The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-12-07

Mr.. Guy Cronk has arrived in Athena
from Medford, to take charge of the
Standard Oil distributing station here
in the capacity of manager. Mr..
Cronk succeeds ]. E. Inglls, who left
last week for Wallace, Idaho. Mr..
andssMrs. Cronk will occupy one of the
Hiteman cottages on High street.
On tomorrow evening the Rebekah
Club will give the third of their series
of dances at the Opera house, with
Payant's orchestra furnishing the mu-
sic for the occasion. The public is in
vited to attend. The Club is devoting
the proceeds from these dances to the
payment for new carpet for the l. O.
O. FIX of P. hall.
The attention of Press readers is
called to the Christmas advertisements
of Athena merchants in today's paper.
These ads are an index to the right
places to go to do Christmas shopping.
The stocks carried are in keeping with
the times and the reasonable prices
at which they are being sold leaves no
excuse for going away from home to
do holiday trading.
A Hoover Thanksgiving dinner was
served by Mrs. D. Scott Fisher to a
number Of guests, and her culinary art
proved that Hooverizing does not nec-
essarily detract from the toothsome-
ness Of real Thanksgiving repast.
The occasion was enhanced by music
and literary selections during the af-
ternoon. Mr.. and Mrs. Davis Errett
were special guests.
rWo,k is progressing on the excav-
atiop of the basement under the Chris
fian church building, which when COM
pleted will be 55 IS feet. 1t is
planned to leave the space in one large
room for the present, using it for So
cial activities, banquet room etc.
Later, partitions will be put in, the
rooms to be used in the Bible school
work. A new heating plant is being
installed, with c. a. Lansdowne of
Pendleton supervising the work.
H. |. Watts is in receipt of letter
from Lieutenant j. D. Plamondon,
who is identified with the medical
corps Somewhere in France" Lieut..
Plamondon writes that he is well bill
leted with the exception of fuel sup
ply. In his room is fire place and as
fuel for day, he is allotted half
dozen pieces of sapling. Mail facil-
tiles are not of the best, but letter
addressed to him as follows, might
reach him: l67 Field Hospital. 1T
Sanitary Train, A. E. F.
Il A tragedy occurred at the Pambrun
deer park the other day. Recently Mr..
Rambrun added new doe to his herd,
and apparently the graceful stranger
made friends with the home herd and
all was going well. Imagine Mr.. Pam
bruins surprise when the other morn
ing he discovered the new doe dead
and the antlers of a ferocious buck
reeking with blood. This buck, which
has at times been unruly, had delib-
erately turned against nature and
gored to death the female Of his spe-
cjes.
:, That Battery E, Idaho Engineers, is
foUin France, is well known here,
from reports received. Bert Camp
bell, Pendleton boy, writing to his
mother, says the battery left several
days ago, leaving him in New York
hospital with sciatica rheumatism, and
bemoans the fact that he will now
have to go across with strange COM
pany. Athena boys in Battery E are
Ernie Boynton, Percy Wilson and Mos
COW Froom, and Sidney Barnes and
number of other men from Weston,
all of whom were among the first to
enlist from this county.