Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer
VOLUME XXII.
ATTIENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. APRIL 15 1910.
NUMBER 15
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New Members Must Be Enrolled In
the Athena Fire Department to . ,
Make it Efficient.
and then go ahead."
We Lave the Stetson Soft and Derby Hats
' in all the latest styles.
Remember
You get 4 per cent Discount for Cash. Return
$25.00
in cash register checks and yet $1 cash or trade free.
T. M TAGGART
General Merchandise Athena, Oregon
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Cash Grocery
Doo't Monkey with Inferior Goods
. Hill Bros.
HI RRftDE STEEL CUT COFFEE
Blue Label Can, 35c
Red Label Can, 45c
Ask your neighbor i he has ever tried
that Hie;h Grade Steel Cut Coffee, which
Worthington carries, and it he has not,
'PHONE UN 113
' B. A. Barrett tbe retiring ohief of
the Athena Fiie Department, informs
the Press that the department is in
receipt of the long delayed certificates
for exempt firemen. The records are
being overhauled and all firemen who
have served the required time and
are entitled to exempt' certificates,
will receive them without delay.
The fact that several members of
the department are serving over time
and the different companies not being
represented to tho foil number of
membership at the present time, tbe
department is placed in a preoarious
oondition with the withdrawal of the
exempt members. : . .
In towns and small cities where
the fire demon is fought by volunteer
companies, the matter of keeping the
ranks filled is npgrade effort to say
the least and defloienoy from this
cause creeps' ont only when a fire is
ragiug and property interests ate
threatened with destruction.
In Athena some good work has been
accomplished by the department in
battling with flames, but its present
condition is such that to make it
effioiont, immediate enrollment of new
members to take the plaoe of those
about to retire, is required. "; V J
" At the meetings of the different
oo -panies this month, company offi
cers are to be elected. Men who will
take an active interest in tbe affairs of
tbe department should Le eleoted.
Then they should be encouraged by
the property owner and the business
man, with the view of making the
department as effloient as pose bile.
The members who have held tbe de
paitment together and are about to
beoome exempt from duty, . have done
more than their part, and now it is
np to others to take hold and do their
share of the work. i -v - v
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Men's Working Clothes and Shoes,
No Shelf-worn Goods. Quick sales and small profits is the motto
" , of the Old Reliable
BLUE FRONT STORE, gB$!
THE TUH-H LUMBER CO.
Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of
BUILDING MATERIAL
PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES
' Posts and Blacksmith coal
A. M. Johnson, Manager
Athena, Oregon
Excursion for Track Meet.
Passenger agent Van de Water of
tbe O. R. & N. was in the city Mou
day evening,: and met with members
of the Athena Commercial Assooia
tion and disonssed matters pertaining
tbe running of an excursion train from
the west end of the county , for the
county school track meet and oratori
cal contest, to be held in this city
Friday, May 15. Mr. Van de Water
offered a special train from Umatilla
and retnrn for a guarantee of 1102.
The special, train would accomodate
the people of Umatilla, Bermiston,
Stanfleld, Eoho. Pendleton and Adams
It would arrive here in tbe morning
and return after the oratorical con
test at night Tbe matter of securing
tbe train will be taken up' by tbe
Athena Commercial Association and
tbe Umatilla County Atbletio and
Oratorical Association.
. '. Fruit Outlook is Good.
Distriot Frnit Inspector Q. L. Whit-,
ney, whose territory iuoludes Walla
Walla, Columbia and Garfield coun
ties has returned from a trip through
that region and reports fruit in an ex
cellent oondition. Tn speaking of tbe
outlook, Mr. Whitney said: "So far
there has been no injury of any kind
to the frnit and if no killing frosts
appear, tbore will be a record break
ing yield, in tbe three counties whioh
embraces my field. Many trees are
being planted and orcharding is
everywhere being given more and
more attention."
Baker County Land.
John H." Lewis, , secretary of the
state land board, has plaoed on file in
the local land office of the state tbe
"seleotion" of forty-four thousand
acres in Baker county, whioh will be
given eway to tbe homesteaders who
pay for irrigation and reclamation.
Tbe proposition is similar to tbe Twin
Falls project under tbe Carey act, but
tbe state will not charge for this land.
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' The Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in
5 DELL BROTHERS, " Athena, Oregon
'We Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here
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REGARDING CENSUS -TAKING
Charles Betts Will Take Census of the
Athena Precincts.
Ul Ut HERE
lhis morning, Cbas. Betts began
taking . tbe census enumeration of
North and South Athina preoinots.
The law requires every adult person
to fornish the prescribed information,
but also provides that it shall , be
treated oonfidentally, so that no in
jury can come to any person from
answering the questions.
Tbe President has issued a proclam
ation, calling on all oitizens to co
operate with the Census and assuring
them that it has nothing to do with
taxation, army or jury Bsrvioe, com
pulsory school attendance, regulation
of immigration, or enforcement of
any law, and that no one oan be iu
jured by answering the inquiries.
It is of the utmost importauoe that
tbe oeusus of population and agricul
tural in tbis state be complete and
correct.
It is necessary for tbe oredit of the
city that every resident be counted as
the offioial figures of this oensns must
be the standard for tbe next ten years
and from these figures the city will
be judged..,,
In order toassist the enumerator
in his work, it is requested that oiti
zens be prepared to furnish promptly
tbe facts concerning all tbe members
of their households, inoluding those
temporarily absent, and all persons
residing on the premises.
It is necessary that the native state
or foreign country of both parents of
each person enumerated shall he re
corded. Then, too, many oitizens, while liv
ing in tbe city, own and operate farms
in the country and it will be neoessary
for them to furnish the number of
aores cultivated last year in the var
ious orops together with the yield and
the value of eaoh crop. ' The various
farm and domestio animals must also
be given. All these calculations re
quire time and delay the enumeration
if not given promptly. Every citizen
is requested to assist and co-operate
with tbe oensns taker in making a
full count of tbe inhabitants of
Atbena. . ' . ,
PBIIR GRADES HAVE TE1
Will Compete at Meet in Athena On
, May 14 . , V
' That tbe publio schools of Pendle
ton will make a strong effort to cap
ture tbe cup offered by the Atbena
merobants at tbe county intersoholas
tio track meet to be held in that town
on May 14 is testified to by the in
creasing aotivity among tbe athletes
of all Bizes and ages; says the East
Oregonian. Tbe high school has bad
a team in the field for a cumber of
years and tbe candidates for tbis
year's team have been limbering np
for some time. But as the events at
tbe Athena meet will be divided into
three seotlcns in order to allow gram
mar grades to participate, and as the
onp will be awarded to tbe town
making tbe largest number of points
in these three divisions. Manager Tom
Boylen of the high sobool team has
effected an athletio organization in
eaoh of the four grammar schools here
and will fee that young athletes are
properly prepared to enter the con
test in May, ;
The following are the officers of the
organizations in the different Pendle
ton schools:
Washington.
Joe Dorrisy. president.
Harold bfook, secretary.
Ralph Knight, manager.
Fontie Snyder, captain division B.
Ernest Boylen, captain division C.
Hawthorne.
Wilbur Kurrle, president.
Bufford Butler, seoretary.
Harrison Minnis, maaager.
Orson Straugbn, captain division B.
Charles Gordon, captain division C.
' - . Lincoln.
Miss Alma Harris, president.
Riley Furnish secretary.
Lyn Gordon manager.
' Claire Brown oaptain division C.
I '- - Field. '
Miss Grace Harris president.
William Longmeier seoretary.
Lee Teutsob manager.
Jack Malarne oaptain division C.
The high sobool teams will be
classified as. division A, tbe teams
from the 7th and 8th grades as divis
ion B and those from the lower grades
as division 0. '
. . Manager Boylen has planned to pull
off four grammar grade events in con
nection with tbe high school interclass
cross country inn to be held tbis after
noon.
Damage Suit Dismissed.
For the second time sinoe the orig
inal suit was filed, the oase of John
Bergevio against Dr. J. A. Spooogle
of Atbena, was dismissed Monday
morning on motion of the plaintiff.
This was a suit brought by Bergevio
against Sponogle for tbe recovery of
$15,000 for tbe alleged ruin of Ber-
gevin's daughter. Tbis soit has been
Died twice and as many times has been
dismissed.
Garden Citv Commercial Club Received
' by Commercial Association, Citi
zens and Band. . '
The Walla Walla Commercial club,
135 strong, and many of tbe members
accompanied bv their wives made a
''get-aoquainted" visit to Athena
Tuesday forenoon. The Walla Walla
boosters came in on a special train,
a: 1 were met at tbe O. R. and N.
station by tbe members of the Athena
Commercial association, - citizens,
pupils from tbe Athena High School
and the Athena Band.
Tbe special train arrived at 10:15,
and headed by tbe baud, tbe visitors
were escorted up Main street and were
turned loose in tbe business district
for bait an hour, after whioh time
they boarded tbe train and left for
Pendleton where tbe Commercial Clnt
of that city took care of them daring
tbe afternoon.
Tbe juukerters were in charge of
President Crawford and Secretary
Moore. . Big Chief Kauffman in bis
vast capacity of utility man, herded,
the big orowd, inolnding the sohool
girls, into li e, when tbe march np
Main street began and kept all in
place.
Before arriving in Atbena, stops
had been made at Freewater, Milton
and Weston. At Weston, Kauffman
kidnapped Col Wood, Ira Kemp and
Sim Barnes and they were in the par
ade here. It is rumored that tbe big
ex-polioeman corraled a couple of
Athena men and took them to Pendle
ton with tbe excursionists.
. The Atbena High Sobool and tbe
8th grade students were dismiasd for
the ocoasion and tbe preaenoe of the
pupils helped to swell tbe ranks of
tbe orowd on hand to reoeive the
visitors,- A i Pendleton the Walla
Walla people were 1 entertained at
lunch by the Commercial association.
In the near future the Pendleton
Commercial Association will make a
trip to Wulla Walla and intervening
towns and in all probability tbe Ath
ena Commercial Association, will join
the Pendleton association on the trip.
Bower man Lost Out; ' ; V '
In tbe most spirited city eleotion
Condon has witnessed in eight years
tbe foroes of Jay Bowerman went
down to defeat at tbe hands of tbe
independents",, who eleoted the may
or and three out of four oounoilmen.
In the campaign political Hues were
practically thrown aside as far as tbe
republioan and democratic , parties
were concerned. : Tbe issue was ae to
whether tbe Bowerman faction of tbe
republican party should hold control
of tbe city and by their votes tbe
people of Condon voted nay to tbis
proposition. Dr. J. F. Wood is a
demourat politically, but in tbe race
for mayor be was supported by re
publicans as well as by democrats.
Dr. Donnely the present mayor and
defeated aspirant for re-election, was
appointed by tbe counoil to fill tbe
vaoanoy caused by tbe removal from
the city of former Mayor Farnsworth.
Stanfield Wants Laborers.
A Stanfleld item says tbe demand
for labor in that part of Umatilla
county so far outruns tbe available
supply that 500 men oould easily find
employment at good wages at tbe
present time. This oondition has its
origin mainly in the rapid develop
ment taking plaoe in tbe West part of
tbe county in tbe irrigated fruit dis
tricts about Hermiston and Stanfleld.
At Stanfield alone 250 men will be
needed tbis year to take care of newly
planted orohard traots. The great
amount of improvement work and new
construction just being begun on tbe
O. R. and N. will still farther inorease
tbe demand for labor and men who
are looking for work at remunerative
figures need have no bositanoy in
making Stanfleld their point of des
tination. "
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Change in Train Service.
A slight change in train servioe on
tbe O. R. & N. went into effeot
Wednesday says the East Oregonian.
With the exception of a change in
mail cars at that point the Pendleton
Portland local will be run on through
to Walla Walla each evening and tbe
Walla Walla Pendleton local will run
on through to Portland each morning.
Tbe train crews will bave tbe same
runs as at present, tbe times and num
bers of all tbe trains will be tbe same;
tbe only change being that passeagers
will not be compelled to change cars
at this point. Tbe change is made
for tbe purpose of expediting tbe ser
vioe. - :
D. J, Kirks Baby Dead.
The Walla Walla Union of Wed
needay says: Anna Elizabeth, the
one year old baby of Mr. and Mrs. D.
J. Kirk, 623 North Eight street, died
yesterday afternoon after a month's
illness. Tbe funeral will hi at tbe
boose at 10 a. m. Thursday morning
and the iatermnnt is to be in the Mil
ton cemetery, tbe funeral party going
over on tbe 11 o'clock oar.
It Took All Pilot Rock Had to Win Out
In Extra Inning Session, '
There was an extra inning session
out at Pilot Rook Sunday and it took
all the barleygrower 's had to put the
Maroons down for the count of 8 to 7
the same score that stood in tbe pre
vious Sunday game. , i
Over at Weston, the mountaineers
threshed it out with the Pendleton
hunoh. and everybody, was glad that
Nordean's men wou. The shave was
a close one, the score being 2 to 8.
Next Sunday, Weston plays hero
and the Rook team will face Harlan
on 'the county seat grounds. The
Atbena game will be played on the
old grounds, for the reason that the
new diamond is not yet in proper con
dition. Tbe game , will uot be oalled
until 2:30, whioh time will give
everybody a chanoe to attend..
Athena was in it to win Sunday,
and but for infield errors, the boys
would bave lifted the cellar door.
Tbe team was materially strengthened
with Hawks behind tbe bat, and with
a shift or two n the positions of the
men now on the team, the boys will
soon strike their stride and give tbe
other teams their "needina."
Tbe soore sheet shows that four
barleygrowers bad tapped the pan r,
before the Maroons bad even a lookin.
Two scored in tho first tight off the
reel, and they dittoed a like number
in the third, after Stone bad ozoned
two . basimen in the second and the
side retired on Westgate's out at
second. In the fourth Athena even
ed things up and went , one to the
good when nine men faoed Lobaugh
and four bits with a ohoioe collection
of errors, netted five sooreB. In the
sixth Pilot Rook soored three more
runs and the ; Maroons tied up .the
paokage in the nineth when Wilson
and Starr soored.
Athena was retired in her half of
the extra inning, and L. Gilbert, first
man up for tbe Rook, fanned, B. Gil
bert laid down one whioh Groves
booted and was safe. He worked bis
way around to tbe second sack and
took third on Westgate's single. Royer
who had been methodically fanning,
connected for a dribbling grounder
that shot straight at Starr. Mr. Starr
overlooked the home plate and the
fleeing Gilbert, tossed tbe ball to first
and Pilot Rook had ' won .another
mi -.i'. -.
game. xneBcore;.; : .
Pilot Rook 2 0 2 0 0 8 0 0 0 18
'Athena. ; 0 00 500002 07
Batteries Lobaugh, Lieuallen and
Gilbert, Stone Wilson and Hawks."
Freak Hens in Missouri.
What effeot is Bailey's comet hav
ing on Missouri hens? Tbis question
isioooupying the minds of farmers
near Independence, Mo., who have
almost decided to lock tbe doors of
their henneries tbat tbe fowls may
not see tbe comet. Recently a . hen
belonging to George Davidson laid
an egg with a tail an inoh long. The
tail wai about tbe diameter of a' lead
penoll, was composed of tbe same
material as the shell, r Mrs. Ida Cook
reported one of ber prize Plymouth
Rooks had laid two eggs at once. One
of them had a little white caudal ap
pendage. ; Tbe shell was soft, and
"glvy" to tbe touch. Tbe two eggs
were joined tocetber with a sort of
ligament two inohes long whioh ap
peared to be of tbe same material as
tbe oovering. ; The tail dropped off
soon after Mrs. Cook began tit handle
tho eggs. , -a,. .
, . Don't Try Now. ,. ,
Friday, April 15, at 10 o'olook in
tbe morning will be tbe earliest time
at whioh it will be worth while trying
to see Bailey's comet with tbe aid of
tbe naked eye, it was asid at the
Georgetown ; University latoratory.
During April and early part of May
the comet will bo visible in the east
before snnrise a few degrees north of
east. By May 17 it will be too nearly
in line with tbe snu to be seen in tbo
morning, but from then on it will
appear in tbe west in tbe evening. On
May 20 it will set two boars after tbe
sun with the interval growing longer
eawh night. . -
v Memorial Services. .,,
There will be a epeolal service in
tbe Christian Cburob, Sunday, even
ing at 7:30, in memoriom for the late
Alexander MoKenzie. Tbe oitizens of
Atbena are specially invited to be
present The Mayor, Mr. McEwon,
will represent the people, and Mr.
Potts and Mr. Foes will represont tho
oongregatlon. ' The pastor will deliver
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an appropriate aauiesa. chuiu uiumu
will be rendered. Come, there is a
seat, a book and a hearty welcome for
all. Remember tbe usual morning
seivioes.
' ' A. M. Meldrnm, Minister.
, Walla Walla Bov Killed 5
Terribly and fatally mangled when
the train on wbiob be was stealing a
ride broke in two, Floyd R. Hnssey,
20 years old, of Walla Walla bled to
death almost instantly. He was a
member of the militia company and
was stoalicg a iido to come to tbe in
spection at tbat place. Ho was on
Northern l'aoiflo train No. 67.