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VOLUME XXX.
ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 15, 1918.
NUMBER 7
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Another Big Event At
Davis-Kaser's Next
Week.
We anticipate that this announcement will bring thousands of
thrifty housewives into our store next week to.attend our ANNUAL te
SALE. The Sale begins
Tuesday Morning, Feb. 19
continuing until the end of the week. Thousands of articles will be
old at 9c each, which in some cases will be less than the WHOLE
SALE PRICE TODAY III ; Write for our Bargain Poster.
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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I he McCormick Harvester Combine is now a guaranteed
success. We expct to have a sample soon.
It is run by two men, cuts 0 feet wide, 15 to 18 acres per day, with
eight boress, doing clean work in all grainand pays for Itself in two ord
inary crops.
Eight orders taken last week get yours in before we are stopped.
Ask MoBride Bros., Ralph Tucker, Lieuallen and Beamer, Fred Mc
Grew, Frank Greer, Robert Blomgren, Liuns Anderson and Charley Kirk
what they saw and what they know after seeing one that cut over 700
acres.
WATTS & ROGERS
Farm Outfitters
Just Over the Hill
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and Help Win the War
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ESTABLISHED 1865
Preston-Shaffer Milling Co.
AMERICAN BEAUTY
FLOUR
Is made in' Athena, by Athena labor, in one oi the very beat
equipped mills in the Northwest, of the best selected Blue stem
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Insuring Wholesome Meats.
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Main Street, Athena, Oregon
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ATHENA BOYS ARE
The following letter from Percy
Wilson, Wagoner, Co. E, 116th Engin
eers.to his mother, Mrs. Carden, dated
"Somewhere in France, Dec 80,
1917," will keenly interest Press
readers:
"My dear Mother: I write to let
you know that I am fine and dandy,
and am enjoying the best of health.
We are further inland than we were
and are quartered in the finest kind of
(deleted) just at the edge of a beauti
ful little French village. I went to
high mass on Christmas day; over half
the congregation were U. S. soldiers.
There are a lot of our boys in the hos
pital with mumps, but as for any other
contagious disease, outside of the
mumps or measles, I have not heard
of a single case yet.
I sure would like to get some mail
from over there. There hasn't any of
us as much as received a postal from
home yet. There are a lot. of French
soldiers here but they are mostly old
men or men who have been wounded.
There is about six inches of snow on
the ground here now and more falling
and it has been awfully cold for sev
eral nights. We had a real old Amer
ican Christmas; we had turkey and
dressing, mince pie, mashed potatoes
and brown gravy and figs, dates and
nuts. That is, the rest of the boys
did, for it was just my luck to be feel
ing bum and I could not eat much, but
I enjoyed it just the same anyway. I
am feeling pretty good again. The
only thing, we have had no pay day
for two months and tobacco is bard to
get here and this "dedaw" tobacco is
hard to take.
If you happen to see any of Moscoe
Froome's folks, tell them he sends hia
best regards and will write soon. He
is still belly robber for the company
and is the same old Moscoe.
We saw several ruins of old castles
and passed through some beautiful
country on our way here. I only wish
that I could tell you more, that is, go
into details and describe everything,
but as it is, you get more real news
right there in the States tHan we do
here ; for everything is censored here
before it gets out and that is one
thing they had ought to do there.
There is one thing that looks funny
to ub, and that is to see the women
conductors and motormen or motor
women, 1 guess you would have to call
them but they are getting by with it
fine and dandy, and then they say that
a woman can't do a man's work.
We are not getting very much white
bread, are eating a bread that is called
"war bread." It is dark, about the
color of rye bread, maybe a little dark
er and is made of whole wheat flour
and the loaves are about four feet long
and you could knock a mule dead with
one of them.
It is hard to write a tetter when you
have to leave the most interesting
things out. Give my very best regards
to all and tell Mr. Boyd Athena is well
represented and is still on the map.
"Jan 13, 1918 We are still in the
same place we'were when I last wrote
you but look for another move before
long. We have had but very little
cold weather so far and very little
snow, probably six inches all together.
I received your last letter on New
Year's day and it makes one feel a
whole lot better to get a letter from
over there. We have not been paid as
yet but look to receive our psy before
very many days but you can never tell.
We have been looking for a pay day
for over two months now and all of the
boys are broke and we have no tobacco
or money to get any with; but our
chaplain is doing all he can and he got
a little tobacco, but it was some job,
and it would break a millionaire to
furnish tobacco for all of us.
"I just got back from down town,
and you ought to see the women wash
ing clothes. There is a small creek
running through this village and they
pack their clothes down there and have
big flat rocks and a paddle and they
put their clothes on one of these rockj
and pound them with the paddle. It
looks like the poor things would freeze.
"We are hoping that we will be
back there and help celebrate the
Fourth of July with you folks. Ernie
Boynton, Moscoe Froome, Sid Barnes
and I are still together and so if any
body asks you, about them say they
are fine and dandy."
Elgin Boy Goes Down.
Terry Tuttle, of Elgin, is among the
lost on the Tuscania. He is a brother
of L. B. Tuttle, publisher of 'the Elgin
Recorder. He is remembered by many
in Athena, having been here the sum
mer that Bert Cartano managed the
Yellow Kid base ball team. He was a
printer, and took active interest in
athletic sports. With 79 other lost
soldiers, he was laid to rest in a grave
on the Scottish coast.
Athena Boys in Class 1.
Nearly all Athena boys who have
entered on the second military draft
have been placed in Class 1, and passed
creditable physical examinationa. A
few minor changes in divisional class
ification have been made by the dis
trict board. Dean Willaby, mail car
rier for Uncle Sam, was transferred
from Class 1 to Class 4.
Claud Gaines Safe.
A dispatch from the War Depart
ment at Washington, to Mrs. Homer I.
Watts, Saturday evening, announced
that her brother, Claud Gaines, was
safe. Mr. Gaines is a member of Co.
D. 20th U. S. Engineers, which sailed
Op the transport Tuscania, torpedoed
off the North coast of Ireland.
MOTION PICTURE FILMS.
Hew They Are "Edited" Before They
Reach the Publlo Eye.
After a motion picture film has been
developed and printed It Is sent to the
general manager or to the director to
be "edited." Like an author's manu
script In the hands of an editor, it is
shortened here and there, the captions
altered, some parts entirely "cut" or
deleted and the whole film dressed up
to suit the Ideas of the men closest In
touch with the theater going public.
The editing takes place In the pro
jection room, says the Topular Science
Monthly, but the altering cutting the
film and changing it Is done In the
cutting and assembling room by men
who do nothing else. Sometime the
men in the cutting room ("cutters," in
the trade lingo) are so overwhelmed
and confused with orders Issued by
the studio officials that they are com
pelled to ask for additional explana
tions. Needless to say this wastes
much rime.
By means of the phonograph, how
ever, one motion picture company is
eliminating this waste and saving
money. As the director watches a pic
ture in the projection room he otters
his editing orders Into the transmitter
of a dictating machine. The film is
then sent back to the cutting room
with the phonograph record.
A SUBMARINE BASE.
It la a Supply and Repair Station Far
Underaea Bouts.
What Is a "submarine base?" Well,
a submarine base Is, In a word, a sup
ply and repair station for undersea
boats. Craft of this kind are very
elaborate and exceedingly delicate
pieces of mechanism; they are liable to
need tinkering at frequent Intervals.
Hence there mnst be a machine shop
on shore at the service of the boats
when at Intervals they return from
cruises. There must also be a store
house containing all kinds of supplies
and spare parts for the submarines.
Most Important of all, there must be
tanks of fuel oil.
Usually there Is attached to the base
a "mother ship" a good sited steamer,
with machinery aboard for making
emergency repairs. The steamer also
carries dynamos, which may be used
for charging the batteries of the boats
though at sea the charging is accom
plished by the oil engines that propel
the submarine when on the surface.
When it Is not practicable to estab
lish such a shore station the "mother
ship" may be utilised temporarily as a
floating base. Exchange.
Curleii Land, Curious People.
Near Cape Horn, In the Islands of
Tlerra del Fucgo, live the most curious
people In all South America. It rains
or snows or sleets nearly every day,
and yet they look on their country as
the finest hi the world. They wear
bardly any clothing and seem not to
feel cold. Because he saw fires on the
shore tbe explorer Magellan, the first
European that rounded the Horn, called
the Island "the land of Are," which Is
almost the worst name he could have
chosen. Their huts arc made of bent
boughs and covered with grass and
give only the poorest shelter. The folk
are vain, too, wearing necklaces of the
teeth of fishes or seals and painting
patterns on their bodies. Among them
some colors hare a novel meaning.
White is the sign of war and red of
peace. They are great mimics and will
imitate voice and gesture perfectly.
Handicapped by Hie Name.
Tbe handicap of a poet's name was
illustrated In the case of Mr. William
Wordsworth, who was the eldest sur
viving grandson of tbe poet. Mr.
Wordsworth was a great scholar and
a poet himself of high distinction. A
volume of his sonnets was Issued pri
vately some years ago. On account
of the similarity of his name with that
of his grandfather, he always refused
to publish any of his poetical writings,
though pressed to do so by the people
of such high authority as Matthew Ar
nold, who described one of his sonnets
as tbe finest In tbe English language.
Montreal Star.
Odd Qeegraphlcel Division.
The range of the Blue Ridge moun
tains in Pennsylvania Is divided by a
river every twenty-seven miles, as fol
lows: From the Susquehanna to the
Kwatara, twenty-seven miles; from the
Bwatara to tbe Schuylkill, twenty-seven
miles; from the Schuylkill to the
Lehigh, twenty-seven miles; from tbe
Lehigh to tbe Delaware, twenty-seven
miles. At the neit twenty-seven miles
Is a hollow of New Jersey, In which
nestles a lake known as Culver's pond.
Right Thinking.
The quality of your friends is the
quality of your thoughts. Think the
thoughts of a thief and thieves will be
your companions. Think clean, helpful,
creative thoughts and surely your as
sociates will be clean, helpful and cre
ative. Ton attract to you what belongs
to you.
Changad Idea.
"Mrs. Smarty used to boast that she
never let her mind run upon little
things."
"Well, does sber
"I should say so! She can't talk of
anything but her baby." New York
Times.
Circumstantial Evidence.
"What makes you think all women
hate each other?"
"Because a woman so seldom brings
up a son Ot to be another woman's
husband." Exchange.
save
1- wheat
use more corn
2 - meat
use more fish & beam
3- fats
use just enough
4- sugar
Ouse syrups
and serve
he cause of freedom
ItS. FOODjDM I N IS THAUQM
To make knowledge valuable you
must have the cheerfulness of wisdom
Emerson.
ATAENA FARMER SELLS
RANCH IN LANE COUNTY
A Eugene special says: That he
might do his bit to feed the soldiers,
Ralph G. Miller, a retired rancher liv
ing at Hollywood, - near Los Angeles,
Cel., has purchased the Leiburg ranch
of 132S acres on the McKenzie river.
Mr. Miller, who is too old to serve
under the colors will take immediate
possession of the property and bring it
to the highest possible state of pro
duction at once.
There are 320 acres under plow at
the present time and he will at once
purchase a donkey engine and other
equipment and clear more land. He
will stock the Jfarm with full blood
Hereford cattle and Duroc Jersey hogs
and will also invest in thoroughbred
sheep. The purchase price for the
ranch, which was owned by R. B.
McEwen, was $45,000.
Income Tax Returns.
Milton A. Miller, Collector of In
ternal Revenue for the State of Ore
gon, has been notified by the Treasury
Department at Washington, D. C,
that the time for filing the 1917 In
come Tax returns, including individ
uals and corporations, has been extend
ed to April ), 1918, thus giving an
additional month to that provided by
the War Tax Act of October 3, 1917.
As soon as the blanks are received
each corporation will be notified. Col
lector Miller would appreciate the
early filing of returns so that the work
of his office may not be unduly congested.
AIMING A BIG GUN.
A Task In Which Figure Chemistry.
Mathematics and Physics.
Today there is about as much differ
ence between aiming a big gun aud
aiming a ride as there Is betweeu sail
lug a supcrdrendnaught and railing a
steam yacht. It was not very long ago,
however, that a gun was aimed simi
larly to a rifle In that the direction in
which It was pointed was obtained by
sighting along Its barrel.
I'm now things are not done that
way. The gunners ore often fur ont of
sight of what they arc shooting at, and
the remarkable hits that they make
are only explained by the use they
make of careful scientific calculations.
To direct the fire or one of the bigger
guns, for example, requires that un
less than fifteen complicated collec
tions be made, says Popular Science
Monthly. Each correction requires an
average of five adjustments, ull of
which must first he exactly figured ont
by those In command. The most Im
portant corrections which are rnudo
are for the Influence of tbe resistance
of tbe air, the Influence of the earth's
curvature and tbe attraction of grav
ity on tbe distance the bullet may tie
carried.
In place of tbe guesswork of previ
ous times is tbe use of the most ad
vanced developments In the fields of
saathematlcs, physics and chemistry.
Benefit Box Social.
Friday evening, February 22, at the
LaMar Gulch School, Mrs. Sanford
Stone, teacher, there will be a box
social for the benefit of the Red Cross.
All interested in the Red Cross are
cordially invited. Bring a Hoover
basket and help the good work.
Orel McPherrin is salesman at the
Hohbach bakery in Athena.
Hew Coal Was Named.
Tbe name of roal was first applied
only to fuel made of charred wood or
what we call charcoal, says an ex
change. When the use of mineral coal
begfan It was called sou coal, because It
was at first only found along the sea
shore along with seaweed and other
wreckage cast up by the waves and
thus supposed to be of marine origin.
From its resemblance In color and
burning qualities to charcoal, It finally
received the simple name of coal.
THE FOUR BENEFIT
ENTERTAINMENTS
The first round of canvassing by the
committees who are selling tickets
for the Red Cross benefit entertain
ments, the first of which is to take
place at the High school auditorium on
the evening of Saturday. February 23,
has been made and the 'second tour of
soliciting ticket sales has started.
The series of four entertainments
will open with the appearance of the
Rob Roy Quartette, an attraction of
more than usual merit. The Red
Cross and High school committees hope
to have the auditorium filled for the
opening number of the entertainment
program, and if hard work on the part
of the committees and loyal patronage
to the local Red Cross count for any
thing, the desiie will be gratified.
This aeries of entertainments is con
sidered to be high class in every re
spect. Following the Rob Roy Quar
tette, the program announces the ap
pearance of Colby, the Cartoonist, for
the evening of March 14. Colby has
been appearing in the larger cities and
on the leading Chatauqua circuits for
years and is among the world's great
est artists with the crayon.
Friday evening, April 19, Laurant,
the Man of Magic, is listed for the
climax of the season's program. As
sisted by his company, this world re
nowned magician will perform the
same feats he does before audiences in
such cities as Portland, Seattle and
Spokane. For one admission price,
it is possible to see these three first
class numbers on the program, and
also the annual High school perform
ance on May 10th.
P. A. WORTHINGTON DIES
AT HOME IN PORTLAND
P. A. Worthington, pioneer business
man of Weston and widely known
through his service as deputy United
States marshal and as a member of
the old Eastern Oregon No-mal School
regents, died in Portland Monday morn
ing at 10 o'clock from heart trouble,
with which he had been ailing for two
years. The funeral was held Wednes
day at 10 o'clock, in Portland, and was
attended by his two brothers, Hugh
and Will Worthington, Mrs. H. O.
Worthington and son, Emery, now liv
ing in Pendleton.
Press Worthington left Weston for
Portland IE years ago, where he has
since resided with his family. He is
survived by his wife, formerly Miss
Cora Saling of Weston, two sons and
a daughter. One son, Wayne, is in
the quartermaster's corps in France,
and Dale is teaching in the Y. M. C.
A. in Portland. The daughter, Miss
Helen, is a music teacher in that city.
Besides the brothers, H. O. and
W. B. Worthington, he leaves two sis
ters, Mrs. Emma Miller of Walla Wal
la and Mrs. W. B. Benefiel of Portland.
Immune.
Ella -There goes the luckiest girl
alive. Bella-Iii what respect? Ella
Nothing she eats makes her fat Har
per's Bazar.
Meets Boys in France.
Fred Lockley, newspaper man of
Portland, and now doing Y. M. C. A.
work in France, writes the Pnrtlaml
Journal of having met Leutenant
James Sturgis and a lot of other Uma
tilla lounty, Walla Walla ond Port
land boys. His postesrd, mailed from
"Somewhere in France," and bearing
the postmark of Havre, says: "I
walked four miles through the mud
this morning to Welch Camps, where
German prisoners are working, and to
the U. S. Rest Camp. Had a lone;
talk with Lieutenant James Sturgis of
Pendleton and a lot of bcyi from Port
land, Walla Walla and Umatilla county."
Mens Furnishings
We are now receiving some of the best merchandise
for men and bovs ever ordered for nnr A then a ctnrp
Our efforts are concetrated on securing the 'Best for S
Work or Dress." Always "Try Athena First"
Men's ties, .25-.49-.79
Dress shirts .98 to (2.98
New caps - .49 to 1.69
Dress hats - - 1.19 to 8.49
Staple hats - - 1.49 to 8.49
Lisle socks .IS to. 85
Silk socks - .85 to .83
Handkerchiefs - .05 to .25
Arrow collars - 2 for .86
Cuff links . . .25 to .98
Tie pins .15 to .98
We have the snappiest line of
Men's dress shoes this season ever
carried in Athena.
Mahogany lace, English, - 16.90
" " " with white
Neolin soles, - fl.50
Black, as above, - 5.50
Semi-English button shoes in
Mahogany and black kid - 6.50
Men's staple dress shoes 2.98 to 5.90
Men's gray dress gloves - 2.25
Boys' Mahogany and black Eng
lish shoes - - 4.1)8
Boys' staple shoes - l.fll) to .319
Boys' hose .23 to .35
Boys' waists - .35 to .59
Boys' shirts - .45 to. 98
Boys' canvas gloves 2 for - .15
Boys' ties - - .15 to .25
Boys caps, .25 to .98
Paris garters, - - .23
Tie clasps - .10 to .23
We are agents for the famous cTWark G. Harris Tailoring line.
and see the new spring Samples.
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