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ATHENA. ORE.. OCT. 9.
.1908
This is what it bas come to. Hear
what tbe Weston colonel bos to eay:J
"It will be like losing a tooth or lopping
off an ear, but nevorthelese tbe Leader
is evidently doomed to part with a
nomter of old and valued sutmoiibers.
These are people who pay every fall as
regularly as tbe seasou comes, but do
uot pay iu advance and cannot under
stand tbe reason for doing so, kuowing
themselves to be as good as wheat.
From their standpoint they are right;
from outs, wrong. We can see where
the credit system has lost us $250 a
year tor 13 years, oran aggregate of
more than $3000. We iutend to tolor
ute no more of it if we lose every sub
scriber on our books and have to start
ouew. As a matter of faot, however,
350 subscribers have already paid in ad
vanno, and enough more are sate to
rospoud to the notioos sent out this
week to render our new system a grat
ifying success. We want to be certain
in future tbat a subscriber wants the
paper it's only a small oouutry
weekly, anyway, and quite humble and
modest. If a patron doesn't want tbe
paper budly enough to pay for it iu
advance we are perforce oompelled
to part with him. By the 1st of No
vember the Loirdoi will not have a
single delinquent subscriber on its
books, and it will be blessed with as
clean and satisfactory a subscription
list as Buy country papei iii Oregon.
The editor will positively Know wheu
be produces a oopy on the old reliablo
Washington baud press thnt he is get
ting paid for it and the editor now
has a woll-dollueil prejudice in favor
of getting paid for everything he does
in tho lino of subscriptions, advertising
or job work."
It ttioro is one thing of moreiutnrost
thun polities to tho majority of citizens
in this country it is the cost of living.
The publio knows that trusts are
chiefly responsiblo for most of the
exorbitant prions, yet after years of
attaoks on these pernicious combina
tions, tho prices continue to iuoroaso
year oftor year. Thero will bo suffi
ciently lurgo oi ops of whoat, corn, oats,
etc., this year and thero have beeu
phenomenal yields in recent years, but
all this prosperity has boon ot no real
bono'lt to housobolders. In faot, tho
Peonies
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eager or yourf trade, offers you the largest varieties of Dependable cTMerchandise at
the lowest price known for years. A The most comprehensive showing gf Fall and
Winter styles in Ladies' and Misses Suits, Hats and Coats, Skirts, Furs, and all other
Wearables. For Quality, variety gf Styles and Workmanship our lines surpass
any ever shown in this section. A Remember we are the largest dealers in Mens
and Boys Clothing, Men, Women and Children Shoes, Silks and Dress Goods. A A
THE VERY BEST
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are offered you in Blankets
I In our Grocery" Department
and we are the acknowledged leaders in low prices. A cTVlail orders promptly filled.
i our patronage spiiaicu un
Where It Pays to Trade
THF PFAP1 F ll
m j - , Bill
mote plentiful tbe crops and tbe larger
the prod action of artioles whiob people
most purchase, higher are tbe pnoes,
not ODly iu one section, bot in all
parts of tbe country. Tbe complaints
Ly householders from time to time
tbat prices for tbe uauessanes of life
were unwarrantably high are fully
borne out in an official report just pub
lished by tbe national bureau ot labor.
This report deals with tbe retail prices
for food in tbe years 1890 to 1907 in
clusive, and tbe statistics cover tbe re
tail prices of 30 staple food commodi
ties as sold in 68 localities in tbe Unit
ed States by 1.011 dealers.
Tbe predicted failure of crops in the
Inland Empire this year was itself
tbe failure. The crops wero not
"bumper," weie somewhat short of
tbe normal, iu some localities were
light; but oa the wholo tbe harvest is
large, and tbe prices are such tbat tbe
harvest of gold will be perhaps even
greater than tbe average. Tbe Spo
kane Spokesman-Reviow estimates a
total crop of grain for eastern Wash
ington, eastern Oregou and tbe Pan
handle of Idaho of 60.000,000, bu
shels, and that tbe total expense of
harvesting it was $6,000,000, or only
10 cents a bushel. Supposing tbat all
the other expenses of production of
courso only a iougb estimate can be
made are 20 cents a bushel more, and
tbe average price received, with
wheat at 75 cents preponderating, is
65 cents a bushel, there is a net total
profit of $21,000'000 on grain alone for
tbat region. This is perhaps $25
apieoo for evory human being in all
that region. So, though the wheat
harvest was light as oompared with
last year, the farmers of the inland
empire as a whole will not suffer from
poverty or privation until another and
a greater harvest comes around.
An exobauge says Riley didn't write
this: "An humble boy with a shin
ing pail went merrily singing down
the dale, to where the cow with the
brindlo tail, on clover her palate did
regn e. A bumble bee did gaily sail,
far over tbe soft and shadowy dale, to
whore the boy with the shiuing pail
was milking tbe cow with tbe brindle
tail. Tbe bee lit on tbe cows left ear,
ber beels flew up in the atmosphere,
and thru tbe leaves of a chestnut tree
the boy soared into eternity."
Mr. Ilarriman is going to do a good
deal of building in Oregou, no doubt;
ho can hold off no louger through
Central Oregon, to Tillamook, to Ccos
Bay. St. Paul railroad officials nro
looking over tbo Otegou field with a
viow to its large exploitation. Mr.
Hill bas extensive plans for tbe inva
sion of Oiegon. Those railroads are
uoeded; tbey will give Oregon a great
boost forward duiiug tbe next few
yoars; but besides them a notwork of
elet'trio linos is needed, too, oonnect-
Eastern Oregon's Largest and Best
The
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aremomise
at Pendleton,
MANY YEARS
saui
and Comforts. A Good, clean
you will find none but pure,
uic acuic m uciict guuua
PtNDLETON, 0RLG0N
iug all towns of importance and run
ning through all communities oapable
of large and diversified production.
Then get good wagon roads also; sub
divide the large farms; practice in
tensive farming; care well for the aoil
and make It yield its beat without ex
hausting it, and Oregon will rapidly
double and treble its population, and
begin to become tbe truly great state
for whiob natnre designed it.
Nearly 3,000 women from churches,
clubs and societies, with 200 girl fltn
dents from tbe University of Wash.,
swept Seattle, Saturday in a whirlwind
campaign in selling shipping tags
bearing tbe name of the organized
charities at 10 cents each. Tbe sale
netted $12,000 second only to New
York City for tbe year. The charity
organization society proposes to spend
this money not only in feeding tbe poor
and in affording tentative relief, but
to start them iu small lines of business
whereby they may tecome self sup
porting. Tbe plan was devised by Leo
Kohn, one of tbe greatest altruists on
tbe coast and present superintendent
of tbe charity organization society,
who bas already given away a fortune
to aid tbe poor.
Sooial workers in Chioago are stirred
up over tbe question of providing for
tbe 10,000 public school children wbo
in an official report to tbe board of
education are reported as "habitually
hungry," insufficiently olad and phys
ically unfit to attend school. The
mayor announced be would endeavor
to induce tbe city council to give im
mediate financial aid.
The republican leaders pretend they
favor a tariff sufficient only to com
pensate factories for tbe difference
between labor cost in America and
abroad, but tbe faot is that tbe repub
lican tariff is more than sufficient to
pay the whole labor cost. On steel
products the labor costs fifteen per
cent and tbe tariff is tbirty-two per
oent.
A hole 600 feet deep and half a mile
wide has been found in Arizona. It
might be utilized as a last resting'place
for the joint-statehood proposition.
The'versatile Czar of all the Russias
had thirty-one men hanged on one day
and then distributed 3,000 boxes of
candy to tbe school children.
We learn from tbe Milwaukee Senti
uel tbat "there is a trust iu ioeoream."
When will we bear the glad tidings
tbat there is one iu the soup?
For Sale.
Mis. May Jorgenson offers 80 acres
of fine reservation land for sale at $90
per acre. The land description is N
of N W H sec. 17, tp. 3. 35 E W M.
Inquire of F. S. Le Grow, Athena.
For Rent.
For a year or term of yearp, a body
of land near town, comprising 99 and
a fraction acres. Inquire of Mrs.
Jaokson Nelson, Athena.
Store
Groceries at lowest prices.
clean wholesome eatables,
icaa umucy---ii ua yiyc u.
MEHOIJSti,
Jways Save Yoor Coapoas
( .... - I ml
There is no need of
effect a quick cure
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea
In fact, in most cases one dose is sufficient It never fails andcan be
relied upon in the most severe and dangerous cases. It is equally
valuable for children and is the means of saving the lives of many
children each year. In the world's history no medicine has ever met
with greater success. Price 25 cents. Large size 60 cents.
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THE
ST. NICHOLS HOTEL
J. E. FROOME, prop.
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Only First-class-Hotel in
the City.
Iff
THE ST. NICHOLS t
Is the only one that can accommodate
commercial travelers.
Iff
Can beiecomended for'lts clean and
well ventilated rooms.
t Cob. Main and Thibd, Athena, Or. a
Cures Woman's Weaknesses.
VYp refer to that booijto weak, nervous,
sv.ftt'i iiig women known as Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Proscription.
Dr. John Fy fo one of tho Editorial Staff
of Thk Eclectic Medical Review says
of Unicorn root (Helmiias UMca) whi.h
is one of tho chief ingredients of the "Fa
vorite Prescription " :
A remedy which Invariably Acts as a uter
ine lnvteorator makes for normal ac
tivity of the entire reproductive system."
He continues" in Uolonias we haveamedlca
ment which more fully answers the above
purposes than any other dru with which I am
acquainted. In the treatment of diseases pe
culiar to women It is seldom that a case la
seen which does not present some indication
for this remedial agent." Dr. Fyfe further
says: "The followinK are among the leading
Indications for Uelonias (Unicorn root). Pain
or aching In the back, with leucorrho?a :
atonic (weak) condition of the reproductive
organs of Vmen, mentai depression and Ir
ritability, efcsoclated will) chronic diseases of
tbe reproductive ogans of women; constant
sensation dt heat In the region of the kid
neys; menrrhagld (flooding), due to a weak
ened condition of the reproductive system)
amenorbcpytSRrrressed or absent monthly
perlod.yaiMrfrom or accompanying an
abnosSull condition of the digestive organs
and Anasmtc (thin blood) habit: dragging
sensfions in the extreme lower part of the
abdcmien."
If more or less oi tne aoovo symptoms
afTT-pTCSffm., no inviuia woman can
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tetferUTiin take )r. Pierce's Favorite
FreScribti6hrbno urthe leading ingredi
ents olwfticti Is Unicorn root, or Helonlas,
and the medical properties of which it
most faithfully represents.
Of Golden Seal root, another prominent
ingredient of "Favorite Prescription,"
Prof. Finley Ellingwood, M. D., of Ben
nett Medical College, Chicago, says:
"It is an important remedy In disorders of
the womb. In all catarrhal conditions
and general enfeoblement, it is useful."
Prof. John M. Scudder, M. D., late of
Cincinnati, says of Golden Seal root :
"In relation .to its general effects on the
system, there it no medicine in use c.Ixmt which
there i such general unanimity of mnniim. It
Is univenuttly regarded as Ike tonic useful in
all debilitated states."
Prof. R. Itartholow, M. D., of Jefferson
Medical College, savs of Golden Seal :
"Valuable in uterine hemorrhage, menor
rhagia (flooding) and congestive dysmenor
rhea (painful menstruation)."
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription faith
fully represents all o above named in
gredients and cures t ho diseases for which
they are recommend .4.
To Cure Constipation forever,
'fake Cascarets Candy Cathartic. lOo or 25a
C C. C. fall to cure, drugqists refund mone"
TROY
LAUNDRY
For
GOOD WORK
HENRY KEENE, Agent,
Foley's Honey and Tar
for chUdrea.sate.sure. No opiates.
Dr. O. F. Hetsley Dr. S. Etta Heisley
Graduates Am. School jf Osteopathy, jr"
Kirksville, Mo., Dr A. T. Still,
President, Founder.
Drs. HEISLEY & HEISLEY
OSTEOPTHIC PHYSICIANS
Office and Residence Cor. 5th and Ad
ams St. opposite Chrtstian church. Days
in Athena: Monday, Wednesday, Friday".
S. F. Sharp
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Special attention given to all
calls, both night and day.
Call promptly answered. Office on Third
street. Atbena Oregor
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fo)fo)
fin
anyone suffering long with this disease, for to
it is only necessary to take a few doses of
THE PALACE DRUG COMPANY.
"The Old Standby"
THE AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK
OF PENDLETON
Formerly the Pendleton Savings Bank
Commercial Banking
Capital, Surplus and Profits,
$250,000.00
We Give Savings Bank Facilities
With the National Bank Security
4 per cent Interest
Paid on Time Deposits.
The Old Savings Bank, the friend of the Farmer, Stockman and
Merchant, now a National Bank, continuing business under the super
vision of the U. S. Government.
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Are you doing what you can to populate your State?-
Oregon Needs People Settlers, honest farmers, mechanics, merchants,
clerks, people with brains, strong bands and a willing heart capital or
no capital.
We Oregon Railroad Navigation Co
oAND
. Southern Pacific Co. Lines in Oregon
is sending tons of Oregon literature to the East for distribution ttnongb
every available agency. Will yon not help tbe good work of bnilding
Oregon by sending us the names and addresses of your friends who are
likely to be interested in this state? We will be glad to tear tbe expenee
of sending tbem complete information about Oregon and its opportunities.
COLONIST TICKETS will be on sale during September and October
from tbe East to all points in Oregon. The fares from a few. principal
cities are
From Denver - - $30.00
Omaha - - 30.00
" Kansas City 80.00
" St Louis - - 85.50
" Chioago - - 38.00
Tickets Can Be Prepaid
If you want to bring a friend or relative to Oregon, deposit the proper
amount with any of our agents. Tbe ticket will then be furnished by
telegraph.
E. M. SMITH
Local Agent,
Wm McMurray,
General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon
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A I HO POISONS. CONFORMS TO NATIONAL PURE FOOD AND DftUQ LAW.
Th Ortf Lstlv Couth Syrup containing tfany and Tor. An hnpfvvMMat evr tU CowtfK.
Luna MroachlU RaidiM. Plsnt to th tests and got g alik for young mod mid. AO cough
ayirus . 0fstfcinlng opUtoa conatlpate the bowels. Beo's Laxai&o Honey and Tar move tbo bowels
and ont. in no latev Prepared fey FINE-VLC MtDICUE COMPANY. CBICAGO. V. 8. A.
Remedy
Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent
From Louisville $41.70
" Cincinnati 42.20
" Cleveland 44.75.
" New York 55.00
ATHENA, OREGON.
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