High School Notes Reflect Student Activities and Talks
High School notes cover Professor Franklin Folts addressing students on choosing a life work and six week tests underway. Senior class had portrait work in Pendleton, Athena sent declamation team winning medals, and Helix set a sectional track meet date. Activities include junior senior banquet preparations, a weiner roast at Weston Dam, baseball interest for Athena girls, and field trips to Pendleton Woolen Mills and Walla Walla trips.
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Franklin E. Folts
School of Business Administration
University of Oregon
Folts
Gunnell and Robbs
Pendleton
Athena
Aaron Douglas
Nadine Elder
Margaret Lee
W. E. King
Helix High School
Helix
Walter
Fred »Oinger
Ernest Zerba
Beth
Weston Dam
Athena High School
Kathleen Radtke
Walla Walla
Standard Theatre Offers Three New Photoplays
Tomorrow night the Standard Theatre presents Frank Lloyd's epic about women joining the California gold rush. Anna Q. Nilsson, Robert Frazier, and Lionel Barrymore star in The Splendid Road. Sunday features Steel Preferred with Hobart Bosworth and Vera Reynolds. Midweek shows The Cohens and Kellys with Charlie Murray and Vera Gordon.
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Standard Theatre
Frank Lloyd
California
Anna Q. Nilsson
Robert Frazier
Lionel Barrymore
William Boyd
Allstar
Hobart Bosworth
Vera Reynolds
Walter Long
Charlie Murray
Helene Sullivan
Ben Turpin
William V. Mong
Nigel Barrie
The
Standard
Cohns and Kellys
Vera Gordon
George Sidney
Issy Murray
McFadden
Cohens
City urges strict enforcement of chicken confinement
Mayor Watts told the Press that the fowls at large ordinance will be strictly enforced. Marshal Taylor has been notified. Athena chicken owners are urged to confine birds to home premises to avoid trouble during garden season.
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Watts
Marshal Taylor
Athena
Gold rush echoes and days of '49 in Alaska lift spirits
The article recalls renewed interest in Alaska as freight demand fills steamers to Juneau Sitka and Cook Inlet with ships like the Saturday sailing vessel sinking under guard. It notes cold weather and ground frost, political primaries in North and South Athena, a birthday surprise for Mrs Coppock, John L. Sullivan as a poor drawing card, a train smoker fire near Adams, local visits by Ed Rush and Ed Broughton, band trips to Pendleton, band members joining a subscription list, and a break in at the Harden saloon with liquor stolen from a barrel.
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Alaska
Juneau
Sitka
Cooks Inlet
Times
Spirit of
California
North
South Athena
Frank Mansfield
Sam Purdy
Jerry Stone
North Athena
J. W. Maloney
W. Hollis
George
Osburn
W. D Chamberlain
T. FP. DeFreece
W. W. Raymond
Robert Coppock
N. G
Spokane
Adams
Ed Rush
Helix
Pendleton
William Killgore
A. L. Swaggart
J. T. Lieuallen
J. B. Perry
Chas Fischer
Harden
Weston business meeting set for Pioneer reunion plans
Sim J. Culley president of the Umatilla County Pioneers calls Weston business people and citizens to decide on the next annual reunion date and arrangements. W. L. Rayborn has contracted up to 60 tons of Irish Cobbler spuds for delivery to Hermiston at about 45 dollars per ton. The MacKenzie oil well near Coffee Creek Montana is drilling past 1600 feet with heavy oil and gas pressure easing per a letter from MacKenzie. Chester Caplinger, ex Weston boy and now hotel owner in Donnelly Yakima, travels with Mrs Caplinger to southern Oregon to inspect a hotel property. His father Sam Caplinger remains in Sherwood Oregon. E E Aarant resigns as Ferndale principal to accept Elgin principalship. Louis Farrens fined 150 dollars for possession of intoxicating liquor. A serious fire at Amapine destroys the Hurley home with near total loss and Mrs Hurley severely burned. H A Rathbone of the Weather Bureau Frost Warning Service visits Milton to prepare starting frost alerts for the Walla Walla valley. He expects to begin reporting soon as fruit nears danger.
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Sim J. Culley
Umatilla
MacKenzie
Coffee Creek
Montana
Chester Caplinger
Weston
Yakima
Caplinger
Southern
Oregon
Chester
Seattle
Sam Caplinger
Weston Country
Sherwood
E. E. Aarant
Ferndale
Elgin
Louis Farrens
State Line
Justice Court
James H. E. Scott
Amapine
Oregon Settlers Record March Entries by Chamber of Commerce
A list from the Land Settlement Department of the Portland and Oregon State Chamber of Commerce shows eighty two settlers for March. The new families added to state farm wealth with investments totaling 270590 dollars.
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Land Settlement Department
Portland and
Oregon State Chamber of Commerce
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McCormick - Deering
Cornelison
Marjorie Wilson
Emma Ringel
Dorothy Karr
Areta Kirk
Cohens and Kellys
Henry Koepke, Jr
Ed Broughton
Sound Country
Athena Band
East End
Weston Leader
Milton Eagle
Just
Durham Hose
Steve’s Grocery
Kalsemining
E. A. Bennett
FITCH
Whitehead
Ore
B.B Richards
Blaesing Granite Company
H. J. Blaesing
F. Bowman
Odd Fellows
J. L. Harman
Main Street
Bell & Dickenson
Attorneys-At-Law
Drs. A. D
R. A. French
Optometrists
Walla Walla, Wash
Continental
Bryce Baker
Kilgore Cafe
Gerald Kilgore
A. W. Logsdon
Main
the Lumber
Turn-A-Lum Lumber Co
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