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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1917)
Advertisers The cAthena Press circulates in the homes of readers who reside in the heart of the Great Umatilla Wheat Belt, and.'they 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 Bntered at the Post Office at Athena. Oregon, as Second-Class Mall Matter VOLUMEjXXIX. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1917. NUMBER 4 tllllllllllllllllllllllHIIIIIHIMMII BEUISWICK Home Billiard Tables The "Billiard Hour" makes home folks Comrades The Brunswick Table is the meeting ground today of thousands of families. Here fathers get acquainted with their boys. Hero mothers and daughters grow to be chums and young folks have a place to enter tain such friends as you would have them mingle with. Play While You Pay Our popular purchase plan makes it easy to own one. Complete outfit of balls, cues, rack, markers, cue-clamps, included free. Let us put a BRUNSWICK in your home on our liberal guarantee. Come in and test their life, accuracy, and speed and then decide. The Davis-Kaser Co. Home Famishing Department Store Complete Furnishers of Homes, Offices and Schools -10-20 Alder St. Walla Walla Wash. MMiiiiiiiiiimiiininiiMinninMHiinnnr ,iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiminottitttiintnntittittne Watts & Rogers' Sale Is a Big Success While the figures run into the THOUSANDS, our tables and helves and floors are still full. If you are not in on it, get in now. Come and see. Our prices far below war prices to begin with, and then to cut them 16,20,'25 per cent and sometimes a half, makes bargains you seldcm hear of, and. all on staple, high grade goods. Think of it, everything on sale. We are offering prices and PRICES ALONE to make these goods move. Weare overstocked, but fortunately so, as we bought early and right. Remember, this sale is continuous till sudden & short will be the notice, "all off." You and no one will be sorry that he did come, but there will be some sorry that they'did not come. WATTS & ROGERS Farm Outfitters Just Over the Hill tlHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHHHttlllllllIIHIIIIMIt The Pirst National Bank of Athena Conducts a General Banking Business UBBinilB Capital and Surplus, $100,000 We are always prepared to care for the proper needs of our Customers. mnmniii ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. AMERICAN BEAUTY FLOUR Is made in Athena, by" Athena labor, in one ol the verr best equipped nulla in the Northwest of the best selected Bluestem wheat grown" anywhere. Patronise home industry. Your grocer tells the famous Anwrican.Beauty Flour I Merchant Millers & Grain Buyers Athena, Oregon. MimiHIHHIIIIIIIIMII Waitsburg, Wash. We carry the best MEATS That Money Buys Our Market is Clean and Cool Insuring Wholesome Meats. LOGSDEN MYRICK Main Street, Athena, Oregon SCHOOL WILL I LOCAL RED CROSS As has been announced, the time will soon be here for the sale of tick ets for a series of four public enter tainments under the auspices of the Athena High school. All net earnings from these entertainments are to go to the Red Cross Benefit Fund. The School Board, the Red Cross auxiliary of this community and the High school asks faithful co-operation on the part of the public by purchasing season tickets. The different numbers of the series as they are to be presented are as follows: The Rob Roy Scottish Male Quartette, February 2H; Colby, the World's famous Cartoonist, March 11; Lawrant, the noted Magician, April 19, and last, the High School play which will be staged some time during May. The Teachers' Institute held in Pen dleton last week was thought by the teachers of the county to have been the best yet held. The principal speak ers were Milton Simpson of Whitman College and Mr. Herbsman, ex-head of Department of Public Speaking in the University of Washington and now a lecturer. Mr. Herbsman has been traveling in Canada and Mexico and gave some very interesting and in structive talks on war topics. The little folks of Miss Sherman's room are planning to give an especially interesting Christmas program. Some very clever selections have been chos en and work has already been started. The children are very anxious and ex pectant over a wonderful secret which only a few know and which will be dis closed the day of the program. Because his parents are now living near Pendleton, John Saunders has left the Athena High school and will enroll in the Pendleton High. Annabel McLeod, who is ill with pneumonia, has been taken to St. An thony's Hospital in Pendleton. The Seventh and Eighth grades are having a quarter holiday today on ac count of having no tardy marks for the past month. Tonight marks the beginning of a series of basket ball games between the girls of Athena High and Touchet. This first game will be played at Touchet. The Y. M. C. A. conference will be held in LaGrande tomorrow. The del egates from here are Ralph Haynie, Lawrence Baker and George Lieuallen. The following Third and Fourth grade pupils having perfect attendance this month, received a half holiday: Belle Anderson, Melvin Coppock, Edna DeFreece, Loraine Dennis, Louis John son, Lorena Schubert and Ellen Henry. The flower shelf in Miss Lawson's room is full of some very attractive house plants, brought in by her pupils. The Third and Fourth grades have the Press Honor Cup again for the month. STARS IN BASEBALL. POULTRY IS THE BEST CHANCE OF SAVING The United States Department of Agriculture calls upon the country to double poultry production next year. That can be done if the farms will keep an average "of 100 hens instead of an average of 10 hens, as at pres ent, and if every family in town will keep enough hens in the backyard to produce all the eggs used by that fam ilyor two hens to each person. Poultry must be produced next year in places where it has not been pro duced before, and everywhere that poultry has been produced that pro duction must be increased. It is nec essary that people in the country and in the towns answer alike to this call. Farms and backyards must both do their bit, for the doubling of our poul try production next year is an indis pensable item in the Nation's food production program a program which must be carried out if we are to win the war. The meat supplies available for Eu ropean use are short Meat must be supplied if the war is won by the force: who fight for freedom. The war will be won if we fail in produc tion but not von by us. We must understand what will happen if we do not provide the enormous quantities of foodstuffs that the Allies can not pro duce for themselves. Are we going to feed our Armv on chickens and eggs? Of course not. But by greatly increasing the produc tion of chickens and eggs, and by eating those chickens and eggs our selves we will, naturally, eat that much less beef and pork. In turn, that beef and pork can be sent to Europe. If Useless, Quit "Ob, stop winning! Is whining going to mend matters?" "I suppose not" Then, If not, whine not" San Fran cisco Chronicle. Only Newlywtda Happy. Iris Do you think there are many unhappy marriages? Cyrus All, ex cept those that took place today. Town Topics. The best portion of a good man's life his little, nameless, unremcinlieFed acts of kindness and of lore. Wordev worth. Abraham. From the Intimate communion which Abraham held with the Almighty be 1 distinguished by the high title "the friend of God." The term El Kliulll, the friend, Is the apiiellatloii by which be is know a la the traditious of the Arab. The Are Really Essential to the Suc cess of a Club. It is absolutely necessary for each and every major league club to have nt least one unusually brilliant per former on Its roster to be a good gate attraction, and more often than not those stars are pitchers. Remember the Chicago White Sox of 1000? Ed Walsh was the star who did most to place that team In baseball history, though he received not a lit tle assistance from Doc White. Who made the Giants of a few years ago the most talked of team in baseball? Why, Christy Mnthcwsoii, to be sure. He was a star of stars, and in fair or foul weather it was he whom the root ers paid to see. Plank, Coombs and Bender did more to make the Athletics famous than did all of the other great players on the team put together, though the $100,000 infield, consisting of Mclnnls, Collins, Harry and linker, was n first class attraction In every sense of tlio word. But few other clubs in the game's history ever lind any thing approaching this evenly balanced outfit in Its best days. Bill James In his time came pretty close to making the Braves, and Hill Donovan. Ed Iteulbnch, Mordconl Brown, Babe Adams, Joe Wood and Grover Alexander all have played load ing roles ns gate attractions. What would the Senators have lieeu for years without Walter Johnson? Is It the Tigers or Ty Cobb whom the fans want to set? at play? Hal Chase featured the Yankees for join's, for ninny seasons Speaker has been the leading figure with the teams with which ho played, and Joe Jackson, Marqnnrd and Lnjole all had large In dividual following;. Today a new crop of stars has Just about "arrived" and arc pulling the crowds. -Ed A. Goewey In Leslie's. THE "ER0ICA" SYMPHONY. A Musical Portrait of Napoleon as Bee thoven Idealized Him. The most notable example of a mns- terwork with a political origin Is Beethoven's "Erolca" symphony. Gen eral neiiiadottc during his residence In Vienna lu 1708 as ambassador from the French nutlon suggested to Bee thoven the composition of n symphony in honor of Xapoloou. At that time Kapolcon was looked upon as the champion of freedom, the savior of Ills country, the embodiment of re publican Ideals, with which Reethovcn was In thorough sympathy, and ho willingly accepted the proposal. Before the symphony was published Napoleon became emperor, and when the news reached Vienna Beethoven was violently angered. "After nil. then, ho Is nothing but an ordinary mortal! He will trample all the rights of men under foot to Indulge bis iiinlii (Ion and become a greater tyrant than any one: With those words lie seized the mu sic, tore the title pane In half and threw it ou the (round. He never again referred to the connection be tween his work mid Napoleon until news of the hitter's death reached hlin. Then ho said, "I have already com posed the proper music for that catas trophe," moulting, of course, the fu neral march. But Hie whole symphony, with its essentially revolutionary char acter, is n musical portrait of Napo leon as BeethOVen Idealized him. Why 1881 Was Chosen. In 1SS1 a so culled prophecy of Moth er Shlpton's was In every one's mouth: The world tlien to an end shall come In eighteen hundred end eighty-one. A traveling tailor defiled inspiration to this prognostic, nor, ns now npiicars, was It remarkable for accuracy. But he went further. lie demonstrated In the dust of the rond why that exact date was chosen. Not only wus It cu hnllstle, a multiple of nine, etc., but It was the only date available to Moth er Shlpton which In Arabic numerals was the same backward, forward and upside down. Eleven hundred and eleven wus past, and not till I8&i would the coincidence recur. The next Moth er Shlpton will select S008, which Is not tomorrow or next day. London Globe. Ant Strength. An English scientist weighed n small ant and a (loud grasshopper which It wus drugging to Its nest. The weight, of the grasshopper was found to lie sixty times greater than that of the ant. The force exerted by the unt In dragging the grasshopper olong the roud was therefore proportionately equal to that of u man weighing 150 pounds pulling n load of four mid oiic hulf tons or n horse of 1.200 pounds a load of thlrly-sis tons. The Noblest Publl: Virtu. That patriotism which, catching Its Inspirations from the Immortal Qod and leaving at an IinmcUKiiruhlo distance lielow all lessor, groveling, personal in terests anil feelings, animate and prompts to deeds of st ir sacrifice, of valor, of devotion mid of death itself that Is public virtue; that is the noblest, the sublimes! of all public virtues. Henry Clay. Ht Knew Better. Gentleman Why don't you get out and hustle? Hard work never killed anybody. Hustus You're mlstonkcu dere, boss. I'se lost fouh wives dut way." Boston Trunscrlpt. She Knew. Mother fih, .Mary, why do yon w'je your mouth with the buck of your hand? Mary 'Cos It's so much cleaner than the front. IjunIou Punch. A eomiiinwcnltl! ought to Ik iuiinoi tal and forever renew its youth. Cicero. i LINING UP FOR A Recognizing the urgent need of im provement on the macadam road from the State Line to connection with the hard surface near Havana, a delega tion of representative citizens of the East end of the county appeared before the County Court at Pendleton Wed nesday and demanded that the road be repaired at once. They secured from the Court a promise to begin at once. The method of improvement will be to scarify the macadam surface and then roll it down smooth. This method has proved sat isfactory in Walla Walla and Whitman counties, where the roads are of the same class as the Pendleton-State Line road, which through negleqt has be come so badly cut up that it is used only when tiie dirt roads cannot be traveled. The East end delegation comprised: G. H. Bishop, J. A. Schmitt, Fred Ev ans, and J. F. Slover of Freewater; W. E. Putnam, Ben Osborn, Lon Wil liams and H. A. Frazier of Milton; S. A. Barnes, George DeGraw, John Banister and James Price of Weston; W. S. Ferguson, B. B. Richards, F. S. LeG-ow. and Frank Berlin of Athena. and G. M. Morrison, J. 0. Hales and T. A. Lieuallen of Adams. The action of the East end delega tion was taken after it became known that there will be no state funds avail able in 1918 for continuing the hard surfacing of the road, and the realiza tion that immediate repairing of the highway should be put under wav. This the Court promised and after the meeting with the Court, the delegation effected an organization with G. De Graw of Weston as president and J. F. Slover of Freewater as secretary. The object of the organization is to see to it that the road improvement is carried on without unnecessary delay. the macadam roads in the vicinity of Walla Walla, Waitsburg and Day ton, relative to construction, are iden- 1 tically the same as the Umatilla coun ty road. But the Washington roads receive attention, are repaired when occasion demands and the result is that they are always in good condition. Just the reverse is the condition of the Umatilla county road. Through neglect, it has deteriorated to the point that it is known as the "trail of chuck holes" and no one wants to travel it unless compelled to do so. FLIGHT OF THE MOSQUITO. Tha Malaria Laden Past Rarely Travala Mora Than Mile. There Is a good deal in modern prophylaxis in taking cure of the mos quito, hut It Is uwuyti a fontiirc In the caso to know how much territory must be covered to assure a reasonable de gree of safety. If mosquitoes' were like birds, capable of outdistancing a railway train and for seores of miles, the problem ot oiling the ditches and ponds would be a very serious one, and Ihc question of careless neighbors would be n very wide one. The prac tical limit of flight ot Anopheles quad flmneulalus, the insect selec ted for the trials, proved to be about n mile. The method used by those Investiga tors In their experiments was to stain mosquitoes and report on (heir recap ture after being liberated. The species hi question was seleeted for the work from the fad (hut It Is the most vigor ous tiler of Its group ami Is probably the principal earlier of nialurin. The result of the research suggests Hint nt the distance of a mile ami a little bet ter from a prolific breeding place the Individual Is quite safe, and his efforts need bo directed only to the nearer pools. The mosquito apparently required throe days for the Journey anil In some Instance! returned 10 precisely where It wus caught, for the specimens were oftentimes curried to u common point before being liberated, but wore col lect oil In places where they wore quite abundant Public Service Health Bulletin. RUTH STEWART IN An Oriental Ruse. It was on Aug. HI, 11(13, Hint Abdui nutneu tint All was elected sultan of Mstem Africa by the following strata gem: Having trained a parrot and u Hon, he assembled the chiefs lu his tent and urged upon then) the miming of n ruler of their growing empire. In the midst of their deliberations the parr tit perched himself upon one of the poles of the tent and pronounced distinctly, "Victory mid power to the lot of the Klialir Ahtliilniiiuen. commander of the faithful." The lion then made bis way through the terrified assembly, licked Abdul's baud nnd Iny down ut his foot Ileeply impressed with this wonder mid the manifest Interference of hen ven, the unlives unanimously pro claimed him sultnn. The December meetinsr of the Chris tian Woman's Board of Missions was held Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. W. Pinkerton, with Mrs. George Gerking leading the meeting. The subject for the dav was "Africa." The next meeting will be led by Mrs. D. Scott Fisher. Old Wall Street. Wall stroel in the days when Wash ington wus Hie lirst president of the United States, when Ale.Mimler Hamil ton and Aaron Burr were rivals at the bar, was perhaps the most popular and populous thoroughfare in New York. It was so named because It followed the line of the city's first defensive, Stockade or "wall," anil throughout lis longlli were enacted many scenes Hint ure purt of the nullon's larger history. Nothing Is so grand ns truth, nothing so forcible, nothing so moral. Liiudor. The following very creditable article was written for the Press by Miss Ruth Stewart, a student in the W. U. Miss Stewart is specializing in jour nalism, and her "copy" would indicate that the young lady is making marked progress in this line of her studies: The goal of H,000 for the higher schools of Oregon to be reached in the Students' Friendshin FnnH nt tl,u Y. M .C. A. has nearly been attained. In the last report the state schools the University and Oregon Agricultur al College, were falling below the standard set for them by Reed College, McMinnville College and Willamette University. Although not being so generally prosperous as the state schools, these smaller colleges are not at all behind in giving. The sum of ia03 has been reported to the manager of the work by Louis Stewart, local treasurer of the fund at Willamette University. The drive was completed in about ten days. The apportioned amount for this school was tUOO. The gifts were wholly voluntary. Regulation pledge cards were used in raising the money. There were 1 HI cards turned in from the Liberal Arts department; III from Kimball College; !l from Al umni, nd 2 front friends. There are about !1S5 students nnd 9fi fnenltv members in these,two schools. Of the total amount given, 1088.50 came from students and fundi v nf W II tS'i from Alumni; !14. 50 from Kim- Dan college, and o2 from friends. There were pledges ranging from 50 cents to ii0 from the students. The average nor students enrnllod fni hnth schools is about $!1.87, ami the total average gift per person $fl.7i. Ralph Hassell Weds. The wedding of Mr. Ralph G. Has sell, member of the firm of Stephens & Hassell, Athena grocers, and Miss Capitola Else Duttnn, of Spokane, was solemnized in that city Tuesday, and the newly wedded pair will be at home to their friends in the McEwen resi dence on College and Uth Btreets, Ath ean, after December 15th. The young lady is the daughter of Mrs. Mary L. Dutton of Spokane. Visiting In Athena. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Walden, farm ing near Prescott, Wash., were guests Tuesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. U. H. Mansfield. Mrs. Walden, who before her marriage was Miss Nellie. Purdy, is a cousin of Mr. Mansfield and formerly lived near Athena with her parents. The family had been vis iting relatives in Pendleton over Thanksgiving week. Christmas Goods vmmmmm vmmmmmm mm mmmmmmmmummmmmmwmmmemun Don't fail to see our wonderful assortment of Christ mas Goods. Gifts for the whole family and prices are within reach of all. Do your shopping early, -Si GOLDEN RULE