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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1928
Page
3
Scoutmaster LeRoy emphasizes first aid as vital to youth readiness and public service. High merit badge numbers in 1927 highlight ongoing training efforts and a community push to expand youth emergency skills through local troop leadership elections at the Athena hotel.
Birth announced for Mr and Mrs George Thompson a son born December 12 1906 in Athena. Lillian Dobson ill unable to teach in Cannon district. F G Naylor estate nearing closing with attorney W M Peterson handling affairs. E R Cox sells interest in hardware store to A B McEwen. Cox retains building ownership and assists in store. Funeral held for infant son of Mr and Mrs Bert Cartano conducted by Rev Payne. Sand Hollow rural telephone line formed with officers and directors. Carrie Bloch to wed Henry Danheiser February 10 Spokane at Silver Grill with Rabbi David Levine officiating. Rev Geo T Ellis's health forces climate move to California. Zoeth Houser promotes Present Need mine with stock at 3 cents. stamp mill planned April. Will Jamieson visiting from Weston. Mrs Della Maloney moved to High street. Ben H Savage in Athena for Pendleton Tribune. Postmaster L A Githens unwell. Infant son of Clarence LaBrache recovering. Clarence Bunker ill with diphtheria recovering. M W Smith in town for days. wife arrived. plans Spokane departure. Homes of William Winship and W C Russell under scarlet fever quarantine. Normal School Regents meet in Weston. board includes Jerry Stone Athena P A Worthington Portland Wm Blakley Pendleton G W Proebster Weston. School prosperous. new furniture, apparatus, wiring contract with Preston Parton for electric lights.
The page lists staff and students across departments including Junior News Editor Loie Montgomery and Faculty Eldon Myrick. It notes Beatrice Hiteman and Frances Cannon teaching multiple grade classes from 1st to 6th, with athletics sections for boys and girls led by Harold Kirk and George Gross.
The school library offers extensive fiction and non fiction books, daily papers, and magazines to support study. Overdue books incur a fee used to repair and replace volumes. Editorial notes compare today’s access to Lincoln era book borrowing, highlighting the library’s advantage and value. Mrs Bateman and Miss Brodie visited Wal lunch in Walla Walla. Mr Meyer attended a county superintendents meeting in Pendleton with rule changes for the county oratorical contest and track meet. Basketball games featured Adams and Athena with Athena winning 21 to 18. Athena girls lost 19 to 18 to Adams in a separate contest. Coach Miller plans hard practice for Umapine next week.
Friday assembly fired up students for the Adams Athena game that night led by Coach Pike Miller and yell leader Raymond Freeze. Junior class teams discussed fundraising for the annual banquet and candy sales at basketball games with Virgie Moore Thelma Schrimpf and Beatrice Hiteman appointed. Harold Kirk and Eldon Myrick to interview Mr Boyd about arranging the yearly junior class film engagement.
Miss Thorson visited relatives at Stanfield on Saturday December 8. Several students including Dale and Gale McClane and Betty Venable missed Tuesday December 11 due to sickness. First and second graders, led by Miss Bryant, take up a new primer while others, such as LaVelle Gagnon Adaline Shigley Stanford Marquis and Geraldine Garrett, were absent this week. Robert Rose returns after a month illness as the seventh and eighth grades begin work for the Christmas program.
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