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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1926)
VOL XXXVII HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 11, 1926 VINING VISIONS WINTER SPORTS ITH a conviction that part of his business was to save regularly, Abraham Lincoln started a bank account at the earliest possible moment in his life. W -Back of this determination to save was the experience of the first 23 years of his life, years of hard labor, when produce, and not cash, was the reward of his industry with the ax. LYSOL - CHLORICIDE - CARBOLIC ACID BORIC ACID - PEROXIDE HYDROGEN Germicidal Soap - Formaldehyde Fumigators In spite of small earnings, he always managed to keep a little ahead of the game. It spite of moderate charges for his services—he always managed to save SOMETHING. As we honor Lincoln for his sterling Amer icanism, his great, tender heart, his courage and his vision—let us remember, too, that he built an estate through industry and thrift BANK UHlI HOOD RIVER, ORE A Testimonial FEBRUARY TWELFTH THE BIRTHDAY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN Gentlemen This is to advise that after oper ating my Star Sedan for the year 1926; from figures compiled from exact ex pense account of operation, insurance, taxes and depreciation of 33%%, I find that the cost per mile, covering 29000 miles, is .04 and 33/100 cents per mile. This amount is .083 cents more than railroad fare. DO YOU KNOW Hoping the above record will be of value to you, I remain, With the Irwin-Hodson Go, Portland. We have the highest quality grocery goods and our p -ices are always worth looking into. Phone 4331 N. H. MacMILLAN, Manager HACKETT RADIO CO. FINE STATIONERY For Business Man and Orchardiat. BLANK FORMS For Keeping Account of Every Ranch. Activity They will help you in making your income tax return Have them delivered with your meat order when you téléphoné the Hood Market, number 8461 Irving E. Vining. eloquent president of the Oregon State Chamber of Com merce, may have set in motion Mon day night plans that will turn the northern snow slopes of Mount Hood lute a winter resort as internationally famous as is St. Mauritz, the famed Swiss winter goal of thousands, lured there by the ice palace, the skiing and toltoganning. The wintertime popularization of Hood was tiie keynote of Mr. Vining's address, the chief speech at the annual banquet and business meeting of the local chamber at the Waukoma hotel. The state president was here from Ash land just a year ago, and it was then that he suggested in an address the organization of an Alpine guide club, uniformed body of young men, to carry the message of Hood to the outside world. Hia suggestion waa acted on with promptness, and the Hood It 1 ver Guides, which came into being as a booster auxiliary of the Hood River chamber, on their first public appear ance last June, walked away with the first award for activity In the Merry- khana parade of the Portland rose festival. Mr. Vining challenged the Guides to take up the work of making Mount Hood the winter playground of the great Pacific Northwest. Already that organization has formed an active ski club, and for the past two months week eud excursions, each succeeding one luring a larger number, have been made to the north snow elopes of the greet peak. And Monday night, when Mr. Vining rounded out the last period of hia eloquent appeal, one by one, the Hood River Guides might have been heard voicing their approval around the banquet tsiard. A storm of ap plause. the banqueters rising, greeted the speaker. Mr. Vining pictured the pioneer, en route over the great prairies a half century and more ago. The covered wagons came to rest In the Grande Ronde or in the district of the Blue mountains, and the pioneer mot leer came down frefkn her weary resting place, touching her tired feet ou Ore gon soil. New exhilaration seized on all the company. The campfire was lit, and after the evening glow had changed to darkness, the newcomers slept in peace and comfort under the guardianship of the mountains. "And then the sun came o'er the eastern range sud dawn called the pioneer father forth to face the east, said Mr. Vining, "but facing about, his arms outstretched to embrace the world of dreams of promise, he WM heard to cry, '»trike the tents.’ Now I urge you here in Hood River to strike the tents of small achievement. Be led by Mount Hood, the rarest jewel of the rosary of Oregon's grand- pur. "Have you courage, Mr. Alpine Guide? Not money or Imainess, not in the repetition of small dally occu pation or the things of home do we find the outstanding things. There comes to communities opportunities for accomplishment of some great achieve ments over which the generations to come will wonder and marvel. It is yours to do here in Hood River. Mr. Vining cited how the population of the metropolitan centers of the Pa cific Northwest will come to the winter resort, once Hood River effort dm brought it to materialliation. He pic- t ured a village of Esquimaux igloos on the mlle-high anew slopes, an ice palace, and toboggan slides and ski courses that will draw contestanta at a great tournament from the north countries of Europe, from Switzerland, from northern states pf the United States and the Canadian provinces. I)o not Isv discouraged because Mount Rainier has already been estab lished, he advised, paying in turn a tribute to Pendleton. "I take off my hat to Pendleton,” he said, “for there were rodeos and stam pedes, but the folk of Pendleton have made the Pendleton Round-Up the only Round-Up. You of Hood River can make Mount Hood the St. Maurita of Oregon.” Mr. Vining stated in prefacing his talk that he had jnat returned from a tonr of Washington, Idaho and Mon tana. He declared that he finds a note of optimism everywhere. In Idaho the farmers who had left for California are returning, holding up their heads and facing prosperity. He addressed a session of the Montana state chamber at Missoula, where a former Hood River man, R. Spauld ing, is now manager of the local cham ber. Mr. Vining declared he found it one of the most aggressive and succeas- ful chambers in Montana. The speaker complimented Oregon cities on the showing of their cham bers of commerce, declaring them in the lead of all states of the Union. He declared Hood River, with a budget of 17,000. in a city of 8,000 people, was at the peak for the state. He cited the community enterprise of Corvallis and Ashland, the latter bis home com munity, where last year local money > to the extent of »140.000 waa sub scribed for a hotel. ] "We called In our jankers and bust- DRAWS ATTENTION