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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-06-12
VENTILATION
By Rev. Israel Putnam.

The body is next to the soul. The
soul cannot te fully strong and active
in weak, sickly body. Both must
be healthy to do healthy service. We
have been talking. of late, about the
soul in some of its relations. Inas-
much as the soul. with all the term
means. cannot perform its full func-
tions in weak unhealthy body, we
have thought best to descend to the
house in which the soul, or real man,
lives, and say little about, (only
one thing however) its fitness for
cooperation in usefulness with its dis
tinguished guest. There are various
causes for tho ills of life. But about
25 years, in my present calling, east.
west, north and south; in different
climates. among different classes, Wis
iting and lodging thousands of times.
all the way from the cottage of the
peasant, in his rural surroundings, to
the mansions of the rich in the great
cities has convinced me, thoroughly,
that to no one source can more of the
little ills of life be traced than to i'm
proper ventilation unless it be to i'm
proper use of food: And the saddest
thing about it is so many do not seem
to know where the trouble originated
nor how to get rid of it, and so send
for the doctor, or drug, when in most
cases raised windows and opened doors
is the best possible remedy.
True, all people do not require the
same amount of pure air; some natures
being differently constituted require
less oxygen than others, but no nature
can thrive or live very long without it
and the more of it within reasonable
bounds, day or night, the letter, except
perhaps in some peculiar cases of sick
ness, and in some special periods of the
disease when less would be prudept.
The windows and doors should be p9ver
all closed tight for more than very
few minutes at one tine. unless in
some very extreme case. Where there
two or more windows in a room at least
one should Ee down a little at the top
and another on the opposite side Of the
room, if so arranged, should be up g
little from the Eottom, SO pure air may
come in, and impure air go out, and
this should never be otherwise when
the house is occupied. except perhaps
In times of heavy, cold storms, oil
some other extreme cases and then
only until the worst is over.
Deprived of the necessary quantity
of oxygen TO fill the requirements Of
the system, which are circulatory in
their nature, Grain fog, weakness of
the nerves. impoverishment of the tis-
sues, and other arrangements. and dis.
arrangements make the human body,
which will generally suffer little pain,
or other serious ills. when natures laws
are properly regarded, susceptible to
diseases of both body and soul, some
times proving fatal.
The necessity Of constantly and CON.
tinuously renewing the air whenever
living beings. {animals in some degree
as we'll as men) are breathing. arises
chiefly from the effects produced upon
air in the lungs. The average amount
of car bonic acid in expired air is found
to be 4.3 per cent by regular measure.
This gas when breathed into the
lungs is a poison and has tendency
to arrest and stagnate all the vital pro
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-06-12

The federal government has recently
served notice through its postal au-
thorities, to rural communities hav-
ing free delivery of mail, that the
roads must be improved and kept in
good condition in certain localities or
the free delivery of mail will be dis
continued in those particular places.
Uncle Sam can hardly be expected to
deliver mail over roads that are next
to impassable. In new and sparsely
settled communities very bad roads
are sometimes excusab BILE, tut rural
routes for the free delivery of mail are
seldom esta blished in such places.
There is little excuse, generally speak
ing. for impossible roads where the
population is sufficiently dense to JUS
Itify the ablishment of free rural
IrOutes
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-06-12

Some newspaper men are great pre-
Rricators. One of them wrote about a
Gclone. saying that it turned a well
wrong side up in Mississippi, turned
a cellar upside down in Wisconsin,
moved township line in Nebraska.
bew all the slaves out of whiskey
hrrel in Iowa and left nothing but
tie bung hole, changed the day of the
week in Ohio, killed an honest lawyer
il the west, blew the hair off bald
hIaded man in Texas, killed faithful
dlctor in Illinois, blew the mortgage
of a farm in Kansas. scared a red
haired woman in Michigan. blew
ciacks out of fence in Dakota, and
took all the wind out of a politician
il Missouri.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-06-12

Alex. johnson well known as a
tareful and successful farmer, sounds
(, note of warning that should be
Ieeded. 1t relates TO the white
Mustard or ''Jim Hill mustard. y
iapidly getting foothold throughout
the East End. It may be seen in the
hnes and occasionally in the wheat
fields this year-next year it may mul
tply an hundred fold. Mr.. johnson
ays that every plant should be cut
DOWN and destroyed at once. He has
zen the pest spread elsewhere, and
Knows that it is menacing thing, not
b te disregarded An immediate ap-
lication of the motto. "a stitch in
time saves nine," may be worth thou
ands of dollars to the wheat belt. Let
every farmer look after his own field
aud the supervisors after the roads
almonishes the Weston Leader.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-06-12
routes.

Ten years ago an Allen County,
Kan, farmer put his initials on dol
lar bill. The next day he went to the
nearest town and spent it with a mer-
chant. Before the year was out he
got the dollar back. Four times in six
years the dollar came back to him for
produce, and three times he heard of
It in the pockets Of his neighbors. The
last time he got it back was four years
sgo. He sent it to mail order house
He never saw that dollar since. and
never will. That dollar bill will never
pay any more school or road tax for
him, will never build or brighten any
Df the homes of the community. He
sent it entirely out of the usefulness
10 himself and to his neighbors when
be sent it to the mail order house.
The moral is plain.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-06-12

We don't know what Mr.. Hearst in
tends doing with his new party. As
a pretty plaything it will doubtless
afford him and the resi- of the country
a vast deal of amusement. 1t will
never amount to much as political
organization at most it will serve as
sort of haven of Erest for discredited
and broken down politicians.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-06-12

With the election over and the
assurance of a great crop. the people
of all Oregon should "get busy and
advertise more than ever before. With
its latest addition, the Toledo Develop
ment League, the Oregon Development
League now has eighty-three mem bers.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-06-12
BuckIen's Arnica Salye Wins.

Tom Moore, of Rural Route /. Coch-
ran, Ga. writes: "I had bad sore
come on the instep of my foot and
could find nothing that would heal it
until I applied Buoklen's Arnica Salve1
Less than half of % cent box won
the day for me by affecting perfect
cure" Sold under guarantee at Pal
ace Drug Co.'S. store.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-06-12
The Best Pills Ever Sold.

"After dootoring Is years for chronic
indigestion, aud spending over two
hundred dollars, nothing has done me
as much good as DR.. Kings New Life
Pills. l consider them the lest pills
ever sold:" writes B. f. Ayscue, of
Ingleside, N. G Sold..under guarantee
at Palace Drug Co.'S. store. 25c.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-06-12

Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup is
the one that children like so we'll to
take as it tastes nearly as good as ma
pie sugar. 1t acts gently yet freely
on the bowels and thereby it drives
the cold out Of the system. 1t is sold
by Palace Drug Co.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-06-12

Now army officers must walk ten
miles day of three days. The test is
so easy as to seem almost superfuous.
Anyone who cannot do that is in line
for retirement as an invalid.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-06-12

In the valley around Cove. Oregon,
there will be produced this year two
hundred tons of cherries and five hun
dred cars of apples. The people there
realize that they will need from two
hundred and fifty to three hundred
people in addition to their local popu-
lation to pick and pack the cherry
cron.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-06-12

After figuring for some time on ton
mage, displacement, sailing capacity.
etc.. Congr essman Hobson has con-
cluded that the American navy ought
to pe strengthened. In matter of
this kind the most sensible thing to do
would be to let Hobson have his
ehoica
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-06-12

It is probably just as we'll that con-
gress hasn't acquired the habit of ad-
journing out of respect for dead bill,
but it seems remarkable that it should
sine die so quick after the death of
Ship Subsidy Bill. lost in the contagion
that carried 640-acre Homestead Bill,
ct. al, to untimely graves.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-06-12

DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills
are prompt and thorough and will in
a very short time strengthen the weak
ened kidneys. Sold by Palace Drug
Company.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-06-12
Only in America could the Gunnes,

Only in America could the Guinness
murder farm with its gruesome asso-
Citations be transformed over night in
to Coney island. with the picture
postal vender and the taker out in
force aud a crowd of $1,000 people
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-06-12

Under the new national banking
law, approved May 30th, Oregon 8
added quota of currency will be
$2,114,OOO.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-06-12

arriving daily by train and trolly car,
and automobile. searching for ghastly
souvenirs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-08
Sears, Roebuck & Co., Indicated.

Stockton Herald: We are in re-
ceipt of a printed copy of the
Indictment against Sears, Roebuck
81 Co. of Chicago. It was obtained
in the United States district court
of Iowa on charge of fraudulent
use of the mails. The Indictment
contains three counts One was on
the sale Of ready mixed paint. 1t is
alleged In the Indictment that the
company represented that the paint
was made in it's own factory, was of
the highest grade and contained
white lead. It is alleged in the in
dictment that the paint did not con-
tain white lead, was not made in the
company's factory and was not a
high grade paint. The second
count alleges that a certain ring
which the company represented con-
tanned four pearls and four sap
phires, had no pearls or sapphires at
all. The third count alleges that
aoother ring which was represented
TO contain twelve pearls and two
rubies, had neither pearls nor rubies.
These are serious charges, if true,
aud it is up to Sears, Roebuck d Co.
to vindicate themselves at the trail,
which we presume will come off
soon.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-08
Baked At LONG CRUISE
Grant County Sailor Deserts
the Pacific Fleet.
William O'Hara, of Potosi, Leaves His
Ship and Surrenders to Pitts
burg Police.

William O'Hara, SO years old, a
resident of Potosi, in this county,
is reported to be deserter from his
ship In the fleet of war vessels under
command of Admiral Evans, fight
ing Bob" now on its way to the
Pacific coast. O'Hara walked into
the police station at Pittsburg, Pa,
on Sunday last and gave himself up
as a deserter from the United States
navy. The only reason assigned
was that the journey was too, long
and he did not want to make the
trip. The naval authorities have
been notified and O'Hara is being
held, pending their action. The re-
cords show that O'Hara entered the
service at Rock Island, ILL.,, and was
assigned to a vessel in Admiral
Evans feet. He conducted himself
in an exemplary manner and Won
the confidence and respect of the
officers of his ship. In a cruise OF
this kind, which ought to prove at
tractive to most men, from, the
training and experience 1T offers,
and a chance TO see so much of the
world in the present trip of SO, 900
miles, coupled with the probability
that on its return journey the feet
may visit the principal parts OF the
old world, it is difficult to under
stand the motives that could prompt
a man to take such serious step as
desertlon. O'Hara has good family
connections In this county and it is
hoped farther developments may
throw a more favorable light upon
his action than at present appears.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-08

left for the helpless victim to do?
Perhaps it's all over before he knows
it and then he's bound by his honor
to cultivate a liking for it.
The days when the male entered
the camp of his desired BRIDE, killed
her parents and dragged her off
with him by the hair of her head
are so far in the dark ages that
they are considered as myths. The
days when chivalry demanded that
the brave and gallant knight must
fight for his ''ladye faire" and prove
to her his daring that she might
submit and allow herself to be oyer
come by his bravery are now re-
garded only as pretty fairy tales.
The this is-so- sudden" of a half
century ago is so out of date that a
girl who now blushed and said it
would be considered as an antique
and curiosity and treated as such.
The day is not far when once IN a
century mayhap the men will be
given the privilege which is right
fully theirs and will have the OPP
portunity to pop the question, but
until that day comes let us submit
gracefully to the dear things and
let them have their way-as usual. +"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-08
Leap Year is Here.
Can you

SO, leap year has arrived, with
the privileges it entails, but listen
to what exaggeration the editor of
the Kalama zoo Telegraph nasty
thing forth, concerning it:
Leap year is again with us, and
the women can get In their good
work-that is, if they need any
such occasion as leap year. AS a
matter of fact the average woman
regards every year as leap year,
for it is undoubtedly true that if the
woman does not actually pop the
question she makes all due prepara-
ton for it so that the crucial NOM
ent is brought about with as little
difficulty as possible. In other
words, she paves the way. From
her acquaintance she chooses one
who from the view point of social
position, worldly goods, or personal
charm appeals TO her and arouses
her admiration. With deep design
and grim determination in her eye
she ''goes after him" apd woe be to
the poor chap if he tries to resist
her advances. He must calmly
submit for he is doomed. or course
he has to propose. What else is
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-08

Ben, is truly grateful. Such thought
ful acts speak well for s. community.
Miss Mary Bonham, the popular
postmistress, and Miss Stella Elton
were up from Beetown Friday.
The past two weeks have been a
season Of jollity in this community.
There were New Years parties.
sleighing parties and other kinds of
amusement.
Work was resumed in the schools
Monday, after a pleasant vacation.
Harry Light bought some horses
here Saturday.
PERSONAL ITEMS -Reub. French
and DR.. M. B. Glasier attended the
funeral of Joseph Geiger at Cass-
vile Sunday . OF. Stephens and
son Renb. were here Saturday.
They live in Dakota. Will Hamil-
ton and Will Weed were over from
WValusing Saturday I. The Misses
Hauk of Cassville were guests at
the Wanezek home over Sunday
Ora Brodt visited at Cassville Mon
day :. Grant Ballantine was In
Milwaukee on business last week
=. John Raisbeck Of Edgeley, N.
D.. was here a few days. Tom
Baldwin of Elkader, Iowa, is visit
ing here. James johnson and son
Erskine are here from Dakota
They report the weather nice there
=. Dan Leamy took his hogs to
Chicago last week, and on his way
back stopped at Shullsburg with
relatives. DR.. E. M. Sala of Rock
Island, ILL.,. was a guest of his
father, DR.. 0. P. Sala, over Sunday
He had been visiting the Mayo
hospital at Rochester, MINI. -.
Miss GIennie Pritchett is visiting
relatives at Lancaster, and trying
to forget the telephone hello" -.
Patrick Patterson of Clear Lake,
Iowa, IS visiting relatives and old
friends here.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-08

ing as follows: Ia the basement
will be the mining laboratory, the
athletic dressing rooms and the
custodian's quarters; on the
ground floor will be the directors
office, the gymnasium and baths
and the assembly rooms; IN the
second story will be the wood and
iron working shops, the library and
and numerous recitation rooms,
while on the top floor are the chemi-
cal and physical laboratories, the
neurological museum and the
drafting room.
The old State Normal building is
very large and solid but to fit it for
mining school purpose complete
new outfit of mining school ma
chinery and laboratory apparatus
are necessary. The plans for this
new equipment are being carefully
worked out Oy Director Brinsmade
SO that the list of material can be
ordered and installed when the
school opens on January 9th.
1t has been decided to require
only an eighth grade graduation or
a county school diploma for entrance
to the regular mining course in
order to admit those who have not
3 chance at home to get high
school preparation. 1t is believed,
however, that the Mining Trade
Schools two year course will not
only teach practical mining but
give enough theory to enable the
graduates to have as good chance
of success in after life as the mining
college graduate. There has already
been quite an inquiry for the annual
catalogue which will be published
within few days.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-08
The interviewer.

Il would like to have you tell
me-" said q well known farmer and
one well versed in the cheese factory
and creamery business, what is
the difference between a factory
or creamery man who keeps his
place SO unsan1tary and filthy that
he is amenable to the law of our
land which seeks to protect the con-
sumers of butter and cheese, and
the farmer who does the work at
homo and uses dirty, -yentilat-
cow-barA for creamery-a place
where he separates the cream from
the milk, which cream afterwards
goes into butter at the house or to
a creamery for use. Dairy and food
commissioners have been doing a
very commendable work in clean
ing up cheese factories, warning
some and causing the arrest and
punishment of other factorymen
where conditions were 1nexcusable
and really criminal. But why not
extend this work to include the
farmer who does his own separat
ing? I can cite specific instances
where cream separators are located
and used daily in cow-barns so
filthy the ordinary stencil of which
would drive the most hardy butter
user out into the open air and for
ever sicken him of the use of milk
or cream. And this is not just one
case. Dozens of them could be
found in this county alone and see
10 reason why the dairy and food
commissioner should not nose
around and clean these up and
prosecute the farmer who would SO
impose upon the buying public in
definance of law and to the everlast-
ing detriment of the health of in
nocent purchasers.
We couldn't see any reason eitherl
Can youG
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-08
Can't Kill EN-.

When the HOS train from Chica-
go arrived Friday at this station a
couple of badly frightened tramps
jumped from the blind baggage"
and reported that a companion had
been hurled from the platform as
the train rounded the curve coming
up from Rock river, and his remains
would probably be found ground up
and scattered along the track.
Kelley's switch crew were on the
sidiug and he was instructed to run
down to the scene and bring In the
victim. But to their surprise they
encountered the man about half
way 20 the river walking into town,
none the worse for being hurled
from train running at high speed.
When questioned as to how it all
happened the stranger said that
when the train struck the abrupt
curve he was thrown from the head
end and in falling grabbed the hand
rail which Ripped him in between
the engine and baggage car for an
instant while the next lurch of the
train threw him outside of the rails
when he was compelled to let go his
hold and he took a header into the
ditch. It seemed almost a miracle
that he should escape without as
much as a scratch, but he lives to
tell of the experience of being hurl-
ed from fifty mile an hour train
that few men could go through and
come out alive. Edgerton Reporter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-08
HAVE BEEN PRETTY GOOD
Lancaster's Police Court Re-
cord for One Year.
We Can Now Safely Lay Claims t.
Being an Orderly and Well Be-
haved City.

Lancaster has certainly upheld its
reputation for being an orderly city
during the year 1902. The number
OF arrests were small and IN one or
two cases conviction did not follow.
The following list gathered from
the police daily reports show the
number of arrests in 1907 made in
this city by city officers:
January drunkenness 2; vagrancy
10.
February drunkenness 2; vagran-
cy II; insanity 1.
Observation-Disclosures 1; vagrancy 10
April-drunkeness 2;
May-violation of city ordinance
chap, A, sec. Al.
June-drunkeness 1.
July-drunkeness 1; assault 1,
violation of chap 4, sec. 2, city
ordinance.
August-vagrancy L; insanity l..
September-purchaslng liquor
for person on the black list 1;
drunkenness g.; vag rancy 3; gambling
q.
October drunkenness 8; vagrancy
g.
November -drunkeness 2;vagran-
cy 1; disturbing peace 1.
December-assault /. purchasing
liquor for person on the black list
1; drunk eness 1 insulting a female /
vagrancy 1.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-08
:3t7
Nurses Dread Lightning.

OF all people who are glad when the
season Of thunderstorms is past, none
are more thankful than professional
nurses. 1T isn't that We are SO afraid
OF lightning ourselves" said hospital
nurse, but it has a harmful effect ON
our patients. Most sick people have
an Nnreasoning fear of lightning. In
cases Of extreme weakness or nerv-
BUSINESS a dozen flashes Of binding
lightning reduces the patient to such
a state of prostration that it takes ex-
traordinary efforts on the part of the
nurse to bring him around. If one
sick person requires ali that extra at
tention in thunderstorm, just imag-
inc the predicament of the nurse who
has a whole ward full Of them on her
hands"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-08
A Real Shorthand Revolution.

Martin Hemmy, of Kenosha. Wis,
has wholly revolutionized short
hand. making it shorter without
authorizations than others with alb
breviations, which are the whole real
difficulty. 1t is infinitely easier to
learn and to read, and is faster to
write. He will now teach few stu
dents by mail absolutely free, ex-
cept Coo for expenses. Write to him
promptly. Every youth should
learn it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-01-08
Notice of Meeting.

The annual meeting of the South
western Wis. Mutual ms. Co. of
Lancaster, Wis, not having been
held on the 1st Wednesday of
January, 1908, on account of said
day being legal holiday, by order
of the directors hereby designate
January 18th, 1908, at 10 a. m, as
the day and time on which to hold
the meeting of said company.
1t. DAVID SCHREINER, Pres.