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She Mtw Stags AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER F. B. BOYD. Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates. One copy, one year .$2.00 One copy, sis months 91.00 One copy, three months 75 Athena, Oregon, September 14, 1928 FAVOR SOFT RED WINTER The downward trend of soft red winter wheat is noted in the Oregon State College market review as fol lows: . With average abandonment and average yields the 46,523,000 acres of winter wheat farmers intend to sow this fall will produce about 610,000, 000 bushels. This would provide an exportable surplus of about 170 to 190,000,000 bushels, domestic require ments of all classes of winter wheat being about 420 to 440,000,000 bush els. Domestic requirements of hard red are about 200 to 220,000,000 bushels and intended acreage with average abandonment and average yields would produce about 340,000, 000 bushels. Soft red domestic re quirements are about 180 to 190,000, 000 bushels and the crop on average abandonment and yield would be about 205,000,000 bushels. Domestic requirements of white winter wheat appear to be about 30 to 40,000,000 bushels and intended acreage would produce about 60,000,000 bushels with average abandonment and yield. The general trend of production of soft red winter wheat appears to be down ward although prices for this wheat have been at a premium frequently during recent years. This has pro vided a domestic market in the south east for several million bushels of low protein 'white wheat from the Pacific coast. This promises to be an important factor during the 1928-29 marketing season, as the 1928 crop of soft red winter is about 40,000,000 bushels under ordinary domestic re quirements and the carryover is negligible. ' ' o "THE MODERN HIRED MAN" "The day when farmers will be able to 'lie in bed on Sunday morning and merely press a button' to get most o their work done, seems to be ap proaching reality" says the Univer sal Farmer. "Modern inventions, chiefly those which find new uses for electricity on the farm, while they may not bring about this rnillenium will greatly lighten farm work. "Nowdays it is practical, where rural transmission lines bring elec tricity to the farm, to milk the cows separate the cream, grind and mix the feed, bale and dry the hay, clip and curry the animals, lighn the farm buildings, operate machinery in the repair shop, and perform many other jobs by electricity that formerly took time and hard work. Already many up-to-date farmers get along without a hired man because of these modern conveniences. "Uses of electricity In the farm home seem to have no limit, vacuum cleaners, sewing machines, and many other devices, simply what formerly were laborious tasks for the farm woman. Lighting, ventilating and cooking systems, as well as water supplies, can all be "hooked" on to the magic power from the button on the wall. "Electricity is doing for the farm what it has done for the factory and the modern home performir-g better work at less cost, with immeasurably increased efficiency, and without the back-breaking labor of the past." CHICAGO, "AS IS" One of our most esteemed co temporaries bewails the tendency of authors and poets to pay more at tention to New York than they do to Chicago, which it lauds to the ex treme of being the 100 per cent American city "with all its appalling blindness and clamor and cruelty and lawlessness it is the heart of Amer ica," pleads this cotemporary. If Bill Thompson, Scarf ace Al Capone if south side gangland, corrupt courts, stuffed ballot boxes, racketeering and wholesale grafting is proper material and subject for poens, then a rank pity it is that a Tennyson does not come forward to memorailize the 100 per cent burg in verse. If systema tiscd, scientific, gruesome murders, perpetrated by hired gunmen can be measured 100 per cent American, then indeed, authors are dormant and literary archives are being grossly slighted; to say nothing of the blast ed hopes of the Chicago Tribune in its keen endeavor to clean up the town, and make it decent enough for real Americans to live in. o Growth and development of the western Oregon livestock industry in the future will have to depend upon the growth of legumes more than up on any other single factor, believes E, L. Potter, professor of animal husbandry at the state college. This is because of the calcium nutrients contained in the legume plants, since the most difficult thing to handle In preparing rations for any kind of livestock and particularly growing stock is providing enough lime in suitable form. j Prices of beef cattle have raised high enough to permit stockmen to pay off some of their obligations con tracted "during the lean years, and in some instances, have enough "velvet' for a sack of sugar and a pound or two of coffee. "It's a long lane that has no turn," is an old saying. Like wise, it would seem some of the cow trails have a crook in them, once in a while. :- Ex-Secretary of State Hughes has been called upon as the unanimous choice of the League of Nations to represent the United States on the World Court for the next two years The Ex-Secretary is a big man in the estimation of Europe. And he is. Which is perhaps one of the reasons why he was never permitted to be come a tenant of the White House. Three hundred British miners who came to Canada to harvest, did not find the work to their liking and em barked on vessels for home. Gather ing black diamonds doubtless appeal ed more to them than garnering sheaves of golden grain. Then too, there is the horrible idea of ' sunburn to be considered. Young Doug Fairbanks is a young chip off the old block, in that at the age of nineteen his engagement has been annouced. Running true to form, as a movie actor he roust start early, that he may tarry along the path of matrimony. o The Germans are scheduling two or three flights of a Zeppelin between Friedrichschafen and Lakehurst, N. J. during September and October. The ship will carry mail both ways. Well, maybe the Germans can do it. o- With the speed limit of the nation set at 35 miles an hour in automo bile transportation, would it be furthering the degree of safety in traffic to syphon direct from the bung. hole to the gas tank? Oh Edward M. Smith, Iowa's secretary of state predicts that Herbert Hoover for president will carry that State. We had supposed there would be no doubt whatever about that. o After seeing the news reel at the Standard Theatre Saturday night, we are not puzzled further as to why Herb Hoover did not catch a steelhead down on Rogue river. Mistaking Oregon's early fall for springtime, an iris is blooming in a Portland garden; but such is Oregon climate. o Labor Day is a day on which the least labor of the year is dona. 22 Years Ago CLASSIFIED For Sale Twenty head small pigs. Ralph Allen, Adams, Oregon. For Sale James Duncan has wean ling pigs for Sale. Phone 30F15, Athena. Mrs. Tjiura Froom will have uruncs for sale next week. Call at the Ath ena Hotel. Wanted work by the hour or day. Mrs.Fern Price, Kidder cottage, Fifth street, Athena. For Rent Newly refinished and furnished five-room cottage on Third street. Mrs. Lila Kirk. For Sale F. B. Wood offers his acreage property in Athena for sale at a reasonable price. See him at once at the Northern Pacific depot. For Sale Beautiful piano near Hanford must sell immediately. $10 per month. A rare bargain. Write Tallman Piano Store, Salem, Oregon, for particulars. Piano sacrifice in storage near Athena. Partly paid for piano like new. Free delivery. Fully guar anteed. Will accept phonograph or other musical instrument in patt pay ment, balance terms to suit you. Write at once to Geo Robison piano adjuster 208 Oak St Portland, . Oregon. September 14, 1906 Frank O'Harra visited friends in Athena a few days this week Alvin Turner, the well known Helix farmer, was in town yesterday. , Miss Laura Depot will attend school at St. Mary's academy, Walla Walla. Benny Gross has returned home from a week's visit with friends in Walla Walla. r Miss Georgia Hansell will 5 teach the fall and winter term of school in the Stamper district, north of town. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Swaggart and Wm. McBride returned Sunday from Salem, where they attended the state fair "Joe" Bush is the 'new cook in Charley Gay's short order depart ment. The boys say "Joe" is a high class chef. , Mrs. Kate Brooker will , ' leave shortly for Spokane to reside. She will rent her cottage and sell her household goods. . John Thompson has purchased the Frank Grasty ranch on Ryan creek. The Grasty place joins the Thompson stock ranch on the south. Frank Grasty was over from his home on the Umatilla Saturday. Mr. Grasty will leave soon for Idaho, where he will engage in the livestock business. . ' Miss Dixon who spent the summer with her aunt, Mrs. Jackson Nelson, has gone to Walla Walla, where she will complete her course of study at Whitman college. Dr. J. C. Baddeley, the veterinarian, will leave for Pullman, Washington, in a few days, where he will enter the Agricultural college to complete his course of study. Rev. Geo. T. Ellis, pastor of the Baptist church, preached to a large congregation at Weston Sunday. A large number of normal students were in the audience. ; Miss Jeanette Manasse returned home Tuesday evening from Cali fornia where she spent several weeks with relatives and friends. She had a very pleasant time but is pleased to be at home again. Mr. O. M, Castleman arrived in the city last evening from Moscow, Idaho where for several days he visited with relatives. During her husband's absence, Mrs. Castleman remained with her parents in this tity. The Preston-Parton Milling com pany M handling large quantities of baled hay this season. During the past two weeks fifteen carloads of hay has been shipped to the Sound from Athena by this company. Baled timothy hay is worth $13 per ton. Miss Minnie Naylor went over to Walla Walla Wednesday, where she made arrangements to enter Whit man college. It is Miss Naylor's in tention to take .the full college course Athena and vicinity is quite well represented at Whitman this year. J. W. Davis, proprietor of the "Horseshoe Club" saloon, has a fine bird dog puppy of royal ancestry, and consequently eligible to register ed pedigree. His royal highness came by express Saturday morning from Portland, and since his arrival, there has been nothing too good for him CHARLES HOSKINS ANNOUNCES FOR SHERIFF Having been solicited by many friends and voters of all political faiths and urged on by a personal aspiration for the position, I have decided to enter the race for Sheriff of Umatilla County as an Independ ent Candidate at the next General Election. I was reared and educated in this County and have lived practically my whole life of thirty six years here. For three years I have been employed in the office of the Sheriff serving as Chief Deputy the past two, thus acquiring exper ience and training fitting me for the duties of the office. 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Rogers H Goodman (A Mercantile Trust) Concrete Work Done Right At Reasonable Prices Special attention given to Cemetery Work J, E. Crawley Phone 363 Athena, Oregon "He that tooteth not his own horn, the same shall not be tooted." Insurance of every kind and description. Farm Loans at rates and terms that satisfy. B.B RICHARDS, Athena Goods-No Substitutes. JryQur, M fA DlR.SHAMPOO fA Shaving and Baths Up-to-the Minute Bobs Hair Cuts and Shingles DUFFIELD'S BARBER SHOP i Athena, Ore. New Clarifying System WE HAVE. INSTALLED A NEW CLARIFYING SYSTEM FOR DRY AND STEAM CLEANING. We make a specialty of cleaning Rugs and Carpets. Ladies Hats, Suits, Dresses, Portiers, Curtains, Sweaters, Skirts. Men's wear given special attention. Each and every Garment is taken through three washes. Twin City Sanitary Cleaners F. E. Smith, Milton-Free water Our Agency is at Penn Harris Barber Shop. The home of good Haircuts and Shaves. Phone 683. ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. 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