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VOLUME XXX.
ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. JULY 6, 1918.
NUMBER 27
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Quality Always Service First
The store that undersells because it
sells for
CASH
You don't have to take our word for our
ability to save you money as the result
of selling for cash. Come and see. All
we ask is a chance to show you. cTWr.
Farmer, give us a chance to figure on
your harvest needs.
THE
ECONOMY GASH GROCERY
Phone 532
Quality Always Service First
I
3rd
Carload
is here
v. :-
A real satisfied farmer's smile is one of the most pleasant
2 sights we have about our place and now we are having
many of them every day because of the arrival of the
New oMcCormick 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
of this year, you probably save $500 to $700 on the price
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
IIIIM1IMH HimilllimilllUMIIHIHM
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Show Your Patriotism!
Buy a
War Savings Stamp
and Help Win the War
MMMPI
For Sale at
The First National Bank of o4thena
Athena Bakery
O. H. McPherrin, Manager
why worry about substitutes?
Buy Hohbach's Bread
I Give us a Trial. Worthington Building, Athena, Ore
iimnii
We carry the best
MEATS
That Money Buys
Our Market is
Clean and Cool
Insuring Wholesome Meats.
READ & LOGSDON
Main Street, Athena, Oregon
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LADS'OVER THERE"
The information that 113 Field Ar
tillery is stationed at Bordeaux,
France is contained in a letter from
Corporal Ed Sebasky, as a new order
allows the American soldiers in France
to divulge their whereabouts, so long
as they are not in the advance lines.
The interesting letter follows:
"My dear Mother: I received two
letters from you last week and one
this week, also the papers and other
things 0. K. It sure came in handy.
Am sending you some order blanks fur
tobacco. It can be sent to one of us
at a time, and we can divide it up be
tween us. Tell them to send me Fat-
iinas. as I hare a good supply of
other tobacco on hand, but my old fav
orites are a scarce article here.
"Well, today is Memorial Day and
we have this afternoon off so I will
give you a little news; so here goes,
you know Harry Keller well, he's
my pal. We've been doing a bit of
bumming around here in France to
gether. Last Sunday we hired a cou
ple of bikes and went out in the coun
try about fifteen kilometers and ran
into a little village. We stopped and
were looking at an old church, when
a cute Mademoiselle steps up to us and
shoots this at us: 'Bon jour, Mon
sieur.' Well, we get right back at
her with 'Bon jour. Mademoiselle.'
After a little time in which we had
juggled our pigeon French quite free
ly, she says: 'Parlez-vous diner,
avecmoi.' We tell her we would he
pleased to take on a feed. Well she
marches us down about the crookedest
street I ever saw. I guess they must
have made them that way so the neigh
bors could not see you coming home
when you had a jag on. Well, we came
to the house before we knew it, and
she marches us right straight in be
fore we came to ourselves. The whole
family is in there before we know it.
'Mon ami, Americain,' Mademoiselle
announced, and we can see that she
has plowed us up, as we are the first
Americans in there. Madame stepped
right ove" and kissed the both of us
on each cheek. Right in front of us
were lined up in single file, four pick
aninnies. As near as we could figure
out without asking any questions, they
were waiting to be kissed by the great
Americains. So Harry and I tackled
the job.
' I guess its the custom here, but its
quite embarassing to a couple of
Yanks. Well we were suffering from
shell shock wnen we got through, but
the next minute we thought one of our
big guns had blown up. Monsieur
steps over and smacks us a couple on
each cheek. Having a man kiss us
was a new one on us, and Harry sug
gests that we spend a few francs and
buy a book on French customs. After
all this excitement, Marie Louise plays
the piano for us while Madame is get
ting dinner ready. Say I Tilk about
a feed we never had one like it since
we left home; and Sayl talk about
the wine for that is what they have
to drink with their meals it must
have been forty years old ; for it had a
U. S. regulation kick. These French
people have them all beat for socia
bility. As it was getting along in the
evening, we decided to beat it back to
our billets. It was not so embarass
ing to kiss them good bye, even Marie
Louise would not let us cheat her out
of her share. I guess they thought
the Yanks were not such bad fellows,
after all. as they told us to be sure and
come back the next Sunday.
"Our Top Sergeant being a good
scout as he had excused us from re
treat, we went over and sorang the
good news to him. He took it all in,
but when we went to smack him on
the cheek, he said that sure must have
been some wine, and from now on it
would be the country life for him.
"Well, we are all anxious to get to
the front, but I guess they are going
to keep us in reserve for awhile. We
have been training now for nearly a
year and since we have been over
here we have been working early and
late, and talk about being in shape
we feel like a bunch of colts. We
are raring to go and when we do get a
crack at the Hun we will make up for
lost time. All the boys from there are
well. We can give our postoffice ad
dress now. It is Bordeaux. That is
where we get our mail from. It is one
of the biggest towns in France. I
have been there several times. It's a
fine town.
"P. S.' Can not get any order
blanks, for awhile, that's the ordeis
we have. Corp. E. F. Sebasky,
118 F. A., Bat. D.
HAVE NOT YET REACHED LIMIT
Gets Service Stripes,
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Dobson this
wek received an interesting letter
from Clarence Gay, a former Athena
boy, who enlisted some fifteen months
ago from Toppenish. Wash. The let
ter is dated June 5th, and he says
"have been talking with some men
who just came in the armv in the
May draft guess that is getting them
to France in a hurry. The Oregon ar
tillery went through here yesterday
with their guna and everything. It
won't be very long before we will be
in Berlin." Eight days more, and
Clarence would be in France six
months, when he would get his service
stripes. His address is Co E, 16 1st
U. 8. Inf. He sends regards to old
Athena friends.
More Powerful Explosive Than Any In
Present Use Is Dire Possibility
of the Future.
Nitroglycerin, although considered
one of the most violent explosives In
present use, develops only 1,580 cnl
ories per kilogram, since the nitric
eld which It comprises does not take
pnrt In the reaction and the hydrogen
mid the carbon therein give only 43
per cent of the energy of combustion
which they would disengage If they
were alone. Explosives of liquid air,
or oxyllqulte, give as high as 2,200
calories because the liquid oxygen
combines directly with the carbon nnd
the hydrogen. The combination of
hydrocurbldes with ozone, ozonide of
ethylene and benzine trlozonide, though
liberntinf mnw he-ir of explosion,
Weston Leader: Ben Walden re
turned Monday from Pendleton, ' after
several weeks of hospital life, follow
ing a dangerous operation for the re
moval of the prostate gland. The old
pioneer is gradually recovering, al
though still very weak.
COUNTY WIDE SOLDIER ROLL IS WANTED 1918 WHEAT PRICE
NAME AGE.
HOME ADDRESS
(Street) (City)
OCCUPATION BEFORE WAR MARRIED.
ENTERED SERVICtTWHEMV 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 128.
MRS. ROYALL C. JOHNSON 1 CHATTER REMINDS OF SURF
other fishermen, who were watching
the contest, we landed It. It proved
to be a monster cat of the yellow or
Mississippi variety, and weighed sixty
five pounds on the scales uptown.
New York Tribune.
Index Finger as Nut Cracker.
Nut crackers, which are based on
leverage, make us suppose that It takes
great strength to open a nut; nnd, In
fact, everyone knows from experience
that without such a little machine It Is
hardly possible to overcome the hard
ness of a nut. And yet one can open
hundreds of nuts In a very short time
without any Implement and without
any effort whatever merely with the
aid of the Index finger.
riace the nut upon a stone or a
block of wood, but so that the joint
stands perpendicular. In this position
hold It fast with the index finger of
your left hand, strike with the right
fist hard upon the Index, and the nut
will at once break asunder. Light
blows will not accomplish the feat.
One must strike hard. It may happen
that the nut will fly away, but this
only proves that the joint was not held
In a perfectly perpendicular position,
which Is Indispensable to success. The
point of the nut should also be turned
toward the chest.
How Bird Save Farmers' Crops.
A farmer who thought the robins
were pulling up his young cabbages
learned from n student of bird life that
the birds were pulling up only those
plants which were dead ; and this was
to get at the wire worms at the root,
which had caused the plants to die
and which would destroy other cab
bages If left alone. In another case a
group of farmers thought the meadow
larks were destroying their crops. Au
ornithologist persuaded one farmer to
epare the larks on his place. The
other farmers shot them. The result
was that the man who spared the larks
was the only one for miles around who
had an oat crop. The birds killed the
insects which destroyed the other
crops.
Wealth of Forestry.
The coast forests of southern and
southeastern Alaska are Included In
the national forests of Tongass and
Chugach, which comprise over ninety
six million acres, a large proportion
of which Is covered with trees. Of
these, Sitka spruce averages about 20
per cent and western hemlock about
75 per cent. The spruce ore occasion
ally six feet In diameter and 150 feet
tall. The Interior forests are prac
tically all found In the drainage buslns
of the Yukon and Kushokwlm rivers,
and It is estimated that there are forty
million acres bearing trees large
enough for cordwood and logs.
Diner Waxes Poetic In Describing His
Impressions of Ordinary Res
taurant Gabble,
"la the big and busy restaurant
where I dine," said Mr. Fllckerton, "I
am reminded constantly of the surf
that breaks along a stretch of ocean
shore; not the heavy, smashing,
pounding that comes when the rollers
are storm driven, but the gentler ris
ing nnd falling, more nearly droning,
sound of the surf in fair weather ; the
restaurant surf, of course, being the
sound that arises from the combina
tion of the voices of many people
briskly talking.
"The likeness of this sound to Burf
might not strike you until there came
a general lull in the hum of conversa
tion. "On the shore the surf seems to
break continually, endlessly; It Is al
ways curling and tumbling, seemingly
Incessantly; but as a matter of fact
there comes now nnd then a time when
by mere chance no wave breaks within
Immediate hearing, when the sound of
the surf dies down ; and It 1s precisely
like that with the table surf In a
restaurant
"There are times In the restaurant
when, by the merest chance In the
world, everybody, or almost every
body, stops talking at the same time,
when the vocal surf dies nway almost
completely, and the restaurant Is prac
tically still, as the shore Is when the
waves cease to break.
"Like the surf, It always acems to
me. Did It ever strike you that way?"
New York Sun.
$2.20 PER BUSHEL
at Port-
crop, as
of 11)17,
Adminis-
Mrs. Royall C. Johnson, wife of the
South Dakota congressman who hai
enlisted as a private In the National
army.
Wren Valuable in the Garden.
The examination of 88 stomachs of
house wrens showed that 08 per cent
of their contents wns composed of In
sects or their nllies, and only 2 per
cent of vegetable mutter, made up of
bits of grass and other vegetation evi
dently taken in catching the Insects.
As the wren often rolses In a season
12 to 16 young, all of which become
mature enough to forage for them-
I selves very soon after they ure able to
leave the nest, It Is evident thut a pair
of these lively little birds are very de
sirable tennnts In garden or orchard
j People's Home Journal.
Mule la Doing His Bit.
The Missouri mule Is doing his bit
and doing it well, in the present world
conflict, Just as he did It In the Civil
war. In many sections at the front
and along the lines of communication
ure pluces where mules are almost In
dispensable and where horses and
motorcars are virtually useless.
Pershing's engineers have testified
the worth of the mules In the
Only Type of Eagle Known.
A Russian grand duke, one of tho
cznr's predecessors, wus once the
guest of n German prince. It was
early in the century. In Russia the
Imperial double-headed eagle Is to be
seen everywhere and on everything
throughout the empire slumped, paint
ed, embroidered, or sculptured. At
that period the education of grnnd
dukes was somewhat limited. This
grand duke went out shooting In Ger
umny, nnd, among other things, shot
a large bird. He asked an experi
enced huntsman who accompanied him
what the bird wns. "An eagle, your
highness," wus the answer. The grand
rhilce turned on him In an Irritated
nv. "How enn It h nn enirle." he I to the worth of the
asked, "when It has only one head?" requisitions they have modi! to Wash
ington for the animals.
A price of $2.20 a bushel
land for wheat of the 1918
against 12.05 for the crop
has been fixed by the Food
tration. Word to this effect was re
ceived oy M. H. Houser, second vice
president of the Grain Corporation
and agent for the corporation in the
Northwest and by W. B. Ayer, Fed
eral Food Administrator for Oregon.
Allowing for the 35 per cent in
crease in the freight rato on wheat
from the interior to Portland, the
farmers will still receive about 13 1-3
cents a bushel more for their wheat
than they did in the past season.
The new crop will be at least 10,
000,000 bushels larger than that of
1917 and the wealth that will goto
the grain producers will be about $25,
000,000 over what they received last
year.
"With the establishment of the 12.20
basis for the Pacific Coast the farmers
are given all and a little more than
tbey had asked for and been prom
ised," said Mr. Houser.
"Figuring the last Spring price at
a.!!0 in New York, and 13.50 per ton
freight and the loading charges here
and the unloading on . the A tlantic
Coast would leave a net price of $3.17
per bushel."
Eastern wheat prices have not yet
been decided on It is possible they
will range somewhat higher than they
did last year on account of increased
freight rates from the Middle West to
the seaboard.
"On account of the submarine activ
ities and other unforeseen obstacles
that have arisen, " said Mr. Houser.
"it is more than likely the Shipping
Board will be compelled to readjust
their wheat rate of t.50 per ton.
Under these conditions it goes without
saying that it is difficult to anticipate
changed conditions. With our speed
ed-up shipbuilding programme here In
the Northwest the larger part of our
surplus should be afloat by the first of
the year."
Regarding the movement of wheat
from Southern Idaho ar.d Western
Montana, he stated that that largely
depended upon the size of the Oregon,
Washington and Northern Idaho crops
and the tonnage situation. This mat
ter undoubtedly will be decided at an
early date, when the crop figures anil
a closer check on the tonnage will be
available.
The net returns to the farmers will
be materially greater than last year.
Mr. Houser figured that the $2.20
price this year against $2.05 last year,
even with the 25 per cent increase
In freight rates, which will make the
average haul about 12c against 0 I-So
last year, will net the farmer prictio
ally 12 l-2c per bushel more than lard
year. With a 55,000,000 bushel crop
that is naturally tributary to the
Northwest, this will mean an added
value of about $7,000,000. Making
allowance for lower grades, etc, it
should net the farmer at least on an
average of $2 per bushel, which with
the 55,000.000 bushel rrop would nieiin
$110,000,000.00, the most valuable
crop which has ever been raised here.
Sonale for $2-50 Wheat.
The Senate by an overwh. 'lining ma
jority refused to yield to House oppo
sition to un increase in the Govern
ment's minimum guarantee for wheat
at $2 50 per bushel. A motion of
Majority Leader Martin, proposing to
instruct the Senate conferees to aban
don the Senate price increase amend
ment to the annual agricultural bill,
was defeated 11 to 19,
The frame work of a new barn tt
A. J. Walker's t lace in the north pari
of town collapsed Monday as the re
sult of a strong gust f wind.
All Harmonious.
"So you are getting good results
from Juries of ladles?"
"Yes," said the judge; "they don't
want us men to have a chance to
say they couldn't agree." Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Not Always.
"The young fellow who's caning on
your daughter, Smith, hat a lot of
'go' In him."
"Not any to notice when he's calling
on my daughter."
Notice to the Public
To protect the public against deception and to main
tain our own identity and reputation for honest meth
ods, we take this opportunity to announce that begin
ning July 1st, our store in Athena will be known on
ly by our incorporated name, J. C. PENNEY CO.
Sixteen years ago the. founder of this present organization of 107 stores, inspired with the ideal
that business could and should be conducted upon the true spirit of the "Golden Kule" and being a firm
believer in the justice of that familiar adage, "As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to
them liKewise," Mr. Penney determined to operate his first and subsequent stores on that policy -'Tho
Golden Rule." To symbol ze that intention, he called these stores "Golden Rule Stores, as an ever
present declaration of the "square deal" policy that wi.uld be pursued within those stores. Constant
adherence to Buch methods brought rapid success and likewise "imitators."
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." yet usually only the name was imitated, and the un
derlying or basic principles were not adopted by those eame imitators, who, in tome instances, purposely
confus;d the minds of the public in an effort to create the Impraiflon that they were part of tho "J. C.
PENNEY COMPANYGolden Rule Stores." Realizing that unscrupulous methois of this nature wher
ever used, might injure us, where the public was given such an erroneous impression, wo deemed it
our duty to the public and a means of protection to our own comm inity standing to hereafter use only
the name of J. C. PENNEY COMPANY in our advertising and our stores will no longer be (ailed "The
GoldenRule" nevertheless, our policy remains unchanged. The J. C. PENNEY COMPANY will al
ways be known as the store that ae Is at one price to everybody and you and we have the satisfaction of
knowing that the name of J. C. PENNEY COMPANY has been placed over our door to protect you
against any form of deceit that unscrupulous dealers might inflict upon vou.
Remember, therefore, that after Jnly 1st, 1I8, any store, anywhere, that calls itself a Golden Kule
Store is not in any way associated with the J. O. PENNEY COMPANY, (Incorporated.)
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