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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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