The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-11-02
APPLE DAY
CELEBRATED
CLUB INAUGURATES NATIONAL WEEK
luncheon HOnOring Hing Of Fruits Held
Tuesday at Columbia Gorge Hotel
80 DaIleS Men Here


sion was staged under Joint auspices
Of the Hood River Tuesday Lunch
Club and The Dalles Kiwanis Club. 3(
members of the latter organization
Drawing heavy rain storm to motor
here for the event. Over $50 were
present at the luncheon.
Features of the banquet were ad.
dresses by Rev. w. H. Boldly, who
paid glowing tribute to the apple,
characterizing it as the king of fruits.
and H. +. Davidson, who told how the
northwestern apple industry had orig
mated. Other speakers were: F. S.
Gannett and Tom West, of The Dalles
Kiwanis Club, and Mavor Scobee. of
this city. DIR. B. C. Olinger, presi-
dent of The Dalles club, introduced the
80 visitors, who came garbed in strict
ly Halloween style, paper cap top
ping each Kiwanian head.
Mrs. c. H. Henney, who was accom-
panied by Miss Sara Howes. rendered
vocal solos, concluding with a parody
sung to the tune of "Silver Threads
Among the Cold" Its refrain dealt
with Gan My Apples Still Unsold. :"
The railroads were the subject of caus-
tic comment in verses of the song, be-
cause of the car shortage situation.
Mrs. Henney declared that she was
sure that Hood River apple growers
would roll in wealth in eternity.
A. w. Stone, chairman of the meet
ing. introduced speakers as apples.
He ended the program by offering an
apology to the Ben Davis. This vari-
ETY. of apple, Mr.. Stone stated, is
known as the mortgage litter.
I'VE haven't any mortgages left in
the Hood River Valley" be declared,
therefore we have discarded the Ben
Davis here.
Mrs. Henney declared that Mr.. Stone
called her Monday and asked her if she
could sing song about an apple. She
stated that she visited the library and
was unable to find anything. She
finally appealed to City School Supt.
Cannon, who, too, was unable to re.
member an appropriate apple song.
She finally gave him the tune and he
composed the words, which bid fair to
become famous in the valley.
II. +. Davidson, who came from
Ohio to the Hood River Valley in 1890,
declared that the apple industry was
not even in its infant period then. He
told how the late d. H. Sears, some 80
years ago planted the first commercial
orchard. When the trees began bear
ing, Mr. Davidson purchased his Spitz-
enburgs, as well as fruit of this vari-
.oty. fFoR. .scighhoss az the piOneer.
orchardist who had planted them in
their home orchards, and shipped the
fruit to New York City.
81 secured Spitzenburgs from ORCH
ardists of The Dalles and other Wasco
county points," said Mr.. Davidson,
land they were fine specimens. The
apples we're sold to Sgobel & Day.
Later / happened to be in Ohio and
wrote letter to Mr.. Day, manager of
the New York firm, and he wired to
me Immediately urging that visit
him in New York. He entertained me
at his home, and | was having an en-
joyable visit. One night, while on the
way from restaurant to the theatre
| noticed some of our apples behind a
crystal clear plate glass window. |
Immediately asked to go in and see
them. | learned from the clerk that
they were wonderful Hood River ap-
Piles grown somewhere in Colorado, he
thought. They were scarce. he de-
clared. 81 finally asked to buy box.
but he told me that they were limited
to a dozen to the customer, and they
were selling for 81 per dozen. We had
paid the growers around Sl.50 per box.
Mr.. Day told me that he thought he
had made a mistake in allowing me to
enter the place. but l thought not.
when | returned home, | told all
the men with land about this trip to
New York, and it was then that the
Northwestern apple industry had its
first real active beginning"
Mr.. Boldly declared that the apple
was as old as mankind. Its origin. be
declared, sntedated history. He cited |
bow petrified apples had been found |
among the abodes of the ancients. |
The prehistoric Lake Dwellers, of |
Switzerland, he said, as is shown by |
archaeologists who have unearthed |
dried apples there, used the fruit a |
food. Mr.. Boldly cited the many in |
stances Of the apple figuring in ancient |
and story.
Mr.. Boldly declared that many and |
tributes had been paid to the |
apple, but he characterized as the |
most profound that of the boy who
rrept out Of the house on a mid-autumn /
frosty night and mounting the back |
yard fence, to the destruction of his
trousers, shinnied up the apple tree in
the neighbor's yard.
That boy was stealing apples, you
tell me?" said Mr.. Boldly. mo, be
was just annexing them. They belong
10 him. he belongs to them. | re-
member when | was told about a boy,
who they said, stole apples and that he
would go. Bot he didn't. He is
! prominent miller at The Dalles.
Another is on the circuit bench, and I
lave thought that have seen that
boy in the pulpit.
when you get 81 you are ashamed
o be seen eating an apple down on
dain street, then you a growing old.
fOu are a dead one and out Of things" /"
Apples, Mr.. Boldly said, came to
America with. Governor Winthrop, first
Puritan chief magistrate Of Massachu-
etts. They have followed the prog
ess Of the pioneers across the contin-
mt. be said. The speaker paid a trib-
Ite to Johnny Appleseed, that unique
hsTacter. who in frontier days Of Ohio
nd Indiana. proceeded the settlers
nto the wilderness. scattering apple {
eeds.
And 80 We find the apple coming /
westward, on 70 the Pacific slope Of
be Cacades with the early pioneers,
aid Mr.. Boldly, where homes were
na1e. there also in the wilderness, We
ee that apple orchards we're planted.
Along IN 1880 We saw q generation
{ dreamers here IN this Oregon coun-
~. They witnessed the apples grown
D pioneer orchards and visioned that I
reat waste places Of eastern Oregon
nd the wooded hills q Oregon would
e reclaimed by the spple. They I