The Athena press., March 09, 1906, Image 2

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ATHENA, MARCH. 9, 1906
1 The American farmer, not to be out
d do by the crowned heads of Enrope,
was not behind in making wedding
presents to Alioe and Nick. The ad
vance guard of these bncolio wedding
gifts reaohed the. White House about
February 1st, and consisted of turnips,
just plain every day turnips, bnt the
biggest ever produced on an American
.farm. . These mammoth affairs ,
regular "Colonel Sellers Fruit," were
shipped directly to the blushing bride
by a toiler on the sacred soil of Kan
sas, who declared with pathetic fer
vor that the proud farmers of this
Country should not be outdone by a lot
of foreign jewelers. So whatever fate
may betide, it seems certain that Mr.
and Mrs. Lougsworth will have a col
lar full of the homely bnt not to be
despised turqip. But this was not all.
Shortly after the momentous intelli
gence reached the president that there
were ou the way from Sontb Dakota
a sample of potatoes, each one of
which was large enough to feed six
portions. So if the bridal couple do not
make their evening parties too lurge it
wlil 'be possible to appoase their
hnncer bv the economical exnnnriirnre
c - 1
of only one or two of these huge
tubers, such as only South Dakota
knows how to raise. , Another wostoru
state, not to be outdone in this gener
ous rivalry, started toward the capital
11 Hhinmnnk nf -nnmnkiiiH wliloh nrn
calculated to make tho eyes of the
pie-loving Roosevelt children glisten
with delight'." This invoice of puinp-
Kius is eupugn to iurmsu pies to Alice
aud Nicholas and a large contingent
of visitors until the next crop conies
uu 411 ituu nuuiuiuL. viu virgiuiu, luu,
whoso boast is that she never tires,
barreled up a lot of her choioest apples
for the dalootatiou of tba uewly es
tablished household. -
Tho cold storage . system if
honestly managed, is a great advant
age both to .producers and consumors,
bnt is often manipulated for dishonest
purposes, lu Chioago tho state board
of health discovered Ave million
pounds of poultry which had been
stored undressed aud hold so long that
it beoanio unfit for food. Neverthe
less, it is placed on' tho market aud
sold extensively. Whenever you visit
Chicago you are liable to run up
against some of this diseased poultry
evon on the tables of the leading
hotels. A damage suit, recently in
stituted at Pittsburg, hus disclosed a
great scandal of the same kind. It
appears that great quantities of poul- '
try put in cold storage last spring
When You
Walla
next time try trading at Davis-Kaser store. It's right .uoxt to the post
oftloo, aud evurybtiug that you may possibly want iu the house furnishing
line is to be had there. Spriug goods are arriving every day aud the
stock that will be carried the coming season will greatly exceed any pre
vious assortment. Without adoubt you will now Hud here as good col
lection of huosohold goods as it is possible to find anywhere iu the Inland
Empire. It's tho place to make headquarters. A resting room, a read
ing room, a comfoit place, with all conveniences, is there for you. You
are uuder no obligtitious at all wheu you uso these rooms. You are per
fectly welcome. We pay the freight where purchases amount to f 10.00.
Use
Our
Rest
Rooms
THE DAVIS-KASER CO.
Everything to Furnish the
, Home.
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WALLA WALLA,
and summer have been used all winter
to furnish the principal hotels and
restaurants. It is charged that gome
of this poultry has been kept in stor
age for flf tyone months and It goea
without saying that such stuff would
make very dry picking if not actually
The impression one "gets from the
course of the pure food legislation in
the senate is that the chief opposition
to it is inspired by the adulterators
of food, and those who print lies on
the labels concerning the real charac
ter of th'e foods they place on the
markets. The pure food bill would
interfere, no doubt, with their rascal
ly business. Instead of labeling a
certain article of meroandise "olive
oil," for example, they would be re
quired to label it cottonseed oiL
Much of the "honey" now offered for
sale would have to be called glucose.
Some of the "jams" and "jellies"
now spread abroad would need to be
called heaven knows what Farmers
have no objection to any dealer selling
oleo, but they insist that be should
label it oleo and not batter. There
wonld be a terrible comotion among
so-called food manufacturers and
many other people if the law should
insist that they describe on the labels
all the ingredients which enter in to
their compounds.
In Missouri lecturers are being sent
to the country school houses in vaiious
parts of the state to speak to the child
ren and parents upon practical prob
lems of farming. Usually two leo
tnres are given at each 'place, one in
the afternoon and one at nigh. In
many places 75 to 100 farmers attend
the meetings, often going miles over
muddy country roads. This move
ment is meeting with much approval
and exciting much enthusiasm in
agricultural families, which would
seem to indicate that it would be a
good thing to try in other states. The
twentieth century requires thorough
ly trained farmers to meet its demands
and these can only be obtained by
commencing with the youth of the
land aud keeping up the instruction
throughout their whole life.
They have found a Dew use for com:
When you lick your stamps now re;
member that it is not gum arabic that
you are coming in contact with, but
a new substance discovered by the
Illinois experiment ' station and ex
tracted from the kernels of corn. This
sfyould add;' if possible, to the already
supreme potentate who rules over the
com belt with such glory for himself
and such benefits for bis millions of
subjects. ' ' ' ' '
diseased. Evideutly, some stringent
legislation aud the light of publicity j
are needed in connection with the
cold storage business which directly
or indirectly affeots the health of
millions of people.
You cannot swear in your vote on
primary day. If you Want to vote you
must register.
STARTING OF A STATESMAN
Amerioau Farmer.
A glanoe at the books of biography
will disclose the fact that many of our
most eminent publio men started life
as farm boys. The list includes sever
al presidents, many governors, count
loss congressmen, generals, captains
of industry and all those usually de
scribed as men of action. Lincoln
passed through this hopper, so did
Uarflold, so did Andrew Johnson, and
so also General Jackson himself.
Come to
Walla
Make
Your
lappomtments
Alder Street,
WASH.
Here
Everybody may not understand just
what it means by being a farm boy,
but it is safe to say that nobody who
ever passed through the experience is
likely to forget it. The typical boy of
the pioneer period, from whom so.
many of our national celebrities evo
luted, was a character whose career
embraced much both of comio and the
tragic. He slept in a garret or on a
trundlebed in a corner devoted to
miscellaneous rubbish. He was always
the earliest riser, no matter bow un
godly the hour. His daily routine,
beginning before daylight and termin
ating -when he dropped half dead with
weariness into his lowly cot at 8 in
the evening, may be thus summar
ized: Beginning at daylight with
milking the cows, before brekafast he
had fed the stock and chopped an arm
f ul of wood ; during the day when
not at work in the field or the clear
ing, he kept up repairs on the barn
and farming implements of the place.
He patched the harness of the horses,
half -soled the shoes of the family, did
the bog killing at Christmas time,
pickled the bams and smoked them,
made the sausage and souse, watched
the ash hopper and boiled the soap,
and on Saturday nights helped Annt
Hanna darn stockings for the family.
To the farm boy in the olden .times
fell most of the business of packing
eggs, butter, feathers, beeswax, gin
seng, mink and ooon skins which
constituted the legal tender of the
neighborhood at that day and get
ting all these things ready to be sent
to market.
Hard as this life was and often ao
companied by deprivation and cruel
ties, when the employer was of the
etmgy and hardhearted class, it seems
to have constituted a dicipline of
the most valuable kind. It is a law of
our being that we rise through strug
gle to efficiency. These boys, thus
hardened to all kinds of work and to
endurance equal to that of the anoient
Spartan, contitured the embryo which
bad in it the making of heroes. Se
vere as it was, viewed from the boy's
standpoint at the time, all men who
went through it looked back with
complacency upon the experience as
invaluable to their future success in
life. There are still thousands of
farm boys, but just what extent
modern improvements have contribut
ed to the amelioration of their condi
tion it would be difficult to say. It is
probable that the maroh of progress
has not touched the farm boy to any
appreciable extent, and that be re
mains substantially much like his
pioneer progenitor. At any rate, there
can be little doubt that in the lot are
the makings of many more success
ful men of affairs. The child of
luxury, as is well known, seldom
amounts to anything. He either dies
i n infancy or perishes in early man
hood, with a diseased liver. Ail the
chances are against him, for the hard
est of all fortunes to fight is that of
being born with a silver spoon in yonr
mouth. It seems to be the natural
law that success in the world awaits
those only who traveled the - rocky
road of trial and tribulation in their
earner years.. JNotning trial comes
easily is worth having, and none enjoy
the so-oalli d good things in life except
tbose who have reaohed them by the
painful process of self denial and re
peated sacrifice.
SCORINtJ FOREIONIZED AMERICANS
Walla Walla Bulletin.
Archbishop Ireland addressing 15,
000 people iu Convention hall, Kansas
City, gave a sensational turn to his
oration by the remarks: "While we
seek to Americanize immigrants may
it not be well to guard some Ameri
cans against being f oreignized ; they
are not good Americans exoept, inas
much as they draw their gold from
America, who colonize the so-called
American quarters in the capitols of
Europe."
This being a novel idea the noted
ecclesiastic deserves the oredit due to
originality. But we doubt that the
remark is more than an oratorical
effect. Who can stop Americans
from choosing any place on the sur
face of the globe for their residence?
The oolouies referred to are generally
made up of art students, whose aim is
merely professional. Without being
disloyal to the Amerioau flog one can
admit that in matters of art Europe
is still iu the lead and if our young
uieu wish to get their ideas from that
source, all the better for American
artl
There is, however, another class of
Amerioaus who crowd into Vienna,
Paris and Berlin and we have no doubt
that the archbishop had these in mind
when he spoke of Americans foreign
ized. This class consists of million
aire's daughters married to titled fools,
of superannuated or retired insurance
presidents, of sports aud spendthrifts
not in touch with our democracy, of
the aristocratic riff raff, so to speak,
which has become a byword to every
American commuuity these have
aroused the archbishop's indignation. 1
Of course, we like to keep the gold
aud ship the human appendix to
Europe or Borneo, but since we can't
keep the money without this ballast,
we wave our handkerchiefs from the j
Hoboken pier and bid them "Bon j
Voyage!" ' " I
Public Notice.
Notice is hereby riven that we will apply to
the mayor and common council of the City ot
Atnena, urrton, at a merlins mereoi vo oe
held on the 'Attn day ot Marrh. 1906. fbra license
to seli spirituous, malt and vinous liquors In
less quantities than one quart, said liquors to
be sold only In biilkltnn situated on lot 7,
In block No. 5, of said city.
Mrs. j. ti. siani 1.0.
Oaled, Keb. 16. ISKW. AiuHcnts.
Foley's Honey mad Tar
forchiidrca,s&fe,surc Ho opiates.
dan She ju.
Them t jP5 .
Many a tioor
'mother who feels
that those she
holds most pre
cious are gradu
ally slipping away from her
over the terrible precipice
of disease, would be thank
ful to know what Doctor
Pierce's wonderful "Golden
Medical Discovery" has
done to restore thousands
of weak and wasted chil
dren to complete, rounded, rosy, healthy,
activity and life.
Fire years ago this last fall I was taken
down with a fever and was very bad for
several months," writes Mrs. Henrietta Bell,
of Diamond. Ohio. Bbe continues: "Finally
recovered from the fever, then my lungs
became very bad. The doctor said I had
consumption, and that he had done all be
could for roe, and he did not think that I
could irot well. My ease was a very danger
ous one. Became very weak, had night
sweats, also a very bad cough, night and day.
At times would spit blood. I felt as though
my time on earth would be short. Requested
my hnsband to get me a bottle of Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, and perhaps It
would help me. Before I had taken one
bottle my cough was almost gone. The next
to disappear were the night-sweats. I am
almost sure that If It had not been for your
medicine I would not have been here to-day."
If mothers will only write to Dr. Pierce
concerning the ailments of their family he
will send them sound and valuable advice
In a plain sealed envelope, and without
any charge whatever. Ills remarkably
wine experience has qualified him to deal
with diseases which bailie the local prac
titioner. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buf
falo, N. Y.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con-
ftlpation. One little "Pellet" Is a gentla
axatlvo. and two a mild cathartic
L. M'LACIILAN
PLASTERING AND CEMENT
WORK, CISTERN BUILDER
Leave orders at Gillis' Lumber Yard.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Boston Dental Parlors
DOES ALL KINDS
OF GOLD WORK
Walla Walla, Washington.
THE PALACE
DRUG STORE
VM. M'BRIDE, Proprietor.
South Side Main Street, Athena, Ore.
You know your doctor is all right, but
bow about the tilling of prescriptions?
Our Prescriptions
are precisely as the doctor .ordered
nothing more, nothing less and
always exactly right.
THE WRIGHT LIVERY
AND FEED STABLE
C000 HORSES AKD RI1S. REASONABLE PRICES
DRIVER FURNISHED WHEN OESIREO-
Horses boarded ly the day, week or mouth
8table8on2nd street, South of Main street
J. r. Wright, ... Proprietor-
-If You-
WANT CASH
For Your j
REAL ESTATE
YOU CAN GET IT.
No matter where your property is
located or what it is, I have the
ability and the facilities to sell your
property. That is why I have the
largest Real Estate business in Walla
Walla today. Why not put yonr
property among the number that will
be listed and sold as a result of my
advertising? I will not only sell it,
sometime, but be able to sell it quick
ly. I am a specialist in quick sales.
If you want to buy any kind of a farm,
home or business in any part of the
country, tell me your requirements.
I guarantee to fill them promptly and
satisfactorily.
Andy T. Cope, Walla Walla.
1 j:mi
f 1 1
Cut flowers
and Floral Decorations
RUSH ORDERS WILL RE
CEIVE PROMPT AT
TENTION. James Wait,
Walla Walla Washington
No. 9 South 2nd St. Phone, 327.
BLACKSMITH AND
REPAIRING SHOP
A. II. LUNA, Proprietor.
Shop West of King's Barn, Athena.
, The . fj)
COMMERCIAL
LIVERY, FEED
and SALE STABLE.
Best Turnouts
In Eastern Oregon
Stock Boarded
by the Daj Week
or Month
KING BROTHERS Frrp
Peebler & Chamberlain
Successors to the Umatilla Implement Co.
Agricultural Implements
WAGONS, CARRIAGES, ENGINES, '
MACHINERY, THRESHERS ETC.
ATHENA.
j PARKER
-0 . J yAf ' A LANE'S
if jy BARBER SHOP
r:.J x . 1 : : everything Flrl
: s''t-J-i?y;.- , ;H,' ifk ''''(''$: Class - Mod er 11
y, 5,' I ifeS' f ' and Up-t-ilMt.
JP Sl;' " ' SOUTH SIDE MAIN
Ri STREET ATHENA.
Umatilla Lumber Yard
Ed Barrett,
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
THE
at mniini n nr.-rri I
hiuhulo nuitL :
1
J. E. FKOOME, pki.p. I
ill
Only First-class Hotel in
the City.
THE ST. NICHOLS
Is tbe only one that can accommodate
commercial travelers.
Mt
.111
Can betecomended for Us rlean and
well ventilated rooms.
Cob. Maim and. Third, Athkna, or. 4
a
PETERSON & PETERSON.
Attorneys-at-Law
A1HENA,
OREGON
A. L. JONES
WANTS ALL KINDS OF HAULING
Goods taken best care of and carefully band
led. Phone' 13 for Express and Baggage.
HENRY KEEN'S
.Barber Shop.
Shaving, Haircutting,
Shampooing, Massage
for Face and Scalp. t-
.HOT BATHS.
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Shop North Side Main
Street, Athena, Ore.
CITY MEAT MARKET
C. II. Sherman Prop.
Nothing too good for our pat
rons. We cut the best meat money
can buy. Fish and oysters in
season. Give us a trial.
OREGON.
Manager
LIST YOUR PROPERTY WITH ME.
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