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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1917)
Press Paragraphs Miss Vada Smock of Weaton, was in the city Tuesday. Wanted A furnished house to rent. Eniuire at Press office. Found A pair of boy's chaps. Call at Burke & Son Garage. Born To Mr. and Mrs. William McBiin, July. 37,1917, a daughter. Matt Mosgrove, Milton merchant and T. C. Elliott were in the city Tuesday. two 2ta, Wanted A girl to care for children. W. G. Clark, Box Athena. Mrs. Bowles and daughter Laura are over from Walla Walla, visiting Mrs. F. S. LeGrow. Mi'H F R Rnvrl rotnrnnfl ,r..i-f ..-.I.,,. from a visit to relatives at Auburn and Kellini'hunl. Wash. Miss Valva Mansfield and Miss Pau lina Myrick ware guests of Mr.j. Wm. Wair of Milton, Monday. Miss Anna Haven a nurse from St. Anthony Hospital is spending her va cation with Mrs. A. R. Coppock. KWill Shick has enlisted in the Unit 'edatates navy as fireman, with the ob ject of graduating into a machinist. JSObs Adah DeFreece returned Wednesday from her two weeks vaca tion trip to Portland and the coast. Painters have completed decorating the new home of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Steele, and they will move in shortly. Joseph N. Scott, started his harvest er in wheat northwest of Athena, Wed nesday afternoon. He anticipates a successful season's run and a fair yield. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Prstnn. nf Huntington Beach, California, are here lor tneir annual summer visit with latives. Miss Greta Mclntyre will take the place of Miss Pauline Myrick at Ware's Pharmacy. Miss Myrick will go to me nome 01 ner sistei near Helix. Dr. J. D. PlemmHnn of Ppndtotnn formerly of this citv. htm pntiarorl in the LaGrande hospital unit for service in the army with the rank of Lieuten ant. he self propelled harvesters unload- n Athena last week by E. L. mikh & Co., have been distributed to the owners, and will begin harvesting next ween. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stevenson and family of Fort Benton Montana are guests at the Walker farm this week Mr. Stevenson is a brother of Mrs obn Walker. number of machines are threshing is week, mostly in barley fields, al though several are running in wheat in the light soil sections where the grabji ripened early. vhe Athena Branch Library has mov ed nto a fine new home in the new building recently built by the First r S & H Pure Food Grocery QUALITY QUANTITY SERVICE PHONE 171 Just Received A fine assortment of the White and Gold and plain White Dinnerware. Our stock of Crockery and Groceries is the most complete in Athena. No order too large or too small for us to fill. Give us a trial. FOSS-WIHSHIP HARDWARE COMPANY FISHING TACKLE We are displaying an assortment of Flies, Hooks, Spoons, Lines, Leaders, Rods, Reels, etc. We are carrying a splendid line this year. B ARREIT BUILDING, :: ATHENA, OREGON "Results are Better" MITCHELL AfhcheH Motor and Service Co., Seattle "results are better and cost of operation considerably lower while using Zero-Une." BUICK J. D. Lauppe, Sacramento "have found Zerolene to bee satisfactory lubricant for Bukk automobiles." DODGE H. O. Harrison Co., San Francijce "gives perfect satisfaction." MAXWELL Cuylw Lee, Oakland "Zerolene baa given us perfect arjafaction." ZEROLENE The Standard Oil for Motor Cars Endorsed by Leading Car Distributor! because the records of their amice if partments show that Zerolene, correct ly refined from California asphalt-base crude, gives perfect lubrication leas wear, more power, least carbon deposit. Dealers everywhere and at pgr service stations, STANDARD OIL COMPANY (Calirom.) National Bank. The new quarters are superb, and the ladies having charge of the library appreciate the new location. Carolina Poplars, planted by J. E. Froome around his property near the City Park four years ago, now afford excellent shade, and prove to be an ideal tree to plant in this soil. James Henderson arrived at his des tination in Alberta 0. K. and reports that he likes the country up there, and is especially attracted to the agricul tural possibilities obtaining there. W The temperature lowered Saturday BigM, with the result that for the first TirnehT many years an August frost is reported. In some spots potato, squash and pumpkin vines were nipped. Fruit I will be in Athena every Monday and Thursday with fresh fruit and vegetables. Headquarters at Livery Barn. E. W. Wehtze. Freewater, Oregon. It. F. D. i People of leisure are beginning to look mpuntainward in anticipation of the fun they will have in the huckle berry patches. It is reported that the crop of berries is fairly good this sea son. Several sales of wheat and barley are reported in Athena this week. Prices are not given but it is know n that one purchase of barley brought $40 per ton with sacks and twine in the clear. F. S. LeGrow is at his Montana stock ranch this week. A carload of stock was taken up to the ranch this week by Shorty Phillips and Jake Reno. They will remain until after the haying season. "Pete" O'Harra was in town Tues day evening, from Weston. Mr. and Mrs. O'Harra will leave shortly for a visit to relatives in Pine Valley, and may extend their trip into Montana. They wll go by automobile. ; Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Willaby of Port land, who are spending several weeks here, have left for Bingham Springs on an outing trip. They will be join ed at the camp there by Mrs Fred Ker shaw and daughter Fredericka. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Dobson returned the fore part of the week from their trip to Lewiston and Spokane, by au tomobile. In Spokane they visited the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Knowlton and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Haworth. A brush fire started on the Jim Lieuallen place on Pine Creek above Weston, and has been burning for a couple of days. Some apprehension is felt that it may do damage to grain and standing timber unless put out. The construction work on Otho Reed- eTsTiew bungalow on lower Third street is progressing well under con tractor ScotbvJA splendid picture of Mr. and Mrs. Reeder's new home ap pears on the front page of today's Press. The members of Troop D have re ceived orders to take their cowboy te galia with them to the point of gener al mobilization. Hallie Peirsol sent word to Virgil Willaby for his beaver hat, being unable to secure one at endleton. jliram Knight this week put down concrete sidewalk adjacent to Matt losWroves's property on Third street. The new city ordinance is now in effect, and if its provisions are enforc ed there will soon be good substantial sidewalks in Athena. Mi'ylcne Fraker Stites, who has been visiting Miss Areta Barrett for tne past two weeks, returned to her home in Portland on Thursday morn ing. She will begin her service work as soloist in The First Methodist Church on Sunday morning Aug. 5. A couple of axes were f wind one morning this week in the yard of O. Scott Fisher, corner of Fourth and Adams streets. Mr. Fisher says one ax is all that he can handle convenient ly in splitting firewood, and that the owner or owners may have the surplus by calling, It is noticable that the men congre gated in Athena for harvest this sea son, appear to be an exceptionally good class of laborers. So far theie has been no agitation and no indica tion of the presence of troublemakers, such as have made their appearance at Klamath Falls and other points in the I staje. r'v. 0. Russell, city school superin tendent, accompanied by his wife and son have returned from the valley where thev spent a portion of their summer vacatiornl They were at the home of Mr. Russelrs father at Corne lius, where they met Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Morris frequently. Mr. and Mrs. Russell made the trip home in a recent Iv purchased Studebaker car. The Watts party returned from Leh man Springs Sunday evening, after a week spent at that resort. The party included Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Watts, Mrs. Homer L Watts, Mr. and Mrp. Melville Johns, Mrs. M. M. Johns, Mr. Flint Johns, and the Misses Ver nita Watts. Katherine Froome and the Misses Anderson, of Portland. , Master Conrad Miller still maintains hre title to champion Juvenile trout angler. In substantiation of his claim, he exhibited on the street Tuesday evening a 14 inch Rainbow trout, weighing nearly two pounis, which" he took in Wild Horse creek, after a hard tussle, Kyle Charlton, who as a kid played marbles in the alleys of Athena, is over from LaGrande to work his mus cle in the grain fields. He was pro moted to the position of locomotive en gineer on 0. W., where he has been firing for a number-of years. He was running on the extra list and took a layoff during the harvest season. His brothers, Denver and Clyde are also locomotive engineers, both running out of LaGrande. The father and mother reside in LaGrande, also. Far tnBton, Zeroiene Hetny-Duty k especially recommended. sharing a Sentiment, "Do yon tli.'nk a man ought to for jive his eiiemletiV" "Yes." said Sfnator Sorghum. "But he ought to make the wore near HuiasR even to let the enemy do some forgiving on bis side." - Washington Star. ill habits gather by unwn degrees, is brooks make rivets, riven run to tea.- Urj dec 23 Years Ago I .'rem the Press oi July 27 1894 Hundreds of harvest hands were in town Sunday. Mrs. W. T. Gilman and children left Monday for a few weeks' outing in the mountains. The greater number of band boys are in the harvest field, and owing to this fact the open air concerts will be post poned for a time. The farmer who cutB plenty of hay will undoubtedly receive a good price for it this year. The entire crop along the Columbia was destroyed by the floods. Deputy Sheriff Stamper was over from Athena this morning, ostensibly to procure some fruit, but in reality, no doubt to deprive some law breaker of his liberty. Jim is a terror to evil doers, and hen he appears on the scene they take a back seat at once. Milton Eagle. Many fields from which it had been expected 80 bushels to the acre would be taken are turning out 45. Spring wheat is coming on in fine shape and will be a good crop. Buyers will be ready to take wheat soon and it is thought no difficulty will be experienced in handling the entire crop with promptness. In a private ietter to his family, Mr. Callander, who is in South Dakota, states that crops of all kinds are burned up entirely by the severe drouth and people there are in destitute circumstances. Probably the largest amount of life insurance ever paid in Umatilla county was that of the late R. G. Thompson, paid to his heirs in Pendleton this week by the Pacific Mutual Life In surance company. The amount was 110,180. A good deal of interest was created in front of the St. Nichols hotel Satur day by a huge political discussion, the participants being a pompous, iron grey republican on one side and a free for all on the other. Dr. Dell's mother, Mrs. Moberly, left for her old home in Missouri this week. Mrs. Moherly is 80 years of age, and makes the long trip alone. Jinks Dudley had boasted that his wheat crop would yield him 40 bushels per acre. He is now threshing 52 bushels from each acre. Angus Gillis left Tuesdav morninrr for Dakota, where he goes to dispose of some property which he possesses there. Chas. H. Carter and Miss Grace Evans of Pendleton, were married in that city Monday, Rev. Potwine officia ting. The Pendleton Tribune calls atten tion to the fact that Pendleton bas a boom in the faro bank business. Coppock fS Price's threshing outfit is harvesting on the Coppock place south of town this week. Mrs. M. M. Johns, Mrs. G. C. Os borne and Mrs. Edington will leave on a visit to the Willamette valley and the Sound soon. Lew Shaw has removed his saloon to the building formerly occupied by the French restaurant and John McKay will start a new saloon in the building vacated by Mr. Shaw. Farmers in this section unanimously agree that the Cox variety of wheat is not up to the standard of other wheat. The grain is generally of good stand and fair quality, but shells out badly. This week Robert Coppock threshed H4!ifi sacks of fine wheat from 1!10 acres. The average is 140 pounis to the sack which makes 111 1-2 bushels to the acre. The field really averaged more, for at least 8 acres was cut for hay, which makes the average still higher. Trapping Turtles. In the old dnys iu the south the ne gro fishermen used to liuve au lugeu lous and simple way of trapping fresh water turtles. Any boy today can use the same method with the same effect Turtles have favorite sunning lugs. Beside one of the logs sink a water tight box two feet long and a foot and ti half wide. The open top of tbe box should stand about an Inch above the water. Nail the box securely against the log In such a position that It will catch the turtles tlint fall from the log. After the trap has been set leave the pond or lake for a time. On re turning approach the log quietly from tbe side opposite the box. If there are any turtles on the log, frighten them suddenly. They will pitch off hurriedly Into the box.-youth'a Com panion. A Queen Who Resigned. One queen who got tired of ruling ivor her nation And resigned was Queen Christina, daughter of the great (Jus tavus Adolphus II. of Sweden, whom the succeeded In 1032. Growing tired if reigning at the age of twenty-eight, die passed tbe crown over to her cous in, Charles Uustavua, and went to 'toiuo, whlcb city sbe la said to have tutored Id the costume of an aninzon. Later she tried to regain her throne, iu) failed. She died at Koine In HMi. Witty Willis. One eveuiug a panhandler sidled up lo William (.'oilier as the player was walking around to the theater and ad Jrrsscd him thus: "Sir, I began life poor and In hard Inclt, I"- "Don't lay anything more, my man," Interrupted Collier as he slipped tbe man a quarter. "It's worth money to learn bow well you have held your own." Willow Trees. Willows are mentioned In the Bibli cal hooka of Leviticus xvtl, Job xl, Isaiah xlv, Psalm cxsxrtl. The tree npou which the captive Israelites hung their harps was the Sillx babylonica. This tree Is abundant ou the bauks of Ibo Euphrates. In Doubt. "Were you ever up before me?" asked I magistrate. "Sbure, I don't know, yer aimer. What time does your inner get up?" Ixiudoo Answers, Grocery Headquarters .,v,l'',.,v.mt We Handle Only Honest Groceries of first quality. And in addition to that, we consider each customer a personal friend and treat him as such Reach for the phone this morning, and we will de liver your order in time for lunch. Pork and B;ans per can . 15c Maecaroni 2 packages 25c Pan Cake Flom- 2 packages 30c Soap Chips per package 30c Citrus Powder per package 25c White Laundry Soap 5 bars 25c FIX & RADTKE Main St. THE "MONEY-BACK STORE" Athena We Are Agents For Overland Cars Most popular Car at popular Prices Athena Prices for 1917 Styles: Light 4, 5-Passenger, $840; Country" Club Roadster $885; Big 4, 5-Passenger, $1,010; Light 6, 5-Passenger $1,140; Wyllys-Knight 4, 7-Passenger $1,575. C. A. Barrett & Co We are prepared to make prompt delivery Pennsylvania Vacuum Tires, Guaranteed for 6000 miles. tmmiiiiiiiiiiiintMimniniiiiniiiiiiiiinniiiinHiiiiinitinmiit V mm. Bing! They arc here The latest Fall Styles in mens and youths Clothing. Samples of Cloth from two of America's best Firms. Suits FROM $15 TO $60 Get Yours Now Miiiini MIIMIIMMMIIIMIIIIIIMllMMMMMIM Third Street J. H. BOOHER Athena Oregon mmm i mill IMMMMMI Foley's Honey and Tar (or children. safe. sure. No Opiates. To Car Coiistipallou rore.rr. 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