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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1918)
Advertising Ths tXth;na Press circulates in the homes of readers who reside in the heart of the Great Umatilla Wheat Belt, and they have money to spend Subscription Ratea 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 Mail Matter VOLUME XXX, ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. JULY 12. 1918. NUMBER 28 11)1 IMIIHI j Quality Always Service First You can tell it as far as you smell it GOLD SHIELD COFFEE Regular price per lb 45c I Special for week, 38c per lb We have it in 1, 2, 3 and 5 lb cans. Include a can in your next order. Money" back if you want it. THE ECONOMY GASH GROCERY Phone 532 Quality Always Service First rd Carload is here A real satisfied farmer'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 cTWcCormick Combines The third carload has arrived and yoilr 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. Uet busy Take out your binder twine, while the taking is good. Watts & Rogers Just Over the Hill iMiiiiiinnMComtiiiMMMniniiiiin wss Show Your Patriotism! Buy a War Savings Stamp and Help Win the War MM For Sale at The First National Bank of cAthena order your coal now- get it out of Uncie Sam's way- he needs the railroads .Tum-a-Lum Lumber Co. ttMMHIIIimtllllllllliIIMIHIt7ltilfllimH I 1 I It Ill nillllM44 LADS "OVER THERE" "Somewhere in France, June 11. "Dear Mother: I have been moved around quite a lot since I wrote last time and have been close enough to j hear the big guns. You will probably ; see in the papers how the Seventh Ma , chine Gun battalion held off the Ger : mans. I saw them when they came back from the front and they are sure i a game bunch. The battalion held off three German divisions. I think when we get forces enough that we wM go right through to Berlin. "I have seen a good many air bat tles in the last week, quite an inter esting sight. You can tell Boyd that we are in the Second Battle of the Marne. I can hear a continual roar of the guns from wnare 1 am writing this, but am in no danger. The war fare on this sector now is open war, as there are no trenches, and there is not as much gas being used. And the Americans are doing more than just holding their own. "We have had pretty warm weather here for the last month. There are lots of villages in this section and most of them are deserted so we help ourselves to the chickens and eggs and garden truck. Will be glad when the fruit gets ripe as that is what I crave most, and there are all kinds of fruit trees around here. "I have never seen any of the hoys from home yet, guess they are on a different sector. About half of the fellows in my regiment came from Kansas. Tell all the fellows I'm hav ing a good time and rearing to go. Pvt. John L. Wall, H. Q. Company, 88 Infantry, A, E. F. Hallie Visits the Front. The Press is pleased to publish a letter from Halile Piersol, the first from him since his arrival overseas, addressed to an Athena friend: "With A. E. F ., 5-1-1018. "I will drop you a line to let you know I am in very good hei'lih and feeling fine. Am working very hard now, drilling every day. Have been transferred again to Bat. F, Uli F. A. It is a fine company. I had a very good trip across the water, had one small storm but wasn't very bad. "I saw Claud a few days ago, tie sure looks fine and healthy. He is in Bat. D, MB. I didn't get to talk to him very long. We are near a large town. Have seen lots of fun ny sights since I have been here, and have traveled a good bit on the train. I went up near the front with horses and back again, was on the train about eight days. The trains here are about half as large as they are at home, and it would make you laugh if you could see one of the trolley cars; women run them and when they get to the end of the line they turn them around by hand. They are run by compressed air. Hally F. Piersol, US F. A., Bat. F., A. E. F. Exp ricnc s in the ( buds, Maurice Hill, writing to his parents from Payne Field, Miss., where he is now gaining experience as a flyer, says: "I am doing all right with my flying and progressing finely. Had a grand ride Saturday morning. It rained hard Friday evening and the field was too muddy for landing very much, so my instructor and I went up for a joy ride. We started climbing right up and were soon up 1600 feet. It was starti lg to cloud up and at 1700 feet I drove through a few clouds and at 2000 feet two or three more. That put us in between two layers of clouds and soon the lower layer gathered thick enough so that we couldn't see the ground at all. We climbed on up to 5000 feet, and I got a sight that was absolutely wonderful. Below and above us were clouds and the ones be low were beautiful. They were those fleecy white clouds you see so often. As the wind whipped them back and forth, they resembled the ocean. The ship ran so smoothly that I turned loose of the controls and let the ship fly alone. For ten minutes it went just as true as could be and never quivered. I looked at it and wondered what was keeping us up there and climbing steadily. "I was thankful for the opportunity to enjoy such a privilege. 1 wish you folks could have such an opportunity yourselves, as you would not wonder that I am in this branch. "Cadet M. B. Hill. Payne Field, Miss." Stampede Visitors Return. Athena visitors to the Missoula, Montana, Stampede returned home well pleased with their trip and the success of the Wild West exhibition. Speaking of the eventt, the Daily Mis soulian says: "The MiBsoula Stam pede committee started out with the slogan, 'bigger and better than ever,' and that they succeeded is not to be questioned. In addition to Big Bill Switzler. with a competent corps of assistants, together with Charles Allan! of Poison, and F. S. Le Grow of Athena who were in general charge was a guarantee that the events would not drag, but would run off with ab solutely no delays." DO NOT APPEAL TO VISITOR Ray Zerba Better. Recovering from pneumonia in (he hospital at Camp Lewis, Ray Zerba has suffered an attack of measles. A telegram received by relatives here last Friday stated that the boy was in a critical condition and Miss Edna Zerba, his sister, left at once for the military camp. Since her arrival there the young man lias improved and ie bo repotted to be cut of danger. Writer Frankly Expresses Feeling of Disappointment at Sight of Build ings Within Kremlin Walls. To me none of the ten churches with in the Kremlin walls Is Impressive. Ivan Veliki towers the highest, but It Is far from Imposing, writes Mnynnrd Owen Williams In the Christian Her ald. From one side It resembles a tow er rather than n church, jet it has no such quiet dignity ns one finds In the Kutah Miuar, near Delhi, or the tow ering dome of St. Sophia with Its flanking needle minarets. The other cathedrals arc dropped around with careless abandon and a nice disregard for the cost of gold leaf, but none of them domlnntes a vista or gathers about itself the other masses In pleas ing array. The Kremlin Is a mighty whole, composed of many unlmposlng pnrts. Its long red walls and splendid gates produce an effect of simple strength which cannot be found within their portals. The interiors are as disappointing as are the groups of domes which dis tinguish the exteriors. None is large, none ii truly intimate. The effect Is of surplus gilt and multiplicity of saints which remind one of the gopurams of India. Spindle-shanked saints, whose emaciated figures seem too weak to support their gilt haloes, alternate with knights in armor. PRIMITIVE WAYS IN ARABIA Mode of Life Differs Little From What It Was In the Time of Abraham. It appears that In certain parts of the Arabian desert life is as primitive as in Abraham's time. Sheep are still slain to seal n vow. The salt or bread covenant Is observed and when a man dies his tent is torn down and destroyed. Old names like Joseph, Moses, Alex ander, etc., are still in common use among Arabs, although pronounced "Yusuf," "M'JJa" and "Skandnr." To divorce his wife a man may repeat the formula "Ent telek" three times; usu ally uttering It once makes the woman behave and the repetition Is not nec essary. The evil eye superstition Is common, and the first Injunction giv en a foreigner by experienced Arabian travelers Is that he must not point at animals or persons in Arab settle ments. Arabs say that a mnn possessed of this ninlign power can look at a bird flying in the air and it will drop dead ; that if he chooses to cast his wicked spell on a camel It may go lame, or a child may be struck blind. None of the lower class can read or write, but the Arab is noted for his ready wit and his habit of speaking In allegory. "Swat the Rat!" Since the introduction of the house rat in the United States they have become extremely abundant and widely distributed throughout the country, where they destroy annually many millions of dollars' worth of food products and crops. These losses occur alike In cities, villages and farmsteads. Their inroads upon food products occur in freight departments of railroads and steamboat lines, stor age places of grain and food dealers, commission bouses, wholesale drug houses, candy shops, bakeries, flour mills, cold-storage houses, city and country dwellings, granaries, fluids and poultry yards. The loss of food and other products In the United States from this source amounts to not less than $200,000,000 annually, which amount does not Include Indi rect losses occasioned by human dis ease disseminated by rats and the necessary expenditures in combating them. Honey of the Bible. It is interesting to note that the wild honey named In the Bible may not have been altogether the stoics packed away by the bee in the hol lows of trees and between the rocks. There is a clear, sweet liquid culled honey dew found frequently on leaves and comes from the aphlds, the tiny "cows" cared for and "milked" by the ants for their saccharine substance. There was so much of It on the leaves of the trees in oriental climes that it dripped down In considerable quanti ties to the ground. This must have been the kind numed in the book of Samuel where It says : "And all they of the land came to a wood and there was honey upon the ground. And when the people were come into the wood behold the honey dropped." History of the Sword. The sword came from ancient Egypt and was used through Palestine, Syria and Asia Minor, India and throughout the western world. It was in Egypt that the three shapes of the sword blade originated, these being the straight, the curved and the half curved. The Iloman sword was larger than that of the Greeks and In the days of the empire many of the sheaths were so covered with precious stones as to be veritable art treasures. Among the Moslems the highest title given to a warrior of renown is "the sword of Allah." The Chinese made swords of Iron as early as 1879 B. C. Had Good Reason. Mother Why, Bobby, you don't gen erally keep on crying like this after your father has given you a spanking. Bobby I I know it, ma; but he says I've got to sit down and think It over, and and before I've always stood up and forgot itr-Boston Tran-script. COUNTY WIDE SOLDIER ROLL IS WANTED 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 RELATIONSHIP PRESENT ADDRESS SIGNATURE of INFORMANT to Friends and relatives of boys in service are asked to fill out above and mail M . R. Chessman, Sec. Pendleton, ore., Phone lai). NEXT DRAFT 1)001)1 WILL CLEAN UP ALL GLASS ONE One hundred and fourteen Umatilla county men, all who were left in Class I, have been called to report to tho local board at Pendleton, July ail, at three p. m. for induction into the Na tional Army. The call takes all of the men in Class 1, but it was not nec essary to call any of the men who reg istered in June, after becoming 31 year of age, following the first regis tration. This is one of the largest numbers yet called at any one time to report by the local board. In making up the list for this calTit was necessaryjto utilize several who have just recently been put back in class 1 from an original deferred classification, on the recom mendation of the legal advisory board. Among the men are four from Ath ena: Jesse Myrick, James Phillips, Charles Payne and Roy Russell. Oth ers who are well known here are Will iam D. Allingham Portland; Bert Fer guson, Weston; Clarence Gagnon, Weston; Cyrus C. Sturgis. Boston; Carl Nelson, Weston; Alfred Franz, Era, Penn. ; Floyd Payne, Adams; Romeo Hubbs, Milton; Fred Bushman, Adams; Carl Perrlnger, Pendleton. MOVIES MUST DRIP GLOOM Picture Dramas That Have Happ Endings Can Never Attain Popu larity in Flussla. Four and five-net movie dramas of the highly emotional and sentimental kind are popular In Russia. Cowboy activities, murders and burglaries do not appeal to these audiences. Rough comedy Is wasted even on the cheap est Russian audience. They do not understand It. American pictures, as a rule, do not appeal to the Russian taste. They want a drama woven usually around the "eternal triangle;" the men must be ardent lovers, and the women weak but noble. A weeping mother or the deathbed of a beloved father Is always very Im pressive. There must be a death In ihe drama, preferably the suicide of hero or heroine, with the other one going Into the ololMer nt the end. The Ideal picture play for Russian popular audiences must not. under any circum stances, have n happy ending. The Russians use n grout deal of de scriptive and explanatory material on the films In showing their own dramas, They depend upon It largely for the "action." They do not care nearly so much for action In the pictures ns for postures Indicating emotions. Ama tory and deathbed scenes should al ways be photographed to the last de tail, but nearly everything else may bo written and rend. OREGON'S 4TH LOAN QUOTA PLACED AT $45,000,000 Oregon's quota in the fourth liberty loan, the campaign for which will start October 1 will be between 15,000,000 and $50,000,000 on estimates brought back to Portland by Robert E. Smith, state manager of liberty loan cam paigns, who returned from San Fran cisco, where he attended the confer ence of officials of the Twefth Federal Reserve District, says the Oregoninn. Oregon's quota last time was $17, 500,000, although the total subscribed was 27, 500,000. The vast prospective increase in the Oregon quota has al ready stirred bankers to contemplative action, and Mr. Smith gave out word thai it would go hard with liberty loan "slackers" in October, The Oregon quota has been arrived at after careful figuring. The total of the fourth loan will be $8,000,000,000 it is thought, because the tut.al of an ticipatory certificates now authorized in advance of the loan is that sum. A feature of the conference at San Francisco was the attention given to the Oregun 'spirit" and Oregon "method" at the start, and Mr. Smith was called upon at the Opening session to explain how Oregon did it. The news of this state's quick work in go ing over the top in the loan and all other patriotic drives was fresh in tho minds of the men at the conference. THINGS THAT GROW DOUBLE Bone-dry prohibition of the manu facture and sale of intoxicating liquor throughout the United States for t ie remainder of the war will go into effect on January 1 next, unless Pres ident Wilson defeats the proposed ac tion of Congress. The road to immediate passage of the measure for which the prohibition ists have been fighting for several months, was cleared Wednesday when the Senate by u vote of uti to 33 went on record in favor of attaching the Nation wide wartime prohibition rider to the pending agriculural extension bill. By this vote the Senate reversed the chair's ruling of the rider out of order. The concurrence of the House is re garded as a foregone conclusion inas much as that body initiated the move for war prohibition by adopting an amendment to the pending hill design ed to suspend the liquor traffic, The principal features of the amendmept made in order by the Senate are: Prohibition of the sale of spirituous liquors for beverage purposes alter December 111, 1918. Stoppage of tho sale of grain, cer eal, fruit or other food products in the manufacture of beer and wine after" November 1, next. Prohibition of sale of beer or wine after December 31, 11)18. Brewers were notified by Fuel Ad ministrator Garfield they could not count on coal beyond that needed to use up the materials now in the pro cess of manufacture, including malt already manufactured. Harvest Is Here. ' The harvesting of the 11118 grain crop will soon be under way. Next week will see several machines in the field, and the following week will find harvest operations in full blast. Wea ther conditions have been nearly per fect for grain to till out, and the result considering tho dry season is better than expected several weeks ago. There will be a good yield on many of the ranches in this vicinity, and a fair ly good yield promises to be the gen eral rule. Many have their entire crew ready for work, and while men are not plentiful, serious labor short age is not anticipated. Freaks of Nature That the Wisest of Men Find Some Difficulty In Explaining. Nature does some strange things in the formation of vegetables, nuts ami different kinds of fruits, an exchange states. It is quite common to find two or more growing together, and natural ists frequently run across some very curious freaks. Double ears of corn are quite com mon. They grow side by side, and nro Sometimes of equal size; but usually one bus a little better chance to grow and gets the advantage over the oilier, A double ear on exhibition in one of the Western slides was certainly n cu riosity, One side was one variety of corn, while the other side was so dif ferent that it was hard to believe 'the two bad grown so close togtber. Double head' of wheat are qullo common! but double grains are scarce, Grains of rye, however, are often dou ble, and the same Is true of rice. ( Inii his, radishes, beets, carrots, tur nips, Cabbages ami other vegetables are of I en found In double form. The prettiest specimens of double peaches are those Willi two seeds, as they are most distinctly double, being joined at a point about half-way from the stem of the blossom ends. Fording at Thorn Hollow. The new bridge, except the plank ing, is finished at Thorn Hollow cross ing on the Umatilla river, but the roadwoik yet remains incomplete to a considerable extent. However, auto mobiles are crossingnthe river at that point by fording the stream, without encountering much difficulty. Travel to Bingham Springs from' this section of the county for the most part is now going that way. oayaaders Think Jinn Llghto City. When the electric light company lighted Hie streets of Bagdad Willi electricity, the people were tilled with astonishment, according to a Bagdad newspaper, translated for tin Review of Reviews by Miss Mary Caroline Holmes, Some declared thai nothing less thnn the Jinn could produce such brilliant light. Others asserted that it miis mull' and femnle, the latter being the lights of the city, while the males were kept 111 the pockets of the Eng llshmen, Still others said that lu their opinion fliosc wonderful lights were the bird "Al Bnuman," spoken of by "Al Ar desy'.ln bis book, "The Pleasure of the Longing News from the Border." ".l Bohtnan" is supposed t' circle around and around the sen, observing the hori zon, then mounting to the top of the tallest mast to warn the sailors of a coming tempest. HOME DOMESTICS Kindly" look over the prices below and see what a large saving you can make by purchasing your staple goods from a strictly cash store Hope Muslin yard 21c Berkeley GO Cambric yard 25c Berkeley 100 Cambric. ...... yard :i2 Lonsdale Muslin yard '28c Fruit of the Loom Muslin yard 28c 3fjinch Indian Head Muslin yard 31c 9. Pepperell Sheeting, bleached 52c 8. ' " " , , 47e Turkish Towling yard 27 1-2 Turkish Towels 2 lor 25c, 39c -M:, 98e Huck Towels 10c, 25c ami two tor 25c Crash, fowling 10c, 12H, 15c, 18c, 23c Keinmed Sheets fittc, 98c, 1.25, 1.49 Bed Spreads 08c, 1.49, 1.08, 2.08, 3.98 Pillow Cases 17c to 'lite Unbleached Muslin . 9c, 12Mc, ISc 40in Indian Head Pillow Tubing 2.e Berlin Art Ticking 'l ie $2.25