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Newspaper Page TextA 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, aa Second-Class Mall Matter VOLUME 50. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1929 NUMBER 35 HOOVER S IDEA A HELP TO OREGON Schools Would Benefit By Federal Land Transfer To State. Portland. In the opinion of the Morning Oregonian, the transfer of ; the 193,000,000 acres . of unentered homestead" lands to the states in which they are located, as proposed Monday by President Hoover and made public before the western gov ernors at Salt Lake City, would give Oregon unexpected the much needed support for its public schools and educational institutions. . Sales of public lands netted the federal government only $700,000 during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and all the money received went into the reclamation fund. Under state ownership the lands could be leased to stock growers and sold to people desirous of obtaining farms and made to ; work for the school fund. Under the policy now in vogue, the federal government ob tains no rentals from the vacant lands and they are grazed at will by cowmen and sheepmen. In Portland reaction toward Presi dent Hoover's proposal centered about his plan for continuation of the recla mation policy which the federal gov ernment has followed for more than 25 years. His "suggestion that the reclama tion service build dams and reser voirs and permit the states to con struct canals and ditches and carry forward the land settlement work aroused interest among those who have been active in getting the gov ernment at Washington to back Ore gon irrigation projects. Of late years the bulk of the money accruing to the reclamation fund has been derived from payments re ceived from settlers on the water con tracts and from royalties on oil lands .... In. some circles it is believed that the president anticipates that returns from oil royalties and the sale of power would pay construction cost of dams and reservoirs. At the rec lamation service office in Portland it was said that cost of dams and res ervoirs in proportion, to total costs on western reclamation projects runs from 1Q to 50 per cent. The reclamation service has ex pended piore than $6,000,000 on irri gation projects in Oregon and will put another $19,000,000 into the Owyhee project before it is complet ed. On the Owyhee the cost of the dam will represent about one-third of the total cost, it was said at the recla mation service office. , Agitation looking to the acquire ment of all public lands, mineral rights, water resources and national foests by the western states has been going on for several years. In his statement to the governors at Salt Lake City President Hoover made it clear that he did not contemplate asking congress to gjve the western states any of the four resources, exr eept the unoccupied homestead lands. , , . , failure tf tn federal govern ment tP obtain rental from the use of vacant lands, coupled with the fact that homesteading h89 practically ceased, is believed by many to have caused President Hoover to lay his proposal before the government at Salt Lake City. A large proportion of the revenues accruing to some of the western states for support of their schools comes from interest on sales of school lands and from graz ing fees received from stockmen who use lapds given he western "states a$'ths time thtiy were admitted tp the union, Liquor Carrying Charge Members of the sheriff's force and prohibition officers arrested Neil "Moon" Mullins of Walla Walla, at Milton, Monday on the charge of transporting liquor. A quantity of whiskey was seized and the coupe he was driving confiscated. His bail was. set at $250Q. Wnf ladders Retyped City officials want gll ladders be longing to the fire department re turned at once to the fire station at City Hall. The Udders . hav been taken from the station, and when the department answered the fire alarm Tuesday afternoon, they were found missing. Dr. Sharp Belter Dr. S. F. Sharp who has been ser iously ill in a hospital at Walla Walla, is reported to be considerably better, and if he continues to improve, will be. brought to his' home in this; rity. - .-..- -. . " Condition Remains Serious The condition of Mrs. Thomas De Freece.who is hf "WaU Walla hos pital remain critical, and ft u re ported that little hope for her re overy regains. Chase Garfield Doesn't 1 Understand Mr. Kelly, His Former Ranch Hand Chase Garfield frankly says that he does not understand his former hired man Kelly, who in Mr. Gar field's absence took a new farm truck and left it in Walla Walla, where it was recovered by officials. When Mr. Garfield went to the coast, leaving Kelly in charge of the ranch, he owed the man $75 in wages. Kelly refused offer of money from Mr. Gar field, stating that he would not need it before his employer returned. That Kelly was a hard working man is Vouched for by Mr. G&rfield, who states that he is the best worker he has ever had on the ranch. That the fellow seemed tohave employer's interests at heart is recorded in an act in defending a - team of horses from abuse at the hands of another laborer. Kelly vehemently remon strated with the man for his unnec essary roughness in handling the team. . It is believed that Kelly was lit up with booze, when he lit out with the truck. At Walla Walla he is alleged to have passed bad checks there. He posed as a big farmer and had a stock owner bring' a bunch of mules to town for his inspection, his alleg ed intention being, to purchase them. The Garfield truck is in it's own er's possession, having been return ed to the ranch from Walla Walla. It is a new Ford truck, purchased at the beginning of harvest, and is none the worse for its recent spin to the garden city. .'; , , Washington Farm Seeded By Plane In Fast Time ..ii. i. -i, Bellingham, Wash., Speeding at the rate of 95 miles an hour an air plane seeded 160 acres of land on Lunimi island yesterday in an hour and 40 minutes, it was learned here. Graham was assisted by - W, A. Granger, owner of the land, who fed the) seed to the air from a sack in a six-inch stream, using about 800 pounds of seed. The plane flew about 500 feet off the ground and seed was fed through an open door in the cock pit. : . " i , Granger said it would have taken him and his two boys 14 days to have done the job by hand, and he claims the airplane method was cheaper. The quarter section was seeded with alfalfa, timothy, elover and or chard grass, Granger said. Believe It Or Not Under this head the East Oregon ian publishes a story to the effect that a man an4 a 17-year-old boy cut 30 to 40 acres of grain a day and hauled 500 to 800 bushels to an ele vator, 12 miles away. The man, O. W. Cutsforth; the boy, Donald Point er; place, Cutsforth ranch, Morrow county. Young Pointer drove the tractor, tended header and looked after general working conditions of the combine, to which a 70-bushel bulker was attached. Ben Dupuis Is Dead -.. Ben Dupuis, well known to Umatil la county people, $ie$ in the United States Veteran's hospital at Portland, Monday, after a lingering illness. He is survived by his widow, who was formerly Miss Maude Bryson of Wes ton; two brothers, Charles Dupuis of Adams, and Fred Pupuis fif Wes ton; two sisters, Mrs. L. L. Rogers and Mrs. William Kupgra. of Pendle ton. " Mr. Dupuis grew to manhood in Weston. Of late years he conduct ed a cigar store in Pendleton. Will Hold Services Sunday Charles A. Sias, who is returning to Athena after an absence of 3p years to again take up the pastorate of the local Christian' church, is exr pected to arrive here today frorn Myrtle Creek, Oregon. He announ ces that he will hold both morning and evening services at the Church of Christ, next Sunday. Apple Harvest Soon Apples are coloring slowly this fall, due to the warm nights, but will probably be ready to be picked by the end of the first week of Septem, ber provided tbe"usual humfcef of cqoj nights and sunshiny days fall to Y'a: la Walla's allotment, "'according t John W. Langtjom. of the Baker $ Langdon orchards, Office Headquartera Changed The headquarters office of the Con tinental Oil Company, of which Bryce Baker is the local agent, has been moved from Spokane to Butte, Mon tana. The office force at Spokane was transferred to Butte last week. The change is made to better faciliate distributing service by the company: Liverpool Police to Use Shields Athena Schools Open Tuesday, September 3 For the Year's Work ..... J' nvr-CTw.,-' Policemen ol Liverpool, England, with Hie new shields p-.o-i-iilitl in force by Robert Gladstone, the inventor. The shields are intended tor use la fighting armed bandits. ,. r?. ,.. Bean Harvesting . Harvesting the bean crop on the lower lands has beeq completed and this week"the "machines "and crews are threshing on the uplands, south east of Athena." TL cleaning plant I in Athena is working continuously and shipments of beans in carload, lots have been routed to IndianoDlii. Ijnaiani, Veteran Librarian i4 4 4 Glen Moore, Hermiston, Shoots and Kills Father Heistand Moore. Farmer M. H. Douglass, who has just com pleted his twentieth year as the ljbrar lan at the University of Qipgon.; D.ur ing his service the use of the librao ha jncrease4 until several sub-Iibrar ies have been opened ovpr the campus and the mail tuildias iq fillc to r pacity.'' Steve's Grocery Sold To i Former Walla Walla Man C. E. O. Montague, cousin of L. L. Montague, former Athena resident and present mayor of Arlington,: has purchased Steve's Grocery store and has been in charge of the store since Friday of last week. - , ' Mr. Montague comes, ., to Athena from Walla Walla, where for two years he was in the grocery depart ment of the Breier company. He has been with that company - for nine years, and was at the Pendleton store before going to Yalla Walla, ' Mrs. jVIontague and tw children of school age will join Mr, Montague in Athena this weekt Miller Family At Home M. I. Miller, wife and two sons are home from Cheney, Wash,, where Mr. Miller finished his normal course and received his . diploma. The family spent the summer at 'Cheney, where the boys attended training schooj part t'Tie. Two weeks agq, accom panied ty Mr. Miller's parents they made It 2000'mile automobile trip in to Canada, where they visited . .all points of interest. Dog Show Attraction A sporting dog show has been ad ded as a new feature to the WaHst Walla county fair to he he,ld Septem ber 5, 6, and 7, according to Charles Baker, general' secretary of the fair board. Charles Bjumber wilj be superintendent, of "this, division of the fair which wilj be for pedigreed spor ting dogs only, with the ntries limit ed to English setters and pointers. Dinner Postponed The dinner that was announced to be served next Sunday at the Chris tian church in honor of the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Sias, has been post poned to the following Surtda.' At that time- a potluck dinner will be served, when- all members of the con gregation and friends interested are invited to come and bring a contri bution to the viands. ' ' flain SjmuV irouth Rain came a( last to spoil the record of a 70-day drouth in Eastern Oregon, Sunday evening. Practical ly all of Umatjlla county was favor ed with small rainfall, enough how ever, to clarify the atmosphere and isdjfroVe Itfr&t WrftfltidnS. - - The East Oregonian gives an ac count of a terrible tragedy enacted at Hermiston, Tuesday night, when Glen Moore, 14, shot and killed his father, Heistand Moore a well known rancher. " The boy gave himself up at the sheriff's office and told officers that he shot his father because he was in toxicated and had been quarreling with his mother and threatened to strike her. With a 12 gauge shot gun in his hands, young Moore went into the bedroom where his father and mother were quarreling. Excited and ner vous, the boy fired two shots directly at his father, one tearing his right elbow to bits and the other "Crushing his right wrist and penetrating his abdomen. As soon as the shots had been fired, the boy rushed out of the house, got into his father's car and drove to the Neil Robertson place three miles away where he told his aunt, Kate Robertson, that he had shot his father, Mr,, and Mrs. Robertson went back to the Moore place with Glen and brought . Heistand Moore to the hospital where he died about mid night. - "We went to Umatilla yesterday afternoon," Glen Moore tells the East Oregonian, "and as we were re turning, father began to quarrel with mother. I was driving the ear and as soon as father started in quarrel ing, I speeded, up to get home quick er. " ' ' ; ''When we got home I told mother to go right to bed. She was operat ed on not long ago. and hasn't been real well. She went into the bed room and went to bed. ...We - both tried to get father to stop arguing and we wanted him to be agreeable, but he wouldn't reason with us." Glen, a bright youngster, sobbed as he told of getting his shot gun and stepping up to the door of the bed room. ' . " , "Father's quarreling got en my nerves, and I became excited. I got the shotgun, and went to the door of the bedroom. There was no light in the room, itself, but a light in th bathroom Wde It possible for me to see father standing there beside mother's bed. "I fired two shots, one after the other, I didn't want to end father's life, but I did want him to stop quart reling with mother. "I was excited stn.d wared then, so I ran out, of the house telling her I ha shot father We went Qve.r tq Aunt Kate's and went back to the house and got father- and brought hint to the hospital He talked some on the way to Pendleton, but I could n't understand what he was saying. ; "Father and mother had quarreled before. Not to much when father was sober, but he was sometimes mean to mother when he was drunk. He drank some whiskey when we were at Umatilla yesterday and he. was pretty drunk when w got home." ' " Called To Portland ... Joueph N. Scott has been called to Portland to be at the bedside of bis sister Mrs. Retta Potta, of thla eity, who was operated on for relief from stomach trouble. Mrs. Potts and daughter Myrtle, recently came from California to Portland, ' Grand Jury Called The circuit court has issued a call for the grand jury to meet at Pendle ton September 9 to investigate pend ing criminal cases. The September term of circuit court will open Sep tember 20, . , - .. - Athena high school, and the grade schools will open next Tuesday to be gin the year s work. . E. E. Coad comes from southern Idaho to take over the superinten dency of the high school and to be the principal of the grade schools. He was at University of Oregon for the summer taking a special course there. , ' The high school faculty this year is comprised of Mr. . Coad, . Harold Fredrick, Miss Brodie, Mrs. Gurney arid Miss. Beulah Smith. Mrs. Gurney (Areta Littlejohn) is a graduate of Athena high school and the "Univer sity of Oregon. She has previously taught in the high schools of Marsh field and Haines, Oregon. - Miss Smith is a graduate of University of Oregon, and resides at Island City. In the grades, Miss Bryant will again have the primary department. Miss Thorsen will instruct the third and fourth . grade pupils , again this year. Mrs, Rominger comes to Ath ena for her third year's work in the fifth, and sixth grades. Milton I. Miller will have the seventh and eighth grades and will coach ath letics. Miss Mildred Bateman,- member of the high school - faculty ' for two years resigns her position here to accept social welfare work in Portland. United Quits Coupons, Use Newspaper Space For years the United Cigar Stores Co,, has used little or no advertising beyond the distribution of coupons redeemable in marchandise. Recently the company announced it had discontinued the coupon giv ing, and would start newspaper ad vertising as the result of an adver tising experiment by which, through newspaper space, 200,000 customers were added on the Pacific coast in one month. On May 24 the new merchandising policy,- with newspaper advertising, was put into effect all over the country. : : ,, "The result for the first week," said A. C. Allen, vice-president of the company, "was to bring in approxi mately 500,000 additional customers to the United Cigar Stores. The abo lition of tho coupon form of merchan dising will result in a saving of ap proximately 3,500,000 a year, part of which sum will be turned over to a permanent increase in the use of newspaper space." Receives Promotion' -Miss Hilda Dickenson, who has civen faithful service as chief operator in the Athena telephone exchange for several years, is in line for niomo. tion to the position of chief operator in the exchange at Arlington. Miss Dickenson has been receiving special instruction in the Pendleton exchange for the past two weeks in prepara tion for her duties at Arlington. She will take charee of the Arlington ex change Monday. Miss Edna De- Freece Will be chief onerator hnre. temporarily, and Miss Phyllis Dick enson will become a full time oper ator. ; . ' Ellen Henry Graduates Miss Ellen Henrv of Athena, teach er in the Boardman schools, gradu ated at Monmouth Normal school last night. Miss Henry, who was the honor pupil in her Athena high school graduating.class, attended Wil lamette University for two years, and was ai Monmouth for a two year course. She has been teaching at Boardman for two years and is go ing back for the coming year. After 14 months more of teachincr. Miss Henry will be eligible for a teacher's life diploma. "Three Week Ends" Clara Bow is coming to the Stan dard Theatre tomorrow and Sunday nights in Paramount s presentation of Elinor Glyn's "Three Week Ends." Miss Bow is supported in this superb photoplay by Neil Hamilton, Harri son Ford and Julia Swayne Gordon, with an excellent cast of Famous Players. News, sports reels and comedy are also on the program an exceptionally good one, at regular ad mission prices. Milton Saw Mill Burns , The saw mill of the Milton Box company was partially destroyed by fire Wednesday, entailing a loss esti mated at $35,000. The plant is own ed and operated by Harris Brothers, and logs for the null arc shipped from Gibbon. The engine room was saved and the box manufacturing plant was not burned. It is under stood no insurance was carried. The mill will be rebuilt at once. Ducks on McKay Lake Ducks are reported to be congre gating on McKay Lake, a game pre serve. A number of wild geese have lately come to the lake. The arrival of the water fowl in large numbers has led to predictions of an early winter. A Busy Season For the Farmers Grain Elevator Company Athena Plant The season of 1929 has been a busy one for the Farmers Grain Elevator company plant in Athena. In an ticipation of an increase over last season's business,, the company con structed a new addition to the ele vator, which increased storage ca pacity for bulk grain, 130,000 bushels. According to Manager Lee Wilson. it is well that the storage capacity was increased to that extent, for the big plant was taxed to care for all the grain offered for storage there, On one or two occasions toward the latter end of the threshing season, the bins were saved from overflow ing and consequently, the laying up of machines in the field, by making ship ments of carload lots to terminal points. Mr. Wilson informs the 'Athena Press Ihat there was received at the elevator a total of 427,000 bushels of bulk gram, 43,000 bushels of sacked grain, and that there is at the present time In storage at the elevator about 20,000 bushels of seed wheat. The seed treating department at the elevator will be in operation early next month, when seed wheat for sowing this fall will be run through the treating machines for the farm ers. . ;( , BARLEY FROM EAST Resolutions Passed At Local W.C.T.U. Meeting The W. C. T. U. held its monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. C. L. McFadden, Tuesday, with Mrs. W. O. Read, presiding in the absence of Mrs. Louis Keen. Fifteen members were present and the guests were Mrs. Sam Pambrun and Mrs. Velton Read. During the business' session, a num ber of interesting talks were given on ways and means of keeping school boys and girls from smoking cigar ettes while going through their for mative periods, also a resolution was passed condemning the use of girls and women's pictures on . bill board ada of cigarettes, and the secretary instructed to write each representa tive and senator from this district, acquainting them of the passing of this resolution and asking them at the coming session of the state Legis lature to support a bill making such advertising illegal. Delegates were appointed to attend the county convention to be held in Milton, September 5th. The members are requested to leave their articles for Childrens' Home Farm at Mrs. C. L. McFadden's home before September 1st. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Stella Keen on the last Tuesday in September. . Annual Dress Parade , And Round-Up Dance Pendleton. Put on your glad rags and come to Pendleton for the annual dress up parade and the big Round up opening dance Saturday night. All Pendleton is preparing for the big event when the gaudy shirts are taken out of their hiding places and the ten gallon hats are brushed up for three solid weeks of wear. E. C. "Ole" Olsen is making really elaborate preparations for the open ing dance, which Is to. be the sixth annual affair he has managed. Ole, by the way, is just the chairman of the Round-Up dance committee. Some 2500 square feet of floor space have been added to the great Happy Canyon dance floor and work men are busy now putting the floor in shape for the cowboy shuffle. Ole promises that there are sever al other dances to be pulled off be fore the Round-Up actually opens. Queen Kathleen McClintock will be introduced to an anxious public at the dance Saturday night. Back From Seaside Mr. and Mrs. Flint Johns and chil dren arrived home Monday evening from Seaside, Portland and Van couver, Wash., after an absence of a couple of weeks. They were accom panied home by Mrs. M. M. Johns, who attended the national convention of the Christian church at Seattle. Hood River Has Fire A disastrous fire swept through a portion of Hood River Monday, des troying seven buildings which caus ed property damage estimated at $250,000. The heaviest loss was sus tained by the Hood River canning company, which lost its entire plant valued at $175,000. Fire Hazard Renewed Renewal of torrid weather in west ern and eastern Washington put fire fighters on their guard again.. Two small fires were reported, one south west of Olympia and the other on Hood canal. Temperature Rises Again The last week of August has been marked with a hot wave. The mer cury went up around the 90 mark in Athfcna. , . -. , .... OFFERED PORTLAND Little of Product Is Now Raised In This Part Of the County. Time was when barley "was a major crop in this part of Umatilla county, but with the passing of horse and mule power on the ranches, here abouts, farmers have turned their en tire attention to wheat growing. The caterpillar has taken the place of mules and horses in farm work, and "cats" do not eat barley. In place of the rolled barley bin is now to be found gas tank and oil drums. Even the hay-strip around the edge of the wheat field is no more on some of the ranches all gone to wheat. With the present conditions the barley market has also undergone a marked change, On the coast the market is quiet as the result of a dull export inquiry. The English market is weak with slow demand and prices generally lower. Domestic de mand is Only fair. Few export sales were made at Sah Francisco during the week of the choicest types and cheap feed barley, reported C. F. Huffman of the Port land branch of the grain and feed di vision, bureau of agricultural eco nomics. Inquiry from the poultry and dairy interests has reported fair, reflecting in part the relative cheap ness of barley compared to other feeds. Few cars of eastern barley from Kansas and Colorado were re ceived last week and were taken by rolled barley millers. Receipts for the week ending August 22 at San Francisco totaled 15,167 tons. Offerings of eastern barley at rather attractive prices dominated the Portland market, No. 2 eastern barley was quoted here at $1.58, No. 3, $1.55 and No. 4, $1.50 per 100 pounds in bulk. Willamette valley barley was nominally quoted at $1.65, sacked, but supplies were very limit- Eastern barley markets were weak with prices lower. Early receipts from the new crop from northern Iowa, southern Minnesota and south eastern South Dakota were of better quality for malting purposes than last year, the test weight was good with only a small amount weather stained. The balance of the crop in the Dakotas may be of fair to good quality, according to trade reports. The general lack of storage space and heavy movement of wheat has caused the northwestern railroads to place an embargo, effective at mid night, August 22, until August 31, on barley, oats and rye for the twin cities and points at the head of the lakes. . -Grain Growers Aided An additional credit of ten cents a bushel on unhedged grain in storage, over and above any loans accorded on the same grain by Federal interme diate credit banks, was given grain growers of the United States by the federal farm board. Announcement of the granting of this additional credit was made by Alexander Legge, chairman of the board, in connection with the meeting at Chicago of the organization committee of the Farm ers' National Grain corporation. A Trash Fire A trash fire burning in the alley on the south side of Main street got beyond control Tuesday afternoon. A fire alarm brought one of the hose teams of the fire department on the scene. A stream of water from the fire hose soon put out the blaze, which was threatening buildings along the alley. Grass was also burning in the vacant lot south of the alley, the flames nearly reaching a couple of bean harvesters. Turned Back By Fire F. B. Ridtke, Fred Radtke and Her bert Parker, were turned back from their fishing trip to the Yaak river in Montana on account of forest fires in that section. Conditions were such that travel was excluded from the fire zone. The party returned to Athena and left later for the Little Salmon river. Water Supply Normal Again The city water department reports a normal supply of water in the res ervoir again, and there aro no re strictions on use of water for lawn sprinkling. It was necessary to re strict use of water over last week end after the reservoir had been emp tied to be cleaned. Motored to Portland Mr. and Mrs. Will Kirk and Mr. and Mrs, Frank DeFrcece motored to Portland this week. v Dr. Geyer 111 Dr. Geyer has been seriously ill at Walla Walla this week, due to a seVel-d attack of lantfblitla.