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VOLUME XL.
ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. MARCH 28. 1919.
NUMBER 13
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.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
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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 -'
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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
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