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WHAT YOU NEED The other fellow may have; what you hare the other fellow may want. Come together by advertising in the Press. BARGAIN DAY Is every day with the Merchant who advertises in the Press he has some thing to sell and says bo. Buy Your Groceries From Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXVIII. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OBEGON, FKIDAY, JTHSTE 30, 1916. NUMBER 28. DON'T FORGET THE FOURTH "Papa, I know how many days there are in a year three hundred and sixty-five and a fourth." "Is that so? Where does the fourth come in, son?" "Fourth of July." , IN AMERICAN TRAP Clever Scheme Which Enabled Patriot Soldiers to Defeat . the British General. THE Ferris property covered vast tracts of land in Westchester county, New York. The grand father of the first James Ferris was one of the ten promoters of Throgs Neck. He was descended from the house of Feriers, whose first mem ber in England obtained large grants of English land from the Conqueror. Many branches of the family spread through the Westchester region, and another old bouse once belonging to them can be seen today. Upon leaving the house once occu pied by Lord Howe, go out through the main entrance of the Country club grounds, leading into Country Club avenue. This route will take you through some of the loveliest land 'anywhere to be found. Delightful homes are scattered over the flawless ly groomed land. Nature here Is dressed in her best Sunday-go-to-meeting garb the whole week through. You arrive at Mlddletown road. Follow this toward the village, and close to it, on Mayflower avenue, you will find the other Ferris house with large pillars. It is unoccupied and used only by a moving picture firm a fine background for old-time ro mances. And now to the village center and the causeway. Toward It marched Lord Howe, while the picked Ameri cans awaited him and another group, t 'At a-. ... ; 9 L-i -ZLAi TlOTWrtm i1 Vi V.Wf-ni - ' Old Causeway at Westchester, Where Americans Stopped British Advance, too, at the head of the creek. At a given signal the planks of the bridge were taken up, and Howe arrived tc find himself upon an island. He raged furiously and moved toward the head of the creek, there to be abruptly checked again. The Amer icans opened fire upon his troops at the causeway. They were sheltered by the tide-mill, and from this point they poured forth their heavy rifle fire upon the British. Nowhere could the enemy force a way past the de termined patriots. Howe retreated and the day war won. So enraged was the British gen eral that he summoned his guides be fore a board of officers and charged them with having deceived him, for be believed that they had landed him upon an island. How dared they? he demanded, striking the tablo a re sounding blow with bis sword. Al though the situation was explained to him, he still raged, and he vowed he would hang every man of them unless they conducted him safely from the trap he was in. At last the British retreat carried the forces on to Pell's Point ' Young Men Set Noble Example. Young men among Declaration sign ers were Thomas Lynch of South Caro lina and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina. They were both born in 1749, Lynch in August and Rutledge In November. Each was but twenty- seven years old. Other young men were Thomas Heywood of South Caro lina, bom in 1746; Benjamin Bush, born in 1745; El bridge Gerry, born in 1744; Thomas Jefferson, born In 1743; Arthur Mlddieton of South Carolina, born in 1743; Samuel Chase of Mary land, bom In 1741, and Benjamin Har rison of Virginia, bom in 1740. Each member from South Carolina was a young man Lynch, Rutledge, Hey wood and Middleton, LET FAME PASS BY How It Was Richard Henry Lee Did Not Write Declaration of Independence. HERCHEZ la femme." Wherever and whenever man performs a great, noteworthy action the eternal feminine seems sure to have a hand. Even the Declaration of In dependence would not have been writ ten as it is or by the hand that penned It but for a woman. Thomas Jefferson would not have won eternal fame by writing the fa mous document whereby the colonies declared themselves free and Inde pendent of England if there had not "been a woman in it," But for a woman, a man's love, the devotion of two tender hearts, another man would be credited with the Declaration of Independence, and Thomas Jefferson in all probability would be known to posterity only as one of the signers. There was a woman in the case but not one connected in any romantic way with Jefferson. Mrs. Richard Henry Lee, wife of a delegate to the Continental congress from Virginia, was the woman. She was no female political intriguer, such as at different times have helped to sway the destiny of nations. . She ex erted no Influence over Jefferson, or over the first congress. She merely became seriously ill in her Virginia home on June 10, 1776, necessitating the presence of her husband at her bedside, and thus clearing the way for Jefferson to become famous as the cre- Richard Henry Lee. ator of the Declaration of Indep es.ee. . But for Richard Henry I love for his wife, his would be name to go ringing down througl time in place of that of Thomas ferson. Lee was the man originally selei by the delegates to introduce In gress a resolution declaring the nies free and independent. He this on June 7, 1776. Congress, a much deliberation, agreed to the pointment of a committee of flv draft a Declaration of Independe and Lee, victor in the fight that raged against his resolution, war have been niado chairman. As s and qualified in every way, he w have been the one selected to 6 the document. In fact, this arra ment bad been made and settled then, on the night of June 10, on eve of the triumph of his career, received word that bis wife lay f susly ill at home and begged for to come to her side. Had Lee been a less devoted 1 band, he might have wavered. On hand were the highest political 1 ors, honors that he long had b striving for; on tbo other, a loi wife. Lee did not hesitate. "Many other men may be ' able take my place in drafting my cc try's Declaration of Independence," said, "but no one else in the world take my place at the side of my s wife." - He mounted a horse at once, and turned his back on Philadelphia and one of the most significant crises in the world's history. He went straight to where his wife lay watting for him, and back in Philadelphia Thomas Jef ferson was appointed chairman of the committee, and the rest Is history. HIS JOB Eph Kin I play wif you all? Kids Sure, if youse will promise to play fair. We'll let you be de one wot sees if de firecracker we light and don't go off is really out or not Whole Country Participates. No holiday Is more widely observed in this country than the Fourth of July Independence day. It Is the one occasion when the people of all sections manifest hi some form thaif (abiotic sentiments. ' Gives Up Great Fortune to Wed. 1l"TinMitimii tin an income of $250,000 a vear and "jiw-i'I-''''""''"" '-""gr I a home worth more than $1,600,000 to i jT i ' " I wed another man. Her husband left , f ' J." I I her a trust fund of $5,000,000 and bis magnificent home on Fifth Avenue, to be forfeited, under the terms of his will, if she married again. She was wedded to W. K. Dick, the son of a Bugar manufacturer, last week, and the trust fund and the home thus re verted to Vincent Astor, eldest son of the millionaire, to whom he had willed nine-tenths of his great fortune. Her It . tv" WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHQJ Mrs. Madeline Force Astor, that is, Mrs. John Jacob Astor, the widow of New York's richest landlord, has given little son, John Jacob Astor, Jr., was born four months after his father went down on the Titanic. PROGRESSIVES ENDORSE HUGHES; ROOSEVELT GIVES SUPPORT Chicago By a vote of 32 to 6, with nine members declining to vote, the National committee of the Progressive party Monday, at the end of a stormy session, indorsed Charles E. Hughes for President and the Bull Moose party ter, in which he finally declined the Presidential nomination of the party and urged that Charles E. Hughes be supported in order to defeat President Wilson, the committee voted to accept the Colonel's declination and took a recess for luncheon. Big Drive by Allied Powers Begun fin All Wee nf Fiwhml Dgiygrj Brief Resume of General News From All Around the Earth. States Supreme Court. Mr. Davis is regarded as a very able lawyer. He has the conduct of government cases before the Supreme Court. He is forty-three years old and was born in West Virginia. . practically went out of existence as a National political organization. The fight in the committee to in dorse Hughes was led by George W. Perkins, of New York; James R. Gar field, of Ohio, and Chester H. Russell, of Califonria. - The radical element in the commit tee, represented by Matthew Hale, of Massachusetts; Bainbridge Colby, of New York; Henry F. Cochems, of Wisconsin, and John M. Parker, of Louisiana, vigorously protested against the Indorsement of any candidate for President and fought the majority at every step of the proceedings. The minority's first move was to insist on an open meeting of the committee, which it won after a number of the committeemen, led by John M. Parker, bolted the meeting. After Secretary Oscar King Davis read Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's let Big Cannon to Be Bought. Washington, D. C Five million dollars was added to the fortifications bill as it passed the house by a senate committee Tuesday to be used for pur chase and manufacture of mountain, field and siege cannon. The committee eliminated the $760, 000 provision for the purchase of the John Hays Hammond, Jr., inventions for wireless to control the torpedoes and $417,000 for installation of one of the Hammond plants, and substituted an appropriation of $30,000 for inves tigation of the Hammond inventions. now being diverted to overthrowing the Germans in these positions. He has brought his batteries which routed the Austrians, to bear here. Congress to Allow $28,000,000 for Increased National Guard Washington, D. C. Nearly $28,- 000,000 exclusively for the national guard is carried in the army appropri ation bill which has been reported to the house ana is now on the calendar. In recent years the United States has contributed about $6,000,000 a year to the support of the national guard. chiefly in the matter of material fur nished. The states individually have expended on the national guard an ag gregate of about $7,720,000 a year. The tremendous increase in the amount to be expended by the national government on the service is due to the provisions in the recently enacted army organization law which gives the United btates a larger measure of con trol over the guard and also provides pay for the officers and men. . Aberdeen Company First, Aberdeen, Wash. More than 8000 citizens assembled at the Union sta tion Sunday morning to bid "God' speed" to the members of Company G, who left for American Lake. Mothers, sweethearts and wives wept and there was hardly a dry eye among the many women in the throng. Company G was the first in the state of Washington to reach war strength. and left here for American Lake with 185 men. Forty-three of these men will be transferred to other state com panies, as Company G needs but 142. Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. Miss Jane Davis, of Scranton, Pa., who was touring Glacier National Park, fell from her horse while ford ing a small stream and was drowned in the Two Medicine River, into which her body was carried. The United States now is waiting for General Carranza's final word in reply to the note sent Sunday demand ing release of the prisoners taken at Carrlzal and a formal diplomatic an nouncement of intentions. Respites of 30 days pending hearing of pardon applications, were granted by President Wilson to S. D. and W. S, SimpBon, officers of the American Na tional Bank of Caldwell, Idaho, con- victed of issuing a fraudulent certifi cate of deposit. A general retreat of the Austrians in the Trentino district over a sector about 20 miles in extent is announced in an official statement issued by the Italian war office. The statement Bays that the Ialians are pressing the pur suit vigorously. Fighting activity in the Western theater on the fronts occupied by the British and the north wing of the French army was important and has been so for the past two days, says the official statement isused by German army headquarters. Veterans of the Civil War began ar riving at Spokane Tuesday for the an nual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Wash ington and Alaska. It is expected that 900 of the 3000 veterans in Wash ington and Alaska will attend the convention. A Joint meeting of ail train, engine and yard men working in Eastern Washington will be held in Spokane July 3, at which the outcome of the conference for an eight-hour day, re cently held in New York, will be dis cussed. The next step to be taken will, it is said, also be discussed. The body of a man came ashore at Agate Beach, near Newport, Or., Tuesday. From the fact that wreck age of fruit, etc, similar to that lost from the steamer Bear, has been wash ing in on the beach near where the body was found, it is thought that the body may be one of the wreck victims. The Zeitschrift Fuer FrauenBtimm- recht, the German woman suffrage or gan at The Hague, has sent the foi-' lowing greeting to the women of France: "We feel, think and suffer like you, and swear that after this ca tastrophic war the women of all na tions shall work unitedly to prevent forever its recurrence. " Carranza authorities have released all prisoners confined in jails In Sonora towns. A dozen prisoners were re leased from the Nogales, Sonora, jail. among them a Mexican held on three separate charges of murder. It is be lieved the men are being released upon a promise to join the Mexican army and because of the difficulty in obtain ing food for them. . The United States consulate at Tor- reon, Mexico, was demolished June 18 by a mob of 8000 civilians, led by the mayor of the city and a Carranza army band, according to American refugees arriving at Eagle Pass, Tex., late Tuesday. The populace was attending a bullfight, according to the refugees, when the de facto government troops forced them to join in an anti-American demonstration. A large force of Russian cavalry, after a battle with Austro-Hungarian troops, hss occupied a position near fezoritt, about 5i milles west of Kim- polung, in Bukowina. The foregoing was announced In the official statement issued by the Russian war office. Re garding the operations in Bukowina, the war office announced that Russian forces also were advancing southward, approaching the passes leading into Transylvania. The hospital tent of Oregon's mo bilization camp has not yet been occu pied. TPmtm ma ... . - M f Coast artillery will be formed at once and offered to the government for use i ii i . . wuerover mey may oe warned. Francisco Villa is reported to be in Juarez, Mex., across the river from El Paso. Edward S. Ellis, 76 years old, noted as a writer of boys' stories, died at Cliff Island, Me. At 19 Mr. Ellis be gan to write, his first works being dime novels. 1 The fortifications appropriation bill, carrying $34,300,000 for defense and for both coast and field artillery ord nance and ammunition, was passed by the house, 166 to 9. Its total is an increase of about $17,000,000 over last year's bill. SPORTING GOODS Our stock of Baseball Equipment is superior to any we have carried heretofore. . . . FISHING TACKLE The Fishing Season is here and we are pre pared to please you in any of the best makes of Rods, Creels, Flies, Lines, Etc. . Foss-Winship Hardware Co. Barrett Building, Athena. ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. AMERICAN BEAUTY FLOUR Is made in Athena, by Athena Labor, in one of the very best equipped Mills in the Northwest, of the best selected Bluestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home industry. Your grocer sells the famous American Beauty Flour. The Flour Your Mother Uses Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers Athena, Oregon. Waitsburg, Washington. ;v ' JpL I Home of QUALITY Ilflpl Groceries 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 MONOPOLE Monopole Vegetables Monopole Fruits Monopole Salmon Monopole Oysters DELL BROS., Athena, Or. Caterers to the Public in Good Things to Eat