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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1905)
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. TwIOB-A-WeEK TOESDAT AND FRIDAY F. B. BOTO, FUBI.ISHS. Entered M necond-claM matter, March 1, 1901, al the poatofflce at Athena, Oregon, under an Aotot Congress of March S, 1879. Subscription Hateni I'ttr year, In advanot . 12.00 Htnglecoplei In wrappers, 5o. Advertising Hts; 1,ikm reading notices, Ont Insertion, 10c per in Kaon subsequent Insertion, So. a communication! should be addressed to he PRJC88 Athena, Oregon ATHENA, JUNE 30 1905 The request of the confederate veter ans who were guests of a G. A. R. post in Chicago Tuesday evening for the re turn of the flags captured during the war should meet with a prompt and courteous response, says the Spokes man -Review. When congress acted favorably along the same lines in re gard to the confederate flags in the possession of the war department at Washington a long step was taken in the direction of healing the old sores that even after the lapse of nearly half a century are still to'some extent in evidence The healing process has been greatly promoted in the last de cade and much of tho old southern rancor has disappeared. Any bitter sentiment that still remains is con tained in the breasts of the old men who fought for the lost cause and to whom the oapture of the flags was a painful accompaniment of 'defeat. But even these are few, and their re quests should be granted. Among the tramp printers are to be found some of the best workmen in the art preservative. Among them, too, are to be found some most worth less and accomplished beats aud graft ers that any trade or craft can boast of. The Press office has of late boon visited by numerous members of this "pauhandle" element, who have by their numerous acts of ingratitude, just about sealed the lid of our gen erosity box. The disappearance of a few more "sticks," "bodkins" and "rules" will of necessity force us to close our free lunch department Another co operative plan has been organized that will be boosted along the an mo channel of other organiz ations oo-operative failure. Portland capitalists are behind the "co-operative Christian Federation" with a capital stock of $50,000,000 when it is sold. Tho head of the movement is the Rev. H. S. Wallace, of Port laud, who, in recognition of his serv ices as founder of the federation, is to be president, tho term of office being for his natural life. People from country districts will do well to buy their goods at home prior to going to Portland. Prices are always high when big fairs or other entertainments are under way, aud the country buyer is expected to "pay the freight" The Freowater Times man occasion ally hears tho remark, "I wish I wus out of this town. " Then he says he feels like saying, "I wish you were, xpanslon NOW IN FULL BLAST This sale, the biggest elf art we have ever put forth iu the line of special sales, is proving one of tho most successful we hvue ever held. We want uoue of our patrons from out of town to miss it they're welcome to the bargain that are to to had. REMEMBER During this sale which is to continue for a few weeks longer, reduced prices will pervail in practically all of our departments. Write, call or telephone us. When goods ordered amount to Mail Orders a Specialty THE DAVIS-KASER CO. Everything to Furnish the Home. 12 14-16 18 30-22 Alder Street. WALLA WALLA, -:- WASH. for a man who stands on the street corners, chewing and spitting, telling obscene stories, cursing the town, finding fault with his grandmother because she was a woman, claiming I that merchants are a lot of thieves, that the lawyers and newspaper men would skin a man to a finish, and a whole lot more, is a nuisance. H. L. Graves, a stranger stopping at a hotel in Pendleton, recently sewed $180 in $10 bills in an undershirt, and forgetting it, sent the garment to a laundry. Remembering it the next day, he went to the laundry, found his bundle untouched, opened it, picked out his shirt and recovered the money. The laundry man is threatened with heart disease. Wilhelm's Magazine, "The Coast," in its July number contains an excel lent descriptive article on Athena and Jmatilla county. Pertaining to the county the article deals with a vast amount of information relative to re sources. Athena is "sized up" as be ing a good town, and from a descrip tive standpoint is given a good boost by Mr. Wilhelm. The rumor that General Nelson A. Miles is to marry a wealthy and dis tinguished widow has led the wicked paragraphers back east to circulate the report that the widow has gone to Europe to see if she can find some clothes that will match the gorgeous trousseau of her warrior groom. The closing of the eye, the rest and the opening of it have been measured and are found to consmue 895,000ths of a second. How swiftly intelli gence can be conveyed to the soda fountain clerk I The dam now being constrnctad by the government on the Salt river in Arizona is said to be the biggest in America. And Salt river has heard some pretty big. damns before now, too. Dooin, Doolin, Donlin, Dahlne and Devlin are playing ball in the Nation al league. And plenty of people who couldn't name the twelve apostles never get them mixed. Editor Whitelaw Reid will pay $27,500 more for house rent than he collects as salary, but a newspaper man does not mind trifling discre pancies like that OVERLOOKED A BET. (Maverick.) Bert Huffman has overlooked a big bot Maverick admires Bert Mav erick thinks Bert is just what the doc tor ordered. As an editor, Bert has all the rest of us sewed up in a sack. Bert, you know, before he began moulding publio opinion in the 13-em columns of the Pendleton East Oregon ian "fired a hog on Harrimau's road," as Frank Spearman would say in plain wah-wah he was a locomotive stoker on the O. R. & N. between La Grande aud Pendleton. He fired that hog so carefullee that now he writes leaded brevier editorials on a roll top desk and satisfactorily adjusts all systems, social, political, financial, and so forth. Bert also writes poems. Some are good; others are better. Bert is making of the E. O. oue of the pest papers in the state. But to revert Bert, recently over looked a whole stack of yellows. He tailed and refused, as editor of the E. O., to present Pendleton's claims as a summer resort, in the hope of getting the Russ-Jap peace commission to sit there when the good old rammer time begins to sizzle the fat from the diplo matic corps at Washington and boil 110.00 or more we pay the freight. Sale Mail Orders a Specialty the mint juleps in the left wing of the Whit Heuse, Chicago, , where the cemenftoidewalks curl up at the edge at midday, has put in a bid; St Paul, where old Sol gloats in : a sort of steamy funk when he isn't busy melt ing down the lamp posts, steps to the fore as an ideal spot Kansas City and Indianapolis have put up their hands, and Portland has shied . a cas tor into the ring. Seattle, always warblous of Pnget Sound's fine Italian climate, blows a loud bazoo, and even Everett, the Pittsburg of the west, butts in with big claims. And all the while Bert Huffman has been silent. Well, Weill Pendleton has a whole lot to offer. She can guarantee the shaven Jap and the bewbiskered slav seven solid, un disturbed nights of sleep each week ; she can pledge the thermometer not to elevate past 110; she can put up bonds that no dignified envoy wilL be ob liged to stop the deal while he butters a squashed mosquito on his bald head, and she can offer as many daylight working hours as any summer resort on the map. She can indemnify her self against " cyclones, waterspouts, earthquakes, red rains, anarchy and eavesdropping. She can produce cli mate warranted not to crack, fade, rip, ravel cr run down at the heel. All these things, of course, Baker City can offer in larger quantities; but Baker City is too busy to be disturbed by a bunch of envoys who can't speak the Bakerian patois and who probably do not drink coyote cocktails. Pen dleton, though, won't be busy till threshing time. And Bert Huffman never thought of all this! Fie on you, Bret Huffman I COMMENCEMENT SEASON. (Oregonian. ) For the past two weeks the air has been vocal with orations suited to the college commencement season. The country school house; the nucleus of all educational endeavor, the starting point in school life to which learned doctors of law and divinity and min isters of art and science look back with affection and reverence, and stately college halls from which stu dents pass out, the study course com pleted, has alike been gay with flow ers, resonant with music, and glowing with happiness and pleasure. The graduating exercises have taken as wide a range, within time-honored limits, as was possible, and gaity and music, present triumph and future an ticipation, have ruled the whole. Many wise and some foolish things have been said upon these numerous occasions, but the trend and tone of all addresses have been uplifted and the effort everywhere has been toward higher ideals. In the older colleges the effort has been more elaborate, but the words spoken have not been more sincere than have those address ed to pupils passing out of the gram mar schools into the high schools, or more scholarly and withal more prac tical than have those addressed to students who have gone out by hun dreds and thousands from the smaller colleges of the land. The public mind never at any other time rises so sympathetically to meet the ideals of youth, the ideals of jus tice, the ideals of right living, as when the young men and the young women of the community stand before it, prepared by the best instruction that the couutry has to give to assume the duties and responsibilities of life, each holding in his or her hand cre dentials in the form of a modest roll of paper or parohment which testifies to the industry, application and pro ficiency of the holder in the work pre scribed. For this reason the lessons of the commencement season, trite though they may be, are lessons of value. The seeds of proven wisdom and accredited virtue that they sow fall not on stony ground, but literally upon good soil, where many of them, at least, take root and grow. DIRECT PRIMARY ELECTIONS. (C E. S. Wood in Paciflo Monthly.) I aided this work so far as I could, doubtingly, but hopefully. I am still hopeful, still doubting. It is 'too soon to pronounce upon so radical a change, but it does seem as if all the evils of "what is everybody's business is nobody's business," hovers about this experiment It has perhaps rob bed the boss of some of his power iu his pliant tool, the convention, and he has not yet so adapted himself to new conditions, as to organize and dictate the party candidates completely at the primaries. Meanwhile the "good citizen" is is still content with being just "good" and leaves politics to the politicans. The cousequence is that in the republican party (which holds the greatest chances for the prize) is a stampede of self-appointed candi dates; and in the minority (democrat ic) party, men are reluctant to stand at all, and for many offices there are no candidates. I still believe this a move iu the line of progress because it removes veils and secrecies, but just so long as politics brings plums, you will find plum hunters; and it is they, not the "good citizen, " who will by work and organization capture the plum tree. The remedy is to either rob politics of its tremendous power over our property iu taxes, contracts for improvements, franchise granting, etc, and bring it more aud more to the basis of merely affordiug peace and protection ; or else to have the very best men in the community hold office. This last seems a perpetual failure aud never more so than in the nominations at the primaries. You may bring the trough of politics to the best people but you caunot make thorn driuk. 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Lb Gbow, Umhler, I CONTRACTING fllMIIIIMIHIIIIMIINHIIII Hereafter I will engage in Contracting and building in all its branches, I am in a position to carry on this line of business in a thorough and satisfactory manner, in connection with my Lumber Yard. I will employ the best workmen money can secure, and before you let your contract it will pay you to get my figures. - - - A. M. CILLIS, PROPRIETOR, : 1 THE CILLIS LUMBER YARD ! Peebler & Chamberlain Successors to the Umatilla Implement Co. Agricultural Implements WAGONS, CARRIAGES, ENGINES, MACHINERY, THRESHERS ETC. ATHENA. Umatilla Lumber Yard Ed Barrett, Manager Building Material Lumber, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Paints, Oils, Glass, Wall Paper, Building Paper. Brick, etc. Special inducements on orders for carload lots. Fence posts in quantities to suit. : : : : : Roslyn Coal, Puget Sound Wood CONTRACTING. ESTIMATES FURNISED ON ALL KINDS OF BUILDING ON SHORT NOTIFICATION J1 k ) The New Body Builder a Fresh Orange DRUG STORE Athena LJ. A Barrett, P. E. Colburn, V Director If. 8. LeQrow.l I. M. Kemp, Assistant Cashier AND BUILDING I OREGON. :ifi KveTjthInc First Clans - Mod era antfUp-ta-d a t SOUTH sid tun STREET ATHESJL Everything For House Keeping Purposes See our stock before you buy. Baker & Folsooi The Complete House Furnishers, Main St., next to Peetoffice, Pendleton. Foley's Honey and Tar cares colds, prevents pneumonia. PARKER & LANE'S HIP t
