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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1922)
Press Taragraphsj Omer Stevens was in Pendleton, inursaay. J. A. Lumsden of Weston was in Athena. Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. John Ogle of Adams, were in Athena Thursday. Richard Thompson was a business visitor in Pendleton Tuesday. L. L. Rogers of Pendleton was in Athena on business, Wednesday. , Robert Proudfit is having his resi dence on Adams street repainted. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gross and fam ily visited relatives in Echo Sunday. Mrs. Minnie Mitchell visited rela tives in Athena over the week-end. Trajan Tucker of Weston, was an Athena business visitor. Wednesday. John Adams, of Adams, was in Athena yesterday, transacting busi ness. Mrs. Naomi Dickenson snent the week at Milton at the home of rela tives. The St. Nichols hotel has received a supply of the Harvey Auto tourist guides. Mrs. Van V. Bowman of Portland and three children are In the city Ufisiting at the home of her mother: iia. oancnez. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dell and Miss Lucinda visited in Walla Walla, Wed nesday. Mrs. Henry Miller is in Pendleton this week, attending her son Vernon, Jjf. and Mrs. Alf Johnson of Walla Walla visited relatives in Athena and vicinity, Sunday. Mrs. Wall, Mrs. Danner and Mrs. Charles Dudley, spent Tuesday with friends in Milton. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Da vis of Lone Rock, Oregon, Mav 31 1922, a daughter. Mrs. Minnio WillnK.T 1 I visiting her son in Condon, returned nome last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Logsdon and Mr. nnrl Mt-s .Tact, i - wou -ijnir, mvwiVVI to Pendleton Sunday. Mrs. jonn btanton and daughter MiMtv.fi nnonf tl,n ,1.... :.! l-.I , ure uajr will! icinuvcs in Ppndlpfnil VMlANln,, iui! iyuia mcuonaia of Pendletcn is visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. Richard Thompson. Members of the Athena Post, Amer ican Lp.p-inri Hi-ill,. .! t. n... bcout troops Monday evening. Worth W.lt. . i r I o iciuincu num.' I l oll! u. A. C. Sunday to spend the summer iuv vacation wicn nis parents. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Watts. Miss Vera Grant and Ray Logan spent the week-end at Bingham Springs. Mrs. J. L. Lowther is visiting her daughter, Miss Iris Lowther, who is employed as nurse in a Portland insti tution. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Arbogast of Rit ter, are visiting at the home of Mrs. Arbogast's mother, Mrs. Charles Mc Parland. Miss Francis Williams has been spending the past week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Beckner, south of town. Mrs. Stubblefield and daughter Dol ly were in Athena Tuesday. The family will hereafter reside near Pi lot Rock. Miss Katherine Froome is home from Corvallis for the summer vaca tion. Miss Sanders will take sum mer school work. viarsnan 01 walla waiia ha i iied a position as saleslady ALLURING TOURS Very Low Fares Everywhere The NORTHERN PACIFIC offers round trip summer travel rates from Athena to Yellowstone Park . $32.25 Minneapolis-St. Paul 67.00 Chicago . . 81.00 All-Steel Daily Trains to the East Write for rates and full information to Northern Pacific Ry. A. D. Charlton, Portland General Passenger Agent F. B, Wood, Athena BS1 Northwestern Bank Agent Building Model Cleaners V and Dyers Pendleton, Oregon We Clean and Dye everything that is Cleanable or Dyeable. Suits made to order. Give your bundle to the Troy Laundry driver. Oil Grease Get Your Harvester Oil at Prestbye's Service Station " Where You and Service Meet" Gas Accessories irl ine dry gooda department of the Athena Department store. A party enjoying a trip to Thorn Hollow Sunday were: Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Smith and children and Mrs. R. B. McEwen and sons, Ralph and Edwin. The Sunshine Club enjoyed a pic nic at Bingham Springs, Wednesday. Miss Charlotte Gross was a guest at the home of Charles Keen in Pen dleton, the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Pinkerton left Monday for a visit with friends at Spokane and other points in Wash. They are making the trip by car. and will be gone a couple of weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Payne and lit tle son Billie came up from Portland Sunday and took dinner at the Hol comb home west of Athena. They are now visiting relatives in Waits burg. Mr. and Mrs. Will Chapman of Glendale, Wash., were guests last week at the Johns home west of town. Mr. Chapman is a brother of Mrs. Flint Johns. They left Monday for Vancouver, Wash., by automobile L. J. Foss is here visiting at the nome ot nis son, A. A. f oss. He re ports crop prospects at Terrebonne very good, considering the late sea son there. He will visit his daugh ters in Spokane, returning later to Athen.a. Mr. and Mrs, D. B. Hunt were in Walla Walla Wednesday where they took their little son, Bobbie, for the removal of adenoids. The operation was undergone heroically by the little fellow and he was brought hnmA the skme day. ALynn Ferguson, son of W. S. Fer feihon, was a member of the 1922 graduating class from Hill's Military Academy, Wednesday, and leaves that institution with the rank of Major. He will be at the home of his fathei here during the summer. Miss Doris Thompson, who is a student at St. Helen's Hall in Port land, is home for the summer vaca tion, having accompanied her parents on their return Tuesday. The trip was made up from the metropolis in ive nours, Dy automobile. iss Vera lrant who has been a st of Mr. and Mrs. H. I. Watts. left Monday for her home in Portland 1 he week-end was spent at Bingham springs, miss lirant win teach again next year in'the high school at Bend, where she taught the past year. Wm Winship writes an Athena friend that his first picking of straw berries filled eight crates and the berries were "as large as eggs." Bill didn't state whether he meant bird eggs or hen eggs. Cherries are sell ing for nine cents per pound in his orchard. , Mrs. Louis Stewart was hostess to the Etude Club yesterday afternoon at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Herr. The business of the day was the annual election of oncers which resulted as follows. President, DRS. A. D. & R. A. FRENCH OPTOMETRISTS French Optical Parlors 15 E. Main St Phone 653 WALLA WALLA, WASH. OUR ARE FRESH AND SOUND Service At This Store Eat plenty of fresh vegetables and you will be healthy and happy. Vegetables contain just the things you need to keep your system in fine working order and if you neglect it you may get all run down. Buy from us. The best vegetables on the market are forwarded to us daily. Give us your grocery order today. THE PURE FOOD GROCERY Quality Quantity, Service. Phone 171. AUiena, uregon Mrs. Ralph McEwen; vice, Mrs. Rex Hopper; secretary, Mrs. J. L. Mich ener; treasurer. Miss Bell Mclntyre; custodian. Mrs. Pcnn Harris; director, Mrs. Loren Basler; pianist. Mrs. 0. 0. Stephens, with Mrs. Laurence Pinkerton, assistant. Refreshments were served by Mrs. W. R. Taylor. Mrs. Robert Proudfit and Mrs. C. H. Smith. The last meeting of the year will be held June 29, at the home of Mrs. D. T. Stone. Next Tuesday's meeting of the Athena Civic Club will be under the direction of Mrs. Edith Van Deusen, ner subject being Home Convenien ces." It is hoped the members will be out in large numbers to profit bv Mrs. Van Duesen's demonstrations. A meeting of the local W. C. T. U. was held Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. N. Desper. Thirteen members were present, and Mrs. Hugh McArthur of Portland and Rev. Lowther were guests. Refreshments Were served by Mrs. ', Charles Betts and Mrs. G. R. Gerkang. Janis Gcrking, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gerking, and Laura and Mary Jane Woodward, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Woodward, were presented in a musreal recital Mon Iay evening by the McDonalds'. Miss Laura Elizabeth received a gold med al for excellence in original composi tion. )(Mr. and Mrs. George R. Gerking tyrned Saturday from a visit to i 'Spokane where they attended the com mencement exercises or Spokane Uni versity. Their daughter, Miss Lillian, who graduated from the high school preparatory course of the college, ac companied them home. Miss Blanche Gerking was also of the party. Miss Laura Bowles of Seattle, was the inspiration for a social afternoon yesterday, at the home of her sister, Mrs. F. S. LeGrow on High street. Eight young ladies, friends of Miss Bowles from Walla Walla were the guests. A boquet of old-fashioned flowers centered the table where lun cheon was served at one o'clock. ' The Rebekah Lodge held an inter ,esting meeting Tuesday night in the loafce hall. Mrs. Mitchener gave a detailed account of the meeting of the Grand Lodge at Eugene. Miss Jean Murdock was taken into the lodge and also new officers were in stalled. Noble Grand, Francis Wil liams; vice Grand, Edna Pinkerton, re cording secretray; Thelma Kret zer, finaniial secretary; Stella Wilkes treasurer, Lilla Kirk. SELLS ICE TO WESTON S. S. Hutt is selling ice to resi dents of Weston this summer. Taken in connection with his extensive Athe na patronage, Mr. Hutt finds his ice business greatly increased. 24 Years Ago Tom Purdy was in town for a short time Saturday. Miss Stella Willaby is attoding commencement exercises in W-Jston this week. Charley Fischer will spend the 4th with Athena friends. He is now in Portland. -Miss Amy Allen has just completed a successful term of school at the Bank's school house. She has been retained for mother term. C. A. Barrett is making some im provements on his property by way of a new fence and an addition to hi' house. Marshal Carden wantu property owners to understand that allleys p.nd rubbish piles must be cleaned up im mediately Miss Edith Pont will visit Walla Walla friends this week. Clark Wood and A. D. Stillman passed through Athena Sunday even ing on their way to Pendleton. Miss Bessie Church will visit re latives and friends in La Grande. Walter Pierce, accompanied 'jy 05 boys, left Pendleton Wednesday for the Pierce sugar beet farm near La Grande, where the boys will be gnen work in the fields. Mrs. Lake France and daugfler Mildred left Sunday for 'i'acoma, on a visit to relatives. They will also go to other Sound Cities and perhaps to Victoria, B. C , before returning home. Yesterday's attendance at the Pion eer picnic war estimated to be 2,000 people. Today is "politician day" jnd all candidates who desire to do so, may have the privilege of talking fivo minutes each. Says yesterday's East Oregonion: James Maloney, t!ie county recod-er-clect, is in town from Athena tooy and from the way he is being given the "glad hand" he will likely have a sore arm before many hours. Among those who attended the re cital, were Mrs. Marquardsen, fliss Pratt, Mr. Will Scott and mother, George Gerking, Miss Blanche Caton, Miss Effie Bostwick, Mrs. Bradley, the Misses Bradley, Allen Bradley, Mrs. Will Parker. A mass meeting was held at the lp era house Tuesday to determine whether or not Athena would give the people of this section a celebration on July 4th. It was the unanimous sen timent of those present to celebrate. mm 1W 1 mi m iw to turn m m The Chur ches Methodist Services Sunday school, 10 a. m. Preaching, 11 a. m. No evening service. C. L. Lowther, Pasto" Church of Christ Bible school, 10 a. m. Communion. 11 a. m. The subject of the morn ing sermon will be "Man As He Was; !As He Is; As He Will Be." There i will be union services at night at the Baptist church. The subject of ' the sermon will be "Evolution From a Christian Viewpoint." F. E. Ruhh , ell, pastor of the Christian church will I preach the sermon. You are cord I ially invited to attend these services. mwersaru O.I J QMverware Anniversary celebrations or gift occasions of any kind call for silver ware. It can be given year after year, each gift-piece increasing the value of that given on previous anniversaries. j847 ROGERS BROS SILVER-PLATE Athena Department Store i ii i 1 I THE STANDARD THEATRE Saturday, June 17 The Silent Call Drama ot Human Love and Wolf Love with a Giant Wolf-Dog flashing through Fangs bared to despoilers; shaggy body hunched to spring; animal heart pulsing with dog-devotion to the girl who had shown him the first touch of hu man kindness. The greatest dog in the world. International News Two-Reels of Comedy 10c-25-35c tax included Sunday June 18 The Sporting Duchess The Great Drury Lane Stage Play SHOWING THE DERBY RACE With An cill-Star Cast of Characters Pathe Review. Admission, 10c-25c-35c, Tax Paid Rollin Comedy Coming Soon: 'Tol'able David'' and "The Eeart of a MM