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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.
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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.
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WATTS C& ROGERS
Farm Outfitters
Just Over the Hill 1
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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.
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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.
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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.
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