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4 1- r- 3 1 After Harvest YoullCSo Camping of Course! m We are prepared to supply all you need for the camp. Prepare now for You may seek recreation in the mountains, on the beach, or may visit the Na tional Parks, but wherever you go you will need serviceable Camping Equipment 22 Years Ago j Camp Stoves, Camp Kits, Camp Stools, Camp Beds, Tents, Etc. Rogers Goodman, Athena. Oregon ( A Mercantile Trust) tMmmmmmwmrmmwmwmmmmwmmwwrmm mn VARIABLE STAR, SCIENTIST ASSERTS Treasure Changes in Energy From Orb to Earth. Washington. Tlie sun Is a variable star. This central lire of the plane tary system (loos not glow with a outly heat but flickers from day to day and from year to year, and the vagaries of our earthly weather must depend at least partly on the sun's variations. This opinion, which has been supported for many years by Dr. C. G. Abbot of the Smithsonian insti tution, finds new support in evidence produced by a new system he has de vised for measuring and recording the changes In the energy reaching the earth from the sun. Doctor Abbot calls attention to the work of H. II. Clayton, who has an nounced that he finds variations' of weather caused by solar changes. i;ut many meteorologists have not been convinced that the sun really varies. They fear that the compli cated measurements of Doctor Abbot, hindered us they are by the haziness and humidity of the earth's atmos phere, are not conclusive. The vari ability which he reports, they suggest, may all be due to unavoidable atmos pheric sources of error. Announces a Direct Tc?t. Doctor Abbot now announces a very direct test that should settle the question. Although it . is Impossible to do the measuring from a point out tide the atmosphere, yet it is possible to select times when the transparency and other affecting qualities of the air are closely alike, and the sun stands at ' equal height above the horizon. At such times the solar heating should vary only If the sun' does. Selecting the month of July "In the years 1010 to 1920 for his test, he collected results observed on Mount Wilson for all days of practically con stant atmospheric conditions. The average monthly values thus selected he compared with those obtained by the usual process and heretofore pub lished. He also compared them with the average monthly numbers of sun f pots. , The three curves that express his results run along very closely to gether. They show that the sun's heating In July, 1017, averaged over 2 per cent above that of July in 1910 and 1911.- Correspondingly, the sun spot numbers were 117 in July, 1917, and only 14 and 3, respectively,. In July 1910 and 1911. xs'of content with this proof of the reality of long-range solar changes, Doctor. Abbot' rearranged the meas ures in a way to test short-Interval solar variation. For this purpose he picked out from the new data all the days that gave high values of solar heating, and all those which give low ones. The average excess value for 51 high days was plus 1.43 per cent, and the average defect for 51 low days was minus 1.47. Range Not So Great , The same days, as already pub lished four years ago, indicated on the average plus 0.51 and minus 0.42 per cent, respectively. Thus the days shown above normal by the new method of selecting times of equal .atmospheric clearness had already been shown as above normal by the usual process, and vice versa." Of course the range as formerly pub lished could not be so great, because the errors of observation could not be expected to fall the same in the two sets of .data. Some days would be high and some low, hot because of the sun's condition, but because the small observational errors helped to make them' so. Doctor Abbot's new method, he hopes, may be convincing of the sun's real variability. This will make all the more Important and interesting his establishment under the joint aus pices of the National Geographic so ciety and the Smithsonian institution of a new solar observatory on Bruk karos mountain in southwest Africa. This site he selected last March after studying on the ground conditions in Algeria and Baluchistan. The moun tain is 5,200 feet higli In a desert where the yearly rainfall averages only yz Inches. Roads and construc tion are rapidly going ahead under the supervision of A. Dryden, Inspec tor of public works for the govern ment of southwest Africa. The com plex apparatus required has been pre pared and the expedition Is expected to go forward soon in care of W. II. Hoover, director, and F. A. Greeley, assistant. Large telephone companies through out the country have found that pine poles impregnated with coal-tar creo sote give the longest service. Cali fornia electric power lines are using a large number of yellow pine and Douglas fir poles which have been 1m pregnated with coal-tar creosote, In stead of untreated red cedar poles which were badly damaged by ter mites. These pine poles have been treated for their entire length by Hie upen-cell pressure method, which will prevent bleeding or sweating of the creosote. Napa-Tan Shoes For Working Men Also Canvass Gloves and Master Hose We order Tailor-Made Suits G. W. Finch, Prop. Main Street, Athena, Oregon Mind is a Liar den Your mind Is not at all like a ma chine all ready-made and automatic. Ask any doctor and he will make this plain to you. No, your mind is more like a gar den. It is the use you make of It that counts. You can grow thene fine plants In your mind-garden courage, Initiative, Imagination, will-power, kindness, knowledge. You can have a garden of Ideas and skills and efficiencies. What a gar den Newton must have had! Or Dar win, or Huxley, or Leverhulnie, or Pasteur, or Carnegie! If you let your garden alone It will go to weeds and grass. That is Uie usual crop. Efficiency Magnssina. Baptist Church Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. The summer slump will soon be over; the opening of the. public school year is not far away; Christian service al ways in demand; who dares draw a dividing line. Devotional at 11:00 A. M. Topic, Rejoicing in Trials. The secret of power lies in the fact of Eternal Things. You cannot saw wood and say nothing, if you are not saying anything it is evident you are not doing anything. Young peoples meeting, both Junior and Senior at 6:00 and 7:00 o'clock respectively. If future generations are not better than former ones then former cnes have failed to do their duty. Even ing Song and Praise Service at 8:00 o'clock. Topic, Old Faithful a Good Fighter. Charity begins at home and so do the battles of life1. Young Peoples Prayer Meeting Tuesday evening at 8:00 p. m. Devotional Prayer and Bible Study Thursday evening at 8:00 p. m. You are cor dially invited to our services. CLASSIFIED For Sale A registered Guernsy bull, eight months old.' Louie Ringel, Athena phone 32F21. For Sale Fresh young milch cow. F. B. Wood, Athena. Fruit See J. E. Froom at Athena Hotel for prunes and crab apples. Strayed About a week ago from the Lilla Kirk farm near Athena, a dark 2 year old jersey, wearing a yoke. Mrs. Lilla ' Kirk. Reward. Phone 30 F2. ' For Sale 1924 Ford touring. A splendid car. Equipt with balloon tires, bumpers, automatic shield swipe, Cowell lights, motor meter, many other extras. This car is ready for any kind of trip. D. L. Hackett, Christian church parsonage. For Sale or Trade Four horses, harness and wagon for sale, or will trade for good milk cows. Sterling Parris, Athena, phone 24F22. Marcelling Expert Marcelling and all lines of beauty work. Miss Chap pelle, Weston, Oregon. Call 292 for appointment. Marcelling Miss May ... Lanning. Phone 582. Athena. J. L. Harrnan BlacksmithiDg Oxy-Acetylene Welding, Delivery and Truck Eodies Manufactured Main Street Athena, Oregon August 12, 1904, Work on the big mill to be oper ated in Athena by the Preston-Par-ton Milling Company is being push ed as fast as workmen can do it.. J: L. Harper, secretary of the company and a practical mill-right, is superin tending the construction of the mill. An inventory has recently been taken of the stock of material at the Gillis lumber yard, a proposition having been submitted to Mr.. Gillis for-the purchase of his holdings in the lumber business here. . Mrs. Lester Swaggart,. who accom panied her husband to Alaska, with good fortune escaped from an ac cident shortly after her arrival in the land of the midnight sun.. A heavily loaded wagon ran over her shoulder, but the soft moss on the ground served to prevent injury. Charley Taylor, formerly partner with D. B. Jarman and manager of the Weston Fair store, but now a husky mountain farmer, was n town with his wife yesterday, trading. . N. A. Miller is putting in a con crete floor in the basement of his store building. This is found neces sary on account of water rising in the basement during the winter and spring months. Thomas Ogle has been seriously ill for several days at the home pf his brother, B. F. Ogle, in this city.. The latter, with his daughter, Miss Eva, who has been on their Ridge farm for some time, were called home the first pf the week to attend the sick man. A Masterson has purchased the residence property on the corner of Fourth and High streets, of Ed. Morrisette, and is repainting, paper ing and remodeling the house. When finished, Mr. Masterson, with his wife, who has been visiting her son, George Thompson, will have one of the most desirable little hemes in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Saling, Mr., and Mrs. Leuis LaBrache and Miss Frankie James enjoyed a fishing trip on the. Umatilla Sunday. , Among the applicants ,for .teach; ers' certificates taking , the . examina tion in Pendleton this week are, G, B. Marquis, O. A., .Cannon, Misses Kitty Sharp, Maud Sherman, Carrie Sharp, Bertha. Baker and Mrs. Anna M. White of Athena. . Mrs. Ira M. Kemp was taken ill Wednesday, but is reported better at present. . (; President R. C. French, and wife, of the Eastern Oregon State' Ncrmai school, were visitinc in Athena Tues day. ": . Chehalis, the pride of the West, is dead. This famous pacer with a re cord of 2:04V4, died a few days ago in Vermont at the age of 14, after a distinguished career in which Frank Frazier, of Pendleton was responsible in starting. August 16, 1904 Peter Gebhart, a Pine creek farm er who has long been a terror to the neighborhood in which he resides, is again in the public eye. For some reason or other, but more than likely pure cussedness. he refuses to pay a threshing bill, and suit has been brought in Justice Wood's court. The Gebhart outfit, including their pad; of dogs, is said to have stood off Constable Dave Lavender when he went to the farm to serve papers in the case. It is said Lavender failed to execute his commission and that Sheriff Taylor has been appealed to that service of the papers may , be made. . ..- .. Milo Ransom, who came ; west in 1865 and to Weston in 1867, says the Leader, is going back to "the States " for the first time since he laid down his musket and followed the star of empire. The "chicken season" . opened at 12:01 yesterday morning and it is reported that several shooters re mained up. all night to make sure of being:, on hand in the neighborhood where they had -located bands. , , Last Friday being the 65th anniv ersary of the natal day of Hon. T. J. Kirk, a number ef his friends, at the invitation of his wife, gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Banister at 8 o'clock in the evening and proceeded in a body to his ele gant home on Fifth street, where they gave him a very pleasant sur prise. The evening was passed most pleasantly and a sumptuous repast was served in the dining room by the hostess. W. R. Reeder will rent his beauti ful home place to his son, Claude, and with his wife and daughter, Miss Ava, will go to Tacoma where they will spend the winter, and may re side permanently. . R. C. Michael of Weston, has ac cepted a position as clerk in the Athena Mercantile Company's store at Helix. Grandma Stone, who has been in failing health for several days took much worse Sunday evening. Drs. Sharp and Stone spent most of the night at her bedside. The condition of this venerable old lady is consider ed precarious on account of her age. For Oil ' Phone 453 or 761 y .'l 1 ROUND TRIP TO I f J I. In effect to September 13 Return Limit October 31 1926 DENVER $67.20 OMAHA -70.35 KANSAS CITY... 70.35 DES MOINES 76.30 ST. LOUIS B0.35 CHICAGO 65.05 DETROIT 104.67 CINCINNATI .... 105.1S CLEVELAND 107.61,, TORONTO 113.80 ATLANTA 116.40 PITTSBURG 118.81 WASHINGTON... 140.61 PHILADELPHIA. 143.97 NEW YORK 146.45 BOSTON 152J1 LIBERAL STOPOVER PRIVILEGES enable you to visit ZZON NATIONAL PARK YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK DcLuxe Train Superior Service Scenic Rout PACIFIC FOR INFORMATION AND RKSERVA. TMM OH OH WSI1I C. M. Eager, Afent Athena, Oreg l" UNCLE SAM'S POINTER is often worth heeding. Take his pictured hint if suffering from a nervous trouble of any kind. Chiro practic methods are the only ones to give positive and permanent relief and give it speedily. Take heart and you will find our advice is right, and of great benefit in bringing you back to health. Dr. W. Boyd Whyte Stangier Building, Phone 706 Pendleton, Oregon. 057 J WATTS & PRESTBYE , Attorneya-At-Law Main Street. Athena, Oregon State and Federal Court Practice WilL M. Peterson and G. II. Bishop ATTORNEYS Pendleton-Freewater Practice in State and Federal Courts The Lumber You Need If you are planning alterations or ad ditions to your ' building, let us give you an estimate on the Lumber need ed. You will be pleasantly surprised at the reasonble total we will quote. Wood and Coal Fence Posts Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co. Main Street, Athena in it .ii 17.111 emi it mi urn wrii ami iimi wn n.-ni nmi iimi wmi am ami mmi ami mmt mmr mmi mmt bmi umi mmw mi ! g rlt S3 9 -I 1 I 1 n 1 1 ' I P ... m U-Ji HI THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ATHENA Established 1891. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $110,000.00 Ml I E2 So s Yer Ole Man! Most of his famliy and a lot of his neighbors ?What? Get their Barber work at the Penn Harris Shop. Why not you? We cater to no one in particular, every one in general.- Agency Troy Laundry. Make 5 old Rugs like new. Phone 583. PENN HARRIS BARBER Whitehead's Barber Shop Lee Whitehead, Proprietor Having purchased Russell's Barber Shop, it will be my aim to give the public the best service at all times. Fair and Courteous Treatment Agency for Trey Laundry and Twin City Cleaners Phone 492