The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-05-31

The Third Liberty Loan Bonds have
arrived and will be ready for distribu.
tion next week.
Claude Sanders, who has been work,
ing in Portland ship yard, has writ
ten his parents that he will enlist in
the army at Portland today. n
Mrs. Archie Rice is in the city from
Salem, visiting at the William Rice
home. Her husband is employed in
the Athena Department Store.
A(Bingham Springs was opened to the
public Sunday, and large crowd Of
recreators made the trip to that pop
ular resort in automobiles.
THE Preston Shaffer Milling company
is putting in a pair of scales and a
dumping pit to facilitate the hand
ling of bulk grain at the mill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cass Cannon accom-
panied by Rev. Cannon and wife re-
turned Wednesday from visit at the
Robt. Raymond home near Prineville.
]. H. Ridenour was in town over
night. Tuesday having finished the
wool harvest in the Snake River re-
gion, and Wednesday morning left for
Montana.
Card of Thanks. Il am deeply CRATE
full for all the kindly assistance rem
dered me during the illness and death
Of my little daughter, Mildred.
Mrs. Ettie Cox.
Miss Helen Russell and little Caro-
lyn and Catherine Kidder, who last
week were reported i'll with scarlet
fever, are all out of danger, and re-
covering nicely.
The local Red Cross regular monthly
business meeting will be held here
after on tthe third Wednesday in each
month. This announcement is made
by order of the chairman, Mrs. S. F.
Sharp.
Henry Barrett has sent his two
bands of sheep to the mountain ranges.
The veteran camp tender, Clarence
Ross, with pack outfit, was in town
Monday after camp supplies for the
herders.
Roy Burke has quit garage work
and left Athena Tuesday evening to
seek employmnt in the Portland ship
building yards. His wife and little
daughter will remain in Athena for
the present.
Mrs. H. H. Hill returned Saturday
evening from visit at LaCross, Wash.
While there. in company with Mr..
and Mrs. Otis Whiteman. she motored
to Lewiston, Idaho, and visited her
sister Mrs. Parkyn.
The soldiers mess fund. which was
made up through the efforts of the
Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist
church. amounted to $72.0O. giving
each of the Athena boys who answer
the call today and tomorrow, $1l.00.
Next Friday and Saturday, June 7th
and 9Th, marks the principal event of
the pioneers of the county, when the
annual Pioneers Reunion is held in
Weston. All Athena will be in at
tendance at one or both sessions.
M. L. Watts returned home Sunday
| morning from Portland, after attend
ing the meeting of the |. o. o. F.
grand lodge at Seaside. Mrs. Watts
and daughter Vernita remained in
Portland. where they will stay for
some time.
John Shick. who has been employed
in Portland shipbuilding plant for
several months, returned to Athena
Sunday to join the Athena quota of
the recent draft call, which reported
for duty at PendIeton today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Koepke and
daughter. Dorothy, will leave Monday
for an extended visit with relatives,
going by way of Seattle and Tacoma,
Portland and California points, and
finally to Columbus, Ohio, before re-
turning.
Gard of Thanks. For the kind offic-
es rendered us and our dear husband
and father. during his illness and death
we desire to offer our friends our sin
cere thanks. Mrs. c. A. Barrett.
Areta Barrett,
Henry A. Barrett.
Maurice Hill writes his parents here
that he has successfully made his first
| fight in the air, and describes the SEN
sation as not SO thrilling. as one would
anticipate. He says it is a feeling of
floating through the air on a "feathe
bed"
%The county road crew was in Athena
Saturday and rolled the macadam road
south of the City Park. The crew
will move its equipment consisting of
two steam rollers, caterpillar trac-
tor, scarifier and a grader, to the
Pilot Rock district.
Rev. and Mrs. Davis Errett took
their departure this week for their
new field of labors at Pacific Avenue
Christian church in Spokane. Mr..
Errett will be succeeded here by B. B.
Burton, who comes, highly recommend
ed, from the middle West.
Mrs. D. H. Pursell. mother of Mrs.
M Arion Hansell, died at her home in
| Oregon City, Wednesday. as the result
of pnuemonia. Mrs. Hansell and her
brother, Otto Pursell, went to Oregon
City last week to attend their mother,
and were with her to the last.
Mr.. and Mrs. Porter, Miss Lois
Porter and Miss Clark of Weston,
spent Sunday at the John c. Walter
home west of Athena. A tennis court
has been made by Mr.. Walter, at his
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