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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1916)
ess ktim ?a AN ISUKl'KNUENr N EWBl'APER F. b. Boyd, Publisher KnliMrt In III' i.iiU,Ri -in Alloif.Orn-.m us u'oi Ui'lHhh atntl 1'ir. AdvertlairiK Rates Display, transient, running less than one month, first insertion, per inch 25c Subsequent insertions 12? 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 Subscription Rates. One copy, one year When paid in Advance, (otherwise, $2.00 One copy, six months One copy, three months 50 A CRUSH CF WORLDS. tATHENA. ORE. JULY 7. .1916 The railroads aie advertising their eideoftlm controversy iuvolving the piopoped etribe of the engine men. Two of these advertisements era ap pealing i n the Press of regular rates. It is bnt fair to bsbdimb that other newspnpeis of the oonntrj are getting paid in proportion, in which case it will be seen that the edooational cam paign inaugurated by the diBoreut railway companies will oost a stopen dooBBom. The engine men are de Banding en eight bom day and pay nd a-balf over lime. The railway nifiiseroetits have proponed that the Iuteistata Hallway Commission decide tbeqneetioD, InBimnob bs tbe Com mission largely fixes tbe rates wblob the railroads may charge tbe public The enginemoa have refused tbe pro posed arbitration by the Oommieeion nd aie now taking a striae vote. Commenting ou the Normal Bobuol question, the Weston Leader says: "And while La Grande may bavo done some wistfnl talking and spec ulating, we'll warrant tbat it bad no real idea of making a move at this time, It could not have summoned the exaltod nerve displayed by Pen dleton iu sunn arrant abase of tbe in itiative. And bid La Urandu been given tbe Eantern Otrgon hospital it would never even hare tnoagbt of a normal eobool in addition. Its tred la not Beikshiie Pendleton has dan pled (bis La Ginude fogey More. About tcti jcars ego it was made tbe excuse for the introduction cf a bill lu tbe legislature to move tbe tchool from Weston to Peodletou 'La Urande will get il if )0U dou't let us have It,' wss llie urj then es now. The luhoma failed; it will fail again." Evervoue has felt the need of a com prehensive term by wbiuh to designate lleulrul and tioutli America. A term mat is taw being used lor this pur pose is "Down America," and it teems to fill the till. "Uown Amer ioa " is all America to tbe south of How Our Sclar System May End and New One tie Born. The whole of tin- pn-scnt solar sys tem Is iiltlniriloly t fail luto the sun, cmisliii mi explosion tli.it may result In ii new snliir system. Such Is the )iien:y p'.it forward by rriifi'Kxor I'hllip Fmilli. a well known nst runomer, wlioi'i' lejiiitittliin has rested priiiripal ly upn.i liii researches Into the eonditlons on llie iiiiioh. The novel fcuture of Dr. I'nuth's the ory i. Hut II is based upon the suppo sition flint n i,"reut part of the known solnr system, including especially the planets Jupiter, Uranus nud Saturn, aro not co m posed of mineral mutter at nil, but are tremendous masses of lee or balls of Ice surrounding a mineral ker nel. Furthermore, lie declares, n part of what Is now known as the Milky way Is not mlueriil or gaseous, but "a ring of lee dust," masses of particles of tee suspended in space, the other planets receiving a constant addition to their Ice mass from this source. Professor Knutli declares that tbe world already at some remote periods bus had a similar experience, reuniting hi the death of ucarly all nulmnte na ture, and that all species of life as we know It lime urlsen since then. Even tually the planets swinging through their narrow orbits will full luto the sun, causing a new explosion and per haps the birth of a new solar system, but fur thousands of years before that time, all life, either on earth or else where, will have disappeared. Kansas City Journal. MIGHT MOUNT RAINIER. A hall game was played at Peudle I iu July 4th, wblub mulled iu ill !DUi, A I In tin winning over I'ruowuter ! y Idesoorecf aa to 14. Whether at irospberio uonditious or liuoudup npiiit was respouiilUltt for tlio ruu get tulg, we will not attempt to sny. As an evaugeliist, come tkoptios think that 1'ord has Billy Snuduy hacked off of the dump. They Bay be bes shaken Ibe devil out of moie souls thau Suuday ever josbrd out of their bale. Tbat is their notion, and the J are entitled to i. The Fount la over and the oasoalty Hit ! btiug tallied np. Obioogo leads with eig tit duaibs and 1 110 wounded. It v 111 he remembered that the Windy (Jit; bad a very loug prepaiedufles pa rade eome weeks ago. It waiB bad to be fought 0. 0. D., there wouldn't be any. Tbe senile raeoals who provoke war get long credit, leaving the bills fur tutaie generations. gome belligerents clniui they are lighting for demooiHoj, nut in waging their war tuej are pailkulat to ox linguist what Utile demooraoy the; had. ACROSS THE PACIFIC. Influence of the "Great Circle" on the Journey to Manila. If you wanted to go from the Pana ma rnnnl to Yokohama which of these two would he the shorter route? First, across the ocean to Hawaii and from there to Yokohama, or, second, up along the coast to San Francisco and then directly ncross the Paeilic to Asia? Nearly everybody would answer In favor of" the Hawaiian route. But the navigators tell us the Journey is 200 miles shorter by way of Sau Francisco. The ""great circle" docs It. Its Influ ence on distance sends ships from San Francisco to Manila by way of the Aleutian Islands. Actually our vessels would go much farther north than they do but for the discouragement of the United States hydrogrnphlc bureau at Washington, which advises n central route, more than 200 miles longer than the great circle, in order to escape the fogs mid lee of the far north. The Hawaiian Islands ore frequently described as "the crossroads of the Pa eilic." Their people are nuttiriilly look lug forward to wonderful commercial development. They will doubtless cn )oy Mihsfnutlnl progress as a commer cial center liecnuse many eonditlons In ocean i iirriMils anil In prevailing winds and In fuel costs favor Honolulu as a way station route, lint It Is well to re member that these Islands were plant ed a little t"o nenr the equator to be a crossroads of the north I'nclllc. Bos ton Herald. WHISTLER AT WEST POINT. He l.ovod Truth and Took Punishment Rather Than Lie. At West Point was old Joe, the ne gro cadet hair cutter. He was never known to smile or to deviate from "regulations." Once a month cadets were obliged to hnve their hair cut by him. Tills was a great worry to Whis tler, who disliked to part Willi his pret ty locks, so he would try by cajolery and flattery to have Joe let up u little on the length of bis hair. But In this bo was never successful. Joe would stop Ills shears Iu the midst of u re monstrance and say, "Mr. Whistler, do you want me to cut your hair accord ing to regulations or notV" Of course this put an end to the argument, and Whistler would come back to our rooms, look In tbe glass and swear about Joe, , lie loved frankness, truth and honor. Cards were forbidden In cadet bar racks, but we bad a pack, and one night long after "taps" (10 o'clock) we had been playing, and the cards lay carelessly oslde, when we were sur prised by the entrance of Ibo Inspect ing otllccr, who spied the cards. We knew that the offense wus a serious one against discipline and considered whether we could properly nsk that the report should rend "Cards In posses. slon," a lesser offense, Instead of "Playing cards," ns wo were not play ing when the Inspector saw us. Whis tler said, "No, we had been playing," so we faced the music and as punish- uient lust our cadet furloughs for a sumnier.-U. M. Lazclle lu Century. Beheaded by a Volcanic Explosion, It Still Towers Up 14,408 Feet. Mount ltainler, lu Washington, cov ers I no square miles of territory and rises H.-lus feet Into the air. In slniie I: Is nut :i simple nine tapering to a slender, puiuled summit like Fujiyama the greal volcano of J.ip It is ruth er it broadly truncated mass rescinhlin.'! tin enormous tree stump with spread lug base and irregularly broken top. Its life history has been n varied one Like all volcanoes, ltainler has liuilt up Its cone wllh the materials ejected by Its own eruptions--with cinders and Btcam shredded particles mid lumps of lava ami v.-"'i m raslonal Hows of liquid lava tli : l :i.; v solldilied Into layers of hard lia. allle rock At one time it nt tallied an al'llmle of not less than Hi. 000 feet, ir i-.ne may Judge by the steep Inclination or the lava mid cinder layers visible III Its flanks. T4icn followed a greal explosion that destroyed the lop part nf the mountain nud reduced Its. height by some 2.000 feet. The volcano was led beheaded, with u capacious hollow crater surrounded by n lagged rim. Later ou ihls great cavity, which measured nearly three 'niles across from soiiih in mirth, was tilled by two small cinder cones. Successive feeble eruptions added to their height until at last they formed together n low round ed donie-the eminence that now con stitutes the mountain's summit. The. higher portions of the old crater rim rise to elevations within n few hundred feet of the summit and. especially when viewed from below, stand out boldly as separate peaks that mask and seem to overshadow the central dome LIFE ON SWAN ISLAND. Probably the World's Most Isolated Wirolesa Station. On Swan island, lu the Caribbean sea, is situated what Is probably the most Isolated wireless Btatlou In the world. The station crew Is made np of three operators, two engineers, a cook, a machinist and three laborers. No women are permitted to land on the island. Men who express a will ingness to go to Swan Island are oblig ed to sign a contract whereby they agree to remain nt least eighteen months or waive their right to free re turn transportation. Those remaining the full period of service are returned to their homes by way of one of the Central American ports nud are grant ed six weeks' vacation with full pay. Strangely enough, there Is no diffi culty In obtaining men to man the sta tion. Applicants. Indeed, exceed the number of vacancies. Board and lodg ing, of course, are supplied, a boat bearing all provisions uecessnry, In cluding fresh meat, and the mall as well, arriving regularly every two weeks. Some men have remained on the island as long ns two years and n half and, subsequently, have been glad to return to the station.-Phlladelphla Itccoi'd. $100 Reward, $100 The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure tn all Its stages, and that fa catarrh. Catarrh being 'greatly influenced by constitutional conditions reanires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cum Is tnken internally nnd acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System thereby de stroying the foundation of the disease, giving the patient strengtn by nuuuing up the constitution and assisting na ture in doing Its work. The proprie tors have so much fnlih In the curative powerB of Hull's Catarrh Cure that they oner one Hunareu uonars lor any case that it falls to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address: F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by all Drugglita, 76c, ik'mcuznns MACHINES MODELS OF PERFECTION. PERFECTLY SIMPLE SIMPLY PERFECT. Needl"". Oil. Bolts and all kinds of Sewing Aiurniuc wppiioti, jtcpainng a specially. New Home Users are Quality- Choosers For Sale By N. A.MILLKR, Athena. Oreg. We New Home Sewing Machine Comp'y San Francisco, California. Did It ever ooour lo jnu that by some pi ooois of natuia or other, the crops sis always "saved" iu Umatilla county? It li no dtrtloult mutter to pink out town's sidewalk philosopher. Why Thsy Wep. Teacher-For men must work, and women must weep! What is the men li bit; of that line, .lolmiiy riiigu? Johnny-It menus that men has to work to get money, and then the women has to cry before the men will divide with them. Vomnu' Journal. TOBACCO like fren ship is better for behV mellowed by age. E Tob HE flavor, the mildness, the cool- natural to Ken tucky's choicest Burley ncco is improved being aged for two into VELVET. Notice of Final Account. - In the (Jonutv Court for Umatilla Count?, Oregou. iu the Matter of the Estate of B. M. White, Deceased. Notice is hereby clreu that the ou- dersiRnen administratrix of Ibe estate of S. ill. White, decerned, has filed her tlnal aooouut and report In said estate and Ibe County Court of Umatilla County, Oregou, has Hied Satuiday, Jul; 23, lttit), at the hour of 10 o' clock a. nt., of said day ss the lime and tbe County Court room iu the Court House at Pendleton, Oregon, is the place of heuilug of said final no oonnt and report and object Ions there to, if any there be. Matilda R. White, Administratiti. Federal Inquiry or Railroad Stri. .UaWI 1 Homer I. Watts Attorney-at-Law Athena, Oregon. Wood in Carload Lots Cascade 4 frot Fir Wood, $5.35 Cascade 4 foot Maole Wood. ... . 5.60 Cascade 4 foot Alder Wood 5.10 F. 0. B. Athena - Pendleton Branchea North ern Pacific Railway. C. O. WILLIAMS, Postoffice, Edgewater, Washington. : the : ST. NICHOLS HOTEL I J. E. FROOMB, prop. Only First-class Hotel in i the City. Iff i THE ST. NICHOLS J ti tbe only one that can acbomuoOfttv ) cotnmerolai traveler, er Faced by demands from the conductors, engineer, 1 that would impose on the country an aoo K bc 8ettied by $100,000,000 a year, the railroads propose that tnis wage y reference to an impartial Federal bu" ' . . acknowicdged, the railroads bavenSer ' a public body. Railroads Urge Public Inquiry and Arbitration The formal proposal of the railroads to the employe, for the settlement of the controversy is as follows: , , "Our confers. h. d,mon.,r.d th.l w. -Ai1 matter, in controv.ny must be paned upon bi - othe ' and d , ,he lo,iowing method.: propc.l. and the propo.ition ot the railway, be d..pod o by one tiie o, 1. Preferably by .ubmi.sion lo the In.ema.e Commerce tomm,..,on ttan u()n,1 J Ivi.y.. b in a po,i accumul.ted'information bearing on ra.lnay condition, and it. con tro of he " " .j .dditionait revenue lion to con.ider and protect the right, and equine, ot all et,, " ,'CU'!JD, the Commiwion to be ju.t and necemry to meet the added co.t oT operation in case your r.P"!f Tda Si ', ' Ine P'mi.e.. re..onabl ; or, in the event the Interstate Commerce "'JAS ""'W" J that we jointly requot Congre.. to take .uch action a. may be necoary to enable tne uommi. o promptly di.poie of the queuion. involved ; or I. By arbiiration in accordance with the provi.ion. of the Federal law" (The Newl.nd. Act). Leaders Refuse Offer and Take Strike Vote Leaders of the train service brotherhoods, at the joint conference held in New York, June 1-15, refused the offer of the railroads to submit the issue to arbitration or Federal review, and the employes are now voting on the question wnetnet authority shall be given these leaders to declare a nation-wide strike. The Interstate Commerce Commission is proposed by the railroads as the public body to which tnis issue ougtu io uc itit.tu "..w .... &1 .L-. !fl. u,ih n intimate knon'ildffC of railroad condition, hi. .uch an unquestioned peti tion in the public confidence. The rate, the railroad, may charge the public lot transportation are now largely fixed by this Govern ment board. Out of every dollar received by the railroad. Irom the public nearly one.nau i. paia oirecuy iu - ployesa.wige.; and the money lo pay increaied wage. ran come trom no oiner source man ure f by the public. T't- i. rnmrnifM fAmmiuinn. with it. COO a us ... , trol over rate., i. in a position to make a comp.ete investigation and render such decision a. would pro tect the intere.t. of the railroad employe., the owner, of the railroad., and the public. A finPRtinn For the Public to Decide The railroads feel that they have no right to grant a wage preferment ol $100,000,000 a year to these employes, now highly paid and constituting only one-fifth of all the employes, without a clear mandate from a public tribunal that shall determine the merits of the case after a review of all the facts. The single issue before the country is whether this controversy is to be settled by an impartial Government inquiry or by industrial warfare. National Conference Committee of the Railways 9 i.'kq be teomnenned lor tin iilean and well ventilated room. J ECOU. MAIS AHD THIBD, ATHKBA.Or. 4 I ELISHA LEE, Chairman P. ft. ALBRIGHT, Gm l Mantltr, Atlantic Coast Lins Railroad. L. W. BALDWIN. Gn'l Mf. Ccotral of Gcor.ih Railivav. C. L. BARDO, Gim'l Mtnaiir, Nik York, Ncn Haveo A Hartlora Railroti B. H. COAPM AN. Vln-FmlJnt. Soothcm Railway, g. B. COTTBR. C7 Maawtr. Wabash Railwar. f. B. dROWLFY, Ant. Vla FmUnl Naw V.rk Caatral Railway. G. H. KMERSON, Cn'l Mmrnr. . Grent Norths Railway. C. H. r!WING.C.7Mrr, Phil.deir.his A Keadinl Railway. B. W.GIIICH. Gn'l Sun. Tni.. Chesapeake A Ohio Railway. A. S. GREIG. Attl. I Ritttvm. St. Louis A San Francisco Railroaa. C W. KOUNS. Gin'l Manafr, Atehitnn. Topcka A Santa Pa Railway. H. W. McM ASTI' lt. atm'l Mumtln. WbeeliaS A Lake tiris Railroad. N. D. MAHBR. Vltt-tmUM. Norlolk A Waitcro Railway. JAMES RUSSKLL, Gn'l Aaaatw. , Denvar A Rio Grande Railroad. A. M. SCHOYF.R,..lrfl fit.-Pres., Pcoasylvsaia Linss Waal. W. L. SEDDON, Pto-Pra.. Seabosrd Air Lina Railway. A. J. STONB. ria PrnUinl Erie Railroad O. 8. WAtn, Via-Pm. 0 C'f aft Saosot Caalral Lioea. Administrator' Notice to Creditors, in tbe uonnty Conrt ot Umatilla County Oiegon. In the Matter of (be Estate ot James S. Myrloi, deceased: Motioe is bnretiy given that Doia Myriek and U. W. Myriuk have teen appoiuted by tbo above entitled conrt aa administratrix and administrator of the estate of Jamei S. Myrlok, de ceased. All peisooi having claims against said estate are required to pre seut them to Homer 1.- Watts, attor ney, at bia oflloe iu Athena, Otegon, witbiu 8 months fiom the data of tbe tttat pnblioutlou of this notice. Dated Jone 1), 1016. Dora Myriuk, Administratrix, (I. W. Myriok, Administrator. Homer I. Watts. Atty. Notice. Nolioe is hereby given that I will sell at publia auction to tbe highest bidder at tbe old Henry Stamper liv eiy tarn at Weston, in Umatilla oonn ty, Oregon, on Saturday, Judo 2U, 1)16, at S o'clock in tbe afternoon, the followiua desoribed estray animal, to wlt: One itou gray mare, three years old, weight ibont 800 lbs; brand on lelt bip indistinct. Martha U. Ferguson, Weston, Otegon CROUP & LASII Dentists In Athena Thursday, Friday and Satur day, other days of week in Walla Walla, 2nd and Main, over Third National Bank Dr. K. W. Croup - Dr. C Ii. Lash S. V. Sharp PHYSICIAN AND SUROKON Special attention given to all oaln. both night and day. Oalla promptly answered. Oflloe on Thlrtl rei, Aiueua ureaur DR. A. B. STONE. Physician and Surxeon. i Offioe iu Post building. Flmne, D01 YOUR IDEAL HOME For tbe purpose of assisting onr onstomera to choose their new home, our architects have oolleoted over 200 suggestions, any one of wblob can be remodeled to suit your ideals and yon pookettook. Yon see the exterior design tbe interior floor plana yon can select from 200 models yon have yom borne as yon want it to be and yon see the very material Ibat will go Into that HOME before yon pay ont a oeut. Yon know cxautly what yon will get. There are no "extras" no tronblea over breakage or erroia in Oiling. We your own follow townsmen stake onr repntation on tbe goods we aell and tbe aervioea we render. If we oau do exactly as we claim, then that is the sort of service tbat yon want. And il doesn't ooat yon a oeut to prove to yoorseif tbe truth ot onr state ments. We want yon to oame in and sea as peiaonally and what we have (or yon. If this is not oonvenient, let na know and we will come to yon. Remember tbat onr idea of SERVICE la Satisfying Yon AB-SO-IjUTE-LYI We Have Everything tA Modern Retail Building Material Yard Should Have It la onr aim tooarry at all times a etaok ot goods commensnrate witb the needs of this oommnnity. Above all we keep constantly in touch with the leading markets eo tbat we are able to get the Best Giadta at the Lowest Prices. Our stock is naturally very complex, consisting aa it does of Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Booting, Saab and Doois and io short, of moat everything that enters into the oonstrnation of a boildiag, It is onr ambition to make onr business a credit to tbe town, and to help onr town beoome a oredlt to tbe State. Yet these worda will tell yen less tban we DO. Come in and visit ns. That's the best proof of ell, "See Johnson About It." TUIV1-A-LUIV1 LUMBER COMPANY FIRST NATIONAL BANK Of'ATIiENA Capital and Surplus $100,00052 Motor oil made from asphalt-base crude gives best lubrication with least car bon. Such is the testimony of motorists and experts alike. As Lieut. Bryan, U. S. N., puts it: "Oils made from the asphalt-base crudes haveshownthemselvestobemuch better adapted to motor cylinders, as far as their carbon-forming pro clivities are concerned, than are paraf fine-base Pennsylvania oils." Zerolene is scientifically refined from selected California crude asphalt-basenot only made from the right crude but made right. Dealers everywhere and at service stations and agencies of the Standard Oil Company. ihe Standard Oil Ibrtfotcr Cars THE ATHENA MEAT MARKET We carry the best MEATS That Money Buys Our Market is Clean and Cool Insuring Wholesome Meats. READ & MEYER Main Street, Athena, Oregon Watts & Rogers Weston, Oregon A few odd Tires, but new, left at WHOLESALE Binder Twine is now in season. We are selling and guaranteeing price. We have both the Standard and the pure Manila. The bargain offered last week in a beautiful Cabinet Graphophone is untaken, so we make the Hundred Dol lar value at $58.00 this week, for cash or good as cash. McCormick Binders. Racine Threshers, McCormick Combine and all sizes of Engines on exhibition now. Think of a high grade combine handled by 8 or 10 horses and two men. Come, see and believe. "Just Over the Hill"