The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-10-27
CLUB SMOKER
DRAWS CROWD
AUSTRALIAN MINISTER PRESENT
Cider and Sandwiches, Coffee and Smoke,
Speeches and Good Fellowship
Make Merry.

The big Commercial Club smoker
Tuesday evening in celebration of the
recent big increase in the membership
OF the club during the Newtown and
Spltzenburg contest was great sue
cess. About 800 members of the club
were there for the jolly-up and the
smoke was so thick that recent
Plttsburg citizen who was present was
perfectly at home. Two kegs of Yel-
| low NeWtoWn cider were on tap with
plenty Of sandwiches and coffee.
There was an extremely pleasant
surprise in store for the local boosters
when they came to the club, to find a
distinguished visitor from Australia.
present, Hugh Mackenzie, Minister
of Lands in the State of Victoria. was
| present, accompanied by Robert Liy-
ingstone, a Hood River orchard owner
and w. K, Mackenzie, cousin of the
Australian, Of Portland. Minister
Mackenzie is in charge of the work
being done by his government in the
IN the reclamation of arid lands by
irrigation and is member of delega-
ton sent around the world to study
irrigation methods
The politician from the continent far
south, was called upon for a speech
and responded happily telling the Hood
River men of the methods which were |
being employed in settling up the vast
wheat fields of his country with small |
farmers. Much money had been spent |
by the government in irrigation pro- !
Jects and wonderful inducements are |
being offered 10 Settleis. II is the |
hope of the minister that few hun
dred settlers from America mavbe
Induced to go to Australia where the
Introduction Of the methods of this
country will aid materially in the ad-
vancement of agriculture. Minister
Mackenzie had been taken over
the valley in the afternoon and he ex-
pressed in glowing terms his high
opinion of the valley.
President Charles Hall, of the club.
next called upon Mr.. Livingstone, of
Portland, who is well-known to MANY
Hood River people, being the owner Of
considerable property in the valley.
He spoke every Interestingly of the
apples he saw in his trip to Scotland
and England this summer. He said
the finest apples he saw had been
grown right in Scotland, and that on
inquiry he was told they had been
grown one on the tree in flower not.
He had read considerably of the pre-
sence of Minister Mackenzie In Eng
land at the time of his visit, and had
not thought that he would have the
pleasure of bringing him to Hood
River.
In answer to calls from the crowd
for Rev. j. G. Tate, the eloquent min
lister responded with a few remarks
which added to the fun of the occas-
sion. The next speaker was Mr.. w.
r. Mackenzie of Portland, who is in
terested in Hood River and who re-
marked on the great improvements in
the way of good roads, which have
taken place here since his last visit to
the valley. Rev. E. A. Harris re-
sponded with a few good stories and
explained that although he had been in
Hood River but few weeks, he was
mostly native of this valley"
AS final wind-up to the speech
making end Of the entertainment,
Secretary j. c. Skinner was called
upon for few words prior to his de-
parture for the east where he will
have charge of a number of Hood !
River exhibits in various cities. He
briefly outlined the plans for the {
exhibits and asked the people of the {
valley to write their friends in the east
telling them to visit the exhibits and
hear from Mr.. Skinner something of
Hood River. He said that while he
would be called upon to do a great !
deal of talking he could tell the plain
truth of Hood River and that would be
good enough.
Mr.. Skinner left on the Soo-Spokane Z
train early Wednesday morning for I
where carload of apples
will be shown next week at the food
show Of the l.. S. Donaldson Co. Mr..
SINNERS address until November 7, !
will be in care of the Donaldson store.
There has been a hitch in the plans I
to exhibit in Council Bluffs, which was c
the next place on the
and it may be that the show I
there will be passed up and an exhibit I
put on in indianapolis instead J
There will be a show of a carload in
during Thanksgiving l.
week, November 2l-26 and between =
hose dates Mr.. Skinner will be :
cached by mail sent in care Of John b. /
)ancelmo, under whose auspices the )
exhibit will be made. From Phiadel-
,ha the secretary will jump back to t.
chicago for the National Apple Show e
which will be taken there from Spo- a
,ane and for the Land Show in which e
Hood River will also have an exhibit. "
The dates in Chicago are November "a p
0 December 4. Mr.. Skinner will be v
nxious to meet all persons interested G
n Hood Riunr at thean nNhiLiLa U