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HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THI RSDAY, EEBRUA UY , L922
No. ?,7
LINCOLN KNEW
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OLD AGE
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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merchant of ihe Highway
iday a crew of men atart
the construction of con
i a bridge spsnning tne
Oregon
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Hood's summit was "ft
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and h- wife
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Mount Jefferson ha been re
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