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f This Edition con tains Six Pages Athena Merchants Carry Big Stocks Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXI. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. JUNE 11, 1909. NUMBER 24 THE TUM-A-LUilfl LUMBER GO. Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of UILDING MATERIAL PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES . Posts and Blacksmith coal A. M. Johnson, Manager Athena, Oregon FIRE DEPARTMENT? CONTENDS AGREEMENT WAS LIVED UP TO AN ARTESIAN ILL City Council Tussles With Question of Whether or Not Athena Has Organization. ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Parton Milling Company e B a 9 a 5 B . e Flour is made in Atheua, by Atheua labor, iu the latest and best equipped mill iu the west, of the best selected Blaestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home industry. Your grocer sells American Beauty for Per ack. Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers Athena, Oregon. Waitsburg, Wash. Mi r '1 G r xa . 11 R. J. BODDY WHOLESALE BUTCHER Makes a Specialty of furnishing Meat in Large Quantities. First-class stock, Reasonble prices At the meeting of the oity oounoil Monday night, the Athena fire depart ment was disoussed. Before the matter had been dis oussed to any great length, the ques tion apparently resolved itself to a basis as to whether there was really an organized fire department in Ath ena atjtbe present time or nor. Counoilman Johnson bad not heard the tap of a bell calling the boys to meeting for a year, and others did not remember of hearing the old familiar signal used to assemble the the laddies at the oity hall. Then it developed that uo election of officers for the year had bee.n made. The fire chief of the department, last elected, lives ou a ranch in the coun try, and in oase of Are would not be on baud, only in event that he should happen to be in town. Mayor Mo Ewen suggested that the department be given notice to assemble and elect offloers. On the membership roll, are the names of a number of volunteer fire men who have seen active servioe and who are able to give a good acoount of themselves as fire fighters, but the department as a whole seems to have drifted along until now it is in need of regeneration. The ministers of the three churches of the oity were present at the oounoil meeting and plied the Mayor with questions relative to the forfeiture of Charles Grant's bond for conducting an alleged disorderly house. Pastor Harris, of the Christian Churob cited as grounds for bond forfeiture the Ed Rush inoideut. The oounoil took no action, and adjourned after allowing the usual monthly grist of bills. PILOT ROCK WAS OUTCLASSED Received Terrible Trouncing at Hands of Shamrocks, Saturday. Paints, Oils, Glass House Sign and Carriage Painting E. T. Kidder, MoArthur Building City Meat 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 right. It oDly laEted seven innings; find it was awful. When it was over Man ager Maskrey's togs looked as though they bad been run through a cold mangle and needed pressing and his bunoh of ball tossera saw victory perched upon the green banner of the Sshamrooks by the score of 11 to 1. It was a terrible trounoing and fell hard on the pride of the people of the big rook, bot it was deserved, for tbe i swift little Shamrocks played 'em off their feet at every stage of tbe game J Maskery's husky men who have the ' distinction of winning ten games with out a skip, showed that they were out classed in the hands of a team that knows the game from a to izzard, and plays inside ball all tbe time all tbe time. It was baseball murder in the first degree, but it couldn't be helped. There was nothing else to do bnt give it to 'em good and plenty every time the bars were down, and the bars were down tbe greater part of the time. Cnnitux? Mr. Lobaugb promptly got bis. Dr. Liieuallen, ditto. The rook sluggers oonld do nothing with LaBrasche a-tall, a-tall. They were soon in tbe air and the carnage went on without interruption for 85 minutes. Lieuallen was substituted for Lobaugb, but tbe change counted for naught and tbe batting average of the Shamrocks continued to swell. The tale glides into history thus: J. II. STONE. ATHENA, OREGON Athena Pilot Bock R H 11 13 1 4 Persons persisting in using eleotrio flat-irons without making arrange ments with tbe Preston-Parton com pany will hereafter be called upon to pay meter rates for all servioe, iuolud- iug lights. Mi PROMPT DELIVERY WHERE PRICES ARE RIGHT m$m The. Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in EGETABLE Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here & Statements of Telephone Company Refuted by Local Man ager in Face of Existing Condition of Switchboard. Reoautly the Press oalled attention to allegations that tbe Paoiflo tele phone & Telegraph company bad not kept its agreement made with its local patrons at tbe time of consolidation with tbe farmer lines. The article in question cited tbe fact that a pro mise had been made by tbe company to install new office equipment hero within six months after date of con solidation, bot instead a seoond baud switoh board of obsolete obaraoterhad been pulled out of the Milton office and put in plaoe of tbe oue bore at the time. Iu answer to tbe artiole tbe Walla Walla mauager of the company writes the Press as follows: Walla Walla, June 3, 1909 Editor Athena Press, Athena, Ore. My at tention bas been called to an article that appeared in your issue, May 21st to the effeot that tbe Paoiflo Telephone & Telegraph Company did not keep faith with the Athena patrons; and would ask that you kindly give us spaoe in your paper to state our side of tbe case. In tbe first place I want to say that we kept our agreement and installed a switchboard large enongb to take care of all of tbe lines going into the Athena offloe, and to provide for fut ure growth and instead of the present apparatus being obsolete, it is suffi ciently equipped to take oare of five additional lines to what we now have in use. It is true that tbe board was for merly in use at Milton, Oreg and was taken out to make room for a larger board as tbe capacity for increased growth had been exhausted on said switohboard. The fact that a switoh board bad formerly been in use in some other town does not make it obsolete nor interfere with giving good servioe. At the present time tbe Plant De partment of this oompany is arrang ing to replace the present 50 pair cable entering our exohauge with a 100 pair cable and they are also arranging to replace some of the smaller poles for larger ones, plaoe new cross-arms, restnng some of tbe lines and make tbe neoessary arrangements for chang ing farmer lines so that tbe local con ditions will be vastly improved. AH of tbis work will be started within a short time. Yours truly, P. Bacon Commercial manager. On receipt of Mr. Baoon's letter the Press further investigated the mattor and it finds that tbe facts do not bear out Mr. Bacon's statements. In tbe flist place, tbe oompany pro mised a new switoh board. Instead it installed tbe old one that had done servioe in tbe Milton office. In tbe second place, the apparatus is obsolete, in face of Mr. Baoon's state ment that it is "sufficiently equipped to take oare of 5 additional lines to what we now have iu use," for tbe reason that four of the five drops are worn out and will not preform their meohanioal tunotions. Further, Mr. Mjars, tbe looal manager says there u re other drops connecting with the lines in present use that will not work. Again, Mr. Myers says the buttons are worn to suob degree that when pressed, they do not correctly respond and con sequently tbe rings are not always ao curate. Mr. Baoon's contention that a switohboard formerly used in another town does not neoessarily make it ob solete, nor interfere with its giving good servioe, is altogether irrelevant, and immaterial, so far as concerns tbe Athena oase, for when the company installed the old Milton apparatus here it evidently reooguized its promise made to looal patrons for it oovered the second-baud installation behind the statement that the San Franoisoo disaster was levying on all new ap paratus in the restoration of its de moralized system there. Later, in exouse for not coming tbrongh with its agreement, the com pany alleged the faotories were so be hiud with orders that it could not se cure the neoessary equipment, all of which shows that the oompany, while tbo matter was fresh in mind, at least considered that it was a party to the agreement. Afterward it received complaints with its oustomaiy silence. Men who have worked on the switch board prououuoe it worn out, accord ing to II. A. Barrett, who was instru mental in bringing abont tbe consol idation of the lines and who feels that he stands in the light of misrepresen tation as the result of tbe company's evasive action in not keeping faith with its patrons. There is another matter of agree ment which tbe oompany is short ou, aud to wbioh tbe Press would respect- tnlly cite manager rsauon. It was understood that Atbeoa was to be giv en an all day service, Sunday includ ed. Tbe present Suuday service is about half a day and daring the time Sunday servioe is not in operation three mail trains pass through, inci dents where the telephone servioe is greatly needed. The Press is glad to note that im provements in tbe lino are being made here. The obanges enumerated by Mr. Bacon will be greatly appreoiated in view of tbe fact thut a number of phones have been out of commission a part of the time, tbe Press ptione to tbe extent that on demand a rebate for a half month's servioe was made not long ago. Time, tbat great level er of all things, may also bring about tbe realization of installation of tbe promised office equipment. Let us hope so. Contract Will Be Let to Miller & West and Work Will Start Within Fifteen Days. mi .... u me contract lor boring an artesian well on the Athena Land & Trust com pany's traot has been drawn and for warded to LaGraude, for the signature of Miller & West, a firm of well drill ers who for several years have been in the employ of the 0. R. & N. Co. ) ' CS. F. Wilson, secretary of the Ath ena Land & Trust company, informs the Press that work on the well will begin within 15 days. The oontraot speoifles that Miller & West are to re ceive 5 per foot for boring the well and the depth is limited to 1000 feet The firm to wbioh the contraot'is let is responsible and operates a first class drilling machine. Tbe men have been in the employ of the O. R. & N. company for several years and the deepest wells on tbe system have been bored under their supervision. Mr. West was here last week and looked over the ground carefully. He pronounced conditions here to be ideal for artesian prospeots. While tbe Athena Land & Trust company is takieg great interest in seouring artesian water, property own ers looking to tbe best interests of the town and oommunitv have sicniflad their intention of financially aidintr the enterprise, and probably a stock o ompany will be organized as a result of the universal interest shown. Tbe plan to use the city well as a base of operations does not meet with approval on the part of maobine men. They say it will be more satisfactory to tore a new well outriuht thau to attempt to ream out the present hole to larger size. THE JUDGE FINES FIGHTERS Two Cases Disposed of Br His Honer Docket Cleared. MILTON'S STRAWBERRY DAY People Feasted on Luscious Fruit and Enjoyed Hospitality. BAPTIST CHURCH CHILDREN DAY Interesting Services Announced for Next Sunday. The gates of Milton swung ajar to hundreds of visitors Tuesday, the oc casion being tbe oity's annual straw berry day.- Visitors thronged tbe streets, feasted on luscious fruit and were hospitably entertained after a fashion known only to the good people of Milton. A feature of the day was tbo horse parade wbioh took place in tbe after noon, following tbe exercises in Nich ols grove. Following is tbe program: Musio - - - Fourth Cavalry Band Address of Welcome Mayor N. A. Davis Ida Avery and Miss Wills - Hon. H. S, Blandford - - J. P. Neil - Prof. Neiland - - Mrs. Ida Avery - Prof. A. J. Jackson Duet Mrs. Ida Avery and Miss Wills Address - - -" - Col. Q. R. Ballon A base ball game was played after tbe horse show, aud in tbe evemug a band concert and vocal selections were enjoyed at Columbia College grounds. Section of Seats Fall. Dnriug the afternoon exeroises at tbe Caledonian pionio Saturday, a section of tbe seats oollapsed and in tbe crush Henry Barrett was caught and seriously injured. His left leg from tbe knee down received a severe strain and was badly bruised. Others narrowly escaped injury. Duet - Mrs. Address -Vocal Solo Address Vocal Solo Address - r1 Broncho Busting. ine of the features which claimed interested attention at tbe Caledonian pionio, was "Jinks" Taylor's band of Indian bronobo busters. Fine exbiti tiODS of horsemanship were given on both days of tbe pionio, among the best riders being a couplo of wbite boys. Tbe members of the Baptist church are looking for all the servioos ou Sun day to be at high water mark. Tbe Bible sobool will oommeuoe at 10 a. m., and every one is asked to make an effort to be on time. At 11 o'olock tbe hour for worsbip and Pastor Ry der will preach. Tbe B. Y. P. U. 7 p. m. will be led by Mrs. Watts; tbo topiois: "The Life of Frauds Will ard." Tbo service at 8 o'clock will be tbe climax of tbe day. It will be (be Children's Festival of Song. Chil dren's day is always an interesting time and tbis year a gool program bas been prepared, Everybody is wel come. Tbo program follows: Hymu, congregation ; song, sobool; prayer; responsive reading; reoitatinu, Evelyn LaRue; song, "Jesus Bids us Sbiue," primary class; recitation, Loniso Kuigbt; song, "God Cares for Me." Mrs. Watts' olass; exercise, "Children's Day," primary class; rec itation. Gertie LaRue; address, "Look iug Toward tbe Future," Chas. Betts; exercise, "The Givers," Mrs. Watts' class; song. "Welcome Fair Day," Louise Knigbt; exercise, "Pussies' School," four girls; recitation, "Let tbe Children Come," Vera Gross, Ver da Payne, Edna Jones; exercise, the "Tbe Flownr's Message," Mrs. Bar rett's and Mrs Watts' classes; address, Pastor H. E. Ryder ; recitation, Ketu Payne; offering for tbo work of tbe Baptist publioation society; soug, "At tbe Name of Jesus," school; Hymn, "Onward Christian Soldiers," congre gation ; closing prayer. Byron Hawks, of the Pioneer drug store finds ready sale for bis Peroxide Greaseless Skin Food. It is just the lotion for tbe removal of freckles, sun burn aud tbe softening of rough skin. It is best for complexion and loaves tbe skin lreo from groaso. Sorapping appears to be ooutagious in Athena and consequently Judge Rioharda ooutioues to deal out justice at the old stand. Friday an .incipient fire iu a wood pile oalled out Hoie Co. No. 2. Dur ing the process of extinguishing tbe blaze, "Slim" Miller took exceptions to direction issued by Chief Sbiok aud turned the nozzle on Snick. Tbe chief worked his way up the hose and landed a couple of blows. Later in the day the boys answered to their names in Judge Riobnrds' court. Sbiok was fined and tbe same was re mitted. Monday the Brotberton-MoAlexnu- der oase was heard. Attorney Watts appeared for (be city and Attorney Wilson for Brotherton. Brotherton was fined $25 outright and MoAlex- auder a like amount. Payment of tbe latter'a fine was suspended pending good behavior. Tbe Brotherton oase dears the police docket to dato. BAR MINORS; FROM GAMES Provisions of New Law of Last Ses sion Drastic. Billiard parlors and soft drink re sorts will te hard hit if the provisions of tbe law passed by tbe last session of the legislature and now iu effeot are enforoed. Tbis is seaate bill No. 29 and prohibits the owners of places of amnsoment permitting miuors to en gage in games there, aud also pro vides a penalty for those mimrs who misrepresent their ages. Tbe following aro tbe provisions of the law: Section 1. If any person being the owner, lessee, proprietor or employe of any cigar store, public caid room, suloou, barroom, puLlio billiard room, public pool room, sott drink establish ment or other putlio place of amuse ment, shall suffer or permit any miuor to eugago in any game of cards, bill iards, pool, bagatelle, dice throwing or other game of chance in snob dgar store, public card room, saloon, bai room, publio billiard room, publio pool room, soft drink establishment or other place of amusement, either for amnsoment or otherwise, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misde meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall bo punished ty a tine of not less than $25 nor more than $100. Section 2. If any minor shall rep resent and pretend to the owner, leu see, proprietor or employe of anyplace enumerated in section 1 of (bio act tbat such minor is 21 years of ago or upwards for tbe purpose of inducing such person to snlfer or permit such minor to engago iu any of tbe things enumerated in said section a fine of not less than $10 not more than $100. Filed in the offloe of tbe secretary of state February 23, 1909. Mountain Pasture. Good mountain pasture for horses. Enquire at Loveridgo's livery statlo, Weston. i? v li