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Press Paragraphs Rich Thompson is driving a new Chevrolet roadster. Mr. and Mrs. Omer Stephens were in Pendleton Tuesday. Joseph N. Scott was in Athena Monday, from Pendleton. Athena stores and business houses will close, Monday, July 4. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Whitehead were Walla Walla visitors Tuesday. Mrs. Joe Anderson and daughter Belle spent Tuesday in Walla Walla. Weeds and grass have been cut at the school house grounds this week. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Russell were visitors in Walla Walla Wednesday. H. A. Barrett spent Wednesday in Waitsburg where he transacted busi ness. Miss Ethel Pittman is a guest of Miss Wavel Mitchell . on Weston Mountain. R. Alexander of Pendleton and Dr. C. C. Sturgis of Ann Arbor, Michi gran visited Athena friends- Wedncs day. I l V . JanUen Swim in a Jantzen at your favorite pool! Note the men and girls who win admiration at the swimming pool. There's verve and dash to the suits they swim in. . .immaculate fit. . . . "boyish" grace . . Jantzens! A Jantzen suit imparts that, air of trim, athletic poise. Fits perfectly, without a wrinkle. The wool is knitted tightly into fabric of rare flexibility. It is elastic! It conforms closely, smoothly, easily, to your figure. Come in and see how the JanUen system of sizing by weight insures you a perfect fit. Color-fast, too, as Jantzens are all dyed-in- the-wool. We have all the popular colors, styles in every size. Men's Janttens $ Women's Jantzens . . J Children's Janttens $ ' (J The suit that changed bathing to swimming McFADDEN'S PHARMACY Athena, Oregon "Her Second Chance" Standard Theatre tomorrow night. M. L. Watts and "Scotty" KreUer have returned from Seattle after a short visit. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Mitchell are visiting friends here. Their home is in Portland. Fay Le Grow has a badly mashed finger, as the result of a car door closing on it. Win Burden of Toppenish, is here visiting his sister, Mrs. J. D. Hug gins in Athena. Fred Erickson representative of the Continental Oil company was a business visitor here. Leon Miller is again working at Zerba's Garage, after completing a well-drilling contract. Miss Margaret French is here from Walla Walla visiting her sister, Mrs. Orel McPherrin. Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson were in Athena Tuesday from their home on the Umatilla river. Walter Adams who farms south of Athena, has returned from Seattle where he spent the past week. Fred Pittman and family spent Sunday on the Umatilla river and Fred had good success fishing. Miss Mary Appleby of Milwaukee is visiting Miss Hazel Sanders and Miss Kathren Froome this week Frank Swaggart of Butter creek, well known in Athena, has entered four horses in the Ukiah races, which will be run July 2, 3 and 4. Mrs. J. E, Reeder has returned to her home at Tacoma, after visiting relatives at Pendleton and Athena. Vernard Bell of Pendleton formerly of Athena and well known here was a business visitor here Wednesday. Clarence Toole, University of Ore gon graduate '26, will be athletic coach at Athena high school this year. ' Mrs. A. A. Kimball of Pendleton spent Sunday at the home of her daughter Mrs. 0. 0. Stephens, in Athena. Mrs. Roy Cannon underwent on operation at St. Mary's hospital at Walla Walla, Tuesday. She is im proving. E. H. Leonard of Waitsburg and President of the First National Bank of Athena was a business visitor here Tuesday. Mrs. A. Davin and Mrs. Edna Hall of Walla Walla, spent last Friday in Athena, guests at the home of Mrs Lee Whitehead. Elmer Merritt went to Pendleton one day this week and met a cousin who resides in the Eeast, and who is touring the coast. John Banister visited in Athena the forepart of the week. Mv. Can ister's description of the Weston flood is a vivid one. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gerking and children have come from Pendleton to the farm west of Athena, to re main during the summer. Mrs. Bun Moore was operated on Monday at St. Mary's hospital in Walla Walla. Mrs. Moore is report ed to be getting along nicely. Bill Switzler of Umatilla, well known horse man was an Athena visitor Tuesday. Mr. Switzler was en route home from Spokane. La Vone Pittman will arrive this evening from Lewiston, where she is attending normal school, and spend the Fourth with her parents here. Mrs. Stella Keen, representative of the local Neighbors of Woodcraft, returned Wednesday evening from the district convention held at Bend. Mrs. F. B. Boyd left for Sheridan, Montana, Wednesday in responsa to a telegram announcing the critical ill ness of her brother, John Ridenour. Bob Norris of Medford will spend the week end at the Sandevs home. He is en route home from a horti cultural convention at Moscow, Ida ho. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hiisch have decided not to go east, but to remain in Oregon. However, they will not be residents of Athena, only for a short time longer. They will take up in A Standard Bred Registered Jack will make the season at my farm two miles south of Athena Terms For single service $5; or $20 to insure. HENRY KOEPKE, Jr. Phone 32F5, Athena, . Oregon. residence at Freewater, where Mr. Hirsch has been advanced to the posi tion of head bookkeeper by the Pres ton-Shaffer Milling company at its Peacock Mill, in that city. Miss Dorothea Taylor whose home is in Pomeroy, Washington, is visit ing at the homes of Miss Lois Mc Intyre and Miss Roma Charlton Athena. Manv Athena people visited Wes ton Sunday evening and Monday to view the . effect of the cloudburst, which struck above that town Sun day evening. Mr. and Mrs.' Glenn Dudley and their house guest Miss Evelyn Bragg of Portland spent the week end. at the new Dudley summer home at Bingham Springs. Miller & Son have completed bor ing a well on the Floyd Pinkerton place, west of Athena. The drill stopped at 155 feet, and the water measures 90 feet. Mrs. J. H. Templeton of Seattle, who was a delegate to the convention of the Federation of Women's Clubs at Walla Walla, was a guest of the at the home of Mrs. James Potts this week. A total of eleven votes were cast at' the school election of District No. 7 Monday, and A. H.McIntyre, pres ent member of the board was elected to serve on the board for another term. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Shick of WTalla Walla and Mr. and Mrs. Herschell Shinall of Portland visited Sunday at the home of Mrs. Martha Shick. The party was en-route to Portland by motor. Herbert Parker has taken charge of a chair at the Penn Ham's barber shop. It will be remembered Mr. Parker's father conducted a shop here for years and was assisted by his son Herbert. A large crowd of Athena people contemplate celebrating at Bingham Springs July 2, 3 and 4. Roger's Strand Theatre Band ' will furnish music for dancing during the three day celebration. t Ralph Carsten is a very pleased boy. And he has reasons for being so, for he is wearing an artificial limb that greatly facilitates his movements and which asists him in walking very materially. H. A. Barrett and family were en route home from Walla Walla Sunday when the storm struck Dry creek hill. They were detained at Blue Mountain Station for about an hour but reach ed home without mishap. Dolph Thompson, proprietor of Bingham Springs was a business vis itor here Wednesday. Mr Thompson states that preparations are being made for a big crowd as many re servations have already been made. A fair sized crowd greeted the "Georgia Blossoms" a colored enter tainment troupe who appeared in a program at the Legion Hall Monday nieht. The show was followed by a dance, the minstrels furnishing the music. Miss Gladys Dickenson experienced a painful accident Sunday when the end of one of her fingers was pinch ed off in the closing 6f a car dor by her sister Phyllis. The amputat ed portion of the digit was put back in place by a surgeon. Mr. and Mrs. E. E." Johnston of Coquille, Oregon, were in Athena Wednesday and proceeded on to Mob cow, Idaho, where they will visit at the George Johnston home. They were on their honeymoon trip, hav ing been married May 21. The wind and rain storm Sunday evening, put electric power and lights out of commission, except the street lights, for the night. As a result no show was given at the Standard Theatre and business houses and resi dences were without service. Anna Q. Nilsson will be swm in "Her Second Chance" at the Stand ard Theatre tomorrow night On account of everybody making pre parations for observing the Fourth of July, there will be no chow at the Standard Sunday evening Several automobiles returning from Bingham Springs Sunday even ing were stuck on the Thorn Hollow grade, where the highway crosses the canyon, at the end of the gravel ed surface, on account of the heavy rain which fell in that section Mrs. C. M. Eager accompanied by her daughters, Betty Jane and Vir ginia left yesterday morning for Portland and Seaside. They expect to be away about twp months. They will be joined by Mr, Eager in Aug ust and will accompany him home. Rebekah lodge met Tuesday even ing and election of officers was held Those who will be installed July 12 are: Ethel Geissel N. G.;' Charlotte Dickenson, V. G.; Maude Logsdon, Secretary. A committee has been appointed to serve refreshments and it is hoped all the members will be present. Mr. and Mrs. Al Sigmon who formerly made their home here are Athena visitors. After leaving Athe na Mr. and Mrs. Sigmon made their home at Moscow, Idaho for a time From there they went to Texas and have since been in Kansas and Okla honia. The visitors will go to Mos cow from here. Miss Maryjane Cornelison visited here this week from Walla Walla, she was en route to Seattle where she will spend her vacation with her mother. September 1st she will en ter Columbia college, New York, bhe will be with her sister who is a senior at that college. Mrs. McSherry came up from Pen dleton and spent Tuesday with her parents," Dr. and Mrs. S. F. Sharp. She was at Arlington Sunday after noon with her husband, en rcute from Portland at the time the flood struck Arlington, and she described it as a most terrifying scene.- The Social Side (By Adele McEwen) Luncheon at Pendleton A eroun of Athena ladie3 motored to Pendleton Thursday when Mrs. A. A. Kimball, Mrs. Henry Collins and Mrs. Elmer Storie honored Mrs. Glenn Storie and Mrs. Nat Kimball at a bridge luncheon. The eleven tables were gay with old fashioned boquets of summer flowers. Guests from Athena included Mrs. 0. 0. Stephens. Mrs. M. L. Watts. Mrs. B. B. Richards, Miss Kathren Froome, Mrs. Forest Zerba, Mrs. Ralph Mc Ewen, Mrs. -Bert Logsdon and Mrs. Marion Hansell. Miss Butler Honored Miss Helen Butler of Dallas, who has been a guest of her aunt, Mrs H. I. Watts for the past fortnight, has been the inspiration for a num ber of delightfully informal affairu Saturday Mrs. Ralph McEwen com plimented Miss Butler when she in vited guests to make up several tables of bridge. Mrs. McEwen used brilliant summer flowers for decora tions and at the tea hour served sea sonable refreshments. Mrs. H. I Watts held high score and Mrs. Lloyd Michener received the consolation. Miss Butler was presented with a dainty guest prize. Mrs. H. I. Watts entertained at bridge Tuesday afternoon in honor of Miss Butler. Two tables were in play, Mrs. M. L. Watts making h;.gh score and Mrs. F. S. Le Grow the consolation. Dainty ices were served by the hostess following the play, Those present were, Mrs. Max Hop per, Mrs. Bert Logsdon, Mrs. F. S Le Grow, Mrs. Ralph McEwen, Mrs M. L. Watts, Mrs. Forest Zerba, Mrs. B. B. Richards, the honoree and the hostess. . .? Bridge Club Entertained Mrs. C. M. Eager entertained the Athena Bridge club Friday afternoon. The rooms were attractively decora ted with clusters of sweet peas, snap dragons and delphinium. The usual three tables were in play, Mrs. W. P, Littlejohn making high score, and Mrs. F. S. Le Grow receiving the consolation. ' Mrs. Roseberry was presented with a dainty guest prize No Truth in Report Reports here that the Weston city water works dam had been weakened by Sunday's storm and was liable to go out, proved to be untrue. . The normal condition of the dam was not in the least impaired by the storm Will Battle Morning Glory Floyd Pinkerton has purchased an electric drill which he will use in connection with eradication of wild morning glory on a farm he recently purchased west of Athena. The drill. operated by an electric generator will bore holes to receive the bi -sul phate solution at the roots of (the growing plants. til nes voue The Churches Baptist Church Sunday School at 9:45 A. M. Pa triotic Sermon at 11:00 A. M. Topic, "A New Decalogue of Patriotism." The common factor in achievement is "Freedom." Young Peoples meet ing at 7:00 P.tM. Evening song and Praise at 8:00 P. M. Topic, Life an Investment of Faith. Every Tues day evening at 8:00 P. M. Young Peoples Prayer Meeting. The spirit of our young ought to be an object lesson for the entire community. Thursday evening at 8:00 P. M. De votional and Bible Study. All coidi ally invited to services. 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A drama of fast horses and a beautiful woman staged in Kentucky Romance-land! A drama of the sport of kings made for the thrilling delight of everyone. International News Admission Prices, 10c-25c-35c Sunday, July 3 No Show so go somewhere And celebrate i e ir our Coming': arold Lloyd In "Kid Brother"