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VOLUME XXX.
ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. JUNE 28, 1918.
NUMBER 26
Quality Always Service First
THE
ECONOMY GASH GROCERY
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THE IP SAVINGS
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Crisco small
Crisco medium
Crisco large
55c
$1.05
2.05
Citrus Washing Powder, 2 pkg 55c
Ground Chocolate
X Bulk Macaroni
per pound 30c
per pound 11c
Fancy Breakfast Bacon, per lb 47c
cTWount Vernon Milk
cJTVlount Vernon Milk
large cans 2 for 25c
small cans 4 for 25c
We Pay Cash for Eggs
ECONOMY GASH GROCERY
Quality Always
Service First
; A real satisfiedfarmer's smile is one of the most pleasant
! sights we have about our place and now we are having !
"many of them every day because of the arrival of the
New cTVIcCormick Combines
! The third carload has arrived and your time is well in
; vested to come and see them. You can see gold dollars
; in this machine and besides the saving in your harvest X
of this year, you probably save $500 to $700 on the price f
of next year. Come and see, then decide. Get busy
Take out your binder twine, while the taking is good.
Watts & Rogers
Just Over the Hill
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Show Your Patriotism!
Buy a
War Savings Stamp
and Help Win the War
For Sale at
The First National Bank of c4thena
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Our Market is
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Insuring Wholesome Meats.
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Main Street, Athena, Oregon
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Each call for wai funds finds Athena
district even more ready to respond
than in the previous successful cam
paigns. The big W. S. S. push is on
today and when the Press forms were
closed the total receipts for the day
could not be stated. Athena's quota
is 127.000 maturity value. To cover
this amount the committee is asking
that the pledges be made today, pay
ment for the W S. S. purchase to be
made du'lng the next six months. The
total sales to January 1, 1919, must
cover the amount stated above.
The same committee that put Ath
ena over in six hours on the Third
Liberty Loan is handling ioday's drive.
Precinct chairmen are at the helm
in their respective precincts. W. S.
Gleiser, chairmin of Athena district,
is using the Pbstoffice as the central
office for the drive. Pledges made to
day will be filed at the local Postoffice.
Therefore in order to secure proper
credit on pledges it is essential that
the W. S. S. be purchased at the Post-
APART FROM REST OF WORLD
pportunity America uao u..v..v,.
reli and poor alike to become stoek
hdijers in America. The W. S. S.
movement makes it possible for the
widow's mite as well as for the rich
man's million to do duty for humanity.
Athena's district expects to turn no
yellow cards over to the treasury de
partment. Some of the citizens may
be missed inadvertently by the com
mittee. Any such persons should call
at the Postoffice today or tomorrow,
Saturday, and pledge the quota of this
stamp purchase.
An item which Athena district pur
chasers should keep in mind is that
the limit of W. S. S. purchases for
any individual is 1 000. Complete re
sults of today's drive will be published
in the PieES next week.
NO FINER GRAVE FOR MAN
THAN FRANCE BATTLEFIELD
East Oregonian: Dell Blancett's
grave is in the battlefield of France
and before he died he did "consider
able execution" on the foe, accoiding
to word received by J. R. Raley from
Major P. S. Torrance commanding the
squadron to which the former Round
Up star belonged. The major's letter,
highly interesting in its details follows:
"France, May 21st. 1918.
"My dear Mr. Raley:
"Unfortunately there was no error
in the report of the death of Pvt.
Blancett and vour letter of a2nd April
was , opened by the writer.
"I can readily understand the desire
for full particulars of his death since
it is certain that he must have been a
very popular man wherever he went.
He was only with us a short time but
was loved by all and was an exception
ally good soldier.
"On the UOth of March the Brigade
became engaged in an operation the
success of which earned for it the per
sonal thanks of the C. in C. and this
Regt. took the leading part. The
enemy had forced a way into a large
wood cn a prominent hill which we
undcrtoc k to clear and this we did both
mounted and dismounted. Blancett
was with the dismounted party which
pushed through the wood while the
others galloped around it. On reach
ing the farther side it became neces
sary to consolidate and it was while
this digging in was being done (about
noon) that he was shot through the
stomach by a German sniper, but not
before he ( Blancett I had done con
siderable execution to them with his
rifle from behind a tree. Some of the
men went to him and he said: "These
German bullets sure hit hard well,
boys, there's a little change in my
jeans which you'd better divide up be
tween you." He died a few minutes
later quite cheerfully and without
suffering.
"The fighting was very intense dur
ing the day and at night when the
Regt. was relieved it was impossible
to bring out any but the woundtd.
There is, however, no finer grave
for man today than the battle field of
France. Yours very sincerely,
( Sd.) P. S. Torrance. Major.
" 'A' Sqdn."
More Booze Seized.
Another booze haul has been made
by the county officials. Two men and
h woman, hailing from Seattle, driv
ing a seven passenger car were arrest
ed at Umatilla with two suitcases of
liquor in their possession and taken to
Pendletcn,
Five gallon kegs purchased at Pen
dleton and taken to Umatilla, pre
sumably to be filled with liquor later,
led to their detection by the officials.
The kegs however had not been filled
when the parties were arrested.', They
were released from custody by depos
ing 500 bonds each. The three
led themselves out of jail by depos-
ttg cash and diamonds.
People Dwelling in High Valley of the
Indus Are Isolated, but Com
pletely Satisfied.
In the high volley of the Indus,
guarding the entrance to mysterious
Tibet, lies Leh, the capital of an In
dian province, writes Niksnh In Chi
cago Dally News. Leh is not a haven
for tourists. Occasionally a few trav
elers with a passion for adventure and
a lack of consideration for the com
forts of home, work their way through
mountain passes and over rivers, on
caravan ponies and primitive rafts,
and at last reach Leh.
Usually the Journey is taken for the
pleasure of unconventional travel and
not for the purpose of visiting Leh, for
merely to view the town Is hardly
wortli the hardships of the trip. If
you are an astronomer, however, you
look at the matter differently. The
meterologlcal observatory of Leh Is
the most elevated in Asia; and your
true lover of the stars will not balk
at the blinding snow and scorching sun
which follow one another In such mad
dening succession In the Himalayas.
Devout Buddhists find congenial sur
roundings in Leh, for the neighborhood
Hod with lamnsserles, as the mon
asteries of Tibetan Buddhists are
called. Over half the men are priests,
or "red coats," nnd spend their days
in the worship of Buddhn. Nowhere
else are there so many prayer wheels
endlessly revolving. On these wheels
are manuscripts bearing the Inscrip
tion, "Jewel In the lotus, Amen," writ
ten many times. As the wheel turns,
the paper unwinds and the prayer is
considered said.
The people of this section know little
of outside affairs. They live at an al
titude of from 11,000 to 10,000 feet
above sea level, In the highest popu
lated altitude In the world. If they de
scend as low as 5,000 feet, the unac
customed atmosphere causes illness.
But they are happy in their Isolation,
and view complacently the monoton
ous grandeur of the mountains, which
cut them off so effectually from the
rest of the world
PLAN ACTIVE WAR ON PESTS
West Indian Sugar Planters Seek Aid
of the Lizard and a Species
of Fungus Growth.
Lizard farming nnd fungus cultiva
tion are means adopted in the West
Indies to protect the sugar industry.
It has been discovered that the frog
hopper (Thomnspls sacharlnn), so
called on account of Its great leaping
powers, is the greatest pest of the
sugar cane, and that It multiplies by
thousands on single plants, sucking
the sap from roots nnd leaves. In tho
last three or four years two remedies
have been developed. F. W, Urlch,
a West Indian entomologist, has dem
onstrated that lizards devous great
quantities of the Immature hoppers,
and J. B. Rorer, a United States my
cologist, has shown that spores of the
fungus known as "green muscardine"
are peculiarly fatal to the adults. As
part of the work to save the cane,
war has been begun In Trinidad,' where
the Investigation has been made,
against fhe rapacious mongoos, which
has made lizards scarce. In addition,
hundreds of lizards arc collected in a
protective enclosure, and are encour
aged to multiply under favoring condi
tions of sand banks for burrows, with
an abundance of food nnd water. The
fungus is grown In test-tube cabinets,
which produce spores that are dusted
over the cane fields by special distrib
uting machines.
Anonymity In Literature.
A writer In the Boston Transcript,
speaking of a man who had written
much for publication but always anony
mously, says: "I doubt the wisdom of
this on practical grounds ; for the pub
lic likes to know whoso work It Is
rending; a pseudonym Is far better
than nothing, and If persisted In Is as
good in the long run as the right
name ; but a book by an abstraction, by
nobody, generally falls to win the rend
er's Interest, unless u rumor Is put
rixwtf Qaf there Is a mystery concern
authorship, and that the author
Is a famous man trying a new experi
ment." lie might have added that
anonymity Is not profitable to the
writer, especially if lie Is capable of
good work. He gets no credit with
the public for what he does; whereas
his name If it accompanied his pub
lished willing should become a dis
tinct asset, editors, especially of maga
zines, being governed to some extent
In their acceptances by the value of u
name, and persistent use of a name
even when attached to matter of trivial
quality has become a source of liberal
Income to many a writer."
To Warm Room Evenly.
The temperature of a heated room
is several degrees warmer at the cell
ing than at the floor. To equalize the
temperature, It Is necessary for the
nlr to be In circulation. This may be
accomplished with an electric fan, but
to prevent any unnecessary draughts,
the blast from the fan should be con
fined. As the air must be driven from
the floor to the celling, place the fan
In one corner of the room in such a
position that It will drive the nlr up
wards. To keep the air confined make
a cgrdboard tube about six Inches In
diameter to carry the nlr up and across
the celling to the opposite corner of
the room. This will take the cold nlr
from the floor and force it out at the
celling level. Naturally toe air cur
rents are forced from a lower to a
higher level, thus equalizing the tem
perature. Popular Science Monthly.
COUNTY WIDE SOLDIER ROLL IS WANTED CROP CONDITIONS
ARE MUCH VARIED
NAME AGE.
HOME ADDRESS
(Street) (City)
OCCUPATION BEFORE WAR MARRIED .
ENTERED SERVICE WHEM? WHERE?
BRANCH OF SERVICE
TRANSFERS
RANK
(Include promotions and dates)
NEAREST RELATIVE
ADDRESS RELATOINSHIP . ..
PRESENT ADDRESS
SIGNATURE of INFORMANT
Friends and relatives of boys in service are asked to fill out above and mail
to M . R. Chessman, Sec. Pendleton, Ore., Phone 123.
SHORTAGE OF WOOLENS ATHENA HONOR GUARD
IN AMERICA IS DENIEO
Reports of shortages of woolens and
woolen clothing for the civil popula
tion were officially denied by the war
industries board in a warning to deal
ers not to speculate in woolen commod
ities. "There is no official warrant," the
statement said, "for statements of
rumors to the effect that it will soon
be impossible to buy woolens or woolen
clothing sufficient to meet actual re
quirements for the civil population.
"The present speculative movement
in cloth and clothing will undoubtedly
compel definite penalizing action if
persisted in. There are at present
ample stocks of cloth and clothing and
there is no excuse for inflation."
All Class 1 Called.
With the calling of 93 men Satur
day evening to report for duty July
21, Class 1 in Umatilla county
is exhausted and further drafts will
begin in Class S. Friday evening a
call for 48 men from this county was
received by the local board and they
are to leave Pendleton Julv 5. In this
call three Athena men, Jesse Myrick,
Leroy McCubbins and Bert Stone are
in the draft. With the 72 men that
left Pendleton Tuesday, Umatilla has
calls for 212 men before August 1.
To this number the five volunteers for
special service to leave Saturday,
should be added, making a total of
217.
Rain and Hail Storm.
Saturday and Suuday were marked
days in a meteorological sense in this
ccunty. The first rain storms of the
summer fell in different sections and
in some instances hail accompanied
the rain. A hard rain fell for half an
hour at Pendleton and only a sprinkle
occurred here Sunday a cloud burst
struck Meacham creek, damaging the
O.-W. roadbed to some extent and
hard showers fell at Athena, Weston
and the mountain districts. South
Pilot Rock hailstones as large as mar
bles covered the ground and a eloud
burst struck on the watershed of upner
McKav creek. Other sections of the
county received no rainfall whatever.
IN PENDLETON PARADE
The Athena Girls Honor Guard par
ticipated in the patriotic parade at
Pendleton Tuesday morning, when
seveniy two Umatilla county men en
trained for Camp Lewis to join the
colors.
Under the leadership of Mrs. Ralph
Hassell, the Guard members drove to
Pendleton in automobiles and took up
theii position in the parade formation
in section three. Thousands of people
lined the streets along which the pa
rad i moved and other thousands were
on the side streets and at the railway
station where the soldiers took a spe--al
train for Camp Lewis.
Two Athena men were among the
soldiers, leaving for the training camp.
They are Dick Winshiip and Charles
Brown.
Good Word for Snakes.
"Only 17 of the 111 varieties of
snakes In America are poisonous,"
writes OInyne K. Norton In American
Forestry. "None," he asserts, "will at
tack a human being except In self
defense. All of them destroy rodents
that Injure crops and carry communi
cable diseases."
The United States department of ag
riculture places our annual crop loss
due to rodents nt over $500,000,000, or
something like $5 a person.
Just how many more snakes we need
In America to save this $300,000,000 of
food no one claims to know, but It
may be a good Idea for snake haters
to penult the wiggling reptiles a longer
lease of life a reprieve, you might
say, until all the rodents tire gone.
Grain Grading School.
Under the direction of Prof. H. J.
Hislop, of O. A. C. and H. A. Martin
of the grain standardization bureau of
Portland, sessions of the grain grading
school were held at Pendleton this
week. Those attending from Athena
were: Melville Johns, Arthur Cop
pock and Chas. T. Smith.
Most of the wheat hay is in the
shock and will be ready for hauling
from the fields in a few days.
Innkeepers' Signs.
In the middle ages, before turnpikes
were constructed, the castles of the
barons and the monasteries offered
shelter and food to travelers. The
baronial arms were always hung before
the castles In prominent positions, tho
object being to enable wayfaring stran
gers to Identify n liven house
by the most conspicuous object In the
device. Tims, If a rose, lily or Hon
appeared In bold relief the building
was named by the traveler by one
or other of these terms. Afler the
overthrow of the feudal powers and tho
suppression of (he monasteries tho
wayside hostelry was the only re
source left to wanderers, and It took
over tho former custom by displaying
signs.
The One Achievement.
"I do not feel that I hnvo really seen
'Hamlet' played," mused Mr. Storm
Ington Barnes.
"But you have played the part your
self." ".My dear fellow, I could not watch
myself net, could I?"
From observations and careful in
spection of the crop conditions in Um
atilla county, yield prospects vary in
a large degree. The cause is due
primarily to the extended dry weather
and to the large acreage of spring
sown grain. In the vicinity of Athena,
in all directions, within a radius of ap
proximately 10 miles there are crops
on summer fallow ground that give
evidence of a yield as high as 45 bush
els per acre, though no further rainfall
be recorded, if only normally cool
weather prevails, giving the grain a
chance to fill.
On the other hand, there are fields
of fall sown wheat that will not go
over 25 bushels per acre, even though
abundant moisture should come. This
is particularly true of the light soil
lands and localities where rock form
ation comes close to the surface.
Early prospects of spring crop con
ditions were never better, based on
abundant winter moisture, perfect
soil conditions and a seasonable seed
ing period. A large acreage of both
wheat and barley was seeded, with tho
expectation of greatly increasing the
grain production of the county, which
is normally between four and five mil
lion busheis. A combination of cold
winds, aphids and drought, served to
annul former prospects to the extent
that there are many fields on which the
grain will yield poor results and
others where the owner will get bet
te returns than was expected. This is
mainly true of the spring barley crop.
Spring vvher t promises a greater de
gree of variation in yield than does
fall wheat. Some fields with rain
coming at once would undoubtedly fill
out beyond expectations, while other
fields would not be helped materially.
Early Bl rt seems to offer the best
general prospect of spring sown grain.
County Agent Shrock who recently
investigated conditions, says in his
report:
"Some very interesting facts were
brought out during our recent tour of
the wheat counties. Nearly every
farmer does some experimenting, cith
er consciously or unconsciously. The
results of his experiments are interest
ing, whether they are positive or neg
ative. It was for the purpose of see
ing the results and studying the meth
ods employed on a few of the mosi.
prominent of these experiments that
the trip was planned.
"In almost every community we 8a
some fieldB that wiU.make practically
a, full crop Without further rainfall.
We also saw in practically every com
munity some fields that are almost a
total failure. Tho methods of farm
ing in the good fields were very sim
ilar all the way through. Early plow
ing and thorough weed control were
the outstanding essential factors. Late
plowing and weeds are found the close
companions of the poor crop in every
case.
"We saw men plowing summer fal
low on June 'i'i on three different
farms, but we (yiw no good crops on
these same farms. Next year, re
gardless of weather, the drought will
be bltim.'d for a poor crop on tluo
fields now being plowed."
Italian Flag Floats.
Commemorating the great victory of
tho Italian army over the Austrians on
the Pinve river, the Italian (lug has
been Hying below the folds of Old
Glory on the Athena flag staff this
week. The flag was hastily made
Monday evening, in honor of our vic
torious ally, the emblematic design
being copied from a color art curd Hi
tho Press office. It has been sug
gested that the flags of all the allied
nations should be at hand, for conven
lence of display wherever occasion
warrants.
Harvest Supplies
Now is the time when everyone will be wanting
harvest Clothes, and we have everything in that line,
In buying for 175 J. C. Penney stores for strictly cash
and selling for cash, you will find that our prices are
lower than shown elsewhore.
Canvass (iloves 10c and J5c
Leather-faced Canvass Gloves 25c
Hog Hide (iloves (We
Heavy (iloves 98c to $1.69
Driving (iloves $1.09
Work Sox 10c. 2 for 25c, and 2()c
Straw Hats 2oe to 98e
Mens Khaki Pants $1.69 and $1 98
Meavv blue bib Overalls $1.89
Blue stripe Overalls $19
6x12 8 oz Canvass Bed Sheets
6x1 8 oz
6x14 10 oz "
0xl 12 oz "
Harvest Blankets
Harvest C niforts
(iood blue and grey Work Shirts 69c
Heavy blue Work Shirts 89c
Extra heavy blue Work Shirts 1.19
Harvest Union Suits 89c to 1.40
$2.69
3.49
4.49
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$1.98 to 4.98
$1.49 to 1.98
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