Athena Merchants
Treat you Square
Athena Merchants
Carry Big Stocks
Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer
VOLUME XX.
ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. APRIL 17. 1908.
NUMBER 16
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THE rUIVI-A-LUM LUMBER GO.
Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of
BUILDING MATERIAL
PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES
Posts and Blacksmith coal
A. M. Johnson, Manager
Athena, Oregon
ESTABLISHED 1865
Preston-Parton
AMERICAN
Flour is made in Atbena, by Athena labor, in the latest
and best equipped mill in the west, of the best seleoted
Blnestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home
industry. Your grocer sells American Beauty for
Per
Merchant Millers
Athena, Oregon.
MAKE YOUR OWN STOCK FOODS BY USING
SKIDOO HORSE AND CATTLE TABLETS
Crush and mix In feed o( It Proper dose In tablets
Makes Your Stock Look Like the Top Price
For Horse Cattle, Sheep, Swine and Fowl. They are made from the active principle or the
condensed essence of the drug. They don't contain Sawdust, Ashes, Chop Feed or Bran. Are just
a good when 10 years old as when 10 days old. They comply with all pure drag laws. Ask for
and try once SKIDOO Condition Tablets, or SKIDOO Worm, Kidney, Chicken Cholera,
Blister, Cathartic, Heave. Fever, Hog Cholera, Distemper, Pink Eye, Colic tablets or Louse Powder,
Spavin Cure or Barb Wire Liniment. Distributed by THE BLUE BELL MEDICINE CO.,
Incorporated; Capital stock $300,000.00; Watertown, South Dakota, U. S. A. - -Sold
in Athena by A. B. McEwen & Sous.
3 THE QUALITY GROCERY STORE
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PROMPT
DELIVERY WHERE PRICES ARE RIGHT
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jJ; The Freshest and most Choice the
jrj We Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here
fj DELL BROTHERS, a"S5?SSSa Athena, Oregon
Milling Company
and Grain Buyers :
Waitsburg, Wash. 2
THE ATHENA MEAT
MARKET
J. II. STONE, PROPRIETOR
The, place to get the best cTWeat that
money can buy, and at the lowest price
Fish and Oysters in season The high
est cash price paid for poultry.
BEAUTY
R.J.BODDY
WHOLESALE BUTCHER
Makes a Specialty of furnishing
Meat in Large Quantities.
First-class stock, Reasonable price
V EG ETA
A GREAT EVANGELIST COMING
The Revival at the M. E. Church April
22 to May 10.
DBeverley Cairadine D. D., tbe noted
evangelist and author of St. Louis,
will be present to open a series of pro
tracted meetings on the 22nd.)
Extensive "preparations" have been
made for the meetings and from pres
ent indications there will be good at
tendance from ontside, a number of
ministers and other church workers
having expressed their intentions of
being present, i
Dr. Carradjoe is considered one of
tbe ablest men in tbe Evangelist field.
Naturally bright, ednoated in books,
oultnre, Christian experience, a natu
ral orator and with the courage of bis
conviotions he is one of tbe most suc
cessful revivalists in tbe oonntry. The
church considers itself very fortunate
in securing his servioes, especially so
as he is an expert in teaching the
Christian life. Those who desire to
be better preachers and teachers will
lose muoh if they fail to hear him.
He Got What He Needed.
I "Nine years ago it looked as if my
i time bad come, "says Mr. C. Farth
ing, of Mill Creek, Ind. Ter. "I was so
rnn down that life hung on a slender
thread. It was then my druggist re
commended Eleouio Bitters. I bought
a bottle and I got what I needed
strength. I had one foot in tbe grave,
bnt Eleotrio Bitters put it back on tbe
turf again, and I've been well ever
since." Sold under guarantee at
Palace Drug Company's store. 50o.
Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup
acts promptly yet gently on the bow
els through which tbe cold is forced
out of the system, and at tbe same
time it allays inflammation. Sold by
Palace Drug Co.
DeWitt's Carbonized Witch Hazle
Salve. It is especially gooa for piles.
Sold by Palace Drug Co
On Savings
On the Quarterly Balance or
3
0,
0
On the cTVIonthly Balance
t THE I
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ST. NICHOLS HOTEL
-J. E. FROOME, prop.
f nr 1
Only First-class Hotel in
P the. City.
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THE ST. NICHOLS :
Is tbe only one that can accommodate
commercial travelers.
Can beiecomended (or Us clean and
well ventilated rooms.
Cob. Maim and Third, Atbbwa, Or.
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POHNE
MAIN 83
Market affords in &
vWe Pay
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ONE HALF MILLIOIJ
Oregon and Washington Wheat Raisers
" Fill Stockton Coffers With
Golden Eagles.
Herbert Manasse sends the Press a
copy of tbe Stockton (Calif.) Daily In
dependent, in which tbe grain com
bined harvester industry of that oity
is reviewed as follows:
Oregon and Washington grain crops
are very heavy this year and the Holt
works and the Honser & Haines estab
lishment are reaping a great harvest in
supplying farming machinery for tbe
farmers of the Northwest, keeping the
Stookton factories on rnsb orders at
this season of tbe year, notwitbstaud
iug the dry outlook in tbe California
grain fields. Train loads of agricult
ural maohinery have been going north
during tbe past month and every day
this week several harvesters have been
shipped from the local works to tbeir
distributing ngenoies in tbe Northwest.
Roughly figuring, tbe output in
beavy maohinery sent into Oregon and
Washington this season by tbe Holt
and Honser & Haines works will bring
to Stockton this year more than
1500,000 from that far-away territory.
This money is being distributed here
and more than $1000 a day is being
paid ont bere for skilled labor alone.
If the Calif ornia demand for machinery
had been np to tbe average of good
seasons, tbe income wonld have been
considerably larger, bnt the business is
oolossal without the home trade.
The Holt works bniit for this sea
son's trade 165 combined harvesters,
and 150 of them have been sold in, tbe
Northwest. The Honser & Haines
works bnilt 80 combined harvesters,
and 60 of that make went into the
big wheat fields of the northern coun
try. Figuring these machines at
$1800 apiece, the reveune from that
activity will be this year $378,000,
without taking into oonnt tbe sales
that have been made to Califoruiana.
The demand for extras for tbe 500
or 600 harvesters that have been Eent
into tbe Northwest during tbe past
seasons will amount to more than
$125,000 this year. Add to this tbe
sale of 600 road scrapers to supply tbe
demand in tbe Northern States and
the total is $513,800. Other supplies
sent into that territory, withont taking
count of traction engines and ditohers
and 60 on, easily bring the amount of
ontside money coming to these Stock
ton institutions to much more than a
half million dollars this yar.
Business at the Rock.
As an example of tbe growth of the
freight business at Pilot Book, it need
only be stated that the Pilot Book
Hardware Company has three carloads
of freight on tbe way from tbe East,
says tbe Record. Oue car is made np
of wire nails and two of machinery.
This increased traffio of tbe road
will opon tbe eyes of the railroad offi
cials and prove to tbetu that the- road
was greatly needed and its extension
will be only a question of a few yoais
in view of the increased business of
the road.
ATHENA WON FROM MILTON
One of the Best Games of the Season
Was Played Sunday.
The Milton Fruit pickets came to
town for tbe third game Sunday and
were accommodated with a drubbing.
The score board read 5 to 3 in favor oi
Atbena,.,
(Stone was in fine form and kept tbt
bits well scattered. Tbe Milton lean:
bad been considerably strengthened
since its last appearance here and pnt
up a good game. Atbena has taken
all three games from tbe Milton team,
Weather permitting, Atbena wilKk)
battle with Walla Walla, on tbe
Athena gronnde, Sunday afternoon.
The game will begin promptly at 2:30.
An extra ooaoh will carry the Walla
Walla team and rooters fiom tbe gar
den city to Atbena. Tbis promises to
one of tbe most interesting games of
tbe season.
Good Crop Prospects.
Farmers are wearing a smile of sat
isfaction these days, and indeed tbey
have canse to, and every one with
them, for tbe sight of tbe hills green
with growing grain is a joy to behold.
All agree that never were prospects
brighter at tbis season, for bountiful
crops.
Some Splendid Plays.
Walla Walla theatre goers are wit
nessing some splendid plays this season
at tbe Keylor Grand. Mary Manner
ing in "Glorious Betsy" was tbe at
traction Wednesday night Mrs. Pat
rick Campbell in "Tbe Second Mis.
Tanqneray" will be seen Monday night.
yf Ball Player Weds.
Announcement is made in the cur
rent issue of the Hartland (Minn.)
Herald of tbe marriage of Kollo T.
Brown to Miss Lizzie Borgen. After
tbe wedding tbe couple left for Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, where Roll will play
in that town's team in tbe "3-1"
League.
THE VOLMER-HARRES WEOOINi
United In Marriage In tne Methodist 1
Church, Waitsburar.
xue marriage oi miss umma Caro
line Vollmer to Mr. William D. Harris
took plaoe at high noon, Wednesday,
April 8, at Rose Glen, home of tbe
bride's parents says the Waitsburg
Times. )
( Bev.'Bobt. Brnmblay, pastor of tbe
First M. E. Church, officiated. The
wedding was an unusually pretty home
a fairy
Tjwl bride was attended by her sister
Miss Clara Vollmer, and Miss Graoe
McCall and tbe groom was attended
by Mr. Harlan F. Mills and Mr. A. P.
Sornggs. I . : - v
Tbe young people were the recipients
of many handsome presents. , "
Immediately after tbe ceremony, the
60 guests present sat down to a sump
tuous dinner.
The bride is a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Gustavo Vollmor, and is a sooial
favorite among tbe yonnger set. Tbe
groom is a son of Mrs. W. D. Wallaoe,
and with his brother farms the Harris
ranoh near this oity. He has just
m I. i m art
-completed a neat cottage on Pieston
Avenue, where be and tbe bride will
make tbeir home.
Among the out-of town guests at the
wedding were Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Hawks, of Prescott; Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Sobmidt, of Athena; Mr.
Marion Hansell, of Atbena; Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. Tompkins, of Atbena, Mr.
and Mrs. Phillip Hemen of Helix.
Mr. and Mrs. Harris left Wednesday
afternoon for a honeymoon trip of a
couple of weeks to Seattle, and Van
couver and Victoria, B. C.
Farmers to Build Roads.
The Weston correspondent of the
Spokesman-Review says:
The farmers have begun a oampaign
for good roads. South-of-town sub
scriptions for more than 200 days'
work with teams have been secured by
F. C. Greer. Oue farmer, W. H.
Boober, gives 20 days' work and tbe
free use of bis rook quarry. East of
town the movement is in charge of J.
M. O'Harra. The county agrees to
pay expenses of crushing tbe rook if
the city will donate tbe use of its
rook crusher, and tbe farmeis will
haul and spread tbe material. It is
proposed to spread the rock 16 feet
wide.
Horsethief Captured.
- Tbe horsethief career of Aaron
Bidge was nipped in the bud by his
capture at Walla Walla Monday. He
stole a horse from Charles Hamilton,
traded tbe horse for another at Adams,
and coming to Atbena plaoed the an
imal in Wright's Livery barn. He
then lightfooted it lo Weston where he
boarded the tiain for Walla Walla.
Sheriff Taylor was on tbe young fel
low's trail, seut information to Walla
Walla officers, with tbe result that
Bidge was oaptured on bis arrival
there. He has confessed and a term
in tbe pen awaits him. y
Whitman Constitution.
At a special meeting of tbe board of
Trustees of Whitman College held in
tbe Memorial building last Saturday
preliminary plans were made for tho
framing of a new constitution for tbe
government of tbe college. The most
important change will bo tbe estab
lishment of a board of overseers in
addition to tbe present board of Trus
tees. No change in the policy or
ideals of tbe college is thought of and
tbe only object of tbe new constitu
tion is a better method of manage
ment; tbe Trustees expressly declared
tbeir intention of keeping Whitman
non-sectarian but just as strongly
Christian as ever.
A Twenty Year Sentence.
- "I have just oompleted a twenty
year health sentence, imposed by
Bnoklen's Arnica Salve, which cured
me of bleeding piles just twenty years
ago." writes O. S. Woolever, of Le
Raysville, N. Y. Bucklon'g Arnioa
Salve heals the worst sores, boils,
burns, wounds and outs in tbe short
est time. 25o at Palaoe Drug Com
pany's store.
Tbere is nothing belter tban Kodol
for dyspepsia, indigestion, sour stom
ach, belching of gas and nervous
beadaobe. It digests what you eat.
Bold by Palace Drug Co.
ATHENA MARKET DAY
Business Men Are Behind the Move-
ment About $80 Raised to
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Defray the Expenses.
tbena business men have united in
a strong pull to inaugurate a series of
market days in Athena. T. M. Tag
gart and F. H. Coolidge circulated ia
subscription paper and in a short time
raised about $80. Tbis amount will
be used to defray the legitimate ex
pense of the enterprise.'
Athena's first market day will be on
Saturday, May 2. Already tbere has
been stock, farm implements and
household goods listed for Bale, and a
sohoitor has been employed to canvass
the surrounding oountry for the pur
pose of soliciting stock and anything
else wbioh people may have for sale.
It is proposed to have two auction
eers to cry sales on market day. The
success of the venture seems to be rea
sonably assured at tbis time and those
who are aotively engaged in promoting
the enterprise are putting forth all .
effort possible to acquire as muoh
stock and as many goods as can be se
cured, with the view of making
Athena's first market day a hummer.
Anyone having anything for sale
should list it at once with either Mr.
Taggart or Mr. Coolidge, so that it
will have the advantage of free adver
tising. The faot should be borne in mind
that thoso having anything to sell
will not be out a ceut for advertising
or auctioneer fee. All will be abso
lutely free to seller and buyer on tbe
first market day given in Athena. The
object is to make the sales a success
and to bring as many people as possible
to Athena on that day. A small com
mission on sales made at succeeding
Market days may be oharged, but there
is to be no commission oharged on the
opening sales day.
The Chelsea Fire.
From the embers of Monday's con
flagration in Chelsea there arose a well
oraganized movement for aid and rolief
to the ten tbonsand homeless, a count- '
ing of tbeoost ty insurance companies,
whose representatives plaoed tbeir
losses at three millions, and a half and
a determination by tbe oity authorities
to rebuild tbe 850 aores swept by tbe
flam os whore stood before tbe fire
property valued at nearly $6,000,000.
Highwaymen Killed.
After a bold series of robberies on
both sides of Willamette river at Port
land, Wednesday night in wbioh three
mon held np pedestrians and saloons,
Patrolman Charles D. Henson shot
and killed Eddie Ives, one of the rob
bers and was in turn wounded by a
fusilade of shots from the highway,
man. Another of tbe robbers, Fitz '
Batbke, was wounded by Patrolman '
S. D. Vessoy and captured.
Horses Cremated.
Fire destroyed tbe barn of C. E.
De maris, about five miles east of Mil
ton ou the Walla Walla river, Satur
day night, entailing a total loss of tbe
barn, valned at $1800; loss of six fine
horses, which were burned to death ;
25 tons of hay, 150 saoks of barley and
10 sets of harness. The total loss is
estimated botween $1000 and $6000,
and was covered by $1000 insurance.
- Fell and Fractured Shoulder.
' T. J. Watts, who has been ill for
some time, bad tbe misfortune to fall
down tbe stairway at his borne, with
tbe result that his shoulder was badly
fractured. Owing to his ill health,
the fraoture brings about complica
tions which are serious. Mr. Watts
has been removed to tbe home of his
son,
H. I. Watts, where everything
possible is being done for him
lien fruit specimen. , ,r
i Master Tom Caton, with eyes bulging
in excitement rushed into tbe Proas
office yesterday morning and presented
the editor with about tbe largest hen
egg ever. "It's a hen's egg there
aiut a goose on the ranch," exclaimed
Tommy. Tbe egg in question is a
double decker, containing two yolks,
and measured in oiroumferenoe, tbe
tape read 6 x 8 iuobesy
Furniture at Auction
An assortment of furniture and
household goods will be sold at auc
tion Saturday afternoon at Jarman's
Corner, Mam street. Tbe furniture is
practically new, having been used by
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Walker for about
60 days. F. G. Lucas is the auctioneer.
Assistant Principal.
C. N. Langbridge, a late graduate
of tbe Weston Normal sobool, has been
engaged as assistant principal of tbe
Athena schools. He will take tbe
place of J. II. E. Scott, who is to take
np school work for the government in
tbe Philippines, f
Temporarily Closed.
'The Preston-Parton Mill in this city
is temporarily closed down. Tbe inuu
agemeut ia awaiting ordors for flour
from tbo Oriontal markets, aud is
prepared to resume opciations at any
time. Tbe company has a consider
able amount of wheat on hand.
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