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Press Paragraphs "Metropolis" Standard Theatre, tomorrow night. Dr. Geyer spent a portion of the week in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Parris visit ed in Pendleton Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Johnson were over from Walla Walla Friday. Mrs. Clifford Walker returned Thursday from a visit to relatives at Spokane. F. B. Radtke, Athena merchant, transacted business in Walla Walla, Monday. The Study Club will meet next Fri day afternoon at the home of Mrs. Retta Potts. Mose Banister, Dr. Cowan and Dr. Geyer attended the boxing card at Walla Walla. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Ferguson are in Portland, where they will spend several days. Mr. and Mrs. Flint Johns are visit ing relatives and friends at Portland and Vancouver. The J. T. Club will meet Friday afternoon November 16, at the home of Mrs. Ross Payne. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Ramsay and Mr. and Mr3. Henry Miller were in Pendleton, Saturday. Norman Mclntyre returned to Cor vallis Sunday, to resume his studies at Oregon State College. Mr. and Mrs. T. P. DeFreece came over from Walla Walla and attended the funeral of Mrs. Anna Mclntyre. Water superintendent Taylor was in Walla Walla Saturday, to pur chase a gate for the city water main. Mr. and Mrs. II. M. Saulsberry and little son departed for their home at Bryn Mawr, Washington, Wednesday. The Rebakah lodge will hold a cooked food sale at Steve's tomorrow afternoon, and the patronage of the public is solicited. Mrs. Clarence Zerba was hostess to the Baptist Missionary society yes terday at her home west of town, the C. L. Woodward ranch. The dinner served by the ladies of The Christian church in the Masonic dining room on election day, was RELIABLE WATCH REPAIRING Main St. II. H. HILL Athena Take your Old Shoes To the Athena Shoe Shop and get them rebuilt like new work. Strictly Guaranteed. Prices right. Cleve Myers Jensens Blacksmith Shop Repair Work Prices Reasonable Athena, Oregon well patronized by the Athena pub lic. "Flying Romeos" Standard Theatre, Sunday night. Miss Jaunita Smithpeters of Baker, after visiting here with Mrs. Dean Dudley and Miss Hilda Dickenson, hna rptnrnpH to her home. . The November meeting of the Christian Missionary society will be held next Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. F. B. Boyd. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Logsdon and Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Taylor motor ed to Portland Wednesday, where they will spend several days. D. H. Mansfield of Pendleton, is again in this vicinity purchasing cayuses and discarded horses for shipment to a Portland abattoir. Excellent singing is featuring the evangelistic services at the Christian church. Sunday night. Pastor Perry will sing, selecting for his solo, "The Holy City." Kenny Rogers celebrated his 12th birthday, Wednesday. A group of his boy friends were entertained at his home Wednesday night in honor of the occasion. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Bush of Pen HMnn. Mr. and Mrs. John Lane of Adams and Mr. and Mrs. Ross Catron were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bush Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Dudley. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Dudley and Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Dudley were entertain ed at dinner Friday evening by Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Boyd. Misses Rlsnrli and Lois Johnson -returned to University of Oregon, Sunday, after being caned nere to at tend the funeral of their grandmoth er, the late Mrs. Anna Mclntyre Arthur Taylof and George Pam hnrn went to Walla Walla Saturday afternoon to witness the football game. They saw Whitman adminis ter a 44-0 drubbing to Pacinc couege. Mr. and Mrs. James Cresswell are visiting relatives and friends at For est Grove. Mr. Cresswell, manager for the Standard Oil plant in Athena, is taking his annual vacation at this time. Henry Keen is home from a re cent visit with relatives and friends at Spokane. While at the Falls city, Mr. Keen was stricken with a sudden spell of sickness, from which he has nearly recovered. It was necessary to dismiss school for a short time Tuesday . forenoon, when pressure on the city mains was shut off, so that the newly installed pipe line could be connected with the rest of the system. Mrs. Edith Lumsden is here from Portland. She will be accompanied home this week by Mrs. Arnold Wood who will be at Corvalhs for nome coming day, as a guest of her son Clifford Wood, student at Oregon State College. John Davidson, who some time ago purchased tracts of land lying south of Current street in the south Dart of Athena, has been engaged in grubbing up an apple orcnara, ana will use the ground for raising , al falfa and vegetables. Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Durgan of Vancouver, Washington, visited at the home of Mrs. M. M. Johns, Fri day last. Mr. Durgan, who is a nephew of Mrs. Johns, was en route home from Pomeroy, Washington, where he disposed of some farm land. ' Weston Leader: Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Fisk celebrated their eleventh wedding anniversary with a family reunion and bountiful dinner, last Sunday. All members of the John Banister clan were present, and the event was most delightful in every particluar. The local camp Woodmen of the World will hold an open meeting at the lodge hall tomorrow evening, at which time members will be addres sed by District Deputy Myers rela tive to the new assessment system recently introduced by that order. All loca4 members and visiting Wood men are requested ' to attend ' the meeting tomorrow night. Mrs. Bert Logsdon was hostess to a bridge party at her home on Third street Saturday evening. Four tables were in play. Mrs. McFadden won the honors for the ladies, and Mrs. Cresswell took the consolation. For the gentlemen, Mr. Flint Johns won and Mr. Laurence Pinkerton captured the consolation. Decorations were in Hallowe'en effect and the hostess served delicious refreshments. When the Wauna Campfire Girls met Monday evening, they found their club rooms cheery, bright and clean, due to the efforts of a com mittee comprised of the Misses Mary Tompkins, Laura and Velma Ross and Valerie Cannon. The Campfire Girls received their first lesson in rriaking character dolls from Crepe and Dennison paper, given by Mrs. C. M. Eager, who will instruct them in this class of work. The work of laying the pipe in the water main from the reservoir to the eity was completed by work men, Tuesday noon. A force v of seven men did the work in less than a week. Connection of joints on the new pipe are an improvement over the old process. Two surfaces, be tween which is a rubber gasket is drawn together with bolts, whereas the old system required fiber packing and molten lead. High School Notes Junior News Staff Editor John Kirk Faculty and Alumni Carl Calvert Athletics Eldon Myrick Student Body Virgie Moore Classes Beatrice! Hiteman Subject Classes Cecil Pambrun 1st & 2nd Grades Thelma Schrimpf 3rd & 4th Grades Harold Kirk 5th & 6th Grades.... George Gros3 7th& 8th Grades Frances Cannon Personals Helen Foster Advisor Miss Mildred Bateman Editorial Election day has arrived and has caused quite a stir here in school as well as among the older folks. If the students of today take as much interest in the future elections as they do today, there will be no com plaint that the citizens of the united States are backward about voting. The lives, and the public services ren dered by the candidates of both par ties for president and vice-president, have been studied and debated upon so that the students have a good idea of the personal merits of all the candidates and are able to vote in telligently for their choice of candidates. ORIGINAL ESTIMATE AND ACCOUNTING SHEET "" UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 7 This ojteinal estimate is made in compliance with section 231-A of the school lawrof 1921 and shows in parallel columns the unit costs of the several services, material and supplies for. the three fiscal years pre ceding the current year, the detail expenditures for the last one of Baid three preceding fiscal years and the budget allowances and expenditures for the current year. EXPENDITURES Estimated Expenditures and budget allowance Expen. for 3 fiscal years next pre- expendituers ' for last school year ceeding the last school year for the ensuing EjcpeddltureslBudifet allow'ce Last year of Booond year I FUstYear ITEM school year ; In Detail . in Detail 8-year period Yearly totals Yearly totals PERSONAL SERVICE: Superintendent $ 2,100.00 Teachers 6,810.00 Athletic Coach 350.00 Janitor 750.00 Clerk' 100.00 Other services 100.00 Total Personal Services...., 9,210.00 MATERIAL AND SUPPLIES: Furniture (desks, etc.).. 200.00 Supplies (chalk, etc.).... 35.00 Supplies Miscl. : 90.00 Library books 100.00 Playground equipment. Janitor's supplies ... . 25.00 Fuel 500.00 Light and Power 150.00 Water 60.00 Postage, statoinary and Printing 110.00 $2,000.00 $2,000.00 $1,833.33 1,833.33 6,697.98 6,665.00 4,300.00 4,550.00 875.00 675.00 643.75 625.00 - 81.80 100.00 100.00 75.00 64.42 200.00 183.55 528.98 ,9,719.20 9,640.00 7,060.63 7.612.31 608.80 200.00 205.64 349.34 468.39 350.00 357.11 190.57 88.88 50.00 39.36 33.00 2.44 2.85 1.50 9.74 50.00 8.99 461.29 450.00 494.27 393.60 135.90 120.00 120.92 103.02 60.00 70.00 67.50 67.50 107.72 110.00 44.45 110.71 15.00 15.00 47.56 - Total Material & Supplies 1,270.00 1,943.57 1,400.00 1,329.25 1,260.67, 47.66 MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS: Buildings and grounds.. 150.00 10.99 400.00 795.14 649.01 Total Maintenance & Rps. 150.00 10.99 795.14 649.01 INDEBTEDNESS: 4. Warrant, and interest - . - thereon 3,376.05 . 1,091.14 . ( Total Indebtedness 3,376.05 " 1,091.14 INSURANCE: ' 58.90 50.00 ; . Total Insurance 68.90 i 50.00 MISCELLANEOUS: Premium Clerks Bond.. 62.50 50.00 50.00 50.00 Telephone 30.00 23.35 30.00 29.01 29.42 , t Interest 150.00 141.74 150.00 128.53 25.62 Total Miseccaneous EMERGENCY: 242.50 215.09 Total Emergency 230.00 200.00 200.00 207.54 54.94 GRAND TOTAL $14,248.55 11,888.85 12,961.14 9,451.46 9.576.93 112.56 I. J. F. Kershaw, do hereby certify that the above estimate of expenditures for the year 1928-1929 was prepared by me and that the expenditures and budget allowance for six months of the current year and the ex penditures for the three fiscal years next preceding the current year as shown above have been compiled from the records in my charge and are true and correct copies thereof. J. F. KERSHAW, District Clerk. Athletics Attionn ViicrVi ReVinnl football team defeated Waitsburg Hi team Friday, November 2, on tne local grounds, 6-0. The field was wet and slippery, so the game was full of fumbles and thrills. Athena, kicked off to Waitsburg at the opening quarter. Waitsburg was forced to kick. Neither team could make much yardage, so a great deal of punting was done. Waitsburg completed several good passes, but was unable to follow! up this ad vantage. The second period was still a punt ing duel, except now and then when Waitsburg completed passes. Waits burg drove .to Athena's 30 yard line once but was then held for downs. The second half opened with Ath ena receiving the ball at the kick off. Athena was held for downs and was forced to punt. Waitsburg started throwing passes again, but Athena was not to be caught napping again, and Waitsburg did not complete any more passes. Athena completed sev eral passes for first downs but was held and forced to kick. The play in the fourth quarter was mostly in midfield. It was beginning to get dark and a lot of punting was done. With about one . minute and a half to play Athena threw Waits burg for a loss twice and blocked a kick on Waitsburg's 40 yard line. On successive, runs by Myrick and Pitt- man the ball was taken to Waits burg's 5 yard line with first down and five yards for a touchdown, it took four downs to buck it over, but on the fourth down it was bucked over right guard and tackle for a touchdown just as the gun shot end ed the game. The kick for point after tpuchdown failed when it hit one of the upright goal posts and bounced back. The following players started for Athena: George Gross, L. E.; Staf ford Hansell, L. T.; Oral Michener, L. G.; Cecil Pambrun, C; Wilford Miller, R. G.; Lee Foster, JR. T, Walter Huffman, R. E.; Edwin Mc Ewen. Q.: Arthur Crowley, L. H.; Ralph McEwen, R. H.; Eldon Myrick, F. B. Substitutions for Athena were: Wayne Pittman, Emery Rogers, Wayne Pinkerton, and Lawrence Car-lile. E1 72x80 Nashua Part Wool . 6.50 66x80 Nashua Part Wool ' 5.50 66x80 No-Kold Part Wool , 4.90 72x80 No-Kold Part Wool 5.70 Special 70x80 X Heavy part Wool, $5.95, Cotton Blankets, all prices. Pendleton Robes and Wool Shirts. Leather Coats and Jackets Shoes 5 per cent Discount for Cash Phone Your Order To 152 Athena Department Store Faculty . ' Miss Bateman was in Walla Walla Sunday. Coach Miller attended the Fendle-ton-The Dalles football game Satur day. Miss Bateman attended the Apple Show in Milton Wednesday evening. Alumni Norman Mclntyre and "Blanche and Lois Johnson were home to attend the funeral of their grandmother. , Entertainment The, high' school and seventh and eight grade held a joint assembly Friday, November 2. Many new yells were tried nut for the comine vear. with Harold Kirk acting as assistant to Yell Leader Murphy. Coach "nice" Miller gave a talk on the game with Waitsburg. A few songs were sung. Subject Classes Those who received Certificates of Proficiency in typing were Alberta Charlton and Frances Cannon. Al berta Charlton wrote thirty-six words a minute with only five errors. These certificates were given by the Royal Typewriter Company. Those who re ceive these certificates have to write thirty words a minute for fifteen minutes without making more than five errors. 1st and 2nd Grades Wallace Young was absent from school last week. , Newton Murphy was absent from school last week on account of a bsoken rib. . Lyle Downer was absent Monday. The first and 6econd grades sur prised the third and fourth grades by masking and singing "Little Jack Pumpkin Face," Tuesday afternoon, October 30. 3rd and 4th Grades The third and fourth grades had a Hallowe'en party Tuesday after noon, October 30. 7th and 8th Grades . Laura Ross registered in the seventh grade Tuesday morning. NOTICE OF SCHOOL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the legal voters of Union High School District No. 7 of Umatilla County, State of Oregon, that a SCHOOL MEETING of said district will be held at the School House, on the 26th day of November, 1928, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon for the purpose of discussing the budget hereinafter set out with the levying board, and to vote on the proposition of levying a special district tax. The total amount of money needed by the said school district during the fiscal year beginning on June 25th, 1928, and ending June 30, 1929, is estimated, in the following budget and includes the amounts to be re ceived from" the county school fund, state school fund, elementary school fund, special district tax, and all other moneys of the district: BUDGET j . ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES" , PERSONAL SERVICE: Salary per year Superintendent $ 2,100.00 ' Teachers 6,810.00 Athle'tic Coach 350.00 Janitor 750.66 Clerk 100.00 Other services 100.00 Total $ 9,210.00 MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES: Furniture (desks, stoves, curtains, etc.) $ 200.00 Supplies (chalk, erasers, etc.) $35.00, Misc. Exp. $90.00 125.00 Library books . 100.00 Janitor's supplies . 25.00 Fuel - 600.00 Light ,- 150.00 . Water 60.00 Postage, stationary and printing 110.00 Total 1,270.00 MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS: Buildings and grounds 150.00 Total 150.00 INDEBTEDNESS: Warrant, and interest thereon 3,376.05 Total 3,376.05 MISCELLANEOUS: Premium clerk's bond 62.50 Telephone - 30.00 Audit of clerk's books Interest . 150.00 Total : 242.50 EMERGENCY: . Total estimated amount of money for all pur poses during the year 14,248.55 ESTIMATED RECEIPTS Estimate of probable unexpended balance at end of current year 95.85 -Total estimated receipts, not in cluding proposed tax 95.85 RECAPITULATION Total estimated expenses for the year 14,248.55 Total estimated receipts not in cluding proposed tax 95.85 . Balance, amounts to be raised by : district tax. ....., 14,152.70 The indebtedness of District No. 7 is as follows: ... . ' Total bonded indebtedness ; None -" Total warrant indebtedness $ 3,276.05 Total amount of other indebtedness .. None Total amount of all indebtedness $ 3,276.05 Dated this 23rd day of October, 1928. , . Attest' J. F. KERSHAW, . ARNOLD WOOD, Chairman, District Clerk. Board of Directors. Bridge Favors A Complete line of Bridge Pads, Tally Cards, Playing Cards and Gift Novelities McFadden'S Pharmacy a K3 -