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A ), Detroit, Mich. j I CHEVROLET PI Please send, without obligation to me, your I t u-1 Proving Ground Book, together with illustrated I PONTI C n "u'ra,urc describing the General Motors product I J I have checked, and the name of the nearest I I OLDSMOBILE D Jcalcr m casc 1 m!tt wisl a demonstration. j OAKLAND Nmnc BUICK I JlaSAUE Address J CADILLAC FKIQIDAIRE U.v..ic Rrwruior. DELCO-LIQHT Etciric Plants dJ Press Paragraphs "The Splendid Road" Standard Theatre, Sunday night. New House dresses. $1.98. Athena Department Store. Miss Hilda Dickenson spent Mon day in Walla Walla. Frank Curl of Pendleton transact ed business here Wednesday morning. Frank Clifton, Weston mountain farmer transacted business here Tues day. Mrs. Glen Dudley and Mrs. R. B. McEwen spent Monday in Walla Wal la. Vic Harris is putting in a new lawn on his residence property, on Fifth street. Miss Edna DeFreece who has been seriously ill at her home in Athena, is somewhat improved. Mr. and Mrs. H. I. Watts motored to Camas, Washington, this week re turning Tuesday night. Mr. and Mrs. Otho Reeder spent several days in Tacoma, at the home of Mr. Reeder's mother. Mr. and Mrs. George Banister, have moved to a ranch near Walla Walla where they will be employed. Miss B'rancis Rainville came to Athena from Prineville Wednesday, en route to her home at Colfax, Washington. A group of Athena young people motored to Pendleton to be present at the dance given by the 0. A. C. military band. Miss Katherine Froom left Sunday for Washougal, Washington, to re sume her duties as teacher in the high school there. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Huggins left by motor for Husum, Washington, Tuesday, where they will visit Mr. and Mrs. Orin Gibbs. A. M. Gillis was here from Wash tucna Tuesday. Mr. Gillis farms ex tensively and is also associated with the Tum-A-Lum lumber company. Mr.' and Mrs. Penn Harris have rented a cottage of Mrs. Lilla Kirk on lower Third street where they will soon take up their residence. Work has commenced on the Will iam McLcod home which was badly damaged by fire several months ago. The house is being remodeled. Mrs. E. M. Bollinger and daughter Mrs. Davidson of Milton, Mrs. J. Anderson and daughter Belle motor ed to Walla Walla for the day Tues day. Mrs. Fred Pinkerton and Mrs. Alec Mcln'tyre accompanied Miss Lois Mc Intyre to Pullman Sunday returning Tuesday. They made the trip by motor. Mrs. Minnie Willaby and Mrs. Min nie DePeatt were luncheon guests of Mrs. Retta Potts and her daughter Miss Myrtle Potts in Walla Walla, Tuesday. Miss Lois Mclntyre and Miss Roma Charlton will return to W. S. C. at Pullman, Sunday after spending the spring vacation at their homes in Athena. Mr. and Mrs. Ward Gardner, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Glafke, and Mrs. Lorton of Walla Walla, were dinner guests at the Koepke home south of Athena Sunday. Miss Sylvia Miller of Two Rivers, Washington, who has been a guest of Mrs. Stella Keen and her daughter Miss Zola Keen, since Sunday, left Wednesday morning for Spokane. Mr. Boerstler of Crockett Station, Mrs. Ella Martin of Ellensburg, Washington and Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Venable, who live near Helix, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Martin. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cutler were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Kilgore Thursday. Friday morning they left for Oregon City, where Mr. Cutler has accepted a position in the paper mills. Lew McNair, J. E. Jones, York Dell and Henry Dell went to Milton Tuesday evening where they visited the K. P. lodge of that city. The Pythian sisters are holding a county convention in Pendleton today. Morn ing and evening sessions being con ducted, with a banquet at Eagle hall this evening. Jack Murphy has been engaged in removing bands from old pipe recent ly removed from the city mains. While painfully extracting a steel splinter from his thumb, Wednesday, Jack estimated that up to that time he saved the city the sum of about 170 in bands more or less. A couple of weeks ago J. L. Har man's goat herd was increased by the arrival of a pair of twins, and one day this week another mother goat gave birth to triplets. Howev er, Jack wants it to be distinctly un derstood that he is still engaged in the blacksmithing business, and that raising goats is but a side line. About twelve little friends of Max ine and Marjorio Martin were guests at a birthday party given by Mrs. Earl Martin for her daughters, Max. ine, celebrating her 7th anniversary and Marjorie her 10th. An Easter egg and peanut hunt was greatly en joyed, and other games were played. Mrs. Martin served delicious refresh ments. The honorecs received many pretty birthday presents. "Steel Preferred" Standard Theatre, Sunday night. Chance Rogers spent Tuesday in Pendleton. J. T. Lieuallen now of Walla Walla, was an Athena visitor Tuesday. Ira Buzan of Portland, is here vis iting his sister, Mrs. J. E. Froom. Sam Pambrun made a business trip to Walla Walla the first of the week. Cyril Gagnon well known horse dealer of Walla Walla was an Athe- Little Beverly Barrett is a victim of the measles but is reported on the road to recovery, na visitor Tuesday. Elmer Merritt is having his cot tage on Fourth street papered and renovated interiorly. Mrs. Charles Kirk was called to Brownsville, Oregon, Sunday by the serious illness of her mother. Rich Thompson made a hurried trip to Pendleton Wednesday morn ing for extras for his caterpillar. For its mid-week special, the Stand ard Theatre offers "The Cohens and Kellys" on next Wednesday evening New awnings grace the fronts of the Harris barber shop, Kilgore;3 Cafe and W. R. Harden's billiard hall. Joe Clemmons is putting a concrete sidewalk at the new home of Mr. and Mrs. Max Hopper, on south Third street. M. I. Miller is getting his seventh and eighth grade baseball team in shape to play grade teams of other schools. Mrs. James Potts and daughter, Miss Myrtle, are hostesses to the Study club at their home this after noon, Marvin Kilgore, who has been a patient at St. Anthony's hospital for several weeks, left that institution Monday. Edward K. Lane is returning to Arlee, Montana, from Corvallis and is visiting at the home of his nephew C. L. McFadden. A crew' of seven painters is em ployed at the new M. L. Watts resi dence on Fourth street. The interior wood work is being finished. Miss Orpha Carter, teacher in the schools at Baker, and Mr. Earl Pip er of Lebanon, were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Zerba. F. N. Giles and family of Kenne- wick, Washington, spent the week end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Foster, south of Athena. The Ladies Aid of the Christian church will give a cooked food sale on Saturday April 16. Dressed chick en, cakes and pastry will be sold. Improvements are being made at the farm home of Till Beckner, south of Athena, by Henry Schroeder, in cluding bath and toilet and built-in kitchen conveniencies. Wilbur Harden is assisting his father in conducting the Harden bil liard hall. Tom Gilkey, formerly em ployed there, is working on the new addition to the elevator. Carl Plucker, residing south of Athena will set out an acre of logan berries and strawberries this spring. He also is giving considerable at tention to grape culture. Charles McFarland has been en gaged this week in filling in and lev eling ground for the lawn at the new home of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Ferguson, at corner of Fourth and Adams streets. Aimee Bergevin, well known in Athena, passed through here Tues day with a truck load of Shetland ponies for the riding academy he is establishing at Beaver Inn near Wal la Walla. Mrs. W. F. Baker of Seattle, was a week end guest at the F. B. Boyd home. Mrs. Baker has been a guest of Mrs. D. P. Smythe at Pendleton for several weeks,' and returned there with her-hostess Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Ralph Singer and sons, Walt er and Fred, have arrived in Athe na from Waitsburg, joining Mr. Sing er, who is employed in the electrical department of the Preston-Shaffer Milling company. The family are temporarily occupying a cottage in Jefferson street, between Third and Fourth. Miss Margaret Taylor and Miss Elizabeth Hollwager came over from Walla Walla Sunday, and spent the day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Richards. Miss Taylor is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Taylor, former residents here, and who at present live in Alberta. She is tak ing a nurses's course at St Mary's hospital Walla Walla. W. W. Harrah, one of the leading farmers of the county, was in Athe na Wednesday, coming from his home near Pendleton to sell wheat he had in storage at one of the local warehouses. Mr. Harrah has just completed his season's plowing of 1200 acres. He has 1000 acres of growing grain. The data for the 1926-27 Athena High School Annual is being assem bled by student assistants under the supervision of the editor, Fred Rad tke. The usual number of advertise ments from local business firms will appear in the annual. All phases of the school's activities for the ytar will be covered by the student writ ers, and typographically the publica tion will be up to the usual high standard. I Ladies New 1 I Spring Coats I Price I $19.75 to $25.00 I a Phone Your Order To 152 ffi 1 Athens Department Store THE STANDARD THEATRE Saturday, April 9 Anna Q. Nilsson Lionel Barrymore and Robert Frazier In he. nienmd Road Only a picture like "The Splendid Road" could make you cry, "Splendid!" "The Splendid Road" is the road straight to your heart. Around the Horn in clipper ship, golden days of California's golden strike and golden min utes of marvellous entertainment. Made by the man who made "The Sea Hawk" and made in the same great style. International News Admission Prices, 10c-25c-35c Steel Sunday, April 10 5referre' With William Boyd and an all-Star cast The gigantic struggle of a young steel worker who is perfecting a new type of furnace, his love for the president's daughter and his battle to win her love, sell his patents and prevent a strike in the mill here's a really big theme. The dramatic side of the steel industry revealed amid the gigantic mills and the humor, pathos and sentiment of the workers who work night and day amid the roaring furnaces where steel runs like a gushing river and danger is disregarded. Pathe Review Admission Prices, 10c-25c-35c Wednesday, April 13 -Special! From the Play 'Two Blocks Away" The Cohens and Kellys' George Sidney, Charlie Murray, Vera Gordon Didja ever hear the story of the Jew and the Irishman? It seems that the Cohens and Kellys They squabbld over a million dollar legacy and gave birth to a million laughs. When a Cohen married a Kelly and there was a lit tle Kelly-Cohen. Then the Cohens loved the Kellys and the Kellys kissed the Cohens and you'll love the "Cohens and .Kellys" because it's perfect enter tainment with more laughs than there are Cohens and more giggles than there are Kellys. Comedy Admission Prices, 10c-25c-35c