The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-01-12
23 Years Ago.
: From the Press Of Jan. l2 1894
aoRona ononepue aenene 0ueF
A gentle chinook played havoc

A gentle chinook played havoc
the beautiful Wednesday, consequei tly
the roads are in dilapidated condition,
Mr.. Fred L. Helfrich, the new shoe
maker, has arrived and is now at work
in Pat Maxwell's old stand.
D. W. Jarvis was recently elected
secretary of the State Teachers Read
ing circle.
Milton Swaggart and Miss Sarah
Corporan were married at Vansycle
one day last week.
1t is reported that nine calves were
stolen from the reservation a night or
two ago and sold in Pendleton. The
heads were cut off, it is said, to pre-
vent detection by the ear marks.
Last Sunday through the courtesy of
Geo. Froome, the band boys were
treated to sleigh ride.
At the meeting of the stockholders
of the First National Bank of this city
the old board of directors were elected.
President G. A. Barrett declined the
denomination for president, and Clark
Walter was elected president, H. G.
Stratton, vice president; L. D. Lively
cashier, and M. M. Johns assistant
cashier. The condition of the bank is
fourishing, there being a surplus on
Jan. Ist of $s6. I1B.3a.
W. M. Freeman, formerly editor Of
the Freewater Herald, and Miss Irene
Taylor, primary teacher in the Athena
public schools, were united in wedlock
Sunday.
Miss Lou Smith arrived from Cali
fornia last week and will make Athena
her future home. Miss Smith is stem
ographer and is employed in E. De-
Peatt's law Office.
Fred Rosenzweig received letter
Saturday from his old home in Ger
many, conveying the sad intelligence
of his mothers death, which occurred
on December ~ at the advanced age of
81 years. 1t has been 16 years since
he was back on visit.
A late report in Eastern Oregon
towns is that ex-Indian Agent Craw-
ford was offered the superintendency
of the branch asylum, the offer being
accompanied by the intimation that
Pendleton was TO be the location.
Scribbler's Notes.. B. SayIor was
recently quite seriously hurt by vic
ious cow. 1t seems he was unaware of
the pugilistic tendencies of the pug
nacious brute, and while milking, she
kicked him on the nose with her "clov-
en- hoof. !" Mr.. Saylor, tho slightly
disfgured, is still in the ring, and ex-
poets soon to visit his Athena friends.
Should any of them meet stranger
with fresh COW track where his smell
er should be, they will know by this
paragraph who it is.
The foot race between Taylor and
Davis was bowling success. The re-
suit is that Taylor is still the champion
sprinter of Eastern Oregon. The race
was witnessed by large crowd COM
posed principally Of church members
and others who did not belong to any
religious organization During the
day the betting had been even but just
before the race, odds were offered on
Davis. Taylor appeared nervous. His
breath was coming in short pants. The
contestants were appropriately arrayed
in abbreviated costume, Taylor exhib-
iting grand display Of soup bones
that should have been seen to be APP
preciated. Taken in the altogether, it
was a combination hard to beat.
A hunting party composed Of the
following well known sportsmen: Capt.
JiDks Taylor, Joel Glerking, Blonde
Gerking and Corporal Henry, recently
took two weeks hunt in the John
Day country. Capt. Jinks and Joel
we're hunting horses most of the time,
but Blonde and the corporal went for
the express purpose Of making record
as deer slayers.