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Ik Mm Wtm AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER F. B. BOYD, Owner and Publisher CLARK WOOD. Associate Editor Subscription Ratea. One copy, one year. $2.00 One copy, six months $1.00 One copy, three months 75 t ATHENA. OREGON, FEB 24. .. 1922 SOUND ADVICE FROM BANKER J. K. McCornack, a prominent Spok ane banker, delivered a very able and comprehensive address at a recent convention of grain growers, shippers and millers, held in Spokane. Mr. McCornack's subject was "A Better Uuderstanding Between Grain Growers and Bankers." If his ad dress were generally distributed, and read with an open mind, it would do much toward bringing about a better understanding. We have room for only a few excerpts here: "The banker who is really anxious to be of service should firmly refuse credit when it is being dangerously over-expanded even in the purchase of land or any other good property which is liable to be a load on the debtor and cause later distress. He should consistently advise his cus tomers against unwarranted debt that might become embarrasing, even al though by such action he should lose what he conisders a valuable custom er. He should insist that his loans be conservative, beneficial and construc tive, and his advice should show a real desire to help the borrower and the bank with safety to both. "The customer should certainly not abuse his banker, either because he cannot help him on account of short money or because the borrower has already exhausted his credit and there is no immediate prospect of re payment and a strong probability of final loss by the bank. He should at least pay up his notes before think ing or saying mean things about his bank, or calling it a poorly run insti tutionbecause it is his best bridge while he owes it money. He should consider it his institution and help it if he can, rather than tear it down as its failure or lack of strength hurts him, his neighbors and the community. "I would advise the wheat-growers and bankers to get closer together, be more frank with each other, try to understand the other man's prob lems and troubles better and co-operate more closely in the mutual wel fare of both classes of business. The banker should go just as far as he safely can in taking care of the needs of the farmer. The farmer should work just as economically as he can with efficiency, and should do without luxuries and non-essentials until he gets back into a better con dition, principally in his own inter est, but also in the interest of his banker. If this policy is carried out, everything will come out all right in the end." Mr. McCornack considers it to be the duty of the banker to actively and fearlessly oppose the sale in his community of mining or oil stocks or other securities which he has reason to believe worthless. worth about $100,000. My accumu lation of wealth is owing to my fru gality, good habits, strict attention to business and the fact that an un cle died and left me $99,990." "What to Eat in Cold Weather." Lit. Dige, headline. How to eat in any kind of weather is a question as suming larger importance. Just now one-half the world not only doesn't know how the other half lives, but doesn't seem to care much whether it lives or dies. The sins of two political parties be ing so difficult to bear, we have no welcome for that third one, launched at Chicago. BOARDING WITH ONE'S WIFE Ain't it just like Germany, after losing the war, to leave it lying around for the rest of the world to stumble over? In reaffirming its telephone rate decision the public service commis sion is at some pains to clinch its own unpopularity. Granting that it feels sure of its ground and has the courage of its convictions, it need not have let fly such a stinging verbal broadside against the complaining ratepayers. A hard answer invites wrath. We have as yet read no facts ad duced by the senatorial inquiry which arc sufficient to convince us that there was ever an "unauthorized ex ecution" of n real soldier. Says a Louisville Times wheeler: "If you chance to meet a sneezer, swat him promptly on the beezer; thus you stifle his cadenza and avoid the influenza." Governor Harding of the federal reserve board says that Uhcle Sam is facing a period of prosperity. Our proof reader suggests a dash after the period. "If we ever get ambitious and start out to break a record, it will be the one the neighbor plays about 11 p. m.," sourly remarks the Kingston Whip. We gather from the outbursts of that gentleman himself that no Amer ican statesman was ever right except benator La toilette of Wisconsin. The owners of a British rum ship raided from the air off the Florida coast, no doubt consider themselves the victims of plane thievery. The only reservation we deem ad visable would be occupied for the time being by certain obstinate senators. We suppose the senate must dis cuss the treaties, but let it take care lest the people cuss the senate. Perhaps Landis got wise to the idea that he couldn't earn his big baseball salary and loiter on the bench. With peace in prospect for ten years, let's see if we cannot enjoy it better than we did the war. We're not surprised that a daugh ter of the house of McCormick should have a binding attachment. Looks as though the government airships, too, would be safer in a junk pile. At all events Mose Bloch has a good name for a money changer. Personal. Mr. Sunday Mondayed at the White House. The Irish Free State is likewise a state of irritation. Pawtucket, eh? Well, he ought to nake it behave. Why is Margot? We Asquith trepidation. TREASURE LOST TO WORLD Book of Gospels, Belonging to the Cathedral of Reims, Supposed Part of Hun Loot. Conspicuous nmong the grent liter ary works Hint dlsnppenrcil during the Inte war whs the fnmmis Hook of Gos pels, lint only the greatest treasure of the ratheclrnl nf Helms Inn mi object of veneration to the French people ninl the Slav nice ns well, which vnn- Miet! with the Herman array nftcr the hntlle of the Mnrne. Princess Anns of Itussln, the Slav consort of Henry 1, brought It Into France In the Elev enth century, and therpnfter every ruler of France used It at Reims when lie ninclo his vow to safeguard the rights and privileges of the Roninn Catholic church. King Chnrlet X, the Inst French king crowned nt Reims, kissed the sacred volume In Mating his coronation oath in 182". Peter the oront of Russia Journeyed to Reims to see It, and received II while kneeling and pressed It to his lips and breast. It survived the French wnrs nf 1,000 years; It was hidden nwny during the French rev lutldni It reappeared with the Bour bon restoration in IBM, The honk wns Written In the Bal let language and was magnificently bound Willi gulden coverings set with precious stones. Throughout eastern Europe It whs held In the greatest veneration, for It wns the must an cient Slav copy of the gospels. Use for Exhaust Gas. At Its point of Issue from the cylin der the exhnuet has n temperature of from 800 degrees to 1,000 degrees F and consists nlinoat entirely of cnrlmn dioxide a colorless and odorless gas. These properties make It suitable for carbonizing wood, that Is to say, iniik Ing charcoal, mid It Is now being utilized for that purpose In France. The hot gases nre caused to traverse a speclnlly const ructed oven, In which the wood Is suitably arranged, by which menus the temperature of the wood Is raised to about BOO degrees, which cnrbonlzes without bulli ng or Igniting It. Many ovens of this type were Installed during the wnr. In Algeria and Tunis, with the object of furnishing a substitute for anthra cite conl, which was very scarce and dear, for use In enriching low-grade gns for motor purposes. Popular Mechanics Mngnzlne. In the dogmatic view of the News paper Enterprise Association, "The only two who can live as cheaply as one are a flea and a dog." In an address to members of a newspaper association, a Western editor made this confession: "I am an editor who started about 20 years tfc'0 frjfch ffaty bi tents. Now I am "Good Neighbors." Mrs. Merrlwenther and her four small children lived In a little bouse In street, where the neighbors were exceedingly friendly over the back fence, and made ninny back-door calls. Mrs. M. begun to worry about the children and their surroundings as they grew older, and moved to an other part of the town. Shortly after moving I way (leraJdlne met oue of tho old neighbors who Inquired ns to how nIic liked her new home and the neighbors, (icraldlne, being only sevton and honest, replied : "We like our new home all right, but we haven't any good neighbors now they all stay home and mind their own business." Indianapolis tf'Vft. . ;'.-. - Remarkable Plan Adopted by Shrewd Jersey Man May Have Some thing to Recommend It. The story of the seventy-flve-year-old Jersey man who has just renewed a nine-year signed contract to board with tils wife (her age Is forty-five) at a fixed figure, and not to speak to her unless the house Is burning down, stirs In old-timers' minds the refrain of a favorite song of Sol Smith Rus sell : Oh, Ot'd Ilk to know Who runs this show: Is It me or Tlannlgan, the lodger? But, really, there Isn't any lodger In the Jersey case, nor any "star boarder," but the husband. The chil dren are grown up. Three eons sup port the mother. If the aged father pays bis board, he has no further re sponsibilities. And he has still a good job and Is content. Also bis wife Is content. Our reasonable guess It that she Is a mighty good housekeeper, observes the Brooklyn Eagle. Nine years with no complaint possible, without contract-breaking, and a renewal at the end of the term Is excellent evidence of that. There are no files on her coffee and none In It. The steak Is broiled and not fried. The bacon and chops are done to a turn. Even the hash must be eatable. Beds are proper ly aired and carefully made up. The bonrder doesn't have to wait half an hour when he wants to take a bath. Hot water Is available at all hours. Smok ing In your room Is permitted, prob ably encouraged. Perhaps the habit of speaking to a wife, or having a wife speak to you has Its disadvantages. It often de velops acrimony, sometimes alimony. Every sociological experiment, such us the Jersey one, Is entitled to be Judged on Its merits. The human race must live and learn by experimentation. ROMAN RECORDS IN AFRICA Discovery It It Believed Will Throw Much Light on Early History of the Empire. A discovery which, It Is claimed, will form one of the fundamental sources for a history of the Roman empire under Augustus has been made recently by Doctor Ollverlo, an Ital ian savant In Cyrene, the ancient Greek colony In Africa, founded In the Seventh century. A Morning Post correspondent, writ ing from Cyrene, says that excavations at Bengasi the ancient Berenice, which stood In the midst of the gar dens of the Hesperldes, near the mouth of the River Lethe have resulted In the unearthing of a block of marble eight feet long, one face of which bears a flawless Greek Inscription of over one hundred lines; the transla tion of a letter from Augustus on the government and administration of jus tice In Cydenalca, giving a wonderful Insight Into the financial and judicial conditions of the country at that time. Other Interesting finds are a sanc tuary dedicated to Eastern divinities, probably of the time of Julian the Apostate, with a remarkably well-preserved black marble statue of an Egyptian goddess. An extensive Ptolemaic cemetery also has been lo cated. At Apnllonln, n Christian ba silica of the Fifth century Is being ex cavated, and nt MerdJ, the ancient Bnrce, some Cuflc Inscriptions have been found which are held to be of great Importance when the history of tho Arab conquest comes to bo written. Fight Plant Diseases While continual effort Is being made to Introduce promising new plants into the United States, the various branches of the Department of Agri culture are striving to avoid making additions to the Imported Insects and plant diseases that are already cost ing millions of dollars yearly. For eign countries have listed several thou sand Insects of troublesome kind, with ninny plant dlseoses that are not yet Included nmong these Immigrants. Besides special quarantines and plant inspections the further prccnutlon Is being taken of restricting the numbers of the plants Introduced and growing for n considerable time In greenhouses or under conditions of Isolation, to make sure that nil pests have been re moved. After It Is made certain that the plants are thoroughly freed from Insects and diseases, they nre propa gated more extensively, and nre dis tributed In the usual way to growers for experiment. Aid for Struggling Authors. Here Is an item from the New York Globe of Interest to Impecunious writ ers: "It Is not generally known that the Authors' league has a fund for authors who are In distress. Re cently the league learned that a young woman who had won considerable dis tinction and prominence as a writer had through a series of misfortunes nnd through Illness been reduced to dire distress. A representative culled to see her and found her ou the verge of a physical and nervous collapse, due to actual starvation, Immediate means were supplied her, and In order to give her an opportunity to regain her health nnd to get her back to her work a substantial amount was raised among the members to carry her through this period of enforced Inactivity. Noise Eliminated. "You charge more for board than you did lust summer." "The place offers more rest and comfort," answered Farmer Corntos sel. "There ain't any election for guests to sit up all night and argue about." ODD BELIEF IN JIMSON WEED Cherokee Indians Imagine Child Par. taking of It Will Have Its Mem ory Quickened. The Cherokees have an interesting superstition about the jlmson weed, which they believe to be endowed with the occult power of Improving the memory and Inducing stability of char acter, according to the House Beauti ful. When a child Is born, jlmson weed is beaten up and a portion put Into a bowl of water taken from a fall or cataract where the stream would make a constant noise. This Is giv en to the child to drink on four successive days, with the Intention of making him quick to lenrn and giving him a retentive memory. The noise of the cataract Is believed to be the voice of the Yunevi Gunn hola, the river god, teaching lessons which the child may understand, while the stream Itself Is revered for Its power to seize and hold anything cast upon Its surface. The name jlmson weed, a contrac tion of Jamestown weed, wns be stowed upon the plant In Colonial times because certain soldiers, mak ing Its acquaintance for the first time nt Jamestown, Va., ate sprouts of It nnd consequently became delirious. The seed pods have a narcotic effect and, If enfen In quantities, nre very poisonous, causing a fatal stupor. Mathilda McCormick to Wed. Chicago, 111. Mathllde McCormick, 16 years old, has permission of her father, Harold F. McCormick, to marry Max Oser, horseman of Zurich, Swit zerland. The romance of the young granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller was pictured by Emll L. Burgy, Chi cago Interior decorator, who says he Is a first cousin of the SwIbs eques trian, as a Inv of spring and winter. "Mr. Oser Is not three times Miss Mr Cormick's age, as the newspapers havi atated," said Mr. Burgy. "He is older, he is 57 years old, not 48. I am his cousin, and I should know." Ice Cream for China. Thousands of gallons of ice cream are being shipped evtery month from Vancouver to China, the frozen dainty being forwarded In specially construct ed containers holding about 500 gal lons each. This fact was brought out In the course of an Investigation to discover whether the prohibition era had any effect on the sale of Ice cream and soft drinks. THE GROVE APPARTMENTS 104 North Third Street, Walla Walla Close in UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Cleaned and Renovated MRS. ELLA BROTHERTON NOTICE TO CREDITORS. In the County Court of the State of Oregon, for Umatilla Countv. In the matter of the estate of Kathryn Caton, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned has been appointed execut or of the estate of Kathryn Caton, de ceased, by the aboSe entitled Court. All persons having claims against the said estate are hereby notified to present them to me at Athena, Ore gon, or to my attorneys, Homer I. Watts and E. C. Prestbye, at their 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 17th day of February, 1922. EDWIN H. CATON, F17-M17. Executor. SUMMONS. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, for Umatilla county. The First National Bank of Athena, Oregon, a corporation, Plaintiff, vs. E. L. Woods and Anson B. Woods, Defendants. To Anson B. Woods defendant, (E. L. Woods and Anson B. Woods, de fendants:) IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF OREGON: You are hereby re quired to appear and answer the com plaint filed against you in the above entitled suit within six weeks from the dote of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: on or before Friday, the 31st day of March, 1922: and you will take notice that if you fail to appear and answer said com plaint or otherwise plead thereto within said time, the plaintiff, for want thereof, will apply to the Court for the relief prayed for and de manded in its said complaint on file herein, viz: 1. Decreeing the mortgage which the defendant E. L. Woods gave to Anson B. Woods to be fraudulent and of no effect as to the plaintiff herein: said mortgage being executed by the defendant E. L. Woods to the defend ant Anson B. Woods on October 28th, 1921 in the sum of $5,500.00 and re corded in Volume 37 at page 502 of the records of Chattel Mortgages for Umatilla County, Oregon. .2. Decreeing the assignment which the defendant E. L. Woods made to the defendant Anson B. Woods a gainst the Oregon Co-operative Grain Growers Association to be fraudulent and of no effect as to the plaintiff herein. Said assignment having been made by the defendant E. L. Woods on the day of October, 1921, to the defendant Anson B. Woods upon the Oregon Co-operative Grain Growers Association and amounting to from $1,200 to $1,800.00. 8. Decreeing the plaintiff's attach ment upon the two-thirds interest in and to the grain growing and to be harvested in the summer of 1922 up on the SEW of Section 29, and a three-fifths interest in and to all of the grain growing and to be harvest ed in the summer of 1922 upon the NE of Section 22, all in Tp. 5 N. R. 35 E. W. M. Umatilla County, Ore gon, and upon 21 head of work horses and mares with harness, one Holt combine, harvester, on pgdja, Broth- Buying Most, We Buy For Less WW incorporated 312 DEPARTMENT STORES ATHENA, OREGON Selling We Sell For Less The Purchasing Power of This Great Nation-Wide Institution Saves You Money. STYLISH LEATHER BAGS Offer Exceptional Values A comprehensive showing of stylish all-leather Hand Bags that will please the taste and meet the re quirements of almost every woman. Priced at $2.98 . BOYS' SUITS Two Pairs of Pants Two-Pant Suits in fancy models such as appeal to the boys and pa rents alike pleated Norfolk styles; single and double breasted models in popular Spring shades of brown, green, gray and blue. $7.50 $7.90 $8.90 $9.90 Spring's Newest Skirts All the latest Spring colorings in stripes, checks and plaids, and a choice of styles in novelty pleats, side pleats and box pleats. $4.90 to $9.90 ' V v- " THE LARGEST CHAIN DEPARTMENT . STORE ORGANIZATION IN THE WORLD ; ' . ers automobile, and the farm equip ment belonging to the defendant E. L. Woods, to be superior in right to any interest or claim which the de fendant Anson B. Woods, or his as signs may have therein to that cer tain mortgage which the defendant E. L. Woods executed to the defend ant Anson B. Woods, on October 28, 1921, and which is now recorded at page 502, Volume 37 of the records of Chattel Mortgages for Umatilla County, Oregon. 4. Decreeing the defendant E. L. Woods to be indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of $4,930.22 with interest thereon at the rate of 8 per cent per annum from the 7th day of Septem ber, 1921; for $500.00 attorney's fees in the said matter, and for the plain tiff's costs in said action; that the plaintiff have and recover his costs and disbursements in this suit from the defendants herein. 5. Decreeing a rale of all of the property which the plaintiff now holds under attachment in its action against the defendant E. L. Woods in the above-entitled Court or enough thereof to satisfy the plaintiff's claims in the said matter together with its costs and disbursements. 6. For such other and further re leif as to the Court may seem just and equitable in the matter herein. This summons is published pursu ant to an order of Gilbert W. Phelps, Judge of the Sixth Judicial District of the State of Oregon, duly made, entered and filed in the matter herein on the 16th day of February, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred Twenty-Two; the first publication hereof is ordered and is made on Friday, February 17, 1922, the second publication to be made on Friday the 24th day of February, 1922; the third publication to be made on Friday the 3rd day of March, 1922; the fourth publicotion to be made on Friday the 10th day of March, 1922; the fifth publication to be made on Friday the 17th day of March, 1922; the sixth publication to be made on Friday the 24th day of March, 1922, and the seventh and last publication to be made on Friday the 31st day of March, 1922. Said publications to be made in the Athena Press a newspaper published at Athe na, Umatilla County, Oregon. Dated this 17th day of February, 1922 HOMER I. WATTS and E. C. PRESTBYE, Attorneys for the Plaintiff. Office Address, Athena, Oregon. The Athena Bakery NOW HAS POLAR CAKES, 10C EACH ICE CREAM, FRESH CANDY and 1H lb BREAD, MADE CLEAN AND SOLD CLEAN, FROM ATHE NA FLOUR. Why not patronize the HOME TRADE? L. C. Bevens, Proprietor Tomlinson & Cudney Dray and Transfer Will Haul Anything Any where at Any Time. Prices are Right Quick, Reliabh Service Phone 22 Perry Hall Auto Top Repairer Don't forget to bring your old shoes to me when in need of repairing. I ! guarantee satisfaction. THE ATHENA SHOE SHOP New Tops Made to Order t MARCH Brunswick Records ON SALE TODAY- 30015 I SO ( J0050 1.00 30027 1.S0 toooo 1 100 f 8178 j 13033 I 1.25 j 6080 1.00 4 8170 75c 2181 75c 215 . 75c 180 75c I 2181 f 75c tl82 75C" 2183 75c" OPERATIC Eri tu che mncchlavt (U It Tlimi?) From "The Masked Ball," Act III, Scene 1 (Verdi). Baritone, In Italian. Giuseppe Danlae INSTRUMENTAL Melody In F (Opus J. No. 1) (Rubinstein) Pianoforte Solo Leopold Godowsky Air for O String (Bach) Violin Solo Eronlslaw Huberraan Stradella Overture (Flotow) Concert Band Walter B. Rogers and His Band Merry Wives of Windsor Overture (Nlcolai) Concert Band Walter B. RogerB and Hla Band Italian Airs Medley (Son GelORal Mamma Mia Marinariello O Sole Mio Campuna di San Guisto) Arr. by Perry. Ac cordion Solo Mario Perry Gloria Waltz (Perry) Accordion Duet Mario Perry and Joseph Pepplno CONCERT Little Town In the Ould County Down (Paecoe-Carlo-San- ders) Tenor Theo. Karle Lassie O Mine (Bowles-Walt) Tenor. ,. , Theo. Karle Aloha Oo (Farewell to Thee) (Liliuokalanj) Soprano Irene Williams and Male Trio Golondrlna (The Swallow) (Serrado)l) Soprano and Contralto Irene Williams and Elizabeth Lennox POPULAR Pear Old Southland (Creamer-Layton) Baritone. .Ernest Haro My Hawaiian Melody (Ringle-CootB) Soprano and Contralto Irene Audrey and Emily Earlo Ka-Lu-A (Caldwell-Kern) From "Good Morning, Dearie." Tenor Wm, Reese and Male Trio Say It with Music (Irving Berlin) From "Music Box Revue." Baritone Elliott Shaw and Male Trio In Bluebird Land (Williams-Short) Soprano and Tenor. Irene Audrey and Charles Hart That's How I Believe In You (Dubin-Cunnlngham-Rule) Tenor JameB Craven and Male Trio FOR DANCING Ty-Tee Fox Trot (Bibo) Carl Fenton's Orchestra Stealing Fox Trot (Sullivan) Carl Fenton's Orchestra I've Got My Hablta On Fox Trot (Durante) Bennie Krueger's Orchestra School House Blues Fox Trot (Irving Berlin) From tho "Music Box Revue" Bennie Krueger's Orchestra Smilln' Fox Trot (Rose-Wolohan-Krau'sgrill-Burtnett-Cooper-Stevenson) Introducing "Have You Forgotten?" Selvln'e Orchestra Good-Bye, Pretty Butterflies Fox Trot (Cooke-Olman) Selvin'a Orchestra By the Pyramids Fox Trot (Florito) Gene Rodemlch's Orchestra Right or Wrong Fox Trot (Slzemore-Binse) Gene Rodemlch's Orchestra McFadden's Pharmacy We carry the best MEAT That Money Buys Lard, Kraut, Kippered Salmon, Salt and Fresh Fish, Oysters, Clams and Crab, in Season. A. W. LOGSDON Main Street, Athena, Oregon