Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1912)
Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXIV. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 9. 1912. NUMBER 6 er . . - I ..'-' : OFFICERS : 8. F. WILSON, President, H. KOEPKE Vice-President, F. S. Le GROW, Cashier, E. A. 2ERBA. Ass't Cashier, DIRECTORS S. F. WILSON. H. KOEPKE, W. S. FERGUSON M. L. WATTS! F. S. Le GROW. S FIRST NATIONAL BAM .- , OF ATHENA . : . .. ; -CA PITAL AND SURPLUS. $100,000.00 L We extend to our Depositors every tAccommdation consistent with sound Banking. BAK5AVHER DUSTPAN 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. j II.A.BUNDY. Athena THEIUMMUHII LUMBER CO. Lumber, vMiU-Work and all Kinds of BJIL:DING?lv1WERIAL. PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES Posts and Blacksmith coal A. M. Johnson, Manager Athena, Oregon THE ATHENA MEAT MARKET I We carry the best That Money Buys Our Market is Clean and Cool Insuring Wholesome Meats. TAYLOR & LE GROW Main Street, Athena, Oregon oiGNimHe THE INDUSTRIES" s Tbis li the title of a butiful 64-page book, which . wiu naow any ooy or gin now to SUCCEED. Drop a postal la tbo mail TODAY and It will bo tent FKEB. Tbo aim of tbo College U to dignify and popularise tbo industrial, and to servo ALL tbo people. It offers courses la Agriculture, civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mining Engin eering, Forestry, DomestioScletice and Art, Com merce, Pharmacy and Music. . Tbo College opens September Ud. Catalog free. Address: SEOISTKAS. OEEOON AGEICUXTPEAL COUXOB, CorraUla, Oregon. JAPAN CORNERS 1PPIIIC SPACE WHEAT SUPPLY IS UNEQUAL TO THE PRESENT DEMAND. May Climb to Dollar Mark Before Coming Crop Is Put On the Market for Sale. game did Eobo have obanoe to win. Athena guards smothered their oppo nents at will and the work of Glen Dudley was a revelation to lovets of the Kama. , Emery Worthington and the balanoe of the Gqnad showed np in fine form. Hoskioa was the teat for Eobo and to his superior work waa daethesoore acquired by the boys from the sagebrush town. The visit ora were entertained by the high aohool student body at the borne ; of Mrs. A. B. MoEwen after the game. '.The Portlland Journal of Monday, concerning the present outlook ' of the wheat market.-says: All parta of the world are now eith er bnying northwest wheat or inquir ing for it. From Vladivostok, Si beria, to Liverpool and from the up permost protipn of Pnget Sound down to Mexioo and through that reputlio the oall is coming foi northwest grain. Tha demand today is the greatest ever known in this seotioc and only a small amonnt of wheat probably 10. 000,000 bushels.' are in all bands to fill it Were this oall for the cereal alone the only faotor, oonditioua here would not be so wild as they are. Not only is there the greatest foreign oall for our wheat; but' our flour is wanted so badly by tha orient that the trade there is willing to order five months or more ahead to get it. There are orders in the market today for delivery the latter part of May. With all this aotivity in wheat and, flour the farmers are reaping benefits not dreamed of at the start of the season. ' Wheat prioes are advancing from 1 to So a bushel almost every day. The market is so wild at this time that there is no telling what will happen tomorrow Some even prediot f 1 wheat before the new grain is ready for delivery. In any event: if flour orders continue to come for a .few weeks at lively as they have done within the past month there will not he more than two-thirds enough wheat to All the oalL " " In the midst of all the wild fluctua tion in the wheat and floor market, Mitsui & Co., the Rotbsohilds of Jap an, have come to the front as having oomplete control of the situation. The firm stands to make several hundred thousand dollars on reoent purchases of wheat and flour in the Faoiflo northwest as a result of the advanoed prioes alone. The firm has a looal branob where affairs for the Faoiflo northwest are direoted. When the demand for floor and wheat began to oome from the orient it was found to the dismay of the looal trade that the Mitsnit com pany had a "corner" on nine tenths of the freight room on all the steamers that were to leave Paoiflc northwest points for months to oome. The firm is said by marjy to be merely a part of the Japanese government which is said to have aooonnted for its advauoe in formation in reoent years when dnties were to be remade and freight charges changed. Athena to Have a Boys' Club. For some time the pastor of the Christian cbnroh has been busy form ing plans for a Boys' Club. These piano will be more fully unfolded on Sunday morning at 11 o'olook, when be will deliver an address on Toe Boy Problem of Athena." In order to lay the plans before the boys, he invites them to bis study to talk the matter over tomorrow at 2 o'olook. He wants to see all the boys in Atbena present. Let every boy who wishes tc grow np to be a manly man oome and hear these plans disonssed. Every boy in town weloome. Home This Month, A. B. MoEwen, acoompanied by his daughter Jessioa will return home from their sojourn in Europe the lat ter part of tbis month. Tbey have spent several weeks in Sootland and Ireland and before returning will go to London Paris and Berlin taking passage at Hamburg for the trip baok to America. Athena Won From Echo. By a soore of 86 to 22 Athena High sobool Basket ball team won from Eoho High sobool at the gymoasinm Saturday evening. At no stage of the M ffilii A I llf PiM aa m w swas "taai m mm at imw v asa phSry WHERE PRICES ARE RIGHT P0SliiN 83 a.. fj s3 fj The Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in fJ 5 c J ipnnpnnnnppprnpppnprpnnrWfn Igb Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here DELL BROTHERS, C"KSSS,,H Athena, Oregon Gun Play at Helix. . Dick Lee a former resident of He lix went to that place from Pendleton with the intention of shooting Charles Hopner who, Lee claims, had been in timate with his wife. He met Hop per all right and leveled his revolver at him but obanging his mind turned and ran into a livery stable where be held the off ioers at bay for a oou pie of boors. Finally he came ont leaving his gun iu the bay loft. Be was arrested and taken to Pendleton. BAND CONCERT TOMORROW EVE ; ... ' Interesting Program ' of Music to Be . Rendered at Athena Opera House. - ' The first concert to be given by the Athena Band will be heard at the opera house tomorrow evening. An excellent program of vocal and in strumental' musio will be rendered under the direction of Professor Edgar L. Smith, instruotor and leader of the Band. ' " Rehearsals for this concert have been under way for some time and the selections rauge from oIbseIo to popular numbers. The prooeeds from the oonoert will go into the band trea sury for use in defraying incidental expenses of the band. The program for tomorrow evening follows: Marob. The Outlook - Jewel Band ,, Seleotion, Bohemian Girl Tobani Band Bass solo, "King of the Desert," Owen Bosie Intermezzo, "La Bose de Castello," - - - - - Beiter Band Vooal solo, - Miss Zelma DePeatt Marob, National Emblem - Bagley Band Beeitation, - Evangeline Fix Waltzes,.. Loveland, - Holzman . 'Band. : . , -. Part 2. "' -Overture, "Festal' Johnson's orohestra Vooal solo - MisB Velma Wilkinson Seleotion, The Royal Chef, - Jerome Band. Piano solo, seleoted - Prof. Blakeslee Cuban Danoe "Trooha," Tyers Band Piano solo, Miss Belle Molntyre March "The Commander," - Bagley Band Violin solo, sehoted, . - John Braden Marob, "Ohariolteer," - . Hall Band. AN ENGLISH PENSIONER. Superannuated at Birth and Drew tho 8tipend All His Life. The wife of an English cabinet min ister had promised to stand godmother to an infant and, calling on the parents a day or two previous to the- christen ing, expressed her regret that her hus band had nothing left at his disposal of any importance and that the only thing he could do for her godson was to put his name on the pension list as a superannuated general postman. The offer was accepted. The pension was regularly paid to the parents dur ing the minority of their son end to him afterward as long as he lived. He thrived in the world, became an alder man and attained a considerable age, often declaring that he had more pleas ure in pocketing the few pounds be drew half yearly from this source than he derived from the receipt of any oth er portion of his income. He died a few days after one pay ment was due, and one of his executors came to town to announce bis decease and to receive the money. On asking the clerk who paid him if it wns neces sary to produce a certificate of the death he was answered: "Oh, no, not in the least I will take your word for it My father paid his pension as long as he lived, and I have paid It myself for the last thirty years. I am quite sure that the old gentleman must be dead by this time." . , ' This recipient of the public bounty bad been a superannuated postman for upward of eighty years. Exchange. To Bo a Real Actor. Sinking one's identity in character parts on the stage is but an insignifi cant branch of acting. The displaying of a personality beneath the makeup, tho incarnation of a written character In flesh and blood, by a sheer net of genius on the part of the actor In fill ing a part with his own personality, tempered to the limitations of his role the creation, in short of a living, visible and intelligible being, Is tlto grand goal of the actor's art How well Richard Mansfield knew that art! In his performances you saw an Impenetrable makeup; but, tbopgh Mansfield was hidden, behind the disguise were the brains of tho greatest dramatic genius of our gen eration, fashioning steadily and su perbly a character as be conceived it out of the materials placed at bis com mand by the playwright Henry Kol ker in National Magazine. Friendship is courteous and gentle; it does not domineer, does not com mand, bnt is satisfied with proposing without exacting compliance. At the same time It is indefatigable tn labor wben labor can achieve i friendly pur cose. . .... ... VHITES Illl III INOIVNS INTERESTED IN THEiR NATIONAL ORGANIZATION. Extend General Invitation to Become Honorary Members and to Assist Them. The Indians are muoh interested in the organization of the Brotherhood of 'North American Indians. They held a meeting at the Agenoy Monday of tbis week, where the delegates who attended the national meeting at Washington. D. C. explained tho ob jects and purposes of the organization. It seems to be the purpose of the Indians to have white people who are interested in their welfare to join the Brother hood as honarary ' memters, and with this object in view Jim Ka nioa, who is taking' considerable in terest in the suooess of the fraternity of red men, brings the following letter for publioation in the Press A white friend donblless composed the letter for Jim, wbiob reads: "The Indians on the Umatilla Res ervation have organized their local fraternity and joined what is known as the Brotherhood of North Amerioan Indians. "No doubt most of the whites are familiar with and know the purpose of this organization bnt it is our purpose in tbis letter, to make known to them that tbis Brotherhood is an organiza tion formed for the purpose of the betterment of the Indian; however it is open for any and all whites to join; tbe more w cites that we oan possibly get to join, the more wd feel we will te reoognized before tbe Indian De partment at Washington, and the more solid will be ocr organization. "Our looal organization was organ ized last week, and at the present time a number of Pendleton citizens have signed and become members of oar Brotherhood, and now we are extend iugan invitation to all tbe whites to join our fraternity and help us in our cause of eoligbtenmeut. "Many of tbe rules and regulations you will have to acquaint yourselves wi'h, for I have not the required knowledge to set fortbr the matter in full at this time. We wish those who are in sympathy with tbe Indians and with the uplifting and betterment of them in their conditions to beoome members of our f ratemUy. "We do not exolude any one from joining, however you understand that all whites who join are houarary members, but we will look to them a great deal for advioe and soggest'ons. Tbe more whites who join, the better we will feel. We would feel very grateful to yon if you give Ibis letter spaoe in your next issue. Kespectfnlly yours, "Chief Umupine." "By Jim Kanine." Miss Kearney, Wednesday Might. Tbusa holding cenaon tioke s for the leotnre course should remember that on next Wednesday evening. Miss Belle Kearney, tbe famous woman leo tnrer will bo iu Athena. Those who did not buy season tiokets should buy a single admission ticket, and hear tbis wonderfully gifted woman, who pleases her audience wherever she leo tnres. Those having the leoture course in obarge do not hesitate to gaurantee an evening of intellectual profit to those who attend tbe leotnre, for the reason that Miu Kearney has been bigbly recommended to them. Meldrum Lectures. A. Mackenzie Meldrum gave his leotnre on Switzerland, in the Chris tian oburob Wednesday evening, to a eplepdid audience, who folly appre ciated i tbe instrootive discourse and tbe magnificent views of Swiss scen ery, Mr. .Meldrum annonnoes his next leoture for a week from next Wednesday evening, when his sobjeot will probably be "Yellowstone Park," by ieqnest. These Wednesday even ing lectures will soon be discontinued, and tbe opportunity of bearing them should be embraced while tbey are in progress. Mr. Meldrum will deliver an illustrated sermon uezt Sunday evening. . New Telephone Line. The "Skooknm" rural telephone line is beiog established tbis week. Tbe new line rnns south and east from Atbena to tbe farm of Walter Adams on tbe reservation. To a point west of tbe Bergevio farm, the wires are car ried on the Paoifio Telephone and Tel egraph Co. poles. 1 he system is said to be one of tbe best rural telephone lines in tbe county, being constructed of bb wire and forms a metalia oirooit The system accommodates at tbo pres ent eigbt phones and tbe patrons have organized a stock company with Jos eph Forrest, president; W. S. Fergu son, vioe pretident; Walter Adams, seoretary-trnasnrer. May Debate "Yellow Peril" Question. Pendleton bigb sobqpl and Atbena bigb school debaters will thresh out tbe question as to whether or not tbe law exoluding Cbinaoien from this country should be broadened to in clude all Asiatics, if tbey meet at all on tbe platform. Tbe Atbena super intendent in a letter to Principal Hampton submitted that question as bis oboioe bnt stated that he was not sore his sobool wonld have a team. If tbe Atbena sobool withdraws from the league tbe looal team may yet win the eastern Oregon ohampionsbip ty default. East Oregonian. Successful School Entertainment Those wbo attended tbe sohool en tertainment aud basket sooial Friday evening had a most enjoyable time. The program was interesting and the baskets were readily - disposed of. bringing satisfactory prioes.' The pooeeds f rom the sale of baskets and admittance oharges amounted to $58, and tbe sum will go into the fund oreated to meet tbe incidental expenses of the student body. Pilot Rock Smallpox. It is reported that smallpox oases at Pilot Book continue to increase. It is said there are fourteen oases now nnder quarantine there. As elsewhere in tbe county where the disease has made its appearance, it is in mild form. ; POULTRY INDUSTRY AT HOME Local Men Become Interested, With Re ault Good Birds to Be Had. ' Looal men have beoome interested in the breeding of fine poultry with the result that in Atbena and vioinity there are now some of tbe best speo mens of standard bred fowls to be bad anywhere. . With tbis announcement also oomes tbe realization of the faot hat standard bred poultry and eggs for setting oan be had of these looal fanoiers for less money than they oan possibly be secured for importation trom other states : The breeds now represented here and baoked by the integrity of looal men, are among tbe best that are produced. Charles Norris is breeding White Orpingtons and S. 0. Rhode Island Reds. His White Orpingtons oome from tbe Kellerstrass strain, and his Beds from the Dorr pens at Tacoma. B. N. Hawks is preparing to make a specialty of White Orpingtons. His fine pen of pullets is beaded by a splendid cockerel he pnrohasod at the Valley Poultry show at Milton last week. ' Viotor Burke will deal in S. 0. White Leghorns of the Star strain, represented on tbe coast by Casey & Son of Waitsburg. He will have a large number of eggs to offer tbis sea son. ' F. B. Boyd will have a limited number of eggs for hatching from bis pen of S. 0. Wbite Leghorns. Five pallets of tbis pen produoed 98 eggs for the month of January. They are also of the Star strain, headed by a Wyckoff cookerel, purchased from W. B. Brown, of Portland. J. M. Swaggart is engaged in tbe breeding of poultry on an extensive scale. His pen comprises pnre bred Barred Plymontb Rooks, Kellerstrass prize winning Wbite Orpingtons and tbe: Bice strain of Aoconas. Mr. Swaggart has reoently Imported a Peason White Orpington cockerel and five prize winning Anoooa pullets. A visit to his ranoh north of town will oonvinoe any one that he has splen did fowls. Louis Keen t reeds S. C. Rhode Is land Beds exclusively. He purchased a pure bred oockerel at the Pendleton poultry show. Wallan-Elliott, Mr. Claude Wallan of Adams and Miss Maxino Elliot were united in marriage at tbe borne of tbe bride's sister Mrs. Caspar Woodward Wednes day forenoon, A. M. Meldrum, pastor of tbe Christian oburob of this oity heing tbe officiating clergyman. Tbe groom is a well known young farmer of tbe Adams neighborhood and tbe bride is a popular and highly respect ed young woman of Walla Walla. THE WORD MELODRAMA. Originally Meant a Play In Whioh Mu sio Was Introduood. Nowndnys "melodrama" is in general uho ns demoting a purely sensational play, with an all but impossible hero, herolno and villain among the charac ters represented. Formerly the word kept more closely in its signification to actual derivation. "Melodrama" is compounded of tho Greek words melon, a song, and drama, an action, a play, and was applied to two sorts of performances when it first came into use. It signified a play, generally of the romantic school, in which the dialogue was frequently relieved by music, sometimes of an incidental and tome times of a purely dramatic character. On tho strength of bis "Pygmalion" J. J. Rousseau is credited with the in vention of this style. Some of the so called English operas of tbe older school, such as the once famous "Beg gar's Opera" and the once popular "No Song, No Supper," are in reality true melodramas. In the second place "melodrama" was applied to a peculiar kind of the atrical composition in which the actor recited his part in nn ordinary speak ing voice, while the orchestra played a more or less elaborato accompani ment appropriate to the situation and calculated to bring its salient features Into tbe highest possible relief. Tho merit of the Invention of this descrip tion of melodrama belongs to George Benda, who used it with striking ef fect In bis "Ariadne nuf Nnxos," pro duced at Gotha in 1774. London Globe. An Exeepi'on. "TnkP my lidvli e itnd mind your own nffnlra. No mnn ever got rich fighting other people's buttles." "I don't know. How about tt law yer?" Boaton Transcript Mrs. rim is up it Linn? EXCAVATES DOCUMENT FROM WESTON RUBBISH HEAP. Proposes Having Document Giving Young Estate to Her Probated at Once. Following on the heels of her ao qultal on tbe obarge of forging a will. Mabel Young Warner annonnoes the disoovejy of another will whioh she says she will offer for probate. - Tbis is tbe seventh will to make its appearanoe in tbe long flgbt that has been made between Mrs. Warner and the Watts' for tbe possession of tbe J. W. Young estate, Mrs. Warner and tbe wife of Dr. Watts both claim ing to be rightful heirs to tbe estate. Mrs. Warner alleges that she found the will buried in a rubbish heap in tbe rear of tbe Farmers Bank of Wes ton, and that the document has been in her possession since last August, awaiting propitious opportunity to be sprung for probate. With two notes, so Mis. Warner's story rnns, the im portant dooument which leaves tbe bulk of the Young estate, to her and outs tbe heirs now in possession of the property off with the sum of f 1, wbs found buried in a metal box, rusty with age and ooniaot with tbe ele ments., , She alleges the will was fonnd by her after overbearing a conversation between Dr. Watts aud bis wife, re garding wbiob she is quoted by a Pen- " dleton paper as saying: "Night after night I drove ont of tbis oity and np to Weston and wben ' Watts and bis gang were least aware of the faot, I was on tbe job. Many is the conversation whioh I have over beard between them and it was in one of these that I raoeived a clew that tbe will had not been burned. I over heard Mrs. Watts 6sk the dootor if be was sure the will had been burled. He replied that be didn't know, as be had left that to Hall." In this will Dave Lavender is named as exeontor without bonds and he is direoted in case be shonld need legal counsel to employ Charles H. Carter of Pendleton. Tbe will is sign ed by J. W. Young and witnessed by Peter West and L. Hunziker, both de ceased. Mrs. Warner professes to believe tbe Knox instrument ou whioh she was tried for forgery last week to be gen nine, but says she has never believed it to be tbe last will left by her unole, J.W. Young. Pasco Airship Factory. Aooording to 0.-A. Zornea and J. Lndwlg, the Paoso bird men, they will ebortly oommenoe tbe construction of five more airships of various types. Tbe one tbey have now practically completed will be exhibited in a trial flight as soon as a speoial motor for it is received from San Franoisoo. The one oompleted is of a five-passenger bi plane type. According to Mr. Zornes, it is their intention to pnt on a larger force of men in the im mediate future and start really aot ive work in exploiting tbe merits of tbe Paaoo made airships. In addition tbey will start tbeir sohool of aviation ' as soon as tbe necessary machines are oompleted. At the present time there are five men employe in tbe faotory. Mabel Acquitted. Mabel Warner was acquitted of tbe charge of forging a will to tbe Yonng estate, of wbiob she has been trying to get several different juries to believe -her to be tbe lawful and only heir.' Tbe oase occupied all of last week in tbe circuit court, with Judge Brad sbaw of Tbe Dalles sitting on tbe benob. Tbis is about tbe 'steentb time tbat Mabel baa been the central figure in court, in cases ootoiopping from the wrangle over the ownership of tbis estate. Father of Echo at Rest. James H. Koontz, tbe Father of Eoho, was laid to rest in the family lot in Odd Fellows cemetery in tbat town Friday afternoon. His nephew, Edward E. Kooota of tbis city attend ed tbe funeral. Tbe deceased was bo'u in Belmont county, Ohio, May 2, 1830, and came to Umatilla Land ing in 1863, In 1881 be started tbe present town of Eobo. He was a mem-. bet of tbe Methodist Epieoopal oboroh and had been identified with tbe Odd Fellow order slnoe 1868. Athena Well Supplied. With two pioture shows running, socials and entertainments from time to time Atbena citizens are having an assortment of amusements and enter tainment at present to suit all tastes. Oct of tbe ordinary is tbe leetore of Miss Belle Kearney, on next Wednes day evening. Tbis will prove to be one of tbe most interesting enmbers on tbe lyoenm program. An entertain ing and enlivening event will be held at tbe opera bouse tomorrow evening, wben tbe Atbena Band, assisted by local vocalists and pianists, will give a concert. H. O. Wortbington has teen en gaged in tanning and preparing a bear bide to be osed as a rug. Luvoia Mo Ewen is owner of the pelt, wbioh is considered to be a fine one. by ail who have seen it