The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-09-29

Laurence Lieuallen has purchased
of Joe Rainville. 240 acres of land.
Two hundred acres lies southwest OF
Athena on the reservation and is splen-
did wheat land. Forty acres is on
the reservation mountain. MIR. Raiu-
vile will leave soon with his family
to locate on the Nez Perce reservation.
Theo Danner, the we'll known pho
tographer, was in the city Wednesday
from Milton on business. He, his
wife and daughter have all been sick
the past month, but at present are
| improving. Mrs. Danner. spent q
couple of months this summer with
her daughter 10 Judith Basin, Mon
tana.
For the benefit of the Athena Base
Ball Club. u movement is under way
to give a number of plays this winter.
with local talent in the cast. It is
proposed to call a meeting of the
officers of the club and others inter.
ested, in the near future, to consider
the matter and make necessary ar
rangements.
Maurice Hill came down from La
Cross. WASH, Saturday where be has
been engaged in the warehouse busi-
ness, and left Sunday for Eugene,
where be will enter the State Univer-
sity. Maurice is a graduate Of the
Athena High school, and also has TAX
en post graduate course in the Lew
iston high school.
Some of the finest grapes and cab
bage that has come to the local mar
ket was brought to town this week by
Louis LaBraohe, from his ranch south
of the city. Mr.. LaBraohe yearly
demonstrates the prolific production
which Wild Horse creek bottom lands
are capable Of returning as the result
of intelligent labor. ..
A man whose name is supposed to
be Kelly, committed suicide Monday
ou ranch near Pendleton. ty hang
ing himself from hay rack. Except
for the statement of former fellow
prisoner in the Pendleton city Jail
that the mans name was Kelly and
that he was lumber jack at La
Grande, nothing is known of him.
The October meeting of the Chris
tian Woman's g Board of Missions will
be held next Friday the 9Th, at 2:30
p. m., in the Sunday school room of
the Christian church. Mrs. Ellen
Hunter, the State Organizer, will be
present and full attendance Of the
membership is desired, with as many
visitors as may he pleased to attend.
A 54-aore field of potatoes on the
Joseph Bergevin place south Of Athena
gives every promise Of yielding good
crop. "Spuds is spuds" this year.
the crop being reported short in all
sections of The country. The noun
tain crop promises a fair yield, and
accordingly the crop in this vicinity
should realize for the producers splen-
did margins of profit.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Barnett spent
Sunday and Monday with friends in
Athena. They were enroute to Port
land from tour of Alberta and saw
many former Athena people who have
settled in the British domain. Mr..
and Mrs. Barnett left Monday evening
for Weston, and from there 60 to
Cornelius, near Portland. where Mrs.
Barnett's parents reside.
The last of the three new bridges
on Wild Horse creek near the city,
have been installed and traffic on the
road leading south from the Dudley
and Taylor places has been resumed
after several weeks in which the road
was closed. This vicinity is now
very well equipped with bridges, all
of which are of steel and concrete
construction.
The series of lectures to be given
during the winter at the Christian
ohucrh. will begin next Wednesday
evening. when Mr.. Meldrum will tell
of his travels through Greece. These
lectures are free to all. and it is hoped
that Athena people may take advan-
tage of the opportunity to listen to
the relation in an interesting manner,
Of the many experiences through
which this gifted speaker has passed
and to learn of those countries through |
which he has travelled. The lectures
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