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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1930)
THE PRESS, ATHENA, OREGON.. JANUARY 31, 1030 ! Y. Your Neighbor . The Red & White Store Owner - -IN VITES YOUR PATRONAGE The personal owner service accorded you at the Red & White Store is an advantage not offered by corporation owned chains. Here you find, not only lower prices, but courtesy and quality which combine to make a grocery service that is modern and complete. ' i-. v., - ...;.,,,,.,, .. . T V'" SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY AND MONDAY Serv-Us Coffee, 1-lb bags 40c Church Grape Juice, . Qt. and 1 bottle Certo 83c Crystal White Soap 10 for 39c Serv-Us Red Kidney Beans, No. 2 tin 2 for 27c . Serv-Us Chili Con Carne 3 for 47c Serv-Us Salmon 1-lb flat 2 for 73c Peacock Buckwheat and 1 Qt. jug Serv-Us . C. & M. Syrup 83c Fancy Golden Bantam Corn, No. 2 tin 4 for 83c Standard Western Corn No. 2 tin 6 for 69c SPECIAL CAKE Black Walnut '' -v, -.- 49c Kerr's 3-lb pkg Oats 25c . ED MONTAGUE PHONE 171 Continental Oil Company Always at Your Service Athena Service Station . . Gas, Oils, Greasing Automobile Assessories Tires BRYCE BAKER, Prop. .Athena, .'..'-Phone 761 Drop " your winter driving worries here - - - By Zerba Dangerous days are ahead for slippery, smoothworn, easily punctured tires. Drive in and see us about new Goodyear's. We will demonstrate and prove to you the tread and carcass superiority in Goodyears superiority made possible at no extra cost to you, by reason of Goodyear's factory production being nearly TWICE that of any other company. Here too more people ride on Tires than on any other kind All Sizes All Types All Prices High Quality at Low Cost in the Famous - n it Pathfinder JVr Save on all sizes. Free Mounting ATHENA GARAGE Athena, Oregon TO BE DESIGNATED AS STATEtilGHWAV Passing of Toll Gate Road To the State Highway Department. (From the Elgin Recorder, The Elgin-Weston road will, with in the next few wppVr. he Hesi printed by the highway commission of the state of Oregon, as the Elgin-Weston state hisrhwav. is the belief of the group of Union County representa- . , i i . it. ! lives wno anenaea me meeting 01 me state highway commission and United States forestry officials in Portland last Thursday. A written petition signed by tne county judges 01 union, Wallowa and Umatilla counties was filed with the rnmrtiisRion. gettiner forth the reasons why the road should be made a state highway ana improv ed. Anions those in attendance at the meeting were H. H. Weather- spoon and Arthur Hallgarth of Elgin and from La Grande, U. G. Couch, j countv iudce: W. W. Stevens and W. R. Ledbetter, county commissioners. A deed from the company wnicn held the franchise on the Tollgate road, and drawn in favor of the State Highway Department was presented at the meeting, and constituted the imnortant sten in assurinz the desie- nation of the forty mile cut-off be tween the town of Elgin and Weston a state highway. . Mr. Weatherspoon and Mr. Hall garth, returned to their homes last week-end with a feeling of entire sat isfaction over the manner - in which their suggestions were received, and with the prospect of securing state expenditure on the section of road lying this side of the old tollgate. A survey of the road was practically promised for the coming summer, and Mr. Weatherspoon expressed the opin ion on returning that the slashing will also be done during the summer. Grading and surfacing will then fol low as soon as the state highway of ficials and the Bureau of Public Roads order it. In presenting the arguments at the Portland meeting, the necessity for the road was first shown to be self evident, proven by the fact that about fifty years ago a franchise was given the Woodard Wagon Road, company to build a road practically along we same route the road is proposed to be hnilt which has been maintained up to a short time ago as a toll road, but due to improved methods ol, trans nnrtatinn renuirinsr roads of a higher type,- the wagon road has become obsolete, unsafe and inadequate .10 meet present day demands. - The road will give a direct route between all Wallowa county and northern Union county points, and will shorten the distance to Weston, Milton, Freewater., Walla Walla and all points north, sixty miles. The in terchange of farm commodities be tween Union and Wallowa counties, and the Walla Walla valley on the west side of the mountains, is ap proximately $250,000 annually, all of which is carried largely by truck on the present established public high- way, an excess uis-in.c i dij at oreat additional expense to the carriers, and the unnecessary expense in road upkeep to the state nignway J.r.rtmisilt tnO-pther With ' the Un- UCJMVUvw, " O . .oAuisnr nnrestion of the mam highway artery by the many thou sand truck loads going over it annual ly. The petitioners asicea tne esmu- .: . . . . . t-! nrAniAM v;vU iahmanr nr rne rjiifiii- ncawu way from a business standpoint, for the quick dispatch of traffic at a sav ing to producers, carriers, consumers and the state. rt tha on mm it of the mountain, which is approximately 4500 feet eler vation, and nearly tne same mc Meacham summit, lies a beautiful including a lake of fresh water fed by springs, surround ed by a natural forest growth for miles, which makes it one of the most beautiful recreation park regions in the northwest. While a few people now enjoy the recreation facilitiei of fered at Langdon lake, tne iuii Dene fit ..Knot he utilized or annreciated until the completion of the entire dis tance between the two towns. Of the total distance ol lorty mnes WeRtnn to Elorin. 20 miles, start ing from Weston and coming this way, is practically a finished highway. The Forestry department of the federal government last summer finished the grading of that section and will as early in the spring as pos sible hard surface all except about six and one half miles. , ; HENRY L CORBETT IS A CANDIDATE Native Son Will Run For the Office of Governor of Oregon. Harry L. Corbett, who has an nounced his candidacy for the Re publican nomination for Governor in the coming primaries,1 was born in Portland 48 years ago, July 29, 1881. He was educated at the old Portland Academy and Harvard University. In 1908 he married Miss Gretchen Hoyt, of New York, and they have five children three boys and two girls. ' Mr. Corbett's interest in politics comes quite naturally. His grand father, Henry W. Corbett, one of the early residents of Portland, repre sented Oregon in the United States Senate . from - 1867 to 1873, and throughout the years of his active life in this, state was a leader in both civic and political affairs. It was in i923 that Mr. Corbett first became a candidate, for political office. By a big vote he was elected State Senator from Multnomah Coun ty to fill, the unexpired term of the late Wilson T. Hume., He was re elected in 1924 and 1928 and held the office until he resigned two weeks ago to enable the citizens of Multnomah County to have a full representation in the Senate in case he is success ful in his campaign for the governor ship. He was President of the Senate in 1927, and twice was acting gover nor during the absence from the state of Governor Patterson. For years Mr. Corbett has managed the Corbett Investment Co., which in cludes real property, livestock, agri culture and banking.' He is past president of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. During the war he was chairman of the National Council of Defense, chairman of two state-wide Red Cross drives, and was in train ing preparing to follow his two broth ers into service when the armistice was signed. For years he has had a. deep in terest in the Pacific International Exposition and was recently elected president of the organization which annually produces its great show in Portland. Members of the urDett family for many .years have been affiliated with the First Presbyterian Church of Portland. . Ranch Hand Is Victim of 44-Below Zero Cold and Others Frostbitten Ttend As an aftermath of the ter ribly cold weather in the Burns dis trict in the isolated Clover Swale com munity, John Green, ex-employe of the "P" ranch, 75 , miles south ' of Burns, was listed as Harney's coun ty's first victim of the cold weather which sent the temperature in Burns down to minus 44 degrees. Meager information received in Burns from the remote community indicated that Green's body was found m a held. On the hierh Dlateau between Bend and Burns the bitter cold took a heavy toll in frozen feet and fingers, one woman, Mrs. C. W. Frazier, wife of the sheriff of Harney county, and four men being in the Burns hospital from the effects of the arctic weather Mrs. Frazier and the four men were occupants of five automobiles '. that were stalled in drifts on the central Oregon highway between Bend and Burns. The five partly frozen people a number of others were forced to walk nine miles through deep snow to the state highway road camp at the Run ranch. After the first mem bers of the party reached the ranch, Walter Swearengen, John Fleming and Sherman Weisgerber, highway employes, went back on the road and assisted others in. One exhausted truck driver, whose nariie was not learned, was carried half a mile. , The most seriously frozen members of the party were Mrs. Frazier, both feet to instep; Gordon Burns, all toes on both feet; Joe Wright, all fingers, R. E. Gustaf son, toes; ( W. ; B. Pat rick, feet to instep. Thaws Pipes, Starts Fire Wootnn Tender: Ravmond Banister started a fire Saturday afternoon be tween the walls of his house wnue as. a thaw out bathroom water pipes at the Banister place we3t of town. He used on-soaked sacus in fru1 noticed smoke com- ing up between the walls. Unable to reach or extinguish the tire unaiuea. Raymond telephoned to town for help and men went out in cars to his as sistance. Holes were cut and the fire soon extinguished, as it had made but slow progress. Weather Halted Wheat Pool The cold weather halted officers of Walla Walla wheat growers cooper ative in getting signatures to the grain agreement. About 500,000 bushels have been signed up ft far. Compiles Indian Dictionary The Nez Perce language, used by the Nez Perces of Idaho and the Cayuse tribe of the Umatilla Indian reservation, is a cultural tongue and in its power of expression surpasses both Greek and Latin, according o Rer. J. M. Cornelison, missionary among the Indians for 31 years on the reservation. He said that he had compiled a dictionary of 20,000 words of the Nez Perce language and could increase that number to 20,000 more. r A meiot Gang Flows liver 3 and 4-Bottom, 16 inch-the New No. 416-High Lift, giving plenty of Clearance. P. & 0. 3 and 4-Bottom, 16 inch, with High Lift and plenty of Clearance. Either Plow can be operated by tractor driver from tractor seat Made to give Satisfaction. Rogers H Goodman (A Mercantile Trust) .' Game Commission Busy At this time the employes of the game commission's office are "up to their eyes in work." The annual re ports of license sales from county clerks and sub-agents are coming in by the thousand and they must be checked for the records of the com mission. It is believed that the cale of licenses will show a large Increase of non-resident anglers. At the same time it will probably be found that there has been a big decrease in the sale of hunting licenses. The latter due to the fact that the postponement of deer hunting season because of the forest fire menace disrupted the plans of many who intended to hunt in Oregon. Doctor Uses Plane Dr. Ernest L. Boylen, Portland physician, was whisked in a plane piloted by Tex Rankin, to ice bound Puget Island, where he gave medical attention to a nine year old girl, ill with pneumonia. The Island has been isolated for several days on account of cold weather, which prevented boats from bringing in supplies. Dr. Boylen, who is a son of Thomas Boy len of Pendleton, says his patient will recover. Seed Test of Weston Spuds Seed potatoes from Weston moun tain are scoring right along in the seed tests conducted by the Wash ington State Department of Agri culture and the Horticultural Depart ment of Yakima County in the Yaki ma valley reports the Leader. The seed comprises samples grown in the states of Washington, Idaho, Minne sota, Oregon, Montana and from the province of British Columbia. - Slightly Out of Date Oregon is still bounded on the cast by the territory of Idaho and oyster are the leading industries of the state, according to Bufton's Univer sal Encyclopedia, edited and publish ed in 1929, says D. D. Halt of Port land in a letter to Virginia C. Bacon, state librarian. Mr. Hall who has ex amlned the work, says he unJer standa it Is being advertised and told to Oregon teachers as an authentic reference book. Mrs. Parker Dead Mrs. Martha J. Parker, widow of the late Colonel Frank J. Parker, pio neer Walla Walla newspaper man, died rectntry in Ltrs Anjeies. , Looking Toward Championship With the recent defeat of Helix by the score of 40 to 23, it appears that Mac-Hi has set the stage to cop the basketball championship of this scho lastic district. But few games yet remain to finish Mac-Hi's schedule, and the pace she is setting seems fast enough to take her into the state tournament again. Lodges Fraternize The members of Evangeline Re bakah Lodge of Helix were invited guests at a social meeting and ban quet dinner of the Freewater Re bekah Lodge, at Freewater, Tuesday evening. ' One of the most enjoyable lodge events of th winter was thoroughly enjoyed by those present. CLASSIFIED Alfalfa Hay Frank Jackson has alfalfa hay for tale at bis ramn. Dr. W. Boyd Whyte CHIROPRACTOR ? Stangier Building, Phone 706 Pendleton. Oregon. . 957 J DR. BLATCIIFORD Dentist Post Building, Athena. Phone 682 PETERSON & LEWIS . Attorneys at Law Stangier Building, Pendleton, Oregon. ' Practice in all State and Federal Courts. WATTS A PRESTBYE C Attorneys-At-Law : Main Street. Athena, Oregon ' State and Federal Court Practice DR. R. M. RICE Physician and Surgeon Offices, Hill Building Athena, Oregon DR. 8. F. SHARP PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Athena, Oregon Why suffer with tired, aching feet? Regardless of their condition. I can ; help you E. M. MOREMEN Foot Correctionist 22 W. Main St. Walla Walla Jensens Blacksmith Shop Repair Work Prices Reasonable Athena, Oregon Hi SI and SERVICE MM C. T. Booth Successor to "Pink" Third Street - - - . Athena Foley's Kidney Cure take kidneys and bladder rlsrht Announcement THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ATHENA, OREGON, Announces that it has com-pieted the organ ization of a Trust Department and is qualified to act as Executor, Administra tor, guardian, cr in any other fiduciary capac ity. Just think what 37 years of successful banking experience would mean to the executor or ad ministrator of your estate. Ask ..us for Information A
