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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER F. B. BOYD, Owner and Publisher . Subcrlption Rates. One copy, one year $2.00 One copy, six months .....$1.00 One copy, three months 75 C.ATHENA. OREGON, NOV. 24 1922 RURAL CREDIT PLANS To what extent the plans of far mers who espouse the co-operative basis for relief through rural credits, have reached may be surmised from the following, as printed in The Pro ducer, a Portland publication: "The fact that acceptable rural credits legislation is not going to be secured from congress without a tus sle is made apparent by recent in spired newspaper dispatches from the capital. ' "Plans are being made, says these news articles, to increase the scope of the federal reserve system by pro visions making certain classes of ag ricultural paper subject to rediscount. "Such a gesture is not going to sat isfy agricultural producers because it is not going to afford them the relief they need. Nothing short of a com plete rural credits establishment, with provisions not only for financing the marketing of crops, but for credits on growing products, will fill the bill. "This sort of legislation can not be secured without unified action on the part of farmers. Don't forget that a conference of cooperative organiza tions will be held in Washington next month. With such a spokesman, for tified by a united agricultural popu lation, certainly farm credits could be secured. If you will let your repres entative at this conference know your opinion on the matter, you will be doing your part.". o "All over the country," remarkes the Portland Journal, "tax-exempt securities are being issued and sold to investors. They are issued by mun icipalities up to several million dol lars. They are issued by states up to several million dollars. They are is sued by many governmental agencies. The men who buy them collect inter est on them, which the taxpayers of the country pay, but the owners don't pay one cent of that interest toward the maintenance of government in taxes. There is no tax on revenues from that source. It is an easy loop hole for rich tax dodgers. Their money is taken from industry and in vested in the tax-free securities. The result is often a stagnation of indus try due to lack of capital." o Two former presidents of the Port land Chamber of Commerce have is sued a waning to that city that "San Franciso is strengthening her fences around Oregon's 'lost provinces while Portland marks time". The Seattle Times observes that "Port land's perturbation directs attention to one of the most significant de velopments of thft hour the reaching out of all Coast cities for new trade territory new producing districts to feed their steamships lines new con suming areas to care for their whole sale products." "Tino? has been charged with the loss of the Turkish war and invited to return home to defend himself. Three guesses as to whether "Tino" will do it The . steamship Electrician is to bring Christmas booze to Vancouver B. C. This Electrician will help the natives to get "lit up". . o '. Tomorrow has been designated"for-get-me-not-day by disabled veterans Especially dedicated to Congress, we presume. 0 T Another war has broken out in Al bania. Albania, of course, is in the Balkans. From th tiniest school in the re motest con er of the state to the big city high schools with thousands of pupils, have come a deluge of en dorsements and best wishes for the 1922 Annual Christmas Seal Sale, wnich begins on December 1 and con t tinucs through the month. The schools throughout the state have always been a great bulwark in the Seal Sale and this year, seemingly never before so intensive, there is a keen interest for a record sale of the health stamps in Oregon. Under present regulations, football ethics are broad enough to cover any sort of championship claims. What , is wanted is a conference with au thority and stamina enough to pull tho game away from the stench of heckling braggadocio, and place it on the plane where it deserves to be; that of merit That arsenal captured by officers in a moonshine raid in the Blue Mountains, the other night, savors of Southern preparation against the "revonoors" only in this instance action seems to have been deferred through lack of nerve. The Liberals were victorious in the recent Cuban election. The diflkult ties of the old regime were due to tho fact that it was entirely too lib eral in its disbursements of public funds. An inquiring soul rises to ask: "Should a girl stop to powder her nose in the middle of a busy street!" Whether she should or not, she will if she thinks about it. If "retrenchment" progresses far enough , we may be forced to speak of the American Army solely in tho past tense as something "that once was But now ain't lITVHEMlfP. CABINET Copyright, 1I2, W.at.rn Newspaper Union. "Things without all remedy Should be without regard, what's done Is done," , QOOD EVERYDAY DISHES Cheese muffins make a good break fast or luncheon dish. Prepare them as follows : xo one quarter of a cupful of sugar add two table spoonfuls of but ter, a teaspoonful of salt to one cupful . each of milk and water sculded together. Cool until lukewarm and add one-hulf of a yeast cake dis solved In one-quarter of n cupful of lukewarm water, one beaten eg and four cupfuls of flour. Beat thoroughly, cover and let rise until light; beat again; fill buttered muffin tins two thirds full and sprinkle generously with grated cheese; let rise until the pens are full, then bake twenty-five minutes. Cheese Biscuit. Take two cupfuls of flour, four teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of Bait, then gradually work Into this with a' fork a quarter of a pound of soft cheese and one cupful of water. Mix well, roll out and cut with a biscuit cutter. Bake fifteen to twenty minutes. Either as a dinner salad or when the main course at luncheon has been light, cheese salad will be found an addition to the meal. To two cup fuls of whipped cream add one cup ful of grated cheese, salt and pepper to season, and two tublespoonfuls of gelatin dissolved In one and one-half cupfuls of water. Pour Into Individ ual molds, and when almost set sprinkle well with grated cheese. Serve with mayonnaise and with a green salad plant. V ' Endive Soup. Wash, trim and shred three heads of endive, put them into a saucepan with four tublespoonfuls of butter and one small shredded onion, stir and toss until well covered with butter, add a quart of water and cook until the endive can be rubbed through a sieve; add cream or milk and a tablespoonful of butter cooked with one of flour. Season to taste with salt and cayenne, and serve hot. Corn and Potato Salad. Cut up two or three boiled potatoes, add a table spoonful of cooked corn left over from the fresh corn cooked on the cob, add a bit of minced onion and any desired salad dressing. . - 1 ; MALE BIRDS MOST GORGEOUS Females Less Showy Because Nature Knew They Had the Greater Need for Protection. Speaking of classes of birds, Includ ing, for Instance, the bullfinch, In which the plumage of the male Is more brilliant than that of the female. E. Kay Robinson, president of the Brit ish Empire Nuturullsts' association, says that In nature it is always the male who has more decoration and a louder voice. This la because the male lo of comparatively little value, says Mr. Robinson. It does not matter a great deul whether the male Is discov ered and killed or not, because there Is ulways another bird to take hla place at the head of the family. The female and the young are more Impor tant. The reason why the breast of a bird Is the plnce where nature always seems to put color is that when a male bird takes Its turn on the nest crouch ing over the eggs Its breast cannot be soon. Young brown owls and other birds of prey, Mr. Robinson explains, are always covered with gray fluff. When the mother ' bird brings home some animal, usually bleeding, and tears It to pieces, giving each little bird a Joint of raw flesh, they make themselves Iff a great mess. The suit of fluff, according to Mr. Robinson, Is really an overall to protect the grow ing feathers underneath. As soon as the young bird leaves the nest the fluff, which has gradually become loose, la shaken off. Late periodical. ,0;ijr "You're next." "I'm In no hurry, Coctor. I'll watt. This Is a corking story I'm reading In one of your magatlnes." "Who's the author?" "A chup named Mark Twain. He '(was turning out some good stuff twenty years ago.1 Birmingham Age Herald, . r NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATORS' SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY In the County Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla county. In the Matter of the Estate of L. , Hodgen, known as Lou Hodgen, De ceased. Notice is hereby given to all per sons whom it may concern that the administrators of the above named estate have obtained an order from the above entitled Court authorizing them to sell the property belonging to the estate at private sale; that all of the property Belonging to the said estate consisting of farming equip ment, growing crops, leasehold inter ests, leases, and livestock, , is now therefore offered for sale to the highest and best bidder for cash. Bids will be received for the sale of said property at the Inland Empire Bank of Pendleton, Oregon, and at The First National Bank of Athena, Ore gon, and at the law offices of Watts and Prestbye at Athena, Oregon, and at the law offices of Peterson, Bishop & Clark at Pendleton. Oregon, from date hereof up to and including the 4th day of Decehiber, 1922. If a sale of said property is made the admin istrators of the estate, both in their official capacity and in their personal capacity will appear with the pur chaser at the office of the Umatilla Indian Agent upon the Umatilla In dian Reservation in Umatilla countv, Oregon, and consent to, as well as assist, in the transfer of all leases now held bv the said administrators, either officially or personally and place the purchaser in full and com plete possession of all of the proper ty belonging to the said estate. This property is advertised for sale subject to a mortgage against the growing crop, which said motgage is held by the Inland Empire bank of Pendle ton. Oregon, in the amtfunt of about $3500.00 . All persons interested in purchasing the said property may obtain full in formation regarding the same by in quiring at either one of the said banks or said law offices above named. Dated at Athena, Oregon, on this the 23rd day of November. 1922. Julia Lee Hodgen Fred Hodgen . Administrators of the Estate of L. Hodgen, known as Lou Hodgen, Deceased. SUMMONS In the Justice Court for Athena, dis trict, Umatilla county, Oregon. O. 0. 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 publication of this summons, to-wit: on or before Friday, the first day of December, 1922; and you, and each of you, will please take notice that if you fail to appear and answer the said complaint or other wise Dlead thereto within said time. the plaintiff, for want thereof, will take judgment against you, and each of you, 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 costs and disbursements in the act ion herein and for an order of sale of the followine described property be 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 unon you by publication thereof in the Athena Press, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, for six consecutive weeks, beginriing 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 dav of October, 1822. Dated this 17th day of October, 1922. Homer I. Watts & E. C. Prestbye, attorneys for Plaintiff. NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the county court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla county. In the matter of the estate of Wm. Schrimpf, deceased. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed ex ecutor of the estate of Wm. Schrimpf, deceased, by an order of the above entitled court. All persons having claims against me saiu estate are nereoy notitied to present them to me at Athena, WALES ADDING MACHINES for early class of business. Priced from $130.00 up. Wales Adding Ma chine Company Wilkes-Barre, Pa. is. i C17 The Athena Bakery We now carry Government Inspect ed fresh and cured meats, and offer, for cash only; Beef Roast .....15c lb. Pork Roast .......... 25c lb. Steaks . ! 20c lb. Pork Chops . . SOc lb. Minced Haf SOc lb. Smoked Ham ...... . 40c lb. Weenies , 25c lb. 5 lb. Pail of Lard , 90c And all groceries at reduced prices. LC Sevens, Proprietor Oregon or to my attorneys, Homer I. Watts and E. C. Prestbye, at their office in Athena, Oregon within fix months from the date of the iirst publication of this notice All claims must be verified as by law required. Dated at Athena, Oregon this 17th day of November, 1922. Jbugene U. bchrimpi ' N17-D15 - Executor 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 eiven that the undersigned has been appointed ex ecutrix of the estate of Edward La fave, deceased, by the above-entitled Court. All persons having claims against the said estate are hereby notified to present them to me at Athena, Ore gon, or to my 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. NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the County Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla County. In the Matter of the Estate of Deli lah Hill, Deceased. Notice is hereby' given that the undersigned has been duly appointed by the above entitled court execut rix of the last will and testment of Delilah Hill, Deceased, and that she has qualified as the law directs. All persons having claims against the estate are hereby notified to present the same to me at my home in Athena, Umatilla County, Oregon, within six months from the date hereof with proper vouchers: " Dated this 20th day of November; 1922. , Mary I. Hill, Executrix. WORLD'S LARGEST CHAIN DEPARTMENT STORE -ORGANIZATION IE SI IBB H mm m IVflB mm M ml I . .. Qncorparnted 371 DEPARTMENT STORES Main Street, Athena, Oregon" BUYING FOR OUR 371 STORES ASSURES " LOWEST PRICES Siasiksiiviinil Wl set aside by your forefathers as a time' for devotion and thanksgiving-roftert ; loses its significance in this day of hurry and bustle. To theank and file of " us it has come to mean merely a coveted holiday. 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