thia pai HUMAN ELEMENT IS DEVELOPMENT OF P.P.&LCO. HAS HAD dates resiioiiaibllitie*» In Ing buaineoo. | exceed CONTROLLING FACTOR RANKING REVIEWED YEAR OF PROGRESS manda former capacii LAST CALL OF 1923 edy the aituat (By Win. P. Allyn) Ths human element la the control­ ling factor in the development of any community. It is the energy of the people, and npt the physical feature«, which determine the growth and devel­ opment of any city or county. A Pre-Inventory Sale, Dec, 28,29 4 30 AT CASH AND CARRY GROCERY H. 'GROSS, Proprietor. 4 1 4 1 PHONE 1039 sacks Crown or Olympic Flour sack Crown or Olympic Flour sacks White River Flour sack White River Flour $6.-59 1.67 6.43 1.61 Parkdale Potatoes — Early Rose, Netted Gem or Burbank, per 100 pounds........ ..................... 89c 5 lb. Can Calumet Baking Pdr. $1.03 3 pkgs. Magic Yeast or Yeast • Foam......... ;...... 27c 3 pkgs. Mother Aluminum Pre­ mium Oats............. .............. 99c COFFEES 5 lb. can Golden West, Royal Club or Schillings........................ $1.90 3 lbs. Best Bulk Coffee............... $1.00 1 lb. pkg. Tree Tea, Green or Black, per lb......................... 61c CASE LOTS 24 cans Puree Tomatoes............ $2.93 24 cans Solid Pack Tomatoes ... 2.98 24 cans U.-Tana Peas................ 2.77 1 gal. can Silver Dale Catsup... 77c 24 cans Borden’s, Libby’s or Alpine Milk, per case......... $4.79 FISH 2 large Salt Mackerel.......... 10 lb. keg Holland Herring 6 1-lb. cans Medium Red Salmon 96c 6 large oval cans Sardines, To­ mato or Mustard................ 73c 8 to 10 lb. Strips of Side Bacon, very lean per lb.......................... 19c Full Cream Cheese, 2 lbs................ 57c Peanut Butter, in Bulk, per lb....... 20c Nut-Ola Margerine, per lb. ..........24c 4 lbs. Fancy Dried Prunes....... ,... 25c 7 lbs. Calif. Fancy White Navy Beans........... ................................49c 7 lbs. Red Mexican Beans 49c SOAP 10 bars P. & G. White Naptha Soap.................. ........................ 10 bars White Wonder Laundry Soap.......... ................................ 10 bars Classic White Laundry Soap.......................................... 10 bars Felz Naptha Soap . or 10 1-lb bars Army Soap........... 35c 39c 75c 72c 3 1-lb. pkgs. Washing Powder... 20c 6 bars Toilet Soap.......................... 29c 3 large bars pure Borax Soap...... 25c No. 8 Wash Boiler (ask).....-_|1.41 3 cans Sun Brite Cleanser......... 19c T SMOKERS 5 cans Tuxedo Tobacco ......25c .• $1.42 44c 50c ALL KINDS OF FEED FOR SALE We reserve the right not to sell to any merchant 7 ____ All city limit deliveries 10c for each order. SOME OF THE NEEDS OF THE CITY CITED The following wits the message de­ livered last aleck by Mayor It. II. l’er- igo to tile city council: The past y«-ar has been a most, har­ monious on«* In the work of the council and I want to congratulate you all on the way you have worked together. While no big tilings have come up for action, there Ims been gmsl ron- structlve work in starting th«* East Htate street Improvement, the pur­ chase of an auxiliary tire truck, water filing, etc. A lot of street work lias lieen done, so much in fact that work of this nature, in the lattir ¡rnrt of the year, has lieen badly handicapped. Our fire loss 1ms I hm - ii almost nothing and we have had alarms which con­ vinces me that th«* work of the fire marshal and fire department in pre­ vention work is having considerable ■ If you can’t come, call us up. effect and should Is* encourag«*d. Our annual water shortage, now al- most forgotten, is sure to come up again next summer unl«*ss a way ÍR found to get more water into our res­ ervoirs during the irrigation season. Tills is a htg Job and m«ist important and I sincerely hope* you will give It, a lot of careful consideration hooii . There are three big items in partic­ ular that I lielieve we should get un- der way early next year. First: The west approach to the Highway should be pavtsl without de- lay. This rough spot brings mor«* crit­ icism to tlie council than any one tiling I know of. Then* lias been much talk of ¡Hiving this stretch but It has never lM*en done and the way to get it paved is to pave it and d«i it now. Tlie Bancroft act permits the property owners to ¡my such costs 10% per year and such a ¡inqsisition will not hurt anybody much. I earnestly hope that tin* preliminary work then* can be started at once and tlint. it can lie paved early in the spring, la-fore the tourist travel starts again. Second: Our present auto park, ap­ parently inadequate for much future une, should either be abandoned for larger quarters or Intensively im­ proved at once. I do not favor' two auto parka apd if it Is possible to se­ cure a more favorable one we should dp so and put all our efforts and im­ provements on the new one. . Third: Our water supply is not up to the standard that it should be, by any means, and it is not too early to lie thinking seriously alsiut it. Unless wo take proper precautions, the old pipe line will fail some time and we will have nothing to fall tiack on. Our Cold spring filing should be fol- lowed up and as much progress made on It each year as we can. In the meantime we need a temporary boost to our present supply and while some work lias lieen done along this line, it should tie pushed through until this temporary supply 1 b available. In closing, I request a flO-day leave of absence, tieginning January 1, in order to make a trip east. Insurance Company Sued The Apple Growers Association last week filed suit against the Gr«*at American Insurance Co., of New York, for *.‘19.959. alleging that the concern had written policies to that amount on fruit of the organization, which had ls*en lost during shipment. The apples moved from Portland by water. Con­ signments aggregating over * 00.900 lioxes were forward«*d by the steamer lh-erfield last ye«r. They reached Jer­ sey City «> liadly d«-eayed as to be worthless. Tlie total value of the ap­ ples. according to the complaint, was *138,990. Freezing was given as the probable cause of the damage. /Apropos Auto Park Doubtless it has occurred to many that all three approaches to the city of Hood River are in wretched shape. Either the tiering has given way or else no paving was laid in the first ¡dace. Assuming that one auto out of 1,000 which enters or leaves the city uses an auto park, the thought occurs should the city put *15,900 into paving or fixing its approaches or should it put that amount into an auto park, or both? In these days of budget pruning ft isn’t likely we can have both, Let’s have that which we need moat. Lux E. Veritas. (By Truman Butler, presklent But­ ler Banking Company). (By B. H. Snow, district manager) dltlona. and In fact haa The Pacific Power A bight Company great number of Instance« in Ho we are to have a symposium and looks tMiek on the year rapidly draw­ tew years. ________ each of us is to tell aonx-thing of the ing to a close aa one of c.malderable Particularly gratifying la the In­ Institution or organization with which activity in and around Hood River. crease in buHluess noted In the Odell he 1« identified. Of first importance we note the com­ and Parkdale districts. Both commun­ When one la writing of banking his pletion of the 9.000-hor«e ¡Miwer Pow- ities seem to tie growing and both have mind naturally turns to figure« and. erdale development, which was dedl demanded and received improvements The succeosful «k-velopment of North going back to April, 1900. when th«* cated with proper ceremonies May W), in the distributing system serving America baa not lieen due to transfer­ first bank «»¡tened In II ihh I River, and put into continuous service that them. Iu the past year, street lights ring of capital from the old country, the figure« was would tell an interesting day. Since then considerable (•lean tip have tieen installed on the main street but to the intelligence and energy of storyj but Ivhoose. thia time, to u«e work lias lx*»-u going on iu and around of iMith towns. the people who made their bornea there. the limited «¡«ace at allot«-d me to the plant and at the headworks, uutil Notable among the extensions made The same la true today of the Pacific write of the changes that to nearly the year to reach new cnstum- Northwest. We have the greatest quarter of a ceutury have brought in a the project la now completi* with the during exception of beautifying Hie ground«. ers are the following: North on Jer­ country and the greatest possibilities the busluesH of liaukiug. Thia work will be carried on more or icho lane extended to the ranches of of any section, and our development Tlie first few years we were in bus- leas evutinuoualy until th»* grounds Mr. Markley and Mr. Hinrichs; east will depend entirely upon the intelli­ inetm there was no banking law and an* attractively covered with gruss, on the Columbia River Highway from gently directed energy of our citizens. each bank a law uuto itself._ In flowers and shrubs, since it is the | mi 1- the Columbia (Jorge hotel to the coun­ Hood River has probably as favor­ those days was financial statement wus Icy of _ ____ the ________ company to maiutain its try lions*« of Mrrf. Skene and Mr. Gal­ able an outlook aa any town in the the exception a rather than the rule and properties to ap|s*ar attractive the ley, and west ou Sherman avenue from Northwest, both from the standpoint such terms as current assets, flx«*d as­ eye. Twelfth street to the city resMc-ncea of geographical location and the en­ sets and frozen l«»anH were not ust* entrance of rendu meters Air u portion of the citizen of this community are not : with many of the requirements of ential th«- pipe line to the ¡siwer houae, de­ month. By reason of more extended "What do my family and I get out of present day lianking. Nor was tlie signed take up and i*qualize differ- advertising and greater effort, we have the schools?” “What d«1 turn in the form of dividends some of is united for the solution of their prob­ system with what wemed to is* a river. Th«* three shifts nr«* divided the money earned by Biich invested lems, advancement will continu«* at its duplication of Hiqiervisiou and yet we Is'twii-n Ed Hchnxxier from Pasco, Ad. capital to the source from which these present rate. The Chamber of Com­ know now that nothing could la* better Rehmidt from Astoria, and A. I’. Fer­ earnings are derived. The customer merce of the city of l»s Angeles was for any bank than to «« conduct its guson from Tygh Valley, while the who Invests some of Ills savings in this fornx*d in 1888, when tlie country wn business that compliance with the reg- headworks ar«* <-ar«*d for by Jiim«*s stock not only helps develop the com- fa«-ing a very crtttcnl period. At thnt ulajiuns under both stat«* and natlouar Foreman from BiMutyalde. nil oM ein- rnrmity hut helps tits own situationby time the population wa« alsiut 50,000. supervision is but a part of tht* day's ploy«*« of the eompa.ny. W. <). Asli, for having a reviviue-producing negotiable Mr. Wiggins joined the Chamber in work. a number of years o|s*ra'tor at the investment yielding a sulwtantial re­ that year and after 47 years of service The editor suggested that it would Tuckers Bridge plant, is «till caretaker turn consistent with sa,.*ty. The men ami women employed by is still directing the work of the or­ Is* proper for nx* to say something of then* and fills in when needed at the the local district more or less regular­ ganization. Loe Angeles now haa a •ur building plans and that a word as new plant or the headworks. population of 775.000. to the broader aorxlco our nxxkwn Ju the local district a glum-«* around ly In the ¡•art. year, and fur the moot “As long as there is a margin be­ equipment will permit, would not be the town and valley trill show that wi* part longer, are. In th«* otfi«*«*, Edward tween what American cities are as amiss. hav<> lxx*n active In improving condi­ Folmr. *. chief clerk. iisalsted «by Miao J the efficient nn shall let tlx* «alitor tell the factory of the Emry Lnrtihm* A Fuel In the field you sc«* Alva- Day. veteran the united effort of it« nftiny member«. building story in bis own language. Co. This circuit Is operated at (WMN) line forinnn, who Is rtxqioiisllile for the It’s a «•rvlce con Miration for the Knowing that this artick* would not volts, which is a change from the for­ excellent line work now being put in. county and town in which it is lo- lx* complete without some reference to mer city voltage of 2200. and la a step He is awdated by Win. Cloyd an«l Chas. cated.” th«* future, I have talked with a num­ toward th«* ultimate plan of changing Kruse. llnenu*n. Isitli old company em­ Your Chamber of Commerce I h a ber of fruit growers, whom* opinions the entin* distribution of th«* city from ployes liere and elsewhere, and M«*sani. democratic non-partisan, noii-religlous I value, and was pleased and a little 2200 to 0009 volts, tlie latter being a Hand. ChamlxTS. Payne and Alphin, organization, representing the entire 8urpri«*d. to find that the ¡mat tw«» more satisfactory voltage from a ser­ groundmen. H. A. King, also an old county, to which anyone can lielong. yean of unsatisfactory market con­ vice standisdnt. Mor«* recently litis conqiany employe of varied experience, It Is a buHln«*M Institution and con­ ditions have not sutfic«*d to diwourage new circuit was extended down Ninth takes car«* of all kinds of trouble i*alls. ducted on a businesH basis. It, pro­ the men with whom I talked. street to Industrial str<*et to serve the All tli«*«<* m«*n are apt to tie s««*n nights vides the most efficient way of directing They all f«*el that c«inHtructive work factorie« and war«*hoiisportunlty, Leroy Childs, president of the Hood the fruit growers in tlx* future will Increases In demands nt the Rox Co. River Chamber of Commerce has out­ fare as well as any other producers. and Vim-gar Co. made netvusary in- through the court«*ay of the Glacier, lined very briefly some of the nltsrt Im­ Th«* fact that all produse points. A new lateral was tli«*n for ¡Mist ¡tatronage and best wishes for done since its reorganization the first pecially disconcerting to tlx* m«*n I run <*iu«t on Columbia str«s*t to serve a prixiperou« and happy new year. of April, 1923. talked with, for they renlizt* that ul­ the new creamer.v and w«*st on Colum­ The Board of Dir«*ctors is directly timately our well lieiqg and pros|M*rlty bia to take III tlx* residence six-tlon in responsihl«* for the formulation of the is based on the producing strength of the northw«*st quarter of tlx* city. policies desired by the inemls*rHhip, the country. There is planned, and at tlie pr«*aent an«l upon the secretary and the mem­ Our hopes arc alsiut to lx* renliz<*d time Jinder construction, a complete bers rests the responsibility for th«* in connection with the new bridge, rebuilding of tlx* distribution lines for successful carrying out of these poll- tlx* golf course, the Isxip road, the tlx* business district of the city, in­ ch*«. The H«sid River Chamber «if Isist Ijike road and. thanks to the cluding an increase In the size of pole« (By A. F. S. Steele, manager of the Commerce is very fortunate in having Am«*rican lx*gion, th«* development of and wire, and in the numlx*r and ca- A i >|»1«> Growers AsMx-iation). Mt. Hixid as Oregou's greatest scenic a memliershlp which takes an active liacitles of transformers, and n com­ Tlx* world hat«*« a quitter, Don't inter«*st in tlx* work of the organiza­ asset. plete rerouting of the circuits. Th«* These facta furnish ample grouud new ¡Miles and lines «in H»*cond stns-t. whine or cry over thing« as they are tion and a Board of Dtrectqrs repre­ senting the highest type men in tlx* for the tiellef that the next ten years now practically eoiiiplpte, form the and as they affect* you. The world community, who have given freely of will see the greatest progress in tlie first unit of this work and a marked ¡»refers to h»*ar you laugh. their timt* and energy to make Htxid history of the valley. Inqirovenient in tills vicinity Is already “lAiugli and the world laugh« with you; River a better pla«*e in wtii«*h to live noted. The same type of const ruction and work. i will Is* carried through nil th«* other Wee|> and you weep alone; WHITE SALMON “The individual man profits if he oross Hi reels and the transformers will For the sn«l old earth mu«t borrow It« mirth; merely sits along the highway of prog­ Is- placed and the clrcpiii nrrang<*d so (From The Enterprise) ress and handles what coin«*« his way. that tlx* high voltag«* wires can lx* r«*- But baa troubl«*« enough of Its own.” Twenty thousand blight-resistant moved from Onk str«*eL On comple­ The man who takes to ill« bed with Individual success is made possible by the advance of the world. It is the pear trees have ix*en mild this fall tion of tills work next summer lltsxl a slight business cold will eventually by the Mt. AdaniH nursery of Husum, River will have a tin«*, modem dis­ di«* from ii w»*iikened biiHlnees cdhsti- group prognws that makes Individual progress easy. If th«* group were to to northern California and southern tributing system cii|ial>le of handllug tution. His business muscle lias not stop as happenend in China a thousand Oregon orchardists, reports Manager practically any demand that mlglit is* lxx*n hardened through suetvssive years ago. the progr«*saive individual A. C. McCormick, who wns In town made utMin itl struggles with minor business ail- Haturday. The blight resistant st«x*k would Is* left stranded.” Heveral ei«*<*tric ranges have lxx*n pr«xluc»*d here is In great deman«! and added to tlx* lines in tin* ¡mst year, and inents. Tlx* youngster will never climb the Citi«*s art* what men make them. this «‘axon’s output is practi«*ally In nearly every instance it was nec«*s- tr«*e if lx* thinks he can't, Repeated Wherever the cities may be. mild out. sary to increase tlie catxiclty of the and persistent attempts achieve the Whether out on the d«*aalate desert, Evans Childs Post, of the American lines to giv«* ad»*quate servica for them, lower branch«*« anil the rest Is easy. Or set by the surging sea. Ix*glon, is busy preparing for tlie with- the result that general aarvica Th«* man who Hits at the bottom of the Tho’ they cleave the breasts of the Christmas festivities which will in­ «■ondltions in a tim^ber of hx-alities tnx’xpf ■ucc«*«« and wishes he could mountains ' clude a community Christinas tree and have lx*en improved. reach flu* top will «lie of old age before Or nestle by rivers broad: entertalnnxxrt , Be one of the men to make greater On Christmas night the legion will w«*ll lighted and attractive, and a num- r<*a«-h«*s the lower branch«*, and ran Tlie ¡ilace where you cast your lot. give a big dance. of dark «¡sits in tlx* residence dis­ grasp thorn* above ids lu*ad and pull If tlie ocean shall threaten to ’whelm Taking to town, 25 mil«*« away. 49 lx*r you, tricts hav«* lx*en eliminated. After himself to higher and higher levels. dozens of «*ggs in a Ford car at this RememlM»r the stAry of Robert Bruce Build a dyke that will laugh at its time of the year over dirt roads and nearly n year's operation it is evident that still further change« are nec«*s- and tlie spider. Renwmber flu* terrif- might; not breaking a single egg, is tho feat Cities are what men make them, In certain place«, an«! ways and flc liatidi«-ap under which Sir Walter accomplished by E<1 E. Elkin of Trout sary means hav«* ls*en found by th«* city' Rcott wrote his Waverly novels. He Who are willing to labor and fight I^ike, last week. This either s]x*iiks council and tlx* conqiany to rearrangi* nx'inber the fallurra and <*omel>acks of —H«*lect«*d. g«xxl of the road or tlie Ford riding tlx* distribution of tlie candlepower Phineas T. Biumutn. Brilliant g**nius quallti«*«. Nevertheless, Mr. Elkin used, so Hint without in­ d«H*s not attain nil tlx* huc ««- smch . Bog­ dropjx*«l a remnrk that the road lx>- creasing the annual str«*et materially Bill, gl'd determination of a dub wins ulti­ twecn White Halmon and Trout Ijik<* several lamps can Is* added lighting with n re­ mate recognition. No one ever swam was in splendid condition for this improvement In tlie geix*rnl tlx* English channel, Ixs-aus»* it was time of the year. He almi admitted sultant 111 «1 in iim 11 ng selieipe. This work is thought inqsiHHlble. One man suc- that he did n«it break any sp«*e«l word. planned for s«x>n after the first of the ee<-denld result, after several months of talkifig strategic ¡Miinta the lines can tx- se<- r<‘iiM*inlx*r tlie cimnected narrative; and canvassing, was the starting of tionalized in cum* of trouble. The r<*- and. ¡minstakingly ami witli tlie help the Grange Oxtperative Store. This When Will Hood River People Learn sult of this may not have lieen evident, of tin* dictionary, I waded through all store has been In operation now nearly hut m-veral tinx-s w«- were able by th«* the v<»lnnu*s It was worth it. the Importance of It? two yean and at the present time is a switching process to k«-«*p M*rvlce on This is the seitwin for new resolu­ healthy, growing institution, due to Backacho is only a simple thing afe in various localities which would tion*«. Make gixxl ones, and when you the patronage of hath city folk and first; otherwise have lieen without M’rvlci* fln«l your mjnd wandtring from the grangers. course you hHVe set. go back and try But if yon find 'tis from the kid­ ¡lending repairs to th«* 1lm*s. Our motto*- Is and always will, be neys ; The complin,v's ¡Mill«-y of rebuilding it over. You will find, an I «lid, that “G o « h 1 goods, good service, as well as That serious kidney troubh*s may a portion of tlie older valley lines each tlie laps«*« get further anil further go«x! prk-es.” We simvrely hope that foliow; year was followed out in 1923 by re­ n|Mirt until there are n«> lapses. our patrons will see fit to trade with us Don't Blame others for your fail­ That dropsy or Bright’s disease nuiy building alsiut n mill' of ltWA near the the coming year, and we will put forth be th«* fatal end, Hiimmit district. Four more similar ures. Take an inventory and ace If a great effort to please all, as we have Yon will he glad to know the follow­ ttnes «re hudg«4e«l fur rebuilding dur­ tlie fault do«*a not lie with you. Re done in tbe past. And now we wish ing experience. ing tlx* coming year, anti It is hoped memlx*r tliat even n copper cent is all the gisxl people of Hood River and 'Tls the statement of a Ikxid River that In this manner til«* older off-stand­ worth saving—100 of them make a dol­ tbo valley the happiest New Year they ritlzen. ard lines will gradually I m * eliminated. lar. have ever had. Thank you. Th<*re is but on«* «lay. T«xl»y! Yes­ Mrs. M. Gorton, 1292 Thirteenth It must lx* rememlH*re«l in this «Sifi- Grange Cooperative Store. street, says: “Heveral years ago I lis