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THE PRESS, ATHENA, OREGON, JANUARY 18. 1929 Press Paragraphs Gary Cooper and Fay Wray Standard Theatre, tomorrow night. Mrs. C. M. Eager spent Wednesday in Walla Walla. Mrs. Laura Froome spent Wednes day in Pendleton. Mrs. Grace Catron who has been ill is convalescing. Ralph Rothrock of Adams was an Athena visitor Monday. Roy Cannon is driving one of the new model Buick sedans. Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Radtke were Pendleton visitors Wednesday after noon. Bob Fletcher's Round-Up orchestra will give a dance at Legion Hall to morow night. W. H. Morrison, real estate dealer of Pendleton was a business visitor here Tuesday. Mrs. Charles Betts who has been ill for some time is showing a slight improvement. Mrs. Frank Taylor of Weston, was a guest at the Fred Pittman hme in Athena Tuesday. Attorney Homer I. Watts, return ed Tuesday from a professional visit at Baker, Oregon. Roland Richards is the proud pos sessor of a new bicycle, a recent gift made by his father. r- .. ... tf winter i frrk" in Sunny j-f CALIFORNIA I Take the Union V. - 4 Pacific sunshine circle if trip to delightful ," umorma wnere winter means summer and count- V less pleasure await vou. r'J riniv.....:.c.ui .i..r:... m the other via Portland. New V scenes, new places all the way. mi rPlne, fast trains. Stopover going and returning. MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW! .1 PACIFIC tju OVERLAND ROUTS C. M. EAGER, Agent, Athena, Orgeon. Reginald Denny at the Standard Theatre. Sunday night. Laurence Pinkerton has been having a battle royal with chickenpox. John Tompkins spent Monday transacting business in Walla Walla, Mrs. Nathanial Kimball or Venule ton, visited at the home cf her sister, Mrs. Bert Locrsdon. Tuesday. Arthur Taylor, Linotype operator for the Press has been continea to his home with a severe cold. The condition of Mrs. V. A. Ghol son, who has .been ill for the past week is slightly improved. Mr. and Mrs. W. 0. Read returned Tuesday from Portland where they have Rnent the Dast month. Perry Hall, harness dealer, has been nursing a finger that became mlect ed following a sli&rht iniury. Friends of Brooks Anderson are de lighted to hear of his steady improve ment from his recent illness. . Mr. and Mrs. Lee Crawford are re ceiving congratulations upon the birth of a son; Monday. January 14. The M. E. Missionary society will meet at the home of Mrs. Wni. Ale Leod next Wednesday afternoon. Rev. Dow and family are enjoy ini? a new Chrvsler Plymouth model nurchased in Pendleton this week. Carl Sheard who has been in ill health a part of the winter, is taking medical treatment in Walla walla. Rov DeFreece spent Monday eve ning in Walla Walla visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Dix son. Mr. and Mrs. William Dixson came over from Walla Walla and spent Sunday at the Geissel home in Ath ena. Mrs. Zeph Lockwood is seriously ill at the home of her mother, and is threatened with an operation for ap pendicitis. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Crecelius and daughter Virginia of Walla Walla were dinner guests Sunday of Mr. Mrs, Chase Garfield and family. Ruth Jackson Hull who has been a patient, at St. Anthony's hospital in Pendleton for the past two weeks, is out of danger and showing some im provement. Mrs". George Gerking returned Tues day from College Place sanitarium, where she has been undergoing treat ment for rheumatism, as a result of influenza. Exams have occupied the attention of Athena school pupils this week. So busy was everybody, that it was necessary to dispense with school notes for publication in the Press. Mrs. Verne Smith has returned to her home in Weston after several weeks spent in a Walla Walla hos pital. Mrs. Smith is convalescing satisfactorily after a serious illness, Mr. and Mrs. Velton Read were over from Walla Walla and spent the week-end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Read. Velton is employed for the winter in the Sears-Roebuck store at Walla Walla. The highways in the vicinity of Athena have been dangerously slip' pery this week especially in the morning. The highway crew has been kept busy sanding curves to make traffic safe. Miss Delia Bryant is driving a new Nash coupe purchased last week at Spokane. Miss Bryant accompanied by Miss Blanche Thorson went to Spokane Friday returning Sunday, driving the new car. Snap This Up One Package Tru-Blu Vegetized Wafers and One New Double Deck Package of Tru-Bake Crackers Both for 37c The Quality Grocery Alice Eager, Prop. Goodyear Tires The Greatest Name in Rubber All Sizes Carried in Stock They Stand Up and are Priced Right Athena, Garage, Main Street, Phone 352 Specials 'Stationery 1.50 Value for 1.00 ! Book-Ends 1.50 Value for 1.00 : Desk Set 2.00 Value for 1.50 Melba Face Powder, Rouge Lipstick 1.75,...ior 1.00 Pictures 1.00 Value ior 79c Free One 33c Tooth Brush with each 50c Klenzo Dental Cream McFadden's Pharmacy Mrs. E. J. Burchill Who has been visiting her daughter Mrs. C. M, Eager has returned to her homo in Pendleton. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Jones are re modeling their ?. home. The living room is being enlarged and ' a bed room added. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kirk came over from their Dry Creek farm, and spent last week-end with relatives and friends. Miss Lois Mclntyre who has been ill with influenza was able to resume her studies at Walla Walla Business College Monday. Remember the cooked food sale to be given by the ladies of the Baptist church at Steve s grocery store, to morrow afternoon. Dr. Moody, African evangelist, will speak at the morning services at the Baptist church, Sunday. All are in vited to hear him. One gleam of sunshine was noticed, for a short while Sunday afternoon, the first to break through the fog banks for nearly two weeks. Dell DeMerritt, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. DeMerritt of Walla Walla, who has been seriously ill at a hos pital in that city is improving. Mrs. M. L. Leeper who has been ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs, Nellie Taylor, in Walla Walia, is re ported as being worse. Mrs. Leeper who is nearly 89 years of age, is at flicted with heart trouble. Henry Koepke, writing from Glen dale, California, says he is grateful for the assistance given the Downer family by Athena citizens. He is thankful that no one was injured dur ing the fire that destroyed the farm house. A slight snowfall came yesterday morning. The ground remains cover ed with about trree inches of old snow, for which the farmers are grateful, for with snowcovering, growing gram is immune from freez ing out. Walla Walla Union: Mrs. Penn Harris of Athena is spending the week with her sister Mrs. Frank Yen- ney of Russell creek. Mrs. Harris who is a former Walla Wallan will be remembered as the former Miss Mary McConnell. Unusual interest is being shown in the Etude club and new music is be ing rehearsed by the chorus. New members recently voted into the club are Mrs. Don Johnson, Miss Edna DeFreece, Mrs. Barney Foster and Mrs. Clarence Zerba. The Athena Dancing club will give one more dance, which will take place Thursday evening, January 24th, and all members of the club and their ladies are requested to be present. This will probably be the last club dance of the season. The Athena high school basketball team will not make its trip through Eastern Washington, as contemplat ed. Three games had been scheduled, but the team at St. John found it nec essary to change the date first made, and this change made the schedule impracticable. Armand Bell returned to his home in Athena Wednesday evening. He has been attending Coynes Electrical School, in Chicago where he gradu ated with honors, completing the course in electricity and making an additional study of batteries. Since leaving Chicago he has been m New Mexico. The Athena library has four late books of fiction recently purchased as follows, "The House of the Three Ganders," by Bacheller; "The Gate Marked Private," by Dell; "At the South Gate," Richmond; and "The Red Branch," by Purdy. Also "Auction Bridge Complete," by Milton E. Work. Will Switzler, mayor of Plymouth, Washington, and Umatilla, Oregon, was a visitor here Tuesday. Mr. Switzler operates the ferry across the Columbia, at Umatilla, and will start work February first on a new ferry boat which will be modern in every respect and larger than the one now in use. Friends of Loren Basler, former Athena high school athletic coach, were interested in seeing his picture m the sports section of the Sunday Oregonian. Mr. Basler is being con sidered for coach of the University of Idaho football team. He has made an enviable record at the Boise high school, putting out a winning team every season he has been there. The J. T. club met at the home of Mrs. Dean Dudley last Friday after noon with sixteen members preesent. Guests of the club were Mrs. Claude Dickenson, Mrs. Glenn Dudley and Mrs. Starr Charlton. Mrs. Revella Lieuallen and Mrs. Ross Payne served refreshments. The next meeting of the club will be held at the home of Mrs. Revella Lieuallen, Friday Jan uary 25. Tomorrow night the Standard will present Gary Cooper and Fay Wray in Paramount's screen production of Tristram Tupper's Saturday Evening Post story, "Four Brothers," under the title of "The First Kiss;" a splen did romance of sail boats, wharfs and water fronts. Sunday night, after a long, long time Reginald Donny comes back to the Standard screen in "Out All Night." A pleasant afternoon was enjoyed by the Etude club last Thursday when fifteen members met at the homo of Mrs. Otho Reeder. The ar rangements for the affair were made by Mrs. Archie Mclntyre and Miss Sadie Pambrun. The program was dispensed with due to illness of the members. Chorus practice was a feature of the afternoon followed by dainty refreshments served by the hostesses. Mrs. E. J. Burchill of Pendleton was a guest of the club. The next meeting will occur January twenty-fourth at the home of Mrs, Bryce Baker, and roll call will be answered by names of compositions by Charles Wakefield Cadman. Keep Your fmt Dry This Wet, Cold Weather With our Pirate Boots, Galoshes, Overshoes and Rubbers Phone Your Order To 152 Athena Department Store Mr. Meyer, principal of the Athena schools has recovered sufficiently from a recent illness to be in his of fice again. About twenty cars loaded down with merry-makers flitted ajbout town Wednesday evening and congregated at three different points, where bed lam broke loose in real old fashioned charivaris. Those who received at tention from the noise producing squad were Mr. and Mrs. Donald Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Rog ers and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Johnston. Refreshments were served the party at each place visited. The Preston Shaffer Milling Com pany was host at a dinner at the Marcus Whitman Hotel Saturday evening when head millers, office forces, chemists and electricians were the honorees. The affair was given to provide opportunity for the employees to meet and become bet ter acquainted. Mr. E. H. Leonard acted as toastmaster and a number of interesting speeches were enjoy ed by those present. Representatives from Athena were M. L. Watts.Fred Kershaw, W. P. Littlejohn, Ralph Singer and Lee Hiteman. Mrs. Fred Kershaw entertained the Athena Bridge club Friday afternoon at her home on Fifth street. Guests of the club included Mrs. E. J. Burc hill of Pendleton and Mrs. Lee Hiteman, and Mrs. E. C. Prestbye. Three tables were in play Mrs. M. L. Watts holding high score. Mrs. B. B. Richards the consolation and Mrs. Burchill receiving the guest prize. The hostess served a dainty collation at the tea hour. Mrs, John Mayberry was the recipient of a happy surprise Thurs day afternoon when she was the honor guest at a shower, Mrs, Frpd Pittman and Mrs. Truman Messenger arranged the party and the honoree received many dainty and useful gifts. The afternoon was speni pleasantly with chat and needlework followed by delicious refreshments at the tea hour. Those enjoying the af fair were, Mrs. -Myrtle Gordon, Mrs. Jenkins, Mrs. Bun Moore, Mri. Will Harden, Mrs. Don Wilkes, Mrs, Leon Miller, Mrs. Robert Cutler, Mrs. Horace Payne, Mrs. Earl Martin, Mrs. Roy Cox, Mrs. George Payne, Mrs. Lois Smith, Mrs. Roy Johnston, Mrs. . Alfred Kibbey, Mrs. John Philips and Mrs. Tom Kirk. 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