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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1905)
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. TWICB-A-WUBK TCBSDAY AMD FBIDAY f. B. BOYD, PPBLIBHBK. Entered Becond.cla matter, March 1, Iikh, at the poetofflce at Athena, Oregon, uniluran Actot Congres of March 8, 1879. Subscription ati r.n vt.nr. In advanet HM Blogleooptet in wrappe'.5 Advertising Kataa: I.,h-hi reading notices, flrstlnaertion.tOcper r.i. Kuchiiubgeqnent Insertion, 6". II communications ihonld be addressed to it.. PHKHH Athena, Oregon ATHENA, AUGUST 8,1905 MISSOURI'S KXPKRIMKNT. The legislature that met in January, 1903, appropriated 135,000 for a bind ing twine plant to be maintained in the penitentiary. In accordance with that law the legislature just adjourn ed appropriated $125,000 more to be known as a "revolving fuud," to be ' used only to purchase raw material required in the manufacture, handl ing and marketing of twine. All moneys derived from the sale of twine are to be collected and paid into the state treasury by " the penitentiary warden, and kept in a separate ac count. The warden is empowered to soil the twine to the farmers of the state for cash, free on board the cars at Jefferson City "and at a price per pound sufficient only to indemnify the state against loss. " State twine in bulk may also be sold for cash by the warden to persons in each county who shall be required to sign an agreement to sell the twine to actual consumers at a price not greater than 1 cent per pound over its cost, with transporta tion from the state capital added. Manufacturing of the twine has be gun, and the price has been fixed at 10 cents a pound. The trusts, it is fluid, soil the same article for from 12 1-2 cents to 14 cents a pound. It will be somo time before the working re sults of this special branch of state ' industry can be ascertained. So far tho appropriations have amounted to $160,000. The farmers who got the twine at a roducod price also pay tax es, aud the money that has established the jilant, und is set apart for the "revolving fund," all comes from goneral taxatiou. Public ownership rests on . public taxation. What it may return in publio revenue is an open question. It remains for actual practical experience to strike the balunce St. Louis Globe-Democrat.' HANDS OFF!" (Weston Leader. ) Peudleton and Athena are iu the throes of a Sunday-closing movement. At Athena last Sunday every business house was closed all day, as well as the saloons, which would not stand for making fish of one and fowl of auother. At Peudleton every saloon was closed at front aud rear. The Atboua Press, in discussing the situation, deplores the business injury doue to Athena. It also relates with some gusto the case of one of the Sunday-closing petitioners who tried last Sunday without avail to get some re pairs for his pump at the hardware stores, and failing, had to draw water for his stock by hand. The Press avers that some consola tion would be found if othor towns wore treutod tho sume as Athomi by the C'ivio Leaguo, but as it is Athena must bear the stigma of being the only town iu the county which de clines to accommodate oustomors on Sunday. All this trouble may not last long for Athena. Sunday-cloning reforms Meet Me at You can always safely say this when you come to town, ond wish to make shopping uppointmeuta with a friend. We've got u sort of comfort rooom for your convenience, and you huve a standing invitation to use it whenever you like. It's a good place to clean up, if you have had a long ride. It's a good place to rest, if you feel like resting. It's a good place to wait, if you are waiting. There is general ly mimothing to read, if you feel like readiug. Good place to leave you bundles, too, if you don't feci like carrying them around with you. Our store has been enlarged and our stocks are larger aud better thau ever before and we want you to come and look around whether buying or not Sort of make the store your headquarters, for you are surely welcome when you come. Mail Orders a Specialty THE DAVIS-KASER CO. Everything to Furnish the Home. 12-U-lfi 18 20-22 Alder Street, WALLA WALLA, -: WASH. are usually short-lived. But let it be said right here that Weston wants no reform wave to break over the hill, short-lived or otherwise. We want no Sunday-closing agitation. ; We have troubles enough just now. Let the Civio League which is at present experimenting with Athena leave us entirely alone. Its interference with our affairs is not invited -or desired. We can care for the situation our selves. The Leader does not desire just now to enter into discussion of the ethics of Sunday-closing. It merely serves notice on the Civio League, which is reported to be casting its eagle eye in this direction, that Weston is well satisfied to shove along in the same old rut that it occupies at present The front doors of saloons are closed here Sunday, and business houses kept open until noon. A law is broken thereby, but we do not want it en forced here unless it is simultaneously enforced in every other town and city iu the state of Oregon. It's not good law for us and a poor one for the rest of the commonwealth. We believe that most of Weston's people are satisfied with the present arrangement. Customers are accom modated Sunday forenoon, and in the afternoon business men enjoy the rest that every man should have. Nobody has been heard to complain in this community, and outside of it we think nobody has a right to com plain. SWEDEN AND NORWAY. Some facts regarding Sweden aud Norway, condensed from a recent statistical bulletin are of interest just now. The area of the peninsula is nearly 300,000 square miles and that of Sweden 172,000 square miles about the size of Oregon and Wash ington combined. Norway contains 121,000 square miles and is a little larger than New Mexico. The popula tion of Sweden in 1903 was 5,221,291, as compared with 4,828,150 in 1893, a gain of 8.2 per cent in ten years, al though during that period 259,711 Swedes emigrated, 176,857 of them to the United States. Sweden has about the same population as the state of Uinois, though three times as large in area. Norway's population increased from 2,032,100 iu 1893 to 2,228,635 in 1903, or at the rate of 1.8 per cent, while 124,336 Norwegians emigrated during this period, 120,311 of them coming to the United States. Norway has about the same population as Michi gan or Iowa, in a territory twice as large as either. Sweden is chiefly an agricultural country, only 22.3 per cent of its pop ulation dwelling iu towns, while in Norway fisheries hold about an equal place with agriculture, each furnish ing an annual income of about $15, 000,000. The average value of Sweden's agricultural products for the years 1898-1902 was $65,338,000, while Norway's was scarcely one fifth this amount. There being no miner als of industrial or commercial im portance, Norway is obliged to impor considerable breadstuffs and it needs or desires a different tariff law from Sweden and in faot, has it, there being custom houses along the boun dary line of the uuited conntise. During 1903 Sweden imported bread stuffs amounting to $16,331,000, and Norway to $15,229,000. Forests abouud in both countries, and the lumber industry is the prin cipal one of importance common to both. The timber is largely spruce and pine, valuable in British and con tenintal markets. Of the total exports those of timber, lumber and nianu factues thereof , such as wood pulp and matches, constituted in 1903 617. per cent iu the case of Sweden and 40.4 per cent in the case of Norway. The mining industry is also important iu Sweden, 30,731 persons being employ ed -in it Norway's advantage, aside from its fisheries, lies only in its merchant marine, which is fourth iu size among the marine nations of the world, be ing exceeded only by the United King (lorn, the United States and Germany. Its total tonnage is 1,500,000, as Davis-Kascrs Mail Orders a:-". Specialty against Sweden's 625,000; its earnings $29,700,000, as against $13,400,000 for Swedish merchantmen. NO PANIC IN SIGHT. (Portland Journal. ) - Tb9 time for the usual ten-year panio or period of depression, count ing from the beginning of the - last such periods, has now gone by two years, and the country remians pros perous. Crops will generally be great, prices are generally good, industries are all active, the people have an im mense amount of money in savings and other banks, and the pessimist perforce sings low iu the land. The last period of depression, how ever, was much more prolonged than previous ones, lasting approximately four years, so that a longer period of prosperity was due aud reasonably ex pected. The panio makers cannot afford on their own account to have a prolonged panio too often. It may be that there will be a reac tion and a subsidence of abounding prosperity in about two years, 10 years from the time the panio makers climbed off the lid in 1897 because they got men in office who suited them ; but it may be impossible to bring about a panic even then. With a continuance of great crops and a geatly incrreased consumption, with the people well fixed for a long rainy day, and with the country so rapidly developing in so many ways, it may be that the panio period will not re cur at all, or at least for many years. The country is . bigger and stouter and wiser and more independent of the panio breeders than it has ever been before. Ever so many big fail ures, and ever so great a break in Wall street, will not affect the coun try so much as like incidents of half the magnitude would have done a few years ago. The country is getting too big to be scared by Wall street bulls and bears, or by the antics of frenzied financiers, perhaps acting in collusion with political bosses. There may be, doubtless will be, periods of compara tive depression, but perhaps never again such a panic as that of 1903-7. Present prosperity is due chiefly to the great cornucopia of nature. The west is harvesting a record-breaking wheat crop. The corn crop promises to be 800,000,000 bushels larger than ever before. Iu most sections of the country there are bumper crops of oats, barley, rye, rice, flax and pota toes. The south 'has a tremenduous cotton crop coming on, and the to bacco crop was never better. Not only so throughout the coun try manufacturing industries are rushed with work. The steel industry is many mouths behind its orders. Every ship-building plant is working to its full capacity. The railroads have all the business they can possibly do. The wholesale houses never did so large a business. Retailers are reg istering their best records. Cities everywhere are building up rapidly. The country is filling up, too. People are working as never before, and spending more money in play than ever before. ' Under such circumstances no period of depression is in sight and it is not worth while to strain one's visiion peering into the future to disern one. PHARAOH'S CORN A FAKB. loHMi iMttata aad Joaraallata ria4 That Tktr Bar Bta Hoaxed. Some time ago thr was a wonderful story In the European Journals about certain grain of ancient Egyptian corn which bad been planted In Germany and had come to life. The grains, thy said, had been found In an Egyptian sarcophagus and had been planted by a Dresden florist. Some days j,tter the corn appeared above ground, much to the surprise of scien tists, who did- not suppose that there was any life In grains which were from 4,000 to 5,000 years old. The corn, how ever, was certainly growing, and even the most rncredulous among them soon became convinced that grains have a lease of life to which there Is practical ly no limit Alas! A boy employed by the Dres den florist has now confessed that he planted some other grains In the same place where his master had planted the Egyptian onts, and only a few hour after the florist completed hla work. This was sad news for the scientists and for the numerous journalists who bad , written enthuslastlally about the mirac ulous qualities of the ancient grains of corn. BURIED BEAUTY IN PARIS. Haana !! Stonework la tka Fom atloaa ( tae Vtvmrw la tke Old CUr. It has been known for some time that the roadway In front of the cathedral of Notre Dame, in Paris, Is much higher that It originally waa, and that the view of the entrance suffers In consequence. The architectural expert of the Louvre museum, M. Redon, has discovered that the Louvre la also burled beneath the ground to a far greater depth than the original plans warranted. WTltea a Paris correspondent of the London Te'egraph. M. Redon concludes from his first laves tlgatlona that as planned at first the Louvre waa to hare been encompassed by a moat, the excavation of which was prevented by the noises that surrounded It at the time. Afterward, when the houses were got rid of. the Idea of the moat was forgotten, and the land rose naturally to Its present height, hiding over 24;4 feet of the building. The com mittee for the preservation of old Parts Intends, under M. Redon's supervisoln. to clear away the tarth and dtsclon the magnificent stonework of which the base is construct!. Watch--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 of jew elry, novelties and silverware. ROYAL M. S TELL Jeweler :: Athena PETERSON & PETERSON, . Attorneys-at-Law ' A1HENA, 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 SURGEON Special attention given to Female Diseases. Calls promptly answered. Office on Third Street, Athena. Oregor WM. M'BRIDE, Proprietor. South Side Main Street, Athena, Ore. Dealer in Paints, Oils, Drugs and Toilet articles Lubricating and Compoun OILS Drugs and Drug Sundries. Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. jeasoii&ble reasonable R. J. BODDY'S MEAT MARKET Fresh Meats. Only the Beat is Good. As delicious as "TTx ' -"! -aA ' i r Supersedes old-fashioned Cod Liver Oil and Emulsions Guaranteed to contain all the medicinal elements, actually taken from genuine fresh cods liver, with organic iron and other body-building ingredients, but no oil or grease, making tho greatest atrength and flesh creator known to medicine. For old people, puny children, weak, pale" women, nursing mothers, chronic cold, hacking coughs, throat and lung troubles, incipient consumption nothing equals Viaol. . Try l if you doot tike PIONEER First National ft of CAPITAL STOCK,. . $50,000 SURPLUS, . 12,500 Propei attention given to collections. Deals in foreign and domestic cx - change. Fire and burglar-proof vaults and safes no charge for keeping your valuable papers. t P H.C Adams, President. T.J Klrk, Vice-President. K. H. Lb Qkow, Uaihlor. L. ! CONTRACTING 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. CILUS, PROPRIETOR, : I THE CILLIS LUMBER YARD I , i - . n " A. : ' '. ieis Peebler & Successors to the Agricultural 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 it . ' ' if P if Irs!) The flew Body Builder a Fresh Orange It m return money. DRUG STORE fZ... .-.-f "1 Bank Athena C. A carrett, r. K. Uolburn, f. B. LeOrow, DlrccMHs I. M. Kemp, Aselstaul Cashier AND BUILDING i Chamberlain Umatilla Implement Co. nts OREGON. PARKER & LANE'S BARBER SHOP Everything First Class Hod rn and Up-to-date SOOTH SID MAIN STREET : ATHEXA. Every hing For House Keeping Purposes See our stock before you buy. Bakers folsom The Complete House Furriaherg, Main St., next tq Postofflce. Pendleton. Foley's Honey imd Tsr cures cqMs, prevent pneumonia. Immeme 4y MB'
