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tATHENA. OREGON, JULY U, 1819
Towns and cities along the State
highway are making provisions for
camping grounds for automobile tour
ists, and Athena should provide a
camping place here. There is no bet
tor advertisement for a town than a
suitable camping site for these tour
ists, where they can have the conven
ience of shade and water. From now
on, there wilt be hundreds of tourists
passing through Athena each year in
automobiles, and provisions should be
made at one end of the City Park to
accommodate them with camping fa
cilities. A couple of hours work would
provide a well equipped'with a pitcher
pump. A couple of barrels as recep
tacles for papers and refuse would in
sure keeping the camping space clean,
for automobile tourists as a rule live
up to the standard code of cleanliness.
No camp Are privileges need be ex
tended, for the oil stove is one of the
essentials of the traveler's camping
kit.
In these days there are only two
arithmetical principles applied to tax
es addition and multiplication. The
tax person has forgotten how to'apply
subtraction or division to the tax
problem. State, county and municipal
taxes keep going up. Federal taxes
(m incomes get another whack at the
family budget and then along comes
theatre tickets and ice cream cones.
The soft drink parlors pluck their cus
tomers fur mure pennies and the size
of the piece of pie goes right on de
creasing. There cumes r.o end and no
way to beat this new game. Yet there
is a way, a perfectly simple and logic
al way! Curb the politician. Compel
him to quit creating new office hold
ing. Twenty-five years ago govern
ment was comparatively simple; and
candor compels us to say that it was
better government when there was not
so much of it, than the government we
are getting now.
No sooner did the Canadian govern
ment begin to deal firmly with the
Winnipeg strike than it broke down.
It needed only the arrest of the alien
agitators, the dispersal of a strikers'
parade and the proclamation of mar
till law to dispose of the men who had
usurped the govurnment of the city.
The Winnipeg upiising was so plainly
an attempt tu wrest control of the
city from the lawful authorities that
the original cuuse buB almost been
forgotten.
One of the sanest Fourths ever cel
ebrated will go down in history aa that
of the Victory celebration, Jul; i,
1910.
Camouflaged Philosophy.
In nlrpliintng the race Is to the swift
If the swift can stny up.
Feeding the world anil nimislng It
arc uur most Important Industries.
The trouble with some used. automo
biles Is that they have heen misused.
General Pershlnn has been made a
Kent eh doctor ot laws. Hoot, soin
Not a half timek yours ago pwpl
ptarerl at a woman wearing a sill
skirt !
TVhnt Is so rare as a steak you ask
the waiter to be sure and bring you
well done?
flnvlne been innde In (lermnny, bnl
sVipvI.niii wouldn't be expected to wear
well or long. ..'"
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Nobbing Is quite so expensive as
some Of these money-saving devices
and schemes.
However, the dollnr bill still holds
all records for speed in passing from
Contlrnintlon of Pnderewskl's deslrf
to quit playing the piano will come
from his barber.
It Is almost time to begin the an
nual drive tn raise that quota for the
summer vacation.
The crossing of the Atlantic In a
aeaplsne Is one of the few advances
made by the war.
There Is only one safe place to fol
low n i.oMomII; that's when he's re
treating In disorder.
Speaking of revolutions, bow mnnv
many times do you suppose lllsmarck
has turned In his graver
While v.nltlng for the government
authorities to decide what It Is the
hard elder keeps right on working.
ceipts for the previous fiscal year.
Nick ("Cap") r wn, a well known
elmracter of Lai sw, wal Instantly
killed when the lute In which he was
riding struck a sharp curve and'hirned
over.
Organization is accomplishing won
ders In material benefits for Its mem
bers. Why don't the consumers try Itl
Grain handlers of local No, :4 of
Portland struck for an increase -In 'the
scale from 75 to 80 cents aa'hour.
Loading of three steamships was sus
pended. William T. Booth, aged 84 and a
civil war veteran, died In Sftlem at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles V.
Calloway, wife of fie state tax com
missioner. .
R. R. Bartlett, chief engineer of the
port of Astoria, has been appointed a
member of the new engineering exam
iners' board authorized by the last
legislature.
Zane Grey, famous author and na
turalist, Ib in Klamath county, making
his headquarters at Rocky Point, near
the famous Harrlman lodge on Upper
Klamath lake.
The first labor union in Dallds was
organized when 20 employes of the
Southern Pacific shops organized a
local of the International Association
of Machinists.
The wool clip of the J. E. Smith com
pany of Pendleton, amounting to 65,000
pounds, has been sold to Boston par
ties for 68 cents a pound. Part of the
Johnson & Pearson clip brought 62
cents.
Governor Olcott has appointed Miss
Jane V. Doyle of Portland as a mem
ber of the state board of examination
and registration of graduate nurses to
succeed Miss Hazel Butler, also of
Portland, who has resigned.
H. S. Bond, formerly of Monroe, a
veteran employe of the Southern Pa
cific, assumed the duties of agent for
that company at Dallas, succeeding
the late L N. Woods, who held the po
sition for more than 30 years.
A daily wage of about $35 is ordi
nary pay for sheep shearers, accord
ing to State Veterinarian W. H. Lytle.
In Lake county the sheep owners are
paying 22 cents a head, and any tyro,
it is said, can shear 100 sheep la a day.
The United States government can
buy 40 acres of land adjoining Its rifle
range at Clackamas station from Ml-
chall Caffttoy for $4583.33 os a result
of the valuation fixed in a verdict re
turned by a jury tn Ivljral court at
Portland.
George A. Hall, Portland attorney,
and John N. Sievers, ex-juatlce of the
peace at Oregon City, were found to
have conspired to defraud Mrs. Parme-
lia L. Tyler, aged 86, of $21,942.47 by
the unanimous verdict of a jury in the
circuit court In Portland, which award
ed that sum to he elderly plaintiff
as damages.
First Lieutenant. I.onls II. Coiupu
of Salem, recently returned from ovc
seas, bringing with htm the croi:; d
guerre awarded by Marshal Petaiu of
France for bravery in action, will be
state parole officer to succeed Joseph
F. Keller, according to announcement
made by Governor Olcott.
A new irrigation project by which
1600 acres of land will be brought
under water on the south side of the
Klamath river, between Klamath Falls
and Keno is going rapidly forward.
The water has been diked from the
lands In that section and will be pump
ed on again by two large centrifugal
pumps.
If a man owns two automobiles and
buys apples by the peck Instead of at
so much each, he Is .wealthy.
But even yet the transatlantic
steamship lines tip not seem to he wor
rying much about aerial competition.
The question of udequate liidemult)
If worrying France, but not so much
as It ts worrying Germany.
Wonder if the poor fish, like every
thing else, are going to demand a
more expensive kind of halt this season.
Women of the world will soon be
voting and then If the millennium
hni:f.s buck It will be a mean old
thing 1
When General Foch visits the Unit
ed States the welkin will have nervous
prostration from overwork after It!
ringing.
In ten years It Is going to he hard
tn hud a soldier that did not bathe In
Kaiser William's bulhtub or sleep In
his bed.
Ma mw .jo Jtt.4b.i4. to tgf$ Jhtj
Now that women are to have equal
political rights, how would it do to
give men equal rights before seiiti
mental Juries?
The average gain of Americans whe
served overseas was 14 pounds, hul
the skinny fellows who really needed
It never got In.
The chief difference between
alien who dodged military service and
the American who did the same is that
the one Is an alien.
We are advised not to use force In
AinerlcanlMtion, hut what's to be done
when the Reds and I. W. W. can't un
derstand English?
Scientists are absolutely at a loss to
account for the taste of 11 new parasite.
It eats spinach. Maybe, however, once
it was carnivorous.
President Wilson has reassured
France Hint Americans are not dol
lar Worshipers. No; we merely like to
accumulate the eagles. ,
For one thing, a man won't have
to say: "I've got to catch an airship"
and swallow his eating-house dough
nut In one swallow,
Will water kill cooties? Maybe, and
yet It Is hardly possible that at tills
time anybody would think of giving
them itnylhlng stronger.
All the uutlops are now near neigh
bors, and each must learn to effect
compromises nnd live with Its neigh
bors In nmlty and prosperity.
German protests that the term) are
Intolerable forget that German acts
were Intolerable, too. and It Is simply
a case of making the punishment fit
the crime.
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Edward Burke, for ovor 20 years one
of the leading merchants of Baker, Is
doad.
A council of the Knights and Ladies
of Security has organized at Lebanon,
has organized at Lebanon.
The Klamath' Packing company at
Klamath Kails has been reorganized
with a capital stock of $60,000.
f'heeso to the umount of $16,000 was
lost when the Coos Bay creamery near
Marshfleld was destroyed by fire.
The Moro hotel, owned by W. C.
Rutledge, was completely destroyed
by fire on the afternoon of July 4.
The Methodist congregation of Dal
las Is contemplating the erection of a
new $25,1100 church In the near future.
Tim state lime board at a recent
meeting at Gold Hill ordered the crew
at the quarry reduced from 16 to six
men.
.Members of Hie Oregon Sthto Dental
atso' latum gathered in Portland this
week for their twenty-sixth annual
convention.
H. S. C. Phelps, v 'll-known through
out Clackamas county, died at the
family home In Por'.land. He was 91
years of age.
The McKonzic pass at the summit
of the Cascade mountains ts now open
for automobile traffic, according to
latest reports.
The first of the 1919 crop of wheat
was brought to Pendleton last week
from the Orval Wells ranch, north
oast of Yoakum,
The Winchester Bay Lumber com
pany at Florence has purchased from
the Duy Logging company about 8,
UOO.000 feet of logs.
H. C. Moore, for the past 50 years
a resldeut of Wasco couuty, died at
Gwendolen, east of The Dalles. He
was 80 years of age.
Business failures decreased 48 per
cent In Oregon during the first three
months of 1919 compared with the
same period last year.
The grange of Lane county will hold
a joint meeting In Eugene on July It,
when John G. Kletehum, national
grange lecturer, will speak.
Portlaml's postal receipts In the fis
cal year Juat ended were $1,704,080.18,
JJlfc.C2S.ES .grsUlvr Uau .Oje if-
SUMMONS.
In the Circuit Court of the State
of Oregon for Umatilla County.
Olevia C. Davis, Plaintiff,
vs.
Bert G. Davis, Defendant.
To Bert G. Davis, Defendant above
named: In the name of the State of Oregon,
you are hereby required to appear and
answer the complaint of the plaintiff
filed against you in the abuve entitled
suit within six weeks of the data of
the first publication of summons to
wit, on or before Friday, the nth day
of July, I9ia. And yuu will take no
tice that if you fail to appear and an
swer said complaint or otherwise plead
thereto within said time, plaintiff, for
want thereof, will apply to the Court
for the) relief praved for in her said
complaint, namely for a decree i of the
Court Dissolving the bonds of matri
mony now and, heretofore existing be
tween plaintiff and defendant and for
other equitaBI-; relief.
This summons is published pursuant
to an ordei made by the Honorable:.
Gilbert W. Phelps. Judge of the ahoy:-!
entitled Court oh fie 28th day of Hty,
lllli). The first pubrwatfon of this i
summons will be made on Friday the j
30th of day of May, ll, in the Ath
ena Pr;ss newspaper, published at
Athena, Umatilla County, Oregon, and
the last publication will be made on
Fridav the said tub day of July, ma. !
Dated this 28th day of May, mm. j
Peterson, Bishop & Clark.
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Residence and postoffice address
Pendleton, Oregon.
Notice to Creditors.
In the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Umatilla County.
In the Matter of the Estate of
E. R. Cox, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been appointed adminis
trator of the estate of E. R. Cox. de
ceased, by the above entitled court.
All persons having claims against the
said estate are hereby notified to pre
sent them to me at Athena, Oregon, or
tu my attorney, Homer I. Watts, at
his office in Athena, Oregon, w'thin
six months from the date of the first
publication of this notice. All claims
must be verified as by law required.
Dated at Athena, Oregon, this 6th
day of June. 1919. A. M. JOHNSON.
Administrator.
Notice to Creditors.
In the County Court of the State o
Oregon for Umatilla County.
In the Matter of the Estate
Ceoree yv Gross. Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that rtfe un
dersigned .Jjave beepgppoiDted Jxec
utorgyYif the last will and tWament of
Korge W. Gross, deceased, by the
above entitled court; and that all per
sons having claims against the above
entitled estate should present them to
either of us in Athena. Oregon, or to
our attorney. Homer I. Watts, at his
office in Athena, Oregon, within six
montbB from the date of the first pub
lication of this notice; said claim to
be verified aa by law required.
Dated at Athena, Oregon, this 13th
day ofJune. 191'J. Sarah J. Gross.
Homer I. Watts, Executrix.
Atterney James F. Gross,
for Executors. Executor.
Notice to Creditors.
In the County Court of the State of
Oregon, for Umatilla County.
In the Matter of the Estate of
Jennie G. Watts. Deceased:
Notice is heieby given that the un
dersigned has been appointed admin
istrator of the estate of Jennie G.
Watts, deceased, by the above en
titled court. All persons having
claims against said estate are hereby
notified to present them to me at my
office in Athena, Oregon, within six
months from the date of the first pub
lication of this notice. All claims
must be verified as by law required.
Dated at Athena. Oregon, this 6th
day of June, 1U19.
HOMER I. WATTS.
Administrator.
Bank Statement
Charter No. 4516. Reserve Dist. No. 12
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
of the Firjt National Bank, at Athena, in the State of Oregon, at the close of business
on June 3", 1919. KESpURCES.
Loans and Discounts $784 7 18 84
Total loans 7S4 718 84
Notes and bills rediscounted (other than bank
acceptances sold) see Item 57a 57 722 68 57 722 68 726 996 16
U. S. bonds deposited to secure circulation (par value) 12 500 00 12 500 00
Liberty Loan Bonds, 3 1-2, 4, 4 1-2 per cent, unpledged 6 800 00 6 800 00
lionds other than U S Bonds to secure postal savings deposits . . 1 000 00
Securities other than U S Bonds (not including stocks) owned un
pledged 470 00
Total bonds, securities, etc. other than US 1 470 00
Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50 per cent of subscription) 3 000 00
Value of banking house . $ 6 500 . .
Equity in banking house 6 500 00
Furniture and fixtures I 000 00
Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve Bank 60 690 72
Cash in vault and net amounts due from national banks 50 459 90
Net am .i.nts due from banks and bankers, and trust companies other
than incluoed in Items 13, 14, and 15 561 68
Total of Item 14, 15. 16, 17, and 18 51 021 58
Ch :cks on banks outside city or town of reporting bank and other cash items 25 87
Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due f.om U. S. Treasurer. . 625 00
Interest earned but not collected approximate on notes and bills re
ceivable not past due ! , 20 357 84
Due us on Victory Loan Subscriptions ... 29 385 00
Total $ 920 372 17
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in $ 50 000 00
Surplus fund 50 000 00
Undivided profits 2 529 82 2 529 82
Circulating notes outstanding '. . , 12 500 00
Certified checks outstanding li'; 4 49
Cashier's checks on own bank outstanding 209 55
Total of Items 32 33, 34 and 35 214 04
Individual deposits subject to check , 496 489 98
Cert's of deposit due in less than 30 days (other than money borrowed. . 287 961 24
Total ol demand deposits other than bank deposits subject to reserve
Items 36, 37, 38, 39 40 and 41 $7j4 451 22
Postal Savings deposits 319 25
Toial of tim: deposits subject to Reserve, items 42, 43, 44, 45 .... $319 25
Interest earned but not collected 20 357 84
, u-,0UJ ' ' " i," $920 372 17
Liabilities for rediscounts, including those with Federal Reserve
Bank see Item Id 57 722 68
Total contingent liabilities 1 57 a, b and c 7 57 722 68
State of Oregon, County of Umatilla, js: - I, F. S. Legrow, Cashier ol the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best ot my
knowledge and belief, F, S. LeGrow, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me Correct-
tnis lotn day ol July, 1919.
HOMER I. WATTS, Notary Public
lor Oregon. My commission expires Sep
12, 1920.
Attest:
W. B. Shaffer,
M. L. Watts,
R. T. Cannon, Directors.
Th Athena Restaurant
Loinmasson & McLaio, Proprietors
Meals at all hours. Quick service
Always the best the market, affords, Pies like mother used to make
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Now
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A. M. JOHNSON, Manager. Athena
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