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VOLTTHE XXX,
ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1918.
NUMBER 42
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ALEXANDERS
Pendleton-QUALITY-SERVICE-Oregon
Excellent Suits
$22.50 and $35.00
Garments which are attracting no end of attention,
because-
The new styles were most carefully selected and therefore correct to the
minute; also because of the very reasonable prices.
cJTWany of the Suits are furred trimed, others are plain. Some of the
suits are finished with silk braid. Thev come in practically" all the
most popular autumn and winter material, and in all sizes for women
and misses.
A Special Purchase cf Dresses
$22.50
New models in Satin, Serge, Georgette, Foulard and
Taffeta-
' The new braided effects, so much desired; the fringe trimming with
panel and tunic skirts are shown in varied styles.
Every dress in the assortment is worthy of honorable mention, for
the values, as the heading indicates are not ordinary.
Heavy Geogette Waists
$5.75
Exquisite companions t Fall Suits The new Fall Blous in all its beauty, featuring
rounded, square and high collars, frills, plaited fronts, slip over side buttoned effects.
LUXURIOUS NEW COATS, $29.50 Exhibiting large, new "Snuggle in" collars, dis
tinctive idea in pockets, smart belts. Rich Meltous, Velours. Kersev, Broadcloth.
SHOES
Shoes for the whole family" at prices within reach of
all. We are showing many new Shoes in Grey, Choco
late Brown, Toney Red and Black. For the little folks
we have Blacks white or grey tops. We have received
our new stock of overshoes and rubbers.
Men's Brown Vici English $8.50
Men's Brown Calf English 7.90
Men's Gunmetal English 6.90
Men's Black Button 2.98 to 5.50
Men's Gunmetal Lace 2.98 to 5.50
Men's Army Shoe, soft cap 5 50
Men's Work Shoes 2.98 to 5.90
Men,s Hightop Shoes 5.90 to 8 50
Boys' black and brown Eng. 3 98 to 4.98
Bovs Calf, button or lace, 1 69 to 3.98
Bovs' Hightop Shoes 2.98 to 4 50
Ladies gray Kid Louis heel 8.90 to 1050
Ladie' gray Kid Military heel 8 50
Ladies brown " Louis heel 6.90 to 7.50
Ladies' brown English Cloth top 5.50
Ladies' brown English all Leather 4.50
Ladies' black Kid Louis Heel 7.50
Military heel 6.50 to 7 50
" Gunmetal button & lace 2.98 to 4 50
Misses' black & tan English 2 98 to 4.50
Misses' Calf or Vici button 1,49 to 2 98
hild's Kid & Patent Shots 98c to 1.98
Step in and be fit, while we have your size.
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Mr. and Mrs. George E. Payne have
received the following from their son,
Joe:
"Dear folks at home: I am well
and having a good time and I hope
this finds you feeling as goo i aa I do,
and not worrying about me, for I am
all right now. Never felt any better
in my life than I do right now.
"We are having some rain; it rains
about three days out of every week.
This ia sure some country here. I like
it fine. It is the same kind of ground
that we have there, black soil, and the
crops look good what there is of them;
but the farms are so small there is
only about ten acres to each farm.
The people sure treat us fine.
"Well, I haven't any more to write
about so will close, hoping to hear
from you soon.
"Pvt. Joseph A. Payne
Co. A H04 Engrs., Am. E F. France."
On German Soil bv Winter.
Frank Nelson hands us the following
interesting letter from a Canadian
friend:
"With the British Expeditionary
Force Somewhere in France, Sep 19.
"Got your letter and parcel and
want to thank you for the paroel
which I got when I was up in the line
and in the thick of it, and didn't have
any chance of getting smokes up there
anc most of the other boys were out
of them, sc vou can see what a God's
blessing it was to us. And the chew
ing, I was glad you sent me that. You
know there are times that we can not
smoke. You will never know what
a smoke means to a man until you get
out here, which I hope you never have
to do. I may be able to repay you
when we get Fritz back to Berlin, and
we get back to Canada, which I hope
will not be long, if we keep on going
like we have for the last month or so.
We have been giving him a good shak
ing up. and he will get it worse yet if
he don't get back in a hurry, and if
the weather stays good. But it looks
bad just now. it has been raining four
days steady, so we can't do much just
now, and we are getting a little rest
at the same time, which we all need
after being in H for so long; but
great sport at the same time.
"1 will bet, if the weather stays
good from now on, that we will be
fighting on German ground before win
ter sets in. He puts his best men
against us Canadians. We tnok men
from 0 different divisions from him in
one day, just my Div. alone, and his
best troops, too. Do you know what
one of their officers said to us, after
he was taken prisoner in the last hat
tie? He said: 'You fellows can't
fool us. We know you are not Canad
ians vou Americans dressed up in
Canadian kitts, to fool us I The Can
adians tre down on front.'
"So, you can see how everything
moves fast here nowadays. We were
fighting them one day on down south
the next day we were miles away
from there, and after them harder
than ever. So everything is going
like clockwork. Your old pal,
"A. Mortensor."
FULL LOAN QUOTAS
President Wilson's second warning
to the American people to get behind I
the goverment in whole. hearted sup
port of the fourth Liberty loan, and
foretelling the incalculable damage to
the allied cause which would result
from the slightest under-subscription
was issued from the White House Mon
day night as follows:
"The White House Oct. 14. The
reply of the German government to
my note of inquiry dated on October
8, gives occasion for me to say to my
fellow-countrymen that neither that
reply nor any other recent events have
in any way diminished the vital im
portance of the Liberty Loan. Re
laxation now, hesitation now, would
mean years of war instead of peace
upon our terms,
"I earnestly request every patriotic
American to leave to the governments
of the United States and of the allies
the momentous discussions initiated by
Germany and to remember that for
each man his duty is to strengthen the
hands of these governments and to do
it in the most important way now im
mediately presented, by subscribing to
the utmost of his ability for bonds of
the fourth Liberty Loan. That loan
must be successful.
"I am sure that the American peo
ple will not fail to do their duty and
make it successful.
"WOODROW WILSON."
A GENERAL RED GROSS
ELECTION NEXT TUESDAY
The Athena branch of the Umatilla
Red CroBS has received letters advis
ing of the decision of the excutive
board of the Chapter in providing that
each branch shall hold a meeting of
its members next Tuesday, October 2H,
1918, to elect its branch officers and
members of the chapter board of direc
tors. The chairman elected by each
branch h to act aa ex-officio member
of the board.
Election of the Athena auxiliary
was erroneousy announced for this
week, through a misunderstanding;
but all members are urgently request-
' ed t) be present at the Red Cross
i rooms on Majn street next Tuesday
afternoon.
On Wednesday, the 23rd, at 11 a.
m. the members of the board of direct
tors will meet in Pendleton, and a
nomination committee will be selected
from their number to make nomina
tions for chairman, vice chairman,
treasurer and executive committee of
the Umatilla County Chapter. These
nominations will be submitted to a
meeting of the board at 7:80 p. m. of
the same day. The system is one re
commended by the headquarters at
Seattle.
ATHENA IS CLOSED TOWN
THO NO EPIDEMIC HERE
Athena schools a id churches and all
public gatherings were placed on the
closed list by the health authorities
this week, on account of the influenza
epidemic prevailing throughout the
country, although there are no cases as
yet reported in the city or vicinity.
The action was probably taken with
the view to being on the safe Sid-, in
asmuch as isolation is said to be the
best way to combat the epidemic.
There are several cases reported
throughout the county, and one death,
that of John Myrick of Pendleton, who
died of pneumonia, resulting from in
floenza. Throughout the state the epidemic
appears to be on the wane. While
new cases are being reported in the
larger cities, they are evidently not in
malignant form, giving the health au
thorities hope that the worst is over.
In all probability, should no cases
develop in Athena, and the wave of
the epidemic continues to subside,
schools and other assemblages will be
reopened.
Father Takes Death News.
As he sat at his key Monday night,
John Sloan, Pendleton operator, re
ceived a message over the wire an
nouncing the death of his son, Lyle T.
Sloan, mechanic in the aviation service
in France. The vuung man enlitted
in January of this year and has been
in France about five weeks. Death,
according to the message, was caused
by pneumonia. His parents and two
sisters, Mrs. George Plagman and
Miss Florence Sloan, survive him. He
was born in South Dakota, was 2K
years old. and was graduated from the
State College in that state as an elec
trical engineer.
Smut Spores Drift Far.
In the Blue Mountain region near
Pendleton, smut Bpores were recently
discovered which, according to (leorge
I. Zundel, Federal plant pathologist,
must have floated in from parts of Cal
iornia, Northern Utah or Southern Ore
gon. Counts have just been made
from spore traps in both Eastern and
Western Washington. The western
trap, placed at Puyallup, showed that
in that region from 12,000 to 69,000
smut spores settled on a square foot of
soil in the harvest. In Columbia
county the smut, shower per square foot
went as high as 288,999; Asotin, 111)4,
0U0; Garfield, 100,000 Klickitat, 012,
000; Lincoln, 20,000; Walla Walla
M5.000; Whitman, 2115,000.
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BABIES MUST HAVE MICK
"You get moro calories to the
penny from milk than from any
other food oven at the present
price," said Dr. E. J. Labbe,
specialist, who returned recent-
ly from Europe and who spoke
at the State Fair and at other
patriotic gatherings. Dr. Labbe
told of the children he treated
In the Red Cross children's hos-
pltal In Kvian, on Lake Geneva,
in France. The little French
4 and Belgian refugees were wan
and weak and almost lifeless.
A milk diet soon brought good
results and the babes thrived.
"But," said Dr. Lubbo, "they
will never entirely Bhako off
the marks made by the months
In which they were starved for
milk. Children must haw milk
if the race is to go on. It Is
every man's and every woman's
duty to do all in hla power to
keep the herds of Oregon alive.
Feed men, mill men, dairymen,
householders, dealers, everyone
must co operate. The babies of
the world must be saved."
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Payne last week
returned home from a visit in Spokane.
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Prinolptl Events of the Weed
Briefly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Readers.
In the state bar examinations that
were held at Salem under the direc
tion of the supreme court only 11 ap
plicants for certificates made their ap
pearance. Two draft calls for 436 class 1 men
to be Bent to Fort Stevens, Or., and
Fort McArthur, Co)., have been Issued.
Entrainments under both calls are to
be effected In the five-day period start
ing October 21.
Apples have begun to roll from Hood
River to eastern points In large quan
tities. Average shipments now are 14
cars per day. The total crop will ap
proach 1200 carloads. To date 160 cars
have been sent out.
Not since the Umatilla project was
established ten years ago has the In
terest in alfalfa lands been so great
as at the present time. During the
last 30 days cash safes have been nu
merous and prices have been good.
To place plainly before the house
wives of Oregon once more the what
and why of present food conservation
regulations, the state food administra
tion is preparing to conduct a big
pledge drive October 28 to November
2.
Clay Warn, owner of a'40-acre prune
orchard near Canyonvllle, has harvest
ed the record crop of fruit from his
place this year. He secured 95 tons
of dried prunes and sold the output
at 9 cents a pound, securing 117,100
for his crop.
Oregon's banks deserve the credit for
putting the state first In the purchase
of treasury certificates. Every bank
in the state took some of the certifi
cates of the tBsue of October 1, and
this record was not duplicated in any
other commonwealth.
A total of 599 industrial accidents,
of which three were fatal, were report
ed to the state Industrial accident com
miBSlon during the past week. The
fatal accidents were: Walter Harvey
and O. L. Watera, Portland, shipbuild
ing; John Confer, St. Helens, lumber
ing. In responso to an inquiry from
Klamath Falls as to whether persons
signing petitions for Independent nom
inations must be electors who are reg
istered without party affiliation, As
sistant Attorney-General Van Winkle
haB advised that this Is not required
by law.
The salmon fishing season on the
Sluslaw and Umpqua rivers and on
Coob bay Is now at Us height and
many carloads of the tia are Bhlppcd
from these sections over the Coos bay
branch of the Southern Pacific to out
side points, most of them being billed
to New York.
Carl Crosland, representing the de
partment of commerce, Is in Salem to
gather state financial statistics which
are to be sent to Washington for com
pilation. Mr. Crosland expects to be
there about two weiks, working most
of the time in the office of Secretary
of State Olcott.
Thomas C. Taylor, a past grand
commander of the. Knights Templar,
dropped dead in the Masonic temple at
Bend Just prior to the opening of a
session of the grand commandery of
tho slate. Mr. Taylor was one of east
ern Oregon's best-known men, having
lived at Pendleton a number of years.
Twenty-four hundred common labor
ers are needed immediately by ship
yards In and about Portland if me
chanics are to be allowed to go ahead
and the production of ships In this
district 1b not to be seriously crippled,
according to nn announcement made
by the United States employment bu
reau. As a forerunner of extensive devel
opments on the Klamath Indian reser
vation, tho United States government
Indian Irrigation service has applied
to State. Engineer Lewis for u permit
to appropriate sufficient water from
Williamson river and its tributaries to
irrigate 73,636 acrcB on the Klumath
swamp.
Notwithstanding the embargo on the
movement, of grain to congested ter
minals In tho northwest market cen
ters, there is a considerable total of
demurrage paid to the railroads dally
for ears held beyond the alloted time
for unloading. At Astoria there are
about 200 carB on track waiting to be
unloaded.
Public Service Commissioner H. H.
Corey haa returned from eastern Ore
goo where he effected an agreement
between the l-Jast Oregon Logging com-
GEORGE N. PECK
! I
SBSi a&Sh
Hs "
It Is the Job of George N. Peck, one
of the foremost of the Industrial ex
perts who are giving their services to
the government for the duration of
the war, to convert Industrial plants
to war production.
pany and' farmers of Wallowa county
by which the ranchers will be allowed
to transport their wheat to market
over the logging road of the former.
The cost will be about 9 centB a hun
dred pounds. Heretofore, it has been
neceBBary for the farmers to haul their
grain by team for distances of from
20 to 40 miles, the cost In many cases
amounting to more than 30 cents a
hundred. The road extends from En
terprise to Flora. There is in the
neighborhood of 150.000 bushels of
wheat to be taken to market.
Prune growers of the F"orest Grove
locality have practically finished pick
ing tho crop. The season has been un
usually favorable tor work and the
crop exceeds former records.
The cruising and appraising of privately-owned
land in the Bull Run
watershed district by the government
foresters is under way. It Is expected
that the owners will exchange their
rights In this district for timber not
In a government reserve section. The
Bull Run watershed is the source of
Portland's water supply.
At a meeting of the Portland boiler
makers' union It was voted that the
44-hour working week shall be put In
to effect by members working in ship
yards by the taking of Saturday half
holidays. The union voted two weeks
ago to work 48 hours weekly, after
having taken Saturday half-holidays
for two successive weeks.
An educational campaign Is being
launched by the Tillamook Creamery
association to make their products bet
ter known. The output of Tillamook
cheese this year will, It is expected,
exceed $1,500,000. In 1917 the 24 fac
tories handled 44,901,303 pounds of
milk, and from It manufactured 4,974,
328 pounds of Tillamook cheese, valued
at $1,188,845.
A shipment of 40 gallons of brandy
and 65 gallons of whisky that was
masquerading as "cylinder oil, med
ium," and arrived on the steamer Hose
City from San Francisco, waB seized
at Astoria by the police and federal
authorities. The liquor was In kegs
packed In boxcB and was consigned to
the "Wendllng Vaughn Logging com
pany, OrayB Klver, Wash."
Frantic telegrams have been receiv
ed by Senator Chamberlain from rep
resentatives of prune growers In the
vicinity of Sulem saying that notwith
standing the announcements that the
food admlnlHtrutlon has given orders
for the purchuBc of 38,000,000 pounds,
of Oregon prunes, the orders have not
been received by Oregon packers and
the packing houses are still Idle.
The new circular road around tha
rim of Crater Lako has been complet
ed. The road later probably will bo
liard-surfuccd, but the dirt grade cir
cling the lake at un average height
of about 7000 feet Is entirely finished;
It Is 38 miles long and completes 75
miles of road work now In Crater Lake
national park. The road around the
rim has been under construction for
three years.
Oregon druftees are being rejected at
army camps und cantonments in excess
of the national average, reports just
given out from Washington Indicate.
In recent months, under new stand
ards, the average percentage of rejec
tions of Inducted men has Jumped from
4 83 per cent to 7.0 per cent, for the
nation at large. Oregon's percentage
of unfit Is 8 an against Washington
Blate's record of 5 percent.
Itoluud Andru has returned from
t'orvullU.
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