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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-12-23

Atterbury, of this county. The mar
rage is announced to take place at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Cha rles
Stamper. near Warren station, next
Sunday.
NJ, Mr.. and Mrs. John Edwards, Of
Heppner, are visiting their daughter.
Mrs. r. A. Thompson, III this CITY.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwards were resi-
dents of the Weston neighborhood in
an early day. and will visit there
during their stay.
N J. M. Swaggart has materially
strengthened his fine fiock Of Barred
Plymouth Rocks by the purchase OF
several pullets from the prize winning
pen at the Pendleton poultry show
exhibited by the Heppner poultry
breeder Of Barred Rocks.
|N An adjuster. representing one Of the
companies in which 7. M. Taggart
held a policy. was in the city Wednes-
day and went over the details of the
fire loss with Mr.. Taggart. The safe
was opened yesterday morning and the
books and papers therein were found
| to be in we'll preserved condition.
R Mrs. Lydia Seitz. mother of Mrs. j.
| G. Martin, died at her home in Walla
Walla, Sunday night, after a pro
longed illness. The funeral was held
Tuesday at Walla Walla. Mrs.
/ Sietz had been resident of the Walla
Walla valley for 20 years and was
held in high esteem by all who knew
her.
E%The meetings at the Christian
| church are announced to close on Sum
day night. Tonight DR.. Martin and
Prof. Hohgatt give their famous re-
oital. Tomorrow night, Sunday morn
ing, afternoon and evening, DR.. Mar
tin will preach. Monday morning be
will leave for his home in Seattle, and
Professor Hohgatt will go to his home
in Illinois.
Reliable Jewelry at Close Prices.
Don't pay the big jewelers. fancy
prices until you see what we ask fol
The same goods. Our location and low
running expenses enable US to put this
saving into the value. 1t will DC
worth your while to step in and gel
our prices on watches, diamonds ane
iewelry. No store on earth can beat
our prices on reliable jewelry.
Fl. HI. Hill, Jeweler.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-12-23

X Prof. J. S. Henry was taken to
Walla Walla again this week. and
will take treatment for lung trouble.
ina hospital there. Prof. Henry's
many fri ends here are greatly con-
cerned about his cond ition.
" Arthur SCOTT has been in Athena
this week from his home in Cold
Spring district. The farmers of his
section of the county are highly elated
over the crop prospects. as a result OF
plenty Of moisture being stored in the
soil.
EN Members Of the local lodge of A. f.
1& A. M. are hereby notified that q
ban quet will be served at the lodge
hall next Tuesday night, Dec. 81. AL
me mbers and their families are in
vited to come and tring well fillet
] basket.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-12-23
Spoiled II For Him.

Mr.. Clarke's butler had asked for .
night off, for the purpose, as he ex-
planned, Of attending a ball in the vii
lage. The next day Mr.. Clarke asked
him how he had enjoyed himself.
"Oh, pretty good, sir, thank you,"
was the response. ut would have been
better If 1t hadn't a-been for the wom-
en-. I can't abide women at ball.
New York Press.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-12-23


u Mrs. II. A. Barrett, Mrs. 9. A. Bar
Nrett and Miss Jessioa MoEwen were in
Walla Walla Monday evening.
Henderson Fashion Form Corsets,
the correct foundation for a perfect
fitting gown, for sale by Fix & Radtke.
Mrs. William Williams was down
from her mountain home yesterday
buying Christmas goods Of Athena
mer chants.
\ Charles Henry returned Tuesday
4 from business trip to Weiser. Idaho
near which place be farmed for sew
eral yeais.
Miss Martha Gerking. who is teach
fNinR north Of town. will spend the
holidays with her mother near Elto-
pia, Wash.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-12-23

NJ Mrs. L. j. Foss is reported i'll, at
her home in the north part of town.
Mrs. Foss' trouble is of lorg standing.
though she has not been bedfast at
any time.
Y A. L. Swaggart has shipped seven
head of thoroughbred Poland China
hogs this week. The stock was con-
signed to breeders In Oregon and
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-12-23
Threat.

Immature Conductor Ito clarinet
player)-See here, Mr.. Schlag, why
don't you follow my beat? Veteran
Clarinet (solemnly)- If you don't look
ovid / will!-Puck.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-12-23

NRawl Miller arrived in the city
Wednesday evening from Corvallis,
and will spend the holidays here.
For Sale or exchange, a house and
lot. Also, rubber tire buggy. Ad-
dress "X," Athena Press Office. !.
Marion Jack one of the admins
traitors of the Kirk estate, was in
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-12-23
A Beautiful Thouaht.

A little girl absorbed in gazing as
the starry skies being asked OF what
she was thinking said, II was think
ing If the wrong side Of heaven is SO
glorious what must the right side be!'
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-12-23
A surprise.

Gertie--I want to give my sweet
heart surprise on lis birthday. Can
you suggest something? Arabel-Well.
Won might tell him your age.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-12-23
Increase in Valuation,

Mr.. Strain says that the assessed
valuation Of Umatilla county will
probably be increased s2, 900. 900 or
5000, 900 over last year.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-12-23
Press Paragraphs

u G. A. Barrett spent Wednesday in
Pendleton.
Conquerer $500 hats for sale by
Fix & Radtke.
Hamp Booher w,~'
Weston w
The Princeton union., 1910-05-19
What Do Mill Ends Mean?

Mill
with
thread Mill Factory
selling profitable
mill and factory will
inkng the
purchase
The Princeton union., 1910-05-19

The above cut shows the
tend a Flick-Whittier sale.
Kenmare, N. D, The reason pe
firm is because they do not fake
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-07-28
OHIO ELECTRIC LIGHT MEN
Big Annual Convention of Their State
Association Is Opened at
Cedar Point.

Cedar Point, O., July 26.-Electric
light men from all parts of Ohio, to-
gether with their families, are gath
ering at this resort in attendance on
the annual meeting of their state as
ISOLATION, which opened at 1O:3O
o'clock this morning in Convention
hall. The address of President ]. C.
Rothery of East Liverpool started the
ball rolling and was followed by
welcoming speech by E. A. Beckstein
OF Sandusky. This afternoon papers
were read by W. c. Anderson of Can
ton and Frank Brasius of Columbus.
Other interesting papers will be pre-
sented and discussed tomorrow and
Thursday. ..
Ample entertainment has been pro-
vided for the visitors, the ladies get
ting the first sample of it this after.
noon at a musical and card party.
This evening there will be dinner
and a trip on the lagoon. Tomorrow
the ladies will have a bowling party,
followed by launch ride, and the
banquet and ball come in the even
ing. Mrs. Clara Turpen Grimes of
Dayton, vocalist, and Mrs. Lola Min
nix OF Greenville, pianist, provide
music for all the entertainment func.
tions.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-07-28
LUMBER RATES UP
Federal Master Decides Western
Schedule Too Low
IOWA CONSUMERS PAY MORE
Rates to Missouri Are Right, Says the
Master, But East Too Low
Railroads Have Won Sub.
stantial Victory.

ST. Paul, Mimi, July 25.-The rail.
roads have won a substantial victory
In the findings of Frederick N. Dick.
son, master in chancery. They are the
preliminary findings in the lumber
rates Instituted in the fall of 1908
against the interstate commerce com.
mission by the Great Northern, North.
ern Pacific, Union Pacific and c.. B.
q Q. railroad companies. They were
served on the attorneys of both sides.
The lumber rates established from
the Pacific coast to all points west of
the Pembina line which is made IN
OF the western boundaries of Mime
sofa, Iowa and Missouri, are sustain
ed but the rates from the coast to
points east of the line are declared
to be unreasonably low.
The railroads ask for rate of so
cents a hundredweight on lumber
shipped from Portland, Ore, to st.
Paul and for 60 cents from Portland
to Chicago. The commission cut this
to 45 cents from Portland to st. Paul
and SO cents from Portland to Chi.
cago.
Mr.. Dickson upholds the conten-
lions of the railroads, and recon-
mends an injunction multiplying the
order of the commission on these
rates and on other lumber rates from
the coast to points east of the Penn
bina line.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-07-28
atate CAPITAL Notes.

DR.. H. o. Breeder, for twenty two
years pastor of the Central Churcl
of Christ and who resigned four years
ago to enter the evangelistic field,
has recently accepted the pastorats
of the West Side Church of Christ
San Francisco, and entered upon his
work there.
Cleo Johnson, the negro arrested
for assault upon Elizabeth Pates,
colored woman, attacked Jailer Tom
Cross with a dirk and made a des-
perate attempt to escape from the
city Jail.
Judgment of $3,175 unpaid alimony
dating back to the year 1902 was
entered against Jesse Higbee, propri-
etor of the Des Moines boat house,
by Judge Brennan of the law divis-
ion of the district court. The judy
ment is in favor of Mrs. Rose Higbee.
Bert Chamberlain was run down
and killed at Avoca by a Rock Island
train, according to word received at
the division headquarters at Des
Moines.
The Des Moines Press club was host
to the Southeastern Iowa Editorial
association Thursday and Friday.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-07-28
MEET IN DETROIT
WELCOMED BY MAYOR BRETT.
MEYER AND c. w. WARREN.
Fifth Annual Meeting of National Re.
tail Association Is Biggest Gath
ering of Its Kind.

Detroit, Mich, July 26.-The larg-
est gathering of men interested in
the jewelry business ever assembled
In this or any other countryside
fifth annual meeting of the National
Retail jewelers. association-was call.
ed to order at ten o'clock this morn
ing in the Cadillac hotel by ]. p. Ar
chibald of Blairsville, Pa, president
OF the organization. Rev. DIR. George
Elliott delivered an invocation and
the visitors were then welcomed by
Mayor Breitmeyer and Charles w.
Warren, president of the local Jewell
ers' club. Joseph Mazer of Oklahoma
responded for the association, and af-
ter Secretary Claud Wheeler of Co
lumbia, Mo-, had made his report the
jewelers. listened to an eloquent adj
dress by Steele F. Roberts of Pitts
burg, Pa. The speakers of the after
noon We're President Archibald, A. o.
Hutterly Of Washington, Henry Zilli-
ken of Wellsburg, w. Va, ]. r. Steb-
bins of Ashtabula, o., ]. B. Osthoff
OF Cincinnati and Col John l.. Shep-
herd of New York. Tonight there will
be an exhibition of all displays, open
to the public.
tomorrow is known as manufac-
turers' and jobbers' day, and all the
papers will be by their representa-
tives. More papers by retailers will
be heard Thursday, and on Friday
the convention will be by their rep
resentatives. More papers by retail
ers will be heard Thursday, and on
Friday the convention will close I'D
its business and adjourn. At four
o'clock tomorrow afternoon the entire
meeting will board trolley cars for
Lake Side park, where dinner will
be served. Thursday evening there
will be theater party and Friday
afternoon a boat ride
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-07-28
MAYOR TELLS OF HIS LIFE
Court Room Was Packed to Hear
Story of ottumwa Official in
Custer Case.

Ottumwa, Ia, July 25.-Mayor Phil.
lips took the stand in his own behalf
in the hearing of the custer proceed.
ings against him. He told the court
the story of his life.
The court room was packed and all
listened with intense interest to every
detail of the life story of the man who
in his 10th year faces the situation of
being cast out of the Office after serv-
ing the first half of his fourth term.
Following the evidence of bankers,
wholesale and retail business men,
manufacturers and former aldermen,
City Engineer John T. Brady and
Street Commissioner Henry Adcock,
testified to conversing daily with the
mayor, and never once finding any in
dication of his being drunk.
The mayor who was born in South
Wales, arrived in America when he
was six years old. His life in the
mines of Missouri was referred to-,
and he related how he had risen from
the humber positions in life to that
of general superintendent Of t&e
Whitebreast Fuel Co., and he referr-
ed to his political career later in
life, which included his running
against the present junior senator of
Iowa, A. B. Cummins, for the office
of governor, in 1904.
Court adjourned Saturday after
noon to allow the court and attorneys
to go to their homes over Sunday and
the testimony of Mayor Phillips was
only half finished. The defendant will
use all of today to complete the evil
dence.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-07-28
SECOND NEGRO TO HANG.
Smith only One Besides Junkln Since
Restoration of Law.

Des Moines, July 23.-John Junkin,
the negro murderer of Clara Rosen
OF Ottumwa, Who will expiate his
crime on the gallows at Fort Madi.
son, Friday, July 20, is the second
negro to draw the death penalty in
Iowa since the law was changed, re-
storing capital punishment.
Joseph Smith, the other negro, was
also the last man to be hanged in the
state, he being executed at Fort Mad.
ison April 20, 1906, for the murder
of a woman whom he had loved but
who had spurned him.
A list of the legal executions in
the state is as follows:
Chester Bellows at Charles City,
1877, for murder of his niece.
James o. Dooley of Adams county
at Fort Madison, Oct. 1884, for
murder of his sweetheart. He was
16 years old at the time Of his exc
cution.
]. X. Cumberland Of Shelby county.
at Fort Madison, Oct. 10, 1894, for
murder of two men.
Joseph Smith, negro, at Fort Madi-
son, April 20, 1906. He had killed a
woman with whom he was in love
but who had spurned him.
In addition to these men who have
been required to expiate on the gal
lows their crimes of murder, there
have been nine men sentenced to
hang but whose sentences have been
committed to life Imprisonment, or
who were freed on retrial.
They are as follows:
Harry Hortman, Cherokee county,
killed his sweetheart.
Dick Williams, Keokuk county, muir
dered a woman.
Louis Phillips and Albert G. Brooks,
Buena Vista county, killed members
of posse when caught in act of rob-
bling bank.
Charles Rocker, Lyon county, sem
fenced to hang for murder of wifeS
first husband, freed on retrial.
Charles Stegall, Scott county.
George Weems and John Hammill,
Polk county, killed L. D. Ridpath, Des
Moines.
Louis Busse, Butler county, killed
his wife.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-07-28
HOLD KESWICK CONFERENCE
Moody Bible Institute Meeting At.
tracts Many Prominent Theolo.
gists to Chicago This Week.

Chicago, July 26.-The Moody Bible
institute began today a four days
conference modelled after the famous
Keswick conference which is held an.
nually in England. Biblical questions
of importance are on the program for
discussion, and the list of speakers
includes numerous theologians of
worldwide reputation, such as Rev.
j. Stuart Holden of Portland square,
London, and Rev. D. ]. Findlay of
st. Georges Cross, Glasgow. A large
number of ministers and Bible teach.
ers have come to attend the confer
ence.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-07-28
TRUST THOUSANDS STOLEN
Shortage Of Assistant Secretary Rop-
Ike, Now in Jail, Supposed to
Be $1,14oooo.

Louisville, KY, July 25.-August
Ropke, assistant secretary and book
keeper of the Fidelity Trust company,
is believed to have made away with
$1,140,000, the entire surplus of the
concern, according to "a statement
made by John w. Barr, president of
the company, at his Office. Ropke is
in the county Jail where he has been
locked up for ten days unable to
furnish bail in the sum of $4,000.
Ropke was heavy speculator and
lost large sums, it is said, on Wall
street and the Chicago board Of
trade.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-07-28
IMPORTANT NEWS
notes OF A WEEK
LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD
OVER TOLD IN iTEMIZED
FORM.
EVENTS HERE AND THERE
Condensed Into a Few Lines for the
PerusaI Of the Busy Man.
Latest Personal infor-
nation.
PERSONAL
A. c. ROSS, Publisher.

John D. Rockefeller and his brother,
Frank, who have been estranged be-
cause of business deals for years, are
reported to have renewed their friend
ship.
Paul Sorrento, foundry employe at
Florence, N. j., collapsed from heat,
was packed in ice by friends and in a
short time froze to death.
Mrs. Fannie Blumstein of New York
and her five children slept under a
board walk at Coney Island for five
days because her baby needed outdoor
air and she was too poor to take her
any other place.
Oscar T. Tamm, wealthy native
son of st. Louis. but more recently es-
tablished at Tamms, ILL.,, crossed the
Arctic circle, $50 miles north of Patea,
Sweden, on July 2 with the American
flag flying from his steering gear. He
has written to st. Louis friends of the
achievement, of which he is proud.
Mrs. Evelyn Romadka, divorced
wife of Charles P. Romadka,
wealthy Milwaukee trunk manufac-
turer, has been pardoned by the Hi
nois authorities. Four years ago Mrs.
Romadka was given an indeterminate
sentence of one to fifteen years in
Joliet prison after she had pleaded
guilty in Chicago to sensational
charges Of theft.
The Porto Rican Bar association
held memorial services at San Juan,
for the late Chief Justice Fuller of the
United States Supreme court.
Miss Lucy Page CASTOR, founder OF
the Anticigarette league of Chicago,
says she has evidence that the habit
of smoking cigarettes is widespread
among women in New York, and is
promoting a campaign of instruction
against the practise.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-07-28

him up at the executive office and
informed him that the indictment had
been returned.
"All right" the governor said.
Judge De Graft placed the bond at
$500 and allowed the governor to
sign it himself. Governor Carroll re-
fused to make any statement follow
ing the notification that he had been
indicted.
Charges in Indictment.
"The grand jury of Polk county, in
the state of Iowa, being legally i'm
paneled, sworn and charged in the
name and by the authority of the
state of Iowa, accuses B. F. Carroll
of the crime of libel committed as
follows: The said B. F. Carroll on
or about the twenty-fourth day of
May, A. D., 1910, in the county of
Polk, in the state of Iowa, did will
fully, unlawfully and malicioYsly
make, compose, dictate and caused to
be published in a newspaper known
as the Des Moines Daily Capital a
certain false, malicious and libelous
article"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-07-28
Roosevelt Changes Dates.

Des Moines, July 25.-In order to
enable the other speakers on the pro-
gram to fill their engagements with
out loss of time or mourning extra
expense to the management, former
President Theodore Roosevelt will
come to Des Moines on the original
dates of the State Teachers associa-
ton, Nov. 8, and 8.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-07-28
GEN ERAL NEWS.

Excavation work on the Panama
ANAL in June exceeded by 100000
cubic yards the work done in June
last year. The total for last month
was 1,305,141 cubic yards.
A report of the National Association
for the Study and Prevention of Tu-
berculosis, issued from New York,
shows the average cost of caring for
tubercular patients in the semi-char-
table sanatoriums of the United States
is $1.67 a day.
D. r. Spahr Of Tarentum, Pa, while
shifting his baby from one arm to the
other, lost S575 worth of diamonds
which he carried in his pocket.
One person was killed in fire which
nearly wrecked a factory building in
New York city. Twenty families also
we're driven from their homes when
fire swept through a six-story tene-
ment house, several persons being seri-
ously burned.
The strike begun over a year ago
by the Association of Iron, Tin and
Steel Workers against the American
Sheet and Tin Plate company is to be
referred to vote of the mill workers
to determine whether it shall be called
off.
Attorney General Wickersham has
ordered the dissolution of what is
commonly known as the bath tub
trust, which is a combination backed
by $100,000,000 and whose actions are
felt in almost every home in the
United States.
Senator A. B. Cummins of Iowa is
credited with being behind a call is
sued for "progressives" of the Repub,
licans and Democrats to meet in Kan
sas City, Mo-, September to organize
a new party.
Deputy Sheriff Sid Cauley of Carroll
county, Miss, killed five negroes and
mortally wounded two when they at,
tackled him at the farm Of Henry Beck
with axes and pitchforks. Cauley
used a revolver in each hand. He had
gone to the farm to arrest the ne
groes for an assault.
Charges that more than $4,000 00C
has disappeared from the assets OF
the Pillsbury-Washbur Flour com
pany of the United States, but owned
mostly by English investors, were
made at the annual meeting in Lon
don by r. H. Glyn, who presided. Glyr
declared that the $40,000,0O0 had beer
lost mostly in wheat gambling and i'm
properly issued notes.
l.
vestigations into the death of Ira G
Rawn, president of the Chicago, In
dianapolis & Louisville railroad 9TH,
Monon route), and Herman Schuettler
acting chief of police, said that h,
was satisfied Mr.. Rawn had committe,
suicide.
With Judge Kersten selected to pre-
side at the second trial of Lee O'Nei
Browne, Democratic minority leader
scheduled for August in the erin
inal court at Chicago, 1t develope
that there is certain to be a chang
of counsel on the defense side Of tn
case.
No progress is being made towar
stemming the flames sweeping
large portion of central Wisconsin
So far the only village burned
Heineman. The town of Galloway
surrounded by a wall of fire abo,
ten miles wide, No lives have bee
lost.
The German-American Press Ass
citation OF the West met In conventiC
at Omaha with the intention of forI
ing national organization.
Naval officers recently reprimand,
at Washington for disputing amor
themselves will be transferred to Il
Pacific coast and the Philippines.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-07-28

Hills to Speak at Commencement.
DR.. Newell Dwight Hills, pastor of
Plymouth Congregational church of
Brooklyn and pulpit successor of
Henry Ward Beecher, has been Sc
cured by President o. H. Longwell to
deliver the commencement address at
Highland Park College, Thursday,
August 4. This will be DIR. Hills
third appearance at Highland Park
College commencement seasons. Four
years ago he delivered the COM
mencement address, while a year lat
er he delivered the baccalaureate SER
mon. DR.. Hills is a firm friend both
of the school and of its talented head,
President Longwell, and writes that
he is only too pleased to accept the
invitation to return this year and ad-
dress the graduating class of 314
members.
The commencement season at High.
land Park College opens July Goth
with the graduating exercises of the
College of Liberal Arts. DR.. Bolton,
dean Of the department of education
of the State University at Iowa City,
will deliver the principal address.
Following come the closing exercis-
es, on successive nights, of the Nor
NAL College, the College of Music,
the College of Oratory and other de-
partments Of this popular college. In
terspersed with the graduating ex-
erciseS will be the annual alumni din
ner, reception by President and Mrs.
Longwell and literary society exer-
cises.
Highland Park College is bringing
to close the most successful year
in it's long history. 1t has attracted
students to the number of $500 and
given them practical, technical edu-
cation at little cost. DR.. Hills de-
clares it is the most practical and
thorough school in the entire coun-
try.