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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1918)
Press Paragraphs Wanted A good milch cow. Frank Jackson. Adv. Charles Price of Weston was in town Tuesday. For Sale. Bundle wheat hay. D. H. Sanders. Adv. Mr. and Mrs. Alf Johnson were in town Monday from Walla Walla. Mrs. D. H. Sanders has purchased a new Hudson Super Six automobile. A. A. Foss, the hardware man. made a business trip to Pendleton Wendea day. Dr. Boy Jen was in the city Tuesday from Pendleton on professional bus iness. Mrs. Edward E. KdoMz is in thj city from Poitland, visiting Athena friends. Mrs. Ralph Hassell and Miss Laura Mclntyre were in Pendleton Monday afternoon. - Athena CJty has given notice of ap peal to the Supreme Court in the Car tano damage suit. Dave Nelson, well known retired farmer residing in Pendleton, spent Wednesday in Athena. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Pinkerton and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Staggs spent Sun day at Bingham springs. Major Swartzlander of the Umatilla Indian Agency, accompanied by Mrs. Swartlander, was in the city Tuesday. L. J. Foss came in yesterday morn ing from his home in Crook county to attend the funeral of Senator Barrett. Miss Elvina Bergevin came down from Sunnyside, Wash., and spent the week end with relatives and friends here. The family of Mr. Gordon, who leased the house belonging to M. W. Hansel! on 4th street, has arrived from the east, and have begun house keeping. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hampton and family, of Pendleton, were Sunday guests at the B. D. Tharp home in this city. Willard Parker spent several days this week visiting at the home of his sister, Mrs. Raymond near Walla Walla. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Froome are this week attending a convention of Hotel men in Seattle, and will visit relatives there also. The local W. C.T. U. will hold their meeting next week, Tuesday, June 4, at the home of Mrs. William Winship, on Fifth street. At. G. Barnes' animal circus exhib ited at Pendleton Tuesday, and a large number of people from Athena and vicinity attended. James Wood returned from his sheep shearing tour and visited at his home the first of the week, leaving yester day for Montana. Rev. Walter Gleiser lined up the Athena soldier lads and took a couple of group pictures before they left to join the colors. ' Mrs. Frank DeFreece and little daughter are this week visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hess, near College Place, Wash. Win. Willaby is in the city from Portland. He will visit his daughter, Mrs. Fred Kershaw, at Waitsburg, before returning home. A. B. McEwen is here from Portland for a few days on a visit to his sons, L. R. aid R. B. McEwen. and daugh ter, Mrs. Henry Barrett. "Blot our your troubles for three davs bv attending the Misamiln sim. pede" is the catchy phrase printed in red on blotters distributed for advertis ing purposes. F. S. LeGrow and oth ers from Athena and Umatilla county will go up and help 'em ''Cut 'er Loose" on July 8, 4 and 5. I T - FRESH ft TVTi SWEET ff hh m COME TO us FOR FRESH DAIRY BUTTER MHO FRESH COUNTRY EGG So O GIVE THE CHILDREN PLENTY OF FRESH DAIRY BUTTER IT IS GOOD FOR THEM. WE GET OUR BUTTER DIRECT FROM THE FARMS, AND IT IS FRESH AND SWEET. COME TO US WHEN YOU WANT FRESH EGGS. WE GET 'EM FROM THE FARMERS, AND YOU WILL FIND THEM FRESH. PRICES LOWEST. 3G1VE U YOUR GROCERY ORDER TOD VY Speedup your purchases of War Savings Stamps We have them for sale S. & H. Pure Food Grocery QualityQuantity Service. Phone 171 Correct Lubrication forthe"T"-Head- Type Engine The "T"-Head, illus trated here, is one of several types in pop ular use today. En gines of this type, like all interna com bustion engines, re quire an oil that maintains its full lu bricating qualities at cylinder heat, burns clean in the combus tion chambers and goes out with ex haust. ZEROLENE nils these require ments perfectly, be cetiee it ie correctly refined final selected Cm lifornim ttphelt beee crude. 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STANDARD OIL COMPANY (CatfaraU) ZEROLENE Tie Standard OH for Motor Cars GUV QHWJfc ipdaai Agent, Standard Oil Co., Athena The Third Liberty Loan Bonds have arrived and will be ready for distribu tion next week. Claude Sanders, who has been work ing in a Portland ship yard, has writ ten his parents that he will enlist in the army at Portland today. Mrs. Archie Rice is in the city from Salem, visiting at the William Rice home. Her husband is employed in the Athena Department Store. -Bingham Springs was opened to the public Sunday, and a large crowd of recreators made the trip to that popular-resort in automobiles. The Preston-Shaffer Milling company is putting in a pair of scales and a a dumping pit to facilitate the hand ling of bulk grain at the mill. Mr. and Mrs. Cass Cannon accom panied bv Rev. Cannon and wife re turned Wednesday from a visit at the Robt. Raymond home near Prineville. J. H. Ridenour was in town over night. Tuesday having finished the wool harvest in the Snake River re gion, and Wednesday morning left for Montana. Card of Thanks. I am deeply grate ful for all the kindly assistance ren dered me during the illness and death of mv little daughter, Mildred. Mrs. Ettie Cox. Miss Helen Russell and little Caro lyn and Catherine Kidder, who last week were reported ill with scarlet fever, are all out of danger, and re covering nicely. The local Red Cross regular monthly business meeting will be held here after on tthe third Wednesday in each month. This announcement is made by order of the chairman, Mrs. S. P. Sharp. Henry Barrett has sent his two bands of sheep to the mountain ranges. The veteran camp tender, Clarence Ross, with a pack outfit, was in town Monday after camp supplies for the herders. Roy Burke has quit garage work and left Athena Tuesday evening to seek employmnt. in the Portland ship building yards. His wife and little daughter will remain in Athena for the present. Mrs. H. H. Hill returned Saturday evening from a visit at LaCross, Wash. While there, in company with Mr. and Mrs. Otis Whiteman, she motored to Lewiston, Idaho, and visited her sister Mrs. Parkyn. The soldier's mess fund, which was made up through the efforts of the Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist church, amounted to 172.00. giving each of the Athena boys v. ho answer the call today and tomorrow, til. 00. Next Friday and Saturday, June 7th and 8th, marks the principal evint of the pioneers of the county, when the annual Pioneers Reunion is held in Weston. All Athena will be in at tendance at one or both sessions. M. L. Watts returned hcm3 Sunday morning from Portland, after attend ing the meeting of the I. 0. O. F. grand lodge at Seaside. Mrs. Watts and daughter Vernita temained in Portland, where they will stay for some time. John Shick. who has been employed in a Fortland shipbuilding plant for several months, returned to Athena Sunday to join the Athena quota of the recent draft call, which reported for duty at Pendleton today. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Koepke and daughter, Dorothy, will leave Monday for an extended visit with relatives, going by way of Seattle and Tacoma, Portland and California points, and finally to Columbus, Ohio, before re turning. Card of Thanks. For the kind offic es rendered us and our dear husband and father, during his illness and death we desire to offer our friends our sin cere thanks. Mrs. C. A. Barrett. Artta Barrett, Henry A. Barrett. Maurice Hill writes his parents here that he has successfully made his first flight in the air, and describes the sen sation as not so thrilling, as one would anticipate. He says it is a feeling of floating through the air on a "feather bed." xXTbe county road crew was in Athena Saturday and rolled the macadam road south of the City Park. The crew will move its equipment consisting of two steam rollers, a caterpillar trac tor, a scarifier and a grader, to the Pilot Rock district. Rev. and Mrs. Davis Errett took their departure this week for their new field of labors at Pacific Avenue Christian church in Spokane. Mr. Errett will be succeeded here by B. B. Burton, who comes, highly recommend ed, from the middle West. Mrs. D. H. Pursell, mother of Mrs. Mtrion Hansell, died at her home in Oregon City, Wednesday, as the result of pnuemonia. Mrs. Hansell and her brother. Otto Pursell, went to Oregon City last week to attend their mother, and were with her to the last. Mr. and Mrs. Porter, Miss Lois Porter and Miss Clark of Weston. spent Sunday at the John C. Walter home west of Athena. A tennis court has been made by Mr. Walter, at his place, which is proving popular with the young people of the neighborhood. A case of scarlet fever has develop ed in the family of Frank Berlin on Oth and College streets, and the home has been quarantined. Also Elizabeth, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs A. B. Steele, is afflicted with the disease in mild form, and the home is under quar antine. Rev. E. A. Leonard, of Gresham, Ore., is in the city, having been called here to officiate at the funeral of bis former frier.d, Senator Barrett. Mr. Leonard was pastor of the Baptist church in this city, about 25 years ago and still has many friends here who were pleased to meet him again. W. O. Read, who was operated on at Walla Walla recently, and who was brought home after the fire of last week at the hospital where he was, is reported to be improving. The fire de stroyed the roof of the hospital and the contents were damaged by water. The patients were removed from the builtlipg wittmit injurious (emit. The Preston-Shaffer Milling company plant has been shut down temporarily on account of having ground its quota of wheat cn government order. There yet remains in the mill warehouses a considerable amount of wheat subject to government order, and which prob- j ably will be shipped to the Minneap olis mills. The work of constructing the bridge at Thorn Hollow has commenced, the bridge at. Mission crossing having be n completed. The county court has di- I rected that the road leading to the I Thorn Hollow bridge from this side be I . put through in time to be ready for ' tiao when Iho hriiiao ia pnmnlalcH which will be about July 1. Prof, and Mrs. J. 0. Russell and lit- l tie son, Elmo, leit yesiernay ior tne Willamette valley, to spend their vac ation. Their household goods were shipped to Pilot Rock. Mr. and Mrs. RusBell met with good success in ang- ling for trout in Birch Creek this week is can be attested by a number of Ath ena friends who were generously re membered. The dance given last evening at the opera house by the Athena Girls Honor Guard, was largely attended and proved an unquaified success in every partic ular. Sawyers' orchestra furnished the music, and many out of town peo ple were present. The proceeds which will be used to finance the adoption of a French orphan were satisfactory. Today, in response to the draft tall, Herbert Parker, Forrest Zerba, James Haworth, Allie Bell, John Shick and Orin Gibbs, left Athena for Pendleton to report for service in the National army. Tomorrow Jacob Booher and Joseph Payne, who enlisted in the trainmen's corps, will leave for Camp Meade, Maryland, for active training. The finishing touches are being put on the Taylor building by the painter in preparation for the arrival of the grocery stock of W. E. Haynie, who will open his store within a short time. The location is the former Dell Bros, stand. The building has been thor oughly renovated and repainted. A store room has also been built at the rear of the store. Al Sigmon, who has been in the employ of the Standard Oil Co., at the plant in Athena, has been transferred to Helix, where he will conduct the company's distributing station at that point. George Wall will be promoted to fill Mr. Sigmon's place here and Lloyd McPherrin has left the O.-W. R. & N. to accept the position made vacant by Mr. Wall's promotion. Claude Coomans takes the position va cated by Lloyd at the O.-W. depot. The reception given at the Christian church last Friday evening in honor of the departing pastor and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Errett, and the Athena boys leaving for the training camps, was largely attended, the people showing a commendable community spirit. Af ter a short program of speeches and music in the crowded auditorium, the guests were invited to the reception room below where cake, coffee and co coa was served in cafeteria style, by the ladies of the several churches and the Girls Honor Gurd. The ladies of the W. C. T. U. oresented pocket Bi bles to the boys, and other gifts were received by them. Mrs. C. M. Brotherton and son, Charles, were in the city Tuesday, hav ing motored down from their home in Waitsburg, and after visiting the cemetery in preparation for Memorial Day, called on a few oil time friends. The Brothertons are prospering in farming operation" near Waitsburg, where they, have this year, WOO acres in wheat, Mr. Brotherton being assist ed by his eldest son, Clarence, who is married. Clyde is in the service, hav ing entered last September, but is still stationed at Camp Lewis, from whence he expects to leave soon with the troops for an Eastern concentration camp. Soldiers Are Appreciative. W wish to express our deep appre ciation for the splendid treatment ac corded us by the people of Athena and vicinity, in tendering us a publi'! re ception at the Christian church; to the W. C. T. V. ; for the Bibles; the Lad ies' Aid Society of the Methodist church for its generous mess fund; the Girls Honor Guard, and to all friends who have expressed their best wishes for our welfare in the ranks of the Army. Jacob Booher, Joseph Payne, Herbert Parker, Forrest Zerba, Orin Gibbs, John Shick, Allie Bell, James Haworth. The Churches, Baptist Church Notes. Rev. E. A. Leonard has consented to remain over Sunday, and will occu py the pulpit, preaching at the morn ing service, On account of sickness, the dinner and social feature next Sunday has been called off. The regular services bnth morniiiLf and evening as usual. The public is invited to these ser vices. D. E. Baker, Pastor. Methodist Episcopal Church. Regular services will be held next Sunday. Family Day will be observed June 0 unless the local situation makes this all-day meeting inadvisable. In this time of National stress, we should assemble often to encourage one an other and to take heart in the great work before us. You will find an es pecial welcome at this church. Walter S. Gleiser. Boaaarabia. The original Inhabitants of l:ara bla are believed to have been Olm.iie rlans, after whom came the Kiytlilans. Because it was the key to one of the approaches toward the empire of Byzantium the province was inrailed by many anccesslve races during the early centuries of the Christian era. Trajan Incorporated It with the prov ince of Dacla. and In the next century the fiotbs iKJtirr-d Into it. to he follow In turn liy the Huns, the Avars and the Bulgarians. In the seventh cen tury a Tuiucian nib", known as the iscs. I. settled there and gave to tha laud 1U name. Children's Footwear Another Shipment of Summer Shoes is here, embracing a splendid arrav of the season's newest Footwear for oMisses and Children. We have examined them critically and are satisfied that in spite of the tremendous cost increases of everything entering into shoemaking, we shall still be able to maintain our repu tation for big values. Children's White Pumps, per pair $1.00 Children's White Top Shoes, per pair 3.25 Misses " " 3.85 Children's Gun Metal Sh.es, " " 2.65 Misses " 3.25 Phone 152 Athena Department Store IMPORTANT USE FOR CAMERA Arctic Region Can Be Mapped by Pho tographs Taken From Mllet Above the Objective. The ndventures of the camera men In this war arc more thrilling than any roamnnce. Braving the fire of batteries of nntl-nlrcruft guns nnd hourly en countering tho skillful air duelists, they must calmly choose their posi tions, risk their lives often for a single exposure, nnd carry back their pic tures In record time. Successful pho tographs have been made ut a height of more than three miles, says Boys' Life, the boy scouts' magazine, for February. Prom such an altitude the earth appears fiat, all objects being lost In n dull cloud-like effect, but the cameras used are of the tele-photo type, which will pierce through this distance. Some are made with a pis tol grip which enables the aviator to aim his camera quickly. Other aero cameras arc built Into the floor or side of the aircraft and pictures are taken by touching a button with the foot. An Ingenious mechanical device hns been invented which will take pictures at any desired rate per second, so that nothing will be overlooked. Aero photography has many Impor tnnt uses apart from warfare. The camera has been carried by daring ad ventures over unexplored regions. It has been estimated that an aero pho tographer could cover more territory In a day In the Arctic region tliau could be traversed in a month by dog sledges. His Tribe Is Increasing. Our dnughter Belle, now Mrs. A. M. Frost, Increased tho population of Ta coina by one small baby girl on July 27. This makes our sixth grandchild. always had trouble to count our children, nnd If the second generation keeps coming so fnst we may hnve to put them In a corral and run them through the chute to find the number, Condon (pro. Times. MONUMENTS! Get our prices be fore placing your order. Berry Monument works F. M. Barry, Prop. 12th and Main Street near O. W. Ft. & N. Passenger Depot Walla Walla Wash. N. A. MILLER Local Representative. EYFSUSIfO. CtASStS GROUND AMD FITTED - LENSES DUPLICATED. AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK BUILDING.- PENDLCT0N.0HE. Phone 609. BAJI UER 8 A L E thm world 8. V. Sharp I'HYSICIAN AND BUBUBON Special attention given to all callb both night and day. Call, promptly answered. Office ou Tulra Street. Athena Oregor Dr. J. C. Baddeley VETERINARY SURGEON LaBrasche R nch Athena CROUP & LASH Dentists In Athena Monday' Tuesday, Wednes day, other days of week in Walla Walla, 2nd and Main over Third National Bank Dr. E. W. Croup - Dr. C. H. Lash EARTH Wear His Smile of Satisfaction by using a real paint Sherwin-Williams Paint, Prepared is manufactured from the purest of materials because The Sherwin-Williams Co. control the sources of their raw materials. Gives protection for the longest possible time. Sold by Ware's Pharmacy Oils, Glass and Brushes tMinnimtiMHMiitmii D. Scott Fisher ' CONTRACTOR & BUILDER Residence and Shop, on Adams Street Athena HHIIIIIIIini PEERING Cutting Machinery ' BINDERS Mowers, Rakes We have in stock 3 1 T Mitchell and Bain Wagons and Bulk Grain Tanks. Drop in and see them. C. A. Barrett &Co. Incorporated IHMMMMMMMmMflMMMMmiMIUtl