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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1903)
i 3. 1 T i VOLUME XV. Just Received. New line of Lace Curtains Not iogham Lace Curtains in all the latest designee from 60 cts per pair to $2.50. Renaissance 01 Tambord Mecklin Net Curtis from $3.75 to $6.75 per paT. Ci&KS. We ha-t) a large and well selected stocuf all the latest styles. We can plrttse the most fastidious and suit all pocket books. Up-to-date plain or pleated Box Coats and Monte Carlos, $6.50 to $18.50 Special line of Ladies' unfinished Worsted and Cheviot Jackets, worth $5, to go at $1.95 Special line of fine last season's Jackets, silk lined and elegant quali ty, old prices from $9.00 to $12.50 each, go at $3.75 Many odd lots of Children's Cloaks at Half Price Big lot of Ladies' Capes, sold last season at $5.50, $6.50 and $7:50 goat $1.95, $2.95, $3.95 03F. The above is only a sample of our stock. If you have Ml Just In any line we can suit you. Prices at the lowest ebb. We are after your trade and will get it if fair treatment and LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES will serve as an inducement to get it. - v . , . .. Once We've Got You, We've Always Got You IN STAPLE GROCERIES our goods are Standard Brands. By this . we mean that they are the kind recognized and s6ld in the best stores in the country. IN FANCY GROCERIES we are caterers to the most fastidious wants and can supply you with most anything. Gents Furnishing Goods Our stock of SHOES, HATS, GLOVES, OVERALLS, JUMPERS, SOCKS, etc., is very complete. A glance through our GENT'S FURNISHING DEPARTMENT will prove it. m South Side Main ATHENA MERCANTILE COMPANY Our assortment is now complete in everything -pertaining to Comfort and Style in Dress for either man or woman. We handle the best Merchandise money can produce, our prices are the lowest possible. Satisfaction or money returned: Dress Goods. 5 Double width Twilled and Home spun wool Suitings, 25c per. yard. Broadhead Dress Goods, 36 inches wide, all colors, and weaves, 35c- per yard. Wool Serges, 38 inches wide, all colors, 35c per yard. Scotch Suitings, all wool, 38 inches wide, great variety of colors and black hoc per yard. All wool Serges and Cheviots, 38 inches wide, in all the new fall shades 65c per yard. All wool Zebelines, 38 inches wide, mixrd colorings, very stylish, 60c per yard. Great variety of fancy Suitings, 54 inches wide, from $1.25 to $2.50 per yard. Black Goods. In Black Dress Goods, we have simply surpassed ourselves. We have everything that is new and stylish. 35c to $2 per yard. SUITINGS - Anything you want if you cannot find it anywhere else, come to us. Street, About line Groceries ATIIENA, UMATILLA Men's Clothing. About 50 odd suits; first class styl ish suits, only the sizes are broken. If any of them are your size we can save you from $3 00 to $5.00 per suit. This means that you can get an $8.50 all wool Buit for $5.50, a $10.50 suit for $7.50, a $12.00 suit for 9,00, a $15.00 suit for $11.00 or a $20.00 suit for $15.00. These odd suits must be sold to make room for our new fall line. We have just opened our new fall line of Men's suits and overcoats and for style, quality and workmansoip, they are unequaled. They only need to be seen to be appreciated. Boys Anything you want in Boys suits with knee pants, sizes from & to 14 years, from $1.75 to $5.00. Anything you want in Boys' suits with long pants, sizes from 10 to 20 years, from $3.75 to $10.00 Boys' overcoats in great variety sizes from 4 to 20 years, from $3.75 to $10.00 Special, a lot of Men's ulsters, worth $8.50, $10.50 and $12.50, go at $5.50 $7.75 and $9.50. not had our O:tober Price List, Athena, Oregon. COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY Triniings All tbe latest novelties in Band Trimings, in either black or Cream Tassell fringes and drop ornaments. Also Irish point and Chantella Laces in all the standard widths. Shoes We have now a full line of the cel ebrated Utz & Dunn's Ladies' and Misses' shoe. They need no com ment, they speak for themselves. If you once try a pair you will wear no other. Utz & Dunn's No. 14902 in all widths is a fine medium weight kid shoe, latest style kid uppers, patent leather tip, price, per pair $2.50 Utz & Dunn's No. 14903 in all widthB, same quality, with heavy ex tension sole, price $2.75 Utz & Dunn's No. 2C50 in all widths is an extra heavy kid upper, patent leather tip, Goodyear welt, medium heavy sole, price $3.00 Utz A Dunn's 14910 in all width, extra heavy kid uppers, Goodyear welt, heavy extension sole, patent leather tip, price $3.25 Utz & Dunn's No. 1905 is a foot form last walking shoe, patent Har vard tips and manish heel a model walking shoe price $3.50 Utz & Dunn's No. 14909 in all widths, is an extra fine kid upper, patent leather tipped, hand turned dress shoe, equal if not better in quality and style than any $4.40 shoe on the market , price $3.50 procure one at once. J3$ ATHLETICS ORGANIZE Equipment to be Modern and first-Class A sufficient number of kindred spirits are interesting themselves in the organ ization of an athletic club, to the extent that it is safe to say that the formation of the club is assured. Several enthusiasts congregated at Chas. Gay's place of business Saturday evening acd talked the matter over. The result of the confab was that cat alogues giving prices of equipment for sucn a club as the young men of Athena desire, have been sent for. When the catalogues come the paraphernalia will be selected and the organization of the club perfected. Those having the matter in charge are a unit in the desire to have all applianc es strictly modern and ud to date. No back-number equipment will go with tne Athena boys. The Dlace selected for the club rooms will be in the rear of Gay's resort, north side of Main street There will be bath tubs supplied with hot and cold water, horizontal baj trapeze, punching bags, boxing gloves Indian clubs, dumb ' bells, fencing swords and all other appliances that are specifically used in the development of athletes. SC0BED, AS USUAL. Boll Brown Scoops a Homer on His Brother, "Dewey" , The Central City (la.) News Letter announces the marriages of George and Rollo Brown. Recently the Press con tained the announcement of the engage ment of George Brown and M iss Edith Johnson. No mention was made of any probability of Roll becoming a benedict, but apparently the unexpected has hap pened and the elongated "Yellow Kid" has scooped a home run and scored on "Dewey." : The Iowa paper of last week chron icles the marriage of Rollo T. Brown and Miss Lola Willard, at Marion, la., on Wednesday morning, Oct. 7. The bride is a sister of Frank Willard, the well known ball player. In the evening the marriage of George and Miss Johnson was solemnized at the bride's home in Springville, the couple being preceded to the altar by Mr. and Mrs. Rollo T. Brown. In baseball parlance, Roll evidently played an errorless game. There was no "grand stand" exhibition, for the reason that his most intimate friends were not aware that tbe "game" was on. The minister officiated as "umpire," and tbe witnesses constituted tbe "bat tery." Tbe "bat" of future happiness was of the "wagon-tongue" variety such as is used by Lajoie, and as Roll ad vanced to the "plate," accompanied by the bride, he "dusted" bands with the minister. It was all over in a minute. "Ground MORNING, OCTOBER 23, If fi We have just received Get ' r- sc , jf " ,, h U liriatilla impiifint rules" were unnecessary, and with a determination to "win out" and give George his "bumps," Roll sized up the umpire and "swung" on the first sphere that came over the "pan." He "clout ed" it square and it soared over the "outfield" and beyond the "fence." It was a clean cut "home run" and the scoop was on "Dewey." The Great McEwen. Prof. McEwen who appears at the opera house Monday night, Oct. 26, is considered by all who have seen his wonderful work to be the peer of all in his line, as the following from the Port land Oregonian goes to prove: "During the past week the citv has been wrought up over the series of entertainments given here in the Marquam Grand by Prof. McEwen. The prejudice against the professional hypnotist is fast dimin ishing, and people are coming to realize not only the importance of hypnotism itself to the human family, but the im portant part the hypnotist has performed in bringing the public to a correct un derstanding of tbe phenomena. One does not object to' being instructed on scientific subjects, even when out fur an evening's amusement, if it is done in the right way, and that is where Mr. McEwen towers head and shoulders above others in his line. He adminis ters the dose of knowledge each evening in such a sugar-coating of fun that the benefits are wrought without the ennui usually felt from lectures alone. THABF BEOS. MILL. Prepared to Crush Corn as Well as Barley. Tharp Bros, chop mill has been grind ing away on barley this week. The mill is new and the machinery the best that money can buy. The work it is doing is thoroughly satisfactory to the farmers a great number of whom have already taken advantage of the chance to have their barley crushed and rolled at the new mill. In addition to chopping barley, the mill is so equipped that corn and wheat can be mashed or ground for feeding purposes. This foresight on the part of the proprietors will be greatly appreciat ed by farmers who have raised corn, for by having it crushed the grain goes far ther, is easier handled and produces more satisfactory results. Bag Eat Bug. A case of bug eat bug is being tried at Milton, says the Pendleton Tribune. Judd Geer, of Cove, Union county, has just returned from Milton; where he turned loose a lot of Asiatic lady bugs in the nursery owned by E. Miller & PROSPECTS FOR Mr. J. N. Bickford, of Milton, was in the Hazftlwood Co., and is of the opinion in the way of dairy products With the practicability of corn as a crop, in the opinion of Mr. Bickford the farmer should at once interest himself in tho dairying "You are in the only corn belt on the you don't half appreciate the fact, or take With your natural resources the farmer make tbe expenses of the farm from cream. He would plant corn on a portion of bis fallow land each year and enniluge it would do the rest and bis bank account 1903. LUIMPLEtiB PENDLETON, ATHENA, CANTON and DUTCHMAN a car of Barb and Woven Wire Fencing. our prices before buying Son. These lady bugs will destroy the San Jose scale which is ravaging some of the orchards , of Eastern Oregon. Said Mr. Geer; "I find a greal deal of scale out here, otherwise the outlook is pretty bright. This proposition ot turn ing these bugs loose to destroy the San Jose scale is a rather new one. The bugs are imported from China and will );hrive only where there is scale. They destroy the scale and then die them selves.' The bugs which I took to Mil ton were brought from Southern Oregon and this is the first attempt which I have made in Eastern Oregon with them." ' Helen Norte Will Bace. rHelen Norte, the fastest 8-year-old trotter in the Pacific Northwest, in fact, the little beauty that holds the coast re cord will race in Walla Walla during the week of October 19-24. Judge Bients has entered bis fast stock in bojk pacing an 3 trotting harness eventsyand Helen Norte will certainly be on hand. It is worth a trip of several hundred miles to see this daughter of the Inland Empire trot in record time. In addition all the fast horses in this section of the country are booked to go in Walla Walla at this race meeting. Reduced rates have been granted on all lines to give eviry one an opportunity to attend this meet ing. For Coupling Tools. L. C. Preston, Weston's well known inventor, who is continually turning his mechanical gifts to advantage, has re cently patented another device. It is a joint coupler for connecting tools, and is particularly useful in preventing tbe loss of well tools, the sections being coupled by means ot a rachet lock. Tbe invention appeals at once to those in terested in well drilling, through the perfection of its design. Mr. Preston is arranging for its manufacture in Cali fornia. Weston Leader. X A Good Outfit- when A. L. Jones appears on the streets with bis new express truck he will have one of the bent outfits of the kind to be found anywhere. Last week in Pendleton he purchased a fine little team that suits him to a "t.'You must know that A. L. is fastidious when it comes to horse-flesh and a horse for him must be good. His truck is about ready and with new harness, Abe will soon be "delivering the goods." Hathorn-Barton. Mr. James Hathorn and Miss May Barton were united in marriage Sunday in the parlors of tbe Athena hotel, Rev J. W. Jenkins performing the ceremony. Mr. Hathorn is in the employ of John Bell and the young couple will reside on tbe Bell ranch south of town. DAIRYING HERE. town Tuesday. Mr. Bickford is with that this section has great possibilities assistance of alfalfa and the demonstrated part of the farming business. Pacific Coast," said Mr. Bickford, "and advantage of it, only in a small degree, of the Middle states would more than for hid dairy cows. Tho cream separator would grow accordingly." NUMBER 42 T HELIX. Gangs, Sulky and Walking Plows SUPERIOR DRILLS, BAIN and FISH WAGONS, BARB and WOVEN WIRE FENCING. J TO MOVE POSTOFflCE Location is Post Build ing, Main Street Postmaster Githens has made appli cation to the department tor permission to move the postofilce from its present location to the Post building. He gives as his reason the dilapidated condition ot the building in which the business of the office is now transacted. Truth of the matter is, a tent would be a creditable shelter, compared with the shack which contains Athena's post office and the business men, with one or two exceptions, favor moving the office to. the place selected by Mr. Githens, and have placed their signatures to a petition praying the postoffice depart ment to sanction the removal. In case the office is removed, Mr. Githens will occupy the building with the postoffice only, and the family will take up private residence. Bandits in Newberg. A gang of three men attempted ; to blow open the safe in the bank at New berg by exploding charges of dynamite at an early hour Monday morning. Tbe steel vaults held, however, and the robbers were forced to abandon their plans and flee without any booty. They left on horseback and started in the di rection of Portland. The citizens were terrorized for two hours. Some were kept covered by guns in the hands ot two of the bandits while others were allowed to go to their homes completely cowed. Armstrong Will Hang. Tbe supreme court has handed down its decision in tbe case of tbe State of Oregon vs. Pleasant Armstrong, charged with tbe murder f Mi.inie Ensminger in Baker county on Ust Christmas day, in which the verdict of the lower court was affirmed and Pleasant Armstrong must hang. This has been one of the most noted cases of Eastern Oregon courts. Armstrong on the 25th of last December shot and killed his sweetheart, Minnie Ensminger, as she was returning from a Christmas eve ball. A Hearst Paper. Negotiations are still in progress for the purchase of the Los Angeles Herald by William Randolph Hearst. It is un derstood that II, E. Huntington has re fused to take the paper over as the price asked is too high. Hearst is represent ed by D. II. Roberts, who says that when the paper is started there, Hearst will look into tho Portlrnd field for the purpose ot ascertaining whether a morn ing newspaper could be run at a profit in opposition to the Oregonian. .. Cabbage for Sauer Kraut I am prepared to deliver cabbage ia Athena. Leave orders at M.J. Barley's. F. A. Williams. Cop S fi
