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HOOD RIVER GLACIER. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1925 LEGION, AUXILIARY MEETING SUCCESS when the city will have funds to go Switzerland an* from other more dis atricted to soun<b well-eolored boxed through with the project. It is under tant sections are shipped by rail ia appiè., Jonathan«, Bpitaanjmrgs, Wine- stood that the canal and harbor are bulk and are «arvfull/ transferred aapa and Newtowns, and some brighi under construction. from the freight cars into the bin» barrata! stock, York Imperiala, lf One noticeable feature about the of th« barges for storage during the kept in souad conditimi untll thè Central Markethalle la that trading, winter mouths. The water maintains New Year. attended The best ___ ______ __ _ and moot peppy (By Edwin Smith, specialist in for which starta’at an early hojir in the an even temperature below the water meeting of many a year was the ver eign marketing. Bureau of AgriciAtur- morning stopa stops at 10 o’clock. * " By noon line and during the severe weather dict of the large number of legion al Economies, United States Depart the gates are dosed arid all of the straw and other material ia used to ualres and their wives, mothers and ment of Agriculture^. ,„ goods ar« fenced off or covered up protect the top of the haul from frees- sisters who attended the meeting of ♦ ■ • . For 26 years Hamburg has bean one like a Saturday night. At this hour the local* poet Monday night. The It must not be believed that thia no business man pan lie found about of the primary export markets for Cheap, flashy goods, msde to sell st a “price” will not feature of the evening’s program was method of handling applies only to a Ainericau apples. In the minds of the place? At S p. u>. the nates are suiaU quantity . f apple« and is hare wear long. One customer expressed the idea in a good way Mrs. Isabella Underwood, of Under the address of State Commander Geo. many apple shippers there at once again opened and from then till seven described because of its unusual fea wood, Wash , while here last Thurs Griffith. Of Salem, which was supple arises the question, “What consuming the retail stalls do a thriving busi tures. Vast when he selected a Sealy Mattress and DeLuxe Spring the quantities of apples go day to have W. F. Laraway relit her mented by a few remarks by State territory or territories give Hamburg ness. Adjutant Moser, of Portland. other day: “I can’t buy often, but I always try to get the The retail trade comes to the Cen through these channels. One of ths with glasses, stated: its imjtortance as an apple market?" Mrj Griffith told of the aims and leading wholesale merchants stated tral Markethglle early in the morning, "I recently aaw a piece In the-Gla Hamburg is a great shipping port, not best It last* longer, and I’m never disappointed.” People bringing their carts. Imrrodrs and that be bad purchased *00 carloads cier that told how Hood River was working program of the state Legion, alone itecause it is a seaport for a well as of the national unit. Le- 4 are learning the truth and logic of that principle more each large share of Germany, but also be other vehicles and carrying their sup of about 10.000 kilos (*2,000 pounds) flrat named Dog River. It was erron as gion work, he said, is divided Into euch, equivalent to IT* American car plier away with them for the day ’ s eous, and I was going to write you day. The store that stresses quality rather than price is a cause it Is a free port and is a con three phases: First, hospitalisation venient and economical focusing point trading. For the most part fruit and loads, for storans ia the canal beats about It, but my glass«« got broken and rehabilitation; second, legislation, pretty safe place to trade. But good merchandise need not for shipping and resbipping between vegetable retailing is done through to meet his winter trade. Christmas and I didn’t get around to it. week a bjg fleet of bargee lay tied up email shops and hawkers. "The river got Its name from a and third, Aiuericanixatlou. He told be high priced. Careful buying in large quantities, for cash, much of northern Europe. Durlng and after the war the city on the River Spree, fairly within the peculiar Incident. Away i*ack In the of how these different parte of the and a reasonsple mark-up or profit have always kept the It was through Hamburg that our government appointed six large whole shadow of the Schloss, (made mem early days, before any settlement was Legion’s program were belug carried now respectable export business, in sale merchants as h reputable trade orable by the kaiser's declaration of here, some white men, travellug from on, and urged the local i>oet to co level of Frans’s prices below that of others. This policy apples with the Scandinavian coun to which country slilpia-rs could con war from Its balcony) and of the the east by boat, stopped on the flat. operate with the national and state coupled with a friendly and helpful atmosphere in the store, tries first got its start. A German sign their shipments of produce with nearby State church. AU these barges They saw some Indlatw and asked for authorities. broker at Hamburg several years be safety and get an honest deal. These were tilled with apples and were a nice, healthy deg that was with Commander Griffith cited several has built up the largest business of its kind in the mid fore the war consigned a shipment of were conacolldated into a syndicate there for the winter. instances of tlie functioning of the them. Indian Charley, whose dog it Columbia. American apples to Hcandinavia, and called “Grossmarkt” G. M. B. II. Re He Berlin merchants maintain that this was, declined to give it up, but tlu legion in legislative matters. It proved to be a very profitable ven cently three of the firms have with is the very best way to store apples. men gave him a 5O-cent piece and he ¡glinted to tlie Adjusted Compensa ture, thus starting a thriving apple drawn from the syndicate and re One large dealer stated that before let them have the dog. They then tion act and the Reed-Johnson bill, business tie tween Hamburg and the turned to individual enterprise. These war he Invested in several thou killed It, dressed It and ate it. The liotii of which were put across by cities in Denmark, Norway and Swe six firms together with a few other the boxes of Hood River Newtowns. men were almost starved. They had efforts of the Ix'glon. Another very den. Buslneaa was also extended to larger wholesale merchants constitute sand out of supplies and the dog and important phase of Legion work, Russia. B<*fore the war Hamburg be the units that bring American apples Of these 2000 were stored In the a run Tew the Indians gave them which Mr. Griffith stressed, waa that came the apple capital of the Baltic into Berlin, buying them for the meet canal boats and kept two months long were all things they had bad to eat for sev of child ialsir work. states. Tile enterprise of Scandinavi part in Hamburg. Occasionally they er than those placed in cold storage. eral days. State Adjutant Moser supplemented After that the Indians an fruit dealers and a ten-year retire are aide to buy advantageously in After the middle of the winter the called thia river the remarks of Commander Griffith Dog river, and Char domestic apple« lose in condition and ment of Hamburg, tiecause of the war, Rotterdam. Copenhagen, and London by a short talk on membership. He however, has changed all of this, and as well. The small wholesalers look are not in great demand although ley was known thereafter as 18>g said that tlie state officers had high River Charley. ” some are stored in the bargee until today with the Scandinavian countries to these larger houses for their sup It’s a knock-out Recent inventory disclosed odd Mrs. Underwood ia now 60 years of hopes of Winning tlie national trophy April. getting most of their supplies direct, plies of foreign fruits. , for the greatest Increase in member When appjes are «old to the Berlin- and with Russia out of consideration, lot* of all sorts of things. Some items marked to sell Of those bringing foreign fruits into ship. The I8*partuient of Florida now Hamburg stands largely dependent Berlin, several liave their branch wholesale merchant at The auction holds this trophy, but if the present upon the German population as a houses in Hamburg. In some In they accumulate costs of about »1 per a* high a* $6.00; nothing worth leas than $1.50. rate of increase is maintained, Ore claimant to her position as a major stances the “brach" takes the form of box before they reach the Berlin re gon should come out ahead of the * a working arrangement with a Ham tail dealer. The following items en apple market. . While they last, your choice for $1.00. Here are a southern state at the national con into this account: Commission Looking to the German territory burg wholesale firm. When buying in ter vention at Omaha. Neb. to the Hamburg buyer, thgee to six few of them — don’t miss these bargains. suggests itself as the logical market large quantities this becomes advan Immediately following the business per cent ; state tax at 10m. per 100 in which to study conditions relating tageous on account of the necessity of kilos, about 53 cents per box and The other day as Harry Connaway. session of tlie post, the Ladies' Aux to consumptive power and to oliaerve paying a buying brokerage commission <1.75 per barrel; state Ban Jose in superintendent of the new interstate iliary was called in. and tlie program China May on ai se Set $1,00 Aluminum Roaster.._ $1.00 the steps in the distribution of Amer to a Hamburg buyer as only resident bridge, and a friend were talking at of entertainment liegan. The Legion ican apples. Berlin with its popula Hamburg firms can become members spection charge, 10pf. per box (2.4 the toll house they noticed that a quartet rendered a few numliers, “ Cake Plate___ $1.00 Dish Pan.. $1.01 cents) ; 20pf. per barrel (4.8 cents) ; tion of over 3,000,000 people is easily of the Verein von Hamburg Budfrucht- wagon was halted at the old ferry which were well received. After the ” Tea Pot______ $1.00 Percolator $1.00 comparable in site to Chicago. Under groesliandler and memls-ra only are railway freight at 3.5m per 100 kilos, landing. The wagon remained at the talks of GriffiGi and Moser, dancing about 19 cents per box and 03 cents Serving Tray*-------- $1.00 ordinary condltlpns it would be a city allowed to buy at the Hamburg auc Omelet Pan 11.00 ___ per barrel; cartafiJ at one end, 50pc landing for an hour or more, and was the order of the evening, music of good buying power, but at the pres tion. I Granite Tea Kettle .. $1.00 Jardenieres________ $1.00 per 100 kilos, about 8 cents per box Anally Mr. Connaway sent someone for the oi'casion being furnished l>y ent time it is too soon after the hard Firms not having affiliations in Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ford. Later in and 9 cents per barfri; the whole to investigate. Baskets_____ _______ $1.00 Electric Curler------- $1.00 ships of deflation to nay that the peo Hamburg necessarily have to employ The vehicle was occupied by a the evening refreshments were served, * saler's margin of about lm., or 23.9 couple ple have a strong buying power. from the Oregon hinterland, and tlie ¡tarty broke up in the wee a Hamburg buyer. The latter charges cents per bog. J , for a visit with relatives in sma' hours. In certain respects Berlin presents a commiaaion which range*« from three Before the fruit reaches the con bound the appearance of a poor fruit cus to six per cent dn^ different instances, sumer these is a turnover sales tax Klickitat county, Washington. They I*egion officers, past commanders tomer. In no section does one see for this serviceT*1which Includes ln- which must be taken into considera were asked why they were waiting. and committee chairmen entertained large, fine displays of fruits in retail s|M*cting the fruit before tlie auction tion. This is assessed after the flrat The man replied that het was hoping Mr. Griffith and Mr. Mbsey at dinner stores. There is a decided lacking of sale; buying the fruit; seeing that sale the ferry would sixin»make its previous to the meeting. the «country and amounts that specialised fruit shops and the stoc ks the fruit delivered is the same as to 1.5 within appearance. It was explained that per cent. the ferry had been out of business offered in the mixed retail storea were purchased; forwarding the fruit from When It ia considered that Ameri since not especially attractive, In this re- the quay to the railway, and the ex the opening of the bridge, that can apples stand an auction broker's spect Berlin is la in ‘ contrast even with tension qf credit pending shipment. he would have to negotiate the new commission of six per cent at Ham British cities, i, without considering the In case the fruit 1« In bad condition span if he expected to cross the river splendid displays seen in American the Hamburg buyer has facilities at burg and a buyer's commission of here. . about four per cent before the fruit cities. Thia is not especially due to the quay for reconditioning, although “Well, I declare," replied the ol<f reaches distribution by the whole present day conditions because in all [his entails additional expense to the “I didn't know that was a saler, immediately the thought arises farmer, of its misery Berlin has maintained Berlin client. Following a private service at the wagon bridge. I thought you only as to why Berlin with Its 8,000,900 allowed automobiles' as many beautiful floral shops as one home Tuesday, the body of Christian on it.” Ordinarily the Berlin flrm buys Let that be your reply to the high powered salesmen of will see in any city and the displays supplies only large enough to last a population- could not become a pri Itan ley, a picturesque northwestern of flowers on sale are magnificent. week or two. However, when prices mary market for American apples, unknown stocks with an alluring tale of exceedingly y high pioneer, who had resided in Hood with consignments direct to - the Notwithstanding this situation, Berlin look geod he is not averse to specu- River for the- past 20 .vt-ars, was for earnings. Th* mid-Columbi* prosperity is known thi rough- wholesaler who chatgee a commission uses large quantities of apples from lating and sometimes warded to Pendleton Tuesday night. buys ahead to of eight per cent when handling con ks has out the Northwest and the man with ”wildcat” stocks one source of another. KJr. Rauley, who was 83 years old, an extent that he has supplies for a signments. marked thia Valley for a harvest lived In Pendleton for 20 years before The fruit trade in Berlin la cen month. In this case common storage Several German wholesalers were coming here. His death occurred Don’t Speculate! But Make Your Money Earn a tered at Alexander Plata in the old is nearly always used for the fruit. questioned- on this point, but those Monday morning. He won h wide part of the city only a few blocks Reasonable Raturn. Ask Your Banker. In years of g<s>d crops Berlin re who had had experience stated that Mrs. Levenle Colin Leroux, wife of note for his interesting stories of from Its very heart. Here in 1866 ceives vast supplies of European ap it had not proven satisfactory, main A. Leroux, a native of France, died and later in 1894 the city bnilt the ples from southern Germany (Baden ly on account of difficulty in getting at her home Wednesday night of last frontier IfTc. Mr. Itanley was asso START NOW TO SAVE $5000 00 with crews that pushed the Central Markethalle, a large brick and Bavaria) and from Csecho-Blo- -dependable and regular supplies. week. It waa her 63rd birthday. Kir. ciated Union Pacific railway through the skylight structure covering about three vakia, Austria, Bwitxerland, Italy, and Mrs. Leroux came to New Yo$k When it comes to buying f. o. b. Per d«y. blocks and designed to nerve the Holland, Jugo-Blavla, and Roumanta, American shipping point, ’ like the city in 1890, remaining there for a Indian-infested prairie districts. per day, Mr. Hanley was a naflve of Otv- wholesale and retail trade w|th its (he first four countries being the most British wholesalers, they state that year, letter they went to Colorado, 1300 stalls. However, when the whole important foreign sources. After these they prefer to see what they are buy where they spent a time on a large many. During his residence here he sale and retail trade of dairy prod apples are <4eap<*d up the city then ing, and that it has proven in the cattle ranch. Thence they went to followed the trade of a fflioemaker. He ucts, fish, fruits and vegetables is cen receives from the United States and past that buying in Hamburg is Butte, Mont., and later to San Fran- is survived by his wife. His health had- been poor for some yean, and tralised it requires a great deal of Canada, and later during the spring cheaper than buying In New York. claco. space to serve a city the sise of Ber and summer, from — had been confined to his bed for Tasmania and There does not seem to be a possibil On coming to Oregon Mr. Leroux he lin and several years before the war Australia. Between 1915 fend 1923 ity of Berlin becoming a primary was for a time the head chef at the file past yegi; — Fu'—rat services were the trade >as liecomlng crowded so supplies from the latter countries market as long as there is not a Imperial hotel in Portland. They conducted at Pendleton at the Catho steps were taken to move the market have been negligible. major factor In the American apple came to the Hood River valley in lic churcli.___________ ____ bodily to a point where more space In conaldering the | _____ _____ markets back of deal with sufficient control to give a 1899. settling on a homestead in the Eccentric Burglar tn Town would be available and where a har Hamburg and Rotterdam, American steady supply of desired aorta. Upper Valley. They retired from bor waa projected to accommodate growers and shippers have not appre Local police feat, they may have to Berlin merchants, however, showed ranching several years ago, moving to 5,000 ton ships which would reach ciated nor considered as much as much enthusiasm over the city becom the city. contend with a burglar with eccen Berlin by a new canal from Hamburg. they should, the crop of apples grown ing a primary Inarket for Spanish Funeral services were held at 9 a. tricities. I «st week the burglar en The war stopped this for 10 years in the Eunqsan sections named above. oranges. As soon as the canal and m. Saturday at St. Mary’s church, tered the home of Rev. W. O. Living Phone 4242 ALLYN C. BUTTON, so today the trade is going along In During 1924 continental Europe grew heritor are finished ships of 5,090 tons interment following at the Catholic stone through an open window. He ransacked every room in the house, the old quarters, awaiting the time ofie of the greatest crops ever known, will bring Mediterranean fruits direct cemetery. .vet little rei-ognitiou was given the Mrs. Leroux is survived by a son. apparently searching for money. Not Prices ssked for American apples a single article of Jewelry or silver fact in American marketing circles. and for fruits competitive with Amer who lives in France. ware was missing. Many of these crops of apples were ican apples in Berlin markets Decem Monday night the same man. ap nearer to Berlin from the standpoint ber 29 Indicate the competition which W. C. T. U. NOTES parently, entered the home of B. E. of cost of transportation, than Ameri must be met In this market at this The drive for new members is pro Cobb, entrance again Is-ing made can apples are after they have peen time of the year. The retail prices discharged at Hamburg. of American apples were high. Jona gressing nicely. The team captains through an open window. The house, In many years of heavy domestic thans and Spitsenburgs retailed at are Mrs. Fred Carnes. Mrs. Atkinson. Just as at the minister's residence, supplies the German people cqn buy from 50pf. to 70pf. per German Mrs. Ellis Burns and Mrs. William waa left in disorder but nothing waa stolen. apples very cheaply. Although the ixuind. This is Equivalent to 11 cents, Foss. All send a good report. The L. T. L. meets nett Saturday fruit is not so attractive as American to 15.5 cents per American pound. Ad Produced Results __ apples, some of their pumerous varie Although ail apples sell by Weight the afternoon at 2.30 in the Christian Lyle, Wash., January 27, 1925. ties have very good eating quality Germans do not seem so particular church basement. Editor Glacier: You can cut out and all will do for cooking. This about the small sixes ss do the Bill Posting on Telephone and Power my ad as I have made a deal for a makes the demand for Imported ap British. Poles Prohibited sprayer. I must say that the ad sure ples very, very small until the home Domestic spples were selling for crop is well out of the way. Only a from 5m. (»1.20) to 32m. (7.65) per . The public is hereby notified that a Jiureased m.v mail. I had telephone few of the fancy shops will buy a 199 100 kilos (229 (220 pounds). The usual city ordinance prohibits the tacking calls and letters regarding 15 ma limited quantity of highly colored run of sale was from 8m. (»1.90) to of handbills, placards or posters op chines. They keep on coming. quality apples. W. J. Havener. 15m. (|3 60) per 100 kilo«, which telephone or power poles within the Although thia year has beeti unpar would range from »17.50 to about city limits. The ordinance provides alleled for cheapneae and plentiful P*r ton in terms of American a penalty, and a failure to obey this Read’s Radio Shop, the Radio Shop ness of continental apples, during the equivalents. This allowed then! to instruction will result in prosecution of Hood River, (ireebe, Atwater Kent month of October American shippers retail very cheaply. and fines assessed against guilty par- and'Radiois? . jltf started thousands of boxes from New Good oranges were also retailing at William Hart. York toward Hamburg. There was reasonable price«. Very good ones Chief of Police. Howard’« Aces, Rockford, Feb. 18. no market l»aek of the port city, nor could be bought for 1.5m. or 36 cents In the city itself because supplies of per dosen. European apples were entirely ade California Valencia orange« find a quate. When the American shipments place in this market during the sum TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO. TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO. arrived Hamburg recorded prices that mer months, but during the season‘of probably will be the lowest of any on Spanish and Italian citrus fruits record for the American apple crop American oranges do not have a of 1924. chance. Wholesale prices are very Tlie writer saw a portion of this much the same aa In Great Britain fruit on sale in Birmingham, Kng- and on account of the greater costs land, early In December ’ and even in having American fruit« come the We have Plans of every Description of there the fruit was selling too low additional distance, competition Is Just for its real value when measured by that much more difficult. American markets. At that time in HOUSES, BARNS, SILOS AND APPLE HOUSES, ETC. No into seat at all could be «roused Hamburg extra fancy Wln<*saim sold in grapefruit. The amount passing for 9/ (»2.10g. On the date that this through the market may he counted Everything that would need a plan, we have is written, January 5, 1925, apples in the tens of cases, reaching here it The man that builds without a plan builds sold In Hamburg for from 17/ (4.00) via Hamburg, having been reshipped to 19/ (»4 50). The difference is at from London. without a thought The modern up-to-date pro tributable to the change in rondition A more steady supply of apples 1« fessional man uses a plan either on paper or in in tl>e supplies of continental apples required in this market. Until the the mind. The physician or 'surgeon must have In tlie distributing area, reached by market is fed with a supply commen Hamburg. surate with its consumptive demands a plan or map of the human anatomy to prop Local buyers and Berlin commission it will not do its share in taking our erly diagnose the case of his patient. The law merchants cither buy or solicit ship-, production. It is too soon after the nwnts from (lie farmers. From Cxecho- opening up df trade to expect much yer in his plea points out to his jurors a picture Hlovakia much of the fruit is shipped in this direction, but It Is very evi ef the plan by which he expects to win his case. in barges, l>eing loaded loose in a dent that there la much to be de row of blns on either side of the keel sired at the present time. Better crop The preacher paints a picture in your mind’s of tlie craft. Several of the Berlin reporting in central Europe will help eye of that house not built by hands toward commisaion m6rchauts own their barg- considerably in preventing the loading es and these make two or throe trips American apples onto the market which we are all journeying, and so we come per season. The boats hold about when there is a big domestic crop, to you with our plans, studied out by expert 100,000 kilt«, equivalent to over 100 which usually results In cutting off architects ond contractors after years of ex tons. They afford very cheap trans later supplies too ahsrply. portation as they floar with the cur Commercial treaties often help in perience. Come and inspect our Free Plan Book rent down the Kibe Hver, thence lowering Import tax««. There is no through Havelseas to the Spree river question that lower taxes would as SHELL COMPANY Jr»-*-*’ • We have Fuel of all Kinds which passes through Berlin. Three sist the consumption of American ap Or CAMKMMA men conduct n barge from the or ples in Germany. If a commercial Phone 4121 — that’s our self starter. chards to the metropolis In eight days treaty is ever made with Germany "*K and artificial propulaive power is not this subject should not be overlooked. required until the very last of the The present outlook ia Berlin la Yours to Serve” Journey. that with the excessive coats between These barges provide the principal the American grower and the German means of tipple storage in Berliq, consumer there Is not poaalbll- a They arc tied up in the heart of the ity of finding a great outlet for the __ city on the Spree and from them the lower grades of apples, especially ia wholesalers. or country shippers weigh years of large continental apple crops. out the fruit In SO kilo (110 pounds) Rven when the crop ia short and with LUMBER BILL, Manager. baskets to the wholesale or. retail low priced apples .in America, th« in buyers who come along with their termediate coats are so great aa to rarts and harrows, or with their make the apples dear to the Berlin __ r trucks motor trucks as the case may he. , consumer with small « Apples from the Tyrol region of j follows that the market ly The Rich Can Afford AMERICAN APPLE MARKET IN GERMANY Buy Poor Hardware and Furniture ORIGIN OF THE NAME, DOG RIVER Have you seen the DOLLAR WINDOW? 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