The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, January 18, 1907, Image 3

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Newspaper Page Text-- 1- ! - - 1 " 1 1 "' " aud history in prose and veise. No library ia complete without this vol ume oo ita shelves. The pic tares are characteristic of the Muorehouse stan dard of superb photography the stan dard by which liia work ranks with the best the world over. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Twioe-a-Wkkk Tdebday nd Friday f. b. eoyd,. publisher. utered 0,. HI uder b Bpconrt-class matter, March 1, t ; ! Atbfa. Otrtn . j -i;ri prion H.tei r '..OCl ''"Oi.kV & II' V I HJ'JM IN. nrfi. iubrutiii,IOcpr ATHENA, ORE., JAN. 18,... 1907 ; The announcement of the seventh annual poultry show to be held at Walla ( Walla, Jau. 31-29 inolusiAe brings to mind the fact that iu consid eration of the prominence ot the hen us i a source of revenue, there is not a town or bamlet of snub, small import aooe that at should not boast of an annual - poultry exhibition. These ponltry shows promote interest in pro pagating higher grades of stoat, and once started, the cost of maintaining a thoroughbred flock is no greater than keeping up scrub stock. As an instance of promotion of flue poultry stock that came through public exhibition i.f fowls may be cited the case of Wes ton. Several years ago a couple of young men owning several coops of standard bred fowls of different varie ties, oonceived the idea of giving a poul try show on a small scale. The exhib ition was well attended by farmers and tb.e people of the town. Interest was at once taken in the matter of supply ing the barnyard with better breeds of chickens, and the result is that today there are more thoroughbred chickens raised in and around Weston than in auy other looality in Eastern Oregon. And it pays. Adams follows in the wake of North Yakima metoods to secure coal; G. A. Barrett, Athena's representative in the Oregon legislature, mingling with the powers that be, gets a carload delivered here occasionally, but nothing has been beard from Milton. Perhaps the east end town would be content with a car load of flags. The piece of dirty politics broughc to bear on Frank Da vey to blight bis chances for the speakership of the bouse bad little or no effect on his supporters. The day of mud-slinging has long since passed, and the under hand work against Davey simply serv ed to cement his following closer to gether and made a boomerang of the ohances of his opponent. A SUBSTITUTE FOR COAL. When Charley Barrett went down to Salem Monday he carried id his pocket a bill in which is centered the interest of the farmers of Eastern Ore gon. This bill, of which Mr. Barrett is the author, and which he will intro duce in the lower house of the legis lature, provides for the establishment of a jute mill at the Oregon peniten tiary for the manufacture of graiu, ' wool and hop bags. The best wishes of this part of the state are with Mr. Barrett iu his undertaking, but the opposition against the bill, which is known to exist west of the mountains, is of snch magnitude that no great surprise will be manifested if tbo mea sure is defeated. Pilot Bock is to have a new charter. "The Kock,"so it would seem, is de termined to have all the frills and ap purtenances of metropolitanism. Not content with a new railroad, she niuBt get "blooded" and bauker after this charter business. McManus, the sly old fox, pats 'em on the back, and is said to be "all jarred up" over his aristocratic burg We'll wager that "flic." will be running a bank in Piiot Rook before another six months. The second edition of Lee Moore house's Indian book is just from the press. It is a model of high photog raphio ait and excels the former edi tion. Twenty-flve pages contain the cream of Major Moorehouse's famous Indian pictures and scenes, while 25 pages are devoted to Indian legends With the vast coal deposits of many states, including our own, still prao tioally untouched, it seems superflu ous a work of supererogation, iu fact to prepare a substitute for coal. The shoitage of the coal supply, how ever not at the mines, since the out put in the same length of time was never greater than it has been during the past six months, but at the coal bunkers in every Western, North western and Pacific Coast city has amounted to a calamity in many plac es, and a serious inconvenience, and largely increased expense of living at all points. Hence the thought of the chemist and the alchemist has been turned toward the possibility of de vising a substitute that will, if it does not supersede the use of coal in many lines, will so supplement it as to make coal shortage a relatively trifling mat ter. Charles Baskerville has an art icle in the Amerioan Beview of Re views which deals with this subject exhaustively aud quite entertainingly. He shows how the manufacture of de natured alcohol may, if intelligently pursued, reduoe to the minimum, if it does not completely abrogate, the suffering from lack of fuel and Jight now so prevalent over a wide area of the great West. It is cited that in Germany and Holland seventy per cent of the stoves are fed with denatured alcohol. Potatoes, staroh corn or any cereal; sorghum, beetroot residaes, oor.ustalks, fruits of various kinds, melons, gourds , cactus, honey, milk, etc., contain the elements neoessaiy to produce this fuel, aud as shown in the article quoted, the process of dis tillation is very simple. A million gallons of denatured alcohol are used annually in Germany as fuel for inter nal combustion, eugiues and for driv ing agricultural and other maobinery thus relieving the demand upon coal for this purpose, It is also used ex tensively as an illuminant, relieving again the pressure upon coal for the manufacture of gas, while the point urged by the economist is that it may be made iu tha United States , as it is made in Germany, from the wasto products of the faim and orchard. The question of producing dena tured alcohol from the things that would otherwise go to waste and ap plying the product to the needs of or dinary life as expressed in a substitute for coal in domestio use is its abso lute cleanliness. This means that the labors of housekeeping in the winter season would be reduced at least oi.e balf nnd that of stoking furnaces aud stoves would oe entirely abolished. The householder who attends to his owu furnace, shoveling into it from Ave to twerty tons of coal during the winter, according to the locality, and the housekeeper who wrestles for months with coal dust and smoke will appreciate to the full a clean substitute Sale Our 10th Annual January Clearance Begins at 9 a. m. Wednesday, Jan. 2 Everything our store, with the exception of a few contract goods, has been reduced regardlpgs of cost. Our desire is to turn all of our stock possible into cash before inventory, Feb. 1, and with this in mind we have made great redactions. 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Every piece of work turned out must be up to our standard of efficiency. When you come here you are assured of none but the latest styles, and vou have a much wider range of selection. Late Fall Millinery Our 3Iillinery Rooms are show ing the swellest of Fall Hats at greatly reduced prices, which makes your selection of Fall Hats one of profit as well as pleasure. Neck furs Over 1200 pieces of dependable Neck Furs are now being shown in our Suit Rooms. Every piece new and the very best of Reliable Furs. v Santa Claus will make his headquarters at Pendleton's Biggest and Best Store. In a few day our Toy Land will be opened where you may see over 1000 new Mechanical Toys in operation. d A A1 Our Qualities, Our Styles and Our Prices will Admit of No Competition Whatever THE PEOPLES WAREHOUSE pendletow, Oregon. WHERE IT PAYS TO TRADE for tbia sooty king who has long held court in the domestio realm Ore-goniau. One of the World's Noble Women. When twenty-flve years ago Baron ess Burdett-Coutts, then 67 years of age, married W. L. Ashmead Bartlett, an Amerioan who was much younger than herself, the event was the subject of a great deal of animated comment and of course there were not wanting those who ascribed unworthy motives to Mr. Bartlett, because of the great wealth of his bride. Criticism, how ever, did not live long, and now that the baroness has crossed the great di vide mention is incidntally made of the fact that her husband at all timet) earn estly cooperated with heriu herphilan thropio projects. As a benefactor of the people Baron ess Burdett-Contts will long be remem bered. : Her wealth was inherited from her grandfather, Thomas (Joutts, an Euglish banker, and she made a liberal and publio spirited use of this wealth. She spent large sums in building and endowing churches and sohools, us well in this country as in England and British colonies. In her zeal for the good of her own sex she effected im poraut reforms in the teaching of giils at the national sohools in England. Her private charities are known to have been as generons as those of a publio nature, and all that she did was done with as little ostentation as pos sible. In her death, which occurred recently the British empire loses one of its greatest philanthropists. But the example she set to other women who are possessors of large fortunes should not be allowed to die. Others following that example may do much to make this world happier for thousands of people. - Wise Counsel From the South. "I want to give some valuable ad vice to those who suffer with lame back aud kidney trouble," says J. R. Blankenship, of Beck, Tenn. "I have proved to bu absolute certainty that Eleclrio Bitters will positively cure this distressing condition. 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