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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1909)
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Six and Eight Pages Every Friday. F. B. Boyd, Publisher. Application for entrance aB2nd class matter made on July 5, 1007 at the poetofflce at AtlieDa, Oregon Under an Actot Congress of March 8, 1879 Subserl tlon Hatet : p r year, In advance Single copies In wrappers, 5c, 12.00 ATHENA. ORE.. tPRIL 23 . . ,1909 Athena is able to master ber water problem without the editorial bbsIs tanoe of either of the Pendleton papers. From a looal viewpoint, both public ioationa have stepped outside their own sphere, straining at a gnat, as it were. This is essentially a home problem that should have been amic ably settled within the local circle where oommnnity interest is the prime faotor to be considered. Personal prejadioe, one way or the other, can accomplish nothing in bringing about a ootreot solutiou of the question whether or not there is sufficient water in the gravity system to supply the city for domestio purposes. The Press reiterates that Commissioner Watts' plan to orossout the source cf supply with a trenob. dug down to bedrock, is the one logical oourso to pursue in a praotioal investigation to And out whether the pipes are carrying all the water the system affords. Surfaoe prospecting reveals nothing but sur faoe indications. The solution of the problem can be found only on the bed rock, and the sooner the investigation is made the sooner agitation will be put to rout. The rumor filtering through present agitation that in event sufficient water is Dot in evidenoe, private parties stand ready to secure a franobise and furnish the city water, may as well die a-borning, for uo mat ter on what plan water is procured, or what it costs to secure it, municipal ownership will oontinue to direot oper ation and control of the system. Pri vate ownership or control of Athena's water supply need not be given ser ious thought, for one minute, eveu. Following the announcement of the purchase of the Ogle land bv the Ath ena Land & Investment company, is that of the pnrobase of tbeEstestraot, adjoining on the west. This land, in connection with the Ogle traot, em braces the entire soope of bottom acre age south of the citv. The oompnuy authorizes the statement that the lim it of sales will be confined to from one to five acre tracts, only. This de cision is a wise one. The five uore maximum makes it possible to double up population over what the ten acre maximum would have given, and there will doubtless be many smaller traots sold. In point of a population builder, the Press believes this enterprise is the foremost of any other within the soopo of resouroe that knooks at Ath ena's door. With these acre tracts, in connection with a good school, Atbena will have superb advantages to offer prospective bomebuilders; somotbing to advertise; something which will at tract attentiou abroad; somotbing that will make people "sit up and take no tioe." This is Athena's opportunity, and uuited aotiou is all that iswauted to plaoe the oity iu the rank where she justly belongs. John Golf was a farmer back eust who never got along very well, but who never would admit that his way of doing things was at fault To hear bim talk you would think be was the one perfeot speoimen of humauity in that oommnnity and the rest of the bunch were formed of the residue after all the sound material bad been used up. If things went wrong about the premises eomebody else was to blame in every instance. If be planted bis corn so late that the frost came before it was ripe, he laid it to the weather If be slashed down a great quantity of bay and it spoiled in tbe curing, he cussed tbeolimate instead of giving judgment. And be was only tbe type of many who through slip shod methods of doing things, and by reason of over confidence in their own inerrancy, make a losing tight in life and blame the world for their own incapacity. Forest conservation means tbe striv ing for a better utilization of forest products and the consequent checking of useless waste as much as it does tbe protection of forests from fires and the reforestation of lands wbiob should grow timber, aooordiog to foresters and progressive lumbermen of tbe new sobool. Few people have a clear idea of the importance of 'be study of proper wood utilization, and one of tbe effeots of tbe establishment of the Forest Service Distriot offloes most ben eficial to tbe people of tbe west is tbe possibility of a olose, helpfnl relatiou with a branoh of the service whose workings have heretofore been little understood in this region. This is tbe Branch of Products. The work of this part of tbe Forest Servioe has to do with the best and most economical utiiization of tbe produots of tbe for est, not only lumber and its products but also tbe bark, resin , sap end even leaves of the trees of wbiob these parts are of value to man. Iowa's tax laws are to be revised if tbe Senate will fall in liue and enaot tbe Harding till wbiob passed tbe House of Representatives. Tbe Bard ing bill provides for $10,000 and for a commission of five men who shall examine tbe tax laws of Iowa, other States, draw up new statues oorreoting tbe weakness of tbe Iowa tax laws and report back tc tbe next Legislature. Tbe flvo men are to oome two from tbe House, one from tbe Senate and two to be named by tbe Governor. Professor Collins, who bad been at tbe head of the Astoria, Illinois, high school for twelve years, and with whom tbe Atbena sobool board was in oorrespoudenoe, has been elected as principal of the Medford high sobool. Here was a good maD, but it was through no fault of the looal board that Athena did uot secure his services. Tbe benefit of telephone communi cation on National Forests have been brought foronfully to the attention of tbe Forest servioe on aooount of th large nrmber of Forest fires during the last year. Tbo need for phones has not beuu underestimated in tbe pBst and ruauy miles of telephone, liue have been constructed in tbe National Forests. Atbena doos not escape tbe grand jury's, booze dragnet, but offenders agaiust the provisions of tbe looal op tion law have been indioted here as well as iu other towns of the couuty. CHA NGE IN TARIFF SENTIMENT. The debate on tbe Payne bill has shown a wonderful change of senti ment ou tho tariff question. Tbe newspapers of the country are com- LADIES HIGH GLASS SUITS ALL REDUCED BEST TAILORED SUITS FOR A SONG $17.50 Tailored Suits reduce to $11.50 81 of the very bost $17.50 in pauama Serges aud Fancy Suiting 30 aud 33 in. coats finished plain or with braid, go on sale at this pbeuomeual low prioe. Alternations free. $30 Tailored Suits, reduced to $21.50 76 of our very bost $30 suits striotly all wool niuu-tailorod garments of the highest class, go ou salo at the extreme low price $21.50 All suits up to $i5 reduced to $37.60. There are 70 of these elegant euitain the most popular spring styles and all go ou sale at the reduoed price of $27.50 , Mens new spring suits at half prioe THE PEOPLES WAREHOUSE Where it pays to trade. menting on tbe way party lines have been broken and party platforms ig nored. Tbe New York World claims President Taft is a free trader. Taft has advocated a permanent tariff com mission wbiob has always been op posed by tbe radical protectionists. Tbe Washington correspondent of tbe Philadelphia Press, always a strorg protection newspaper, tells of tbe change in sentiment on tbe tariff in the following: "It was generally remarked that when members of the bouse could vote on speoiflo schedules and without plac ing their votes on record, they paid little attention to party platforms and declarations. When tbe bide sobedule was upjno man pleaded more strongly against taking tbe duty off this pro duot than aid tbe so-called free trade demoorats from Texas. "When tbe opposition to put lum ber on the free list was debated, some of the strongest arguments came from demoorats from tbe southern states, and tbe vote showed a good proteotion element in that section. Tbe votes of tbe southern demoorats saved tbe lum ber sobedule. Republicans from tbe middle west just as easily forgot their protection theories and voted with Mr. Tawney, of Minnesota, to make Inmber free. "Studious observers believe they see in the breaking down of tbe party lines on tbe Payne bill the beginning of tbe end of tbe tariff as a party issue. Tbe southern Atlantio coast and gulf demooratio states are now as strongly devoted to protection as in Pennsylvania and New England. Tbis is evident from tne frank admissions of representatives from that section and two-fifths of the vote for proteo tion on Inmber was furnished by them today. CHEERING OUTLOOK FOR WHEAT It is tbe opinion of the Protland Journal based upon a preliminary canvass, that never before in the his tory of the Paoiflo northwest has there been at tbis time of the year so fine a wheat crop prospeot. The Portland paper estimates that the acreage tbis year will be increased about 15 per cent and finds that tbe conditions all over tbe wheat growing acres are far above tbe average. If thpsn favorable conditions continue until harvest, the Journal thinks it not extravagant to prediot a total yield for Oregon, Washington and Idaho for 70,000,000 bushels. The assurance that prices will be high makes tbis outlook all the more cheering. The prospeot of dollar wheat is enough to fill tbe farmer's heart with joy, even though be knew tbis year's crop would not be more than the average. Dollar wheat baok in the depressing rlnvs of 1893 and 1894 would have struck our Inland Empire growers as a measure of boundless wealtn. 'loose who naaaed tbroueb tbe ordeal of that period recall that when tbe prioe rose j L 1 to 40 cents it seemed as ir ine nara times were over: and when the price mounted to 60 oents, many farmers said they wanted nothing better, amy oent wheat beoame tne basis of for tunes, and while the cost of produotion is somewhat greater now than then, there is undoubtedly good profits around 60 cents, a handsome return at 75 oents and rapidly amassing wealth at a dollar. It looks as though our farmers have entered upon a year of unprecedented prosperity. Spokesman Review. MAKING GOOD ROADS. An Iowa exohange says: Inasmuch as tbe good roads question, or, rather, the laok of good roads, is now tbe dominant one, the following reoeipt for making roads will oome iu handy': First, looate your road, or the founda tion of it. This can be very nicely done with a glass bottomed boat, and if thai is not to be bad take a stick und poke it down into the water until it strikes something harder, a little harder, than the water. That is tbe road. Then take up your road and run it through a wringer several times un til the water is thoroughly squeezed out of it and hang it on the clothes line until it craoka in places. It is then dry enough to work unless a rain has soaked it again. Tn that case it should be put thrcugb the wringer and drying process until it is quite dry, when- it will be fit to work. Then lay it out where you think it ought to be and get a copy of tbe code and look up the road law. Kios to everybody in authority tbe road boss, trustees, street comissiouer, or the editor of the looal paper about tbe awful condi tion of the roads and state emphatic ally and with vehemenoe that "somo tbing ought to be done right away." That will cause a stir and somebody will get busy. Inside of six weeks or two moutba when they have nothing else to do, two or three of tbe enthus iasts property owners will taokle tbe road job with four horses, two elush ers, and 20 centa worth of obewing tobacoo and a large consignment of looal, state and national politics, and when they have worked two days you will note a great change. There will be a pile of dirt right in tbe middle of the road so high that tbe highest water the oldest inhabitant ever beard of will never get over it. Tbis pile of dirt will outlast any other kind of road, as nobody will ever drive over it except in the dark. If you know of a better way to make roada than tbis, just send in your ideas." REPAIRING We repair all kinds of fine aud com,, plicated watobes. Repeaters, Chrono graphs, vbiming aud Cuckoo Clocks. Try us. H. II. HILL, Jeweler Palaoe Prog Store. .We have jnst received a new line of Men's Furnish ings consisting of hats socks neck ties, suspenders, hand kerchiefs, collars, cuffs. mi H B 1 H77 B Mr I 1 r COFFEE Coffee la the rooming b best when nude from oneot Chue & Sanborn Hlirh Gride Coffees. crervcare u ubcb Irora tne seiec tionof theberrv to the Dladneia the package which yoa bay. If voe iroreciate fine eoffee.eoff eeof clearcolof , and delicate aroma none but Chase & Sanborn' Will FIVE REASONS Why you should deal with T. M. Taggart & Co. 1 Quality. 2 Snappy Styles. 3 SATISFACTION. Honest Value. 5 Good Service. BOYS SUITS We are offering this week 25 Boys Ever Day Suits at the small price of S mm -HAPPY HOME Canned Goods. Have you tried them. They are unexcelled by any on the market. T. M. TAGGART & COMPANY The place to save for cash. Hardeman Hats Boys Suits i Baptist Church Notes. Every one enjoyed the services at tbe Baptist church last Sunday, espeo ally in tbe evening, when the oboir was assisted by the orchestra. Tbe servioes for next Sunday are as fol lows: Bible school at 10 a. m. At 11 o'clook tbe hour of worship, with sermon by Pastor Byder on "Isaiah's Vision of God." At 6:45 p. m., tbe young people's servioe and at 7:45 there will be a speoial musical pro gram, duet and chorus with orchestra aooompaniment, also oornet solo with ohoius. Pastor Byder will speak upon "Tbe Two Ways." Come and enjoy tbis service. All are Weloome Christian Church Announcements. Regular servioes Sunday. Sunday sobool at 10. Preaohing at 11. The theme in tbe morning will be "Lies." At night Mrs. Ellis, who has been leo turing tbis week will preach. She is a strong preacher, and has a splendid theme chosen for this service. It is, "In Nothing Be Anxiorft." Come aud hear ber. For sale or rent, 640 acres in Whit man county, Washington. A bargain. Investigate at once. Biobards & Kershaw. X THE X I ST. NICHOLS HOTEL J. E. FROOME, prop. m Only First-class Hotel in the City. Iff j THE ST. NICHOLS : U the only one that can accommodate commercial traveler. m Can beteoomended (or ill clean and well ventilated room. ECoa. Maim andThikd, atbena, Or. ) 3 -The Old Standby" THE AMERICAN NATIONAL BAM .' 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 4 per cent Merest Paid on Time Deposits, Safe DeDOsit 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. ... 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