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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.
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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.
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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
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