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VOLUME XL.
Entered at tne Pot Office at Athena, Oregon A Second-Claa Mail Matter
ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. JULY 18 1919.
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INJURED BY TAX
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Miss Mildred Winship and Miss
Hazel McFarland, Athens young wo
men, were thrown to the pavement
and severely bruised Wednesday even
ing at the corner 'of Main and Webb
streets in Pendleton, when a taxicab
rounded the corner and struck them;
Miss Winship was severely injured,
while Miss McFarland escaped with a
few slight bruises. The young ladies
in company with Mrs. John Stanton
and daughter, Mildred, were crossing
the street when the taxi came up at a
high rate of speed and Mrs. Stanton
barely had time to clutch her daughter
bv the clothing, pulling her back, or
she too would have been struck by the
car.
Miss Winship was taken to Dr.
Temple's office, where she was found
to be badly bruised. Later, she was
brought home. The ladies 'were just
starting to cross the street when the
taxi, coming up Main street, swerved
into Alta. The driver, who was taken
to police headquarters, gave several
different excuses for the accident.
The Athena ladies say he was driving
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HARVESTING OPERATIONS
The warm weather for the past few
days has materially hastened the op
erations in Umatilla county harvest
fields. A number of combines are at
work In this vicinity and by the first
of next week all machines will be in
uijeiauun. ,
Lou Hodgens reports that Richard
howpson. northwest of town, is get-
sacks of wheat to the acre.
which would mean practically 6U bu
shels per acre. The yield is from fall
sown grain.
Scott Banister has finished threshing
a field southeast of town, which yield
ed around 85 bushels per acre. The
grain is of excellent quality.
Glen Dudley is rigging up his big
new Oregon Special to handle bulk
grain, and will soon be ready to start.
George fiheard ha? some grain that
is now ready, but will wait until about
Monday to begin, as the rest will tben
be ready to harvest.
Watts Bros, are threshing in good
grain, on their ranch nortb of Athena
Walter Adams will be ready the fore
part of next week to begin harvesting
hia barley crop. He also has wheat
that will soon be ready to thresh.
Thieshing will be in progress on the
Kirk place east of town ne week.
Marion Hansen's machine made one
sin a field yesterday with very
satisfactory results. 102 sacks of grain
drooping from tb msc'-'":;, where the
last crop ptoiluced 8 sacks on the first
Everett Giltis Dies.
The sad news reached this city Mon
day of the death of Everett Gillis.
aged 25 years, second son of A. M.
Gillis of Washtucna, Wash. The young
man. who died to a Walla Walla hos
pital Sun-Jay night, bad been afflicted
with diabetes for a number of years,
and bad spent much time in Spokane
receiving treatment for tin disease.
About a (oiple of months ago he came
to Walla Walla, and while there visit
ed in Athena two or three times, re
newing acquaintances of bis earlv boy
hood. Everett was born in Athena
and moved with his parents to a term
near Washtucna, some fifteen years
ago. His mother died a few years
ago, and was buried in Seattle, bis re
mains being shipped to that place
Monday night to be placed beside her
grave. He is survived by his father
and three brothers: Ralph, Lloyd and
Herschell, all of Washtucna.
C1EG0N NEWS NOTES
If GENERAL INTEREST.;;
The LebanoB cannery Is-taxed to
Its utmost to cure for the loganberries
offered for canning at this time.
The Oregon state highway commis
sion has let contracts for approximate
ly 100 miles of road paving, to cost
l,713,n3.
Records at the Portland city health'
bureau show that births from January
to July have exceeded the number of
deaths oy 378.
W. A. Reld, secretary of the Marsh
field, chamber of commerce, has re
ceived an offer of the secretaryship
of The Dalles chamber. 1
David C. Sanderson, publisher of
the Freewater Time, died suddenly
In' his room at the Benson hotel In
Portland, supposedly from heart di:
ease.
Deputy Secretary of State Roier?
announces that the 1919-1920 volume I
of the Oregon Blue Book will be ready '
for distribution the latter part of this
month.
Governor Oloott appointed Arthur
Berrldge, of Portland, as a menibaofa
the state board of accountancy to sue- "
ceed W. R. McKenzie, who has re-,
signed.
Owners of nearly 3000 acres of
prunes In Lane county became fnem
bers of the Oregon Fruit Growers Co
operative association at a meettngheld .
in Eugene.
Bend, McMlnnvllle, Klamath Falls -
and Astoria are the latest Oregon
towns to make application tor organi
zation of local chapters of the Ameri
can Legion.
Governor Olcott and Mayor Baker WaS'"nK!0"; 7
,.,, . . , ,. three hundred thousand aliens In the
of Portland have extended an tavtajj stntt,s are plimnmB , deger,
NUMBER 9
Golden Reflections
fWWHfti. ifliill.JB Will
tlon to President Wilson to accom
pany the new Pacific fleet when It vis
its Portland.
Construction of the Port of Astoria's
$1,000,000 export pier No. 3 will be
started Immediately by the Founda
tion company, whoae officials and staff
of engineers are now In the city.
Sheriff Anderson of Baker has re i
mrnea irora Han rrajv-isco "t
Charles Connor. tUe alltfc.- ...,rr
bank robber, who is now locked up
In the Baker county jail awaiting trial,
Sonator I. L. Patterson of Polk coun
ty, mentioned as a possible selection
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this country for their homeland and
.they will take with them upprosimate
4,000,000,000 American dollars.
These facts were'8fselosedvth a re
port by Ethelbert Stewart of Chicago,
director of the Investigation and in
spection service of the department of
labor, after an Investigation of pros
pective emigration from America.
The estimate. Mr. Stewart soys, Is
ronservittlve. That the alli!' 111 Ufie
14,000.000,000 Is figured on the basis
that the average amount each alien
will carry Is $3,1)00.
An official statement from the de
portment of labor says that up to June
QUAINT JIEXICAN COSTUME
for warden of the Oregon state penl- j 1 Investigations covered Chicago, the
Indiana steel mill district (South Chi
cago, East Chicago, Indiana Harbor,
South Bend, C.ary, etc.), Detroit, Pitts
burgh and surrounding steel districts,
Johnstown, Pa., Tonngstown, O., and
Wllkesbarre, Pa., and surrounding coal
mining area.
Of 103,403 Poles covered by the in
tentiary, denied emphatically that he
Is or ever had been a candidate for
the position.
Excavation has started for the $70,-
000 engineering laboratory building at
the Oregon Agricultural college au
thorized by the legislature, the con-'
tract having been let to Hoover ft Mc
Neil, of Albany.
A group of Scandinavian merchants,
financial men and traders visited In
Portland and placed contracts for big
quantities of foodstuffs, manufactured
goods and raw products and for the
construction of ships.
Fire losses in Oregon, outside of
Portland, for the month of June ag
gregated $446,854, according to a
statement by State Fire Marshal Har
vey Wefts. Albany, Hood Rher and
Marshfleld suffered the heaviest loss.
Clatsop county is in need of school
Weston Pioneer Called.
Hezekiab Key, a noted figure of Wes
ton's pioneer days, died suddenly on
the evening of the 4th, at his home
below that city, while carrying a
bucket of water. Mr. Key, who bad
reached the age of H9 years, was a
native of North Carolina, and was
among the first of Weston's wheat
farmers on a large scale, end was well
known aa the proprietor of a "gallon
house," whew he manufactured liquor
in an early da. Mr. Key is survived
by bis widow, one son, William Key
of Cottonwood. California, and three
daughters: Mrs., J. N. Tork of Milton,
Mrs. George Badgett of Pendleton and
M.e. T. H. Wyland of Pilot Rock.
Successful in Contest.
Miss Maud Sherman of this city was
one of the four successful contestants
in suggesting a suitable name for the
a new (hop to be established in Walla
Walla, bv W. H. Thomas, proprietor
of the Paris store in Pendleton. "The
Criterion," was the name suggest. '
by Mies Sherman, and th" '
Walls Walla.
teachers and unless application are n-ftee tl,ree tlmes " frllMl Potf"cs
ooljjsd for existing vacancies soon,
several country schools will be with
out Instructors next fall, according to
O. H. Byland, county superintendent.
Seth h. Roberts of Portland was ap
pointed by Governor Olcott to succeed
J. W. Ferguson as a member of tho
state board of accountancy. Mr. Fer
guson resigned when he became a
member of the industrial accident com
mission. The grain yield of Clackamas coun
ty for 1919 is to be larger than for
many years, and the farmers, who
have planted much of their land this
year to oats, wheat and other grain,
are optimistic over the outlook for a
large harvest.
The war mineral relief committee
will arrive In Portland July 24 and
will remain one day investigating the
claims of chrome mining Interests in
Oregon for reimbursement of losses
sustained while producing oro for the
government.
According to reports from Washing
ton the Pacific fleet and Secretary of
the Navy Daniels will visit the Co
lumbia river harbors when the new
fighting division of America's tint- Is
sent to take bp its position on the
western coast
One million dollars worth of state
nignw&y Donas were aenvereo iij i
vestigntlon, 24,890, or lS.OjLp'er gent,
will retrun to Poland, Austro-Hunga-rinns,
28.02 per cent; Russians, 35.70
per cent; Crnatlans, 21,75 per cent;
Lithuanians, 0.72 per cent; Rouman
ians, 64.20 per cent; Italians and
Greeks, 11 per cent; Serbs, 30.00 per
cent ; Slovaks, 34.50 per cent. .
10W TO LIVE TO Bt EIGHTY
Eat Pie, Buckwheat Cakes and Other
Fried Things and Drink
Black Coffee.
Rlchwood, N. J. Strong block cof-
fried eggplant and other fried foods,
with buckwheat cakes every morning
for breakfast and warm mince pie for
lunch, In season this Is the sort of
diet of so-colled "digestion miners"
that Joseph Munyan of Rlchwood has
thrived upon and which Just sort of
whetted his appetite for his sixtieth
wedding anniversary dinner, served at
- family reunion to clebrate the
vent.
Mr. and Mrs. Munyan have been liv
ing at Rlchwood foe n half century,
the husband having kept the general
store in the village for 25 years, until
he retired about fifteen years nsio and
turned the business over to a son. His
Esnrvlval of a diet which would have
laid many an ordinary man low before
his prime may be attributed to the fnc!
flint he got one of "the best cooks In
the world," when he married the pres
ent Mrs. Munyan at Ilurffville, Glou
cester county, on May 30. 1850.
"Wm Mt&t '
A beautiful 040-feptiai Mexican girl
of the better class" gowned In her best
and most stylish dress. It i . nn ex
qulsite creation.
State Treasurer Hoff to a syndicate bullet wonnd In the head
headed by Carstens ft Earles of 1
tic, who bid them In at the mi
meeting of the highway con m .- in
...nd at $94 26, the issue netting
lie state $942,$00 with acc.-uei inter
alt trom June.
JILTED, STUDENT SLAYS SELF
Maurice Kinnear Sends Bullet Through
Hla Head When Girl Re
fuses to Wed.
OberUn, O. Unrequited love Is said
to have caused the jSUlelde here of
Maurice Kinnear, tuen'y, a student nt
Oberlln college. Klnnenr's body was
ftmnd in the unoccupied academy
.building- of the college. There was
The -tu-
n -wo
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dent was wlrt to two grn
fle .-"wrr.
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EFFICIENT ABOVE ALL THINGS
Human Ingenuity Has Never Con
structed Machine of Greater Per
fection Than the Shears.
Recurring to the very high efficiency
of shears although Ihe use of the
word "pair" Is corn et when one re
members that eafb blade Is an old
English "sceiir," or cutler the luren
tor must have been n practical me
chnnlc. He was. probably, one of the
earliest of inventors, because unions
the pictures on tin' walls of the iocs
tuba, or tomb, of Tl, at ancient Mem
phis, shears are pictured for flipping
WOol from sheep and goats. The de
censed Tl must have been a person
of much Importance In the Flfih dy
nasty (2S00 B. C). alllmugb he mod
estly described himself as "Keeper ot
the Pyramids."
Therefore shears were In familiar
Me 4.500 years ago and theln general-
form has not been Improved upon.
This Is due to the true engineering
principle behind the shears.
The Invention would appear to have
sprung fell-fledged Into the world, like
Minerva from the brain of Jupiter
Imagination 1? required to picture the
admiration with whlph the first user
of a pair of ithears contemplated the
perfection of the service rendered. Al
though be probably did not recognize
the fact, the efficiency of the shears Is
89 9-10 per cent perfection.
ML TEACH THAlltS
Atlanta, Ga. Out at Camp'Josup,'
where the clatter and roar of machin
ery and the clank of metal In the gov
ernment's big shops greets the car of
the visitor, a new technical training
school has 'been established, and Is
open to the young men of the South
east. This new school Is the training
school of the Motor Transport corps,
and Is a part of the American univer
sity which is maintained overseas for
the henefltlof thpapn of Uie A. K. V.
It is now fii'iiouifcecl that the training
school will become a permanent part
of Camp Jesup, the great repair shop,
which has been established on a per
manent basts and Is located just three
miles out of Atlanta,
The new school Is now receiving stu
dents and soon will be a flourishing
Institution. The physical equipment.
Including all necessary machinery, has
been installed and the teaching staff
has been selected. Camp Jesup will
be one of four points at wW"K men
will be trained for the Motor Trans
port corps, and for future work along
mechanical lines.
The course of training calls for a
preliminary period of six weeks of
military Instruction by the military au
thorities of the cump. This will de
velop 'proficiency In understanding,
obeying and transmitting orders. Fol
lowing this eight base trades will be
taught. Sixteen weeks will be devoted
to each course of study. No class will
contain more than thirty students, and
there will be a laboratory assistant for
each six men.
The school will be open the entire
year and courses of Instruction will
commence three times each year. It
will be open to men who have had
no technical training ns well as to
those who are fat advanced but desire
the further training available at this
school.
The completeness of the training of
fered Is evidenced by the titles for
which the students will qualify. Some
of these are' selfTexplnnatory ; Motor
vehicle Inspectors, motor assemblers,
axle, transmission and chassis assem
blers and Inspectors; machinists, (a)
bench work, (h) operators of lathes,
milling machines, crankshaft grjnderi,
cylinder grinders; (c) toolmakers.
Tlie course In Ignition will train men
to supervise, Insiall nnd repair all
types of magnetic mid Ignition sys-temsi
Y PiCKFORD COMING
TO THE STANDARD THEATrfE
Tomorrow, (Saturday; evening, the
popular and charming screen favorite,
Mary Pickford, will appear at. the
Standard Theatre in "Amarilly of
Clothesline Alley." the first of seven
Pickford pictures contracted for. Miss
PickJTord, always a favorite, and es
pecially wjth the women and children,
will be seen In one of her best pictures
tomorrow evening.
Sunday, July 20-"Flare Up Sal."
witb, Dorothy Dalton in the titlo role,
promises to be a big drawing card,
inasmuch as Miss Dalton is a clever
actress. Especially strong in Western
plays. Miss Dalton's part in "Flare
Up Sal" gives her a aplendid oppor
tunity to delineate the character of a
woman of the gold camps of California
in the KOs. The atory promises to be
one of interest, and the pictures will
be thriilingly Western in setting and
action.
Wedneaday. Julv 8The National
Film Corporation offers "The Lamb
and the Lion," with beautiful Billie
Rhodes playing the part of "Boots,"
the idol of a gang of thieves, of which
Uncle Ben. "The Lion." is leader.
Miss Rhodes is cast in a splendid part,
in which she plays the vagabonl to
perfection.
Wednesday of this week, Naiimova
packed the Sta idard to capacity and
her first appearance proclaimed her a
favorite. This wonderful screen star
will come next on the evening of Au
gust 20th. in "Toya of Fate" and
again on September 6th in "The Red
Lantern."
GAMP PRIVELEGES
FOR AUTO TOURISTS
Automobile tourists are to be ex
tended camping privileges in Athena.
Action was taken Wednesday evening
by the Park committee of the city
council, when Marshal Dobson was in
structed to set aside a space of approx
imately 100x260 feet in the southwest
corner of the City Park for a camping
ground.
The phot of ground is to be enclosed
with posts carrying a couple of strands
of wire, so that other portions of tho
park will be protected.
A well is to be drilled and a pump
installed and barrels will he placed
conveniently as receptacles for debris
and refuse. No campers with teams
will be allowed to occupy the grounds,
this action being taken to prevent ac
cumulation of litter and danger from
camp fires. Aa all automobile touraists
have oil stove equipage, there la prac
tically no danger of grass fires being
started during the dry season. I r
Aside from being a good advertise
ment for the town, commercial lines,
especially provision and automobile ac
cessory dealers, reap results from tour
ists traveling through the country on
the State highway. All cities;, and
towns along the highway are recog-y
nizing these advantages and are pro
viding camping grounds.
Fine Penmanship.
"Our Boys With The Flag," a ros
ter of the sixty-five Athena men who
served their country during the World
War, ia the title of a beautiful spec
imen of penmanship by Dr. J. C. Bad
deley, and presented by him to the
Athena Library Board. Tho name,
company, regiment and division ot
each soldier is artistically inscribed on
a surface of vellum card board centered
behind a white pebbled matting, trim
med in gilt and mounted with a mod
eat moulding! The design is a splen
did conceptionSof appropriateness and"i
is valuable a.a record.
Street Paving Data.
B. Brelthaupt, state highway engin
eer, was in the city Wednesday even
ing and met with members of the city
council and submitted data relative to
tbl proooseo Main street paving. Mr.
Breithaupt will meet with the council
again in the near future when it is
probable that a full report of the pav
ing matter can be made.
Visiting from Alberta.
Mrs Ed. Taylor and Ave children
are down from their . home near Nan
ton, Alberta visiting her mother, Mrs.
Mclntyrj, and numerous other rel
atives. Sunday a family reunion was
held at Bingham springs, when threo
Bisters and three brothiss with, thir
respective families wore present? They
were: Duncan Mclntvre, Dan Mcln
tyre. Archie C. Mclntyre, Mrs. Ed.
Potts Mrs. Ed Taylor and Mrs. Groves
Pickel, the latter presiding at The
Dalles. Mrs. Taylor has two other
children, who remained at borne with
their father. Ttyo other brothhra,
Peter and Malcolm Molntyre, reside
in Ahbarta.
Mill Will Be Ready. '
Richarda' chopmill which has been
dergoing extensive alterations and
improvement will be completed in time
to take care of the harvest business.
The capacity of the mill' baa been in
creased and the facilities for receiv
ing, handling and storing grain aro
in keeping with the general expansion
of the establishment. Workmen are
installing the elevators, grain bins and
machinery.
and
The former crown prince has b
tsmie poller nnd Is worrying hum he
may develop Into a rock breaker.
REUNITED AFTER 12 YEARS
.
Brother and Slater Meet A-aln aa
Result of He i in Ohio
Newspaper.
Flndlay, Ohio Twelve years ago
Fnrris lulling and his sister were
si tpnrated when they left nn orphans'
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ii wiyvu uirj nuu pern pmceu
when their parent died.
In that time th' y had completely
lost trace of each other and It was
pot until this week that they were
brought togetl or through newspapers,
Railing, whose home Is In Flndlny,
returned this week after having served
with the 1 Seth infantry of the 87ih di
vision, Ills sister, whose home Is la
Toledo, read of his return In a news
paper and Immediately got In touch
with the Assoclnied Charities of Blnd
lay, which located the returned soldier.
A good cooking fuel
easy to handle
Pearl Oil, the Standard Oil Company's kero
sene, is a moit convenient and economical fuel.
Gives all the convenience of gat without tho
dust and dirt of coal or wood.
With a good oil cookstove you will cook in
comfort all year 'round. Bakes, broils, roasts,
toasts economically. Lights at the touch of a
match. No waiting for fires to come up, no un
necessary work, no waste. Concentrates a steady
beat on the cooking leaving the kitchen cool and
comfortable.
Pearl Oil is refined and re-refined by our spe
cial process which removes the impurities. It is
clean burning.
Pearl Oil is for sale in bulk by dealers every
where. It is the same high-quality kerosene as
the Pearl Oil sold in five-gallon cans. There is a
saving by buying in bulk. Order by name
We recommend New Perfection "
and Puritan Oil Cookatove
PEARL OIL
(KBHOSENE)
HEAT AND LIGHT!
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
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OL'Y i. HUNK, SpcciatAKeut Staudard Oil Company, Athena