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VOL XXXVI HOOD RIVER GLACIER, THURSDAY, JANUARY I, 1925 CAN YOU OPEN 1925’s TREASURE CHEST? returns will E xceed $4,000,000 Wrapped up In the day« of the New Year are oppor tunities for each one to get ahead in life—to reach some of thejroak every ambitious person aims for. tfje Coming $ear Wisdpm and Happiness noted French philosopher once ’’Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content—that is why most men are miserable.” ON THE FOUNDATION WE HAVE LAID. IM® Mr. Sunday was “tickled to death with him,” as he put it. "Those old Oregon bulls will have to take a back seat at the Portland Fat Stock Show next fall,” he said, “because those folks never saw a bull like this lie- fore, and I know they can't raise one that'll beat him.” "If Wood Incom does as much for Mr. Sunday's herd in Oregon as his sire, IncomiMirable. Jr„ did for ours, lie'll have to quit preaching,’’ was the way T. R. Brown, Mr. Lea'a head herdsman, put it. Incomparable. Jr., is considered one of the best bulls in the country and he lias won 14 grand chamidonehiiis for the T^aMi-ad herd. He was bought by Mr. I<ea from Letts A Turkington. His registration number la 120IMKM). Energy, honesty, skill, experience—these you need. But they are not all. 4 DURING 1924 THE MID-COLUMBIA REACHED AN EPOCH IN ACHIEVEMENT. CHRISTMAS COLD SNAP SETS We don't like to think that most men are miserable and the noted French man was probably feeling blue when he insofar as Wisdom and Happi related, it behooves us all to be- New Year with a determination J G. VOGT When final pools on Hood River valley fruit crops for 1924 have been closed, it will have been found tiiat aggregate returns will have exceeded $4,000,900. Tiie apple industry pre dominates, the yield of last season having exceeded 2,500,000 boxes. From the apple sales alone tiie val ley’s orchardists will receive better than $3,800,000. Next in importance comes the pear tonnage, the estimated Income from which is placed at $175,- 000. Strawberries brought iir $100,- 554; cherries an approximate $50,000, and cane berries and small fruits .dose to $20,000. Figures of the Apple Growers As sociation alone on pools that have been closed ou various fruits are as follows: 22,878 crates of ¡tacked strawberries, $72,407.87; 433.104 lbs. of canning strawberries, $34,087.03; 11.420 boxes of black cherries, $30,- 295.80 ; 4,929 boxes of Royal Annes, $7,088.94; miscellaneous pears, $5,- No Ilood River institution has 297.15, and Bartlett pears, $29,030.52. a greater Improvement during The Association has made no final re shown the past than the local post- turns ou ita chief varieties of winter office. By year the application of numer ¡tears. _____ ous small remodeling effects, the post- Tiie cooperative sales agency just office force has been able to go about before Christmas distributed an ap their tasks with greater efficiency. proximate $400,000 to growers in the The changes, loo, have been for the largest single return ever made to convenience of the general public. members of a cooperative apjtle sales Tiie lobbies and workrooms were re agency. This distribution, together cently completely repainted and tint with advances made for harvesting ed by Barr A Lakin. and supplies, has brought the total on Postmaster Johnson made many the year’s apple crop to more than slight modifications in the arrange $1,500,000. ment of desks, pigeonholes and win One can gain an idea of the magni dows. While each was minor, the tude of the apple crop when it is general result was remarkable. Closed learned that * 40 carloads of apple cabinets took the place of yawning, wrappers, liners and corrugated paper dust-catching files. Improved distri were used by Association members. bution cases were added. More than 2011 cars were requir<*d to Formerly the rural delivery room bring here fertilizers, box shocks, was overcrowded. By the introduc nails and other supplies for -produc tion of new distributing racks, de ing and marketing the crop. Box clared by Inspectors who have seen shook« for the valley’s apple tonnage them to be the best of any Oregon this year, each box costing 16 cents, isistoffice, plenty of room was made required an expenditure of $400,000. avatiable, and the rural deliverers Picking, at an average of four cents are aide to get their mail out with per box, cost $100,(M)0, while the convenience. The rural mail of Hood packing of the frnlt gave another Kiver carriers is as heavy, it la labor cost of $125,(MM). The paper stated, as may be found in the coun used In wrapping the apfileH cost try. Ole Nelson colloborated with around $2<M),(MM>. Tiie average cost the postmaster in ideas for the new of transporting the apples from ¡lack shelves. ing house to shipping station la Tile maximum |*arcel post day for placed at four cents per box, which the year was reached December 22. would bring another cost up to $100,- A few days before the biggest post office money order business was tau. H. R. CREAMERY SETS RECORD IN PRODUCTS freight charge, which reaches 80 cents per box, would reach $2,000,(MX). Nationally Known Merchandise 1925 Is Here Withes' W. F. LARAWAY "Everything to Build Anything” There is no doutit that there Is one thing common to everyone who has passed the stage of la-ing in. love, and entered the stage of matrimony. That is the thoughts of what h<* might have done bad he kept single and continued along the path of so-called single blessedness. It is because of this that "You and I,” Is destined to lie one of the most enjoyable theatrical offerings by the Moroni Olsen Players at the Rialto theatre during the current season. Philip Barry, author of "You and I,” the Harvard prize play of 1922. has based his play upon the life story of an artist who forsook his art for love and at the age of 40 tries to gain that which be lielieves he has lost, only to find there Is danger of his learning that he has lost nothing but mediocrity. The author has fur ther complicated the situation by ad ding to it the artist's son, who hns to go through the same sort of a love-art complex. A h the son is alsiut to go abroad to study architecture ho falls In love with a girl as did his father before him. and decides that he would lie happier if lie married and went to work in the soap factory where his father is employed. This, in brief, is the theme of the pled of "You and I” apd in its evolution the author has contrived to furnish two honrs of apiusing, fascinating and througtlful entertainment. The Moroni Olsen Players have been extremely successful this season, and there is no dinibt that this hiio - cess will be continued, if not in creased, with their prodnetibn of “You and I” at the Rialto Monday, January 12. Jonathan Blade, 87 years old and a native of Fall Kiver, Mass., died at the home of his son. J. E. Blade, Husum, Wash., orchardlst whose win ter home is here. Mr. Blade sus tained a painful Injury to a hip in a fall on the threshold of bls bedroom Saturday. Apparently he was ‘mak ing a good rerovery, enjoying Christ mas festivities with the family until late in the evening, wheu a sudden change was noticed by those who were attending him. Ills physician was called but his lieart grew gradu ally weaker until the end came at 1 a. m. December 26. Jonathan Blade was Isirn nt Fall Kiver, Mass.. July 24, 1837. He went to Chicago in 1858. When the Civil war broke out he enlisted in tiie army and was a lieutenant in McClellan's army In the West Virginia campaign. He was a member of the Ixiyal Le gion and wan in tiie lumber business tn Chicago for 80 years. November 4, 1803, he was married by Rev. Ilobt. Collyer to Lucy Ann Mears. In 1913 Mr. and Mrs. Blade celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their home in Chicago. Mr. Biadv is survived by three chil dren. Mrs. Morgan B. Blydenlnirgh. of Long Island. N. Y. Jonathan Edwards Blade, of Hood River, and Arthur B. Blaik*. of Chicago; also three grandchildren. Elizabeth Blade Haynes. of San Francisco; Janet Stewart Blade, of Hood River, and Brayton II. Blade, of Chicago. Funeral services were held at the Bartmess chapel Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. Rev. Janies A. Fraser, ¡lastor of Riverside church, officiating. J. E. Blade accompanied the Isidy to Chicago where Interment will lie made In the family lot at Rose Hill cemetery. Because of the valley's unprece dented apple crop this season the Mount Hood R. K. Co. this year handled a record tonnage of 8.610 cars. The main freight was apples, a total of 2.218 cars. Of this num lie r 2.185 cars were of the 1924 crop. During the peak of the apple move ment the valley short line, only an approximate 20 miles In length, hand led four and five trains daily. Two locomotives were pnt. into commis sion. The tracks were improved last summer, and the service of this sea son enabled shippers to forward their crops to market In far better time than in any former year. • Segregation of other Items of freight handled by the Mt. Hood line was ns follows: Wood, 821 cars; lumber, 759; pears, 70; empty lug boxes for cull apples, 142 , cement, 14; fuel oil, 23; feed, 10; potatoes, 31; pipe for highway construction, 7; apple wrappers, 2; sheep, 4, snd mis cellaneous, 9. R ing coal CUT IS 5»,750,000 PINE BALSAM WITH AND EUCALYPTUS A valuable and effective remedy es pecially recommended for coughs, colds, hoarseness, throat and bronchial affections. D RIVER DRUG CO Last Saturday II. E. Bunday, mana ger of the Odell country place of Rev. Billy Sunday, received from Nashville, Tenn., a prize winning Hereford bull. The fine animal was at once loaded atmard one of Lofts A Son's trucks and transported to the firm. The Nashville American car ried the following story on tiie fine bull at the time of its shipment: Wood Incom, by Incomparable. Jr., a 16-menths-old prize winning Here ford bull, out of Woodbine Helen, and owned by Luke Lea, Jx., was presented to Billy Bunday Thursday afternoon and will be shipped to his ranch in Hood River, Ore., Friday to head his herd there. Wood Incom’s registration number Building is 1285629. The owner of the renowned Lea- Mead Hereford herd, which won blue ribisms at almost every cattie show in the sooth last fall and was then taken on a successful tour of parts of Canada, told Mr. Sunday he could have any one of his herd, and Wood Incom was «elected. “My I brother Ed. whir - runa our -------- ranch ---------- opt r---------- w—, - , over in Oregon, '11 go crazy Ing sls^1 that bul).’’ said Mr. Bunday Thursday Gilman afternooh as be was posing for big R. O. SCHE, THE JEWELER Pythian Forty-five pairs of silver gray fox es, valued at 11,350 per pair, or a total of $60,750, comprised the most valuable shipment of live animals ever received here Saturday. The fox<*s were a part of an American express shipment of 100 pairs re ceived by the Oregon Silver Fox Farms direct from Prince I'd ward Island. On arrival in Portland 85 pairs of the animals, valued at $75,- 250, were forwarded to Newberg, where one of the farms of tiie com pany is located. The rest of the direct importation was loaded aboard a special car and brought here. Many interested spectators watched the unloading of the handsome foxes, which were transported immediately by truck to the local farm, located Jnst west of the Columbia Gorge hotel on the Columbia River high way. Attendants, who released the animals on their arrival, declared that they welcomed the heavy snow fall and cold weather, a emdition beneficial to fox rearing. The farms of the /Grcgon Silver Fox Farm are managed by Dale M. ...... J R. Crosby has retarded to the Haskin. Hood Kiver boy. who , „ start Odell country from Bend, where he ing several zv- years "»■' ago — In J a modest i wav. and has become a leader in the visited a daughter. Mr*. Q, *• HMMb northwestern fox industry. He now ton. ami family. The temperature to
