The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-02-14

The seth regiment. Coast Artillery
corps, composed of 81 officers and
1908 men from Oregon, sailed from
Bordeaux on February 4 on the tran
sport Mercury, the war department
has announced. The transport Is ex.
pected to arrive at Newport News,
Virginia, February 16.
In the person of Joseph Nemchick,
aged 30, of Harrisburg, Linn county
boasts the Oldest angler in the state.
He secured fishing license for 1919
at the county clerks office in Albany
last week. He also secured a similar
permit to fish last year, so evidently
is consistent fisherman.
A tentative road paving program for
Marion county, contemplating the ex-
penditure Of 100000, was announced
by the county court after conference
with business men of the Mount Angel
district A chain Of paved highways
connecting all incorporated cities and
towns of the county is the plan.
Baker enjoyed the heaviest snowfall
of the year, varying in depth from six
inches in the city to more than four
feet in the mountains. The miners
in that section had been apprehensive
that there would be insufficient snow
in the hills to furnish the desired
amount of water in the spring, but
that fear is now removed.
Miss Anna M. Turley, state leader
of home demonstration agents at the
Oregon Agricultural college, has re-
signed and will 60 to Columbia uni.
versity, where she will take special
courses in home demonstration work.
She will be succeeded by Mrs. Jessie
D. McComb, assistant state leader,
graduate of the University of Nebras-
ka.
The Ochoco Irrigation district has
closed contract employing the Puget
Sound Bridge G Dredging company,
at Seattle, to build large hydraulic
earth-fill dam. The work was under
contract to Twohy Brothers company,
Of Portland, and was abandoned by
Them on February 8, 1919. The pump
work has been started and the sluic-
ing operation has commenced.
Superintendent Peters, of the Klats-
kanine fish hatchery, reports that
there are 100000 salmon fry in the
retaining ponds which are healthy and
growing rapidly During the recent
freshet about 100000 of the little
salmon were released by the overflow
ing of the dykes, but this is not con-
sidered loss to the industry. The
fish were we'll advanced and had been
fed for two months.
Charles Allen and James Tomb,
trappers, brought into Bend by Dis
trict Game Warden George Tonkin,
pleaded guilty in justice court and
were fined $125 each for killing deer
out of season. Mr.. Tonkin found 10
fresh deer skins, quantity Of venison
and beaver tail in their cabin. the
venison was presented to the Bend
chapter of the Red Cross, to be dis
tributed among the poor of the city.
Milton A. Miller. collector If inter.
There is more Catarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together. and for years 1t was sup
posed to be lncurable. Doctors prescribed
local remedies. and by constantly falling
to cure with loccl treatment. pronounced
1t incurable. Catarrh Is local disease,
greatly influenced by constitutional con-
ditions and therefore requires constitu-
tional treatment. Halls Catarrh Medi-
cine. manufactured by f J.. Cheney &
Co.. Toledo. Ohio, is a constitutional
remedy. is taken internally and acts
thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces
Of the System. One Hundred Dollars re-
ward is offered for any case that Halls
Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials.
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Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipation,