Orphans Take by Knitting Glub Chicken Farm Venture
McFadyen plans to restart a chicken ranch with 800 hens to supply the egg market for a year. The operation features up-to-date facilities, houses, incubator and brooding rooms, feed gear, and a gas engine. An Northwest egg-laying contest notes White Leghorns top the list, with Rhode Island Reds and other breeds also competitive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McFadyen
McFadyn
McFadyn Chicken Ranch
D. Hancred
Kent
Washington
Washington State College
Tancred
He Gacyi
Rhode
Athena Club Plans August 19 Food Sale for Orphans
The Athena Club will hold a food sale on August 19 offering various edibles to raise funds for four jeep orphans. Members have supported the cause with letters of thanks from France, translated by Miss Maude Sherman, noting continuing local activities through summer with the next meeting September 5 at Mrs. Lloyd Michener’s home. three visitors attended the last meeting.
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Athena Club
Madame
Rene
France
Inwiller
Lloyd Michener
Just Squaw Coming to Standard August 13
The Standard will show Mutuals latest picture Just Bound with Bea triz Michelena on August 13. Elsie Ferguson stars in Song of Songs Saturday night with an Artcraft cast. Mack Sennett comedy reels entertain. Dorothy Dalton appears in Love Me Sunday alongside Paramount photography. Edington and Craig Wilkinson, Athena veterans, arrive in New York and head to Camp Lewis for reception.
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Standard
Mutuals
Beatriz Michelena
Seattle
Portland
Elsie Ferguson
Mack Sennett
Bunch of Blue Eradicators
Dorothy Dalton
Paramount Thoroughnese
Ko Service
Moore
Pathe Anai
Farming woes hit Claresholm in dry year 1918
Nick Tullinger of near Claresholm Alberta reports his crops are a total failure and livestock suffer as forage cannot be grown locally. He notes no rain since May 1918 and that forage is only shipped in by railway, highlighting extreme conditions in the North country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nick Tullinger
Claresholm
Alberta
Athena Friends
Houser Enters Athena Field for Grain Purchase
M. H. Houser, a Portland grain dealer, has entered the Athena field to buy grain. B. B. Richards, experienced in grain buying, acts as Houser’s local agent. Cliff Banister reports a 21 day harvest in Cold Springs district using a 16 foot combine, field pace about 700 acres, with 33 head of cattle and other notes. Grain moves toward the warehouse along the Northern Pacific line from Van Ssycle Canyon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houser
M. H. Houser
Portland
Athena
B. B. Richards
Prain
Mr. Houser
Cliff Banister
Cold Springs
Vanssycle
Canyon
Northern Pacific
Lost Last A Kodak Found by Standard Oil Company
A reader reports a Lost Last A Kodak, asking the finder to return it to Gun Cronk of the Standard Oil Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kodak
Gun Cronk
Standard Ol! Company
Council to decide on street paving plan
City council weighs hard surfacing on Main street amid two failed meetings with property owners. With Adams Blakeley section completion near and the paving plant set to move to Athens, officials must settle the scope and timing of the Main Street hard surfacing project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Main Street
Adams Blakeley
Athens
Aviation Wages and Training Offer For Four Year Enlistments
The Marine Corps urgently seeks four year enlisted men as engine and rifle shop mechanics electricians wiremen carpenters welders blacksmiths and more. Training includes Mare Island California and the Great Lakes Navy Mechanics School Illinois with practical flight station work. The program offers substantial pay increases and a profitable trade at government expense. Further information available by writing to the Marine Recruiting Station Portland Oregon.
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Marine Corps
Mengan
Maredaland
California
Navy
Great Lakes Illinois
Cvense
LA. 8. “Marine Recruiting Station, Ltd
Alder Streets
Portland
Oregon
Small Margin Seen in Textbook Prices This Fall
A circular from the county school superintendent notes only slight differences between exchange and retail prices for new textbooks this fall. The largest gap is in the government text where exchange is 1.00 and retail 1.82, a 32 cent spread, with arithmetic 60 or 62 cents and geography 56 versus 72 cents. Higher grades show bigger gaps like stenography at 15 cents exchange versus 1.50 retail, and other titles such as book keeping, French, and algebra showing 40 to 70 cent exchange against 80 to 1.20 retail.
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Creaory Wiei County
East Orégonian
Golden wedding anniversary at Weston
Fifty years ago on July 25 1869 in Molalla Oregon Reverend Shanks united Newton Loveridge and Amanda Minerva Robbins in marriage Both were Oregon pioneers Mrs Loveridge crossed the plains in 1852 at age two Mr Loveridge arrived in Oregon in 1866 after a long journey from an unnamed county to the Mamette valley details of the trek are noted but partially garbled in the report
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Weston
Molalla
Oregon
Rev. Shanks
Newton Loverridge
Amanda ‘Minerva Robbins
Plains
Mr. Loveridge
Clinoix
Mamette
Gribble Leaves Athena to Farm in California
Ralph E. Gribble, former Athena school faculty member, resigns from Redmond High School and will run his father's fruit farm near Chico, California. He and Mrs. Gribble left Athena for Town when the school closed in May and recently moved to California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph E. Gribble
Athena School
Redmond High School
Chico
California
Big Rock Crusher Plant Moves to Athena for Road Surfacing
The Warren Construction Company shifts the rock crushing plant from Adams to Athena to supply macadam surfacing from Pendleton to the state line north of Freewater. The facility, near the O W depot, will employ about twenty workers including four truck drivers. Planners anticipate completing the Adams plant relocation by month’s end, with works pushed from both ends to close the section quickly.
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X Bova
Warren i Construction Company
Pendleton
State Line
Freewater
Adams
O-W
Sirena Groman
Athena
Adame
Ket
Reeerie
Wilton-Weston
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Mpfadyen
Chicken Farm
Weston Reservoir
Broad Street
Avery
Elsie Ferguson and
Dorothy Pane
Lageaige
Cose Edington
Craig Wilkinson
4Th Engineers
New York
Camp Lewis
Ala
Gribble
Caandler
M ‘Ou
Chandler
Atter Pitt Motor
Ifty
George D. Shields
Milton, Oregon
Chandler Motor Car CO
Cleveland, Ohio
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