Press Paragraphs
M. L. Watts spent Saturday in
Waitsburg.
Clay Jackson was in Pendleton,
Wednesday.
M. W. Hansell is driving a new
Ford run-a-bout.
Frank Jackson of Weston was in
Athena, Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Myrick were in
Walla Walla, Sunday.
Mrs. Richard Thompson was
Pendleton, Wednesday.
Earnest Chandler and Guy Cronk
were in Pendleton, Tuesday.
Harry McBride of Weston was in
Athena on business, Thursday.
Mr. Charles Keen of Pendleton was
an Athena visitor, Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gross and fam
ily were in Pendleton, Wednesday.
Frank Greer, Weston farmer, tran
sacted business in Athena, Monday.
Mrs. Minnie Mitchel is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Fred Gross this week.
Mrs. George Finch, has been very
ill the past week, but is improving.
Miss Leola Benefiel is up from
Irrigon visiting at the Jess Smith
home.
Miss" Charlotte Gross and Miss Phil
lis Dickenson were .in Walla Walla
Sunday.
who spends his time on the river
; tnese days.
XNext week a full force of caruen-
Mrs. Robert Proudfit was the guestV Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McPherson re-J4erts will be nut to wnrk mi fho n.
. . . . ix .... . . 'i 1 - -
i wana wana relatives and iriends, turned this week from an automobile
Monday,
Robert Schneider from Mica, Wash
ington is down for harvest with the
Cannon Bros.
Mr. and Mrs. Rex Hopper and Miss
Francis Williams were Walla Walla
visitors, Thursday.
French Crigler is over from Free-
water helping Canno Brothers get
ready for harvest.
rVSam Haworth took a truckload of
bdys to the ol' swimmin' hole on the
Umatilla, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Thompson and
son of Gibbon, Oregon, were Athena
visitors, Thursday.
Oliver Dickenson was over from
his Baker country ranch this week
on a business visit.
Miss Ethel Smith of Walla Walla,
has been a guest at the Sterling Par
ris home near town.
E. A. Leonard of the Preston-Shaffer
Milling Company, came down from
Waitsburg, Saturday.
Little Beth Zerba celebrated her 5th
birthday last Thursday by giving a
party at her home on Jefferson street
to a number of her little friends..
Mrs. Ida Banister, Miss Beulah Ban
ister and Miss Hilda Dickenson were
in Pendleton, yesterday,
The Lure of the
OCEAN
BEACHES
was never more fascinating than now, because so
much has been done to insure comfort and delight
ful recreation at all of the many resorts near the
mouth of the Columbia River. You can plunge
into the surf, fish, hunt, dig clams, play, rest and
get the real joy that only a beach vacation can
give. And you have this brilliant galaxy of beaches
to choose from:
NORTH BEACH
CLATSOP BEACH
ask our agent for
"Outings in the Pacific Northwest"
and "Oregon Outdoors"
They tell the whole stoyr. Then pack your trunk
and purchase a ROUND TRIP EXCURSION
TICKET via the
UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM .
Insuring that most wonderful
trip down through the Colum
bia River Gorge. Let our agent
tell you all about it, arrange
your itinerary and make your
reservation.
Round trip from Athena, $17.65.
C. M. EAGER. Airent
Wm. McMurray, General Passenger Agent
Portland, Oregon
pleasure trip to California.
Reas Metz, nephew of Mrs. W. E
Haynie is down from Hatton, Wash,
to work in the harvest fields.
Hugh Glenn and his friend, Floyd
Adams, are visiting at the home of
his aunt, Mrs. Sims Dickenson.
Miss Lida McDonald of Pendleton
has been visiting at the Richard
Thompson home the past week.
Miss Ellen Henry has returned
from a visit at the home of her aunt,
tact for wheat hauling at Holdman.
Mrs. Bert Ramsay is at Newport
for the summer season. She accom
panied her sister to the beach resort.
Mrs. Minnie Mitchell, of State Line
was visiting the first of the week at
the Fred Gross farm west of town.
VMr, and Mrs. Henry Dell, Miss Lu
anda Dell, York and Dr. Dell spent
Sunday in the Blue Mountains, east
of Athena.
Mrs. J. B. Anderson and daughter,
Belle, and Mrs. W. T. Truelovc, moth
er of Mrs. Anderson, were in Pendle
ton, Monday.
Charles Williams and family re
turned home from the coast Satur
day morning. They reported a very
pleasant trip.
Miss Bessie Price visited her
grandmother, Mrs. Mary E. Price,
who is confined in the Pendleton hos
pital, Sunday.
Mrs. Jack Crigler and daughter,
Mildred were over from Freewater
last Friday and spent the day at
Cass Cannons.
Mr. and Mrs. L, M. Akers came up
Radtke residence by Contractor Bau
er, and the construction rushed to
an early completion.
Matt Mosgrove, former Athena
merchant, was over Thursday from
his home in Milton. He has recently
closed out the bankrupt stock of the
Weston Mercantile store.
Mrs Sina Rambaul, Mrs. Sarah
Gibson, Mr. Doc Rothrock, and L. C.
Rothrock, all of Pendleton, visited
Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Andy Rothrock in Athena.
Mrs. Hamp Booher, near Weston. miss Jeanette Miller, former Athe
Guy Cronk has purchased a new1 naschool girl is attending summer
Master truck and has a large coft- school at Monmouth normal, and will
teach in the Marshfield schools dur
ing the coming school year.
Sam Edwards, old-time stationary
thresher, who operated his machine
in this and the Palaouse districts
years ago, was in town one day this
week, from Ritzville, Wash.
Mrs. M. W. Hansell and family re
turned Sunday evening from a two
weeks camping visit to Gladstone,
where they met many of their friends
and enjoyed the Chautauqua.
The 0. D. 0. ladies met at Mrs.
Laurance Pinkertons last Thursday
and made two dress forms. Refresh
ments were served by Mrs. Virgil
Zerba and Mrs. Gene Schrimpf.
--Athena people, who have made re
'cent trips to the mountains report
prospects good for a bountiful huc
kleberry crop, and many anticipate
going later to pick the luscious fruit,
William .Winship of Salem, writes
an Athena friend that he will have a
large crop of prunes and walnuts. It
is dry in the valley at the present
time, gardens being in serious need
of moisture.
from Pendleton Sunday and spent
the day at A. L. Swaggarts home
north of Athena.
v" Mrs. Matt Johnson and daughters,
f Eois and Blanche and Miss Lois Mc-
Intyre, are spending the week at
Bingham Springs.
Braden Gerking, who won the all
'round cowboy championship at Uki
ah, July 4th, was in town this week
from Camas Prairie.
Miss Ethe' Praeger arrived last
week from Wisconsin and is visiting
at the home of her aunt, Mrs. George
Johnston and family.
Arthur Stone, Salem newspaper
man, has been up visiting, his mother,
Mrs. Jerry Stone, and brothers, Dave
and Cliff, west of tpwn.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jones have been
enjoying a visit from their daughter,
Mrs. Vernie O'Harra and her little
daughter, Vernita, of Weston.
Mrs. E. J. Burchell and little grand
daughter, Betty Bond of Pendleton,
have been guests the past week at
the C. M. Eager home on Jefferson
street.
Mrs. W. R. Taylor has returned
from a visit with her sister, Mrs. J.
W. Smith at Corvallis. Mrs. Sheldon
Taylor accompanied her as far as
Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Ingram, and
son James, left Wednesday evening
by atuo for a trip to the coast. Mr.
Ingram is a brother of Mrs. Robert
Proudfit.
It's entirely too hot for fishing,
entirely. That's the reason given for
if catches by the average angler,
poor
pl - Kir
Service
At This
AilA
KETABLB Store
ARE
FRESH
AND
SOUND
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. Athena, Oregon
Mrs. Lillian Dobson and sister-in-law,
Mrs. Amy Dobson Upton of
Estacada, were in Athena and spent
the week-end with friends. Both are
attending the summer normal school
at Pendleton.
Smoke from the burning timber in
the Cascades almost obscures the sun
here. Forest fires are raging up and
down the coast, and unless controlled
in a short time, huge loss of timber
will be the result.
X.arge numbers of tourists are us
ing the city park camping grounds.
Every part of the United States and
tourists, most of whom are on the
Canada is rcpresentated by these
Pacific slope! for the first time.
A second-hand Willys-Knight car,
the property of Dr. Kennard, was de
stroyed by fire Monday night on the
highway. It was being driven by Ray
McCarroll when the blaze which re
sulted in it being destroyed started.
Mrs. Philip Yenney was over yes
terday from her home near Walla
1 Walla, visiting her mother, Mrs. W.
R. Taylor, and her grandmother, Mrs.
Ann Taylor, who is reported no bit
ter. Athena friends have received an
nouncement through cards, of the
birth of a baby girl, weight 6lbs
on July 18, 1922, to Mr. and Mrs.
Everett Russell, of Zillah, Wash. The
mother was formerly Elizabeth Math
ers, an Athena school girl.
Arnold Wood has finished his
wheat harvest on the R. W. Cargill
ranch one mile south of Athena. He
reports that his yield was 45 bushels
to the acre, and the grain tested 58
pounds to the bushel. This is one
of the best yield yet reported.
Mrs. M. M. Johns returned Tues
day from a week's visit at the home
of her niece, Mrs. George Ayres, at
Wallula. She was met their by her
sister, Mrs. Jacob Proebstel of Port
land, who will be in Athena soon for
a visit at the Johns home west of
town.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cannon and lit
tle son returned from Spokane where
they went to consult Dr. Addison
from Rochester in regard, to the lit
tle one, and it was thought in three
years an operation would be necess
ary before he could walk. They were
accompanied by Mrs. Roy Cannon.
Mrs. Merle Roby and Mrs. Rockwell
Carrey returned Wednesday to their
homes in Eugene and Portland, res
pectively after spending several day3
at the home of their brother, George
Thompson. Mr. Thompson has en
tirely recovered from his illness and
is conducting harvest operations on
his ranch west of Athena.
Sheldon Taylor has made substan
tial improvements to the Taylor
homestead west of town, putting In
a basement and heating plant and
changing the interior of the house,
and with his family will reside there
in the future. Mrs. Taylor and child
ren will be established on the farm
in time for school, while Sheldon will
remain on the Cold Spring ranch un
til he has put in his fall crop.
Vernie Marr and Shed Price, both
men of veracity, came down the
Weston uplands Tuesday with a load
of wood. They say the mountain
surely needs a good road, if any
country ever did, The present grado
down the foothill slopes is so rough
and rocky that it shakes the stays
out of the women's corsets, and they
found them scattered all along the
tortuous way.
1
I
5
Canvas, Tarpaulins
and Tents
6x14, 8 ounce Tarps $4.75 14x16, 10 ounce Wall Tents .... $39.50
6x14, 10 ounce Tarps $5.95 29 in. 8 ounce Duck, yd 30c
6x14, 12 ounce Tarps $6.95 36 in. 10 ounce Duck, yd 45c
7x9, 8 ounce Wall Tents $12.50 48 in. 12 ounce Duck, yd 75c
8x10, 8 ounce Wall Tents $13.50 72 in. 12 ounce Duck, yd $1.25
10x12, :.: ounce Wall Tents .... $21.50
Athena Department Store
For Lower Prices, Phone 152
THE STANDARD THEATRE
Saturday, July 22
ot Gibson
MASS S3 a '
IN
The I
Fire Eater
u0
An Exceptionally Fine
Clean Western Picture
Doubled With
The Trail of the Wolf
Just a whopping good show -tha's all!
International News 10c-25-35c tax included
Sunday luly 23
Wanda Hawley
In
Eden
And
Return
Pathe Review and Comedy
Pathe Review. Admission, 10c-25c-35c, Tax Paid
Franey Comedy
Coming Soon
Cappy Ricks