The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, November 17, 1905, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextAN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. TwiOB-A-WlEK TCESDAY AND FRIDAY I. B. BOYD, PUBLISBKB. Entered as second-class matter, March 1, 1WJ, al the postomce at Athena, Oregon, under an Act ol Congress of March 8, 1871. Subscription Rates: -r year, In advanot 12.00 Slngleooplei la wrappers, 5c Advertising 'Rates: 'rfci reading notice, flrrt Insertion, 10c per 5 i!(natequent Insertion, 8e. VII oomninnloatlons ibonld be addressed to i ' PKKHH Athena, Oregon ATHENA, NOVEMBER 17, 1905 Residents of Athena and vicinity have no excuse, none whatever, for passing the town up as a trading point Sales now being conducted by Athena merchants are on just as large a scale and the prices lower if anything, than can be found in any of the towns and cities of the Inland Empire. With two closing out sales, the largest in the history of the town, in fall swing, and other merohants and business men well prepared to satisfy all comers with assortment of stock and low prices, the prospeota for a large vol ume of fall aud winter trade in Ath ena, were never brighter. Athena storekeepers, in anticipation of a heavy buying season have met the signs of the times by purchasing mam . moth stocks of goods. These stocks, as a rale, are expected to leave the shelves and storerooms and passing to the hands of the customer by the first of the new year, or by February 1, at the farthest. Athena has alwayft .held her own as a trading point and from the newspaper advertisements, ptioe lists and circulars being distributed in adjacent towns and surrounding coun try, it is certain that the people are being educated to the fact that this year; as in other years, they do not need to go by here to find bargains aud big stocks to select from. ' .People of the "East End" are be ginning to realize that Athena mer chants have just as large stocks; are iu a position to sell as cheaply; do sell as cheap; do just as they advertise and conduct closing out sales on more le gitimate lines than do outside mer chants who, daring the fall and win ter mouths of each year, flood the streets and byways with gorgeous-colored circulars, quoting prices on cheap john, remnant rubbish that wouldn't ba given shelf room in a ten cent racket store. As an instance of this faot, it is stated that one of these out siders sent a salesman to Athena last week with a bunch of printed matter and a "line of samples." The printed stuff was duly distributed aud the "sumples" displayed. Few indeed were the "takers," aud the right guess would be that orders received did not amount to'enough to pay for the cheap advertising"" circulars. There's more a-ooming and they'll get their's, too . T he new flag of Swedeu was un furled November 1st. It is the same ensign used by that uatiou befoie its union with Norway nearly a hundred years ago. Swedeu is to be oougrat- ; mated upon its discretion iu dealing 1 with the dissolution of the union. ( SEWING MACHINE BARGAINS We have decided to close out our stock of the well known DOMESTIC Sewing Maohiues. To thoso familiar with the Domestic, no words of praise are needed. To others we will say that the Domestio is one of the old standbys. It is made of the very best of materials and finely fitted and highly tested throughout Unlike machines under expired patents, it con tains most of the modern improvements of real value, among which are the simplex tension release; the looper, which enables one to sew with either one thread stitch or two thread lock stitch; also the five stitch pleater. All parts are adjusted perfectly and run easily and noiselessly. Every maohine is fully guaranteed both by the factory and ourselves. AgeuU usually aak $65 for them; sometimes $75. Our price has been $45, bat to close oat our present stock, about 20 machines, we offer them at $33.50 each until sold no more at this price wheu thiis lot is sold. Mail Orders a Specialty THE DAVIS-KASER CO. Everything to Furnish the Home. 12-14-16-18 20-22 Alder Street, WALLA WALLA, -r- WASH. True, its course was the easy and sensible one; but how seldom in such cases do nations take the easy and sensible course. Nations, like in dividuals, are prone to mistake vanity and egotism for pride a-d self-respect, as Spain did in administering her col onies. Sweden and Norway have famished an example by which other nations might profit. Prince Louis of Battenberg was re ceived by the American naval and civil authorities at Annapolis, Md., with effusive demonstrations of friend liness. While such festivities are to some extent matters of form, they are not altogether useless, as they pro mote a friendly feeling between the countries whose representatives in dulge in champagne and mutual laud ation. Dr. Haanel has issued a report on asbestos in Canada, in which he says this country has become' master of the field of export. The United States has been so far the largest buyer, while England , France, Germany and Italy and lately Russia buy large quantities of the orude and some of the better blasses of the fibre. The industry be gan in 1880 when the value of exports was 124,700; in 1891 the output had increased to $1,154,618. The Russian Railroads are tied rap by the strikers. This is a tied in the affairs of an empire, sagely remarks George Brown, in his Iowa News-Let te'r, which taken at its flood, leads on to liberty or death. Even De Witte cannot dam the flood except profane ly. He spells the word with an n on the end of the dam. The wages of sin remain the same as heretofore, but freqneutly the sin ner has to wait a long time to get what is coming to him. An old man used a "want ad." to get a wife and then he paid $50,000 to get rid of her. She will testify that "want ads." bring results. Harry Liberty is in jail at Barling ton, Vt., charged with stealing a horse. Somehow the pan suggested by bis name doesn't come out right. As Rockefeller says, money is not the only fbing in the world. There are mumps, measles and banana skins. A Chicago pugilist is writing pop ular songs. Prize fighting is a fear fully demoralizing pursuit. Is the wave of murder now deluging Iowa due to the abolition of capital punishment? BOCKKFKLLER'S CONFESSION. (Chicago Chronicle.) John D. Rockefeller is doing a great deal of talking in his old age and is incidentally shedding a great deal more light on his own vrincioles and practices than even Miss Trabell did. Not content with talking, he has now taken up the pen also, and his maiden literary effort is an article contributed to the Loudon Daily S Mail entitled "How I Became the Richest Man In the World." In this article he can didly confesses that he got his first start in life by joining the church, the Sunday school and the Young Men's Ch'istiau Association, and iu ferentially by "working" the well to do people with whom his course brought him into contact. He' urges all young men to join the church and Suuday School and the association for this purpose as the best possible start in mukiug money and becoming ric'n He says : "The association iu which I fouud occupation iu church, in Sunday school aud iu the Young Men's Christ- Mail Orders a Specialty - ian Association helped me more than I can tell you to make a beginning to get a position and the opportunity to begin ny life work. I beg every young man not to put off identifying himself with the Christian church.' It is impossible to imagine anything more shocking to a sincerely religious person than this confession and this recommendation. It is perfectly true that a young man who belongs to a large city church in which there are many prosperous business men stands a good chance of getting a lift from some of them. It is also perfectly true that some young men profess re ligion and join the church with this object in view. There is nothing sew about this, but that "the richest man in the world," himself a great professor of godliness, should confess that he was guilty of this hypocrisy and then recommend young men to follow his example is both new and unspeakably revolting. The bideousness of such advice is best seen in contrast with the teach ings of Christ, whom Mr. Rockefoller claims to follow. According to Jesus the first step toward becoming his fol lower is to renonnce all wealth and all aspirations after wealth and to sell oat all present possessions and give the proceeds to the poor. Jesus tanght that so far from gaining friends from a life of sincere piety it would raise up enemies and persecution on every hand, even in one's own family. - If Mr. Rockefeller has found ont some way by which a life of inflexible Christian principle will make a man popular and start him on the road to become "the richest man in the world" he has discovered something that his master never knew. Supposing that Mr. Rockefeller were a sinoere Christian himself and were to give advioe to young men on the subject of riohes and the relation of riches to. piety he would speak somewhat as follows: - "As one who has been singularly successful in amassing wealth I solemnly caution young men against a passion for riches. If wealth comes without inordinate seeking it may be weloomed as a means of doing good, but there is nothing tiner in holy writ than that the love of money is the root of all evil. "The real riohes are clean hands, an easy conscience and a soul at peace with God and man. I would give all I possess for one hoar of the pare de votion that I knew when I was a child. If I could raise my voice so as to be heard by every young man in the world I would entreat him to give his heart to God, to lead a life of sincere piety, let it cost what it may, to forsake this world for the world to come and to lose bis life that he may find it" . The trouble with Mr. Rockefeller is that he is a worshiper of mammon and is masquerading as a lover of God and a living example of Christian per fection. If yon are troubled with indigestion, constipation, soar stomach, or any other pain, Hollister's Rocky Moun tain Tea will make you well and keep yon well. Boc. Tea or Tablets. Pioneer drug store. Son Lost Mother. "Consumption runs in our family, and through it I lost my mother," writes E. B. Reid, of Harmony, Me. For the past five years, however, on the slightest sign of a cough or cold I have taken Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, which has saved me from serious long trouble." His mother's death was a sad loss for Mr. Reid but be learned that lung trouble must not be neglected, and how to cure it Quickest relief and care for colds. Price 50o and $1. Guaran teed at the Palace drag store. Trial bottle free. Pain may go by the name of rheu matism, neuralgia, lumbago, plenrsy. No matter what name the pains are oalled, Hollister's Rooky Mountain Tea will drive them away. 35c, Tea or Tablets. Pioneer drug store. raj? ciiO OREGON &II0I?TLINE IMqui Pacific TWO TRAINS EAST DAIY rhrooKh Pullman standard and sleetilnc ears dally to Omaha, Chicago; tourist sleeping car dally to Kansas City; through Pulimau tourist sleeping cam, personally conducted. Weekly to Chicago, with free reclinine chair cars, seats free, to the east daily tram jrruuietou. ABJUVB Dally. TIMS SCHEDULES ATHENA, ORE. DEPART Dally. Fast Mall for Pen III.WH, MHJ I imi I tsaaer my, ana an pointaeswtviaHun tlngton, Ore,, Also for Unmtilla, Hepp ner. The Dalles, 4:53 p. m. 4:5i p m. Portland, Astoria, Willamette Valley Points. IfellforniaJ Taeoma. Seattle, all rauuna roints. Walla Walla. Day-1 ion, romeroy, iw :12. m. ision. i :ihi. ruii- man, Moscow, the :4S a.m. jCouer d'Alene dis trict. Spokane and! Hii poinu norm. Special dally Walla t :08 a. m. wall to rendition Intermediate points! Special dally from renaieion to waltei 6:25 p.m. Walla 4k Int. points' M. W. Smith Agent. Athena, To Keep Up With the peosperity of our town and to make it possible for Athena people to purchase NICE GIFTS FOR THE HOLLIDAYS I have secured from Eastern' factories some very attractive . lines that are arriving every week. I will tell you about tberu and make suggestions in my advertising space. ROYAL M. SAWTELL 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. P. Sharp PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to Female Diseases. Calls promptly answered. Offloe on Third Street. Athena, Oregor JOHN T. WOOD, M D, Graduate Detroit Col lege of Medicine : : : Office Opposite McBride's Drug Store. THE PALACE DRUG STORE WM. M'BRIDE, Proprietor. South Side Main Street, Athena, Ore. You know your doctor is all right, but how about the filling of prescriptions? Our Prescriptions are precisely as the doctor ordered nothing more, nothing less and always exactly , right. Troy Laundry Walla Walla, Wash. Elmer Lane, Agent in Athena IIU1XX VJUCM.Uj.UUU Washings are caliv.l for each Tues day and are return d Friday morning BLACKSMITH AND REPAIRING SHOP A. II. LUNA, Proprietor. Shop West of King's Barn, Athena. X THE ST. NICHOLS HOTEL J. E. FROOME, mop... Only First-class Hotel in the City. THE ST. NICHOLS Is the only one thai can accommodate commercial travelers. Caabaieoomended for Its clean and well Tentilated room. Co. Maw akbTbiad, ArstaA.or. 5 Cleanliness Godliness You will always look clean if your laundry comes from onr first class laundry. . ' Only best work is turned out by us, and if you have never tried our work send us a trial order. Our superior faculties, our modern machinery, and our experienced help, make a uniform ity of goodness in all laundry that comes from us. ' SEND US THAT NEXT BUNDLE. Our wagon will call for and deliver the work to you in the superior man ner which in Pendleton it is for ns only to do. Pendleton Steam Laundry FISHMAN & PETERS, Proprietors CHARLES GAY, 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. CILLIS, PROPRIETOR, THE CILLIS LUMBER YARD Peebler & Chamberlain Successors to the Umatilla Implement Co. Agricultural Implements WAGONS, CARRIAGES, ENGINES, MACHINERY, THRESHERS ETC. ATHENA. 1 i: . it1 CH&BLES GAY ...Dealer in... Candies, Nuts, Fruits, Tobaccos, Cigars KRESH BREAD. PIES, CAKES.ETC. 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 pests in quantities to suit. : : : : : Roslyn Coal, Puget Sound Wood CONTRACTING. ESTIMATES FURNISED ON ALL KINDS OF BUILDING ON is Ml to ATHENA AGENT AND BUILDING OREGON. PARKER & LAKE'S Kvvrythlnf Virat Class Mo tern aad Up-to -date Oft - SOUTH SiD MAIN STREET ATHENA. SHORT NOTIFICATION J S