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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14
MINERS AT WORK 200 YEARS
Hudson Bay Company Conducts Secret
Operations for More Than Two
Centuries.

The Pass, Man. investigations
which were begun by mining experts
in the wild region north of here. short
ly after the recent gold strike near
Athapupuskow. are said to have dis
closed the fact that mining operations
have been in progress in the Hud-
son bay region for more than 200
years.
She Hudson Bay company, which
holds perpetual land grants and min
eral rights. has been doing the mining,
according to preliminary reports re
ceived here. 1t is understood that the
mining industry in that region was
more or less Of secret. but that the
only reason for secrecy was to keep
adventurers from trespassing on com.
pany property.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14
Brazil IS PICKING UP
Now Exports Food She Formerly
Imported Herself.
Freight Trade for First Half Of 1919
Shows Balance In Her
Favor.

Rio de Janeiro.--Th foreign trade
Of Brazil during the first half Of 1919
is regarded as very encouraging. In.
creased expectation Of some OF Bra
zil's staple commodities. such as cof-
fee, rubber, cacao, chilled beef, hides,
oil bearing fruits, etc, as well as the
high prices which these articles have
commanded, leaves very respectable
trade balance. That Brazil has rap
idly forged ahead commercially during
the years Of the war is generally con-
ceded. The country's agricultural pos
sibilities are as yet practically unex-
plotted and the war acted as stimu-
lus toward ascertaining the wide
range Of her productivity.
Brazil has been able to export to
Europe foodstuffs which a few years
ago she was not able to supply to
herself. In the same way animal hus-
bandry is making strides which point
to making meat products one of the
country's chief exports. While Bra
I'll has always been cattle produc-
ing country, it is only during the last
three or four years that she has been
looked upon as world supplier. More
recently several large modern pack
ing houses have been constructed or
projected. These are financed princl-
nallv bv American packing interests.
In the last year the federal govern
ment, through the agricultural depart
ment, has devoted considerable atten-
tion to the importation and purchase
of animals Of pure blood. 1t is pro.
posed to carry on an extensive educa-
tional campaign among the live stock
breeders Of Brezil to improve the
standard of cattle. For this purpose
the government intends to make lib
erel money appropriations.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14
LOCAL ATHLETIC CLUB
TO USE SCHOOL GYM

.I.
Guy Cronk, local manager for the
Standard Oil company. has interest
ed himself in the organization of an
athletic club in Athena. embodying
in it's membership business men and
others in need Of physical exercise
and muscular development.
Mr. Cronk has remivedt permission
for the club to use the gymnasium
Of the Athena High school building,
and has twenty-five names on his
membership roll.
A meeting will be. held Monday ev-
ening ats, o'clock for the purpose Of
perfecting the organization of the
club, electing officers and making
necessary arrangements for the pur-
chase of paraphernalia and equip
ment.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14
mrs. ADAH L0sH ROSE
IN MADAM BUTTERFLY

Mrs, Adah Losh Rose, well known
in Athena as an entertainer, where
she has appeared several times III
coinmendable product ms, opened tie
Walla Walla high school Artists
Course, on Friday evening, October
31st with the presentation Of Ma
dam Butterfly, interspersed with se-
lections from grand opera.
Mrs. Rose was presented by Laur-
ance Lambera tof the Western Mi
sleal Bureau Of Portlanl. |. and in tlc
cast Of characters supp rting her
we're Jane Burns Albert Lula Dahl
Miller. Mrs. "A. D. | Tros., Robert
Clay Gerred. ]. McMillion Muir and
Walter Jenkins, well known Port
land musicians. q
Mrs. Rose, who until recently re-
sided in Pendleton, aas contracted
for tour through Canada, and re-
Gently appeared before large audi
ences in Portland and astoria
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14
RAT MENACES HEALTH
Costs the United States $780,
100000 a Year for Support.
Public Health Service Urges That
Measures Be Taken to De-
stroy Them.

Washington. You pay one-half Of
one cent every day for the support
and sustenance of a brown rat, ac-
cording to figures compiled by the
United States public health service.
There is one rat at least, for every
person in the United States. This es-
timate is considered conservative, but
comedies with that for Great Britain
and Ireland, and also with authorita-
tive figures for Denmark, France and
Germany. The annual upkeep per ro-
dent was computed by the same au-
thorities as $1.80 in Great Britain,
$1.20 in Denmark, and 81 in France.
The depredations in this country will
very probably exceed the estimate for
Great Britain One-half cent day
is considered conservative, but even
on this computation. it costs the Unit
ed States $1S0,000,000 year to sup
port its rat population.
1t is because Of this terrific economic
loss and the additional fact that rats
ulc II COuStdiit iutf.stSC " lHc PuutiS
health that the public health service
has issued a warning to the country to
take the necessary measures to de-
stroy them.
There are three kinds of rats includ-
ed in the survey in this country-the
Norway or brown rat, the black rat,
and Alexandrian rat. The Norway rat,
larger and more ferocious than the
others, has pretty generally killed
them off, and today the black rat
and the Alexandrian rat are seldom
found except in seaports.
The brown or Norway rat, since he
discovered America, has literally
blazed trail across the continent.
Today 1t is conservatively estimated
that there are at least one rat for ev-
cry dweller in the cities, and on the
farm there are at least three rats for
every person. None of these rats is
native to the United States.
OF many measures suggested for de
stroying the rat, the public health serv-
ice advocates one as most effective. It
is rat-proofing the buildings so that
rats cannot get in for food, thereby
starving them to death.
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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14
MANY SCHOOL CHILDREN
ARE FOUND DEFECTIVE

Miss Florence Smiley, the county
nurse provided by the Red Cross or
ganization, completed her examination
of the public school pupils last Friday
afternoon.
/ OF the 124 children submitted to the
clinic, IA were found defective. Forty
eight Of that number had enlarged
tonsils and adenoids, SO had decayed
and neglected teeth, 26 had impaired
vision and five were partially deaf
The worst cases of neglected teeth
were fonud in the first four grades
while the older pupils had good teeth
but bad throats. Miss Smiley remark
ed that the Athena children were al
unusually well nourished lot, as OILY
two were below standard weight.
Miss Grininger, the superior ir
charge of the examination requested
that owing to lack Of time and the de-
mands from other schools for Miss
-Smiley's work, pupils below the sec.
ond and above the eighth grades be
barred from the clinic, as had beer
done in other towns in the county; bui
as a special courtesy to Miss Sherman
and Principal Hall, who urged that
their grades be included, Miss Smiley
examined the throats and teeth Of the
pupils available, giving only partia
examination, as she expects to agair
visit the school later in the year wher
she will give a more thorough test
|than was possible now.
The teachers report that the Athena
parents showed marked appreciation
of the work done by the county
health nurse. A number visited the
clinic, to ask special advice regard
ing the care of their children, sew.
eral bringing little tots too young t
attend school for the examination.
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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14
Dying, Wants Pigeons Fed.

Portland, Ore.-0n a sick bed Sc
dangerously III that his life for days
hung in balance, Joe Harty, legless
newsie, was so constantly agitated
about the flock of pigeons, birds and
horses he has fed for years that at
tending physicians were forced to con-
sent to the newsie being taken to his
selling corner to relieve his worrying
mind Harty, who Is 35 years old,
propels himself about the busy corner
Of a downtown street on platform
set on heavy rollers
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14
PELICAN WALK is LATEST
British Women May Adopt the Mine
ing Gait Of the Bird Because
of Fashions.

London.--"The walk of the pelican
mincing but graceful, deliberate yet
dainty, and always alluringly fem
inine."
That viii be the new walk Of Eng
lands new women, as decreed by the
long and snug skirts which are now
the fashion.
The words are those Of a fashion
able modiste who knows.
The ex-government misses who wore
pants, and the war economizers, who
have reveled in short skirts, will find
some initial difficulty in restricting
their manlike stride to this mincing
pace, but they'll have to do it. Fash.
ionable modistes say so, and fashion
itself SO DEGREES.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14
/ ". ". SUSPECT LYNCHE0
At CENTRAL|A, WASHINGTON

Centralia, WASH, Nov. 12.--Nc
names were mentioned in a verdict
by coroner's jury which carly to-
night held an inquest over the body
Of an alleged Industrial Worker Of
the World, believed by some to be
Brick" Smith, who was lynched last
night after I. WV IS, it was charg-
ed, fired upon an arniistice day pa
rade here.
The jury's verdict read in part:
eve find that deceased came to
his death by gunshot wounds and by
strangulation caused by persons un-
known"
For a few hours tonight the body
lay on the floor Of the bridge near
here, under which the man was
lynched last night. Later it was re-
moved to the county Jail. All last
night the body swung from the rope.
Early today someone cut the rope,
allowing the corpse to fall in the
river. Later it was recovered and
dragged back on the bridge. Local
undertakers would not touch it.
Four. service men are dead and one
Of the wounded is in a precarious
condition as a result of the firing on
an armistice day parade, supposedly
by /. w. WIS.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14
onended dignity.

Gertrude was on the lawn In front
of the house. playing with the baby.
aged two. Gertrude herself, not more
than three times the others age, was
acting the part of mother. Presently
along came young man. who thought
he understood children. "Good morn
ingT he said, taking off his hat. How
are you ladies today?" Gertrude
looked at him with dignity. Good
morning." she replied, and went on
attending to the baby. The young
man stopped down, "Ah," he said. "and
which is which?'' "Tm Gertrude" re-
piled the older girl, "and that's which y
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14
WATER WINGS LIFT SHIPS
British Use Canvas Pontoons Which,
z When Inflated, Can Raise
100 Tons.

on.-Similar to the principle
Of "water WINGS used in America by
those learning to swim, canvas pom
toons have been made by Messrs. Vick-
ers, which. when inflated, can lift 100
submerged tons. Two of the pontoons
recently raised the steamship Main,
sunk by a U-boat in Luce bay, Wigton-
shire. Scotland. Pontoons each hav-
ing lifting capacity of 500 tons are
soon to be made. It is estimated that
a battery of 80 Of them would bring
the Lusitania to the surface.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14
LONDON sHuHs SkYscRApER
American Architects Get No Eneour-
aaement to Extend Building to
Great Hetuht.

London.-The old question OF
whether or not Aondon is to have sky
serapers Is being revived because Of
the high price of property In the bust
ness section and the lack Of space in
office buildings. Generally speaking,
LONDON does not like tall buildings.
Percy Tubbs. past president Of the
Society 8f Architects, declared that If
the skyscraper was to come 1t would
be necessary to widen the streets.
Space In London, however, is not
so scarce as 1t is in New York. which
is an island" he said.
American architects who are here
erecting huge apartment storie have
repeatedly asked permission tol extend
the main building high enough to ac-
commodatr not only the present bust
ness of the concern. but to Pc. de fol
he future, and have met with no en-
enlargement.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14
HELPS SOLDIERS
TO Find JOBS
Bureau IN Chicago Shows Good
Record in Helping Dis.
charged Men.
PLANNED BY GENERAL WOOD
OF the Men Seeking Employment
s4.3 Per Cent Have Found It
Through the Instrumentality
Of the Bureau.

Chicago. From a report just issued
BY the bureau for returning soldiers
and sailors and marines in this city,
1t is possible to get adequate informa-
tion concerning what has been done in
behalf Of those of our returned de-
tenders who have sought employment
and other aid.
In the district OF which Chicago is
the headquarters. the plan OF the bu-
reau for giving assistance to dis
charged service men was formed by
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, who acts as
the chairman of the headquarters COM
inittee, and who from the first has
taken personal interest In the work.
The bureau was established last April
and Its records today show that 43,345
service men have registered at head
quarters. OF this number 32,259 asked
for assistance In obtaining employ
fnent. At the present time the files
pf the bureau show that only 2,250
men still remain on the mot hired"
list. This means that 94.3 per cent Of
the men seeking employment have
found it through the instrumentality
OF the bureau.
Runors Are Refuted.
There have been rumors which some
people have been busy in passing
along to the effect that bureaus for
aiding the soldiers and sailors to get
re-establlshed in civil life were not do
ing adequate work. To d considerable
extent this sort Of thing, 1t is said,
has been propaganda for no good pur-
pose. So far as the district which has
Chicago for its headquarters is con-
cerned, the attested records which
show that 94.3 per cent Of the appli-
cants have found work, speak for
themselves.
In the daily life Of the bureau there
Is much to be found Of human interest,
OF the 43,345 men who registered
about 5000 asked for assistance along
lines other than that of employment.
They wanted to secure vocational
training, to be given information con-
cerning educational work, and In some
cases there were requests for clothing
and for temporary loans. Every case
was met. Out of the great number OF
men who applied at the bureau only
43S actually needed food. Between
5000 and 1900 of the men did not
know how to secure their bonuses
from the government. Every man was
toldhow to go at 1t and every man got
1 his money. Of the applicants for as
sisance $500 have entered courses Of
vocational training.
Much of Interest.
The activities of the bureau as they
have gone on day by day are interest
ING to watch. From the returned SOL
diers and sailors one gets the after
the-war viewpoint. The comments on
the war and its aftermath and the
conclusions which the men have drawn
show almost Invariably thoughtful
consideration Of the problems involved.
Col. Halstead Dorey, who served
with the Third Division in France and
who was four times wounded, is ac-
lively In charge Of the Chicago bu-
reau. With him are Maj. John s.
Bonner, who formerly was United
States consul, and Lieut.. W. e. Stan
ley, an aid de camp Of Maj. Gen. Leon
ard Wood, and a son of former Gov
ernor Stanley of Kansas.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14
GERMANY SEEKS LOST TRADE
Would Regain Her Prewar Place In
Commercial World-cunnlng
Is Shown.

Brasse,s.rSigns arhanpRt lacking
here of tbs attemFx SSyKllaade by
Germany to regain, n ~M\W in the
commercial world ldSSs5SSANe lost
through the war.
Co, IDS now In th Belgium
are cften typically They are
supposed to havg fuced Sc
cretly into the CS neutrals
such as Holland aa(a gIhdinavian
countries.
One outstanding isyno Of these
goods. however Is the appearance
Of the German traden but the
German cunning does notOflt at this.
The Imperial crowns are n6T replaced
BY American eagles N an attempt to
mike the goods pass or as american,
while others bear British ant French
trademarks. The names Of Herman
firms are completely absent, ut the
manufacture is too typically aerman
10 20 undeteeted. "a
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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14
Post Gard Travels for Years.

Boston, Mass.--After being en- route
from Fort Ethan Allen, vt. to. Boston
for Ii years. postal card has been re-
ceived by Fl. B. Macy Of $40 Atlantic
avenue. The card was mailed at the
fort July 81, 1906. by Macy's sister
Hazel, and It was addressed to her t.
tner. who died o few years ago.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14
Play Cards in Den Of
Lions to Win Wager

Berne. -Four young men Of
Montreux, Switzerland. made a
bet that they would play a game
of cards in a lions den attached
to a travelling menagerie. They
climbed into the den, played q
hand Of ecarte, and once more
rejoined the admiripg throng OF
their fellow citizens without ex-
periencing the slightest molesta-
tion.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14
aged Woman Dances.

Marion, Ind.--One Of the features Of
the annual reunion Of the Octogena-
rian Club of Grant county held recent
iy at Matter Park, was the dancing
Of old persons. Mrs. Sarah Jones,
ninety-one years Of age, one Of the
oldest women In the county, danced
as an orchestra played tunes she had
heard In her girlho0d.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14
The Primary Room.

Clifton Kirk has moved to Weston
with his parents.
Dorothy Gibson, the 11-ycar-old
daughter Of Mamie McLadden Glib
son has entered the first grade from
Freewater.
Mrs. Geo. Myrick, Mrs. Marion
Hansell and Mrs. Fred Boyd visited
the primary room this week.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14

! Some fastidlous smokers declare
lat tobacco might almost as well be
abolished If the matches cannot be
improved.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14

Uncle Sam may be poor business
man, but whenever he engages In mer-
chandising bis shops swarm with pa
irons.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14

Winter Is bad time to have a coal
famine. The public authorities should
look into the matter now.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-11-14
Belgium
They are
iuced se-
neutrals
SSThiinavlan

II takes man behind the probe to
make The probe worth anything.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01
Belgium Will Not
Compromise Claims

BRUSSELS. Wednesday, April 70
Extremely strong measures relative
10 Belgium's demands at the peace
conference have been decided upon by
the Belgian government, according to
ihe Soir.
Belgium will not accept the terms
me council OF three desires to impose
upon her" the newspaper says. "She
will demand complete iuliillment
Of the promise contained in the decla
ration addressed TO her by France,
Great Britain Italy and Japan and
that expressed in the seventh Of
President Wilson's fourteen points
She will refuse TO sign any peace
treaty which does not restore Bel
gium TO political and economic indc-
pendenoe and does not entirely in
demnify her for damage sustained
during the war"
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01
Our Greatest Problem.

The greatest single problem IN
America today. and /, is the greatest
single problem in the world as well
is to maintain intelligent, stable gov
ernment; a government in the interest
Of law.abiding. industrious, liberty
loving, fair-desling citizens, who be.
lieve in the golden rule and who are
willing 10 accept the relponsibilitles
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01

as well a. enjoy the privileges ol|
government. History Is rsplsh with
evidence that the greatest tyrant In oil
ages Is the mob, The excuses oi In.
d vidual rulers pale into comparative
insignibesnec when compared with
the esees,es Of the mob excited, In.
iuria,sd, inspired by the eoWasion 81
their own example, moved on by .
blind, though Il may be a crude,
sense Of justice but always con-
iras,ed in a greater or less degree By
the malevolent ten percent Of The
really dangerous that exist In al
metropolitan centers-A. Barton
Hepburn. in Leslies.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01
Revival MEETING
OPENS ON SUNDAY

A. P. Gou,hey, Seattle, Wash, re-
viyallst, who spoke to- large audi
ences here year ago, will begin a
series nj meetings covering five weeks
when he appears next Sunday alter
noon in huge tent seating more
than 1000 persons. which has been
erected near Sixteenth street and
Classen boulc, ard.
The reyivalist will appear there
every Sunday afternoon and night and
every night during the week Tor the
period OF the revival, which is non.
sectarian and intcrdenomna,ional.
This meeting is regarded as par, Of
the preparation for the Billy Sunday
meetings here in 1920.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01
Uncle Sam Puts Definite Stop to
Child Labor, Only He Does it in
Such a Way That Teeth Are Hidden

Employment n child for one day in conflict with the child
labor tax provisions OF the bill will subject the
poer' business to TAX OF 10 cent OF the profits for the
entire taxable This the Interpretation Of the
nal revenue the administrator Of the announced and Is
Of the s,rictest in the raons history.
Regulations Of the bureau provide ,a, in industry shall chill
den be employed longer than eight hours day days
week under provision OF laws which grant certificates
under certain conditions
single exception made oi boys and girls canning clubs foS-
tered by the The limit
sixteen for work mines quaes because Of the the
work.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01
KANSAS CITY TRAIN
WILL TAKE MOVIES

Photographers with the 'Victory
special" train Of thirteen all.Neel
cars. carrying the ,wenly.eighth an
nual trade extension trip Of the cham.
Der OF commerce OF Kansas City,
whlch will arrive in Oklahoma City
May T. will make motion pictures IN
each town visited.
The official photographer will he
equipped w,h the most modern cam
eras, both for motion pictures and
stills" The crowds which will gree,
the visitors in the various towns will
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01

' WASHINGTON, May l-Reela.i'
fica,on OF lumber and lumber prod.
ucm was announced today by the In
terstate commerce commission. giving
the first time a Standardization Of
freigh, rate relationships used
throughout the United States. Chair-
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01

he photographed, so that an accurate
Photographic record may be pre-.
served. The films Of the trip will be
available in a short time for exhibi-
ton in the town along the itinerary,
so that the "gree,ers" may see them
selves on the screen
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01

lONDON.-Circus men are inter-
e'ied in the announcement that the
eight cream ponies 'radtonally driven
in the old state coach OF the king are
to he dispensed with in favor Of black
horses IN future state professions.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01

pany who arrived here today. The
contract calls for construction Of
$4,000 seyen.Story hotel, $4,000
six-Siory bank and office building
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-01

man Ai,ehison and Commissioners
Daniels and Hall dissen,ed from the
conclusions and Commissioner East
man did not participate,