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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1923)
r* ■ ■ ■ • * > 0 4 i iUcr f I I i 4 j I 1 V LABOR DAY ECALLS to our minds the story of the fishing party in a leaky boat some distance from the shore when everybody was ordered to — R “Either row, bail, fish or cut bait" Life is just like that — we each must select our job and do it ; we each must make our individual contribution toward the common welfare, the com munity good. Ours is to serve as financial adviser, protector and friend. The First National Bank HOOD RIVER, OREGON This Bank will be closed all day Labor Day, Sept. 3d FICTION VS. FACT There Is a tradition among writers of fiction that bankers like to get their customers so badly In debt that they finally have to turn their property over to the bank. Of course the well Informed people of today know that no bank could 1on£ survive on the misfortunes of Its custo mers and that the successful banks of this generation urge their depositors to SAVE— » “Not for to hide it In a hedge. Not for a tralri resplendent, But for the glorious privilege Of being Independent.’’ e> BUTLER BANKING COMPANY were the first shippers in this section to w E 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 ? X ' DUCKWALL BROS. CASH BUYERS OF APPLES AND PEARS Phone 4702 rs.T.ss appiè LOOKS FINE • - if’ -/ CM 4 " ■A I 1 J ■' J ' i y| 1 * Ká a Tents are short-lived and therefore expensive. Permanent Wooden Build ings are more satisfac tory to live in and are cheaper in the long run. LOOP ROAD WORK JUST FUNERAL ÓrlllLLY BODDY SATURDAY J' I ■*x >. Í T’., J ■ '9 <r <" 4 < EMRY LUMBER & FUEL CO “Everything to Build Anything” Hf I LEGION POST WIRES FOR A PULMOTOR Member Federal Reserve System » • ?. 3 I PICKERS’ CABINS We have in stock every, item of material used in building these cabins. I l i perieuced teraat rangtr------------- --- ■ '«* figure, on aa average, h "’ *Í>' íí W ‘ them eight hours to go 1 front from the the snow- ____ Hue to the stanmit of the peak. After a trip up the north side of Mount Hood the climber is keenly dlB- aiqKdnted in Adams, lie In, t„ Mklrt everlsettogly to keep out of cre WHITE SALMON POST LAYING PLANS almut vasses. The Ice cascades snd seracs WEATHER IDEAL FOR QUALITY YIELD of Eliot glacier are always looming in view. Climbing Ulbiibinfi the th« hat last l.OOo fent >US «bä* nmkee one think of Mcendhig aacendhig ■ a church Shwm Expect Twagegi faelM S m spire. -„J It is Juat Just str straight snowfields, Frt« AU KtüMi Fruit divided by ifir crteacKMiH crisscross rock ridges, on Adams. ■ ft You reach the top of tlie first Section peak and start acroas to the middle The Hood River Post. Amerknn Le peak, the real summit, which rises over It 1« the couaenMus of opinion of all gion, in tlie HiK-evsHful efforts at popu 500 f<*et above the massive, near level larising Mount llood through the me area uf the top with a feeling of disap apple shippers and growers here and You wonder If it was real In the Mosier section that the ¿rop of dium of annual climbing iiarties the pointment. ly worth ail the effort of tiuit long, this season will 1«. one of the cleamwt past three yearn, has set a precedent that other Ix-ghm Posts in the vicinity eight-hour pull. The top uf AdmuM 1« and of the highest quality in years. of natural Northwest scenic attrac largely a gigantic ire cat*, and as you Menther conditions hare been Ideal tions are expressing an engerness to wade across the mauy rills that trickle for the control of codttng moth, which follow. Since thq 1923 Mount Hood their way down toward the west side, took a heavy toll of apples in all seetlofas last. year. climb of the Hood River legionnaires chilllug your feet tu the poiut of dis Northwestern With all growers making ready for U nder« of the White Kalmon Post have comfort, you get a little angry at Ad given some study to plans for a similar ams and mouutalne in general. Eyen the harrest. estimates place the total tunnuge of the llood River Valley at recreational party, witli the summit di though you may not say so out loud to around 2,300,000 boxes, approximately your companioim you make a resolution Mount Adams aa tho goal for those tlidt you are through atountaintering. tlie same tonnage %f a yedr ago. In participating. Indeed, simv n recon Then the party walks off to the east Mosier it Is expected that the yield noitering trip taken Saturday and will reach 150,(MiO boxes, an Increase Hunday, August 18 and 10, members of edge of the top. in order tn see what of about 50 per ?ent over lust year. the White Halnion patriotic organiza manner of conhtry may lie off there in The rainstorm of last week, while tion say they can vision In the near the vast and virgin wilderness. Sud it caused severe individual losses to future a Mount Adams American Le denly y<as halt so quickly as almost to growsrs in the Upper Hood Uirtr Val glon ascent npproachlng in its large at topple backward. From the summit on ley. is declared. to have been worth tendance and widespread interest tbe (lie north Adams drops almost straight tlioiisanila of dollars to the mid-Colum- to tlie snowline, down, down. S,(MM> feet, annual Mount Hood climb. In and what a startling mqgnificanee of bia Hpple sections in general. Reven members of the Hood River glacial formations greets the eyes of Klickitat and Skamania counties, Legion, aiiximpanied by Mark ’ Wey- the man ar woman who so suddenly IVasliingtnn, apple eertlons, growers gandt, who has rendered the Hood Riv comes to the ire ledge there 19JI00 feet say the rain could not have been more er Post invaluable aid in developing shove sea level. ■>p|iurttmely time«! ne«l to 4« increase ____ __ the ______ also I |‘ fruit. their annual climb, H. J. Miaire and Hun day we had to glimpse the tower and quality of the “From my perse Joe I). Thom Ison, joined a delegation ing Icecrags through mists and eluucta ‘raonal bliaervatlona and growers and mem- of four members of the White Salmon that were swirling np around the peak diita gathered from irroirm legion on the trip of exploration. ,It. jnat a I «mt the time we reached the top. bers of ptir inspection department,” was demonstrated that Mount Adams The cloud would rise like a curtain says I’. F. Clark, “it new appears that may la* approached from Hood River, iu front of aome unbelievably large the 1023 crop will leave nothing to be ns soon as the Columbia river inter stag,* setting. Haddonly a massive desired aa far aa quality and «lies are state bridge is completed here, and as castellated ice crag would loom up tie- coiK-erned. •> Weather eohdftteu's are cended In almost as short a time and fore ua, its turrets sparkling in the af ideal. The hot duya and coal nights with ns little Inconvenience as Mouut ternoon sunlight. If you enn fuiagiue that are now prevailing are juat what Ilisal. The Hood River legionnaires, a carat diamond magnified to the else the apples want to bring them to good including Kent Hhoeniaker. Capt. Geo. of a skyscraper you, maytie, can com maturity and coloring.” The- Association Mat year handled It. Wilbur, Dr. V. It. Aliraham,1 Wm. prehend something of the ■ sunlight Allyn. Ia-on'Foust, .1. H Rice and I Inns playing on that mnMtve toe protuber 1,2»8,Q(M1 boxes of apples. Mr. Clark Hoerlein, express themselves as keenly ance. It was not mete brilliant», it says that an additional membership eager to aid White Halnion In develop was a gorgeously colored bMHance. will bring this season’s tonnagy to a ing the Mount Adams climb. In the nooks and eranabs the ice was slightly heaviet figure. R. W. Kelly says the yield wfil sur “Our ¡airty will help White Salmon,” as bine as a calm oceuu on a sunny expectations in many orchards, said Kent. Hlioeintker, ''and tbeir's will day. Elttle knobs—they looked little pass 1 to the slxing resulting from ideal Ú aid ua. Interest in mountaineering to un standing far off above them— due , develo|w as a kind of cumulative prop idiot forth a may radiance The tops weather conditions. C. H. Castner, who is a veteran ship osition. After a fellow gets Ills first of the lee reflected bach the white per of the district, having been In the taste of victory over a enow peak and sunlight. - - hern longer tlian auy other ship A glhrter starts at the very top of gaaie ' has been thrilled by the viewpoints np among the blue sky and clond mists he the north side of Mount AdnaM. The per. declares that be has never seen , wants to continue and conquer every Icy sheath, broken at many points, its finer Conditions for the apple crop Is now prevailing. Mr. Ylastner glacial eminence he ever heard of.' serried ter shot outward liy the grind-. than , I taring tlie |ia»t three years we have Ing force, sets a harrier to a climb beltetis the quality of mld-Cdtdmbta had many uucceMful participants in from the nortli base. Even though one apple» will be reflectod in tbe aoason's , our Mount Hood parties suggest tint could make hie way up the sawti>eth of retunw, wc ought to arrange for nsivnt» of the broken tee If would he dangerous, Mount Ailama. If tlie White Salmon for nvalanches arc hurtling themselves legionnaires will arrange for their ilowu from the north side of the iienk climb during the week following our every 11 Mount Iluod cUuib I Is-Ueve they will get's great many*of onr climber« in their parties.” " O.'Prtert. resident yngtneer for Recently while in Portland to ad* the Bureau of Public Roads, who was drCHM the members of the Mount Hood here last week returning from a vaca Development Association, members of tion motoring through Washington which are studying over methisls of In isdnts. said it now seemed that the creasing hotel faellilies for the I<<«ql CiHrltaton Construction Co. will com environs, T. II. Martin, manager 6f Paradise Ilin on Mount Rainier, de Riverside Community church was plete the 17 miles of grading from the clared that tbe consfructlon of more rrowdi-d Hatnrday afternoon when fu north edge of the Oregon National For adequate hotel» at Mount Ilisid nnd neral services wen* conducted for little est to the Barlow road, a link of th. other Oregon points of weenie Interest 10-yenr old Billy Hoddy, son of Her. Mount Hood Loop Highway, before will l«> of laMting t»*nefit to Mimnt nnd Mrs. W. II. Hoddy. Rev. Buddy snow flies tills fall. Heven milvH of th. grade'were cut Rainier. He cited that wealthy travel was formerly paafot of the Upper Val ers of the east and thlddle west 'Would ley United church anifmany members last year, and crews have pa«scd far not make a transcontinental journey of hl« former congregation and folk of beyond the halfway mark on the 10 merely for H|«*nding.a night or two at The Italic« were present for the sad additional miles this year. All base rock has lven placed by trucks of the a single mountain lumtelryz Mr. Mar rites. tin declared that the crowd« would In gev. Harold L. Bowman, pastor of Shotwell CkHMtruction Co., mi 10 miles crease in proportion to the iuerensed the First Presbyterian church in Port of the new grade. On aix mile« the hotel convenient« scattered over the land. an old friend of Itev. and Mrs. entire surfacing ha« been completed. Mr. Peters while here commented on entire sssulc Northwest. lie cited IteAv Bodily, officiated at U m * service« and Phone 2181 Fourth and’ Cascade rail touriHta in«king trnnHcontinentnl a prayer wan offered by Rev. Gnbriel the complaint that had lieen made by tri|i« in the Hummer month» continue Sykes. A nolo wan rendered by Mrs. local motorlHts ts the effort'that the to arrive in larger uuml>er», even dur C. H. Wletton nnd n duet selection by fonwt section of the Loop Highway ing the Hummer month», in California, A. T. Case and .lames W. Collier, Tile wa« blocked to the general public than ifi-atbe Northwest. Thia rvault« organ aecnmjiaiilat whs Miss Itiara wlille a favorad few were allowed to the district for Ashing. He de from tkiHfornia having made hotel Howes. The Idea. nnd altar wpre enter ' preparation« at innumerable place», banked high with beautiful flowers. clared that sn<-h a statement was abso a Mr. Martin «aid. Hearerly nn eye was dry as the friends lutely erroneous. The Bureau Of Pub ; have been so busy lately fixing up our Beach And ho the H<««1 ltlver American of the family filed from the church lie Roads, lie stated, agreed to keep the that we haven’t been able to say much about the M*glon Post niemlsT» express the tie- edifice. Interment oi-curred In Idle- f road dosed In order to provide work able Conditions for contractors. It is lief that they will aid tliemaelves I h * h I wllde cemetery. farming end. Nevertheless our bread and but neeewsary. Ml*. Peters de by giving their unstinted »upport to the The little ls>y was drowned last absolutely ' ter is coming from that source and, as many I White Halnion D*gion In developing an Thursday afternoon while he was Win dared. that traffic is* prohibited. Receat prominent officials of the Bu I annual Mount Adam« climb. The ding with playmates nt the Columldii housewives are watching this space for hints, I Hood climb, although the idea is only slough. They had accompanied older reau of Puldie Ronds here to inspect we will let the Beach rest this week and talk three years old. has already created nu boys to the slough and were wading tlie I ««ip Highway wen-: A. Ht. J. I Interest that Is becoming national. Op- and watching them swim. Little Billy Wilson, of Washington 1). CL chief en tomatoes and cantaloupes. I jMirtunity to |»irticliMite at a minimum suddenly stepped into a («itliole and be gineer of the Bureau; District Chief of ex|M>nae In the aa<M*nt of two notable fore the older children could reach him Purcell, Henior Highway Engineer J. The season foi^tomatoes has been a very profitable one snowiM-nks would have a greater ap- lie hail gone down. The lsaly was re A. Elliott, of Portland, and Regional for the grower who had tomatoes to sell. However, a l«*al to the strenuously inclined rccren- covered in about 15 minutes by Her- Engineer Hewes, of San Francisco. lionlst. of Omaliu or l'eofla, say, than liert Frasier and Leonard Thomson. short crop and high prices generally go together, as they Dr. V. K. Abraham was summoned at a »Ingle dne. did this year. But now tomatoes are coming on in the Mount Adam’s peak is-comparatively once nnd 90 minutes were vainly spent easy of ascent if one attack» It from In an attempt at resuscitation. Willamette Valley, taking our Portland market, and it’s Tlie funeral was directed by H.' E. the southeast, corner. That is, it is time to begin canning. You should get your tomatoes easy If one Is willing to take his, or Bart mess. her. tiiiM* and Journey leisurely up the into the cans when they have ripened on the vines and vast patchwork of snowfields, glacial Tlie local Atnork-an Tx-gion Poat while the sun shines, before the rain has cracked the skin. moraine and Ixiulder patches. Tlie Monday telegraphed an order for a Now is the time. mountain does not |ire»ent the difficul pulmotor to I h * available for service at ties or the nearness to a thrill that the iHHclies during tlie heated season. The climber gets in ascending the north As the stores in the Upper Valley do not care to handle pulmotor will be placed at the city hall I side of Hood. On tlie'sontlieaat side of nnd members of the Fire Itapartment canning tomatoes, we will make deliveries with our own ■ Adams it is just a test of endurance. A meeting uf the Hood IUvee County will lie Instructed In nslng It. The climber I ms .to lift himseif to n truck when we can make up a load. Mail or phone your Tlie Poet expects to raise funds to height of a little over l.tMki feet more— Gann* Protective Association, to be pHj- for the pulmotor by some enter- orders. held at Parkdale next Tuesday even H ihx I 1» 11,251 feet high while Adams tu In inent to be given soon. A. H. Kol- semis ills massive dons* on up to 12,- ing will he addressed by Htate Game stnd Inst week stated tint he would Warden Burghduff anil R. J. Kirk As for Cantaloupes, there is no use of shipping any into MIH fret. It takes the last ounce of en secretary of the Oregon Hjsirts- offer the Rinlto theatre aome evening ergy. e»|iecially If tlie climber is prone wood. this market now—you know men ’ s hms lation. With the Upper for the presentation of n notable mo io hurry. Indeed, one know» when be Valley A mem I s-is of the County aaws-ia- tion picture, the proceeds to go to the lias reached the summit. The other tlon hr hosts and serving a cafeteria pulmotor fund. day when tlie legion party was resting Mr. Kolstad was away the first of luncheon, it is expected that on the summit the writer expressed tion« will motor from all parts delega of the the week, but Ix*glon members say himself as very well pleased with him • ' < r ♦hey are sure that they can make sat for the session. self, declaring that it was gratifying to valley Htauley Jewett, of the United State« isfactory arrangements with Mm for learn that hia heart action was all Biological Hurvey, may be present, the benefit performance. [cnorzol right. Dr. Abraham r<*sponded to the according to J. H. Fredrlcy, president comment aa follows:. of the Hood River association, to show “Heart nothing! Don't you know reels of motion pictures of wild life. yon don't climb a mountain on your The meeting. with Mr. Fredrlcy pre heart? Its yonr gnts!” siding. will be called at Mclaaac hall. Mount Adams is deceptive, the peak ■ % viewed from the soutlieast Irnse. The softest kind of a recreationist might I jJ'l. ""I well tie lured to attempt an ascent from = C. A. Belt, one of the leader« In there. It docs look extremely easy. itoostlng for the shortcut road from . n ass r. But obstructing humm<H-ka shut off the White HuUnon to Yakima, In endeavor view of a half of the miowfkUdfl that ing to sign op about 50 local citlsena who will form u motor caravan to tour must lie traversed. It I n a great deni harder than It h«iks. A loss estimated at *1500, with no over the new road recently opened. The route np the sontlionst aldo. insurance. was aiMitaiiied nt 1.30 The new Yakima Highway,' which will however. Is nowhere excessively steep. o'clock last Friday inotuii riihjg when the I m - grewtly sthnelsled by constrttrtion There arc no dangerou» chimneys such garage nt the home o2 t>t C. DethlUan of the Columbia river bridge here, WILL CONDUCT A FREE INSPECTION SERVICE as one encounter« on. the north able of burned. ..................... Hb< < 'adulate * tourlug car was passes from Glenwood aeroM the ON ALL MAKES OF CARS. Mount II imm I. Never In there any peril wived* .but a Chevrolet ttinrlng car, in Klickitat nnd Big Muddy rivers and from falling rocks, and climbers do not which tl>e fire In thought to have thence enter* the Yakima rwnntry by Let me solve your troubles, such as Starters, Genera have to la* tied in. No lifeline la uec- at ar ted. either from abort circuiting of way of the Simcoe Indian reservation. essary. No glacial crevaam-s an* en- electrk-al wires or spontaneous com- tors, Ignition, and Carburetors. Money back guarantee conntered. Indeed, one may rhie from buation, wan destroyed. The double Mr. and Mia. N. 11. MacMillan and on all trouble shooting. I will specialize on contract work the snowline to the very peak on the garage was ouly a few steps from thi way from Bend, where Mr. Robinson and will call and deliver cars from any part of town. jlmck of a surefifoted horse or mule. rear of the home uf Mr, Dethman and is now with a J. C. Tenney store, This feat a number of years ago was the residence was aaved only by quick stopped here Hatnrday to nee friend». Phone 3743 accomplished frequently by Dee work of the Volunteer Fire Depart Mr. Robinson was formerly heated Wright, then in charge of the forest ment. here. 7 LEGION WILL EXPLOIT ADAMS * , 1» . ...................... .. i fr HOOD BIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1923 VOL. XXXV Í ¿ ? vT 4 a Odell 229 7 * PARKDALE WILL BE SPORTSMEN’S MECCA 1 Koberg’s Cantaloupes are Nonpareil BELL IS PROPOSING CARAVAN TO YAKIMA THE 20TH CENTURY TRUCK FARM i FIRE AT DETHMAN’S DESTROY^GARAGE HECK UNGER GARAGE Successor to TUCKER’S GARAGE i - ✓ jí ■j ■ - i; K <1 ■ >■7 I