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v-y" irmirn.i.iii,i.M , v - This Edition con tains Six Pages P Athena Merchants Carry Big Stocks Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXI. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. MAY 1, 1909. NUMBER 20 THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER GO. Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of BUILDING MATERIAL PAINTS, OILS AND VARNI5IIES Posts and Blacksmith coal A. M. Johnson, Manager Athena, Oregon K ESTABLISHED 1865 : Preston-Parton Milling Company 8 BEAUTY Floor ia made iu Athena, by Athena labor, iu tbe latest and best equipped mill iu the west, of the best selected Bluestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home industry. Your grocer sells American Eeanty for $1.70 er S Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers 3 Athena, Oregon. Waitsburg, Wash. 01 W III RUNNING ORDER Board of Normal Resents Turn Down Proposal to Lease Buildings for Private School. - R. J. BODDY WHOLESALE BUTCHER Makes a Specialty of furnishing Meat in Large Quantities. First-class stock, Reasonble prices lA Weston speoial saya that Proi. Frenoh and O. M. Richmond, who were, in attendance at the meeting of tbe state board of Normal school re gents held last Saturday returned Monday night. The proposition' by the people of Weston and Ashland to lease the school properties of the East ern and Southern Oregon normals for the next two years for the purpose of conducting private normals was pre sented before the board by Mr. Rich mond of Weston and F. A. Garter of Ashland. Tbe board would not agreo to the proposal and therefore all three of tbe state normal schools will be closed for at least the next two years The position that the majority of th board took was that as tbe late legis- latute opposed the continuanoe of the i i i present sonoois me uoara iu conse quenoe would not permit any kind of . t t A t. J i J At i a normal sonooi 10 oe uouauuitju iu iuo I ofafa nni I am-na fnfnro lacriflinrnrfl authorized their reopening. Thus the last efforts of the loyal supporters of the normals to continue the sohools with private funds have met with failure. Loyal to tbe core, Weston citizens stood ready to pledge money to fl nanoe the expenses of maintaining the Eastem Oregon State Normal Sohool for the next two years. Several citizens of that town were willing to pledge as much as $500 eaoh to support the sohool, and it was thought that the regents would grant tbe privilege of keeping tbe sohool open on this basis. Colonel E. Hofer is opposed to leas ing the state's property. Other mem bers of the executive committee ox tbe board of regents are against it, while m . i m .1 some members oi tne Doara iavorea the proposition. , Tbe stand is taken that tbe legis lature opposed normal sohools, and, in oonsequenoe, the board will not per mit any kind of normal sohool to be condnoted in tbe state of Oregon that might in any way come on to the state two years henoe with a demand for Paper pa I Commercial Association Adopts Consti tution and By-laws Funds for Publicity Raised. be Athena Commercial Associa tion, was put iu thorough workiug or der Tuesday evening, when tbe con stitution and by-laws was adopted as xead and signed by the members present. ") The reports of oommittees appointed at previous meeting were made, the oommittees comprising those on con stitution and . by-laws, advertising, solioitiug funds for publicity purposes and seouring funds to secure the city park;y J- Th advertising oommittee repotted tjiat it had compiled advertising mat ter to be used on business men's letter beads and other stationery. N. A. Miller Chairman of the oommittee soliciting funds for publicity purposes iepcrted that be bad secured by sub scription $174. The subscription list, wearing the names of subscribers to the fund and tbe amount given, follows: yron N. Hawks -.iWBoyd S. F. Wilson - - Ji E. Froomo - - - B." O. Worthington N, A. Miller H. A. Barrett Mosgrove Mercantile Co. McEwen & Sons Dell Bros. W. C. Millet Tum-a-lum Lumber Co. First National Bank Tharp Bros. Henry Keen E. T. Kidder - -J. H. Stone - - -Chas. Norris H. P. Milieu H, Luna - J.1F. Wright Z. F. Look wood Wm. Boober Parker & Stone Biohards & Kershaw T. M. Taggart & Co. -H. H. Hill - -J, D. Plamondon Preston-Parton Milling Co. D. B. Jarman - -Athena Truck Co. "Harry McBride ' - P LOT ROCK'S Uf Provisions of Soft Drink Ordinance Criticized License for Soft Drinks in Drug Stores Excepted. $10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 6.00 5.00 5.00 10.00 10.00 5.00 2.50 10.00 7.50 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.00 2.60 5.00 5.00 2.50 5.00 5.00 1.50 5.00 10.00 10.00 2.60 ":T$.oo Paints, Oils, Glass House Sign and Carriage Painting & T, Kidder, Mc Arthur Building . 1 City El1 eat Market J. II. STONE, Prop. NORTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET The Best Meat to be found in Town. Come and see me. I will treat you riftht. J. II. STONE, ATHENA, OREGON PREPARING FOR THE PICNIC Program Being Formulated and Gener al Arrangements Made. lAt a mnntinff of the members of La Mar and Athena locals of tbe Farmer's Eduoational and Co-operative Union of America, held in this oity Saturday afternoon, tho committees having in charge the arrangements for holding the county pionio in the park, Satur day, May 22, conferred. ) J ' Mr.- Elmore, one of the Union's most able men, will be iu Athena on tbe day of tbe pionio, and is on tbe program for the principal address. A. L. Swaggart of La Mar Union, will be marshal of the day. The following is the program so far as formulated to date, and is subject to change, not being oomplete: Music Band. Song America, by all present, j Piayer. H Address of Welcome Mayor Mc Ewen, of Athena. i Response F. A. Sykes, of Milton. s Song by children. Address Rev. Blakney, of Pendleton. Basket dinner. Musio Band. Song Hill's Quartette. Address Mr. Elmore. f Song Weston Quartette. ; Five minute addresses, interspersed with songs, by Messrs. Campbell, Kirk, Johns, Sbumway, and others. Disonssion of sooial problems of farmeis. v Total - --- 174.00 ;The oommittee having in charge tbe matter of securiug the park, reported that it bad been successful in procur ing funds to seoure the property and that it would be held in trust and used for park purposes only, until the city could take it over. Nine, of Athena's business men plaoed tbeir names on i joint note for $867, tbe cost of tbe park, and secured the amount at the First National Bank. O r motion, Mr. Miller, who seour ed tho subsoription to tbe advertising fund, was tendered a vote of tbanks, as was also the meu who signed tbe joint note. Tbe Association membership fee was plaoed at $1, and dues at 25 oents per month. The Association will meet next Tuesday evening. - J ; fJ : . . : : . " . - - is Umatilla Baptist Association. The Umatilla Baptist Association ill meet in Adims Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, May 18 and 19. Wednesday afternoon will be de voted to th? young people's rally, and Rev. Ryder of this oity will deliver tbe prinoipal address on that occasion. Tbe Athena delegates are: Rev. Ry der, Mrs. J. F. Gross, Mrs. Geo. M. Bannister, Miss To bed MoFadyen aud Mr. H. N. Desper; alternates, Mrs. O, E. Payne, Mrs. Wm. Winship, Mrs. M. L. Watts, Mis. T. J. Kirk and Miss Mary McKiunon. The Ath ena Baptists, assisted by tbe Methodist choir of this oity will furnish speoial musio for the oooasion. .-' 1 Charles Grant, of tbe "Corner" near beer saloon was granted his lioense by tbe oity cornoil, wbioh met in special session Tuesday evening. He was represented before the council by his attorney, H. I. Watts. At a special meeting of the oouncll on the evening of May 7, John Stanton was granted a lioense nnder tbe pro visions of tte new ordinance. Mr. Grant made no application for license at that meeting. He later deposited with the oity recorder the lioense money, together with a $250 boud with Moses Taylor and Milt Swaggart as bondsmen, opened np his plaoe of business aud demanded of tbe oity offloials, a lioense. Tbe speoial meeting Wednesday eve ning was attended by all members of tbe counoil. with tbe exoeption of Counoilman Tompkins. In present- ng Grant's application, Attorney Watts questioned the validity of the new ordinanoe licensing beverages sold in oomplianoe with the local option law, saying that if Grant was not given a lioense he would at once begin suit against the city, to test the ordinance and also for dam- . He oited a case that bad goue to tbe Alabama supreme court. Coun cilman Wilson said that while he did not fear tho result of a damage suit in the least, like Attorney Watts, it was a question in his mind whether or not the licensing of soft drinks was constitutional. Recorder Riobards participated in the discussion and contended that if the present ordinance was not founded on sufficient basis for enforoement when it came to tbe point of granting or not granting a license to an indi vidual, tbe ordinance should bo re pealed, and one enaoted that would serve the purpose intended. As city magistrate, be wanted an ordinanoe that would stand behind his offloial duties a'ld requirments. He said that Grant had not made application at tbe speoial meeting on May 7, bis plaoe of busiuess bad beeu ordered closed; that he (Grant) later deposited lioense mouey and bond, opened up for busiuess and served notice on the oity officials that he was ready for his lioense. It looked to bim like it was Grant telling tho oity what he would do; not the city making known to Grant what he should do. Tbe motion was then made to giant the lioense, Counoilman Johnson alone voting no. On motion, Record er Richards was instrnoted to prooure a copy of the Pendleton near beer or dinanoe. The alleged discriminating provi sions of ordinance No. 117, whion are reoeiving oiiticism, read as follows: Section 1 "It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person or persons to sell, vend or dispose of any beverages of any kind, witbin tbe corporate lim its of the city of Athena, Umatilla County, Oregon, in less quantities than one gallon, without first having obtained lioense therefor from said oity of Athena." Section 7 "Provided that tbe pro visions of this ordinanoe shall not be construed to require drug stores, sell ing ioe cream, lemonade, etc, to take out a lioense." Hirsute Bunch From Birch Creek Ham let Some Stuff Accompanied to . Town by Girls and Rain. X f Captain La Brasohe's Kids, known to base ball fans as the "Shamrooke," went up against Pilot Rock's big, full - grown men with whiskers, Sunday, and lost out to the tune of 2 to 4 in a seven inning contest. ) (But it didn't look that way in the fore part of the matinee by a jug full. Tbe kids played tbe big fellows from the Rook oil their feet up to the thhd inning. They were thioker than fleas on the' bases but at no time did they have anything on Mr. Lobaugh, who was on the mound for the opposition, and when they got away for one to the good in the first inning, it wasn't the be whiskered giant pitcher's" fault a- tall a-tall, but the goods were deliver ed via corking eirors in his infield support. The Pilot Rock team, in addition to several lady friends and a husky, though small Luuoh of rooters, was aooompanied to town by one of tbe prettiest rains you ever saw. So when Mr. Lobaugh stepped on tbe mound the ball was wet. The first one ha sent through was met square on tbe nose by Mr. O'Willaby for a single, who promptly purloined seoond, and scored on afore mentioned errois. Stone easily took care of them iu the first and second innings, bnt lost control in the third, when with two down, he hit Lobaugh. Then a single oame, and first aud seoond was popu lated,. Then a grass clipper sizzled to La Brasohe at short, who made an error whioh scored Lobaugh and a wild beave let in the other runner. Soore 2 to 1. Stone continued to get his in tbe fourth, when with one down and a runner on seoond and third, be was re lieved by La Brasobe. The first giant to face bim whisked the ball down the third base line and Depeatt promptly let it fog betvieeu bis shins. Result, soore 4 to 1. La Brasohe then put tbe clamps on 'em and the next five meu to face him, struck out. MaBkery's men were seut to oold storage iu tbe sixth by two going out at third after La Brasche bad struck out th e first l atter up. A rally blossomed for Athena In her half of the seventh, when Lieu alien reached third on an overthrow to first and scored on La Brasohe's hit. Tbe funs raised to a man and called on Strauss to line 'er out, but he was thrown ont at first and tbe game was history, with Pilot Rook on tun Jong end. The score: RUE Athena - - -2,63 Pilot Rook - 4 5 2 Simon Nominated. Joseph Simon for mayor and the 9 1 3 PROMPT DELIVERY WHERE PRICES ARE RIGHT POHNE MAIN 83 The Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in VEGETA Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here 3 a. ?j DELL BROTHERS, t Eighth Grade Examinations. 'Final eighth grade examinations are being held in the different schools throughout the county, being finished today. I be largest class since the in auguration of tbe present system, is being examined. Tbe exaot number is not known, but it is more than 110. All tbe papers will be iu tbe bands of tbe county superintendent by Tuesday of next ween, and tbe work of grading tbe mauuoripts will be undertaken that day. Tao'fi'art'B Sale. 1 beginning tomorrow and continuing V r .A 1 fTI ma m L 1. f ' ... . I I ior iu aays, i. iu. lagguri. at vu. win conduct tbeir annual spring sale and cut prices will be in vogue during that period on tbe entire stock. The goods will be maiked at tbe regular selling price and also at tbe annual spring sale selling price, so hat buy ers will know exactly what tbey are saving on each purchase. CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN GOOD THING3 TO EAT Athena, Oregon m entire assembly ticket with the exoep tion of W. W. Banks for counoilman from the Second ward, and E. C. Meais, from tbe Third ward, were nominated by large pluralities in the republican primary eleotion of Port land Saturday. Mr. Simon has defeat' ed both sides of tbe river and has de feated A. G. Rushlight for tbe nomi nation by 2381 votes. Mr. Simon's majority over all candidates was 887. Rnsbligbt is second, with MoDonell third and Bailey iu fourth plaoe. Big Automobiles. Two big automobiles, loaded with Walla Walla enthusiasts, arrived in town last evening for tbe purpose of meeting tbe Thomas pathfinder here. Tbe Thomas car left LaGrande yester day morning, but from reports receiv ed bere last evening bad not then passed through Meaoham. Quartet Invited to Sing. Tbe Pendleton male quartet has been invited to sing st tbe big farmers' pic nic, which is to be held in Athena, May 22. Connty Sohool Superintend ent Welles, leader of tho quartet, is iu receipt of tbe invitation aud is now endeavoring to get tbe other members together. The invitation has not yet been aooepted. East Oregonian. A Ogle Buys Home. I. F. Johnson official weather observer for the oity of Pendleton, has sold bis handsome residence property on Jackson street to B. F. Ogle, of Athena. The latter will move his family to this oity and take possession about May 20. Tbe consideration is said to have been $6,000. East Ore gonian. V Tbe body of Chief Hoosie-mox-mox rot tbe fast disappearing Palouse tribe ot Indians, wbo was drowned near Cayuse, Thursday, has been reoovered. It was found lodged against some drift about a mile below the crossing where be lost bis life. Tbe deed chief was past 83 years of age. Cleaning Up the City Park. LVSaturday afternoon, tbe pupils of , tha A Ihann TinliHn Dtihnnt t h a noprtn c fl by teaobers, partook of a pionio din ner at tbe oity park. In addition to well filled baskets, the little folks went armed with garden rakes, and after dinner, raked the park and, piled np tree limbs, sticks, etc Quite an im provement was tbe result, bnt tbe real work of oleaniug up the park was executed Wednesday of this week, when the oommittees on grounds from tbe Farmers' Union and the Caledon ian pionio forces went to the park to the number of 25 or 110, and removed stumps, dead trees and out a large amount of brush. Tbey did good work and to see the effect, you should visit the park Sunday afternoon. In the Police Court. 'earl Lynn was fined $30 in Judge Riobards' court Saturduy, for being druck and disorderly and tiding his horse on a sidewalk. Tbe misdemean or for which' Lynn was .fined trans pired Thursday evening of last week and tbe young mau was fortunate in not having to face a more serious charge. Ho sent his horse along the walk at tbe sohool grounds aud two young ladies oame near being tun over. I hoy narrowly esoapud by climblug tbe fence into the school yard, one of them teiug bnrt to some extent iu doing so. k Grocery for Weston. ALester O'Uarra. wbo oame to Athena two years ago to take charge of the Paoith Coast Elevator company's business, but who has lately been em ployed as salesman at Taggart's, has resigned bis position aud gone to Weston, where he will engage in the grocery business. - sY Free water Land $700 An Acre. A Land values in tbe Freewater dis trict are constantly increasing. Two sales have been made this week, one consisting of i'A acres, a purt of the Ragsdale tract, for $725 an aore, the other being a purt of tbe Brown ranch, at Babcock crossing for 700 an acre. Card of Thanks. To those wbo so kindly adminsterod many acts of help and sympathy at the time ot tbe death of my husband, I wish to express my grateful appre ciation and heartfelt tbanks. Mrs. J. C. Stamper, I 4v . I'. ?! if n j i J .1. , t i iV i 'i f 1 t. .; r ill i. f