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

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    AN 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?
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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.
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