The Athena press., July 31, 1903, Image 1

THE
VOLUME XV.
ATIIENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 31. 1903.
NUMBER 30
us.
ATHERIIVflERCftPJTILE'COMPA
Hot Weather Goods by the Carload Uots
Everything you want, either to be cool at home, for mountain wear or the harvest field. Our prices are the LOWEST
THAT GOOD' RELIABLE GOODS CAN POSSIBLY BE SOLD FOR. Call and get some Bargains.
Specials for the Week
Ladies' Onyx Dye Fast Black Hast
regular lit quality, per pair
" lOcts.
Ladi' Fancy Lace-Striped and
Opea Work Hose, regular 30 ot
quality, par pair
, 19 cts
150 ivme-n Childrj ribbed, fast
bksk, kigh spliced keels, doubla toe,
size 5 t S, regular 15c quality, '' -
: 10 cts.
While they last all 'our 6o Lawns
go at per yard
, ' 3CtS. ; ,
While they last all our 8,' and 10
cent Lawaa go at per yard
5 cts.
While they last all our 12j end 15
cent Lawns, Batistes and Fancy
Wash. Goods go at per yard .
10 cts.
Now is-the time you need lots
and it you are not already a customer, you will be.
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Is now almost upon us, .and as it draws
nearer your wants in the Grocery Line are
correspondingly increased. We have one
of the Largest and Best Assorted Stocks of
Groceries in Eastern Oregon for you to
select from, All our prices are as low as
the lowest r Bring in your Harvest Or
ders and let us save you some money.
Work Shirts
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We, have placed upon our
counters the best Selected Stock
of Men's Work Shirts ever
brought to'Athena. 75, 65 and
G0c shirts all going at
50 cts.
Our Stock of Shoes, Hats, Gloves, Over
alls, Jumpers, Socks, etc., is very com
plete, and a glance through our Gents'
Furnishing Department will prove we
are "Johnny on the Spot!
Sole Agents for the Celebrated "Snow Drift" Flour
For Mountain Wear
Mohair Serges, all colors, 36 inches
wide, made on purpose for bathing
suits, per yard
35 cts.
Covert Cloths, all colors, just the
thing for mountain wear, per yard
12 1-2 cts.
Ladies' Gauze Vests each
10 cts.
About 50 Shirt Waists, soiled
'goods, all sizes, that sold from 65 cts.
to $1.50, your choice each
19 cts.
About 150 Ladies' Wrappers, all
colors, all sizes, goods that have al
ways sold from 95 cts. to $1.75, each
69 cts.
Ladies Undressed Kid Gloves just
received. All colors. ' Per pair
. $1.25
of supplies. Come into our
WHS
Men's Fancy Shirts
Our stock of Men's Fancy
Shirts is too large, as we over
bought at the beginning of the
season, consequently to close
the 'stock out we are making a
sweeping reduction on all
Fancy Shirts of
25 per cent
fr
for the Harvest Eield
New line of Men's Work Shirts,
Cheviot, Duck, black, "striped or
fancy colors, each '
45 cts. -
Men's Derby Ribbed Under Shirts
and Drawers, fancy stripes, light
weight, per garment
30 cts.
Men's Heavy Ribbed Underwear,
worth 75c per garment, go at 40 cts.
per garment or per suit
' ' 75 cts. :
100 dozen Men's Socks, ribbed
tops, per pair.
5 cts.
Comforts, all sizes and prices. A
large size, well made comfort, 7 lbs, :
95 cts. , '
Extra large 8, lb. comfort for
$1.35
Blankets per pair from
n to $5
Men's Gloves, the best made, per
pair from
25c to $175
Grocery Department, take a
We carry anything and eveyihing in the grocery line.
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Shoes
If you want a good Work shoe fur
a little money ask to see the Ideal.
Made cougress with satin calf "uppers
and Oak ( Tan soles; well made in
; every respect. Per pair
$1.40
If you have tender feet, ask for
our McGinty Shoe. ViscolOil Tan.
Always soft and cool. Per pair
. .$2.25
We are sole agents for the cele
brated Richardson Seamless Shoes,
either in congress or lace. . Per pair
V $2.25.. : .
Indian and Norwegian Mocasins
in all sizes.
The first shipment of Men's fine
Shoes has arrived. All the latest
lasts, in Vici Kid, Dongola, Calf
skin and enamelled. An ellegant
assortment to select from.
look around, set our prices
THE CORNER STONE
IMPEESSIVE CEREMONIES AT
. M E. CHTJBCH SITE.
Revs. M- H- Marvin, Bracken Koontz,
Sanderson and Armfield Con
duct Interesting Service.
The impressive, ceremonies of the
laying of the corner stone of what will
be one of the finest and most imposing,
structures of the kind in Eastern Ore
gon, took place Wednesday at 3 p. m.,
in this city, when the beautiful whito
marble block, appropriately inscribed,
was placed on the stone foundation of
of the now Methodist Episcopal church.
." The solemn 'ritualistic servicos were
read, after invocation and prayer by
Revs. W. E. Armfield of this city and
Bracken Koontz of Hillyard, Wash., by
Rev. Sanderson, pastor at Milton, with
responsive reading. The choir sang an
appropriate hymn, after which Rev. M.
H. Marvin, of Walla-Walla, gave a short
address relative to the subject, a . synop
sis of which we print below.
Rev. Armfield presented the tin cas
ket, containing the names of the present
pastor, board of trustees, architect,
contractors, and all subscribers to the
church fund; a photograph of the for
mer church building; a copy of ' the
Athena Press, date July 24, 1903, and
a silver dime, date 1902, which was
placed in the recepticle in the corner
stone prepared to receive it,' and sealed
for the inspection of some far oif future
generation. The stone was then adjust
ed to place by the masons and the cere
monies were over. Mr. Marvin's ad
dress in part, follows:
"Ephesians 2. 19-22: 'Jesus Christ
himself being the chief corner stone."
"It is risky to trifle with foundations;
it is still more risky to trifle with corner
j stones. A corner stone is that on which
! anything is founded. It is of supreme
1 importance; it is indispensible to the ex
istence and safety of the structure. The
corner stones of domestic happiness are
fidelity to the marriage vow and faith
in each other. The corner atones of a
community's prosperity are education,
cultivated conscience, patriotism and
Christianity, Patriotism . must be ex
alted and broad, not low and local. The
corner stone of national loyalty and fra
ternity was laid in the honorable peace
when, after the strugglo of the sixties,
the blue stone of the North was laid in
the gray mortar of the South.
- "The corner stone of the Christian re
ligion is Jesus Christ. The ancient
religious faiths of earth would suffer
very little if the personal biatory ot
their founders were entirely forgotten,
while in Christianity the personal life
and history of Jesus are so essential that
to remove them would be equivalent to
taking the keystone from the arch-the
whole structure would topple over in
ruins. The corner stone is the Christ of
Lintory, the record as given in the Gos
pels; it is also the Christ who Las pro
jected himself through the ages into tbo
life of tbo present. It is the divine
We have just received
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The Umatilla implement
Christ who came forth from God.
"On this foundation of the personal
Christ we are to build our personal
faith, personal service,, ptrsonal self
denial. It is the unit, and not the mob,
that counts in the divine mathematics.
There is work enough for all, honor
enough for all, while to God belongs the
glory.
"The Methodist Episcopal church
stands for the highest type of patriotism
in national affairs; for purity at the bal
lot box; a love of country that magnifies
her virtues and corrects her vices. She
stands for the independence of the in
vidual conscience. Her mission is to
teach a knowable religion, a conscious
salvation. She represents fraternity of
spirit, desiring 'a league, offensive and
defensive, with every soldier of Jesus
Christ."'
Erecting Cannery Building.
The building at Echo for the Aioer
ican Hare Packing & Cold Storage Com
pany is now under way. A force of mep
is now at work upon it and it is the in
tention of the company to start the
cannery on August 20 or September 1.
The building will be 24x40 feet, at first,
with' additions as the demands of the
business require. The people of Butter
creek have given the cannery company
great encouragement, as the institution
will be a means of reducing the rabbit
pest from that section, besides furnish
ing employment to many of the settlers.
. , Lye and Hot Grease.
Milton Eagle; Mrs. Wtn. Anderson
had a narrow escape f torn the loss of
both eyes." She- was making soap and
han dropped a can of lye into a kettle of
hot grease. While bending over the
mixture stirring it, a streem suddenly
shot up into the air, striking the lady in
the face and narrowly missing her eyes.
The mixture was so strong with lye that
it took the skin off wherever it struck
and would have undoubtedly destroyed
her sight had it gotten into her eyes.
Palouae Apple for Knglmwl.
E.'L. Olwell of Olwell Bros., exten
sive fruit growers of Central Point, Ore.
is looking after fruit. This firm has an
orchard of 160 acres of apple trees and
ships the product, to England, where the
Oregon and Washington fruit has an en
viable reputation and is in big demand
at good prices. The firm being unable
to supply the demand from its own or
chard, wfll buy and ship from the Pa
loue country.
In Vt Compnnjr.
Central City (la) News Letter: Frank
Willard, of Springvilleand R. T. Brown,
Central City, arrived here from Mis
souri Monday morning. Nevada, with
whom Willard played was- dropped out
of the Missouri Valley league. Brown
was granted his release from Springfield
at his request and Belden 11 ill has se
cured him to pitch fur the Cedar Rapids
team in the Three I league. He left for
Bloomington last evening.
Agent I Ipoeil.
Homer II. Hallock, O. It. & N. agent
at Baker -City was removed by orders
from headquarters on the ground of lax
neHs.in connection with the embezzle
ment by Cashier Breaw of 100. Thomp
son, former agent at Union, m been
chosen to succeed. Hallock.
PENDLETON, ATHENA,
CANTON and
... DUTCHMAN
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a car of Barb and Woven Wire Fencing.
our prices before buying
SELL INDIAN LANDS
BIDS WERE OPENED MONDAY
BY SUPT. WILKINS. ?
First Sale ot land , By Heiri Under
Special Act-Prof. J. S. Henry
Buys a Nice Tract
, Chas. Wilkins, superintendent of the
Umatilla reservation, Monday opened
the bids which had been advertised for
on lands that had been allotted to In
dians now deceased, and which are now
offered for sale by the heirs, as provided
for under special act of congress, subject
to the ratification of the secretary of the
Interior.
Sis parcels or pieces ot land were bid
upon, 3 situated about one and one half
miles from Pendleton, bid highest for
byJ. S. Henry; quarter section situated
one and one half miles south of Athena,
which T. G. Hailey will get, and two
parcels in the neighborhood of Weston,
which will become the property of E. P.
Marshall.
The conditions of sale in each case are
that all bids shall be submitted to the
secretary of the interior; that they shall
be accompanied by a certified check
amounting to twenty -five per cent of the
total amount bid, which shall be forfeit
ed to the Indian in event of the other
conditions not being lived up to, one of
which is that the remaining seventy-five
per cent shall be due and pryable in
gold coin upon presentation of the pa
pers traosfering title. Judge James A.
Fee and T. G. Hailey were present when
the bids were opened as attorneys for
some of the heirs now offering their
lands for sale.
The description of the lands bid upon
and the amounts bid are as below:
FirstThe n e 'section 21, tp 2 n, r
33 e W M; bids-W. II. Hawley, $4000;
Maurice Kigby, 84010; J. 8. Henry,
$4800. The two first bids were under
the appraised value.
Second The n e 4 ' ne e M 8ec
21, tp 2 n, r 33, e W M; bids- G. W.
Rigby, $1010; J. S. Henry, $1200.
Third -The n w f of the 8 e U "ec 21
tp 2 n, r 33, e W. M; bids-G. W. Rigby
81010; J. 8. Henry, $1200.
The bids of Mr. Rigby on above two
forty acres were under the appraised
value.
Fourth Lots 1 2 3 4, sec 35, tp 4 jv
r 34 e W M, containing 163 acreju
C W. Brownfleld, $6221.52; T. G.
Hailey, 880(H). The first bid was under
the appraised value.
FifthLot 11 tp 3 n, r 35, containing
40 acres; bid E. P. Marshal, $22.50 per
acre.
Sixth-Lots 11 and 14, tp 3 d. r 85,
containing 160 acres, bid-E. P, Mar
shall, $22.50 per acre.
Bids will be asked for on other reser
vation property in September and Oct
ober. Flue VrvtHt-il Brick.
Leader: About 2000 pressed brick are
being manufactured daily at the Weston
yard. They are perfect ia every detail,
HELIX.
Gangs, Sulky and
Walking Plows
SUPERIOR DRILLS,
BAIN and FISH WAGONS,
BARB and WOVEN WIRE
FENCING.
and are bound to add to the fame that
Weston common brick have acquired for
their consistent excellence. The brick
are first carefully molded, and are with
out a flaw when subjected to the enor
mous pressure of the "repress." When
taken out of this machine and dried in
the "haque" they are burned in the
kiln with ordinary brick. The word
"Weston" stamped upon one side, in
clear-out letters is the name of the little
city that they will fitly advertise in the
building world.
Women of Woodcraft Memorial.-
The July number of the Pacific Echo,
the official organ of the Women of
Woodcraft, contains a toucbine memor
ial of the 10 members of the order who
lost their lives in the Heppner disaster.
1 he memorial is in the form of a great
rugged monument, signifying endurance
ana strength, upon which is placed a
scroll, bearina the , following
Leonora Estes Rhea, Loulla Gurdane,
Mary A. Kernan. Mary Km. Mm A.
.Long, Hannah B. McBride, Mary E.
Matlock, Martha Haling, Ava Thorntoii
and Florence French.
JTorty Printer. Strike.
Forty printers, employed by tie
Spokesman-Review and Chronicle
went out at 7 o'clock Monday night on
account of the refusal of the company
to pay a new wage scale. The matter
has been-in dispute since last December
and waa arbitrated locally in favor of
the Review, but the International Typo
graphical union failed' to agree to the
terms of the arbitration. The papers
charge President Lynch, of the Inter
national, with violating the terms of the
agreement to arbitrate.
Went on Teacher.
Leader: The board of regents of the
Eastern Oregon State Normal school
have elected Professor Charles Francis
Chessman to fill the chair of Mathemat
ics and Latin made vacant by the resig
nation of Prof. Kittretlge. '
At a meeting of the directors held last
Saturday, Prof. Paul II. Wyman of Ta
coma, Wash., was elected principal of
the Weston public schoels, in place of
Prof. W. A. McGhee, resigned.
East Oregonian : The taxpayers of the
county have saved for themselves and
wrested from the coffers of the county
$4,385.40 as a result of having taken ad
vantage of the rebate clause in the tax
law. Up to March 16th the sheriff le
ceived $118,783.64 in taxes, which will
be three per cent less than the levy.
This three per cent is the amount saved.
A great deal of money has been paid
since that time and the taxes are well
along in the list, few people teeming to
have an intention of allowing their pay-
menta to become delinquent.
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If you desire a good complexion tiso
Moki Tea, a pure herb drink. It acts
on the liver and makes the skin smooth
and clear. Cures sick headache. 2.r;c
and 50c. Money refunded if it does not
satisfy you. Write to W. H. Hooker A
Co., Buflalo, N. Y., for free sample. For
sale by McBride A Co.
For Sale.
I have several articles of furniture,
bought last August, which I wish to dis
pose of before I move away the last of
August. C. A. Sias.
Co. I
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