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v To Advertisers . . t The cAthena Press circulates in the homes of readers who reside in the heart of the Great Umatilla Wheat Belt, and.they have money to spend lb Uroetrc Subscription Rates One Copy, one year, $1.50; for six months, 75c; for three months, 50c; payable in advance, and subscrip tions are solicited on no other basis Entered at the Post Office at Athena, Oregon, as Second-Class Mail Matter VOLUME XXIX. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. APRIL 13. 1917. NUMBER 16 UIIIIIIIIIUI3IIHH Buying a Piano Buying a piano is a life-time transaction with most folks. Be cause of this, and because a considerable amount is involved, it be hooves buyers to guard against possible disappointment. A very poor piano and a really good onel ook much alike, especially to the uninit iated and when the two instruments can not be compared side by side. For this reason the reeputation of the piano., of its maker and of the dealer selling it are important matters to consider. A piano must be handsome, must have a uniform touch and good tone and above all, these features must be permanent. When you buy from houses having Jong established reputations for quality and for reliability to protect, you eliminate a large element of chance for disappointment. Here are the glorious Chickering, famous since 1883; the. Haines Bros., the great College Piano, known as the "Artist's Choice" made since 1863; the celebrated Marshall eft Wendell, a leader since 1887; the Hazelton Bros.', the Lester, the Brewster,-all pianos of character Bnd quality. We are agents for the wonderful Ampico reproducing piano, the marvel of the age. By all means, get our piano proposition before buying. There is safety and saving in it for you. THE DAVIS-KASER CO., WALLA WALLA Complete Furnishers of Homes, Offices and Schools 10-20 Alder St. MIMIMIIMinttlt Mtitiminimttn iiiininuMMiiiininmtMH) ret TTTTg Neither a Horse nor an Ox i lAKE MADE LEAN TO COVER DEFECTS OB TO ASSIST IN SALE. FAT MAY COVER MANY 1MPFRFECTIONS. MORAL: BUY 'ON GOOD SHOWING WHEN LEAN. We showed you what our Tractors will do in, mud and rain and close to duck ponds what won't they do on good days: better conditions of soil and in sunshine? MIIHilt Watts 3k Rogers "Just Over the Hill" mnmn niini miiihmi The First National Bank of Athena -Conducts a General Banking Business Capital and Surplus, $f 00.000 We are always prepared to care for the proper needs - of our Customers. . . IIIIIIIIIIIIIMH )HlllMMM4IHIHIHMIH ESTABLISHED 1865 Mr Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. AMERICAN BEAUTY FLOUR Is trade in Athena, by Athena labor, in one ot the very beat equipped mills in the Northwest, of the best selected Bluestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home industry. Your grocer sella the famous American Beauty Flour Merchant Millers & Grain Buyers Athena, Oregon. Waitsburg, Wash. IHmHMIMHMMMIHMHHHMMHIIMIHI The Fisk Rubber Company Plant, Chicopee Falls, Mass. (Lower insert) Roy L. Sergeant, District Manager. Pacific Coast. (Upper insert) Fisk Rubber Company, Fifteen Years Ago. GERMAN CITIZEN LAUDED BY SENATOR BORAH A Washington special to the Oreg oniah says: No utterance heard in either branch yf Congress during consideration of f ...... I I School Notes. Contributed. We carry the best MEATS That Money Buys Our Market is Clean and Cool Insuring Wholesome Meats. READ & MEYEK Main Street, Athena, Oregon sent this telegram in substance to the War Department: 'Stonewall Jackson is ih retreat, but 10,000 Germans hang onto his rear like bloodhounds.' They were not hirelings; no shadow of dis loyalty rests upon them and theirs; they were fighting and dying for the Union; and you will find when this war shall have closed that the 10,000 sus picions which have been thrown out against these people were unfounded ; that charges of disloyalty were un just." Taking Measurements For the New Bridges. The Pendleton Tribune reports that Ward Weber, a United States engineer, is over from North Yakima for the pur pose of gathering information regard ing the situation of the land where the bridges are to be constructed over the Umatilla river at Mission and at Thorn Hollow. Mr Weber has been engaged in the work for the past coup e of days with Superintendent Swartzlander of the Umatilla reservation and is today measuring the depth of the pits. Congress authorized last spring the appropriation'of two thirds of the cost of these bridges on the condition' that the county court shall pay the remaind- This the court agrees to do a nd it is expected that the bridges will be constructed this summer. Heretofore, temporary structures constructed over the river at these points have lasted only one season. Damage by high waters each spring practically wrecks the structures and the new bridges will make a year around road. The total coBt of the two bridges will be 18,0 CO. Knife May Add One Recruit That he might be physically fit for the United States Navy, Ray Finnell, a Pendleton boy, has undergone a min or operation. With this ailment cor- sected, he will join his brother, Paul Finnell, who recently enlisted. Among the recruits to tha Navy from Pendle ton are Randolph Mott and-si as. Todd; Ray Gould of Weston, and Floyd .Cor- poran of Athena. From Weston the fdllowiricr have enlisted in the Army : Sidney Barnes, James Kirkpatrick, Ernest Btemgren, Leonard Blomgren, Sylvan Kennard, Elmer Tucker, Carl Johnson, Rudolph Proebstel. From Athena, Ernest Boynton, and" Percy Wilson. War la Only War Out David Starr Jordan, chancellor em eritus of Stanford University, who participated in final efforts to main tain peace with Germany, telegraphed the following message, printed by the San Francisco Bulletin Tuesday? "Our country is now at war and the only way out is for war. I would not change one word I have spoken against war, but that is no longer the issue. We must now stand together, with the hope that our entrance into Europe may in some way advance the cause of democracy and hasten the coming of lasting peace. " Franz Acquitted of Charge. A verdict of not guilty was returned for Alfred Franz of Athena yesterday afternoon by the jury in the Circuit Court, where the young man was on trial, charged with the issuance of checks without funds to cover. There yet remains another indictment a gajnst Franz. id Crabill was up from Cliff Ban- s -place on Cold Spring, and re but little reseeding to be done t part of the county. Much interest has been aroused among the students in respect to the local declamatory and oratorical con test to be held this evening, in the auditorium. Miss Wagner's and Miss ortna's rooms had tryouts during the eek and as a result the program ;ands: pening Star Spangled Banner. 'eclamations Division D: "Popular Bug Song, " Max Newsom "Bijah's Story," - Olive Shick "The Bear Story," Elmo Russell "When Your Sis Has a Beau," - - - - - Velton Read ocal duet, "Wait for the Wagon," Richard Cartano, Beula Banister. leclamations Division C: "That Yaller Gown, " lone Carden "Johnnie's History Lesson," ' - - - Bjthone Read "Papa's Boy," - Audra Winship "An Easter Symbol," - - Mildred Winship ostrumental duet, - selected, Honrv Koenke. Prof. Allineham. Declamation Division B: "The Confessional,'1 - Zola Keen Oration Division A. '."- " 1 V? V "O'Conriell on the Irish Union," - Florence McLennan Vocal duet, "Mary of Athens and Ma rie of Boslon, " -Jeannete, Miller,' Savannah Smith. Decision of Judges. The manager of-the High school base ball team is having considerable trou ble in getting games with other schools. The Pendleton and Walla Walla schools have cancelled all of their games and word came from Wes ton Wednesday that enlistments in the Army had broken the strength of that nine. " Efforts are now' being Made to arrange a schedule with other towns. Several practice games with a picked town team have been ' played. Last Friday afternoon the school team de feated the town lads by a score of T-'i. Much improvement was Bhown in the school team under the coaching of ,H. A. Post and it is thought that the nine will soon be the best the High school has ever had. A game with either Helix or Umapine will probably be played today. Mr. Allingham announces that work will begin at once on the tennis courts. The school board has agreed to furnish all the supplies necessary and has set aside a fund Cor that purpose. Much enthusiasm for tennja has been aroused and the students are anxious to help in the construction of the courts, A recent visitor to the Bchool was Mr. James Riley, student assistant in the Physics department at Whitman College and in charge of the freshmen laboratory work in Physics there. He visited the different rooms of the High school and gave a short lecture to the physics class on the subject of Sound. Bessie Price and Areta Kirk, pupils in Miss Sherman's room have returned to school after a long absence due to an attack of measles. Twenty-two from this room are still out of school. Mrs. Leon Kidder was a visitor to Miss Sherman's room. , .The pupils of Miss Sherrrian's room are prepaj-ing a fan drill'and a flower play lor the May Day festival. hi 15tet' port I m tha begs Resolutions. The committee n resolutions ive to report; hereas: The delegates of the Sun- dai School Institute have enjoyed de lightful entertainment in the homes of theipeople of Athena and the hospital ity (of the Community and have been shown every courtesy by the Rev. Walter Gleiser and the members of tne Methodist church and likewise by the citizens of the community; be it resolved that we extend to them our hearty thanks. Be it also resolved, that we acknowledge our indetedness to and our appreciation of the thought ful and helpful addresses of the Rev. J. M. Weaver, superintendent of the Sunday Schools of the Puget Sound Conference, and of Dr. Charles Bowen of Walla Walla, as well as the others. Committee on Resolutions. Parlette April 17th. Twenty years ago Ralph Parlette, the humorist editor, who lectures here at the Christian church on Tuesday evening, April 17th. was a struggling country editor, starving along on a "meal ticket and faith in the future, both getting punched day by day." He wrote the stuff that made people laugh and afterwards think. It was reprint ed a good deal, and folks that read it finally coaxed him out on the platform. He has been there ever since. Today wherever the lyceum is known, Ralph Parlette is known read after and quoted There is no better loved man on the platform. BRITISH OFFICERS PAY HIGH FOR HORSE SENSE "British army officers have been careful in selecting horses since the Boervar, " George M. Wilson, veteran horseman of the Northwest, told the Spokane Chronicle. "Western men, when they want to ride, get on a horse and ride him, whether he has been broken or not. The British bought American animals of this variety dur ing their South African war and it is an open secret that their soldiers, instead of fighting Boers, were break ing horses." Washington, Haho, Montana and Oregon could furnish the U. S. govern ment Si0,000 army horses, if they were needed, Mr. Wilson said. "At present prices their would cost in the neighborhood of $125 apiece," said Mr. Wilson. "This would mean (3,500,000 for army animals from this section. These would not be the stand arJ stock demanded now by govern ment buyers, but would be serviceable animals. Our government's rules for selecting army horses are the most dif ficult to comply with of any nation on earth, but in my opinion they do not bring in'.as good a mount or artillery horse as the stocky built animal of the west." F STARTS OUT WITH 46 MEMBERS Organized By Officers ot the Umatilla Red Cross Society of Pendleton. Wheat Damage Much Less Than First Reported With the coming of warmer weather and rains to break the crust of the soil many farmers find the damage to grain not so great as was expected, while in other instances wheat raisers who thought their grain all right, find they will have to reseed. Grain conditions in thii section are "spotted," but on the whole, the dam age will be less than was at first esti mated. Wheat growers of the Walla Walla valley have been able to determine de finitely just what amount of reseeding will be necessary and have lost no tim9 in getting their crew upon tin work. Early spring sown grain which was blown from tha ground by the un usually heavy winds of March, was not damaged to as great an extent as had been feared, but hundreds of acres will have to be resown. Soma of the fall wheat is making a good growth, but a trip through the valley shows a much smaller percentage to be grow ing than had been looked for. In the western part of the county one may travel for miles without catching , a glimpse of green wheat fields, which in former years were common in most parts of the wheat belt. Leonore, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otha Reeder was taken to a Portland specialist this week for treat ment of the throat. Her aunt, Mrs. A'. A. Fobs, and Mr. Reeder went to Portland with the little girl. Tuesday morning Mrs. H. H. Hat tery, Mrs. John Vert and Mrs. Sylvan Cohn, head officers of the Umatilla Red Cross Chapter, drove up from Pen dleton and instituted an auxiliary in Athena. The meeting was held at eleven o'clock at the home of Mr3. R. A. Thompson. Mrs. Mattie Hill was ap pointed chairman, Mrs. Ursula Errett vice chairman ; Miss Lula Tharp, sec retary and Mrs. Laura Froome treas urer. Only a few ladies were present to perfect the organization, but a goodly list of names with the necessary dollar accompanying, were presented for membership, and many others have by phone and otherwise, signified their intention of lending their assistance in the local movement. The following have so far, been placed on the Athena list: Emery Worthingtoh, Mrs. Bartha Steele, R. A. Thompson, Mrs. Stella Radtke, Mrs. Edith Lumsden, James Henderson, Mrs. Ethel Cannon, Ralph Cannon. Mrs. Jessie LeGrow, F. S. Le Grow, Mrs. Eva Richards, B. B. Rich ards, C. O. Henry, H. O. Worthing ton, Carl Barker, Mrs. Laura Froome, Mrs. Ethel Scott, H. J. Power, Golden Rule Store, Mrs. Carrie Bergevin, A. A. Foss, William Winship, T. Har old Cochran, Mrs. Jennie Barrett, Mrs. Ceiia Burden, Ralph Hassell, Omar O. Stephens, C. A. Barrett, Mrs. Ursula Errett, Mrs. Mattie Hill, Mrs. Louise Boyd, Mrs. Vida Russell, Mrs. Nella Bice, James O. Russell, Mrs. Mar garet Winship, Hugh Mclntyre, F. B. Boyd, Mrs. Stella Scott, Joseph N. Scott, Mrs. Stella M. Keen, Mrs. Ret ta Potts, Mrs. Zella Thacker, Mrs, Minnie L. DePeatt, China, Jim, John Benson, santom Stone. " ' The Athena auxiliary chapter plans to meet for service in the work rooms of the local churches, and when sup plies have arrived will begin on tha making of bandages, etc., which is the purpose of tha organization. The ladies are in need of a sewing machine and a donation of a good machino would be most thankfully received. It is well understood that in giving I the name and one dollar required, no obligation other than voluntary service is given. The ladies organized an auxiliary chapter in Milton, and, the county or ganization now numbers upward of one thousand members. Next week the county officers plan to organize auxil iaries in Weston, Freewater, Uma pine, Adam3, Helix, Stanfialj, Har mlstun and Umatilla. "ILL mm cast DIRECTION OF MRS. RUSSELL Prizes Awarded Best Sustain ed Characters-Play Put on At Weston Also. 112 Die in War Plant. One hundred and twelve persons, most of them women and girls, lost their lives and 111 were injured by a series of terrific explosions Tuesday in the shrapnel building of the Eidy stone Ammunition Corporation, at Eldystone, one mile from Chester, Pa. Many of the injured were mor tally hurt and it is feared the final death list will reach K0, while others probably will be maimed for life. How many of the S00 or more em ployes in the building, in which were stored approximately !)0,000 shells, es caped, is almost beyond conception, as there was scarcely a fragment of She structure left intact. Fire added to the horrors and most of tha bodies were so badly charred that identiftca toin was impossible. The two act comedy drama "Mr. Bob," staged last Friday night in the High school auditorium by members of the High school, was voted an unqual ified success by the large audience who witnessed the production. The play, rehearsed under the direction of Prof, and Mrs. J. 0. Russell, was one of the best local talent has produced in the city. A prize was offered for the first and second best sustained characters, and these were awarded to Lawson Booher and Henry Koepke respectively. Miss Zola Keen came next, with all the other characters receiving much com mendation, not one of whom was weak or disappointing in the rendition of his or her role. Lawson Booher and Kathren Froome as the butler and maid, were inimita ble as the Romeo and Juliet of the play, for the dignified old butler was well supported by the sprightly and stage struck "Patty," and finally cap itulated to her charms. Evalyn Hurd as the wealthy maiden lady with a propensity for friendless cats, portrayed her part perfectly, and her niece, (Miss Zola Keen,) who planned the plot which involved tha whole ensemble in a ludicrous mixup, acted in her usual pleasing and artist ic manner. Her friend, Marian Bry ant, (Helen Russell,) was delightful as "Mr Bob," and won all hearts by her clever and natural interpretation of the role. Verne Dudley as Mr. Brown, scored another success, burdened as he was by his multiplicity of names and identities. Henry Koepke as the young yachts man, genial host and persecuted of his aunt's cats, brought down the house in numerous scenes, especially in his re fusal to watch the raco. Taken altogether, it was a goad en tertainment, and both directors and performers deserve special credit for its success. '" Tha specialties which were intro duced before the curtain rose for tha first act were thoroughly enjoyed. Tha spooky Dance of the Dunces, tha Clown Drill, tha craceful pantomime "Com in' Thru' the Rye," by seven girls with solo by Jeannete Miller; the song "Jungle Moon," in costuma by Elmo Russell, and tha vocal solo and en core by Miss Lucille Taylor, all con tributed to a very enjoyable program which netted 33.30, to be added to the student body genaral fund. Miss Velva Mansfield presided gracefully . at the piano. I The play was givon in Weston at the opera house Wednesday night, and i was well received by our neighboring town, many encores being givon both the cast and the specialties, the latter consisting of the pantomime by the eighth grade girls, the "Dance of tho Dunces" by fifth and sixth grade boys, a sang by Miss Lucille Taylor and sev eral readings by Miss Fortna. The total receipts were 1:10.35, of which $ "M is clear and will also go into tha general High school fund. Greek Laborer Killed. Jim Liapos, a Greek, member of the section gang ballasting on tha O W railroad, near Pendleton, was killed Tuesday morning whan a freight back ed into him while he was at work on the track. His body was cut to pieces. Coroner Brown held an in quest to fix tha responsibility for tha accident. J THE GOLDEN RULE & J IN CLOTHING VALUES See' our window for some real values in Mens and Boys Clothing. We have them in Serges and Fancy" Mixtures. Mens all wool Blue Serge Suits $9.90, 12.50, 14.75 Grey Serge Suits, one of our best values $9.90, 12.50 Mens Fancy Mixtures in Blues. Greys, Browns and Stripes sizes 35 to 46 $9.90, 12.50, 14.75 If we cannot suit you in the above offerings, Cy fin Jjlin lin we have two of the best Tailoring Lines ftt "'U H" ' See our line of Novelty Caps. The very latest in the Cap line, in checks, plaids and stripes.