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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1928)
i Press Paragraphs Tim McCoy in "Wyoming" Standard Theatre, Tomorrow night. "Now We're In the Air" Standard Theatre, Sunday night. James Beck of Pendleton was an Athena visitor Saturday. Theodore Groat a Dayton farmer was a business visitor in Athena Fri day. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Geissel of Milton visited relatives in Athena Sunday. Mrs. Chas. Cahill of Pendleton spent Monday visiting her Aunt, Mrs. C. T. Smith. A. W. Douglas spent ten days tt the College i'lace Sanitarium re ceiving treatment. Miss Anne Hill of Tacoma, Wash ington, was a visitor last week at the J. C. Harwood home. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hirsch and daughter Patty of Freewater were Athena callers Monday. Mm. Sarah Bowles of Walla Walla spent the week with her daugh ter Mrs. F. S. LeGrow. Beryl Hodgen is home from Eu gene. Beryl is a 1928 graduate of the University of Oregon. Tillman Stone is able to he home again after several days illness at College Place sanitarium. Mr. and Mrs. Marcum Anderson and son of Walla Walla, spent Sun day at the M. L. Watts home. The A. L. Jenkins family and Burn Boylen and family of Helix spent Sunday on the Umatilla river. Reports of the first wheat hay harvest are from Maurice Frazicr, along the highway near Milton. Mrs. R. A. Thompson left Friday for Forest Grove where she will spend two weeks with her mother. Mrs. J. A. Lumsden and Mrs Arnold Wood returned to Athena after' three weeks trip through Canada, Miss Henriett Hensen is here from the University of Oregon visit ing Miss Lois Mclntyre this week. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Tubbs are in Portland attending Masonic and Eastern Star grand lodges, this week Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Wood of Port land, have been guests at the home of W. O. Read, Mrs. Wood's brother. Mrs. Thclma Cox of Endicott, Washington, spent the week-end at the M. I. Miller home returning Mon day. Miss Belle Anderson is home from Linnfield college, to spend the sum mer at the home of. her parents in Athena. Mrs. John Vernon Mitchell of La Center, Washington, visited the old home town last week, returning home Saturday. , Mrs. Alma Koontz of Portland left Saturday for Pendleton where she will visit relatives before returning to her home. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cockburn of Milton spent a few hours in Athena Thursday visiting at the Sims Dick enson home. 0. O. Stephens, and son Dale re turned from Portland Monday eve ning. They met at Portland when Dale came up from Eugene, by appointment. Bell & Venabfe Thones 125 and 24 Two Auto Truck Drays Always At Your Service City and Country HAULING and Horse Team Work The Misses Dorothy and Margaret Lee are home from Cheney normal school, where Miss Dorothy gradu ated last week. The Misses Blanche and Lois John son, and Lois Mclntyre returned to their homes here from Eugepe, Sat urday evening. Reeve Betts is home from Wil lamette University, to spend the sum mer at the farm home of his parents, south of Athena. , Mrs. Lawrence Knox (Savannah Smith) of Los Angeles, is a visitor at the home of her parents Mr, and Mrs. C. T. Smith. Richard Cowan and son of Thorn ton, Washington, and Patty Ccwan of Walla Walla visited Dr. W. G. Cowan Saturday. J. L. Duffield of Portland has been a visitor this week with his brother R. A. Duffield. Mr. Duffield is an automobile saleman. Mr. and Mrs.'M. I. Miller and sons left today for Corvallis, where' Mr. Miller will take special instruction in athletic coaching. Mr. and Mrs. Frank DeFreece spent Sunday at Meacham, attending the annual Starkey re-union. Several hundred attend each year. The annual J. T. Picnic was held Sunday at Thorn Hollow with a good attendance. Eats and sports made the day an enjoyable one. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Williams in company with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Beckner of Pilot Rock, spent a few days last week on a fishing trip. Mrs. C. M. Eager and daughter Virginia left Sunday morning for Portland, where they visited rela tives, returning home yesterday. 0. E. Venable and family, drove to Portland and Valley points, Fri day. Mr. Venable returned Sunday but his family will remain for a visit, Lorena Schubert left Sunday evt ning for Milton. Miss Schubert ex pects to spend the summer in that city in the employ of Lamb Fruit company. Mrs. E. C. Prestbye entertained a few friends at dinner Thursday eve ning in honor of her sister Mrs. Joseph Joyce who has been her guest the past week. J. C. Harwood has finished paint ing and calsomining the interior of the local telephone office and library, and is now redecorating the home of Mrs. M. M. Johns. Betty Eager and Marjorie Doug las left Friday morning for Dayton, Washington, where they attended the Dayton Days celebration and visited at the E. Eager home. James Ross, R. B. McEwen and H A. Barrett spent Sunday in Dayton, Washington, and vicinity. They spent a part of the day at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Theodore Groat. Mrs. H. I. Watts left Saturday morning for Portland where she will attend grand chapter of Eastern Star, Also Mrs. Watts will visit relatives and friends while in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Statham and children arrived in Athena last week from India en route to England. They are visitors at the home ot Mr. btat- ham's sister, Mrs. Clarence Hand. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Huffman spent Saturday in Walla Walla. Their small daughter Barbara who has spent the past week with her grand mother -in that city, returned with them. Glen Dudley and family spent Sun day at the Dudley camp at Bingham Glen and Jinks were successful fish ermen and the trout were good; so says Henry Barrett, who sampled the catch. Mrs. Rosa Robbins and son and brother Mr. Woods, have moved to Gibbon. Mrs. Robbins, recently sold her property in the north end of town to Mrs. Geo. Green, who will oc cupy the home. Hazel McFarland who has been visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Chas. McFarland, left Sunday morn ing for Portland where she will re sume her duties in the Meyer and Frank store. Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Radtke and daughter Kathleen, left Sunday morning for Portland where they will meet their son Fred, who has been at tending the University of Oregon at Eugene, returning with his parents the last of this week. Farmers Grain Elevator Company Grian and Feed SPECIAL A Full Line of Sperry s Chick Feed Phone 382 LEE WILSON, M'gr. Crowley & Son put down a new concrete sidewalk for C. E. Miller, this week. Athena stores will remain closed from 11 a. m. to 6 p. m. tomorrow, on account of the Weston picnic. Mrs. Millie Gross and three sons and Miss Smith of Corvallis were guests last week at the H. M. "Hale home. Roland Kretzer, who ' graduated from University of Oregon, is in Ath ena. He has accepted a position at Joliet, Montana; Peggy Moore, Mildred'Hansell and Hilda Dickenson were over night guests of Mrs. Paul Lieuallen Thurs day night of last week. Mrs. Russel Baer and children, of Mt. Hope, Idaho, is visiting at the home of Mrs. Baer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pambrun, south of Athena. Miss Elsa Ringel, accompanied by her father and sister, who attended her graduation at Corvallis, returned to her home the fore part of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Benson and Dr. and Mrs. Fulton of Walla Walla, were calling on Mr. and Mrs. Phil dc 1 Phillips Wednesday evening, at the home of Mrs. DePeatt. Miss Ruth Proebstel and mother Mrs. Jennie Proebstel were visitors in Athena last Friday. Miss Proeb stel has taught the past two years in Walla Walla. Mrs. Proebstel makes her home in Portland. Children's Day was exemplified by the Baptist Sunday school Sunday morning when a splendid program was rendered. The young people of the church attended services at Mil ton Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Mae Cowan, mother of Dr, Cowan, has moved back to Walla Walla after two years spent in Ath ena with her son. Marguerite Moore granddaughter and niece will spend the summer in Spokane. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Kirk and son Harold arrived home Monday evening from Portland, going up the coast via Seattle and across country home, Harold is home after the school year at Hill's Academy, Portland. Mrs. H. McArthur has returned from Waitsburg where she visited her sister, Mrs. E. H. Leonard. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard recently returned from a business trip to New York, visiting New Orleans and other Southern points en route. my Just taken out of pit. $1.00 per sack Camp Fire Girls (By Hilda Dickenson, Guardian) The Wauna Campf ire girls were en tertained by Peggy Moore, Mildred Hansell and Hilda Dickenson at i Treasure Hunt at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Paul Lieuallen in Adams on Friday afternoon of last week. The girls masqueraded as pirates bold and bad. Their costumes were colorful and entertaining. The watch word of the afternoon was "Yo! Ho! Hot and a bottle of rum!" but the Treasure Hunt revealed the rum as soda-Don and a bie freezer of ice cream. Miss Laura Haynie, a campfire girl from Freewater and Ila Carlyle were guests for the afternoon. Valerie Cannon, Laura Ross and Velma Ross are new members of the group. An informal business meeting was held for the purpose of working up honors on wild flowers. Plans for serving a public lunch to raise money for honor beads and a camping trip were discussed. Dainty refreshments were served at five o clock and the girls ended the afternoon of fun by taking snap shots of each other to prove they were true pirates at a real Treasure Hunt. Jean Zerba and Arleen Myrick in vited the campfire girls to come to an early morning hike yesterday. The girls left town at five a. m. They cooked their breakfast along the creek near Koepke's ranch. They earned some honors on fire making and campfire cooking. Their break fast consisted of kababs; a delicious compfire secret. The girls returned to town about ten o clock and went for a swim in the new pool. Some of the girls passed the pollywog test in swimming. Church of Christ "The Church for All" All services of the Church of Christ were well attended last Lord's day, especially the evening service. Come again friends, you can't wear the welcome off. Laurence Pinkarton, Superintendent. Sunday school 10 a. m., communion 11 a. m preaching 11:15. Subject next Lord's day, "The Rod of Iron." Christian endeavor 7 p. m. Young people cordially invited to attend. Preaching, evening 8 p. m. subject, "This One Thing I do." Community sing Thursday evening 8 o clock. Everyone invited to all of these services. JACK TERRY Pastor. McILea Weeder All Steel Self Dump-Light Draft Made in 12 ft. Size No Skips No Bunches No Stop to Dump In a demonstration on the Barrett place the light draft of this Weeder was shown when it did perfect work hitched to a 4-eylinder Dodge car. Baptist Church Choir practice Tuesday evening. Regular prayer meeting Thursday, preaching services both morning and evening Sunday, all evening services at eight o'clock, morning at eleven. Rev. Pratt of Burns, Oregon will con duct services Sunday. CLASSIFIED For Sale Good bundle hay. Tompkins, Helix, phone 16F2. John For Sale A good milk cow. H. H. Saulsberry, Phone 25F21, Athena. Sheep For Sale 70 head ewes and lambs, September delivery. Phone 25F21 Athena. Bathing Suits Yes We have them for Men, Women and Children Phone Your Order To 152 Athena Department Store Cream For Sale Mrs. W. J. Crabill will sell cream to a limited number of customers during the berry season. Team Work I am prepared to do all kinds of team work at reasonable prices. 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