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Olympia Flour per Sack $1-95 Olympia Flour per bblr $7.60 CASH GROCERY Sugar -Eleven pounds $1.00 Per Sack 100 Pounds $8.15 THE CURRENT OF SAVING Saving by cash dealing is like the current of a great river, it flows steadily, quietly, persistently on, on, on ever widening and increasing. When you start cash dealing you start a current in motion that will bring competence and plenty for old age. Never allow anything to interrupt the current of Sav ing. It's your best friend. Pay cash, owe nothing, life will be sweeter, richer and happier. '' - - - . COFFEE 1 lb. Red Hills 44c 2lbs. Bed Hills 1-10 5 lbs. Red Hills 2.15 1 lb. Shillings . '. 44c 2 lbs. Shillings - 1-10 5 lbs. Shillings - ... 2.15 1 lb. M. J. B .............. 44c 3 lbs. M. J. B 1-30 5 lbs. M. J. B 2.15 " 1 lb. Golden West 44c 3 lbs. Golden West ...... . . . 1:30 6 lbs. Golden West 2.15 BAKING POWDER 1 lb. Calumet Jr. 28c 2 lbs. Calumet .... 65c 5 lbs. Calumet ...... : 1.80 Vt lb. Cresent Tea 28c 1 lb. Cresent Tea 49c Extra Special ; Brass Wash Board 68c Glass Wash Board .. 73c SYRUPS Small Log Cabin 30c Medium Log Cabin ... 58c Large Log Cabin 1.15 gal. Tea Garden 70c 1 gal. Tea Garden .... 1.35 6 lbs. Marshmellow 65c 10 lbs. Marshmellow 1.15 5 lbs. Dark Karo ........... 39c 10 lbs. Dark Karo ; .; 75c 6 lbs. Light Karo . 46c 10 lbs. Light Karo .". 85c CANNED GOODS 2 lbs. Happy Home Pineapple 38c 2 lbs. Monopole Pineapple . 35c Van Camps Pork & Beans, Small 10c Van Camps Pork & Beans, Medium 15c Van Camps Pork & Beans, Large 28c Van Camps Homony ................ 18c or 2 for 35c CEREALS Kerrs Oats per pkg. 25c Kerrs Pancake Flour ". 25c Kerrs Buck Wheat flour 25c Kerrs 9 lb. sack Pancake flour .............. 70c 9 lb. sack Corn Meal Yellow or White 40c SOAP AND SOAP POWDERS 18 bars Crystal white ., 1.00 19 bars "Peets Naptha .............. ......... 1.00 24 bars Swifts white .......... 1.00 18 bars P & G ........ 1.00 21 bars Polar White 1.00 18 bars Clean Easy 1.00 Citrus per pkg. ... .. 28c Sea Foam per pkg. ................. 32c Borax chips per pkg 35c eijbornooo Je,v?s' j itm i . ' .iim'W' 1L ni1iii 29 Years Ago November 10. 1893 ''Cricket," a famous Eastern Ore gon race pony is with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, in Chicago. Mrs. Campbell returned from La Grande the first of the week, accom panied by her daughter, Mrs. Mess ner. A. R. Bradley has a supply of ex cellent Rock Spring Coal for sale. Parties desiring coal should call on him. No Shirt, chief of the Walla Walla's, is In jail at Pendleton awaiting a free trip to Portland on the charge of rape. . . ' ' - '-' Fred Page Tustin, a former Pen-j dleton lawyer has been ousted out of the Ne'al mine in Idaho. Page-Tus-tin's company failed to pay for the land, hence the ejectment. On Monday Bergevin Brothers turn ed their Athena store over to Portland creditors, Matt Mosgrove, a commer cial travler, being pput In charge. A deed was placed on record from the Bergevin Brothers to Matt Mosgrove. transferring th lots on which the store '. stands.. f A Tuesday morning theAthena Mill was closed on a writ of attachment in faw 'of The-First National bank of thi city, for $9,500. The difficulty was caused, no doubt, by,-the com pany not beihg able to collect, owing to the close condition of money mat ters. The company is perfectly sol vent and a meeting was immediately called by the president, at which the matter was . quickly settled and the mil lat once Btarted up on full time. The Adams band, owing to the til . I : "The Line Is Busy" When the telephone operator tells you "the line is busy,' this fact has been made known to her by an electric signal. With the thousands of calls in daily telephone traffic if the operator, to secure this in formation, were compelled to listen on ttie line of the party called, prompt serv ice would be out of the question. This delay is eliminated by an electric device which in the fraction of a second automatically indicates that the line called for is in use. When "busy" reports are repeated on successive calls for the same number, it is generally due to an immoderate use of the called line. The length of a telephone conversation is obviously bevond the control of the telephone operator. Have confidence in her .when she makes the report "the. line is busy. The Pacific Telephone hard times, has given up the ghost Frank Beale gathered up a bunch of cattle near Pendleton this wcek. Hollis received several sacks of su gar this week, thus lifting the sugar famine. . ' ; ;' " V'-''.- ". ... Cashier Lively was in Pendle&m, Tuesday. 'John Froome and Charles Sharp were in Adams, Wednesday. Owing to the heavy rains the far mers are unable to plow, or seed. ; R. J. Boddy was in Pendleton Sat urday. ' ;"' ' , ' ' Wm Zeiger of Helix was in the city Wednesday. ; Athena is the town. Another, new barber shop. And still they come. Union county warrants are selling at eighty cents, the lowest price known in recent years. Last Saturday Hughie Robie was fined $50 by justice Gillman for car rying concealed weapons. A marriage license has been issued to Edward S. Thompson and Miss Carrie M. Isley, of Athena. SUMMONS Gerking Flat lav Dudley, son of Earl Dudley, . . . .i - i - rspent the weeK-ena ai uie nomea i r T. -11 . .1 T A TluNaV . Mr. and Mrs, George Gerking of WIs neighborhood spent a few days last week .visiting their daughters at Spokane. J Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Taylor and chr Tillman went to Pendleton on business Monday of this week. ,Miss Chandler attended the Teach ers' Institute at Pendleton last week. The pupils enjoyed a three day vaca tion during her absence. ANCHORS OF MANY PATTERNS Anything Sufficiently Weighty Used Before the Invention of Modern ' Article With Flukes. , The Brilannica describes the anchor as "an Instrument of Iron or other heavy material used for holding ships or boats In any locality required, and preventing them from drifting by winds, tides, currents or other causes. This Is done by the anchor (after It is let go from the ship by means of the cable) fixing Itself In the ground and there holding the vessel fast. The most ancient anchors consisted of large stones, baskets full of stones, sacks filled with sand, or logs of wood loaded with lead. Of this kind were the anchors of the ancient Greeks, which, according to Apollonlus Rhod ius and Stephen of Byzantium, were formed of stone ; and Athenaeus states that they were sometimes made of wood. Such anchors held the vessel merely by their weight and by the friction- along the bottom. Iron was .afterward Introduced for the construc tion of anchors, and an Improvement was made by forming them with teeth or 'nukes' to fasten themselves Into the bottom. The invention of the teeth Is ascribed by Pliny to the Tuscans, but Pausanlas gives the credit to Midas, king of Phrygla." PECULIAR ACTION OF TIDES Scientists at a Los to Explain Rise and Fall of Sea Around the. Society Islands. The peculiarities of the tides In the Society group of Islands, In the South seas, were remarked as long ago as the days of Captain Cook. In reality, the rise and fall of the sea which seldom exceeds 15 Inches can scarcely be called tidal, for it Is not Influenced by the moon ; high water comes Invartably at midnight and noon, and at sunset and sunrise the water is always tow, says a writer In Harper's. The local belief is that these so called tides are due to wind; It is true that the mornings are usually calm and that the breeze springs up toward midday, to die away In the late afternoon. At 11 or 12 o'clock, then, an increasing surf breaches over the low barrier of coral and causes the sheltered waters of the lagoon to rise a neat theory until one stops to think that the hours about midnight (when the tide is precisely as high as at noon) are among the calmest of the 24, and that the noon tide does not fall on days of glassy stillness. Owed Thtlr Lives to Parrot In the terrible earthquake in 1003 which destroyed several cities la Sicily, many people were Imprisoned under the ruins of their houses, and were rescued only because they made their voices heard by rescue parties. In onu case a voice was heard from a great pile of ruins crying, "Maria I Maria 1" Several hours were spent by a band of eager diggers In removing overturned stone and debris, at the end of which a hungry gray parrot was discovered. In a fit of rage the men were about to dash the bird to bits when one of them noticed a move ment In the pile of plaster on what had been the first floor of a mansion. Two women were burled there, both live as it turned out, and both re covered from their awful experience, thanks to the good voice and educa tion of poor Poll! More than a hundred thousand per ished In that one city of Messina alone, all the building In it being fth&ken to the troonfl jn 81 twoadj. In the Justice Court or Athena dis trict, Umatilla county, Oregon. O.O. Stephens, Plaintiff, vs Clyde Sands and Maggie Sands, husband and wife, defendants. To Clyde Sands and Maggie Sands, -. defendants. In the name of the state of Oregon: You are hereby required to appear and answer the complaint filed again st you in the above-entitled action within six weeks from the date of the first nublication of this summons, to-wit: on or before Friday, the first day of December, 1922; and you, and each of you, will please take notine that if vou fail to appear and answer .the said complaint or other wise plead thereto within said time, the plaintiff, for want thereof, will take judgment against you, and each of vou. for the sum of $113.94. with interest thereon from February, 1922 at the rate of 6 per cent per annum, until paid, and for the plaintiff's roRts and disbursements in the act ion herein and for an order of sale of the following, described property De longing to you which was attached on or about the 10th day of Oct ober, 1922 in the said action in the above entitled court and is now held under the said writ of attachment in the manner provided by law. Said pro perty is described as follows: One Singer electric sewing machine; one Victor phonograph, and one Ford au tomobile. ; This summons is served upon yon by publication thereof in the Athena Press, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, for six consecutive weeks, beginning with the issue of October 20th, 1922, to and including the is sue of December 1st, 1922, pursuant to an order for said publication made and entered herein by the Hon. B. B. Richards, Judge of the above entitled court, dated and entered herein on the 17th day of October, 1822. Dated this 17th day of October, 1922. Homer I. Watts & E. C. Prestbye, attorneys for Plaintiff. . V ,: ; NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the County Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla county In the Matter of the Estate of Ed ward Lafave. deceased. Notice, is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed ex ecutrix of the estate of Edward La fave, deceased, by the above-entitled Court. : AU persons having , claims against the said estate are hereby notified td present them to me at Athena, Ore con, or to mv attorneys. Homer I. Watts and E. C. Prestbye, at their office in Athena, Oregon within six months from the date of the first publication of this notice. All claims must be verified as by Law'required. Dated at Athena,. Oregon this 27th day of October, 1922. Carrie Lafave-Bergevin, Executrix, First Pub. October 27, 1922. Last Pub. November 24th, 1922. For Sale A good kitchen range, Mrs. W. J. Crabill, Athena. 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 PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY Purchasing my stock from the lo cal producer in this farming com munity,;! feel that I should be given the preference when you purchase meat and meat products. I conduct a clean, sanitary market, insuring prime meats to you at all times. Until further notice I will sell at the following prices for cash only:. Brisket Boil, per lb , 5c Rib Boil, per lb...... ..................10c Rib Roast 17c lb. Pot Roast, per lb 12 Vic Shoulder Roast, per lb... . 15c Steak, per lb t 23c 5 lb. pail lard '. L. 85 10 lb. pail lard . ............-.1.70 A; W. Logsdon.. CLASSIFIED ; Wanted To buy or rent small coal heater stove. Call phone 72. For Sale-r-Household furniture in cluding heating, oil stove, buffet, lib rary table, three rocking chairs, sing le beds, and other articles. C. H. Smith For Sale Milk, delivered night or morning, at $ 3 per quart per month. Ike Phillips. For Sale The W. R. Taylor resi dence on Third street, Athena, and 40 acres Of bottom land, adjacent to the Athena city limits. Pasture Good pasture for horsea at $2.50 per head per month; mare and colt $3.00. per month. Key to pasture at Tum-a-lum Lumber yard,' Athena. See A. M. Johnson. Sterl ng Parris. ; Cattle Scattered The Oliver Dick enson cattle have scattered from the Ed Kidder range, north of Gibbon. Reward for information leading to re covery. Louis Stewart, phone 26F22 Athena. . Pigs for Sale--Reeve Betta has some young pigs for sale. , . , DO YOUR FALL PAINTING low The dreary winter months can be brightened by painting and -varnishing now. Outside surf aces should be protected from the weather with paint and varnish. The inside will be more cheerful and inviting during the winter if re-finished. Use ACME QUALITY Paints and Varnishes to protect and beautify all home surfaces. Watts & Rogers Athena, Oregon ARMY & NAVY STORE Attention School Boys Wc have just received a large ' shipment of new . O. D. Breecfies, O. D. Shirts and Leather Puttees ; We also have a large assortment of O. D. Blankets at reasonable prices Across Street From Alta Theatre, Pendleton B A n 1 1 E R trio moat hoalina ! In tho worid THE ATHENA BARBER SHOP AMOS O'DELL, PROPRIETOR Al vays at your Service. First-class . Work guaranteed. We are f agents for Domestic Laundry MMMUMIIMMIIUHIMMMIIMHIMMMIIMIHHII ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. AMERICAN BEAUTY FLOUR la Bade in Athena, by Athena labor, in one oi the very best equipped mills in the Northwest, of the best selected Bluestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home industry. Your grocer sella the &mousAmerican Beauty Flour Merchant Millers & Grain Buyers Athena, Oregon. Waitsburg, Wash The First National Bank ; ff Athena Established:i891 ..'-i,,.v";. i'C. Y Capital and Surplus $110,000.00