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This Edition con tains four Pages Athena Merchants Carry Big Stocks . Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXV. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. AUGUST 8. 1913. NUMBER 31 a Foss-Winship Hardware Company Inspect Our Splendid Line of MODERN MACHINE OILS and Axle Grease None Better. cA Complete Stock BARRETT BULIDING, MAIN STREET, ATHENA iiiii t.a nil. ill iii kmmmmdmmmmmiiimkmm i 1 THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER GO. Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of BUILDING M AT E R I A L PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES ' Posts and Blacksmith coal A; M; Johnson? Manager Athena, Oregon TH Es ATHENA IKT ARRET sj- We carry the best fF- - That Money Buys - ' "y P - Our Market is. :.; I 1 S -WV Clean and Cool . nil ' i'. Insuring Wholesome. Meats. .JfeSZZjSv'-' D H MANSFIELD c3fi Main Street, Athena, Oregon ssSB ill 75 Home of QUALITY Groceries i Good Groceries go to the Right Spot Every Time This is the Right Spot To go to Every Time for Groceries TRY THESE THEY'LL PLEASE ! ONE BEST THE M0N0P0LE Monopole Vegetables Monopole Fruits Monopole Salmon Monopole Oysters DELL BROTHERS, Athena, Oregon CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN GOOD THINGS TO EAT SEN. LANE WOULD BENEFIT FARMER PRESSING DEMAND FOR CHEAP FUEL ALCOHOL Only Step Required Is to Re draft Resolutions for Enforce ment of the Law. A Washington speoial to the Ore goniao - says: Every farmer in the United States will be able to munn factors his own ' fuel, utilizing the waste prodoots of bis farm, if the Secretary of the Treasury carries oat the recommendation made to him by Senator Lane of Oregon. This recom mendation merely calls for a redraft ing of the regulations for the enforce ment of the denatured aloobol law, passed a few years ago. Senator Lane is demanding a re vision of the Treasury regulations, so that every . farmer who is so disposed may lawfully ereot a still and manu facture denatured aloobol to meet bis own demands and to have a surplus for sals if that is desired. "Suoh a modiOoation of the regula tions," said Senator Lane, "would be the biggest boon this government oonld confer on the Amerioan farmer. Today no farmer oan profitably make denatured aloohol, though that was the intent of Congress. "There is today a heavy demand for cheap fuel, and the demand will con tinue to grow. To the farmer a oheap fuel is desirable for heating his borne and lighting it and for1 running his farm machinery and his automobile. "Everyone knows that eascline in steadily advancing in price and is des tined to oontnue to increase astheann- ply diminishes. Thus while the cost of the automobiles is coming down. the cost of operation is advancing. Sooner or later a substitute for gaso line must be found, and denatured al cohol is just the thing. Onoe this fuel is plaoed on the markets at a low fig ure automobile manufacturers will turn to the develoument of alcohol instead of gasoline engines and the beauty of this fuel is that ' the buddIv Will be eshaustless. "It would te diffioult to estimate.' in dollars, the importance of this obacge to the farmers of the country. At the lowest it would mean $50. 000,000 a year, and I think it will be nearer 8100,000.000, and even that figure may be conservative." At first the oauous was disposed to frown down Senator Lane's vronosi- tion, but he quickly demonstrated that be bad mastered his snbieot. whereas, cot another Democrat in tha Senate understood either the subject or the situation.. Finally Senator Lane was direoted by the caucus to oonfer with the Seoretarv of the Trea sury about the amendment of the reg ulations and to aot as tbe caucus rep resentative, and io that oapaoity he is now working with Sooretarv Mo- Adoo and the Commissioner of Inter nal Revenue, striving to take out of the present regulations all pr visions which operate in the interest of the Standard Oil Company, and which make it impossible for the farmer to make bis own aloohol. duotor very roughly pulled tbe back of tbe seat tbe children were on to wards the lady and brushed ber little ones onto tbe floor between the two seats. That was too much for Gover nor West. White with wialh, be collared tbe oondaotor and told him be could not treat a woman in that manner when be was around. After the oondaotor had apologized for bis oonduot. the governor paid the chil dren's fare and took one of them into bis own seat. HOUBS iD-WIEES FIXED Ruling Docs Not Apply to Female Domestic Service. CONDITIONS FOR PHEASANTS GOOD STATE WILL LIBERATE 2000 IN EASTERN ORECON. It will be unlawful in Oregon to em ploy a girl under 18 years of age for more than eight hours and SO minutes a day, or 50 hoard a week, after Ooto- ber 4. 1913. It will also be unlawful to keep a girl under 13 employed after 6 p. tu., or to pay a girl from 16 to 18 less than $1 a day, exoept in the cases of apprentices and learners. Suoh was the first ruling of tbe Oregon Industrial Welfare Commis sion. The Commission was organized last June under tbe law enacted by the last Oregon legislator whioh provides that the ruling shall take effect 60 days after its adoption. The ruling is the flist instance of compulsory minimum wage legislation in the United States. Massachusetts has a minimum wage law, which is not compulsory. California and Wash ington have minimum wage laws, modeled after Oregon's, and Wisconsin and Minnesota now have similar laws. but the commissioners of these states were slower in getting into aotioo than tbe Oregon Commisison. Tbe law provides tbat any employer who shall violate .the ruling of tbe Commission shall be subject to a fine of not less than $25, nor more than $100, or imprisonment in tbe oonnty jail for not less than ten days, nor more than three months, or both One j and imprisonment for eaoh offense. I The .ruling applies to girls employed in virtually every capacity exoept tbat of domestio service. It includes retail and wholesale stores, telephone exchanges, telegraph offioes; hotels, restaurants, laundries and factories. For the reason tbat male minois are employed at suoh a diversity of work and under conditions different from those under whioh girls work, tbe commission did not inolude them in its ruling. After further Investiga tion, tbe Commission will submit its recommendations to another putlio hearing, as was done Tuesday, and issue a ruling applying to them. WARNING AGAINST HOPPERS Expert Says Growers Are Not Aliye to the Situation FIRE BLIGHT IS Inspector Campbell Gives Warning and Advice as to Treatment. Fire blisht is still nrevalent in th frnit trees in Athens and vioinity. Attention was given tbe trees to some extent early in tbe serine, when In. speotor Campbell and bis assistants ooverea tnis territory on an inspection trip, having with them a spraying out fit. In a reoent communication to the Press. Mr. Campbell says: Fire client aa a disease in nnnand by a very small germ, wbiob lives and multiplies in the sap of tbe tree. Fear, apple and crab trees are snbjeot to tbe disease. - . "It spreads ty insects. tiidn. fttA. out. ting into tbe itioky substance tbat ex udes from an active oanknr unit u in. oculated in tbe blossom or tender growtb and sap cracks that give en trance to tbe serm to the bodv of tha tiee and thus forming a dangerccs causer in a very abort time. xire bliabt is bera now and wntk. ing on our orobards and must be at tended to by munlnfl back cf tha disease, and disinfeotins both wound and tools. After tbe Brat pruning, follow up with a olose going-over and catting out all affeoted parts as soon aa they armear. B a rnnnotii. effort of all who have trees affected. u oan do neld in control." Governor Rebukes Conductor. Governor West mhTiknri . condaotor tbe otber day for treating a woman roughly, xt governor took a seat teblnd one occupied by wo man With four litlla ftbiMi.. Bh. bad turned tbe back nf th. ..f of ber and was using two seats for her elf and the four children. There waa said to be plenty of room in tbe oar but tbe conductor brusquely told ber either to use one seat or pay fare for tbe children. The woman evi dently was not used to riding io trains for she looked kewiidered and . did not seem to know what to do. Tba con- "Ibousandsof dollars damage has been done to tbe fruit and garden traots along tbe Snake river by giass- hoppers whioh bave appeared reoently in large armies and thousands of dol lars more of damage will be done be fore tbe close of the hot weather per iod unless tbe frnit raisers take im mediate and draBtio measures to stop tbe inroads of the pests, states Prof. M. A. Yotbers, entomologist at tbe Washington state expeiiment station. Mr. Yotbers spent three days inves tigating conditions along tre river and acqnainting raisers with tbe proper methods of eradicating the pests and reports tbat the situation is a desper ate one. lie says frnit raisers do not realize the seriousness of tbe sitnatiou. The hoppers bave appeared in great numbers at Almota, Wawaiwai in tbe Pomeroy valley from Starbuck to Pomeroy, and have attaoked tbe frnit tracts at Riparia. . Mr. Yothers reports that aoioss the river from Aimota entire or obards bave been stripped of fruit and leaves and acres of oorn bave been totally destroyed, while at Wawaiwai and in Pomeroy valley fruit tracts, al falfa fields, oorn, tomatoes and garden trnok have been attacked and great damage done. From Almota up tbe river to Lewis ton tbe grasshoppers do not appear in such great numbers and little damage bas yet been done in tbe Lewiston country. Many growers in the Snake river district will loss a large part of their late crops including peaches, ap ples, corn, tomatoes, alfalfa and gar den trnok as a result of tbe destruc tion by tbe winged hordes. Mr. Yotbers bag prepared a state ment covering tbe grasshopper situa tion and methods of destroying the peats whioh will be sent to farmers and frnit raisers in tbe infested area. Stage Coach Race. A stage ooaob race with eigbt stage coaobes in it will be pulled off at tbe Bound-Up at Pendleton this year, Sep tember II, 12 and 13. Eaob of tbess coaobes is an old timer, having seen actual servloe in tbe old days when tbe stage coaches were the chief means of oonveyance across tbe plains. These coaobes will also be seen io tbe " West ward Ho" parade on Saturday morn ing and tbey will be driven by old time stage drivers, among them being Data Horn, one of tbs few old timers left in Oregon. Tbs burro and pack traina will also be features of (he parade. Machines Are Hamming. Threshing is now io foil blast in the Athena district. . Wbile it is too early to publish aooorately a detailed report of tbe yields, it is known tbat n good croo it being harvested. Yields around IS and CO bosbels per aore are frerjueaUy heard of. Birds On Athena Preserves Are Multiplying, So Inspect or Telford Reports. With 2000 China pheasants at the state game farm ready for liberation throughout Eastern Oregon in a short time, and tbe birds turned loose tbis spring doing well and multiplying, from a sportsman's viewpoint tbe game question seems to about solved. State Inspector Telford was in Ath-. ena this week, coming here in company with Warden Averill, for the purpose of making a tborongh investigation of conditions. Be found the birds already here doing well and multiplying sat isfactorily. On tbe Pine oreek pre serve be found one covey of young birds numbering 14, and on Dry creek a hatobing of 30 was reported to him. His report to the State game warden will be a most favorable one, for be found cover and food sopply ideal for tbe propagation of pheasants in this vioinity. Mr. Telford Qnds the method of shipping mother birds with obicks to be unsatisfactory, and hereafter only matured birds will be sent to the preseives. The 2000 birds now ready for shipment will be distributed throughout Eastern and Sontheastern Oregon, Of this tig consignment, Athena will reoeive three dozen. They will be shipped in orates, eaob con taining twelve birds. Inspector Telford laid great stress on the protection of the birds, and said the state offers a reward of $25 for information leading to tbe arrest and oonvivtion of any one bunting within tbe confines of a game bird preserve or molesting the birds in any manner. Two Fires at Pendleton. Robinson's Laundry at Pendleton was badly damaged by fire Tuesday night Tbe flames started in tbe en gine room and before subdued spread to the interior of the main building. Tbis week's washing is being done at Walla Walla and work will be re sumed by Bobinson Monday. While tbe laundry Ore waa in crotrress. the old Academy building, aoross tbe river, burst into names, and was to tally destroyed. It is tbonaht this flra was ot incendiary origin, as tbe building bas been unoooupied for some time. All T DEAD AT VICTORIA KILLED WHEN MACHINE FALLS IN HICH WIND. Right Plane Crumpled Then Machine and Man Dash To Top of Building. State Printer Dead. Willis Soott Duniway, state printer, died in Portland Tuesday. Be was a son of Mrs. Abigail Soott Duniway, the "mother of woman suffrage in Oregon," and a brother of Balpb Duniway, a well known Portland law yer and reform leader. Willis Duni way was eleoted state printer in 1006, and had kept on tbe job ever since. An effort was made in tbe legislature last winter to put bim on a salary basis, it. being obarged that bis p'oflts wero beyond reason, but tbe move ment failed so far as be was oonoerned though it takes effect on bis suooessor. Tbe Dudley, maohine finished tbresbiug on the home place Tuesday evening, and Wednesday morning was moved west of town. Aviator Johnny Bryant who sailed over the Caledonian pionio crowds io Atbena, was instantly killed at Vio toria, B. O. Wednesday afternoon, when the tight plane of bis hydro plane orumpled as be was attempting to bank against a high wind, and maohine and man fell 400 feet to the roof of a two story building in tbe heart of tbe business district , of the olty. In tbe presence of thousands on the water front and on tbe down town streets, Bryant rose from the harbor and started to make a flight over tbe oity as tbe principal attraction of the day in Victoria's carnival. Twioe he attempted to bi ing bis machine , into tbe wind and descend toward the har bor, bnt failed. Be bad been up barely Ave minutes when the plane collapsed, and man and maohine went hurtling down ward while thousands of people stoud borror-strioken at tbe awful sight. lm (Otoes Up But our prices go down. While the Public is now in the midst of Harvest they are finding time -to take advantage of our great slaughter on Seasonable Merchandise. Prices will con tinue for ten days more. 1 When in Doubt, Play Oxfords j Mens Oxfords regular $3 to $5.00 Now selling at Womens Oxfords reg $3 to $4.50 Now selling at Misses Oxfords regular $2 to $2.75 Now selling at . ... Childrens Oxfords regular $1 to $2 Now selling at $1,50 1.45 63c Ladies Muslin Underwear One large assortment of Drawers, Shirts and Gowns ranging from 75c to Jin $2.50, in one lot, to go at Harvest Hats Large assortment, all prices and all styles, your choice 49' Khaki Trousers Knickerbocker styles for boys from 8 to 14 years Mens Kahaki Trousers. 98c Mens eked Bib Overalls 65c, now at 35c Mens Cotton Sox, good ones, the pair, 5c .Mens Cotton Gloves, good ones, pair, 5c Mens work Shirts, good ones, now 50c Mens Suspenders the kind that lasts, 19c Mens Dress Shirts. .49c Ladies' Waists Large assortment Ladies' Waists Values $1 to $2.50, now Another assortment in which we offer good values at Children's Dresses A large assortment of childrens dresses all sizes, styles, materials From 50c to $1.50, at 25 Dry Goods Standard Calico, per yard 5c Standard cotton Crash, per yard ..... 5c Dress Linen, per yard 0c Ladies' Skirts, large assortment. . . .$1.95 Harvest Quilts, large size . . 95c Harvest Blankets, large size. 85c Ladies Hair Switches, aU colors. . . .$. 95 These Bargains Are Found on our Remnant Counter M0SGROVE MERCANTILE CO. 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