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OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Influenza eowlttiona continue to Im
prove in Albany.
Members of the Oregon State Motor
association held their annual meeting
In Portland Saturday.
Of the 429 accidents reported to the
Industrial accident commission for the
week ending January 1G, none were
fatal.
Umatilla county was the first coun
ty In the state to contribute its quota
of the Armenian-Syrian relief cam
paign.
The flu situation in Grants Pass Is
now being handled with firmness.
Every house in which there is a case
of the flu is strictly quarantined.
The farmers and dairymen of south
ern Clackamas county studied prob
lems relating to their business at a
school of dairying which was held at
Canby.
In a collision between a speeder
and a gasollne-drlven passenger car,
near Biggs, John Diacumis, track
watchman on the O.-W. R. & N., was
fatally injured.
Melvin C. Spores, formerly of Port
land, a farmer five miles south of
Monmouth, killed MIbs Lena Brown,
a young girl neighbor, and In turn
committed suicide.
Plans are under consideration for
the construction of a new Elks' temple
in Portland, with sufficient facilities
to care for the needs of the order for
the next quarter century.
The Coos county court has adopted
a new method of handling the high
way appropriations for 1919 and has
placed the work entirely under direc
tion of Headmaster J. S. Sawyer.
All fuel administration regulations
as to prices and zones on coal and
coke will be suspended February 1,
according to a telegram from Wash
ington received by Fuel Administrator
Fred J. Holmes.
Captain James 0. Comvlll of the
United States employment service in
Portland, declares there are approxi
mately 10,000 unemployed men now
in Oregon, most of whom have been
rWsert from war work.
Hopes of securing oil In paying
quantities from the well on the White
aker ranch, southeast of Dallas, has
been abandoned by the Oregon Oil &
Pipeline company. The well was driv
en to a depth of 1200 feet.
The Oregon state highway commis
sion was denied a reduced freight rate
on materials for highway construction
In a letter received by Senator Mc-
Nary from Edward Chambers, traffic
director of the railroad administra
tion. John Cyril Llard, convicted of seo
ond degree murder for the shooting
and killing of Deputy Sheriff Frank
Twombley, was sentenced to life Im
prisonment In the .state penitentiary
in Circuit Judge Cantenbeln's court
In Portland.
Through an agreement reached be
tween the Coos Bay Shipbuilding com
pany officers and the carpenters' and
Joiners' union, the strike in progress
at Marshfleld sinci January 7 wbb
settled and the 65" workmen returned
to work Friday morning.
Final computation of figures for
Oregon's war savings stamp campaign
for 1918 shows that the state has ex
ceeded Its quota. Purchases through
out the state amounted to $16,489,
972.63. This Is one-half of 1 per cent
In excess of the state quota.
At a meeting In Pendleton of repre
sentative citizens from every com
munity in Umatilla county and from
farmers and commercial organiza
tions, a programme of road-building
for the next two yearB calling for tho
expenditure of over $1,500,000 was In
dorsed, i-
Constituents of Senator Colon R.
I'lberhard, of Morrow, Umatilla and
Union, have protested to him against
the continuance of the office of state
biologist, which they declare "Is not
necessary, and the money expended
for such office could be better applied
to better purposes."
Merits of irrigation projects along
the Deschutes river are being placed
before federal officials of the reclam
ation department by State Engineer
Cupper and Congressman N. J. Sln
nolt In the hope of enlisting federal
effort to develop the irrigable lands
as part of the soldier settlement or
reconstruction program.
Approximately 9,000,000 acres of
land await reclamation in Oregon, ac
cording to the official report of Dr.
A. B. Cordiey, director of the Oregon
agricultural college experiment sta
tion, for the biennium of 1916-1918,
which has just been made to Presi
dent W. J. Kerr, of the college. Al
most 3,000,000 acres can be profitably
reclaimed by Irrigation, more than 3,
000,000 acres of swamp, tide and other
wet land needs drainage and 2,750,000
acres of burned-over and logged-off
lands can be converted into profitable
farm lands.
A great many of the u
McMinnvllle have been out;
their old maple trees anil iei;
them with English walnuts. The
are two reasons for this, as the walnui
is a prettier tree and the roots do hi
destroy the sidewalks as do the ma
pies, and there is a crop of nuts,
which is worth considering.
Many applications for reemploy
ment of spruce production soldiers
who worked at Marshfleld in mills
and lodging camps are being received
from men who are being mustered out
at Vancouver. The men who are ap
plying come from all sections of the
United States and say their experi
ences lead them to choose the Pacific
coast as their homes.
Lumbermen of the Pacific northwest
have been called to meet in confer
ence with the Portland district freight
committee Tuesday, January 28, re
garding the proposed new rates for
lumber and forest products. This will
be the hearing before the committee
upon protest of the Industry, from
which numerous objections have been
made to the proposed revision.
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by local applications, as they cannot reaclv
tho dlaeaged portion of the car. There in
only one way to cure catarrhal deafness,
and that Is by a constitutional remedy.
Catarrhal Deafness Is caused by an In
flamed condition of the mucous lining of
the Eustachian Tube. When this tube Is
Inflamed you have a rumbling sound or Im
perfect hearing, and when It Is entirely!
closed, Diafmss Is the result, Unless the
Inflammation can be reduced and this tujp
restored to fts normal condition, hcajffjr
will be destroyed forever. Many cusst of
deafness are caused by catarrh, which is
an Inflamed condition of the mucptii sur
faces. Hall's Catarrh Medicine acts thru
the blood on the mucous surfsjbei of the
system.
We will give One Hundrgfl Dollars for
any case of Catarrhal Denfjleas that cannot
be cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Cir
culars free. All Druggist. 76c.
F. J. CHENEY CO., Toledo, O.
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Overalls!
Why
Pay
More!
Our ' Pay Day" Overalls and Jumpers are as good as
the best and Priced the J. C. Penny way, $1.98 per pair
1 Incorporated J
Oerheard Kllcver and Peter F. Fr!c
sen, two Polk county residents, who
before coming to America were resi
dents of Russia, were refused natura1
izatlon papers in the circuit court at
Dallas by Judge Harry H. Belt be
cause they were classed as "conscien
tious objectors to war." Both stated
that they did not believe in war and
would not fight for this country
The towns of Jacksonville, Grants
Pass, Roseburg, Eugene, Albany, Sa
lem, Oregon City, Astoria, St. Helens,
h'illsboro, McMinnvllle, Dallas, Cor
vallis, Tillamook, Toledo, Coquille,
Gold Beach, Medford, Ashland and
Marshfieid are to receive German can
non taken as trophies In the late war
by the terms of a bill introduced in
the house by Representative Hawley
While records at tho office of the
insurance commissioner do not yet
disclose the effect of the influenza
epidemic upon the insurance societies,
it Is known that they have been hard
hit. Between 30 and 40 fraternal in
surance societies are licensed to op
erate in Oregon and at the office of
the commissioner it is said that the
fraternals have been suffering severe
ly. To discuss the financial end of start
ing force account Jobs to give employ
ment to discharged soldiers and sail
ors, the state highway commission
met with the roads and highways
committees of the legislature Monday.
Meanwhile, Highway Engineer Her
bert Nunn has been instructed to en
gage about 60 soldiers and sailors to
work on the Three Rivers road project
at once.
Representative McArthur has an
nounced that he has been authorized
by the war department to appoint ivo
cadets to the United States military
academy for the term commencinp
June 13, 1919, and that a preliminary
examination will be held in Portion'
on February 8 for the purpose of se
lecting candidates for the final ex
amination conducted by the academy
authorities on March 17.
William F. Turner, president of the
Spokane, Portland & Seattle railway
was appointed receiver for the Pacific
& Eastern railway, a subsidiary cor
poration of Hie Hill railroads, owning
53 miles of road extending from Med
ford to Butte Falls. The short line
railway was thrown into receivership
op the petition of the Columbia Trust
company, of New York, trustee for
the eastern bondholders of the com
pany. It is barely possible that a final de
cision on the question of an increase
in rates for the Pacific Telephone &
Telegraph company may not come
from the public service commission
until late in February, or possibly un
til after the adjournment of the legis
lature. The telephone company asked
for a hearing on Monday, to present
further data, and the commission con
templates handing down its order a
few weeks afterward.
Following the arrival in The Dalles
of J. E. Peck, resident engineer repre
senting 4he state highway department,
preljjnlnary work was started on
vyMco county's $700,000 road program
tor 1919. Besides the road from
Mosicr to Hood River, the Dufur road
will be paved from The Dalles 'to
Three Mile creek; (he road from The
Dalles to Chenowith will be hard-surfaced,
and the 11-mile link of the
Columbia river highway from The
Dalles to Seuferts will be paved.
The first train on the Sumpter Val
ley railroad to carry passengers since
the strike was called on January 1,
lett Baker Friday morning to make
the run through to Prairie City. The
train was manned partly by officials
of the road and partly by employes,
and was taken out after a two days'
session between D. C. Eccles, presi
dent of the road, and the strikers, In
which tho latter were offered their
positions at the o!d wages. The at
tempt to open up the road for traffic
is being made by President EccieB,
who is of the opinionhat the govern
ment does not intend to take any ac
tion affording the road relief, and also
because appeals are being made by
communities that the line serves,
stating that the closing of the road Is
causing suffering aud distress.
Spirit of France.
As in the enrly days of 1914, French
troop trains are decked with poppies
jnd roses, with every flower of Held
mil garden. And Just us In those days,
when the war was young, the pollu,
fter four yours, rides up to the front,
illthely, lustily singing and with roses
ituck In his cup and blouse. Germany
told the world that France was "bled
.vhlte." Germany lied, nnd knew that
she lied. The soul of France reflected
u the eyes nnd voices of her fighting
lien, is both unvanqulshed and unvan
lulslmbie. Stars nnd Stripes, Parts.
Her Sacrifice.
"Miss Flapp Is always talking about
lie duty of those at home to make
loerltlces for the country. Is she
nuking any herself!"
"Oh, yes. She gave away her pet
ianary to conserve the sugar supply."
Campaigning Against Blindness.
Becnuse of the cnmpnlgn against
preventable blindness It is predicted
that fifty years from now very few
blind persons will be seen on the
streets.
RECLAIM MANY SUNKEN SHIPS I
Hundreds of Vessels In British Waters
Have Been Salvaged Possibility
of Raising the Lusltania.
Most welcome is the announcement
from London that since January, 1915,
407 ships sunk by the Germans in
British waters have been salvaged;
147 of them, by improved methods, in
five months of the present year.
Britain's coast, like our own, is
edged by a broad belt of shallow wa
ter. For 200 miles of the channel's
length no spot reaches a depth of 100
fathoms; much of it is quite shallow,
which accounts for the chop that makes
so many who cross it briefly unhappy.
From our own Norfolk one gets well
out of sight of land before reaching
water too deep for salvage operations.
Depth Increases more rapidly of! the
Irish const, but even the, Lusltania
lies near the 50-fathom line, below the
shatter of the storm, yet near enough
the surface so that many practical
wreckers have said that It would be
possible, though exceedingly dlfllcult
to bring her forth to a nautical resur
rection.
That some things can be done as
well as others our engineers showed
when they raised the U-boats' biggest
victim along our coast, the Herbert
Pratt, and brought her safe to shore.
What the "Improved methods" used off
England may be we shall probably not
know until after the war. That they
are cheating the murderous subma
rines of their prey in so Ipnny cases is
good news. : .
EXPLORER'S WORK IN AFRICA
Frenchman Sheds Light on Vast Re
gion Hitherto Comparatively Un
Known Needs Railway.
Commandant Tllho, the well-known
French explorer o" the Sudan, has re
cently published a report on the re
sults of five years' work during 1912-17
In the hitherto unknown region lying
along the frontier between the French
Sahara nnd the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
Tllho was entrusted with the task of
pacifying nnd organizing this region
under the French government ; and his
surveys embrace a stretch of previous
ly unexplored country extending more
than 1,100 miles from the center of
Tihesti southeast to the vicinity of El
Fnsher, in Dnrfur. His cartographic
work fills up a large blank In the map
of Africa. He urges the need of a
railway through! this region, for the
benefit not only of the world nt large,
but also of the natives, who are sub
ject to periodical famines. It Is stated
that from one-half to three-fourths of
the Inhabitants of northern Wndal
died of famine in 1914. One especially
interesting result of his Investigations
Is the disproof of the hypothesis, sup
ported by his earlier explorations, that
there is a connection between Hoke
Chad and the Nile river system. Tfflio
explored the volcanic Eml-Kussl, 11,
100 feet In altitude, with an Immense
crater over seven miles In diameter
nnd 130 feet deep. Scientific American.
Sallorlng Is Different
Snllorlng on the briny deep is en
tirely different than doing the some
stunt on land. This was admitted by
a landlubber from Pittsburgh, who
has Just returned from his first voy
age with a brand new seasick story.
"The first day I was out,"' said the
amateur navigator, "the old tub rolled
like a barrel, and before I knew It I
was in the Jhroes of mnl de mer. The
bunch guyed me and told me my Job
was driving n trolley car instead of
snllorlng. I had to seek my bunk.
I had only been In it a few minutes
when the ship's surgeon visited me
and callously asked : 'Wbnt's the mat
ter?' 'O-o-nh, I'm so sick,' I told him,
and I rolled over in agony. 'Come, get
up.' he said unfeelingly. 'The ship has
been torpedoed and we're sinking.' I
fell out of my bunk nnd scrambled
.to the deck. The bunch again derided
me. Sav. have vnu ever been senslrk?"
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the market.
Notice of Final Account
In the County Court for Umatilla
County, Oregon.
In the Matter of the Estate of Luke
H. Kead, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned administrator of the estate
of Luke H. Read, deceased, has filed
his final account and report in said es
tate'and that the above entitled court
has fixed Saturday. February 1, 1919,
at 10 a. m. of said date, as the time
when and the County Court room in
the County Court house at Pendleton,
Umatilla County. Oregon, as the place
where any and all objections if any
there be, to said final account and 're
port, should be filed on or before said
date Dated at Athena, Oregon, this
ilrd day of January, 1919.
G. W. Gross, Administrator.
Notice to Creditors.
In the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Umatilla County.
In the Matter of the Estate of
James MiKay, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given to all persons
whom it may concern that Leo Samp
son has been appointed administrator
of the estate of James McKay, deceas
ed, and has qualified as such.
All persons having claims against
his said estate are hereby required to
present them with proper vouchers to
the said administrator at the law office
of Will M. Peterson in the Smith
Crawford Building in Pendleton. Ore
gon, within six months of the date of
the first publication of this notice,
which is made on the Srd day of Jan
uary, 1919 Leo Sampson,
Administrator.
Will M. Peterson.
Attorney for Administrator.
It' a Useless Task
to make a new dog out of an old one with a
coat of paint. Word painting is' not our
specia ty. We can only tell the truth about
our Groceries and let you do the rest. If
our advertising were as good as our Grcc
eries, p would be doing all the business
in town.
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ECONOMY GASH GROCERY
Phone 532
Quality Always Service First
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1100 Acres Good Timber
And farming lands, saw mill and box factory complete for operation, es
timated over, ten million feet of saw timber, over 80 000 cords of cord
wood, choice deep soil, grow anything from strawberries to 4-foot timothy
hay; all fairly level, no encumbrance, and all for 115,000.
Gfee Whiz
Gentlenunt, wake up I II You'll kittk yourselves sore when a -stranger
buys it and turns it at $25,000 inside the next week.
How About Plows?
We have John Deere with curved mould hoards. Prices right. Fly
ing Dutchman with bent steel beams and both in pairs or triplets side by
each. Prices right. Kentucky and Van Brunt Drills one better the
other best. Weber and John Deere wagons we challenge comparison but
Two spool sewing machines. Singer style rotary and vibrators, Elec
tric Washing machines the best and we keep a sample for trial pur
poses; try it ahd then decide. Heating stoves galore and bargains.
Kash Kounts. Come and See.
v Watts & Rogers .
Just Over the Hill.
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FIRST NATIONAL BANK
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The published statements of The First National Bank
of Athena shows in Dollars and Cents the constant
steady growth of tfais intitution, and retaember we
are here to seive you and will welcome your visits
here on matters pertaining to your financial interests.
CALL FOR A 1919 DIARY AND CALENDAR
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C. A. Barrett
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Incorporated
It's time to consider your
Plow Requirements
We have the Oliver Chilled Bases, with Cast or
Steel Shares. Also repairs for Canton and cTWoltne 1
flows.
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