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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03
POLENTA.
A Woman Tells of Her Introduction to
the italian Dish.

A Woman Tells of Her Introduction to
the italian Dish.
Did you ever eat polenta? Hear
what one woman has to tell you be-
fore you say no.
"Just let me tell you about my In
PRODUCTION to this Italian dish. Last
summer, after | had closed our camp
In the mountains | was invited to
spend the night with an acquaintance
who had the next camp.
"She Is charming woman, one who
has lived abroad more than in this
country. She is devoted to Italy and
things Italian, and her cook from
southern Italy has been with her sev.
eral years.
"As was about to retire my host
ess said to me, Pardon me, but
didn't think to ask you what you pre-
ferred to have for breakfast Really,
before l had opportunity to frame a
reply, she continued, we always have
polenta; Antonina makes delicious po-
lenta, so / always have it. l did not
know polenta, was quite sure, but 1t
certainly sounded most attractive, and
so l replied, 4 am sure | should like
polenta, especially IL Antonina makes
It, and went to my room with my
appetite already whetted for polenta
made by Antonina.
'"The next morning awaited that
meal with the greatest expectancy.
The poenta was served, and / tasted
1t. Was 1t good?
ut certainly was, but l had eaten 1t
hundreds Of times before. only we pro.
sale Americans call 1t cornmeal mush.
Truly, that is polenta. A name
makes lots of difference, doesn't 1t"
she concluded.-H Post,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03
SUMMONS
ta TIE Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon for Umatillascounty.

atke Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon for Umatillascounty.
Leila G. Lewis, plaintiff, VS.. A. I.
Lewis. defendant. To A. T. Lewis
the above named defendant:
In the name of the state of Oregon
you are hereby required to appear and
answer the complaint filed against you
in the above entitled suit, within six
weeks from date of the first publica-
tion of this summons. and if you fail
so to appear to answer the complaint
or plead within that time the plaintiff
for want thereof will apply to the
above entitled court for the relief de-
manded in her complaint fled in said
suit, to-wit: for a decree 'dissolving
the bonds of matrimony now existing
between the plaintiff, Leila G. Lewis
and the defendant, A. T. Lewis
This summons is published pursuant
to an order of the Circuit court of the
State Of Oregon for Umatilla county,
made in open court on the 10th day
of July, 1909, the first publication is
made on Friday, July 23rd, 1909. and
the last on September 3rd, 1909.
Homer ]. Watts,
Attorney for plaintiff.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03
A MAN OF LUCK.
The Story of the Test by the Eastern
Kings Minister.

The Story Of the Test by the Eastern
Kings Minister.
A king once said TO minister. "Do
you believe In luck?"
II do" said the minister.
"Can you prove IT." asked the king
Eyes, can"
So one night he tied up to the cell
ing of room bag containing peas
mixed with diamonds and let In two
men, one of whom believed in luck
and the other in human effort alone.
The one who believed in luck quietly
laid himself down on the ground on
his blanket; the other after time
found the bag and, feeling in the dark
the peas and stones, ate the peas and
threw the diamonds to his companion.
saying, "rhere are the stones for your
idleness."
The man below received them In his
blanket.
In the morning the king and the
minister came and told each man to
keep what he had found. The man
who believed in trying got the peas
which he had eaten; the other got the
diamonds.
The minister then said, "Slre, there
may, you see, be luck, but 1t is as rare
as peas mixed with diamonds, so let
none hope to live by luck."-An East
ern Fable,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03
Professional Orators.

When Lord Rosmead, then Sir Her
cules Robinson, was governor Of New
South Wales, in the early seventies, 1t
fell to his lot to admit the erstwhlle
cannibal kingdom of Fiji as an in
tegral part of the British empire.
During the incidental ceremonies he
noticed that none of the great fighting
chiefs spoke In person and that each
Of them had professional orator on
his STAFF, AS an Irishman, with q
strong sense Of humor, Sir Hercules
was naturally tickled by such novel
situation, and when he got back to
Sydney he repeatedly eulogized the ar
rangement, pointing out that the man
Of action was very rarely man Of
words and that civilization might very
well learn n lesson from Pacific chiefs.
London Chronicle.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03
AN AUTHORS START.
When Marion Crawford Began His
Career as an Author.

Marion Crawford had known since
he was lad of fourteen years. I, too,
was youngster in those days. We
were living in New Jersey town
and he came there to visit his aunt,
Mrs. Adolphe Maillard, sister Of Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe. Although he came
from Italy he dressed as an English
lad, with high hat, Elton jacket, wide
collar and long trousers. You can i'm
agine the sensation that he made in
that quiet New Jersey town. We had
had kings and princes as our neigh
bors, but young boy in a high hat
was unknown to us and therefore much
more Of novelty. From those days,
which were filed with youthful esca-
pades, l did not see Frank Crawford,
as he was then called, until he was
full grown man and had knocked
about the world q bit. His uncle, the
well known Sam Ward, brought him
to the office of the Critic, then consist
Ing Of single small room over Dan
iell's dry goods store in Broadway,
New York. "This lad wants to be q
writer" said his Uncle Sam. 81 wish
that you would give him a chance to
learn the business" We gave him the
chance, not only for old times sake,
but because we liked his looks. "That
fellow can do anything he cares to-"
remarked after he left the office. So
we let him write. He wrote book re-
views, editorials and even poetry, and
after that he wrote "Mr. Isaacs." You
know the rest. From that on 1t was
easy enough. He won out and we
knew that, though we had given him
the chance he wanted at the time that
he wanted 1t, he would have found 1t
quick enough anywhere else. But be
never forgot what he chose to regard
as a favor.-Jeannette L. Glider In
Putnam's.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03
Men and Their Feet.

The Frenchman's foot is long, mar
row and we'll proportioned. The
Scotchman's foot according to anthro-
biologists, is high and thick, strong,
muscular and capable of hard work.
The Russians foot possesses one Pc
culiarity, the toes being generally
"webbed" to the first Joint. The Tar
tar's foot is short and heavy, the foot
of certain type of savage, and the
toes are the same length. The Span
iard's foot is generally small, but fine
ly curved. The Englishmans foot is
in most cases short and rather fieshy
and not, as rule, as strong proper
tionally as 1t should be.-Argonaut.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

In the County Court of the State OF
Oregon, for Umatilla County.
In the matter of the estate Of John
McIntyre, deceased.
Notice is hereby given to all persons
whom it may concern that Hugh Nc
Intyre has qualified as executor OF the
last will and testament of John Nc
Intyre, deceased. All persons having
claims against his estate are required
to present them to the said executor at
his home in Athena. Oregon, or at the
Office of his attorneys Peterson & Will
son at Pendleton, Oregon, duly verifi-
ed as by law required, within six
months from the date of the first
publication of this notice, which said
first publication is on Friday the 9Th
day Of August A. D. 1909.
Said notice will be published for
four successive weeks, the last pub
lication appearing on Friday the Sd
day of Septembe A. D. 1909.
! Hugh Mcintyre, executor.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03
SUMMONS.
In the Circuit Court of the State of
Orooon FOR IInoofiIIo Countv

In the Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon for Umatilla County.
John F. Temple. plaintiff, vs.. Wal
ter Cameron, a single man. and John
Bergevin, defendants. To Walter
Cameron, above named defendant:
In the name of the state of Oregon
you are hereby summoned and requir-
ed to appear and answer the com
plant filed against you in the above
entitled suit by the plaintiff herein on
or before tho expiration of six weeks
from the date of the first publication
of this summons against you; and you
are further notified that il you fail
to answer or otherwise appear in said
suit within that time plaintiff will
apply to the Court for the relief pray
ed tor in the complaint filed in the
said suit, to-wit: for personal deer ee
of said Court for the payment against
defendant for $3.50 and interest there
on at the rate of ten per cent per ar
mum from February s, 1908, until
paid, 500 attorneys fees and the cost
and disbursements of this suit; that
the Court also decree that plaintiff g
lien by virtue of said mortgage in this
complaint mentioned and of that
certain mortgage dated February 8.
1908. executed Ey Walter Cameron to
J. B. McDill and assigned to the
plaintiff herein, said mortgage cover
ing Lot ten of section Is in Township
5, North Of Range 35, E. Nv. M. in
Umatilla County, Oregon, shall be
foreolosed and said real property sold
under execution to be issued upon the
decree which the court shall render in
said case by the sheriff of Umatilla
County, Oregon; and that the proceeds
thereof shall be applied first to the
payment of the costs and expenses and
disbursements of suit second, to the
sum of money for which plaintiff
prays decree in said suit against de-
PENDANTS; that the balance, ii any, Ee
paid to the defendants; that any party
to the suit may purchase any or all of
the said property at such sale. This
summons is published pursuant to an
order made by the Hon. Fl. j. Bean,
Judge of the above entitled court, on
the 31st day of August, 1909 and the
first publication thereof is made on
the 3rd day of September. 1909.
J.B. Perry. attorney for plaintiff.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03
NOTICE OF GUARDIANS FINAL
ACCOUNT.

In the County Court of the State Of
Oregon. for Umatilla County.
In the matter of the Guardianship OF
the Person and Estate of John Nc
Intyre. Insane.
All persons are hereby notified that
Hugh Mcintyre. guardian of the per-
son aud estate of John Mcintyre,
insane, has filed his final account and
report in said matter and that Tues
day the 18th day of September 1909,
at the hour of 10 o'clock in the fore.
noon of said day has been appointed
as the time and the county court house
at Pendleton as the place where any
aud all objections and exceptions to
the said final account and report will
be- heard aud the settlement thereof
made. The first publication OF this
notice will be made on Friday the 9Th
day of August A. d. 1909 aud the last
publication on Friday the Srd day OF
September A. D. 1909.
Hugh Mcintyre, Guardian.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03
Teaching Him a Lesson.

The new mail carrier on the rural
free delivery route glanced at the name
on the letter box by the roadside,
stopped his horse and spoke to the
roughly attircd farmer with the old
slouch hat who was resting his sun
Drowned arms on the gate and look
ing at him.
~ see," he said, "your name is
Holmes"
Eyes"
Beverly G.?"'
Eyes, I'm the man that lives here"
"Any relation of Sherlock HomesT
gravely asked the carrier.
"No, sir" answered the farmer, "but
I'm detective enough to know that
you're not very good judge of human
nature. You took me for an ignoramus
because I've got my old working duds
on. I'm Sherlock Holmes enough to
look at Il mans face and eyes before
| size him up as a. Some mail for
me? Thanks."-Youth's Companion.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03
Well Trained.

A farmer finding a motor horn In
the road, took 1t home. determined to
turn 1t to some use So he taught his
poultry to gather for meals Mt its toot,
and all nature may be said to have
smiled TIL one morning motor car
passing the farmyard blew a loud
blast. The full strength OF the poultry
yard instantly ran out into the road
and began TO pursue the car with all
the ardor of railway travellers charging
into the refreshment room. AT the end
Of the fifth mile fourteen pullets and
three ROSTERS succumbed through ex-
haustion. The rest are still running
English Paper
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03
AN IMPRACTICAL JOKER.
He Thought It Was Very Funny 60
Fire the Hayrick.


Fire the Hayrick.
Practical joking, "the meanest form
of wit" is common In Hungary. For
merly the pranks used to be coarse,
If not dangerous, but that Is changing
now. The only saving grace Of the
Magyarian practical jokes, says W. b.
#. Bovill in Hungary and the Hun
garians," is that they are not perpe-
trated in a spirit Of bitterness.
One of the most famous jokers of the
old school was Jozsa Gyuri. Exiled
In one of the most inaccessible parts
of the great plain, he lived and died
"a prodigal and buffoon"
A story is told Of Jozsa going to
spend a night with Count Keglevich.
Wishing to be impressive, he journey
ed thither in a beautiful new coach, of
which he was very proud. On being
shown over the grounds by the count
his attention was directed to remark
ably fine hayrick. Hay was then
standing at good price. After sup
per JoZsa drew together some friends,
and the rick was soon nothing but Il
heap Of ashes.
The next morning when Jozsa want
ed to continue his journey his won
derful carriage was not to be seen
anywhere.
"Why, my friend" said the count,
"you yourself burnt it last night. The
fact is my coach house wants repair
ing, and as the evening threatened to
be wet we put your carriage under
the rick to keep it dry"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03
Javelle Water.

Wherever water Is used in preparing
bleaches it should be soft. The alkali
in hard water affects all chemical SUBJ
stances. Javelle water is a standard
preparation for bleaching white things
and removing spots and stains, but it
must not touch colored surfaces. To
make 1t dissolve half pound of wash
ing soda In a pint Of boiling water and
mix 1t with quarter pound Of chloride
of lime dissolved in q quart of boiling
water Stir well, let settle, pour on
the clear liquid and keep closely corked
In dark place.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03

Epicure-Waiter this steak is posi-.
lively bad. 1t must be three weeks
old. Waiter-Ah, pardon, monsieur!
/ have made 20 meestake and have
brought you re venison. Eplcure-
venison? oh, yes! Then you may
leave it. Crastes it, All, to be sure.
1t is venison, and very nice, too--yery
nice, deed!-Town Topics.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03
The Poor Poet.

"My husband never gets what he
should for his poetry" said the poets
wife, with tinge OF sadness.
"oh, don't be too hard on him." re-
piled the girl absentmIndedly. y.-Yonk'
ers Statesman.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03

NOTICE OR FINAL ACCOUNT.
In the County Court of the State OF
Oregon for Umatilla County.
In the matter of the estate of Joseph
A. Renville. (true name Rainville)
deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the ad-
ministrator in the above entitled
estate has filed his final account
therein, and that the judge of the
above entitled court has designated,
Saturday, September, 18th. 1909,
at ten o'clock in the forenoon and the
office of the county judge in tho county
court house at pendleton, Umatilla
County, Oregon as the time and place,
when and where hearing on said final
report shall te had, and all persons
interested are hereby notified to then
and there appear and show cause if
any they have why said final report
should not be approved. the admins
traitor discharged and his bondsmen
exonorated.
Dated this 9th day of August. 1909.
Joseph T. Rainville. Administrator.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT.

NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT.
In the County Court of the State Of
! Oregon for Umatilla County.
In the matter of the estate of James
Renville. (true name Rainville)
deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the ad-
ministrator in the above entitled
estate has filed his final account
therein, and that the judge of the
above entitled court has designated
Saturday. September, 18th. 1909. at
ten O'Clock in the forenoon and the
Office of the county judge in the county
court house at Pendleton. Umatilla
County, Oregon. as the time and
place, when and where hearing on
said final report shall be had, and all
persons interested are hereby notified
to then and there appear and show
cause if any they have why said final
report should not be approved, the
administrator discharged and his
bondsmen exonorated.
Dated this 9th day of August. 1908.
Joseph T. Rainyille, Administrator.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03

who teaches often learns himself
Italian proyerb,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03

E. ". smith Agent,
Athena
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03
WaIla Walia Pen
l0;oS a NJ dleton special

5.5lp m. sPendleton Walia $50 p Ia
walia Special
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-09-03

Walla Walla, Day
ton, Pomeroy, Lew.
iston, Colfax, Pull
n m man, Moscow, the
~ Occur d'Alene dis
|tri6t, Spokane and
all points north.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-06
Iona Newspapers
1--WE AMERICANS.
(Esthervllle Enterprise)

In the year 1910 there will be CEN
sus taken in this country. We all shall
then have to stand up and be counted.
There are getting to be a good many of
us. We are Of diverse sizes, ages, color5
and nationalities. Some of us are Irish,
some German, some Swedish, some
Norwegian, some italian, some French,
some Chinese, some Japanese, some
English some Hungarians. Spanish.
Ethiopian and Indian. But we are
being amalgamated, and finally If we
persist we will come out of the mills of
God, or of folly, a mixed, mongrel, nom
descript being that will rob the study
of anthropology of interest.
Unleash your imagination and let 1t
soar on ahead to the time, which is in
evitable under pure democracy, when
we shall be fully blended with the
negro, the Chinaman, the Japanese, the
Indian and the South Sea islander The
thought isn't attractive But may we
console ourselves with the reflection
that beneath the repellant exteriors
there may be elements Of beauty, of
virtue, of power which alone shall sur
vive in the furnace Of amalgamation
and be fused in the final race which
shall realize the dreams and ideals OF
the ages in human development and
dedication. But of course some of us
shall have been dead for some time
when that era arrives.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-06
TOO MUCH BoMBAR;DING.
Democrat.l

Half Of the people who are COM
planning that the legislature enacts too
many laws and creates too many bur-
dens of expense for the taxpayers to
foot, are in some organized force ask
ing that other measures and other
burdens of expense be put on the peo-
pie.
The legislature is bombarded from
every quarter There are the associa-
tons of doctors, teachers lawyers, and
laborers; the associations of county
supervisors, auditors and so on thru
the official list Then there are the or
ganized corporation interests of rail-
roads, telegraphs, distillery, brewery,
on down to the rural telephone all de-
manding no abridgement of their
rights as seen thru their corporation
eyes. All of these are on the side of
self interest with some good to the
public in some instance.
But the bombardment does not end.
There is always and MIST be the or
ganized forces looking to the moral
uplift Of the people. This coming win
ter these advocates will appear in the
form OF the state marshal clubs, the
anti-satoon league and other organi-
cations
The legislator thus bombarded needs
not tn. cursings of the people SO much
as he needs their sympathy. He must
do his duty as he sees it in the light
of right and broad citizenship.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-06
HoMB MADE REMEDIES.
Cedar Falls Record.l

\SSOdl dAAS 1SVSOANy
An old maid down at ST. Louis has
been suffering with the rheumatism
and after experimenting with all man
ner Of home cures adopted the method
proposed by an old colored nanny,
that of sleeping with a dog. She de-
clares that the result was all that could
be hoped for. The rheumatism van
ished in a few nights and now the
poor dog goes limping around the
premises with woe-begone express
sion and a sickly, sniveling whine
that is most painful both to the dog
and those who must endure his pres
ence. But the old maid is well of the
rheumatics and the colored nanny is
going about with one of those "I-told-
you-so" expressions on her face that
not only begets confidence but Is sug-
gestive of kind of a cure-all pro-
pensity that sometimes gets possession
of people.
The cures that are lying around
loose are enough to bankrupt every
doctor in the country For years the
editor Of the Record has been carry
ing a buckeye around in his pocket to
ward off the rheumatism, and it was
great stuff until this fall. The thing
either lost its substance or else the
whole thing is rank swindle.
A friend Informed us that If we
would catch a, big bullsnake and get
him to coil around the rheumatic sec
ton of our anatomy it would produce
wonderful results. We hunted high and
low for reptile of that persuasion. but
could find none. Doubtless the cool
weather had driven them to a warmer
cline, but the faith we had in the cure
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-06
sppcuLAr1NG ON IOWA LAND.
Cedar Rapids Gazette.)

Cedar Rapids Gazette)
Those who Imagine that Iowa is no
place for the man who desires to buy
land for speculative purposes and who
seems to believe that the only place to
buy with the assurance of profit is In
some mi-arid region Of the west are
invited to contemplate the action of
a citizen of Tama county. This gentle
land near Clutter. in Tama county. For
that land he paid the munificent sum
Of $140 per acre. Pretty high price to
pay for land If you are buying for
speculative purposes, you say. Maybe,
but that's what the buyer announces
he is doing. He says he expects the
land to be worth 5000 per acre within
a very few years. He expects to de-
rive profit Of $50 per acre.
Is this Spectator crazy? No, in
deed He is quite sane. Iowa land, the
kind they have in Tama county and
in the greater portion of the state like
wise, Is going to continue increasing
in value. Two hundred dollar land will
be a very common thing In a very few
years. There is a reason for saying
So Iowa land is very productive. Iowa
crops never fail. Iowa farmers have
hardly begun to get out of the soil.
what there is in 1t. AS the farms be-
come more productive the price of the
land will naturally increase.
This Tama county citizen has set an
example for other Iowans. He has
faith in Iowa. kind of faith that
ought to be widely copied.