Advertising The oAthsaa Press circulates in the homes of readers who' reside in the heart of the Great Umatilla Wheat B.H, and they have money to spend Mhttm ttm Entered at the Post Office at Athena, Oregon, as Second Class Mail Matter Wkl'i Notice! If this notice is marked RED, it sig nifies that your Subscription expires with this issue. We will greatly ap preciate your renewal $2.00 per year VOLUME XL. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. MARCH 28. 1919. NUMBER 13 10 BOOST L .Umatilla county will soon see a trainload of war trophies captured by the doughbovs from Germany, says the East Oregonian. , This traveling exhibit will be a feature of the Fifth Liberty Loan .-ampaign and is now being assembled in Portland. "It cost fifty thousand lives to gather these trophies," is a significant sentence on a banner that will stretch across the train to remind the people of what the boys gave to win ths vic tory. More and more it is becoming evi dent that the government is expecting, all citizens to participate in the Vic tory Loan as a final test of their pat riotism and loyalty. The monetary cost of the victory must be paid. The tail: of financing the boys who licked the Hun muEt be finished even as the army of occupation is now finishing tli a job for which it crossed the At- If.ntic. A conference of county chairmen is to be held in Portland today and Uma tilla county will have representation there. As a sort of trumpet flourish to the Fifth Iioan in Ore'on will come the "Why a Victory Loan?" contest. A free-for-all argumentative literary ef fort this is, restricted to a maximum of 50 words, and carrying three prizes for the most logical deductions offered. The first award will be a 159 bond of the fifth loan, the second will be $'10 in war savings stamps and the third is to be $20 in war saving stamps. The awards are offered respectively by Edward Cookingham, J. C. Ainsworth and the Oregon war savings commit tee. No contribution to the contest of more than 50 words will ba con sidered. The Victory Loan button will be a circular blue field, bearing the words "Victory Loan" with a large "V" for the number of the issue in the center. THE ATHENA GUN CLUB SHOOT SCORE The members of the Athena Gun Club are participating in a handicap trophy shoot. The shoot will continue for four consecutive Sundays, the first event being shot off last Sunday with the following record: Division A Shot Hit Dean Dudley - - 28 ZH W. W. McPherson - - 25 20 F. S. LeGrow - - 27 IS R. Huseman - 27 18 Mi L. Watts - 28 21 Division B . t., , M. W. Hansell - 26 2a O. O. Stephens - - 25. 21 Guy Cronk - - - 27 17 W. C. Miller , . - , 28 Hi Division C R. T. Cannon - 29 21 E. A. Zerba - --. 28 20 A. W. Douglas - - 19 20 A. A. Foss ' ' 28 18 C. A. Sigmon - - 27 17 Division D - John Barnes '88 23 Z. E. Lnckwood - -, . H8 20 W. P. Littlejohn - ' .,-Jt 8 Henry Dell - -'.-, as 4 Dean Willaby - - 81 8 Memorial Hall for Weston. The Leader reports that the move ment for a soldiers and pioneers' mem orial building in Weston took definite shape at the commercial club meeting Monday evening of last week, wl" it was combined with a iwilar move ment for a community hj. The pro position that bo:h he under onfe roof met' with prohouj.iied favor.'. At a joint committee meeting Wednesday afternoon it was vo'.ed unar;nlously to purchase the Weiaton t,pera house, wlich may be had together with As chairs and other equipment for $12)3. It is planned to rebaVtd the opera house front and to havft corner entrance with double' doors ' The singe will be moved forward eight or ten feet with the view of usip; ft for the double pur poae In. "fa'Af. ind dining hall. Among the new equipment to be bought im mediately are a motion 'picture ma chine and a piano. , Casualty . ,ts Near End. The dispatc!ds bear the welcome news that the last of the real Amer ican casualty lints in the worK war are now being published and within a few days the lists will contain practically only the names of those who have died or been ijured since the signing of tue armistice. The names of those given now as killed in action are those for whom extended investigation had been necessary to establish proof of death. Jury Panel. The jury panel drawn for the term of circuit court convening on April 14, contains the names of the following Athena men: J. W. Rothrock, G. W. Gross, Frank. A. Berlin and Ern:st Koepke. 62308 NEWS NOTES OF GENERAMNTEREST Principal Events of the Week Eriefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. State Senator Walter A. Dimick died at his homo in Oregon City after an illness of ten days, aged 39 years. An ordinance has mi introduced in the Medford city council putting a : an on Sunday dances and regulating nil public dances. Governor Olcott has reappointed J. V.. Reynolds, of La Grande, and W. H. 'Savage, of Corvallis, to membership on the state fair board. With 37 different kinds of automo biles, trucks and tractors on display. Albany's first automobile show was held in the armory there. Sherman county will conduct a cam paign on March 31 to April 5 to obtain complete records of all soldiers, sail ors and marines of the county. More than 500 stockmen are expect ed to invade Eend on April 22, when the annual convention of the Oregon Cattle and Horse Raisers' association will be held there. The weekly bulletin of the depart ment of labor shows a vast improve ment in the employment situation in Portland, for la3t week, the surplus of unemployed dropping from 12,000 to 9C00. Walter Hill Kline, of Corvallis, has presented the Oregon Agricultural col lege with a collection of framed por traits of celebrities, for the most part portraits of the presidents of the United States. i Following recent action of the Eay Park and North Bend mills, the Bueh ner Lumber company, of North Bend, ha3 announced that beginning April 1 a material reduction in the wage scale will be made. j Colonel John Leader, in cBArgefjiof military training In the high schools of the state, will visit high schools in southern Oregon the week of April 14. He will inspect the organizations at Grants Pass, Medford and Ashland. Where only one Deschutes county rancher was raising purebred live stock two years ago, 20 are now add ing to the quality of their herds by the introduction of thoroughbred sires, a census of stock raisers recently completed shows. The Linn county court and county agricultural agent, S. V. Smith, have declared war on the gray digger squir rels. The court has advanced $100 with which to buy poisons which will be distributed by the county agent to the farmers at cost. One hundred thousand sheep will be under the control of Deschutes national forest officials, it is estim ated. In addition to 40,000 which will graze on the Deschutes forest about 60,000 in the Cascade and Santiam forests have been transferred to the administration of Supervisor Jacobson. A meeting of the Western Oregon Tie & Lumber association will be held in Portland on March 29, when an ef fort will be made to unite the various lumber manufacturing associations and independent lumbermen in a pro test against marketing conditions im posed by the railroad administration. Colonel John L. May, who recently .returned from overseas, where he was commander of the 162d infantry, was named adjutant-g.ral of Oregon, in 8fl appointment jtbunced by Gover nor Olcott. tie succeeds Adjutant General Charles P. Beebe, who made tfce request to the governor to be placed on the -etired list. The Southern Oregon conference of the Seventh Day Adventists, which was is session at Su'ierlin during the past week, unanimously confirmed the selection of thst place ..s permanent conference headquarters and educa tional center. The former Sutherlin hotel building and adjoining property has been purchased for use as an acad emy. With enthusiastic expressions of mutual good will 300 men and '.women of southern Oregon attended the get together meeting of- the Grants Pass, Medford and Ashland commercial clubs at Medford and pledged them selves to a program of co-operative service for the advancement of the material prosperity of the Rogue river valley. :M State Engineer Lewis, Attorney Gen eral Brown and Superintendent of Banks Benneft, comprising the state' irrigation security commission, left Salem Monday for Echo, where they will investigate the Teel Irrigation project with a view of certifying' !,- Conflicting Thoughts EVANGELIST SHANNON IS COMING TO ATHENA SUNDAY "Dan" Shannon, of Michigan, who has delighted great crowds in the larger towns in many states of our Union, will address the Athena people every night for two weeks, beginning ? " :"' ' ' '' Ki.; . to ba.1a.a nor . 1 Co.uuty Druit inspector rrana Stan- Hg JHeHHHB.'' I ton, who says that the state horticul ' t, MbKWHS335 -' l sm 5 PERSHING T 3 100,000 of the irrigation district's bonds which soon will be placed on the market. Dealers in gold-tinted wildcat oil stock and other fraudulent corpora tions have reaped a rich harvest in re cent months among the well-paid ship yard workers of Oregon, according to Corporation Commissioner Schulder man, who has sent printed warnings broadcast about the state, advising the public generally to beware of sales men for these out-o-the state stock compaives. f ' Counties may have local Issues placed on the ballot at the special elec tion on June 3, although no other state-wide measures may be voted on except those enumerated in the legis lative enactment authorizing the elec tion. This is the decision reached in an opinion given to District Attorney Gehlhar of Marion county by Attorney General Brown. Bonds have been sold and the con tract let to the Warren Construction company for the construction work amounting to $1,000,000 on the Teel project at Echo, according to the an nouncement of the directors. The work will complete an extension of the project, by means of which about 16,000 acres under the project and 4000 acres on Butter Creek will be put under water. The Bend Athletic club Is organiz ing as a subsidiary unit the Bend Rod and Gun club, with the purpose of bettering fish and game conditions in central Oregon. Heretofore there have been dynamiting of streams, fishing and hunting out of season and other infractions of the game protective laws. The new organization intends to co-operate with the game warden's office in doing away with these evils. New driveways, bridges, canals and drift fences are included in the forest service plans for improving the graz ing ranges on the national forests of Oregon and Washington, according to District Forester George H. Cecil, of Portland. Forty-three bridges, 46 trails and driveways, 24 corrals and 43 drift fences have already been built to fa cilitate the handling of stock on the national forests of the district. Water development has been made in 206 places. Officers were elected, finances tem porarily arranged, and a committee ap pointed to prepare a statement for the voters' pamphlet, at a meeting of road enthusiasts in Portland to promote the $2,500,000 bond issue' for tie Roose velt highway. The people will vote on the proposal to issue these bonds at file special election June 3. The bonds are .contingent on the federal govern ment matching the sum, and if the government declines to act, no bonds will be sold. t A shipment of cranberries was made from the marshes in Clatsop county to Portland Friday. This is the lateBt shipment of this fruit ever made from the district. Growers feel that the very fact of their being able to place berries in the markets at this time fully demonstrate the excellent keep ing quality of the cranberry raised In this section. fhe total crop for the past season was over 3000 barrels of cranberries. This amount for the 10 acres set out to vines in Clatsop coun ty, gives an acre. ' ; . . A decided impetus was given to the programme for military training in the high schools o Oregon when Superin tendent of Public Instruction Churchill announced that the war department, through Colonel Howard at Spokane, has offered to furnish all needed uni forms and equipment to all high schoolfegrich will enlist 100 students in militalkorganizations. Colonel Howard ftirtheip promised lo furnish an army officer ((.instructor for each high school of the atpte and wherever possible, an assistant..wlll be provided for the instructor; ' . .. . With no power spraying apparatus available, owners of fruit and orna mental trees on Hood River city lots are unable to comply with instructions I Co'uuiy Fruit inspector r'ranK Stan ton, who says that the state horticul tural laws require that all city trees affected by diseases that menace or chard property must be sprayed. Mr. Stanton will present the predicament to the cbunty court at its regular ses sion in April and it is likely that the city council will be asked to co-operate in securing effective machinery for spraying city orchards. Collar Button Causes Divorce Suit. An elusive collar button was respon sible for Andrew, J. Emmert abusing his wife, Angellne Bmmei't, according lo her testimony before a master in I'liiiucery In suing for divorce. She said when he dropped his collar tuit ion and she would not search fo ft he struck her. A divorce decree Is ('commended. Pittsburgh Chronicle Evangelist Shannon with next Sunday, the 80th. He will preach at the Methodist church. Come and hear the "second Billy Sunday." the "Cyclone Evangelist," who mingles laughter and tears. Tribute to the splendid service given by soldiers from the Northwest com prising the 4 1st division Is paid by General Pershing commander of the American forces in France in a letter to Majir-General Traub, commanding offior of the 4 1st. A copy of General Pershing's letter was received by Governor Olcott from Major-General Straub now stationed at Camp Pike, Ark. It reads: "It gives me a great deal of pleasure to extend to you and the officers of the 41st division my compliments upon their excellent appearance and bearing at the inspection in the embarkation' camp at Brest, just previous to your departure for the United States. "The 41st has had the longest ah hardest career of service in the Amer ican expeditionary forces. Oris of, the first five divisions to arrive in fFrahce, organized and trained as a combat unit, it was immediately broken up and a majority of its personnel waa sent to combat units, and the part these men played is a matter of hi tory. "Those who remained with the 4iBt division to handle and nrenare renlace- ments for battle have had a hard and unexciting part to play. Yet the div ision's accomplishment has been as important as the work of any of those units who had the better fortune to remain as combat divisions and win glory at the front. "The officers and men may return home with the knowledge of duty well performed, and the assurance that they nave won the confidence and respect of their fellovjs in the American ex peditionary forces." Influenza at Pilot Rock. The influenza is reported to have broken out suddenly in Pilot Rock again, l'here are about 40 cases in town and several in the country near by. Most of it appeared Saturday and Sunday among the, children in the seventh and eighth grades of 'school, and must of the families of these chil dren now have it. Ask to Retain Funds, At a meeting of the directors of the, Umatilla County Red Cross in PeAdle ton Wednesday, it was decided to ask that the money now in the treasury, amounting to 15,666,14 be allowed to remain there. This request is in re ponse to a demand from headquarters that chapters budget expenses and send in any surplus money. The decision, says the E. O., to make an attempt to keep the money was based on the fact that expenses this month alone were B000, 800 of which was spent in feeding 11500 soldiers. Look and Listen Mr. Farmer IIMTERCSTIIVG TACTS AND In 1913, Oregon Special Gas Harvester 20 It Cut Cost $3,625.00 f. o. b. Walia Walla o4t 70c per Bushel You Paid 5,178.5 Bushels At 30 Bushels per Acre You Paid 172 5 Acres of Ground for this Harvester. NOW 1919 I This Same Harvester Costs $4,330.00 f. o. b. Walla Walla At $2.00 per Bushel You pay 2,165 Bushels c4t 30 Bushels per Acre You pay 721 acres of ground for this Harvest. PENDLETON: Why take a chance on your old Harvester with $2.00 wheat? Delay means money. Place your order at once to be insured of getting a Harvester to thresh the biggest crop in three years. STURCilS & STORIE mm wui