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ATHENA. ORE.. MARCH 12 1909
Iowa has twice as many swine as
any other state in the union, according
to statistics wbiob the department of
agriculture has just compiled. Tbe
department estimates from its reports
that ou January 1 Iowa bad 7,008,000
swine, valued at $63,261,000. Illinois,
tbe next nearest state to Iowa, is cred
ited with only 4,428,000 valued at $31,
606,000, or less than half the wealth of
bogs owned by Iowa farmers. Nebras
ka ranks third with 3,904,000 swine,
valued at $22,304,000. The Hawkeye
state also leads tbe nation in tbe value
of its rattle. New York alone exceeds
Iowa in tbe number and value of her
milob cows, and Texas stands first,
with Iowa second, in number and
value of other than milch cattle, but
Iowa is ahead of tbem all in total val
ue of all classes of cattle, in milob
cows Texas ranks but ninth, while in
other classes of cattle New York stood
only twentieth among tbe states. Wis
consin is third in milob cows, Illinois,
fourth and Pennsylvania fifth. Third
plaoa for all other cattle goes to Kan
sas, fourth to Nebraska aud fifth to
Illionis.
Tbe Echo Register boosts after tnis
maunei. "It is just this way: you can
be broke, idle, worthless, you can be
a knooker, a kioker and a stumbling
block, a disgrace to your own name
and as near a bum as tbe law allows
right here in Eobo. Certainly. How
ever, if you desire to work, have a
home or to be a eelf-rospeoting citizen
there are opportunities knocking at
your door every morning before break
fast. Tbey troop in after supper aud
they wake you up in the night. A
wooden man never improves his con
dition, bat obauges only in gettiug
weather-stained. Echo offers live men
with little means exceptional oppor
tunities. Those without means can
work foi some."
For once ttie interstate commerce
commission has rendered a decision
that pleases everyoue. We refer to tbe
oelebrated Spokane rate case, wbioh
has involved all of tbe principles of
rate tnakiug .and now after 26 mouths
of deliberation a decision is reaobed
so that nil parties are pleased. Spo
kane has wnu a viotory and tbe Port
laud aud Seattle jobbers claim tbe
validity of water competition, wbioh
gives thorn special rates, is sustained.
Wbat ever reduced rate Spokane sno
oeeds in obtaining, means other iuland
shipping points will in time bo bene
fited in a similar way.
Present ounditious indicate that Gil
liam oouuty's wheat crop for the year
lt)0t) will greatly surpass all former
records, says tbe Ooudon Ulote. Gil
liam couuty ootnptises 090,000 acres,
of whioh 500,000 are tillable aud
about 25,000 acres are iu wheat. In
1007, with 125,000 aoresin cultivation,
the couuty turned off 3,350,000 bushels
of grain, and as bettor farming methods
now prevail it is expected that if the
season continues propitious the output
this year may reaoh 6,500,000 bushes.
Mr. Watteison's paper the Louis
ville Courier Journal, says that "there
are rascals, fools and liars who dare
to say that a man may be a Prohibi
tionist and remaiu a Demoorat"
There must be many euuh down south.
But isn't the colonel becoming Koose-veltian?
Tbe adoption of the electric furnace
in large steel operations is expected to
meet tbe demand for the rail tough
enough to bear the strain of highspeed
in tbe largest freight engines. Great
possibilities are still bidden in all
forms of applied electricity.
Fred Hawkinson, a laborer, stealing
a ride on a Burlington train, saved a
Cbioago-Omaba flyer from destruction
by climbing over tbe tender of a looo
motive from which the engineer and
fireman bad been thrown and stopping
the runaway.
A Cuban congressman Das introduced
a bill to prohibit tbe ownership by
aliens of laud in tbe island. If aliens
are also segregated in the schools Cuba
will feel that it is getting right into
the current.
Specimens of all of Luther Bur
banK's wonderful vegetable creations
will be shown at tbe Alaska-Yukon-Paolfio
exposition iu Seattle this sum
mer, among them tbe spineless edible
caotus.
Senator Tillman remarks that he
will "keep right after the president."
The senator seems to realize that he is
several laps behind.
Now poor Lo has disappeared from
tbe 1-oent pieoe, aud Lincoln's bead
takes bis plaoe. This is a high honor
for tbe bumble coin.
A palm whioh grows in South
America has a leaf measuring 50 feet
long and is 12 feet broad tbe largest
in tbe world.
Noiseless powder may have its uses
but at a celebration it would be as
muoh out of plaoe as in a frontier
melodrama.
A SCATTERING SHOT.
Every resident of this' community
is in debt to the community. We owe
it to the uommunity to make it the
very best in the state. We can do it I
How? you ask. By oleauing up your
own door yard. This has a double
meaning, both figurative and literal.
Figuratively, it refers to your moral
life. Every, man who loafs around
the streets and squirts tobaoco juice
on tbe sidewalks, to emphasize a
poiut in a tiltby story is helping to
lower the standard of tbe community.
Clean up your own life and you will
help to clean up your town. JMow,
literally, we could improve tbe town
if every one would contribute bis part
to cleaning up rubbish about tbe home.
Now one can walk along the streets
and see everything from, tin oans to
dead oats. Does that sound good?
"Not very," you say. Well, then
clean up. Health must be considered,
both moral and pbysioal and we
might add, intellectual.
The Press has touched our school
question iu a oommondable way. May
I add a word? To say nothing of
Athena's empty bouses because our
sobool is below standard, is it not a
crime to let boys and girls grow up in
iguoranoe when there is no possible
reason for it. It is not a laok of mon
ey, it is a lack of interest. Are you
interested in your boy or girl?
This is "just a scattering shot, from
my old shot gnu. If it doesn't bit tbe
mark, I will get down my rifle next
time. U. Gesagen.
Correct Sririn
Styles
She who desires to be well dressed, and who at the same time is
wistful of exercising due regard for economy, will be pleased to know
that this store has always had distinction of showing first, aud at the light
time the uew, most exolnsive, most original styles eaoh season offers, in
superior assortment, aud always at a modest price.
Style is something you can readily see here, but quality is something
thut you have to take the stores word for, until you have proven yourself.
Thorefore it's up to you to deal with the store that has a preutation for
dependable, trust-worthy merohaudise, and open, honest methods.
Iu pieoe goods as in ready-to wear goods, this store is now showing
the largest and most metropolitan stocks of epriug fabrics in approved
styles.
A visit to the store at this season of the year is very con
vincing of the store's superiority in Assortments,
Styles. Qualities, and Lowness of Prices.
THE PEOPLES WAREHOUSE
Where it pays to trade.
ANOTHER STONE AGE COMING.
The extravagance of 'Americans in
building with wood is well known by
the statistics of losses by flrel Our
per capita loss is nearly eight times
tbat of Europe, though we have tbe
best fire fighting apparatus in the
world. Tbe reason is tbat .brick and
stone are - more extensively used
abroad. "."'"'' --
It is fortunate that oement is com
ing into favor for general building
purposes, for wood, always expensive
on acoount of it) oombustibility and
poor wearing qualities, is no longer
obeap at tbe start and is sure to rise
rapidly in cost Moreover, if tbe
waste should continue another 30
years, no timber would remain.
Tbat oement is destined to find al
most universal use in building, every
one believes who has given attention
to tbe subject. In tbe produotion of
oement tbe United States has come to
the front since tbe Columbian expo
sition when Germany was supreme.
Id 1880 this country produced 150,000
barrels, and in 1907 tbo amount was
49,000,000. The figures for last year
promise to show an astonishing in
crease. To tbe reenforoed oonorete business
blocks and factories will soon be add
ed dwellings "poured" in a day ac
cording to tbe Edison plan, or built
of "oonorete lumber" slabs made at
a oentral plant. For small houses it
may beoome common practice to plas
ter the oement on metal mesh.
But for all tbe assuranoe tbat a new
stone age is coming, there is bo reason
to suppose that wood will not be
wanted. There are many things for
which it is indispensable. And tbe
forest must be proteoted for tbe sake
of interests entirely outside tbe'matter
of building. Spokesman-Review.
FULL OP PROMISE.
The number of cattle being fed for
tbe spring market in Oregon is far
short of the usual, in tbe Eobo dis
trict, where the number was 7000 last
year, but 1000 are being fed this win
ter. New mills for reducing alfalfa
to meal are consuming large quanti
ties of what was formerly a part of
the bay supply, and this with the some
what shorter crop of alfalfa rednoed
tbe number of stall fed beef from 7000
to 1000. Reports from other sections
reduoe the numbers of feeders in tbe
state to about one third tbe usual aver
age. Tbat the condition will be re
flected later on in higher prices for
beef is likely, unless imports from
California or elsewhere shall hold tbe
market down. -
The condition oballeugea attention,
in tbat it should invite farmers and
stockmen all over tbe state to a care
ful strtdy of the future of thelivestook
industry. A great paoking company
bas planted itself in Portland, and
within a few months will have a great
modern plant ready for operation. A
demand for livestook that has not
hitherto been known and a volume of
livestock not yet dreamed of is certain
to appear. The vast investment in
tbe paoking industry must have a raw
material to sustain it, and this is in
itself full assuranoe of both tbe de
mand and volume required, such as
stockmen and fatmers can always
count on. To stimulate the industry,
it is fundamental tbat tbe paoking
people must maintain prioes, and with
prioes, volume and demand thus as
sured, tbe produoer must see ahead an
inoentive for expaosiou of the busi
ness. The suooess of tbe alalfa mills,
the higher prioes for the hay, the new
market for livestock, tbe millious of
money investing in enterprises for
paoking, all this, in tbe face of tbe
reduced teserve of fed cattle at this
time, is a glittering prospeot for the
man on tbe soil. More afalfa fields,
more hoofs and more intelligent meth
ods in the business are the inexorable
logio of present conditions and immed
iate prospects. The man on the soil
in Oregon never faoed a vista so full
of promise. Portland Journal.
Near Death In Big Pond.
It was a thrilling experienoe to Mrs.
Ida Soper to face death. "For years a
severe lung trouble gave me intense
suffering, "she writes, "and several
times nearly oaused my , death. All
remedies failed and doctors said I was
inourable. Then Dr. King's New
Disoovery brought quick relief and a
oure so permanent that I have not
been troubled in twelve years." Mrs.
Soper lives in Big Pond, Pa. It works
wonders in. Coughs aud Colds, Sore
lungs, Hemorrhages, LaGrippe, Asth
ma, Croup, Whooping Cough, and all
Bronchial affection. 50o and $1.00.
Trial bottle free. . Guaranteed ty
Palaoe Drug Co.
It Saved His Leg. .V
''AH thought I'd lose my leg," writes
J. A. Swensott, Watertown, Wis, "Ten
years of eczema, t hat J 5 dootora could
not oure, had at last laid me up 3 hen
BuckJin's Arnica Salve cured it sound
and well." Infallible for Skin Erup
tions, Eczema, Salt fibeum, Boils,
Fever Sores, Burns, Scalds, Cuts and
Piles. 25o at Palaoe Drug Go's.
Kills Wonld-Be Slayer,
A meroiless murderer is Appendioitia
with many victims. But Dr. King's
New Life Pills kill it by prevention
They gently stimulate stomach, liver
and bowels, preventing tbat dogging
that invites appendicitis, curing Con
stipaion, ' Biliousness, kills Malaria,
Headaobe and Indigestion. 25o at
Palaoe Drug Co.
REPAIRING
We repair all kinds of fine and com
plicated watohes, Repeaters, Chrono
graphs, vbiming and Cuckoo Clocks.
Try us. H. H. HILL. Jeweler Palaoe
Drug Store. .
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The uniform success that has attended the use of this remedy in the cure of bad
colds has made it one of the most popular medicines in use. It can always be
depended upon to effect a quick cure and is pleasant to take.
It contains no opium or other narcotic, and may be given as confidently to a
child as to an adult Price 25 cents. Large size 50 cents.
THE PALACE DRUG COMPANY.
Soldier Balks Death Plot.
It seemed to A. J. Jackson a oivii war
veteran of Kemp Tex., that a plot exis
ted between a desperate lung trouble
and tbe grave to oause his , death.
I oontraoted a stubborn cold, he writes
tbat developed a cough that stuck to
me, in spite of all remedies, for years.
My weight ran down to 180 pounds,
tnen I began to use Dr. Kings New Dis
oovery, whioh restored my health com
pletely. I now weigh 178 pounds. For
severe Cold, obstinate Coughs Hemor
rhages, Asthma, and to prevent Pneu
monia it's unrivaled. 50o. and $ 1.00.
Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by Pal
aoe Drug Co.
For health and happiness DeWitts
Liittle Eraly Risers small, gentle,
easy, pleasant little liver pills, the
best made. Sold by Palaoe Drug Co. ,
Washington Once Gave Up
to three dootors;' was kept in bed for
five weeks. Blood poison from a spiders
bite oaused large, deep sores tooover
his leg. Tbe Dr. failed then Buoklens
Arnica Salve completely cured me,
writes J. Washington, of Bosqueville,
Tex. For eczema, boils, burns, piles
its supreme. 25o. at Palaoe Drug Co's.
THE
ST. NICHOLS HOTEL
J. E. FROOMB, prop.
t Only First-class Hotel in
the City.
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THE ST. NICHOLS :
4 lit Mm only one that can accommodate s
- eoramsfoial traveler.
Can t) lecomended for Its clean and
well ventilated rooms.
THE AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK
OF PENDLETON
Formerly the Pendleton Savings Bank
With which has been Consolidated The Commercial National
Bank of Pendleton; Total Resourses a Million and a Half.
Capital, Surplus and Profits, Nearly
$300,000.00 v
4 per cent Interest
Paid on Tim? Deposits." ; Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent
T, J. MORRIS, President, A. D. SLOAN, Vice-President,
W. L. THOMPSON, Cashier, T. G. MONTGOMERY, Ass't. Cashier,
", W. S. BADLEY, Ass't. Cashier.
Cob. Maid and Third, Atbxna, Or.
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SOUTH SIDE ' MAIN
STREET ATHENA
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A dose at bed time usual
ly, relieves the most severe
case before morning.
30 days' treatment for $1.00. Satisfaction O A ff 1
guaranteed or , money refunded. JUi JT JOk!
SOLD IN ATHENA AT HAWK'S PIONEER DRUG STORE.
1(0) Oil ; CystoiTO
During the months of March and
April I we will give away one fine
Domestic
Sewing Machine
to the person paying us the largest
account during these two cTVlonths
C. A BARRETT & COMPANY, ATHENA, OR.