Athena Daily Social Roundup Mixed Visitors and Local Events
Athena residents host and visit relatives across Walla Walla Spokane and LaGrande while spring weather boosts gardens. Measles affect local students. lane road improvements progress. notable guests attend gatherings at Bingham Springs and the Hill home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freewater
Gotleib Swank
Athena
Walla Walla
H. Watts
Spokane
James King
Attorney Avery
Weston
Athena Gardens
Herbert Parker
Fred Radtke
Umatilla
Yesteday
Otis Whiteman
Guitre
C. H. McCullen
Montana
Ralph McEwen
Portland
Metropolis
E. A. Dudley
Bingham Springs
Charles May
Ashland
James Ashworth
Weston Carpenter
Henry Schroeder
Measles Outbreak Closes In On Athena High School
Measles sweep through Athena High School causing quarantines and fear among students who have not had the illness. The piece notes high fevers and rapid spread, warns about academic penalties for those affected, and mentions strict quarantine rules. Also covered are the junior senior banquet at the Grand Hotel in Walla Walla and the Baccalaureate for Athens high, plus a successful high school play Salt Water Taffy realizing ninety five dollars in net receipts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Hotel
Walla Walla
E. E
Eldon Myrick
Virgie Moore
John Kirk
Carolyn Kidder
Beulah Smith
Blatchford
The
Christian Church
Sias
Athens High
Kidder
Myrtle Campbell
Roland
Myrtle
Pike Miller Leads Small Team at Helix Sectionals
Pike Miller took five athletes to the Helix sectional meet last Saturday. Rogers finished 2nd in the 440 yard dash and 3rd in the high hurdles and 220 yard dash. Jenkins placed 3rd in the half mile and pole vault and 2nd in the low hurdles. Kirk was 2nd in the 100 yard dash with 3rd in the high jump and 5th in the 50 yard dash. Myrick was 2nd in the 50 yard dash and tied for 1st in the high jump and won the broad jump. Crowley won the low hurdles and high hurdles. The team lacked enough field competitors and thus fell short overall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pike” Miller
Helix
Rogers
Jenkins
Kirk
Myrick
Crowley
Students Elect Eager Leaders and Plan May Trip
At the student body election last Friday, Raymond Freeze was named cheerleader Betty Eager transportation manager Stafford Hansell editor of the annual and Emery Rogers business manager of the annual The group approved the Bingham trip and set the high school annual trip for May 8 leaving the school house at 7:00 a m Alumni are invited This week Mr Schmidt of the U of O spoke to the student body and grades on Thursday April 17 outlining benefits of good grades and presenting statistics before talking to the senior class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernie O. Harra
Weston
Athena
J. E. Jones
M. L. Watts
Portland
J. R. Catron
Louis Stewart
A. H. McIntyre
Weston Mountain
Amiel Schubert
Walla Walla
Lela
McKenzie
BE. S
Bushee
Pendleton
E. A. Dudley
Helix
Union
Thorn Hollow
Lee Crawford
Frank Sanders
Dean Dudley
Sheldon Taylor
Eldon
Aileen Myrick
Stafford Hansell
Marjorie Montague
Betty Eager
Thelma Schrimpf
Ernest Zerba
Waitsburg
Zerba
Kohler Betts
C. T. Smith
John Tompkins
Baker
Charles Betts Have Gowan
First Baptist Church of
Bell & Gray
Clarence Tubbs
E. B. Foster
C. A. Sias
Glenn Dudley
Bill Dixon
Dorothy Geissel
Milton
LaCrosse
Washington
Dixon
Huggins
Main
Fifth Streets
Shell Oil Company
Masonic Lodge of
T. Smith
Louis Berlin
Louis Keen
Dolph Lodge
Continental Oil
Henry Schroeder
James Ashworth
John Winn
Bingham Springs
F. E. King
Kenneth McLean
Donald McLean
Francis McLean
M. A
Will Kirk
Methodist Ladies Club
Arthur Coppock
W. McPherson
Frank Willams
Welton Read
Lila Kirk
John Kirk
E. E. Coad
Oregon Bar Association
Ross Knotts
Dalles
Silverton
Homer Davenport
Gertrude Estelle Moorely
Frank Harden Music Publishers
New York
Mothers Auxilliary
Delta Delta Delta Sorority
Whitman College
T. Berlin
Mildred Shaw
Dorothy Wench
Whitman
Esther Berlin
E. C. Prestleye
Bridge
Dr. Rice
R. B. McEwen
Prestleye
Rice
Blatchford
James Cresswell
Raymond Freeze
Emery Rogers
Bingham
Schmidt
U. of O
Local visits noted in Echo and Pendleton
Fred Singers visited friends and relatives in Echo Sunday. Aileen Myrick Marjorie Douglas and Jack Moore were in Pendleton Sunday evening. Stafford Hansell returned to school this morning and said the haying the measles claim was false. He had a light appendicitis attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Singers
Echo
Aileen Myrick
Marjorie Douglas
Jack Moore
Pendleton
Stafford Hansell
Stafford
Typing award recipients named for high scores
Carl Calvert received a bronze emblem from Underwood for forty words a minute at fifteen minutes with at most five errors. His record surpassed that at forty four words with two errors. First year students Roland Wilson and Carolyn qualified for proficiency certificates from Royal Typewriter by typing thirty words a minute with no more than five errors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Calvert
Underwood Typewriting Company
Royal Typewriter Company
Roland Wilson
Carolyn
Good Deed on Train Ends in A Swapped Bag Mix Up
On a cape train a woman fleeing hurried out forgetting a bag and three bun dies. Mr. M across the aisle seized the bag, ran down the steps, and handed them to the conductor to prevent loss. The woman returned stating she spoke to a friend on the platform. Mr M vows to stop such acts.
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Cape
Mr. M
Philadelphia Public Ledger
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Puffles
the Quality Grocery
Alice Eager
Goodyear
Valvoline
Athena Garage
North Side
Main Street
Continental Oil Company
Bryce Baker
Prop
Servut
Mazda
Crisco
ED Montague
Crabill
George Corder
George
South 12Th Street
Athena Department Store
Athena High School
Editorial
Seneree
Arthur Crowley
Lars
Cha
Kien
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