The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-09-19
SPEAKERS WILL
BRING MESSAGE
MEETINGS PLANNED FOR THIS WEEk
West Side Round Robin, Thursday Night,
Creates Interest Major Mills TO
Talk Saturday Afternoon

] ne details OF the campaign Ter vol
/ unteer applications. in an aggregate of
/ the c0unty's full quota and completely
assembled before September Is, for
| the Fourth Liberty Loan have been
completed. From the office Of Exeeu-
tive Manager Scott circular letters.
| bearing the following, were mailed
/ Saturday TO all prospective purchasers
/ in the county:
| According to the law Of averages
as worked out by the district commit.
tees and appro we'd by the executive
committee, your portion of Hood Rv-
er 5 quota of the Fourth Liberty Loan
is S- or more.
In order for the voluntary system
to be successful, your application must
be received before noon,-- September
%.
! Truman Butler, county manager, eX-
| presses confidence in the response of
citizens to the volunteer plan, and it is
! believed that no work, except in a few
| possible isolated cases, will have to be
done by soliciting committee. Just
entering one of the valleys heaviest
| apple harVests. harvest characterized
| by labor shortage, the fruit growers
of the district welcome the volunteer
plan, which makes possible their loan
subscriptions without entailing on
| them loss of time from the engross-
| ing work.
This evening a so-called Round Robin
series -of meetings will be held stimuli.
taneosly in the Frankton, Oak Grove
and Barrett districts. Frank S. Grant,
| formerly city attorney of Portland and
an active Four Minute worker, and
First Lieut. Robert S. Gill, air service,
| have been assigned as speakers for the
meetings These speakers and the
Liberty Chorus will each visit all of
the points of meeting. They will be
progressed from place to place by a
battery of automobiles
Lieut. Gill will remain here and de-
| liver an address to the citizens of Odell
and Central Vale districts tomorrow
evening at the Odell union school.
Saturday night he will go to Dee to
address Dee Flat ranchers and mill
employees of the Oregon Lumber Co.
Sunday Lieut.. Gill will be carried into
the remote forests in the southwestern
part Of the county to deliver the Lib
erty Loan message to several hundred
loggers.
Saturday afternoon, September q a
monster open air meeting, to be ad-
dressed by Maj. 7. A. Mills, will be
held here in conjunction with the an.
nual county school fair. Thousands of
ranchers and their families are ex-
pected to visit the city that day. With
Mrs. l., S. Ainsworth, Mrs. l.. NJ.
Bentley and Mrs. E. r. Moller in
charge, a parade of the mothers, wives,
children and sisters of soldiers is being
planned. The address, at 2.30 o'clock,
will follow community singing. lead by
Mrs. Sletton and the Liberty Chorus.
This Saturday meeting should prove
one of the most successful of the SER
les. Maj. Mills is a strong and fluent
talker. Tuesday evening in Portland
ne carried by storm 5000 Liberty Loan
workers whom he addressed at the
Auditorium.
The West Side Round Robin is Great
ing widespread interest. The pro-
gressive form of the meeting, making
possible the simultaneous meeting of a
large number of citizens, was suggest
ed first by f. W. Birge, chairman of
the Barrett district commmittee
A schedule as arranged by the
speakers committee, follows
Thursday night. September 10 West
Side Round Robin. The progress of
speakers will be as follows: At s
o clock Lieut.. Gill, accompanied by d.
G. Cruikshank, who will introduce him,
will appear at Frankton Frank S.
Grant, accompanied by DR.. j. F. Watt,
will appear at this hour at the Valley
Christian church; and the Liberty
Chorus will open the Oak Grove meet
ing at eight o'clock Lieut.. Gill will
be conducted, on completing his talk,
at once to Oak Grove by Mr.. Cruik-
shank the Librty Chorus will go to the
Valley Christian church and Mr.. Grant
to Frankton. The Chorus will end
their schedule at Frankton Mr.. Grant
will go to Oak Grove and Lieut.. Gill
will close at the Valley Christian
church. Automobiles will be arranged
for to carry the Chorus. The Oak
Grove and Fankton talks will be held
at the schoohouses.
Friday night, September 20, Odeli
Union High school Lieut.. Gill, accom-
panied 10y Leslie Butler, who will aIso
give bond talk.
Saturday night, September q, Dee
Lieut. Gill, accompanied by Judge A.
J. Derby.
Saturday, September 81, 2.30 O'Clock,
Mayor Dumble presiding, Mai 7. A.
Mills, court house lawn, following
mothers parade. Rev. f. c. New
ham, Invocation.
Sunday afternoon, September %, al
Oregon Lumber Co. logging camp
Lieut. Gill, accompanied by c. D.
Nickelsen. Full Liberty Chorus wanted
at all places except at logging camp,
and at least a quartet for this meeting