American Airmen Land In Germany
Clarence Chamberlin and Charles A Levine completed a trans Atlantic flight with the Bellanca Columbia landing at Tempelhof Berlin after diversions to Hisleben and Klinge. The escort included 14 Luft Hansa planes and a crowd cheered as U S Ambassador Schurman arrived.
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Berlin
Atlantic
Clarence D. Chamberlin
Charles. A. Levine
Hisleben
Saxony
New York
Klinge
Kottbus
Brandenburg
Clarence Chamberlin
Charles Levine
Chamberlin
Bellanca
Unter den Linden
Tempelhof Air Field
United States
Jacob Gould Schurman
Great Northern Approves Bend Line Extension Plan
In St Paul the Great Northern board endorsed completing the Bend Oregon to Klamath Falls extension of the Oregon Trunk owned with Northern Pacific. Northern Pacific declined to participate at a New York directors meeting. Lease of the Great Northern to a unified company for possible consolidation was approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul, Minn
Great Northern Railroad
Bend
Klamath Falls
Oregon Trunk Inc
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Oregon Trunk Line
New York
Great Northern Board
Bank Robbery in Rathdrum Idaho By Two Unmasked Bandits
Daylight holdup of Rathdrum State Bank ends with two unmasked robbers securing between 35000 and 10000 dollars. They lock H E Finch and Miss K H Eplin in the vault and flee in a car bearing a Pomeroy Washington plate, likely stolen, with Rev C F Madsen witnessing. A confederate aided their escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rathdrum
Idaho
Rathdrum State
H. E. Finch
K. H. Eplin
Cc. F. Madsen
Pomeroy, Wash
Legions Gather for Northwest Convention in La Grande
The American Legion Convention in La Grande Oregon July 21 22 23 will feature a post of twenty Indian members from the Umatilla Reservation in full regalia. Districts from Dayton Spokane Weiser and Idaho will send large drum corps and musical groups totaling at least 14 corps. The auxiliary plans a strong showing with drill teams and quartets.
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la Grande
Oregon
American Legion
Dayton
Washington
Spokane
Weiser
Idaho
Oregon Department
Northwest
Legion
Auxiliary
Weston Community Hall Financed by Citizens
The campaign to fund the debt of Memoral hall is complete. The Commercial Club committee Avery Banister and Staggs raised 1550 by subscriptions of 50 each. Title to the hall is in The Farmers Bank of Weston as trustee for 81 subscribers who own equal shares. The hall reverts to the town if the debt is not repaid in five years. Sole management is by a board: Dr. McKinney chairman Charles Pinkerton secretary S A Barnes director treasurer James King property custodian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weston
Memoral Hall
Commercial Club Committee
Messrs
Avery, Banister and Staggs
Avery
Farmers Bank of
Dr. McKinney
Charles Pinkerton
S. A. Barnes
James King
Monthly Report Issued By the County Nurse
The county nurse reports May activity including 226 visits for public health work, 42 active cases, and 10 dismissals. Of dismissals, two left the county, two went to Doernbecher Hospital in Portland, two to other hospitals, one to the State Tuberculosis Hospital in Salem, and three to home care. Office hours 55, hours on duty 260, calls 187, letters 70. Six children taken to physicians, five dental/surgical corrections, five clinics with 58 attendees and nine deemed defect-free. Margaret Gillis, Demonstration Nurse of the Oregon Tuberculosis Association, spent two days visiting the office and friends. she led county work in May, June, and July last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doernbecher Hospital
Portland
State Tuberculosis
Salem
Margaret Gillis
Oregon Tuberculosis Association
Mignonette Rebekah Lodge to Meet Tuesday June 14
The Mignonette Rebekah lodge schedules a meeting on Tuesday June 14 with all members urged to attend. Mrs. Bert Logsdon, who attended the state convention at Astoria, will give a report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mignonette Rebekah Lodge
Bert Logsdon
Astoria
Annual Pioneer Reunion at Weston Attracts Athena Residents
The 85th annual Umatilla County pioneers reunion runs Friday and Saturday at Weston with Athena participants on Fridays program. The Athena Etude Club singers and local acts perform alongside Milton Freewater and Weston sports teams with evening concerts and a shared program of readings solos and dances.
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Umatilla County
Weston
Miss Elga Daniels Crowned Queen of Texas Talent Show
Elga Daniels, eighteen, youngest daughter of a tenant farmer family, crowned queen after producing two and a half bales on one acre. Memorial Hall event features vocal solos by Bernice Blomgren and Ralph McEwen Jr, Indian dance, violin solo, and old-time ballads. Daily schedule lists motion pictures, baseball games Milton-Freewater vs Weston, Adams vs Weston, free concert, and dancing at the gym.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mitel
Carder Enn Payant
Orchestra
Wayabtican
Pesca
William Harrah
Saxaphone Sole
Clifton Kirk
W.H. McKinney
Secasis Ca
Canarsonises
Weston
Anna Compton
Winn
Josephine Goodwin
Will Steen
Clark Wood
Gerneva Lacis
Gene Toner
Dave Rose
Russell Stewart
Bashful
Reuben
Aaron Douglas
Danny Reeder
Arlene Foster
Fern Carsten
Anna Compto
Mansfield
Eleanor McEwen Wodeling
Marvin Roy Readingy
Margaret Calder
Prescott
Washington
George G. Bruce Cacti
Pendleton Music
Payant
Orchestra Mamopica
J.B. Walbeck
Cieeccceeceeeeen Reyton Winn Reading
Banister Dui
Delores Kellough
Ey Russell Stewart Muse
Crise Dave Rose Reading
Weston Quartette
Elga Daniels
Texas
Bernice Blomgren Reading
Ralph McEwen, Jr
Joseph N. Scott Reading
Lovell Gemmell
David T. Stone Reading
Billy Ashworth
Anna Compton Winn
Tallusk
Glenn Bushee
Ruth Proebster
R. B. McEwen
Curtis Shellenberger
Reed Strong
Memorial Hall
Milton-Freewater
Adams
Pavilion
Gymnasium Hall
Thorn Hollow Grade Undergoes Latest Travel Completion
Travel over the newly completed Thorn Hollow grade is now possible. A temporary bridge spans the river at the crossing while the steel bridge is removed. The finished section links with last year’s grade, meeting an embankment crossing built with a steam shovel to move earth and rock from west to east.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thorn Hollow
Walla Walla Native Robert Ankeny Dies After Illness
Robert Ankeny, 43, died Tuesday at a Walla Walla hospital after weeks of illness. A son of the late Senator Levi Ankeny, he was born in Walla Walla and later lived on a Rickreall Oregon ranch. He served in the United States Navy during World War I and returned to Walla Walla after the war, leaving two children Helen and Lewis.
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Robert Ankeny
Walla Walla
Levi Ankeny
Rickreall
Oregon
United States Navy
Helen
Lewis
Wheat inspection reveals high mixture and smut in Oregon grain
A 1926 study by Professor Hyslop at Oregon Agricultural College reports Portland wheat shows 68.6 percent in sacks and 1.4 percent in bulk. Only 30.1 percent graded No 1, 5 16 percent No 2, and 15.3 percent No 3 due to mixing. Smut dockage averages 41.5 percent of inspected wheat, with 2 2 19 2 2 million bushels of Western red containing smut. The report urges seed dust treatment and careful planting, and invites local growers to file inspection requests through the County Agent at Pendleton.
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Hyslop
Portland
Oregon
State Grain Inspection Department
Pendleton
Umatilla
Book Titles and Authors List from 8&8 Volumes
A catalog-like listing enumerates multiple 8&8 volumes with authors and topics including Filene A Merchant's Horizon Kennard Merchandise Manuals Parker Working with the Working Woman Lauck Political and Industrial Democracy Gras Introduction to Economic History Riegel Story of the Western Railroads Fisher Prohibition at its Worst Brunner Tracks and Tracking Brimmer Camps Log Cabins Lodges and Club Houses White Modern Piano Tuning and Allied Arts Bowles Handmade Rugs Braymer and Roe Rewinding Small Motors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Filene
Kennard
Parker
Lauck
Gras
Riegel
Fisher
Brunner
Brimmer
Bowles
Braymer and Roe
Washington Adopts New Automobile Traffic Code
Washington state enacted a new automobile traffic law from the recent legislative session. It allows counties and cities to designate arterial highways and requires full stops at entries. Speed is set to 40 mph under conditions, with higher speeds deemed reckless and risked under the same conditions.
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State of
Washington
Noted Killer Dies in Oregon Prison
A Salem dispatch to the Oregonian reports the death of Dave Smith at the Oregon state penitentiary on Monday after illness. Smith, with James Ogle and Walter Bannister, shot and killed George Peringer and J. N. Burgess in Pendleton in November 1919. Ogle was killed by a guard, Bannister remains jailed, and Smith’s body awaits word from New York relatives.
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Salem
Oregonian
Dave Smith
James Ogle
Walter Banister
George Peringer
J. N. Burgess
Pendleton
Claremont Tavern
Portland
Oregon State Penitentiary
Ogle
John Davison
Bannister
Peringer
Burgess
Smith
New York City
Athena Boy Making Good in Washington
Benny Gross a former Athena high school and Oregon Agricultural College pupil now works in Washington D C as a catapult engineer for the government. He designs catapults that launch airplanes from battleship decks and notes his drawings influenced the current system. The Gross family owns a two acre Potomac river tract on the Virginia side and plans selling part of their holdings as building lots.
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Benny Gross
Athena
Athens High School
Oregon Agricultural College
Portland
Benny
Washington, D. C
Virginia
Potomac River
Boy loses eyes in accidental shotgun discharge
Four year old Clifford Hall of Bovill Idaho and his three year old cousin were playing with a shotgun when it discharged blowing out both eyes and destroying the bridge of the nose. The boy was taken to a Spokane hospital and was conscious with brain not believed affected.
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Clifford Hall
Bovill
Idaho
Spokane
Welcome Lindbergh Lieutenant Oakley Kelley
Lindbergh reception planned for Lieutenant Oakley Kelley and Lieutenant McCready who piloted the first transcontinental non stop night flight leaving Pearsonfield Vancouver Washington to assist in Lindberghs home coming. Oakleys cross continental flight is his nineteenth. Ezra Moecker accompanied on one trip.
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Lindbergh
Oakley Kelley
McCready
Pearsonfield
Vancouver
Washington
Washington, D. C
Oakley'n Fight
Ezra Moecker
Lindbergh to Receive Official Welcome in Washington
Captain Charles A Lindbergh arrives in Washington from the Memphis voyage to a staged welcome by President Coolidge. The program includes a naval wharf reception, a motorcade along Pennsylvania Avenue, a monument grounds ceremony with a Distinguished Flying Cross, a White House visit, cabinet dinner, and Willard hotel parties with the Minnesota society and National Press Club. The next day Lindbergh returns to private life and spends time with his mother Mrs Charles L Lindbergh. Army airmen invited to join the reception in his honor.
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Washington, D. C
Memphis
Charles Agh
President Coolidge
New York
Coolidge
White House
Washington
Davis
Alien Women in Peking Now Unsafe
British residents in Peking outside the legation quarter are urged to evacuate women and children while British males prepare to move into the legation on short notice. The warning coincides with Nationalist forces arriving at Ling-Hai railway, and some families are already leaving as others transfer valuables to the legation or Tentatn storage.
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Peking
Legation
Liing-Hai
Tentatn
Coolidge Views Fleets in Elaborate Norfolk Review
President Coolidge observed the Atlantic and Pacific fleets from the Mayflower as they steamed down Chesapeake Bay. The parade featured battleships destroyers submarines aircraft carriers and support ships in a bid monumental display of modern sea power with bands and officers in full dress.
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Norfolk
Coolidge
Chesapeake Bay
Nugget Found Near Helena Worth a Thousand Plus
A 57 ounce gold nugget was found near Helena Montana by veteran prospector Pred Mead and partner Arthur Woods along Nevada Creek head near Scemple. The nugget is valued at 1026 dollars and reported by WHS.
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Helena
Mont
Aken
Nevada Creek
Scemple
Pred Mead
Arthur Woods
Three Power Naval Parley Called
Washington diplomats report that the three power naval limitations conference called by President Coolidge will open in Geneva on June 20. Secretary Kellogg informed the British and Japanese ambassadors of the plan.
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Washington, D. C
Coolidge
Geneva
Kellogg
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All Indian Post
Legion Convention
Athena People On
Arclene Foster
Bashful Reuben
Athena Etude Club
Edwin McEwen
the Charleston
Reading
David Stone
RB. McEwen
Etude Club of Athena
County Library Books
Paris
le Bourget Fying Field
Charles A. Lindbergh
Wenl
London
Washington State
National Capital
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