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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1927)
. ..- - r,., rr Press ;PaHgSphsrir l i Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Lo Grow left Wednesday for Berkeley, California, where they will visit relatives. The Etude club chorus for the op eretta, will hold a rehearsal Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, at the Baptist chureh. A general epidemic of the flu pre vails in Athena and vicinity in com mon with other parts of the universe, including Helix and Spain. Bryce Baker has taken over the management of the liist.'i'.juting sta tion of the Continential Oil Company at Athena, succeeding Grant S. Prest-bye. Mrs. Fred Gross has returned from the hospital at Pendleton, following a recent operation. .Mrs. -Gross is at the home of her daughtei, Mrs. Dick eson, where she is recovering her health. Born, to Rev. and Mrs. Reasoner, at Colfax, Wash., January 15, 1927. a daughter. The little miss has been named Gertrude Ellen. Rev. Reas oner was formerly pastor of Athena Christian church. Stafford Ilansell, who has been seriously ill at his home north of Athena, is improving. The patient developed symptoms of diphtheria, and Dr. Cowan, the attending physic ian, administered anti-toxin. As a result of the Press office force being actively engaged in the front trenches, warding off a furious at tack of the flu, the best paper pub lished in Athena is not quite up to standard this week, in the dissemin ation of local news. The Bridge club was charmingly entertained at the home of Mrs. Frank Ames, when she was hostess at a one o'clock luncheon. Red car nations decked the tables and the col or scheme was further carried out in the place cards and nut baskets used. The afternoon was spent play- the club. Additional guests were Mrs. Victor Hirsch and Miss Edna Pinkerton. The heaviest snow fall of the win- j ter covers the ground here to the depth of seven inches. Snow fell in termittently Tuesday, Tuesday night and all day Wednesday. Thursday night the temperature dropped to be low zero, instruments recording as low as 21 degrees, but 15 below is said to be the average record. A deplorable hunting accident at McKay dam Saturday, terminated in the death of Chauncey Bishop, well known Pendleton business man and Round-Up director. 1 While" crossing a ditch his gun was accidentaly drop ped. Striking the ground it dischar ged the load of shot into the victim's abdomen, death resulting Sunday af ternoon. The remains were taken to Salem for interment. i The pupils in Miss Edna Hanna's piano class will present a recital at the school auditorium next Wednes day evening January 26th at 8:00 o'clock. The program promises to be an excellent one as the pupils have been working for some time to pre pare it. Miss Marguerite Mitchener, teacher of expression in the Malen Burnett School of Music at Walla Walla will be the assisting artist and will read a group of negro dialect numbers and an arrangement of the play "If I Were King" by McCarty. The members of the Baptist Mis sionary society met at the home of Mrs. Charles Kirk, with the president Mrs. Emmett Lee, leading the devo tions. Routine business was carried out, after which members responded to roll call with mission nursery ryhmcs, some of which were recited and others sung. Plans were made to serve dinner to the men's league the last of this month. Mrs M. L. Watt3 and Mrs. Fred Pinkerton as sisted the hostess in serving delicious refreshments. The next meeting will be held at the church when a kitch en shower will be the feature, the UiftRg .use.iO;fvTOshth.e church iJkAtuiieai ins -z i "Once in a Blue Moon" is the titla of tfce operetta to be presented by the Etude club this year. This is a musical romance in Prologue and three acts, dramatized by Randolph B. Carter and the music by Noble Cain. The club is very fortunate in being able to obtain the services of Mrs. Loren Basler of Boise, Tdaho, who has successfully directed former productions of the organization. The cast has been selected from the club and other talented people of the community, and with the large and efficient chorus the presentation bids fair to be the best in years. Rehears als are now in progress and the names of cast and chorus will be an nounced shortly. Mrs. Basler will ar rive January 31 and it is hoped that the operetta will be ready for presen tation about February 11. ADVISE TRADE MARK flEGISltHtU latteries For All Cars Also a complete line of Radio batteries. Let us show you. Thompson s Garage Athena, Oregon Phone 471 Genius and f reedom Genius can only breathe freely lo an atmosphere of freedom. Persoas of genius are more Individual than ether people, less capable,, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtfil compression, into any of the small number of molds society provides in order to save Its members the trouble of forming- their own character. If, from timidity, they consent to be forced Into one of these molds, society will be little the better for their gen lus. If they are of strong character and break their fetters, they become a mark for the society which has net succeeded In reducing them to com monplace, to be pointed out as erratic, much as if one should complain of the Niagara for not Co win smoothly like a Dutch canal. John Stuart Mill. Trees Live Long Thomas Parr, who lived to be one hundred and fifty-two years . old, Is credited with a record, but this lon gevity, as well as that of all other members of the animal kingdom, is easily surpassed by those of the vege- table kingdom. The life of the great forest trees varies from 100 to as much as 5,000 years, says London Tit-Bits. Cypress trees are said to live for 850 years, Ivy 450, ehestnut 000, cedar 800, oak 1,000 to 1,500 years, yew 2,500 and the baobab tree 5,000 years. Artificial Pearls The method used by the Buddhist priest in producing pearl images was to Insert a small wooden wedge be tween the two shells of the mussel, when these were open, to' keep them from closing. All mussels can only open their shell a little way, just enough to extend the foot by means of which they slowly plow through the mud of the river bottom, and two tubes, one bringing in' water loaded with; microscopic 'animals and plants upon which the mussel feeds, and Oxygen for breathing, the ether carry ing away the waste water and refuse. The wedge once quickly and carefully slipped In makes it possible to work In the Interior. Nature Magazine. Attiring Gavsrncr Issues 15 ;Pardoii3 Salvia,: Or. One or Uia last o:icia r.cts of Governor Pierco- faofove he re tired from the cxeculife dartment wrs to issus IS pardons, conditional pardons and comutationi of sentence. Tho lone full pardon was granted ,. to (..Hester Kubli of Jackson county,:who was convicted on charaes of aidine and abetting In the misapplication of funds of the defunct State Bank of Jacksonville. Kubll was under' three years penitentiary sentence. I M Off On All lipovers and Blazers ow Carried In Stock f !. STEVE'S GROCERY Quality Quantity, Servi.ce. Phone 171. Athena, Oregon High School Notes' Monday morning was the beginning of the second . semester. Edna De Freece. Secretary of the student body and Dale Stephens, athletic manager gave reports, of the student body funds for the past semester. The re ports were 'approved by the student body. A balance of about J200 was shown in each account,-' " - Janitor pinkerton was confined to his home Tuesday on account of an attack of influensa. . : The home of :M. I. Miller was the scene of a birthday oarty Tuesday evening, when several ' friends gather ed to remind Mr. Millar that" "he Was a year older. . t : ' The new pupils registered in the grades. Lawrence Stamper in the fourth grade , and Francis Stamper in the second grade. Jennamae Read registered for the second semester after an absence of three months., She is a member of the senior class.' , - Superintendent Hadley and Mr. Stokheise attended the annual meet ing of the Stkte High School Athletic Association which was. held in Port land during tfe holidays. The new officers of , this association . are as follows: Principal Landreth of Pen dleton, president; Superintendent W. J. Mishler of Grants Pass,' vice presi dent; Principal R. E. Cannon of Gres ham, secretary. Jessiedeane "Dudley spent Saturday in Pendleton,''. Roy DeFjeecji spent Saturday in Pendleton. 'J' 1 .... "' ." Lois Johnson , spent Saturday -in Pendleton. i- s .... Jennamae Read was in Walla Walla Friday. . ''a ir' .--- Lorena, Dorfs ' and Itol Schubert have been out bf school on account of influenza this week. ' Oral Michener, Harold Kirk, Allen Simpson, George Gross, Dorothy Geissel, Jessiedeane- Dudley, Ethel Pittman and Helen Hansell have been absent from, school on account of sickness. . . , ' - s -v Seven pup'ils have been absent from the primary room on1-account of sickness thjsweek,,' . " The high school basket ball teams went to Pilot Rock last Friday even ing. Both 'games' were Tather rough and quite close. The girls' lost their game by a score of 22-18. Two ov er time periods were required to set tle the bojfe gia'riae. Pilot' Rock " fin ally won'on a fVe"throwfte'r a fool; Score was lY-16.' .""'::"'" The directors, of basket bail dist rict- number'f'two, which includes Umatilla, "'Marrow' ' Gilliam ' and Wheeler ' ccWtieS are as : follows : Superintendent' j; 'M. Burgess ol Hep pner, chairman'!- Superintendent H. E. Inlow of Pendleton; an3 Superintend ent E. F. 'Goodwin' of-aliltfori. CoUmaK City f CeW, Pathetie in 11$ Hum Oolom is ah'nnknewB nam today, but three-quarters of a century age very American. able to. speak bad H at his tongue's-esd, , There that Newl Jersey adventurer. James Wilson Mar shall, '.discovered gold n January, 1848, and started the rasa, of fortune seeker from all the worW te Califor nia, a writer In the -New York Sua recalla Coloma ' grew quickly to a town of tenjthohsund iothaWtants and boasted of all the luxuries that a pi oneer ,;cauldj- dettiftBd. A ' stranger waudwDdng among the hills of Kl Dorado ceuntv recently rediscovered 7 .V '.. V It. . He fonnd a country store and a post offlci Jp, .tle mklst of a cluster or deserted shops and houses. The mall carrier said that In the whole eomnninflfy there -were scarcely a hun- area nnkl fifty perrtone. In the grave yard oji the nlllslde wate thf only re minder? of Ooloma's :fame,Va meaiorlal to Marshall, the bronze statue vsnr- mounting Jt pointing- to ,f!e place .of Calif oruJa'a first fold discovery, Coloma bod dreaniK at mnimlAcence la the eoijly flftlesTTolwna then had uuwm vnoieis, asiree? nneapwun aXiivL a bundred aaiooni as' Vaojr wdI?ei gamUtag ylnce and diab halls, an, eipreii eftee, three scheoil four. chArcbea ad a JaU The sheila f liie dince halbl. the saloons1 and tto . gwnbllhg, . place remain. The cotiroHea , and scnooM nassed genera- Oona ago, Thtj.jaU tht had houW toe Md men, jb UjlerW aad crooked gamblers loog vago fair Into rula. Firtt Settlement in OreigonWasA$iorit The first. permanent settlement in Oregon was ftuide4 at -Astoria by agents of the Pacific For comwmv. who ttriv at. -the mouth of the Co lumbia rtrer 1UT, years age, viae fur conptia, was- haolred by Zona ..Jacob Astor, but the wen engaged by htm to InVade the ntfrtiiwtsterft wilderness were CnH:i' a majority being of Scorch-descent". ' The party left-Montreal Is i big canoe and made their way down the St. Carwrecce, trience to the Hudson and New York, fywi which port they aarled on the sii Taia vUlch doubled Qige Vent a4 sreeed4 U Hawaii sallug, tbesce fer the OeUni bla river. Arrived at' the mouth 'of that mighty stream, they built a fwrt. calling It 'AtUria, which gradually de veloped Into the town and city of that Blew I ears Resolution Resolved that during the year 27 we shall be untiring- in our efforts to give you Service and i Value Received Phone Your Order To 152 Athena Department Store THE STANDARD THEATRE Saturday, January 22 Lewis Stone And Barbara Bedford In old o ves an d New International News Admission Prices, 10c-25c-35c Sunday, January 23 Elinor Glyn's oves oiiinaness whh Pauline Starke And Antonio Moreno 99 Pathe Review Admission Prices, 10c-25c-35c Coming: Al Christie's Stop Flirting