re cords now listed at $1.35. Reduced to $1.25 KRESSE DRUG CO The &oMd Store Come in and hear the latest February Victor Records. miTnrimnTiTnni.iriifiiirtritTmTrTrmnuiiiairllllTirmirnillUIII; l mfdM. Jf , m. m. JL B. a . a a -v a. WW n I OLD AGE ir7mrfrrntiE.n If Methuselah had saved a dime a day from his 21st birthday and deposited his savings to earn A', interest compounded twice a year, what would have been his yearly income during the last 135 years of his life? You may not live as long as Methuselah, but you have the advantage of greater earning power. You could save three, four or five dimes to his one. You will never save dollars until first you save dimes. Dimes grow rapidly into dollars and dollars earn 4 compound interest when deposited in our Savings Department. BUTLER BANKING COMPANY Member Federal Reserve System No More MOVING VAN5 For I'm in a home of mu ouin OH-M-rl Bom yam i n a or-1 .7 RAN 0 and You too can discharge the moving man. To own your own home is the only sure method of escaping the dissatisfaction, the expense and inconvenience of moving. K ocz ) Emry Lumber & Fuel Co. Succeeding Hood River Fuel Co. Phone 2181 Fourth and Cascade Doing Our Best To Save You Money We have brought the prices of Hay and mill feeds down to a small margin, and we can save you money on seeds and fertilizer, if you will let us know what you need. Get your orders in early, we will take care of them whether its by the pound or carload. We have on hand a full line of POULTRY and DAIRY FEEDS BEST PATENT FLOUR WITH A MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE GAS AND OILS BODY FIR WOOD 4 foot, per cord, $9.00 16-inch, per cord. $10.50 See Us For Prices on Hay and Feed ni a McRAE & WOODYARD Transfer, Feed and Fuel Cor. 4th and State St Phone 2861 CPRING may not be here In reality but It can't be far away. Alon with spring housecleanln comes the annual motor car Inspection after the winter's Inactivity. Now, In the auto repair business there are no special, clearance tales or Inventory clearings so I am oin to do my bit In another way. I will lve sufficient of my time to thoroughly Inspect your motor car and tell you to the best of my ability Its present condition free. You are under no obliga tion to me for the service as It Is simply charged toad vertlsin without which no business can succeed. "Satisfactory Service Always" Shay'a SERVICE Shop AT THF. FASHION STABLES Re. 2772 The Hood River Machine Works offers you its service for Welding, Gear Cutting, and all kinds of machine work. Starters, Generators, Carhuretors and Ignition troubles. On all overhauling and cars rebuilt by us we will give 90 days free service. A trial will convince anyone that we will do the right thing. UNGER & LENZ Successor to Siutz Bros. Tel. 3173 Fairbanks-Morse Engines and Hayes Sprayers BUILDER OF HIGHWAY TALKS S. C. LANCASTER THRILLS AUDIENCE Columbia River Highway, He Says, Not A Result of Chance Speaks Word For Oak The great (xdumbia River Highway did not result by chance, according, to Samuel C. Lancaster, builder of the Multnomah portion of the boulevard, who Sunday night, thrilled Hood River folk with ahuman interest story of t he great road. Mr. Lancaster, whose lec ture was illustrated with many stere optican pictures, talked here under auspices of the Sunday Evening club of Riverside church. Mr. Lancaster, who came to notice of road builders, and incidentally em pire builders, because of stretches of beautifully practical highways he had constructed down in Madison county, Tennet-see, told his audience Sunday night just how it happened that he came to the Pacific coast. His Madi lon county roads "ame to the notice of James Wilson, then secretary of agri culture, who called him to Washington. When the canny Scotchman found that Mr. Lancaster was able to give him exact figures on costs and other valu able data, he had him write aiv article for the 1904 Year Book of the Depart ment of Agriculture. Mr. Lancaster was then engaged by the department to visit all parts of the country and lecture on roads. It was while in this capacity that he came in contact with Samuel Hill, who, Mr. Lancaster says, loves the greut northwest as no other man does. Samuel Hill invited Mr. Lancaster to the i'aci fie "coast for six months. He secured his transfer here from the De partment of Agriculture, paying the expenses of the road builder and his family. We came west on that visit, say Mr. Lancaster, "and we have made our home here since. 1 have always loved the mountain and the sea, gain ing this love from hearing my mother read the Scriptures. Mot long ago 1 was visiting my oldest daughter and her family at Astoria, and as 1 watched the sun set out over the bar, there came back to me a Sunday afternoon spent beneath a great Elm tree back in Tennessee, when my wite and 1 were talking of where we would like to be when we reached the evening time of life. And we agreed that it would be wonderful to be somewhere with our back to the mountains and our face to the sea, and my daughter reminded me that we had very nearly had our wish. " Mr. Lancaster, following his visit here with Mr. Hill, received appoint ment aa a delegate to a good roads conference in l'aris. Mr. Hill made possible hiB journey there, paying his expenses and personally conducting a tour through all of continental Europe, where the road systems were studied. "It was while we were journeying up the Rhine," said Mr. Lancaster, "that Mr. Hill said to me, 'We'll have something like that some day up and down the Columbia.' I was looking at an old castle. I thought he meant that, but his mind was on the dry ma sonry walls of vineyard terraces, and he was dreaming of such walls along a great highway in the Columbia gorge." Mr. Lancaster recited how he had been called to I'ortlund to talk to a party of prominent men at a meeting held at Chanticleer Tavern. It began to dawn on him then, he said, that the dream of a great highway along the Columbia was about to become true. He praised the scenic attractions of the great gorge, declaring that no place of the world held more beauties of nature than did this mighty canyon from Celilo to Portland. Mr. Lancas ter declared that when the road was tirst talked of he had tears that the mighty canyon would be gashed and disligured by a little winding grade that would mar the environs. He finally told the Multnomah county offi cials that if such a road were contem plated he would have nothing to do with it. "1 went back from the Chanticleer meeting to my family, then living in Seattle," said Mr. Lancaster, "over joyed and yet praying that we wouldn't have a road that was a little gash. 1 told my wife and daughters all about our meeting and they added their prat ers to mine. " Mr. Lancaster loves the trees, the wild shrubs, the oaks, the firs and pines with an intensity that must be moving even to the calloused, piactical minded woods chopper, he told of his efforts to save the natural beauties all along the great highway. He recalled the Boston fern that hm mother used to care for in his boyhood home. "We made our survey through that 40 acres on which the Figure bight is constructed." said Mr. Lancaster, "and in there we found fern as tali as a man. 1 determined that we would lay out that road in such wise as to leave every last one of them un harmed. You know the result, and now we must save that wooded Figure Eight and preserve it for future gener ations in its wild grandeur. "1 want you to see," continued Mr. Lancaster, ' that in all i have to say I want to convey that nothing ever hap pens just by chance. After being away from my home a year and a day, 1 was destined to return home, and 1 had to detour around by way of Ta coma to leach the journey's end, just when that sleet storm had covered the country. 1 hurried right out on the Highway, and 1 saw that the covering of ice, of an astonishing thickness, would destroy some of the Highway if action were not taken immediately." Mr. Lancaster was unable to per suade the Multnomah county commi' aionera that the road was in danger. Indeed, their engineer made an inspec tion and reported all dinger past. It was then that Mr. Lancaster took the ! matter up with the O.-W. K. & N. Co. j and showed them that the glacial ac tion of the frozen and packed sleet was pushing a viaduct down on their line. I he railroad company set to work shoring up the viaduct ' Thus" aaid Mr. I jincajter "my return at tbia particular time saved from destruction this great piece of highway work and piobabljr averted a serious train wreck." Mr. Lancaster expressed rejrret at the destruction the storm bad wrought a (none the beautiful oaka along the Highway. He showed pictures of Sheppard's Dell, where the silver thaw III, 11 I ' has broken off beautiful oaks. Mr. Lancatser paid a high tribute to Mr. Sheppard for his gift to the public ot this wonderful point on theCHighway. The pictures i-hown by Mr. Lancas ter of the ice drifts, whien Bra forcing their way down the steep gorgeaide w'th glacial action, were astonishing to those who have not Been the road in its present state. The thickness of ice, as much as 32 feet in places, is astounding. Mr. Lancaster concluded pis. lecture with a story of a recent visit to his old home in Tennessee. He called at the home of an old negro couple, old fami ly servants, who had been faithful and true. He found them shivering, halt starved, around a mere enuioge of a fire. The old man did not at tirst rec ognize him, but when he did see that it was "his white folks," he raised his old voice in a shout of thanksgiving, declaring that his prayersthad been an swered. He had the old couple fed and ministered to with all the care possible. "When 1 was ready to leave," laid Mr. Lancaster. "1 told them as a nat ural course of human affairs they, growing old as they were, might ex pect to scon pass on, but that 1 hoped when i,ktoo, was called to be permitted to enter the Golden Gates and that then 1 was going to ask St. Peter to let me plant in 1 aradise a great white oak, and that 1 would let them come and sit under it with me and we would talk over old times. As 1 talked I no ticed that the old wife was working her arms up and down. 1 had forgot ten that she was blind. She was try ing to get her bearings and locate me. Suddenly she launched her elf t me, catching me around the waist. 'You all's while folks," she cried, 'but I'Be got to hug you anyhow.' " Mr. Lancaster said Sunday night that he liked to consider the Columuia River Highway as a Wonderful mosaic In which everyone who ,had had any thing to do with its construction had put for the best in him. "Mr, Benson, Mr. Yeon and many Others, did their best work for the Keat Highway. Camillo, the Italian who had charge ot the dry masonry waiii wrought with an earnestness, hUjlding fcr himself a monument. I remember one day 1 saw him at work, lolling down rocks through the snow. I placed my hand on his shoulder and said : " 'Camillo, you Iwild a good wall. "'Yes, Mr. Lanacas,' he replied. 'Iwant to make a good a da wall, so that when a my gran'son come this way, he point out des a wall and Bay that a it the work of his gran' fadda. ' " Mr. Lancaster left those who have been proposing the cutting of the oak at the corner of Oak and Fourth streets in some discomfort. He stated that he had read of the controversy over the tree and that he had gone up to say howdy to it Sunday afternoon. "It, if left alone, will be here a long time vet, said Mr. Lancaster. 1 would adviBe vou Hood River people to get a tree surgeon to aid you In saving some of your noble oaks. Mr. Lancaster was introduced by h. O. Hlanchar. chairman of the evening. A vocal solo was rendered try Don Metgus. and Mrs. L. H. Sletton and W. J. Collier, Jr.. gave a pJeeaifig duet. Miss Sara Howes w:is organist. It was announced that the Sunday evening speaker Sunday, rebru iry I!, will be Dr. E. T. Allen, former Pel sian missionary. NATIONAL . SEC RETARY GIVES TALK No Hood River audience has ever been given an opportunity of listening to a more eloquent appeal for boys of the country than the rntmhers of tie Conch club. Who Tue-day heard A. E. Roberts, of New York city, national secretary of the Y. M. C. A., here with J. IL Rudd, in charge of the or ganization of county Ya in Oregon and Idaho, the men, en route irom Boise, where they had bean attending the an nual Oregon-Idaho convention, to Ev erett, Wash., for the Washington state convention, were here as guests of Leslie Butler. Mr. Roberts hiso spoke at the high school while here. The high Y. M. C. A. official de clared that in their young men Hood River folk bad a greater asset than in their orchards and scenery, and he urged his hearers to so conduct them selves in their relations with boys as to strengthen the character of the lat ter. He cited that a boy at the ado lescent period the fool period as he hluntly tented It, was in need of a friend, one who understood and knew all about the boy and yet who would still care for him. Mr. Roberts stated that no its. teaman at the present time could tell whither the fate of the world was drifting or where it would be in the next live years. The boys of the land he declared, must be taught a reverence and to walk in partnership with God, as did their forefathers. "I care not." declared Mr. Robert-, "whether you be I'rotestant, Catholic or Hebrew, the time has come when you men must face the conquest of peace, the aftermath of war, and see that it takes a heroism in as great degree as it did for the great Ameri can Expeditionary force in its un rece dented exploit in the battle line." Mr. Roberts cited the criticisms di rected at boys and girls, noting the re cent Portland ca-e, because of the al legation of harmful entertainment. Youth he declar.-d, should not lie in dicted for derelictions in this line, but the indictment should he said, be laid against the parent-. Van W. Gladden was chairman of the Lunch club meeting. Stanley C. Walters declared tnat it took the pines and the tirs to make the apple trees, since the fore.-t i i rpetuated a water supplv. He gave an intereating ex planation of BM ds of finding and fighting fires. A. J. Graff c a brief talk on the Grange as an org i ization of coopera tion. He cited its beneficial etV : -from the social gatherings of men and women. Mr. Gruff stated that it was the only organirstion in which women were on an equality with men. The next chairman of the Lunch club will be L A. Ivmett. The meeting will be held at The Pheasant. Slides Block Mt. Hood Slides on the Mt. Hood R. R. mith nf fW fj service until II Boalders weigbrn in some of the rr force of the mn track and trestle. day night bit r.esday afternoon. ; several tone were A avalanche. The tore oat portions of i SHELL ROCK IS DIFFICULT WORKERS FIND ICE SIX FEET THICK Mr. Nickelsen, Who Has 45 Men Working, Will Try to Compl etc) fleating Highway Next Week J. R. Nickelsen. in charge of crews clearing the Columbia River Highway in thin county, has found the task at Shell Rock mountain, the only remain ing obstructed point between Hood River and Cascade Locks, far moie difficult than anticipated. The drifts are thicker than has been thought and for the most part the heavy accumula tion is solid ice. To add to the delay it is necessary to loosen he icy cover ing of the grade, toss it over on the ritrht of way of the O.-W. R. & N, Co. and then pass it on into the Columbia river. Two crews are thus kept busy. Resident Highway Engineer Feck, of The Dalles, spent Tuesday inspect ing the work. It was decided to trv blasts of black powder in shattering the ice veins. Dynamite has been used, but it is believed that it was not effective enough. "Tuesday," Bays Mr. Nickelsen, "we had dug for six feet through ice. Mr. Beck, watching, said he thought we ought to strike the pavement In an oiher foot. We pecked on down but after ice n ore than a foot thick was removed the surfacing still was not in sight. In the.-e deep cuts the difficulty of lifting the ice out over ton the rail road right of way is made extremely difficult" Mr. Nickelsen, who reported Satur day that he expected to finish up clear ing the road in this county in two weeks, declares he is not so certain now, although he is increasing his crews, now having a total of 45'men employed. He pays he is going to push ahead as fast as possible and make every endeavor to get the road open by the later part of next.weeK. Multnomah county is actively en gaged in clearing up the road. It is expected, however, that Mr. Nickelsen will be through with his work before Multnomah crews. Charles Smith is now operating his ferry between Viento and Bridal Veil, giving a daily service for motorists. He leaves here at 8.1f a. m. daily, starting on the up-river trip at 12.15 p. m. WEISS, LARSEN EACE FURTHER CHARGES Erank Larsen, operator of the ferry system between here and Underwood, may lose his license, and Fred Weiss, convicted Wednesday of last week by Justice of the Peace Onthank on a charge of Importing liquor from the Washington shore here, was re-arrest" ed immediately after the bout leg charge, the new complaint charging; him with assault on Hood River offic ers with intent to kill. District Attorney Baker Thursday furnished the county court with an or der win h summons Larsen to appear before that body Feruary 17 to answer charges of transporting liquor illegal ly. The infraction of the law, it is held, gives the court just cause to re voke the license granted lust year for a period of live years. Weiss who was shot in the hip dur ing a revolver duel wir n"'i at the time of his arrest eariy in Jaouary, was fined $250 and senteeeed to IK) days in jail by .1 i-tice Onthank. The second and mere aeeiuea charge i- based on allegations of officers who say that Weiss, after two ot the pnsae had been dragged by the gasoline launch, operated by Larsen, into the deep water of the Columbia, attempted to drown them. Weiss is alleged to have mauled the men over the head with bottles and to have lired at them with an automatic levolver. The con victed bootlegger, according to the officers, threw the weapon overboard, when he saw that there was no chance of bis escape. Weiss a paid his fine, the jail sen tence having been suspended. Weiss' attorney at first announced an appeal to circuit court. MRS. ABRAHAM IS FIRST ON JURY LIST The first four women chosen by the county court for the 92Z jury list were: Mrs Anna Abraham, Mrs. Helen Ball, Mrs. S. E. Bartmess and Mrs. F. H. Blaekman. A total of 25 names of women were drawn. The jury list, from which panels of are drawn previous to each quarterly ses sion of circuit court, includes a total of 2111 names. The new women's jury law provides that each jury must con sist of at least six women in cases in volving a minor under 18 years, whether he or she be complaining vMt ness or defendant. If such a se conies before the local court, county officers fesr that it may be necessary to make provisions f'-r the comfort of the women jurors. BRIDGE AT CASCADES IS UNDER WAY A carload of equipment bnd material J - citj ed ere Col cal Ore merchant of ihe Highway iday a crew of men atart the construction of con i a bridge spsnning tne Oregon -. would Hood SUair- A column of stea Hood's summit was "ft taia a fro... Mount rved trim the ion on Monday and h- wife . Mount Jefferson ha been re rooking. SB tan 5 r