The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-11-15
prunes grown in Clarke county are

solu u Inc government agent recent!
they were said by him to be the fines
he had purchased. Thirty-two ant
two-thirds prunes weighed one pound
| Virtually complete returns of tht
election show that the next state leg
islature will have eight or nine demo
Gratis In the house and three in the
senate, gain for the republicans in
both houses. Mrs. Frances M. Has
kell, of Tacoma, elected to the house
from Pierce county, will be the only
woman in the legislature. Republi
cans in the house, on the face of un.
official returns, will have SO members
and in the senate SO.
L. H. Darwin, state fish commission.
er, notified Prosecuting Attorney A.
H. Lundin Of Seattle that an attempt
will be made by the state to confisc6te
the fishing boat of Anthony Picindh n
he is convicted of violating the state
fish law Picinch is accused of fish
ing with a purse seine within two
miles of the mouth of the Duwamish
river. The state law prohibits purse
seine operations within two miles of
the mouth of river emptying1 into
Puget Sound.
Telephone rate increases running
from rs cents month to $225 were
filed with the Public Service commits
sion, to become effective November /.
The increase is stated to be necessary
in order to grant increases to all
telephone employees, to be dated from
October 16, on business lines. Spokane
is raised from $6 to $8.25; Seattle
from $3.50 to $S.75; Tacoma from Sc
to $7.25. Increases on residence tele-
phones run generally from 25 cents
monthly to 81.
All persons in Washington will wear
masks hereafter, If they obey the State
Board of Health, which has issued this
order effective at once. The masks
must be of surgical gauze. The masks
must be worn in all public places,
including street and steam cars, eleva-
tors, cabs, corridors, lobbies, Railways,
office buildings, hotels and lodging
houses, stores, all restaurants, except
where the patron is eating food, barber
shops, laundries, wash houses, dry
cleaning establishments, and all stores
where groceries, drugs and other forms
If merchandise are. sold. 'r'Ss3
There will be no strike, at least
of the unions afHliated
with the Pacific Coast Council of
Metal Trades, was the announcement
If the council, in session at Seattle
'egarding the recent Macy wage
award. It was announced, however,
hat the entire council will protest
he Macy award, and desires that
committee of seven members be sent
% Philadelphia to lay a formal pro-
est before the United States shipping
,oard's appeal division. The council
lecided to submit the question of
lending committee to a referendum
If all affiliated unions. q II
b Adoption of Referendum No. 10,
Known as the bone-dry law, at the late
election, will make it necessary for all
lruggists in the state to get rid Of in
oxicating liquors other than straight
.lcohol within ten days after the law
,ecomes effective. When the referen-
lum act has become law, druggists
an carry no liquor but alcohol, and
hat strictly for medical, mechanical,
scientific or hygienic pur-
loses, to be sold only to persons
licensed by the county auditor to pur- /
,hase it. Even physicians cannot ad-
minister it when adulterated in such
erm as to constitute beverage. :;
Possibility that wheat substitutes |
nay be reduced even less than the
10 per cent figure at which they now
tand, by the first of 1919, is express
ID in a telegram received by Charles
iebberd, state federal food admins
rator, from Herbert Hoover, national
God administrator. An inter-allied
God council In session in London, is
the advisability Of rsmov-
ng all obligations against using sub
titutes with wheat flour, This is
,rought about, according to Hoover's
elegram, by the opening of the Med
sea and the shorter route
o Australia, which makes available
arge supplies of wheat from India and
australia. On the other hand, wheat
ubstitutes now in use. are greatly
leeded for dairy feeds, where there is
shortage. nj
!. The forest service has taken steps
0 rid the Colville and Mount Hull
anges of all cayuses. in order to ac-
ommodate more cattle next season.
)wners whose cayuses have been run
N the ranges this season without per- /
nits have been made defendants in
ederal cases now pending, and in