The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-08-27
on the Salmon last week. Yellow
jackets was the one discomfiting fea-
ture of an otherwise pleasant trip.

on the Salmon last week. Yellow
jackets was the one disoom 6ting fea-
ture of an otherwise pleasant trip.
Yesterday was one Of the most
sultry days of the season. A hot wind
came iom the east and ths thermom-
eter registered around the hundred
mark.
| W. P. Willaby, who but few days
ago left for his home in Portland, re-
turned Tuesday on account of the
grain fire in his Geld near town, last
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Dickenson and
children, and Mrs. N. Dickeuson and
daughter, Mrs. Ruth Chandler, went
to Ukiah for a visit with relatives
this week..
MIR. and Mrs. H. l. Watts and
Miss Alice Gaines spent a couple of
days this week at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. John Thompson on she Una
tilla river.
"A. L. Swaggait. shipped a carload
Of hogs to Pq.tland Saturday. He
went down with the stock. which
topped the market price in the Port
land yards.
Frank Berlin recently purchased the
Brookner resid snce 10 the north west
part of town and will movs in from
the farm to send his children TO the
Athena school.
F. B. Radtke, the merchant. has
| leased the reidenoe of Mrs. Della Ma
loney on west High street and with
bis family. will occupy the same
about October l.
Mrs. W. s. Ferguson, who accom-
panied her husband as far as WranRel,
b. Q. on his hunting trip into the
Caisair country, returned home Wed.
nesday evening.
The little four.year-old child Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Cannon has been
seriously ill this week. DIR. Sharp.
the attending physician reports it
better this morning.
Miss Glare Partridge has arrived
from her home at Stewart, Nebraska,
and is a guest of Mrs. Dobson. Her
school duties at Lamar, District No.
80 will begin on Sept. 8.
DR.. j. NJ. HUT and wife, of Kansas
City, arrived 10 the city last evening,
on a short visit to his brother, Sam
Hutt and family. The brothers had
not met before for II years.
A Jersey COW on the @. T. Smith
farm near town yesterday presented
her owner with fine pair Of twin
calves. male and female, and Charles
ia duly appreoiative Of the event.
Frank jackson has moved his fam
lily in from the farm to the property
be purchased from MI. Watson, known
as the Gus Schubert place, in the
north part of town, to take advantage
of oursplendid school facilities.
4 Lloyd Mitchenar had the misfortune
ITO lose the end of one finger while
working in the mill the first of the
week. The fiuger was caught in some
machinery and crushed, SO that a
small piece of the bone had to be re-
moved.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Desper are moving to
Orchard. Wn.. on the place recently
{, purchased near there. Their residen ge
on Third and Adams street will be
occupied ty the family of Jack Read,
the popular meat cutter, who will
move them over from Weston.
Mrs. William Winship and Mrs.
Sam Asworth went over to Walla
Walla Monday to visit their mother,
Mrs. John Martin, who is in very bad
health. The ladies brought their
mother home with them, and she is
now at Mrs. Winship's home.
Twelve sacks of wheat were missed
In the Dean Dudley field ty the grain
hauleis and the work horses soon
found them when turned into the field.
Two, one a valuable mare, became
foandered. The mare died and the
loss is keenly felt by the owner.
j. q. Harmon. pastor Of the Chris
tan church. Arrived home from La
Grande Tuesday, and is this week as
sisting in series of lectures at Wes-
ton. Mr.. Harmon will preach 10 his
pulpit Sunday morning. at which ser
vice Miss Lowrey will give short
talk.
Jim MYrick. charged with disor-
derly conduct, was fined $3.50 in
Judge Ricnards' court Monday john
Doe Zsnk was squeezed out of town
for vagranoy. He had penohant
for fruit and would help himself from
peddlsr's wagons down at the feed
stat les.
School starts in Athena, Monday,
Septem ber 8. Although the date
oomes on labor day. the holiday is
not observed by the public SCHOOLS OF
the state, generally. This fact should
be borne 10 mind and full attend
ance is expected ty Superintendent
Guerne.
Next Wednesday, September l. the
regular monthly meeting of the Chris
tian Woman's Board of Missions will
be held at the Christian church. In
place of the regular program, dis
course will be given by, the lecturer,
Miss Lowrey. The puplin is cordially
invited.
Dreamland program for Friday and
Saturday evenings: and 2.-"Mere.
ly Mother" Biograph. 3.-"Made
Herself Beautiful" Lubin. Sunday
1.-The Way of His Father,'' Essa-
nay. 2.-"Tbe Beloved Adventurer,