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X Advertisers The cAthena Press circulates in the homes of readers who reside in the heart of the Great Umatilla Wheat Belt, and.tbey have money to spend 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 Mall Matter VOLUME XXIX. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 9, 1917. NUMBER 40 Miiiiiiun HIMUIIIII The Juicy" Roasted Turkey" or the Succulent Pumpkin Pie Once more the American Housekeeper will prepare for Thanksgiving Day, with an eagerness and anticipation that is justified by the many new helps and conveniences that have been provided to make the cook ing and serving of the Dinner a greater success than ever. In helping this great movement, our Houseware section has routed out all the handy accessories that provide Bhort cuts in cooking work. Here are a few of the things that will oMake your Dinner a Bigger Success and that will make the work of preparation easier Aladdin Aluminum Roasters, with tray $B 50 $7.50 Lisk Light Blue Enameled Roasters $8.25 White Enameled steel Roasters 13.90 Grey Enameled Roasters 12.76 upward Sheet Iron Roasters, 75c up You will also be interested in the Univeral Take Mixer, $8.50 The Univeral Bread Mixer, $3.75 our splendid line of Food Choppers, Chopping Bowls Mincing Knives Yellow Mixing Bowls Aluminum Pie Tins, Cake Pans, etc. The Davis-Kaser Co. Home Furnishing Department Store Complete Furnishers of Homes, Offices and Schools 10-20 Alder St. Walla Walla Wash. nniniiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiii HHlllMlOIIMMIIIHIIMl For three Weeks we have pleaded payment of notes and acct's. If you have paid the Ad. doesn't plague. If you have not paid Better hustle, lest we raid. We will take your Liberty Bond for tbat account, note or goods. Some choice Phonographs, $8 up to $76. Sewing machines, $30 to $45 for the wonderful two-spool machine. Silverware and Cutlery galore. WE WILL HAVE THANKSGIVING BEFORE CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR. IIIIIIIIIIIIMt WATTS C& ROGERS Farm Outfitters Just Over the Hill 1 uihk ' " The Pirst National Bank of Athena Conducts a General Banking Business Capital and Surplus, $100,000 mmsmm We are always prepared to care for the proper needs of our Customers. iiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmn'"'"S ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. AMERICAN BEAUTY FLOUR Is made in Athena, by Athena labor, in one ot the very beat equipped mills in the Northwest, of the best selected Bluestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronise home industry. Your grocer sells'. the famous AmericanlBeauty Flour Merchant Millers & Grain Buyers Athena, Oregon. nutiiiiiiniiiii Waitsburjt, Wash. ll$llllllll$Htlt fijlsBlipE ffc w We carry the best MEATS That Money Buys Our Market is Clean and Cool Insuring Wholesome Meats. LOGS I) EN & MYRICK Main Street, Athena, Oregon FOR OREGON GRAIN The Oregon Agricultural College, through its agent, J. C. Hawkins, who visited Athena last week, gives for publication the following relative to seed treatment for cereals: The smuts and other diseases of cereals which are carried by microsco pic spores on the seed are so common throughout Oregon as well as else where in the United States, that cross free from disease cannot be expected unless the seed is treated to kill the diseases before planting. Where the treatment is properly given the crop will be practically free from smut. Soil infection is practically unknown in Western Oregon and is of little im portance in most in the Columbia Basin. Where it does not occur it may result in a smutty wheat crop in spite of proper seed treatment. In region where soil infections are frequent it is reported that much of the danger from this source may be avoided by very early or late planting. Formaldehyde treating solution. The formaldehyde method is effec tive, inexpensive and is the one most commonly used. The ordinary dilution is: Formaldehyde, formalin, full trength about 87 per cent - 1 pint Water ... 40 gallons. One pint in forty five gallons is sometimes used and apparently with qua! effectiveness. Two methods of treating with formaldehyde are given below. 1. Run grain through fanning mill to remove smut balls, shrunken ker nels, etc. 2. Partly nil tank or barrel with solution and put in the grain. For Wheat If the seed is not known to be perfectly free from smut balls pour the wheat in loose, stir with a hoe or other implement to bring the smut balls to the surface, and skim off. If seed is known to be perfectly free from smut bails it may be treated in partially filled sacks. Soak for SO minutes. Remove, drain and plant the same day or wash with pure water and s Dread out to dry. For Oats: Put oats in gunny sacks and soak for twenty minutes in the solution. Take out, drain and plant at once. If grain is to be kept for later day, wash with pure water and dry thoroughly. For Barley Barley is more sensi tive to the action of formaldehyde than wheat or oats. Use same method as for oats but use the weaker solution, I pint formaldehyde to 46 or 50 gallons of water and soak for ten minutes only. It should then be washed with pure water, drained, and if it is not seeded shortly should be thoroughly dried. Sprinkling method. 1. Run grain through fanning mill. 3. Spread grain out on a clean floor or tarpaulin a few inches thick. 8. Sprinkle with the 1 pint to u gallons solution of formaldehyde, using a sprinkling can or sprayer. 4. Shovel or hoe the gram till every kernel is wet. 6. Then shovel up into a pile and cover with sacks or tarpaulin previous' ly moistened with the solution. 6. Leave for two hours or more. 7. Uncover and spread out till dry enough to run througti drill and plant at once or if the grain is not to be seeded immediately dry thoroughly before storing away. The sprinkling method should not be used for wheat that has not been cleaned of smut balls as this method does not kill the spores contained in unbroken balls and when run through the drill the smut balls are broken and the living smut spores are then sown on the seed. Such grain should there fore be treated loose in an open tank and the smut balls allowed to float to the top of the solution where they can be removed by skimming. Drill should be set to allow for swelling of seed when damp grain is planted. ' vii r Bluestone, Copper sulfate solution. A good many growers use the blue stone method in place of formaldehyde with good results. It is more expen sive andprobably no more effective than the formaldehyde. It must not be used with barley as it injures germination severely. It is not advised for oats. Bluestone as well as formaldehyde may u-der certain conditions cause some injury to the germination of wheat. The following directions will give max imum effectiveness and minumum in jury if followed carefully in using the bluestone solution. .' Formula Bluestone copper sulfate - 1 pound Common salt - 1 pound Water - - 5 gallons Milk of Lime. Slake some quick lime and dilute with water in a barrel or other suit able container to be used as a neutra lizer for the bluestone after treatment. Directions. 1. Remove all smut balls by fan ning. 2. Place wheat in loose sack and put into the solution, being sure to get all kernels thoroughly wet. S. Leave for 5 or S minutes. 1. Remove, drain quickly and dip at once into barrel containing milk of lime to neutralize the copper. This reduces somewhat the possible injury to germination. 6. Spread out and dry at once. , The soft wheats grown in Oregon ripen with an exceedingly low water content and the kernels are very brittle. When threshed with an or dinary separator running at usual speed a large percentage of the ker nels are often broken, cracked or scratched. Runnng the machine at a lowered speed has been shown by the Washington Experiment Station to reduce the amount of this kind of in jury to some extent, While flailed grain will have very much less of the injury. In using the formaldehyde and Blue- stone methods of treatment, a consid erable loss in germination of seed or failure to make a good stand of grain are often reported. Experiment has been Bhown that perfectly uninjured wheat suffers little or no injury to germination from either method of treatment. Grain that is cracked or kernels that are scratched, especially over the germ end so as to break through seed coats, are liable to have their powers of germination destroyed or their vitality injured because toe chemical used in treating is able to get into the interior through these in juries. The loss in germination in this way is, when proper precautions are observed in treating, not so severe in most cases as would have been the loss from smut. No grower would be justified in discontinuing treatment on this account. In order that injury to seed vitality may be reduced to the minumum part icular attention should be given to the following points: 1. Do not soak seed longer than re commended. St. Spread out to dry at once. 3. In the bluestone treatment use the lime bath at once before drying. 4. In the formaldehyde treatment, if grain is not to be planted at once, wash in pure water before drying and then dry thoroughly before sacking up. 5. Never allow grain to stand around in sacks any length of time with the grain wet or moist 0- Where injury to germination is suspected, germination tests with treated grain are recommended and the drill should be set to sow more heavily according to the results of the tests. The "loose" smuts of wheat and bar ley are not controlled by either of the above methods of treatment. These smuts, however, are not ordinarily serious in Oregon. ATHENA W FOR REBEKAH DISTRICT CONVEN TION LARGELY ATTENDED HEBE YJ.CAF Of the $10,000 Umatilla county is to raise for the Y. M. C. A. war fund, Athena's apportionment is $800. May orWatts and B. B. Richards have been named as local committeemen to raise the money here by subscription. The drive will be made in the county next week, November 12 to 17, inclu sive, although some of the towns in the county have alreadv a considerable amount of the quota-raised. Umapine, for instance has its entire amount of $300 in hand. The county executive committee is the same that handled the raising of Che first fund some months ago. At that time Athena's apportionment was $240. The cause is recognized as one most worthy the Bupport of all patriot ic citizens, for the good the Y. M C. A. is doing for the soldiers in camp and on battlefield is not to be measured in dollars and cents. A Pendleton boy at the front, writing heme, says: "I am in the Y. M. C. A. now. This is one organization I sure think lots of. Anything given in not wasted. There are thousands but of course we never see them all. The Red Cross is good but the 'Y' is the one that gets to business. They have big free writ ing rooms at every post and furnish all writing materials free. They give moving pictures free, have pianos and all the athletics one wants free. I an. writing this in the Y. M. C. A. I never thought much of this organiza tion until I enlisted. Thsy are the ones that keep their rcuths shut and go ahead and do something practical for a soldier." tuuee. 'ile bus not got there jet." "flow knowest tbou, old man," cried the cadi, "where that tree Is?" The young man returned and said the tree would not come. "Ho litis been here, young man. and glron his evidence. The money Is llilne." Oriental. Diphtheria Germs. Diphtheria germs multiply so rapidly that in the course of twent,y-four hours there may lie many millions. Mean while they are producing diphtheria toxin, one of the most powerful poisons known, whteli is absorbed by the body and causes the general symptoms of the disease. The germs enter the body through the mouth or nose. They may be trans ferred by kissing, roughing or sneez ing, or they may be transferred to the lips by the use Of the common drinking cup or other utensil or by lingers soiled by touching sonic object which an In fected person has Just used. Had to Swallow Many Things. An amusing anecdote Is related of the late Hungarian statesman Tlsza, who when one day dining nl the Hof butg with Ike Austrian emperor placed a large pear upon Ills plate at dessert. The emperor remarked to his minis ter that cold fruit nfter a hot dUmer was Injurious to the digestion. Tlsza replied, 'The stomach of a Hungarian prince, your majesty, Is obliged to be a strong one." WHEAT EMBARGO We DIRT AND DISEASE. Man The District Convention of Rcbeksh lodges, held in Athena Saturday was largely attended by the county mem bership. Surrounding towns sent num bers of delegates to the convention, which was called to order in the I. O. O. F.-K. of P. Hall at 10 a. m. by Mrs. M. L. Watts. Distinguished visitors included State Assembly President, Mrs. Mary A. Lankaster and Past President, Mrs. Nellie Wattenberger, and Past Grand Master Henry J. Taylor of Oregon Grand Lodge, I. O. U. F. M. L Watts gave the address of welcome, which was responded to by Past President Nellie Wattenberger of Pendleton. Certificates of Perfection were giv en members in recognition of merit in the unwritten work, in which members of the local lodge excelled. The afternoon session opened at 1 :30 with election of next year's convention officers. Weston was chosen as the next meeting place. At 3:30 a ban quet supper was served to which' 150 persons, including 100 visitors, did ample justice. At the evening session Past Grand Master Taylor of L O. O. F. Grand Lodge and Grand Chaplain Mrs. Jennie Watts of the State Assembly were in troduced and received by the conven tion. Degree work was exemplified by the Pendleton team and a silver offering was taken to defray the ex pense of holding the convention. Alone Has Typhoid Paver, and He Gets It From Filth. To be the consort of a queen and yet to die of a disease that is caused by tilth! That was the fate of Trlnce Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who died at the prime age of forty -two from ty phoid fever, a disease that Is wholly preventable. Typhoid fever Is found ouly In man. It 13 caused by n short rod shaped mi croscopic vegetable which enters the hmly through the mouth and leaves It hi human discharges to enter another human mouth, to which It Is carried by Angers, flies, fluids and food. It Is essentially n dlseuso of young adult life. Older pcoplo are less apt to have It, probably because they have suffered from on attack of the disease In their youth. Typhoid fever is known by various names "slow fever," "low fever" but, whatever name It Is called by, it kills about 8 per cent of those whom It at tacks. , , . recover become carriers tnat is, per sons who, though well, secrete the or ganlsms iu their discbarges. Carriers are largely responsible for the perpetuation of typhoid fever, but the luutallatloii of proper sewer sys tems, the abolition of tiles, cockroaches anil other tilth insects, the maintenance of a pure food supply and the Intelli gent care of the victim of the dlsea.;e are the measures which If rigidly en forced will rid the country of the dis ease. New York Mail. "No waste, now, ma; no waste. all gotta help." "You attend to your own business," snapped nin with some acerbity. "The only things I throw away oio tea leaves and eggshells." Kansas City Journal. Moaner Achievement, . "Methuselah was tho oldest man." "Yes," replied Mr. Groticber. "But so far as I've been able to find out he was one of those men who devote their time strictly to growing old and never attcnir. anything eli:e." " LUKE READ GALLED BY DEATH WEDNESDAY EVENING Funeral of A. W. Nye The funeral of the late A. W. Nye, Pendleton pioneer who died last week in Portland was held Sunday afternoon at the Finley chapel in Portland. The Masons conducted the ceremonies. Interment was made in the city cenv etery of Vancouver where the body of Mrs. Nye rests. The pall bearers were Pendletonians or l'ormer residents of this countv. They were: Dr. C. J. Smith, John M. Bentley. Dr. li. A. Vaughn, T C. Taylor, Richard Deich and Dr. J. Wj Morrow. Mr. Nye was a brother of Mrs. Martha Mays of . this city, and-was well known and loved in this vicinity. GIRLS WHO DISAPPEAR, Tragedy of tho Thousands That Sink Into Oblivion Yearly. rollte' statistics of New York city show that. at least two, girls disappear from home every day In the year. They vanish Into oblivion. ioou tw are forgotten bitf thu Ucarlai hc of the mother left behind Is never stilled. It will ache on through the remuluing days of her life. And what becomes of the girls who disappear: That Is a problem tliat we will not attempt to solve. We only know that they are swept away by the great whirlpool of life. The federal statistics furnished by the bureau of vital statistics show that 150,000 persons disappear each' year. They vanish iuto oblivion. A greater proportion of these are young girls. The men who disappear turn up sooner or later lu most cases, but the girls, as a rule, ate forevor lost. Having cut awny from their social ties, hating burned their bridges behind them, these disappearing girls abandon usu ally all thought or h-.pi- of returning and, become Isolated members of the social colony of which they once were members. They prefer to straggle on as best titer can j inks Rapidly. "What Is a sinking fund, JohnnyT' "Pa's bank account when the bills begin to come In. "-Boston Transcript. Oriental Justice. A young man going on a journey In trusted a bundled dinars to an old man. When be cunio back the old man denied bating bad any money deposit ed with him, and ho was hud up before the cadi "Where were you, young niau, when you delivered this money?" "Under a tree." "Take my seal and summon that tree," said the Judge. "Go, yoiing man, and tell the tree to come hither, and the tree will obey you when you show It my seal." The young man went In wonder. After be bad been gone tome time the cadi said to thu old man: "He Is long, Do you think he-has got there yet?" "No," ..ah! lbi IsJi-insb! "Iti 'a i-..f .come .j!I Luke Read, one of Athena's well known and prosperous young farmers answered the summons of death at the home of his father-in-law, G. W. Gross, in this city, Wednesday even- ng, as the result oi a proiracieu 111- ness from tuberculosis. The young man a illness apparently began with a throat affliction, two years ago, when ne naa nis tonsils re moved. Gradually his condition be came worse until a short time ago he went to Portland to confer with spec ialists. Returning home he declined rapidly. Mr. Read was reared at weston, where his mother resides. He married Miss Lula Gross of this city, who with their little daughter survives him. Of a family of twelve children, ten brothers and two siBters, he is the first to leave Ihe circle. 1'he funeral, which was largely at tended, was held at tho Methodist Episcopal church at 1 :30 o clock this afternoon. Services at the grave were conducted by Wild Horse Lodge No. 71 of this city, of which the de ceased was an honored member. The floral tributes were beautiful and eloquently expressed the esteem in which Mr. Read was held in the community, and the deep sympathy held for the young widow and little daughter, his mother and relatives, in their bereavement. After the Dinner. "I ate next lo n red beaded woman," snld the fresh young iiiuu utter tho din ner party, "And 1 ate licit to nothing." replied the woman nlluded to, who happened to be within bearlng.-Florlda Tluies t.'nlon. A man must first govern himself be fore be lie fit to govern a family and his family ere he be (It to bear the gov ernment In the commonwealth. Sir ' Walter Uulelgb. The effect of the wheat embargo on the farmer is set forth by the East Oregonian, as follows: Making worse a situation of which they had already been complaining, was an order announced Saturday to local warehouse operators by Max Hoo per, northwest grain administrator, to the effect that an embargo is to pre vent the accumulation of grain at Portland, Tacoma, Seattle or Astoria in such amounts that some German spy could start a destructive fire such as Baltimore had recently. The order was promulgated from Washington. The order permits the movement of grain to terminal and interior mills, and to eastern basic terminals. In other words the purpose is to permit grain to move no faster than it can be consumed in milling operations. The gram grower who has been waiting more or less impatiently to sell his wheat is confronted with a new cause of delay. Mills have now full supplies. One authority said that he does not believe there is a mill in this territory which could take an ad ditional carload of wheat. With the wheat movement governed by what the mills can grind, it will apparently be a long time yet before the grower will get his money unless he accepts advances on the wheat in his possession and pays interest on those advances. The grower has the privilege of sending his wheat to eastern terminals but that means that he must take east ern terminal prices. While expressing a desire to co op erate with the government, local farm ers believe that the government regu lations are unnecessarily severe upon them. They do not believe they should be made to suffer financial loss for a condition over which they have no con trol. Their wheat has been ready for shipment for weeks, yet they have been unable to convert it into money for the reason that transportation could not be hi.il. The embargo in creases the difficulty of realizing on their grain. Meanwhile, if they accept a govern ment advance of $I.C0 a bushel, they are obliged to pay six per cent interest until the grain is graded and accepted. If they do not they must go on paying interest on borrowed money which could be repaid could they sell their wheat. Also they must pay storage charges and insurance. They believe that the government should at least assume storage charges after January 1, should pay all insur ance until the grain is shipped anil should pay interest on the market val ue of the grain from Nov. 1, until tho grain is shipped. In fact a petition to this effect was being prepared for cir culation at the time the order was made. The embargo may result in the granting of relief to the farmers in the matter of carrying the grain. Taylor Tells of Fight "Til" Taylor, sheriff of Umatilla county, in federal court in Portland Saturday identified George Pellissier as one of the two men he trailed after the robbery of the Hermiston postoffico last spring. Sheriff Taylor's tes timony, says the Tribune, brought out incidents of the wild, cross country chass which ended in the capture and confession of Frank Maeon now serv ing a four year term in state prison for having participated in the robbery. By means of footprint measurements the sheriff said he tracked the culprits from Umatilla, where they had trav eled on a hand car. The men were found near the O.-W. railroad right of way and a battle with six-shooters ensued. Mason was captured, but Ihe other man now asserted to have been Pellissier, escaped. N. A. Miller represents the Berry Monument Works of Walla Walla., See advertisement in today's Press. 11 OE We have never had a more complete stock of Shoes than we are showing this Fall. Our wonderful phce businets is positive proof that we give better values Shoes as above Cut for winter wear $2,98 to $5.50 Our history contains Ihe name of no one worth remembering who led a life tt wjc-RooMValt 1 We carry a complete line of childrens, Misses and Ladies staple and fancy SHOES also complete stock fo men and boys in Dress and work shoes. See our line of Hi Top shoes for men and boys. Boys Hi Tops $2.98 to $3.98 Mens Hi Tops $5.90 to $7.50 We can supply your needs in Rubbers and Overshoes. r SIv- 9. Slr' " J GOLDEN RULE