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HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1927 VOU XXXVIII W APPEAL FOR TRAMWAY COLONEL GREELEY MAY RECONSIDER & With the startling change that nature works each Spring, comes a new appreciation of the opportunities before us. Get your supply at Are uou making Easter's message your ? With a new determination to make IONAL BANK <J Our capital and surplus is >175,000 which Is considered ample for our deposit liability and volume of business. ” M We have had twenty-seven years ex perience and we are prepared and equipped to £ive our customers such facilities and accommodations as come within the rules of good banking practice. THE CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS HOWELL 8808. OFFER NEW STYLE KILLER BUTLER BANKING Fri. Nite— Miss E dith B eyerle of China. Sat Nite— Natural Color Pictures of Missions in India by R ev . A. I. G arrison . Easter Services. Spring’ Missionaries attending. Koberg's Nonpareil Asparagus First Young Business Man “Wish I could spend what Johnson must spend on his clothes.** is on the market GROWTH MEYER <& »SMITH OTY TAILORS—SHOE REPAIRERS GOODRICH TRUCKLINE E. E. GOODRICH, Owner. Telephone 3801 Hood River, Ore This firm started shipping in a small way in 1916, with Wm. 8. Duckwall selling the fruit in the East Our growth and the volume of our shipments have been gradual but steady. '' From a few can sent to one market, we are now shipping to all parts of the United States, and to a number of foreign countries. Our brand is known in these sjar- ktets, and our Trade Mark registered. This business is generally done direct and this system tends each year to increase volume handled in this way, as the result of sav ings effected by buyers in distant markets. We are buying for cash. Are you interested? We are prepared to furnish necessary supplies till harvest and buy for cash before picking time. DUCKWALL B. A. FRANZ BUILDING Victor C. rollenius, who was former ly in the Forest Bervlce, was chief speaker at the Tuesday luncheon forum of the chamber of commerce. Mr. Fol- lenlus paid a tribute to Roosevelt and Plnchot for the conservation policies, which, he declared, have resulted in the saving of the nation's great wood land wealth. The nation, the speaker declared, Is making the wisest perma nent nse of the national forests. He cited how the ripe forests of certain areas are being marketed. Fire, Mr. Follenlus said, la one of the greatest enemies of the nation's forests. Annually, he cited, a loss of $50,000,000 is sustained through dam age to marketable timber. Fires, too, denude the timbered area and cause winter freshets snd summer drought». He told how every precaution is taken to protect great reserved areas of watershed. C. C. Glgnoux. assistant supervisor of agriculture for the Union Pacific system, told of the coming of the dem onstration stock train. Mrs. Elisabeth McKim, of Beattie. Invited the club members to witness the preview of “Above the Clouds," the first motion picture, she said, ever taken In the northwest end exhibited as a northwest product. The actors and director are northwest people, she cited. W. M. Black, manager of the Hood River creamery, a guest of the dub, was introduced by 1/eslle Butler, who said that State Dairy and Food Com missioner Mickle had characterised Mr. Black as the state's beet creamery man. Other guests at the luncheon, held at the Columbia Gorge hotel, were: R. McRae, new manager of the Pacific Power A Light Co.: W. L. Marshall, C. K Andrews and J. C. Grove, of the Pacific Telephone Co., and R. M Free man. meter supervisor of the Pacific Power A Light Co., of Walla Walla. Mr. McRae's application for member ship in the chamber waa announced. Knights Templar Eaater Services Members of Hood River Command- sty, Knights Templar, will attend Easter services at Riverside Commu- nlty church in a body next Bunday evening, when the address will be de livered by Rev. F. Gordon Hart, ths pastor. The Sir Knights will assemble at the Masonic hall at 7.30 Bunday evening and march in full uniform to the church. Dr. C. H Jenkins, the eminent commander, hue issued an invitation to all visiting Templars to join in the service, and all friends of ths fraternal order ar% cordially invited to be pres ent for the service. With Mrs. John Latte, of Portland, tl>e first guest to register, the Columbia Gorge hotel opened for the 1927 season Saturday. Mrs. Latta was accompan ied t»y a guest from Paris, Mrs. T. H. Bartlett. J. Fred Adams, formerly with the Hotel Olympic, of Seattle, new man ager for the tourist hostelry, was in the city Saturday, getting acquainted wit)> local business folk. Mrs. Geo. R. Tremblay, who on former years has lieen associated with her husband, now with the Eureka Inn at Eureka, Calif., has arrived here and will remain with the Columbia Gorge for a time. Scores of local clubs have made res ervations for parties and social func tions at the Gorge hotel during the spring and summer season. The local Rotary club will hold its weekly lunch eons there each Thursday. The cham ber of commerce forum will go to the Gorge next Tuesday for a luncheon. A aeries of Masonic dances have been arranged for. The junior promenade of the local high school will be an early event One of the largest functions in pros pect will be held at the time the local Rotary club, recently organised, is in stituted. Rotarians are exiwcted here for that event, which will be held In May, from all Pacific northwest points. Winter played a return oyer the mid Columbia Wednesday night of last week. Accompanying gale-driven rains on the lowlands, snow fell on foothills. Upper Valley orchardlata reported a trace of snow Thursday morning. While the rainy weather interrupted spray programs, orchardists said the low temperatures delayed opening of fruit buds and strawberry bloescms and tended to prevent possible damage from frosts later in the season.