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Press Paragraphs Edgar Adair was a Pendleton call er Monday. Miss Hilda Dickenson was in Walla Walla Monday. Mrs. Elmer Stockstill has been ill at her home this week. Mrs. Ray Young has been a victim of the flu this week. Rachel Smith has been ill this week and absent from school. Miss Pearl Green is confined to her home on account of illness. A. M. Gillis spent Wednesday in Athena, transacting business. Mrs. A. W. Logsdon is ill at her home on South Third street. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Walker visit ed relatives in Milton Sunday. The Etude club met at the home of Mrs. Bryce Baker, Thursday. Wm. McLeod and John Walker were business visitors in Pendleton Mon day. Mrs. B. B. Richards was a visitor of friends in Walla Walla Wednes day. Mrs. Lew McNair has been con fined to her home with illness this week. Mr. and Mrs. .lack Cunningham were Athena visitors Saturday eve ning. Miss Marie Foster is making her home with Mr. and Mrs. Fred I'ink erton. A number of cases of flu are report ed in this community by local phy sicians. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Kirk and Mrs. Lloyd Michener were in Walla Walla Tuesday. Miss LeVenia Marcus visited at the home of Miss Lois Mclntyre over the week-end. Superintendent of Schools Meyer was ill at his home on the West Side, this week. Charles Pinkerton of the Farmer's Bank of Weston, was in Athena Mon day evening. Mrs. Frank DeFreece visited her daughter, Mrs. Lowell Harder, in Milton Tuesday. Mrs. Maurice Frazier and daughter of Milton are visitors at the Floyd Pinkerton home. Tom Mosgrove, Milton-Freewater merchant, was a business visitor in Athena, Saturday. Mrs. Arnold Wood, Mrs. A. L. Mc Ewen and Mrs. A. H. Mclntyre were in Pendleton Monday. Mrs. Emory Staggs of Weston, under went a surgical operation Tuesday at Walla Walla. Harold Rarnett was operated on for appendicitis at St. Anthony's hos pital in Pendleton Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Parris and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Parris in Walla Walla. .Jack Holt, in Zane Grey's "Myster ious Rider," will be shown at the Standard Theatre tomorrow night. P.'iss Hilda Dickenson was an over Sunday guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lieuallen at Adams. The Ladies Bridge club will meet with Mrs. Henry Dell, to-day. This will t3 the last meeting of the season. After taking several weeks vaca tion C. M. Eager resumed his duties as local Union Pacific agent, Mon day. Will Russell has returned from Tacoma, where lie was a patient in the veteian's hospital, for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Douglas of Pend h ton spent the week-end at the home of their son, A. W. Douglas, and family. Rev. and Mrs. Carl MeConnell of Walla Walla visited Saturday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Mc Kaddon. Mrs. Frank Ames is in Walla Walla tic past week. Mrs. Ames is under medical care after the extraction of a tooth. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Pink erton Saturday February 25th a daughter. Mother and child are do ing nicely. Herman O'llarva has leased his land holdings near Weston to Newt O'Harru, and has left for Seattle to seek a location. Garth and Joyce Pinkerton are both patients with the flu at the home of their grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Pinkerton. Mrs, Lillian Dobson was here Sun day from Stage Gulch district near Pendleton. Mrs. Dobson is teaching the school there. Samuel S. Nelson, for thirteen years Union Pacific agent at Weston station, has been transferred to Riparia, Washington. Pearl Ramsay, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Kilgore and Mr. and Mrs. John Tompkins were Athena visitors in Walla Walla, Tuesday. Blaine and Ray Hansell spent Fri day at the home of their brother Marion Hansell, and left Saturday morning for The Dalles. Otis Lieuallen and Lauraiue Lieu allen of Adams were in Athena Mon day evening to witness the Pendleton Athona basketball game. Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Zerlm and family were in Walla Walla Sunday isiting Lowell Zerba who is a patient at the General Hospital. Mignonette Rcbekah Lodge met Tuesday evening with a good attr.J ance. Mrs. McKay and Mrs. Fred Pinkerton served refreshments. Ray Johnston was out of the ld-leton-Athena game Monday niorhl on account of illness, a relapse fiom former sickness of a couple of we-'ks ago. Mr. and Mis. Justin Harwood were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hirsch at Firewater, and attended the wins trel performance at Umapin'e, Monday night. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Dudley, who have spent the winter months at Long Beach, California, are expected to re turn to their home here shortly after March 1. As -a special attraction, and ' at regular admission prices, the Stand ard Theatre will present Lon Chaney in "Mr. Wu" on next Wednesday eve ning, March 7. Athena friends are in receipt of the announcement of the marriage of Miss Savannah Smith on November 6th last to Mr. W. L. Knox, and they present reside in Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. Al NorDean and son drove down from Spokane and spent the week-end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Russell, Mrs. NorDean's parents. They returned to Spokane Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Kirk, Mrs. Frank DeFreece, Mr. and Mrs. Clar ence Toole and F. B. Radtke were in Walla Walla Saturday evening. The men folks witnessed the Whitman-O. S. C. game. Four Athena music pupils taking part in a recital of Mrs. Lillian Fredericks' class last week in the Weston school assembly room were: Helen Hansell, John Kirk and Bar bara and Robert Lee. The 0. D. 0. club met last Friday at the home of Mrs. Flint Johns with Mrs. Lewis Stewart as assistant host ess. A goooiy numDer was in at tendance. Dainty refreshments were served by the hostesses. Fred Radtke has ascertained that the season on white fish is always open, and he has vowed to go angling for them soon in the Umatilla river. A run of these fish is now on and good catches are being made. The Misses Marguerite and Francis Taylor and Melba McKinnon of Nan ton, Alberta, have arrived in Walla Walla, where the Misses Taylor will enter upon a trained nurse course it one of the hospitals of that city. The women of the local Baptist hurch are sponsoring expensive im provements on the interior of their church building, including repaper ing painting and new light fixtures, the work to begin in the near future. The boys and girls who have been escorted to all outside games by 0. 0. Stephens and Arnold Woods were hosts and hostesses to them Sunday when the youngsters took Steve and Woods to dinner then to a show. All declare a good time. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. McEwen enter tained a party of friends Saturday evening at 500 in honor of Mrs. Mc Cool and Tom McCool (mother and brother of Mrs. McEwen) when three tables were at play. Mrs. Ross Cat ron held high score and Mr. McEwen the consolation. A two course lunch eon was served by the hostess. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Catron entertain ed a party of friends Thursday eve ning at BOO. Three tables were at play. Mrs. McCool of Walla Walla ivinning the prize for high score and Vm. TM.ts o consolation prize. The Kucwis were iavH 'with three read ings given by Tom MeCoul which was very much enjoyed. At a late hour the hostess served refreshments. The S. D. or Mystery club met at the home of Marguerite Moore Tues day 28. The girls answered roll call with a current event. They decided to change their banquet for the moth ers to a tea to be given the 31st of March. Mrs. Bollinger will be the hostess. Dainty refreshments were served, after which the girls adjourn ed to meet at Goldie Miller's home March 13. Ten members of the O. D. 0. club met last Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Flint Johns, where they were very pleasantly entertained Jy the hostess and her assistant, Mrs. Louis Stewart. An. interesting letter addressed to the club by a former member, Mrs. Melville Johns -of Wilmar, California, was listened to with much pleasure and appreciation. The next meeting will he held on March 9 at the home of Mrs. Lawr ence Pinkerton with Mrs. Virgil Zerba as assistant hostess. . - .Mnnnnnnnnnnnfit j High School Notes j . V 1 i iii i i ii um ' mm mm f?2iSi Junior News Staff. Faculty Wilford Miller Classes Areta Kirk Student Body Pearl Green Boy's Athletics Oral Michener Girl's Athletics Alberta Charlton Personal Marjorie Wilson Grades Mildred Street Alumni Weldon Bell Entertainment Emma Ringel Advisor Miss Bateman Entertainment A delicious two course dinner was given in honor of the high school students at 6:30, Friday evening, February 24, by the Athena business men. The Methodist church ladies served the dinner in the Masonic Hall. M. I. Miller was toastmaster and oth er speakers were: Arnold Wood, Clarence Toole, Ray Johnston, C. L. McFadden, Ethel Pittman, Mrs. E. C. Rogers, Jessiedeane Dudley, F. B. Boyd, Lee Meyer, Roy DeFreece and 0. 0. Stephens. After the banquet a dance was given at the Legion Hall with music furnished by an ortho phonic victrola. The dance was the opportunity for a number of students to try dancing for the first time. A pep rally was held Tuesday at 3:15, February 21, for the Athena Wreston game. Thena Russell led the yells and the high school songs. Personal Dorothy Karr visited school Tues day. Ray Johnston, Roy DeFreece, George Pambrun and Clifford Wood went to Walla Walla Saturday to have their pictures taken. Omar Stephens and Arnold Wood were hosts at a chicken dinner in Pendleton Sunday. Those present were: Areta Kirk, Pearl Green, Wel don Bell, Ethel Pittman, Clifford Wood, Alberta Charlton, Oral Mich ener, Marjorie Wilson, Wilford Miller, and the hosts Arnold Wood and Omar Stephens. Ethel Pittman, Kathleen Radtke and Helen Hansell were in Walla Walla Saturday. 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Frcewater, Oregon Boy's Athletics The Athena boys won a basketball game from Weston Wednesday, February 22. The game was nip and tuck in the first half the score was 10 to 9 in favor of Athena. The last half was less exciting as Myrick, Athena's star forward, got lucky and began dropping them in from fill angles. The score tt the end of the game was 34 to 19 in favor of Ath ena. The boys enter the Sectional tourna ment Friday morning. They meet Pendleton first. Eight men are all that are allowed to represent this school. Grades The boys' basketball team of the seventh and eighth grade played a ragged game with Helix here, Satur day evening, February 25. The score was 14-9 in favor of Athena. The girl's basketball team of the seventh and eighth grades played a close game with the freshman-sophomore team of the high school Satur day evening, February 25. The score was 8-6 in favor of the grade team. Following the two games . light re freshments were served by the two grade teams. Girl's Athletics The Athena girls' basketball team played the Weston girls Wednesday evening, February 22, at Weston. At the half the Athena girls had run up a high score which stood 22-4 in their favor. During the last half the Athena girls did not score and the Weston girls scored two baskets. The final score was 22-8. Classes The junior class made six dollars and seventy five cents by selling candy at the Athena-Pendleton game, Monday, February 27. The freshman and sophomore classes have decided to give a class play for assembly. ', Alumni Dean Pinkerton and Norman Mc lntyre attended the high school ban quet Friday night. They stayed in Athena for the week-end. "Lefty" Kretzer spent Sunday in Pendleton. Faculty Miss Sellars and Mrs. Roniinger were dinner guests at the E. C. Rogers home Thursday evening. BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday school at 9:45 A. M. Prof. T. N. Carver of Harvard recently said, "a new moral discipline, is need ed, which will fortify us against de moralizing influences of prosperity." No better place than in the Sunday school to start to grow the leaders to bring it about, for no one seems to be in sight to act now as world lead er. Preaching at 11:00 A. M. Topic, Messages from the Sea. B. Y. P. U. at 6:30 P. M. Song and praise at 7:;;0 P. M. Topic, Restoring Sight and Healing Sinners. Mid-week meet ing every Thursday evening at 7:30 P. M You are cordially invited to all meetings. Foley's Kidney Cure nakcx kidacys and bUdJcr riylv. We are giving absolutely Free With every" 4-1 5c packages S. O. S. one genuine Wearever Aluminum Sauce pan. Just the size every Woman wants in her kitchen. 4 packages S. 0. S. 1 Sauce pan 60c 4 Cans Yellow Cling Peaches 89c 10 lb. Red Mexican Beans 69c Phone Your Order To 152 Athena Department Store -Vfl ibjwaw mm THE STANDARD THEATRE Saturday, March 3 Jack- Holt In IheM Zane Grey's ysterious Rider Who Is He? THIS mysterious masked Lothario with flowing scarf and screaming steed? Riding through the stilly stretches of the night where does he go whence does he come? Hoofs follow nearer nearer! What has he done?- Don't miss Zane Grey's latest mystery melodrama! It's head ed this way! International News Admission Prices, 10c-25c-35c w Sunday, March 4 illiam Haines In The S mar With Jack Holt, Alice Day and Hobart Bos worth Haines scores a thousand laughs and a thousands thrills in this sparkling comedy romance ! You'll say so ! Lifts the lid on doings of the gay, giddy younger society crowd. Pathe Review Admission Prices. 10c-25c-35c Wednesday Special East Meets West in a Film Sensation 9 Lon Chaney In The sinster shadow of Mandarin Wu, the merciless code of the Orient, stepped in between the romance of East and West. Lon Chaney will sweep you off your feet as the mysterious Wu in this dramatic sensation! Renee Adoree will touch your heart as the young flower of Old China! And what supporting cast! Regular Admission Prices - 4