Value and Quality..
The value of your money depends on where you take it. The Dol
lars are worth
cTWORE
at this Store. Poor quality of goods are dear at any price. You get
Quality only, here.
fine
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Miss Mamie i Barnes, an employee
of the J. C. Penny store at Pendle
ton, is spending part of her vacation
at the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. S. A. Barnes. Yesterday she
accompanied her mother on an out
ing trip to Camp McDougal.
Mrs. C. F. Wright and daughters
Virginia, Jane, Loraine and Helen,
arrived last week from Claresholm,"
Alberta, for an extended visit at the
M. A. Baker home. Mrs. Wrig'.i.,
who is a daughter of Mr. Baker,
plans to spend the winter months in
Weston and enroll her children as
pupils in the local school.
Thistle-down floating lightly on
the breeze and clumps of brilliant
golden-rod blooming by the wayside,
indicate to those who observe Nature
in her all moods that summer is on
the wane.
Word has come from mountain dis
tricts that huckleberries, which prom
ised a prolific crop, are being injured
by dry weather the fruit becoming
shriveled and dropping from the
vines.
The continued period of warm
weather has caused many vacation
ists to seek relief from the heat at
favorite mountain resorts, the beach,
or camping places along sparkling
streams. A picturesque site on up
per Pine creek olfered a cool and in
viting retreat for the enjoyment of
a delicious Sunday lunch to a picnic
party which included: Mrs. Lee
Moorehouse, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph
Schaefcr, Mary and Lee Schaefer,
Mrs. C. C. Whiteman and Miss Rose
mary Whitcman of Pendleton; Mrs.
Lilian Fredericks, Mr. and Mrs. H.
(ioodwin and Albert Proebstel.
Mr. and Mrs. William Brown came
in from their Helix ranch this week
for a few days' visit. They report
harvest well under way in t'ueir
j neighborhood. The wheat is of good
quality and is yielding between 25
' and IS5 bushels per acre some of it
1 testing CO pounds.
Miss Thelma Anderson has gone to
Long Beach, Washington, for an
I outing trip. She will visit friends
! at Portland before returning home.
Five bids were received for the
' three-room teacheragc, with con
j crete foundation and cellar, which
I will be built in district No. 11 south
of Weston. The contract has been
I awarded to J. M. Ashworth. The im-
I provement will cost in the neighbor
fhood of $1000.
E. L. Woods finished threshing
Tuesday and housed his combine.
Mr. Woods is well satisfied with his
crop, which is a good one for the
j season. He had 1)20 acres in grain,
which averaged around SB bushels.
W. W. (Billy) Carlile, once a well
known threshing machine operator
of the Weston country and now a ci
I tizen of Yakima, which he regards
I as ubout the livest city on earth, is
here this week, accompanied by Mrs.
Carlile and two of their sons, Silas
EXCURSION
Fares
East
Lower than Ever
This Summer
Round-trip tickets routed over the
Union Pacific System
returning same or any direct line
Salt Lake City $48.82 St Louis $7.B0
Denter $84.00 Cincinnati $101.30
Kansas City $67.00 Philadelphia $1119.95
Omaha $67.00 New York $142.40
Chicago $81.00 Boston $153.36
Yellowstone Park $32.20 To other cities in proportion.
Tickot Sales DAILY until August 31st
Return limit October 31st
The Union Pacific opsrates the only THROUGH SOLID TRAIN
between Portland and Chicago.
"Oregon-Washington Limited"
Leaves Portland 9:00 A. M.
Arrive Chicago 11.00 A. M. (third day)
Through service also on "Continental Limited."
Kvery foot of the track is protected by AUTOMATIC SAFETY
SIGNALS. Equipment is the best in the transportation world.
i)ining car service the very maximum of human skill and art.
The serviie as a whole represents the supreme effort of the man
agement to please and satisfy patrons.
L'ali on our Agont when you are ready to go and he will do the
rest. ' WM. McMURRAY,
General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon.
and James. The party motored to
Seattle over the Snoqualmie pass,
and came back as far as Weston by
way of Portland and the Columbia
highway. Other visitors are Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Reynolds and their two
daughters and son, who motored to
Weston direct from Yakima. Mr.
Reynolds was a former Weston en
gineer, and his wife is also well re
membered here as a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Carlile. The party found
many old-time friends to greet them
and are guests during their stay of
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Kees.
An unusually good yield for the
season, 42 bushels to the acre, is re
ported from the McKinnon quarter
northwest of Weston, owned and
farmed by Joe Key. In a normal
year this would have meant 60-bush-el
wheat.
Mrs. Anna Wheeler of Crofton,
Nebraska, sister of Mrs. H. Wad
dingham, is a guest at the Wadding
ham residence in Weston.
Arthur R. Lansdale, formerly a
Weston farmer, came over from Wal
la Walla Saturday and accompanied
his daughters, Miss Mary Lansdale,
Mrs. Jacob Narkaus and Mrs. Ralph
Lansdale, on a huckleberrying trip
to the breaks of the Umatilla.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Lieuallen were
here Monday, returning to duty at
the First National Bank of Walla
Walla from a vacation motoring trip
to the seaside.
Harold Phinney, student at Philo
math college, has been spending his
vactation in the Weston harvest
field. A few days ago he sought a
change of scene by going to the
Staggs & Sons wheat ranch near
Washtucna. Harold, who is a grad
uate of Weston High, intends to con
tinue college work until he completes
his education.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Saling and
daughter Lucile of Pendleton were in
Weston the first of the week on their
way to the mountains for a seasor
of camping. Mr. Saling says that
harvest operations arc progressing
favorably on his Morrow county hold
ings, which are farmed by his son-in-law,
Mr. Simonton. One section
appears to be yielding about 25
bushels of good wheat, and an aver
age of at least 20 bushels is ex
pected from the entire 1420 acres in
crop. This good showing for the
season and district is attributed to
early seeding in the dust.
J. H. McGibbon and family motored
down to Weston Sunday for a brief
visit from their home on the Snake
river. They were accompanied on
the return trip by Mrs. McGibbon's
father, J. R. Adkins, who will make
an extended stay.
Albert O'Harra's wheat in the Pea
Ridge district east of town, now be
ing threshed with a McCormick com
bine, is reported to be making near
ly 40 bushels per acre. Newton
O'Harra has finished harvesting his
crop, which averaged 35 bushels and
tested nearly 59 pounds, being free
from smut or trash. He has sold
part of his crop at 98 cento.
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Harris motored
up the mountain Sunday in search
of huckleberries, accompanying Mrs.
Lucian tingnon and Miss Florence
Gagnon. The party found "slim
I picking."
Mrs. Nancy J. Wise, widow of the
late Andrew J. Wise, passed away at
1202 East Grant street, Portland,
Monday, July 31, after a long illness
from heart trouble. Mr9. Wise wns
born 82 years ago in Indiana, and
came west with her family in 1S75,
locating near Weston two years
later. They lived here until 1884,
when they went to Perryda'e, Ore
gon. Mrs. Wise was a very estimable
woman, who was highly regarded by
her old-time friends in the Weston
neighborhood, and was a member of
the Presbyterian church. She is sur
vived by one son, Jesse M. Wise of
Boise, Idaho, and one daughter, Mrs.
Ella Kile of Perrydale. Also by one
sister and two brothers, Mrs. D. D.
Earp of Auburn, Wash., G. A. R.
McGrew of Portland and C. A. Mc
Grew of Santa Anna, Calif. The
funeral services were held at Zena,
Polk county, where her late husband
was buried.
At his place in the upper end of
town Louis Nolte has a complete lit
tle wood-working shop, equipped
with home-made machinery, in which
he employs his leisure hours, as
sisted by his son Elmer, in turning
out invention models. Just lately he
has completed the models of an im
provement on a caterpillar track, a
folding clothes hanger and a cable
clamp. Louis also has a "circle saw"
with which he saws his own wood and
saves himself a lpt of labor. His
home work is done under the stimu
lus of pleasant surroundings. His
dwelling sits amidst fruit and shade
trees and shrubbery and he has a
splendid garden, which he irrigates
from a well by means of a gas en
gine. Louis would rather sit be
neath his own vine and fig tree than
on one of the few remaining Euro
pean thrones.
Mrs. Mary B. Eichler of Walla
Walla is visiting at the home of her
niece, Mrs. H. A. Brandt.
Mr. and Mrs. Rulon E. Smith of
Pendleton, accompanied by Mrs. J
Ross, mother of Mrs. Smith, are en
joying a vacation visit at Seaside,
Salem and Eugene.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Culley re
turned Saturday from a ten days'
motor trip to Portland, Seattle and
coast points.
The Weston brickyard is shipping
about 100,000 brick to Wallowa, Wal
lowa county, for use in the new high
school building there.
Lester O'Harra "rogued" his
seven-acre potato patch on Reed and
Hawley mountain, but wasn't sure
that he knew how. He is now con
gratulating himself that he has qual
ified as a high-grade spud grower,
his patch having passed the first of
ficial field inspection with a showing
of only two percent of disease.
BUT IT DIDN'T HURT HIS HEAD
Wallace J. White carries one.arm
in a sling and is somewhat sore in
body if not in spirit. Wallace" has
been hauling wheat for Joe Key, and
was moseying along Tuesday in the
vicinity of Downing station, think
ing how nice it would be to tie mar
ried to a handsome widow with a mil
lion dollars, when some Indian boys
caine whooping along with a pack
pony. The pony ran into and
frightened Wallace's team, which
promptly ditched the wagon, pitch
ing Wallace out on his head. He was
"dead to the world" for awhile, but
finally came out of it with several
aches and pains but no broken bones.
One horse was badly injured, the
wagon tongue broken and the har
ness damaged.
KLANSMEN CLASS
OF 110 INITIATED
Oregon City, While 2000 people
craned their necks to catch the de
tails of the scene being enacted in
the center of the field illumined only
by- a few red torches, a class of 110
candidates was Saturday night ini
tiated into the Ku Klux Klan in a
public ceremonial at Gladstone.
A Portland drill team assisted the
exalted cyclops in the ceremony, which
consisted only of the administration
of the oath of the order to the condi
dates, swearing them to "uphold the
laws of the nation and the organiza
tion, encourage white supremacy,
freedom of the schools, separation of
church and state, liberty and the pur
suit of happiness."
Denouncing the insidious encroach
ment upon the control of the govern
ment of certain organizations the
Klan lecturer in an address to the
new members called upon them as
thinking men to battle with this con
dition in what he declared was to be
come one of the greatest conflicts
of ideals the world has ever seen.
The organization, he stated, was
built primarily upon the ideal of un
selfish service and he exhorted every
Klansman to carry the beacon of this
ideal in personal daily endeavor. The
ceremonies Saturday night were pre
paratory to the degree work which
is to be put on for the initiates at
Willamette hall Thursday night.
A Prosser, Washington, grower
has shipped from one-fifth of an acre
of raspberries no less than 99 crates
and expects to pick 40 acres addi
tional before the season closes.
CLASSIFIED
A book containing the ticket sales
of the Standard Theatre has been lost
or misplaced since last Saturday.
Anyone finding the book (which is of
no use to anybody but the owner of
the theatre) will please return same
to the theatre or the Press office,
where a satisfactory reward will be
paid.
For Sale Choice residence in Athe
na for sale. Property well located
good revenue producer for small
family. Price $5000.00, purchaser to
assume balance of street paving as
sessment. This is a bargain, and we
will sell it soon. If interested, see
Cox Investment Company
Pendleton, Oregon.
For Sale Mrs. Jerry Stone offers
her residence for sale partly fur
flished. A bargain if taken before
Sept. 1.
For Sale The D. Scott Fisher resi
dence in Athena. A good home at a
reasonable price.
GOVERNMENT GIVES BRIDGES
The federal government is doner of
three steel bridges to Umatilla coun
ty. Through the good offices of the
forestry service, these bridges, man
ufactured during the war, and for
which the government has no use, the
gift of the steel structures are made
to the county. Two of the bridges
will be used in the vicinity of Gib
bon, and they span 78 feet. The
third, of 24 foot span, will be placed
at' Pilot Rock, within the town's
limits, at the Birch creek crossing.
For Sale Kindling wood, dry box
cuttings delivered at your home in
Athena, Oregon. $7.00 per truck
load, three and one-half cubic yards,
C. O. D. Phone orders to our expense.
Milton Box Co., Milton, Oregon,
phone 983,
Wanted Chickens at the St. Nich
ols hotel. Highest market price paid.
MOVIE TOWN AIDS HOUSING
Fake Belgian Village, at a Little More
Cost, Provides for a Score of
Families.
Even the movies have their utili
tarian uses, It seems. In some sections
of the country they seem In u fair way
to help solve our housing problems. At
least they did so In a Westchester
town uot loug ago.
The scene the movie scene, that Is
was a Belgian village, and with the
accustomed profligacy of the picture
producers the entire village must needs
be built. The Intent and purpose of
the director was to build the houses of
board and papler-mirche, and then de
stroy them all when the picture was
completed. Certain residents of the
town, however, were possessed with
foresight, says the New York Sun. The
township was suffering from building
restriction, and some one figured, that
; the movie men could build their HI
! luge of slightly more substantial ma
terial Ut a comparatively little in
creased cost. The proposition was put
I to the director, who agreed to let the
town supply him with materials and
labor on a proportionate basis.
! As a result the town has added near
ly twenty new houses and twenty new
families have moved In, paying the
' towushlp'ouly slightly more thnu the
: property, was worth. The township
! tuxes the houses, the housing situation
j Is relieved, the movie men have van
i Ished and everybody Is happy, .
WATTS & PRESTBYE
Attorneys-At-Law
Main Street, Athena, Oregon
DR. S. F. SHARP
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Special Attention given to all
calls, both day and night.
Calls promptly answered. Office on
Third Street, Athena, Oregon.
C. H. SMITH
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Athena, Oregon.
Office next to Telephone Excange
Phones, Office 333; Residence 412
Penland Bros.
Blacksmith
Shop
Pendleton, Oregon
EXPERT BLACKSMITHING AND
HORSESHOEING. SLOAN WEED
ERS OR SLICKERS FOR SALE.
YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED
FOR GUARANTEED WORK.
The
Athena Bakery
1 1-2 lb loaf bread, now two
for 25c; 3 lbs Olympic rolled
oats 35c; Carnation or Borden
Milk 2 for 25c. Polar Cakes
and Ice Cream.
L C Bevens, Proprietor
You Should Own a Primrose
Why? Because it is the best,
Watts & Rogers Main Street Athena Oregon 1
The Athena Home Laundry
G. W. FINCH, Proprietor
Suits Cleaned and Pressed
$1.50
called for and delivered. Laundry business very good
thank you-installing another machine.
THE ATHENA HOME LAUNDRY, PHONE 492
We carry the best
MEAT
That Money Buys
Lard, Kraut, Kippered Salmon,
Salt and Fresh Fish, Oysters,
Clams and Crab, in Season.
A. W. LOGSDON
Main Street, Athena, Oregon
THE
ATHENA BARBER SHOP
AMOS O'DELL, PROPRIETOR
Al vays at your Service. First-class
Work guaranteed. We are
here to please y.u
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ESTABLISHED 1865
Preston-Shaffer Milling Co.
American Beauty
Flour
Is made in Athena, by" Athena labor, in one ot the very" best
equipped mills in the Northwest, of the best selected Bluestera
wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home industry". Your
grocer sells the'famous" American Beauty Flour
Merchant Millers & Grain Buyers
Athena, Oregoo. Waftsbprg, Wash
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The First National
if Athena
Established 1891
Bank
Capital apd Surplus $110,000.00
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