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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1902)
AN ATHENA LETTER The BIG BOSTON STORE The BIG BOSTON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1902. NEWSY NOTES CONCERNING PENDLETON'S NEIGHBOR. NOVEMBER Social Happenings Improvements Enthusiastic Class In Parliamen tary Law. Athena, Nov. 14. O. W.Bradly has returned from an extensive trip In various parts of Crook county and DRY GOODS SALE surrounding country. Ho reports that there .aro hustling times In the, way of homcsteadlng lands there. Mrs. C. B. Wade, of Pendleton. Is In town. In tho Interest of women's clubs. Bho 1b being entertained by Mrs. E. Tir Cox, and will be here till I !!1 " jr. Sir til! '4 14 KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL are both brought into use in any PLUMBING work we may be favored with. Brain and muscle work to gether for the benefit of our cus tomers. We are neither ex travagant or niggardly in the use of material. Enough is used to make the work perfect and no more. And we charge enough tor good work and no more. : B. F. BECK, The Plumber Court St. Opposite Golden Rule Hotel No Bad Debts Are contracted by our system of doing business for we sell for cash and give our custo mers the benefit of our saving from loss. More fresh, first class groceries for your money than any other store in Pen ton. Our stock is all fresh. New goods arriving daily Miller Grocery Co. CASH GROCERY AND BAKERY Gome To Us For your lumber and building. material of all descriptions and you will save money and get .first-class stock. We can sup ply you with Doors, Windows, Screen doors and windows, building paper, lime, cement, brick and sand. We make a specialty of wood gutterr: for barns and dwellings Oregon Lumber Yard Alta St., opp. Court House. FOR SALE A half section of fine wheat land, all in summer-fallow, north of Pendleton. Good improvements. Almost a section of land in one body, a short dis tance north of town. FRANK B. CLOPTON 800 MAIN STREET Farmers Custom Mill Fred Walters, Proprietor Capacity 160 barrels a day Flour exchanged for wheat flour, Mill Feed, Chopped Feed,. etc always on band. Friday evening. Oro Rhodes, tho congenial clerk In Jarmnn'B store, 1b off on a trip to Crook county to homestead a ranch. He will return next week. Miss Anna Kirk went to Pendleton Wednesday, where she will visit friends for a few days. Mrs. Fay LeGrow has returned from Walla Walla, where she has been visiting kinsfolk and friends. Mr. LeOrow and sho will soon be ready for housekeeping. Mrs. Lillian Cole-Bethel has quite an enthusiastic class in parliamentary law. She is using the Methodist church in which to deliver her lee .tures. Every one attending express the most laudable praise of her ln struction, and regret that she can't stay longer than this week; M. G. Wilklns, of Portland, Is here for a few days in the interest of the A. O. u. W. order. Ho is meeting with flattering success and Bays that Athena is the best town according to size he was ever in. Jerry Swartz has Joined his brother at the O. R. & N. depot as assistant agent. , Jacob Betis, the beer king of the Northwest, was in town Wednesday looking after his large Interest here. Merchant Richardson, of Helix, whose store was robbed a few days ago, was in town Wednesday on bus iness. He says that there are other Trncys, but of smaller caliber. E. S. Waterman, one of Walla Walla's noted citizens and wheat growers, has been with us for a few days. He says Walla Walla Is be coming quite modernized and will soon rank as one of the cities of the Northwest. Harvey Whitman, of Walla Walla, was here in the fore part of the week looking after some Interests In Umatilla county. Moses Woodward, of Walla Walla, is at his ranch four miles from here. He Is In onr town dally. John L. Smith, constable of this precinct, Is very ill. He has been suf fering with asthma for several years. The disease seems to have progress ed into consumption and he Is now not expected to live long. Walker Wilson is suffering from the same trouble, and Is likewise very 111. W. M. King has his new residence almost completed It will be a nice little cottage. Harry Rosenwelg, one of tho clerks in the big grocery store of Rosenz- weig & Shick, has returned from his extensive tour In the Middle West. He has been gone for a month, and re ports a pleasant as well as profitable time. Harvy Caton's little daughter has contracted smallpox in a very light form. Mr. Caton lives two miles from town. R. V. Knox, Weston's legal light, was in town on business Monday. He says Weston is booming and putting by some of the old ways. The wheat market here Is dull. However, wheat Is plentiful yet. One good sale was made this week by John Bell, who lives near town. He sold 33,000 bushels. William Pinkerton has recently purchased two nice lots from Ben Ogle in the South part of town and will soon erect a large residence. Mr. Pinkerton Is one of our substantial farmers, but wants to get In Athena for school advantages. The high school here, grows contin ually, and there is much interest manifested by all In its progress. Alf Johnson, Hampton Booher and Charlie Henry have returned from an oxtenaive hunt In Union county. They killed a deer, lots of grouse, prairie chickens and caught trout in abund ance. They were gone about three weeks, and report a fine time. Mrs. Nelson Miller, wife of our hustling furniture dealer and under taker, and her son Rol, have returned from a trip to Iowa, where they have been visiting friends for the last month. Earl Saunders is clerking in Bag ley's confectionary store this week. Mr. Bagley Is quite 111 with pneu monia and pleurisy. Drs. Sharp and Botkln are attending physicians. PRIZE cSSAYS. A Prize of $25 Offered for the Best Paper Written by Any Student of the Public Schools. Superintendent J. F. Nowlln has re ceived the notices sent out by the Oregon Society of Sons of tho Amer ican Revolution which offers prizes for the best essays written by any student In any school In the county. These notices aro being sent to all tho schools and It is expected that many people of the graded schools will take an interest In the proposl- in u d o 6 ft 8 a 1 C3 JZ Children's Short Jackets, worth $2, $2.50, $3 and $3.50, sixes 4 to J 8, Safe Price ylM f Q Children's Short Coats, worth $3, $3.50, $4.50, $5, and $6, sites . " 6 to 8, Sale Price Id Misses' Short Jackets, worth $3.50, $4.50, $5 and $6,, sites J 2 to G" t 4, Sale Price yli) Ladies' Short Coats, value $5, $6, $7, $8 and $J0, sites 32 to no 42, Sale Price .'. f 0.7fl Odds and Ends tlsitZJ!. 59c Odds and Ends ofrS3!!"d.5.!.v J9c Ladies 50c woolen4hose 3 prs. for $ Ladies' fine woolen waists $1,$1.25, $1.50 Woolen dress good remnants Half Price ioc outing flannel in mill ends 6 J -4c ' ' ( AN AIRSHIP FREE with purohase of $1 or more of Children's Goods. Ladies' rainy day vor walking skins $1.50 2.50 woolen blankets $1.49 35c China silk, all colors 27c 50c woolen drsss goods 29c Ladies9 Woolen Facinators 20 pet cent discount Fine Golf Gloves for' Ladies Tarn O'Shanters in ail Colors A Full Line of Fine Trunks from $3 to $25 The success attending out November Sale of Men's and Boys' Clothing was' made possible bv the "Ridiccooslv Low Prices Quoted." Nmv rn.. r i rrc stall be made avail, we have taken the liberty of forgetting the cost, and have ptrt on the various cm:j, uiuai. aiatuviay ww prices ior prospective purchasers. You are, therefore, reqMSWi to visit me Dig store ano prove me trotn oi assertions made, and at the same time beneiit yor self by taking advantage of this Sale's Offerings Big Boston Store tlon and make an effort to secure the prlres. The subjects to be worked upon are: "The Dattlo of Bunker Hill," "The Burgoyno, Champaign," "Thn Treason of Benedict Arnold." and "The Partisan Warfare In the Carolinas; Marlon, Sumpter and Pickens." DOG SALMON APPEAR. Great Numbers Now In the Umatilla River. Doc salmon are now making their appearance in the Umatilla Hlver In great numbers. Tney are said to do so plentiful that thoy are easily caught where they run out Into tho little streams and ditches along tho stream and hardly a day passes now that some one is not seen walking down the street with two or three of these fish In his iK)ssessIon. Quite a uuijig taiien out of Byers' mill race and this morning one man was seen with two that measured more than two feet in length each. These llsh aro said to be unfit to eat now, but the fact remains that some people aro eating them. ABOUT COMPLETED. New Academy Building, North of the River, Ready for the Flnlahlng Touches. Tho now Pondlcton Academy build ing, on tho north sldo of tho Umatilla river, Is steadily going toward com pletion. A visit was made to tho build ing by a reporter for the East Oro gonlan Thursday evitnlm. n found to have the walls done and roof aimuoi WUipiUieu WltU niOSt of tllO windows in and the plastering now uouiK uon. ino plasterers claim that they will have their work done by a week from tomorrow night and then the building will be turned over to tho painter, who will put on the fln ishlng touches. Tho contractors stated that tho building would be completed and turned ovor to tho board immediately after Christmas and would bo ready for occupancy by tho faculty and stu dents by tho resuming of school Im mediately after the holidays. When COmnlntoH iha toIII nrta of tho neatest and most commodious educational buildings In the state and Uioso backing tho proposition, as well uiuij uuion oi we town, reel very nroml nr tt nn iQ n to Pendleton and stands as a monu- mum 10 mo interest tne people take In educutlonal affairs. ii a Boot Belt!1' "A Poor Helatlon-51 easily bo one of w of the Present theatrij ager Fred 0. Berg 0 Horace Lewis, an ul , pauios is 7 on tlve character that 8eter attention, and who iw , was selected t7 ij,lteB,De5 no hin successor, ,t it Is a poem and tears." Seat sale stoi-e. . r..,io Work IsbeinP'rU c xr niirvyi o, 'IN niloal He l)