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A perplexing problem that we face
just now is what we are going to get
for him or her as a Christmas remem
brance. In our stock you will hnu
numerous articles that will make prac
tical as well as suitable gifts for fath
er, mother, sister, brother or sweet
heart. Come in and look. Its always
a pleasure to show what we have.
Below we have listed a few items ap
propriate as gifts:
FOR HIM
Pocket Knives
Razors
Rifles
Shotguns
Roller Skates
Coaster Wagons
Sleds
Tool Sets
Hammers
Saws
FOR HER
Silver Ware
Percolators
Electric Toasters
Pyrex Ware
Aluminum Ware
Electric Irons
Electric Sweepers
Carving Sets
Nut Pick Sets
Potted Flowers
WATTS & ROGERS
ATHENA, OREGON
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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rISIT our furniture store while making your
rrift selections. You will find many articles
that will make pleasing and acceptable presents.
A NICE RUG
For instancewould please the wife. We have
reduced our rugs from 5 to 20 percent.
KIDDIE KARS
Wheelbarrows and chairs for the little ones.
ROSS Furniture Store
Case 22-40 a 4-5 Plow Tractor
Here is an efficient 4 plow tractor built and war
ranted by the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co.
It's the Case 22,40 kerosene tractor. Will pull five
plows under favorable conditions. Has a four
cylinder valve-in-head tractor motor. Burns kero
sene economically. It has all cut steel spur gear.
All working, parts enclosed and run in oil. Belt
pulley is on crank shaft. Practical for all drawbar
and belt work. Runs a 32x94 thresher with feeder
and wind stacker.
Then iin't a better designed and mora sturdily built or
more dependable tractor nude than this latest Cue model.
We'll prove it if you drop into our rtore end let lit explain.
Whether you axe in the market now or later for tractor,
we'll be glad to fee you at any time.
DAVIDSON & HOFFMAN GARAGE
. Athena, Oregon
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ItORAH AS PEACE MAKER.
Upon the principle that "half
loaf i better than no bread," we are
in sympathy with Senator Borah's
proposal for bringing about by com
mon agreement reduction of arma
mcnt by Great Britain, the United
States and Japan. The members of
this proposed tripartite aro the only
world powers of th first class in a
position now to wage war and even
they, especially England and th
United States, would bo vitally han
dicapped by the colossal war debts
already incurred. Should they agree
to gradual disarmament, or at least
to abandon their armament pro
grams, it will be a wonderful en
couragemcnt to the disarmament plan
of the League of Nation. The most
essential thing in a pridcful. Jealous
cow camp is to bring about the relin
quishment of their weapons by its
doughty gun men, if the desire Is to
. avert rather than to encourage
bloodshed. The tripartite powers
would qualify as the only two-gun
fighters in an otherwise popgun
world. Should they lay aside their
weapons it will mean that tho busi
ness of peace has been embarked up
on in earnest, and the business of war
abandoned. NVc fail to fathom the
argument of Secretary Daniels that
the United States, already paying
more than ninety cent cut of every
dollar for war, must continue with
a huge war program unless it joins
the League of Nations. If it agrees
with England and Japan to disarm,
it will become to all intents and pur
poses a league member, whether or
not it signs the covenant Disarma
ment is the great desideratum and
indeed, the vital principle of the
league. How this may be accom
plished, by the league as a wholo or
through the initiative of the pro
posed tripartite, it matters not.
With Germany powerless, and anx
iuua herself to join the league, only
sufficient force is needed to check
the possible military aggresion of
bolshevik Russia. Should the United
States go forward with war prepara
tion, who can say that it may not be
come obsessed with the war lust?
We cBiinot claim that in the pant we
have been motivated solely by altru
ism. Senator Borah's plan, or any
plan that will discourage the growth
of the military spirit in tho United
States and throughout the world, is
worthy of commendation.
Ike TELEPHONE WANT DESIRES
To give good telephone service.
To keep its property in good repair and cxpund it to meet tho
requirements of tho public.
To pay wages sufficient to maintain an efficient and contented
organization.
To earn revenue that will enable it to borrow the money ab
solutely necessary in its operations and to afford a reas
onable profit to its owners.
In the State of Oregon today our earnings are insufficient
to accomplish these results and wc have asked the Public bcr
vice Commission of the State to approve a schedule of rates
which we believe will provide the added revenue required. ,
No question of stocks, bonds or capitalization is involved.
The Commission will base its decision upon a fair value of our
property for rate making purposes and our earnings and ex
penses. We believe that the public, realizing the benefits of ade
quate telephone service will support this effort on our part to
insure the maintenance and development of a high standard of
telephone communication.
Vho Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co.
tilence passed them by. Are they
grateful, to be consUntly grumbling
over this, that or the other omis
sion of Providence, when I'rovidence
has really been so kind?
, Now is the time when the man
whose labor is chiefly mental to de
vise how little he ran do for the
money, is being summarily disat
tached from the payroll.
Attalia on The Columbia is devel
oping sn expensive hole in the
ground albeit everybody hopes that
within a short time it will be oil well
with Attalia.
We prefer to consider the esteemed
Oregon ian three score and ten years
young, since it possesses so much of
youth's virility and confidence.
by tho Allies was rendered unrecog
nisable. With Ireland staging a tragedy,
burnt Cork is superfluous.
NOTICE TO PATRONS
FARM BUREAU MEETING
AT WESTON DEC. 27TH
"SAVE A BABY'S LIFET
Says Edward Cookingham, director
of the Liberty Loan campaigns:
"There is not a heart in Oregon hard
enough to withhold the money that
will buy food and save the lives of
Europe's baby war victims." The
entire Liberty Loan sales organiza
tion is back of the great Hoover
movement for saving literally mil
lions of starving children in Central
Europe. So also are the Red Cross,
Knights of Columbus, Jewish Relief
Association, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W.
C. A. Appeals to the people of the
state ee made by the heads of rach
of these organizations. "Ten dollars
will buy the life of a child until next
harvest," is one of the slogans of a
campaign which touches the hearts
and opens the purse strings of all
who are not wholly oblivious to hu
man suffering. "In the midst of this
state's well fed comfort," we are told,
"has suddenly been thrust the appal
ling spectacle of 3,000,000 little child
ren defenseless against starvation en
trenched in the war devastated area
of East and Central Europe. Every
one with a heart, save a baby's life."
The whole problem of immigration
consist in letting the good ones In
and keeping the poor ones out which
is not so simple as it sounds.
A counterfeit century note having
been found in circulation, country ed
itors will be put to the trouble of
looking through their rolls.
To the farmer who hasn't sold his
wheat the "Do Your Christmas Shop
ping Early" slogan is apt to convey
a suggestion of irony.
The Yamhill public market, once
Portland's pride and Joy, is under
fire for alleged profiteering. We'll
te looking for a stall.
A Farm Bureau meeting will be
held at Memorial hall, Weston, Mon
day, December 27, and is expected to
attract a large number of representa
tive farmers from this section of the
county. Professor llyslop of Oregon
Agricultural College will be the prin
cipal lecturer. The subject of potato
growing will be taken up at 10 a. m.,
and of wheat growing at 2:30 p. m.
All farmers of this district are in
vited and urged to come and hear the
agricultural lore which Professor
llyslop is so well qualified to present.
NOTICE.
Beginning January 1st, 1021, we,
the undersigned, will conduct our bus
iness on a strictly 30-day credit basis.
All .bills are due and payable on the
first of the month following purchase.
Credit will be discontinued to all who
allow their bills to run longer than
the 10th of the month. On all out
standing bills not paid by December
31st, 1020, there will be 8 per cent in
terest added until paid.
LIBERTY AUTO CO. -WESTON
GARAGE.
In order to avoid much unnecessary
inconvenience, wt must request that
all patrons be prepared to pay their
bills when our collector calls. Wt
also desire to notify them that all of
our own responsibility for service
ceases when electricity is delivered.
PRESTON-SHAFFER
MILLING CO.
LET US BE GRATEFUL.
This country's crops of 1019 were
worth in round numbers, fourteen
billions. The crops this year, al
though larger, arc worth only nine
billions. In money, that is. They
arc worth just a3 much for clothing
and sustenance. They, would be a
godsend indeed, more welcome than
gold or gemn, to Europe or Asia.
In fact, the United States is enor
mously rich in all forms of actual
wealth. Unless a member of the lim
ited pauper class, the poor man in
the United States is only relatively
' poor in comparison with his more
fortunate neighors. It is this fact,
not actual poverty as it is known in
huegry and suffering foreign lands,
that makes for restlessness and dis
content in our beloved republic, whose
people arc possibly blesscd' beyond
their deserts. Their children arcnot
shivering in rags and starving for a
crust.- War has spared them and pes-
Warren G. Harding has been made
a union printer for life, and ha can
have a "sit" with us if things get
too slow in Washington.
Many 'other men draw $50,000 sal
aries, but Judge Landis will get to see
the ball games free a real and en
viable privilege.
A Kentucky observer thinks an
e pidemic of kneemonia may be ex
pected this winter, if epidemics fol
low the styles.
A Seattle thief who relieved his vic
tim of a $500 bank roll gave him back
$20 an example of touching gener
osity. In tho alliance between Turk and
Bolshevik it will bo difficult to de
termine which has the worst partner.
Looks as though the producer has
been producing faster than the con
sumer has been consuming.
Normalcy is a word much nicer
than is the process of getting back
to the condition it defines.
' Ten dollars could be no better in
vested than in the life of a child. .
A Peppery Pair.
The small team of government
mules, celebrated throughout tho
countryside which Jim Jones has put
to work on his new mail route out of
Athena, may be as dangerous as
dynamite, but they are also as full of
energy. Jim drove them 1C7 days in
succession, with the exception of
Sundays and holidays, on his Weston
route, climbing upward each day
about 2000 feet. During that time
they covered a total of 4115 miles.
They' are apt to get restless for lack
of their accustomed exercise on the
easier Athena route, and we will not
be surprised any day to hear that
Jim bas been spilled along the road.
Disastrous Runaway.
C larond Rhea had a disastrous run
away a few days ago whilo going
down the Harder grade into Blue
Mountain station with a load of
wheat and six horses. The lead team
broke loose, frightening the other
horses, and the entire outfit piled up
at the foot of the grade. Mr. Rhea
was fortunate enough to escape un
hurt, but two of his horses each had
an eye knocked out, and another was
so badly injured as to bo 'rendered
worthless.
Miss Sabra Nason, county librarian,
was in town for several hours Thurs
day, re-arranging and classifying
books In the local library.
BIG CHRISTMAS
TAILORING SALE
Save $20 to $30
30 BDORP
I on all World Tailored Suits
rtul IMtaetlsa. Prlcu u low u
they will It Mit Sprint
WESTON BATHS. BARBER
' and TAILOR SHOP
R. L. Reynaud f ,
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Have You Paid
: YOUR BLACKSMITH BILL? i
j ! If notwhy not? 1 1
J. F. SNIDER
With the exception of General
Wrangel who managed to get away
the Bolshevik! have taken pains to
see that every anti leader recognized
Mrs. J. Harl Williams and Mrs.
Lilian Fredericks visited friends In
Walla Walla Wednesday.
Dr. s. l mm
Veterinary Scrgecs ij
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