The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-07-05


la Walla.
Mrs. F. S. LeGrCw returned Monday
from visit to the LeGrow stock ranch
in Montana.
Mrs. A. B. Holman. of Eugene vis-
tied Mrs. r. Bartlett Baker, the past
two weeks.
Helen Shick is visiting at McDougal
Camp, a guest of her aunt, Mrs. JOS
eph Hodgson. -
| Glen Estes, prescription clerk at
Wares Pharmacy is spending the week
at Bingham Springs.
Mrs. Floyd Pinkerton and little son.
Garth, are visiting relatives at Gen.
esee, Idaho, this week.
Miss Helen Russell left Monday for
a visit at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Power, at Bend.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. B. Richards and
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Hassell spent yes
| terday in the Mountains.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Walker and
daughter, Jennie, are spending the
week at Bingham Springs.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Scott Fisher and
Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. Gribble motored
to the Umatilla river Sunday.
Wanted. Man and wife desire work
on farm. B. B. Coats, Eureka
Rooms, Pendletons Phone 500.
Miss Grace Zerba has been elected
head of the Domestic Science depart
ment Of the Napa, Oregon, schools.
Mrs. Emery Achilles and daughter,
Florence, are up from their Vansycle
homestead, visiting relatives in town.
Mrs. Sherman and Miss Maude Sher-
man spent a portion of the week at
| the home of Frank Sherman near Pilot
Rock.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Swaggart are
spending the week at the home Of
their son Frank, on Little Butter
Creek.
For sale.-A hard oak buffet, in con-
dition nearly new. Will sell at a rea-
sonable price. Mrs. D. Scott Fisher,
Athena.
Like Athena, Weston is turning h-r
surplus locust trees into dowl pins for
the ships of Uncle Sans merchant
| marine.
Miss Elvina Bereevin is down from
Sunnyside,, Wash, for the week at
the home of her parents south of
Athena.
Sam Booher is having a concrete
sidewalk put down adjacent to his res
idence property on Third street, south
of Main.
The seasons cherry crop has been
large and the price is coming down, as
large quantities of the fruit finds its
way to market.
Mrs. W. C. Emmel and little son,
Kenneth have returned from visit
with relatives and friends in the Will
annette valley.
Charley Thurman, of Ontario, stop
ped over this week with Brice Baker.
He is on his way to Portland, to work
in the ship yards.
For Sale.-Green apples for cooking
75c ber pox, furnishing your own box,
at the old Conrad ranch on Pine Creek.
X. A. Mays.--Adv.
A union Sunday school picnic was
enjoyed by the young folks of the |
various churches and also their elders,
in the Park yesterday.
Ernest and Edwin Zimmerman.
nephews of Mrs. F. J. Jackson, are |
down from Lewiston, Idaho, visiting |
at the Jackson ranch.
Tobe Bush has closed his pool hall in |
Athena and will locate near Pilot Rock |
where he will purchase small ranch |
and engage in hog raising.
Retail grocers announce the resump-
tion of wheat -four sales today on the
customary basis of 50 per cent -four
and 80 per cent substitutes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer |. Watts and
W. P. Littleiohn left Sunday after
noon by automobile for Missoula,
Mont, to attend the Stampede.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. P. Proctor, and
two sons, of Grants Pass. will be
guests at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Otha Reeder, the last of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dell, Mrs. W.
P. Littlejohn. Miss Lucinda Dell and
Miss Areta Littlejohn spent Sunday on
the Walla Walla river above Milton.
Answering their draft call. Jesse
Myrick, Leroy McCubblns and Bert
Stone left this morning for Pendleton, |
to join the Umatilla county recruits I
Chas. Mclean is reported i'll at his
home on Hunt Avenue. He has re-
turned from Walla Walla. where he
was taking treatments in hospital.
Mrs. A. H. Trippeer and daughter
and Mrs. 2. K. Straight and son of
Walla Walla were Independence Day
guests of DR.. and Mrs. J. c. Baddeley
Mr.. and Mrs. Otha Reeder will soon
be at home in their new residence on
south Third street. The finishing
touches are being Put on the house this
week.
Gypsies. travelling in automobiles,
passed through Athena Tuesday. The
women of the band solicited fortune
telling, while the men repaired tire
punctures.
After successfully passing the first
examinations for entering the navy.
George Banister Jr. and Willie Rus
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