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All the necessary Requirements for Harvest Fruits, Berries and Vegetables Fresh every day The Quality Grocery Phone 561 Alice Eager, Prop. ROUND TRIP TO DENVER $87.20 UMAHA 70.U KANSAS CITY.... 70.SS ST. LOUIS 80.34 CHICAGO........ 8S.OS DETROIT 104.67 CINCINNATI 10S.1S NEW ORLEANS 107.10 CLEVELAND 107.61 TORONTO 111.6f ATLANTA 116.40 PITTSBURGH 118.81 WASHINGTON .10.61 PHILADELPHIA 146.97 NEW YORK 146.4S BOSTON JC2.fl CO MM EFFECTIVE MAT as TO SEPT. 30 KfiTUHN LIMIT OCT. 31, 1939 Reduced fares all parti of east; liberal ttop over. Fine train; modern equipment; plendid service; scenic route. To connect with PORTLAND LIMIT ED at Pendleton Lv. Athena 9:45 P. M. by Stage from Athena Hotel. For CONTINENTAL LIMITED Lv. Athena 4:06 P. M. by train for Pendleton. C. M. EAGER, Agent Athena, Oregon 9 AT AMAZING SAVINGS! GET off those worn, easily punctured old tires and put on safe, new troublefree 'Gpodyears at the lowest cost in 30 year! Here's the real place to get your Good year Double Eagles, Heavy Duty or Regular All-Weathers. Expert changing' and shifting of your tires no extra charge. And real at tention and service the year 'round, GOOD YEAR ATHENA GARAGE Athena, Oregon n ' "n 1"V nip" Walla Walla General Hospital A modern non sectarian fifty bed hospital, with all up'tq' dat modern' hospital facilities for $ie care of patients. X-Ray and bacteriological labortories, washed air ventilation. Only graduate nurses are employed and their ser vices are included at the regular rates which are $3.50 to $6.00 Special nurses extra. Your interest and patronage is solicited. Phone 480. ' on J SHOWN MOVING iVI PICTURES Los Angeles School Children Will Know More About Oregon. Teaching history, geography, eco nomics and similar subjects by use of me liiuuun picture is not something new, but the 175,000 students of the big city school system of Los Angeles are in for a few new thrills when they journey back to their class rooms this coming term. For when - the teacher of economics says, "We shall now consider the timber resources of the west," and the young man who starts the machine throws a view of Douglas fir stands of Clatsop coun ty, followed by a panoramic of the pine timber of the Klamath or Des chutes districts, or possibly the cedar of Curry county,. the students will lean forward and say, "So that's what they have in Oregon; I'll have to talk dad into visiting those tall trees next summer!" This is what the state chamber of commerce expects will happen, for it has just supplied Mr. Frank Reiter, head of the visual education depart ment of the Los Angeles schools with reels and pictures which will be used in the class rooms from, now on. . Mr, Reiter was first attracted to the Los Angeles office of the state chamber, whose windows and walls display the products of Oregon, and became so interested that he made a trip to Ore gon to secure material. r A comprehensive showing of the industrial, agricultural and recrea tional resources of every part of Ore gon was included in the many photo graphs supplied Mr. Reiter. Arrange ments will be made for school chil dren to visit the Los Angeles office of the state chamber and have ex plained the growing or manufacture of the many products on display. PREPARE BILL UMATILLA Project Promotion Is Left In the Hands of Rapids Association. i if RAPIDS I Walla Walla Machines Don't Stop Sundays Farmers in all parts of the Walla Walla valley worked Sunday in the harvest fields. Most of them are using combine outfits drawn by gas tractors, so they did not need a' rest. Harvest is now general in all parts of the valley and some growers have finished their work in the fields. The yields are not as heavy as last year when the yield was phenomenally large, but it is a good average crop. . Approximately-two million bushels of wheat have been traded to date by the farmers in Walla Walla accord ing to information received by the Union. Of this amount 500,000 bush els were held over from last year's crop. iiauiiig yciy looi, ra we him-, j .,., j .... t. ... ket during Friday and Saturday. Ap- T;' "..""T Portland. Directors of the Uma tilla Rapids association, the Portland Chamber of Commerce and the Co lumbia Valley association decided here that active promotion of the Umatilla rapids project will be left in the hands of the Rapids association with the other two organizations lending their support. Developments of the Umatilla ra pids, in the Columbia river, is con sidered one of the major objectives of the Columbia river program. . Directors of the Rapids association met with Senators Steiwer and Mc Nary and Representative Butler, who Introduced a bill calling for develop ment of the Umatilla rapids in the house at the last session of congress. Senator McNary is drafting a bill to be presented in the senate. The principal objective of his bill will be to promote navigation on the Columbia, Senator McNary said, but he pointed out that construction of a dam at Umatilla rapids would auto matically make the river navigable up as far as the mouth of the Snake river. Another provision of the Mc Nary bill would give thirty seven and one half percent of the gross receipts from sale of power to the states bor dering on the river if the government operated the project. If privately on erated, the power development would be subject to taxation by the three states, Oregon, Washington1 and Idaho. You Get the Best When you Buy CarstenV Hams and i Stages Are Displacing The Electric Trains The Oregonian says that when the Southern Pacific company this week took four .more trains off its Port-land-McMinnville run it wrote the next-to-the-last chapter in its electrt cal line history in this state. There was once a time when that railroad operated 56 trains daily be tween here and McMinnville, and be tween here and Corvallis. It now operates but four! There was once a time when that railroad operated six-coach trains over its 146 miles of electrified line. It has been many a day since such a sight was last witnessed. There wa3 a day when everv one of the big interurbari electrics car ried capacity loads on almost every trip. That time has gone. The automobile staee. usinfir 'naved highways for its. roadbed, has taken the passenger business and forced the big red electric cars to the storage proximately 150,000 bushels were sold Friday, with an almost equal amount traded Saturday, Wheat prices based on the Portland market were quoted as basis of the sales: soft and -western white, ap. proximately net, $1.21 and western red $1.17. F. o. b., soft and white western $1.23 and western red $1.19, Order To Go Ahead On Owyhee Ordered Washington. Secretary Wilbur said that he had instructed Commissioner Mead to proceed with the program of development on the Owyhee river near Ontario, Or. The Owyhee project was among those inspected by Secretary Wilbur on his recent trip to the west and is the largest of the government's Irri gation developments. There was some doubt in the mind of Secretary Wil bur whether the program should be carried out on account of the -high cost per acre which would be assessed against the water users on Jh? project- This doubt, the secretary said, had been removed by a careful study of the project which indicated that it wan economically sound. Mpney for the completion of the de velopment will come from the recla mation fund through the usual ap propriation procedure. Grows Seed Pas Weston Leader: H. H. Northrop, who farms the old Lum Pambrun place and conducts a ranch dairy on Reservation mountain, bas gone in for seed peas this yea, Mr. Kqrh rup, who was (n, owpf Saturday, said that f3 5J'-acri field pf pegs is look ing very fin? indeed and promises a much jarger yield than a first ven ture usually warrants. The vines are thriving and more than knee high. If everything continues to go well, Mr. Northrup expects a yield of between 30 and 40 bushels per gcr$, Corvallis schedules. Schneider Hears Judge Pronounce Sentence Walla Walla. George Schneider, convicted of murder for the slaying of his wife Betty on March 31 this year, calmly listened in superior court when Judge John L. Sharpstein sentenced him to be hanged at the state prison August 23, three weeks from next Friday. 1 However, Schnei der's attorney H. B. Noland has an nounced that the case will be appeal ed, which will stay the execution. Schneider's motion for a new trial, based mainly on the contention that one juror went insane, and another had previously expressed prejudice, was denied by Judge Sharpstein. Schneider was convicted of slaying his wife with a meat cleaver follow ing a quarrel. Bacon We make a specialty of Cakes and Cookies for Camping Parties. The best vegetables and fruits in season, Continues to be our specialty Always fresh, and well selected. F ' STEVE'S GROCERY Quality Quantity, Service. Phone 171. Athena, Oregon , - a a m a a : Prune Growers Ask Farm Board For Aid Request to the federal farm board to take steps to relieve the situation regarding the marketing of fresh prunes in the northwest has been made by Senator McNary, Oregon, at the request of R. H. Kipp, manager agricultural marketing department of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Kipp told of this in a letter re ceived at the Chamber of Commerce office. Senator McNary, he wrote. had telegraphed his . secretary at Washington, asking him to take up immediately with the bureau of eco nomics this matter, so that the farm board will be asked to do something "not only for this year but to pre pare a better way for next year." ' THE KILGORE CAFE UNEXCELLED FOUNTAIN SERVICE Cold Drinks Ice Cream in all Flavors in Bulk, Bricks and Cones Gerald Kilgore, Proprietor - p. Athena, Oregon ' Fined For Speeding P. W. Wallace, freight truck driver, was up in Justice Howton's court, Freewater, Saturday and was . fined $100 and costs on a charge of speed ing. Wallace was arrested recently by Merle Anderson, state traffic of ficer, after he, had driven his truck along the highway at a speed said to be in excess of 60 miles an hour. C. C. Proebstel, district attorney, nrose- cuted the case. Injured In Fall Bert Redding, 57-year-old packer who lives on the Walla Walla river is in a serious condition at a Wal la Walla hospital. His horse fell over a 30-foot cliff and he suffeerd a bro ken pelvis and numerous injuries, Boy Scouts from Camp Rotary were summoned, bandaged the wounded man with splints, and placed him on a stretcher on which he was carried four miles to a waiting car. Twenty boys took turns carrying the stretch er. Burgle r Gt Years Each Arthur- Shaefer and Curtis Good win, nf Portland were each sentenced to serve three years in the state peni tentiary Saturday when they pleaded guilty to burglary, .charges. Sentence was imposed upon them by James Al ger Fee in the circuit court. Good. win and Shaefer were arrested in Hermiston early this month after they attempted to escape from officers when caught in an attempt to rob a store there. It Pays to Look Well! To look well yoa ahonld keep your hair properly cut your ace shaved and massaged In fact everything in the Barber line. Ume In and see Herb Parker' and me. Penn Harris Barber Shop Agency for Troy Laundry and Twin City Sanitary Cleaners,, Phone 683. Trail Pageant a Success The Sunset Trail pageant celebra tion in Eugene last week was a fi nancial success and receipts will to tal no less than $30,000, according to Hugh Rosson, pageant manager. Eu gene business men underwrote the af fair and it is now estimated that they will have to pay nothing on their pledges. . ' Rev. Robins Resigns Dr. William H. Robins, pastor of the First Baptist church, has resign ed the Pendleton pastorate after five years of ministry. Dr. Robins as sumed the pastorate September 1, 1924, and had been in the field long er than any other Baptist minister in Pendleton for some years. DR. BLATCHFORD Dentist Post Building, Athena, Phone 582 Dr. W. Boyd Whyte CHIROPRACTOR Stangier Building, Phone 706 Pendleton, Oregon. 957 J PETERSON & LEWIS Attorneys at Law Stangier Building, Pendleton, Oregon. Practice in all State and Federal . Courts. WATTS A PRESTBYE Attornejs-At-Law Main Street. Athena, Oregon State and Federal Court Practice RELIABLE WATCH REPAIRING Main St II. H. HILL Athena Farmers Grain Elevator Company Grian and Feed SPECIAL A Full Line of Sperry's Chick Feed Phone 382 LEE WILSON, M'gr. I THE ATHENA MARKET I B -fev 153 e carry e kes I Meat I That Mney Buys I Kippered Sataon, all Kinds of Salt Fish. Fresh I Fish, Oysters, Crabs, Clams, Kraut in Season. A. W. LOGSDON I Main Street Athena, Oregon. 1 HOW ABOUT THIS ONE 35 acres,' well located, well Improv ed, fine home, priced right with lib eral terms. Several good wheat ranches as well B. B. RICHARDS, Athena. - - .. .-. ... WEBSTER'S WALNUT Dining Room Sets Prices' Right Just Received Come and See Them Walnut and Mahogany (New) Upholstered Rockers New and Latest in Window Shades N. A. MILLER, Furniture and Undertaking I