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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1930
Page
5
Local notes from Athena Oregon detail visits from Pendleton Walla Walla and Idaho residents. social events include dinners, bridge games and club meetings with many neighbors attending church socials and fundraisers.
The Church of Christ reports a strong Sunday attendance as Mr. McQuarry, minister at Milton, will deliver the morning message. A solid turnout was seen at the earlier evening worship.
We thank friends and neighbors for assistance and sympathy during our bereavement. H. N. Desper and Mr and Mrs Geo Payne and family express gratitude for support.
Junior class appointed a committee for the Junior Senior banquet with Elizabeth Walter Arthur Crowley Emery Rogers and Stafford Hansell. The banquet date is set for April nineteenth and plans proceed alongside campus social activities. Miss Dorothy Brodie visited Walla Walla while Miss Beulah Smith visited Pendleton with Miss Dorothy Strangham. Betty Eager is replaced by Marjorie Montague in Salt Water Taffy due to illness. Girls League meeting postponed a Friday party to tonight because of the Weston operetta. all Athena high girls invited.
The Athena high school community notes a drop in school spirit due to disorderly students at games. Enthusiasm rose during the sub district tournament in Helix, while efforts begin to form a Pike baseball team as spring arrives. Local residents Eldon Myrick, Carl Calvert, Rhoda Nelson, Esther Berlin, Walter Huffman, Thelma Schrimpf, and Garth Pinkerton were seen in Walla Walla events.
The high school sponsored a noodle feed last Saturday that raised 36 dollars. The proceeds will help defray expenses for the upcoming high school annual event.
Roy Graft er, former editor and owner of the McCleary Stimulator, enrolls in the University of Oregon School of Journalism. After high school in 1925 he joined the Stimulator, rose to associate editor, then took over the paper with bank backing two and a half years ago, ran it for a year and a half, paid debts, and sold it to fund his education.
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