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Press Paragraphs Dean Dudley was in Holdman this week. Bert White was in Pendleton Wed nesday. Mrs. Fred Gross was in Milton, Monday. Seth Hyatt of Gibbon, was in Athe na, Tuesday. Mr. Bill Murray left yesterday for La Grande, Oregon. Albert Gould, Weston farmer, was in Athena, Thursday. Mrs. Alfred Pambrun visited friends in Pendleton, Tuesday. Otho Reeder was a business visitor in Pendleton, Tuesday. W. S. Ferguson transacted business tot Pendleton, Tuesday. "Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Flint Johns, i eptember 10, 1922, a son. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Keller have re turned from Wallowa Lake. E. C. Prestbye was in Pendleton Wednesday on legal business.. Mrs. Hazel Raymon and baby are visiting friends in Walla Walla. Mrs. G. W. Gross and Miss Verva Gross were in Pendleton, Thursday. Ralph Haynie and Mose Banister were Pendleton visitors, Wednesday. Vernie Marr, Will Hall of Weston mountain, were in Athena, Tuesday. Mrs. Henry Dell and daughter Lu cinda were in Walla Walla Tuesday. Tom Gilkey has joined the party of Athena hunters on the Grande Ronde river. Elmer Booher is up from Condon. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Haynie an Mrs. L. H. Kretzer motored to Mil ton, Sunday. Mrs. Marion Jack of Pendleton was a guest of her mother, Mrs. C. T. Smith, Monday night. Dean Willaby is spending a few days in Athena.coming from Condon the fore part of last week. S. C. Stone, who is one of railway guards at Umatilla, was up from the htailroad town over the week-end. yMiss Savannah Smith is returning to oneney Washington Sunday to at tend the winter course at the Normal? Miss Hilda Dickensen spent the week-end with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. lom Deireece at Walla. 7 A. season Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Gagnon spent the week-end at Bingham Springs. Miss Areta Littlejohn visited re latives in Pendleton the fore part of the week. The Walla Walla fair is drawing many visitors from Umatilla county this week. Scoutmaster Stephens and his troop returned Saturday morning from Bingham Springs where the lads en joyed a fine outing. The trip was made in automobiles. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Logsdon, who spent last week at Wallowa Lake, drove to Vale, Malheur county, to visit Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Clore. Rev. and Mrs. Lowther have de parted for Bridgeport, Wash., where Mr. Lowther will be the pastor of the Methodist church during the coming year. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Myrick, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Woods and Miss Beulah Banister returned home from a fishing trip at Wallowa Lake, on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Payne and small (aughter Annabel are visiting rela ives in Athena. They are returning to their home in Joseph the last part Walla. lof the week. Mrs. F. B. Boyd and brother, JohnJL. Mrs. M. M. Johns has purchased Ridenour returned Tuesday from a the residence on Adams street, be- visit with relatives in Portland and Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Keen, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Keen, and Miss Thelma Keen were Athena visitors Sunday. 4Jrs. Catherine McCool, wife of the tween Third and Fourth, of Mrs. Jer ry Stone, and will make her home per manently in Athena. Two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Johnson will attend college this year. Miss Minnie will enter Univer sity of Oregon and Miss Helen will ditor of the Portland News, is a I attend Whitman college. guest oi ner sisier-m-iaw, rars. ij. it. xtniss tatnnne rroome and M:ss McEwen. Hazel Sanders will leave for Port- Worth Watts is driving a new Ford sedan. He will drive it to Corvallia where he enters his second year at 0. A. C. Amos O'Dell will run the village barber shop in Happy Canyon, Pen leton's big night show, during the Round-Up. Mr. and Mrs. Sims Dickenson and daughter Gladys were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tom DeFreece at Walla Wal- Lla. RunHav. He raised a good crop of wheat this dMiss Juanita Woodruff has returned Itinn'i Kha in pfairinf urtth liar aunt, Mrs. Arthur Coppock for the school term. George Winship returned Wednes day from a visit at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Win ship, in Salem. Miss Walthia Haynie has returned from a couple of weeks visit with friends in Spokane, and entered Athe na high school. Athena admirers of the Pendleton Round-Up are in attendance every afternoon now while the tryouts of bucking horses are being made. Oil Grease Gas The Real Neatsfoot Harness Oil at Prestbye's Service Station " Where You and Service Meet" Accessories Model Cleaners 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. land next week, where they will visit .friends a few days before going to Corvallis to enter 0. A. C. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Prestbye will reside in the Stone cottage on North Fifth street. S. C. Stone was up from Umatilla last week and leased the residence to Mr. Prestbye. Boy Scout meeting at Legion Hall Monday night. All scouts requested to be present. This meeting will be the first since the summer vacation period. M. L. Watts who is a director rep resenting Umatilla county in the State Highway Scenic Preservation Association, expects to meet with the association at Portland, tomorrow. Miss Lois Cassil was in Athena on Wednesday to arrange her schedule for music classes for the coming year. Miss Cassil represents the Malen Burnett School of Music of Walla Walla. Mrs. S. S. Piersol has '.eft on a visit to her son, Russell, at Wasco, Oregon. From there she will proceed to Roseburg, where she will spjnd several weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Elmer Johnson. LMrs. Sam Booher and daughter Marjorie returned home from St. Anthony's hospital, Pendleton, where Marjorie had her tonsils and adnoids removed Monday. MiBs Marjorie is convalescing nicely. XMiss Lela Schubert is taking a oommerical course, including steno graphy, at Walla Walla business col lege. Miss Schubert was a member of last year's graduating class at Athena high school. Lois Wilson, Milton Sills, Theodore Roberts and Helen Ferguson are the Paramount stars who appear in "Miss Lulu licit," an especially beautiful picture of a splendid story at the myinwrtw nichf Tlnn't mien rthis one. ' "Viliss Areta Littlejohn will soon re I turn to University of Oregon to re- will attend the University this yeor as a freshman. She will be accom panied next week as far as Portland by her parents. Thj new pipe line laid xmdtr the Mam street pavement has sprung a li E6ETABUE5 ARE FRESH AND SOUND Service At This Store mmmwmmmmmwm 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 leak, and water is flowing into the basement of Standard Theatre base ment. One hole has already been cut into the pavement and a leak .toppil, however, other leakaare in evidence. Fred Fished of Merced, California, and Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Armstrong of Seattle, were guats at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harden, Tuesday. Mr. Armstrong is assistant manager of the Seattle Times, and Mr. Fisher was formerly engaged in the harness business in Athena. Miss Lillian Gerking, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Gerking, has been a patient at College Place San itarium part of the past week, where Dr. Watts removed her tonsils. She has returned home and with her sis ter, will soon leave for Spokane to attend college the coming year. ju. m. watrus, ior many years a resident of this county, living on a ranch near Adams,, died Monday at Eugene. Mr. Watrus was about 80 years of age. He is survivied by his widow, four sont and two daugh ters. Funeral services were held at Adams yesterday, interment taking place in Athena cemetary. Miss Edna Pinkerton attended the wedding of her cousin, Miss Rena Hales, and Mr. Clifford Holdman, in Pendleton, Tuesday afternoon. The marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. George L. Clark, at the home of the bride. After a short wedding trip, the bride and groom will return to the Holdman ranch, where they will reside. A charivari party surprised Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Stockstill and Mr. and Mrs. Glen Arbogast by calling on them unannounced, Monday night. Mr. and Mrs. Stockstill are newlyweds. Mr. and Mrs. Arbogast, former high school students here have been mar ried several months, and reside at Ritter, Grant county. They are here on a visit to relatives. 29 Years Ago September 15, 1893. L. A. Githens, book-keeper in Ber gevin Bros, store is suffering from a severe cold. The Butter creek farmers in Mor row county report an adundant crop of hay in their locality, which can be bought at the present time for $4 per ton. Long Creek Eagle: Ben Carter and Norve Hamilton returned from Uma tilla county last week where they have been laboring during harvest. "There is plenty of work in that country," they said, "if a man will agree to wait for his money." Robert McBroom, while engaged in unloading grain Tuesday on the farm of Mr. DeGraw, about three miles south of Weston, was suddenly over come by the heat and fell to the ground in an unconscious condition. Jack Caviness and Willie Turner of Pendleton, while out on a fishing ex cursion at Desolation Lake, were visi ted one night by a huge mountain lion. Although the brute avoided the boys it devoured a venison that the boys had killed the day previous. John Foss will open school Monday next at the Union school house on Gerking Flat. Mrs. Fred Rosenzweig and children returned from the mountains this week, with a bountiful supply of huckleberries. A populist paper, the Living Issue, published at John Day City, Grant county, has suspended. Thus one by one do "the daisies" die. The Inland Republican family are on the sick list this week and Irving McQuary came to the rescue and got out the sheet. The Press hopes that Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks will speedily recover. Yesterday noon the Chinamen at Charley Sing's wash house became in- volvel in a free fight, and the way "pig tails" and jargon flew in the air was a caution. They scratched, screamed, pulled hair and fought like demons. 1 The Churches Baptist Services Sunday service, 10 a. m. Special service, Rally day. Morning worship, 11 a. ri. Subject, "The Ward and Spirit." Evening service, 7:30 p. m. Subject, "The Justice of God." Thursday, midweek service, 7:30 p. m. E. B. Johnson, Pastor. Church of Christ Bible school, 10 a. m. Communion, 11 a. m. The subject of the morning sermon will be "The Urge of Our Convictions." The evening service will begin at 7:30 p. m. The subject of sermon, "Holding In Remembr ance." All are cordially invited to worship with us. F. E. Russell, Pastor. Methodist Services Rev. W. S. Payne of Weston, will conduct services at the Methodist , Episcopal church in Athena, Sunday j morning at 11 o'clock, a. m. All are I cordially invited to attend the services. 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