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VOLUME XXI.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1909.
NUMBER 14
THE rUM-A-M LUMBER GO.
Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of
BUILDING MATERIAL
PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES
Posts and Blacksmith coal
A. M. Johnson, Manager
Athenu, Oregon
ESTABLISHED 1865
Preston-Parton Milling Company
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Flour is made iu Atheua. by Atbeua labor, iu the latest
and best equipped mill iu the west, of the best selected
Blnestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize homo
industry.. Your grooer sells Anierioan Beauty for
Per
Sack.
Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers
Athena, Oregon. Waitsburg, Wash.
figS6? R- J. BODDY
$him WHOLESALE BUTCHER
yy$r? Makes a Specialty of furnishing
'CJSSSr Meat in Large Quantities.
. -sv tirst-class stock, Reasonble prices
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Paints, Oils, Glass
House Sign and Carriage Painting
B. T. Kidder, McArthur Building
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J. H.STONE, Prop.
NORTH SIDE OF MAIN STRE.ET
The Best Meat to be found in Town. Come and see
me, I will treat you riht.
J. II. STONE, ATHENA, OREGON
BIG MONEY IN SPUDS WILL VDU
BOOST" FOR A PUBLIC PARK?
FREE READING ROOM
Price is $1.50 per Sack Delivered In
Athena Snow and Bad Roads .
Holds Back Crop.
, Have you sold your spud orop? If
you have not, you have good prospects
to sell at an inorease in prioe for the
market is demanding potatoes and
the prioe continues to olimb upwaid.
Three oailoads went to the Sound
from Athena this week over the
Northern Pacific They were shipped
by D. B.JJarman, the Athena-Weston
merchant, who paid potato raisers
$1.50 per sack, delivered in Athena.
The shipment came from the foot hill
xanohes east of town. The orops be
ing held by mountain ranoheis are in
aooessable so far as delivery is con
cerned for the reason that snow and
bad roads make it impossible to get
the spuds from the pits where tbey
were buried last fall.
At the best the mountaiu potato orop
was short' last season, but there is re-
1 ported to be several carloads available
f na annrDa toaaf hor nnnrliHnna normit
lof handling them.
j Other poiuts in the county are up
i againsi a short supply this springy and
are importing from other states. Echo
dealers this week reoeived two car
loads which 'they are selling strictly
for seed only.
MILTON EASY FOR THE COLTS
One Sided Game Sunday When Score
-- Went 15 to 5.
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Y NAthena's manageress ball team,
toe nmy uous, piayea norse wun
the Milton aggregation Sunday after
noon, and lambasted the strawberry
boys awfully awful. When the carn
age was over the score board read . 1 5
to 5, Milton taking the short end.
The first inning resembled a ball
game, neither team scoring. In the
seooud the colts took the bit in their
mouths and piled up five runs. Mil
ton ambled one over in her part of tie
seooud. Athena scored two in the.
third and murdered youug Storm in
the fourth for six hits which netted
seven more runs. Storm Was relieved
by Hiok who held tne Colts down to
four bits and one run during the re
maining three innings.
Stone pitched five innings and was
relieved by Wilson who also did good
work. Straus, the lad from Seattle,
showed up well at short for Athena.
. Milton scored once iu the eighth
and two in the ninth.
The score :
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Athena 0 5 2 7 0 0 0 1 x 15
Milton 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 25
J1 Carload of Automobiles.
A. Barrett & Co., selling agents
for the MitoaeU Automobile company,
are expeoting their first carload of
autos to arrive shortly. The shipment
which comes direot from the factory
inoludes two popular "80" 'ouring
oars and one runabout. Henry Bar
rett takes one of the touring cars for
personal use and J. T. Lienallen, of
Adams, the other. Henry Keene of
this city, will take the runabout, a
20 horse power maohine,
aflion.
Walla Walla Marai
Walla Walla is going to have a Man
athon raoe a week from next Thurs
day, April 8 Arbor Day that is go
ing to be a "humdinger." The raoe,
announced for several weeks has
brought out and developed a number
of long distance runners that are the
real thing.
, A Live Wire.
Mrs. Esson, of Eugene, Oregon, is
a live wire. She will speak on the
development of spiritual life among
children as relates to Sunday school
work, at the Christian eburoh next
Sunday evening. Go and get a shock.
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DELL BROTHERS, "SZgSZg" Athena, Oregon g
Agitation Prevails for Acquiring Tract of Ground-Location
May be Selected Either on Estes or Ogle Property,
and Purchased Through Public Subscription.
The ease with whioh a publio reading
room has been established in Athena
has naturally led up to agitation for
acquisition of a publio park a spot
set aside and beautified by tree, vine
and shrub, where the populaoe could
spend leisure hours and where pionius
and community celebrations could be
enjoyed.
And why not?
Other towns are making small parks
a feature of their municipal possessions.
Echo has just closed negotations for a
10 acre tract of land to be used for
park purposes, Pendleton and Milton
have the proposition underway; the
women and sohool children of Walla
Walla, constituting themselves into
a park club, last Saturday raised $1,
000 through the "tag day" process of
proouring funds.
Of course, Athena could not be ex
pected to raise a thousand dollars iu a
Bingle day for patk purposes, but the
Press has never seen the town lie down
on a legitimate proposition yet. and if
the park question should be properly
taken up and submitted to the people,
wo will wager the prioe of a year's
subscription that proceeds from a "tag
day" contest here would make an
equal showing with Walla Walla
size of the towna taken into considera
tion. A 10 or 15 aoie park could be easily
snatched from the possibility column
and made a reality, if some one would
give the matter the neoessary time re
quired to organize park committees,
interest churches and lodges in the
work of a common cause, in fact, in
still the spirit of community interest
in the projeot.
It oan be accomplished. The matter
of dollars and cents is no obstaole
acainst a united .community bendimr
every effort to acomplisb a purpose
mat oas lor its goal, lasting benefit
to every man. woman and child in the
town. . '
The site for a park should be an easy
matter of selection. There are two
exoellent locations to choose from ;
one on the Estes place the other on the
Ogle property.
Both are ideally located for park
purposes, though the Press would
give preference to the Ogle iooation.
A 10 or 15 acre plot of ground south
on Third street from Main, as a matter
of ennveuieuce of access, gives the
Ogle property a slight advantage over
the traot further west. Soil quality
would be considered the same on these
two tracts, and ample foliage for shade
exists. Flowers and shrubs could.be
planted, walks nd driveways laid out,
and from the stert Athena could en
joy the boone of a real free pnHio
park. You are next I Will you be a
"park booster."
ARBORDAY SCHOOL EXERCISES
Program in Compliance With Board
.; of Education Suggestions,
Friday, April 0, will be observed as
Arbor Day by the teaohers and pupils
of the Athena publio sohool, accord
ing to the law of Oregon. . '
-The morning will be spent iu clean
ing up the school yard, as suggested
by Stato Superintendent Aukerman in
bis Arbor Day leaflets. In the after
noon a tree will be planted and the
following program rendered :
1. A Song - - ty the School.
2. Address.
.8 Song of Arbor Day, Rulon Smith.
4. Old Fashioned Posies, -
- by Enid Cartano, Martha Hate,
Helen Russell, Bessie Redfleld and
Mary Wilkes.
5. Daffodils, - Raymond Wilkes.
6. Select Reading, 8th Grade Pupil.
?. Chorus, The Sower -
- Grammar Grade Glee Club.
8. Little Brown Seed, Arnold Koepke
9. The Plant, - Vernia Watts
10. We Lov the Grand Old Trees,
Alta Feeler,
11. Song of Spring ...
Lucile Taylor, Pauline Myriok, Ha
zel MoFarland, Zola Keene.
12. What Do We Plant? - -Ellis
Hopper, Ernest Rotbrook,
James Allen, Everett Knight.
13. Four Leafed Clover, -Lloyd
MoPheren.
14. Mother Nature's Work Box, -Jeannette
Miller.
15. Flag Recitation, Primer Class.
16. Double quartet, Lightly My Bark,
Grace Myers, Etheljtfolntyre, Ethel
Kidder, Hope MoPderen, Ruth Stew-
. art, Bessie Parker, Merna DePeatt
Dottie Conrad.
17. When the Green Comes Baok
Again, - - John Wall.
18. Tree Drill. -24 girls.
19. Planting Tree - . .
- Upper Grammar Boys
20. Sonir, Amerioa, - by School.
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, Clay Walker left Saturday for bis
new Held of labor on the Hailey, (Ida
ho) Daily Times. He was accompan
ied to Pendleton by Mrs. Walker, who
spent Sunday with friends there.
NORMAL WILLJINISH YH
Baccalaureate Sunday Is Set for May
23, Earlier Than Usual.
The annual commencement at the
eastern Oregon state normal sohool
will be earlier this year than usual,
on the following dates: Baooalaureate
Sunday. May 23; class day and alumni
meeting, May 24; commencement ex
ercises, May 25. These dates were an
nounced by President French on re
turning from Salem. He says:
"The local financial board at a meet
ing of the board aud faculty Saturday
agreed to pay $3000 toward the ex
penses inoured this year in dosing the
present semester's work, whioh in
oludes tbc months of Marob, April and
May. This is to be paid directly to
tne faculty.
"Not toing permitted tooontraot any
indebtedness whioh is not provided for
by a sufficient sum in the hands of the
state treasurer, the state board of
normal regents is obliged to have a
sufficient amount available to oover
all obligations if the contracts with
the teachers are to be fulfilled and the
school maintained as a state normal.
"The faonlty therefore will turn
over to the state treasurer for his dis
bursement whatever payment tbey re
ceive for salaries, every penny of whioh
will be returned, pro rata, to the fao
nlty on the presentation of the monthly
payroll.
"Already plans are in progress for
an eduoational oampaign iu Oregon
whioh will put the normal school ques
tion before the people iu its true light.
A oommittee at Portland is at work
on a normal school bill whioh will
provide for continuing maintenance,
so that appropriations for the three
normals will never come before the
legislature again, leaving only im
provements for legislative action.
"The stato board assures me that
everything will to done at the next
session of the legislature to oover all
the indebtedness of tbo normal schools.
The reeling on the part of the board is
tbst there will be no difficulty ia se
curing satisfactory adjustment of
every legitimate claim."
MAJOR CORNUYER, INDIAN FIGHTER, DEAD
MajorN. A. Cornoyer, one of the
best known pioneers in the stato of
Oregon, lies (lead at his home tooth of
this city, having passed away yester
day morning. Ho bad beeu iu failing
health for a number of years and big
constitution, weakened by the weight
the long span of of 88 years, could not
withstand the ravages of disease.
Major Cornoyer'i life has beefl one
of strenuous activity. The light of
the golden west beokoned bim when a
young man, and he obeyed California's
adventurous call in 1849. The next
year found bim in Oregon, located in
tbe Willamette valley, where the year
following he whs suited in mar
riage with Mips Sophia Belliqne, at
Uervais.
He participated in tbe Rogue River
Indian war, having tbe rank of cap
tain, and lator in tbo Eastern Oregon
battles with Indians, where be left tbe
fields of battlo, a major of a company
of volunteers. He served ten years in
tbe capacity of federal agent of tbe Um
atilla Indian reservation, lator moving
to a farm on Dry creek, where be re
sided until be moved to his present
borne on tbe reservation.
lie was born iu St. Clair county.
Mo., November 11, 1820, and died
April 1, 1909, aged 88 years, i months
aud 20 days. He was the father of 12
children, five of whom, with tbe
mother, survive him. Tbey are: Mrs.
E. J. Sommerville, Pendleton; Mrs.
Joseph Forrest, Athena; Mrs. A. O,
Kirk, Adams; Mrs. D. O. Kirk, Wes
ton, aod Gns Cornoyer, Gibbon.
The remains will be taken to Walla
Walla tomorrow by train. Funeral
servicos will be held in the Catbolio
eburoh at Walla Walla tomorrow af
ternoon at 3 o'clock.
Backed by the Christian Church and
Loyally Supported by tne
Whole Community.
A few Sundays sinoe the pastor of
the Christian ohuroh in a sermon on
"Praotioal Christianity," dwelt at
length on the value of a publio read
ing room in Athena with the result
that tbe movement is aotually started.
Tbe first idea was to properly equip
the basement of tbe ohuroh and open
it to the pnblio and this wonld have
been an ideal soheme but for one reas
on viz. the ohuroh being some distance
from the business seotion of tbe city it
was feared many who otherwise would
avail themselves of the advantages
offered might not do so. This led to
the plan of opening suoh a plaoo on
Main Street Investigation led to the
faot that neat quarters oould be had
of Mrs. DePeatt on east Main at a
reasonable rental. A subscription list
was thed started among tbe business
men and others all of whom contribut
ed with one or two exceptions and most
of them liberally with the rennlfc that
enough was raised to justify a start.
Following is the plan being worked
to. The bniiding is divided into two
rooms. - Tbe front room will be nned
for a reading room whioh will be free
to aooess or visitors. The very best
magazines,' periodicals, weeklies, dail
ies and class nublioations. These are
furnished by parties who now are tak
ing such publications. Already a list
of about thirty of the best has been se
cured. If you are taking a paper or
magazine yon will confer a favor on .
this movement if 'you will leave it
with the manager, and at the same
time help to make tbeplaoe attraotive
to our yoaug people who otherwise
migbt seek a less desirable place to
"loaf." The hack room will hn Attn
with tables and all classes of harm
less and beneficial games will be sup
plied for those who desire suoh reorea-
tion. This is now open to the
publio.
The establishment will be under
tbe personal suporvision of the pastor
or toe Christian churob, who will be
assisted by a corps of efficient volun
teer helpers..
On biug asked, "what oan interest
ed frionds do to encourage this enter
prise?" Mr. Harris replied, "Bring
us chairs, small tables, suitable pio-
tures for decoration, magazines, mon
ey, and last but not least by any
means, yonr preseuoe and frequent
words of encouragement and com
mendation. You oan have more and
better literature here than you oan
pessibly afford at home. It will be
a plaoe so oonduoted that you will be
proud of it. Enoourage boys and girls ,
to oome, and bo surrounded with noo
ler influences, rather than run tbe
streets." .
Gentlemanly and ladylike doooruin
will bo expected and required of all
wbo patronize tbe institution. It
will be open alike to lady and gentle
man, boy or girl, strange" or resident.
All will be given hearty weloome.
A writinsr desk, with suitable writ.
ing materials will be supplied for free
use. Other features will bo added as
tbev ooour to the manafremnnt. Sug
gestions will be gratefully received.
it is nopea tnat tuey will be just
ified in moving into largor quarters
soon. ,
Sunday Climax at Union.
Excitement ia intense in Union, and
tbe result of the stores remaining open
Sunday in open violation of tbe Son
day closing ordinance is btdng awaited
with Interest, it is not known what
aotion will be taken by the mayor and
tne oounoil for tbe prosecution of the
violators. A petition signed by tbe
voters and taxpayers, requesting tbe
resignation of tbe mayor and counoil
was tabled indefinitely at tbe meeting
Tuesday nigbt. A new petition is be
ing circulated, asking the oounoil to
repoal the Sunday closing ordinance
Neither tbe mayor nor any of tbo
councilman have tondered their res
ignations. It is said some-of the
oonuoilmen want to resign, providing
tbey are lot down easy; that they are
siok of their jobs. Tbe mayor says bo
will not be bulldozed,
Freewater Postmaster Dead.
Tbe body of the late Jesse N. Bas
kelt, Freewater's postmaster was laid
to rest Monday iu tbe family plot iu
tbo Walla Walla cemetry . The f au
eral took plaoe from tbe residence of
the deoeased nod was oonduoted by
tbe Rev. D. 0. Sanderson pastor of
tbe Congregational cburob, assisted
by the Rev. Priecbett. A petition
bas been circulated asking tbe appoint
ment of tbe widow as postmistress.
Prohibition Convention.
That a prohibition convention is to
te held in Pendleton on April 22, was
tbe decision reached at a meeting of
the ministerial association held at tbe
Methodist cburob in that place Sunday
evening. Tbe ministers' meeting fol
lowed a mass-meeting of tbo cburuhes,
at which E. F. Zimmerman, Oregon
representative of tbo Anti-Saloon Lea
gue, was tbe speaker.
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