VtHAT HAVE WE THAT WILL BRING MONEY?
Do you want that business lot imme
diately beside the Movie Theatre, Ath
ena, for $350? Worth double and'
treble that amount. You may have it
right now for that price.
Do you want a Ford car for $175?
Take it and pet it out of our sight
How about that Dodge business car
for Ten Hundred? Worth over Thir
teen Hundred.
We will buy, sell, trade, barter, ex
change, swop or BET to get money.
If you happen to have some of ours
you know how to make two of us feel
mighty good.
WATTS & ROGERS
ATHENA, OREGON
WESTON LEADER
ClAKK WOOD, ruMHlHt
MRS. It. GOODWIN, AmUImI Editor
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HOUSE BlfflETS
o AT COST)
We are overstocked on auto robes
and horse blankets and must have money,
and have decided to close out these two
items at cost.
They are all the famous 5A robes and
blankets and we have them in a large va
riety of colors and patterns.
COME EARLY BEFORE THEY ARE PICKED OVER.
Whitman's Harness Store
Milton, Oregon
(Phone 122)
Cnlttid at tin eilolli at WmUr, Oijm
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' CANADIAN WHEAT.
Importation of wheat from Canada
during October of this year amounted
to five times that of any October in
the last seven years, according to an
Analysis of figures released lately by
the Federal Trade commission.
Quick action when congress con
venes with a view of stopping the
heavy influx of Canadian wheat and
wheat product, is expected.
However, that sapient old adage
snent the locking of the stable doof
after the horse is stolen, would
seem to apply in this instance. The
mischief is already done, granting
that Canadian wheat importations
have had any pronounced influence
on the Chicago market. Unless
world conditions brimr about a tre
I mendoua price reaction in the
spring, as predicted by Prophet
I Picket, the grower who still holds
B his wheat, and his name is legion,
has lost out through failing at the
right time to take advantage of th
greatest price bulge in the history
of the well known cereal.
A fat, chirpy and attractive price
bird awaited the hand of the wheat
grower in the fall, just "honing" to
be grasped. Those who missed the
tempting prize in the hope of getting
two birds next spring, are confronted
now with the fruits of mistaken
judgment, and really havo no legiti
mate grounds of complaint against
Uncle Sam for failing to maintain
a wheat tariff wall against his Can
adian cousins. They failed to realize
that wheat had reached an abnormal
figure under post-bellum conditions,
and that the chances were far more
likely for a sharp decline rather
than further swelling of an already
swollen price.
Yet it is improbable that Canadian
importations have cut or will cut any.
material figure in the face of the
world's supply and demand law gov
erning the wheat market. With
other minor factors Canadian wheat, .
is certain to have a temporary in-
fluence, but in the end the market
responds on a large scale only to
world conditions. This phase is sue-
Icintly set forth as follows in the
Monthly Bank Letter issued by the
National City Bank of New York:
"We arc asked if the importations
of wheat from Canada have caused
SUPPLYING TELEPHONE SERVICE
Occasionally subscribers move and ask us for a continuance
of telephone service at their new location. They may be told
. that compliance with their desires is immediately impossible ow
4ng to lack of "telephone facilities" in a particular locality.
"Why," one will say, "the poles and wires are on the street and
the house is already wired."
We wish that the problem were as simple as it sounds.
There may be poles and wires, but every wire may be in use in
giving service to others. There may be a cable, but every cir
cuit in it may be assigned to telephones already installed. There
may be a telephone in the vacant house or apartment to which
you move, but no spare wires and circuits from your location to
the central office. There may even be sections of switchboard
in the central office, but not available for operation on account
of the lack of necessary switchboard apparatus such as ringing
keys, relays, etc.
The reason for the shortage of telephone equipment is sim
ple. During the war period wre were unable to maintain our re
serve or stock plant, as the same materials we use were required
and taken for Government purposes and for industries properly
favored by the Government. Since the war, with the unexpect
edly prolonged problems of reconstruction, production ana de
livery of materials needed to meet even current demands have
been delayed. Every business concern is having similar experi
ences. The manufacturers of telephone equipment have been
bending every effort to fill our orders, but they, in turn, are
meeting the same difficulties in securing rubber, paper, silk,
glass, porcelain, tin, thread, shellac, metal parts and other arti
cles not generally associated in the public mind with telephone
service.
At the same time with -this abnormal situation with refer
ence to materials there exists an unprecedented demand for tel
ephone service, and even under these circumstances our record
is one of fulfillment of demand.
In the first nine months of 1920 we made a total net gain
of over 7300 telephones in the State of Oregon. A fact worthy
of consideration in our operations is the large number of tele
phones handled in proportion to net increase. In those nine
months we disconnected, connected and moved 41,140 instru
ments to secure the net gain above mentioned.
We desire to give service as much as a patron wishes to re
ceive it. We desire to comply with the suggestions of public
authorities who have taken a proper interest in the situation.
We are facing abnormal conditions but we are trying to over
come our difficulties.
The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
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ter a few weeks of driving
your lubricating oil becomes dirty
with carbon, road dust and fine
particles of metal, which circulate
through your engine and cause
unnecessary wear on bearing
surfaces. And gasoline escape
past the pistons and dilutes the
oil. Granted.There's nothing new
about that bid
Here's an absolutely new way
to get rid of this dirty, diluted oil
and put your engine in line for
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Modern,-because we use Calol
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Our skilled mechanics know
how to clean out a crankcase with
it correctly and quickly, at a nom
inal cost to you.
This service assures proper lu
brication for your cleaned engine.
We refill the crankcase with fresh
Zerolene of the correct grade.
We recommend Modern
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the latest word for better engine
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TODAY: Bring in your car
for Modern Crankcase Cleaning
Service,
Weston Garage
Hiller & Booher
Liberty Auto Co.
O. A. Adams
WESTON
OREGON
the drop of prices in this country.
We do not see that these "importa
tions can be an important factor, in
view of the fact that both countries
arc on an exporting basis and com
peting with each other in Europe.
Of course the Canadian crop is a
factor in prices everywhere, but if it There are no signs of any prico re
was all sent to Liverpool it would duction in the printing trade. News
displace the same amount of our print continues to cost the country
wheat that it does here. If it was publisher three times as much as be
to theoretically raise one billion dol
lars per nnmini might provo to be
high enough in practice to keep out
nearly all foreign products and thus
raise nothing much but a feeling of
regretful disappointment.
of a certainay they are high enough
but the aggrieved ones could never
expect to better themselves by mov
ing across the pond.
Viewed through a doubtful Hays,
the deficit in the republican campaign
fund assumes the alarming propor
tions of a million and-half dollars.
With whatever resignation Bryan's
burned or submarined, it would be fore the war, and his other costs of Brl"'t" "vice may nave been re
put out of the way. but so long as it nroduction show a similar rate of in- ce,ved tne whit Hou 11 WMn't
is offered in common markets with crease. No less than 6302 publics-
ours the particular market is as un- tions have gone to the newspaper
important as whether Dakota wheat boneyard in the last three years, and
Wilson's.
With critical nation's eyes upon
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-one nunareu ana seventy mnnon which feels that it wants a newspa-
bushels of wheat, inclusive of flour, per must expect to pay for it.
have been exported from North
America to Europe since the first of Uninspired by the partisan fervor
July, of which more than 90 percent of pre-election days, those who make
as a cabinet maker.
Nobody is hastening to the relief
of the shipping board, although H
suffers greatly from exposure.
was produced in the United States.
This country and Canada are practi
cally one source of supply for Eu
rope, and if Canadian wheat was
prevented from coming into our
markets it "would go to
direct-
good the huge shortage in the repub
lican campaign fund will be likely to
insist upon having a string to pull.
"Sometimes we almost have our
Europe doubts whether California intends to
conduct herself to Jnpan's complete
As a matter of fact, of much more satisfaction," says Cleveland News.
concern to . the American grower at
the ' nresent time than Canadian Ri of earth is just about the
wheat, is the hundred million bushels "mlt the meek will be permitted to
which it is reported,' Australia will
have available for export in Janu
ary. Herein is a real Jolt which by
foresighted selling on the profitable
fall market could have been avoided.
inherit if the Bolshevik! are enabled
to carry out their program.
Republicans are talking of a bil
lion dollar tariff more tariff being
inevitably the thing the re'publi-
Although the three malodorous
witches presumably passed with ,
Macbeth, England's trouble in Ire
land seems to be Dublin.
The average British income is $550
per capita and the average tax, local
$Jxhangeur
imes
for
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Cssfseiionerj .
Weston, Orejon
cans would talk of as a panacea for and national, $185 per capita. No
economic ills. To get the coonskin less than 35 percent of all income Is
implies, however, that one must first taken in taxes. Much complaint is
get the coon. ' A tariff
rmar' ' w
Young milch cows wanted. Jerseys
high enough heard of taxes in this country and preferred; Inquire at this office.