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r Fred ilendley Apr 10 0.9 .1)17 College st .7 This Edition con tains Four Pages t ;r-.''r Athena Merchants Carry Big Stocks Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXIII. ' ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 15. 1911. NUMBER 36 ? OFFICERS S. F. WILSON, President, H. KOEPKE Vice-President, F. S. Le GROW, Cashier, E. A. ZERBA. Ass't Cashier. DIRECTORS S. F. WILSON, H. KOEPKE, A. B. M'EWEN, M. L. WAITS, F. S. LeGKOW. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ATHENA CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $90,000.00 We extend to our Depositors every cAccommdation consistent with sound Banking. BUSINESS IK'S Special Conveying 65 of Spo kane's Leading Manufactur ers and Live Business Men. BAKSAVHER DUSTPAN OLD WAY NEW WAY With your next purchase amounting to $2.50 of over, we will give . vou 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 Traveling in a splendidly equipped special train of seven Pullman coach es, the Spokane Business Men's special arrived in Athena yesterday at 11:15 and remained in the city nntil noon, when it continned on to Pendleton. At that point the train was trans ferred to the Northern PaoiOo last night and today the jolly Spokanites are in Kennewiok, en ronta home. Sixty-five of Spokane's leading tns iness and professional men were on the special when it arrived in Athena. They were met at theO-W. R. & N. station by a delegation from the Ath ena Commercial Association, and es corted op town, where they fratern ized with Athena business men. Every one of them was an individual booster for Spokane and the Inland Empire. And every one of them told what Spokane wonld do to the coast terminal points, when onoe the Falls City came into her own in the freight rate question. Nearly every line in the wholesale business was represented and the vis itors sought the local men handling their particular lines with the object of getting aoqnainted. They left town with a good impression of the business interests here. The party were entertained at Wal la Walla Wednesday night and the train stopped at Milton and Freewater before arriving in Athena. Yester day afteinoon the whole tunoh "let 'er buck" at Pendleton. The Brazil Nut Tree. In the district watered by the. river Amazon are many varieties of trees, the most important being the Brazil nut tree, sometimes 100 to 130 feet in height, with horizontal branches, the ends of which houg like great ropes. The smooth cylindrical trunk has a circumference of twelve to seventeen feet at a height of fifty feet from the ground. The evergreen elongated leaves, made tough by nature to with stand the tropical heat of the region, give the tree an attractive appearance, enhanced in the flowering season by large bunches of yellow blossoms We Wart Youl The Morrow-Umatilla DisttrOct Fair Requests Your Presence one Week Commencing September llth 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 OPERA HOUSE 3 Nights, Starting Monday Sept. 18th MISS GOURTENAY-MORGAN GOHY in the beautiful Costume and Scenic Production of "A OF M 14 PEOPLE A Car Load of Scenery, Elect rical Effects, Beautiful Costumes Special Prices, 25c, 35c and 50c. Seats re now on sale at Dell Brother's Store a "BU; WHERE PRICES ARE RIGHT POHNE MAIN 83 The Freshest' and most Choice the Market affords in is veg 13$ Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here DELL BROTHERS, 0iToTSTPo0,B Athena, Oregon & growing like ears ol corn. After the flowering the fruit Is formed in the shape of fairly large ser d vessels, com monly called pods, which vory in size and contain from fifteen to twenty nuts, closely adhering, in similar man ner to the sections of an orange. The pods incasing the nuts are about half an Inch thick and so hard that the wheels of a heavy cart . might pass over them without causing breakage. To remove the nuts the native Indians use a peculiarly shaped knife. Her Fan. It is the custom in Paris for the cook to do all the marketing. This adds considerably to the cook's income, for every dealer allows her 5 centimes (1 cent) on every franc (or 20 cents) she spends. So French cooks insist on their marketing prerogative, and the mistress who denies them It Is deemed a very mean, small, niggardly sort of person. Well, a person of this sort, an elderly woman, was In the habit of do ing her own marketing in a long duster. The duster hid her purchases. It prevented her, while usurping her cook's rights, from being detected in the act. As the woman one hot morn ing was walking homeward in her duster from the Mnrche St. Ilonore she stumbled In the Rue Hyacinthe. and a leg of mutton fell and rolled across the sidewalk. A passing stran ger picked up the leg of mutton and returned It, with a bow and smile, 'Termit me, mndame your fan," he said. Naming the Gerrymander. The gerrymander was christened in 1813, although it must have been in operation long before that. A stanch old Federalist, Governor Eldrldge Gerry, controlled through his legisla ture the redisricting of Massachusetts under the census of 1810. In the office of Benjamin Russell, an ardent Re publican editor, hung a map of the state as newly subdivided by Gerry and his men. Gilbert Stuart's ready pencil whimsically added to the out lines of a grotesque district the wings and tall of a dragon. "Ha!" he said when he had finished. "How's that for a salamander?" The Republican Russell growled, "Better call It a gerrymander." And American politicians have taken his advice. Independent. Heroism. neroism, In which I Include courage, fortitude and self denial, Is an essen tial element of a great character; cour age, which leads a man forth to meet danger whenever thereto called by duty; fortitude, the power and prac tice of endurance, which renders him superior to pain and makes him ac cept with cheerfulness whatever fate comes, and self denial,' the subordina tion of the material to the spiritual, of the lower to the higher nature of man, which renders his will master of his appetite and passions and causes him to forego every personal benefit for the sake of honor and conscience. David Dudley Field. "Live Bait" Fop Alligators. The negroes of Jamaica, In the Brit ish West Indies, use "live bait" to catch alligators. They tie a puppy to a tree near the alligator's haunt and await developments with a gun. The puppy's yelp Is exactly like the bark of the baby alligator. Naturally Mrs. Al ligator comes out of her mudhole in the lagoon, thinking somebody is trou bling her offspring. Then the negro gets to work with his gun, and Mrs. Alligator falls a victim to her ma ternal affection. An Outrage. When Major General Sir John Mc Neill, V. 0., was badly wounded at Es saman in the Ashantl war he emerged from the bush exclaiming In angry and indignant tones, as If Borne one had deeply insulted him, "An infer nal scoundrel out there has shot me through the arm!" Patriotism. In peace patriotism really consists only In this that every one sweeps before his own door, minds his own business, also learns his own lesson, that it may be well with him in his own house. Goethe. The Usual Way. Nodd Awfully sorry to hear yonr house burned down. Did you save anything? Todd Oh, yes! After some very lively work we succeeded In get ting out all the things we didn't want. When Women Meet. "That woman pretended to be glad to see me. What an actress she Is!" "But you were a match for her?" "Yes; I pretended to be Just as glad to see her." Exchange. Winning a Name, He Tour cousin's name Aztle is a peculiar one. Wonder where her par ents got it? She Oh, they christened her Eliza, and she simply reversed It. Boston Transcript. Suspicions are weeds of the mind which grow of themselves, and most rapidly when least wanted. Wallace. A Manager. "And what right have you to call yourself a manager?" asked the emi nent and irate actress after a stormy rehearsal. "I suppose," was the deferential re ply, "It is because I have managed so long to escape with my life." Wash ington Star Exhauete the Stock. Teck-I tell you it takes a lot of courage to propose. Heck-Yes, so much that many of you husbands nev er have any afterward. Boston Trnn script ' I .,4 NOTED IS FIE-GAPTLIRED Mike Donnelly, .the Escaped Murderer from Walla Walla Taken at Dillon, Montana. After having succeeded in making the most daring and clever esoape in the history of the state penitentiary, soaling the walls through the roof of the jnte mill in a blinding dust storm and oouoealiog himself from scores of searobers within a short time after be bad gained bis liberty, Mike Don nelly, life prisoner for mnrder, was captured at Dillon, Montana, Tuesday afternoon by the county sheriff and held pending the arrival of Traveling Guard Graham, who was in that neighborhood. Donnelly confessed to his captors that be was the man wanted at Walla Walla and seemed indifferent as to bis fate. The tattoo on bis arms proved bis nndoiog and made bis identitv certain to the oBioors arrest ingbim and when he onoe again enters the prison walls, he can sav farewell to the world forever. Donnelly was sentenced to the pen itentiary for life last Marob, but was not brought to the institution till the latter part of May on aooonnt of a running bullet wound in his abdomen which refused to heal, and wbioh was still unhealed when be esoaped. After three months in the peniten tiary, the ohanoe for wbioh the man had evidently been waiting oame when the wind blew bnge olocds of -lust over the city last month, bringing a dailraess wbioh was better for his pur pose than night. Carefully sizing the situation up, at the oritioal moment when the air was filled with blinding sheets of dost, snd the jnte mill dark as midnight, he seized a ladder, placed it against the wall on the west side and made his eBoape through a skylight, palling the ladder over after him. He was missed immediately but before the guards oould asoertain who was gone it was neoessaiy to line the convicts up and bbeok them off, and when the whistle blew the man. had a half hour's start of his pursuers. There were do dogs at the peniten tiary at the time, and before any oonld be procured any possible traces were wiped out by the wind storm. STANDIN6 IN11G CONTEST Two Hundred Votes Given With Every Dollar Cash Purchase. Interest is increasing in the voting contest for the Kranse Grand Piano prize at (Fix & Radtke's store. For eaoh ; two dollar purchase 200 votes are given. Following is the list of candidates and the number of votes received, up to last evening: Gertie Booher 118,850 Bessie Parker - -, 00.700 Peatl Coomans - 83,080 Bertha Feiguson - - 3i,100 Hope MoPherrin - - 68,500 Mamie Sbeatd - - 59.175 Merna DePeatt - - 12,800 Mildred Stanton - - 10,800 May Douglas - - 7,100 Enid Cartano - - - 6,100 Dorothy Willaby 8,500 Lighta Grant - ,- 2,800 Mrs. Joseph demons 8,800 Coralyn Meldrum - - 2,750 Dorothy Buldnob - - - 2,000 Georgia Ilansell - 1,975 Hazel Dowd - - - 1,800 Ethel Kidder - - 1.800 Mrs. Clara Douglass - - 1700 Ada Defreeoe - - 1,700 Dorothy Proebstel - - 1,600 Lela Lieoallen - - - 1,600 Marie MoBean - . 1.500 KittvGbolson - - - 1,500 Mary Bergevin - - 1,400 Lula Barnes - - - 1,400 Mrs. Marion Hausell - 1,800 Mrs Ernest Bhrimpf - - 1,200 Jeanelte Miller - - - 1,200 Hazel Brotberton - - 1,100 Edna Bell - 1.100 Gladys Smith - - - 1.050 Lloyd McPbeiin - - 1,050 Katberine Froome - - 1,000 THE GOURTENAY-MORGAN GO. Open Monday at Athena Optra House for Three Night Engagement. The Conrtenay-Morgan company will open a three nights engagement at the opera honse Monday, Sept. 18, in 'A Woman of Mystery." The com pany carries a carload of special soenery and beautiful costumes. Prio es for this special engagement will be 25, 85 and 60o. Tioketa are now on sale at Dell Bros'. The company baa been in Pendleton the past week and the Live Wire says: "Before an unusually appreciative au dience the Coorteoay-Morgan players, who are filling a waek'i engagement at the handsome remodeled Oregon theater, presented successfully "A Woman of Mystery" last night. Miss Morgan in the dual role in whiob Mme. Sarah Bernhardt created soob a profonod Parisian sensation was splen did and the work of Roy D. Wty as M. Morrell was well op tu the exception ally bigb standard set on the previous night. Without exception the other members of the excellent company performed tbeir rolls In a creditable manner." Fire Damages Property. A fire alarm was given yesterday afternoon about 5:30, by an outgoing freight engine, and was quiokly re sponded to by the fire departments of tbe city. Smoke and flames were seen asoending through the roof of a small cottage in the north part of town, oc cupied by the family of Mr. Smith, a reoent arrival in tbe city. Tbe fire was extinguished after the roof had been praotioally destroyed.. .Mr. Smith bad reoeotly puro based the property. It is said that he lost all bis posses sions by fire in Caneda, about a year ago, and this loss, ooming at the pres ent time is keenly felt by tbe family, wbioh oonsists of a wife and three or four small children. Athena citizens are not slow to respond in snob oases of misfortune, and it is certain they will not see the newcomers suffer in the present case. Mr. Smith will commence work in the mill Monday morning. HAVE YOUR OJNDRINKING CUP No Common Drinking Vessel Now at Public Places, According to Law. Conforming with the Oregon State law, tbe oommon drinking vessel in hotels, restaurants and other pnblio plaoes have been abolished, and if you desire to quenoh your thirst you must have your own sanitary cup. In some publio places the drinking fountain has made its appearanoe and is found to be convenient, sanitary and there fore popnlar. In Athena driqking fountains have not yet found a place, though three fountains have been ordered plaoed in the sohool building by the board of direotors, and tbe bubblers will be put in place by a plumber in the oourse of a few days. These drinking fountains are made of porcelain in some instances and some of pipe fit tings, enamelled. There are different patterns that may le seleoted, and wherever nsed are said to be satisfac tory. " Mr.ngsc! end Buried and Lived. It Is not K-vou to many men to bo hanged and burled and j ot be able to te'.l itfc talc, but buck, was the expert en e of one John Bartendulo, who was executed nt York In 1031 for felony. After bin ldy had hung for nearly nu hour It was burled. A gentleman patwlng by "the grave, which had not been tilled up, thought be saw tbe or. rlh move, and with tbe help of bis servant he disinterred the convict, who wns Rtlll alive. It was the custom in those days to bury suicides and exe cuted criminals without nny coffin. The inhn was .carefully treated and entirely recovered. IIo became hos tler nt Hie coaching house In York and lived n most exemplary life. When asked what he could tell In relation to hanging, ns having experienced It, he replied, "When I wns turned off flashes of fire seemed to dart from my eyes, from which I fell into a state of darkness and Insensibility." j II BI6 R0U DUP Fine Exhibits in Fair Pavil lion and Frontier Roundup Drawing Card for Thousands Plon-Plon and Bernhardt. Prime Napoleon, commonly known ns Plon-Plon, ofleu nsed to come to George Bund's rehearsals. IIo was ex tremely fowl of her. The first time I ever saw Hint man I turned pale and felt ns though my heart stopped beat ing. He looked so much like Napo leon I. that I disliked hlrn for It. By resembling hlin It seemed to me that ho made lilui seem less far nwny and brought him nearer to every one. Mme. Sand Introduced him to mo In Rpito of my wishes. He looked at me In an Impertinent way. He displeased me. I scarcely replied to his compli ments and went closer to Goorge Sand. "Why, she Is In love with you!" he exclaimed, laughing. George Rand stroked my cheek gently. "She is mj little madonna," she answered; "do not torment her." Sarah Bcrnhardt's Mem olrs. True friends have no solitary Joy or sorrow. Channlng. The Morrow-Umatilla Distrlot Fair and the Roundup have been tbe prin cipal features of " entertainment and interest this week for tbe Inland Em pire in general and tbe two counties in particular. Beginning Monday morning, tbe district fair opened with superb ex hibits in every department. Special days were set aside for tbe entertain ment of tbe hundreds of visitors, Farmers' Day and Eduoational Day, both being prominent features of tbe week's program. The display of fine fruits, farm pro ducts and livestock at the fair are un equalled by former displays, while tbe manufacturers booths and the art department surpass anything at tempted at the fair. A sulendid mus ical program is rendered daily in the pavilion by Bo wan 's American Band of Spokane, and a street oarnival is in fall swing. Yesterday noon the great Roundup was ushered in at Roundup Park, the big grandstand and tbe bleaob ers being taxed to tbeir fnll oapacity to accommodate tbe vast throng of visitors. Thousands are attending tbe Roundup today and tomorrow the largest orowd over gathered at Pendle toon will be there to see the finals in the different Wild West feats whioh carry to he viotors the championship of the Paoiflo Northwest. Looal interest Is oentered in the Re lay raoe, for the reason that Fay Le- Grow of this oity has a fleet string of horses eutered in competition with the famous Drumheller string from Crab Creek, Wash. Mr. LeGrow and W. R. Taylor also have a genuine oamp and oook wagon on the grounds, where tbe men with them ana the Drumheller crew take tbeir meals in true roundup style of the range. Biff Balloon Ascension. Cole & Rogers Rail Road Shows, in all their magnificent splendor will exhibit at Athena, Wednesday, Sept 20 and two performances will be given rain or shine nnder our mammoth waternrnof tnntn. TCtrfirvt.hino . nnw ana up-io-aate. jjoo t ran io j the obildren out to see thffiosT beau tiful Shetland Ponies, Dogs. Monkeys, Goats, Elephants, Camels, the untam able Lions, and tbe most, fnnniest clowns -the children's delight. Cole nnd'Rogers have a company of Ladies and Gentlemen performers of the highest olass, who present twioe daily the best performance you have ever had tbe opportunity of witness ing; a performance never equalled by any similar attraction, prloea con sidered. There will be a grand free street parade at 1 o'olook p. m., and after the return of the street .parade to tbe show grounds, there will be a grand free balloon ascension take place on the show gronnd; free to ev erybody. Don't fail to see the balloon go up. The performance starts as soon as the balloon asoeneion is over. Bids Wanted, Notice is hereby given that bids will be received for tbe construction of a school house in District No. 113, ac cording to plans and specifications now on tile at the office of tbe Tum-a-lum Lumber company, Atbena, Oregon, Bids will be opened Saturday, Sep tember 23, and tbe right to reject any or all bids is reserved. Samuel Pambrun, Clerk, ' Dint. No. 113. Ilamp Boober was in town fiom Weston Tuesday. Better Results Less Labor Walter A. Wood Queen Cultivator has an I-beam frame that makes it extra strong, rigid and light. The handles stay tight. Come and see. them. Walter A.Wood Disc Harrows are easy on men and horses. Easy on men because they do the work thoroughly, and easy on horses because very light in draft and without neck-weight. The gangs are flexible and have, ad justable spring pressure on the inner ends. Walter A. Wood Sprind-Tooth narrow the only one with a relief spring on the adjusting bar. G. W. PROEBSTE Hardware Dealer, Weston, Ore. IE - ' 4 4 -IP m, V 'I '7 : vyj: A 1 -Mi V s