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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1919)
We're closing out All Bulk Candies at 30c per lb McFADDEN PHARMACY The R&xat Store PHONE 331 It will pay you to watch our Windows SIMPLE WAY TO FIND OUT Fussy Passenger Told Just How He Could Ascertain If Car Was, Moving, or Not. In the midst of Nebraska snowdrifts a train sot stalled so Unit the wheels would not move forward or back. There It stood for six hours while the conductor walked four ndles to the nearest station and got n section crew Jo dls: the train out. Aboard that train fidgeted a hungry farmer with Populist brown whiskers. Ho r.r.lwtiMl the Individual opinions of j everybody In the conch as to when tne train was bowk 10 wu . t still he fidgeted. At last the conductor returned. "See here," signalled the farmer ns the conductor hurried through the aisle. "Are we going?" "Arc we going?" blustered the con ductor. "You raise the window nnd .put your head out. If the zephyrs fan your whiskers we're going; If not, the wheels of this train are probably frozen to the track." The car roared with laughter ns the disgruntled whiskers retreated Into the adjoining conch. Evening. Thus my wife and I have begun life together. I think that most of our eve nings will he spent In the room dedi cated to n kind word for life universal. No matter how closely the warring forces of existence, within or without, have pressed upon us elsewhere, when we enter there we enter pence. We shall be trailed In from all darkness of whatsoever meaning; our better selves will be the sole guests of those lumin ous hours. And surely no greater good fortune can befall any household than to escape an Ignoble evening. To attain a noble one Is like lying calmly down to sleep on a mountain top towards which our feet have struggled upward amid enemies all day long. James Lane Allen. Sppport Health Work. Washington. "Public health Is pur chasable," says the United States pub lic health service, nnd adds that v first-class health protection service can be provided for one dollar per head per year. In fact some city health departments render excellent service at a cost of 75 cents per head. Let's all get together and give better sup port to health work In this comuju-niur. HOME-MAKING NOT SO EASY Housewife Seems to Be Right When She Condemns Ideas Formulated by the Theorists. "I am always amused," said the housewife, according; to the New York Evening Post, "nt the proposition we so often rend nnd hear that munition and factory girls enter domestic serv ice. The theorists seem to Imagine that such a change can be accom plished right about fnce overnight, In the twinkling of nn eye. Good house work, of the sort that should be our standard, Is not so easy as all that. While I don't consider that housework requires lifelong training, yet never have I taken a girl from a factory who knew the difference between u cloth for washing dishes and one for wiping floors. As n rule a factory girl Is Ignorant of the simplest sanitary essentials that stand for home mak ing. Cooking she may be taught, and cleaning she may learn, hut the basic principles nnd habit are not picked up so reudlly. Many n time have I said to a muld: 'Had you gone to kinder garten you would never have piled your dishes ani saucers like that.' It was at a kindergarten conference In California, you may recall, where It was said thai no convicted criminal In Hint stale had bad kindergarten train ing. Betides their uncertain help In the homes of others think how want ing In their own homes when they get them these young factory girls will be unless they pick up considerably more knowledge about domestic ways and means." TIPS PUZZLE FOR RICH GIRLS Canteen Workers Don't Know What to Do When Officers Slip Them Quarters. New York. Young women of rich families who serve the officers' canteen at the Pershing club of the war camp community service, Forty-fourth street nnd Modlson avenue, are perplexed ns to what to do with the tips sometimes left by officers. How to act when nn ensign or lieu tenant hnmls one a quarter Is a puzzle thut has put wrinkles on the brows of several of the Junior league members who wnit on the tables. ThoJ do not wish to humiliate nn officer by refus ing his well nicniit gift, but of course It Is Impossible to accept It. Many of the young women have fathers who could buy at least one buttleshlp apiece. The trouble reached Its climax re cently. An embarrassed ensign left the canteen after presenting two thin dimes to the daughter of n steel king. Puzzled at her manner, he sought in formation from the woman In- chnrge. "I tipped that swell looking wnltress 20 cents and she seemed put out," said he. "She got all Hushed. Wasn't It enough J" "Not enough to buy her poor dog a bone," was the answer. "She drives her own car and bos an Income about equal to the president's pay. She's a volunteer worker." Light dawped on the boyish nnvnl man nnd be strenked for the door, muttering something about never tip ping another waitress. Standard Theatre Saturday, July 5 Douglas Fairbanks "HEAPIN SOUTH" Sunday. July 6 Pauline Frederick in -RESURRECTION- From Tolstoy's Story of Russian Peasantry Conditions Wednesday July 9 SESSUE HAYaKaWa in "HIS DEBT- Pathe Weekly and Prisms. Good Comedy, always a Work Togs The place to get your harvest clothes is where your dollar will buy the most of the best to be had. We can save you money on your summer outfit. Men's Khaki Hats - - .49 RD Shirts 1.9 " Work " - .79 Bovs .79 Work Socks - - .15 Tan, black and gray socks .20 Men's garters - .25 Canvau gloves - for .25-.20, Leather faced gloves .88 Leather glovea - .98 to 8. 35 Driving " - - 2.26 Khaki Pants - 1.89 to 2.08 " Coats - - 3.25 Boys' Khaki pants - 1.49 Tarps ( bed canvass I H. 98-5. 90 Colored hdkfs - .05 3 for .35 White " - - .06-.10 Straw hats - - .15 to .98 Tennis shoes, Buys - .98-1.16 " Men's - 1.25 Army " Boys' - 4.60 " Men's - 9.60 Elk Harvest Shoes - 2.98 Mule " " 3.89 Boya' " " - 2.H9 Elk high top " - - 1.S5 " Welt " 4.49 Pay Day Overalls and Jumpers, for Men. $1.49; for Boys, 98c to $1.25 J Incorporated J GswlBBfcBlsA'aBBMBBBaiiBBaBsMAMiMtaiH Some Watch! While the latest thing In watches Is the thin, round or octagon gold time piece, dipt. Martin Van Huron Rates, who died nt his home In Seville, Ohio, wore a watch that weighed four pounds. It was set with diamonds and a delicate set of chimes sounded the hours ns the watch rested In bis vest pocket. It was n gift from Queen Vic toria. It may he explained that the man who wore the four-pound watch was a famous giant. lie stood 7 feet 4 inches nnd Weighed .ISO pounds, lie was born In eastern Kentucky, nnd serve.d ns a soldier in the command of Gen, John Morgan, the confederate cavalry lead er, lie later toured the World with a circus wltb Ids first wife. Annie Swan, who wns 8 feet tall. Finds Pot of Gold. Virginia, 111. John Severon Is show- i Ing his friends n pot of gold which fell nt his feet out of n foundation near t'lintidlorvlllo. Severon bought the old Robert Morgan estnte north of Ohnnd-let-villa recently. He wns sounding the stone underpinning of the hmiae. hrillt " before the OMi Vr, recently. Ho dis lodged nn nnclent kettle and it cou'aln ed 140 $20 gold pieces. The annual summer session of the Oregon normal school will open at Monmouth. Monday. $100 Reward, $100 The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure In all its stages and that Is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly influenced by constitutional conditions requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Medicine Is taken Internally and acts tnru the Bleod on the Mucous Sur faces of the System thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, giving the patient strength by building up the con stitution and assisting nature In doing Its work. The proprietors hnve so much faith tn the curative powers of Hall's Catarrh Medicine that they offer Ona Hundred Dollars for any case that It falla ' to cure. Send for tlst of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY CO.. Toledo, J Ohio. Sold by all Druggist, Tic. 23 Years Ago, I Krom the Press 01 Juns 27, 1896 Alhena will be somewhat depopu lated tomorrow her citizens attending celebrations in other towns. A fishing party composed of girls and boys chaperoned by Mrs. G. C. Osburn, left yesterday for the Uma tilla river. The first raspberries are selling at 10 cents a box. Willis Maish and Ed Wood, young men of Weston, rode over on their wheels Sunday. D. A. Richards was out on the streets Tuesday, the first time in three months during which .time he has been confined to his home with illness. Mrs. A. J. Parker and three children left this week for the Willamette val ley where they will spend the summer. Louie LsBrashe has the editor's thanks for a fine basket of trout. Lou ie is an expeit angler, and has a cou ple of gentlemanly boys who "make full hands" at the fishing business. jOtis Getking and Miss Mary Buoy Were united in marriage at Philomath on June 38th. Dan Pendergast of Weston remarks that hungry vaqueros have no preju dice against horse meat especially when it comes to a choice between this kind of diet and salt pork. Be was with thirty-five riders up on the Snake river range and in order to have fresh meat they killed a fat young horse, and ate it up, "slick and clean," the meat tasting as good as beef. Mr. J. W. Smith and Mrs. Effie td ington were united in marriage in the Hotel Pendleton parlors yesterday afternoon, Rev. W. E. Potwine being the officiating minieter. Mr. and Mrs. Smith took the evening train for Portland for a short wedding tour. An unpleasant day was last Sunday. Tho thermometer reached 105 in the shade without even a zephyr stirring. All inanimate objects looked parched, while humanity sweated and sweltered. The streets were almost deserted of pedestrians. People lounged in ex treme discomfort. In the evening the heavens became dark in the weBt. Thunder began to peal and a few drops of rain fell. In a brief spell the hue of the clouds changed from black to a dirty yellowish brownand then the dust storm I TRAINED WORKERS ARE BEST Do Much More Efficient Work In Fac tories Than Those Without Training. Washington. Information renchlng the training service, department of labor, from establishments where fac tory training systems are In operation Indicates that foremen, after brief experience with the training system, insist' upon having trained workers in their departments, for the reason that they do much more efficient work than those who are put Into the factory on production work at the start. Many workmen also ask for training, In or der to Increase their earning capac ity, md so valuable has training proved for peace time that last week 17 factories adopted training systems, n number almost equal to the average installation of training departments during the war. In one large plant there was fr feel ing of hostility to training at the start on the part of a number of fore men. When the Hist graduate of a training department wns put on pro duction work within a week and was found fully qualified for production work, the foreman Insisted that the worker was exceptional. Under the old system from three to six months were required before workers were able to produce the quantity nnd qual ity of work required for u fair day's output. When a considerable number of per sons had been promoted to production work after a week or ten days In train ing, however, the foremen's views changed very radically, and they re fused to take any applicants for work who had not had the advantages of the training system. At rxie time, when the training department wns full, n new hand was sent nt cuce to Hie factory for production work, nnd the foreman protested vigorously. Soldier Bewails Bride Wedded to Him for Glory East Orange, N. J. Ole L. Robinson, who won his wife, Es ther Crowell. daughter of J. O. Crowell, the New York pub lisher, by tales of heroism In France, sat disconsolately In jail nnd mourned the absence of his helpmate, who allowed the chnrge of robbery against her husband to creep II between them. "I thought my wife should nt least have come around to see me," he said. "I fpected much of her. We were getting along nicely until I had trout) V with her parents. I now x firM that' Esther did not marry ie wr ', x man but the glory." . Robinson, who Is eighteen, still Insists he was four months In. service in France and" had been a messenger attached to General Pershing's staff. While at the front, he says, he fell frou his horse when shrapnel exploded near by and jyus in valided home, suffering from shell-shock. Quality Always Service First We are Not so Eager for Money as to secure it at the loss of vour satisfaction. We hope to ssll you Crcceries for a long time to come and cannot hope to do so unless we supply the kind that satisfies you both as to quality and price. That we cau do this, is fully proven in ovr present offer ing of fine Groceries, which it is decidedly to your interest to investigate. The Economy Cash Grocery ":- Phone, 561 and your Orders -will be filled. Quality Always Service First Hr-H Coming ? Yes, and well beat Xmas, too Keep sweet and we'll do our best to keep you sweet after we get here. While we can't make all dreams gOOd (one our frends declares Doc Watts took him out back of the store to a strawstack and dug up a fine bottle of whiskey )we wjU (J0 OUr best to keep everybody hap py; especially on hardware implements, wagons, etc. Watts & Rogers Main Street, Athena The first National Bank of Athena Capital and Surplus, $100,000 Safety Deposit Boxes t For Rent t