The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-03-09
NEWS OF THE STATE or OREGON

tration of the city of Umatila gave an
inaugural ball last week.
Thrift day was observed In the Bend
schools by talks on thrift and lessons
In saving and investment.
ID. II. Miller was instantly killed at
Gold Hill when he was struck by a
locomotive Of Southern Pacific train.
The land office at The Dalles is still
showed under with applications for
land under the 640-acre homestead act
The 18th annual convention of the
Oregon Retail Grocers association
will be held in Portland February 10.
21.
The prune growers of Douglas coun-
ty are contemplating the erection OF
their own processing and packing
plants.
c. s. Prather, who escaped a year
ago from the Oregon penitentiary, has
been captured and is held by the police
at Kansas City.
An endowment fund OF $1,000 was
left to the Eugene Bible University by
the will of the late Mrs. Rebecca Cock
burn, OF Milton.
Jackson county's semi.annual bal
ance sheet for January shows the
county indebtedness to be S607 ,S29.3S
above cash on hand, ~
Although the time is still six months
away, plans are being formulated for
the third annual chautauqua to be
held at Bend In July.
Eastern oregon's big snow blockade
is ended on the main line, but several
Of the principal branches are still
blocked with snowdrifts.
The 51st anniversary Of the organ
ization of Battery A, Oregon field ar
tillery, was celebrated by the veterans
at banquet In Portland.
After six years without theater
suitable for travelling shows, La Grande
will have a modern building in the
heart Of the business district
Chief No-shirt, past 70 years of age,
the venerable head of the Walla Walla
tribe of Indians, died at Pendleton
after an illness of several days.
Philomath won the lead in the Cen.
tral Willamette Valley Debating league
by defeating Albany 3 to at Albany,
and Eugene TO at Phllomath,
Farmers of Waplnitia, Tygh valley
and lower Tygh are making prepara'
tions for the construction of large
warehouse at Shearer next Spring,
About rs members of the Western
Walnut association gathered at Port,
land to discuss various phases of the
industry, including winter pruning,
John Antilla, n student of mechanic
arts at the Oregon Agricultural college,
has rec lived notice of his appointment
as mechanic In a Siberian cannery.
Contracts will be signed at once for
the building Of over 5000 feet of new
road up the north fork of the Siuslaw
river from its mouth near Florence.
7, II. Hill, trapper and miner, on the
north umpqua river, shot and killed
three gray wolves recently while on
one of the mail trails of that district
Announcement was made In Eugene
OF the formation OF the Western Broc.
coll association, which will have Its
prineiI i place of business in that city,
The highest price ever paid for po-
tatoes Il Albany was received by lIar.
ry r Mullen He received SO hun.
dred'veight, figure equal to $l.S0
bushel,
After an eightday session marked
by an aggregate attendance of from
$4,000 to 1900, portiands eighth an
nual automobile show came to an end
Saturday.
The place miners OF the Grants
Pass disuIo. aTc having much dIrii
Guilty in the operation Of their mines
this winter tccause OF q shortage of
the water suFrly.
That TIC wi1ter Is waning ard that
spring VIII appear oGrly is the pre-
diction OF Long or ck sc,Smen, noted
in the Baker slelnity for the accuracy
OF their pr dictionsA
Nearly sOoal serAS Of new farm
land, near rsral ton, Nh be Available
scon Il congr1s psssCS t;e iaw pro.
viding for eiio.tiag lhstti.lpai land on
the umatllla rtserNeti%.