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Advertising Ths othsna Press circulates in the homes of readers who reside in the heart of the Great Umatilla Wheat Belt, and they have money to spend ikm 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, aa Second-Claas Mail Matter VOLUME XXX ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. JULY 19, 1918. NUMBER 29 Quality Always Service First A Problem Just at this season of the year, every woman in town and country is confronted with the ever-present Grocery Problem. To buy something that is palatable full of nourishment and that will meet the constantly changing government food regulations, surely is con fusing, and only experts can meet all exegencies. We are puttieg our best endeavors into these problems and have a choice, well selected line of Staple and Fancy Groceries, including the various wheat and other sub stitutes. Your telephone order will have prompt and careful attention. THE ECONOMY GASH GROCERY Phone 532 Quality Always Service First M 3 titifofrtw'Hintiiciitattiiintttnitiiiniiit 3rd 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 ofthsm every day because of the arrival of the New cTWcCormick 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 wss Show Your Patriotism! Buy a War Savings Stamp and Help Win the, Wj -: "FtJr Sale:at ' The First National Bank of Athena IMIMjJUJMlrfTTMIIItllllM order your coal now- - get it out of Uncle Sam's way- he needs the railroads Tum-a-Lum Lumber Co. ONE CAUSE OF HIS SUCCESS E" Last week the Press published a let ter from John Wall, addressed to his mother and brother; but the present letter is written to the editor, direct, and contains some news of interest: "France, June 16, "It has been some time since I let you know of my whereabouts I was transferred to the Infantry from Camp Hancock, and I have been in France since April 7th. Had a fine trip over, only took us eight days and the sea was very calm; only a few were sick. But believe me, it has been no plea sure trip since I landed. I have got everything that the rest of the Athena fellows wrote about and a little bit more. "I am in the Trench Mortar l'latoon. This is a small three-inch gun used mostly for barrages on first line trenches. We have been in the Second Battle of the Marne for the past two weeks. I have been up to the front twice and it isn't quite as bad I thought it would be. Never-the-lesa, snerman Knew wnat ne was talking about. When the first big Minnie bursts close a fellow thinks he is a submarine on land, and submerges in a ditch six inches deep, with plenty of room to spare. The boys call the big shells that pass overhead the elevated railway, as they sound more like trol ley cars than shells. "There are many things I would like tell you, but the censor says no. But don't worry when Uncle Sam gets g"od and ready, he will run all the Huns back to the North Sea and shove them in. Anyway, I am figuring on being back in old Athena in about a yeai. "I am using my gas mask and the top of my mess kit for a writing desk, so if you can't read this, write and let me know and I will try again. Private John L. Wall, H. Q. Co., .18 Inf. MHHMMMHHIIMMMIMHimHMHIMMIiMH Sid. Barnes at Angers, France. "Angers, France. June 2, 1918. "We received a Press today, dated the iut of May, advising us as to the whereabouts of different Athena boys, and I couldn't resist the impulse to write a 'community' letter from here "Fruit and shade trees seem to be the principal pleasures here and cog nac and vin blanc (white wine,) the principal products. Cognac is a com bination of dynamite, a mule's kick and what Rusty Shick got on the ball We don't drink much of it because we don't have to. "We're workng hard, making en emies for Kaiser Bill, and between times, specializing in barbwire pon toon bridges, automatic weapons, trenches camouflage and bayonet. Per cy Wilson has figured out that if he can use all of his knowledge before he be comes a casualty he will I c good for at least 50 dutchmen. "Among the many things that take the I. out of drill, are the long sunny evenings. Just now it is 8:0 and the sun is still up. We haven't had letters from the states since pay day, anil the li I ol Press is sure getting a tboro reading tonight. What's the matter With base ball V About all we see is t he Bed Cross news. But say you can't do too much for the Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A. They are sure doing a big thing 'over here.' "Perce and I are the only ones from there left on duty with the company. Froome is big Chef in the Officers' mess. I guess we will stick together 'till we stack arms in Berlin.' Neither of us have seen the front yet, but ex-, pect soon to go in charge of troops for replacements. Of course we won't stay, luit it will help some. We are net very fluent French linguists yet, but-csri get by in most of the cafes 'and restaurants. "There's a big bunch leaving to night for the front. I believe every one is glad to go. It's certainly won derful, the spirit of the American sol dier. I don't think it can last much longer with the fighting spirit of America behind the Allies. "Will close with regards to all. "Sgt. Sid Barnes. Co. E, 116th Engrs." Tragedy in Pendleton. A shocking tragedy occurred in Pen dleton about So'clock Wednesday eve ning, nhjtwMnin T." Fell, 17 year old sonjai-Mr. -and Mrs. George Fell, while iff company with a girl friend, Miss Elva Kupers, shot himself in the left temple. The two were in a car in which they urd been driving about the city, when the boy drew a gun, a 112 automatic Colts, and threatened to shoot himself. She grabbed the gun from him and threw it in the road, when he got out of the car, picked it up in his left hand and shot himself through the temple. The boy was well known'here, where he has been a fre quent visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Ware, and has assisted in the Pharmacy at various times. "Old Bally" Wounded. Old "Bally," Jinks Taylor's famous Round-Up saddle horse has been wound ed in the head by what is thought to be a bullet from a .22 calibre rifle. With other horses Bally was running in the pasture on the Taylor place west of town. Rye grass grows profusely there and there are many rabbits to be found, making it a favorite hunting ground for the boys. It is probable tne norse was struck by a bullet acci-I dentally. The wound is in the fore-1 head, the bullet having apparently I glanced along the fronts,! Done anil I l.Jfevi 16 tu UU. Letter of Charles Dickens Reveals Care Which Great Writer Gave His Books and Reading. In n recent sale of Dickens' auto graphs In London this letter, written while he was In the United States, ap pears : "I should novir have made any suc soss In life If I Bad been shy of taking pains, or If I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken, exactly the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the great est. Do everything at jour best. It was but Inst year that I set to ami learned every word of my Readings, and from ten years ago till last night I have never rend to an audience but I have watched for an opportunity of StrutUf out or Inserting some whore. Look nl such of my manu scripts as nre In the library at Gads' anil think of the patient hours devoted year after year to single lines. . . , The weather is very severe here, uud the work Is very hard. Dolliy (ljls manager) having been violently pitched into by the mayor of New Haven (a town at which I am to read next week) has gone off boldly this morning with defiant written Instructions from me to inform the said mayor that if he full to make out his case he (Dolby) has to return nil the money taken, and to tell him that I will not set foot In his jurisdiction, whereupon the New Haven people will probably fall upon the mayor In his turn and lead him a pleasant life." HOW INDIANA LOST CITIZEN Escapade That Caused Youth to Turn Hia Thoughts Toward the "Wild and Woolly" Region. Harry Coonse, ranchman and real estate expert In the fnr Northwest, re turned to Indianapolis from his home near Seattle after an absence of four teen years. It Is not widely known, but Mr. Coonse, when n boy of IS, started In business ns n helper on n delivery wagon of L. S. Ayres & Co. started and ended his dry goods career In an unusual and Interesting manner. Harry, out of his first month's wages, hail bought n rifle and a box of car tridges. One evening in Park avenue the delivery mnn went into a house with 11 package, leaving Harry on the driver's seat In charge of what was common at that time n Texas mus tangwell broken, but still worth watching. Instead of holding the lines Harry spent the Interim handling a new rifle. As often Happens, the gun was discharged and the bullet struck the mustang. Hurry made one grab for the lines, missed, tumbled off the scat and the wagon disappeared down the street, strewing packages In Its path. At dawn the next morning the horse and wagon were found In the Pleasant run bottoms, near the place where the furnaces of the Citizens Gas company now stand. Harry had already re signed. Indianapolis News. Gunners Making Glorious Record. The gunners of the armed guards on merchantmen have made a record of which we may be justly proud. The contests of the Silver Shell, which sent down the submarine which attacked It; of the Morenl, on which the men stayed at their guns until the flames flared up to the top of the smokestacks on the burning ship; of the Campana, whose gunners fought for hours until their ammunition was exhausted ; of the J. L. Luckenbnch, which, though under a rain of shells, hit nine times and temporarily disabled, fought a submarine for four hours, before aid arrived, and later managed to reach port under her own steum ; of the Ar menia, which, though torpedoed, was saved through the courage and re sources of Its captain, crew and armed guard; of the Navajo, the Mongolia, the Tetrollte and a dozen others nre notable enough to be recorded In the naval history of the time. Josephus Daniels In America Review of Reviews. Leonardo da Vinci Amazes Surgeons. Though written four hundred years ago, Leonardo da Vinci's book on anat omy bus only recently been published, and surgeons nre only now discovering the marvels It contains. Lecturing recently on It In London, Prof. William Wright pointed out that when It was written the circulation of the blood, osmosis, oxygen and the microscope were all unknown. All doc tors believed that the arteries were full of free air und that the blood was aerated In the heart. The Interior ar rangement of the heart was also mis understood. But Leonardo denied thut air entered the heart, and wrote that the blood was "refreshed" In the lungs ; he de scribed accurately the anatomy of the heart and large blood vessels and the action of the muscles of the chest and abdomen In respiration. Electrons and Atoms. Atoms are minute particles of mat ter, each about one-three-hundredth part of an Inch In diameter. They are so small that If the earth were made up of baseballs It would be a fair model of a drop of water made up of atoms. The electron Is smaller still. It has a diameter of about one-hundred-thousandth that of an atom, so that If an atom were represented by a sphere 100 yards In diameter the electron would be about the size of a pin's bead. It lias been sld that the elec trons which form an atom can be com pared to a swarm of gnats In a cathe dral or other large building. Ah atoms are made up of electrons, so molecules are undo up of u turns. GOUNTY WIDE SOLDIER ROLL IS WANTED WHEAT STANDARDS AS APPLIED HERE NAME AGE. , HOME ADDRESS (Street) (City) OCCUPATION BEFORE WAR MARRIED , ENTERED SERVICE WHEM? .WHERE BRANCH OF SERVICE TRANSFERS RANK (Include promotions and dates) NrJAREST RELATIVE ADDRESS RELATIONSHIP .... 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. LOCAL RED CROSS MOVES, ARTICLES, 00NATI0NS SENT The Athena Red Cross Auxiliary has secured a room in the Froome brick building on Main street, and will move from the room in the school building where meetings have here tofore been held. The new room, generously donated by Mr. and Mrs. Froome. is considered a better location and will be thoroughly cleansed and prepared for next Wednesday's meet ing, when it is hoped a large numue" will turn out to dedicate the new work rooms. At last Wednesday's meeting, with only a few present a faithful few in the absence of work from head quarters, the work of the Belgian Re lief committee was taken up and fin ished. The following consignment of fin ished articles was forwarded to the bead Chapter at Pendleton: 20 sweat ers; a pairs or socks; is pajama suits; 62 dish towels; ail dish rags. A donation of 114.81 was sent in by Mr. aud Mrs. John Pierce, as the pro- J repds nf fino hmlr'a rlam at OiaIm dance platform at Cayuse, Monday evening. , STAGING GOES DOWN AT ELEVATOR JMAIO STORM In a heavy wind storm Monday eve ning the staging and hoist at the new elevator toppled over and crashed on the roof of the grain warehouse ad joining. The staging was about 115 feet high and fell to the north, carrying with it the track of the hoisting apparatus. The hopper for dumping the concrete wasiatthe top of the staging, and when it struck the roof of the ware house, crushed in the roof, but re Dounded to he groundv The steel track was 'bent consider ably but most of the timbers will be utilized in reconstructing the staging. The main construction work had been completed and it remained for the top of the building to be finished when the staging went down. I A part of the machinery has been ' received and while it will be some time before the elevator can be An I ished, bulk grain will be handled in 1 the warehouse. COUNTESS MAZZUCHI A FEW MACHINES RUNNING IN THE HARVEST FIELDS But a few machines are in operation in the harvest fields of this vicinity. Next week will see a number of ma chines in operation, and the week fol lowing harvest will be on in full blast. The few machines now at work serve to give a line on what the season's yield will be. Watts Bros.' new Har ris combine is threshing fall wheat on the Lacoursc place southeast of town and the yield there is around 15 sacks per acre. Alex. Wclntyre's outfit is working in grain northwest of town that is making close to 4 5 bushels per acre. Fall grain is ripening fast, with the exception of the heavy growth in the hollows. Spring wheat is still sappy and will not be ready until most of the fall grain has been threshed. j Water Curtailed. With the temperature ranging from !I0 to 100 degrees and withering winds to contend with, the water supply at the head works of the city system has perceptibly failed during the past Meek, to the extent that the half hour I irrigating period each evening has been annuled. With cooler weather, it is expected that the flow will ma terially increase. John Hager was in town Monday from Gibbon, accompanied by John Thompson, well known stock raiser. vountct.8 Mazzuchl Is the wife of the Italian consul general at Reims. She has been active In hospttal work since the battle of the Marne, when with three other women 6he nursed 2,900 wounded Poilus during the bombard ment of Reims. When Italy entered the war she returned to her native country to do relief work there. Bulletin No 1. has been received by local grain dealers giving prices that will rule in the government market according to the federal standard for wheat as promulgated by the secre tary of agriculture, effective July 1". 1018. The prices are those ruling at Portland, and cost of dei very to thu terminal should be deducted from tho price given. The bulletin is signed by M. H. Houser, second vice presi dent of the food administration grain corporation and zone agent for tho Northwest. Tho wheat prices with government standards as applied to the varieties grown in Umatilla county are given below : Turkey red will come under the gov ernment standard under three grades as follows: Dark hard winter, 80 per cent or more dark and vitreous kcrnals per bushel, t'J.22. Hard winter, 25.1 per cent to SO. 9 per cent dark, hard and vitreous ker nals, per Dushel, 13.20. Yellow hard winter, 20 per cent to 25 per cent dark, hard and vitreous kcrnals, per bushel 12.18. Red winter per bushel $2.20. Jones winter fife and Cox (if extra quality 1 are names of varieties coming under this head in the local market. Red Walla Walla per bushel, 2.18. Red Russian, red hybrid, yellow berry Jones fife, yellow berry Cox. and ColFei in the local market come under this head. Hard Winter, per bushel, $2.20. In the local market bluestem and early Baart, 75 per cent or more of hard kcrnals arc classed as hard winter. Soft white pur bushel $2.18. Forty fold, bluestem, early Baart, less than 75 per cent of hard kernals, are classed as soft white. White club per bushel, $2. 10. Jen kins' club, red chaff, club, little club, Salt Lake club. Dale club and all white club hybrids and Sonora are classed as white club. The above prices are all baaed on wheat graded as No. 1 according to classification. No a. grade is priced 8 cents less per bushel and No. !1 at 7 cents less per bushel. Mixed wheat and weight gradings lower than No. 8 will be bought by sample at its value. A later bulletin will be issued giv ing the approximate value of weight grading lower than No. 8 on account of less weight, mixed vheat and smut ty wheat. The above prices are for bulk wheat. A premium of II cents per bushel will be paid for sacked wheat on tho basis of good order of sacks. Death ofN. P. Hall. N. P. Hull father of Charles and Miller Hull, and Mrs. Charles Lo baugh, died last Saturday at Vnnsyclc, at the homo of his daughter, and was buried in the Athena cemetery Sunday. Mr. Hail was born in Illinois in '88s, and came to Oregon with his family in IHIII). Ilu had resided in Weston and Athena and Ihe vicinity of I'ih t Hock since coming to the county. His wife died six years ago, and seven children bad preceded him to the grave. Fireman Injures Eye. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Boober are here from Spokane, visiting relatives. Mr. Ilooher, who is a member of the Spo kane lire department, is taking a sixty day enforced vacation. While fighting: fire in Spokane on July 1th, lie was in a prettv hot place and his eyes wer.' injured by the heat to the extent that he has to take treatment. He has been a fireman for several years and drives a chemical engine. NOME 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 00 Cambric yard 25c Berkeley 100 Cambric yard A2'4 Lonsdale Muslin vard '28c Fruit of the Loom Muslin . yard 28c HOineh Indian Head Muslin vard 31c 9-4 Pepperell Sheeting, bleached . 52c 8. ' " . . 47c Turkish Towling yard 27 1-2 HARVEST BLANKETS $2.25: IfflfEST CDMFOfl Turkish Towels 2 for 25c, 39c 49 , 98c Huck Towels 10c, 25c and two for 25c Crash iowiing 10c, i2H, 15c, 18c, 23c Kemined Sheets 9e, 98e, 1.25, 1.49 Bed Spreads 98e, 1.49, 1.08, 2.98, 3.98 Pillow Cases 17c to 49c Unreached Muslin 9c, 12'oc, 15c 40in Indian Head Pillow Tubinu 22 c Berlin Art Ticking 41c TS 19 J Inraroorated & J