The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-03-11
W. H. PAULHAMUS
HERE SUNDAY
GROWERS MASS MEETING CALLED
0rchadiStS Will Come From All COmmuRi-
ties to Attend Association Primary
and Hear Address

IL the apple growers OF Hood River
take as much interest in the organiza-
tion meeting to be held here Saturday
afternoon, when W. II. Paulhamus. of
Puyallup, chairman of the executive
committee of the recently organized
Growers Council, will deliver an ad.
dress, as the growers Of other districts
have taken, the Heilbrronner hall will
be crowded to overlooking. And, judg-
ing from expressions that have been
made by growers of the different valley
communities, Hood River orchsrdists
are fully as enthusiastic over the new
movement as their fellow fruit growers
of other northwestern districts.
Mr.. kPaulhamus, who has made phe-
nomenal success of the Puyallup and
Sumner Growers association, the MEM
bers of which produce enormous guam
titles of berries, spent last week in the
Yakima and Wenatchee district. Tru-
man Butler, a member of the execu-
tive committee, was in Wenatchee and
attended some of the meetings. Mr..
Palhamus is forceful speaker and
everyone who hears him feels that he
means what he says. At Yakima the
address of Mr.. Paulhamus was given at
the armory building. The structure
seats 1000. Still it was overf1owing.
MIR. Paulhamuus' words are said to
have moved the growers as they have
hever been moved before. Ii is said
that he was not just merely applauded,
but that he was cheered. Everywhere
he has ever been, he has carried the
growers with him.
MIR. Paulhamus will speak at White
Salmon Saturday morning at 10 O'Clock,
0rchardists of the community will be
attracted 20 Hood River Saturday not
only to hear Mr. Psulhamus. but to at.
tend the primary meeting of the Apple
| Growers Association, when nominations
| for the board of directors candidates
will be made. Doubtless, however,
many Association members who will
not be present for the morning primary
meeting will be here to greet Mr.. Paul
hamus.
| The Hood River district is comprised
cf Skamania and Klickitat counties as
well. rs Wasco and Hood River, and it
is expected that many growers from
| the Underwood district as well as from
Mosier will be present. Since The
Dalles communities raise scarcely any
apples, it is not thought that many, if
any growers from that section will be
here.
| Ii behooves those who desire TO get
seats in Heilbronner hall although it
is unusual that q crowd large enough to
| I'll il is assembled, to get here early (;
| for those who have kept finger on
the pulse of the situation predict the
largest crowd of fruit men ever seen
| together in the Hood River valley. A
formal call for the meeting to be ad.
dressed by MIR. PaOlhamus is as fol-
lows:
A mass meeting has been called by
| the executive committee of the Grow
ers Council to be held at Heilbronner'
| hall on Saturday afternoon, March l3,
at 2 0 clock. The details of organizing
each district have not been fully
worked out as yet and will no doubt be
in charge of the delegates to the Grow
ers Council. This meeting is simply an
open meeting for the purpose of per.
mttiug the growers to see and hear
| the executive committee, of which W.
H. Paulhamus is chairman, aud he will
be the principal speaker of the meet
| ing.
The meeting has been called at this
time for the reason that the Associa-
ton is having a meeting on the morn
ing of the 18th and as the growers are
very busy just now, we do not like to
ask them to take two days off. All the
growers in this district, comprising
Hood River and Wasco counties in Ore
pon and Klickitat and Skamania coun-
ties in Washington, are cordially inVit-
ed toebe present.