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V . . .. i A BIG JOB, BUT ITS DEAD EASY , It would be a big Job to tell one hundred people any thing that would interest them in your goods, but its dead easy if done the right way. This paper will tell several hundred at once at nominal cost. NOT ONE DAY CAN BE FOUND in the week but that you do not need stationery of some sort or other. We furnish neat, clean printing at the very lowest rates. Fast presses, modern types, modern work, prompt delivery. Entered at the Post Office at Athena, Oregon, as Second-Class Mall Matter VOLUME 50 ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 26. 1929 NUMBER 17 BAGGALAUREATE SERVICES MAY 5 Rev. DowWill Deliver Bac calaureate Sermon At the Auditorium.: Rev. H. E. ;Dow, pastor of the First Baptist church of Athena will deliver the? baccalaureate sermon for the 1929 graduating ' class of Athena high school, at the auditorium, Sun day evening, . May 5th. ; r The baccalaureate services" will be gin at 7:30, with the following pro gram: , ' ' Hymn ... ;. Congregation Invocation. Anthem Quartette Scripture Reading. Announcements. Solo Mrs. R. B. McEwen Baccalaureate Sermon..Rev.H. E. Dow Anthem Quartette Benediction.' Commencement exercises will be held Friday evening, May-10, when Dr. Wilson of Whitman- college will deliver the address before the gradu ating class, which this year comprises fifteen members. They are Weldon Allen Bell, Alberta Charlton, Jack William Dow, Lee Foster, Pearl Irene Green, George Gross, Areta Maxine Kirk, Marjorie Marguerite Wilson, Edwin Luvoise McEwen, Ralph Mc Ewen, Jr., Oral Michener, Wilford Miller, Donald Wayne Pinkerton, Emma Marie Ringel and Mildred Street. The class has. taken for its motto: "Stick To The Ship." Class colors, rose and creani-r-Class flower, rosebuds. Weston Boy Makes An Airplane Model Weston Leader: "The Silver Ace, No. 18," is the monaker of a beautiful little biplane built entirely by Howard Swant, a Weston high .school boy with a well-developed flair -for -mechanical achievement The machine is on display at the Goodwin -drug store, where it is admired of all be holders. It is five arid one-half feel long from nose to tail and has a wing spread of six feet and two inches. It has a compressed air four-cylinder motor which Howard designed and was two weeks in making. It has an eighteen-inch propeller, webbed' wings and a movable tail operated with the usual control sticks and joy stick. Ir brief, it is a real little airplane in every respect save that it will not fly, but may be operated along a sur face. .a "The Silver Ace" has been entered by Howard in the Pasco air derby April 20, where a contest has been scheduled for boy-made airplane models. Howard has also 'been busy ing himself the past few months in the manufacture of a diminutive automobile, and this will actually run the same as any . other buzz wagon. ' . Road Crew Assemble Joslyn & McCallister, contractors who will build the new loup market road, Athena to Weyland and down Gerking Flat, connecting with the Athena road leading west, have as sembled their road-working crews and equipment. A number of truck loads of ' equipment passed through Athena the fore part of the week. David H. Sanders, An Athena Pioneer Farmer Answers Last Summons David H.: Sanders, pioneer Athena farmer, died at his home in this city, early Monday morning, after' an ill ness of several weeks, at the age of 79 years. Mr. Sanders had been in failing health for some time, but only for the past three weeks had his con dition been considered critical. David Henry Sanders was born in Montgomery county, Missouri, on January 9, 1850, and died April 23, 1929, at the age of 79 years, three months and 14 days, At the age of 16 he was left an orphan, both. his parents dying, and he spent his early life in the state where he wa born. He crossed the plains to Portland, Oregon, in 1868, and came to Uma tilla county in 1878, where , he. has since resided, being one of our early and successful pioneer farmersOf late years, with his wife he has made his home in Athena. v : ' : On January 9, 1881, he was married to Miss Cally Ashpaugh, a member of a pioneer family of the Walla Walla valley. To them five children were born: , Emma May, who died at the age of 2 years; Eva, now Mrs. Starr Charlton, and Frank, both of near Athena; Claude .of Portland, ..... and Hazel, now Mrs. Robert Norris . of. Medford. Three grandchildren also survive Mr. Sanders; Roma and Al berta Charlton and Robert Hall Nor Funeral services were conducted in the Christian church, of which he had long been a member, yesterday at 2 o'clock, Dr. Meredith conducting the ceremonies. - Interment took place in the Athena cemetery. A quartet rendered beautiful music, a solo be ing sung by Mrs. D. T. Stone. An abundance of floral tributes from friends attested to the esteem in which he was held. Concrete Front for Hall The new front for Masonic Hall will be of concrete, and it "is understood the finish will be in stucco. The en- tire brick front has been removed and the heavy ' steel beams taken out The new, front will be built in solid concrete from the ground up, with out use of lentals in the new construction. Heavy Snowfall The heaviest April snowfall record ed ' in years blanketed west central Wyoming halting farm operations and seriously interfering with traf fic. Country roads were reported im passable as a result of the rapidly melting snow, and many streams have been transformed Into raging torrents. ; Wanner Weather With warmer wea'ther growing crops and gardens have been making better progress wis ween,, man, . lor Rnmptime . nrevioua. Meltincr snows back in the mountains have caused higher water In the streams. Range conditions are reported W w improv ing. : Unfavorable Development Unfavorable developments In the agricultural situation during March and early April cast a shadow over the progress made in other fields of activity in the Twelfth Federal Re serve District during that period. Severe frosts had much to do with it III SECOND PLAGE AT MEET Little Heirs to Many Millions Handicapped with a stge of the flu and colds, Athena high school copped second place in the district track meet at Weston, Friday, with a total of 61 points to 71 points for Helix, the winner. Weston took third place with 9 points. At that, two of Athena's men were high point win ners; Myrick with 21, and Ralph McEwen with 15 points. , . Athena's chances for winning first were shattered, when Kirk, track dash man; Jim Wilson, distance runner, were left at home in bed due to ill ness. Urowiey, -fcdwln Mc&wen,, and "Pink" Pinkerton sneezed and coughed their way through the meet, each afflicted with a severe cold. While Athena graders were taking "heart tests" three events were pull ed off, but they were strong enough in the remaining events to win over the Adams grade entries, for first place by a victory of 69 to 65. Helix scored third and Weston fourth. After elading the relay by 10 yards for three laps, the Athena team be came confused owing to track con ditions losing to Adams. - Potter of Adams was high point winner in the grade events. Athena winners at the meet were as follows: R. McEwen 50 yard, 100 yard and 220 yard dashes. Myrick High jump; broad jump; 440 yard dash; 2nd in. discus; 2nd in 220 yard dash. , Crowley 3rd in half-mile sprint; 3rd in javelin. E. McEwen 3rd in 440 yard dash; 2nd in pole vault Athena grades did not participate in the events of Divisions A, B, D, for girls, and Division A for boys Athena grade winners were: Geissel 50 yard dash; 2nd in broad jump; 2nd in baseball throw. Montgomery 60 yard dash; base ball throw. Johnson High jump. Jenkins 60 yard dash; baseball throw. Lee High jump; 3rd in 60 yard dash. Miller Shot put; 2nd In 100 yard dash; 3rd in broad jump, Moore High jump; 2nd in shot put Shigley 3rd in high jump, Mission Indians Here The Athena town team will meet the Mission Indian second stringers on the local diamond Sunday after n?on. Game is called for 2:30. The Indians are coming with the deter mination to take the scalps of their paleface opponents, for the trouncing they received last Sunday on their own bailiwick. Jolly Twenty Club Mrs. Sheldon Taylor was hostess to the Jolly 20 club at her home west of Athena, Friday afternoon last The members spent a very pleasant after noon. The club will meet at the home of Mrs. Edna Fisk next Fri day afternoon, May 3. Daniel Carroll Tucson und his sister, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shlpmnn Pnyson, as ot Manhasset, Long tslimcl. The children left by their BniiMlfnilnT. the late Payne Payne Whitney Payson, children of they appeared on the Payson estate Inherited a grent part of the estate Whitney. Northern Pacific's Demonstration Tram -In Walla Walla, May 10 S. J. Miller.; eeneral manager of the Northern Pacific, accompanied by W. P. StaDleton. the company's agri cultural development agent, was in Athena Saturday. Mr. btapieton called at the Press office and . ex nlaineH the importance of the "Qual ity Products for Profit" demonstra tion train which the Northern facmc will run throughout the Northwest next month. - TJi train ' will be operated over thi Northern Pacific lines in Wash ington in cooperation -with the ex tension service of the agricultural col lege at Pullman. Fnr ii sine attention on subjects vital to the farmers, and. the. towns folk as well, the train will be unique in its educational aspects. Dedicated in fitting ceremonies at Cheney on May 6, the train, on its far-reach-inir camnaiem." will begin a three- weeks' swing around the state, stop ping at 42 town, and terminating on May 29 at Pullman. State officials and representatives of the state college of Washington and Northern Pacific representatives both from the western offices and from the general headquarters at St. Paul, will be at Cheney for the in aucural exercises. Significant is the fact that this will be the first educa tional train to be operated in Wash ington west of the Cascade Moun tains and the second in the eastern part of the state. The nearest Doint at which the tvain will be on its itinerary, will be Wal la Walla, where it will be on May 10. Walla Walla is preparing to make the event a community holiday. Farm Meeting Planned - For Pendleton Tomorrow East Oresfonian: "Reduce the rates on grain; do notaise them," is the cry of local farmers and at a con ference held, here this forenoon steps were taken to have a general gram growers meeting in Pendleton at 2 p. m. Saturday for the purpose of pro testing aeainst any action by the In terstate commerce commission to in crease rates. The fear prevails that the report by Examiners Mackley and Hall presages an increase in rates The meeting Saturday- is to be a lartre affair and invitations are being sent to . officials of the farm bureaus, trraneea. and other grain growing organizations throughout eastern Oregon, eastern Washington ana Idaho. The Eastern Oregon Wheat leaerue will be represented and also the Farmers' union. Commercial clubs wishing to aid in preventing a freight increase are also asked to at tend. Sentiment amonsr local farmers is that evidence given before the I. C. C. last summer justified a reduction or three or four cents in the rates to tidewater. There is accordingly much resentment over the proposal for an increase. . t . , Arthur M. Geary, attorney for the interior farmers in the case they had before the commission, is to be in at tendance at the meeting Saturday. Night Air Mail Night air mail service between Paaco, Wash., and Salt Lake City, Utah, will be inaugurated June 1 by Varney Air Lines, Charles Wright son, of Boise, manager of the air company announced. A test night flight was made over the route last Sunday.. .The service will cut one full business day on air mail deliveries from the northwest to the east tout - - ' " Committees Appointed , For Pioneers Reunion By President McBride T. L McBride, president of the Umatilla County Pioneers association, announced .his r committee appoint ments at a meeting Monday evening of local boosters of this annual event at Weston, reports the Leader. The reunion dates this year are Fri day and Saturday, May 31 and June 1, and everything indicates a success ful gathering. It will be financed in the same manner as last year, with proceeds from dancing and conces sions, although subscriptions will again be asked to a guarantee fund to insure that expenses will be met in the event that bad weather interferes with the reunion. An effort will be made to secure the L. L. , Lindgren shows, which with tlieir merry-go- round, ferris wheel and other at tractions added to the picnic atmo sphere last year. The grounds committee advocated the construction of a permanent stage on the school campus, where the reunions are now held, and were ask ed to look into the matter more ful ly and report at another meeting scheduled for next Monday evening. The several committees follow: Finance H. Goodwin,. S. A. Barnes, T. L. McBride. Concessions Jay Smith, C. W. Avery, Lester O'Harra. Program Clark Wood, Dr. W. H, McKinney, Guy W. Brace. ' Publicity P. T. Harbour, Emery Gentry, Carl Thomas. Music S. A. Barnes, W. L. Smock, William Hass. Speakers C. L. Pinkerton, Herman Goodwin, Nelson H. Jones. Decoration Claud ' Price, Lysle Webb, Carl Brandt, Carl Warm. Sports Newt O'Harra, Walter Webb, Frank Snider, H. R. Pope, T. L. McBride. Badges Ross King, Karl Martin sen, Harrison Kirk. Grounds Marvin Price, Robert G. Blomgren, J. A. King, P. T. Harbour, W. S. Price.- Reception J.. T. Lieuallen, G. A. Hartman, .T. A. Lieuallen, R. Alex ander, J. H. Raley, Henry J. Taylor, M. L. Watts, J. A. Fee, Sim J. Cul ley, S. A. Barnes. Scholastic Leaders I I i i - i J Naomi Hohman and Jack Hemp stead, both of Portland, who headed the scholastic averages at the Univer sity of Oregon for fall term. . Hits At Failure To Call For Lower Rates "The Iron Fireman" Automatic Stoker Is Installed at School George Strand of Pendleton, rep resenting the Smythe-Bartell company was here last week installing an "Iron Fireman," the automatic stoker in the furnace at the Athena school building. He and a force of . me chanics completed the installation Sunday, so that the building was for the first time heated by the new de vice, Monday. The new equipment makes it pos sible to furnish heat for the build ing at much less cost for fuel than under the old hand,method. A cheap er grade of coal which in the main consists of slack and the smallest run of nut coal is used in the oper ation of this new automatic stoker. The fuel is fed from the bottom of the furnace, the process resulting in complete combustion, which retains full heat from gases which ' in the ordinary method of furnace heating escape in total loss. Another remarkable feature of the new device is that room temperature may be absolutely controlled. A ther mostatic instrument controls the heat from the furnace automatically at the exact degree of temperature desired at all times. Mr. Strand has completed installa tion of new equipment in the Adams school building. The heating system in the Adams school is steam, while the Athena system is air, the "Iron Fireman" being readily adapted for either system. The new Marcus Whitman hotel at Walla Walla, after unsatisfactory ex perience the past winter with the oil fed furnace, has adopted the modern "Iron Fireman" coal stoker. Spokane. Failure of examiners for the Interstate Commerce Commis sion to recommend rail rate reduc tions for wheat shipment" was hit to day in statements j published by prominent northwestern men identi fied with the industry. r ' J. Carl Laney, of Colfax, secre tary of the Washington state farm bureau and leader in the Inland Em pire's fight, asserted that farm lead ers will carry the fight for substan tial reductions to the Interstate Com merce commission by exception brief despite failure of the examiners to make recommendations. "Our attorney will be instructed to centralize all efforts upon obtaining the reductions which the grain grow ers must have to continue business and which we believe we are entitled to under the Hoch-Smith resolution," Laney's statement said. The Spokesman-Review tomorrow will quote statements from J. Aimer McCurtain, of Spokane, president of the Washington and northern Idaho Farmers' Union; George A. Palmitcr of Hood River, Oregon, master of the Oregon State Grange and H. R. Rich ards, president of the , Oregon and southern Idaho Farmers' Union, in which the actjpn of the examiners was disapproved. Robert W. Service's "The Trail Of Carload of Seed Peas Arrives Here A carload of seed peas is in stor age at the warehouse of the Farm er's Grain Elevator company, on lower Main street having arrived here recently, The peas were ship pe4 here by the Washington-Idaho Seed compapy. The company has list ed a large acreage from foothill and mountain ranchers which will be planted to peas this spring. The soil conditions of the land east of Weston are considered to be ex cellent for pea culture, and the com pany is taking hold of the enterprise with the view of making pea pro duction a permanent enterprise in that district. Wheat Raisers Pool Wheat raisers of Nabraska and Wyoming to the number of 300 have effected -organization of a wheat pool giving it the name of the Midwest Market Association, non . stock co operative. The pool was said to rep resent 13,000 grain raisers in the two states, and was declared the largest in existence in the middlewest. . Ready for Seeding The process of packing the ground, preparatory to- planting beans on land recently leased in this vicinity, is under way. Bean planters will follow the packing operations. '98 Metro's big epic of the North, "The Trail of '98," will be shown at the Standard Theatre tomorrow for one night only. Two nights were asked but owing to popular demand for the film (it ran for four days this week at the Liberty Theatre, Walla Walla) it was impossible to secure a two- night booking. Sunday night Buddy Rogers and Marion Nixon will be presented in Universals college drama, "Red Lips." What "The Covered Wagon" was to the west, "The Birth of a Nation" was to New England, is just what 'The Trail of '98" is to the far north. "The Trail of '98," film version of Robert W. Service's famous story of the Klondike gold rush is made on a big lavish scale which is in keeping with the bigness of the land of the midnight sun. Stars in the cast are Ralph Forbes, Dolores Del Dio, Harry Carey, Karl Dane, Tully Marshall, George Cooper! Admission prices are 10-35-50c. ' Construction Work Progressing Construction work is progressing on the new addition to the Farmers Grain Elevator plant, which will in crease its capacity 130,000 bushels. Concrete work on the piers and base ment was completed last week. This week a force of about 20 men have been employed in constructing the crjbbing. Seven carloads . of gravel and two carloads of cement were used in the concrete work, and it will require 14 carloads of lumber for the cribbing. , . , MACHINERY BEING ASSEMBLED 'IN American Legion Convention The American Legion, department of Oregon, will hold its annual con vention at Salem, August 8, 9, 10 and 11, this year. M'NARY FORESEES Rogers & Goodman Furnish Equipment For Bean Industry. Rogers & Goodman of Athena, se cured the contract forj furnishing the machinery to take !carr of the bean growing industry - Which this spring is being inaugurated in the Walla Walla, Athena-Weston district by the company represented by H. H. Eick One carload of planters and packers arrived in Athena this week. The allotment for Athena and Weston was unloaded at one of the warehouses in the railroad yards, and the units for the Walla Walla district were ship ped on to that point. An Athena crew of men under di rection of Arnold Wood, and one from Weston, under Buzz Fisk, have been assembling the bean planters at the Athena warehouse, and have made good progress with , the work. . The planting equipment comes from the International . Harvester com pany, represented in this section by Rogers & Goodman, and the local firm is expecting the arrival of cul tivators shortly. The shipments in clude 36 planters, and packers and 60 cultivators. - The company has purchased 12 Best "20" caterpillars, seven of which are at the warehouse here for the Athena-Weston district, while five have been delivered at Walla Walla. Jack Calder has been making en larged hoppers for bean planters this week down at the Rogers & Good man shop. These hoppers, construct ed of galvanized iron, will take the place of smaller ones, originally at tached to the planters. FARM BILL VETO Washington, D. C. An actual start on consideration of' farm relief legis lation was made by the senate and shortly after it started Chairman Mc Nary of its agriculture committee de clared that if congress sent a mea sure to the White House containing the export debenture plan it would re ceive a presidential veto. McNary started a discussion of the measure, which contains the deben ture provision so strenuously object ed to by Mr. Hoover, a few hours after a formal report on the bill had been submitted to the senate. "It would be vain to send this bill to the president with the debenture plan in, it," McNary said. "I feel cer tain that he would disapprove it." Immediately after McNary finished a defense of the debenture plan was undertaken by Senator Caraway of Arkansas, one of the democtratic members of the senate agricultural committee who took a leading part in writing the proposal into the new farm relief bill. "The ten reasons the president gave for opposing the plan," Cara way said, are the same as those ad vocated by individuals and in the nress that desires to fatten on the sweat and blood of agriculture." A formal report on the new farm bill, embodying the export debenture plan, was made to the senate by Senator McNary. with the state ment that those opposed to the pro vision relied upon the position taken by the chief executive. Except for this reference and a paragraph ex plaining how the debenture proposal would work, the chairman's report made no mention of the plan. The remainder of the report set forth in detail the operation of the farm legislation which generally cor responds to that under consideration in the house except that the house measure does not contain the deben ture provision. No Damage Although below freezing tempera tures have been recorded throughout the Walla Walla valley during the past week, no damage to fruit has re suited as far as can be ascertained, Harold E. Rathbone, frost warning expert of the United States Weather Bureau reports. To Fight For Differential Portland. The Portland Chamber of Commerce has under considera ton a resolution calling for a fight to the finish for retention of the Columbia Basin differential on grain rates. W. D. B. Dodson, manager. say demands were pouring from all - Junior-Senior Banquet The annual banquet of the junior quarter's" it''Voxr"w-iTQrVdi of Athena hitch school carry its fight to the oral hearing in Washington, May 27. Storage For 100,000 Frank Curl is making additional im provements to his grain elevator at Adams which when completed will give him storage facilities for 100, 000 bushels of grain. The work will be completed in time to take care of the growing wheat crop. will be held at the Grand hotel in Walla Walla, tomorrow evening, Annual County Meet At Pendleton Tomorrow " Two hundred thirty ' contestants from the various schools of Umatilla county will compete here Saturday at the Round-Up park in the eleventh annual Umatilla county track and field meet, which will begin at 1:30 p. m. i Winnes of events in sectional meets will complete, the schools represented being Pendleton and vicinity, section one; Milton-Freewater and vicinity, section two; Weston, Athena, Adams, Helix and vicinity, section four; Echo, Stanficld, Hermiston, Umatilla, and vicinity, section four; Pilot Rock and vicinity, section five. Each section will enter teams con sisting of 16 boys and 16 girls from the grade schools, and 14 boys from high schools, making a total of 230 contestants. Boys and girls in the grade schools will be divided into four classes according to weight and height. There will be 37 events, 18 of which will be track events and 19 field. East Oregonian. Newspaper Men Dead Two former Umatilla county news paper men died within the past ten days. Parker Branin, until recently, city editor of the East Oregonian, Inter associate editor of a Twin Falls, Idaho, paper, died in. that city as the result of injuries received in an auto mobile accident H. A, Clemens, vice- president of the Record Publishing company at Baker, formerly publish er of the Pilot RoCk Record, died at Whitcfish, Montana. League Games Adams met a tartar Sunday in its game with the Mission Indians in the Umatilla county league, when she went up against the heady pitching of Craig, the wily Indian twirler. The missions won, 12-0. In a close game at Hermiston, the Pendleton Eagles were defeated by Hermiston, 4 to 3. Opening the Blue Mountain league season, Pendleton defeated Enter prise, 9-1; with Duff pitching, La Grande won from Baker 11-3. Here From Burns Mr, and Mrs. Ralph Haynie were hero Saturday from Burns, and visit ed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Banister. They left Sunday for Spokane, where Mr. Haynie will attend a convention of the J. C. Pen ney company store managers. Mrs. Haynie will go to Portland, to visit relatives, and will return to Athena before returning to her home at Burns. La Grande Suicide Guy Davis, 80, was found dead in a cemetery at LaGrande, his body fallen over the grave of his wife. There was a bullet hole in bis head and a pistol clutched in his hand. The sexton saw Davis in the cemetery near his wife's grave. The man has been despondent for , some time, friends said.