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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1917)
To Advertisers The oAthena Press circulates in the homes of readers who reside in the heart of the Great Umatilla Wheat Belt, andjthcy have money to spend mm Subscription Rates One Copy, one year, $1.30; 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 Mall Matter VOLUME XXIX. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 28, 1917. NUMBER 37 MIMIMI M4 BUY HEATERS NOW 125 STYLES and SIZES Descriptions and Prices will be sent on request. We bought three big carloads of Stoves last year before the price advanced and the cars have just been unloaded and the stoves are now on display. At the price we bought, we can afford to sell Heaters at much lower prices than the avarage-dealer Besides you have our "Guarantee Without Argument" We pay the freight on all orders amounting to $10.00 or over, and we guarantee the safe delivery of our goods. The Davis-Kaser Co. Home Furnishing Department Store Complete Furnishers of Homes, Offices and Schools jO-10 Alder St. Walla Walla Wash. iOMIttlIMIIIIMII$$IIIIIIMMMMIIIIMIIIIII IMIIIIIIIMIMMMitMllliMIIHIIIHM Round-Up Week is over but who does your Washing.' Let us do it for you for 3 to 5 cents per hour with our ELECTRIC MOTOR WASHER Now aren't you asha med to let that little frail wife of yours do the washing? Peonographs 98 to $33. Sewing Machines $20 to the wonderful, simple Two'Spool Machine at $B, We r.n now setting up Kentucky and Van Brunt Drills Watts & Rogers Farm Outfitters Just Over the Hill UIIMIIMIIIIIIMIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 1 1 II I III The Pirst National Bank of Athena Conducts a General Banking Business Capital and Surplus, $100,000 Wll We are always prepared to care for the proper needs of our Customers, 1 1 linn i iiimm ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. AMERICAN BEAUTY FLOUR la made 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 sells. the famous American Beauty Flour Merchant Millers & Grain Buyers Athena, Oregon. Waitsburg, Wash, iiniiiiiinnni We carry the best MEATS That Money Buys Our Market is Glean and Cool Insuring Wholesome Meats. READ & MEYER Main Street, Athena. Oregon IS THIS ONE REASON FOR THE GERMAN RETREAT? Official British Photograph. It is now claimed that the big war guns of the allies outrange (lie German guns tiv n o miles. The Eng llau title to the above picture is "Sonimc Joking Gunners and Their Pet." WHEAT HI SELL COAST FOR 2.05 STOCK SHOW IT PENDLETON OF INTEREST TO FARMERS Portland is made a terminal market for Pacific Northwestern wheat, with a basic price of 2.05 a bushel. Simi lar action was taken with regard to Seattle and Tacoma. The Hoover food administration, to which was intrusted by the President the matter of -eadjus-ting wheat prices on the Pacific Coast, also announced a basic price of 12.10 for wheat at San Francisco and Los Angeles. That the Northwestern delegation of wheat growers and dealers, which went to Washington to protest against the discrimination shown this part of the country in the fixing of wheat prices, was successful in demonstrat -ing the shipping facilities of the Coast, is indicated by a telegram re ceived from Herbert Hoover by W. B. Ayer. Mr. Hoover s representative in Portland which reads: "The representatives of the Pacific Northwestern giain producers, and I I handlers, in conference with the food administration, arrived at a settlement 1 - i . i 1 : il vi . i . in reKnru iaj Mmiui inic me iNonnwesi- em wheat crop. of the Shipping Board, the food ad ministration has been given assurance of overseas transportation for Pacific Northwest grain and it, therefore, is able to make a base price at North Pacific export points on an overseas basis, instead of the previous footing of a price based on tail transport to Chicago. The base price unanimously agreed upon by the Northwestern rep resentative is $2.06 for No. 1 North ern, or equivalent, at Portland, Seattle and Tacoma for bulk wheat, with usual premium for sacked wheat. In order to adjust difficulties of the new Fed eral grading act, the food administra tion will until further notice, purchase everything below No. 8 grade on sample." By this action of the Food Admin istration, the value of this year's wheat crop the of Pacific Northwest is increased about fa, 850,000. It is believed the new price will sat isfy the farmers of the Northwest, al though they had hoped for a higher rate. The increase amounts to 5 cents a bushel net to the growers. By the first arrangement, wheat was to sell here solely on the Chicago basis of 12.20, which, allowing for the freight of 80 cents from the Northwest to Chicago, meant $1.90 to the farmers in the Inland Empire. The ten cent average weight ra,te from the interior to Portland and Puget Sound points, brought the price of the tidewater markets to $2. Now, there is a 12.05 market at Portland, Seattle and Ta coma, which is equivalent to $1.95 at producing points. This applies only on wheat that comes this way, as the same wheat if shipped eastward would be worth only $1.90 for it would sell there on the Chicago basis and would have to pay the 80 cent freight. Nat urally the farmers of the Inland Em pire will market their wheat here and thus get the added 5 cents. The matter of flour and millfeed prices is likely to be cleared up very soon, now that the wheat price is de finitely fixed. While consumers in this territory will not get these com modities quite as cheap as they ex pected, still a material reduction from the present prices must be made be fore flour and feed are on a parity with wheat. Farmers throughout the county are taking a great interest in the Horse and Mule show to be held in Pendleton October 6, and some of the finest stock in eastern Oregon will be on exhibi tion. The Hereford and Short Horn stock recently bought by the Pendleton Meat company and James Sturgis will be among the stock to be shown. The exhibit v ill be at the Round Up park as last year. Free feed will be fur nished for the stock and no entry fee is to be charged any exhibitor. It is the hope of the offices of the show to have a good showing of pure bred cattle, sheep and hogs. For these there will be only ribbon prizes. At this time there will be a number of horses shown that will be for sale and anybody wishing to buy a breed ing animal will do well to attend the show and see them at first hand. The judges will be members of the extension department of the Oregon Agricultural College. Any prospective exhibitor who wants more information can communi cate with Dr. Lassen at Pendleton. WrTroops Are Heard From. F The first separate squadron of Ore- With the assistance gon Cavalry is now stationed at Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C. The detach ment arrived at the camp September 14, after an eight day transcontinental ride by the -way of San Francisco, New Orleans and Atlanta, Ga. The squad ron left Clackamas September 6. The squadron which is comprised of 816 men is in the most part composed of Eastern Oregon men. While the Oregon boyre familiar with the ways of the west, the Bcenes around Camp Greene were a novelty to them when they reached the Southern camp, according to letters received from them. The Oregon boys, in cluding George Winship, Sam Starr, Hallie Piersol, Harry Keller, Edward Sebasky, and Leslie McCub bins of Athena, are quartered in reg iment reservation No. 6 near the Wyo ming infantry. According to inform ation received, the.-e is no drill ground for the cavalrymen, and some concern is felt by the officers of the squadron over the lack of a place to make use of the horses which will soon arrive. The pictures of the Umatilla county contingent, Troop D, appear in Sat urday's Round Up edition of the East Oregonian. Auto Body Whisky Cache A broken brake rod, which compelled L. M. Davidson, said to be from Port land, o put his car in a garage, reveal ed one of the cleverest bootlegging schemes ever worked in Pendleton, re ports the Tribune. The body ot the car was discovered to be a tank capa ble of holding several gallons of whis ky, a little of which remained when the officers took it Monday morning. The car body was double, the open ings being under the pads on arms of the seat and under the plate in the rear holding the rear lamp bracket. The smell of whisky, together with the indication that the screws on the arm plates had been frequently used, gave the thing away. School Notes, j Mr. Schaffner, the manual training instructor, went on the morning train Tuesday to Walla Walla in order to consult a Specialist in regard to an I abscess in his throat. The Athena School is looking for- wara 10 wnat is expecieu to ue one 01 the best plays ever presented by the students of the High school. This play, "On the Little Big Horn," will be staged in the near future under the direction of Mrs. J. O. Russell. Several students are deriving great benefit from the new Business, Eng lish, Spelling and Penmanship course added to the High school. At present the class is learning much concerning business transactions and United States Postal Laws. They are also getting much practice in the Palmer Method of Penmanship. Supt. Russell has planned for a very interesting and instructive series of talks to be given by the High Bchool pupils at each regular mid week assembly. These talks will be on var ious Current Event topics and promise to benefit the speaker as well as the audience. Wednesday the Freshmen class gave entertaining speeches on phases of the war and next Wednesday the Sophomore Class will deliver their current events. Four new pupils registered in the grade rooms last week. This makes a total of 182 in the grades and 169 in the whole school at present. The new pupils are: Lawrence Audett, second grade. Reeve Betts, fourth grade; Agnes Audett, third grade and Ivan Cox, sixth grade. The third and fourth grade pupils under the direction of Miss Lawson are doing some splendid work in art, which is exhibited on Friday after noons. A cordial invitation is extend ed to the parents to visit this room. Several visitors to Miss Sherman's room of the past week were Miss Boyer, Mrs. Will Kirk, Mrs. Marion Hansell and Mrs. Leon Kidder. Mrs. Russell was a visitor of Miss Wollfe's room on Tuesday. The girls of the fifth, sixth seventh and eighth grades commenced Tueslay on their work in Domestic Art under the supervision of Miss Wolffe. The firHt article which they will make is a pinwheel but later they will work on sewing bagB. The largest class in the High school is the second year English class, which has an enrollment of eighteen mem bers. The smallest one is the English History Class which has only two members. Eloise Bergevin and Claude Baker entered High school this week. George Lieuallen started school this week and is taking two High school subjects with a review of the eighth grade work. The first number of the lyceum course which will be given under the auspices of the A. H. S. is Eugene Company E. Entrains Forty more Umatilla county boys left Tuesday from Boise, Ida., for the training camp at Charlotte, N. C, where they will prepare to go to France. They are the members of Company E of the Second Idaho reg iment, who with other units of the two batallions that have been at Boise for the past several months, entrained for the east. The boys are nearly all vet erans of tbe Mexican border campaign and have been away from their homes on this call since last May. They en listed for the border trouble when the Idaho troops passed through here last fall and the remainder followed them when the national 'guard was called out on the declaration of war. They have been in Boise or on guard duty since that time. The company includes Sid Barnes, Ernie Boynton, Moscow Froome and Percy Wilson of Athena and a number of men who enlisted from Weston, all of whom were at home recently on a five days furlough, with the exception of Barnes and Froome. Thieves at Round-Up That Pendleton was infested by thieves during the week of the Round Up, is evidenced by a number of depre dations reported in Pendleton papers. An effort was made Saturday night to rob the box office at Happy Canyon. Holes were cut down through the grandstand. The money, however, had been taken away. A handbag ripped open was found at one end of the room and a' sack containing "Buck Notts." Friday night someone bursted a board off the ticket office while Secretary Cranston was counting the money. He made a getaway with the money bags in record time. The Parker Taxi Cab office in the Reetz barber shop was robbed, several hundred dollars being stolen from a desk that was broken open. The safe belonging to Si Reetz and which con tained $400 in receipts from the Chris tian church dinner, was not molested, Lee B. DeWitt, Standard Oil company manager, was loser to the extent of $10 when a burglar went through his room. The same operator also annexed $10 from the pocket of a deputy sheriff, from an outside county, who was using a room adjoining the DeWitt room. Athena friends of Irving Brooks have received news from him stating he has enlisted in tbe Army and is sta tioned at Camp Lewis. He i assigned to tbe Quartermaster's departireot Laurant, the great magician, with his talented assistants in February, 1918. In March the Rob Roy Quartet will be heard with their wonderful music, impersonations, and magic. Mr. Geo. b. Colby, cartoonist, will entertain with his sketches and car toons in April. The concluding num bers of the course will tbe the High school play to be given in May. The exact dates and seat sale will be an nounced later. At the beginning of the school year there was little hopes of a boys' basket ball team, but now the prospects are good. At present Tharp and McPher rin are the only old players, Booher being unable to play on account of an abscess in the muscle of his leg. John Saunders is making good at guard and George Lieuallen will play center. If Claude Coomans returns, he will play guard but if not, some new boy will have to be trained for that position. The boys are striving to get matls and gloves for boxing and wrestling. The second regular meeting of the Literary Society is being held this afternoon in the High school auditor ium. The special feature of the meet ing is the initiation of the officers who were elected at the last meeting. Also a very pleasing program, the first to be civen this vear. has heen : rafnllv arranged by thl program committee. The public is cordially invited to at tend these meetings. The program follows: Song 2. Speech, Athena," 'FirBt Piano Solo Reading Vocal Solo Society Impression of Miss Grant Betheen Reed Areti Littlejohn Prof. Russell Household Hints, Hazel McFarland Song "America" - Society Examinations Limited The senate limited the examination of registered men in the selective draft to those who can be clothed, fed and equipped. This limitation prevents the examination of all the remaining registered men immediately as the war department desired. Montana Conscripts Celebrate Four hundred and sixty six Montana conscripts were confined to quarters on their arrival, pending an investiga tion into the death of a negro porter on the train en route. The riotous con duct it is reported marked the progress of the troop train all tbe way from Butte. The condition of the coaches bore evidence of this fact. Over a hundred quarts of liquor taken from the train were confiscated. Peoples Theatre. Friday Sept. 28, Pathe presents Gladys Hulette in "Her New York;" Katzenjammer Kids in "Sharks is Sharks." Saturday Sept. 29, Pathe presents Ruth Roland in ' The Neglected Wife" Mutual presents Helen Holmes in "The Railroaders;" Also Shorty Hamilton. Shorty Solves the High Cost of living. Sunday Sept. 80. Mutual presents Gale Kane in "Soul's Passion" Monday Oct. 1, Universal Mixed Program, a two reel L Ko Comedy, a Big U Comedy drama, Current Events, Seven Big Reels. Wednesday Oct. 8 Vitagraph pre sents Lillian Walker and Everett Over ton in "Hesper of the Mountains." Thursday Oct. 4, Mutual presents The Great Five reel Feature "The Highest Bid;" also a two reel Vogue Comedy. Lost Valuable Horse Jinks Taylor lost a valuable work horse Saturday night in a rather pe culiar accident. While being driven home with a band of other animals from the Round Up by Percy and Eu gene Osborne, the horse fell and when the men, coming up in the darkness, discovered his plight, he refused to rise to his feet. It was found that his leg was broken, but how, could not e accounted for. The animal was shot. OF STUDY IN FOOD VALUES By the first of October a study course of foods will be open to the women of Athena and other communities in Um atilla county, under the direction of the Extension Department of the Ore gon Agricultural College. Every wo man is urged to join in an effort to show what the women of this commun ity can do to help win the war by con servation at home. Conservation of the food as it is dai ly prepared in our homes does not mean skimping so that the members of the family are under nourished. It does mean, however, wise buying, careful preparation, and the elimination of wast.' both in preparation and con sumption. These results cannot be acomplished unless the housewife un derstands food values and the varying needs for nourishment represented by her family. And when she takes up Conservation in a truly methodical manner, she must know the various needs of the body ; what foods, that i may select, will contribute tbe most to these needs, and how to pre pare these combinations of foods in a pleasing manner. Meals of many kinds are to be found and simplicity may be cultivated without fear ofjmai nutrition. A course of study, which it is plan ned for the various groups of women who assemble for club work, aid so cieties or Red Cross work, to take up, will be forwarded by the district home demonstration agent, Miss May Mur phy, when it is hoped the women may find it possible to appoint a reader for each afternoon, and thus all may be instructed and benefitted. The course will include: Foods; household accounting plans; a study of household textiles, adulterations, etc, and a survey of the modern kitchen equipment. The Churches The Christian Church. The busy season for the churches is here, and the Christian church is no exception to the rule. Sunday morn ing, 10:00 o'clock, Geo. R. Gerking will start the Bible school with the choir in place and everything ready for the beginning of rally day. At 11:00 a. m. the pastor will preach on "The Bible School for the Age." In the evening he will preach on: "The Christian Soldier, " a continuation of the morning theme. Are we ready for the conflict' If not come and reg ister and get into line, and make prep aration for a hard campaign for vie tory. Glasses for everybody, and mu sic for all. You are cordially invited and welcome. Sunday is the Lord's day and should be used in his service, Cornel Free Methodist Services. Services for Sunday September 80: Preaching at Weston Mt. 11:00 a, m., Athena 8:00 and Union school house 7:80 p. m. You are welcome. Geo. T. Klein. Methodist Episcopal Church. Peaching services Sunday 11a. m. and 7:80 p. m. Morning topic: "The Hopes and Fears of a New Nation." I The evening service will be the first of the devotional series which will ex- tend throughout the autumn months. Sunday Bchool at 10:00 a. m. with 100 present as its aim. The boys' claeB won the flag last Sunday. Can , they keep if Home Coming Day, October 14. ! This annual event will be largely at - ! tended. Basket dinner at noon. Fel lowship meeting at 2:80. Rally Day with the program, "The Flags of Freedom" October 28. You are in vited to these services. Walter S. Gleiser. How cheaply can you heat your home with Cole's Original Wood Heaters? Better ask it will surprise you. Rebekah Club benefit ball at the Opera house tomorrow night. UNDERWEAR AND HOSIERY How about yjur supply of the above item? We have never been in better shape to supply your needs in these items, and our prices are far below our competitors. Bet j ter make out a list ot your needs in these lines and if you can't come send us your mail order. Satisfaction guaranteed. 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