East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-06-07
MILTON COMMERCIAL
CLUBS LAST BANQUET
FOR SUMMER TONIGHT
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home Of his brother, o. ID. Harris,
next Sunday, and will assist in the
services of the Christian church, Prof.
Harris will preach the morning SER
mon and his wife win sing special
| solo. . ,a,4
| Dir. G.. r. Gowen and family of
| Walla Walla came over sunday and
visited at the home of Nh, and Mrs.
Fred NIilby, on Mill street. Milton. j.
+ Childrens Day exercises will be held
! in the Baptist church Sunday evening.
June / at 8 p. m.
Mrs. e. G.. Judd gave very, inter-
esting address at the meeting of the
Women's Missionary Society of the
Presbyterian church Monday after
n noon. Mrs. Judd told of her expert
ences in Africa when she and her hus-
band were over there, laboring with
the African Industrial Mission. 1t
was most interestin gto listen to the
talk of one who has labored amongst
those inhabitants of far off Africa.
The people of Freewater are prom
sed that their radio plant will be in
shape to give the public treat, Tues
day night. Its scope will be the -Paci-
i fic slope -.--.y5.----s., ..
The annual Chldrens Day. program
h of the Christian Sunday school will be
given in the church auditorium next
h Sunday evening June / at 8 p. m.
1t consists of songs, dialogue and
h recitatons by the children. special
4 offering will be taken for missions
n at the same service.
About twenty women from Milton
N Christian church attended the all day
Institute of the Womans Christian
Missionary Society," held at Athena,
Monday. Representatives from Milton
n and Pendleton met with ithe women
of Athena.
Rev. O. D. Harris of the Christian
church is attending the Eastern Ore
gon Christian Missionary Convention,
this week at Elgin, Ore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Monegan drove
out to the William Tiber ranch, Sat-
urd:y and hack Sunday. The ranch
is up Mill Creek six miles aboue Walla
Walla. Mrs. Tibler is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs Monegan.
d The Prune PiclSers are 1ItIlanimous
in the verdict that the Backafoos are
a gentlemanly team. b. 5t
The exercises at the olianing of the
u. S. Veterans hospital at Walla
Walla Sunday afternoon were well at
tended, in spite of the excessive heat,
! though we did not see a half dozen
u people from the Twin Cities, among
the crowd. The Red Cross arranged
j the program. The speakers were: r.
e. Allen, chairman, Mayor Ben f. Hill
4 who gave the address of welcome, DR..
S. b. L. Penrose of Whtmaa college,
Major W. ID. Judldn in charge of the
hospital, Col. Paul Meyrauch and Dr..
4 Paul j.. Carter, medical officer. Mrs.
B. B. Buchanan of Seattle Executive
Secretary of the Tuberculosis Associa-
n tion of the state of Washington, who
happened to be in Walla Walla, and
attendin gthe opening of the hospital,
was called upon for speech and she
responded. The penitentiaEy- band
N furnished the music After the pro-
N grom the crowd wended its way to the
B inspection of the glildings compris-
+ ing the hospital. w would venture to
say that after the first enterence, go
ing as the crowd did, through, and
from one building to another, the pas
sage ways all being under roof, that
it was at least half q mile to the last
exit. The visitors We're directed at
every turn by boy scouts. The hos
pital is a world of itself, having it's
own bakery, ice plant and every thing
to make it as Independent as possible.
The old buildings have been repaired
and remodeled and many new ones
have been built. The hospital is ex-
clusice for ex-service men, especially
men affected with tuberculosis.
The Thimble Bee of the Fresby-
terian church will meet in the base4
n1ent of the library, Thursday June 8
at 2:30 p. m. The children of the
church will give a program, after
which, refreshments will be served
/ T. n. Stark of Milton claims to held
the Oldest receipt for money paid for
the East Oregonian of any, of which
| the paper has any record.
| Mrs. Edith Nixon, who came out to
Oregon from Delaware to}take care Of
her mother, Mrs. B. F. Harper of Mil
ton, was here bu ia few days when she
herself was taken sick with a throat
trouble and was taken to st. Mary's
hospital She is improving rapidly.
DR.. w. G. Hughes of sWalla Walla
was seen on the streets of Milton,
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. d. Hifchcockrwith
So t'iN NliS NfCpi IDtlldF uTOEe uD
to the dam Sunday.
Milton's commercial club wilfFhaye
their last banquet of the summer in
the basement of the library Tuesday
night. II being the last banauet-of the
season it is desira bile that there will
ne a large attendance One of the
things to he discussed is the further
arrangements of Strawberry Day.
Mrs. Bessie Rees and bows. Rich
ard and Harold of Helix are guests at
the W. II. Bailey home in Milton
w. b. Thomas of Walla Walls. faith
er of DIR. c. W. Thomas of Afilton. died
at his home Friday. June . at the age
of eighty three. The funeral was held
from the Pioneer Methodist church.
Walla Walla. interment in. the Moun-
tain View cemetery. Mr.. Thomas
crossed the plains three times. from
Iowa. his old home. The last time. in
1871 he brought his family with him.
and settled on Mill Creek. His wife
lied six years ago.
Miss Rurtie Elam is visiting in Port
and for short time.
Mrs. VIM. Hopson underwent a ma
or operation, sunday morning al the
'olleee Place Sanitarium. She ls get
ing along as well as could be exDeet-