The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-10-12
Tho Star Club will be entertained


The Star Club will be entertained
next Tuesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. W. P. Littlsjohn.
Tho ladies OF the local Red Cross
report the neat sum Of sss from their
pastry sale last Saturday.
Good fresh butter for sale at the
Bern Banister dairy. Get in your or
der for regular Gelivery. ADV.
Miss Dora Bennett left the first of
the week for Portland, where she will
BIS employed at dressmaking.
Lawson Booher 10 reported getting
along nicely after an operation on his
knee, in the Pendleton hospital.
Ever get tired building fires? Coles
Original Air Tight Wood Stove holds
the fire all night. Better look at one.
Miss verla Hayman, Of Ringling,
Mont, is guest of her sister, Mrs.
Austin Huffman. at her homo on Wild
Horse creek.
Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson, of
"Merrimac" fame, will lecture in
Pendleton at the M. e. church Monday
evening, Oct. Is,
Miss Jeanette Miller has recently
received a handsome new Shoniger
piano, the gift of her mother, of which
Nshsf justly proud.
.A letter from Sam Starr. at Camp
GNeene N. C. reports the boys all well
anA happy except Ed. Sebasky who is
still 70 the hospital.
Floyd Payne and wife visited rel
atives in Waitsburg Sunday. They left
Tuesday for Portland, where Floyd has
a position as bookkeeper.
Mrs. ]. o. Russell enjoyed a visit
from her brother. H. W. Torbet, assis-
tant cashier of the First National bank
at Albany the past week, ~
Miss Josephine Clark returned this
week from visit to Seattle. where
she attended the wedding Of friend
in the capacity of bridesmaid.
Mrs. J. "A. Lumsden left Wednesday
for Enterprise. where she will visit,
prior to her departure with Mr.. Lums-
pen for winters sojourn in Califor-
mia.
John Barnes has resigned as an en-
ploye in the Mill and will engage in
farming east of Weston. He will
move his family to the Anderson farm
next week.
For Sale. One half-section good
raw wheat land in Horse Heaven dis
trict, seven miles from Kennewick.
&20 per acre; terms.
A. F. Hammond, Enumclaw, Wash.
Lloyd Ritchey Of Cornelius, has ar
rived and taken position in the Par
ker barber shop, in place of Jesse
Myrick, who has again quit the barber
business.
The little daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
| w. A. Chase was taken to the Pendle-
ton hospital last week, and is slowly
recovering from her long illness. She
is attended by her mother.
| \Henry Barrett brought his sheep in
IF4HfH the mountain range on the Look
inA Glass and Tuesday morning passed
through town taking them to his Pint
| Creek range north of town.
| Claud Coomans and Lloyd McPher
lin, Athena High school boys, left Sat
urday morning for The Dalles. where
they will be employed on the Cooman'
| fruit ranch during the busy season.
l<RSlph Haynie, son Of Mr. Haynie Of
In and Radtke's store. arrived Sunday
| from Monmouth, where he has beer
attending school, and will enter tht
Senior class of the Athena High school
| New concrete walks are being laie
around the property Of Robt Coppocl
on atb and Adams streets, and Mrs
Lilly Miller and E. L. Smith on Adams
The work is being done by MIR. Keller
VIM, Mcbride, J. A. Lumsden, Frarl
Berlin, and VIM. Winship Sunday
left in the Mcbride ear for tril
through Montana, with the purpose O
investing in land If conditions are fav
orable.
Leonard Blomgren has the distinction
Of being the first of the Weston soldiel
boys to sail for France. He was on tn
ocean September "a with the comman'
| to which he is attached.
| H. C. La Marsh. agent at the N. z
Idepot, went to Walla Walla Monda.
and Joined Battery A, Field Artillery
/ in time to entrain with the battalion
leaving for Camp Greene. N. c., Tues
day night.
J. C. Walter recently purchased 30
acres belonging to the Hager estate
| the land lying near Adams. The pric
was SI7, 500 being Sl62.50 an acre
Oscar Piper sold to VIM. Piper, lh
| aoroo fnr gE(ln0