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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1915)
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER F. B. Boyd, Publisher Published Every Friday. Office, Co ner Third and Jefferson Streets. Entered In the rogtofllce at Athens, Oregon as econdClasa Wail Metier. Subscription Rates. One copy, one year $1.50 When paid in Advance, (otherwise, $2.00) One copy, six months 75 One copy, three months. 50 Advertising Rates. Display, transient, running less than one month, first insertion, per inch.. .... 25c Subsequent insertions ..11 Display regular, per inch 12 Local readers, first insertion, per line, 10c Subsequent insertions, per line ...... 5c Lodge resolutions, per line .' 5c Church notices, admission, per line. . 5c bATHENA, ORE., FEB. 12 ....1915 In May the extensive work which has reoeived the attention of the led real government for years on the Celiilo canal will be completed at a oost of approximately $5,000,000. The completion of this work will enable boats from the sea of oapaoity op to four hundred tons to make the rcn to Lewiatoo, Idaho, approximately five hundred miles inland, while similar diitanoes can be teaabed on the upper Colombia. The completion of the oanal at tbis time, just when the great Panama waterway is to be plaoed in service, gives to tte Northwest water waya interests an additional prom inence and vast beoeHta. It is aoooaooed that jost recently , Sears, Roebuck & Co.. one of the tig mail order booses, declared a SO per sent dividend on its oommoo stock. Think it over rainote fifty per oent profit above all expenses and salaries Xo wonder tbe Chicago Berald spoke of it as " 'catties the melon." This ocapacy did a tiotisaes last year of )Cl,f0,O00 oonnt Ibem if yon oan m iinoflrfd aad one million dollars ifcatss ties tot deserving country mer chants la pit a 0 peroenl dividend Ms tte pockets of Cbicsgo mnlti-illioaairet Tbe Washington State Fish Com niusnoser bai deoided that oo mots flab batched at tbe state hatcheries will be piloted in streams closed to fishermen. Oregon, too, bss stats fisb bstoberies, operated from foods de rived from Ashing lioense moneys, and it would be well for tbe Oregoo Fish Commissioner to plant fisb in streams of tbe state open to anglers, excluding those wbiob are not. Wioked war is like other sins not made less wioked by being oovered up, censored as moob as possible. It is as Oorra Harris says in her latest oon tiibntion iu the Satorday Evening Post from the soene of Us horrors tbe very commonest inoident of the plight of tbe victims , is worse than imagination would have pictured be fore the war began. We understand that Germany has extended an invitation for a hundred thousand bnuters to oome to that oouutry. Guns, ammunition, guides and game fnrulsbed free. Thanks. We prefer to take ours on tbe Limber Jim, furnish our owu ammunition and trnst to luok for the game. Heoretary Bryan's job is no siueoure these days with a son in-law connect ed with the British army and the Germans aoouBlug him of favoring the allies lu neutrality matters. The job of being a oommoo citizen is a most desirable one in these stirring times, MoCormlok and Pluobol, who put tbe bull in Boll Moose, have made . subllo the announcement of their withdrawal from the progressive par ty. Good sight Teddy! (with tbe latest iufleotlon.) No ose getting soared at a shadow -not even a groundhog's. And yet it does look lather fearsome to some of the small fry who would like to hog littlo of it themselves. If the Mexioan poblio school pnpils have to learn the names of their coun try's presidents, they're having a live ly time of It these days keeping track of tbe 44-hour changes. Tbe Oregon hen may be depended upon to get tuy now, that old Sol has deoided to greet us with a warm smile. Aoroxs tbe poud these oouasicual pence proposals are almost drowned In tbe toar of battle. i '. i .' With soaring prices in wheat and floor, most any kind ot a baker can make the bread rise. Eternal, systematic, boosting is the price of suooess in couiiouulty building. A Peculiar Poison. The Mexican Indians derived from their ancestors, the Axteca. tbe method ot making tbe poison of tulavatcdl It Is a subtle drug, tbe constituents of which are not known. The peculiar effect of the poison la to rteMtrey tbe mind, while only nicntiy arrwring the body. A Wits Selection. Grobbs Hon do you like mj new auibrollaV smiblia- Klin- tint- Yoo sweni to have plckrti up aniiu'thtng good. Itlclimiind IHsiniti h The blood more stirs to rouse a Hon than to start a hare Bliukespcar FINDING THE RANGE AT SEA. How Warships Bring Their Guns to Besr Upon the Enemy. One of the most Important instru ments used on a warship Is the range finder, for without this instrument It Is practlcaly impossible to aim tbe guns accurately without first incurring a serious delay In getting tbe range by trial shots. - Range Anders oil work on much tbe same principle. Images of the sblp or other object sighted on being received through tbe two object glasses, ono located near each end and on the side of tbe tube, being reflected and refract ed by a system of mirrors and prisms so that both are brought to the eye of tbe observer, who looks through tho eyepiece located at tbe middle of the tube and on the opposite from tbe ob ject glasses. Tbe right band object glass transmits only tbe upper half of the object sight ed on and the left band object glass tbe lower half. When sighting on a sbip, for example, tbe rigging and fun nels will appear to be offset horizon tally from tbe lower part ot tbe sbip, so long as the Instrument Is not set for tbe correct range. Tbe Images are tben brought together by a thumb screw that moves one of tbe prisms, and this sets a scale that shows the distance in yards to the ship. Pear son's Weekly. HE WAS "A LITTLE QUEER." His Eccentricity In the End Proved His Own Undoing. Itev. Mr. Da ga more, to whose mem ory is a slab In the church at Cats boge, Leicestershire, England, was "a little queer." It seems that the rev erend gentleman died In January, 1880, leaving all of bis property, valued at $3,500. to a railroad porter. This queer old preacher kept one servant of each sex, whom be locked up every night tils Inst employment of an evening was to go the rounds of his premises, let loose tbe dogs and Are off bis gun. lie lost his life In a curious manner. Starting out early one morning to let ont bis servants, the dogs fawned upon blm and threw blm Into a pond of wa ter. Tbe servants heard his cries, but, being locked up, could not render as sistance, so tbe old man was drowned. When the Inventory of bis property was taken, he was found to be tbe owner of 80 gowns, 100 pairs of trou sers, 100 pairs of boots, 400 pairs of shoes, 80 wigs (although be bad plenty of natural briir), CO dogs, 00 wagons and carts, 30 wheelbarrows, 249 razors, 80 plows, SO saddles and 222 pickaxes end shovels, tie surely was "a little queer.' London Stnndnrd. " Merely Point of View. It was about 3 o'clock, and the fad ing light in tbe art gallery of the Pub lic library was beginning to bother tbe painter woman who faced the sunset canvas with lumpy palette impaled on ono thumb and palut brush held hesi tatingly in the other hand, while she scrutinized again the Intricate blend ing of sunset colors and backed away a few steps farther to squint at tbe perspective of tbe old whaler she was copying as it lurched In painted wares. Details of color blending, of light and shade, of form after the fashion of a painter's sensitive appreciation, un doubtedly filled her mind. Then came thumping along tbe pol ished door two other women. They stood for a moment in silence In front of the sunset picture. One of them talsed a thick, berlnged baud and rub bed the canvas with a slow, feeling rub. :: "Ain't It grand, Nellie?" she said. "An' all band painted too." New York Post, An Old Larch Tree. Italy can boast of a larch tree tho ago of which Is estimated to be 2,000 years. It Is situated on tbe northern flank of Mont C'betlp in tbe direction of the huts of I'iuo Venl, above Cour niaycur, a few steps from the foot pa 111 that skirts the limits of the meadow land. Due nllownnce being made for the extreme slowness with which the larch grows, for the altitude above sea level (1.050 meters) at which It Is root ed and for Its northerly exposure In the noar neighborhood of the glacier, where the cycle of Its development Is barely fire months every year, tills venerable lurch, uutouebed alike by woodman's ax and thunderbolt, cannot be less than 2.000 years old.-ticots-atari. Wanner to the Musicians. Wagner's little admonition to the mu sicians was most characteristic and worthy to be noted by many an orches tra of this day. "Ucnflcmeii," be said, "1 beg of you not to take my fortissi mo too seriously Where yon see 'tf' mako nil 'fp' of It, and fur piano play pianissimo Remember how many ot you tliero are down there against the one poor single human throat up here alone un the staee." Netimnnn'a "Per sonal Recollections." Man Brut. "It is strange that there tiro no wom en on the bench of tho United State supreme court," remarked Mrs (Jnhh as she looked up from her paper "It la strange," agreed Mr. (In Lib. "That court nlwnys bus the last word." -Cincinnati Enquirer. A Great Gift. "They any she is splendid In amateur theatricals,' "She's a wonder, (the ran make the most painful tragedy a source of gen nine amusement." Life. Item that hare honey In their mouths hnre stings la tliolr tnlls,-8eottlsb Proverb. An Observant Boy. "I wish yoo buys would be more ob servant,'' said a young schoolmaster. "When I was a hoy I was always on tbe lookout, and what I did nt ec was not worth seeing I was faiimua for that I remember iimti I was told by a man I met that I wns nil eyes What do yon suppow lie meant by Hum " "Probably he was referrlim rn rour mnverKtittmi." replied on,- urn mid (be other boys looked out ol I lie w indow us they tried to keep then tan wilier. Tills shows that ordinary boy have eyes aud euro both. Philippine Educa tion. HIGH COST ACTING. Salaries of the Pat as Compared With Thoss of Today. Our Imaginations are so nimble in this world of dollars that wo have al ready censed to notice the bagatelle of a vaudeville salary of $3,000 a week, such as some of our nrtrcwr are said to have received. We are already col culatlng on tbe salary of the future. Tbe salary of tbe past was not so nm bltlous. It wus a thing to worry over, not to speculate upon In the late fifties of the hist century Mrs. Drew and her mother roeolved $10 a week for tbe two. Sir. mill Mrs G. II. Gilbert received the same sum. At this time the custom wns to give two plays a night, with sinking and dancing between The regular actors also did Un specialties They siii plied their owu wardrobes us well, and as the theater going public was smaller there wns necessarily a cotistunt change of bill. The $1(1 was mid,. u lit edly well earned. The first person to receive a salary of three figures wns Itose Kytluge, the most popular emotional actress of her time. Her first salary us leading wo man bad becu $23, and at the time she considered It n great sum, for she bad started on the stage at $7 a week. Harulet called the players "the ab struct and brief chronicles of the time," and indoed in no other business today do we flud so clearly tbe characteris ties of our age. No other profession Is more overcrowded or more of a gam ble, yet those members of It who suc ceed In finding engagements should have little complaint to unike against tbe high cost of living, with such changes In their remuneration within our memory.-New York Tribune. THE TURKISH HERCULES. Ahmet Bey's Feat of Daring, Strength and Horsemanship. Tbe Turks tell of Ahmet Hey, an Ottoman officer who served against tbe Russians Ahmet was possessed of a dating In keeping with his heroic proportions and physical strength, tic was the beau Ideal of u soldier, oue whose military knowledge seemed In stinctive. It appeal's that Abdul Keritn I'ashn, the commander In chief, while in spectiug his troops one morning casu ally expressed the wish to capture a Servian prisoner from the Servian lines. Ahmet Bey. overhearing the remark, saluted and asked permission to get tho commander a prisoner. He received the permission, although Ab dill Kciim wondered at the request Ahmet wheeled his charger, dashed spill's Into Its Hanks mid galloped straight for the nearest Servian out post. As he approached half a dozen rllles cracked, but Ahmet galloped on mi harmed and marked down one sentry for his prey. The sentry llred nt the audacious horseman, missed and start ed to run. Ahmet swooped on blm like n hawk upon a chicken. He bent down, grasped the Servian by the col lar mid swung blm across the saddle in front. Then he' galloped .back, bending over his horse's ueck to es cape tbe bullets, and handed over the prisoner to the Turkish commander amid tho shouts of tbe soldiers. St Louis Republic. Not a Square Deal. Miss Mason was explaining to her Sunday school class the lesson for tbe day, the subject being tho tares and the wheat "Now, remember, children, the tares represent the bad people and the wheat tbe good ones." - "Why, Miss Mason I" exclatmed n rosy cheeked boy, who bad been listen ing through the lesson with deep In terest. "Did you say the tares are the bad folks and tbe wbent the good ones?" "ifes, James," replied tbe teacher, pleased at tho lad's Interest, "Well, thnt's funny, 1 thlnkl" re marked the tmitler of fact child. "It's the wheat that gets Ih rushed: the tares don't" Country (iontlomnn. An Exception. "I believe In tbe motto 'Never put off fill tomorrow what you con do to day." " "Pay me that $5 then." "The rule doesn't apply; that's some Mug I can't do today." Boston Trim script A Philosopher. "Takes things as they come, eh?" "Ves. And when they don't come be rakes a rest" Birmingham Age-Herald. The beautiful seems right by force of beauty. H. B. Browning. California Ex positions ATHENA To Son Francisco CQC DC and return vuu.du - San Diego tM 0C and return vul.33 '. Via OREGON WASHINGTON RAILROAD & NAVIGATION GO. AND CONNECTIONS Liberal Stopover Privileges For full information, tickets, etc., ask J. R. Mathers, agent, Athena, or R. Burns, D. P. and P. A., Walla Walla FIRST FEB. )) SUMMONS. Id the Juetioe (Jonrt for the District of Athena, Umatilla County, Oreg. Lillie Miller. Plaintiff, vs. Lavinia Graham and Herman Graham, Defendants. To Lavinia Graham and Herman Gra ham, the above-named Defendants In tbe name of tbe State of Oregon, yoo are hereby required to appear and answer the complaint filed against yon in (be above entitled soit within six weeks of tbe date of tbe first pub lioation of tbis summons, on or before tbe 26th day of February, 1915. And yon will taie notioe tbat if yon fail to appear and answer or otherwise plead within said time, tbe plaintiff, for want thereof, will apply to tbe oonrt for tbe relief prayed for end do mended in plaintiff's said oomplaint towit: For $300 and costs and did borsements of this aotion. This summons is published pursuant to an order of Hon. B. B. Kiobards, Judge of the above entitled Court, du ly made and filed on tbe 13tb day of January , 1916; and tbe first publica tion of tbis summons will be made in tbe Athena Press newspaper published at Athena, Umatilla county, Oregon on Friday, tbe 15th day of January, 1015, and the last publication will be made oo Friday, February 26, 1015. HOMES I. WATTS, Attorney fcr Plaintiff. Professional 8. F. Sharp PHYSICIAN AND SDEGEON Special attention given to all calls both eight and day. Calls promptly answered. Offloe on Third Street, Athena Oregor DR. A. B. STONE, Physician and Surgeon. Offloe In Post Building. Phone, 601 DR. J. G. McMATH Osteopathic Physician Will be in Athena, on Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays. Office in Barrett Building, upstairs. Phone, 521. DR. J. W. WELCH Dentist Athena, Oregon Office Hours: 9 a. m, to 4:30 p. m. Homer I. Watts ; Attorney-at-Law 1 Athena, Oregon. SUMMONS. In the Justice Gonrt for tbe Distriot of Atbena, Umatilla Coooty, Oreg. James E. Sorlmsber, Plaintiff, 'vs. Malcolm Stevens, Defendant.' To Maloom Stereos, the above-named Defendant: In tbe name of tbe State of Oregon, yon are hereby reqnired to appear and anaver tbe oomplaint filed against yon ia tbe above entitled suit within six weeks of the date ot tbe first publics tion of tbis summons, on or before the 36tb day of February, 1916. And yon will take notioe that if yon fail to ap pear and answer or otherwise plead within said time, tbe plaintiff, for . want thereof, will apply to the oonrt for tbe relief prayed for and demanded in plaintiff's said oomplaint to-wit: For $300 with interest thereon at 8 per oent per annum from July 11, 1913 to Nov. 1, 1011 and interest at 10 per oont per annum from Nov, 1, 1911 no il paid, and $36 attorneys fees, and oosts and disbursements of this aotion. Tbis summons it published pnrsnant to an order of Hon. B. B. Richards, Judge of the above entitled Court,, uuiy maae ana mea on too list a aay or January, 1916; and the first publica tion of this summons will be made in tbe Athena Press newspaper published at Athena, Umatilla County, Oregon, on Friday, the 15th day of January, 1916, and tbe last publication will be made on Friday, February 36, 1916. ' HOMER I. WATTS. Attorney for Plaintiff. DR. E. B. OSBORN Veterinary Surgeon & Dentist Graduate McKUUp Vetlnary college Offices: Commercial Stable and Hawks Drug I store, rnone MEMBER I FEDERAL! PETERSON & BISHOP Attorneys-at-Law Freewater, Oregon - Pendleton, Oregon TOURTELLOTTE & HUMMEL Architects R. W. HATCH, Manager Despain Building, : Pendleton, Oregon. Notice of Administrator's Sale. In the County Court of Umatillla County, State of Oregon. In tbe matter of tbe Estate of W. W. Jaaobs, deceased: Notioe is hereby given by me, B. B. Biohards, administrator of tbe estate of W. W. Jacobs, deoeased, that on Saturday, the 6th day Marab, 1916, between tbe hours of one and five o'clock p. m.,. on tbe premises at Athena, Umatilla County, Oregoo, I will sell to tbe highest aud best bidder for oash in band all tbe following de soribed realty, which belongs to (he estate ot W. Wi Jaaobs, deoeased, re alty desoribed as follows, and apprais ed at 350. to wit: Lot 8, in blook 6, in Railroad addition ot the City of Athena, Umatilla County, Oregon, - This notioe is given pnrsnant to tbat certain order made and entered in tbe above entitled matter in open oonrt on January 87, A. D. 1016, directing tbe administrator herein to sell said realty. Homer I. Watts, B. B. Richards, Attorney. Administrator. Notice to Creditors. In the Connty Oonrt of the State of Oregon for Umatilla County. In the Matter of tbe Estate of Tokti, au Indian Woman, Deoeased. Notioe is hereby given to all persons whom it may oonoern that Leo Samp son has bean appionted administrator with the will annexed ot tbe estate of lokti, an Indian woman, deoeased, and has qualified as snob. All persons having claims ngainBt her estate are required to present them with proper vouchers as required by law to the said Leo Sampson at tbe Umatilla Iodiau Agenoy opon the Umatilla In dian Reservation or to Will M. Peter son his attorney, at bis office in the Smith-Crawford Building at Pendle ton, Oregon, witbin six months from tbs date of the first publication of this notioe. Dated this the 15th day of January, A. D., 1016. Leo Sampson, Will M, Peterson, Aamtnistrator. Attorney for Administrator, v THE ST. NICHOLS HOTEL S.E. FROOMB, pbop. 1 Iff Only First-class Hotel in the City. Iff THE ST. NICHOLS ! . U the only one tbat can accommodate $ commercial traveler!. ran beteoomended for lis elean and ell ventilated rooms. Cob. aim akd Third, Athkka, Or. 4 Wood in Carload Lots Cascade 4 foot Fir Wood, $5,50 Cascade 4 foot Maple Wood, .... 5. 75 Cascade 4 foot Alder Wood 5M F. 0. B. Athena - Pendleton Branches North ern Pacific Railway. CO. WILLIAMS. Postoffice, Bdgewater, Washington. Why Pa? PerCentT For farm loans when yon oan obtain cheaper money bv applying to Maloney as Gwlnn. Euqulreor write to either J. a. Owinn of tbe Pendleton ab stract Company, or J. W. Maloney, of Pendleton, Oregon. Adv. For Sale or Trade. 8000 aores ot grain land six miles from StauUeld. Praotioally all in cul tivation; 1000 acres in winter wheat, fair buildings, pluuty of well water. Owner will tride for oily property or stook ranch op to 30 or 40 thousand and take erop payments for balanoe. Prioe 133 per aorei what have yoo for this? Frank MoKltoy, Cambridge, Idaho. Air. C. E. RUDE, LIVESTOCK and Genera AUCTIONEER Satisfaction Guar.inteed Reference v, First National Bank of Athena Leave Orders with F. S. Le Orow, or phone Main 363, Pendleton Ore. Residence, 501 Pine Street. Elec&rlc Bitters Succeed when everything else fafla. In nervous prostration and female weaknesses they are the supreme remedy, as thousands have testified. FOR KIDNEY ,1-IVER AND STOMACH TROUBLE it is the best medicine ever sold over a druggist's counter. "" - ' - cA. J. Parker ssverrtfclBC first Clus Ktiiri ud Up-t -4at SOUTH SIDE IA!K STBEET ATHDU CAPITAL AKD SURPLUS $100,000.00 ' 1 V?. B. SHAFFER President, W. 8. PER OUSON, Vice-President, P. 8. LeGBOW Cashier, B. T. CANNON, Ass't Cashier RESERVE SYSTEM BUILD MORE DURING THIS YEAR Manr New Buildings on Farms and in Cities Expected in this Vicinity During Present Year. ' Many more new buildings for Athena are predioted both in town and In tbe country.. The general feeling of better times is rapidly spreading and with the advent of spring, new jobs are op ening up. . Many modern step saving Homes are being oontem plated. A general im provement in tbe architecture of homes of this vicinity is being nolioed. The plan book which thai nm A LnmLum bei Go. loan to prospective home build ers oontains over one hundred designs of homes, all of whiob have been bnilt in tbe Northwest before and have been designed by Northwest Arobiteots, so they are appropriate for tbis part of the oouutry. Barns, General Purpose Barns, Horse Barns and Dairy Bares are being con templated. In tbe two story barns, the special Turn-A -Lam Girale Boot or Gam Orel roof seem to be tbe two styles most favored. Both of these are self-snpporting and will be found in the special Tnm-A-Lnm Plan Book. The 'Xum-A-Iium Silo has been de signed by their Engineers, to be bnilt of stook lumber from their free piauB. Ibey have proven very satisfactory, and are recommended over stave silos for hot dry climates. By reason of ab- senue of patents, their oost is abont half tbe oost of patented stave silos. Hog-sheds, Chieksn Houses, Milk bouses, eto, will make op a large part ot tbe smaller types of boildings. Ma ny of tbe designs of these buildings whiob have proven most satisfactory elsewhere, are to be fonnd in the free plans of the Tnm-A-Lnm Lumber Co. as well as a number of model sobool houses, of one room np. "See Johnson at tbe borne of lom-a-Lnmber." j"y ufW Powder Makes the food more delicious and wholesome (WVAt BAKINO POWDER CO. , MEW YOBtt. &II the LwSinrofth bhstbqfcspringatfyihe cost NOflAMMOCIONG NOflUMMOCKING NO SAGGING 0 BAGGING NO DRAGGING NO PITCHING See ths!DeJigc"Bed Springs at MILLER'S FURNITURE STORE. THE ATHEHA MEAT MARKET I i Vi i ...I.. !'n ''! .I '""TIT'S ' 'rfer ' We carry the best Wf MEATS ol-3gyj That Money Buys IWjl f Our Market is ! I ErfHpiV Clean and Cool fill K irf Insuring Wholesome Meats. 'Smj'M BRYAN St METER ... ffij Main Street, Athena, Oregon