The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-09-14

and Theresa Barnes. Mr.. and Mrs.
Haffner former proprietors will leave
soon for Spokane.
A pastry sale will be given by the
Rebekah Lodge in the store of Foss q
Winship. tomorrow. Saturday. at which
all good things to eat will be offered
at reasonable prices. All Rebekahs
are requested to donate and the public
patronage is solicited.
humping from the running board Of
DR.. y A. Baddeley's car while it was
running at rate of about rs miles an
hour, Ray, the young son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Huffman sustained broken collar
bone, The plucky youngster, however,
is attending school as usual.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Soden. resid-
ing on the W. P. Willaby place north.
east of town. have raised splendid
crop of garden products this season.
Samples of sweet corn, field corn. to-
matoes and grapes were brought to
the Press Office for exhibition.
The Spokane Merchants Association
will make a trip from that city to
Pendleton and return on special train.
The train will arrive in Athena at 9:0C
a. m. and remain for twenty minutes.
giving the Skokane men opportunity to
come up town and visit the Athena
business men.
Rev. E. L Mills, who held the pas
torate of the Baptist church in Athena
during the summer. has again entered
evangelistic work, beginning series
of meetings in the town hall at Adams,
last Sunday. He is assisted in his
work by the trombonist and singer.
Charles M. Huggins, the man who COM
poses his own songs.
Maurice Hill was here this week
from Havre. Mont, on visit to his
parents. Maurice is very optimistic
relative to the future of his section Eot
Montana. Crops were fairly good this
season in the territory tributary to
Havre. The town has population OF
about 5000. and absorbs a payroll Of
$50, 900 per month as railroad divi-
sion point.
Yesterday Jos. N. Scott sold ap.
proximately 80, 900 bushels of wheat
to the Farmers Cooperative agency
at Walla Walla. at $l.85 for sacket
No. club. Chicago base. This is tht
first big sale of wheat in this vicinit!
to be recorded this season. The sal'
included rental wheat of Henry Keep
IKE and L. C. Preston, from whom Mr.
Scott leases land.
The first real rain since May 28tf
fell Monday night. 1t came in vel
come relief of the drouth conditions
which have prevailed on the Pacific
coast. Forest fires. which have been {
menace to millions of acres of standing
timber were checked, and there il
enough moisture. it is thought by
| farmers to give the weeds a good start
on the summer fallow field.
Sergeant George Winship of Troop
D, Oregon cavalry writes while en-
route to Charlotte. N. G.. that all
Athena boys of the troop are in good
health again after receiving inocula-
tion from small pox and typhoid
Their special train consisted of II
coaches and the trip from Clackamas
to Charlotte required IL days. George
| is trying for the rank of Sergeant
Major, and his friends believe he will
'get by"
Athena people as well as the loca
membership of the Methodist G. urcf
are pleased at the return of Rev. w.
S. Gleiser. to the charge here. Ht
has proven a popular pastor in the
year past, and with his estimable wife
will take up his work here with re
newed interest. At the recent confer
ence at North Yakima, Rev. R. E.
Gornall was also returned to Pendle.
ton, where he has been pastor thu
past year.
Mrs. John R. Barnes this week re-
ceived letter from her brother, Leon
ard Blomgren, who recently left Seat
tie with his company, Co. F., Medica
Unit, and is now stationed at Ft. Jay
Governors Island, N. Y. He states
that the company is enjoying the priv
ileges. of sight seeing, and is enthus
iastic in his description of life in "lit
tie old New York" Another brothe
of Mrs. Barnes, Ernie Blomgren o.
Co. e. Idaho, will soon be in Nortl
Carolina with his regiment.
| Decorative evidence that headquar
ters for patriotism are up at DR.. DELI
residence, will not be disputed by any
one CHANGING to pass that way. DIR
Dell springs from an ancestry of mill
tary men, and as he expresses it, he il
'.just bubbling over with patriotism.
His expression Of loyalty, comm emo
rative with the spirit of the times. il
evidenced in the construction vf mon
umental tribute to his country's cause
With palate and brush he has produces
on canvass picture that appeals t,
the public eye. 1t is surmounted b!
flags, toy soldiers, cannon. etc. tn
whole collection being placed on a con
spicuous plot in his lawn.
Makers Of dairy butter. who sell thu
product directly to consumers com
under the purview Of the Act whicl
September /, 1917, makes it unlawful
for selling for human consumption an.
milk or milk products from cows tina
have not passed the tuberculin test
unless such milk shall have been pas
teurized. The Act provides that mil
from cows whose owner or lessee shal
apply to the State Livestock Sanitar,
Board to have such cows tubercuii
tested shall be exempt from all provi
sions of the act until such time as tn