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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1919)
Practical Christmas &ifts WATERMAN'S FOUNTAIN PENS be ideal gift. Complete stock pSm $2.50 up. j h EVER SHARP PENCILS complete stock ranging in price Irom $1.00 to $4.00. I STATIONERY Most complete assortment ever Shown here. Put up in handsome pixed. ' ' ' . VJJ , 1 GREETING CARDS tig variety from which to select byricca 5c to 25c. PERFUMES AND TOILET F WATERS A very complete line of imported and domestic perfumes in fancy packages. KODAKS W,? A complete line of Eastman Ko daks. THERMOS BOTTLES Ideal gift for cold weather. PYRALIN IVORY The always welcome gift a very complete line. WATCHES AND JEWELRY Very complete line carried in stock. DER - KISS AND JONTEEL GIFT PACKAGES Beautiful assortment of fancy gift pucka gen. HOLIDAY ACCESSORIES Complete line. We also carry a large assortment of Box Candies, Pipes Leather Goods, "Cjkames, Books, Manicure Sets, etc. McFADDEN PHARMACY f v The bewail Store PHONE 331 It will pay tou to watch our Windows 'Over The Hill" j; With his feet enveloped ' in gunny ,!sack3, Ernest Rosa walked in from 6 j ,. his reservation ranch ' Sunday to Mrs. S. E, Powell was in Corvallis, spend the day with his family. Drifts Montana, last week visiting with he j along Wild Horse creek made trie husband and children. Miss Vida Staggs has accepted a stenographic position in Pendleton. Mrs. Joseph Wurzer, who is ac tively feeding the birds during our inclement weather, was delighted a few mornings ago to discover a robin breakfasting with the snowbirds and junco'ae at their lunch counter. Mrs. Wurzer, who is always optimistic, re gards this as an omen of an earlj spring. Weston Mountain thermometers registered twelve degrees below zc ' ' Friday morning. Robert Hopkins -sustained a serious loss in the freez ing of 500 sacks of potatoes. K C; Hopkins and Tom Booher also lost a quantity of tubers in the same way. Mrs. Richard Morrison is enjoying trip a tiresome one. .' -" Owing to unfavorable weather conditions Miss Stasia Walsh did not meet her class in Home Hygiene last Thursday. The work "will be carried on this week as usual. The Jack Chapin family have mov ed to town for the winter months in order that the daily trips to school may be less arduouggfor the children. Mrs. Leon Lundell has returned from a visit with relatives at Mil ton. During her sojourn in the neighboring city Mrs. Lundell under went an operation for removal of tonsils and adenoids, from whichbei js recovering satisfactorily. Dwight Porter is visiting his pa rents, MIL and Mrs. J. W. Porter. FajMinS .past three years the young dfc.. Indicating the presence of' ex treme cold weather, three brilliant sun-dogs appeared in the sky Friday noon. The unusual spectacle was witnessed by many Weston citizens with much interest. The Misses Hazel Duncan and Dor othy Procbstel arrived Tuesday from Corvallis to spend the holidays with their respective parents. The young ladies are students at Oregon Agri cultural College and are anticipating a delightful time during the three weeks' vacation. Sim J. Culley is achieving renown as the most good-natured man in town. When annoyed with frozen water pipes, he thaws them out to the accompaniment of jazz music on the phonograph. Tuesday, December 23, the West ton public school closes for a ten days' holiday vacation. W. H. Booher is feeding a large number of China pheasants and bob whites in the barn-yard on his ranch south of town. Mrs. Cora Billings of Walla Walla is spending a few days at the home of her sister, Mrs. Ernest Ross. Mrs. R. G. Saling came home from Portland Sunday for a holiday visit with her family. Mrs. Saling has been taking lessons in both voice and piano at Portland. Miss Thelma Anderson is expected to arrive from Homestead, Oregon, Monday to pass the holiday vacation at her mother's home in this citv. Miss Anderson is a member of Home stead's school faculty. Miss Esther Williams, who is at tending Mills College, plans to arrive in Weston Sunday to share in the Yuletide festivities at the J. Harl Williams home. C. M. Schneider and family left Thursday for their new home near Washtucna, Washington. Mrs. J. M. Banister is bemoaning I new Ford touring car from O. the loss of a diamond solitaire which 1 Adams of the Liberty Auto Co. dropped from her ring some time du ring Tuesday. !' Delayed by the snowdrifts, J. E. Jones did not get in with the mawnr tain mail Monday until eight o'clock. At one place he was an hour in car rying nis government mules over crusted drifts for a distance of one- quarter of a mrle. Tamarack church, about ten miles east of Weston, is now the farthest point on Carrier Jones' route, and there he encoun tered 18 inches of snow, a ' Basket mountain is temporarily losing population. Clarond Rhea and family have moved to the Umapine farm traded by Sam Key to Tom Gould. Floyd Fox and William War field have moved their families to Freewater for the winter. . Bp Rev. W. S. Payne returned home Monday from an extended period of evangelistic work in bShalf Of the Methodist Episcopal Church. At Bu ena, Washington, he conducted a fortnight's revival that resulted in 104 conversions. He was at Grace Church, Walla Walla, for five days, and there 35 conversions were his re ward. Cold weather interfered wit; his meetings at Selrh, Washington. He goes to Toppenish January 11. J. M. Wroe, A. C. Gould and John Hyatt were recent visitors at Bur bank, Wash. Asked about the cattle situation, J. P. Lieuallen, president of the stockmen's association, reports it a? very satisfactory. Stock came out of the mountains in good shape and is so far doing well on on winter pas ture in the stubble fields. Fortunate ly for the stock interests, the severe cold snap came early in the. season. Lowell Hyatt is here from La Crosse, Washington, looking the old town over to see if it is still all here. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hodgson of La Crosse are visiting in Weston. Rev. A. J. Starmer has bought a A. Mr. Press Paragraphs a visit with relatives and friends,, atj man has been stationed at Honolulu Walla Walla. m the service of Uncle Sam. A two the Bachelor Girls' club will be en-i months' furlough enabled him to re- tertained at the home of Miss Gladys Smith next Monday eventing. Professor arfSTVfs. C. Fitzpat rick and Miss Mabel Colvin motored to Walla Wall Saturday on a com bined business and pleasure trip. The lat Mrs. Eleanor Cameron Payimt left an estate amounting to $8994.67, according to report filed by James Scrimsher, Barney Foster and 8, A. Street, the appraisers. ,i . turn to the United States. The snowy landscape of Eastern Oregon presents a striking contrast to the tropical conditions existing in the Hawaiian Islands, but Mr. Porter is exulting in the change. John Boamcr and family bob-sledded to town last Friday evening in the coldest weather of the season to attend the meeting at the Baptist! church. : j ,' 4'-.' " Where Gem and Gold are Fairly Sold" Watch Christmas In the line of Gifts, no one article,' so closeh, so thoroughly entwines itself into our daily lives and nothing so greatly creates thoughts of the giver, nor is any gift more appreciated. We sell only- the Reliable kind Elgin, Waltham, Hamilton, Howard and the best Swiss Wrist Watches for Men and Women. No one undersells us. Credit without extra Charge. H. H. HIIJL, JEWELER ATHENA pWe wish you all af;; Merry Xmas iy 'vf . i.i ...,. .i.,!-1 ,,, ... 1 , :, ; Starmer has driven his old Ford no less than one hundred thousand miles. Herman Staggs, senior at Philo math College, has returned home for the Christmas holidays. He says that Philomath was wholly unpre pared for the severe cold, which reached a minimum there of 18 de grees below zero with two feet of snow. In a region 100 miles south of Portland and 40 miles from the ; coast, this sort of weather was un j precedented. Water pipes are not ' buried deep at Phiiomath and burst , eel all over town, while the populace shivered in warmMveather houses, j A "little palace on wheels" is an I apt description of the Light Four Overland sedan bought by Dr. Watts ; from the local agent. Dr. Kennard, jas a Christmas present for his son ' Worth. It is a beautiful car, ele gantly appointed and finished in au 1 tomobile blue. Mrs. W. E. Driskell has been quite j ill the past week, but is improving rapidly. i s After recovering from smallpox, Bobby Graham was threatened this week with appendicitis. tWhile very serious the first of the woelt, his con dition has since improved. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Cronk have gone to Emmett, Idaho, to spend Christ-! mas with relatives. For Sale One Oregon Special ! combined harvester, 20-loot cut, in good condition. E. L. Woods, Wes ton, Oregon. ..: For Christmas night entertain ment the Standard Theatre offers "Fires of Faith" the big Salvation Army Super Special. Admission '25 and 50c war tax included. Athena college students will be home to spend the holiday vacation. The first to arrive is Master Neil Mclntyre from Hills Academy at Portland. Neil arrived home yester day; " " t' " 1 S Vegetables were frozen in the store room of the Pure Food grocery dur ing the cold snap, despite the fact that two stoves, one a large coal burner, held fire all during the night. Mr. Stephens estimates the damage at $200. - . ' ' The fuel situation is improving, and with the advent of the Chinook, which left icy roadB and streets, however, things look better in gen eral. Full train service has been re sumed. Tuesday at Athena a car of coal was distributed. Indian cayuses on the Umatilla res ervation, fared poorly during the zero weather and snow storm. Ice had made the stubble fieilds impossible for feed, and as the Indian has no winter feed for his stock, it is said numbers have perished. Farmers are asked by the State Game Commission to feed the pheas ants and other game birds during the severe winter weather. The birds are being destroyed to somo extent on account of the deep snow and the ice in the stubble fields makes it impossible for the feath ered tribe to secure food. The Com mission offers to pay half the. ex pense entailed in feeding the birds. Mr. Hunt foreman of the Jos. N. Scott farm-has found both pheas ants and email dead as the result of no food and the cold weather. By the close score of 23 to 28, the basket ball team of Helix High school took the first game of the sea son from Athena in the gymnasium last evening, before & large audienee. The game was well played, and al though the Helix players were heav ier than the men Athena put on the floor, the affair was hotly contested and belonged to either team until the last basket was thrown. The Helix team was accompanied by by about 25, loyal rooters, who came over in sleighs to the accompaniment of the merry jingle of bells. Refreshments : were srrved by Athena High after : the game and a social hour was i 1 pleasantly spent. ' ' " ' K. h G( 0D GROCERIES - GOOD TRF OfOD SERVICE , j Candy and Nut Specials for the Holidays New Walnuts Genuine Califor nia soft shell, fine lookers, fine eating, only 45c per lb. Large fancy washed Brazil Nuts, only 45c per lb. f :; ', V New California Almonds, the soft shell kind, per lb. 45c. Large, double-jointed, Humpback Peanuts, per lb. 25 c. New California Shelled Walnut Meats. These are fine for cakes, just taken from the shell; large can, 75c. All your favorite Hard Candies at our candy counter. Burnt Peanuts, per lb. 45c. Boston Baked Beans, per lb. 45c. Large Jelly Beans, per lb. 40c. Plain Mixdd, per lb. 35c. ' ) Jap. Cocoanut Squares, per lb. 45c. - Broken Mixed, per lb. 45c. , '; French Cream Mixed,, per lb. 50c. J Ribbon Mixed, per lb. 45c. Chocolate Chews, per lb. 50c. Try a pound of our Fancy Choc olate Creams at 60c. A full line of Box Candies at special prices. Phone 56i '"I IIIHHU Mttlll SON NEWS NOTES F GENERAL INTEREST $100 Reward, $100 The readers of this paper wIlV bo pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure In all Its stages and that ! catarrh. Catarrh being greatly Influenced by constitutional conditions requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Medicine Is taken internally and acts thru tha Blood on v.. Mucous Sur faces of th System thereby destroying the founds' ton of the disease, giving tha patient strength by building up the con stitution an 1 nsslsttnjr nature In doing Its work. Tea proprietor have so much faith In fhc curative row 0f Hall's Catarrh illielr,e that they offer One Hundred Hollars for any case that It falls to cure, 'fleml far Hat of testimonials. Address, R J. CHKNEV CO.. ToUd, Objo. Sold by all Druggist. Ttc The sixth annual conference of the j Oregon Drainage association will he ! Iield at Corvallis January 1 and "St-."':! Ira P. Whitney, a graduate of Oregon Agricultural college, has been appoint ed agricultural agent for Lane county. I The total valuation of all assessed property in Clackamas county is $29, 299,488.68, an increase of 300,000 over last year. , iff t ; l Special road taxes were voted in nine i road districts in Jackson county out of 12 districts holding meetings tor ; that purpose. The Boo'th-Kelly LuMber company announces an extensive railroad build- j. ing plan for next year at its holdings at Wendling. Neil Hall, aged 84, one of the oldest residents and pioneers of Grant county, ' committed suicide at Canyon City by ; shooting himself. I The cement plant at Gold Hill, has resumed operations and will run dur-j ing the winter to its full capacity of ' 1000 barrels a day. Jackson county, as a result of the k recent special road district elections, will have approximately $110,000 to spend on good roads In 1920. Polk county commissioners estimate I that it will take 310,794 to run the I county during 1920 and have recom-'l mended a tax levy of 21.S mills. J. Revenue officers and the pol'ee Portland seized 4000 gallons of and arrested the owners' on ci of violating the prohibition ,la- Harry Lawler, head brakem Big Creek Lumber tff$ near Kn'appa, was 4 when he was cun' lof. '.'Vvs'.. At a special elect! Of $16,000 for street $9000 for" redeemtr, ficates jcarried by .fatea. . 3WHB Deposits in the and trust companies close of business. N date of the last oiCIt 3i4.94. yr,;, Some 2 Cheer! The season of good cheer is here.. It requires cheer to keep sweet, but thk weather . . : Puts the Pep in us r Why not get that boy a gun? He's ; ready to shoot. That girl a sled? She's ready to slide, f ' v . Some silverware for that good wife. . A choice Ranger Bike Special or act ual cost. Make any young man happy. Let Dad make his own choice. Watts & Rogers Hardware and Implements 1 t " itioodl Bank olus, $100,000 jsit Boxes "ent r.al