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Advertising The cAthsna Press circulates in the homes of readers who reside in the heart of the Great Umatilla Wheat belt, and they have money to spend Notice! If this notice is marked RED, it sig nifies that your Subscription expires with this issue. We will greatly ap preciate your renewal $2X0 per year Entered at the Pot Office at Athena. Oregon, as Second-Oasa Mail Matter VOLUME XL ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. AUGUST 15, 1919. NUMBER 33 WHEAT IK IS WELL UNDER WAY The End of a Perfect Harvest Season Here Crop In Athena District Yield)) Beyond Pro-Harvest Expectations. The end of a perfect harvest sea son is in sight The bulk of the wheat has been harvested, and a consider able portion In storage, Saturday night and this week a number of machines have finished and pulled in. Perfect John Wall a Member of "Hand-Picked" Regiment Hoots Two Umatilla, Indian Characters WMlc In Paris. John Wall, who is with Pershing's six-footers, the "hand-picked" regi ment, writes him mother, Mrs. W. K. Wall of this city, a very interesting no count of the recent ovations accorded the American troops in so pean capitals. . This regiment was accorded the honor of heading the memorable Bag tile Day parade In Paris, a picture of wrlteh was thrown on vta screen at the Standard theatre Sunday evening as the feature of the Pathe Weekly News. This regiment, in which the Nazimova at Standard Playing "Toys of Fate" Mary Plckford Comes Saturday Night Billy Burke, Sunday. The great Naiimova will be the screen feature of the month at the Standard Theatre, appearing next Wednesday night, August 20th, in "Toys of Pate." In this producior. the Russian actress Is supported by the same cast that appeared her In "Kye for Eye,"' at the Standard hut month. . Pour of the big seven-reel Xazlmova pictujEea,,,were secured, one a month for four months. The S30 tember picture will be the "Red '..in tern," find the October picture "Re velation." With the two-reel come.Us, requirements are that each doughboy these productions comprise a nine-reel must be six feet in height and a thor ough soldier in every particular, has been pronounced by the military ex perts of Europe to be the finest body weather conditions prevailed during of phJ,ieaI manhood ever assembled the entire season of grain cutting, with the result that the crews put in full time. A large amount of grain was har- under any commander. The regiment numbers 3(00 men and when they swing through the streets of American cities, with General Pershing at their vested by bulk method this year, and head, the last arrival of A. E. P. will those 'who garnered crops by this pro ocss speak In high terms of It. Both self-propelled machines and Oregon specials and other machines pulled by caterpillars, were equipped with de vices for hauling grain wagons along- have been realized. While In Paris, John met Blue Peather, a Umatilla Indian girl, of the reservation, who with an Indian known as "Squaw Billy," was doing a Vaude ville act on the Y. M. C. A. circuit. side and dropping them off when fill- Blue Feather- who 18 a CarllsIe uate, is wen Known to tne Kouna-up ed. Other machines turned the wheat into wagons drawn by teams, and al together the bulked grain process has been well received here. A consider able quantity of grain, however, is still harvested In the sack, as formerly. The presence of smut In varied people, having taken part In several Round-Up exhibitions as a relay and trick rider. Bird Season Opens Today With the rising of old Sol this morn ing, the 1919 open season on grouse quantity has been the only drawback and native pheasants began, and will this season. The yield turned out tu remain open until sundown, October be far beyond pre-harvest estimates. lt- Th Dae" limit Is five birds during not a few near 50 bushel yields being W one day' or ten Wrds dur,ng any reported. Yields of better than 45 even consecutive days. The open sea- . . . 4 . son on China pheasants in this county wunuvw yci aa,i u mo vvutiuvii) imiu ui fall sown acreage, below 40 bushels is a rarity. Wheat sales of considerable mag nitude have been reported. One buy er, the latter pert of last vrVek pur- extends only from the first Sunday in October to the second Sunday In Oc tober of each year, both days inclu sive. Bag limit, five birds in any one day, or ten during any seven consecu tive days; provided, that no more than chased holdings aggregating 0,008 twQ f(male CWna peasants be killed ousneis. in addition, other sales were m any geven conBecutive days, made. i With introduction of Improved methods of harvesting grain, com- i parisons are in evidence relative to Present conditions with those of prior tieeage. Por Illustration, the Weston Leader says: "The Joe Key threshing outfit is one of the best equipped in Umatilla county. It consists of a threshing ma chine and an automatic hoedown, the Amputation Necessary The little son of Mrs. Carstena was taken to Walla Walla Wednesday morning, where it was found by Dr. Kelor that amputation of the left limb was necessary. The lad injured his left foot some weeks ago by striking it with a baseball bat. He was taken tu the hospital at Pendleton, where he remained for sometime, returning show. Saturday night, an etceptlonally strong program is oirerea. mr Plckford appears in "Stella Marls, the eve, pnptt.ar screen star having a sp'endid part. Also a nifty two-rsjl rnett comedy. Billy Burke will be seen Sunday In one of the best feature hic-turos tnni Paramount has.given th;s clever act ress to set forth her real talent, when she o rears In "The Myterious M Terry. " Pathe Weekly and new faces in comedy, Moren & Morin, oompletes the program. DOGS ONCE WERE WORSHIPED latter being a patent lever Invented by home recently. Tuberculosis develop- Mr. Key which saves the labor of three men; also , a fine new Yuba tractor, two headers, eight header boxes and five grain tanks, which haul three thousand bushels of grain daily to the elevator. The machinery is owned by Joe Key, Jean Schrimpf and AIlc Johnson. It requires sixty horses Including those used on the grain tanks and water wagon twenty eight men and a Pord Jitney to ope rate this outfit. Which Is some outfit. But Marlon Hansell, with a self-propelles, operat ed by three men, four four-horse teams and four drivers seven men In all, and sixteen horses has averaged around 16.00 bushels per day since harvest began. This is the difference between the ola and new methods of harvesting. ec. from the injury. The operation was performed at nine o'clock yester day morning. Hot Stuff Plant Resumes. The "hot stuff" plant, recently des troyed by fire at Adams, has been re built and is In operation again. The gap between Adams and Blakeley is being drawn together, and in a short time the highway will be hardsurfaced from Adams to Pendleton. A stretch of hard surface already extends from Adams this way, and from now on, work will be centered on the Athena Milton section, with plants and big outfits on each end, working toward the center of operations. Custom Practised In Many Countries In Past Age Ethiopia Had One for a Monarch. Dog worship spread from Egypt to many other countries, where U took different forms. The Romans' sacri ficed dogs to Anubis. to the lesser (log star, I'rocyon. and to Pan, and the Greeks made similar offerings to pro pitlate Proserpine, Murs, Heeute and other imaginary beings of whom they stood In fear, says Nutlonal Geographic Magazine. Plutarch says: "The circle which touches and separates the two hemls pheres, and which on account of this division baa, received the name of horizon, Is" Called Anubis. It Is' rep resented under the form of a dog be cause tills animal watches during the day and during the night." Out of this idea II seems there aro' two mythical personages Mrrevr.v Hermes, and Cerberus, the three-head ed dog supposed to guard the gates of hell. But ' there were humbugs even In those days, and they humbugged the dog worshippers even as charlatans often humbug Christians today. Per haps the limit of deception was prac ticed on a certain nation in Ethiopia, which Is said to have been bambooiled Into actually setting up a dog for Its king. Clod In royal robes and with :i crown upon bis head, ho sat upon bis throne and received the homage of his subjects. He signified his ap proval by barking. He conferred hon ors upon a person by licking bis' band, and a growl might condemn a man to captivity or death. A Fine Shop With the installation of its third slug casting machine, a three-magazine In tertype, the Pendleton East Oregonlan will have the most complete and effi cient mechanical department of any newspaper in the Inland Empire. With the Installation of, the new ma Powers Hisses Opportunity. - Kernel Wood has suspended publl. cation of the Leader for this week in nrflfv in tka JL JTU'.ch-needed VSCS- tion. He Is In Portland, where last chine at a cost of $00,-a printing .,. a. f u Di.ni1i.ff.ri in- h affiliated with a choice col. Plan Wllmn " - lection of newspaper Kernels from all parts of the U. S. members of the National Editorial Association. Sentl- J stltution will be in a position to vir tually do away with hand composi tion altogether. ment at Weston appears to favor Wood's vacation, but unanimous Okay is withheld for the reason that profes sional Jealousy seems to have side tracked Bill Powers' grand opportun Will Improve Farm Home. Melville Johns, who about October I, will move to the Johns farm west of Athena, which for many years has heen under lease to Bern Banister, ity to give the people of Weston one ! contemplates making extensive im- provemenis 10 iu - biuldings. The improvements will in- real live edition of the leader. "POKER FAC" HAS ITS USE Ability to Hide Emotion Will Fre quently be Found of Value in Game of Life. Princeton is about to send 118 grad uates out Into the world. Some of them are whimsical young fellows, as would appear by the way they filled out questionnaires which asked them, among other things, what of most value had been received by them In their col lege course. One reflective senior avowed unblushlngly that it was "his allowance." For others, "cheeks," "a poker face," "the art of bluffing," "learning hogr to loaf scientifically," were their acquisitions of highest worth. The value of no one of these can be gainsaid, for most lives bring emer gencies when any one of them may be of the highest use. There are some who may be skeptical of the ad vantagesof the "poker face." Yet who can doubt the value on occasion of a poised, impassive, Imperturbable coun tenance which gives no slightest hint of the hopes and fears it masks, A physiognomy under complete con trol Is almost essential to a dlplomnt, and this ability to hide emotions be hind a changeless exterior goes fur to give the Japanese envoys the repu tation of being the best poised states men. Countenance! which light up with emotion are more attractive. Mini mm MME. RAYMOND POINCARE DIED LAST EVENING H. C. Caplinger, Oregon pioneer and Indian scout of early ' days, died last night at the home of bis stepson, Will Campbell, near Warren station, after a long illness. Funeral services will be held at tbe Christian church, in this city, Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Obituary next week. SCRAP BIG WARSHIPS Great Britain to Dispose of Ves sels by Auction. .i . r,inn foot screened veranda on n-sides of the house, part of wnicn i Wooden faces are never winning iu L" U . . . , . ., - ..AP.1 Hilt Robert Steen Dead. Ttobert. eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. lw0 . . . tn. i xwentaMon of the word. But . -rrflneeu ,o Ultiuuc --r- Grant Steen, residents of Dry Crees. furntoh,d ..,..:., &.trHo t Walls. porcn, aim v' for an open-air living room. Chrtsialn Church Sunday school it 10; regular preach and 8 p. m- Union died at Midnight, Saturday at Walla Walla as the result of obstruction of the bowels during a surgical opera- j tion. Funeral services were held at h. i. ami Tuesday afternoon the injr at 11 a. m remain, were interred in Weston meeting at this church, Sunday night, eemeterv. The lad was a nephew of B. B. Burton, Pastor. , Ibt J.C Burke, of M city. THE EXD OP they are the winning faces In two at least of the exeltlng games of life, di plomacy and poker. Rochester Post Express. With American peasants raking In $2.20 n huhet on n liHtlnn-bitihel crow It's no ivmh'' - ' 'rt lee wfU mrp Many of 200 That Have Outlived Use fulness Hold High Place in Naval History. London. Nearly 200 warships of the British navy, most of which have outlived their usefulness, ore to be sold to the highest bidder as soon as they can be cleared of their guns, etc. Among the vessels to be disposed of are several which have a high place In naval history nna around which hovers an Intense sentimental interest. A somewhat similar step was taken by the admiralty in 1904, when a large number of obsolete vessels were dis posed of. At that time a great hue and cry was raised, as many persons feared that the strength of the navy would be seriously Impaired. But, as a matter of fact, the sale of the ships resulted In making the navy stronger thnn ever and the coming sale Is expected to have a similar effect. The removal of obsolete vessels In 1004 had a two-fold purpose, and In both respects was justified by the war. It set free the personnel needed to start the nucleus crew system, and placed out of commission ships which did not give an adequate return in fighting efficiency for the cost of their upkeep. WldeiSpread Intercut HI be aroused by the revelation of the names of ships to he removed - from service. Sentl- Half of Money Raised For a Swimming Pool Wopen Use Petticoats; Put Out Field Fii e A recent photograph of Mme. Ray mond Poincare, wife of the president Of France. cmtal interest in his majesty's ships f war Is strong, amounting almost to j werence, evoked by snch nn ancient , monument ns Nelson's Victory. Among the ships now to be dis posed of are many which have been brought prominently before ihe public eye. Several have flown the flags of distinguished officers, and not a few have made records In connection with the war. More than 100 destroyers, compris ing the "A" to "F" classes, are now classed as noneffective, and 97 of them, Including 21 for Immediate dls- posal, appeared in the list of April 9. I There will soon, therefore, be no de I stroyers In the navy launched before 1909. All the torpedo boats, except the 38 turbine-driven boats of the coastal tyne built In 1900-09, ore be ing clearetr off, and 40 are in the list. Perhaps the most Interesting unit of this group is torpedo boat No. 079, which in the naval maneuvers was commanded by King George, then a lieutenant In the navy. Grain Field of Casper Woodward Sav ed by Prompt Addon. r'-tWny-tfimFRcMlf. t- whip tut the fire, Mr. c. F. Wood, of Pendle ton, visiting nt the home of Mr. e.a.l Mrs. Casper Woodward, v est of Athe na, and Mrj. Russell. ! arveet co 'k saved a wheiu field on ihe Woodwrrd place from horning. The ladies passed the field In nn automobile, end on ibelr return, shortly afterward, they found thj stubble bla.tnv with flames. Nothing was at hand which could be used to fight the fin:. -ind to rre for hV.i meant disastrous spread of the flame.s Nothing daulted, they divest ed themselves of their petticoat and with this wearing apparel, vigorous!? weHded, subdued the fire after only f've sacks of grain had ''eon destroyed. Mr. Woodward generously pnved his apreclatlon by purchasing eich lady a new petticoat ad ng a cash re ward of f 20. ' The fire originated in the stubbie at the roadside from an unknown cause, though tracksdtclosed where an automobile nad turned around in the highway at the spot where the fire started. A Lawn Partv. Mrs. Lula Read, aslsted by her nelce Miss Vera Cross, gave ' a birthday party for her daughter, Jennamae, Saturday afternoon. The guests were: Kathleen and Freddie Radtke, Lorena and Doris Schuoert, Edna and Roy DcFreece. Dale Stephens, Oral Mlche ner, Kenneth Kmmcl, Marjoric Boo lier, Belle Anderson, Areta Kirk and Elizabeth Steele. o Sollctatlon for funds to .construct a swimming pool In the City Park, Is meeting with success sufficient to In sure the consummation of this much desired civic enterprise In the near fu ture. A fund of approximately $400 ha been held at the First National Bank since the beginning of the war, when the project was of necessity, dropped. A few days ago, the matter of the natltorlum or swimming pool was re vived, with the resolution to see suffU clent funds raised- for construction purposes or failing, to turn the fund contributions back to the original subscribers. The result of a few hour work succeeded in bringing the fund up to nearly $1500, Including jhe orig-inalHOO. At the present cost of material, the construction of 'he pool, 70 by 35 feet dimensions, Including dressing rooms, with lockers, for men and women, complete without figuring any dona tion work, has been estimated ty contractor Scott at $2300. To thh, amount Has been estimated $700 for excavating a well and installing a pump and motor, bringing the total cost up to $3000. if V The plans and specifications pro it alls 12 Inches thick, smooth surfaced with 8 foot surrounding the pool and dressing rooms at each end, spring boards, rubber matts, ladders, etc. The dimensions, 70 by 35 feet Inside measurements, will provide a pool practically as large as the one at Bing ham Spring. The depth of water will range from three foot In the shallow part to eight foot in the deepest part. The plans were secured by Mr. Lc Grow and are modern In every parti cular. They may bo scon at the Prcts office. An August Cleanup Sale Our Annual August Cleanup Sale Opens Sat- ' urday Morning, Avgust 16th It's the greatest economy event since the war began. Every de partment of our great store offers wonderful bargains Groceries, Shoes, Women's Ready-to-wear Garments, Mens Clothing, Mens and Women's Furnishings, Dry Goods, Kitchenware, etc. GREATEST AUGUST SALE EVER HELD IN PENDLETON and it's right in the face of the most rapidly rising market we've ever known. Don't wait. You will be the looser if you do. Don't hesitate. Buy now, to last you a whole year. Pendleton's Greatest Department Store THE PEOPLES WAREHOUSE Where It Pays to Trade . ?BtoK2SHIiiCEiH