THE PRESS, ATHENA, OREGON, OCTOBER 18, 1929X1: !'?
Shoe Repairing
As it Should
Be Done
Workmanship Guaranteed
Prices Right
A. J. Garner
Bell 5 Gray
Phone 593 -
Two Auto
Truck Drays
Always At Your Service
City and Country
Hauling
ICE
Press Paragraphs
. "The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu"
Standard Theatre, tomorrow night,
Bryce Baker has purchased a new
Ford truck.
Mrs. A. A. Kimball of Pendleton
was an Athena visitor Thursday.
: Frank Sloan, well , known sheep
raiser of Stanfield, was an Athena
visitor, Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McPherson and
Mr. and Mrs. W. 0. Read were in
Pendleton, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Velton Read and Mrs,
W. 0. Read were visitors in Walla
Walla last Friday. -
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baking
POWDER
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FECIALS
4 Rolls Toilet Paper ............... ,23c
2 Packages Shredded Wheat .23c
2 Cans Cut String Beans .......... . ,39c
2 Cans Dill Pickles .49c
3 Cans Sardines 25c r
The Quality Grocery
Phone 561
Alice Eager, Prop.
Don't forget this is
CANDY WEEK
October 13 to 19
and Saturday is SWEETEST DAY the great
day of job-bringing to others when you give
somebody something that everybody wants
CANDY the gift universal. We are head
quarters for all that's best in candies.
McFADDEN'S PHARMACY
Open for Business
Having purchased the R. A. Thompson Garage
we have opened up the shop for auto and gas engine
repairing. If your car or engine won't run let us
fix it. Prices as cheap as in the city. All work
guaranteed. Storage. Also handle Veedol oils, Sport
ing goods, Radio Tubes and Batteries, Auto Parts,
Weed Chains. Cars Greased, Tube Repairing, Bat
teries recharged.
L. A. Cornell
Athena, Oregon - - - - Phone 471
Reduction In Electric
Light Rates
The following reduction in Electric light rates will
be in effect on and after March 15, 1929:
Residential Rates
First 30 KWH hours used, per month....lOc per KWH
Excess over 30 KWH used, per month....3c per KWH
The above rates apply when bills are paid in full within 10 days
from date of bill. Otherwise, the rate will be increased by 10 per
cent on each item.
Commercial Rates
First 100 KWH used per month
Next 200
Next 800...........
Next 400 ..5c per KWH
Next 1000 : .. .4c per KWH
Excess over 2000..... 3c per KWH
The above rates apply when bills are paid in full within 10 day
from date of bill. Otherwise, the rate will be increased by 10 per
cent on each item.
Preston-Shaffer Milling Company
..10c per KWH
7c per KWH
..6c per KWH
Mr. and Mrs. Marion O'Harra of
Weston were in Athena the fore part
of the week.
Mrs. Fred Kershaw has been quite
ill with an attack of influenza but is
some what improved.
Mr. and Mrs. Alf Coppock are down
from Colfax visiting relatives in the
Athena neighborhood.
John Pinkerton is registered at Ore
gon State College, where he is taking
a special electrical course.
Verne Dudley drove down from his
ranch near Dayton, Wednesday, and
spent the day in Athena.
Miss Marjorie Booher came over
from Walla Walla and visited rem
tives and friends in Athena.
Mrs. Glenn Dudley, Mrs. Henry
Koepke, Jr.,' and Mrs. Ralph McEwen
were Walla Walla visitors Monday,
Mrs. Glenn Dudley and Mrs. Henry
Koepke were at the Country Club
luncheon in Walla Walla Thursday.
Ross Maloney was in the city Mon
day evening. He is a traveling sales
man with headquarters at Walla Wal
la. .
Mrs. W. S. Ferguson is visiting her
daughter Mrs. Horace Belnap at
Nampa, Idaho, leaving here Sunday
night. v v
'SlinV' Lang, Armond Bell and H.
A; Street and son-in-law have left on
a deer hunting trip in the vicinity of
loiigate.
Dorvan Phillips is driving a new
Chevrolet sedan. The car is a beau
tiful shade of dark red and is the
latest model.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kirk and
daughter, Areta, have returned home
from a week's visit with relatives at
Brownsville.
A. L. Swaggart is here from Port
land, and will remain at his ranch
north of town until seeding operations
are completed.
The Methodist Ladies Missionary
society will meet at the home of Mrs.
Ross Catron next Wednesday after
noon, October 23. -
Miss Helen Hansell came down
from Washington State College and
spent the week-end at the home of
her parents, here.
Mrs. J. W. Pinkerton spent Thurs
day and Friday of last week at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Maurice
Frazier, at Milton.
George Strand, salesman of the
"iron fireman" for Smythe-Barthel
company of Pendleton, was a business
visitor in Athena yesterday.
Jim Estes, Guy Matlock and J. N.
Scott came up from Pendleton and
hunted pheasants on the Scott ranch,
west of Athena, Wednesday. ,
Dr. and Mrs. D. V. Johnson of The
Dalles, were Sunday guests of Dr.
and Mrs. Blatchford. They motored
back to The Dalles Sunday evening.
Weston Leader: Mrs. Vern Smith
was brought home Friday evening
from Walla Walla, where she has been
receiving treatment at St. Mary s hos
pital.
Georire Ferguson, Pendleton fctuae-
baker salesman for the Foster-Richie
company, was in Athena Monday
driving one of the new model btude
bakers. Mrs. Cathren Cooley has returned
to her home in Astoria, after spend
ing a week in Athena, visiting her
mother, Mrs. Laura Froome, at the
Athena Hotel.
Mrs. Margaret Vessey, aunt of Wil
liam Potts and sister of John Walker,
was over from her home in Yakima,
and attended the funeral of the late
Mrs. Anna Potts.
Jim Gorman, old-time agricultural
implement dealer in Athena, was in
town yesterday. He is traveling sales
man for the Oliver Plow company, and
resides in Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Koepke who
have been visiting their son Henry
for Beveral weeks left for their home
in Glendale, California, Tuesday
morning, making the trip by motor.
Miss Glea Sias, teacher in the
Hermiston schools, was a week-end
srucst of her parents Mr. and Mrs.
C. A. Sias, at the Christian church
parsonage, returning to her school
Sunday.
Miss Dorothy Straughan of Pendle
ton was a week-end guest of Miss
Beulah Smith. Miss Straughan is a
popular teacher in the Adams High
school and is a college friend of Miss
Smith.
"Pike" Miller, Eldon Myrick, Emory
Rogers, Arthur Crowley and Jack
Moore will form a party which will go
to Pullman tomorrow to witness the
W. S. C-Washington University foot
ball game.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Koepke, Jr.,
were among those motoring to Walla
Walla to attend the Moroni Olson
players presentation of "The Twelve
Thousand" at the Keylor Grand,
Wednesday night. .
Charles Mays has been here for the
past week from Portland, visiting at
the home of his sister Mrs. Jennie
Barrett. Mr. Mays formerly resided
in Wallowa county, where he has
farming interests.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Allen are plan
ning to move to their wheat ranch
recently purchased near Bonners
Ferry, Idaho. Lawrence Mclntyre of
this city, has leased the Allen wheat
ranch West of Athena.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kershaw, ac
companied by Mrs. Lew McNair, left
Wednesday morning for Ontario, Mrs.
McNair will visit relatives and friends
at Ontario and Payette, while Mr. and
Mrs. Kershaw will go on to Gooding,
Idaho, to spend a few days with their
daughter, Frederic.
Captain and Mrs. C. rrestbye, of
Kalispel, Montana, are in Athena vis
iting at the home of their son, E. C.
Prestbye. Accompanied by Mr. and
Mrs. E. C. Prestbye, they will enjoy
a motor trip to Seattle and other
Sound points. They were met at
Spokane by their son and daughter-in-law,
the fore part of the week,
coming to Athena by automobile.
- Miss Dorothy Brodie ' spent the
week-end in Walla Walla where she
was the guest of Miss Sadie Coe.
Miss Coe and Miss Brodie attended
University of Oregon together..
The Weston Leader reports pro
gress in the road work on the Mc-Dougal-Tollgate
sector of the Weston-Elgin
highway. According to re
ports, the contractors expect to have
the grading finished by November 10.
Mrs. Delbert Barger and little
daughter, Mrs. Phillip Yenney and
Mrs. Leslie Shelton of Walla Walla,
and Mrs. Nat Kimball, of Pendleton,
were entertained at the home of Mrs.
Bert Logsdon, last Friday.
Mrs. Alma Koontz who has been
the house guest of Mrs. Henry Dell
for a fortnight left here Sunday eve
ning. She visited her neice Jeanette
Elder at her home west of Pendleton
leaving for Portland Tuesday morn
ing. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Hawkins of
Tacoma are visiting at the home of
Mrs. Hawkins parents. Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Pittman. The young couple
were recently married in Seattle and
are being greeted by a host of friends
here. "
Meeting on Thursday evening of
last week with delegates from the
Masonic lodges of Pendleton, Pilot
Rock, Helix, Milton and Athena, dis
trict deputy Grand Master W. P.
Folsom organized a Master Warden
Society.
Captain and Mrs. Seeley of Seattle
have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. E.
A. Dudley at their summer home at
Bingham for the past week yester
day they motored to the Verne Dud
ley home near Dayton for a brief
visit. ; .. ,
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Ball and; family
have moved down from their moun
tain ranch east of Weston, and are
occupying the farm house on the Wil
laby place west of Athena. The chil
dren have entered the Athena grade
schools. : ,
Fay LeGrow and Everett Rothrock
returned from the Selway district in
Idaho where they went on an elk
hunting trip. The season is the dry
est for many years in that country,
making successful hunting out of the
question. T
Mr. and Mrs. George Ayres of Wal-
lula and their guest, Mrs. Jacob
Proebstel of Portland, were dinner
guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Flint Johns Sunday. Mrs. Proebstel
is a sister of Mrs. M. M. Johns, and
will visit here soon.
Rev. and Mrs. D. E. Baker of Eu
gene, parents of Bryce Baker, are ex
pected here in a few days to visit at
the home of their son. Rev. Baker
was formerly pastor of the Baptist
church in Athena and now has the
pastorate of the Baptist church at
Junction City.
Mrs. Dan P. Smythe of Pendleton,
who is Well known in Athena, was
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uiiiwsu in marriage yesieruay morning
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CABINET.
BUM I SIM I
Just Received
Sparklimg New Line
Bedroom Slippers
For Men and Women, direct from the east. They
come in Red, Blue, Green and Buckskin colors, Price
x ".Another shipment jot new Fall House Dresses at .
$1.95
5 per cent Discount for Cash
Athena Department Store
Phone 152
to Dr. E. W. St Pierre, a well known
Portland physician. The wedding
ceremony took place at the home of
the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Lowell Kern, 98 Floral Ave., Portland.
The couple will take a wedding tour
of two weeks through California.
Claude Dickenson ' has leased the
T. P. DeFreece farm north of Ath
ena. Claude will cooperate with his
father, Sims Dickenson, in farm
operations, and Mrs. Dickenson and
he will occupy the farm house on the
Sims Dickenson place on Gerking
Flat, to facilitate this arrangement.
Ralph and Edwin McEwen who are
attending Whitman college are out
for intramural football. They re
ceived favorable comment in Walla
Walla and college papers following
the first game of the season played by
the Sigma Chis and Zates last Thurs
day. The Sigs play the Betas next
Thursday afternoon.
Members of the Athena Etude club
who enjoyed special music in the as
sembly hall of the Eastern Oregon
State Hospital at Pendleton recently,
included Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Eager,
Mrs. Lloyd Michner, Mrs. Louis Stew
art, Mrs. Bryce Baker, Mrs. A. W.
Douglas and Mr. and Mrs. Laurence
Pinkerton.
During the social hour of the Bap
tist Missionary meeting at the coun
try home of Mrs. Jesse Gordon Wed
nesday afternoon the members honor
ed Miss Belle Anderson with a bridal
shower. A huge basket decorated in
Hallowe'en colors and filled with at
tractive gifts was presented to the
honoree to whom the occasion was a
complete surprise. Mrs. Emmett Lee
and Mrs. Roy Cannon served a dainty
collation at the tea hour.
(. lm. Western Newspaper Union.)
The world ! ailed with folly and
sin,
And love must cling where It
can, I ay:
But Beauty li easy enough to win:
But one isn't loved every day,
Bulwer Litton.
CAKES FOR THE PICNIC
No picnic Is complete without a va
riety of cakes. Small ones are most
convenient for serving
and liked t o best
Oatmeal Macaroons.
Take one and three-1
fourths cupfuls of rolled
oats, put through the
meat grinder after
browning well in tbe
oven, add one teaspoon
ful of salt, one-half cup
ful of sugar and one ta-
blespoonful of butter,
blended with the sugar. Flavor with
vanilla and add a beaten egg. Drop
by spoonfuls on a baking sheet and
bake until crisp In a hot oven.
Raisin Drop Cakes. Take four ta
blespoon fuls of shortening, one cupful
of sugnr, one ben ten egg, two-thirds
of a cupful of milk, one and three
fourths cupfuls of flour, three tea
spoonfuls of baking powder, salt and
one beaten egg,' one cupful of seeded
raisins, one tenspoonful of vanilla.
Cream the shortening; add sugar;
wlieri well blended add the beaten egg
and milk nllernntely with the flour
which luis been well sifted with the
dry Ingredients. Bake In small cake
tins. Sprinkle with sugar before plac
ing In the oven.
Chocolate Cookies. Cream one-half
cupful of shortening, add one cupful
of sugnr, one well beaten egg, one
fourth tCiispoonful of salt, two ounces
of melted chocolate, two and one-half
cupfuls of Hour, two teaspoonfuls of
baking powder and oue-fourth cupful
of milk.
Butter Wafers. Take one cupful of
butler, two cupfuls of sugar, two well
ben ten eggs, one-third of a cupful of
milk, one-fourth tenspoonful of soda,
flavor with vanilla, add flour enough
to roll very thin. Cut Into rounds and
bake In n hot oven. Sprinkle with
sugar before buklng.
Drop Cookies. Take one cupful of
sliiuteiilng, two cupfuls of sugar, five
cupfuls of (lour, one cupful of sour
cream, three eggs, two teaspoonfuls
of baking powder, salt and flavoring.
Mix and drop with a teaspoon and
flatten with a tumbler dipped to sug
ar. Add nuts If deslreL
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