The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1906-10-25
AN INTERESTING
STORY OF FAIR
NEWBURG GRAPHIC MAN TELLS IT
A Great Fair With Everybody Talking
Apples and No Time to Lock at
Babies and Vegetables.

Gay morning on the return trip frot
the Hood River fair, the Graph
scribe in company with W. n. Welch
went to the First Congregations
church to hear Mrs. Rose Bloch
Bauer sing and to hear sermon b.
William Shaw the great Christian En-
deavor worker Of Boston. On enter
ing the church we we're handed
printed program by the usher ant
glancing at it we read under the heat
OF The minute mems topich thes,
words:
Gas we meet and touch each day
The many travellers on our way
Let every such brief contact be
A glorious, helpful ministry"
Our first thought was that DR.
House, the pastor who arranged th,
program had no doubt recently mad,
a trip to Hood River where every
man, woman and lhild engages in "a
glorious helpful ministry"-for the
enlightenment Of the stranger within
the gates, and at this season of the
year the text is always taken from the
one theme Hood River apples. g"
On Friday we went to Hood River,
arriving at late hour in the night
and owing to the many people IN
town We considered ourselves fortun.
ate in being able to secure bed al
the Mount Hood hotel. Hon. Il. A.
Crawford who was on the same train
was unable to secure lod ng at the
same place when he applied and he
proceeded to make himself rs COM
Portable as possible in the hotel lobby
and entered into discussion with
two of the residents of the city on the
relative merits of Ysmhill count y and
the Hood River valley as fruit grow
ing districts. The discussion waxed
warm and it is conceded that Fred
was getting the best oi the argument,
for, along about two O'Clock in the
morning the hotel clerk, who is loyal
to Hood River tapped tha newly
elected member of the legislature
from Yamhill on the shoulder and
told him he had found guest who
would share his bed with him, pro-
vided Fred would pay the cost of the
bed for the night. Fred accepted the
offer at once and that is where the
Hood River fellows floored him, SO to
speak. At a very early hour in the
morning we heard a man banging
around in an adjoining room and we
soon recognized the voice of Mr..
Crawford when he said to his bed fel-
low 81 thank you for a place to lay
down during the night" never men
tioning sleep. Later be told us that
when he went to the room he found
the fellow who made him the gener.
GUS offer had pre-empted claim in
the middle Of the bed, from which he
was unable to move him, and all he
was able to do was to plant himself
on the bed rail next to the wall. Be-
fore he got to sleep tn fellow began to
snore aud although he jabbed him in
the Stats and yelled at him in he
sawed away like an old time corn
stalk fiddel, and the Yamhill man
slept not wink.
This little account of the trials OF
Mr.. Crawford is thrown in o show
how the Hood River people and to-
gether to hold their own with AN out
slider in an argument regarding A. rle
growing, but had they known ti.at
their guest would be in a position to
cast vote in the legislature next
winter, either for or against the n in
their county division fight, they
would have given him loom vii h
two beds and free bath. Few towns
that class with Hood River have better
hotel accommodations and owing o
the rush on the occasion of the fair
many of the citizens opened the
homes In order to give additional Go
commodations.
The fair was great success aud
while it was supposed to show tie
different products of their valley it
waa in reality an apple show An old
resident said to Cy Vaughan, form
or resident of Newburg, "Cy, us fel.
lows who are raising vegetables are
not in it here. Why, / see here on
exhibition as big, fine sweet potatoes
as ever grew In California and they
won't look at them" And so it was.
The people we're there to talk Gano4,
Yellow Newtowns and Spitzenbergs
and while In a few instances Sarah
Ann may have been heard to ask if
the baby had finished cutting its
teeth and II Johnny had started TO
school, she was soon switched eff to
enagge in the cne theme of conversa-
tion, apples,
Apples, well yes some apples. I'M
agine a mammoth tent filed with $50
boxes of such apples as would delight
the eyes of the crowned heads of any
Not little boxes mind you,
but the regulation 45 pound box just
as they are put up for shipment.
There was not poor box In tto lot,
and since they pride thcLt,! Z on
their packing as much as on the quail
ity of the fr1it., there was not
poorly packed box among them. OF
course the fellow was there who as
serted that his part of the country
could produce just as fine apples if
the people would turn their attention
to fruit growing, but he was met with
a smile mingled with pity and con
tempt, as he failed to show up with
the goods.
For stl ictly show apple the Wolf
River is great success with it's enor.
nous sizes and fine color. |. N.
Campbell, of Campbell Bros. who
own an orchard on the east side OF
the valley, informed the writer that
they recently made shipment uf 100
boxes of this variety which they pick
ed from eight trees and for which
they received 81 per box. They went
to New Y ork man who wanted them
for decorating purposes at big ban
quet. OF course they were labeled
Hood River apples and this is the way
to make reputation. Some men in
business say it don't pay to advertise
but Hood River people will tell you it
does. Few If any of their apples are
selling for less than 81 per box and
thsYellow Newtowns and SpitzenbeIgs
run as high as 50 per box.
The Rheubes who never iail to show
up at the agricultural horse trot we're
not in evidence here. The fact is the