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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-07-11
eATHENA. ORE. JULY IL ......l913

The largest bank in the United
States did two things the other day
that attracted much attention. For
months it bad held to minimum rate
of three per cent for call loans on
stock exchange collateral; out 1T ssus-
pended that rule and, as result, call
loans dropped below two per cent.
Also, fer a good while, in order to
strengthen cash reserves, it had been
out Of the market for commercial pa
per-thst is. had ceased buying mer-
chants aud manufacturers notes; but.
at the same time the call rate was
lowered, the bank bought several
million dollars of commercial paper
Oh a Elk per cent basis. At least
one other very large Eank is said to
have followed it's example. So there
you have the typical situation under
conditions like the precautionary
plentiful end cheap for Stock Ex
change speculation; money scarce and
dear for legitimate business. For this
the banks are not in the least to blame
The condition is forced upon them by
our bad banking system. In a time
of some stress the big city hanks
holding the reserves of the country
banks must keep stroug in cash or in
paper Immediately convertible into
cash. Gall loaus on the stock ex-
change can be Immediately converted
into cash; but the notes Of merchants
and manufacturers, running from three
to six mi nths, cannot be realized upon
until they mature. Henoe--inevit-
ably--the city banks are ohary OF ty-
ing up their funds in commercial pa
per, but are free to lend on the stock
exchange. There is no remedy for
this except in central organization
that will always redisoount CONNER
cial paper, an the central banks OF
Europe do. Whether that organiza.
tion is called a central bank or a
regional reserve association is imma
teIial.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-07-11
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

IN the County Court of the State of
Oregon, for Umatilla County.
In the Matter of the Estate of
Leo Thomas Mcbride. Deceased.
Notice is hereby given to all persons
whom it may concern that William
A. Mcbride has qualified as the ex-
eoutor of the last will aud testament
of Leo Thomas Mcbride, deceased.
All persons having claims against the
estate are required to present them,
with proper vouchers as required by
law, TO said executor at his home
near Adams, Oregon or TO his attor.
Deys, Peterson & Bishop, at their law
Office in the Smith Crawford Building
at Pendle,on, Oregon, within six
months from the first publication of
this notice.
Dated this the 9th day of June.
A, D., 1918.
WILLIAM A. MCBRIDE,
Executor,
BY PETERSON u BISHOP,
His ATTORNEYS.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-07-11

Among tho first things taken up by
superintendent j. A. Churchill was
The work done in the industrial depart
ment In order to get line on what
is being done in the different coun-
ties, Mr.. Churchill callad meeting
Of the comfy superintendents who
we're In session last week at the State
House in the capacity of the State
Board of Examiners. Each superin-
tendent reported an increasing inter
ost In the movement aud In most cas-
es the local extikits bid fair to he
larger and letter than last year.
The State Fair board was anxious to
ascertain as nearly as possible how
many counties would make collective
county exhibits and how much space
would be required for tho iuvenile de-
partment. According to reports frcm
the superintendents, a dozen county
exhibits and perhaps twice as many
district exhibits which, in connection
with the individual exhibit, will make
the largest and best display of school
children's Industrial work ever assem-
tled in any state.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-07-11

According to Dir, w. X. whitney,
in charge of the General Electric Co. /,
research laboratories, the advances in
inoandsscent lighting alone in this
country Ia the last 100 years represent
a saving OF $is0,o0O,OOO a year or
nearly million dollars day. He
also calls attention to the fact that
as a result of Investigations with the
mercury arc, his company has already
bad sale of over million dollars
extra. There are great many con.
Germs 10 this country spending over a
hnndfsd thousand dollars annually on
research,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-07-11
GOT DRUNK ON A BEEFSTEAK
And Also on overstrong Tea and Even
on Cold Water.

And Also on overstrong Tea and Even
on Cold Water.
According TO house surgeon in
London hospital, it is not necessary to
take strong drink at all in order to be
drunk Cases have been known in
which patients have got drunk ON a
beefsteak after having been for many
weeks on very light diet. The in
toxicaton in these cases showed it.
self in a slight dizziness and drowsi-
ness and indlstinctness of speech.
Similar cases have been known in
which the only intoxicant has been
strong tea. In fact, there are instances
in medical books of exceptional people
in whom the constant use of over.
strong, overdrawn tea has brought
about distinct symptoms of delirium
tremens
Perhaps the most curious sort Of in.
toxication on record is that in which
the only intoxicant is cold water drip.
ping from a water tap into the ear.
In Germany few years ago quite a
number of morbid people had crav-
Ing for this curious way of inducing
drunkenness. but it seems to have been
stamped out.
The drip Of the water is said to
cause n painful boiling sensation at
first and then to cause pleasant drow-
siness, ending In deep sleep. When
the victim is reused he is dull and stu
pid in manner. like heavy drinker.
This craze makes its victim a nervous
wreck in very short time. --Pearson's
Weekly.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-07-31
Business Instinct.

incredible as it may seem, there
are actually New York millionalres
who pay their chauffers $3.50, S2OO
and even $3.50 a month and for such
wages these men will only run the
car. They won't wash it, or dust It,
or reapair it. Only dress up pretty
and run it.
The speaker was Representative
Floyd; the occasion a Yellville ban
ouet. He continued:
'They tell story about a New
Yorker with $500 chauffeur. This
man had along with his other trou-
bles, a spendthrift daughter, and one
morning the girl said to him:
Father, I insist on having that
500 Poiret dinner gown. If don't
get it, then I'll elope with Auguste,
the chauffeur
The old man chuckled.
"She went to his arms calmly, and,
patting his bald head, she asked:
$50 1 get the gown, do II
"'Why, of course you DON'T he re-
piled. You get Auguste. l owe him
seven months wages.-NeW York
Herald.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-07-31
AIKEN FARMER WOUNDS THREE.
Both Sides Refuse to Make State
ments to Newspaper Men.

Aiken, July 24.-Jason Spires, an
extensive planter and foreman of the
Aiken county grand jury, today shot
and wounded three men. None of the
injured men will die. The victims
of the planters bullets are Moseley
and jerks Randall, two we'll known
young men of the county, and Dock
Latimer, a negro about 65 years of
age. The shooting occurred near the
home of MIR. Spires between Z o'clock
and S o'clock this morning.
The wounded men we're brought to
Aiken where their injuries received
attention. jerks Randall was shot
in the left groin, the bullet passing
through the body and coming out
at the back. Moseley Randall was
struck twice, in the upper right arm
and the right chest. The negro re-
ceived a flesh wound in the left side.
A connected story of the affair is
not to be had. Neither Spires or the
wounded men will make statement
to newspaper men. The Spires and
Randall families have not been on the
best of terms. The Randalls were in
charge of a road gang working a
highway known as the Silver Bluf
road, by orders of the county COM
missioners, and it was on this road
the difficulty occurred.
Although The States correspond
ent did not succeed in sucuring a
statement, S. E. Holley, rural police
man. one of the arresting officers,
saws both Spires and the Randalls
talked to him. From this officers
statement it is gathered that the
wounded men claim Spires said that
he would shoot the first man lifting
q shovel of dirt and shot Moseley
Randall when he threw dirt in the
wagon. jerks Randall ran to his
brother and was shot, according to
this story,
The rural policeman says that Splr-
es told him the Randall boys used
provocate language and that Nose
lev Randall advanced on him with a
pickaxe, he shooting when Randall
got close, and that the other two
we're shot as they picked up the pick
axe.
Sheriff H. H. Howard and Police
man Holley arrested Spires without
difficulty and he is now arranging
for bail.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-07-31
NOTICE TO TRESPASSERS.

All persons are hereby notified not
to fish, hunt or commit any other
trespass upon the lands of the estate
of J. H. Smith, deceased, in Bamberg
county. known as the Howell Mill
Pond and Swamp Tract. All persons
trespassing upon said lands will be
prosecuted to the extent of the law.
B. W. SMITH, Executor.
June oath, 1913.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-07-31
GOVERNORS WIFE ROBBED.
Mrs. Dunno Loses $500 worth Of Jew.
elry in Chicago Store.

Chicago, July 25.-Mrs. Edward F.
Dunno, wife of Gov. Dunno, was ROB
bed here yesterday of jewelry worth
$500. The theft was committed in
the rest room of a downtown depart
ment store. A handbag containing
the valuables was taken from her
Jap as she sat asleep in a rocking
chair.
AS soon as the robbery was report
ed the exits of the store were guard
ed by detectives, and a search of the
building for known thieves but no
arrests were made.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-07-31

this function that Daniel Webster
gave his views on love. A brides
maid had expressed surprise that Miss
TYLER should be willing to retire from
the White House to live in humble
residence in a Virginia town. Mr..
Webster remarked in reply;
Love rules the court, the camp, the
grove,
For love is heaven, and heaven is
love.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-07-31
Marriage of a Presidents Son.

Jackson's administration was re-
plete with White House weddings.
The first bride to be given away in the
Executive Mansion during his tenancy
was Della Lewis, of Nashville, who
married Alphonse Joseph Yver Pa
scot, a member of the French lega-
ton. Mary Easton, a niece of Mrs.
Jackson, shortly afterward was wed
to Lucien B. Polk, and Emily Martin,
q relative of the President, was the
third bride, marrying Lewis Ran
dolph.
Having reviewed the marriage of
several daughters of Presidents, one
comes at length to the wedding of
the son of a President, that of John
Adams, who married his cousin, Mary
HELEN. in 1928. The ceremony had
its accompanying gayeties, the Pres
ident and the guests tripping the
Virginia reel and other dances OF the
day.
Marie Monroe was the first Presl-
dents daughter to we'd in the White
House, her marriage taking place in
1920. In 1912 Anna Todd, a cousin
of Dolly Madison, became a blue
room bride. The year before Mrs.
Madison had arranged the first OF
White House weddings for her young
er sister, Lucy Payne Washington,
the widow of a nephew of George
Washington.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-07

has been highly commended by n very
large proportion OF our citizens. and
in fact, from almost every point Of
view, II is the only logical location
Stili. there may be certain side Issues
briefly presented.
What OF the future? Shall We have
n repetition or a duplication of the
present situation in regard TO the Bel
viderc street line? VIII the connection
company remove It's tracks? And II
they remain. what Is TO prevent their
use? II this line and also the Belt
Line continue in use. the situation as
10 the city's streets would, ~ the city
grows. become more and more acute
So much for duplication.
Now AS to repetition. The Belt Line
crosses. at grade, the extensions OF
many or our best residential streets
II VIII be an increasing evil as the
years go by. a tunnel may not be
necessary for tho line from Acca to
the Hermitage grounds. because IT Is
nearly parallel with said streets
The wishes OF President Walters. Of
the Atlantic Coast Line. seem TO carry
great weight In this affair. but the
writer is OF the opinion that future
generations viii utter curses both loud
and deep that such a plan was ever
carried out.
The drawings OF the proposed sta
win be both ornamental and convent
ont but what OF that? We should
have had station building of this
character years ago. instead OF the out
ofdate affair at Byrd Street. which
does not even provide for the separa
tion OF the races. and whose necessary
convenicnces are almost unspeakable.
No one seems 10 have touched upon
tho Richmond Transfer Company
which has almost monopoly OF the
baggage transfer business in this city
and which is generally believed to be
owned by the railroad companies or
parties closely affiliated with them.
With a union station in use. II would
not be exactly like Othello. but part
OF it's occupation would be gone, and
the charges for transfer OF baggage
from one station TO another would re-
main in the travellers pocket. Not only
so. but there is the risk OF not getting
the baggage transferred In time 10 be
put on the outgoing train. In a re-
cent case the writer had trunk to be
transferred from the Chese peake and
Ohio to the Richmond, fredericksburg
and Potomac at Byrd Street with fifty
tive minutes time for the transfer TO
be made. The representative OF the
company gave most positive assur-
ance that IT would be done. Well. It
was not done. and the trunk arrived
about half an hour after the train had
gone. The air in that vicinity had a
somewhat sulphurous odor for the tim e
being. and when the next train went
out. that trunk was about the first TO
go into the baggage car.
Finally. TO run trains from Clopton
to Acca, then to the Hermitage site and
vice versa would be very good illus
tration of going around ones elbow TO
get at ones thumb. only. proportion
ately. good deal more SO.
TRAVELLER.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-07
THE rETEnsnuRG PLAN.

Over petersburg way they seem tc
have hit upon a plan for preserving
AN ancient glory and meeting a mod.
! crn need. They call II tho Arts
Crafts and Cookery Exhibit. and OF
September % the third annual expo.
sition OF products In the above lines
will be held. The idea can best be
! expressed in tho words OF tho pros
! pectus ard invitation:
Dear Friend: All great things arc
necessarily the result of small things
| or a combination Of small things. For
| the third time we are making an eff
! fort 10 encourage the colored people
| in domestic science. drawing, needle
work. etc. and reward them for their
skin by exhibiting their handiw ork
thereby Installing in them the desire
! 10 attain excellence"
Whether white folks or negroes are
responsible for this bit OF inspiration,
the results cannot but be happy If the
| spirit of this appeal is carried out.
Once there was no need to inspire a
love of cooking, housework and darn
ing in the cooks and servants par ex-
cellence who helped make life golden
in old Virginia. Tho tradition OF
| those preserves, those roasts and fowls.
even now fingers still on tho lips OF
generation persistently hungry be-
cause II cannot get the old-timc wit :
ties" To-day. sadly enough, we must
teach tho one time teachers. and per-
suade to achievement the free who
once as happy slaves were proud to
show their skill. This is why the
merchants of Petersburg offer prizes
for the best loaf bread. the best beaten
biscuits. the best butter cake and such
delicacies as pickles. canned fruit ana
pies.
It is no small thing, az the appeal
hints. to be able TO prepare sane, whole
some. appetizlng food to support men,
or to run 4 seam neatly and swiftly.
Food and clothes are elemental as
sunshine AIRY real human being
should be proud OF such accomplish
ments. This exhibition enables the
pride to take concrete form in COM
petition.
We also suggest that such efforts
and such announcements might do
much to making tho servant problem
easier. Coupled with the show should
be some preliminary instruction, and
the promise of decent wages and
diGniiied work as reward When the
south wakes UP 10 the need for train
! Ing the negro to do his own kind OF
work shilfuliy and self-respectingly.
there wills be trendlier ties between
the new mistress and her helper.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-07
Biessiues On blooming hawaiian

To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir.-The Boydton lady. too 'tender
OF heart to gouge out the eyes of her
potatoes" must not belong to the
Womnn's Civic League"-that noble
army of women who plan to make the
town a city beautiful" "gouging" out
the unsightly waste places and making
them blossom as n rose" When this
great work is done Boydton. with it's
present granolithic pavements and ma :
cadamlZed streets. will rank among
Virginia's lovclicst villages.
Thanks to the vigilance OF it's Town
Council. II has already been rated by
the State Health Inspector as the most
M nitary town in Virginia. On n wood
cd hill. overlooking the town. is the
convict camp, n very model of ncatncss
and OF ordcrliness. There can be no
better conducted camp in the State in
every respect. and If convicts can be
happy they should he happy here.
Again we invite our best friend. The
Times Dispatch, to visit our town, to
admire its beauty. and to enjoy to the
full the nectar Of the gods"-in other
words. those delicious. unadulterated
jellies and pickles OF the old South.
poudtoo yo coptop,bar
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-07
OUR DECREASING rLEoroRArEs.

OUR DECREASING ELECToRATES.
| With practically all the returns In
| II Is evident that the highest total
! number OF votes cast for u single Of
nee in the August primary in Virginia
| total cast in the contest for the attor-
| ncy- Sencralship. In November. 1912
! the Democratic vote for Wilson was
! so.SS2. or 22.O26 moro votes than the
/ highest total vote In the August pri-
/ mary of 1913. In the senatorial pri-
| mary OF 1911, tho highest total number
| OF votes cast for single office was
| 96.745. or 2S,4i1 moro votes than tho
highest total vote for a single Office in
the 1913 primary.
The total number OF votes cast in
! Virginia in the national election OF
1905 was l36.S56 in 1912 1t was 1927,
4 decrease OF 639 votes.
Yet the case OF Virginia is not iso-
lated: il is symptomatic of a general
decrease in the electorate throughout
the country. In the national election
last year les, 900 fewer persons In the
United States voted than in the election
Intervening four-year period the voting
population had increased by more than
100000 None OF the larger elections
this year has shown radical increase
in the size of the vote. ~ congress
ional election in New Jersey brought
out but fraction of last years bal
lots 1t is predicted by those who have
studied the situation that the impend-
ing important congressional election in
Maine will evoke light vote. notwith-
standing the vigorous efforts of the
three principal national parties to get
out the entire number of electors.
y staff correspondent OF the Phila-
delphia Public Ledger, who has ana
lyzed the New York mayoralty situa-
ton. asserts that two out OF every five
males OF voting age in Greater New
York will not go TO the polls. Equally
conservative investigators consider a
decrease OF 100000 votes not unlikely
In 1905 the presidential vote in New
York was larger than in 1912, just as
1t was in Virginia. Even with the fate
of Tammany at stake. it would not be
surprising if 100000 New York voters
should absent themselves from the bal
lot box.
He would be bold indeed who would
essay a diagnosis and a remedy for
what appears TO be national political
epidemic. The adherents OF the short
ballot principle tell us that the Ameri-
can people are called upon too often
to fill TOO many Offices in the func-
tons and service OF which they are not
and should not be interested. Yet the
specific which they propose would not
apply to the elections of members OF
either branch of Congress and Presi-
dent.
The schools, the churches. the social
and civic organizations can render high
service in increasing the roster of
citizenship and charging the elccto-
rate. Such endeavors as that OF the
Young Mems Registration Committee of
Richmond, which enrolled $500 new
voters in this city last fall would. if
generally initiated, go far toward at
i tanning the ideal OF a general fuihlment
OF patriotic obligation at the polls.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-07
A Word for Rockefeller.

To the Editor OF The Times Dispatch
S!r,-In your paper of September !
you took occasion to remark that Mr..
Rockefeller liked the deaf because
they had nothing TO say against the
Standard OIL
Please allow me to say that l. for
one Of the deaf OF Virginia. could
never see why John D. Rockefeller,
Sr., should be blamed and abused for
all the dongs OF the Standard Oil
Company.
Although his name Is at the head
OF 1t. there are partners and thousands
OF employees scattered all over the
world have no doubt n good deal
of tainted money finds its way into the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-07

Star" boarders have done more to
break up boarding houses than any
other cause. a Chicago husband OF a
boarding housekccper last week had a
fight with the stellar member at his
eXtenuation, II have TO sit around eat
ing a bowl OF rice or pudding, while
this fellow. just because he is a boardcr,
gets pies, cakes. cookies and anything
he wants" Whereupon the learned
Judge ordered the star boardcr TO va
cate, holding that what Is too good
for hubby Is too good for anybody
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-07

An eminent and learned Virginia
parson, who is not without a certain
sort Of wit, such as it is. in reply to
our declaration that Virginia girl
who knows how to make beaten
biscuit can take 10 cents worth OF
ingredients and concoct the bait that
will land her the very croakor she
prefers above all others. writes US: In
other words her bait Will go straight
to the spot Surely such a girl Will
bear anything that ever came down
the pike, and any other girl might
az we'll come down from her perch"
No. no. brother photographers. don't
strike him! Desist. Give him bene-
TT OF clergy
.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-07
F Ii ES!

Horse manure In tho principal
hntchinE place for fics.
1t can he made sterile with coni
oil, cnrbolic ncid, copperas winter or
dry iOnm by mixing thoroughly.
Horncmen. stnblcmen. owners of
horses and sanitary inspectors. pay
attention.! Cut this out.
Let 1913 he a nylesa year.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-07
5oydton. Va, Sc
More About the Union station.

To the Editor OF TIC Times Dispatch:
Sir.-.Will the Richmond, Fredericks-
burg and Potomac and the Atlantic
Coast Line carry out their opposition
to tho action OF such influential bodies
ms tho City Council and the Chamber
OF Commerce? The able and exhaustive
report OF the latter in favor Of union
station at Fifteenth and Main Streets
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-07

Hark Ist Roosevelt dcnouncing
the trusts? Ist Jerome lambasting
Thaw? Is't the cap'n of cattlesh!p
doing the weeks swearing? No. tits
only the football coach instructing
cellow youth how to fall properly up
on the pigskln.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-07


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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-07

Former King Manuel was married
last week Ne His Majesty. Manuel IL,
Maria rA!nipe Nar! Amei.o Ludwig
M-'aale Raphael Gabriel Gonzsga
XAVIER Franz son Ass!s Eugcn. King
q; portugal" Won AssIsr would havo
been enough