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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
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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.
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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.
Vatch
Repairing
I want to call your attention
to the fact that I do all kinds
of Watch, Clock and Jewelry
repairing. I do accurate work,
get it out quick and guaran
tee every job sent out. - -
Watches and Jewelry
I carry a line of cheap and
medium price watches that
will stand rough use and are
dust proof; also a line' ot jew
. elry, novelties and silverware.
ROYAL HH. SAWTELL
Jeweler : Athena
PETERSON & PETERSON.
Attorneys-at-Law
AlHENA, -
OREGON.
J. D. PLAMONDON
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Office in
Barrett Building, Athena, Oregon
Dr. A. B. Stone,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Calls answered promptly day or night
Office in Post Building, Athena, Oregon
S. F. Sharp
PHYSICIAN AND SUKGEON
Special attention given to Female
Diseases.
Calls promptly answered. Office on Third
Street. Athena, Oregor
VM. M'BRIDE, Proprietor.
South Side Main Street, Athena, Ore.
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F. 8. 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 !
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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. : : : : :
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