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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1922)
0 i V. K We extend our wishes . for a Happy,1 Prosperous New Year to alL We are .grateful for the patronage, given, us during .the - past year and : will appre-: - ciate- a continuance- of the same throughout the New" Year.; ' - V ': -. '.. V laynres ' Phone 561 for Prompt Service 3l. . -1 " 20 Years" Ago . ' ...... - f T- -... -. The drawing for the Shetland pony, harness and' cart took place Wednes day evening at the" Athena Mercantile CVi store. : The lucky ticket was 13501 and II. C. Manelawas the lucky man to hold it ,-. The drawing was from the wheel by little Herbert Par ker, a large number of people wit nessing the operation, which was fair and impartial. ; We the undersigned agree to closa our respective places of business at 6 o'clock p. m., from and including the 5th day . of January, 1903, to the 1st 'day of March, and during March, at 7:30 p. m., excepting Saturday even ings, which will be at 8 p. m. To the above we all most solemnly . agree. : Signed: Shick & Co., M. J. Bagley, It. J, Boddy, Taylor Jk Jarman, W. C. ' Miller, Mrs.' Chas. Norris, N. A. Mill er, Athena Mercantile. .Co., Ed Man asse, Gross & Worthington, E, R, Cox, John Hanson, well known in this city,' was found dead in . bed at his home at Touchet Station on Sunday morning, says the Walla Walla Union. Mr. Harry Englar, recently of Adams, but now a resident of Athena, was united in holy bonds of matri mony with Miss Nancy Wallan, who lives two miles northwest of Adams, on Christmas eve at the residence of Rev. G..W. Rigby, who performed the ceremony. ? After living 68 hours with three bullet holes in -his body Clarence Haler died in Pendleton '-Tuesday evening. 'I ' Apoplexy was the cause of his death. The funeral will take place today at 11 o'clock, from the Congregational church at. Touchet, Rev. A. R. Olds officiating. Interment "will be in the Touchet cemetery. , ' - . Little "Jack" Parker is about the most happy boy in Athena. He is the proud owner of a nice saddle pony, given him by -French Crigler. He is the envy of all kids and appreciates the gift as only a boy can. : Walla Walla is once more one of the widest open towns in the northwest, the moral wave which swept over the city 18 months ago and held the place in the rigors of , the Sunday closing law,: . . ..." ' Miss v Bessie . McBride,:. of Athena, has been ' employed to succeed Miss Celia Rena as typewriter,in the coun ty clerk's office. 1 Miss-McBride is a graduate of the Weston State Normal. Miss Renn resigned to take a position as stenographer ' in J the Hartman Abstract office. , . , r .. . The members of the -Friday After noon Club are taking much interest rn rthe work of the legislative committee of the Federations of Womens clubs. Special attention is being gir en; the proposed appropiation by the state to the Lewis and Clark Centennial ex position. Mrs. E. R. Cox, the club's president is in receipt of a Jetter from the board ;of,-idirectors of the expos ition, soliciting the1 club's influence in securing the required appropriation at the coming session of the. legisla ture. - , ' Lamar j . , . Mr; D. H rurcell, fatber of' Mrs. M. WV Hansell,' arrived. Friday from Oregon City to pay a visit to his relatives., - .'.' .',.vn Mrs. Mona Schwartz. a teacher in Pendleton school, spent Christmas at the Hansell home. She .returned to Pendleton , Tuesday, accompanied by Miss Laura Purcell who will spend a few days visiting in Pendleton.. v--1., Raymond Crumpacker, . who .is staying at Mr. Spauldings and attend ing Lamar School this Winter, went to his home in Pomeroy -Washington for the holidays., ' - ' " ON LIBRARY BOARD George Hartman of, Pendleton, has been appointed as a member, of ihe state library board by acting Gover nor Ritner, tof ill the unexpired term of Miss Cornelia Marvin, resigned. Standard Theatre, New Xears Night, at Regular Prices II f U ' V wlU Hi . Kilt him , . mla him mttk k Qk-Mli '"s.iM-' vjjvi, i J I V . Member of 'Your Family Si f 7 i 'Jr 'ti -rz .i l SX r? rv? 'A Kn no Piesented C'art'Laeiaj-nle in hi3 aiYatf-ct ?run Hinmnh 1 i U a L Wm WHEN lit faika him, Uaspard lost him self wd became a vol! in humn oru. i Then a child's tiny fingers tightened round his heart and filled his cup of fry t3 overflowing. But his song of Joy wu dcs&ned to be lolled and uaspard planned a rena wo . revenge. , ? j- nfc v mm - a 1 How, In the bJg . moeiMV b found hlmwtt ' Again, brings to a thuxulerxiiff climax dr&ma-A xic inuiiattooit woa.u tsax remcrzwer. a bbwo of your family fnrr- rAwi-'irrIWnnMni imw tulniiiFr s ." 4 VKAl KJT I TO Z. ,. , y". I A REMINDED COLONEL OF HOME Use of Word "Tote" Brought to Vlr; j glnlan Joyous Memories of His. ..... " Boyhood Days. Colonel Culpepper- came from Vir ginia so many years ago that he thinks he Is a New Yorker, and he has lost most of his Virginia speech. Occasion ally, when excited, he uses a word that is seldom heard In this city, but gen erally his. speech is correct In syntax and orthoepy. - : . .. t "I was made homesick today," he said, ''when I saw a word I often heard In my youth, but which is seldom used In the North. - It was the word tote.' Some man who does business on the cash and carry plan has named his store the 'U-tote . Service. - Tote is a mighty good word, and when I was a boy , we used It regularly. It Is good BUzahethan English. Up here you use the word .'carry.' Pown In Virginia we use that word In a broader sense. We carry a horse to water, carry a girl to Church or home therefrom. If we mean to take up and convey, bodily we say tote. .; - - ' kK'jV ' "The store slgnjoolt me back to my boyhood back to the time J. toted a girl's school books when I carried her to schooL" New York Correspondence of the Pittsburgh Clspatch. I,n ,".;'.;.y"-,i.- t - Building, ft Church In Day. . Rome was not. built, in a day,. but then Rome was very much behind the times! ..On. the outskirts of Chicago a feat that would have astonished the Romans ..has been performed, and It sounds a little .startling even. to. our ears ; A contract waa signed on a Fri day for, the building of a church. The document, stipulated, that the church shourd be ready for dedication on the Sunday following. ; Just one day vas left for the putting up of a building which was to hold about' three thou sand people! At dawn on the Satur day morning the workmen started, and at seven o'clockthat evening the men were putting in windows, doors, and electric light No floor was laid, but by midnight all else was done and the dedication services were held the fol lowing day. This feat had. a parallel Jn Pontlae county;; Que., -about forty years ago.)".-?. . f - ,-, i , 't HEALCY WOULDN'T DO AT ALL Blunt Railroad Owner Simply Couldnt Seo Any Sense in an Automatic r j ' Signal 8ystem. -t 1' A . certain western railroad which bus not yet.been "reorganized" is still owned and operated., by .the blunt spoken old lumberman who built it. Last year, after a particularly severe accident upon it, the agent for an au tomatic block signal system called and tried to get a contract for Installa tion. - i r'' . The old lumberman examined the device attentively and seemed much Interested.'-'.' ?K "Your chief engineer" recommends It highly,": said the agent "He told me to use his hame with " you ' and he would see you later." . "Well," - said,: the .lumberman, "I guess it Is a pretty machine. 1 like to sit here and see It work myself, It's Bo all-fired sure. But come to using it on my road now, young feller, I've been running, a railroad some longern iou and I'll tell you something. , "Accidents 18 bound to happen about once In eo often, no matter what you do. I've got three brakemett in Jail now and I've sworn to hang the next one, and the public Is pretty well satis fied,, But what satisfaction is it going to be for any one If I, go. to work and hang an old automatic "machine?". Philadelphia Ledger: ; '; :. "C 4 mr ma ff"tT ywr fir Hit gwf wwt nmt flwr Watts & Rogers; Hardware and Implements j 1 --Horse Rode on Cowcatcher. - ' : A tall story was brought Into New Westminster, B. by the crew of an electric railway train, Frasefe Valley branch. They said tnat as they wait ed at the "Y for a westbound a N. R. freight to get on to the bridge they saw a horse jump off the cowcatcher of the C. N. R. locomotive. It ran down the B. G electric railway track toward their train, halted until the C. N. R. train went past, then, turned tnd gal loped back-to the south shore; stum bled once on the ties, then regained its tooting and vanished. The story goes on ' to say that the freight had ' run through a band of horses at Hope and this one had been riding on the cow catcher for Several miles. - ', Red-Beaked Sparrows Pets. ; A dab of rouge on the beak makes all the difference in the world In the Value of sparrows. Without it the bird must forage for food and be rated as a low caste resident of any feath ered community. But when Its bill Is a high shade of vermilion, a lipstick red that won't come off, a sparrow Is a house pet so desirable that 4,000 of them have Just been imported. v- They are Java sparrows, but they are Just sparrows, In size and in twit ter, usually slaty gray in color, ': Occa sionally they are pure white. . ''- '" ' Hardened. : "You wrote me," protested the sum mer boarder, "that mosquitoes never bothered you." ' - "They dont," Mid Mr. Cobbles. Tve been living here more than 30 years, In that length of time a man can get used to anything." Birmingham Age- Herald. : ' WHITS PORCELAIN : SPLASHER BACK PATENTED ADJUSTABLE - SLIDING OVEN DAMPER . J. PATENTED LIFT KEY PLATE ' SOLID CAST LEFT END WIDE & SHALLOW fire; BOX DRAFT t POKER OOOH '.REMOVABLE DUPLEX CRATES MACHINE JACED . REGISTER DAMPER -' SANITARY LEG BASE one? cc:."J; DAMFL1 KEY PLATE TOP; DOUBLF0VEN BACK PCnCELAIM lit.' -YHITE P0RCELAIH C00R FRCSI P0RCELAIM FLUfLINIKS it iWl '''.. ST'tt ,; .11 b 1 - EAVY ASBESTOS ' MILL BOARD HEAVY POLISHED STEEL BODY INSIDE PORCELAIN OVEN DC0R LINING PORCELAIN FLUE BOTTOM CLEAN OUT DOOR i ',;: Liquefying' Carbon.1 . "- '?; Carbon may be 'melted and main tained in a liquid condition, according to. the experiments of a French inves tigator, f The heating was effected nnT der great- pressure. In the electric furr naee and a curious phenomenon was noticed at-1,500 atmospheres, namely, that after a brief failure of the arc, the current refused to pass, even when the power wns much Increased. ' It is supposed Jtliat -as. the - carhon passed Into a liquid and transparent state, It assumed a rare allotropic form, be coming a nonconductor. " The test was too brief for a study of this-condition; but was nuide to Include a sudden cool ing of the molten carbon by a flooding with water of the interior of the pres sure ves'sel. The . minute diamonds were 'recognized-tin the gray powder thus obtained, the result being, hew ever, not wholly satisfactory. ' ' Largest Coin In the World. ' . Probably the" largest vcoIn in tile world Is one belonging to Farren Zerbe,; internationally . famous expert on rare coins, It is a piece . of stamped copper plate 1(1. inches square and weighs 6 ' pouna. It has a value of ""4 daler" (the dak-r -was a coin of varying value) stamped on it, and the date 1730. Such coins were common ly used In Sweden" for some time dur ing and after the wars of Charles XII,; ,It Is partof a.collctlon of more than 80,000 .specimens,.: representing- me diums of exchange of all countries and periods from the earliest tiinea to the present day. ' . , ' Germany Would Welcome Suggaations. I Berlin ?ermanyrwill cordiallywel come any suggestions from the United States as to the reparations situation, it-was announced following a confer ence of "administration .leaders, - at which Premier Cuno and others ex plained the crisis. Government Free Seeds Defeated. : Washington, D. C- Free seed went down to defeat in the house when an amendment offered by Representative Langley, republican Kentucky, to add. an appropriation of $360,000 to the agricultural appropriation bill for dis tribution 'of seed by members of con gress was voted down, 74 to 71 , CLASSIFIED ..For Sale A good Fisher upright piano.' Enquire at the Press Office. ' Found A ladies': umbrella. Call at this office. ;' ' 1 . : For Sale A" splendid variety of popcorn. J, E. Froome. For Sale A good sleigh; bobs on hack gear. Enquire at Press office, ; For. Rent Furnished house. DePeatt, Athena. . ..-.v s . . Mrs, f Wanted, , to rent A, piano in good condition Mrs. May Crowley. - . For Sale Fresh milk; cow' gives five gallons per day. Mrs. Lilla Kirk. DR. S. F. SHARP PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Special Attention given to all calls, both, day and night Calls promptly answered. Office on Third Street, Athena, Oregon. WATTS & PRESTBYE Attorneys- At-Law Main Street, Athena, Oregon RAM HER 8ft LVE For Russia's Starving. Samara university hopes, throngh its discovery of the edible qualities of I "ewsan," a swamp root, to rwluce the j suffering in Russia by one-hulf, auys ! the Scientific American. Awsan con- j tains 70 per cent starch, considerable j albumen and some fats. - t . -f. - '1 ! I A : The; Athena ;.PressJ in entering, upon its 44 th' year; extends to its readers and W''':':'."-,.,''1'' '-.. ''.'4-)'".:'-t.r::-.-;-- "-' '-' . f riends' well-wishes-for-the New Year. Li .- ATHENA BARBER-SHOP - ,, AMOS O'DELL, PRRIETOR -. Al vay.5 aWouf .Service. : First-class . , 4 ' ; ' . Wcrk guaranteed. We are ' . - ' 'ageni3 Lr VsmczCz Laundry m' -, ,' -: rSTAFHSIIED 1SG5 M FrestatfSfe fr. Mil! 103 - Co. AMERICAN BEAUTY v V 2 FLOUR " '''".'"'liV .' :'-' ' 1 ,"" - :: , " . - ,.5"-"i"T;-' . . ; v ' Is made in Athena, by Athena labor, in one ot the very best . equipped mills in the Northwest, of the beat selected Bluestem . wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home industrr. Your --. .grocer sells the mousAmerican Beauty Flour : Merchant Millers & Grain Buyers : thena, Oregoa. Waitsburg, Wash DRS. A. 0. & R. A. FRENCH OPTOMETRISTS French Optkal - Parlors 13 E. Main St Phone 653 WALLA WALLA, WASH. IJ.f Tin um-iFtrv T1 i-A .......... t! . ' ' r-S " : If"' : Mmr tfi,m The First National Bank : . sT Athena ; 4statiished 1891 Capital aiid Surplus $110,000.00 fM S'Tl, Pi r 1 :j I M ' W -t ! tf"" r