The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1912-06-28

a uhl1 StUEm 10 TopUIb6u tO nave
rassed over the Helix neighborhood
Wednesday afternoon. Little damage
is reported to growing grain.
q @. A. Lobaugh left tue first of the
week for Burbank. Wash, where be
will have charge of section. His
family will remain in Athena.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Diokenson and
Mrs. N. 9. Dickenson and daughter,
Ruth. returned Tuesday from pleas
tant Welt with relatives at Ukiah.
| Northbound o. ". R. g. N. passen.
ger trains arc heavily loaded these
days. nine coaches and two engines
teing required to handle the traffic.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Will Banks, of Mil.
ton, visited friends in this city Tues
day and Wednesday. MIR. Banks is
a brother of Mrs. N. G. Dickenson.
For Sale.- "a colts, 8 and year.
olds, weigh HOO and 1900 pounds.
Peroheron stock, full brothers. For
particulars, phone 325, Farmers line.
Sim J. Oulley was in from the ranch
Wednesday. He reports that his crop
was not injured to any great extent
ty having been beaten down by the
rains.
Royal Niles, a we'll known Whit.
man athlete, recently submitted to an
| operation for the amputation of one
of his little toes as the result of blood
poison.
The northbound passenger train on
the o. W. R. & N. was delayed two
hours Wednesday forenoon. by the
dei ailment OF an engine in the PEN
dleton yards.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Forrest will
establish summer camp on Meaoh.
| am creek, soon after the 4th, where
the family will remain during the
| heated term.
Misses Velma Wilkinson and Cecile
Boyd went over to Walla Walla Tues
day evening aud witnessed the pro-
duction of tie comic opera, "Tne
Spring Maid"
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Koontz arrived
In the city yesterday afternoon from
their home In Pasco and will visit
several days with Mr.. Koontz' broth
eI in this city.
! Miss Martha HUT left last evening
in company with her aunt. Miss Flora
Booth. and will spend the summer at
the home of her grandparents at
Glendale, Greg.
Mrs. Jones will leave for Boise.
Idaho Saturday, where she will re-
main for several days. In her atseuoe
Mrs. Merle Roby will have charge of
the millinery store.
This warm weather is serving to
bring to mind the pleasures of camp
ing. Several parties are now icing
made up to spend week or two at
various cool resorts.
Marriage Licenses were issued Tues
day 10 Joseph FL. Zacharias and Agnes
B. Cooper of Freewater, and Charles
B. Parsons of Walla Walla and Nellie
Mayall of this county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Sohwerdtman
aud little daughter, of Portland, are
guests this week at the home of Mrs.
Minnie DePeatt Mrs, Schwerdtman
is niece of Mrs. DePeRtt.
The Kit @ arson Ranch Wild West
Show is in the city today for two per-
formanoes. one at . p. m. and the
other this evening. street parade
was made down town at 1890.
As the result of an alteration be-
tween Jim Haworth and George Bea-
ton, painter of Weston, Saturday
night. both enriched the city trea-
sury to the amount of $40 apiece.
The Mothers Club will meet at the
home of Mrs. VIM. Winship on Fri
day, July 5, at $3.50 pm. A cordial
invitation is extended to those inter
ested. Mrs. Coomans, Sec.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. q. Koontz and
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Koontz returned
Tuesday evening from Meachs m creek.
where the party spent week camp
ing. The gentlemen say fishing on
Meaobam is not good at present.
Those who fshed on the Umatilla
and Walla Walla rivers this week
found only medium success in ang-
| ling. Water high. wind blowing and
large number of fishermen whipping
the streams were some Of the draw
backs.
Miss Anna Soil has arrived from
Nebaska, and will spend the summer
with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Soil
of the Golden Rule store. Miss Soil
has been student Of the University
of Nebraska, specializing in vocal and
physical culture.
Donald Mckay. father of Alex. Nc
Kay, formerly of this city. died at his
home in Cape Breton, Canada, recent
| ly, at the advanced aged OF "a years.
Alex. himself is reported to be in
good health. having recovered from a
piotraoted illness.
Louis Keen finds that chicken rails
ing has troubles Of its own. He has
obtained only about 25 per cent
hatch this spring. 10 some instances
the eggs required 26 days to hatch.
This proved to be the result where
hens did the hatchiDg as well as when
eggs were placed in the incubator.
A holse driven by Mrs. John Stone
became frightened at couple of
motor cycles on the road south Of
town Wednesday afternoon, and turn
ed the buggy over. throwing Mrs.
Stone, her baby and her sister to the