Athena High School Notes Roundup of Local Activities
Superintendent J A Yeager visited Athena on business while Stolzheise traveled to La Grande. Athena collected 31 dollars from tournament funds as Umatilla county teams stayed home to avoid hotel costs. The Athena auditorium hosted a debate resulting in a win for McLoughlin. Judges came from Hood River and Heppner. Milton will represent the district in eastern Oregon. Tlusboro and Independence high schools faced suspension for sweater and watch awards. Miller’s baseball team schedules games with Adams Helix and Weston. Seventh and eighth graders scoring 100 in spelling included Goldie Miller Betty Eager and Marjorie Douglas. The eighth grade will host a party for the seventh amid postponed plans from the Milton Pendleton debate. The Dixie Jubilee quartet appears March 29 at the school auditorium under seventh and eighth grades. Hadley visited Pendleton on county declamatory work business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Yeager
Athena
Stolzheise
la Grande
Umatilla County
Athena School
McLoughlin
Hood River
Heppner
Milton
Oregon
Tlusboro
Independence
State Athletic Association
Miller
Adams
Helix
Weston
Goldie Miller
Betty Eager
Marjorie Douglas
Milton-Pendleton
Dixie Jubilee
Hadley
Pendleton
Science class assembly showcases electrical experiments and demos
The assembly featured Ray Johnston and Granville Cannon with static machine experiments. Ralph McEwen spoke on tobacco alcohol and narcotics harms. Alberta Charlton illustrated digestion with chemicals. Armand Bell Carl Calvert demonstrated atmospheric pressure and can crushing with an exhaust pump.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Johnston
Granville Cannon
Ralph McEwen
Alberta Charlton
Armand Bell
Carl Calvert
Fred Radtke
Alvin Anderson
John Kirk
LaVone Pittman
Sarah Belle Jantzen
Ronald Lieuallen
Electrical effect on children elicits mixed reactions
A description of a demonstration where boys and girls experience how electricity causes muscle contractions. Some lift to their toes, none feel effects after five minutes, and many request a second chance to try again.
Dixie Jubilee Quartet to Perform at Adams High
The Dixie Jubilee Quartet known as the Grouch Removers will appear in the Adams high school auditorium on Tuesday March 29 at 8 PM. Tickets are sold through local grades, with calls to Mr Milton Miller for others. Athena and Weston students dominated recent grade and high school declamatory contests with multiple firsts and will compete in Pendleton April 1 and 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dixie Jubilee Quartet
Milton Miller
Supreme Court schedules Willes death-penalty appeal for April 25
The appeal of James Willes, sentenced to death in Oregon for murder in the 1925 prison break that killed two guards and one convict, Bert "Oregon" Jones. The fugitives Tom Murray Ellsworth Kelly and James Willis were recaptured, with Murray hanging himself in his cell soon after.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Willes
Oregon
United States Supreme Court
Bert “Oregon” Jones
Tom Murray
Ellsworth Kelly
James Willis
Murray
Way Out Chiropractic Ad Promises Health and Happiness
A Pendleton Oregon advertisement invites readers to learn about chiropractics and spinal readjustment by Dr W Boyd Whyte at the Stangier Building and provides a local phone number for consultations.
Community Notes and Local Births from Athena 1896
The Athena Press reports social visits and births including Virgie Stamper Florence Jones and Edith Post visiting the press office. Newborn girls arrive in the area to Mosley Weston Parker families. Local railroad workers scout Indian arrow-head sites near Umatilla after a sand storm exposes relics. Pendleton weddings and moves are noted, with Byron Hawks and W H Scott mentioned in political and professional circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgie Stamper
Florence Jones
Edith Post
T. P. Mosley
Umatilla
Columbia
William Winship
Athena
E. B. Post
Pendleton
I. N. Richardson
T. D. Taylor
W. D. Hansford
W. H. H. Scott
Sheriff
Weston
Lowell Rogers
A. J. Parker
Babe
Jack
Baptist Ladies Stage Silver Tea at Parsonage
The Baptist church ladies hosted a Silver Tea at the parsonage last Thursday from two to five with many guests. Decor featured shamrock and green frog motifs for St Patrick’s Day as Mrs Olin C Hadley and Mrs W H Cowan poured at a green centerpiece. Helen Foster and Marguerite Moore wore Irish costumes and a program followed, including readings by Genevieve Barrett and Fern Carsten, solos by Mrs David Stone, a piano piece by Lois Johnson, and a duet by Mrs Floyd Pinkerton and Miss Lorraine Terry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genevieve Barrett
David Stone
Fern Carsten
Lois Johnson
Floyd Pinkerton
Lorraine Terry
Quiet East End wheat trades and local notices
The East End wheat market stays quiet with a recent report of Frank Price of Weston Warehouse buying a lot of 950 sacks at 1.18 for No 1. R E Johnson, pioneer Fairview farm owner, plants ornamental trees around his Reed and Hawley mountain home. Memorial hall financing committee Banister Staggs Avery says 30 subscribers at 50 each are secured. Earl Rose visits from Everett after eight years away, still affected by a WW I gas injury and ordered by doctors to a term in a veteran’s hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weston Leader
Frank Price
Weston Warehouse Company
R. E. Johnson
Fairview Farm
Reed
Hawley Mountain
Commercial Association
Memorial Hall
Banister
Staggs
Avery
Earl Rose
Everett
France
Veteran's Hospital
City council votes to acquire land for park expansion
Aldermen approve purchasing Bertie Elam tract between city park and river to enlarge park grounds. Higby Harris returns for medical care and shows improvement. Mrs Thomason sustains a broken arm and Mr Thomason several facial and dental injuries in a Saturday auto accident three miles from Walla Walla toward Dixie. Tum-A-Lum school board rules against consolidating with Ferndale. Ferndale inviting Tum-A-Lum to merge for school purposes only. Dan Kirk celebrates wedding anniversary at home. Ruth Kennedy and George W Chenault wed in Pendleton with Rev. George G Bruce presiding. Straw berry trials begin with Jesse Hurst ten acres and others planting additional acreage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertie Elam
Higby Harris
Harris
Pink Thomason
Walla Walla
Dixie
Tum-A-Lum
Ferndale
Dan Kirk
Ruth Kennedy
George W. Chenault
Pendleton
George G. Bruce
Jesse Hurst
Clyde Harris
Howard Evans
Weston shower honors Mrs. Robert Lee of Milton
Mrs Vern Smith and Mrs Jess Gordon hosted a Saturday afternoon shower at Mrs Smiths Weston home on March 12 for Mrs Robert Lee of Milton. About twenty guests attended as ink and white decor framed an afternoon of games and gifts with angel food cake and ice cream served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vern Smith
Jess Gordon
Mrs. Smith
Weston
Robert Lee
Milton
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Helen Oswald
Harold McIntyre
Aaron Douglas
Nadine Elder
Lovell Gemmel
Willes
Phighis
Lucien Gagnon
Clarence Gagnon
Athens
California
George Roller
Baldwin Park
Los Angeles
East End
Milton Eagle
The
Freewater Times
Mrs. Lee
Mrs
Bun Moore
Charles Smith
Mrs. Moore
J. L. Harman
Main Street
Steve’s Grocery
Kalsemining
E. A. Bennett
B. B Richards
Blaesing
Granite Company
Hl. J. Blaesing
F. Bowman
Odd Fellows Bld
Bell & Dickenson
Attorneys-At-Law
Drs. A. D
R. A. French
Optometrists
Walla Walla, Wash
Continental
Bryce Baker
Kilgore Cafe
Gerald Kilgore
A. W. Logsdon
Main
the Lumber
Turn-A-Lum Lumber Co
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