The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-09-21

MIR. ana mrs. John FosS ana two
children are up from Moro, visiting at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Foss,
during Round Up week.
Recent rains have assured the noun
tain ranches of a good potato crop. but
the moisture came too late to be Of
much benefit to the grain crops.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Belts are pre-
pairing to move onto the ranch recently
purchased from J. H. Lumsden. The
boys will attend school in Athena.
Corn. where planted in this vicinity
this season is maturing into bumper
crop. Thirty five to 40 bushels per
acre of splendid corn will be the yield.
Wes Zerba loaded out car load of
stock and farm implements Wednesday
for Higham. Montana. near which
place he will farm on an extensive
scale.
Mrs. M. M. Johns and son Flint left
Monday morning for Vancouver,
WASH, by auto. Flint will enter on
his second years work at the Oregon
University.
John Froome is beginning construc-
tion Of a bungalow on his property ad-
jacent to Otha Reeder's. new home.
Contractor Gore will do the construc-
tion work.
Fishermen are awaiting cloudy wea-
| ther to induce them to go to the Uma-
tilla for trout. Rainbows bite freely
this season of the year with favorable
weather conditions.
| Jinks Taylor and Marion Hansell
assisted this week in making arrange
ments for the Round Up exhibition at
Pendleton. They went down Tuesday
morning to remain during the week.
The Star Club meeting to have been
held next Tuesday afternoon has been
postponed until the second Tuesday in
October. when the meeting will be
held at the home Of Mrs. B. B. Rich
ards.
The Spokane Merchants Association.
IS strong. visited Athena business
men for short time this morning.
They were on their annual tour and
will spend the balance of the day at
the Pendleton Round UP.
A. D. Frost, one of the owners of
the chain of Golden Rule Stores is
up from Portland, making Pendleton
his headquarters during the week.
Wednesday he visited with Manager
Powers of the Athena store.
Homer Watts has received IS cal
ibre high power Newton rifle. The
gun is the cynosure OF Athena sports
mems eyes and is the hardest shooting
rifle made. Homer will try it out on
big gone in Montana this fall.
The Pendleton Round Up started
off with bing yesterday morning and
has been binging ever since. Streams
of autos have been passing through
| Athena yesterday and today, but to-
morrow there will be still more.
Mrs. |. w. Ware arrived home Sat
/ urday night from an extended visit at
4 the home of her parents at Medford.
She was accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Williams Of Maiden. WASH,
the party driving through by autom6-
bile.
1 On display in the Foss- Winshiplstore
window are to be seen some large beet
specimens which came from "lsh"
Watts famous garden north of town.
Other vegetables raised in the garden
are of proportional quality and guam
tity.
Jos. N. Scott has finished hauling
bis wheat to market. and is storing his
machinery in his new machine shed,
which is one of the largest in the
county. He worked out the plans ac-
cording to his own ideas, with the re-
suit he has one affording convenience.
Y Henry Barrett made successful trip
l/@kh auto to his sheep range in the
\ Salmon River section, this week. He
drove bver some bad mountain roads
and trails. and never had a puncture
until returning. he was near Weston,
when Blowout occurred.
The infant daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Elmer Booher died Wednesday night,
after a short illness due to summer
complaint. In the night the father
went for the doctor and the little one
passed away during his absence. Fun
eral services were held this morning
at the home.
| Ernie Boynton, of Co.. E Idaho In
| f$ntry, spent--s-purton Of six day
fsa~s-of absence with friends in
Athena. Company e will leave Boise
barracks in few days for Charlotte,
| North Carolina. This company has a
large contingent of Umatilla county
boys in its ranks.
The finest fruit and vegetables seen
in many a year are being consumed in
canning purposes in Athena this sea-
son. Milton fruit is being delivered
here in splendid quality at reasonable
prices, and orchards on the adjacent
farms are loaded in many instances
| with a good grade of fruit.