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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-07-31

The men stationed at Camp Sher-
man will be among the best shod fight
ers In the entire world. An expert
mental test to find the average size and
width of the shoes used and the
amount of leather consumed showed
that by using a device known as tho
Resco shoe-itting device the shoes are
made more comfortable for the men
and leather is saved. Here is shown
the device being put to practical use.
Each man wears two pairs Of wool
socks when fitted for the shoes.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-07-31
DAILY MARKET REPORT.
Minneapolis Grain.

Minneapolis. July 81. - Oats, July,
Tic; Sept, 66%c.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-07-31
Kansas City Live Stock.

Kansas City, July 30.-Hog receipts,
1900; higher; bulk, 80;
heavy, $18.75@1S.95; packers and
butchers, $18.70@19. Cattle receipts,
$4,000; steady; prime fed steers, $3.50
@1S.50; dressed beef steers, $13.5O@
II; stockers and feeders, $500
1920; calves. 1904. Sheep receipts.
700; weak; lambs, $15@1S; yearlings,
81 OILS; wethers, $10013.75.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-07-31
Never PLAYED Hockey.

Alert Tegan, high-school boy Of Mani
towoc, Wis, has a perfect school rec
ord for the last twelve years, OF dur
Ing his entire school course. He was
not absent or tardy during that entire
time.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-07-31
South St. Paul Live Stock.

South st. Paul, July 31.-Estimated
receipts at the Union ~stockyards: Cat.
tie, LOO; calves. 1000; hogs. 2.600;
sheep, 100; cars, 1926. Steers, SG50@
1850; cows, S707.50; calves. $50
1850; hogs. s1S.1O@1s.2O; sheep aud
lambs, $8.50@16.50.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-07-31

Five hundred cases Of whale meat
are being canned at Victoria, B. c..
daily. Up to the present % whales
have been captured and brought to the
cannery this season.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-07-31
CHICAGO Grain.

Chicago. July 81. Corn, July,
$l.54A; August, $1.54$. Oats. July,
75c; Aug, 50 Hc.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
Halle Visits the Front,

The Press is pleased to publish a
letter from Halle Piersol. the first
from him since his arrival overseas.
addressed to an Athena friend:
with A. E. F =, 5-4-19IS.
81 will drop you line to let you
know l am in very good heflth and
feeling fine. Am working very hard
now, drilling every day. Have been
transferred again to Bat. F, ll6 F. A.
1t is fine company. | had very
good trip across the water, had one
small storm but wasn't very bad.
II saw Claud a few days ago,
he sure looks fine and healthy. He
is in Bat. D, 116. didn't get to
talk to him very long. We are near
large town. Have seen lots of fun
ny sights since l have been here, and
have travelled good bit on the train.
| went up near the front with horses
and back again. was Oh the train about
eight days. The trains here are about
half as large as they are at home, and
it would make you laugh if you could
see one of the trolley cars; women run
them and when they get to the end of
the line they turn them around by
hand. They are run by compressed
air. Hally F. PIersol,
lag F. A., Bat. F., A. E. F.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
PRIMITIVE WAYS IN ARABIA
Mode of Life Differs Little From
What It Was In the Time of
Abraham.

1t appears that in certain parts OF
the Arabian desert life is as primitive
as in Abraham's time. Sheep are
still slain to seal a vow. The salt or
bread covenant is observed and when
q man dies his tent Is torn down and
destroyed.
Old names like Joseph, Moses, Alex
ander, etc., are still in common use
among Arabs, although pronounced
"Yusuf," "Musa" and "Skandar." To
divorce his wife man may repeat the
formula "Ent telek" three times; usu-
ally uttering 1t once makes the woman
behave and the repetition is not nee
essary. The evil eye superstition is
common, and the first injunction CIV
en- a foreigner by experienced Arabian
travellers is that he must not point at
animals or persons in Arab settle
ments.
Arabs say that man possessed of
this malign power can look at bird
flying in the air and 1t will drop dead
that If he chooses to east his wicked
spell on camel 1t may 60 lame, or q
child may be struck blind. None OF
the lower class can read or write, but
the Arab is noted for his ready vii
and his habit of speaking in allegory
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
02EG0NS 4TH LOAN QUOTA
PLACED At S45,0OO,0O0

Oregon's quota in the fourth liberty
loan, the campaign for which will start
October l will be between $45. 900
and $50. 900, 900 on estimates brought
back to Portland by Robert E. Smith,
state manager of liberty loan cam
paigns, who returned from San Fran
cisco, where he attended the confer
ence of officials of the Twelfth Federal
Reserve District, says the Oregonian.
Oregon's quota last time was $l7,-
500, 900, although the total subscribed
was S27, 500, 900. The vast prospective
increase in the Oregon quota has al
ready stirred bank ers to contemplative
action. aud Mr.. Smith gave out word
thai it would 90 hard with liberty loan
..'slackers" in October.
The Oregon quota has been arrived
at after careful figuring. The total of
the fourth loan will be 5000, 900, 900
it is thought, because the total of an
! ticipatory certificates now authorized
in advance Of the loan is that sum.
A feature Of the conference at San
Francisco was the attention given to
the Oregon Spirit and Oregon
method" at the start, and Mr.. Smith
was called upon at the opening session
to explain how Oregon did it. The
news of this states quick work in 60
/ ing over the top in the loan and all
other patriotic drives was fresh in the
minds of the men at the conference.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
Do NOT APPEAL TO VISITOR
Writer Frankly Expresses Feeling OF
Disappointment at Sight Of Build
ings Within kremlln Walls.

To me none Of the ten churches with
in the Kremlin walls is impressive.
Ivan Veliki towers the highest, but it
is far from imposing. writes Maynard
Owen Williams in the Christian Her
aid. From one side 1t resembles tow
er rather than a church, yet it has no
such quiet dignity as one finds in the
Kutah Minar, near Delhi, or the tow
ering dome Of st. Sophia with Its
fianking needle minarets. The other
cathedrals are dropped around with
careless abandon and a nice disregard
for the cost of gold leaf, but none Of
them dominates vista or gathers
about itself the other masses in pleas
ing array. The Kremlin is mighty
whole, composed Of many unimposlng
parts. Its long red walls and splendid
gates produce an effect Of simple
strength which cannot be found within
their portals.
The interiors are as disappointing
as are the groups Of domes which dis
tinguish the exterlors. None is large,
none is truly intimate. The effect is of
surplus gilt and multiplicity of saints
which remind one Of the gopurams of
India. Spindle-shanked saints, whose
emaciated figures seem too weak to
support their gilt haloes, alternate
with knights in armor.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
MOVIES MUST DRIP GLOOM
Picture Dramas That Have Happy
findings Can Never Attain Popu.
Iarity in Russia.

Four and five-act movie dramas of
the highly emotional and sentimental
kind are popular in Russia. Cowboy
activities, murders and burglaries do
not appeal to these audiences. Rough
comedy is wasted even on the cheap
est Russian audience. They do not
understand it.
American pictures, as rule, do not
appeal to the Russian taste. They
want drama woven usually around
the eternal triangle;" the men must
be ardent lovers, and the women weak
but noble.
A weeping mother or the deathbed
Of beloved father Is always very I'M
pressive. There must be death in
the drama, preferably the suicide Of
hero or heroine, with the other one
going into the cloister at the end. The
ideal picture play for Russian popular
audiences must not, under any circum'
stances, have happy ending,
The Russians use great deal Of de-
scriptive and explanatory material on
the films in showing their own dramas.
They depend upon 1t largely for the
action" They do not care nearly so
much for action in the pictures as for
postures indicating emotions. Anna
tory and deathbed scenes should al
ways be photographed to the last de-
tail, but nearly everything else may
tc written and read.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
THINGS THAT GROW DOUBLE
Freaks Of Nature That the Wisest OF
Men Find Some Difficulty in
Explaining.

Nature does some strange things In
the formation of vegetables, nuts and
different kinds of fruits, an exchange
states. 1t is quite common to find two
or more growing together, and natural
lists frequently run across some very
curious freaks.
Double ears Of corn are quite COM
mon. They grow side by side, and are
sometimes of equal size; but usually
one has little better chance to grow
and gets the advantage over the other
A double ear on exhibition in one of
the Western states was certainly Gu
riOsity. One side was one variety of
corn, while the other side was so diff
ferent that it was hard to believe the
two had grown so close togther.
Double heads of wheat are quite
common, but double grains are scarce.
Grains Of rye, however, are often dou-
BILE, and the same is true of rice.
Onions, radishes, beets, carrots, tur-
nips. cabbages and other vegetables
are often found in double form.
The prettiest specimens of double
peaches are those with two seeds, as
they are most distinctly double, being
Joined at point about halfway from
the stem of the blossom ends.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
"SWat the Rat!D

Since the introduction of the house
rat In the United States they have
become extremely abundant and widely
distributed throughout the country,
where they destroy annually many
millions of dollars worth of food
products and crops. These losses
occur alike in cities, villages and
farmsteads. Their inroads upon food
products occur in freight departments
of railroads and steamboat lines, stor-
age places of grain and food dealers,
commission houses, wholesale drug
houses, candy shops, bakeries, -four
mills, cold-storage houses, city and
country dwellings, granaries, fields
and poultry yards. The loss of food
and other products in the United
States from this source amounts to
not less than $200O00,000 annually,
which amount does not include indi-
rect losses occasioned by human dis
ease disseminated by rats and the
necessary expenditures in combating
them.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
Exp :rienc:s in the Clouds,

Maurice Hill, writing to his parents
from Payne Field. Miss, where he is
now gaining experience as flyer, says:
81 am doing all right with my flying
and progressing finely. Had a grand
ride Saturday morning. 1t rained hard
Friday evening and the field was too
muddy for landing very much, so my
instructor and went up for a joy
ride. We started climbing right up
and were soon up 1900 feet. 1t was
starting to cloud up and at 1900 feet
drove through few clouds and at
1000 feet two or three more. That
put us in between two layers of clouds
and soon the lower layer gather
thick enough so that we couldn't see
the ground at all. We climbed on up
to 5000 feet, and | got a sight that
was absolutely wonderful. Below and
above US were clouds and the ones be-
low were beautiful. They were those
feecy white clouds you see so often.
AS the wind whipped them back and
forth, they resembled the ocean. The
ship ran so smoothly that turned
loose of the controls and let the ship
fly alone. For ten minutes it went Just
as true as could be and never quivered.
l looked at it and wondered what was
keeping US up there and climbing
steadily.
81 was thankful for the opportunity
to enjoy such privilege. l wish you
folks could have such an opportunity
yourselves, as you would not wonder
that am in this branch.
cadet M. B. Hill.
Payne Field, Miss. ="
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
NEXT DRAFT QUOTA WILL
CLEAN UP ALL CLASS ONE

One hundred and fourteen Umatilla
county men. all who were left in Glass
l, have been called to report to the
local board at Pendleton, July %, at
three p. m. for induction into the Ma
tional Army. The call takes all of
the men in Glass /. but it was not nee
essary to call any of the men who reg
istered in June. after becoming II
year of age, following the first regis
tration.
This is one of the largest numbers
yet called at any one time to report by
the local board. In making up the list
for this call it was necessary,to utilize
several who have just recently been
put back in class from an original
deferred classification, on the recon-
mendalion of the legal advisory board.
Among the men are four from Ath-
ena: Jesse Myrick, James Phillips,
Charles Payne and Roy Russell. 9th
ers who are well known here are Will
lam D. Allingham Portland; Bert Fer
guson, Weston; Clarence Gagnon,
Weston; Cyrus C. Sturgis. Boston
Carl Nelson, Weston; Alfred Franz,
Era. Penn; Floyd Payne, Adams
Romeo Hubbs, Milton; Fred Bushman,
Adams; Carl Perringer, Pendleton.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
STAMPEDE Visitors Return.

Athena visitors to the Missoula,
Montana, Stampede returned home
well pleased with their trip and the
success of the Wild West exhibition.
Speaking of the EVENT., the Daily Mis-
soulian says: "The Missoula Stam-
pede committee started out with the
slogan, bigger and better than ever.
and that they succeeded is not to be
questioned. In addition to Big Bill
Switzler. with a competent corps of
assistants, together with Charles
Allard of Poison, and F. S. lie Grow
of Athena who were in general charge
was guarantee that the events would
not drag, but would run off with ab-
solutely no delays. E"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
Honey Of the Bible.

1t is interesting to note that the
wild honey named in the Bible may
not have been altogether the stores
packed away by the bee in the hol-
lows of trees and between the rocks.
There is clear, sweet liquid called
honey dew found frequently on leaves
and comes from the aphids the tiny
"cows" cared for and "milked" by the
ants for their saccharine substance.
There was so much Of 1t on the leaves
of the trees in oriental climes that it
dripped down in considerable quanti-
ties to the ground. This must have
been the kind named in the book Of
Samuel where 1t says: sand all they
Of the land came to wood and there
was honey upon the ground. And
when the people were come into the
wood behold the honey dropped"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
LETTERS FROM OUR
LADS OVER THERE"

Somewhere in France, June IL.
"Dear Mother: l have been moved
around quite lot since | wrote last
time and have been close enough to
hear the big guns. You will probably
see in the papers how the Seventh Ma
chine Gun battalion held off the Ger
mans. / saw them when they came
back from the front and they are sure
a game bunch. The battalion held off
three German divisions. think when
we get forces enough that we viii go
right through to Berlin.
II have seen good many air bat
ties in the last week, quite an inter-
esting sight. You can tell Boyd that
we are in the Second Battle of the
Marne. l can hear a continual roar
of the guns from wnsre l am writing
this, but am in no danger. The war;
fare on this sector now is open war,
as there are no trenches, and there is
not as much gas being used. And the
Americans are doing more than just
holding their own.
"We have had pretty warm weather
here for the last month. There are
lots of villages in this section and
most of them are deserted so we help
ourselves to the chickens and eggs and
garden truck. Will be glad when the
fruit gets ripe as that is what crave
most, and there are all kinds of fruit
trees around here.
81 have never seen any of the boys
from home yet, guess they are on a
different sector. About half of the
fellows in my regiment came from
Kansas. Tell all the fellows I'm hav-
ing good time and rearing to go.
Pvt. John L. Wall,
H. Q. Company, 3S Infantry, A, E. F..
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
History Of the Sword.

The sword came from ancient Egypt
and was used through Palestine, Syria
and Asia Minor, India pnd throughout
the western world. 1t was in Egypt
that the three shapes of the sword
blade originated, these being the
straight, the curved and the half
curved. The Roman sword was larger
than that of the Greeks and In the
days of the empire many of the sheaths
were so covered with precious stones
as to be veritable art treasures. Among
the Moslems the highest title given to
a warrior Of renown is "the sword of
Allah" The Chinese made swords of
iron as early as 1879 B. G.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
.audaders Think Jim Liohts city.

When the electric light company
lighted the streets Of Bagdad with
electricity, the people were filed with
astOnishment, according to n Bagdad
newspaper, translated for the Review
of Reviews by Miss Mary Caroline
Holmes. Some declared that nothing
less than the Jim could produce such
brilliant light. Others asserted that it
was male and female, the latter being
the lights of the city while the males
were kept in the pockets of the Eng.
llshnen.
Still others said that in their opinion
these wonderful lights were the bird
"Al Bahman," spoken of by AL Ar
desy"a in his book, "The Pleasure Of the
Longing News from the Border" AL
Bahman" is supposed tG circle around
and around the sea, observing the hOri-
zon, then mounting to the top Of the
tallest mast to warn the sailors Of Il
coming tempest.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
WILSON ALONE CAN
HALT PROHIBITION

Bone-dry prohibition of the manu-
facture and sale of Intoxicating liquor
throughout the United States for the
remainder of the war will go into
effect on January l next, unless Pres
ident Wilson defeats the proposed ac-
tion of Congress.
The road to immediate passage of
the measure for which the prohibition
lists have been fighting for several
months. was cleared Wednesday when
the Senate by vote of So to 3s went
on record in favor of attaching the
Nation wide wartime prohibition rider
to the pending agricultural extension
bill. -
BY this vote the Senate reversed the
chairs ruling of the rider out of order.
The concurrence of the House is re-
garded as foregone conclusion mas
much as that body initiated the move
for war prohibition by adopting an
amendment to the pending bill design
ed to suspend the liquor traffic. The
principal features of the amendment
made in order by the Senate are:
Prohibition of the sale of spirituous
liquors for beverage purposes after
December 81, 1918.
Stoppage of the sale of grain, cer-
cal, fruit or other food products in the
manufacture of beer and wine after
November l, next.
Prohibition of sale of beer or wine
after December 81, 1918.
Brewers were notified by Fuel Ad-
ministrator Garfield they could not
count on coal beyond that needed to
use up the materials now in the pro-
cess of manufacture. including malt
already manufactured.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
Raw Zerba Better.

Recovering from pneumonia in the
hospital at Camp Lewis, Ray Zerba
has suffered an attack of measles. A
telegram received by relatives here
last Friday stated that the boy was in
a critical condition and Miss Edna
Zerba. his sister. left at once for the
military camp. Since her arrival there
the young man has improved and is
now reported to be out Of danger.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
p Harvest Is Here.

TThe harvesting of the 1918 grain
crop will soon be under way. Next
week will see several machines in the
field, and the following week will find
harvest operations in full blast, Wea-
ther conditions have been nearly per-
feet for grain to fill out, and the result
considering the dry season is better
than expected several weeks ago.
There will be a good yield on many Of
the ranches in this vicinity, and fair
ly good yield promises to be the gen
eral rule. Many have their entire
crew ready for work. and while men
are not plentiful serious labor short
age is not anticipated.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
\Fording at Thorn Hollow.

kThe new bridge, except the plank
ing, is finished at Thorn Hollow cross
ing on the Umatilla river, but the
roadwork yet remains Incomplete to Il
considerable extent. However, auto
mobiles are crossing the river at that
point by fording the stream, without
encountering much difficulty. Travel
to Bingham Springs from this section
of the county for the most part is now
going that way.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
Had Good Reason.

Mother-Why, Bobby, you don't gen.
orally keep on crying like this after
your father has given you spanking.
Bobby--I-I know 1t, ma; but he
says I've got to sit down and think 1t
over. and-and before I've always
stood up and forgot it.-Boston Tran.
script.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
Subscription Rates

One Copy, one year, $1.59; for six
months, 75c; for three months, SOC;
payable in advance, and subscrip-
tions are solicited on no other basis
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-12
Advertising

Ths cAthena Press circulates in the
homes of readers who reside in the
heart of the Great Umstilla Wheat
Belt, and they have money to spend
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-08-15
NAVY NEEDS MEN

The U. S. Navy needs aviation me-
chanics now for duty in the monthly
ing section Of Naval Aviation. Cop
persmiths, carpenters mates, and
quartermasters are urgently needed in
this branch of our work, which is de-
stined to play an important part in
guarding u shores.
After being enrolled, men holding
the ratings enumerated above will be
sent to a training school for special
instruction before being assigned to
units of the fighting forces.
Men may be enrolled in the U. S.
Naval Reserve Force who have receiv-
ed training as: Coppersmiths, expert
enced cutters and cloth filters, up
holsters, carriage or auto top maker
or trimmers, wire rope makers, wire
makers, sma.i work pattern makers,
canvas workers, tent workers, canoe
builders, interior finishers, canva
dealers or jobbers, factory canvas in
spectors, cloth inspectors, textile mill
product inspectors, interior decorators,
fresco painters, large sign painters,
wagon or carriage painters, expert
furniture finishers, automobile, CARR
age or truck painters, house interior
f~inishers, va%rnishers, paint mill chem.
lists, experienced paint mill workers
tent errector, sail rigger, genral rig.
ger, rope splicer, woodworking factory
mechanics, skilled pattern makers
cabinet makers, piano sounding board
builders, air propeller builders, jour.
neyman carpenters, stair builders
boat carpenters, door and sash mil
foremen, wood mill workers, mill men
factory carpenters, tank or station
pipe factory workers, cooper and bar
rel makers.
Men who are qualified should max,
application at once to District En-,
rolling officer G. f. Jaffe of the U. S
Naval Reserve Force at Room 400
Sheldon Building, San Francisco, Cali
fornia. Age limits twenty n to forty