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

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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. Write for descriptive circular, if you can
not come.
REMEMBER WE PAY THE FREIGHT WHEN BILL
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The very best makes of Clot hing
only are found here. They are
guaranteed the best in quality,
the best made and the best fitting
Clothes Manufactured. We show
a particularly strong line of De
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In Men's Suits see our Banner
line of new Suits at $15.00
In Boy's, our ; $5.00 Suits are
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Women's and Children's
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The best of material and work
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our own alteration rooms where
none but the best tailors are em
ployed. 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. The first
bottle gave me great relief and after
taking a few more bottles I was com
pletely cured; so completely that it
becomes a pleasure to recommend this
great remedy." Sold under guarantee
at McBride's drug store. Price 50c.
For Sale
I offer the hardware stock of tbe-Cox-McEwen
hardware store for gale
at a reasonable figure. For informa
tion call on E. K. Cox or F. S. Le
Grow. A. B. McEwen.
BLACKSMITH AND
REPAIRING SHOP
A. II. LUNA, Proprietor.
Shop West of King's Barn, Athena
PETERSON & PETERSON,
Attorneys-at-Law
ATHENA. - - - OREGON
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COOD HORSES AND RICS. REASONABLE PRICES
DRIVER FURNISHED WHEN DESIRED- '
Horses boarded by the day, week or liionlb
Htables on 2nd street, Houth of Main street
J. F. Wright, - - - Proprietor
HENRY KEEN'S
.Barber Shop.
Shaving, Haircutting,
Shampooing, Massage
for Face and Scalp.
.HOT BATHS.
Shop North Side Main
Street, Athena, Ore.
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J. D. PLAMONDON
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Offlco m
Barrett Building, . - Athena, Oregon
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ATHENA, OREGON
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MBS. CECELIA STOWE,
Orator, Entre Nous Club.
178 Warren Avenue,
Chicago, Iu,., Oct. 22, 1902.
For nearly four years I suffered
from ovarian troubles. The doc
tor insisted on an operation as the
only way to get well. I, however,
strongly objected to an operation.
My husband felt disheartened as
well as I, for homo with a sick
woman is a disconsolate place at
heat. A friendly druggist advised
him to get a bottle of Wine of
Cardui for me to try, and he did so.
I began to improve in afew days and
my recovery was very rapid. With
in eighteen weeks I was another
being.
Mrs. Stowe'i letter shows every
woman how a home is saddened by
female wnaknes and howcomplfMy
Wine of Cardui cures that nick
ness and brings health and happi
ness again. I)o not go .on suffer
ing. Oo to your druggist todav
and secure a 11.00 bottle W Wine
of Cardui.
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cures colds, prevents pneumonia.
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