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This Edition con tains Four Pages Athena Merchants Carry Big Stocks Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXIII. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 20. 1911. NUMBER 40 "1 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. Le GROW. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ATHENA CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $90,000.00 We extend to our Depositors every cAccommdation consistent with sound Banking. FUNERAL HELD IN SIMPLEST FORM FRIENDS PAY RESPECT LAST WISHES. TO W. L. Zeiger Laid to Rest in Athena Cemetery, by the Side of His Children. BAK5AVHER 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 Free Something entirely new. It will save your temper and last a lifetime, BUNDY & CHRISTIAN THE TUM-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 The funeral of W. L. Zeiger, whose self-inflicted death ooonired in this city at the St. Nichols hotel Thnrs- day morning of last week, was held Saturday forenoon, from Miller's Un dertaking parlors. Following his request, a simple ser vice was held at the grave, with Pas tor Lawson, of the M. E. onurob offi-oating. Mrs. Zeiger and son arrived from Taooma Saturday morning, aooompc- nied by Mrs. W. F. Stone. her daugh ter, who resides in Olympia, Wasb. Mrs. L. B. Reeder of Portland, and Judge and Mrs. J. W. Maloney of Pendleton, were also in attendance, and many old time Athena friends gatbeied to offer help and sympathy to the sorrowing relatives. It developed that Mr. Zeiger bad been living in Walla Walla tor sev eral months, where be was employed at work, his family remaining in Ta ooma. His wife and daughter left here for Walla Walla Sntorday evening, wbere thev seoured bis personal effeots on their way home. Lewiston State Normal Growing. The Lewiston State Normal opened its fifteenth annual session last month with an enoouragiog enrollment. In 1910-1011 there were 332 registered; this year 332 are now enrolled and it is expected that the total will be at least 400 for 1911-12. Every section of Idaho is represented, and students have enrolled from Oregon, Washing ten, California, Montana, Maine, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Minne aota, Alberta. Canada and Illinois. The fact tbat the life diploma grant Jed by the Lewiston Normal is reoog- nlzed not only in Idaho but in other western states as well, together with the high standards maintained, has without doubt muob to do with the i inorease in enrollment. Have You Bought Your Winter Clothes? If yon baven't yet bought your winter olothes, visit us and we will show you under and outer garments that will no only keep von warm, but be beautiful, too. You'll get style as well as comfort. Eleganoe is joy. Come let us show you the new shades for the season. We have a very long line of materials. We shall please year eye end, your purse, Buy Your Fall and Winter Underwear Now. The oold nights and mornings make os feel tbe need of warm under wear. We owe it to ourselves to prepare for the oold. Dont wait till you've caught a cold that will star with you all Winter. We show the greatest line of underwear for Men, Women abd Chil dren ever brought to Pendleton. Wool, Cotfon, Cotton and Wool Mixtures, Maco, Silk, etc Men's Underweai from 50 cents to 5.00. Women's Underwear from 25 oents to $5.00. Children's Underwear fiom 25 oents to $1.50. CHINESE INGENUITY. How One Cover Wat Made to Fit a Roomful of Sleepers. A writer in a French magazine tells it curious story about how they man age cheap lodging bouses in China. Along Chinese roads, it seems, there are many of these lodging houses, where tho charge for a night's lodg ing is considerably less than 1 cent All the bedding provided is one huge mass of feathers, into which all the guests burrow. Formerly they used to get blankets, but some time ago those who ran these primitive inns learned that their losses on account of the theft of blankets by guests were far too large. (Something, they decided, had to bt. done. Finally an Ingenious man among them hit on this: Over the feather filled room of his lodging house bo hung an enormous canvas covering, in the daytime it hung near the celling. At night It was lowered by means of pulleys until it covered the entire mass of feathers and all those sleeping thereon, thus taking the place of individual blankets. This huge canvas was provided with a large number of small slits through which the guests might stick their heads and escape suffocation beneath the Immense covering. Early each morning the loud pound ing of a drum served to waken the sleepers and warn them to get their heads out of the slits in the canvas. Thereupon it was raised again to the ceiling and fastened there to await the next batch of sleepers. WHEEL PROBLEMS. We PEOPLES WAREHOUSE Save your coupons Where it Pays to Trade. Sunshine Club Resumes Meetings, The Snnshine Club held its first meeting of tbe'season at the borne of Mrs. William Piper, on Thursday Ootober 12. Offioers chosen for term of three months are as follows President, Mrs. W. H. Kiesler; vioe president, Mrs. Luke Read; seoretary, Mrs. Arthur Donglas. One new mem bir, Mrs, George Thompson, was re ceived; and there are three new jun ior members who have made their fad vent sinoe the last meeting. They are: Charles Gsstav Vollmer. infant son of Mi. and Mrs. W. E. Vollmer ; Clark J. Walter, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Walter, and the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lien alien. Visitors for the afternoon were: Mrs. Gostav Vollmer, Mrs. Leal Woods and Mrs. F. D. Monison. Refresh ments were served by tbe hostess. THE FIRST AERONAUT. Klngsley'a Queer Idea and an Embar rassing Coincidence. Charles Klngsley was at a dinner once with the aeronaut Coxwell. It was shortly after Coxwell and a companion had made a flight in which they had risen so high that Coxwell's hands were frozen and he had time only to tear open the air valve with his teeth. A. C. Benson tells the story in "The Leaves of the Tree" in tho North American Review. After dinner Kings ley suddenly said: "I have often thought that tho first man that ever went up in a balloon must have been a d-dentist." Some one laughed and said, "What an extraordinary idea!" "I don't know," said Klngsley. "A man who 13 always looking down people's throats, and pulling their teeth about, and breathing their breath, must be Inspired with a tremendous desire to get awny and above it all." Coxwell leaned forward and said very good humoredly, "Well, Mr. Klngsley, it is true that I am a dentist, but it was not that that made mo be come an aeronaut." "My d-dear Mr. Coxwell," said Klngsley, flushing red, "I am sure I beg your pardon. I had no idea it was so. You must have thought me singu larly ill mannered to make a joke of It." Klngsley could not recover his spirits for the rest of the evening. He hated giving pain to any human being more perhaps than anything in the world. Does the Edge of the Wheel Rovolve Around the Axle? "The wheel that turns under the locomotive or the car has a long and queer history," says a writer in tho Railroad Man's Magazine, "but the mystery is still with us and whirls its hundred question marks before our eyes every minute of the day. "Of course every one believes that the edge of the wheel goes around the axle. But does it? Take the end of any spoke near the tire or any part of the tire and on a still, windless night fasten a candle to it; then back off till nothing can be seen but that candle flame. "Let the wheel revolve slowly, free from the ground. The candle flame makes a circle of fire all right and goes around the axle. Now lower the wheel until it rests on the ground and start ahead. The flame suddenly stops going in a circle and begins to make a wavy line, first high and then low. It goes around nothing at all. "Men with clear minds can perform the experiment satisfactorily by tying a handkerchief around the tire in day light, but to do this takes a keen math ematical imagination, because the eye is confused by other moving objects and, is not able to see the handkerchief free from these other influences. "At night the candle flame alone can be seen, so that is perhaps the best time to try the matter out. Tie a torch to a locomotive driver and then send the engine slowly back and forth while the observer is off some hundred feet distant in the dark. The torch does not move In a circle. It simply goes ahead somewhat like a flying ma chine rising and falling in the wind, coming to a dead stop at its lowest point and going twice as fast as the engine when nt its highest point. 'Tho fact that the bottom of nn engine wheel always stands stm is more easy to learn than the fact tnat the top of the wheel moves just twice as fast as tho train, but this can be proved easily with a piece of board. "Take a piece of board, say, ten recc long and lay one end on top or tne wheel. Now move the engine forward two feet and you will find that the board has gone ahead four feet, just twice as far as the engine. Lay down tho board and tie two pieces of string to the wheel, one. at the top and thfl other at the bottom, where it rests on the ground. Now run your engine for ward two feet and see what happens. The bottom string has moved forward, too. but not nearly so far as has the top piece of string, although the ends were even at the start. IS. JAS. STEVENS MILTON FORMER WELL KNOWN ATHENA WOMAN SUCCUMBS. Victim of Cancer Is Interred Near Place Where She Spent Early Married Life. Big Fire in Pendleton. Pendleton was visited atoot mid night last Friday with a most disas trous fire, in which tbe skating rink and tbe Oregon Feed yard were de stroyed, with twelve horses and two mules. Tbe fire was discovered in the rink and is thought to have heen of incendiary origin. The total loss to barn and rink is estimated at $20, 000. Tbe horses mostly belonged to farmers from tbe surrounding country who were in town for tbe nigbt. Engineer Succumbs to Injuries. Jaok Wright, tbe pioneer engineer who fell beneath a moving train at tbe Pendleton depot Wednesday of last week, died at a hospital there at 3 o'olock Satnrday morning, bis daugh ters and other relatives were present. The body was shipped to Walla Walla for interment beside tbat of bis wife, who died several years ago. PROMPT DEUYERY UiJLITY WHERE PRICES ARE RIGHT "Si,, u The Freshest' and most Choice the Market affords in gjj e Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here n DELL BROTHERS, TOJES'tfES' M Athena, Oregon The remains of Mrs. James Stevens were brought hero from Milton, where she died at her home laet Monday, and burial took place in tbe Athena cemetery Tuesday at 12 o'olock. Death was due to oancer. Tbe funeral eervioes were conduct ed in Milton, and tbe burial service at the grave by Pastor Meldrum of tbe Christian obnrob, Mrs. Stevens having been a member of tbat churoh. Tbe body was iuterred beside the grave of her mother, Mrs. Elizateth Williams, who died in this oity several years ago. Graut Williams of Milton, and Epb Williams, of Paradise Valley, trot here of deoensed, with two adopted daugh ters, Mrs. Grant Williams, and sev eral other Milton friends, anocmpan ed Mr. Stevens to Athena. Mrs. Emeline Stevens was some thing over 50 years of age, and with her bnsband was a resident of Athena for many years, leaving hero abont 18 years ago to reside in Milton. Mrs. Steveus formerlv held member ship iu the Athena Circle, Women of Woodoraft, bnt it is not known whether she still held membership in the order at her death. Why Dean Swift Didn't Go to Ascot. Dean Swift was tho earliest man of note to make mention of the historic Ascot race meeting. It is in one of his "Letters to Stella" in August, 1711, that the great Jonathan says he "saw a place they have made for a fumous horso race tomorrow, when the queen will come." But being "tired with rid ing a trotting, mettlesome horse a dozen miles, having not been on Horse back this twelvemonth," Swift deter mined "not to go to the race unless I can get room in some coach." As he was hindered by a caller all tne coaches were filled before he could reach one, and as a consequence tho world lost the description of that earliest Ascot that only the author of "Gulliver's Travels" could have penned. London Spectator. The Humbling of Deacon Todd. "I tell you, Edgely," said Deacon Todd as they sat in tho park, "tne way women dress these days is absurd. And nine times out of ten it is the fault of men. Just, for instance, take that woman coming down the path. Some fool husband has told her she looks perfectly charming in that outrageous getup, lacking the stamina to come right out bluntly and tell her that she looks positively ridiculous." Since this remark Mr. Todd has never been seen in public without his glasses. The woman was Mrs. Todd. Judge. Aroused. The young woman in tho stern of the boat had whispered softly the word "Yes." "But stay right where you are, Jack," she added hastily. "If you try to kiss me you'll upset the boat" "How do you know?" hoarsely de manded Jack, a horrible suspicion al ready taking possession of him. Lon don Ideas. Plants Breaking Up an Island. The layman would scarcely associate ereat strencth with so delicate and fragile a thing as maidenhair fern, yet if its roots have not sufficient room thoy will break the pot in which tho plant grows. Blades of grass will force the curbstones between which they spring up out of their place, and in a single night a crop of small musn rooms has been known to lift a large stone. Indeed, plants arc on record ns having broken tho hardest rocks. The island of Aldabra, to the northwest of Madaeascar. is becoming smaller through the action of tho mangroves that grow along the foot of tho cliffs. They eat their way into the rock in all directions, and into the gaps thus formed tho waves force their way. In tlnio they will probably reduco tho island to pieces.-Scientiflc American. School Books for Distribution. Four packing oases filled with sohool books are ready for distribution to the sohools of tbe county, at the ooun- ty school superintendent's ofiioe. The sohools will reoeive their book sup plies next week. Supt. Welles has been in the northwest seotion of tbe oouuty this week on a supervisory in spection of sohools. Armfleld of the Ligerwood Methodist ohuroh, looks upon her husbe.nd's wed ding fees as her own particular prop erty. She has been mariied for over 22 years and as her bnsband started tbe oustotn when they started to travel in double harness, it is easy to see just why she thinks every minister should give his wife these perquisites. Naturally, Mrs. Armfleld regrets tbat there are not more weddings." Editors to Meet Tuesday. The Pendleton papers report tbat responses from country editors of Umatilla county indioate tbat the at-, tendance of "molders of publio opin ion" at the meeting to be held in that oity under tbe Commercial olub ans pioes will be well attended and tbat tbe Umatilla County Press olub will have an auspioious beginning. Ar- rangemetns are being completed for a suitable banqeut for the visiting soribes. Seoretary Keefe is sending out the following invitation to the oonntry editors: "Your presence is earnestly requested at the meeting in Pendleton on Ootober 24, 1911. tbe oooasion of the formation of the Press Association. Banquet iu tbe evening; good time." PRINCIPAL MB IH EFFIGY Walla Walla Pupils Take High Hand When Heck Suspends Men. WHEAT FIGURES MADE KNOWN Spring Crop in Oregon Makes Total of Over Five Million Bushels. Intoxioated with a spirit of veu geanoe, says the Union, the result of losing two of their best football play ers for what they oonsider a minor offense, aooording to regulation rules, about 60 high sohool students, with appropriate ceremonies preoeding, burned in effigy their principal, Pro fessor F. C. Heok, on the high sohool lawn, following a hostile demonstia tion in the vicinity of tbe sohool, in wbiob tbe leaders waxed warm in de nunciation of tbe present administra tion at high sohool. The whole trouble arose when Prin cipal Heok expelled Booker and Cox, halfback and oenter on tbe football team, for having appeared in class in foil dress suit, and is said to have refused to reoognize tbe petitions that were presented to him in their behalf. This is the seoond time a party of high sohool students have publicly proolaimed their feeling against tbe piinoipal of tbe sohool, former Prin cipal E. J. Klemme having also been burned in effigy a few years ago when things didnot go to suit the students. No Better Than Father Used to Make. Young Husband Still sitting up. dear? You shouldn't have waited for me. I was detained downtown by im portant business, and Young Wife Try some other excuse, George. Thafa the kind father used to make. Cblcago Tribune. Bathroome In Pari. An observant English journalist iu rarls has as a hot weather amuse mentmade a prlvato census of bath rooms. Ho calculates that In all the flats and private houses of Paris there are about 2,800 bathrooms. And this writer, lying in his own bath and mak ing another calculation, will bet n bathful of water that ho could get up and pitch a cricket ball from tho gar den about his modest flat this way and that over as many bathrooms. It ia a curious littlo difference of national architecture. And tho qualntness of tho difference comes with the fact that you see more people in London who look yes-dirty than in Purls. Even tho beggar in Paris is clean in face, fin ger nails nnd clothes. London Chron icle. He Didn't Know. "I didn't expect any better treat ment than this," said tho lady on the pier scanthingly to the Inspector whom she suspected of rudeness, lou can t make a silk purse out of a sow's carl" "As to that I don't know, madam," said the inspector plncldly. "I do not rwMill nnv rullnit of the treasury de partment on that point. It you aro bringing in any of either you'd better declaro them and leave the classlflca tlon to us." Harper's Weekly. Hew He Began. "Nevertheless, I cannot begrudge him a cent of his fortune. Ho began at tho foot and got many a kick." "He dldr "Yea; he was a blacksmluV'-Jndge. One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat ha nlT nin Uvea. Mark Twain, j ) The Island rf Hongkong. Hongkong is an island about eleven miles lonsr. with a width of from one to three miles, and consists almost en Irnlv nt n norloH of hills. There is a cood road around a portion of tho is land on the sea front, but the grades up tho mountains are too steep for uractleal automoblllng, and the streets generally ore not wldo enough and not strongly enough constructed to permit the use of heavy cars upon them. According to tbe Ootober Crop Re porter, just issued by the Department of Agrioulture, tbe Oregon spring wheat yield this year whs 5,250,000 bushels, ss against 5,316,000 bushels last year. The yield per aore is given as 17.5 bushels, as against 18 bushels ia 1910. and tbe qnality of the crop is rated at 1)2,1 point below last vear. Washington's spring wheat yield was 16,119,000 bushels, as .' agalnlV 11,715,000 in 1910. Tbe yield' per aore was 19.5 bushels, live bushels in advauoe of last year's yield, but the condition was rated at 88. Tbe wheat crop of Idaho is listed as o,7S,000 bushels, as compared with 4.427,000 bushels in 1910. The per aore yield in Idaho was 29 bush els, an increase of nine bushels over 1910. The condition of Idaho wheat was 96, highest in Northwest. Tbe Crop Beporter indicates that tho condition of apples in tbe North west this year is far below normal. Aoooding to tbe department's figures, tbe condition on Ootober 1 was: Oregon, 56; Washington, 58:; Ida ho, 80. Ou Ootober 1. 19J0. the con dition was given us Oregon, 91); Wash- ntn, 90; Idaho, 88. School Report. The -.uilowina is the report of La- Mar District, No. 80. for the month ending Ootober 6r Number of days taught, 20 ; number of pupils enrolled. 10; pupilB who were neither absent or tardy, and are on the roll of honor, are us follows: Charley Henley, Les ter Goodrioh, Ellis Hopper, Ba.il Van Cleve, Elmer Orpoiau, Wiibur Goodrioh, Freddie Johnnr-n, Valufl Schubert, Helen JtjitastiH' ' i ' Barnes, Vargie KSy.'lXiIaJKey, Minnie Jobuson and Lela Sobubeit. Visitors for tbe month arer Sohool Com. Al bert White Mrs. Sarah Swaggart, Mrs. A. L. Swaggart, Jos. Key and A. L, Swaggart. Lillian Downs-Dobson, Teaober. Died in Colorado. News was received here Saturday, to tbe eireot tbat Edgar V. Itidonour, well known iu Athena, had died at Colorado Spiiugs. Coloiado, whither be bud gone for tbe benefit of ria health, lie was a nephew of Mrs. F. D. Boyd, and soveial yeais ago was employed on the PruHS. Mrs. Armfleld Interviewed. The friends of Mrs. W. E. Arm field, wife of a former popular M. E. pastor of this oity, were pleased to recognize her portrait in on illustrated artioleinthe Sunday Spokesman-Review, lust Sunday. The article in question speaks in jocular tone of the preuoher's wedding fees, and telling of an interview with the lady, says: "Mrs. Armfleld, wife of W. E. At Work on Green Springs. At a meeting of the oity couuoil Tuesday evening it was deoided to take immediate action in regard to tbe Ureon springs, a property wbioh has been in tbe hands of the oity for soma time. Mayor Uross, J. E. Froome and Wm. Tompkius, members of the counoll, with Water Superin tendent Gholson, drovo up to the springs yesterday taking a foroe of men. who were left there at work. with the purpose of giviog tbe flow a thorough test. It is the firm belief of tho oity authorities tbat a plentiful supply of pure spring water may be obtained by piping tbe Green springs to tbe oity reservoir, and combining tbe flow with that already obtained from tbe Gullaber springs. Travelers Heard From; A. B. MoEwen, Miss Jessioa and Dan MoKenzie arrived safely in South ampton England, September 80, hav ing made the trip aoross tbe Atlantio on board the "Ooeanio," in seven duys. The trip is reported as a pleas ant one, though a sto'm was encoun tered at sea on the day before lauding. Mr. MoEwen's ecclesiastic oast of fea tures most have bion deceiving, fur he was listed among tbe passengers as "Rev. John MoEwau." It is'soaroo ly probable that Athena's ox-mayor" would have been purposely tosiu a "revereud." An Enthusiaat. Towne-Oh. yes, he's quite an en thusiast. He goes in for things in real earnest Browne-Yes; if some one were to send him on a wild goose chase he'd speak of himself after ward as a sportsman. Catholic Stand ard. Evil Is wrought by want of thought as well as by want of heart. Hood. i - y WALTER A. WOOD Disc, Spring-Tooth and Spike-Tooth arrows 5-Tooth and Diamond Spike-Tooth teeth) Cultivators G. W. PROEBSTEL Hardware Dealer, Weston,.- A line of earth-working implements that possess advantages no others can duplicate. Do not buy any farm implements until you have had us demon strate fully every exclu sive feature Vocd im plements possess. 3 xshJI ly well ookOat