VOLUME XV.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, 1903.
NUMBER 41
FOR i THE CHEAPEST LINE OF MERCHANDISE
EVER I OFFERED i TOf THE PUBLIC, SEE PRICE
LIST ON LAST PAGE OF THIS PAPER;
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About
Sine Groceries
In any line we can suit you. Prices at the lowest ebb. We are
after your trade" and will get it if fair treatment and LOWEST
POSSIBLE PRICES will serve as an inducement to get it.
Once We've Got You,
W Got You
IN STAPLE GROCERIES our goods are Standard Brands. By this
we mean that they are the kind recognized and sold in the best
stores in the country. IN FANCY GROCERIES we are caterers to
the most fastidious wants and can supply you with most anything.
Gents Furnishing Goods
Our stock of SHOES, IIATS, GL0VE9, OVERALLS, JUMPERS,
SOCKS, etc., is very complete. A glance through our GENT'S
FURNISHING DEPARTMENT will prove it.
BUILD
PARSONAGE
Christian Church Will Ex.
-pend $1,500 at Once.
The Christian church people will im
prove their property in this city by
erecting a parsonage that will cost,
when completed, about $1500. The
matter of building the parsonage was
taken up recently aud the decision to
build : was announced Sunday at the
morning service. The contract will ' be
let at once and the new home tor the
pastor and family will be finished as
Boon as possible. Material will likely
be on the ground next week.
The parsonage will be located on the
lot west of the church. It will be a
handsome residence and the location is
a moat desirable one. Suitable houses
for rent cannot be obtained in Athena
and this more than anything hastened
the decision to build at once. For the
present, Rev, Jenkins and family have
apartments in Mrs. Mclntyre's residence
on the West Side.
FELL TO HIS DEATH.
MATILIi IMPLEM
PENDLETON, ATHENA, HELIX.
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the Work of Samuel Adams, Thomas
Paine, John ' Dickinson and . Patrick
Hsnry. 2. Lexington and Concord.
3. The Battle of King's Mountain.
4. Virginia's part in the American
Revolution. .
Essays are limited in length to 8,000
words; must be written on one side of
the paper in the student's own hand
writing and must be accompanied by
the certificate of , the principal of the
school attended by the author, to the
effect that the author is a bona fide
student in the school and has been in
attendance therein not less than four
weeks during the school year of 1903-4.
Essays must be forwarded to the chair
man of the committee in charge, Wal
lace McCamant, 34 Concord Building,
Portland, Ore., so as to reach him not
later than February 1, 1904. In award
ing the prizes the committee will be
governed by these three considerations:
1. Historical accuracy. 2. Manner
of treatment. 3. Orthography, gram
mar, syntax and punctuation.
Any additioual information which may
be debired will be cheerfully furnished.
The essay which is awarded the first
prize will be published in full, with the
name of the author, in the public press.
A. J. Wise, Formerly of Weston Meeti
With Fatal Accident.
Andrew J. Wise, a coast pioneer of
1849 and an old-time resident of the
Weston neighborhood, was fatally in
jured in an accident at his home near
Perrydale, Polk county.
It appears that Mr. Wise had gone to
the barn to feed and water his horse and
climbed into the hay mow. In some
manner he fell through to the floor, and
injured his spinal cord, causing paral
ysis of the brain. When picked up he
was only able to speak a few words, and
upon being carried to the house, sank
into a deep sleep from which be never
woke to consciousness.
' Mr. Wise was a native of New York
state, about 72 years old, and came to
California in the golden days of '49.
He crossed the plains several times be
fore the advent of the railroad and lo
cated in Oregon, near Perrydale, in
1875. Three years later he moved to
this county, settling north of Weston,
and returned to Perrydale in 1886.
Mrs. Wise, who survives him, is a
daughter of Grandma McGrew, of Weston.
tottars
South Side Main Street,
Athena, Oregon.
. FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN.
Society of Sons of the American Revo
lution Offer Prizes.
The Oregon society of Sons of the
American Revolution has several times
in the past offered prizes to the school
children of the state for essays on sub
jects connected with Revolutionary his
tory. The results in the past have en
couraged the society to renew the offer
at this time. Prizes of $25, $15 and
$10 ' respectively, will therefore be
awarded for the three best essays in the
order of merit, written by students in
the public schools of Oregon, on any of
the following subjects:
1, The Arousing of Public Opinion;
MILLS AND LUMBER BURN.
Whitehouse-Crimmins Co. Walla Wal
la Plant Destroyed.
The big planing mill establishment,
manufactory and yards of the White-house-Crimmins
Co. were destroyed to
tally about 1:30 Sunday morning by one
of the most spectacular fires Walla
Walla has ever seen, probably incend
iary in origen.
The loss is estimated by Mr, White
house at about 850,000. The insurance
is about one-quarter of the loss. Owing
to the variable nature of the stock and
the high rate which applies, lumber
stocks are not of tea heavily insured.
The blaze started at 1 o'clock with
what seemed a waterspout of flame
shooting skyward, seemingly the result
of a liberal amount of kerosene poured
on a pile of lumber. With a stiff south
west wind it spread among the inflam
mable material so swiftly that the lum
ber yard, with its magnificent $30,000
stock was doomed almost before the fire
department arrived.
The most trying time of the fire was
when two blocks of houses facing on
Second street and Cherry street became
imperilled to such an extent that the in
habitants packed their treasures in box
es, quilts and trunks and began to carry
them out. It looked then as if several
blockaxnust go and the great crowd at
tending was afraid. Chunks of biasing
coals as big as hen eggs were carried
Lfor a .block or, two. and landed on dry
shingles, where a small blaze would
start a moment later. The pail and
garden hose brigade saved many a struc
ture. City Records Up in Smoke.
The old city hall, containing 87 years'
records of the municipality of Baker
City, was destroyed by fire at 9:30 Sat
urday night. At the urgent request of
the citizens the city books were to be
experted and the accountants were in
the midst of this work at the time
of the fire. The old safe was too
small to hold all the city records and
some of the most valuable of the city
papers were left outside. It is openly
declared by many prominent citizens
that the fire was started by some one
interested in having the records out of
the way.
Hones Have Tumors.
Last week Veterinary Surgeon Chris
tie removed three tumors from horses
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Hans Struve and Virgil Moore, the three
weighing 42 pounds or an average of
14 pounds each. The doctor states that
these tumorous growths in horses are
very common and that the largest he
has removed during the last few years
was pne weighing 22 pounds taken last
year from a horse belonging to Charles
Wilkins. Pendleton Tribune.
WO SICK
BENEFITS
Position as Taken By Grand
Chancellor Maloney.
"In Wonderland."
'In Wonderland" is the title of a
lecture that will be delivered in the
Christian church next Sunday evening
by the pastor, J. W, Jenkins. The lec
ture pertains to the island of Jamaica,
where Rev. Jenkins spent some years as
a missionary. The lecture will be made
doubly interesting by the use of stere
opticon views of life and scenery on the
island. A collection will be taken for
the relief of sufferers from recent tor
nadoes there.
Prunes in Demand.
A Minneapolis dealer is now in La
Grande, buying up the prune crop. He
expects to secure cars in Union county,
and is furnishing the boxes free and
paying $8 per ton on board the cars for
the crop. The shipments will go to
Minneaplis, Butte and Northern Wy
oming,
COUNTY fARM A GOOD INVESTMENT
County Commissioner Horace Walker was in town Wednesday from Helix. Mr,
Walker takes active interest in the welfare of the county, and is sanguine that the
purchase of the new poor farm meets with the approval of the taxpayers of the
county. In former years it cost the county from $5,000 to $7,000 per ysar to take
care of the poor. The farm stands the county about $6,000, and there is enough
fruit, vegetables and pork raised on the farm this year and taken care of by pauper
labor to keep the inmates. Besidos this there are several hundred tons of alfalfa
hav that can be sold now for $12 a ton. Another year the poor farm will almost
maintain the poor of the county.
The road problem is a hard one for the county court to solve. Mr. Walker
savs that he favors, at the proper time, the purchase of a rock crusher by the
county, for the purpose of placing crushed rock on the county roads, where needed
He would suggest that large bins be erected at different places in the county where
rock can be secured. In these bios crushed rock can be stored for use on the
roads as needed. This is a nft-tliod pursued in Willamette valley counties with
success.
The Grand Lodge of Knights of Pyth
ias has been in session in Portland this
week. Several departures from the old
regime have been advocated in reports
of the officers of the grand lodge, prin
cipal among which is the proposal to do
away with sick benefits and to elect the
Vice Grand Chancellor and Grand
Chancellor by popular vote of delegates
attending the grand lodge, Heretofore
all grand lodge officers have advanced
from grand outer guard, "passing the
chairs" up to grand chancellor.
Regarding opposition to sick benefits
J. W. Maloney, grand chancellor, in an
interview with a Portland paper is quot
ed: . i.
"We have had a good year," said Mr.
Maloney, who arrived from Pendleton
Sunday. "There has been a steady in
crease in membership, 258 being the net
increase. The order now represents
about 5,000 members in this Jurisdiction.
"In my annual report I shall recom
mend that there be no undue haste in
the future in securing additions to the
membership, but that quality rather
than numbers be the determining point
when applications come in to the lodges.
It shall be the desire to approximate the ,
teachings of the order, and to elevate
the level of membership to that aimed at
in the ritual.
"I believe much in the holding of dis
trict conventions, and shall recommend
the creation of a district convention fund
br levvine an extra per capita tax of 20
cents a member, that amount to be re
paid to the district paying it, if it hold a
district convention.
I shall tell the grand lodge that I
believe the sick benefit provision, that
appears in the by-laws of most of the
subordinate lodges is the cause of much
dissatisfaction, disruption and conten
tion, more so than any other thing that
is now in force. Some lodges have al
ready taken steps to abolish this sick
benefit, and I boliove the movement is
based upon sound policy that will pro
duce good results."
Among the grand officers elected are
Emil Waldmao, of Portland, Graud
Chancellor Commander. Two Umatilla
county women have been elected to hold
office in the grand lodge of Rathbone
Sisteis, Mrs. Mable Chastain of Milton,
is Grand Chief, and Mrs, . L. Barnett
of Athena, is Grand Mistress of Finance.
A Fine Concert.
Of the Koox-Kantner Concert Com
pany which is billed for the Athens
opera house on the night of Oct. 24, the
Portland Oregonian says: One of the
star attractions at the Newport beach
this season was the concert given last
night by the Knox-Kantner Concert
company. Mr. Knox's impersonations
never failed to win tremendous applause
and every feature of the program was
. cheered to the echo.