The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-10-06
TWO CARS GOING
TO SPOKANE
SPITz AND NEWTOWN TO COMPETE
Commercial Club Also To Display In
Minneapolis, Council Bluffs, Phila-
delphia and Chicago Twice.

According to the plans which have
been worked out by the directors of
the Hood River Commercial Club
during the past week this fall will see
the greatest publicity ever given Hood
River apples by way of displays and
the results in advertising the valley
and its products should be of great
value. The biggest display will be
at the Spokane National Apple Show
where carload of Spitzenburgs and
carload of Newtowns will be placed
on exhibition together with many
smaller box displays of all the other
varieties which have helped to make
the Hood River valley famous.
Besides this big Spokane exhibit
large part of that display will be sent
directly on back to Chicago, where it
will be shown at the big Chicago
Apple show following the Spokane
affair. If Hood River succeeds in
landing the prizes which she is count
ing on practically all of the
Spokane exhibits will be taken on to
Chicago. A carload of Hood River
apples will also be sent to the great
horticultural congress which will be
held at Council Bluffs. The Club has
arranged for the display of carload
of apples in Philadelphia in the early
winter. There will be a big display Of
Hood Rivers best at the Donaldson
Show to be held in Minneapolis and
arrangements were just closed this
week to have considerable display of
Hood River apples in the Hartman
section of the Chicago Land Show.
In former years Hood River has
never gone into the Spokane show to
compete for the grand carload prize,
but this year the plans are to go after
it hard with two cars which will be
played to win in the Spitz and New
town classes and it will be Hood River
against herself to see which of them
wins the championship. Just whose
orchards the apples will be taken from
has not been definitely decided.
President Charles Hall and Secretary
J. G. Skinner, of the Commercial Club
have been scouting over the valley for
ten days and inspecting the various
orchards. The names of the growers
who will put up the exhibit cars will
be given out in few days. The Club
will back up the grower in putting on
his exhibit guaranteeing the extra
expenses and the Apple Growers Union
will cooperate. Tne club boosters are
also anxious that growers over the
valley enter in the smaller 10, 5, 3 and
box displays, not only with Spitz
and Newtowns, but with Ortleys,
Arkansas Blacks, BaldWins and every
other variety so that the Hood River
valley can go to the show strong in
every department and carry away all
the prizes in sight,
A number of the kest of the Hood
River packers are also going to Spo-
kane to compete for the big prizes in
the packing contests. A considerable
portion of the Spokane exhibit will go
right on to Chicago for the National
| Apple Show in that city where Hood
River has a prominent exhibit space
already reserved. During the time this
exhibit will be in Chicago, the Land
Show in which Hood River had car
last year will be in progress and Hood
River will have display in the Harri-
man Lines division of that exhibit this
year. w. Il. Benton, former Hood
River resident, who has charge of the
| Hartman exhibit was here Monday
and arranged for the display from
here Mr.. RentOn was connected with
the electric light plant here seven
years ago and he was much surprised
and pleased to see the great progress
which is being made here. He said
that he was anxious to see Hood River
represented in the display of which he
was manager and that he would see
that his former abode had proper
publicity.
The Commercial Club will send a
man east to have charge of the Min
neapolis, Council Bluffs and Philadel-
phia publicity work, besides attending
the Chicago exhibit which he will help
to put on. At Minneapolis there will
be a large display in the Donaldson
show together with commercial pack
carload and carload exhibit will be
displayed at the Council Bluffs Hor-
ticutural Congress. This car will
also be of the regular commercial pack
put up by the Union. The display
cain Philadelphia will be of a carload
which the Union has sold in that city
and which will be shown in one Of the
prominent down town stores for
week. Besides these the Union has
had assurances from many of the cities
in which apples from here have been
sold this year that public exhibits of
the fruit will be held before it is placed
on sale.