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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1904)
Athena ."'Mercantl Co New Goods in Every Department r" 1 We are now showing all the latest productions in Tweed Suitings, French Voile?, Etamines, Crepe de Chines and Liberty Poplins. The grandest array of new dress goods ever shown in Umatilla county4 Waistings in alHhe ne.w weaves. French Ginghams, in the latest styles. Ladies Neckwear, Ribbons, Laces and Gloves in all the latest fads, r: New Belts in endless variety. Ladies' Fabric and Lace Gloves and Mitts in all the very latest and up-to-date novelties. Ladies' and Gentlemen's Shoes in the latest styles, in all widths aud sizes. - We can fit the most fastidious. . Your early inspection will be much appreciated. v I mm mnmm Ves King Was up from Adams Sunday. Attorney ' Peterson is in Pendleton today. . ' -.! ' Charley Warren was up from Adams Sunday. " -v;j ' - - .' ' . MrB. A. L. Jones visited in Adams yesterday.- ' - A. M. Gillis spent Saturday at the county seat. LDtA Bostwick visited with friends in Milton Sunday. J. H. Roulstone, of Adams, visited in Athena Sunday. Union county ranch'. , Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Purdy were visitors in Pendleton Saturday. John McLean was a business visitor in rendieton eaturaay. Bon. T. J. Kirk transacted business in Pendleton Saturday. Henry Adams went to Portland yes terday to attend to business. Mrs. Ben Johnson and daughter, of Adams, were in the city Saturday. Mr. and Mrs J. W. Davis visited their son and family in Weston Sunday. W. P. Leach, of Weston mountain transacted business in Athena Satur day. Mrs. John Rothrock, of Eastland, traded with Athena merchants yester day. J W il T . f 1 -t.,.1 iUUStS AlVJ UBS Yl AO IU lium UC1 KUWl and spent Saturday and Sunday at home. -The Athena public school ball team is scheduled to play in Adams Saturday afternoon. Miss Etta DeGraw and Miss Lula Simpson, visited with friends in Athena Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Read, of Adams, visited with friends and relatives in this city Saturday. An orange war is on at Pendleton. Grocers are selling the delicious fruit at 10 cents per dozeo. . Harry Engler, foreman of the Woodard ranch near Helix, was a business visitor in Athena Saturday. ' Mrs. B. A. Marquis and daughter, Mrs. Q. M. Morrison, of Adams, visited in Athena Saturday. Henry Keen has installed bis heating plant and - is now prepared to furnish baths to his customers. Mm. Jones announces her opening for tritnmei hats for Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. W.S. Ferguson; a well known reser vation farmer of near Adams, was a visitor in our city Saturday. rs. Bert Warren and Miss Cassia Mclntyre visited Miss Eva McLean in Milton Saturday and Sunday" Born, March 25, to Mr.' and Mrs. George jVlcDonald, at their home near Pullman, Wash., a 9-pound'girl. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Marquis,' of Adams, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Marquis in this city Saturday. Mrs. R. O. 0. Ernheart, of South Cold Springsris visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emery La Hue, of this city. rfArthur Stone, catcher for the high school ball team, of this city, is quite ill this week at the home of his . parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Stone, near Adams. George Thompson, of the firm of Worthington & Thompson, has rented the Leeper cottage on Adams street, and with his wife, . will move in this week. Miss Elsie Hill, who has been stop ping at the home of Mr. and Mrs, F. O. Rogers and attending school, will leave Thursday for her home in the Willa mette vallev. y-George Perringer, the well known race norse man, will move nis string ol horses from Pendleton to Walla Walla, on account of superior track facilities in the garden city. Mr. and Mrs. James McCorkell, of Helix, will leave on this evening's train, which they board at the Athena depot, for Nez Perce, Idaho, where they go in search of a new home. A. L. Jones is again incapacitated for work. A. L. seems to have more than his share of bad luck. This time a digit persists in throwing itself out of place, as the result of an injury received Satur day evening. M. G. La Hue, of Junction City, Kansas, is visiting his uncle, Emery La Hue, in this city. Mr. La Hue likes the west and thinks Athena an ideal location for a future home. s,At a recent meeting of Mignonette rRebekah lodge, four members were in itiated. This is one of the most pro gressive lodges in the city, and has about 125 members in good standing. Freewater ia very anxious to have a cannery start there, to use up the sur plus fruit of that rich fruit district, and will offer every inducement to a com pany that will take the matter in hand. The Guardian Neighbor requests all members of Athena Circle No. 10 to meet at Lodge hall in called meeting, on Wednesday night, March 30, as spe cial business will be up for considera tion. Drs. Stone and Plamondon were called to Weston Saturday to assist Dr. Beet, of that city, with a surgical pperation. ttobert Reynolds, the patient, is now,,! It resting easily, and all indications point to his rapid recovery, i Word has been received by her friends here that Mrs. Lucy Beck is seriously ill at the home of her parents in the valley with an abscess in the throat. Mrs. Beck also has the misfortune to be in quarantine, her sister being afflicted with a case of smallpox. In the club notes hi the San Diegan Sun, is noticed prominent mention of our former towns woman, Mrs. D. A. Richards, she having read a moBt inter esting paper before the Cbanning club, of that city. Mrs. Richards' talents in a literary way are well known to Athena people. Arthur Wright, who chewed off a part of Charley Ingle's left ear in a fight in a saloon in Freewater, was arraigned before Judge Ellis of the circuit court Saturday, when he pleaded guilty to the charge of assault and battery and was fined $150, which fine he could not pay and is now in the county jail. Tomorrow at the home of the bride's parents, south of town, the marriage of Henry I. Wright and Miss Mary A. La Brashe is announced to take place. The young couple are well known in Athena and vicinity, where they have a large circle of admiring friends, who join in wishes for happiness and pros perity. . Postmaster Githea's Liliputian base ball team have neat sew uniforms. The team is now anxious for the weather to settle so that they can gather in the scalps of their old time enemies the "Squeedunks," managed by Col. Arp, of Adams, and they will surely do it as they are in fine condition. Athens is noted for her ball tossers. K . ... LXtsaBe ball tans in Atnena are laminar- f . .1. - i lzing inemseives wiin me uaaouau schedule of the Coast League. Their interest will settle mainly in the fortunes Spring and Summer 190 ILL1NERY We are showing the most beautiful assortment of latest styles in Millinery ever exhibited in Athena. The newest thinar ia Trimmed and Street Hats for Ladies, Misses and Children. MRS. J. R. OWENS, Carden Building, Main Street,' Athena. of the Portland team, inasmuch as it represents the state ' in the baseball arena, and further, because of the fact that Dan Shea, a "Yellow Kid," plays behind the plate for the Portland Browns. One of the largest mortgages ever filed in the clerk's office in this county, was executed Saturday, when a mortgage of $250,000 was given on the property of the Oregon & Washington Power com pany to a Philadelphia loan and trust company. The mortgage was given to secure the bonds of the electric power enterprise, now being developed on the Walla Walla river. ' Frank Beale, mention of whom was made in Friday's issue of the Press, has grown rapidly worse with rheuma tism, and has been taken from his home in Milton to a hospital in Walla Walla. The condition of his son, Lester, is not improved in the least, and for the sixth time, surgeons have found it necessary ' to give the boy temporary relief by an operation, in which the body was tapped and drained. v The funeral of William Jones, a Mil ton painter and paper hanger, who shot himself Wednesday night of last week, took place Sunday. Mrs. Jones is pros trated. Their only child is 10 months old, and they have been married but two years. Jones has lived in Milton about ten years. He is not known to have had any financial or domestic trouble, and save the pain in his head resulting from a bad cold, no reason is given for his suicide. Austin Foss has completed the arduous job of trimming up the Bhade trees in front of his residence on Jefferson street. To be suret "Aus." took his time, a week or two being consumedincluding the noon hour before the work was completed. He is an artist of no mean ability when it comes to pruning trees so artistic, in fact, that the Press man is more than satisfied that Austin was full of prunes, more or lessf during the time he was at work. . The old saw "it is better to be born lucky than rich" aptly applies to Sam Booher, the jovial proprietor of the Star saloon, of this city, inasmuch as raising stock is concerned. Saturday evening his pet bovine, Pansy, gave birth to two line heifer calves, one a solid red and the other a red and white spotted. He is very proud of these late arrivals and says they are not for sale. Last year Mr. Booher's favorite driving mare gave birth to twin colts, one a sorrel and the other a pure white. Wanted Trustworthy lady or gentle man to manage business in this county and adjoining territory for house of sol id financial standing. $20.00 straight cash salary and expenses paid each Mon day direct from headquarters. Expense money advanced; position permanent. Address Manager, 605 Monon Bldg., Chicago. Tihirt rai.iri u uiiv iuJ il, " -a. t From The Best is None too Good for you That is the way we look at it, and we are always prepared to any time with the best goods, at the very lowest prices. WORTHINGTON & THOMPSON, - South Side Main Street. o Just a Word Getting right down to the level of cold, hard dollars and cents, it is a. paying proposition to order your spring suits from Bagley & Ely They may talk about smart clothes all they want to, but you will have to come here it you want to Belect from the Finest Samples and the highest class of Artistio Tailoring. fit Guaranteed BAGLEY & ELY Agents for Chicago Tailoring Co. and J. L. Gatzert & Co.' Np.Yt tn Pnst.nffififi. Athena' Ore. mm W a. V w mm www w w j J -w w j Li Fr . a Wee j4 Just received 10 Barrels of 1-3 Pint Jelly Glasses, Will sell this week only, at 30 cents per dozen. 10 Barrels of high grade Tumblers, Will sell this week only, at 40 cents per dozen. The Place where the FAIR family Can Trade.