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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1926)
Press Paragraphs ' : i Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Shick motored to Walla Walla, Sunday, where they were dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Shick. Mrs. Charles Alspuch of Helix, spent Thursday and Friday in Athe na, where she visited with Mrs. Ar thur Jenkins. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith and Mr. and Mrs. George Johnston, made a business trip to Moscow, Idaho, Saturday. The party returned home Sunday. The topic for B. Y. P. U. next Sun day is Arranging Life's Values. The hour, G.30. The place, Baptist church. The leader, Mrs. Bollinger. Hobart Pcringer who farms near Havana visited here Wednesday. C. H. Banister was here from Hold man Wednesday transacting business. W. E. and Edmund Potts made business calls here Wednesday. They are prominent Helix farmers. W. L. Kayborn well known Weston man was an Athena visitor Wednes day. Roy Hyatt and family of Weston mountain were Athena visitors for a time Tuesday. They were en route to Pendleton. Mr. and Mrs. Lucien Gagr.on and Clarence Gagnon and family will leave Friday by motor for Los An geles where they contemplate spend ing the winter. They will vii'.t their daughter Florence, who now makes her home in the Southern metropolis. John Tompkins was in Athena Wednesday from Helix. Mr. and Mrs. Dolph Thompson were Wednesday visitors motoring here from Bingham Springs. Mrs. M. L. Watts and Mrs. W .S. Ferguson were Walla Walla visitors Monday. Rev. and Mrs. Bollinger spent Monday in Walla Walla. Mrs. John Ankeny of Walla Wal la and Mrs. Harriet McArthur of Portland visited at the home of Mr:;. F. S. IieGrow Tuesday. Mose Banister who has been suf fering an attack of the influenza is able to be out again. Mr. and Mrs. James Sturgis, Will Swilzlcr and Mrs. Henry Collins vis ited Athena friends this week. R. Wallen of Adams transacted business here Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. F. S. LeGrow motor ed to Pendleton Tuesday on a busi ness mission. Mrs. W. P. Littlejohn has returned home after several days visit at the home of her daughter Mrs. Guerney who makes her home at Haines. A. M. Gillis of Washtucna, was a visitor in Athena this week. Jack Cunningham former Athena resident was a Wednesday visitor here from Pendleton. Emmett Lee and family motored to Winona last Friday to spend the week end at the home of Tracy Lee, a brother. Miss Dorothy Lee who is attending Normal school at Cheney was also at Winona and enjoyed vis iting with her parents. Harry R. Breeder of Yakima, Washington was here this week buy ing potatoes from various growers in this vicinity and Weston. The pota toes will be shipped to Yakima. Miss Ruth Proebstel, Helen Eu banks and Jerry Cassett visited at the R. B. McEwen home last week end motoring here from Walla Walla. Dr. and Mrs. Stone former Athe na residents who now make their home at The Dalles, visited Athena friends Saturday. They were en route home from Thornton, Washington. Miss Jennamae Read who is ser iously ill at her home here shows slight improvement. A number of Athena people mo tored to Walla Walla Saturday where they witnessed the football game between Washington and Whit man at the new stadium. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Roseberry of Powhattan, Kansas are here and con template spending the winter with their son H. A. Roseberry. The Christian church will observe their regular Rally Day in the Sun day school next Sunday November 7. See regular church notice. You and your family are invited to come. Mr. and Mrs. T. P. DeFreece of Walla Walla spent Friday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sims Dicken son. Mrs. Zeltha Mclntyre and Miss Kathryn Mcltnyre left this week for Hoquiam, Washington, where they I will visit at the home of Mr. and i Mrs. Glenn Shelley. They will make I the trip in Mrs. Mclntyre's new Whippet car, which she recently pur chased. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cockburn of Mil ton were in Athena Sunday. 3 Gifts j For Every Occasion Complete line of all the latest Novelties, just received 1 McFaddkn'S Pharmacy Mr. and Mrs. Claud Dickenson, Mrs. Fred Gross and Miss Gladys Dickenson motored to Dayton, Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. Clark Mace, who formerly resided here and who now make their home at Grandview, Washington, spent Saturday and Sun day in Athena, as guests of Mr. and Mr3. Bert Logsdon. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Pen dleton (Grace Zerba) November 1, 1926, at Lakeview, Oregon, a son. Mr. and Mrs. William Booher have returned from Pendleton, where they visited their son, Jacob Booher. Mrs. E. C. Prestbye left Wednes day for Seattle, where she will visit, at the home of her father, Mr. Pick ett. She will also attend the wedding of her sister Miss Marvel Pickett who is to be married there November 17. Mrs. Ida Banister will substitute at the telephone erchange for Mrs. Prestbye. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Logsdon Wed nesday motored to Waitsburg, where they attended the funeral of lit:Ie 5 year old Flora Cockburn, who was burned to death there Monday. The little girl was a great niece of Mr Logsdon. Mrs. George Banister Jr. of Athena and Mrs. Raymond Geissel of Milton returned to their homes Saturday evening after spending two weeks in Portland. Mrs. Geissel also visited in Longview, at the home of her sis ter. Mrs. John Stacklie. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Anderson of Helix, were dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Myrick. Beginning tomorrow night, all shows at the Standard Theatre will begin promptly at 7:45, until further notice. A wonderful story of World sea warfare, "Mare Nostrum," will be shown at the Standard Theatre to morrow, for one night only, at 10c-35c-50c admission prices. This is a Rex Ingram picture, one of the big gest of the season. Sunday night Richard Dix in "Womanhandled." Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Davidson and Mrs. George Davidson of Milton, spent Sunday at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Bollinger. Mignonette Rebekah lodge will meet Tuesday, November 9, and as this is to be the last meeting before the convention will be held all mem bers are urgently requested to be present as most important business is to be discussed at this time. The convention date is Tuesday November 23. Found A pair of eye-glasses and case. At Press office. Way Cleared for C. M. & S. P. Sale. Chicago. The way for the sale of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway was cleared of all apparent obstacles when the United States cir cuit court of appeals refused to grant a petition for a mandamus to force Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson to allow an appeal from his order deny ing minority bondholders the right to intervene in the bankruptcy proceed ings. Portland Gets 1928 Scottish Rite Meet Omaha, Neb. The supreme council of thirty-third-degree Scottish Rite Masonry, in annual conclave here, vot ed to hold its 1928 meeting at Port land. The 1927 convention will be held at Washington, where It meets verv cvl1 r Some New A rrivais At Steves New line of Hats and Caps for Men and Boys Winter Underwear Slip-overs, Blazers, and Sport Coats Negligee Shirts Hose and Neckties Celebrated Alaska Buckskin Gloves Fonda Gloves i. High School Notes We specialize in Fresh Fruit, Vegetables and Groceries of all kinds. If we haven't them, they are not on the market. The boys have started a Round Ro bin basket ball tournament. The high school boys have been divided into five different teams. The cap tains, who are letter men of the sen ior class are, Dalberth Taylor, Ar thur Taylor, Fred Radtke, Dorsey Kretzer and Dale Stephens. In order to make six teams the eighth grade has entered a team, with Wayne Pitt- man as captain. The various teams are practicing Monday, weanesaay and Friday, of this week. The first game will be between the "Taylor Brother's" teams, on Monday even ing, November eighth. A straw vote taken in high school Tuesday resulted as follows; Pierce 34; Patterson 20; Haney 24; Steiwer 24: Stanfield 8. The girls of Athena high school are giving a cake and candy sale at the Pure Food Grocery store, Satur day November 6; for the purpose of raising money for new basket ball suits for the girls.' Mrs. H. A. Barrett and Mrs. Vic Hirsch visited the grades Tuesday. Bruce Samuels, who attended school here last year, visited in the primary room Wednesday. E. A. Zerba, clerk of school district No. 29 has completed a census of the district. He finds that there are 145 children of school age. There are 79 boys and 66 girls. Next Thursday, Armistice Day, will be a school holiday. There were no tardy marks in Mr. Miller's or Miss Rodman's rooms dur ing the last report month. Roland Richards, Lucille Barrett, Robert Lee and Marjorie Montague of the sixth grade presented argu ments favoring the leading political candidates, before an assembly of high school pupils Tuesday afternoon. Those getting ono Kundred in spell ing in the third grade for the month are: Annabel Payne, Doris Jenkins, Jack Miller and Cecil Clemons.. Those getting one hundred in spell ing in the fourth . grade for ' this month are: Arleen Foster, Barbara Lee and Fern Carstens. Mrs. Payne visited the third and fourth grades Friday afternoon. Ruth Williams, visited the thirl and fourth grades one day last week. The fourth grade geography class has worked out on the sand table a lumbering project which is very at tractive. The Haggerty intelligence tests were given in the second, third and fourth grades this week. Microscopic slides showing the tex tile fabric of wool, cotton, silk, arti- fical silk and linen have been prepar ed by the biology class. About $100 worth of equipment has been added to the science room. The high school and four upper grades were dismissed Monday after noon, to hear the campaign speech of Governor Walter M, Pierce, at the Standard Theatre. They returned to the school house at 2:30. Fiiday morning at a general as sembly, Margaret Lee, Sarah Belle Jantzen and Lenore McNair gave talks on different phases of the el ection. These talks were as follows: Margaret Lee, Primary, Election and Senators; Lenore McNair, Candidates for Governor; Sarah Belle Jantzen, the proposed amendments for the State of Oregon. Oral Michener was absent from school two days on account of illness. Clifford Wood, Dalberth Taylor and Dale Stephens attended the Washington-Whitman football game at Walla Walla Saturday. Margaret Lee was in Winona, Washington, over the week end. While there she visited with her sis ter Dorothy, who is attending Cherey Normal. All of the teachers were in Wal la Walla Saturday and most of them witnessed the football game between Whitman and the University of Washington. 1 The high school, teachers were din ner guests at the M. W. Hansell home Tuesday evening. . STEVE'S GROCERY Quality Quantity, Service. Phone 171. Athena, Oregon LACKER J AC IP Motion Pictures to Teach Surgery. Montreal. American motion pic tures entered a new scientific field, that of medicine and surgery, spon sored by one ot the world's leading medical societies, the American Col lege of Surgeons. Will H. Hayes, head of the picture Industry, joined with the scientific men in the plan to give the entire world the benefit of medi cal and surgical pictures. The board of regents ot the college adopted the report of a special committee advo cating the use of movies. The New Rainproof Blazer Coat This new Blazer is dressy, warm and absolutely rainproof. Cuffs and bottom are wool knit with Corduroy collar to match It comes in Brown, Grey and Black Price $6.9$' : Phone Your Order To 152 Athena Department Store Polrsnirj Husband Charged to Widow Tillamook, Or. Mrs. Eva N. Mc Gee. widow of Dr. W. G. McGee, who died August 17 under circumstances regarded as suspicious, was arraigned in circuit court here on an indictment charging first degree murder by ad' ministration of poison. The indict mont followed an autopsy performed by Dr. Robert L. Bonson, Portland pathologist. THE STANDARD THEATRE Saturday, November 6 ex Ingram's Our Sea With Alice Terry and and Antonio Moreno The picture with a thousand thrills, a world of power and beauty mark this Ibanez romance of the World War as fought on the sea, played against the back ground of the colorful Mediterranean, directed by the man who made "The Four Horsemen." The fascinating story of a beautiful spy and the of ficer she had dragged down into the whirlpool of intrigue and betrayal, where both win redmption in moments of a mighty, blazing drama that can not be forgotten. It took a year to make the picture International News Comedy Admission Prices, 10o35c-50c Sunday, November 7 Richard Dix In Pathe Review Comedy Admission Prices. 10c-35c Wednesday, November 'In the Name of Love" With Rteardo Cortez, Greta Nissen, Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton In picturizing, under the title "In the Name of Love," Bulwer-Lytton's fam ous love-classic of the last century, "The Lady of Lyons," Paramount brings to the screen one of the- finest stories ever told. This glorious romance-idyll, which made theatrical history on two continents and served as a starring ve hicle for some of the notable stage personalties of the past seventy-five years, has been modernized and brought up-to-date, so that the millions of film fans may enjoy a splendid entertainment. Comedy Admission Prices 10c-35c