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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1918)
Press Paragraphs j For Sale. An upright Whitney piano at reasonable price. Henry Dell. Mrs. Sanford Stone visited in Pen dleton Saturday. . Geo. Myrick and family have moved to the Berlin farm to reside. Lawrence Sharp has enlisted in the Marines for service overseas. P. 3. Jackson last week purchased a new Hupmobile, touring car. Mr. and Mrs Henry Dell spent Sun day with friends in Walla Walla. Wanted. Second hand automobile. Must be cheap Enquire at this office. Miss Hazel Burton has entered the commercial department of the High school. Mr. and Mrs. P. S. LeGrow attend ed the Ankeny funeral in Walla Walla Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Emmel yester day morning made a short visit to Pendleton. The Knitting Club will meet next Friday afternoo i at the home of Mra. j-con muuer. Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Wilmot were in Walla Walla Tuesday, attending the Ankeny funeral. Mrs. John Riley of Burbank, Wash., visited her sister, Mrs. Arthur Cop pock, this week. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Hansell and Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Boyd spent Sun day on the Umatilla river. The death of John Ba'ir, for many years a farmer of this county,, took place at Lents, Oregon, Monday evening. S f GIVE US YOUR GROCERY ORDER WE DELIVER PROMPTLY THE GROCERIES WE SELL ARE PURE. WE KEEP OUR STOCK FRESH. NEW GOODS ARRIVING DAILY. OUR STORE IS CLEAN AND SANITARYi WE KEEP OUR GOODS PROTECTED FROM DIRT AND DUST. WE FILL YOUR ORDER RIGHT; YOU WILL GET EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT. WE MAKE LOW PRICES: THIS SELLS THEM QUICKLY-THIS KEEPS THS STOGK FRESH. BUY YOUR LIBERTY BONDS TODAY. S. & H. Pure Food Grocery QualityQuantityService. Phone 171 THE FOSS HARDWARE STORE Universal Ranges BARRETT BUILDING, :: ATHENA, OREGON We carry the best MEATS That Money Buys Our Market is Clean and Cool Insuring Wholesome Meats. A. W. LOGSDON Main Street, Athena, Oregon J For Sale. An upright Gearhart piano, is in first class condition. Price tlt5. Enquire at this office. Mr. and Mra. Hugh McArthur are in the city from Portland and will remain for several days with relatives. Mrs. u. H. Sanders returned Sunday from Corvallis, where she placed her daughter, Miss Hazel, in school. For Sale. 3-burner gasoline stove, and kitchen range, both in good con dition. Mrs. R. Hassell, phone 106. Mr. and Mrs. Will Pinkerton will leave Sunday for McCloud, Alberta, on a snort visit to Mrs. Pinkerton's rel atives. Austin Foss received a photograph of Jack Caldr, yesterday. Jack is in uniform, serving with the Canadian army. Members of the local Rebekah Lodge are notified that reeular meetings will be resumed, beginning next Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sanders left the first of the week for a motoring trip to LaLross and other points in Wash ington state. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Anderson farming in the Helix neighborhood. were in the city Tuesday evening visiting friends. Clay Jac' son, Athena high school boy, Monday began a business course in the Pendleton high school, majoring in gas engineering. Mrs. Sabina Morton was in Walla Walla Tuesday, where she attended the funeral of her life long friend, the late Mrs. Levi Ankeny. For Sale. One good 8-year-old Jer sey milk cow, perfectly gentle, was fresh in March; also one 5-year-old gelding, broke to w ork or ride, weight U00 pounds. Phone 25F8 or see Geo. Myrick. For Sale. Two male hogs one Pol and China and one Berkshire, bah thoroughbred and registeied. W. E. Scbrimpf, Athena. For Sale. Thirty pigs, ready to wean; one sow and seven pigs; 15 head of .'i-month-old shoats. Charles Belts, Athena. Phone tiOF13. Adv. Ernest Crockatt, former Pendleton High school boy, recently wounded in France, is reported recovering. He was wounded in the shoulder. Mrs. M. L. Watts is home from Portland, where she went several weeks ago with her daughter, Vernita, who entered St. Helens Hall. Henry Koepke and daughter Dorothy will leave this week for Glendale, Cal ifornia, where they will join Mrs Koepke, and remain for the winter. Everett Rothrock, who is stationed at Bremerton navy yard, is home on a short furlough. Everett makes a nifty looking sailor boy, in navy uniform With sufficient rainfall the soil would be in prime condition for grain seed ing. Many of the farmers are ready to sow grain when the moisture comes. Louis Stewait left Tuesday evening to enter upon another year's work at Willamette University. Miss Ruth Stewart will attend 0. A. V. this year. Mrs. A. B. McEwen came up from Portland this week and visited at the homes of her sons, Ralph and Luvois McEwen, and daughter, Mrs. H. A. Barrett. Notice. To whom it may concern: On and after this date, September 38, 1918, I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by any one other than myself. S. Sanchez, Athena. Oreg. James McSherry has asked for and received his discharge from duty in the 0. M. P., and will report for ser vice in the shipyards in Seattle. Mrs. McSherry will remain in Athena for a time. In the drive last week for clothes for Belgian Relief, through the efforts of the local Red Cross, in one day, 820 pounds of clothing and shoeB was col lected and sent in to the head Chapter at Pendleton. Belle Pamprun, who is suffering from an attack of appendicitis,, will doubtless submit to an operation in the near future. Miss Ellen is again in the hospital at Walla Walla, being afflictedwith a nervous i Section. Notice. To all persons knowirg themselves indebted to the firm of Stephens & H9ssell (S & H Pure Food Grocery.) Please call and settle at once as I wish to leave Athena in a short while. Ralph T. Hassell. Mrs. Annie Horton. of Prairie Citv. arrived recently to spend the winter with her daughter, Miss Margaret Hor ton, teacher in the Athena schools. Mrs. and Miss Horton are domiciled at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Em mel. .. . The Leader says threshing was com pleted Tuesday on Weston mountain. The barley crop, as anticipated was very light and the wheat yield only a little better. There ia a prospect of a fairly good potato crop, and the qual ity will he excellent. Jack Gabbart, of the reservation, was arrested the other evening for raising a disturbance at the home of D. C. Russell. Gabhart was given a sound thrashing by Russell, who brought him down town and turned him over to Officer.Dobson. A heavy rain storm swept the Uma tilla river district northeast of Athena Sunday afternoon, hut little rain fell in this immediate vicinity. On the Walla Walla river and on the head of Mill creek the storm assumed the pro portions of a cloud burst. Charles Cunningham Jr.. who was called into service in the September draft, died Tuesday morning at Camp Lewis, as the result of pneumonia. He is survived by two sisters, and was the son of the late Charles Cunningham, who was a well known sheepman. Relative to the call for linen, from Red Cioss headqarters, this auxiliary has received notice from the head chapter at Pendleton to await further instructions in the matter, before col lecting sheets, towels, etc., called for last week. Information for action will be given early next week. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Kilgore of Cor nelius Oreg. were in Athena this week visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Kilgore. Mr. Kilgore says no trace has yet been found of Matt Tur ner, whose parents reside at Cornelius. The young man escaped from a Port land sanitarium three weeks ago while in a demented condition. An exceptionally successful meeting of the local W. C. T. U. was held Tuesday afternoon at the' home of Mrs. N. Deeper. A detailed report of the county convention at Helix was given by Mrs. Uerking, and among the com mittees appointed was one comprised of Mra. Jackson Nelson and Mrs. A. Bedgood, for the purpose of collecting towels, etc., for the W. C. T. U. kitchens in France. A pleasing fea ture was the report of the treasurer, of I 35 in the treasury. Weston Leader: Mrs. Charles E. Clark, formerly Miss Ferol McBride, is here from Seattle for a visit at the home of her grandmother, Mrs. Fannie McBriie. She spent the summer in Alaska, as her husband is a marine en gineer and serve on a steamer plying between Seattle and Alaskan porta. Mrs. Clark was among the most popular students of Weston High, of which she is a graduate. When married, she lacked only six months of completing the course in nursing at Providence boapital, Seattle. Miss Eglantine Moussu, the Pendle ton girl who is serving in France as an interpreter in the telephone cepart ment. writes to relatives that she re cently visited the old home of her fa ther near Paris. It was harvest time, and she walked across the field and was shown the ground that bad been willed to her father. Nearby stands an old edifice, built in 1101. M. L. Watts returned from Salem Monday and enthusiastically expressed himself as being pleased with the suc cess achieved by the State Fair this year. The exhibits were all that could be expected, and the harness races were the best ever seen in the North west. The largest crowds ever before accommodated on the fair grounds were orderly and no gtafting was in evidence. Ransom Lieuallen, a highly respect ed citizen of Weston, dropped dead Friday evening of last week in his blacksmith shop, where he was found some time late', when he did not come home to the evening meal. The fun eral waa held in Weston Sunday, at tended by a large number of friends and relatives. Mr. Lieuallen was the eldest of a large family of whom, Mrs. George Banister, Mrs. Harvey Caton and Gecrge Lieuallen of Athena are members. He was a resident of Wes ton for many years, being identified with the development of this county. He was 70 years of age, and leaves a wife three sons, daughter and other rel atives to mourn his loss. Athena School Notes Contributed Tests are being held in all the rooms from the Fourth grade up, today. The intent of these tests is not to try to discover some question the pupil can not answer, but rather to offer a com prehensive review of the most impor tant subjects that have been covered during the month. The result of these tests however, are added to the grades which appear upon the monthly report cards. Owing to the fact that manual train ing teachers are not to be obtained while the war is in ptogress, the school board was compelled to drop this subject from the high school course this year. Howevei, the boys of the Seventh and Eighth grades are re ceiving instruction and practice n the art of using and caring for tools. Up to the present time no new lumber or supplies have been bought, the boys having provided themselves with fruit boxes and other odds and ends. The pupils of the physics class are watching the variations of a mercurial barometer that they constructed, and noting the accuracy as compared with an aneroid barometer placed beside it. Up to date there is no great diver gence. Roller skating seems to be the pre vailing mode of locomotion about the school house square. No serious bumps have been recorded to date. Next week there will be a report of the school showing the conditions of attendance, punctuality and honor roll for the past month upon which the award of the Honor Cup is to be made at the end of the semester. The Primary room lost an earnest little worker in the person of Eldon Myrick. who left this week to live with his parents on a ranch west of town. Harold Kirk is absent from school on account of illness. A few members of the 8th grade class went on a picnic Saturday after noon with the Freshmen. A good time was reported. Dorothy Koepke has gone to Califor nia, where she will attend schuol. fhelma Crabill an 8th grade pupil, has left to attend school in Pendleton. The Freshmen and Sophomores en joyed a picnic at Pine creek last Sat urday. The merry party, chaperoned by Misses Grant and Esbensen of the H. S., left town early Saturday morn ing in a roomy hayrack and returned after a very enjoyable time, about 8 o'clock in the evening. Misses Horton and Wiley went to Walla Walla with Miss Sherman, Sat urday, where thej partook of some of that city's many pleasures. The Ancient History class is busy these days finding out how much Bible can be learned from the study of History. 23 Years Ago, I From the Press oi Oct. 4, 1895) Farmers near Pendleton will endea vor to hold their wheat until offered 40 cents. Monday and Tuesday of this week were hot enough to be classed as sum mer days. Guy Turner and Miss Ella Burrows of Walla Walla visited Athena Sunday, the guests of Miss Leola Young. H. B. Nelson of Weston, is laying the brick foundation for Rosenzweig's new addition to bis residence on JefFer Bin street. Marriage licenses were issued this week to Amos F. Kugel and Miss Elvira Gum. and Fredorick C. Searcey and Miss Julia Gravauch. Mr. Leon Cohen, the popular Pen dleton merchant, had the misfortune Monday of this week to receive a brok en leg by a horse falling with him. Miss Winnie Gerking and Mr. Har vey Stanisfer were married at Milton, Tuesday of this week. J. N. B. Gerking was in from the Flat Tuesday. J. N. B. is as jolly as of yote, even if tbe price of wheat is Boy's School Shoes Buy the boy's Shoes at this reliable store and be sure of getting the best quality of leather. We offer many special values, saving you a substantial sum for, despite the increased cost, our prices are as low as the lowest. Here you will find lasts that will prove most comfortable for the youngster's growing feet, with no sacrifice of the dress appearance mothers so much desire. Of dependable, rugged leather construction, they will withstand the rough wear of boyhood sports. BOYS AND GIRLS Shoes $1.35 to $3.95 WE SELL THRIFT STAMPS Phone 152 Athena Department Store Tharp Bros, are preparing for a trip to the coast. They will be accompan ied by their families. The country roads are in fine condi tion for buggy-riding and bicycling. at low ebb. This year he was every thing on the ranch, from chore boy to chief cook and bottle washer for the camp. Henry Pierce is competing with the railroads, to a certain extent. He is transporting grain from near Milton to Cayuse station with six-horse tenms. He says he saves money by hauling the grain himself. A new militia company for the third regiment, Oregon National Guard, is soon to be mustered in at La Grande. Oats are a drug in the markets of the world. Electricity and the bicycle are the direct cause of this. "Over production" has nothing whatever to do with it, nor have the "tariff tinker ing democrats." St. Louis papers are discussing tho question why women will not treat one another. They have a first rate reason. After they have bought ma terial for their dress sleeves, they have no money left. Notice. To whom it mav concern: Notice is hereby given that I will not be respon sible for Hnvr"delit.s contracted Itu tt,u son Everett Knight. Dated at Athena, October 1 1D18. 11. S. Kinght. iiiiv'iiiitiiiiiinmnniiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiint Groodyear Tires Athena Garage Repairing Parts and Accessories. Lathe Work a Specialty. if Nilson Tractors Guarantee farm efficiency. Create traction automatically. Stand years of hard service. Light weight easy to handle. Junior" for 3 plows, "Senior" for 1 (Our 2-pIow machines coming soon.) NILSON TRACTOR SALES CO., East Morrison at E. Third St Portland, Oregon. Clothes Pressing & Gleaning Parlor Suits Made to Order We guarantee our work. Prices reasonable, Bring your clothing to us for cleaning and pressing. We make a specialty of cleaning and pressing Ladies' wearing apparel. W. J. CARSTEN, Worthington Build'g r EYH It tYFUESUD OtMSfS MOUND ANDFIIUD- LtHStS DUPLICATED AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK BUILDING.- PENDUION.ORE Pmonc 609L g. Y. Sharp PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON Special attention given to all call, both night and day. Cfcll.Dromolly au.wftred. omit on Third Mmtt. Athn urticor C. A. Barrett &Co. Incorporated October First! What does it mean to you? To us it means we must pay the whole salers. We expect all owing us to settle promptly. 'OIIIHMIIIIIIHHIIMIIMIIIMIMIMIIHIIIIIIH Script Porm Butter .Wrappers Are Best
