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THE PRESS, ATHENA, OREGON, JUNE 12, 1931 "r""",'""""T",MMM"M"MTrM" L. I Z - 1 gaac ! " ' ,i - Ste Mot tesi Established Jan. 1, 1887 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER F. B. BOYD. Owner and Publisher Subscriotion Rates. One copy, one year.... ........ .... 2.00 One copy, six months $1.00 One copy, three months.... 75 Athena, Oregon, June 12,. , 1931 Dr. W. H. Lytle, state veternarian, always a consistant friend of the horse,- says: "Horses have always been used during the eras of cheap farm products and unless prices ad vance, unquestionably many farmers will go back to horses. Before the advent of the tractor, the truck and th,e automobile, one-fourth of our total farm acreage was devoted to the raising of horse feed. Gas mo torization is really part of what is wrong with agriculture. Some day we will have a farm tractor or motor that will run with some product that comes from the distillation of our farm surplus or wastes. Unless we have a machine that will render power from what we raise, unless we have a market that will pay ua a profit on what we raise, we must go back to a form of farm motor power that will consume our excess products and help ua rebalance our agriculture. The horse is capable of doing this." ' o Many of the states through . their agricultural agencies are urging growers to grade and pack farm pro duce in small, attractive containers properly labeled. By this means sales and increased consumption are stimu lated. New methods of packing are being tried out in Florida, under di rection of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. For example, one large grower packs high quality, graded potatoes in 6-pound paper boxes and 12 of these a total of one bushel are packed in a larger ventillated pasteboard box ready for local sale or shipment. One lot of 500 bushels .was recently consigned to a New York firm and retail at around 5 cents a pound or $3.00 per bushel. Where more attention is paid to packaging potatoes in Oregon, less competition from transient growers is felt, ac cording to the new State Agricultural Department. grains through feeding it to live stock. All of which is perfectly good advice if one happens to have the livestock to feed. Athena will move over to Weston en masse tomorrow to participate in the annual reunion of Umatilla coun ty pioneers, to meet old-time friends and to have a good time generally. Maybe that Los Angeles Mayor is in the habit of eating his toast, while the French custom is to drink their's. Anyway he seems to be out of place. The public is being warned that in certain parts of the country persons purporting to be "life insurance ex perts" are indulging in a systematic campaign of "twisting." In other words, such a person will approach a life insurance policyholder with a proposition that he drop a present policy and take in its place another form of contract in some other com pany, presumably for the sake of saving money. No policyholder in any established legal reserve life insur ance company can drop, or exchange an existing legal reserve policy with out loss to him. The person who recommends such a change is doing it solely for personal profit. "Twist ing" is prohibited by law in many states because it is harmful to the in terest of the policy holder. o The growth of the Grange in Ore gon is noteworthy. State Master C. C. Hulet is credited with the state ment that it is leading every other state in the union in the matter of new units established since Novem ber last year. During the last year, from May 25, 1930 to May 1931, thirty-eight new granges have been organized and one re-organized. There were also added during this period nmnnfl and nlnvnn -Til VPT1 1 1 0 Granges. The total net gain during the year was 2562. The total member ship reached approximately 22,000. Violation of the prohibition law is so flagrant in this country that "any boob can see it," said George L. Baker, dry mayor of Portland, in New York City. "Enforcement is the most trying work of municipal, state and federal authorities," Mayor Baker said, "because people who are ordin arily strong for general enforcement of all laws and are good American's under ordinary conditions, violate the prohibition laws and contribute to the breaking down of other laws. They feel that their personal liberties are being restricted." CAMPFIRE IDEALS (Mrs. Ralph McEwen) The Campfire movement was incor porated nationally in 1912 out of a feeling for the need for such an or ganization. It was built truly on a firm foundation, the proof lying in the fact that the program has become increasingly usable during the years of its service. It was planned to take care of the out-of-school time for adolescent girls and it is built around three important factors: It provides activities of na tural interest to girls, it makes these activities doubly interesting through an appeal to the imagination, working quietly toward the end that through fun and happiness girls may achieve a beautiful and useful womanhood. The activities are classified under the seven crafts which form the basis for the system of awards and honors. These are: home craft, health craft, hand craft, camp craft, patriotism and citizenship. There are 800 or more honors which may be earned in the crafts mentioned. These are di vided into ranks so that always there is a higher goal to be striving toward. Another distinctive thing in the pro gram of campfire girls is the use of symbolism and ceremony and ritual. It helps them express their ideal and aspirations and to share them with their friends without being laughed at. It is no small thing for a group of girls to feel that they are doing and loving the same things that over one hundred thousand girls are do ing. The Campfire program does not imi tate any organization for boys. It aims to train girls for their responsi bilities which will always remain dis tinct from those of boys. It is free from anything military, using no mili tary terms or insignia. It provides for formal exercise by means of hike and game, and by the showing of home responsibilities it teaches co operation and team work, and what is more important, disciplined indi viduality. It aims to keep girls girls, and develop them through wholesome activities into womanly women. STOCKHOLDERS MEETING Notice is hereby given that the an nual meeting of the stockholders of the Farmers' Grain Elevator company of Athena, Oregon, will be held at the office of the company in Athena, Oreeon. at 2 o clock p. m., on batur- day, June 20, 1931, for the purpose of electing three directors and the transaction of such business as may come before the meeting. Dated at Athena, Oregon, this 8th day of June 1931. R. L. WILSON, Manager. NOTICE OF ANNUAL SCHOOL MEETING Notice is hereby riven to the legal voters of Union High School District No. 7, of Umatilla County, State of Oregon, that the ANNUAL SCHOOL MEETING of said District will be held at the school house; to begin at the hour of 2 p. m., o'clock to 7 p. m. o'clock on the fourth Monday of June, being the 22 day of June, A. D. 1931. This meeting is called for the pur pose of electing a director for the neriod of five years and the transac tion of business usual at such meet-in- . .. . Dated this 5th day of June wai. ARNOLD WOOD, Chairman Board of Directors. Attest: J. F. Kershaw, District Clerk. 22 Years Ago Friday, June 18, 1909 Pursuant to a call issued by Mayor McEwen, the members of the Athena fire department met in the city hall Monday evening for the purpose of electing department officers. Dele gates from Hose companies Nos. 1 and 2 and hook and ladder company No. 1 were present and took part in the organizati'i proceeding. H. O. Worthington was elect id president; York Dell, secretary and K. A. Bar rett, treasurer. A. B. McEwen is attending Mosonic grand lodge this week. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Kirk and Mr. and Mrs. Edwnrl Koonlz are camping on the river this week. Mr. and Mrs. Dobson and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Smith were guests Sun day of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Jack. Mr. and Mrs. Ora Rhodes and Mar ion and Georgie Hansell went over to the Umatilla river Wednesday. Friends have received news of the arrival of a bouncing baby girl in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Shick, recently. , William Winship left Sunday eve ning for the Coeur d'Alene Indian reservation to look over the land that is to be thrown open to settlers soon, Dean Dudley is assisting the sales force this week at Jarman's Depart ment Store. Master Eddie Jarman is also over from the Weston store. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Stone attended commencement exercises at Whitman College this week. Their son Arthur was a member of the graduating class. Wm. Schrimpf this week purchased a new McCormick header from C. A. Barrett & Co. The new machine is a 14-foot cut and has all the modern features. Benney Gross wafted in from Cor vallis this week and will spend the Low Price on "Vigorbilt" Chicks for May Delivery May Leghornes Make Good Layers "Vigorbilt" Hatchery Milton, Ore. Phone 1102 RELIABLE WATCH REPAIRING Main St H. H. HILL Athena The Athena Hotel MRS. LAURA FROOME, Prop. Courteous Treatment, Clean Beds Good Meala Tourists Made Welcome Corner Main and Third Athena, Oregon Oregon has the lowest birth rate in the nation 14.1 per 1000. Nevada comes next with 14.2 and Washington and California are close behind with 14.6 and 14.8 respectively. At the present .expectation of life, about 59 years, it requires about 17 births per 1000 to maintain permanently a stationary population without immigration. NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING Nntica ia Viprpbv clven that the undersigned, as administratrix of the estate of Keed Hill, deceased, nas niea her final account and report in said estate with the Clerk of the County Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla county; ana tnat me Judge thereof has fixed Saturday, the 20th day of June, rJiU, ai me nour of ten o'clock a. m., as the time, and the County Court room in the court house at Pendleton, Umatilla County, rirorrnn na tha nlaoe Tor me near- ino- of objections to such final account and the settlement mereoi. MARY 1. HILL Administratrix of the estate of Rop Hill. Deceased. M22J19 RnW Rn nv ffi Warner. Jonn r Kilkenny, Alfred F. Cunha, Attorneys for Admx., rendleton, uregon. Lowtr price levels seem to have in fluenced a radical change in meat consumption. Market statistics dis close a notable increase in the con sumption of lamb and mutton and a decrease in that of pork, veal and beef. Also lamb and mutton show . the largest gain in production, 60 per cent since 1922. .More and more is heard the ad vice to market wheat and other TtffYrTPR to CREDITORS In the County Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla Lounty. In the Matter of the Estate of A. M. nil! in MIS1. Mnlina ia hnrptlV fi-iVBH that the undersigned has been appointed ad ministrator or me estate oi a. m. Gillis. deceased, by the above entitled P.mirr All persons having claims against the said estate are hereby notified to to me at Athena, Oregon, or to my attorneys, Watts & l'restbye, at their law omce m Athena, Oregon, within six (6) mnntha from thp rinta of the first publication of this notice. All claims must be verihed as by law required. Dated at Athena, Oregon, this 5th day oi June, P S. I.efiROW Administrator. Watts & Prestbve. Athena. Oresron. Attorneys for estate. J5J3 Stop and Shop at Harris' Barber and Beauty Parlor Everything in Barber and Beauty work efficiently done NESTLE -Le-MUR Permanent Wave Phone 492 for appointments summer at his home in this city. He is an O. A. C. student and is taking a four year course. The will of Jerry St. Dennis which involves an estate valued at $25,000, is to be contested by the sons, Joe, Jeremiah and Nelson, on the grounds that when the will was signed, the father was intoxicated. The docu ment gives the stepmother possession of the property, the sons being en tirely cut off. "Mike" Winship, the well known dray horse, died of old age this week, and is now peacefully at rest. He and old "Breeze" are remembered by pioneers as being a good team. The Press man remembers when Abe Jones brought the team to Athena, then Centerville, 20 years ago. It is now known to the kids that the electric wires at the hose station are real live ones. H. O. Worthing ton found one of the lads who tried them, in a serious predicament the other day and released the little fel low, who was severely, though not seriously shocked by the voltage. Mrs. Mclntyre, with her family has moved back to Athena from Weston and will occupy a house in the north part of town until such time as her own property is vacated by Mr. Myers. This estimable family is cor dially welcomed to their own town, and will contribute three bright stu dents to Athena's high school next year, Misses Laura and Belle, and Archie. CLASSIFIED Wanted Clean, Cotton rags at the Press office. Eyes examined, glasses properly fitted at Schneller's, 39 East Main, Walla Walla, Pine Wood Place your orders for winter wood now and save money. 12, 16, and 24 inch old growth yellow pine at $4.00 on all orders received before July 4. Write or see Shannon Oshea, Meacham, Oregon. Will deliver. BEN BATEMAN Expert in Body Correction Calls answered promptly Office at Residence in North Athena Telephone 595. Dr. W. Boyd Whyte CHIROPRACTOR Stangier Building, Phone 706 Pendleton. Oregon. 957 J Dr. W. H. McKinney Physician and Surgeon Dr. Sharp's Office Office Hours at Athena 1 to 6 p. m. Phone 462. Office Hours at Weston 8 a. m. to 12 noon. Phone 83. Calls made day or night. Dr. Dale Rothwell Optometrist The best in glasses at a reasonable cost. Over Woolworth's Phone 1286 Pendleton, Oregon Peterson & Lewis Attorneys at Law Practice in all State and Federal Courts. Inland Empire Bank Building Pendleton Oregon Real Estate Wheat. Alfalfa and Stock Land SHEEP FOR SALE L. L. Montague, Arlington Watts & Prestbye Attorney s-A t-Law Main Street, Athena, Oregon State and Federal Court Practice Foley's Honey and Tar tures colds, prevents pneumonia- Contoure Specialties Beautify the Complexion Strengthen the Countour RAPID CLEANSING CREAM SKIN FRESHENER SKIN FOOD FINISHING LOTION Athena Beauty Shop Sadie Pambrun, Operator Phone 32 Bruno Weber Blacksmithing AND Repair Work Prices Reasonable Successor To JENS JENSEN Spring is here! and with it comes HouseCleaning Time Send Us Your Blankets and Curtains In fact anything washable ASK OUR MR. McINTYRE Four Trips Weekly 4SflK5mWWU I a 111 I hi hi . m .wir r nni -j I If it t i t i t i 1 I if1 T TT The First National Bank of Athena Established 1891 CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $110,000.00 Does a General Banking Business and Maintains a Complete Trust Department w iiax Pendleton, Oregon Eastman Hawkeye Cameras FREE. As a special offer to our Customers, we will give one of these cameras free for each tire pur chase or other sale amounting to $5.00 cash or $10.00 payment on account. Call in and get particulars GALLAHER'S GARAGE J. E. Gallaher. Ptod. Athena Phone 471 Call Bell CS, Gray Now for Are Always Prepared to do Auto Truck Hauling and Delivery Promptly :' Prices Rieht Phone 593 MILK and CREAM Milk and Cream for Sale Here All the Time KILGORE'S CAFE Continental Oil Company Germ Processed Motor Oil Athena Service Station "Service With a Smile" Automobile Accessories Tires BRYCE BAKER, Prop. . . Athena, . . Phone 762 Farmers Grain Elevator Company Grian and Feed SPECIAL A Full Line Of Sperrys Chick Feed Phone 382 LEE WILSON, M'gr. Tum-aLum Tickler Published in the intesesta of the people of Athena and vicinity by THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO. Phone 91 There's No Escaping the man who's "out to hook you for all you're worth' specially if that Auto Accident was more or less your fault. Your only protec tion is Liability Insurance and Plenty of It! B. B. RICHARDS, Agent Vol. 31 Athena, Oregon, June , 1931 No. 23 Editorial About this time of the year you want to start resting for your summer vacation. A. M. Johnson, Editor If you are planning a nice va cation this year and your wife has a lot of work planned for you to do around the house dur ing this said vacation, just re member our HANDI MAN SERVICE does all kinds of painting, repairing, and fixing. Dad: "Whew. That spanking I gave you tired me all out." Son: "Yes, but you can sit down and rest" . It pays to use the best. That is why we suggest the use of Tum-A-Lum paint for your painting. It carries a double guarantee of satisfaction. With all of the high school graduates going to work f the country will soon be opi Itsfeet again. get in those fences. 7 foot fence posts for 19c. Good split cedar posts that will last for years. Our plan department "Likes to help folks build." Wouldn't you like to have that dream home put on paper and then build it? How time does fly and it is almost fly time again. Screens, screen doors, and -screened in porches. Why not on your home? You deserve it. It is a good time of year to The price of cement is lower than the basement of your house. There never was a bet . ter time to put in new walks, fish pools, driveways, and per haps a garage floor. 1 1 1 Cement $1.00 a sack. Gravel is only $3.50 a yard. Make those CONCRETE IM PROVEMENTS now. We can imagine that the height of embarrassment is when two eyes meet through the same keyhole." THE TWIN CITY CLEANERS Dependable Service Lower Prices April 1st Ladies Spring Coats $1 and UP Silk Dresses $1.25 and Up Wool Dresses $1 and Up Men's Suits $1.25 Vf For other prices, ask the Driver Trade with the man who helps pay your taxes We call for and deliver every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday T. E. SMITH, Proprietor, Phone 1571 Freewater Oregon See Us Before Buying Electric Lamps and other electric appliances, including Sad-Irons, Percolators, Toasters, Waffle Irons, Hotplates, Vacuum Sweepers, G. E. Refrigerators; and Hot point Electric Stoves. In fact, everything electrical I PRESTON-SHAFFER MILLING CO. I Electrical Department, Athena, Oregon. Phone 182