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5te Afhtna to N INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER F. B. BOYD. Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates. One copy, one year $2.00 One copy, six months $ 1.00 One coov. three months 7 Athena," Oregon November 25 1927 THE ATHENA SCHOOL In retrospect of the overwhelming defeat of the school tax at Wednes dav's election, let us not forget that Athena has a good school. To sub stantiate this statement which can not be successfully contradicted one has only to reflect on the splendid record the Athena school holds over all other schools of the county number of graduates attending in stitutions of higher education, total number of pupils attending the Athe na school, considered. We doubt any school in the state, with corres nondine enrollment of pupils, can duplicate the Athena spirit and am bition for hieher education. Here is the honor roll of 18: Berl Hodg'.n Roland Kretzer, Wilber Harden, Fred Radtke, Lois Johnson, Blanche John son, Lois Mclntyre, University Oregon; Elsa Ringel, Granville Can non, 0. A. C; Roma Charlton, Phyl lis Dickenson, Monmouth; Belle An derson, McMinnville; Reeve Betts Willamette; Dorothy Lee, Margaret Lee, Cheney; Melvin Coppock, Whit man: Dean Pinkerton, Walla Walla Business College. Three elements have entered into the school's sue cess the taxpayer's money, the faculty and the school board. Natur ally, the taxpayer desires that the school shall be run on an economical basis. The board selects the faculty and administers the affairs of the school to the" best of its ability, and the faculty in turn is responsible for maintaining the educational standard of the school. These three elements, working in conjunction, harmoniously, will give any district a satisfactory school. In late years the standard of schoola has advanced to the point of rivalry. Union-high schools have been organized, new depart ments have been added and costly buildings constructed all in the gen eral advancement of school standard The taxpayer finances these advance ments, and the standard of the school of any district depends wholly upon how wide the taxpayer cares to open his pocketbook. The voters at the polls 'Wednesday were representative, including landowners, business and professional men, laboring men, and many women voted. There were vot era wno pay no taxes but who are heads of families with children at tending school, and there were voters who pay taxes and liave no children in school. The verdict is decisive. A total of 109 ballots was cast, thirty- one favoring the special tax, and seventy-seven were opposed to the measure. THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS The Manufacturer, an industrial publication says: "The United States has been criticized as a country of freak laws. Our people may go wrong occasionally through lack of information or misinformation on a question of public interest but in the long run they think straight and act straight and the best evidence of this fact is the 150 years of growth and prosperity which our nation has en joyed. "The right of individual initiative and freedom from unnecessary re straint is inborn in every American citizen. For some time there has been an effort made to prohibit the ownership of small arms although the second amendment of the Consti tution of the United States says: "The right, of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." "Target practice and good mark nianship has been part of the life of the normal American boy. Legisla tion to prohibit this on the theory that it would reduce crime, Is a mis lake, for the criminal would still get his guns from sources outside the United States. As a matter of fact, most of the worst crimes are not committed with a gun. Hatchets, axes, clubs, knives and other instru ments take their toll. "In their honest desire to wing about law enforcement in this coun try, it is a question of whether the people will hastily adopt a measure which in the long run would simply make it easier for criminals to car ry on their work." milk-borne disease in the- United States save in the smaller towns and rural districts still using raw milk. The relatively insignificant numbe:' of milk-borne outbreaks in large cities in recent years has been with out exception traced to that small fraction of the total milk supply that is delivered in the raw state. Referring to confused condiiicm found in Oregon traffic regulations, one of our exchanges asks what is to prevent adoption of painted signs or electric signals of uniform design which are always to be located at the same position at street intersec tions? Why should the state high way guide posts in Oregon be white, while they are yellow in California? Why should the stop signs for through highways in Oregon be yellow, and stop signs put up by the same high way department for a railroad cross ing, white? Why should not ail danger signals on highways be of one color? Why pass innumerable laws, ordinances and rules to confuse driv ers, ana then expect to reduce acci dents? Accident prevention is equal ly important in all ports of the coun try. Then why not have uniform sig nals and regulations? o Aviator Giles, hopping from San Francisco to Australia, found an air pocket 500 miles out at sea, turned upside down, spilled his charts and instruments into the sea, and return ed to a safe landing on the California coast. He says that he is going to try it again. o Dogs are used for smuggling to bacco over the border between Bel gium and France, but it takes more intelligence than a dog has. to bring booze from Canada into the States. o Fall is here and Eastern Oregon is chilly, with the thermometer regis tering 23 above at La Grande, and 25 at Pendleton. Aurora, Oregon's cue is cucumber. A packing company there has pickled 105,000 gallons this year. With $94,407 more ortland will be able community chest. contributions, to sit on her Marcelling Scalp Treatments Shampoos, Henna Packs Weston Beauty shoppe Located in Barber Shop Lilla B. Shelton. WATTS & PRESTBYE A ttorney - A t- La w Maui Street. Athena. Oregon x State and Federal Court Practice Dr. W. Boyd Whyte CHIROPRACTOR Stangier Building, Phone 706 Pendleton. Oregon. 957 J DR. J. L. GEYER Dentist Post Building, Athena, Phone 582 TYPHOID FEVER . (State Board of Health.) An epidemic of thirty-seven cases of typhoid in a city in the southern part of this state points out the fact that eternal vigilance is necess ary to prevent the outbreak of epi demics. Before the days of modern water purification, typhoid fever was held to be chiefly a water-borne dis ease. During the past few years, however, we find that typhoid is more often milk-borne in , origin. Few diseases prevent the striking contrast of the past with the present as does typhoid fever. Not many years ago this disease was a plague which was present in the population all the time and each fall it was ex pected in epidemic proportions. It is now Within the power of any com munity to bring down and keep down the typhoid fever rate to, or nearly to the vanishing point. Since water supplies have been largly improved, milk has become probably the most common vehicle in the transmission of this disease. It has numerous opportunities for contamination. The hands of the milker may not be clean and the uten sils may have been washed in un clean water. If the typhoid germ gets into the milk while it is warm, it finds an excllent culture medium and as a result increases, so that a slight contamination becomes mass ive. The utmost care must be taken in handling milk. Milk epidemics pre sent characteristic peculiarities. The cases follow a certain milk route. They are found mostly among women and children, or at least among those who use milk in its raw state. It is practically impossible to isolate the typhoid bacillus from a suspected sample of milk and it is even more difficult to find signs of dangerous contamination by ordinary methods. Many milk-borne epidemics are traced to "carriers", convales cents, or "walking" cases who have had some part in handling milk. The first thing to be done in con trolling an epidemic is to determine the source of infection. Dairies should be inspected, food handlers examined and the milk ordered pasteurized if there is any suspicion of the milk. Each and every case of typhoid fever comes somewhere from some previous case. Typhoid fever never rises spontaneously. No person should handle foods who has recently had typhoid or who is a typhoid carrier. Washing the hands before handling food and be fore eating is not a fad. It is the best of common sense and prudence. Nobody should eat without washing the hands. Boil your drinking water and milk unless you are sure that the supply is pure. Press Paragraphs DR. S. F. SHARP PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Athena, Oregon DR. W. PHYSICIAN G. COWAN AND SURSEON Athvntt. Oregon The Oregon State Board of Health finds that few modern public health measures have so completely won the confidence of sanitarians as the pasteurization of milk. The public health laboratory worker has satis fied himself that in a properly con structed and operated pasteurizing machine the ordinary pathogenic germs at all likely to be found in milk, including the tubercle bacillus, are surely destroyed. The practical health official has observed that, since the general introduction of pas teurization, there has been an al most entire disappearance of typhoid, septic sore throat, scarlet fever and diphtheria due to milk-borne infec tion. At present there is hardly any f r !l3 We Handle Genuine Goods-No Substitutes Try Our D.R.SHAMP00 Good, Clean Shaving and Bath; Up-to-the Minute Bobs Hair Cuts and Shingles DUFFIELD'S BARBER SHOP Athena, Ore. TUBERCULOSIS DECLINE More than 12,200 people have been killed in Oregon by tuberculosis dur ing the past twenty years, according to a compilation made by the Oregon Tuberculosis Association and released to the press today. This total has been rolled up in spite of the down ward trend of the tubcrculois death rate. "If the 1907 death rate had contin ued down to the present time", the ar ticle continues, "we would have lost more than 820 Oregon people with this disease in 192G. But the rate has fallen from 89 deaths Der 100. 000 people in 1900 to 61 per 100,000 in 1926. Even with our large increase in population, the number of tuber culosis deaths was down 528 in 1927, or nearly 300 less than would have been lost if the old rate had not been Ralph McEwen who visited in Port land with his wife and sons has re turned to Athena. A Chevrolet car owned by Al John son of Athena, was stolen from its parking place in Pendleton, Wednes day evening. -Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Chalmers, en route from' Kettle Falls, Wash., to California, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Adair, yesterday. ; , 1 John Wall will receive the Pre.33 at his address for the coming year, his mother, Mrs. W. K. Wall, presenting him with a renewal subscription. Mrs. O. M. Castleman and daughter Barbara and Miss Frederica Ker shaw came over from Ontario and spent Thanksgiving at the Fred Ker shaw home. The Press force took yesterday af ternoon off to observe Thanksgiving along with the rest of Athena folk, with the result that the paper is a few hours late. Miss, Pearl Ramsay and Doctor Cowan of Athena, were guests Wed nesday evening of Doctor and Mrs. C. H. McCune at a dinner dance giv en at the Country club in Walla Walla. n Primrose Cream Separators I cut down". The Oregon Tuberculosis Associa tion heartily endorses a statement in the editorial columns of the Medford Mail-Tribune, October 30th, accord ing to Loyd Wilcox, publicity direc tor of the Association. The state ment follows: "Education is of value only as it contributes to the individ ual's capacity to meet the problems in the maintenance of health. An educational system that does every thing for the mind and nothing for the body, fails before it starts." "Following out its belief in this principle", said Mr. Wilcox in com menting upon the editorial, "the Ore gon Tuberculosis Association and its 19 affiliated county public health associations have continually worked to. stimulate health teaching through the nublic schools and to promote public health nursing by supplying demonstration , nursing service. "This work is paid for by the annual sale of Christmas, Seals in all parts of Oregon. The Christmas Seal Sale opens this year on November 25." NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the County Court of the State of Oreeon for Umatilla County. In the Matter of the Estate of G. H. Schubert, Deceased. " Notice is hereby given to all per sons whom it may concern: That A. O. Schubert has been appointed ad ministrator . of the estate of G. H. Schubert, deceased. All persons hav ing claims against said estate are hereby required to present them, with proper vouchers to said admin istrator at his home near Athena, Oregon, or to Will M. Peterson and George R. Lewis, his attorneys, at their law offices in the Stangier Building, Pendleton, Oregon, within six months of the date of the first publication of this notice which is the 18th day of November, 1927. A. O. SCHUBERT. Administrator. Will M. Peterson, George R. Lewis Attorneys for Administrator. N18D16 jj Bali-Bearing When selecting a cream separator be sure the machine you buy will cover the greatest amount of butter-fat. This the McCormick-Deering will ' do twice each day for a long period of years. The compact, sanitary and prac tical design of the McCormick-Deering combined with qualities' such as easy turning, positive and automatic lubrication, must be considered when you desire a serviceable, long-life machine. Rogers Goodman (A Mercantile Trust) m n mi LOW Mm You can livt at economically a at noma TDACK UP the family and old kit bag; go to sunny California for a few weeks, months or for the winter. Visit movieland, orange groves,' the oil fields, beach resorts, big cities. Golf courses galore! Fine f ul Union Pacifictrminsaffottl connection via Portland or Salt LakeCity.DivereroutepennitteL TOUm RESXaVATIONfl NOW UNION PACT! FJC CM. EAGER, Agent Athena, Oreg NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the County Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla County. In the Matter of the Estate of Mel vin J. Canfield, Deceased, i Notice is hereby given to all per sons whom it may concern: That George R. Lewis has been appointed administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Melvin J. Canfield (M. J. Canfield), "deceased, and ha3 qualified as such. All persons having claims against said estate are here by notified and required to present them, with proper vouchers to said administrator, or to Will M. Peter son, his attorney, in the Stangier Building at Pendleton, Oregon, with in six months of the date of the first publication of this notice which is the 4th day of November, 1927. GEORGE R. LEWIS, Administrator, Will M. Peterson, Attorney for Ad ministrator. N4D2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the County Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla County. In the Matter of the Estate of H. McArthur, Deceased. Notice is, hereby given that the un dersigned has been appointed execut rix of the last will and testament ot H. McArthur, deceased, by an order of the above entitled Court. All persons having claims against the estate of said deceased are here by notified to present the same to me at Athena, Oregon, or to my at torneys. Watts & Prestbye, at their office in Athena, Oregon, within six months from the date of the first publication of this notice. All claims must be verified as by law required. Dated at Athena, Oregon, this 18th day of November, 1927. MANDA J. McARTHUR, Executrix of the Last Will and Testament of H. McArthur, Deceased. Watts & Prestbye Athena, Oregon, Attorneys for Estate. N18D16. SUMMONS (Equity No. 4440) In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla County. Mary Anna Joerger, Plaintiff. James E. Whitfield; W. J. Reil ey; the unknown heirs, if any there be, of said James E. Whit field, if deceased, or W. J. Reil ey, if deceased; Jane Doe Blank, the wife of N. S. Blank, some times known as Nathan S. Blank, the unknown heirs, if any there be, of James T. Moss, deceased; ! Etna Kopittke-Sutton-Seij and 1 Edward Seig, her husband; and all other persons unknown, if any there be, who claim any right, title, interest, estate or lien in, to or upon the real piop erty described in the complaint in . this suit, Defendants. To all those defendants above nam ed and described as follows, to-wit:-James E. Whitfield; W. J. Reiley; the known heirs, if any there be, of said James E. Whitfield, if deceased, or W. J. Reiley, if deceased; Jane Doe Blank, the wife of N. S. Blank, sometimes known as Nathan S. Blank; the unknown heirs, if any there be, of James T. Moss, deceas ed; and all other persons unknown, if any there be, who claim any right, title, interest, estate or lien in, to or upon the real property described in the complaint in .this suit: In the name of the State of Ore gon: You and each of you are here by required to appear and answer the complaint filed against you in the above entitled suit within four (4) weeks from the date of the first publication of this summons, and you will take notice that if you fail to appear and answer said complaint, or otherwise plead in this (suit, with in said time, the plaintiff above named will apply to the above en titled Court for the relief demanded in her complaint, whicn complaint i prays that the defendants be requir ed to come into Court and answer said complaint and state what claims, interests, or estates they, 6r any of them, have or-assert in or to the real property situated in Umatilla County, State of Oregon, described as follows, to-wit:-Lots One (1), Two (2), Three (3), Four (4), Ten (10), Eleven (11) and Twelve (12) in Block One Hundred Forty Two (142) in the Reservation Addition to the town, now city, of Pendleton, and being described in the Pat ents from the United States as being in the town .of Pendleton; save and except a strip of land 100 feet in width, being 50 feet in width on each side of and par allel with the center line of the main track of the O. W. R. & N. Company's railroad as the same is now constructed over and across said lots and blocks of land . adverse to tne piaintitt and ner lee simple interest and estate therein; that the Court shall examine into the claims which the defendants, or any of them, may make adverse to the plaintiffs interest in and to said real property, and pass upon the same, and definitely declare, after such examination, that none of the defendants have any right, title, in terest, estate or hen in, to or upon any part of said real property which is adverse to the plaintiff and h fee simple interest therein, and will further, declare and decree, that as far as the defendants and each of them, and all persons claiming, .and to claim, by through or under them, or any of them, are concerned, the plaintiff is the owner in fee simple oi said real property and the entire title thereto; that the plaintiff have such other and further relief as to equity shall seem proper in said suit. This summons is tmblished tmrsu- ans io an oraer oi the Honorable James Alger Fee, Judge of the above entitled Court, which said order was made and entered in the matter here in on the iiSth dav of OrtnW. mOT and the first publication of this sum mons is made on the 4th day of No vember, 1927, in the Athena Press, n newspaper of general circulation as defined by Section 68, Oregon Laws, printed and. published at Athena; Umatilla Countv, Oregon. waits & PRESTBYE, Attorneys for th Plaintiff pnot Office Address: Athena, Oregon. N4D2. American Beauty Bread Baked by the most modern, . and up-to-date 'process known to; the art of baking.. Insuring you uniform quality the year round. Ask your grocer. r. ' . . MILTON BAKERY, H. W. Kreiger Prop. WE CALL FOR AND DELIVER Monday, Thursday, Saturday Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing, Dyeing Twin City Sanitary Cleaners Organizers and Owners since April 2, 1921 J. E. Snivelv Milton-Freewater E. L. 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