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VOLUME XXIX.
ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 14, 1917.
NUMBER 45
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The Store I
of the Christmas Spirit
Here in our store' we have gatheredtogether the crystalized hopes
cherished by our own dear friends andloved ones. The secret deep de
sires they have hidden in their hearts, unspoken for years, wait here
for the love -en eh an tedt ouch of your
r Christmas Giving f
Here your'Christmas shopping will be a delight and a pleasure
the music,; the merry voices'and smiling faces, the "Glad Service'' of
our clerks,' willing and gladjto serve you the glow of the bright lights
the profusion of holly and Christmas decorations make this truly
The Davis-Kaser Co.
Home Furnishing Department Store
Complete Furnishers of Homes, Offices and Schools lO-jO Alder St.
Walla Walla Wash.
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You
and hope you arc all hugging
yourselves for the bargains you
got at the Sale. We are here
to give the best prices possible
all the time.
WATTS & ROGERS
Farm Outfitters,,
Just Over the Hill
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Bank
of Athena
Conducts a General Banking Business
Capital and Surplus, $100,000
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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 ol the very beat
equipped mills in the Northwest, of the beat selected Bluestem
wheat grown anywhere. Patronise home industry. Your
grocer selit'.the famous'. American Beauty Flour
Merchant Millers & Grain Buyers
Athena, Oregon. - Waitsburg, Wash.
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We carry the heat
MEATS
That Money Buys
Our Market is
Clean and Cool
Insuring Wholesome Meats.
LOGSDEN MYR1CK
Main Street, Athena, Oregon
WILL MAIL OUT
QUESTIONNAIRES
The mailing out of the questions to
be answered by those registered for
selective draft will begin tomorrow,
Saturday, December 16th. On con
secutive days thereafter, 5 per cent of
the blanks will be mailed until the
2300 or more registrants in Umatilla
county will have received the ques
tions. These questions must be an
swered and filed with the Central
Board,' Frank Davis secretary, at Pen
dleton, within seven days after the
questions have been mailed to the reg
istrant, and the registrant is held
wholly responsible for the receipt of
the questions and the answering of
them within the seven days' time
limit.
The exaction of this obligation on
the part of the registrant has been
greatly simplified by the method em
ployed in mailing to him the list of
questions. On December 15th, the
questions will be mailed to the men
whose names appear in the first 100
on the draft list. Sundays and holi
days are excluded as mailing days, so
the second 5 per cent of the question
blanks Will be mailed to the men in
t he second 100 on the draft list, and
so on, consecutively until the draft
list in the county has been completed.
Thus, all the registrant has to do is
to remember his draft number, and by
it he will know on what day his ques
tion blank will be mailed to him.
To make it easy for him to under
stand the questions be must answer,
or any other provision he may not be
familiar with, all attorneys are pat
riotically giving their services free
of any charge whatever, and are on
the advisory boards and committees
for the purpose of answering all ques
tions and otherwise assisting the men
in filling out the blanks. The Athena
advisory board comprises Attorney
Homer I. Watts and F. S. LeGrow,
either of whom will gladly advise
registrants.
ATHENA RED CROSS
CRUSADE STARTS MONDAY
Athena's crusade for new member
ship to the Bed Cross Society will
start Monday morning of next week
under the direction of Mrs. Mattie
Hill, chairman of the local Red Cross
auxiliary and W. S. Gleiser, campaign
manager. A thorough canvass will be
made of Athena and vicinity and every
man and woman in this community
will be a Red Cross member, for all
you need to become a member is "a
heart and a dollar.
In the National Christmas Member
ship drive for the Red Cross, 840,000
are required from Oregon, and Athena
is expected to do her share, as she has
heretofore done in all other patriotic
demands made upon her.
Red Cross Service Flags will be is
sued with each one-dollar membership,
and they should be hung in every Ath
ena business house and home where
there is a member. Behind every one
of these flags on Christmas a candle
should burn, giving a patriotic effect
to your home, and to your neighbor s
home.
War Savings Stamps.
Little "Bill" Parker was the first
person in Athena to invest in a Gov
ernment war Baving stamp. He stepped
up"to the window in the postoffice and
gave Postmaster Henry fl.la for a
stamp which will bring him 15.00 at
maturity in 1033. These stamps will
be on sale in Athena at the postofhee
and at the First National Bank. Per
sons may buy the 15 stamps outright
or may obtain a "thrift card which
is furnished all purchasers of 25-cent
stamps. This card has spaces for 16
stamps and when all the spaces have
been filled, the thrift card may be ex
changed for a (5 stamp. This process
of investment i: advanced by the Gov
ernment to accommodate children and
persons of little means to invest their
savings in the cause of the nation in
the world war, and are known as
"Baby Bonds."
North Winds Blow Cold.
One of the Oregon boys writing
from Camp Mills says: "This is the
poorest camp we have struck yet.
There are no conveniences of any de
scription and the ground (is low and
damp. There are no hills to protect
the tents from the wind, consequently
we are struck by the north winds. Our
tents have neither floors nor side walls.
There are quite a few boys sick with
bad colds. Roland Thomas and Harry
Keller have been confined to their
quarters on account of la grippe."
Flood of Naval Recruits.
During the past ten 'days, 21 men
have enlisted for service in the Navy
at the Pendleton recruiting station.
The fact that tomorrow at noon is the
latest date that men of draft age in
the next current draft quota can en
list, has caused the number of appli
cants for naval service to largely in
crease of late. Of the 8 1 men who
have just enlisted, Lowell Hyatt,
Glenn Morrison, re-enlisted, Rufford
Price and Will Gould, all of Weston,
are included.
WHEN YOU HAVE FISH.
How to Test and Prepare It and How
It Should Be Served.
All fish must, of course, be strictly
fresh. If It 1 easily pulled from the
bones It is a sure sign the fish Is stale.
The brightness of the eye Is another
test of freshness and one that cannot
be remedied artificially. For this reason
a purchaser should be suspicious of any
fish from which the eyes have been re
moved or fish offered for sale without
the head. The skin should be smooth
and un wrinkled and the color fresh and
clear. Dtp In scalding water for a few
seconds to remove the scales or skin.
Always soak salt fish In salt water
instead of fresh water. The strong
taste usually so difficult to destroy will
be entirely removed and the fish will be
more palatable tbau when soaked in
fresh water.
Fish contain the same kind of nutri
ents as other food materials. When
accompanied by bread and butter, po
tatoes, green vegetables and fruit, they
provide a diet that will supply all the
demands of the body. All sorts of fish
may be boiled, steamed, baked, plank
ed, fried, stuffed, scalloped, served iu
cream, made Into ramekins, croquettes,
salads, served hot or cold In jelly, pot
ted and picEled. At a conventional
dinner fish follows the soup and may
be served with potatoes and cucumber
or lettuce salad. At a home dinner It
takes the place of meat. Do not serve
a sweet or heavy dessert at the close
of a fish dinner, ns the combination is
not good. Coffee may be served, but
tea is to be avoided after fish. Wash
ington Star.
Farmers' Meeting.
A Farmers' Meeting will be held at
the Athena opera house next Wednes
day at 1:30 p. m., to consider the
hnildincr nf prain elevators. All farm
ers are requested to attend the meet
ing.
NOT A RIVAL OF THE SUN.
This Shows How Puny la the World'i
Biggest Artificial Light.
rerbaps the biggest artificial light in
the world is the 50,000,000 candle pow
er light Installed at the falls of Niag
ara. Wheu this gigantic Installation
was made It was claimed to be the
nearest approach to real sunshine ever
devised by man, and that may be true.
But It Is Interesting to ascertain, If
possible, how much' it fell short of the
actual output of light by our great
luminary, and, strangely cuough, there
are figures in existence which enable
a comparison to be made. Yet It may
be stated at once that these figures
are so stupendous as to leave the hu
man mind absolutely "in the dark."
Professor Xouug made n calculation
some years ago, based upon careful
and repeated experiments, of the total
quantity of sunlight given out by our
sun, and be found it to be a quan
tity represented by candles running to
twenty-eight figures, candle power be
ing the official unit.
How many lights equal to the Niag
ara installation would It require to
match Dame Nature's big installation
which appears above the horizon so
regularly day by day? More big fig
ures: It would require 31,500,000,000,
000,000,000 lights just as powerful as
the biggest man has accomplished "on
his owu." So even L'ucle Sum will
have to try again. The Niagara Illu
mination Is "some" light, but old Sol
is equal to three and one-half qulntil
Uons of them! Pearson's Weekly.
Watson and Ireland.
Sir William Watson has earned the
right to be termed Ireland's poetical
champion, although he was born in
Yorkshire and is of Yorkshire ancestry
on both sides. Home rulers say that
there Is no more terse description of the
position of Erin than that contained in
the famous lines of his "Ode on the
Day of the Coronation of King lid
ward VII.:"
The lovely and the lonely bride
Whom we have Wedded but have never
won.
His first volume of poems was pub
lished at his father's expense. Ten
years later not twenty copies hod been
sold. Six years after the publication
of his second volume he had gained no
success. Today lie Is regarded as our
greatest living poet. London Standard.
An Historic Battle.
The great battle of t'rcey was fought
on Aug. 24, ill 1314. It was here that
Edward the Black Prince gained hon
or. The blind king of the Bohemians
was slain and the ornaments on his
sword were adopted as the coat of arms
of the princes of Wales, the coat of arms
being three ostrich feathers with the
words "Ich Dicn." It was at this bat
tle also that cannon were used for the
first time in history.
L
He Liked Candor.
"Ladies and Gentlemen-It has never
been my lot to face a more empty head
ed, silly looking bunch of people, and I
hope I will never be booked for this
town ngnln. It Is not a pleasure to be
here, and U9 per cent of you won't be
able to understand what I nra talking
about. We shall now proceed with the
lecture. My subject is. Truth-Candor
-Know Thyself.' "-Richmond Times
Dispatch. Some Men Are Brutes.
"Ah," sighed Mrs. Jenkins, "we're nev
er sure of anything in this world."
"Yes we arc," replied her husband.
"Whenever you are quiet for half a
minute I am sure that you'll say some
thing soon or bust, and I've never miss
ed It yet" Boston Transcript.
Nor For Anything Elee.
"That messenger boy could never
make a political success."
"Why not?"
"Because he neve could lie Induced
to run forof!lce."-BaltImore American.
The Leading River.
You may not have heard much of the
Aa, but It Is the world's leading river
You know In what kind of list -New
York Tribune.
IN II SPY
A Walla Walla special to the Port
land Oregonian Monday says that Gus
tavo Vollmer, ex-State Senator and
wealthy farmer of Walla Walla coun
ty, against whom the citizens of
Waitsburg recently made charges of
disloyalty, vindicated himself when he
assisted United States Immigration
Inspector Fsris in obtaining sufficient
evidence to arrest Virgel von Finch,
who is now in jail charged with vio
lating the Federal espionage act.
Finch, who has been employed by a
leading furniture store in Walla Walla
the past month and who said he came
from Oklahoma, where he had trouble
"because of his German sympathies,"
and who is said to be an ex-convict
from the Washington State Peniten
tiary, wrote Vollmer a letter asking
for a meeting and Vollmer turned it
over to the Federal authorities there.
The meeting was arranged in a hotel
and officers listened to what Finch
said, later arresting him and searching
his apartments but found nothing.
While in the room Finch said he had
some secrets to tell Mr. Vollmer, but
would have to wait until he was better
acquainted with him,
Gribble- Wright.
Mr. Ralph E. Gribble, teacher in the
7th and 8th grades of the Athena pub
lic schools, and Miss Lucille Wright
of Audubon, Iowa, were united in
marriage Friday evening, December
7th, at the Methodist Episcopal par
sonage in Pendleton, by Rev. R. E.
Gornall. The wedding ceremony took
place in the presence of a few invited
friends and the newly wedded pair
came to Athena, Saturday, where they
received the congratulations of friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Gribble are at home in
the DePeatt cottage on Adams street.
The bride is a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Wright of Audubon, Mr.
Wright being a prominent hardware
merchant of that city. Both Mr. and
Mrs. Gribble are graduates of the
State Normal school of Chico, Califor
nia, where they first met. Mrs. Grib
ble has lately been teaching in Iowa.
THE SENSATION OF PAIN.
It Is Felt In the Head and Not Where
It Seems to Be.
Where do ;;ou feel the pain? asks the
doctor. In my finger, in my ear, In my
foot, the sufferer replies, and If the phy
sician told him he did not feel it there,
but in his head, the average mau would
doubt the doctor's sanity. Yet the doc
tor would be right.
In an address at the University of
California Professor G. H. Parker of
Harvard told the students that we have
been obliged to give up the idea that
sensations are spread throughout our
bodies, for persons who have lost a
l!mb often feel sensations that seem to
come from the missing member.
"Our sensations." sntd Professor Par
ker, "are not located In the peripheral
parts affected, hut in the central
nervous system, and within that portion
of it known ns the cerebral cortex."
This is the outer layer or gray matter
of the brain. One may lose an arm,
yet have the sensation of pain In the
hand, but it a small piece of that par
ticular part of the brain to which run
the sensory nerves from the arm be re
moved, one will never again feel niiy
thing In that arm not even If the hand
be placed In the fire.
Making Shrapnel.
Were the average layman able to
grasp the staggering complexities of
chemical nud mechanical details in
volved hi the milking of a shrapnsl
shell he would be amazed. Tor In
stance, 170 gauges are required to man
ufacture the combination time and per
cussion fU3c for three-quarter iuch
shrapnel. The. powder used must have
the correct burning time or the explo
sion will occur too soon or too lute. It
Is Impossible to obtain two powders
with the same burning time; hence the
burning time has to be determined on
each lot of powder. This formerly re
quired one aud one-half hours; now It
takes five minutes. Likewise the time
consumed In blending powders has been
reduced from sixteen hours to fifteen
minutes. Popular .Science Monthly.
BY FIRE TODAY
As a result of fire caused by the ex-
rplosibq of a can of gasoline, Jacob
Hooher's cleaning and pressing estab
lishment was badly damaged at 10:80
9. in. today. ,
The intexjor cf the building and con
tents were practically destroyed by
flames and water. Just Jwhat the loss
is, Mr. Booher'is not aple to estimate
at present, though some insurance is
carried.
The fire originated when a can of
gasoline, which Mr. Booher had just
brought into the room, exploded, pre
sumably from heat from the ttsve.
At the time of the explosion he had
gone out of the room to secure another
can in which to pour a part of the gas
oline. Had he been in the room, he
doubtless would have been seriously
injured by the explosion.
A stream of water was soon on the
fire, and the building .was saved, so
that it can be repaired.
Reception for Teachers.
Last evening in the hall of the school
house, the seventh and eighth grades
gave a reception in honor of their
teacher, Mr. Ralph Gribble, and his
bride. A program was given, includ
ing a quartet, sung by Heman Geissel,
Richard Cartano, Willard Parker and
Jeannette Miller. After the program
Willard Parker and Lee Banister pre
sented Mr. and Mrs. Gribble with a
present from the classes, and games
and refreshments were enjoyed.
Oong of the 3rown Thrasher.
When the brown thrasher stints to
sing one might just ns well listen, as
he will be heard, and every other bird
might Just as well keep still, as noth
ing else can be heard. lie domlnntea
the entire vicinity. He Is en the stage
in the middle of the spotlight. His
performance Is dramatic. It Is comic
opera nt Its best. The brown thrasher
Is more. commonly known, probably, as
the brown thrush or sometimes as tho
cinnamon thrush, but ns the bird does
not belong to the thrush family he
should be given his proper name. He
Is a cousin of I he catbird and the mock
lug bird. Ohio Rtato Journal.
Everything we endure pntlenlly Is a
key to something benutlful we could
never enter otherwise.
COMMITTEE IS ORGANIZED
FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF
Sunday afternoon in the Baptist
church, a meeting was held for the
purpose of organizing the church peo
ple of the city in a general effort for
gathering funds for the relief of suffer
ing Armenian and Assyrian peoples in
Asia.
W. S. Pritchard, field worker for the
American Committee for the Relief of
the Armeniah and Assyrian peoples in
Asia, met the local committee and
gave them information and specific
directions how to proceed in the mat
ter of gaining the funds. Permanent
organization of the committee was
effected by electing the following offic
ers: President, Rev. I). E. Baker;
secretary, Rev. W. S. Gleiser; trea
surer, B. B. Richards. The following
members were named as the publicity
committee: W. S. Glerser, J. O. Rus
Bell and D. Errett.
The full committee comprises Jthe
following D. E. Baker, W. S. Glei
ser, B. B. Richards, J. O. Russell, D.
Errett, Jos. Clemmons, Mrs. M. L.
Watts, Mrs. J. O. Russell, Mrs. W. S.
Gleiser, Mrs. H. H. Hill, Mrs. Cass
Cannon, C. T. Smith, H. Mclntyre,
and Mayor H. I, Watts.
J. P. Bragg of Spokane addressed
the citizens at a mass meeting in the
school auditorium on the subject Wed
nesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard English, of
Weston Mountain, neighborhood, were
in the city yesterday.
RED CROSS
NOW!
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