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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-04-12
UMATIILA OREGON FRIDAY. 12
ATHENA OVER THE
TOP IN ONE DAY

1t took but one day for Athena to
60 'tover the top" in securing her
quota of s75, 900 to the Third Liberty
Loan, and F. S. LeGrow, chairman
of the committee is in receipt of tel
egram from the Federal Reserve Bank,
San Francisco, thanking Athena for
her loyal spirit.
The honor flag has since been re.
ceived, and now symbolically sup
ports Old Glory, beneath which it floats
on Athena's central flagstaff.
So generous were the subscribers
that the quota was exceeded, and when
the returns are in the Athena district
will be beyond the 100 per cent mark
by a considerable margin.
The committee began their work
Saturday morning and before noon it
was found that the quota would be
raised within the limit of the day. At
the First National Bank, from where
the work was directed, streams of sub
scribers filed in and out all day, and at
p. m. the goal had been practically
reached.
Stores and business houses closed
their doors from IL o'clock noon to
p. M, and at 2 O'Clock patriotic ex-
ercises were held at the speakers
stand corner of Main and Third streets
where addresses were made by prom
inent citizens. and where there was
singing appropriate to the occasion.
The exercises followed a parade on
Main street by school children, carry
ing flags, who also took part in the
program at the stand.
A satisfactory feature of the drive
to the committees is noted in the uni
versal distribution of the subscriptions
to this loan in comparison to the two
previous loans. The largest subscrip-
tion was taken for $1,000, and every
potential subscriber in the district ex-
cept three, subscribed to the loan.
Two Of these were out of reach of the
committees, while the third gives evil
dence of being Stacker in his refusal
to subscribe, and who, should he per-
slst in the stand taken, will spoil Ath-
ena's cherished ambition to attain
100 per cent loyalty record.
Already inquiries are being made as
to when subcribers will receive their
bonds. 1t makes no difference whe-
ther the bonds are received before
May 9Th or after. they commence bear
ing interest on that date and the bank
will notify subcribers when the bonds
have been received.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-04-12
Potatoes for Patriotism.

BY eating potatoes instead OF wheat
the people of the United States can
help win the war. We have not
enough wheat for the Allies and our
selves. We have an abundance of po-
tatoes. Wheat flour is a concentrated
food and therefore good for shipping;
potatoes are bulky and are conse-
quently not suited for limited shipping
space, nor are the Allies SO short of
potatoes as of wheat Next to cereals,
potatoes have been in this country
the mainstay of starchy food, which
supplies energy.
The more potatoes we eat, the less
wheat we need. A medium.sized po-
tato, weighing about 3h ounces, sup
plies about as much starch as two
small slices Of wheat bread one-half
inch thick. In other respects also,
the potato measures up well with
wheat bread and even has the advant-
age over 1t in supplying certain salts
which the body needs to counteract
the acidity resulting from the use Of
ouch foods as cereals, meat and eggs.
BY exercising her ingenuity the house
wife can prepare potatoes in many
different attractive ways, thus increas-
ing their proportion in the family diet
and conserving wheat and other sta
pies needed for shipment abroad. An
important use Of potatoes, also, is in
the mixing Of breads, in which mash
ed potatoes up to fully ten per cent
may be used without detracting from
its appearance or taste; in fact, many
persons hold that potatoes properly
mixed in bread. improves both appear
ance and flavor. .
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-04-12
LAURANT ANO COMPANY
RED CROSS BENEFIT NO. 3

Laurant and Company, consisting of
Mr.. Eugene Laurant, the magician
without peer; Miss Helen Barnard,
the foremost lady cornetist in the
country; Miss -Seaville, accompanist
and pianologuist, and third assistant,
will be with us Friday evening, April
10, in s-hour and forty minute enter
tainment. Mr.. Laurant has been en-
gagged for the past II years with one
company and is recognized everywhere
as the greatest magician on the plat
from today.
r In recent performance in the
Hippodrome Theater in Seattle, he
entertained an audience of 1900 with
admission prices of rs cents to $l.5O,
while on the same evening a comic
opera with company of 40 PEOPLE
played in the Empire theater just
across the street Laurant takes. He
entertains as no other can.
The full evenings performance will
be staged under three acts as follows:
Act l. the Magic of the Orient.
Act 2, representations of famous
men; Cornet soloist and bugler at
traction; Pianologuist work.
Act 3, The Mystic Supper; the
Trunk Mystery. up to date.
The entire evening given over to
"side splitting laughter" is what the
press claims for this famous company.
When Laurant is gone you will be
sorry you did not see him on the stage.
Remember the date, April 10, Friday
evening. His equipment consists of ID
trunks of supplies. A full house
is already in evidence. Tickets
on sale by Red Cross committee and
at Wares Pharmacy.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-04-12
Haney-Sheard.

" Wednesday, April 10, 1918, at one
O'Clock in the afternoon at the Chris
tian Church in Walla Walla, the we'd
ding of Miss Elizabeth Sheard and Mr..
Ernest Haney, both of this vicinity,
was solemnized. The ceremony was
performed by the Reverend A. Reed
Liverett. The bride, who is one of
Athena's popular young ladies', and
eldest daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. JOS
eph Sheard, prominent farmers just
north of the city, was attended by her
sister. Miss Mamie Sheard, and Mr..
Orva Noble, of Walla Walla, friend of
the groom, served in the capacity of
best man. After the ceremony the
party repaired to the Dacres Hotel
where wedding repast was served
After May l, the young couple will
be at home on their farm south of
Weston.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-04-12
Superintendent Elected.

The Athena school board last week
signed the contract of Gene Hall, of
North Powder, who was in the city,
as superintendent of the Athena
schools for the next year. Mr.. Hall
comes from North Powder, Baker
county, where he has been superin-
tendent of the schools for three years,
and where he was reelected for next
year at an advance in salary. He is
a man of long experience in school
work, and comes to Athena bearing
splendid credentials. He came to the
Pacific slope from the middle West
and has wife and two children,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-04-12
SOME REASONS WHY
| WHEAT MUST. BE SAVED
"A Man Cannot Think, Work or Fight
When He Is Hunsry"-We Must
i Feed Our Soldiers.

I'VE have the preservation Of the
world on our hands. Every single
living human being in this republic,
from ocean to ocean, should make it
his or her special purpose to save
food"
These are the words of E. F. Cullen,
personal representative of Herbert G.
Hoover, in a recent address.
Men will resist any power but the
power of starvation" said Mr.. Cullen.
Hunger in the final analysis, is the
only force that can weaken nation
and demoralize an army. Food is
strength. and without a perpetual sup
ply of strength, the world can stand
in danger Of tottering, weakening and
falling into utter chaos. A man can.
not think, work or fight if he is hun
cry.
"The allies today are practically
wholly dependent upon the United
States for food. Upon this nation
rests the responsibility of preserving
the world from Prussianism. This Is
the task of the people of this nation
to produce and save food enough to
keep steady stream of essential sup
plies moving towards the front SO
long as it shall be necessary to wage
this war. If at any time we fail in
this, we must inevitably go down, with
the allies, to defeat. This is no ex-
aggeration, but serious fact 1t is
the purpose of the United States Food
Administration to bring the realiza-
tion of this fact home to every Ameri-
can man, woman and Child, and to en-
list the individual aid Of our hundred
million people in predicting and saw
ing food. The Food Administration
is not asking you to eat less; it only
urges that you substitute one nutri-
tious food for another equally nutri-
tious food, thus saving the vital sta
pies needed by our armies and the
armies and peoples of the allies. We
must, during the next three months,
save wheat especially. Our surplus
has already been shipped abroad, and
a hundred million bushels more are
needed. When you eat slice of bread
less, omit the crackers with your soup,
or otherwise conserve on wheat prod
ucts, you are contributing towards the
hundred million bushels needed over
there by our fighting men and the
exhausted people of Belgium, France
and England who have for more than
three years been bearing the brunt of
this war, which is our war. Keep this
in mind, and bring 1t before the minds
of your thoughtless friends and neigh
bors."
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-04-12
LOCAL AUXILIARY R. c.
HOLDS ANNUAL ELECTION

The Athena Auxiliary Red Cross
Wednesday afternoon held their an
nual election of officers, when Mrs.
S. F. Sharp was elected as chairman,
and Mrs. R. A. Thompson secretary,
succeeding Mrs. H. H Hill, and Mrs.
W. W. Mcpherson, respectively. 1t
was suggested that the Office of secre-
tarv and treasurer be consolidated, in
order to simplify the work, and this
was done, Mrs. Floome retiring as
treasurer. y
Mrs. Sharp appointed as her assist
ant chairmen, Mrs. F. s. LeGrow, Mrs.
&C. Taylor and Miss Matte Cop pock,
in the order named. Mrs. A. B. Steele
was appointed as ch airman of the
Belgian Relief committee, and Mrs.
G. c. Taylor, custodian of yarn.
Mrs. Hill, the outgoing chairman,
who has served the office faithfully
and well. and retires to the regret of
the society. in resigning her office
made a few pertinent remarks con-
cerning the future work, which was of
special benefit to the auxiliary. and
promises to still retain her interest and
lend her services as in the past, though
desiring to be relieved of the respon-
sibility of Chairman for this year.
The work of the afternoon consisted
of sewing pajamas, a large consign-
ment of which was received from head
quarters. Mrs. Taylor donated a guam
tity of old linen, and Mrs. Jackson
Nelson hospital supplies consisting Ct
20 arm pads, IL covers for hot water
bottles, 8 tea towels and 10 holders.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-04-12
VERDICT OF JURY
FAvORS CARTAN0

/ Bert Cartano's damage suit against
the City of Athena for $40, 900 for
injuries alleged to have been sustained
by stepping into broken sidewalk,
came to an end Wednesday evening
when the jury brought in verdict for
$1,000 in his favor.
1t is understood, that the verdict
rendered was in the nature of COM
promise. as only ten of the IL jury
men signed it, Frank Price of Weston
and W. e. Putnam, of Milton, refusing
to sign.
A large number of witnesses gave
testimony and the attorneys for both
sides hotly contested the case. The
city has 80 days in which to appeal
the case to the supreme court. and il
is probable the appeal will be made.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-04-12
SUNDAYS COLLECTION OF
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDEN IS

Three automobile accidents, one of
which was fatal. occurred in this
county Sunday. On the hard surfaced
road at SAKE station a car driven by
j. T. Lowthain of Pendleton, turned
over and threw Mr.. Lowthain and his
wife to the pavement, Mrs. Lowthain
falling underneath the car. Her neck
was broken and she died in few
minutes after the accident. Mr.. Low
thain, while painfully injured, will
recover.
In Athena at the intersection of
Main and Third streets. a car driven
by Miss Keys of Weston, DR.. Kennard
riding with her, collided with a Ford
driven by Mrs. Charles Pinkerton of
Weston. The Kennard car was on
the wrong side of the street, irrespect-
i've of which way the driver intended
to turn, and Mrs. Pinkerton. according
to those who witnessed the accident,
was observing the established rules of
traffic. The Kennard car struck the
Ford broadside and showed it against
the concrete curbing at the fiagpole.
The impact was such that the iron
wheel surrounding the concrete base
was dented and cracked. The rear
wheels of the Ford were crushed into
kindling and MIR. Craigen, father of
Mrs.. Pinkerton, sustained a severe
scalp wound.
The third accident occurred north of
town, when the young son of Alex
Johnson and boy companion were
pinioned underneath the johnson Ford,
when it buckled and turned over on
the two occupants. The boys mirac-
ulously escaped injury, and the time
ly arrival of Clem Duncan releaved
their predicament, when he extricated
them from beneath the machine.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-04-12
Knitting Club Increasing.

Mrs. William Schrimpf entertained
the knitting club Friday last. sixteen
ladies being present. Seven new
names were added as follows: Mrs.
Morton, Mrs. H. Cation, Mrs. Geo.
Gross. Mrs. R. A. Thompson. Mrs.
Eugene Schrimpf, Mrs. W. c. Emmel.
Mrs. Geo. Banister. So much interest
was shown that it was decided to meet
every week, and the meeting this
afternoon is being held at the home
of Mrs. H. H. Hill. Another consign-
ment of yarn has been ordered by the
committee, and quantity received
from the head Chapter at Pendleton.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-04-12
F00DAD MINISTRATION FACTS

One ounce less of meat each day
for everyone means saving of T..
100000 meat animals a year. Save
your ounce. The sacrifice is small,
but the result for your country is
large.
1,1S5,O00 tons of sugar will be saved
the first year If each of us uses one
ounce less each day. This will keep
sugar plentiful and cheap.
The Allies are all In the same boat,
a long way from shore and on limited
rations-and Uncle Sam is running
the relief ship. It's up to us to save
the cargo.
Reduction, Production - the 1918
watchwords.
Food will win the war. Save It,
Produce it.
If you run your household on three
pounds of sugar a month per person,
when fall comes the grocer won't have
to hang UP the sign "No Sugar"
The second helping is getting to be
bad form.
There's lots of money to go round,
but bacon, beef and wheat can't make
the circuit. Save your share.
Waste and want are twin sisters
and neither beautiful.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-04-12
.FORTY-F|VE MEN
CALLED TO SERVICE

In"resnonse to the call made bv tho
government for 1919 nov cont ~ tho
next gross draft ouoto tha evonn,;an @
board at Pendleton sent out not;6ca.
tion to as men of this countv 70 ra
port on April ss OF that nnmber as
will he sent to Camn Iew;s TIE III
er ten are substitutes to fiji the nlaces
of anv of the frst Ak who NOV fnr
some other reason he not readv r. M
The board was instructed n omit for
the time being anv farm laborers Who
are actively engaged on cron nroduc.
tjon. Neither Athena nor Weston
both of whom have Sc It out a LARGE
number of men are renresarted in the
present call
The following are the Ak called.
Lyle w. Lamnbear pendleton
Thos. H. Ghormlev Helix
Herman Mobius. Pendleton
John Paliopianis Cihbon
RAYMOND A Marks pendleton
Theo G. Zimmerer pendleton
Henry +, Smith Milton
Frederick e. Rockbill Eupene
Neil W. Best Milton
Ravmond Ross C;hhon
Glenn W. MONTGOMERY Million
Chester II Kav psndIeton
All Grubb. Silver Row Montana
Oliver White Portland
Clarence w. CatcheT Pavmond
Washington.
William Fl T. Davis pendletor
Jonathan ! Tborne portland
Earl s. Fox Freewater
Leonard E. Swanson pendleton
Carl Lester Kirk pandleton
Frank q. Engdabl Helix
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-04-12
Will Examine Hermiston.

Colonel Edgar, of the signal corps,
has notified Chamberlain, McNary and
Sinnott that arrangements are now
made for board of officers on the
Pacific coast to examine the available
ity of Hermiston and Medford as
aviation sites. He warns that this
should not lead to the conclusion that
projects are authorized (which are not
yet contemplated.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-04-12
Entertained Star Club.

Mrs. M. L. Watts entertained the
Star Club Tuesday afternoon, with
about twelve ladies present. Needle
work passed the hour pleasantly, and
refreshing ices were served. Bowls
of yellow daffodils lent cheer to the
hospitable rooms.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-04-12
subscriptior, Rates

One Copy, one year, $1.5o; for six
months, 7sc; 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, 1918-04-12

The eAthena Press circulates in the
homes of readers who reside in the
heart of the Great Umatilla Wheat
Belt, and they have money to spend
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07

it signed by my secretary and witnessed
by my wife with the date, April a, at
tached, 1t Is matter of history how six
months later the whole Italian line fell
back, how it abandoned successive posi-
tions upon this stream which was said
by military critics to be strategieally al
most mtenable. If nothing more should
occur Il write upon February 20, 1879,
the reference to the name has been fully
justified, presuming that some friend In
the beyond was forecasting the coming
events of the war. / have still hope,
however, that more was meant, and that
some browning victory of the Allies at
this spot may justify still further the
strange way in which the name was con-
veyed to my mind"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07

actly what he means, nor less, nor more"
Arthur Brisbane, whom some of US know
as the highest paid author in America,
SAYS: "Ambrose Bierce is one of the best
writers in America, perhaps the best.
So it would seem that he is a prophet not
without honor in his own country, and
that he is also appreciated in England as
are few American authors other than Poe
and Hawthorne. Conan Doyle considers
him Americas master Of weird tales. Ar
thur Machen says that In the Midst Of
Life is one of the very best collections Of
short stories ever printed.
Bieree's present publishers do not feel
that his work is of an even merit, agreeing
in this with such critics as III. l.
Mencken and Gertrude Anterior, who say
that half of Bierce should be forgotten.
1t is their purpose to publish the four or
five volumes which entitle him to his place
as one of the few great American story
tellers.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07


publication of the best works of Am
brose Bierce in single volumes. Here
tofore it has only been possible to
buy Ambrose Bierce in a ten volume set,
variously bound, at either $25, $50 or
500 set. The first volume that has just
come from the press of Boni & Liveright
is In the Midst Of Life italics of soldiers
and eivilians). This volume contains
some of Bierce's very best stories, those
of the American civil war being particu-
larly timely at this moment. The next
volume Bierce's present publishers will
issue will be Can Such Things BET
Practically everybody knows of the
mystery that has surrounded Bierce's life.
Nothing has been heard of Bierce since he
so dramatically disappeared in 1914. At
that time it was rumored that he had
Joined Villas forces in Mexico, and every
few months another rumor spreads, To-
eating Bierce anywhere from Petrograd
to Patagonia. The other day, in speak
ing of Bierce, Gertrude Atherton, who
says that he is the greatest writer of
English the United States has produced,
with the possible exception Of Henry
James, remarked that she recently heard
from three Authoritative" sources that
Bierce was doing special work for the
British General Staff, was special military
adviser to the Mikado Of Japan and had
been killed in Gallipoli. Other people
say that he is hale and hearty in Paris at
rs, and has placed his military knowl-
edge, gained in the civil war, at the dis
posal Of the French Government.
But it is certain that no author of the
last decade has been so much discussed by
the men and women who have made the
literature of the world during the past
fifty years. Few great living authors
may say that they have been uninfluenced
by Ambrose Bierce. He himself humor-
ously said in reference to his lack of
recognition:
"My, how my fame rings out in every
zone,
A thousand critics shouting, Hes I'M
known'r
But in spite of this lack of general
recognition such men as Henry Irving,
Austin Dobson and Clement Scott tell of
how Bieree, then writing under the pseu-
donym of bod Grille, stirred London
thirty years ago as no writer has done
since the days of Swift. Joel Chandler
Harris once said: "If were Santa Claus
I'd put into the hands of every intelli-
gent man and woman in the United States
an edition of Ambrose Bierce's remarka-
Bile stories of soldiers and civilians" Ell
bert Hubbard once said: Ambrose
Bierce is the boss of us all. Ambrose can
do without us. We cannot do without
him and still have the sunshine and the
shade. He knows life in its every phase"
Owen Wister tells US: "Some of the things
that Bierce writes are wonderful work
OF genius, in fact" William Marion
Reedy, who has discovered so many
Americans and who has helped to redis-
cover many more, writes: "You cannot
resist the lure of his style, simple, lucid,
compact, his unerrant selection
Of the right word, his way Of saying ex-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07

The following is from The New Rere-
lation, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, pub
lished by George II. Doran Company:
Upon April 4 Of last year, 1917, 1
awoke with feeling that some COM
munication had been made to me of which
had only carried back one word which
was ringing in my head. That word was
Piave.' To the best of my belief 1 had
never heard the word before. As it
sounded like the name Of a place I went
into my study the moment had dressed
and looked up the index of my Atlas.
There was 'Piave' sure enough, and l
noted that it was a river in Italy some
forty miles behind the front line, which at
that time was VIGOROUSLY advancing. 1
could imagine few more unlikely things
than that the war should roll back to the
Piave. and l could not think how any
military event of consequence could arise
there, but none the less | was so impressed
that l drew up a statement that some
such event would occur there, and had
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07

These Englshmen authors have a sin
gular and entertaining way about them
in coneealing their Identities under pseu-
donyms as fanciful in effect as the names
of American Pullman cars. There, for
instance, is: the humorous "Artemus,"
sportive observer of the ways of men and
women in war time, author of The Book
Of Aremus. Then again we have "Taff-
rail-" British naval man, who writes
sea yarns, author of The Sub. and Bar
timeus," another British naval man, au-
thor of 4 Tall Ship and, more recently,
The Long Trick. "Ajax," whose book,
The German PEats: I'd Methods and
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07

Record, just published by George H.
Doran Company, is, it seems, otherwise
Prof. W. M. Dixon of the University of
Glasgow.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07

George II. Doran Company are pub.
fishing the third volume of Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle's The British Campaign in
France and Flanders.