Etude club to stage operetta in Athena
The Etude club chorus plans a Sunday rehearsal at 2 PM in the Baptist Church for the operetta Once in a Blue Moon. Mrs Loren Basler of Boise will direct with a large chorus, and the production is slated for February 11 after arrival January 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Etude Club
The
Baptist Church
Reasoner
Colfax
Wash
Gertrude Ellen
Athena Christian Church
Stafford Wansell
Athena
Cowan
Bridge Club
Frank Ames
McKay Dam
Chauncey Bishop
Pendleton
Salem
Edna Hanna
Marguerite Mitchener
Maron Burnett School of Music
Walla Walla
M. L. Watts
Fred Pinkerton
Randolph B. Carter
Noble Cain
Loren Basler
Boise
Idaho
Basler
Genius and Freedom
Genius can only breathe freely in freedom. Persons of genius are more individual than others and resist fitting into society’s molds. If timidly forced into molds, society loses nothing. if strong, they break fetters and become a target for a society that fails to embrace distinction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jehn Stuart Min
Lifespans of Forest Giants Across Centuries
A London Tit-Bits note cites remarkable ages for trees and plants. Thomas Parr’s reputed longevity is dwarfed by trees with lifespans from 100 to 5000 years, including cyprus 850 ivy 450 chestnut 600 cedar 800 oak 1000 to 1500 yew 2500 and the baobab at 5000 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Parr
Animal Kingdom
London
Artificial Pearls and Governor Pierca Pardons in Oregon
The article notes a Nature Magazine description of Buddhist pearl images using a wooden wedge to keep mussel shells open. It also reports Governor Pierca’s retirement with 14 pardons issued including a full pardon to Chester Kubli of Jackson County for aiding in misappropriation of funds at the defunct State Bank of Jacksonville.
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Nature Magazine
Salem
Pierca
Executive Department
Chester Kubli
Jackson County
State Bank of
Jacksonville
Kubl
High School Notes and Activities Update
The second semester begins as Edna De Freecs and Dale Stephens report student body funds with about $200 in each account. Absences due to illness affected many, while new pupils Lawrence and Francis Stamper joined the grades. The State High School Athletic Association met in Portland with new officers elected and Pendleton’s Landreth as president. The high school teams traveled to Pilot Rock for basketball, the girls losing 22-18 and the boys narrowly deciding in two overtimes. District basketball directors for district two were named Burgess, Inlow, and Goodwin.
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Edna DeFreecs
Dale Stephens
Pinkerton
M. I. Miller
Miller
Lawrence Stamper
Francis Stamper
Jennamae
Hadley
Stolzheise
State High School Athletic Association
Portland
Landreth
Pendleton
W. J. Mishler
Grants Pass
R. E. Cannon
Gresham
Jessiedeane Dudley
Roy DeFreece
Lois Johnson
Jennamae Read
Walla Walla
Lorena
Doris
Ital Schubert
Oral Michener
Harold Kirk
Allen Simpson
George Gross
Dorothy Geissel
Jessiedeane’ Dudley
Ethel Pittman
Helen Hansell
Pilot Rock
Umatilla
Lost Gold Boom Town of Goloma in Early California
A retrospective recalls Goloma, once a booming California town after James Marshall’s 1848 gold find. It grew to about ten thousand, housed hotels, stores, saloons, gambling halls, a post office, and a bronze memorial to Marshall, now reduced to deserted ruins and a memorial graveyard.
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New Jersey
James Wilson Marshall
California
New York
Coloman
el Dorado County
Oploma
Marshall
Goloma
Voyage and Fort of St Asterid Built by Astor Era Expedition
The narrative describes John Jacob Astor hiring Canadians of mostly Scotch descent to lead an expedition. They traveled from Montreal in a large canoe via the St Lawrence to the Hudson River then to New York. From there they visited Teaquin and sailed to Hawaii before steering for the Columbia River where they constructed a fort at its mouth, named St Asterid, which evolved into a town.
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John Jacob Astor
Wherobsters
Montreal
St. Dewrence
Hudson
New York
Cape Morn
Hawaii
Columbia River
St Asterid
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Mrs. F. S. le Grow
Berkeley
Helix
Lywin
Bryce Baker
Continential Oil Company
Grant 8
Prestge
Fred Gross
Sleshain -Uead
Tyrodah
Petro
Victor Hirsch
Edna Pinkerton
Willard
al Trade Mafic
Thompson’s Garage
Oregon
Steve's Grocery
Athena Department Store
the Standard Theatre
Lewis Stone
Barbara Bedford
International News
Elinor Glyn
Pn the Review
Pauline Starke
Antonio Moreno
al Christie
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