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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1918)
Advertisers The t.thena Press circulates in the homes of readers who reside in the heart of the Great Umatilla Wheat Belt, and they have money to spend mm pre 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 XXX. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. MARCH 8, 1918. NUMBER 10 HMtHIIIMMMMMIH IllllltlHllllllltlllllH Spring Topics You probably expect an early Spring this year why not be pre pared for it? The first fine day you'll want to get out into the garden are you amply supplied with garden tools? We have some remaining over from last year on which the prices have not been advanced. For Your Spring House Cleaning You will need O'Cedar Oil, or liquid Veneer. Old Engish Floor Wax, New Aluminum Cooking Utensis, Odd Pieces of Furniture, perhaps a new Rug, a new Range we will make you a liberal allowance on your old range. Spring is in the air you'll soon get the fever get ready for it. The Davis-Kaser Co. Home Furnishing Department Store Complete Furnishers of Homes, Offices and Schools 10-20 Alder St. Walla Walla Wash. IIHMIMIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIllltllllllll" niiinniiiiiii niiiititii A man said to us: " Rogers can look you in the eye, hut Watts takes a side view." Every day your chance is one less to secure one of those McCormick Combines. Order and after 6 days tell us if You Are Satisfied We have the best gram bin made, the best grain tanks and will put you next to the best farmer elevator. Electric Washer and Rotary or Two-Spool Sewing Machines. A new shipment'of Phonographs that play all records. WATTS & ROGERS Farm Outfitters Just Over the Hill MMIIlHtlllMIIIHlUniMMH lllllllllll wss Show Your Patriotism! , Buy a War Savings Stamp and Help Win the War For Sale at The First National Bank of cAthena Htllllll ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. AMERICNA BEAUTY FLOUR Is trade in Athena, by" Athena labor, in one ol the very best equipped mills in the Northwest, of the best selected Bluestem wheat 'grown"anywhere. Patronize home industry. Your grocer seUVthe famous American Beauty Flour Merchant Millers & Grain Buyers Athena, Oregon. Waitsburg, Wash. IHMIIiHlllltHlllilllllltl lllllllllll I IIIIIIMMH We carry the best MEATS That Money Buys Our Market is Clean and Cool Insuring Wholesome Meats. LOGSDEN & MYRICK. Main Street, Athena, Oregon LETTERS RECEIVED FROM OVER THERE Athena people this week received letters from their boys near the front, and have kindly given them to the Fress for publication. As was conjec tured by local people, our contingent were undoubtedly in the'eonvoy which accompanied the Tuscania, as plainly indicated by the following two letters, passed by the censor: "On Active Service with American Expeditionary Force, Feb. 8, 1918. Dear Mother: We are here in Eng land, safe, after some excitement but nevertheless, all together. We slipped something good over on Kaiser Bill. but can not say what it was but will give you all the details when I get back. Maybe he thought we were asleep, for he sure got a surprise, for we got one of his U-boats. You have mayle seen it in the papers by this time. 'We are not going to stay long here, just a few days, then we go over to France to tram. We will all be glad when we get to the front. We have been talking with some of the boys from the front. They think the Artil lery is the only branch of service to be in. "We had a good time on the boat, plenty to eat and not a great deal to do. We had boat drill every day, so if anything had happened to us we could have gotten off in a few minutes. We saw some grjat looking country com ing overland, but they are a hundred years behind the times. Believe me, there's no country as up-to-date as the good old U. S. A. I suppose you got the card I sent from the port of embarkment. We were allowed to say only tliLt we were going. I got the sweater O. K. and the boys sure thought it was great. We were in quarantine up to the day we left and did not get a chance to get a glimpse of little old New York be fore we left; but we will sure let them know we are there when we get back. I think we will go to the same place rjrnie Boynton and the rest of the bunch are. Sam Starr, "Windy" and all of the bunch are feeling fine. As for myself, I could not feel better. Tell all the gang hello for me, and be sure and tell Father O'Hagan I got a glimpse of the Emerald Isle. Edward Sebasky, H8 F. A., 41 Div , A. E. P." Sergeant Winship Tells Storv. "Somewhere in England, Feb. 7. Dear Mother and all: Arrived in Eng land yesterday and sent you a cable gram from (deleted) so suppose you know that I am safe by this time; am lucky in not being hit by a submarine, for they sure tried to get us. Was on the ocean 15 days and sure did get tired of it; did not get sick, though lots of the boys did, and they were very sick. Rode on a train all night, and had a two and a-half mile hike to camp this morning in the mud. The trains here are queer looking, one of our coaches would make four of these. Only eight can ride in a compartment and the engine looks like a toy, by the side of ours. "The buildings here are of the old model and streets set in odd ways. Ihis is a large camp, but don't expect to be here long. We are allowed a bucket of coal every 'H hours and a pound of wood a week. That has to do for 30 of us. "I have lots to tell you but am not al lowed to write it. The weather is warm here now but it is raining. Sol diers from all parts of the world are here, and German prisoners also. "We will only have field rations fr m now on, but if others can live on it, I sure can, for believe me, I could stand anything now. Send mail via New York City, A. E. F. Ord. Sgt. Winship,H8 F. A., 41 Div." I t Plamondon Writes. Dr. Plamondon, writing from France to Mr. and Mrs. H. I. Watts, under date of Feb. (i says: "Today I am in receipt of the fine package of cigarettes and tobacco that you were so thoughtful as to Fend. You could not have selected anything more appropriate, for American tobacco is very hard to get here. "The winter has been very disagree able but not so very cold, and not to exceed six inches of snow at any one time. Unfortunately, I had an attack of acute bronchitis that got me off my feet for some time, but after about two weeks in the Roosevelt Base, I was greatly improved and have been feeling fairly well since. "Have been busy all the time and was detached from my own organiza tion for about five weeks and given an opportunity to visit other organiza tions so as to become familar with things medical and surgical as they are done over here. It was a valuable experience both for this work and civil practice "Thanksgiving I was attending an officers' school near the front; Christ mas I was with the medical depait ment of a heavy artillery regiment, and New Years day I was traveling back to my own company, so you see my holiday season was rather an unus ual one, to what it has been in the past. "When I have a little more time I am going to write you something of what we are doing and about conditions here. Lieut. Jas. D. Plamondon, 16? F. II., 117 S. Tr., A. E. F." Offered a Lieutenancy Glen Dudley, who is serving in the ordnance corps, recently left the school at Eugene and has reported for service at'Benicia, Calif. Glen was offered a Lieutenancy in the army, but havingl qualified for the ordnance corps, declined the cufflmiMlion. DR. HENRY VAN DYKE Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former United States minister to the Netherlands and one of the most noted literary fig ures In the country, Is now serving as chaplain at the Ohsrlestownj Mats., navy yard. CAUSED BY WEIGHT OF SNOW Simple Explanation of Odd Shapes of Trees, That Has Been a Mystery to Many. To the person who Is not versed In forest lore the grotesquely bent tree trunks that are to be found In almost all woods are mystifying, and wonder Is often aroused as to the cause, re marks the Popular Science Monthly. Foresters will tell questioners that In the case of trees in mountainous coun try and other sections where the snow full Is heavy, the weight of snow Is re sponsible In most lnsmntes for the queer twists they assume. When u tree Is young the weight of snow that fulls on Its branches often bends the trunk over until It Is flattened to the ground. Sometimes It Is buried under six or eight feet of snow and held In that position so long that when Warm weather comes the tree fulls to spring buck Into Its normal position. The summer sun causes the tip of the young tree to turn upward and If It manages to Withstand the weight of the snow of the next winter, that portion of the tree will, as a general rule, continue to grow in u normal way. "Hairpin" bends and other odd shapes result. A curious tree stands on the top of Tunnel hill, Johnstown, Pa., about four miles from town. It Is a sugar maple about one hundred years old which has prolonged its own life by grafting n branch into a much younger tree. ftowncfays nobody lives to any such ages. Why Imagine that the extreme limits of longevity have shrunk within the last two or three centuries? Winter's Discipline. lie who marvels at the beauty of the world In summer will find equal cause for wonder and odmlratlon in winter. It Is true the pomp and pageantry are swept away, but the essential elements remain the day and the night, the mountain and the valley, the elemen tal play and succession, and the per petual presence of the infinite sky. In winter the stars seem to have rekin dled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing, . . . more versutlle and human, appeals to the affections und the sentiments, and fos ters Inquiry and the art Impulse. Win ter Is of a more heroic cast, and ad dresses the intellect. The severe studies and disciplines come easier in winter. One imposes larger tasks upon himself. BECOMES IRKSOME AT TIMES No Matter What the Nature of One's Occupation, Its Routine Will Oc- ' caslonally Weary. Are there times When your work be comes Intolerably Irksome? Yes? Well, don't Jump at the conclusion that you are In the wrong place when this hap pens once In awhile. That will be true whatever work you choose. No mutter how well adapted you are to jour occu pation, there wIU come times when your thoughts will wander, and the routine will weary you, and you will feci that any other work would be preferable to that which you have chosen. One of the best-known woman writers of the lust generation wrote an Impassioned warning to literary as pirants, telling them to do any work, even scrubbing floors, In preference to taking up a literary career. Undoubt edly she wrote at a time when her chosen work scorned unspeakably Irk some, but if she had been cornered, she would probably have acknowledged that the profession of authorship has Considerable to commend it when com pared with scrubbing floors. This occasional Impatience with our vocation Is Inevitable. No matter how congenial It Is, there are times whe n It will seem n burden. The people who change their occupation every time It begins to bore them, are the tramps of the business world. As to Remarkable Longevity. We have all read of Thomas Parr, who lived to be one hundred and fifty two. Likewise of the eouutess of Des mond, one hundred uud forty-five; Margaret Patten, one hundred and thirty-seven ; Thomas Uamiiie, one hundred and sixty-four; John Itovln, one hundred and seventy-two; and Pe ter Torton, who reached the age of one hundred and eighty-five. But these cases of extraordinary longevity lack proof. In the days when those persona lived no accurate chronological records were kept, ami dates of occurrences were usually fixed by ussoclatlng them in memory with other events believed to have happened about the same time. A man's Identity mu liable to be con fused with that of a grandfather of flHMIM T"" - - How to Tell Age of Eggs. There Is a simple method of ascer taining the age of eggs, based upon the fact that the airy space at the broad end of the egg Increases with Its age. Now, when the egg Is placed In a tumbler of water In which uny amount of common salt is dissolved, It will, with increasing age, tend ever more to assume a position with its longitudinal axis In a perpendicular direction. A fresh laid egg will He horizontally on the bottom of the vessel. An egg from three to four days old will rise with Its broad end, so that Its longitudinal axis forms with Its horizontal axis an angle of 20 degrees. At the age of eight days the angle increases to 45 degrees, at the age of two weeks to 60 degrees, nnd nt the age of three weeks to about W degrees. When the egg Is more than a month old It will float perpen dicularly on Its small end. SCHOOLllOARD RE-ELECTS TEACHER8J0R NEXT YEAR At a meeting of the school board held at the office of B. B. Richards Tuesday evening, the following teach ers were elected for the coming school year: Miss Brierley and Miss Grant, High school; Mr. Gribble, 8th grade; Miss Lawson, 3rd and 4th grades; Miss Maud Sherman, primary grades. Prof. Russell tendered his resigna tion as superintendent, after two years work here, and what his intentions for the future arc, is not known at this time. Miss Wolff, 5th and 0th grades, has resigned and Mr. Huhb, late of Mor row county, will take her place, be ginning Monday morning. The teachers chosen at the meeting of the board Tuesday night have all been connected with the school this year, and individually, their salaries have been increased $10 per month for next year's work. It is likely that the manual training department will of necessity be dis pensed with unti1 after the war. This action appears to be imperative be cause the instructors employed in this department are usually within army draft qualifications, especially in aero plane construction, to the extent that all schools supporting this department are finding it impossible to secure efficient instructors. T TORE BIT HERE Woik will begin soon on another grain elevator of 100,000 bushels ca pacity in Athena. The Preston-Shaffer Milling company has selected a site foi the big plant on the north end of the mill, and the contract will be let for construction at once, so that the ele vator will be utilized for the coming crop. W. B. Shaffer, president of the com pany, was in the city Tuesday in com pany with Engineer Young, of the Fred A. Wilson Engineering Co. of Seattle, the result being that the pro posed site on the west of the milling plant was given up for the one on the north end. The site selected will place the elevator on both the Northern Pa cific and the O.-W. R. & N. railroads, which will add materially to efficient and convenient shipping facilities. The construction of this elevator places Athena ahead of any town in the county relative to capacity in hand ling bulk grain. The Farmers Grain Agency is now well on its progress toward constructing a 100,000 bushel capacity elevator on the south side of lower Main street. The Preston-Shaffer plant will be of concrete as is that of the Farmers elevator. The Preston-Shaffer elevator will contain six main tanks with interior connecting bins. A conveyor system wil! be used to carry grain from ele vator to mill. The plans and specula tions are for a modern structure in every particular, which is assured by the prominence of the Wilson Engin eering company, which fu-nished the plans for one of the most modern mill ing plants on the Pacific coast, that of the Fisher company at Seattle. Mrs. LIIHe Miller announces that she is retiring from business, and will have a sale of all past season hats, both summer and winter, next Friday and Saturday. Everything goes at a figure far below cost. Now is your chance to Hooverize on millinery. MRS. 0. W. B. ZERBA IS GALLED BY DEATH The death of Mrs. O. W. B, Zerba occurred at her home in this city yes terday morning, at 4 o'clock, after a lingering illness of five years. Her bedside was surrounded by members of her family who were present, b ing Walter and Ernest Zerba, sons; Mrs. A. O. Schubert, Mrs. D. Ferris and Mrs. H. B. Duggar, daughters, and the aged husband. Other children surviving her, are Mrs. Volweiler of Kennewick, B. J. Zerba of Baker, A. O. Zerba of Kennewick, and Mrs. J. A. Downing of Wallowa. The funeral will be held in the Meth odist church tomorrow afternoon, with Rev. W. S. Gleiser officiating, inter ment being in the Athena cemetery. Katherine Amanda Lsw was born in Pennsylvania, July 8, 1841, and moved to Wisconsin, where she was married to Mr. Zerba on Julv -8, 1801. In 18711 they moved to Oregon and settled on a farm near Athena. Ten children were born to them, nine of whom are living. Upidee Club Dance. Tomorrow night the dance given for the benefit of the local Red Cross takes place in the Athena opera house. The young ladies of the Club have made arrangements for the entertainment of the large crowd that is expected to at tend. A feature of the occasion is to be the splendid music which will be furnished by Fletcher's jazz band, of Pendleton. Tickets to the dance are If 1.00 each and the young ladies have been canvassing the city for sales, with encouraging success. Hawks Sells at Astoria. Byron N. Hawks has sold the Owl Dr'jg Store at Astoria, which ho pur chased and has been conducting since leaving Athena. ForatimoMr. Hawks was in poor health after going to As toria, but has recovered. He writes that he has several locations In view, which he will investigate before pur chasing amther store. Mr. and Mrs. Hawks are expected to visit friends in Athena soon. Trees for Ship Pins. Athena property owner have given up their locust shade trees generously to the government shipbuilding inter ests, and ricks of wood cut into suit able lengths are now being hauled to the railroad tracks for shipment to Potland. The thinning out orocess still leaves plenty of trees for shade purposes, 'ihe timber is used for pins in constructing the frame work of wooden ships. Re-Opening of the PeoplesTheater Saturday Might March 9 larooned Ed. Arnold in Alice McChesney "Stingaree" Throuhateir and "Military Madness" Presenting STULL AND BURNS in Pokes and Jabs (Admission, 10c and 20c ( Ladies New Waists I MMHIIMMMH j Never before were our waists more beautiful and prices within reach of every one, All the new shades such as gray, peach, rose, maize, flesh, nile and bisquet. The materials are Georgette, Crepe de Chine and Satin Stripe Tub Silk. Silk Dresses from $1.75 to 27.50 Serge Dresses from 9.90 to 25.00 Silk I'oplin Dresses 0.90 New Coats from $17.50 to 35.00 New Dresses from 14.75 to 37.50 Misses and Children Coats 2.98 to 7.90 Just received by express ladies' new silk Dress Skirts, $4.98 to $8 90. We now have a nice showing in Sells Underskirts, all the new shades and priced with in your reach-$1.98, 2.98, 3.98 and $4.98. g8ayMiWi ami