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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1922)
..SEE IS ABOUT IT. That big advertising deal on Crystal White Soap HOARDS INCREASED IN VALUE Cordis Reynolds of the Yakima Morning Herald is spending the week end with Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Keen. The young man is a brother of Sam Reynolds, former Westonite. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Oculd, accom panied by Mrs. Sidney Tucker end son Keith, motored to Walla Walla Monday on a combined business and pleasure irip. Miss Francei Compton returned Monday from a two weeks' visit lb relatives and triendj in Portland and t'alem. September has brought to tins friends of their boyhood at Weston. They were among this town's most popular urchins in their younger days, and everybody is glad that they are making good and doing the old burg credit in Oregon's big city. They will remain in the county until after the Round Up. Levi O'Harra left Monday for a sojourn at Bingham Springs. Levi's health shows considerable improve ment since he began taking treatment for an internal growth from a Seattle radium specialist who has installed an elaborate machine for this sort of practice. He makes regular trips to Seattle. Mrs. L. I. O'Harra has been ap pointed by the city council as a Fred Benn and Mrs. Emma Margraff, and by Mr. Benn. Phil appears to he enjoying his visit, and there is every evidence also that his old-time tilli cums are. He admits that Weston's new paved streets are a big asset, but suggests in private conversation an improvement that he thinks would help considerably. M. J. McDaniel, an early-day resi dent of Weston, was here this week from his home at Portland. Newton and Herman O'Harra have begun harvesting their bean crop in the Pea Ridge district. The weather this season has been very favorable for beans and the O'Harra fields are looking good. The variety is Red Mexican and the yield promises to Austrian Peasant Who Burlsd Coins Are Now Worth Enormous Sums, on Paper, Thousands of central and eastern European peasants, following a time honored custom, burled their silver coins against a rainy day. These sil ver coins, writes Joseph Szebenyel In the Atlantic, naturally retained their formal value. But the hoarding was done on such an extensive scale that, as early as 1918, all silver coins had disappeared from circulation In Ger many, Austria-Hungary, Jugo-Slavia, Itoumanla and Poland. Today a peasant who burled 100 5-kronen pieces Is a millionaire; he can exchange the 500 kronen In silver for 1,000,000 kronen In paper money. In Austria-Hungary alone there had been In circulation somethinir like 200,000,000 kronen worth of sliver money before the war. It would take Austria the enormous sum of yjO.OOO, 000,000 kronen to buy up her half of this hoarded sliver currency. The fact of being a millionaire In those (vuntrles does not mean any thing. Such a million Is a million In figures, but not In value; and when such a million Is converted Into a sound currency, the shrinkage is fabulous. But the purchasing power of the depreciated currencies of cen tral Europe has not gone down quite In proportion with the decrease of their exchange value. One million Austrian kronen, which were worth before the war almost $200,000, are worth today not quite $120; but their purchasing value in Austria Is con siderably more than that. ihemcnm Copyright. 1923, Western Newspaper Union I have a creed a creed that's good and true That serves me In my need In all I do- Falth In my God and His eternal plan; Faith In the good He's placed In every man; Faith In the land that bore me, and the Light It holds aloft tor lovers of the Right -John Kendrick Bangs. "YANKEE DOODLE" HIS CHOICE e- member of the local library board. reach as much as 800 noonds to the gion an unwonted number of net, jry Last Saturday afternoon Mrs. O'Har- acre nm 30 a bean cutter : and a bean thresher are used in die and dusty days. Some spicy weather, ra took charge of the desk work, as with a tang in the air, would mile 9 it ted by lira, llama Price, everyone fed livelier and give test Verrjie Clark, who is liiaiHiiipM for dairy occopekons. with a state kigfcway crew, ws in Mr. and Mrs. John Bane; and two Uae first of Use week icr a daughter Hay of Hontarill ftWu, it o, fcj, Mr everts but week at the home of Mrs John Beaton, wile on his Jlr. and lira, tmest Koas. , y to Durk for a vacation. wouid Iike to hve in m countrT and Mus Clara Stermer, daughter of The yonng man is a son of John W. try out its farming advantages but Rev. and Mrs. A. J. Starn er of La , Clark, formerly of Weston. j are not prepared to buy. Inquiries Grande, is visiting .with Mrs. W.j Mayor Jones was in Portland dur-(from this ciass are received almrwt J. E. McDaniel local realty opera tor, reports a brisi demand for lands to rent in the Western country. He t ould rent out scores of places if be had them, he save, to neonle who E. Driskell and plans to in town for several weeks. Ralph Read of the collection de partment of the Northwestern Na tional Bank of Portland, md Truman (Jiminie) Read, mechanical drafts man with the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co., motored tip from the metropolis this week on a vacation trip and were cordially greeted l y Coming To Pendleton Dr. Mellenthin SPECIALIST in Internal Medicine for the past eleven years. POES NOT OPERATE Will be at St. George Hotel Wednesday & Thursday, October 4th & 5th. Office Hours: 10 a. in. to 4 p. m. Two Days Only No Charge for Consultation Dr. Mellenthin Is a regular graduate in medicine and surgery and is li censed by the state of Oregon. He visits professionally the more import ant towns and cities and offers to all who call on this trip free consulta tion, except the expense of treatment when desired. According to his method of treat ment he docs not operate for chronic appendicitis, gall stones, ulcers of stomach, tonsils or adenoids. He has to his oreldt wonderful re sults in diseases of tlin stomach, liver, bowels, blood, skin, wetting, catarrh, weak lungs, rheu niitisin, sciatica, leg ulcers and rcct.il ailments. If you have hona ailing for any length of time and do not get any better, do not fail to call, us impro per measures rather than disease ate very often the cause of our long standing trouble. Remember abovo dale, that consul tation on this trip will be fr.'e and that his treatment is different. Married women must be accompan ied by their husbands. Address: 336 BoBton Block, Minne apolis, Minn, remain ing the first of the week on a bus I ness trip. Fred Henderson, popular bachelor agriculturist of Westo.n mountain, is temporarily out of commission, with a dislocate I shoulder and a damaged knee. Mr. Henderson quite casually stepped off the porch at the h. R. Van Winkle residence on south Wat er street, and was suddenly anci dis agreeably surprised at striking the ground with a dull thud. As he is no lightweight, it wns some thud, although Mother Earth seemed to suffer no ill effects irjin the colli sion. mr. and Mrs. will t'ayno were in Athena Mondav on a bmineis visit. II. A. llowd motored over from Walla Walla Sunday and took Mr. and Mrs. Allen Richal home for visit there. Tho Snling barn on north Water street, a Weston landmark for more than half a century, wail torn down this week and the timbers moved to the Klmer Tuoker farm, where thty will be used in the spring in the construction of his new house. The barn was found to ho vory substan tially constructed, as was usually the case in old pioneer days, and Elmer will get some good material out of it. Mountain growers are reported to be very busy this week rnguing out wilt from their potato fields. The spuds art looking good, but if the wilt is not carefully eradicated they may not pass the second and final field inspection, Mrs. Gertrude Evans of Seattle and Claude Carlile of Portland are guests at the home of their sister, Mrs. L. R. Van Winkle. This is the first time the sisters and brother have been together for a dozen years or more, and they are deriving full en joyment from the reunion. Grandma Head, an elderly resident of Reed and Hawley mountain, is un der Dr. McKinney's care at the home of her son, Alfred Read She is re ported to be in a very serious con dition. Dick Powers, who has long been a sufferer from ill health, was con veyed to Walla Walla Tuesday for treatment by Joe and Lowell Hyatt. His wife accompanied the patient. Phil Beathe, former Westonite, is here from Seattle for a visit with his brother, W. H. Beathe, and his many Weston friends. He U ac comptaied by hit daughters, Mr. daily. He also has an occasional in quiry from a prospective purchaser. Mr. and Mrs. William (Scotty; Keay and their three children were in Weston Tuesday for a visit with Mrs. Keay's parents, Mr. and Mr: Joseph Wurzer, while on their retura home to Gooding, Idaho, from a trip to Alberta. Mr. Keay is section foreman at Gooding on the Oregon Short Line. The annual conference of the Unit ed Brethren church is in session at Walla Walla this week, beginning Wednesday and continuing over Sun day. Bishop Washinger is the pre siding officer. Pastor Church and oth ers nre attending from Weston. The delegates from this congregation are Geo. W. Staggs and F. C. Greer. The Sperry Milling Co. has taken over the Pacific Coast Elevator Co. warehouses and the Portland Flour ing Co.'s mills, creating what is said to be the largest grain concern west of the Mississippi. S. A. Barnes will continue at Weston as agent of the new concern. Briton Decidedly of Opinion That It Should Have Been Selected as the National Anthem. America has missed her chance In the wny of national anthems. She, I understand, repudiates "Yankee Doodle" for "Hall Columbia" or "The Star-Spangled Banner"; she must be solemn about herself like all the rest of us; but what a lesson she would have taught us, what an artistic suc cess she might have been In every allegorical parade of the nations, if she had stuclt to "Yankee Doodle." I do not know what the words menu ; hut they sound gay and they fit the tune, which Is one of the best tunes of its kind In the world. I do not know who composed that tune, or when, or where, but It sounds as if It had grown to express the right spirit of a nation about Itself and to make fan of all the other solemn tunes which express the wrong spirit For how gay and funny and brave it Is; : and bovr it enjoys Itself; how it sets I the mind dancing so that the feet are almost forced to dance too. A musician cvali do anything with ; It ; orchestrate it with drums and i trumpets and triangles, slow and I quk-ken It, make variations on It, set j It Jumping and swaying and turning j head-over heels and finally stop breath less with a crash, for the cheers that would certainly follow. A. Clutton Brock, In the New Republic. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF MILTON GARAGE MAN Mystery still surrounds the disnp penrance of M. A. Harrah, Milton resident and owner of the Ingleside garage, who dropped out of sight while on his way from Milton t1) Walla Walla September 14. No trace has since been found of the missing man and no answers have been received by the sheriff's office in response to telegrams to different police officers throughout the Northwest. No reason can be assigned for Harrah's disappearance. He han no known enemies and was liked by his neighbors. Relatives say that he was subject to no mental illusions which would cause him to wander away. It is known that Harrah deposited a large sum of money in a Milton bank the Wednesday before he dis appeared. When he started for the fair at Walla Walla he is believed to have had approximately $10 on his person. W. W. Harrah, a leading Pendle ton farmer, is a brother of the lost Milton man, and is active in the search for him. He is at a loss to account for his brother's disappearance, SAD FATE OF HENRY JASON Abject Condition of Henpecked Hus band, Example of the Lota of Personal Property. Henry Jnson, the noted henpecked husband, Is another example ot what the loss of personal liberty can do to a man. When the fathers of our constitu tion passed the law relating to matri mony they forever put the shackles on Henry Jason. Henry's zero hour came when Portia Strong led hlin to the altar and the Justice of the peace tied the fatal knot. He has tasted no nectars of liberty since, Bert Walker writes In the Topekn Capital. But Henry has not the strong and forceful charac ter ot Old BUI Shiftless, so he sub mits without a whimper. He tried whimpering once and it put him in a hospital for two weeks. One day when Portia was away attending a meeting of the Advanced Thought club, which was very busy emancipating woman. a long-haired leader left a pamphlet at the Jason kitchen door. Henry stopped long enough to read the front pnge. The first line rend: "It Is high time to administer a rebuke and to check the forces which are try ing to overthrow our constitutional immunities and liberties." Just then Henry heard a step on the front porch. He thought It was Portia. He was nt once stricken with pnlsy and fell In a dead faint. It was two hours before he came to and was able to burn the pamphlet. He was still shaking like an aspen leaf when Portia returned at midnight. Had Henry Jason not been deprived of his personal liberty when a young man his name would have gone down on the pages of history nlongslde those of John L. Sullivan and Jack Deiupsey. GOOD THINGS. For those who enjoy a dainty ginger bread for an occasional tea or lunch eon the following will be enjoyed : Fairy Gingerbread Cream one cupful of but ter, add two cupfuls of sugar and mix well ; add gradually one cupful of milk In which three fourths of a teaspoonful of soda la added, add four cupfuls of flour and one table spoonful of ginger. Beat all together and tpread very thinly on the bottom of a dropping pan. Bake quickly and, while hot, cut in squares; remove rapidly. It will crisp at once. One may add a sprinkling of nuts to the top before baking and cut In squares, rolling In the form of a cornucopia. Fill with cream, Iced or otherwise and have a home-made cream cone. Oatmeal Cakes. Cream one-half cupful of butter or butter and lard mixed with one-half cupful of sugar, add one-half cupful of milk In which one-fourth of a teaspoonful of soda has been dissolved. Brown a light brown one cupful of oatmeal then grind It through the meat grinder, add one cupful of flour, grated orange peel or nutmeg for flavoring. Drop by small spoonfuls on a baking sheet. Nuts and raisins may be added if de sired. Indian Pudding. Scald two cupfuls of milk, add one cupful of boiling water and stir In two tablespoonfult of corn meal mixed with a little cold water, add three teaspoonfuls of tapioca, a pinch of salt, a half cupful of raisins and one-half cupful of molasses. Bake slowly and serve with a sirup made from prune Juice. Prunes may be used Instead of raisins In the pudding. Endive at Greens. Take a dozen heads of endive, wash and drain and cook nntll tender. Serve well bat tered with a dash of lemon juice, or a little hot bacon fat with pieces of crisp bacon and a little onion Juice and vinegar. Vole Carried 5,500 Miles. By means of the transcontinental telephone line a connection was ex tended to San Francisco and thence south to Los Angeles, where, by means of .a radio telephone connection, the circuit was extended to Catallna Island, thirty miles distant In the Pacific. Satisfactory conversation was thus carried on between Catallna and Cuba, a distance of something over 5,500 miles. This Is the greatest distance over which commercial telephone serv ice has thus far been established. The Cuba eubles nre the longest deep sen telephone cables In use, and embody In practical form n number of the recent scientific developments. To provide for the trnfllc expected three of these cables were successfully laid. Each cable Is capnhle of carrying simultaneously one telephone conversa tion und eight telegraph messages. CLASSIFIED Lost Gray suit coat, please re turn to this office. A Family of Organists. Edwin H. Lemare, the municipal or ganist of Portland, Me., declared a while ago that he believed his father, Kdwln Lemare, of Ventnor, Isle of Wight, having played In one church for 01) years, held n world's record. Mr. Lemare said that he took his first les sons In organ playing from his father. Later he went to Loudon and attended the Royal Academy of Music, becoming John Goss, scholar, lie also served for a short time as professor at that Insti tution. Speaking of music In the family, he noted that his grandfather, Fred erick Lemare, used to play the organ In a London church, and that bis uncles on bit father's tide wart all musical. For sale Household furniture. Call Mrs. Jerry Stone, phone 24F3. For Sale Chiffonier, library table, sanitary cot. Mrs. W. J. Crabill. Strayed One red two-year-old Jersey heifer; no brand or marks; tin blab in nose when last seen. Re ward. A. C. Geiss, Weston, Oreg House for rent, on 3rd and Adams street. Furnished or unfurnished. Refer to Mrs. Jane Nelson. Wanted The person I loaned a farmer's telephone set, to return It. H. A. Barrett. For Sale A number of uncalled for suits at The Athena Home Laundry. For Sale Second hand Ford road ster in good condition. Better hur ry. Also good second hand two wheel trailer cheap. Thompson Garage. WATTS & PRESTBYE Attorneya-At-Law Main Street, Athena, Oregon DR. S. F. SHARP PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special Attention given to all calls, both day and night Calls promptly answered. Office Third Street, Athena, Oregon. C H. SMITH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Athena, Oregon. Office next to Telephone Excange Phonal, Office 333; Residence 412 Hunters Stop-Look-Listen Shotguns and Rifles for less Model 1912 Winchester Hammerless shotguns regular $60 grade on sale at $45. Double barrel, hammerless shotguns regular $35 grade for $28. Double barrel, hammer shot guns, regular $30 grade for $23. Single barrel shot guns regular $16.00 grade for $12. Remmington Automatic Rifles regular $70.00 grade for $57.00 Winchester Rifles Mod. 189022 Cal.,regular $31 grade for $24. The above quoted prices will place the gun you have been wanting at a figure you cannot afford to pass up. Hunting season is not far off and from reports, we are in for a good season. Lets go. Watts & Rogers Athena, Oregon 1 'a fc5r&sraKWi737K ;Jja-VJ,JJSmmj.'-ur jmiH iwu amm imu sag jmp jhu iuib iimu hub lura iwp iwii iwu iwu iwn iikb imih mu ma iwn iwn iwa tufa iwa it The Athena Home Laundry G. W. FINCH, Proprietor Suits Cleaned and Pressed $1.50 We are agency in. this territory for the Troy Laundry of Pendleton THE ATHENA HOME LAUNDRY, PHONE 492 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 THE ATHENA BARBER SHOP AMOS O'DELL, PROPRIETOR Alvays at your Service. First-class Work guaranteed. We are here to please yu ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. American Beauty Flour la made in Athena, by- Athena labor, in one ot the verv best equipped mills in the Northwest, of the best selected Bluestem wheat grownj anywhere. Patronise home industry-. Your grocer sehVthe; famous American Beauty Flour Merchant Millers & Grain Buyers Athena, Oregon. Waitsburg, Wash The First National Bank if Athena Established 1891 Capital and Surplus $110,000.00