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he ► HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST lß, 1923 OL..XXXV The finishing touch to the dainty Summer costume is the de lightful fragrance of a good perfume. Send your Uncle Sam when you can’t come yourself We now have a complete lln^ of People who figure on putting so much In the bank each week or each month don’t like anything to Interfere with their plans. DWORJH’S Perfumes and Toilet Articles They patrlcularly appreciate our banklnfc- by-mail service, which enables them to send their money ahy time it Is Inconven ient to bring it. No matter where you live ... ikrfume*... FIANCEE GARDEN FRAGRANCE FIANCEE TOILET WATER FIANCEE FACE POWDER AND COMPACTS FIANCEE VANISHING CREAM KARESS KRESSE DRUG COMPANY this service is open to you. Z ä « Jaw A purchase here carries that pleasure of satisfaction The First National Bank HOOD RIVER, OREGON New Double Marshall Field said “The difference between the clerk who spends all of his salary and the one who banks part of it is the difference, in teji years, between the owner of a business and the man out of a job. 99 Marshall Field started with nothing and died the greatest merchant in the United States. If you have been going from pay-day to pay-day without making any progress toward something better than your present job, now is the time to start putting away a definite part of your salary. BUTLER BANKING COMPANY 4 J I Here is a concrete chimney block as safe as a bnck flue. The double walls with the ajr space betwet betwee» relieve the strain between heat and cola and also in i ------------------------------------------------- ------- crease the draft. Both walls are tonged and grooved all around, so they are easy to lay—anybody can do Ask to see them at Member Federal Reserve System GR1EF IS SHOWN FOR MRS. HARDING flood River Meets at Rialto Theatre Fri- day to Pay Respects to the Late President No II ihh I River meeting tvas ever more. Holeiun and Impressive than tlie memorial wrvhe beld at the Rialto theatre Friday for l'rimidant Ilurding. With the big audience stuniiing. the standard ami Colors of the American Lcgiun Post, escorted by an armed guurd. were Cakeu to the stage, while Mrs. A, H. Kolstad played Tlie Stat- Spangled Banner. . Ciipt. (Jeo. R. Wil bur, commander of the Oregon Depart ment, American Is*gton, and Judge G. It. Castiier, state Grand Army cout- mander, occuph*d the stage with an escort of Gram! Army mendiera. Rev. Gnbrlel Sykes, pastor of As bury Methodist church, ]in*sid«*d : a prayer was offered by Rev. C. B. Del- epiue, pastor of the First Bn pt 1st church ; Rev.,H. <5. Clark, imstor of the Cascade Dx-ks Methodist churi-h, read tile 23rd Psalm, the favorite of Presi dent llardhig. Rev. Frank R. Spauld ing, Salem Mettoxlist minister, read from the New Testament the same texts tixisl at the Marion service. A quartet, comisised of Mrs. <J. H. But ton. Mrs, Wllliain Metcalf, (leonfl1 Smith and Mark E. Moe, rendered "Lead Kindly Light" und "Nearer My God to Thee.* ('apt. Wittiin* introduced Melvin G. Wlnstock, of Portland, who gave the memorial address. After Rev. J. C Hanna hnd pronounceii the Ixmedielion n hhfilen bugler Hounded taps from the wings of the theatre and the Colors were withdrawn from the stage as Mrs. Kolstad played a funeral march. Don Metxgua. represent Ing the navy, carried the la-glim Colors. Ernest Samuel, ex-marine, bore the mournlng- draped standard of the patriotic or ganisation. Don McCloud mid Roger Blnckman formed the armed guard. As the Colors und standard marched down the theatre aisle and itaused for n moment before Mrs. Kolstad began the Star Sjaingled Bunner one might have heard the drop of a pin so quiet was the house. None of the H|M'iikers or ministers forgot the grief of the President's lonely widow and many were the s|a>ken and silent prayers in,, her be- half. * Capt. Wilbur's brief sjxxu-h of intro duction was touching in the eloquent tribute he iiaid. . “We must know,” said Capt. Wil bur, “that his spirit is with us here when we consider the principles of his life. Ttxlay the national commander of the American Legion will place a wreath upon his tomb. While his mime was not liiscrllx-d upon our ro«- ter. lie gave ills life for Ilia country as surely iis any soldier ever did. “His life was gentle and tile Human elcmenta were so mixed in liim that < <'ontinued on page 3) f EMRY LUMBER & FUEL CO Concrete Factory Come Out You M. W. A. of Hood River Phone 2181 And meet your Brother Woodmen from the Mid-Colum- bia Camps. From Dufur and Goldendale to Cascade Locks and Stevenson they will be here to hold a joint picnic next Sunday the 19th and its up to the Hood River Camp to be host and make them want to come again. We don’t know any particulars about the program, but you sure will have a good time if you do your part. We are putting in additional tables and improvements and even if you don’t like the water you can have a real good time on the clean sandy beach and under the shady cotton- • * woods—its not dusty and bumpity as some of our roads are getting. That our Beach is growing in popularity was proven last Sunday when we noticed four generations of one of our Hood River pioneer families, most of them in the water. t There will be plenty of room for all at KOBERG’S BEACH Fourth and Cascade HOOD RIVER MACHINE WORKS DETHMAN & LENZ, Props. Cylinder Re-boring General Machine Work.arid Welding We carry a full line of Jahn’s Pistons, Quality Piston Rings and Mann Prscission Wrist Pins ' PHONE 3173 HECK UNGER GARAGE Successor to TUCKER’S! GARAGE ; were the first shippers in this section to use and recommend the oiled wrap to con trol storage scald. This year all shippers will use this wrap. We have a supply this year with a guaranteed oil per cent as recommended by the government. Order your supply from us. Now is the time to go over the orchard and thin off all undesirable sizes and off-grade fruit. We will be in the market for apples and pears where we have furnished supplies this season. A definite price for a commodity is the logical way to do business in any other line. Why should the fruit business be an exception ? DUCKWALL BROS. CASH BUYERS OF APPLES AND PEARS Phone 4702 White Salmon- Interstate Columbia river bridge work along as fast as poa- MEMORIAL SES Hibie,” declared J. A. McEarchern, so* ixrintendent of the Gilpin Construc tion Co., which has the contract for SION SOLEMN tto> bridge and which is now proceed Odell 229 WILL CONDUCT A FREE INSPECTION SERVICE ON ALL MAKES OF CARS. H Let me solve your troubles, such as Starters, Genera tors, Ignition, and Carburetors. Money back guarantee on all trouble shooting. I will specialize on contract work and will call and deliver car» from any part of town. Phone 3743 VAN HORN PLEADS FOR ARMORY FUND The Oregon legislature at the 1025 session, according to Major Edward IV. Van Horn, of the Oregon National Guard, who npi**nled to the members of the Tuesday Lunch Club to back the measure, will lie asked to appro priate a fund for an armory for Com pany C, IKOth Regiment. Major Van Horn declared that the Oregon Guard could now on an instant's notice mus ter 2,500 men, and that this numlier by Jiiuuary 1 would Is* increased to 3,000. In hia appeal, Major Van Horn cited that the disbursement of the federal money for the Oregon National Guard rcach«*d almost $50<i,000 annually, while the cost to the state was an ap proximate 10 cents per capita per an num. In Hood River the federal dis bursements each year run to $x,000 with $1,500 of state funds. He cited the Instant readiness of guard units to serve In such serious contingencies us the Astoria fire. Captain Black man, of Company C. Major Van Horn stated, had made nvalluble the full personnel of Ills company for fighting forest fires in the Oregon National Forest. liiMid lllver city anil county will lie required to match funds In building an armory. Major Van Horn Mated, but he.announced that tire member« of the lis-al guard unit had already offered a nucleus for the local fund by n suliscrtpttort of $200 each. He cited that the armory would tie a val uable asset for the entertainment of conventions and one an a community house. A water melon fen st wns enjoyed. The melons were furnished with the compliments of Jay V. Fike, memlier of tlie club, vrfio is mld-CoInmlda rep resentative of the Pacific Fruit A Pro duce Co. The club memls'in were asked to ent until they could hold no more. They did. Capt. Wilbur was chairman of the meeting. ('apt. Ta tor, who delivered a stir ring sermon at Rlverstde church Sun day. was the guest of A. T. Case at tlie Tuesday lnncheon. LEGIONNAIRES TO CLIMB MT. ADAMS A party of shout 15 mcmtiera of the Hood River Pont of the American Le- ion, Including member* of the Mount Hood Climb committee In charge of the annual Ix*glon nacent of Mount Hood. Will visit Mount Adanin over the week end. Mark Weygandt, veteran Mount Hood guide, will accompany the party, and Sunday an accent of Adams will lie made. BRIDGE WORK IS NOW GOING AHEAD “We have liegnn work In earnest nnd are ready to above the llood Biver* ing with the driving of tost piles to determine the definite location for the upasT at the Tuesday Lunch Club meet ing. Tito test work, U is expected, will be tiirished this week. The personnel of the engineers here observing the test pile work includes: Prof. C. B, Wing, of the Stanford University de partment of civil engineering, who Is consulting engineer for the bridge com pany; Flbert M. Chandler, of Olympt% and Henry L. Gray, of Beattie, engin eers who promoted the concern, and I C. W. Fit ton, engineer for the con tractor«. J. F. Gilpin is also here from Astoria overseeing the initial I work on the bridge project«/.. _ APPLE MEN HOLD Coordinated Efarü «Í Northwret SMgbtM&Ubüuháfb port Marieta At present but about four per cent of the Northwest’s appto tonnage Is Hhliqx-d to export markets. Growers and shippers believe that thia should be iiiereasetl to at least 20 per cent. In furtherance of increasing the ex port demand, both to Europe and South America, a conference of rep resentatives of growers, shipping con cerns and Portland bankers gathered , Satu-day afternoon at the Chamber of Commerce at. the cull of Arthur M. <to arrival Sunday afternoon on the Geary, Portland attorney and owner of 4.05 weHtlHiund Portland limited of the Mist ford orchard interests, who Is as O.rW. R. & N. Oo„ the body of William sociated , with the Northwest export <). Banks, aged T3 and Civil war vet- and domestic trade council. As it was pointed out at the meet eran, was taken to Idlewilde cemetery, where graveside funeral services were ing, there 1s a great ueed for educa held.' Mr. Banks, u native of Pennsyl tion nmong pioneers in furnishing the apple growers with re vania, died Thursday at kls home at Northwestern frigerated apace through the Panama Spring Valley, Mimi. He was buried canal and among the brokers of for here lieslde his wife, who died In 1011. countries and the consumers of Mr. Banks resided on a Belmont eign fruit as well. orchard place here a number of years. Major Philip H. Carroll, great war He is survived by the following chil veteran, who spent two years to cen dren : Mrs. D. Mortimer and Mr«. tral E utoim * in charge of the American Martha Johnson, of Austin, Tex., and Relief Assm'latlon and who recently n son. Charles Bank«, of Minnesota. returned from a study of European Mrs. Mortimer and Mr«. Johnson sc- a|>ple markets, said he found that the companied the Ixxly here. Two grand ajqile of the Northwest could be dis children Mrs. Lulu Carter — and Banka tributed In an orderly fashion to Mortimer, survive. The funeral _____ rer- Great Britain market«, If some method vice was to charge of the local Masonic of storage could be provided in the lodge, meuiliers of which observed rlt great centers of population. At pres iialistlc service. ent. however, he said, the brokers handling the fruit are opposed to stor ing the apples. They maintain that the British public wilt* not purchase gisxls out of storage. It is true, how ever. that apples must be stored here or abroad, and a campaign of educa Friday considerable alarm was cre tion will cause the British apple con ated when reports were started that sumers to realise that the apple« they a huge gasoline tank of the Shell Oil eat in April were produced to North Co. was overflowing. Employes of the western orchards in. October. Major O.-W. R. A N. Co., who thought the Carroll believes that the public can be gasoline waa pouring from the top of educated to eating apples from their the tank, expressed the fear that it home storage Just as they do to Amer would flow down over the rail right ican centers of population today. Mr. (Jnrroll cited that refrigerated of way and result In fl serious Are. Officials of the oil company and city space to ships traveling through the officials were notified. An investiga Panama canal Is not kept at steady tion developed that the liquid flowing temperature«, a necessity to protecting down over the sides of the big tanks apple«. Hatches of rooms to' which was water. The tanks are surmounted gppl<>« are stored are opened at Ban by a system of sprinklers, and during Francisco and Isis Angeles frequently, hot days them* are kept going, to order allowing the rooms to become bested. that the gasoline contents may be kept Furthermore, after their arrival to England the boats are sometimes two cool. ________ _______ weeks to unloading all of their prod The Dalles Growers Consult Station uct, end the hatches are constantly be Saturday, August 11, a number of ing opened. The Portland Dock Com The Dalles fruit growers came to mission was praised for its activity ia Hood River to consult, with Gordon G. preparing for the construction of a Brown, of the local experiment sta- coM storage unit and Pier No. 4 this Hon. with reference to soil conditions year. - Btrt it was declared that this in Wasco county. The delegation was- improvement would avail little unless headed by C. W. Daigh, county agent; shipping faculties were improved. Mr. Dr. Handera; C. L. Haaeti. fruit in- Carroll cited that the apples must be N|M-ctor, and T. West, of The Dalles carried In such stable manner aa to permit adequate marine insurance Chamber of Commerce. The question of soil fertility and ita policies. A. F. H. Hteele. general manager ef maintenance under conditions where but light rainfall occurs and uo irri the Apple Growers Association, stated gation water Is available ia a serious that he had Ju«t received word that one when viewed In the light of cumu the Portland Dock Comndsslon bad lative effects. - Fruit growers in Wasco opened blds for the new cold storage county are distending upon clean cul unit, which would accommodate and tivation as a menus of conserving soil approximate 100,000 bones of apples. moisture. That this In the long run Ry next season. Mr. Hteele stated, the I h a wasteful practice is conceded by Portland wharf would lie equipped with a real storage plant, sufficient to all those who have hnd experience handle 500,000 box«*« of apples. He with tills line of farming Its ultimate results are loss of liiimiiH and a cor- stated tluit the dock commission, had res|M>nding decrease in the moisture informed him that they had purchased four gasoline tractors to tie used in holding capacity of the soli. Hood hauling apples from the storage rooms lllver learned this lesson to Its satis to the ships. The Portland <*old stor- faction several years ago. Just wlmt the ultimate solution of age plant will lie built ou plana ap by tlie Association. the problem will lie Is at present hard proved At the suggestion of Mr. Geary It ia to forms*. Obviously, green manure planned Mr. Carroll at once shall crops must be employed whenever sea visit all that apple districts sonal conditions will permit. The use and seek Northwestern the cisipefation of all sblp- of such fertilisers as nitrate of soda t>era In the development of export will also prove helpful. The use of It is planned to secure a pro sheep manure is being urged whenever trade. rate share of apples from all districts it can |>e purchased nt a reasonable to lie sent to Hotith American porta, figure. Undoubtedly, experimental work will devise means of enabling thus creating a popularisation of the there. fruit growers in such sections to main fruit At the suggest ion of Dr. J. D. tain fertility so as to insure profitable Guttery, member of the director«ta»of crops. ______ the Apple Growers Association, it waa ¡proposed that the export development Mrs. Cram Hurt in Auto Accident plans lie made a part of the work of Mrs. F. A. Cram, accompanying her the Northwestern Traffic Amss-iatlon, brother, F. M. Wilson, mid Mrs. Wil an organisation recently effected son from their home city, Walla Walla, aincsig apple sliipjiera of all North Wash., to Raymond. Wash., sustained western states. The Association has (iaInfill brills»*« Hunday when Mr. Wil a lead In tills work through the son's nutomoliile was struck by an taken of A. W. Stone, ex-general other near Knapita on the lower Co initiative who now is devotiug his full lumbia River Highway. Mr. Wilson manager, toward traffic matters and the sustained a bad cut on the head, Mrs. time work of developing new markets, both Wilson has broken rilis. and a severe and domestic. gash was cut in the cheek of Miss foreign Others who were present at the Sat Anna May Cox, of Walla Walla, a urday conference were: A. W. Peters, member of the iiarty. Irwin and H. L. Shoemaker, The injured pimple were rushed to William Hood River; Dr. C.‘A. Macrnm, presi Ht. Mary's hospital to Astoria by Dr. dent of the Mosier Fruitgrowers Asso J. A. Beemer. ciation. and Christian Peterson, Wai tdr Brown and J. 8. Manning, repre Dre District Calla Election sentatives of Portland banks. The directorate of the Ime Irriga tion IHstriet hns called an election for Bad Accident, on Highway September 1, when landowners under Miss Eva McAtee, who is expected the district's system will vote on the proposed sale of $10,000 in bonds, the to to* out In a few days, was the most funds to l>e used In the Improvement seriously injured of a party, whose of headworks, main canal ami dtatrib- automobile was struck Hunday evening 1 -- — — 1 - - - . ■ - ... I ■ - and knocked from the Columbia River uting tatcraw. Tlie Dee district was formed by vote Highway near Rowena loops. Hhe sus of the citisene of the section last year. tained painful bruises about the body It has already «|s‘iit $05.000 in bonds, and head. The local folk, consisting flaying for the plant of its predecessor, of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lethleas, Tom thè Hee Power A Irrigation Co., and Ix*thlenn and M1 hs McAtee, were re turning from The Dalles, traveling at on improvements. a alow speed, when they met the of fending macliine. The driver failed Berry Top Fires Are Confusing to dim his lights nnd struck the Hood State Fire Warden Barne«, heft River car n terrific side«wipe. The Tuesday with H. H. Meyer«, Upper machine rolled over twice. The iden Valley rancher, arrested for burning tity of the reckless driver, who pro brush without a permit, stated that ceeded without checking his speed, activity of ranchers In burning the wan not obtained. tops of strawlierry plants hnd resulted The party to the wrecked machine In great confusion among forest rang was brought here by a pawing mo- r ers. The smoke from the burning tops tor 1st. was reported from forestry lookout stations, which kept rangers and war Motorists Make Complaint dens busy investigating. While no Complaints were made Sunday by permit Is required for burning the lierry tope, officials havo asked that motorists who found the Mount Hood ranchers report such activities hi ad Loop Highway blix-ked with locked vance. In order to eliminate suspicion« barricade« rest of ths road to ths Homestead Inn that a favored few of forest blaiee. Mr. Meyers, who had allowed hi« were allowed to enter the highway on lierry Arc to spread to adjoining brush the East Fork to fish. The motorists nnd endanger standing timber, was maintain that all traffic should he fined $5 and costs by Justice of the allowed on the East Fork if any ia I allowed to motor there. Peace Onthank. BANKS MORTIMER’S GRANDFATHER DIES OIL TANK SPRINK LERS CAUSE ALARM »