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4 N car 1F roe amdl mJ wm 99 NO matter what you plan to pay for your next car, you can have General Motors' quality nd value. General Motors makes a car for every purse and purpose; it offers a choice of suitable models in every price class; and each General Motors car whether its price is a few hundreds or thousands of dollars has shared in Gen eral Motors' purchasing economies, has benefited from its Research Laboratories and Proving Ground, and is equipped with a strong and luxurious Fisher body. See what General Motors offers for the price you want to pay, and remember that the model you want can be purchased con veniently on the low cost GMAC Pay ment Plan. $525 to $725 - . Seven models of the Outstanding Chevrolet of Chevrolet History. A "six" in the price range of the "four". Powerful new 6-cylinder valve-in-hcad engine. Beautiful new Fisher Bodies. New colors. New 4-wheel brakes. Also: Delivery sedan; Light delivery chassis. lH-ton chassis and lX-ton chassis with cab, both with four speeds forward. $745 to $875 Seven modelsof today'sPONTIAC Further improved from radiator to tail-light. More powerful 6-cylinder engine. Greater operating economy. Quicker acceleration. The strik ing Bodies by Fisher express the vogue of the hour. $925 to $1,085 Seven models of the New OLDSMOBILE "The Fine Car at Low Price." Completely redesigned and improved by General Motors. More powerful. 4-wheel brakes. Longer, roomier Fisher Bodies. Also five De Luxe models, $1,145 to $1,235. $1,145 to $1,375 Seven models of the new Oakland All American Six, recently announced. Distinctively neworiginal appearance. Splendid new perrmance. Luxurious appointments, in new bodies by Fisher. A car you 11 be proud to own. $1,195 to $2,145 Eighteen models of the BUICK The Silver Anniversary Buick, recently presented. 3 wheel-bases. Lightning flash getaway. Masterpiece bodies by Fisher. 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M GENERAL M OTO R S an n n isCLIP THE COUPONm ta n m m General Motors (Dept. A), Detroit, Mich. Please send, without obligation to me, illustrated literature describing the General Motors product I have checked together with the booklets, "The Proving Ground" and "Principles and Policies." iVame Address ........ ODBLCO-UQHTRJtetthfUnt QrRJQlDAlRM AwtooMtM XlrHrtt nrf Wft SJr.reau. CHEVROLET PONTIAC D OLDSMOBILE D OAKLAND BUICK LaSALLE CADILLAC Press Paragraphs "Th Wright Idea" Standard Theatre, tomorrow night A. E. Shick was in town Monday front Walla Walla. Miss Margaret Lee came down from Cheney to spend Thanksgiving with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Pinkerton spent Thanksgiving with relatives t at Genesee, Idaho. Mr. and Mrs. DeMerritt and young son Dell are guests at the Henry Dell home on Fifth street. F. B. Radtke and "Slim" Lang re turned Tuesday from a duck-shooting trip to Wallowa county. Mrs.-Susie Gerking was up from Pendleton this week visiting rela tives and greeting old friends. Mrs. Fred Kershaw is at Ontario to sDend Thanksgiving with her sis ter, Mrs. Castleman and family. Frank Coppock has purcnasea a new model Ford truck, one of the first to he delivered to an Athena farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Hill and daughter Peggy, of Walla Walla, spent Sunday at the home or Mr. ana Mrs. H. H. Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Johnson have re turned to Athena from Bend to reside this winter. They are welcomed back by all their friends. E. C. Prestbye, Athena attorney, attended a meeting of the Sixth judicial district bar association at Pendleton, Monday. Leon Miller, employe at the Zerba Garage is temporarily incapcitated for work on account of a dislocated bone in his right foot. " Mr. and Mrs. Verne Dudley of fay- ton are guests at the E. A. Dudley j home near Athena, coming here forj the Thanksgiving holiday. ' 5 Mrs. M. M. Johns left yester day morning for southern California where she will spend the winter at the home of her son Melville. Mr. and Mrs. James Twohy and children came up from Portland yesterday to spend Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Boyd. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Watts enter tained Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wagner of Portland, over Thanksgiving. Mrs. Wagner and Mrs. Watts are sisters. Miss Ellen Henry who is teaching the 3rd and 4th grades in the Board- man school spent Thanksgiving with her parents Mr. and Mrs. C. 0. Henry. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Miller are in Seattle, visiting at the home of their daughter. Later they may decide to go to California to remain for the winter. M. W. Hansell drove up to Pull man Wednesday and brought home his daughter Helen from Washington State College, who will spend Thanks giving holiday period at the home of her parents. Mrs. Thomas DeFreece is again en joying good health, her many Athena friends will be glad to learn. Mr. and Mrs. DeFreece recently visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sims Dicken son in Athena. Miss Hilda Dickenson chairman, of the Red Cross drive in this city re ports the signatures of more than fifty members. Miss Dickenson was ably assisted in the work by Mayor 0. O. Stephens. Otho Reeder had the misfortune to break one of the bones in his right forearm while cranking his farm jt ney, Tuesday. The accident happened at his home on Third street, and Otho lost no time whatever getting to a doctor's office. W. R. Harden for the past two weeks has been going round and round with his dentist. The final round ended when "Bill" looked up on his last tooth dangling from a pair of forcups. He will soon secure a "store" set. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Watts had for dinner guests at the new Marcus Whitman Hotel at Walla Walla Sun day, Mr. and Mrs. 0. 0. Stephens, Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Richards, son Roland, Mrs. A. A. Kimball, and Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Boyd. R. A. Ball has moved his family from Reed and Hawley Mountain to Athena for residence this winter. Mr. and Mrs. Ball are occupying a cot tage in the south part of town, and have children who will attend the Athena public schools. Athena-Weston pbst of the Ameri can Legion sponsors a dance at Le gion Hall tomorrow night The ser vices of the Mareus Whitman Hotel Orchestra have been secured for the occasion. The dance opens the win ter dancing season m Athena. Mrs. S. F. Livermoore charmingly entertained in honor of Mrs. Donald Johnson Tuesday evening at her home in Pendleton, with a shower. Present from Athena were Mrs. A, H. Hclntyre, Miss Hilda Dickenson, Miss Pearl Ramsay and Miss Lois Mclntyre. Miss Ruth Williams spent the week- end at the home of her sister, Mrs Fred Beckner. Wednesday evening members of the family gathered at the Williams home on Jefferson street and enjoyed a splendid dinner. The event was in honor of the birth day anniversary of Miss Ruth. II. A. Barrett accompanied by his mother Mrs. Jennie Barrett and his daughters Lucille, Genevieve, and Beverley motored to Portland to spend the Thanksgiving holiday. Mrs. Barrett will not return with the party but will spend the winter with her daugher Miss Areta Barrett A party composed of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Mclntyre, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Johnson, Misses Hilda Dickenson, Lois Mcln tyre and Pearl Ramsay, Lee Banis ter, Dr. Cowan, Clifford Wood and N(orman Mclntyre, will spend Thanks giving and the week-end in PoVtland. Clothing or Winter Weather Men's Leather Coats.................... .13.50 to 16.50 . Men's & Ladies Leather Blazers 12.50 Men's Heavy Woolen Blazers.... 6.50 to 8.50 Men's Heavy all wool Water Proof Cruisers '. .12.50 Men's Sheepskin lined Coats .9.50 to 12.50 Men's Blanket lined Jumper........... .......3.75 Men's Heavy Woolen Pants............... ..........55 to 6.50 Boys' Heavy Blazers....... .............................:.............2.25 to 4.95 Boys and Girls Woolen Slipons with high school Emblem, just the thing for school 3.75 5 per cent Discount for Cash Phone Your- Order To 152 Athena Department Store Clara Bow in "Red Hair" Standard Theatre, Sunday night. J. F. Kershaw spent Thanksgiving with friends at Waitsburg. Athena fans were interested in the outcome of the Medford-Benson Tech football game at Portland yesterday, picking Medford to win. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Logsdon and Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Taylor left Wednseday for Vale, Malheur county, where they will spend Thanksgiving and the week-end at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Clore. The men folk will avail themselves of the splendid duck shooting that prevails in that locality. The Pacific Power & Light com pany will give a free show at the Standard Theatre on the evening of December 6th. The company has taken over the theatre for that night, when it will exhibit a highly enter taining and educational film picture of the development of electrical energy and the advancement it has attained in the home and industry. The Wauna Campfire Girls have completed making character dolls under supervision of Mrs. C. M. Eager. Plans are under way to start potted plants to bloom on or be fore March 15th for birthday honors. . Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Dowd are down from their farm home near Wash tucna, Wash., to spend Thanksgiving with Weston and Athena friends. The Press man is grateful in ack nowledging the receipt of some fine Bellmoor cranberries from J. S. Del linger of the Morning Astorian, at Astoria. Mr. Dellinger is the father of the Bellmoor cranberry industry of Astoria, and is one of the principal owners of the company that is ex ploiting the cranberry marshes tribu tary to that city and placing the pro duct on the market. There was a real butchering bee at the Clifford Walker farm Monday. The men helped with the butchering and ladies were asked to come and bring needle work. A sumptuous din ner was served at noon by Mrs. Walker. Guests were, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Potts, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Mc lntyre and daughter Velra, Mr and Mrs. Sterling Parris and children, Mrs. Merritt and Mr. and Mrs. Ross Catron and Mr. Joe Cannon. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Hale entertain ed the following guests at a six o'clock dinner last Friday, Mr. " and Mrs. Fred Gross, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Dickenson, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Catron, Mr. and Mrs. 0. E. Venable and two daughters, Mr. Al Johnson, Mrs. Ethel Montague, Marjorie Montague, Alberta Charlton, Mr. George Gross and Mr. Boyles. The dinner was given in honor of Mrs. Hale's father, Mr. Boyles, who is leaving for his home at Browns ville, after spending several months at the home of his daughter. THE STANDARD THEATRE Saturday Johnny Hines TTti War i ne w In at a go t Idea n. With. Louise Lorraine and Edmund Breese L. Hines Busy! He's the busiest man in town. Busy making ink that won't blot. Busy mak ing love to a girl who thinks he's a crook. Busy making rum runners run, and jamming a thousand laughs into six reels of the choicest of screen enter tainment. You'll see more funny situations than in any comedy Johnny ever made. First he's an inventor, dabbling in ink. Then he's Chief Mirth Mate on the S. S. Comedy. Then he's speeding beyond the three-mile limit, cutting up with the Coast Guard cutters. Come along for the ride of your life! Comedy and News Reel Admission 10-25-35c R Sunday 1 NAIR With Clara Bow Lance Chandler and Lawrence Grant Elinor Glyiv Says: "People with RED HAIR have pep, push and personality, that captivating "IT" complex in its most virulent form." What do you think? There's more where "IT" came from and something new too. Clara Bow knows her American Flapper and she has Red Hair. The heart of the Gold-Digger isn't made of gold after all, and Why! Here She Is Again! The "IT" girl w ith Red Hair personality, stepping high, wide, and handsome! You'll shriek with glee when you see her chased by every man in the neighborhood and makes them like it! Then her ideal a red head ,too! Come see the battle of the Red Heads! 1 Grantland Rice Sports Reel Admission 10-25-35c