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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1931
Page
2
One copy one year one copy six months one copy three months priced at two dollars one dollar and seventy five cents addresses Athena Oregon dated September 11 1931.
The column reflects on bygone train travel memories and engineer ambition, notes a Cottage Grove farmer with an enormous egg from a prized hen, mocks Boston wine bricks and California plates, recounts Eats the Astoria retriever, and ribaldly critiques George Bernard Shaw.
A narrator claims Abyssinia cavern riches diamonds platinum and gold with a legend of the queen of Sheba named Mababaso as the source of wealth. Oregon firms value Douglas fir in bridge and highway construction challenging cement use elsewhere. Lewiston Idaho court renames Haralampos Asimakopoulos to Harry Smith. Grants Pass mayor seeks trade by brass band concerts. The Nautilus returns from icebound voyage near Spitzbergen after 450 miles north.
A speaker vents at length about crushing taxes and laws from many levels of government and a web of charitable demands. He laments financial ruin, arguing policies squeeze individuals while officials and juristic rules proliferate. He ends with a grim joke and a polite sign off.
Notice to creditors for the estate of Charles H. Potter administrated in Umatilla County Oregon requests claims within six months. Final account for George Banister's estate filed, with court set for September 1931 in Pendleton Oregon.
In Athena 22 years ago Ed Koontz Byron Hawks and Henry LaBrasche returned from Woodward's tollgate after hunting and fishing. A students athletic association formed with officers including Hugh Lieuallen and Clarence Brotherton. Various residents and events noted: visits to Pendleton Walla Walla Seattle and Caldwell, a typhoid illness in Pendleton, teaching assignments and salaries, and a 90 acre farm sale at $96 per acre.
Miss Leta Edington, visiting relatives in the area this summer, returns to her Corvallis home. Mrs Agnes Ferguson wed J Kraft of Walla Walla in Seattle on September 4. The Krafts will live near Walla Walla on Kraft’s farm. Charles Norris sent a Rhode Island Red to Baker City friend Denham and boasted of the bird’s impressiveness. Apples Wolf River grown on the Eat no meat ranch were shown in Athena. Wm Tompkins bought Joseph Hodgson’s 340 acre wheat farm northwest of Athena for 21000, joining Tompkins’ farm for his sons. James Bryan plans to move to Seattle to join a transfer business. The LeGrow race horses, led by Redmont, win often on fall tracks including Everett and Salem races.
Brush Up won at Portland Tuesday and the relay string at Spokane is showing up well. W. P. Leach sold his 200 acre Weston mountain farm for 73900 dollars and plans to move to Walla Walla with purchaser Alvin Burrell of North Yakima. LaMar Union No 6 to host a social at LaMar school house tomorrow with supper and program, and a farewell reception for Mr and Mrs D McKinnon and Miss Mary McKinnon who depart for Alberta soon.
A humor column sketches domestic scenes with a mother requesting clothespins a son delaying mail a den made from spare room and a running gag about rope around a finger The piece plays on misunderstandings chores and light mishaps in a lighthearted tone.
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