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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1917)
Up to the Tines Msg"; Xo Advertisers The cAth Press circulates in the homes of readers who reside in the heart of the Great Umatilla Wheat Belt, and they have money to spend mttm 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. AUGUST 10, 1917. NUMBER 31 IIMMMtl iiioiiiiiiiiiiiifnittniiiiiiinim A CLEARANCE SALE OE SHEET MUSIC Mail orders are pouring in every day for some of these great music bargains. Place your order before our August sale closes and take advantage of these low prices. 12.00 Family Music Book for l, 65 contains 20 pieces of piano and vocal music of moderate difficulty, selected from the works of classic and modern composers and including many old favorites universally known. The piano selections comprise Drawing pieces. Operatic Ar rangements, Easy Classics, Sacred Mueic, Dance Music, Four hands and six hands. The vocal selections include Ballads, Sacred Songs and Hymns, Pa triotic and National Songs, including Foreign, Children's Songs, etc. 86c to 76c Music for 35c. Your choice of 200 Operatic selections taken from suoh late operas as Katin ka, September morn, Ziegfelds Follies, Winter Garden, Lilac Domino, World of Pleasure, Blue Paradise and several- others. Several of the late "hits" which we are selling at 8 for 96c or 8 for 1.00 '!Where Do We Go From Here," "I Can Hear the Ukeles Calling Me," "O Johnny Oh," "Back To Hawaii and Me," Along the Way to Waikiki." The Davis-Kaser Co. Home Furnishing Department Store Complete Furnishers of Homes, Offices and Schools 10-20 Alder St. Walla Walla Wash. him eeiivetfn IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHHIIIIIIItilllHUIIIIIIIHIII Are You well tired of our tire ad ? If your auto's not well tired, we'll retire Sewing Machines $20 up, all guaranteed. Come and see the wonderful Twopool Machine. Binders all sold but one. Binder Twine galore. Electric and Gasoline Washing Machines and Flat Irons why not use that waste juice you are paying for every month? . Watts & Rogers Just Over the Hill HHMIHH4IU IIIIMlilllW ItlllllllHitM Trie First National Bank of Athena Conducts a General Banking Business Capital and Surplus, $100,000 BiliBKH We are alway3 prepared to care for the proper needs of our Customers. M I ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. AMERICAN BEAUTY FLOUR Is made in Athena, by Athena labor, in one oi the very- best equipped mills in the Northwest, of the best 'selected Bluestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home industry. Your grocer seuVtbe femous American Beauty Flour Merchant Millers & Grain Buyers Athena, Oregon. Waitsburg, Wash. uMiinminiint We carry the best MEATS That Money Buys Our Market is Clean and Cool Insuring Wholesome Meats. READ k MEYER Main Street, Athena, Oregon INTERNED GERMANS TOOK TONS OF BAGGAGE Photo by American Press Association. When the German sailors were taken from the steamers Eltel Frledrleh Helphla and transported for Internmei to Forts McPherson niid Oglethorpe, aud clothes were sent with them. This shows one of the curs being loaded. and Kronprina Wllhelm nt Phtla tin., several carloads of furniture WILL BE GRANTED Jf there is any doubt as to whether a man is entitled to exemption or dis charge from military service under the draft, that doubt, so far as the three Oregon boards are concerned, will al ways be resolved against the applicant. This was one of several important matters of policy decided at a meeting held in the office of Adjutant General George A. White Tuesday by the mem bers of the three district boards in the state. ' k -' The boards outlined their policy only after going very carefully thr ough the regulations, which were read word for word and throughly discussed to clear up any doubt us to their interpretation. They are unanimously of a mind to make it hard for any Blacker or dodger from military service who appears be fore them. To be perfectly blunt and frank about it, the boards will have a sharp ax ready at all times for gentle men who seek to avoid military service without a legitimate reason. Moreover, even when the reason is legitimate, it must be an exceptionally good one. That was made clear in two resolutions adopted by the boards. One of these resolutions defines the policy of the boards in regard to de pendents. Here is the test each board will ap ply when called to pass on appeals from decisions of local boards on claims for exemption or discharge on the ground that the man sought to be ex empted or discharged has a dependent or dependents to support: "Resolved, That these district boards construe a dependent as one who might become a burden upon the community if the person upon whom he or she claims to be dependent was inducted into the military service of the United States." If there is any doubt about it, the policy of the boards will be to deny the appeal and hold the man for mili tary service. The other resolution relates to grant ing of discharges to persons claiming it on the grounds of employment in a necessary industry, including agricul ture. . i jjpf Such claims cannot be considered by local boards and must be made direct to the district boards. They can only be made, however, after the applicant has passed his physical examination and has been posted by the local boards as called up for service and not ex empted or discharged. . . . The solution adopted by the district boards relative to their policy in deal ing with such claims follows: "Resolved, That these district boards will not discharge any person on the ground that he is engaged in any agricultrual or other exempted in dustry, unless such person is neces sary to the maintenance of such indus try and is regularly and continuously engaged in such industry as distin guished from an occasional or tempor ary employment therein." Under this policy the man wH6 works regularly and continuously as a farm hand, or as a ship carpenter, or as a munitions maker, and the like, who applies foi discharge on the ground that his work is necessary in that industry, will receive thorough consideration. But the fly-by-night type of worker, and the man who feels a sudden call back to the soil about the time his turn comes in the draft will not. The boards will be especially on the watch for rich men's sons who desert the golf links and evince an interest in farming when they are due to be called. Women Pitch Hay A shortage of men caused by the ex odus to enter the war is forcing Grant county women into the hayflelds. The women are driving rakes and bucks and some are even forced to help pitch hay. A hay shortage is threatened in the Long Creek section and farmers are even cutting the growth in fence cor ners and other places where mowers cannot operate. Some are cutting rye grass to feed with what hay they have. I The Baker county crop is coming up to that oi last season, out sales are being J made at l and f ia a too in the stack. STATE HIGHWAY BOARD ACCEPTS BID ON BONDS The- State Highway Commission to day opened bids and awarded contracts for roads and bridge construction pro jects and accepted the bid of the Lum bermens Trust Company, of Portland, on the 1600,000 bond issue, the first sale of bonds under the 6, 000,000 bonding enactment of the last Legisla ture. The bid was 171,300 with ac crued interest, the bonds dated August 1. Bids on if 100, 000 issue dated Decem ber 1,' under tne Bean Barrett law, opened by the State Board of Control, were all rejected and the Board will re advertise for bids on August is. The Lumbermens Trust Company also sub mitted the biggest offer on this issue. All bids were below par except one for 2000 of the larger issue, which was at par. Decision of the board to readvertise is based On the belief that more satis factory bids will be received if the bonds are changed to serial form. This is to be done. The sum of JIOO.OOO Will be payable id five years and the same amount in the sixth, seventh and eighth years. "In making their discount on the bond the bidders have figured on an in terest of 4 1-2 per cent," said Gover nor Withyeombe, "though the bonds called for 4 per cent. The securities of the state are not questioned. It is merely a reflection of financial condi tions and the unstable condition of the bond market. " Land Title Faulty On the grounds that its claim to pos session of 10,000 acres of Oregon land was not well establi shed, the Oregon Inland Development Company has lost its appeal to district court to legalize the payment of many thousand dollars on lands by purchasers. The court held the deeds were faulty and that the company's literature misrepresented the land. The land is in Klamath, Douglas, Umatilla and 15 other coun ties. ' NEGLECTED FOODS. Their More Liberal Use Would Be a Help In Home Economy. Among the foodstuffs that American housekeepers have scarcely utilized are turulp tops, radish tops, uiusturd plants, sorrel and chick peas among the vege tables and the cheese product that can be extracted from whey. The "greens mentioned may all be cooked like spinach or they may be made Into delicious cram) Boups, as they have been for centuries by Euro pean housewives. Enough sorrel grows In the average vacant lot in every city to make many purees or cream soups. Chick icas are us nutritious As beans and when served in a broth are Just as tasty. They also can he mude luto a puree. llndlsh tops and mustard leaves make i cheap uud appetizing salad. Professor Mary V. Itnusch in a lec ture at the University of Washington save some bints about home economies, one of which was that foods In shallow 'imiis cool; more rapidly than In deep pons, thus saving gas. Another was that not a scroti of fat of uny sort need lie thrown away, (mt all should go into i double holler and be tiled out for use in frying or us thprteiiing for pastry N'ew York World. When Pullmans Wert New. The reel birth of the Pullman cor dates from the closing days of the war between the states. In the Illinois Journal (Springfield) of Slay 30. lHO.-,. Is to be found the following: "We are reminded of a prophecy which we heard some three years since that the time was not fur distant when a radical change would be Intro duced to the mauuer or constructing railroad cars; the public would travel upon them with as much ease as though sitting In their parlors and sleep and cut on board of them with more ease and comfort than It would 1 be possible to do on a first class steam er. We believed the words, but did not think they were so near ful fillment till Friday last, when we were Invited to the Chicago and Alton de pot la Hi!-? city. to examine on Im proved sleeping car manufactured after a design by George M. Pullman of Chicago." FARM WORKERS TO BE GIVEN UNTIL OCT. A Washington dispatch says that the draft will not interfere with the fall harvesting, General Crowder has announced. Farm hands of military age won't be granted temporary ex eruptions, but will be called in the last quotas, permitting them to remain on the farm until the end of September if necessary. Crowder has directed local boards to estimate the men whose ser vices will be required in gathering the crops. Crowder also announced that the notices sent to. drafted men won't specify the date necessary to report, but will leave the date to be fixed later. The adjutant general will notify each local board to summon 20 per cent of its first quota and another per centage for a later date. Draft deserters and anticonscription iBts are "well under control," accord ing to reports by the department of justice. A few isolated bands in Ok lahoma are the only trouble makers now. Farmhands Get Appeal The Wisconsin State council of De fense has issued a warning to farm hands who are deserting Wisconsin for work in other states. "There are two special reasons," says the council's statement, "among the great many that might be cited which seem to the state council suffi cient reason why no young man should leave a Wisconsin farm for work in some other state. In the first place, it is an expensive proposition as the man pays his own railroad fare and his incidental expenses before he reaches his place of work. The second great reason is a patriotic one. Wisconsin needs all the farm help we can get." I S. FREIGHT TO MOVE QUICK William Sproule, chairman, of the Western Department of the Railroads War Board, has announced that plans for the solution of one of the most im portant problems thrust upon the rail roads of this country by the war have just been adopted after a series of con ferences with authorized representa tives of the Army, Navy and the United States Shipping Board. The problem concerns the supply and prompt movement of the thousands of cars required by the government to transport lumber and other supplies to the shipbuilding yards, the Army can tonments and other mobilization points during the next few months. It is es timated that more than 100,000 cars will be needed for Government pur poses. Under the plans agreed upon by the Railroads' War Board and representa tives of the Government, the Govern ment, will give advance notice to the War Board's commission on car ser vice whenever orders are placed for more than 10 carloads of material or supplies. The Government will also issue, whenever necessary, through its authorized representatives, orders to the railroads on Which the supplies are to be shipped intructing them to pro vide the number of cars ordered with in the time specified and at the ship ping points designated. To prevent shippers from utilizing for other pur poses cars needed for Government ser vice, the Railroads' War Board has issued strict orders to all railroads ab solutely to forbid shippers the use of any of the Government ordered cars for any purpose except the loading speci fied in the Uovernment order. To assist further in the campaign to keep moving cars bearing Government supplies an envelope in which the way bills are to be carried has been design ed. These envelopes, which will he supplied to all persons or firms mak ing shinments of material for th nan of the Army or Navy or the Shipping . Board, bear the following headings printed in big type: "United States Government," "United States Army Supplies," "United States Navy," "United States Shipping Board." ALL ARE Intected Plaster Found Presence of tetanus bacillus, the germ of lockjaw, in court plaster re cently sold in Numpa, Idaho, was an nounced Saturday at the office of the State Board of Health, following bac teriological examination. Final deci sion is withheld, however, until results are reported from the inoculation of a guinea pig from the germ culture. The court plaster was sold by a medicant who passed through Boise Valley sev eral weeks ago. Twenty Per Cent Fail Twenty per cent of the men who were examined in four districts of Seattle and King county Sunday were rejected, principally because of fiat feet, throat troubles and bad teeth. In one district 11 men out of 69 were re jected and lf of the remainder demand ed exemption blanks. In another dis trict, 25 out of 71 persons were found incapacitated. Homestead Kuling Made. Land selected under the grazing homestead law, where the applicant is allowed to take 1110 acres, must be in one body, according to a ruling by the General Land Office sustaining a ruling of the North Yakima Land -Office. Potato Fields Fail Pendleton Tribune: A strange and inexplainable condition exists in many potato fields in this vicinity, both in the gardens of the city and Ifi the country. The tubers are not maturing, but are sprouting in the ground. An examination of the hills discloses abun dant, sprouts from small potatoes some time us small as a pea, frequently as small as a' walnut. None of them are of sufficient size to warrant digging, and a complete loss of the crop is pro bable in most instances. There may be a few early varieties which have grown sufficiently before sprouting to serve the table in the early fall, if dug and cared for at once, but most are loo small for any purpose, except hog feed, and they would not be worth the ex pense of digging for that. Thus far no one has presented uny satisfactory reason for the anomalous situation. In any event there will bu no substantial potato yield in this auction of the country. A Presidio Special says: With smiling lips but eyes that could not hide the bitter disappointment of being among those culled, several hundred students at the reserve officers' train ing camp, who failed to get ommis sions, bade good bye to their fellow students and chum:. They looked pe culiarly out of place in civilian clothes clothes wrinkled from three months repose in trunk and worn with an awk ward, almost apologetic air. Sun red dened faces somehow did not fit well with linen collars. "I'm heading for the regular Army see you in the trenches, old man. Good luck," were the farewells of many. With their three months of intensive training, virtually all who have left camp will find little difficulty in secur ing posts as non commissioned officers in the new Army indeed, many have been recommended for and have acc ept ed tentative offers of such already. Those who departed were not failures in any sense of the word. If they were they would not have lasted until the end of camp. There simply were not place for all who trained and it was accepted as a matter of course that many would be dropped this last month'. .But all the young Americans fervently hoped they would not be among the number. That the judgment which said who should go and who should not was infall ible contended by no one. The armv officers in charge of the camp had a monumental task before them in the selection, in three months' time, of men who were qualified or who show ed promise of becoming qualified to officer National Army. Some there were who were told to go who would better have remained than some who Btayed. In companies of from 150 to 200 men, in charge of two or three officers it as impossible in the short period of training for the officers un mistakably to pick the bast. But it is conceeded generally that they tried to, conscientiously and to the utmost of their ability. In the majority of the companies, the verdict of the Fates was read, or posted on bulletin boards shortly be fore 6 o'clock Friday morning, directly after reveille and just before break fast. Some men could not hide tears of disappointment which welled to their eyes when their names were found on the fateful list. Others smiled, in a rather forced way to be sure, and insisted that such was all they had ever expected from the camp. "For the love o' Pete, Jim, how did you ever stay on when they let such h good man like me go?" joked others. Sheepmen Kick Great damage to the sheep industry if the program of prohibiting the sale of lambs is adhered to, is foreseen by the sheepmen of Umatilla county, who have asked for a conference with the Governor and hope he will appeal to Herbert Hoover against the unfairness of the proposal. It is pointed out that the range lamb matures in about fivo months, and that there is no object in holding it after that timj. Selected ewes produce more and better lambs than young ones. Canadian Wheat Earlv. The first delivery of the no whaat crop was made at Gretna, Manitoba, Tuesday. It graded No. 1 Northern, and yielded 24 bushels to the acre. This is the earliest date on record at which new wheut as been markoted In Manitoba. Shun Young Game. Shun the inclination, wh-in you are rambling afield, to pick up infant gams birds and take them home. Granting that they are "cute," the Oregon game law is positive in its ban on ir regular adoption, and the fine ranges from 125 to 250. FINE TOILET ARTICLES We have a complete line of the tamous "Lazelle" toi W let articles, consisting of face creams, powders, perfum es, talcum powder shaving cream, toilet waters, and a full line of Colgate s toilet articles. See our window. "Lazelle" talcum powders in Mus satta, Japanese Honeysuckle, Field Violet, Sweet Pea and Babykin. .12 Massattu face Powder - .23 Japanese Honeysuckle Powder .45 Colgates Charmis face Powder .28' La Blanche face powder - .45 Colgates talcum powder - ,12 Mennens talcum powder - .12 Colgates cold cream .89 Peerless peroxide cream - .15 Palmolwe Vanishing Cream - .45 Massatta Tneatrical Cream - .35 Hinds Honey and Almond Cream .in Honey Girl Cream of Almonds .21 Lazelle toilet waters in White Rose of Ceylon. 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