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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1909)
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Six and Eight Pages Every Friday. F. B. Boyd, Fublisheb. Application for entrance as 2nd class matter made on July 6, 1907 at the postofflce at Athena, Oregon Under an Actot Congress of March 3, 1879 Subacrl tlon ftatct t p r yar. in advance. 12.00 Single copies In wrappers, 5c, tATHENA. ORE.. cJMAY 7 1909 Editors and publishers of 370 daily, weekly and class publications in east ern Washington and Oregon, northern and central Idaho, western Montana, southeastern British Columbia and points in Alberta have been invited by the Spokane Press committee to meet in that oity on May 8 to discuss plans for the formation of the Inland Empire Press Association. The purpose of the organization is to unite the press of the country to work for more substan tial and greater development of all parts of the Inland Empire and to enoourage the emigration of desirable settlers and influx of capital to assist in building up the country and de velop its agricultural, industrial and commercial resources. When vou pull down the town in wnioh is your home, your business, you are pullig down yourself, and when you build up your own town, you build up yourself and your neigh bor. Try and banish from your mind the mistaken idea that good things are away oh! in some other locality. Give yonr town all the praise it can legit imately tear. It will oertainly do you no harm, and will oost you nothing, and above all, patronize borne institu tions. Be a booster. Biokleton News. It seems that in taking beans Boston turns 16.000,000 quarts into 82.000, 000 quarts, and the finished products is still admirably rilling. The genius that can make two quart of beaus materialize where there was but one quart has mastered a great point in dietary science and political economy. The bishop who recently condemned tne style or bats women are wearing this year may be credited with possess ing a good deal of oourage, bnt expei ienoe should have taught him that any masculine onslaught on feminine fash ion in hats and dress avails nothing. make up the deficiency and avoid a further increase in the national debt, which has reached the staggerng sum of $3,770,606,615, it is proposed to increase the tax on sugar, tea and oth er necessities. England has not yet reached a point in her career where the possibility of wiping out deficits and preventing an inorease in the national dabt by curtailing war -preparation expenses has appealed to her. And yet more than one third of the total estimate for the year . will be devoted to army and navy expenses. Sir Edward Grey, tne Eritisn foreign Minister, was recently credited with the statement that the powers of Europe were devot ing to preparation for war half the total proceeds of taxation, and that the proportion wbiob army and navy expenditures bear to their budgets has about doubled in a decade. When the Frenob budget was reported, a short time ago, it was noted that six Euro pean powers were spending more than 11,000,000,000 per year for army and navy, the British leading with some thing more than $300,000,000, the Germans $290,000,000 and the Frenob $250, 000.000. The United States has no war like neighbors who might suddenly decide to invade the country, but for all that we are so fearful of trouble that our army and navy expenditures are ap proaching close to $300,000,000 per year. If the pension list is included, it appears that war and its results are costing the country about $450, 000,000 per year. ., " , ' It Will be a leng time before this country will be troubled with old age pensions, or with an enormous war load per capita as Great Britain is now carrying, but, as the statistics show, we are rapidly drifting into the same channels of extravagance that are leading European nations to finan cial distress. Unless some steps are taken to check this awful oost of peace, we can determine with mathe matical aoouracy when it will become neoesary either to go to war or go into bankruptcy. Oregonian. The Turkish soldiers appear to have been influenced not so muob by a de sue xor a ooauge ol autnority as a wish to take a obanoe ou a new set of paymasters. Just to think the new president has been in ofiioe over a month and nobody oalled a liar yet How times have changed. The man who makes the motion to adjourn the Sixty-first Congress should be noted as one of the heroes of the time. AWFUL COST OF PEACE. The British budget, which was pre sented to the House of Commons Thursday, is of proportions sufficient to cause gloomy forebodings for the future. The explanatory memorandum of the Chauoelor of the Exohequer on revenue and expenses places the for mer for the fiscal year '0D-10 at f 711. -050,000 aud the expenditures at $820, 760,000, thus showing a prospective deficit of nearly $80,000,000. Old-age pensions andiooreased appropriates for the navy are mentioned as reasons for appearuuoe of the deficit. To OUT OF THE GINGER JARj. Even a legless man oan ran through b bank aooount. It requires a skilful surgeon to set a bone, but anybody can set an eg?. When a girl falls in love with a loaf er we usually find him the idle of her heart. There is little expectation that the July and August sun will melt the ion trust. The corn-field ought to take a high rank, beoause there, are so many ker nels in it . It would not take a threshing mach ine very long to thrash out some men's ideas. The auctioneer knocks down almost everything he touches, and yet nobody seems to mind it. Pride is undesirable, and yet we are all agreed that rice is not likable un less it is all puffed up. "By their fruits ye shall know them," but what about a tree with a dozen different varieties of grafts. laiif about tne farmers Having no influeuoe; they are stirring np the entire country right now. Our neighbor's faults are magnified sevenfold, but as to our own short comings we can not see them with a microscope. It is not best always to stay at home; an occasional change is good for every body. Even the kitchen fire goes out occasionally. Every farmer oan be his own weath er profit if be will keep bis tools un dor the shed, and bis stock in the stable dnriug bad nights. There are lots of people in the world who appear to have the brains of a mule. All they seem to be able to do is to eat, sleep aud kick. Farmer Jones was pleased as Puuob when be heard bis son was being taught fencing at college, but when be saw the small instruments used in the instruction, his pleasure gave way to disgust. estly sitnated on page 8 we find this paragraph: "The flavor or odor of an egg may be noticeably influenced by the food of the ben. This has been demonstrat ed ty feeding hens beavily on onion tops or garlic. So far as is known to tbe writer, no praotioal application has been made of this prinoiple." Enough said. It only remains for some enterprising poultry farmer to take tbe bint and start a thriving business in flavored eggs and variegat ed 8sortment of hen fruit that may serve fastidious palates in place of food that is not always easily obtain able. Tbe idea involves the cultivat ing of hen's appetites to a consider able degree, but that ought to be an easy matter as easy as to cultivate the human taste for olives, for in stance. Nobody will be likely to gain any great fortune through garlio or onion eggs, neoause garlio and onions are generally regarded as toothsome only when they are garlio and onions. Garlio is all right also in a salad but tbe onion of commnroe is relish able only when eaten in its original state, and is a deplorable failure as a second band affair. But it wouldn't be so bad to have the young woman at tbe restaurant ask you whether you would have your eggs flavored with vanila or lemon or just plain. The possibilities involved must ap peal to all without tne necessity of going into minute details. Suffice it to say that eggs easily may afford tbe regular daily food supply if only there be enough diversity of effort to make them take tbe flavor of various artioles of diet. There is no limit to egg con sumption as tbere is with quail, for iustanoe, it being regarded as impos sible for a person to eat a quail a day for thirty days. There is also the pos sibility that hens might be taught tbe drink habit, so as to supply eggnog in original paokages, but we leave it to the ingenious reader to multiply Instanoes. Walla Walla Bulletin. TO SUE WHITMAN FOR TAKES County Commissioners Vote $300 to Fight in Court SOME EGG POSSIBILITIES. Tbere xeoeutly has come from tbe United States Department of Agrioul ture a bulletin telliug all that seems to be worth knowing about eggs and the egg trade of tbe country. Mod LADIES HIGH GLASS SUITS ALL REDUCED BEST TAILORED SUITS FOR A SONG $17.50 Tailored Suits reduce to $11.50 81 of the very best $17.50 in pauama Serges and Faucy Suiting 30 aud 32 in. ooats finished plaiu or with braid, go on sale at this phenomenal low price. Alternations free. $30 Tailored Suits, reduced to $21.50 76 of our very best $30 suits sttiotly all wool man-tailored garments of the highest class, go on salo at the extreme low price $21.50 All suits up to $45 reduced to $27.50. There are 70 of these elegant suitsiu the most popular spring styles and all go on sale at the reduced price of $27.50 Metis new spring suits at half ptioe r; ' 7! THE PEOPLES WAREHOUSE Where it pays to trade. Three hundred dollars was voted by the Walla Walla county commissioners to Froseoutor E. J. Smith, with which to prosecute an old case against Whit man collage for delinquent taxes. The taxes have been aooumulating since 1901, though on portions of tbe con tested property tne taxes nave smoe been partially paid. Froseoutor Smith will secure as bis assistant Lester Wilson of Seattle, formerly prosecuting attorney of Walla Walla county, and the case will be taken before the United States su preme court next month, according to Mr. Smith's statement. Muob of this land hsa been donated to tbe college, and some of it with delinquent taxes at tbe time of tbe donation, it is said On tne oounty books tbere appear 900 acres of farm land, of an aggre gated valuation of $29,132; 42 oity lots and the Ransom-Clark donation claim of an assessed valuation of $3890 with delinquent taxes previous to 1908 of $617.42. Mr. Smith stated, bow ever, that the amount of land, of total assessment, and of delinquent taxes is far greater than this, the college hav ing obtained muob land since these assessment rolls were made up. Acting President Anderson of tbe college, when asked for a statement, said: "The oase was in the United States oourt two years ago and Whitman won, and though I am no lawyer I be lieve we will win in tbe supreme oourt" MUCH SNOW IN MOUNTAINS Ranchers Say Much of Beautiful May . Still be Seen In Sections. Aooording to assertions made by ranchers living on tbe Blue mount ains, there is more snow on the mountains this spring than for nine years, tienry ratriok, wno is one or tbe older residents of the mountains, tells the Dayton Chroniole that eight inches of snow tell on Eckler mountain Thursday. Z. M. Bartholemew, living 12 miles east of Dayton said: "Tbe amount of saow and the unusual amount of mois ture in the ground will iusure plenty of water in the mountain streams thia summer." Owing to tbe fact that tbe melting snow will not soak into tbe soil predicts a greater supply of water than for years. Once the tim ber has been cleared from tbe bills tributary to tbe Touobet and Patit the water during the'summer months be comes so low that irrigation and sani tary conditions are interfered with. This year it is thought tbe supply will be maintained through the summer. On tbe foothills this spring tbe snow is from four inches to a foot in depth while at Oregon Buttes, near tbe Tuk anon breaks, tbere is said to be six to eight feet, with additional snow falls every few days. Tbere will be an abundance of mountain pasturage. Daniel Best combine harvester. Four teen foot out Call on or address. J. O. Walters, Athena, Ore. f TIE MUST AMTTAL PICNIC 13 Given under auspices of the Farmer Educational and- Co-operative Unions of Umatilla, county, at Athena May 22 I TEE CALEDOIIAI PICIIO Given under auspices of the Umatilla County Caledonian Society, Athena, Oregon, Friday and Saturday, J une 4 5 PARKER'S Barber Shop. Shaving, Haircutting, Shampooing, Massage for Face and Scalp. .HOT BATHS. Shop South Side Main Street, Athena, Ore. Foley's Honey and Tar for cblldrea.safe.sure. No opiates. REPAIRING We repair all kinds of fine and com plicated watches, Repeaters, Chrono graphs, Chiming aud Cuckoo Clocks. Try us. II. II. HILL, Jeweler Palace Drugstore. ? t THE I ST. NICHOLS HOTEL J. E. FROOME, pbop. I Iff Only First-class Hotel in the City. THE ST. NICHOLS X ! U only on thai can accommodate eommatjlal travelers. I Iff CtiMi eoomended for 1U clean and X well ventilated rooms. Cem. HAIR IKDTlIIV, AtMHA.Or. rAAAAAaAaAJAAAAaaaAaaAAaM "The Old Standby THE AMERICAN NATIONAL BANE OF PENDLETON ; ; Formerly the Pendleton Savitigs'Bank. . .. : . , With which has been Consolidated The Commercial National. ... Bank of Pendleton; Total Resourses a Million and a Halt. .? Capital, Surplus and Profits, Nearly $300,000.00 4 per cent Interest Paid on Time Deposits, Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent T, J. MORRIS, President, W. L. THOMPSON, Cashier, A. D. SLOAN, Vice-President, , G. MONTGOMERY, Ass't. Cashier, W. S. BADLEY, Ass't Cashier. twiii "JiiWHiTriin l j r"if 1 t-f1 3&7''4a PARKER-STONE 1If itif Everytblng First Claaa Mo.defB and Cp-t -data - SOUTH SICE , KA!R STREET ATHEKA