The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-26


formation leading to their recovery.
w. M. Davis, Weston. Phone 14Fll.
LlkMr. and Mrs. Will Read and son.
Velton returned Monday from camp
ing trip at Bingham springs. Mr..
Read, who is recovering from his i'll
ness, will attend to his harvest, after
which they will go to the mountains
for the purpose of gathering buckle
berries.
\ Sheriff Taylor captured farrell, the
fhird moonshiner of the still operated
Vim the west part of the county, until
broken up by the sheriff some weeks
ago. He had been in Idaho about
three weeks when arrested. He is
being held at Pendleton for the fed
eral officers.
A much heavier rain fell Tuesday
night northwest of town in the vicin-
ity of Vansycle than in this section,
/ although here it fell in copicus guam
titles, thoroughly settling the dust for
the first time this summer. Harvest
ing was held up in nearly every part
of the county.
The rooms west of Parker's barber
shop in the Froome building, donated
for Red Cross headquarters, has been
cleaned and renovated and put in con-
dition for occupancy, and is being ded-
icated this afternoon in an ice cream
social, given by the Knitting Club.
| Meetings will hereafter be held there.
While buzzing around town in search
of some one to help handle wheat,
Jinks Taylor found number Of fel-
lows who offered to drive the team
for him while he loaded the grain; but
he trun 'em all down with the state
ment that he was good driver
himself. Result: Taylor drove and
loaded the grain, too,
Robert Beckham has been engaged
by Mrs. W. R. Scott in her farming
interests and entered upon his duties
last week. In addition to being com :,
petent farmer. Bob" understands
machinery and for some time has been
operating caterpillar tractors. Mr.
and Mrs. Beckham will reside on the
| Claude Reeder place.
Pendleton Tribune: Henry Kopcke,
one of the wealthiest and most prom
| insnt farmers of the Athena country,
| "A years of age and for the past "a
wears resident of this county, has
applied to the courts for change of
name. He would change the spelling
of his name to Koepke, as this is the
| name by which he is commonly known.
Leader: George Brace, we'll known
at Weston, was kicked by horse Sat-
urday at the ranger station on the
Umatilla, where he is employed by the
government, and "knocked out" for a
time. The hoof ceught him on the
| Jaw and he took more than the count.
Rangers carried him to the John
Thompson residence where in the
course of time he again began to take
| an interest in life.
County Agent Shrock calls attention
| to the fact that the government wants
definite information as to the amount
of grain threshed this year, and the
secretary of agriculture has asked that
each farmer who operates threshing
machine report the number of bushels
threshed and the number of acres on
which it was grown. Regular blanks
will be mailed to the farmers, 50 far
as the names are available.
The union services on the Christian
church lawn Sunday evening were at
| tended by large audience, who en-
| ioyed the sermon delivered by Rev.
| Gleiser, and also the music, especially
the solo by Mrs. Woodward, with Mrs.
Scott as accompanist. The special for
next Sunday evening will be violin
solo by Kohler Belts, accompanied by
| Mrs. Omar Stephens. The sermon
will be preached by Rev. Baker.
The East Oregonian reports the ar
rival of W. D. Chamberlain in Pendle-
ton from Portland. His new title is
divisional deputy in the internal rev.
enue department, and his headquarters
will be in Pendleton for the next few
months. His district takes in Una
tilla. Morrow and Wheeler counties.
Mr.. Chamberlain's work is the check
ing up and collecting of excess war
profits, income and all governm ent
taxes.
Jacob Booher writes interesting let
ters from his new camp at Glenburnie,
Maryland, where his regiment is now
stationed. He says there are 1900
of us IN A, B and C companies, all
Engineers and a jolly bunch" and the
officers are all from Vancouver, Wash.
Jake has been transferred from COM
pany tailor to teamster, and is show
ing the Fasteners how to drive mules.
The camp is ten miles from Baltimore,
"so," he says, "think of me on the
Chesapeake Bay next Sunday enjoying
myself swimming -
X The Preston-Shaffer Milling com.
pany have made extensive preparations
for handling bulk grain this season.
On the north end of the mill ware
house, commodious concrete dumping
bin has been constructed over which a
roomy driveway ascends to the scales,
where the grain is weighed and dump
ed into the bin. From here the grain
passes into the mill by conveyor pro-
cess. Aside from this many other
improvements and alterations have
been made in the mill during the past
two months.