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t4THENA. ORE. JUNE 8 1917
A POTATO PATCH PILK
The Rural Weekly nays: Nowadays
we have potato patches ; tomorrow we
may speak of them as potato piles.
A Missourian has been experment-
ing with potato piles for three years,
and asserts that last year he got
bushels from a plot of ground only elixht
feet square, or an equivalent of over
2K,000 bushels to the acre of rimni
space used.
This pjtato plot wai six feet high.
It was made by planting seed potatoes
a foot apart each way, covering the
layer with an inch or two of well rotted
manure arid six inched of earth; then
another layer of potatoes, manure and
earth, and so on until the pile was six
feet hi(h. Around it was a craterlike
affair, allowing two inches of space be
tween narrow boards for the potato
vines to come through.
When his crop matured all he had to
do was to knock the crater apart, rake
out the potatoes and save the earth for
the next years pile.
This new idea potato gardener, It. E.
Hendricks. Kansas City, Mo., believes
he has solved the garden question for
city folks who have little ground, as
far as potatoes are concerned. He
says that potatoes can be planted much
later if done this way than if put in
the ground via old fashioned methods.
By the Hendricks method no hoeing
is necessary. All one has to do after
getting his potato pile built up is to
give the growing tubers plenty of
water.
If Mr. Hendricks experiment can
successfully he duplicated in a million
backyards this summer he will be
entitled to all the honors his food need
ing country can beutow. There'll be
no potato famine then.
.Senator Jones protest to the council
of national defense and President Wil
son agaiuat intimations that orchard
products would be classed as luxuries
and denied transportation facilities,
is logical and should be convincing to
the government.
The Spokesman Review has pointed
out the inconsistency of action that
would injure and probably ruin a great
productive industry at a time when
Htrenuous endeavor iH made to key up
the country to increased production.
Senator Jones now well aaya that "ac
tion like this is bound to bring indus
trial disaster. " While our people are
being urged on one hand to produce
abundant crops, they are, on the other
hand, discouraged from doing no by
action of this kind, Conservation of
the existing fuod resources of the na
tion is equally or more important than
increased production. Science demon
strates that fruits have not only an in
dispensable dietetic value, but when
dried possess high calory contents ap
proximating pound fur pound, meats
and breadstuffs.
One of the greatest lessons that the
war in teaching is the power and duty
of coi peration ; that no one may live
for self alone, hut each for all and all
for each Wherever you take hold to
help in these affairs you will work with
some one ill a common cause; you will
work, not fur yourself alone, but for
country; not for your country alono,
but for France, for England, for Bit
glum, for Serbia, for Russia, for Po
land, for Italy, for Japan, for China,
for all the world, to save it from the
ruin of misapplied knowledge and self
lab counsel. Nothing like this vast
cooperation was ever known before.
H used to be said that the United
States has learned to think in the terms
of a continent anil that E irnuc had to
learn that lesson, ilut now people
must think In terms of all the contin
enta. The whole world is in the pang
of readjustment; of hardly leas than
the whole world will you be a citizen
when this work is finished.
No slackers in Athena. All men be
twM n the ages of H and lit) registered
Tuesday. There are tPi in th.i class
and each stands ready tu serve his
country.
AthiMia believes In better roads just
(o the extent that a majority of four,
ia a majority of four.
The Red Cross jitney dirk "jit
neyed' the lidv sum of ln,5U Into the
treasury Tuesday night. i'
And the Y. M. 0, A. Fund iji
being uvenuukcu in Aim
1 1 t
Haw the. Famous Expression "Swat the
Fly!" Originated.
! Oii'-e irpon a time there was a man
I errtb a large assortment of ideas, and
be w ent to a baseball game to find sur
cease from tbvugjt In the crack of the
ba! and the loriz bit. Now. the partic
ular Idea that bad Ireeo buzzing the
loudest bi bis bead at that time tras
the common housefly and bow to make
it uncommon.
lie uerer could look at a iy without
reclbig a cruel desire to squash It. He
tru. in fact, about to publish a health
buiietiu Indicting the fly ou more
counts than the fly baa eyes, and it
has several thousand and fifty. Well,
sTaUM be got to the game and bad just
rid himself of the whole notion for a
moment and was eaiferly atraftlng ac
tion on (be part of the oatxruan some
bodyIn fact, a lot of tliern shouted,
-Bw.it the ball:"
The batsman did. He swatted the
prettiest fly any fan would ask to see.
.A lid then a Idle the crowd roared the
fly hater look out a pencil and acrib
Med on a bit of paper those three
whined words that were destined In the
months that followed to fly aronnd the
world and back again, "H rat the fly."
The man was Dr. H. .. Cruinblue of
Kansas. -J. Walowrlght Evans lu Na
tion's Business.
The Churches.
THE SHORT STORY.
It Chief Fslling as Seen by a Some
what Cynical Critio.
The short story, taken lu tiro aggre
gate. Is a collection of 11,000 words that
ted how the hero happened to marry
the girl, ft seldom mentions the enor
mous number of gbis Ihut thu hern
has kissed prior to Ihu affair hi bund,
nor does it bear heavily on thu pre
fiOMi little love affairs of I be heroine.
The chief trouble with Ibe abort story
Is Hurt It tills tho reading public with
the Idea that fo be happy one need
only to be married.
This Idea Is erroneous, for the suc
cess of n courtship depends not on the
marriage, but on tint manner In vvblcli
the coulriicUiig parties readjust their
Ideas and peculiarities In order that
there may not bo a wbolesule interfer
ence of Ideas and peculiarities and a
consequent stripping of mental gears
and wrecking of hopes.
Every short Ntury should have foot
notes attacked, explaining Ihu status
quo of the hero and heroine ut tho
end of live years, together with tho
condensed but honest reason for tho
iinsaf Isfuctory or satisfactory results.
Puck.
8plklng the Guns.
The expression "spiking guns" la a
survival from the day when all that
was ueceasary to pin u gun our of ac
tion (provided, of course, that you had
access to III was a large nail or aptko
and a hummer. You simply drove iba
nail Into thu touch hole at the breech.
If tho null vvas long enough in turn
round at the end on Ilia bottom of the
bore so much tllO belter. It Is just aa
simple, perhaps simpler, to put n mod
ern grrrr out of union. All you want Is
a hammer. The breech block of the
modern gun Is held Hosed by screw
threads. After fire breech block Is Inn
ou Ibe shell a turn of two or three
Inches engages lire I bread). By knock
ing n bur on these Uncurls you prevent
Ihein engugllrg. Any II I tempi to Ore
thu gun without lbs jircecb block belug
perfectly closed would, of course, be of
muleiial oajuttailca lu the enemy.
An Ancisnt Infernal Machine.
In the Diary of Samuel I'epjs. under
dale of March II. HUB, ho says:
"Home to dinner. In Ibe aflernoou
clinic the Carman lr. Kuulllcr, lo ills
course with us about his engine to
blow up ships. We doubted not the
mailer of fact. It being tried In Crom
well's time, but Ihe safely of carrying
I lo-ln In ships; but hu do tell us that
wherr he comes lo tell Ihe king tils
secret, for none but the kings, succes
sively, rrnd their heirs must know It,
It will appear lo be of no danger lit all.
Wii concluded nothing, but shall die
course wlib Ihu Duke of York tomor
row about It."
Ananias.
The name Ananias Is In disrepute be
cause of the liar of Unit name men
tioned In the llflh chapter or the Acta
of tho Apnsllos. Two others of the
tonne are mentioned In lire Scriptures.
One or tliesu was u high priest In A. I.
IS who was afterward assassinated;
the other was n Jewish disciple at
Damascus. Tradition makes him to
hart been bishop or Dtimiiseus and to
hare died by martyrdom.
Marriag In Argantlna.
Ill Ihe Argentlno republic If a man
ingulfed to mirry hesitates beyond a
reasonable time In leading bis lluucee
to Ibe Hilar be Is heavily Hired, and If
a resident uf the republic should fall to
iiiurry be Is taxed until ho icin hes the
age of eighty.
The Giraffe's Neok.
"Why de- Ihe glrriffc have such a
long ncckV" asks Ihe teacher.
"Itccuuse Us hi-nil Is so fu r uway
rroru ris burly," hotully answers the
boy.
Splash.
Maiden- What's Hurt "trough of the
sea" we rend rilmuiv Corney Oh, Ihut
Is what the ocean greyhounds drink
mil ot. CiiHsell's .toiuo.it
Might Havs Bean Worse.
"Did tho play have a boppy endlngf"
il iiiIkIiI have been worse. My wire
only forgot her Irrriidkeivliler and one
glove.''
When yuti have an elephant on band
Mid lie wants lo run away, bettor let
liliu run Lincoln.
"Iluvv's your wrle's cold tide morn
ing?" asked a nelghlHrr.
"Much lielter. Iliiiuk von There',- a
ilarree tomorrow evening ihnt she wants
In go lo."
A Feint and a Faint.
Smile-Dbl you ever ralnt? Susie
I tin e But I humped my heud so hard
Hint I fainted really ami truly, and
I've never tried II again.
hona,
Tha First Clock.
The eatilosl complete clock was
mad by a Saracen melal worker tn
Ihe thirteenth century.
Pre? Methodist Services.
Free Methodist church services for
Sunday, June 10th: preachir.g at the
Union school house by Rev. Mrs. Geo.
T. Klein at 11:00 a. m. Preaching at
Weston Mt. at ItlM a. ,n. and Water
roan school house at 1:00 p. it. by the
pastor. You are welcome to attend
these service. Geo. T. Klein, paster.
The Christian Church.
Sunday at the Christian church will
, begin with Mrs. W. R. Scott and her
I Junior Choir. Thev will also sing at
' the evening service. Bible school at
I :00 a. m. Geo. R. Gerking, Director.
Classes for all grades. Communion
and preaching at 11:00 a. nr. Evening
-'.'to t s;00 o'clock. Morning
ubject, "What About Our Nation?"
Evening subject, "The Mission of
Christ to the World." Special music
I at both services. D. Errett, Minister.
At the Baptiat Chnrch.
The Umatilla Baptist Association
has come and gone and it was one of
the best conventions, so all said, they
had attended for a long time. There
were more in attendance this time than
any other year in the history of the
1 Association.
Regular preaching services both
morning and evening. Bible school at
10: a. m. All have a cordial welcome
to attend these services. E. L. Mills,
Minister.
Methodist Episcopal Church.
The pastor of the Methodist church
is leading in the attempt to make that
church a eummiliiitv war lino fnrrrm
as well as a religious center. At thu i
church thu bunuvolunt. claims of our
country have a ruruly (roaring tho
Liberty Loan, the Y. M. C. A., the
Red Cross. In addition it is desired
that thu people discuss among them
selves thu needs of thu hour as thuy
apply to us.
Sunday school at I0:00 a. m. W. C.
Emmcl, Supt. Preaching services at
II a. m. and N p. in. Morning topic:
"How to Make Men Like Christ."
Evening topic: "The End of the Age
long Battle Between Science and Re
ligion." Special music has been pre
pared for these services with a com
munity song service at the beginning
of each. Herman war time economy
already says:
"Sunday you may rest from eating.
The markets closed, so go to meeting. "
A MOTHER TO HER SON.
Do you know that your soul is of my
soul, such part,
That you seem to be fibre and core of
my heart?
None other ran pain me aa you, dear,
can do;
None other can please me or praise
me as you.
Remember the world will be quick
with its blame.
If shadow or strain ever darken your
name,
"Like mother like son" is a saying so
true,
The world will judge largely of
"Mother" by you.
Be vours when the task, if task it shall
be,
To force the proud world to do homage
to me.
Be sure it will aay when the verdict
you've won,
"She reaped as she sowed, "Lol this
ia her son.
The New Northwest
BARBED WIRE IN WAR.
SEAL
Putting Up and Cutting Down Barrier
Is Perilous Work.
The erection of war entanglements,
Iron, when tho trenchea are some dls
Line apart. Is at all times dangerous.
The men slip over the parapet aud
In thu first place pound In the supports
with mallets, the bcuda of which are
carefully w rapped In cloth In order to
deaden the sound. Two other men
tarry the wlro drum-a wooden cylin
der round which the wire Is rolled
hy means of a long pole through tho
'enter, and a comrade attaches the
wires to the supports.
The Wort Is slow and nerve strain
lug, toys a wrl'cr In Ihe Londor
IJraptllC, for atar shots burst often and
rnmpel the men to i rOUch low and re
main motionless until Ihe dure burns
out.
To enrb soldier who tnkes part lu
modern warfare thick gloves for grip
lilii!! wire aud strong pliers for cuttln,
It are ns essential as Ihe rife mid bayo
net.
Before an flOMUlt by his own regl
uront Ihe soldier cuts his own wire,
mil be must then endeavor as best he
may to cut and buck bis way through
I he enemy's, pulling down a support
here, cutting the wires while the ma
chine gun batteries ntp out their mea
ago of death toward him.
Thus barbed wire, so simple In Itself,
so deadly when used In the nays tie
serllatl. enters Into every phase of op
oration lu the riling zone.
Before the Public Service Commission
of Oregon.
In the matter of prescribing and fixing
standards for grain, hay and other
agricultural products and the pro
mulgation of rules and regulations
concerning the handling, weighing,
inspecting and storage of grain, hay
ami other agrieullnral product and
the management of public and ter
minal warehouses.
NOTICE.
ro all Interested Parties:
Please take notice that, pursuant to
the provisions of Chapter HUH ' of the
General Laws of Oregon for the year
I'll.', public huarings will be held for
the purpose of establishing standard
guides for grain, hay and other agri
cultural products anil the promulgation
of rules and regulations concerning the
handling, weighing, inspecting and
storage thereof at the following times
and places, to wit:
June IB, nil 7. t 33 Court House,
Portland, Oregon, at 10:00 o'clock a.
nr.
June IH, 1017 Tacoma, Washington.
June 30, 101? Spokane, Washington.
June 31, lU at the County Court
House at Pendleton, Oregon, at the
hour of 10:00 o'clock a. m.
These public hearing will be con
ducted jointly by the Public Service
Commisaion of Washington and the
Public Service Commission of Oregon,
and all interested parties arc urged tu
t be present and give such testimony or j
' advance such information as mav he !
deemed pertinent to the inquiry, uth
Dated at Salem, Oregon this
day of June, 117.
By order ot the Commission,
Assistant Secretary.
$100 Reward, $100
The readers ot this paper win be
pleased to learn that there Is at least
. one dreaded dlaeaae that science ha
j been able to cure In an it stages and
that Is catarrh. Catarrh being- greatly
' Influenced by constitutional conditions
t requires constitutional treatment. Hall's
Catarrh Medicine is taken Internally and
acts thru the Blood on the Mucous .Sur
faces of the System thereby destroying
: the foundation of the disease, giving the
: parlent strength by building up the eon
' stltutlon and sssls'ing nature In doing Its
work. The proprietors have so much
faith In the curarlve powers of Hall's
Cstarrh Medicine that they offer One
Hundred I Milan for any case that it falls
to cure. Bend for list of testimonials.
Address V. 1. CHENEY CO.. Toledo,
Ohio. Sold by all Druggist. 75c.
Notice to Creditors.
In the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Umatilla County.
In the Matter of the Estate of
Myrtle 8, Scott, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given to ail persons
whom it may concern that Will M.
Peterson has been appointed adminis
trator of the estate of Myrtle S. Scott,
deceased. All persons having claims
against her estate are required to pre
sent them with proper vouchers as re
quired by law to the said administrator
at his law office in the Smith Crawford
Building in Tenuicton Oregon, within
six months from date hereof.
Dated at Pendleton, Oregon, on this
3(lth day of Ma4, 1017.
Will M. Peterson, Administrator of
the Estate of Myrtle S. Scott, decease d.
Post offlre address: ' Pendleton, Oregon.
8UMMON3.
In tho Justice Court of the State of
Oregon for Umatilla County, Pen
dleton District.
William Roesch and William Bngcrt,
partners, doing businoss under the
name of William Roesch Bottling
Co., Plaintiffs,
va.
J. F. Prince. Defendant.
To J. K. Prince:
In tho Name of the State of Oregon,
Greetings:
You are hereby required to appear
and answer the complaint filed against
you in the above entitled action within
six weeks of the date of the first pub
lication of this summons, to wit' by
June M, 1S17, and you will take no
tice that if you fail to appear and an
swer or plead within said time, the
plaintiffs for want thereof will appeal
to the above entitled Court, for the re
lief prayed for in the complaint, via;
for judgment against you in the sum of
tt0.il.
This summons is published by the
order of the Hoc. Joe. W. Parkes,
Judge of the above entitled Court, sa d
order being dated May 7, 1917, and
the first publication of this tsummons
is dated May 11, !I7,
Frederick Sterner.
Attorney for Plaintiffs.
This immense factory is the home of
flSK
im at a v.a m. ea-
Time to Re-tire?
(Buy Flak)
The Standard of Tire Value
BUY at least one pair of Fik Non Skid. Learn from
;vrtr ml ukp that thev are the beat tire value vou can
buy. This great manufacturing plant shown above
grew from a very small beginning is the result of
making and selling honest :j tire Value at an honest price.
Get acquainted with Fisk Quality Fisk Value.
"When you pay more than Fiik prices you pay for some
thing that does not exist." They are recommended by
dealers everywhere.
FISK DEALEF8 IS ATHEXA
Athena Oarage
PHONE 352
ington, California or Montana, address
Condon Realty Co., box 31, Condon,
Ore.- Adv.
CROUP & LASH
Dentists
In Athena Monday' Tuesday, Wednes
day, other day of week in Walla Walla,
2nd and Main, over Third National Bank
Dr. S. W. Croup - Dr. C. H. Lash
Land for Sate.
No. 93 4S0 acres, IPSO in cultiva
tion, 10 miles from town; t-room
house, bam 16 head, shed and granary,
good water supply. All in crop. Price,
including machinery and crop, if sold
at once, $20,000. Reasonable payment
down, balance on good terms. With
or without stock. Partners dissatis
fied, reason for sale.
If interested in grain, stock, fruit
or alfalfa ranches in Oregon, Wash-
S. F. Sharp
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Special attention given to all
ealia 'mth night and daj .
Calls promptly answered. UffloeoaTblrO
Otret. Athena Oraaor
Dr. J. C Baddeley
VETERINARY SURGEON
LaBrasche Ranch
Athena
DR. G. S. NEWSOM.
Physician and Surgeon.
Office Corner rlth & Adams St.
D. Scott Fisher
CONTRACTOR & BUILDER
Residence and Shop, Adams and 4th Sts
Athena
THE
PARKER BARBER SHOP
A. J. Parker, Proprietor
Shaving, Haircutting, Massaging, Shampooing.
Bath Rooms In Connection,
St. Nichols Hotel Block
Athena. Oreg,
LESS WORK
No coal, wood or ashes to lug. No waiting for
the fire to burn up.
Meals in a jiffy and a cool kitchen all the time.
Bakes, broils, roasts, toasts. Better cooking be
cause of the steady, evenly-distributed heat.
More convenient than a wood or coal stove for
all the year 'round cooking, and more econom
ical. The long blue chimneys prevent all smoke and
smell. In 1, 2, 3 and 4 burner niies. with
or without ovens. Also cabinet
models. Ask your dealer today.
NEW PERFECTION
OIL CCffTOVE
FOR SALE BY
Foss-Winship Hardware Company.
i
Flower-gowned,
Forest-bound,
Hose-crowned,
Portland!
June 13, 14 and 15
Brilliant i Instructive
" it Patriotic
Excursion Fares via
UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM
OREGON WASHINGTON RAILROAD & NAVIGATION COMPANY
Tickets on Sale Jaae n, 13 and 14; return limited to June 18
J. R. MATHERS, Agent.
MED
Service Station
Complete line of Ford Parts
and Accessories. All Ford work regulated
by thi Ford Motor Co's Bulletin of Universal
Prices.
Gas, Oil, Air-Mohiloil and Zsrolene are right
grades for your Motor. -
Racine, Goodrich and U. Sr Tires and Tubes.
All sizes.
We buy old Rubber, Brass and Aluminum
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fiL I
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Our Market is
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Insuring Wholesome Meats.
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Main Street, Athena, Oregon