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VOLUME XXIII.
ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. AUGUST 4. 1911.
NUMBER-30
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P.
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orncERs
F. WILSON, President,
KOEPKE Vice-President,
S. Le GROW, Cashier,
A. ZERBA. Ass't, Cashier.
DIRECTORS
S. F. WILSON, H. KOEPKE,
A. B. M'EWEN, M. L. WAITS,
F. S. Le GROW.
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FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF ATHENA
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS. $90,000.00
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We extend to our Depositors every" cccommdation
consistent with sound Banking.
L ROUTE IS
EFFECTIVE SEPT.
THE SERVICE COVERS SIX DAYS
OF EACH WEEK RECULAR.
Carrier Appointed Under the
Civil Service, Will Receive
a Thousand Dollar Salary.
CLASSIFICATION OF
AMERICAN BARLEYS,
Commonly Known as Two Rowed,
Four Rowed and Six Rowed,
BAKSAVHER
DUST PAN
OLD WAY
NEW WAY
With your next purchase
amounting to $2.50 or
over, we will give you
one of these Dust Pans
Something entirely new.
It will save your temper
and last a lifetime.
BUNDY & CHRISTIAN
THE TUM-A-LUM 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
We
art Yom!
The Morrow-Umatilla
Bstroct Fair
Requests Your Presence one Week
Commencing September Nth
BIGGEST AND BEST YET
More Exhibits, More Space, More Music, More Attract
ions and more of Everything that's Entertaining.
SPECIAL RAILROAD RATES.
REMEMBER THE BIG ROUNDUP
The postoffioe department has Doti
fled Postmaster Wortbington that Rur
al Route No. 1, from Atbena, will be
established on September 1.
The 60bedule will be effective six
days of the week, the carrier leaving
Athena at 8:30 a. m. returning at 5:00
p. m. The carrier will command a
salary of $1,000 per annum and will
be appointed by the civil service com
mission, under the rules of that depart
ment.
The total length of the new route,
which will serve the territory north,
northwest and west of this oity, is
28 miles in length, covers an area
of 40 square miles, serves a poplation
of 450 people residing in 93 bouses..
It is hoped to briug the servioe up
to the highest standard of efficiency,
and .those residing along the route will
And the daily mail service one of con
venience. The route is as follows:
Beginning at the postoffioe the car
rier will go north to center of south
line of sec 18, east to southwest cor
ner of sec. 17, north to oenter west
line of sec. 8, west to center of sec 12,
north to center of south line of seo. 86,
west 1-2, north 1-2, west to railroad
1-2, northwest to tbe south line of
seo. 15, west to the southwest oorner
of sec. 16, south to tbe southwest cor
ner of seo. 28, west to the southwest
corner of seo. 30, south to tbe south
west oorner of seo. 31, east 1-2, south
1-2, east 1-2, sooth 1-2, east to tbe
southwest corner of seo. 3, south 3-4,
east 1-2, south to sobool bouse 1 and
1-2, east 1-4, south 1-4, east to center
of seo. 23, sooth to oenter of seo. 26,
east to railroad track, noitbeast along
railroad east 4-2, north 1-2, east 1-2 to
postoffioe.
Athena Tennis Plavers.
"Athena is up to date in her lawn
tenuis," says A. Maokeuzie Meld torn
to tbe Press. "Dr PJamondon bas pro
; vided a fine oourt at hU residence,
where every evening a company of
ladies and gentlemen meet to enjoy
this most fasoinating game. Mrs. Pla
mondon is quite prodoient in playing
a successful game and Mrs. Fi. I.
Watts and Mrs. R. T. Brown nre two
new players of great promise. Tbe
doctor puts up a fine game; bis beet
stroke being a baok-band cot whiob
be delivers with great exaotuess. Mr.
Brown is tbe most soienlifjio player,
having a variety of strokes wbiob
keeps bis opponents guessing as to
which he will deliver. Messrs. Koontz
LeGrow, Bundy and Mitobell all put
op a good game." Mr. Meldrum and
Dr. Plamondon played twelve games
tbe other evening before a final deois
ion was reaohed.' It tbe interest in
tbe game continnes to grow as it has
in tbe past, a new court will be made
next year. Aepbalt will likely be tbe
material used in its construction. In
order to make tbe game more popnlar
a tournament might be started among
players of neighboring towns. Should
this suggestion meet with tbe approba
tion of any neighboring club Mr. Mel
drum would be glad to entor into ne
gotiations. Services on Church Lawn.
The Gospel services on tbe lawn at
tbe Christian church last Sunday eve
ning was a decided easoess. Tbe solo
rendered by Mrs. Otbo Reeder was of
a very high character. Mrs. Reeder
bas a beautifully cultivated voice, and
will sing a solo next Snnday night. All
are earnestly requested to attend. Es
pecially those of yon who have no
obnrob borne, come and we will give
you a very warm welcome, a 6eat, a
book and a blessing. A. M. M.
Wanted A situation as cook in
harvest by a lady well qualified to
manage cook bouse. Apply at tbis
office.
Barleys are commonly classified ns
two rowed, four rowed and six rowed.
The European brewers generally pre
fer the two rowed varieties, which are
plumper and starchier, while in this
country the six rowed, of which tbe
four rowed is but a slightly varied rel
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The" Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in
Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here
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HBAD OP BAY BREWING B ABLET.
fttive, is generally preferred because,
while loss starchy, it is more highly
albuminous and therefore possesses
more of the substance which brings
about the inversion of. starch into
sugar namely, diastase
The common American brewing bar
leys arrange themselves in the follow
ing system:
1. Six rowed, erect White Club.
2. Four rowed, drooping Manchuria bar
ley, Oderbrucker, Scotch, Ohio Fall, Day
Brewing, Blue barley. -
3. Two rowed, erect Goldthorpe, Pri
mus, Fan barley.
4. Two rowed, drooping Common Chev
alier, Horsford's Chevalier, Ilanna, Prin
cess.
Six Rowed Barley. Through several
years' experimentation at the Wiscon
sin agricultural experiment station It
has been found that the six rowed bar
ley is preferable to other varieties and
more profitable for the average farmer
to grow. Theyield far surpasses that
of the other varieties, and the market
demands for the six rowed class far
surpass those of all other varieties com
bined. At a conservative estimate OS
per cent of all the barley now grown
1 1 Wisconsin Is six rowed barley. This
being the type of barley most com
monly used for malting In the United
States, it is likely that most of the
Bamples that will be shown at the bar
ley and hop exhibition in Chicago in
October, 1011, will bo of that type.
The experiments with two rowed
barley through eight years' continuous
breeding work clearly prove that In
most regions the farmer cannot get
the returns frem this crop that can be
secured with the six rowed variety.
The straw seems to be very frail and
lodges easily, thereby Injuring the
quality of the grain and reducing the
yield.
ALEMNDETPpLD DEAD
Well Known Walla Walla Man Suc
cumbs to Brights Disease,
Alex MoDonald died at bis borne iu
Walla Walla Saturday afternoon of
Bright 'a Disease, from which be bad
been a long time snfferer.
Mr. MoDonald was born iu Cornwell
Canada where he lived until 18T5, fol
lowing farming for a living. In that
year be settled on a farm near tbis
city, and later conducted a harness
shop here. In 1893 he went to tbe
Walla Walla valley and engaged in
farming, and later moved to tbe gard
en city. During tbe last three or four
years, however, bis health has teen
snob tbat be did little active business,
spending the greater part of bis time
iu California, from where be returned
about a Ave weeks ago.
Mr. MoDonald was a member of tbe
Metbodist Episcopal cbnrob and of
tbe Woodmen of the World.
Besides bis wife he leaves one eon
and one daughter, two brothers and
one sister. The fcrotbers are Harvey
of Walla Walla and George McDonald
of Pollmau. Tbe sister ia Mrs. II. O.
Wortbington of tbis city.
The funeral was held at the M. E.
oburcb iu Walla Walla Monday.
The Canned Green Pea Bomb.
The Innocent looking "canned green
pea bomb" Is. according to nn expert
chemist, "the most lielllsb affair In
vented" It was sent to n prominent
Parisian hotel keeper ns a sample. lie
suspected something and sent It to tbe
government laboratory. It was found
to contain a powerful explosive and
belonged to the class called "bombe a
renversement" that is. a bomb the
Inversion of which causes Instant ex
plosion. It Is fitted out with n straight
or curved glass tube connecting two
Tlals containing the necessary acids.
A wad of cotton separates the fluids,
and this wad In some instances serves
In place of a time fuse. It was a bomb
of this kind which caused the terrible
loss of lire In the central police station
of.SU Petersburg some time azo
L0CI00D HAS A
HIS RELAPSE
MENTAL FACULTIES SAID TO BE
SERIOUSLY IMPAIRED.
Business Matters Cause For
Worry Which Sends Cap
italist to Private Sanitarium
Constant worry over business mat
ters has so preyed on the mind of Z.
F. Lookwood of this oity tbat be bas
suffered a nervous collapse, and Wed
nesday evening was taken to Portland
aitd entered Dr. Williamson's private
sanitarium for treatment.
Mr' Lookwood, wbo is one of tbe
best known farmers and capitalists iu
Eastern Oregon, became attaokd recen
tly with melanoboly and labored con
tinually under the halluoiuation that
be had lost bis property and was bank
rupt. So deep seated did bis worries
beoome tbat his mind became effected
uuder tbe strtiu and it is said bo de
veloped destructive and Violent tend
encies. It was then that bis family
teoame alarmed and medioal assistance
was seoured but treatmeut only serv
ed to quiet him temporarily.
He reoently disposed of his farm
near Helix for 20,000. Altbongh
he received all ho asked for tbe plaoe,
it is said be believes that the nlaoe
was worth more, and tbis with invest
ments he bad made, troubled him.
Mr. Look wood's fluauoial couditiou
is known to be good. He was one of
four citizens wbo formed tbe Athena
Land & Trust oompauy and- took over
the Ogle property. He was the trustee
for the holding oompauy and when it
dissolved, be retained a valuable traot
of laud, whiob is now farmed by his
son.
FIRE BURN WS MACHINE
Wheat Field Flames Reach Close to
Sherod's Big Barn.
Tbe big stationery threshing maob
ine owned and operated by Watts Bros
of this city, was entirely consumed by
fire, while threshing ou Joseph Sberod
farm near town, Saturday afternoou,
during tbe raging of tbe wind storm.
Tbe fire burst out instantly in tbe
cylinder compartment of tbe maohine
and so rapidly did tbe flames spread
tbat it was with oousiderable difficul
ty, the derriok table and other equip
ment was saved. About live acres of
wheat was burned, tbe high wiud real
iy proving a help to tbe tiro fighters
for tbe reason tbut tbe flames did not
spread but burned a narrow strip.
Mr. Sherod's barn narrowly esoaped
destruction, tbe flames being cbeoked
only a few feet from tho building.
The owners of tbe maobine oil me to
town and put iu an order for a new ono
with Gilbert Hunt of Walla W allu.
Tbe maohiue arrived ou Monday's
freight and was at onco taken to tbe
field.
As if the burning of th maohiue
was not enough misforntuno, ono of
tbe header teams ran away and badly
damaged a header.
THE CATSKILL GNOMES.
Legend of the Ugly Elves and Hendrick
Hudson and His Men.
In the Cntsklll mountains, back of
Grand Hotel station. Is n large amphi
theater where. Indian legend tells us.
live the ugly little Cntsklll dwarfs
with bushy beards and eyes like pigs
who can do many marvelous things.
They work surpassingly well In met
als, and it Is from their forges that In
autumn comes the haze of Indian sum
mer. But their most marvelous feat Is the
brewing of a liquor which shortens the
bodies and swells the heads of all who
drink It.
It was to their tender mercies that
Ilendrlck Hudson nnd ills men fell,
having landed from the Half Moon
and lost their way among the moun
tains. The gnomes held a mad ca
rouse in their honor, capering nnd
dancing around the amphitheater nnd
bringing forth great flagons of their
magic wine.
Iludson and his men drank freely
and deeply, only to become uilsshnpen.
ugly dwnrf. from that time forth.
Since then they have wandered around
the Cntsklll mountains, appearing to
men once In twenty years.
Tho Inst time they were due to be
seen was In 1009. So now they will
not appear again until IH'Ji). when any
one daring enough can go up to the
mountains to test for himself the truth
of the legend.-Allce Pbebe Eldi-lde In
New York World.
A Boomerang.
"So Miss Uutiunuge got no damages
In her breach of promise suit?"
' "No; ber lawyer proved the man to
b such a low down, contempt ible
specimen of humanity hmr the Jury
decided he hadn't any value and con
gratulated tier on losing iiltn."-Bnl-tlmoro
Amerlnin.
At Opportunity Lost.
Bill. - v;i. wiiiii did 'le il Jay want
ter l;li"W- Iti'ddy V:iiit'l ler kuow
wh'Mv v :i i i ii''' i wu Billy Gee!
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SECRETARY WILSON
HONORARY PRESIDENT
U. S. Department ot Agriculture
In Barley and Hop Exhibition
The secretary of state, the Hon. Phi
lander Knox, has sent out to the diplo
matic and consular representatives of
the United States In foreign countries
a circular letter Informing them that
nn International brewers' congress will
be held in Chicago, Oct. 12 to 22, 1011,
and Instructing them to bring the mat
ter to the attention of the respective
governments to which they are accred
ited, with tho request that due pub
licity be given to the information and
that the respective parties in interest
be invited to participate in the con
gress. The circular further contains tha In
formation that there will also be held
nt tho same time nnd place nn interna
tional prize exhibition for barlev and
hops.
The secretary of agriculture In the
United States, the Hon. James Wilson,
Is the honorary president of the inter
national brewers' congress.
Tho United States department of ag
riculture is preparing an exhibit by
which the United States government
will bo represented at the international
prize exhibition for barley nnd hops.
The department will show what has
been done by several of its experts
who have been for some years devot
ing their t ime to the improvement of
these crops.
The importance of this exhibition for
the farmers who raise barley and hops
cannot be overrated. It Is believed
that the first stop is herewith taken to
bring about a system of valuing these
important crops upon a basis of fact
rather than upon mere individual pref
erence nnd perhaps prejudice.
HAH IN FULL
EXQUISITE PAIN.
The Fifth and Dental Nerves Are the
Most Agonizing Thrillers. ,
Which part of the humnn body Is tbe
most sensitive to pnin?"
A sharp definition must be drawu
here between irritation and pain. Irri
tation Is not pain, but only a frequent
cause of It. Thus a crumb lodged In
the larynx neat the vocal cords pro
duces violent Irritation nnd prolonged
coughing, which often result in actual
pain. So, too, a fly or speck of dust In
the eye sets up violent Irritation and
inflammation, followed by acute pain.
Of tbe surface of the body the finger
tips and the end of the tongue are most
sensitive. For Instance, a burn on the
fingers is much more painful than one
on the back would be, while one on the
tongue would be more painful still.
Deep wounds are not painful, as a
rule, snve ns regards the surface In
Jury. Of pains not caused by external
Injuries neuralgia of the fifth nerve,
the one which supplies tho skin of the
head and face. Is the most intense. It
has frequently driven peoplo mad for
the tltno being, and sufferers have been
known to cut nnd even burn the flesh
In desperate attempts to relieve It. The
rupture of tbe branches of the dental
nerve In tooth drawing also causes
agony so intense that It has been stated
that no human being could endure It
for more than two seconds nt a time.
Pearson's Weekly.
Her Strong Chin.
Dawson -The facial features plainly
indicate character and disposition. In
selecting yon. wife were you governed
by her chin? Spenlow- No, but I have
been ever since vt- were married. '
He Promised.
Sutton-Nn. i-an'i spare tho money
very well, bul I'll li'iul It to yon If you
promise ii'it to keep It too long. Gay
hoy I'll undertake to spend every pen
ny of It before tomorrow 1T w
Ice In Persia.
The fact that ice Is plentiful and
cheap makes living In Persia more
pleasant than It would otherwise be,
nnd tho fact that It can be obtained
at all Is Indicative of the Ingenuity of
the people of tho country. The ground
is so porous that water percolates
through quickly. There nre therefore
few rivers or lakes from which Ice 3l.
be obtained, nnd It Is seldom so colu
In any part of l'ersln that Ice ni
thickness suitable for packing "voiu a
fbrm under the direct rays or" the sun.
Tbe Persian obtains his Ice by making
a shallow pool and building a high
wall which will protect U from . the
sun. A thin layer of ice will form.
This ho floods nt night with water, and
so ho goes on adding Inch to Inch until
he can cut a block of considerable
thlckness.-Los Angeles Times.
Garfish Skin.
A woman looking over costly Jewel
cases In oiivj of tho most expensive of
the uptown shops the other day was
struck with the beautiful. Ivory-like
finish of n number of them. "Wbnt
are they made of'" she askqd admir
ingly. "Ciarflsh skin, madam," answer
ed tho salesman. "Garfish leather, we
find. Is very little known nbout out
side of the trade, and yet It has come
to be of Importance. It. not only can
bo worked up to the polish, but It is
wonderfully hard. They say certain
tribes of Indians knew Its secret and
that among them it wns used as ar
mor, the tradition being that a breast
plate of It would resist any tomahawk
or arrow. It can bo made now so that
It will turn the edge of a knlfo or n
spear." New York Sun.
WALTER A, WOOD
Jqvj Century Bimles
is always ready for more grain no matter hew heavy
it may be. Will run through a harvest without
missing a bundle, and will be in service long after
other binders are not worth putting in the barn.
Here are three (of many) exclusive features that
make it the most successful binder:
Perfect Separation
choked cr crowded. This
saves time and annoyance.
The Wonderful Knotter rinh'more'te
than is necessary. Unequalled for simplicity and durability.
The Relief Roller fnTcSiga?topof decT.03"
Figure the time you lost last season fussing with the old binder,
then let us prove what a New Century can do.
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YIELD CONFORMS WITH EARLIER
SEASON'S PROSPECTS.
Price Is Not Starting Off At
Last Season's Clip and No
Sale Reports pf New Crop.
Harvest operations in this vioioity
started in full blast Monday morning
and were temporarily interrupted by a
slight shower of rain yesterday.morn
ing. From a synopsis of all reports,
the crop ia turning out as well as pre
dicted on tbe face of prospects before
tbe cuttiug season opened.
Tbe biggest crop ever harvested in
tbe Fine Creek district is safely in tbe
saok. Blue stem for tbe most part is
raised in that section, and this year
tbe yield and quality is splendid. (J.
A. Barrett, wbo farms extensively on
Pine Creek lands and in tbe Athena
neighborhood, estimates that there
will be a million bushels more wheat
raised tbis year than last from Helix
south, and east to tbe foot hills.
Tbe wheat fields iu tbe Vansyole
country are yielding np their quoto in
augmentation of tbe bumper crop.
Ibis has been an ideal season for pro
duction on light soil and the quality of
grain is superb. Around Athena ban
ner yields are being harvested, few
fields falling nnder a 45 busbel yield
wbilo frequent reports of 50 bushels
and better, come in.
The prioe is not starting off eo well
as it did last season. The market baa
hardly opened and no sales are yet re
ported, 'there is very little of last
season's orop on hand. With the ex
ception of a few lots held for speonla-
tive purposes, there is no old wheat in
looal warehouses.
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