T I
3
JJ
VOL. XXXIV
HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 1 1 1922
No.l
fojE
On Guard!
This Dank Stands Guard
Ceaselessly Providing
Your Funds with. Protection ,
This Bank has prospered on the confidence engen
dered by its convenience and safety features. '
It has always been our aim to add to these when
ever possible and to ever be on the lookout for chance
of improvement.
We have provided in every way for the safety of
funds intrusted to us.
Recently, we have added a new link to this chain
of safety insured checks.
Every depositor of the First National Bank
is positively protected against loss
through fraudulent alteration
of his; checks.
Regardless of the pains which banks have here
tofore taken in protecting their clients, there has
always existed the possibility of fraudulent alteration
in personal checks, but this problem has now been
practically solved by the unusual protective feature
which we are now offering. In adopting Super
Safety Insured Checks for our bank we are in a posi-,
tion to offer, free of charge, a check insurance bond
of $1,000. to each depositor with a checking account,
whereby he is protected to the face value of the bond
from fraudulent alteration of his personal checks.
This. bond is issued by a responsible insurance
company, and in case the necessity arises for settling
a claim under the terms of this bond, a renewed pol
icy is available to the depositor upon application to
that company. We shall be glad to explain in detail
the merits of this new service not only to new custo
mers of the bank, but to such old customers as may
be desirous of receiving this free service.
We suggest that you call and learn in detail the
advantages of this new and attractive service to our
banking clientele.
The First National Bank
HOOD RIVER, OREGON
Use All of Our Service
Ea&man Kodaks and, Films
Our Stock is Always Complete
Kodak Developing and Printing
24-Hour-Service
The quality of our developing the tone and finish
of our prints the success we- have In brlnln& out
unfavorable exposures prove that
Experts Do Our Kodak Work
KRESSE DRUG CO.
Come in and hear the new Victorola. Records. .
3.
uw
E have some complaint about a little black
beetle destroying tomato plants and have
been asked for a remedy. A Buhach or to
bacco dust will drive them away. Another
and perhaps more serious complaint the to
mato plant could make would be that the
would-be-gardeners keep the ground so saturated with
water that it never gets a chance to warm up, conse
quently the roots do not start and the plant dwindles
away. A little water once a week is plenty with frequent
cultivation. When we sell anything in our line we think
you are entitled to the maximum benefit.
We cleaned up the radish and onion patch, a little spring-sown
spinach cornea next. There is a time when each vegetable is at its beet.
The period, for instance in radishes is not mora than a few days until
they are useless. That's why you should have a home garden. Make
small sowings from time to time and have fresh, crisp vegetables all
through the season. Buy a good hoe and in exercising it you will save
a membership in the new Golf Club.
The asparagus season will end in another week. The warm days
and the right kind of fertilizer make it grow toperfecton. Have you
ever tried to can any? Ask your grocer for special price on 20-lb. box.
Twentieth Century Truck Farm
JOHN KOBERG, Owner
Grower of Non Pareil Vegetables
OUTING CLOTHES
For Both Men and Women
Whip Cords, .
Gabardines
and Khaki.
Distinctively - ."
tailored and
patterned to fit.
It's t "Summers" ! quality and that
means a satisfactory garment.
J. G. VOG'
We announce to the trade the in
stallation of a Universal Bearing
Machine. We will be able to re
babbit connecting rod bearings ' for
any make of car, truck or gas ;enr
gine.
Better service and better bearings;
at all times. Contract prices an all. ,
bearings.
Fairbanks Engines, and Hayes Sprayers -
HOOD RIVER MACHINE WKS,:
Unger & Lenz
Tel. 3173
m
KEEP FLIES OUT !
t Later In the season you will be forced to
-screen your home for the comfort and health
s of your family.
SCREEN DOOR
: SCREEN WINDOWS
will stop the fly invasion
Why not put them on now and enjoy
protection during entire season? We can sup
ply all sizes and styles.
Emry Lumber & Fuel Co.
"Everything to build Anything"
Phone 2181 Fourth and Cascade
1.
New Fenders, New Lamps, practically new tires.
Spotlight, Motometer, Snubbers. Mechanically
Al. Will demonstrate with any car in the Valley,
new or second hand.
Will take a second hand Ford in on it Oh yes. It's
one of those famous Buick 6's.
"Satisfactory Service Always" .
0
Shay's SERVICE Shop
AT THE
FASHION STABLES
Shop 12S1
Rm. 2772
N0RTI1WEST BEAUTY
TO BE PRESERVED
Persons who wish to place advertis
ing signs within the National Forests
of Oregon and Washington must ob
tain permission from a forest officer,
lUtPi District Forester Geo. H. Cecil,
of Portland.
The reflations governira- tbe cm of
National Foreit landj prohibit tbe mar
CLASS OF '22
NUMBERS 36
COMMENCEMENT WILL BE TONIGHT
visitors will organize with local grow
ers to entertain all visitors to this
section.
Hood River, it is anticipated, will be
headquarters for buyers who tour mid
Columbia sections. They will be taken
through all local orchards on motor
tours, and automobile trips into the
Wasco county fruit areas will be
arranged.
Ihe Lunch Club held no meeting
Principle Conkle, Of High School, Praises Tuesday because of Memorial Day.
' Work of Graduates-Two Girls
Have Fine Grades-
; Commencement exercises ot the Claps
of 1922 of the Hood Kiver high school
will be. held at the school auditorium
this evening, when the address will be
delivered by B. F. Irvine, (editor of the
Portland Journal. Ihe full program
for, the evening will be as follows
Grand march by the high school or
cbestra; invocation, Rev. J. C. Hanna,
pastor of the t irst Christian church
chorus, "The Earth Is Decked With
Beauty," Girls Glee Club : salutatory.
Miss Lena Howard; xylophone and
piano. Paul Sletton and Miss Janet
Blade; address, "The Passing Show,"
Mr. Irvine; chorus,' 'Irish Love Song,"
senior girls; valedictory, Miss Helen
Goodpasture ; piano solo, "Ich Liebe
Dieh." Miss Slade! nreaentatinn of
class to school board. City School Su
perintendent Cannon: presentation of
diplomas, J. W. Crites, chairman of
the school board; chorus, "Here's
Health to You, Old High" and "My
Wild Irish Rose," Boys' Glee Club,
and benediction, Rev. C. R. Delepine,
pastor of "tbe First Baptist church.
Ihe baccalaureate sermon was
preached at the Riverside Community
church Sunday morning by Kev. Boddy.
The class is composed of 24 girls and
12 boys. They are: Misses Myrtle V.
Jar vis, Helen Hershner, Blanche Last
erly, Lena L. Howard, Marian Butler,
Ollie V. Nickelsen, Helen Goodpasture,
Opal M. Walker, E. Evelyn Cram,
Irene ' Fewell,' Mary 1 L. McLean, Vada
Dimmick, Lila U. Temblin. Ruth C,
Rogers, Gladys L. Mutrie, 1 Bernive
M. Campbell, Irene A. Downing, Elsie
G. McNutt; Edna M. Holman, Marie
E. 1 Zolls, Goldie E. Wells,. Livona M
Peterson, Constance M. Lofts, Janet
S.Slade and Kenneth McClain, Edward
E. Davenport, Paul E. Pemberton, W
Byron Lane, Maurice E. Kinsey, Ru
fus J. Sumner; Paul G, Sletton, Earl
B. Ramsey,' William R. Chapman,
Howard W. black man. Harold G.
Dixon, James I. Johnson.
B. II. Conkle, principal of the high
school, declares that the class is above
the average for all around young man
hood and womanhood. " Misses Good
pasture and Howard have made excep
ttonal grades. In no course of the four
years of high school work has either of
tbe young women fallen below 90 per
cent. Miss Howard will teach next
year, while Miss Goodpasture plans on
attending the University of Oregon to
prepare herself for teaching.
Mr. Conkle states that several of the
young men and women have shown
marked executive ability. James John
son, who will attend the University of
Oregon law brnooi next year, al
though' he has two brothers, Charles
and Julius, both prominent athletes, at
the Oregon Agricultural College, has
been president of the student bod v.
He is an all around athlete and a rood
student.' Kenneth McClain and Livona
Peterson, Mr. Conkle states, hsve filled
with honor places demanding executive
ability. Mr. McClain is president of
the class.- Other- officers are: Mis
Butler, vice president; Mr. Lane,
treasurer, and Miss Jarvis, secretary,
Miss Downing, one of the graduates,
will enter foreign missionary work
She will enter training for her calling
in the near future. A number of the
young -women - plan on taking up nurs
ing. Mr. Conkle says that more than
50 percent of the graduates are plan
ning on taking work in colleges and
universities. The most of them will
enter Oregon instituions. Mies Butler
will leave this fall for Mills College in
California. Miss Slade will enter one
of the larger girls' schools of the east
BENSON INVITES
, TOURISTS TO STATE
MEMORIAL DAY
ISJBSERVED
CITIZENS JOIN POST AND LEGION
W. R. C. Water Service field at Hood
River Bridge Memorial Rites
Said Over Graves '
HIGHWAY CONSTRUC-
. TION VERY HEAVY
Although only about half the distance
of the 12-mile unit of the Mount Hood
Ioop Highway extending from the
Middle Valley to the bounds of the Or.
eong Nationsi rorest, ine unit just
south of Hood Kiver extending up the
Hood river gorge for It miles, will cost
$40,000 more. The 6.8 miles of new
grade, now under way, will cost an ap
proximate H15.WU.
because 01 the heavy construction
met with, L. A. Webster, contractor,
with whom is associated J.W. Rumsey,
is now engsged with the most elabor
ate equipment ever used on a highway
job in Hood Kiver county proper, al-
though auctions of the Columbia River
Highway required heavier apparatus.
A stesmahoveL equipped with a 2i-yard
shovel, which handles large boulders
without the necessity of blasting them.
is operated on- a standard guage rail
track. When the work ia ended the big
shovel will be three miles from the O.
W. R. & N. line. It is moved from
noint to point on a temporary track.
The removal of rocks and earth for fills
is being hastened by utilizing a narrow
euaee rail lin witn dump cars and
small locomotive. The contractors have
already cut the heaviest of the new
grade, where it winda around the Hood
river canyon frrim its Intersection with
the Columbia Kiver Highway, a camp
for its crews is located In a grove of
firs just south of the city and two other
camps are located iuriner up the line.
rme near Powerdale and the other near
Whiskey creek.
"Weather conditions were not ideal
for comfort and enjoyment during: the
past winter in California," said S.
Benson, who recently returned from
bis annual sojourn. "Long spells of
rainfall and continuous cold weather
prevented tho recreation and enjoy
ment of outdoor life. Frost did im
mense damage to orange groves and
other fruit trees. In some districts it
is estimated that 75 per cent of the
trees were destroyed, and no district
escaped the blight.
"An unusually large number of tour
ists visaed southern California during
the winter, and I was fortunate to be
placed in position to meet many of
these travlers, whom I told that their:
trip would not be complete if it did not1
include Oregon. It was difficult to
convince them that accommodations,'
and, more important still, the roads of i
Oregon, were as good, if not better,
than those of California. I am quite
confident that tourist travel will be
greater in Oregon this summer than
ever before.
"I am yet keenly interested in road
matters and this interest prompted me
to observe road conditions in my drive
from Los Angeles to Portland. I was
surprised to find how rapidly the roads
in California are disintegrating. Main
tenance crews are met frequently,
patching and repairing, and hardly a
mile passes but what the familiar bar
rier is encountered warning motorists
of the danger of a damaged road.
.... Tji : i I .11 a 1 1
rti rapiuiy as posaioie an me roans
are Deing skin coated, tnat is, a hair
inch of asphalt is spread over the con
crete surface, and this coating wears
off so rapidly that it must be renewed
at frequent intervals. The standard
of construction does not seem to be as
high in California aa in Oregon. Cal
ifornia collects $8,000,000 'annually in
road funds, and the greater part of
this amount is used in maintenance.
"The Pacific Highway from the state
line to Portland is in fine condition.
The part of the road that has been
paved is in splendid shape and in no
instance, except due to lack of proper'
drainage, settling of fills or slides, is
there any indication of deterioration.!
In fact the only state road that has
proved a failure is the concrete road
Between Portland and Hillaboro.
The roads of Multnomah county
improved in 1915 are a striking in
stance of the wisdom of the main
tenance provision. Seventy miles of
roads were paved at that time, and no
maintenance has been charged against
them during this period. 1 doubt
whether this same condition prevails
over any 70 miles of roads bearing the
same amount of traffic anywhere in
the United States.
'The short-sighted policy resulting
n the complete blockading 01 travel
for 100 days on the Columbia River
Highway prompts the conclusion that
the part of it in Multnomah county
hould be placed under the supervision
of the state highway department.
Here is an investment of $11,000,000
that was absolutely of no use for more
than three months and the ultimate
cost of opening the thoroughfare would
have been much less ir the obstruction
wss removed before it resolved itself
into a solid cake of ice. If this part
of the highway were in charge of the
state, many curves would be elim
inated, and the road would be widened
at places where a clear view is now
obstructed by overhanging cliffs and
projecting rocks.
1 regret that the Albaiiy-Corvains
road was not placed on tbe state high,
way system, as it would then be im
proved and paved. It is very imports
ant a road, and the traffic over it is so
dense that it merits the highest type
of improvement
"I regret to note that no provision
has been made for the improvement
and construction of the Wallula cut
off. The latter is extremely important
as an economic proposition. It will
enable the people of a vast region to
reach points in Oregon without taking
a circuitous route, funy rour hours'
driving would be ssved by the building
of this important road, and it would
enable the people of the Yakima coun
try and that vicinity to spend the week
end at the Oregon Leaches.
'The Last hide Pacific Highway,
from Oregon City north, is being cared
for by Clackamas county and the
county is having a difficult time to
keep "it in condition. It is not up to
standard in construction and the im
mense traffic which it bears, its im
portantace as a link in the most im
portant state road, would suggest that
t be included in tbe state highway
system.
"Regardless or the fact that the
West Side Pacific Highway is part of
the state system the east side will al
ways bear immense traffic. The bridge
at Milwaukie should be replaced with
a modern structure, but 1 am informed
the county's fiananees are in such de
pleted condition that it is impossible to
undertake this improvement.
GRANGE TO HOLD
4TII CELEBRATION
Hood River's Fourth of July cele
bration this year will be in charge- of
Park Grange, composed of orchardista
of all West Side districts, the member
ship of which is the largest of any
Oregon grange organization. County
School Superintendent Gibson, who
grows apples on a West Side ranch.
has been made general chairman of the
committee in charge of preparations.
The celebration will be a country
event. Athletic events will be staged
in a wooded rea amid the' orchards.
Orations have been planned for. Not
only are all of the people of the valley
been asked to participate, but invita
tions have been extended to all other
mid-Columbia sections. M'. Gibson's
program includes: Music the entire
day and evening by te Knights of
Pythias band, dancing afternoon ' and
evening, patriotic program, a Ford se
dan to be given away, chicken' dinner,
barbecued meat, ice cream and lemon
ade, soda water, popcorn, peanuts, tug
of war between rival Grange teams,
baby show, fortune teller, muving pic
ture show in the evening, baby dull
rack, shooting gallery, slow burse
race, catching greased pig. swings far
the children, adequate parking ' for
automobiles and a good time for young
and old.
GOVERNMENT OFFERS
A SAVINGS SYSTEM
GRAND ARMY POST
GREETS COMMANDER
ti la tion, defacement or destruction of
object of natural beauty or of scenic
value on such lands ; and incidentally
provide for leal action towards pen
alties for violation. Only those aigna
which are of distinct aervic to tr
travel irg public and which are well
conartucted and sightly will b al
lowed. All persons who have already
touted f ims on National Forest land
nil be requested either to remove
them, or else obtain written permit- J
ion from a forest cScer to cor ti rue ,
LUNCH CLUB TO
BOOST FRUIT MEETING
The meetirg f the Tuesday Lunch
Clob next Tueaday will be devoted to
alirr.ulatirg among mid-Columbia fruit
districts an interest in the July annual
contention of the International Apple
Shirrrs Asvwiation in Seattle. Rep
resentative shippers and ?roers frm
fe Dalle. Mnsier, Dufur, Lyle,
W hite Salmon, Husum and Underwood
t asked to be here to collaborate
on flans of entertaining the hundred?
of rrominert fruit buyera expected
here fallowing the Seattle tesiona.
P. r". Clark, ho is on the general
committee arrargirg for the Seattle
meetirg. mill addreM the meetire and
tell cf tbe rrl rlas at Seattle.
Fcllowirg tbe Lunch Club meetirg the
Twelve memlers of Canby Post, G.
A. R., were present to greet C A.
Williams, of Portland, commander of
the Department of Oregon, heie Satar-
dav on an olT.cial visit. It was the
largest number of the veterans to as-, "
Postmaster Reavis continues to im
press upon the people of Hood River
the advantages- or treasury savings
certificates and postal savings as an
investment as well as the best method
of encouraging persons of small income
to form the habits of thrift and saving.
"The post office under this system,"
said a financial sage who made an in
vestigation of the new U. S. Govern
ment savings system, "will become
the savings bank of the wage earner
and the person of .small salary. In
many of the large cities, and in fac
tory towns, and especially in many of
the smsller towns in the rural dis
tricts, it is very inconvenient for earn
ers of a weekly wage to reach a bank
after receiving their pay, but a post
oflice is usually available. When the
people fully understand that their post
offices offer them modern banking
facilities tbey will avail themselves of
this modern ssvings syetcm which is
run for their own advantage and at
no cost to them. Postal savings and
treasury savings certificates offer an
urvjFual opportunity, and the post office
is resdy to render these bank'.ng facil
ities in an efficient manner.
Postmaster Reavis is pleased with
the suggestion of the poet office as the
watre-earners' savings bsnk, and in
tends to make it that in fact, as long
as people who are its patrons show a
disposition to save. He calls especial
attention to the fact that the govern
ment is in this savings movement be
cause the officials have beccme con
vinced that only thrcueh tbe govern
ment can a nation-wide campaign for
savings be inaugurated and made sue
cesf ful. "The government," he said,
"affords an opportunity for everybody
to save. Any person with ten cent
can open a savings account with the
government. With ten cents a po-s'sl
savings stamp can be bought at tta
post cfiice. Vht-n ten stamps have
been purcha?ed a :d affixed to a postal
savings card tbey can be exchanged
for $1 interest bearing postal savings
certificate. Postal savirs certificates
the amourt of S2, JJ may be pur-
semble at a recert meeting. Precedirir chased ty any one person, fcmasi m
the official pret tinir to Commander Wil-I vestnrs can also buy treasury savings
Itams, the I'ost memrers were enter
tained at a dinner at the old K. of P.
hall by the Women's Relief Corps.
On Sunday members or the ursnd
Army attended ire First Baptist church
in a body. A stirring Memorial l'ay
sermon was preached by the raster.
Rev. C R. Delepine. On Monday af
ternoon the members of Canby Post
visited Park Street grade school, mhere
addresses were delivered to the stu
dents. Tbe wed lire r f Kenreth Hicks and
Miss WirifreJ Woe'k occurred at The
Dalles last week.
stami s at II each Tl -y do rxt draw
j interest, but hen 20 stamps fcav
I been squired they can be exrhsnei
' for a $-5 treasury savirjrs certih.-ale.
' Tbee certificates sre i?ued in dene m
1 inationo of fii. flOl and fl 0i0, and
I are sold for fO. I-O. and M. The
pay per cert corrp"un.ied semi
' annually 'S"d are exerrrt from state
' and lical taxation except etate ar.d
' inheritance taxes iH from the normal
1 federal iwcrre tst. "
W. Psjfch M rurcnae frcrn F. V.
, Ffhather a trsilow at the eofrer f.
Hood River solemnly observed Met
morial Day. All places pf business
were closed and city and rural folk
joined the American Legion and Grand
Army Post in paying tribute to com
rades for whom taps have sounded.
At 10 a. m. a parade, headed by the
Knights of Pythias band, marched to
the concrete Columbia River Highway
bridge, where the water service of the
Women's Relief -Corps was given for
the country's naval and marine dead.
Great war veterans, sailors, soldiers
and marines, at whose head marched
Miss Elizabeth Campbell.county health
nurse, followed the band. ; Next in line
was Company C, 18Gth Regiment, Ore
gon National Guard. Grand Army
men and members of auxiliary organiz
ations followed in cars. After the
water ceremony a line of march to
Idlewilde cemetery was formed. Here
the members of Canby Post, G. A. R.,
gave their ritualistic memorial service
over the grave of their recently de-
Earted comrade, John A. Wilson. The
egion members observed their rites
at the grave of Lt. Carl J. Berry, Can
adian veteran; whose burial occurred
Sunday. ;
While few citizens joined in the pa
rade from the city to the Highway
bridge, the marchers were followed to
the cemetery by a line of cars that
reached for a half mile.
All valley folk remembered their
dead, and never were the graves of
cemeteries so banked with flowers,
both wild and domestic. Roses, how.
ever, usually used so profusely at Me
morial Day, were missing this year,
blossoming delayed by the late spring.
Dr. Pineo was marshal of the day.
He and Robely D. Hurst, mounted,
headed the parades.
j Columbia and Ninth streets
r3
c
i 1
9
5
' i
o o