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I f A .-V 1: J 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. SEPTEMBER 17, 1909. NUMBER 37 THE rUM-A-LUM LUMBER GO. Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of BUILDING MATERIAL PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES ' Posts and Blacksmith coal A. M. Johnson, Manager Athena, Oregon ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Parton Milling Company BEAUTY Floor ia made in Athena, by Athena labor, in the latest and best eqnipped mill in the west, of the best seleoted Blnestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home industry. Your grooer sells American Beauty for 1,50 Per ack. 1 Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers Athena, Oregon. Waltsburg, Wash. Ask Your Grocer for Happy Home Canned Fruits Happy Home Canned Vegetables r Happy Home Canued Fish -Gold Shield Coffee Gold Shield Tea Gold Shield Spices All Above Goods are of the Highest Possible Quality, Bach can guaranteed by SCHWA BACHER tfROS. & COMPANY, Incorporated Seattle, Wash. . 0 L High School Department Has Xareer Enrollment Than Expected Pro gressive Policy Is Outlined. leave the school honse. Now, taking more than one step at a time in as cending or descending the staiia was striotly prohibited at the beginning of sohool bnl it is thought that this will be pardoned as it was a remarkable show of agility. Wa Paper I Paints, Oils, Glass House Sign and Carriage Painting E.T, Kidder, McArthur Building City M eat EUlarket J. II. STONE, Prop. NORTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET The Best Meat to be found in Town. Come and see I will treat you right, me. J. H. STONE, ATHENA, OREGON The Press has set aside a depart ment in which will appear articles and news items concerning matters of interest to its readers pertaining to the Athena pntlio sohools. Hereafter this department will be allotted reg ular space, with appropiate heading announcing the sohool editorial staff. Ed. TIi6 Athena -schools oommenoed Monday with a splendid enrollment, especially in the High sobool depart ment. The opening was most auspi cious. The sohool board and Messrs. Riohnrds, worthy clerk of the board, and Attorney Beverly were present and made appropriate addresses. Prin cipal Case and Assistant Principal Mulkey outlined the progressive pol icy of the sohool year. Teaobers and pnpils are enthusiast ically enteriug upon their work with apparent purpose and resolution. There is a marked aud needed emphasis plaoed upon discipline and supervi sion. There is snap and hearty re sponse being introduced throughout the grades and the High shcool, and consequent efficiency must grow out of advancement throughout the grades. Others are to enter next week. This week was devoted mainly to organization and preliminary work in various subjects, pending ariival of text books needed in some subjeots, and it will be a day or two before the sohool machinery gets down to smooth, hard work, tut all the better work will be done for having an in telligent beginning. v-.-.-.-. - Toe new piano was plaoed in the High sohool department Tuesday, and the pupils of the more advanced grades greatly enjoy the morning . ex ercises. The total enrollment will probably exceed 200 before the week is out. Arf rangements nave oeen started to nave atblecios and students are very en thusiastic over the plans for the year's wors. ' v- ' We want everyone interested in se curing an eduoation to join us. Never mind age limit. Gome and take up work. We can offer just as good a Training Course for teaohers as cnn be had in Eastern Oregon. We invite graduates and any others contemplat ing teaching to join us. Enrollment By Grades. Miss Beverly Primary department, 1st and 2nd grades, 89. . ... Miss Wilkinson 3rd and 4th grades 33. Miss Ore well 4 th and 6th grades, 33. Miss B, Orgwell 6th and 7th grades 89. Mrs, Mulkey 8th grade, 13. Principal Case and Mr. Mulkey High sohool, 21. Total enrollment, 177. Preparations are being made for a gymnasium, basket ball team, track team and other exercises. The sohool board has rented a piano from Eilers piano bouse in Pendleton, and the students hope to purobase the instrument by giving entertainments. Students are all enthusiastic and willing to do anything in their power to help build up the sohool. All are well pleased with the teachers. Mr. Case and Mr. Mulkey are doing everything possible to get the school started right and to offer the students amusement as well as plenty of wotk. Mrs. Mulkey will take one high sohool study and Miss Beverly is. to have charge of the German class. X A very interesting iuoident oooured at school on Wednesday afternoon Prof. Case was seen to clear the hall in a sinale lean and charge down the stairs three or more steps at a time, It is believed that these extraordinary maneuvers were performed for the tinmnHfi of induoioe a small dog to Mr w - Seattle Health Commissioner Wars On Wharf Pests. S THE QUALITY GROCERY STORE PR0Rry WHERE PRICES ARE RICHT P0HLh 83 I A : : & ft q id 'ret The Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in vegeta - Giant rat traps to oatoh water-front rats will be installed by the city de partment of health and sanitation of Seattle, aooording to plans now under consideraton by Dr. J. E. Criohton, commissioner of health. Dr. Criohton hopes to install about 15 corrals or traps as an experiment under the wharves in the distriot from Smith cove to the Centennial mill. A large V-shaped corral will be bnilt at regular intervals, the sides of high wire netting, the opening of the V facing the water and the point ex tending back to the rear of the over- banging wharf. At the point of the V a small opening will be given into a barrel sunk -flush with the ground and covered with a balanced door, so hinged tLst it will drop anything coming upon it into the barrel beneath. By means of this pitfall Dr. Croohton hopes to take oare of the gi eater part of the rats congregating under J (-he wharves. The traps will-require about 40 feet of wire netting, protected at the top to keep the animals from crawling over. The expense is estimated as slight. They will extend along a dis triot about 1 miles in length. 1 READING ROOM Its New Location Will Be in Basement of the Christian Church Games and Gymnasium for Starter, H IK JOIN Thirty-Two New Members Added to Commercial Association Roster TUn mii cc nc dt tddc l flu iiiiLi.il ui iini iimiuiA Wednesday Evening. 1e Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here DELL BROTHERS, CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN GOOD THING3 TO EAT Athena, Oregon More as an experiment than any thing else, the pastor of the Christian oburob, enoouraged by several frieuds opened a small reading room in a building on Main street, which during the closing months of the past school year proved so snooessful tbnt it has been deoided to reopen the reading room in larger and more oommodious quarters. The basement of the Christian oburoii is to be utilized for this pur pose. Many new features are to be introduced, and it will be made a plaoe whioh is striotly first olass in every way, a plaoe where pareuts can permit their boys to go, with the fnll confidence that nothing but good in fluence will snrround them. One has but to go down town after tne dismissal of sohool 'to see dozens of boys loafing around, many in very un desirable places, to see the need of snob an institution. The Press feels that Mr. Harris and the oburnh should be commended for this undertaking, end further that the community should show its nppie- ciation by liberal donations to the expense fund. This work will be enlarged just as fast, Mr. Harris assures us, as funds are availaule to do so.. It is hoped in time to add a well equipped tnb aud shower bath to the plant, and other featuies which will make the plaoe attractive to young men and boys. The place will be opened aoout the first of Ootober, and will be thrown open to the pnblio for inspection and patronage. Baptist Church Rally Day. A great day is expeoted at the Bap tist cbuicb on Sunday. It is Rally Day and Harvest Home Festival. Ev ery one is enthusiastic in preparation for it. The oburoh will be beauti fully decorated and there will be a fine display of all kinds of frnit aud vegetables it is to be a pnblio recog nition of the goodness of God in giv ing a bountifnl harvest. The service at 10 a. hi. will be unique and very interesting from the start, when you will be welcomed and decorated at the door by the reception committee, and well, you must come and see for yourself all the good things awaiting yon. Every one attending, young or old, will receive a pretty souvonir. There will be several new and inter esting features in the servioe, whioh will please yon greatly. Don t miss this 10 a. m. service. Then at 11 o'olook will follow the Harvest Home Festival service, with special singing and special sermon by tbe pastor, Herbert E. Ryder. At 7:30 p. m. there will be a special musical program, interspersed with bright three minute addresses. These servioes on Sunday, especially the one at 10 s. m. will probably be among tbe brightest and most interesting tbe Baptist church has ever had. Don't forget, a souvenir for all who attend tbe 10 o'olook service. Come and welcome. Lincoln County High School. For information in regard to Lincoln County High School, Stenography, Typewriting, Vocal and Instrumental Music. Manual Tiaining, Rent of Furnished cottages, cost of living, address Prof. Wilbur, Newport, Ore. tbe Athena held siuoe season, was There was and enough be first meeting of Commercial Association cessation for the harvest held Wednesday eveuing. faitly good attendance enthusiasm was nnooiked to 'swim several ordinary Association sessions. The olimax came when the names of the thirty-two new members, which were secured at the basket sooial aud educational rally, was by unanimous xnese sa names aaaea to tne assooia tion roster, do not inlonde those of the Ladies' auxiliary, whioh has for its purpose certain lines of work sep arate, though in conjunction with tbat of the association. Several new members addressed the meeting and pledged their support to the work of the Commercial body and to the advancement of tbe city's progress. Mr. J. F. Brown, of the new Mer cantile firm of Steward & Brown made a short address, whioh was well re ceived. He was followed by Prof. Caso of tbe Athena High sohool, who in a pleasing and oonvinoing manner, talked on the relationship of the school and the influential effort of the com mercial assooiatiou along educational lines. He outlined, in a measure, the needs of the sohool, tbe character of support it should have from tte pat rons and citizens generally to insure its suooess, and appealed for the en forcement of tbe ourfew ordinance during the sohool year. Mr. T. H. Beverly interested the meeting ty re lating ilia experiences with the suc cessful results aoorued from the labors of commercial and other organizations with whioh be had been couneoted. Several. committees were appointed for speoial purposes and the associa tion went on rooord favoring the abolition of tbe steeple on tbe building at the corner of Maiu aud 2ud streets; the enforcement of the ouifow ordi nance aud tbe construction of a side walk south from tbe city hall to the park. Commissioner of Washington Thinks 0. R. & N. Must Make 12 1-2 Per Cent Reduction. Several thousand dollars annually is to be saved to the wheat growers of Umatilla county as a resnlt of the re cent rate reduction ordered by the Washington state commission, aooord ing to a member of that commission, says a county exchange. A 12 1-2 per cent reduction has been ordered aud as the present rate from Pendleton to Portland is 0 1-2 cents tbe reduction will make a difference of more than a cent a bushel or a saving of $55,375 on a 5,000,000 bushel crop. In view of the Washington deoision the deoision of tbe Oregon commission on the same question will be watobed for with all the more interest. After declaring that wheat rates on the O. R. & N. in Oregon will be re- duoed in aoonrdanoe with the 12 1-2 cent rednotion on tbe Northern Paci fic in Washington. John C. Lawrence of tbe Washington state railroad com mission, went on to say: "Tbe order of tbe commission ap plies only to tbe Northern Paoiflo, but we confidently expeot the reduced rates will be met by tbe O. R. & N., otherwise shippers at competitive points will naturally divert all tbe grain to tbe road which will give the cheapest haul to tidewater markets. 'TbeO. R. &N. officials certainly will not covet such a diversion of traffic Tbe grain haul revenue is a big item in O. R. & N. earnings. When tbe O. R. & N. meet tbe out It will announce tariffs making rates to Portland idontical with tbe Tacotua Seattle rates ordorod on tbe Northern Paoiflo. "This done, tbe interstate commerce commission rules will apply, which will require that tbe O. R. & N. charge no more nor higher rates from intermediate points in Oregon than tbe rate from Palouse points to Port land. In other words, meeting tbe cut in Washington means the O. R. & N. must make lower rates in Oregon. By relationship of ratesthis reduction will extend to all points in tbe latter state." FAKE MINISTER A BIGAMIST Left Wife in North Carolina and Mar. -ried Freewater GirL Rev. Edgar H. Ward, who accord ing to wife No. 3 has four wives and many affinities now reposes in a cell in tbe Walla Walla jail charged with bigamy. He was arrested at bis borne at Suonyside, Oregon, near Freewater, ty Deputy Sheriff Painter. As Prose coting Attorney Everett J. Smith probes into the past of the prisoner be seems to have unearthed startling facts. It now looks as though Ward, who resigned his charge at Freewater only after talk of his arrest was heard about three weeks ago, is not a Bap tist minister as be professed to be and besides has fonr wives living, three in the east and one at his home in Sunnyside. August 12 Ward was married to Miss Myrtle Harris of Freewater. A clipping containing the aooount of tbe wedding from the Union was sent to. Bakersviile, North Carolina, and appeared in the Bakersviile paper. ' The clipping and comment the editor of that paper saw fit to make is as follows: Rev. E. H. Ward, pastor of the Freewater Baptist ohurob, and Miss Myrtle Harris, also of that town, were married at the home of Rev. A. L. Thorougbman, pastor of the Marvin M. E. Churoh August 12. The couple left ou an evening train for Freewater where they will make their home. Bof,h oontraoting parties are well known. . "Tbe above is from a Walla Walla, Washington paper. Mr. Ward is also well known in Bakersviile., where be kept a small store at the north end of tbe bridge up to the time of his leav ing here less. than three months ago. Of course the news of his marriage to Miss Harris was a surprise to many of bis Mitchell connty acquaintances, who knew be left a wife behind him. As it is suoh a short while since he loft here, it is rather strange tbat he should have forgotten tbat he was a married man, bnt are not familiar with the combined effeots of a sudden change of climate and the multiplioy of ministerial duties upon some men. However, a man tbat will forget to pay the printer before leaving is also liable to Boon forget that be is bound by tbe ties of matrimony after taking bis departure." , A letter from Mrs. Minnie Ward, tbe minister's deserted North Carolina wife, has also been received by Prose cutor Smith. In the same the former wife exposes Ward thoioughly as a liar, orook and a rascal. OFFERS A SOU! Pendleton East Orcgonian Offers Suggestion For Solving Saloon Question. Reoogniziug that the operation of tbe looal option law is a failure in Pendlotou as it is in many other towns whioh are on the "dry" list, the Pen dleton East Oregonian, which was a warm supporter of the looal move ment, in its issue of Monday, offers the following editorial solution to tbo liqnor question: "It is evident that a year from now tbo people of this oounty will again have to vote on the question of pro hibition. Then there is a suggestion for those who do not believe prohibi tion furnishes tbe right solution of the liquor problem do not allow the fight to be waged on the same lines it was a year ago a straight tight be tween the saloon elemont and the pro- bibitonists. If snob a -fight is made the county will go dry again. "There is a way by whioh the peo ple of Pendleton and of other towns of tbe oounty may offer the voters some thing new a third solution of tbe question At the coming city eleotion the Pendleton obarter can be amended so as to limit the number of saloons, provided tbo liqnor business is legal ized again, to one saloon per thousand peoplo or fractional thousand. This would give Pendleton six or seven saloons, less than tbe city has now under prohibition. Then an ordinanoe should be passod, under tbe initiative, prescribing how these saloons shall bo ran, in case they are' allowed at all. The ordinanoe should be an ordinance tbat will regulate. It should provide for Sunday closing; for the rigid en forcement of tbe blacklist and of the law against selling liquor to minors; there should be some ohuraoter quali fications for men who want' to enter the liquor business; a saloonmau who violates the law should loso his ii ueuse; tbo barrooms should be entirely open to inspection from the streets; there should bo neither chairs nor card tables within tne banoomsand othor restrictions might bo imposod. Each saloon should puy a license of not less than $2500 per annum. "Now if Pendleton will adopt snob a charter change and suoh an ordin anoe and if tbe other towns of the oounty will do likewise then when tbe peoplo rote on the liquor question a year from this time tboy would have (he assurance that if they legalized tbe liquor business again tbe business will be oonduoted along proper, civil ized lines not as in tbe days of old. They would know tbat tbe laws for the regalation of saloons would be enforood for tbo simple reason tbat unless they were enforood tbe oounty wonld go dry again at the next subse quent eleotion. Wbat do you think of it, gentlemen?" Tbe best cook in tbe world can't make a good cup of coffee out of old stock tbat has been on the shelves fof six months. Cbase & tfaoborn coffee is always fresh. Sold by T. M. Taggatt L "A ' .. j i: 4 - H ''' I V i i -ii If ! ft M I . - A f