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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-12-23
ATHENA BREV|T|ES
THREE CHURCHES PREPARE
FOR CHRISTMAS TREES
New Picture show win he started by
Del and Thorp--Chrlslan Church
Ladies Held Successful Church Fair
Wheat Crop Conditions Are Fa-
yorabic and Farmers Hail aSnow
With Welcome.
lsneeIal correspondenee.l


Athena ore. Dec 23.-All three Of
the local churches are now preparing
to have Christmas trees Thursday
evening. Special literary and musical
programs are being arranged and
most of the people of the town will
participate in the gatherings.
Last week the Ladies' Aid Society
OF the Christian church held a fair
and as a result Of the same S156 was
raised. 1t will be applied towards
meeting the expenses Of the church.
NcwPicturc Show.
Athena is soon to have moving
picture show Henry Dell and Rob
ert Thorp will be the proprietors and
It will be located in the Taylor build
ing on Main street
r. II. Whitehead, agent for the
Northern Pacific company, is just re-
covering from an attack of typhoid
fever.
Conrad Miller, the little son Of Mr..
and Mrs. w. c. Miller, has been suf-
fcring from diphtheria but is now re-
covering.
$. f. Wilson. Athena's attorney
left Tuesday for Alberta to look after
some legal business for client.
Good Crop Outlook.
Farmers in this section Of the
county are now feeling good over the
condition Of the growing grain crop.
The wheat is now well above the
ground and in a general way the out
look IS very favorable. The snow Is
regarded as being beneficial.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-12-23
N0L|N NEWS NOTES
LOOKS LIKE WHITE
CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR
Man, Cases of Typhoid Fever Exist
in This Vicinity-School Children
Are Convalcsclng-State Board Of
Health Condemns School Drinking
Watcr-Cupid Getting in His Dead
~ Work.
lspeclal Correspondence.) }

Noln. ore, Dec 22.-The earth is
shrouded in white and looks like real
Christmas which is so near at hand
Viola the 6 year old daughter OF
Charlie Lane is quite sick.
Linas Hartle is still lingering with
typhoid fever
Este Steele, Hazel and Flossie
BARLEY are convalescing from a siege
OF typhoid.
Thos Kerr of Walla Walla, is visit
ing his daughter Mrs. O. f. Steele,
who is III with typhoid fever and 9TH
or complications.
DR.. f. II. Dorm of Echo, is making
frequent visits in our midst since we
have so many cases Of sickness. Too
much praise cannot be given him for
his success at handling his cases.
NJ. Il. Whitmore and Kim Morton,
with their respective families, attend
ed the funeral of Elias Hevel, who
was the father of Mrs. Whitmore and
Mrs Morton. and was buried in the
Olney cemetery in Pendleton last
Sunday.
Mr.. Thomas Hopper and Miss Mary
Hanel were lately united in the holy
ties of wedlock and are living on their
homestead in Alkali canyon.
Cupid isn't resting peacefully in our
community yet CD.
The state board of health has con-
demned the water at our school as
unfit for drinking purposes.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-12-23

Clean beds at the st. Elmo at rea-
sonable rates.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-12-23
/ GYPSY ABANDONS
ST. LOUIS FIELD
"king Joe" Moves 10 Kansas City for
Tcmnorary Wintcr Quarters,

81. Louis, Mo.-King Joe Adams OF
the gypsy tribe in st. Louis county
has abandoned the local field, at Least
temporarily, as headquarters for ma
tional organization of his people. He
was in Kansas City yesterday and his
lieutenant. George Adams. n cousin
mailed his first daily report Of the
conditions in the county camp to him
there.
The chief communicated with his
cousin frequently by letter, telephone
and telegraph. The latter is charged
with the work of keeping him In
touch with matters, He was told yes
terday that several recruits had join
ed the camp near Washington univer-
sity.
Despite the fact that some Of the
people have been coming in at inter-
walls since early fall, there are now but
six tents and a few covered wagons
in the camp. AS fast as new ones
come i'm old tents move out. No
weddings, with their attendant cere-
monies. have taken place this fall.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-12-23
EATS MOUNTAIN OF SUGAR.
Nation In 1907 Consumed Seven Bill
lion Pounds.

Washington, Dec. 23.-Figures by
the bureau of statistics show that the
average American citizen consumes
half his own weight in sugar every
year, and Uncle Sans sugar bill av-
erage a million dollars day. The to-
tai consumption of sugar in the United
States in 1907, as shown by repor;
issued by the bureau, which is the
latest year for which statistics are
available, reached 7,0S9,667,975
pounds
Calculating this enormous total al
an average retail price of ~ cents
per pound" the report states, 1--WE get
a total of S372, 100000 as its cost tc
the consumer, or more than million
dollars for each of the 365 days Of the
year"
Clean beds at the st. Elmo at rea-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-12-23
Open Evenings.

The Peoples Warehouse will re-
main open evenings from now until
Christmas.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-12-23

1t takes a we'll developed pride to
boast OF humility.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
They Were Good Eaters.

One day DR.. Norman Mcleod, who
was large and healthy man, and one
of his burly elders went to pay a
visit to certain Mrs. McLaren of
the congregation who lived over the
Scotch hills. She was frugal wo-
man, but since she knew that call
from these two meant that they
would stay to supper, too, she de-
termined that they should have the
best in the house. So she piled the
table with jellies and jam and pre-
serves and shortbread and all the
delicacies of the season, and. the
journey having been long, they par
took unsparingly, and after the meal
the elder said to her:
MRS. MacLaren, were you at the
kirk Sunday?"
"Oh, aye" she said, 'T was"
And what did you think Of the
treatment of the miracle?" The SER
mon had been on the loaves and
fishes.
81 thought it was good" said Mrs.
MacLaren.
"And what Is your idea on the sub
ject, Mrs. MacLaren?" persisted the
minister.
"Losh," said their hostess sudden
ly, "I'm thinkin' that il you and the
elder had bin in the congregation
there wadna bin twelve baskets Of
fragments for the disciples to gather
up I"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
HANGED AT CHATTANOOGA.
kentucky Feudist and Wife Murdere,
Went to scafHoId without Tremor.

Chattanooga, Feb. 27.--Ed. Tur-
ner the Kentucky feudist, was hang
ed In the county Jail here at 4.5O
O'Clock this evening. His neck was
broken by the fall, and he was pro-
nounced dead In eleven minutes. He
went to the scaffold without a
tremor.
Turner killed his wife, Lillian
Turner, on this side OF Lookout
Mountain on the afternoon of April
3, 1SO7. He cut her throat from
ear TO ear with a pocket knife. On
his trial Turner made a confession.
Turner is the second white man
ever hanged in Hamilton county.
Counsel for Turner received tel
ephone message this morning stating
that Governor Paterson refused to
interfere In any way with the execu-
tion,
In his petition for clemency Tur-
! ner recited, among other things, that
he had been reared in goddess coun-
try; that his father and mother had
died when he was very young; that
he had been thrown among the most
lawless people Of the Kentucky
mountains; that ho had never had
an opportunity to attend church OF
Sunday school, and that he had little
advantages of education He fur
ther recited that he loved his wife,
and was driven to his desperate deed
by her wickedness.
He requested that his body be
buried at Shoulder Blade, KY, by
the side of his mother and father,
who died mysteriouslye many years
ago.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
Figures ON Cigars.
(Chicago News. y

Smokers in Chicago "sat up" to-
day when they read dispatches from
New York saying that King Edward
VII hao ordered, in that city, 500
cigars at a cost of 1000. They are
eight inches long, too--a kingly
smoke.
Other kingly smokes have not been
figured officially in inches yet, but a
statistician in the city hall sat down
to-day. and after chewing his pencil
some, decided that, as Great Britain
and its colonies have more than 392,-
100000 inhabitants, the Gear who
bosses only 31,0O0,000 or so ought
to smoke cigar little less than
half as long as Edwards and that
Kaiser Wilhelm, with 73,000,000 odd,
ought to--and he does-smoke ciga-
rettes.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
SEQUEL TO sLooUM FIRE.
Captain of the Iil-Fated Steamer
Goes to Sing Sing Prison.

New York, Feb. 26.-It was pitt
liable spectacle to-day when Capt.
William Van Schaik, Of the ill-fated
excursion steamer, General Slocum,
which burned with the loss of over a
thousand lives, passed within the
gates of Sing Sing penitentiary to
serve ten-year sentence. The old
man tried his best to walk erect and
control his trembling limbs, bur fail.
ed miserably. His wife accompanied
him to the prison door and will live
near him.
Capt. Van Schaik is 20 years old,
and probably will not survive his
long sentence. Seven thousand petit
tions have been sent throughout the
country for signatures. asking fer his
pardon by the President,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
Maxim Invents Noiseless Gun.

New York, Feb. 26.---Hiram Percy
Maxim, son of Sir Hiram Maxim, in
ventor Of the machine gun which
bears his name, has secured patents
for silent fire-arm.
1t Is announced that by the use of
the device patented, the discharge of
any fire-arm, from the smallest pis-
tol to the largest gun, is rendered
practically noiseless The invention
consists of the use OF device SINH
lar to the muller" used on auto
mobiles to deaden the noise of the
constant explosions by which the gas
olipe engine is operated.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
Ard save yosag he a!sss.
THREE PAPERS A WEEK
FOR ONLY Sf.5O

ay n clubbing arrangement with
the Charleston Semi-Weekly News
and Courier we are Offering that pa
per and The Keowee Courier for
$3.50 year. The Keowee Courier
Is recognized not only as the best
paper in Oconee county, but it is
rated among the best county papers
in South Carolina. The Semi-Week-
ly News and Courier Is an excellent
journel, published on Wednesdays
and Saturdays gives the detailed
news Iof South Carolina as special
feature, and carries the full Asso-
ciated Press dispatches from all over
the world. The combination OF the
two papers at S1.50 gives our pres
ent readers, as we'll as new subscrib-
ers, an opportunity to secure two OF
the best papers In the State (three
papers week) for SO cents more
than the regular price of either. Let
us send you two of the very best pa
pers in South Carolina for almost
the price OF one.
II
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
$500 FOR ONE WORD.
That is What the Semi-WeelSly At
lanta JoiIrnal Proposes.

Send in the missing word and take
the prIze. With every yearly sub
scription to the Semi-Weekly Jour
nal you are entitled to two trials at
the missing word, A sentence mas
been selected from a well-lsnown an i
widely read work OF fiction. From,
this sentence word has been drop
ped, leaving a gap. This word is
English and not a proper name, and
can be found in any ordinary die
tionary. Here s. the sentence:
"They can't get anything but
now, sir. Everything else is gone"
What is the word?
For full particulars OF the contest
write The Semi-Weekly Journal, At
lanta, Ga.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04

If you would like to fool some
wise coffee critic, who knows fine
coffee on taste and favor quietly
make for him a batch Of Dr.. Shoop's
Health Coffee" and serve 1t piping
hot. 1t deceived Mrs. Shoop, and
will, I believe, deceive any one. And
there is not a grain OF real coffee In
1t. Health Coffee Is made from pure
toasted grains, malt, nuts, etc. Made
In a minute-no 90 to 80 minutes
tedious boiling. 1k pounds 25c.
A. p. Crisp.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
No Case on record.

There is no case on record Of a
cough or cold resulting in pneumonia
or consumption after Foley's Honey
and Tar has been taken, as it will
stop your cough and break up your
cold quickly. Refuse any but the
genuine Foley's Honey and Tar in a
yellow package. Contains no opiates
and is safe and sure. For sale by all
druggists. va
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04

A severe cold that may develop into
pneumonia over night, can be, cured
quickly by taking Foley's Honey and
Tar. 1t will cure the most obstinate
racking cough and strengthen your
lungs. The genuine is in yellow
package. For sale by all druggists.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04

caught up eight months OF the news,
and that in Ave morths more he
would have all arrearages of intelli-
gence from the Old World .'needful
to be known in these parts,
The American Weekly Mercurie
came out In Philadelphia In 1719,
and the New York Gazette appeared
In Manhattan In 1875. The weekly
paper by that time had become
profitable venture In the larger
towns and soon spread through all
the thirteen colonies, until in 1776l
there were thirty-four which main
tanned regular issues. The deter
mined opposition of the crown repce->
sentatiyes in the South prevented
the foundation OF several papers, and
the frst successful one was the
Weekly Virginia Gazette in 1895.
Crosses Alleghenies.
Before the end of the eighteenth
century the newspaper business had
crossed over the Al1eghenies, the
nrst being the kentucky Gazette"
published at Lexington, KY, by John
and Fielding Bradford in 1787. This
was followed soon by the Knoxville
Gazette, at Knoxville, Tenn, in 1871,
and the Sentinel of the Northwest
Territory" at Cincinnati, Ohio, in
1893.
The increase became so rapid that
in 1880 the United States with only
thirteen million poople had more
newspapers than all of Europe with
Its 190,000,000 population. In 1893
the one-cent paper made Its appear
ance In New York, but was not sue
cessful. Then came the New York
Herald founded by James Gordon
Bennett in 1885, the first of the mod
ern daily newspapers, which placed
more Importance upon news than
politics. Three years before George
ID. Prentice had started the Louisville
Journal in Kentucky. 1t became the
first Of the great personal journals,
and Prentice the first of the great
editors OF that remarkable, type
which controlled the thoughts of the
people of America for a generation,
and who would have been supreme
in power IL they had been united.
No story of early newspaper life
in America is more interesting than
that of Matthew Lyon. Lyon was
born in Ireland, and when mere
boy ran away to sea. He was sold
as a slave to Vermont farmer In
exchange for yoke of oxen. After
several years he contrived to buy
his freedom. He was sent to Con-
gress from Vermont In 1897. In
Washington he got ideas and went
back home to establish newspaper
which gloried in the nama "The
Scourge OF Aristocracy and Reposi-
tory OF Important Political Truths"
This paper was red-hot and for pub
fishing an article attacking Presi-
dent John Adams, Lyon was fined
$1,000 and sent to jail for four
months. under the alien and sedition
laws. While in jail he was re-elect-
ed to Congress. Later he went West
and founded the town of Eddyville,
KY, which is In Lyon county, named
in honor Of the old Irishman. He
took with him to Kentucky the
press and type which he had used
in Vermont, and sold 1t in Louisville
for the establishment of the first
paper there, "The Farmers Library"
by Samuel Vail.
Newspaper readers are sometimes
heard to complain that "the papers
are all advertisements" They are
better off than their grandfathers,
for in the beginning of the daily
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04

newspaper growth in this country
each paper devoted three .,f It's four
pages to solid advertising, and the
fourth page was not always sacred
| from the encroachments OF the busi-
ness office. When the New York
Tribune was the most powerful
agency In the United States, next to
the Fede,sl government, 1t was a
small affair which printed about one
twelfth as much reading matter as
does the Tribune of to-day.
In the old times the size of the
papers was just four pages, what
ever happened. When business de-
manded 1t, the size of he paper was
increased. Thus came the "blanket
sheets" of which the Cincinnati En-
quirer still reminds us. During the
civil war the papers began to print
double sheets" and triple Sheets"
that Is to say, eight and twelve-page
papers. Then eight pages became
the accepted size, and so remained
until ten years ago. The average
|
metropolitan daily now has sixteen
pages, but it may run to forty-two
and no one will be surprised. The
Sunday paper is twice or three times
as large.
The enormous circulations attain
ed by American papers are not pos
sible in any other country OF the
world, because there is no other ma
tion which has SO many people who
can read. The New York Herald in
1885 reached what was then consid-
ered the almost incredible circula-
tion of $4,000, Ten years later the
telegraph was invented and the cir
culation of daily papers in the coun-
try was soon trebled. The civil war
was the most sanguinary contest ever
fought between two armies speaking
the same language, and having the
same interests, yet 1t was good only
for 150, 900 copies day for the best
| newspapers Of the time. That was
in the sixties. Thirty years later
when the United States fought lit
tie war with Spain, two Of the most
enterprising New York papers, the
Journal and the World, ran their cir
| culation up to million and quar-
ter a day, which remains the high
water mark for newspaper circula-
| ton.
The statistics OF the newspaper
business under the present high de-
velopment reached in this country,
are almost unbelievable To pro-
| vide enough papers for the use Of
eitheE one of several of the largest
New York papers, ten acres Of spruce
forest must be cleared and fed into
paper making machines every "a
nours. To increase the size of one
OF these papers, say from 10 to IA
pages, means an increase in expense
for that edition of at least $45O. If
this increase in size were maintained
through ali the editions Of, one week
alone, the additional expense for
white paper would be $5,40O. Sew
| eral New York papers, week in and
week out, use $4,000 worth Of pa
per week. 1t requires seventy tons
Of metal to make the stereotype
plates for one of the big modern Sum
day editions. The total weight Of
the paper in the Sunday edition Of
several of the larger New York pa
pers Is nearly three hundred tons.
Thirty extra large express cars are
required to carry the Sunday morn
ing editions of the papers of Manhat-
tan to out-of-town readers.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
Gard Of Thanks.

Editors Keowee Courier: Please
allow us space in your columns to
express our heartfelt thanks to our
friends and neighbors for the kind
ness shown US through the sickness
and death of our dear father. May
Gods richest blessings rest on them
all is our prayer.
(Mrs.) T. p. Moore and Children.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
This is Worth Remembering.

Whenever you have cough or
cold, just remember that Foley's
Honey and Tar will cure 1t. Do not
risk your health by taking any but
the genuine 1t is in yellow pack
age. For sale By all drugg!sts.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
For a Little while.

(Chfcagc ord-Herald.
Let us for a little while
Chase the frowns away;
Let us try the cheerful smile,
Maybe 1t will pay.
Let us cease a while to think
or the Ills we bear;
Why look into every chink
Fort the trouble there? ~
Why not pass the word of cheer
Since Its cost is so small?
Why let jealousy appear,
Why bear hate at all?
Why not for a day or two
Wear a hopeful smile?
1t will not be hard to do
IL you try while.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
ESTATE OF r. w. PIEpER, Decd,

On 9th March, 1905 sat / q o clock
M, / will apply to the Probate Court
for oconee County, South Carolina,
for my final discharge as Executor
In matter above named Estate.
6-10 j. It. PIEPER.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.

For thirty years Lydia Z. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
tion, fibroid tunors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges-
tion, dizziness, ,orneryous prostration.
Why don't you try it?
Don't hesitate to write to Mrs.
Pinkham If there is anything
about your sickness you do not
understand. She will treat your
letterinconfiden and advise you
free, No woman ever regretted
writing her, and because of her
vast experience she has helped
thousands. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04

After suffering for seven years,
this woman was restored to health
by Lydia IL. Pinkham's Vegeta bio
Compound. Read her letter.
Mrs. Sallie French, of Paucaunla,
Ind. Ter, writes to Mrs. Pinkbam !:
81 had female troubles for seven
years was all rundown, and so ner-
vous 1 could not do anything. The
doctors treated me for different troubles
but did me no good. While in this con-
dition wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for ad-
vice and took Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound, and am now strong
and WE'LL"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
Weak Women

way % help. But with that way, two treatments.
must be eombined. Ono Is local. one Is constitts
Or. Shoop,,s Night Cure 10 the Local.
< pr. shoop's Restorative, the Constitutional.
Theforlnar.-Dr Shoop's Night Cure -is topical
shoop's Restorative Is wholly an internal treat.
ment. The Restorative reaches thgoughout the
entire system, seeking the repair of all nerve,
all tlsspe, and all blood ailments.
The Night Cure 40 its narne implies. does tts
work while you sleep. 1t soothes sore end infam-
cd mucous surfaces, heals local weaknesses and
discharges, while the Restorative, eases nervous
excitement, gives renewed yigos and ambition,
builds up wasted tissues. bringing about renewed
strength, vigor. and energy. Take DR.. Shoop'e
Restorative--Tablets or Iiquid--asa general tonic
TO the system. For positive local help. use as well
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-02-13
Enoch Arden Incident on the Ohio
River Bank.

Charles II. Hogan, whose relatives
supposed he died twenty years ago,
has returned to Lawrenceburg, Ind,
10 find his wife divorced and remar-
ried. Hogan left that city under mys-
terious circumstances. His hat and
coat were found on the river bank.
and it was supposed he had COM
mitted suicide. His wife, till a year
ago, stubobrnly refused to believe in
his death. Then she consulted a for
tune-teller, who told her that Hogan
had persisted in the Spanish American
war. She concluded 10 remarry, but
not till she had taken the %precaution
OF securing a divorce.
Hogan says that after going away
he spent FIVE years as a cowboy, ac-
cumulated some money and entered
the sheep business. Unfortunate in
vestments reduced him to poverty,
and when the Spanish-American war
broke out he joined the Rough Riders.
A dying comrade willed to him a min
ing claim in Nevada, which has plan
ned out beyond hrs most sanguine
hopes. While he was absent both his
father and mother ami a brother died