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't1ll'IIIIIJll..J.. I,. '" - - Are mmmmmmmmmMmmmmmm You Prepared to Take Care of Your We are unloading and assembling McCormick-Deering Harvesters, and ;to secure one of these machines for this season's work, orders, must be made at once. We invite anyone interested in a machine to call and see one of these harvesters now assembled and ready for action. We are prepared to take care of your harvest needs, regardless of . the kind of machine you oper- ate. ' ' 1 ; . ' . V ' . . ' . ; ' - Rogers C& GoodmanAthena, Oregon . V , ( A Mercantile Trust) ". ' .' ' J ," ." liiifiisPMiipeB MIS W. FAREWELL RECEPTION TO DEPARTING ATHENA FOLK Mrs. Mollie Danner. and Mr., and Mrs. Charles Dudley were the in spiration for a farewell reception in their honor Tuesday evening at the Christian church. V The reception rooms were beauti fully decorated with a profusion of Madonna lilies, snap dragons, roses and sweet peas. The "Loyal Gleaners" class which was responsible for the affair ar ranged a most interesting program which follows: Piano solo, "Waltz," Chopin, Miss Lenore McNair; vocal solo, "The Mighty Deep," C. M. Eag er; musical reading, "I've Got the Mumps," Mrs. C. M. Eager accomp anied by Mrs. Lawrence Pinkerton: vocal solo,; ."Swjng Along,".; Mrs. Floyd Pinkerton; vocal solo, "The End of a Perfect Day," Carrie Jacobs Bond, Mrs. Dwight L. Hackett; piano solo, "Hark, Hark the Lark," Miss Lois Johnson; instrumental trio, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Pinkerton and C. M. Eager. - Mrs. Louis Keen gave a short talk expressing regret at the departure of the honorees and thanking them for their cooperation -and good work while . residents here, and wishing them every success in their.: new home at Goldendale, Washington.' Mr. Dudley responded. Delicious ices were served follow ing the program. April 23,' and which Was' assumed to be due to a meteorite or an earth quake, was caused by - seven Lower Naches school ' boys, Jt developed. The lads, according to the prosecut ing attorney's of fice" stole a supply of dynamite from the county bunkers and set it off with time fuses on Lookout Point. Its effects were not ed for miles and caused comment for days. GRAPE JUICE WITH A "'FORMULA" IS LEGAL "QUAKE" BOYS TRICK The explosion that jarred the en tire Yakima district on the night of ' Portland Selling grape juice is not against the law if the liquid does not contain alcohol even if it is accom panied by a formula for converting it into wine, the opinion of the federal grand jury here which has returned a not true bill in the case of M. F. Porter and Stephen F. Saintpolis. . w,The government alleged : the .two men, as local representatives of the California Fruit Products company, had conspired to violate the prohibi tion laws by selling the grape juice with instructions for giving it an alcoholic content. . SICK MAN KILLS HIMSELF Nelson R. Crowl, 61,, was found dead in his home in Wallowa canyon, near the highway Friday. His death was caused by a self inflicted gun shot wound. He had been ill.. An inquest was deemed unnecessary. Crowl's wife is in the hospital at La Grande with twin babies, born about a- week ago. He was born at North Webster Indiana, and was married to Ida M. Sjly at Reedspdrt, Oregon in 1921. He is survived by his widow and three children. Reduced Fares East J Northern Pacific miMMmiakJ 5? YELLOWSTONE i 01 PARK I '"PAKE advantage of low summer fares East via Northern Pacific, May 22nd to September 15th ! You have a threefold opportunity this summer: To travel East along a route marked by "iooo Miles of Startling Beauty"--to do it at low cost and to experience the utmost passenger travel luxury, the Round Trip Fares from Athena to Yellowstone Park $ 83.90 70.86 85.06 80.35 76.30 146.45 140.61 143.97 St. Paul I Minneapolis Chicago - St. Louis - Kansas City New York - . Washington . Philadelphia . Dates of Sale . Hay 22 to Sept. 15. 1926 To Yellowstone Park Jons 1 to Sept. 12, 1926 Final Return Limit ' October list, 1926. North Coast Limited" a Travel Triumph! with its new style observation-club car, including beautiful club lounge, ladies' lounge, maid-manicurist, soda fountain buffet, shower bath, telephone af terminals, searchlight for night observation, valet, barber, library, smoking and card rooms; all the facilities of an exclusive club. Extra Comfort No Extra Fare B. Weed. Agent Athens, Ure. AN OREGON JERSEY HERD SENT TO EASTERN FARMS R. R. Graves, former head of the dairy department of the Oregon Ag ricultural college and more recently with the department of agriculture at Washington, D. C, has taken over the purebred end of the Walker Gor don dairy farms and personally se lected the cows which were to form the nucleus of the purebred herd. One hundred head of high-grade Oregon-grown Jersey cows left For est Grove en route to New York, where they will be placed on the fam ous Walker Gordon dairy farms, says the Oregonian. The shipment, which represented a value of nearly $25,000, is the hrst move in a plan to replace the present cows of those farms, of which there are 4000, with purebred stock. It was considered significant by Oregon breeders that cattle from this state were selected for this pur pose when it would have been cheap er to import from the isle of Jersey or secure Jhem from the east or cen tral states.. Oregon cattle have held most of the world records for milk and but ter production for the past 10 or 15 years, and the fact that the big pur chase of Oregon cattle was made by the eastern dairy concern was con sidered to be a recognition of the fact that the cattle in this state are ahead of everything else. WAGE SCALE SET FOR EASTERN OREGON HARVEST Farmers and representatives from four Oregon counties recently met at Arlington and set a minimum wage scale for the wheat harvest which shows an increase over the minimum for the year before of from 50c to $1 in some instances and in others is practically the same as last year. Wage scale decided upon at the Arlington meeting - follows: Com binesSack sewers, $4; driver, $4; header tender, $3.50; separator ten der, $5; caterpillar driver, $5; cooks up to ten, $3; waterbuck $3.50; pile sacks over 100, $1.25; bulk wagon drivers, $3; straw haulers, $3.50. Stationary Derrick driver, $2; box driver, nets, $2.50,'" box driver, no nets, $3; loaders, $4; sack sewers, header punchers, $4; hoe downs, $3; engineers, $5; separator tenders, $5; cooks up to ten men, $3. Haying, $2. RALLY TO BE HELD An Association Baptist Young People's rally will be held at Her miston, Oregon Sunday, June 20. The meeting will begin promptly at 3:09 and continue through' the afternoon and evening. The purpose of this meeting is to organize a young peo ples' society at Hermiston. The pro gram will be very interesting and de cidedly different. Every body, es pecially the young people, welcome. INDIANS TO CONVENE Twenty-five Indians from the Uma tilla reservation representing three tribes will attend the national Indian congress to be held at Spolane July 21 to 27. Delegates from the reser vation will represent the Umatillas, Walla Wallas and Cayuse tribes. FOURTH AT FREEWATER Milton-Freewater will hold a Fourth of July celebration at Freewater. r.n Monday July 6th. SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT IN STANDARD OIL STOCK Stock certificates . of the Standard Oil Company of California have been despatched to 12,000 employees who, through the operation of the' Com pany's Stock Investment and Savings Plan, have acquired 481,976 shares of Company stock with a present mark et value of about $28,000,000. The plan was initiated by the Com pany five years ago for the purpose of assisting employees to become stockholders and to encourage thrift. Under the plan the employee wa permitted to apply up to 20 per cent of his salary to the purchase of stock. The amount he specified was deducted from his salary each month. For each dollar so deposited the Company from its own funds added, as a bonus, the sum of fifty cents. As sums sufficient for the purchase of shares of stock were accumulated, the Company issued' the stock from its treasury to the;, trustees for ac count of the employees. Current di vidends from this stock were applied to stock purchases.1, V To participate the employee had to have one year of service with the Company. Of those 'eligible to par ticipation 85.77 per cent took part in the plan.. The maximum payroll deduction permitted was 20 per ceiit of compensation. The average de duction was 17.54 per. pent. : ; FARMERS' PICNIC . The annual Walla Walla county farm bureau picnic was held Monday on Mill creek with a large crowd in attendance. Speaking, music and a sports program were features of the picnic. 22 Years Ago I '; June 14, 1904 " Athena will have a two day cele bration to commemorate in a fitting manner the anniversary of the Na tions birth. This decision was made last night at a meeting of the com mittee on arrangements. 'Local option won in Baker county by seven votes. Union county car ried by 83 and Umatilla by 9;$, these being the smallest majorities record ed on either side of the question. The men employed on the rock crusher struck Monday morning. The strike did not last long, - for V. P Wilkinson, the employer, soon ad justed matters, and the men went on yesterday noon. Rev. W. E. Armfield went over to Milton this morning, where he will attend the meeting of the Ministerial association of the Walla Walla dist rict for the M. E. church. B.F. Ogle and his daughter, Miss Eva, -left yesterday for a sojourn on the stock ranch at Ridge. They will be joined the latter part of the week by Mr. and Mrs. Sim Kilgore. Commencement exercises are in progress at the Eastern Oregon State Normal school at Weston. Last evening the class exercises were held, and tonight will be the graduating: exreises, in which a large class finish their studies at the Normal. Tomor row, Wednesday evening, the Alumni will hold their annual reception and banquet. Mr. B. F. McElroy and daughters, Grace and Ruth, leave tommorrw for Berkeley, Calif, where Miss Grace will enter the summer nchco'. for teachers. Miss Ruth will visit friends there. While Mr. McElroy will go east and visit the World's fair at St. Louis and other points of interest. Mr. A. Shick, who was taken sud denly ill some time ago, is so far re covered as to be about town again. S. C. Stanton was taken suddenly ill last Friday afternoon, at the homo of his, son, John in the north part of town. Saturday he was slightly bet ter and was able to be removed to his own home. The trouble is in the nature of a paralytic stroke, and ow ing to the fact of this being his thirl attack, the old gentleman's many friends have some apprehension as to the result.. ' Miss Jessie Hartman, daughter of Judge G. A. Hartman, is in the city, a guest of her cousin, Mis Nellie Purdy, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Sharp were in the city Sunday, calling on friends. They took dinner at the home of Mr and Mrs. Jack Parker. Jerry St. Dennis, Jr., has returned from a lengthy sojourn at Santa Ana California, where he has been work ing on the fruit farm of T. P. Page, June 17 1904 The poles for carrying the wires of the electric power plant of the Ore gon & Washington Power Company re being unloaded from the cars in Athena and other stations along the line. Rex Bamett returned home yester day morning from Corvallis, where he is taking the commercial course at the Agricultural college. Rex is almost a man grown and looks hale and .hearty. " We are Equipped to do Job Printing All Kinds. Short' Notice Miss Eva McDonald left this morn ing for Walla Walla, after an ex tended visit with her" sister, Mrs. E. A. Dudley. She was accompanied by Miss Irene Dudley, who will , visit there for a couple of weeks. A livery team from Adams got away from the driver in front of the St. Nichols hotel Wednesday : after noon and dashed up Main street at a lively pace. The team piled up in hitching rack on Third street and no damage resulted. v Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pinkerton were in the city from Weston yesterday. Chance Rogers was over yesterday from Weston, visiting his brother, Frank. Mrs. L. J. Fobs left last, evening for a month's visit with her son, John, and daughter, Mrs. James Mitchell, at Moro, Sherman county. Henry C. Adams has sold his fine farm and buildings on Dry creek, east of Weston, to Mrs. John F. Ad ams of Walla Walla, consideration $15,900. ' " ":- Several fishing parties have been over to the Umatilla river but all re port poor success. Ed Barrett has the contract for building the new $6,000 residence for Henry Koepke, on the farm just south of town, recently purchased of S. P. Purdy. Brickmasons commenc ed yesterday on the foundation for the structure, which will be a ten room house with all the modern con veniences. Sim J. Culley, the popular young manager of the Weston Hub store, with his mother, was in town yester day. . . . Mignonette Rebekah Lodge No. 86, at a meeting Tuesday evening elect ed the followign for the ensuing term: P. G., Mrs. Fred Gross; N. G., Miss Jeannette Manassee; V. G., Miss Mae Gross; Sec, Miss Mable Thomp kins; R. S., Mrs. S. F. Sharp; Trea., Miss Kitty Sharp. The degree staff of this lodge, under their Grand President, Mrs. E. L. Barnett, will visit Adams tomorrow, Saturday evening, where they will institute -a lodge. COME WITH CONFIDENCE to this office and consult us about your bodily ills and ailments. - We do not offer chiropractic adjustment as the be-all and the end-all and the universal cure-all. But it is mighty effective for many physical defects. Dr. W. Boyd Whyte Stangier Building, Phone 706 Pendleton, Oregon. 957 J WATTS & PRESTBYE Attorneys-At-Law Main Street. Athena, Oregon State and Federal Court Practice Will. M. Peterson and G. II. 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Mr. Norman will continue in service here. Fair and Courteous Treatment Agency for Troy Laundry and Twin City Cleaners Phone 492