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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1903)
ATIIENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 30, 1903. NUMBER 43 Just Received. ATHENA MERCANTILE COMPANY: Oar assortment is now complete everything pertaining to Comfort and Style. in . Dress for either man or woman. We handle the test Merchandise money can produce, our prices are the lowest possible. Satisfaction or money returned. Trimings 1 i I New line of Lace Curtains Not ingham Lace Curtains in all the latest designes from 60 cti per pair to $2.50. i Renaissance or Tambord Mecklin Net Curtains from $3.75 to $6.75 per pair. All the latest novelties in Band Trimings, m either black or Cream Tassell fringes and drop ornaments. Also Irish point and Chantella Laces in all the standard widths. PENDLETON, ATHENA, HELIX. VOLUME XV. e UMATILLA IMPLEMENT Cloaks.' We have a large and well selected stock of all the latest styles. We can please 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 $12.60 each, go at ; $3.75 Many odd lots of Children's Cloaks v at Half Price ; Big lot of Ladies' Capes, sold last season at,$5.50, $6.50 and $J7.:50 goat, I $1.95, $2.95, $3.95 Dress:GoodSi r 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 ftoc per yard. All wool Serges and Chefiots, 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 Suitines. 5i 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 ' t- if you cannot find it anywhere else, come to us. Men's Clothing; About 50 odd suits; first class styl ish suite, 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 suit 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 i 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. , 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. It you once try a pair you will wear no oiner. Utz & Dunn's No. 14902 in all Widths is a firm morli'nm nraiolif lriii shoe, latest style kid uppers, patent leaiuer up, price, per pair $2.50 Utz & Dunn's No. 14903 in all wiatns, same quality, with heavy ex tension sole, price $2.75 Utz & Dunn's No. 2650 in all widths is an extra heavy kid upper, patent learner tip, Uoodyear welt, meaium neavy sole, price $3.00 Utz A Dunn's liOin in oil nritV extra heavy kid uppers, Goodyear wen, uauvy extension BOie, patent learner up, price $3.25 Utz & Dunn's No. 1905 is a foot- form last walking shoe, patent Har vard tips and manish heel a model waiKmg snoe price $3.50 Utz & Dunn's No. 14909 in all widtns, is an extra fine kid upper, p"atentleather tipped, hand turned dress shoe, equin -if . not betterin quality and style than any $4.40 shoe un ine mantel, price ' . ' : $3.50 The above is only a sample of our stock. If you have not had our O;tober Price List, procure one at once. ,',ljB3f rine Groceries In any line we can suit you. Prices at the lowest ebb. We are after your trade aiid will get it if fair treatment and LQWfST POSSIBLE PRICES will serve as an inducement to get it. Once We've Got !pii, IN STAPLE GROCERIES our goods are Standard, Brands.'", By this we mean that they are the kind recognized and sold in the best stores in the country. IN FANCY GROCERIES we are caterers to the most fastidious wants and can supply you wjtfr , 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. TIE DELL BEOTIEES South Side Main Street, Athena, Oregon. CARNIVAL DECORATION" Smooth Jay Gets Next to Athena Money . "Carnival decoration," is what he called it. He was a smooth individual, and wrapped his smoothness up in a flag proposition at from fifty cents to one dollar per wrap, and when he left he took several good Athena dollars with him. Colfax and other places had "dec orated" when the show came to town, and Athena could just as well "deco rate" as not. So thought the spejler and so thought a sufficient number of business men, who attached their sig natures to a subscription paper, at so much per. Show day showed up; "decorations" ditto. Along Main street from side to side was stretched binding twine from which was suspended flags of all na tions, made from calico and cheese cloth that had "the limp, bedraggled appear ance of having been through the wash tub several times of having seen better days. The layout had more the aspect of the back yard of a Chineso laundry than a decorated street, and the men who had put up for it were joshed until they were "sore." When night cast her sable mantle athwart the town and the asthmatic organ on the "ocean wave" wheezed out its refrain to the accompaniment of a lobster-headed spoiler's accents in front of the "big" tent, "Doc" Osburn, Billy Gholson or some other miscreant, cut down the decorations and secreted them from the sight of man forever more. Whether the removal of the decora tions was done at the instigation of the men who had put up for them or wbeth- I er it was done for the mere purpose of i relieving the situation and giving rubber necks a rest, is not known. Suffice it to say, that the rags were taken down and Athena's main thoroughfare restored to its normal condition. Owing to lack of space, the Fuess is compelled to omit publication this week of the names appearing on the "deco ration" subscription list. They may appear next week. Lots Scarce in Athena- Frank'King was in town the other day from his ranch near Helix, in quest of a lot on which to build a dwelling. He found suitable lots to be scarce, and from information furnished the Pbess by real estate agent Hayes, King went to Weston where he purchased a lot ard will build. Hayes, like many others, would like to see an addition to Athena thrown open. Milton Froii Shipments. The fruit output of the Milton and Freewater district this year aggregates 3,035,000 pounds, at a valuation of $39, 100. This is far in advance of last year. The figures do not include the crop of CANTON and DUTCHMAN Gangs, Sulky and Walking Plows I ;i or . i .... i 1 W J B tl ti. 1 A f J. f - -a SUPERIOR DRILLS, BAIN and FISH WAGONS, BARB and WOVEN WIRE FENCING. 1 4 V.Tf Kfe have just received a car of Barb and Woven Wire Fencing. Set cur prices before buying e ilJmatilla Srripisrnsnt Co. I strawberries, which was exceptionally heavy. There ia no way of getting the true value of the strawberry crop, as this fruit is disposed of in small lots, ex pressed out and otherwise disposed of. The value of the crop however would be several thousand dollars, which would swell the total value of fruit produced by the district to considerably over $40,000. Halloween Social. The Epworth League will give a Halloween social at the opera house tomorrow evening. An admission of ten cents will be charged at the door and an order supper will be served from 6 p. m. on during the evening. Spooks, goblins and witches will be en evidence. A feature is the introduction of Hallow een games. Toe proceeds of the social will go to the church building fund. The league is making special efforts to make the evening a success, and a large attendance is anticipated. FOB GOOD ROADS IK OREGON. Association Closes Two Says' Session at Portland. The Oregon Good Roads association closed its two days' session. Papers were read by Samuel Hill, president o the Good Roads association of Washing ton, on "Cost of Transportation on Good Roads." United States Senator An keny of Washington, said in brief: "Good roads should be located where they are to stay forever, regardless of whose stubblefields they pass through. Take stubblefields and pay a fair value, but place the road where it should be." "The Relation of Good Roads to the Development of Our Resources" was the subject of James B. Meikle, secretary of the Seattle chamber of commerce. Oth er addresses were made by Prof. E. II. McAllister of the University of Oregon and Dr. James Withycombe of the Ore gon Agricultural college. At the elec tion of officers Judge J. H. Scott was elected president and Judge Trenchard treasurer. The office of secretary was left for the executive board to fill. After adopting a resolution favoring the use of convicts and the expenditure of state and national money in the building of roads, the association adjourned to meet next year at Salem. Big Cattle Round-Up. Weston cattlemen, says the Leader, are preparing for their general round up on the Umatilla river which begins November 1st. AH persons having stray cattle in the mountains should be on hand and look after their stock. Be tween seven and eight hundred head will be collected at this round-up.. The early fall rains made good grass and stock is in excellent condition. Many of the beeves are rolling fat and in fine shape for the block. There is not much disposition to turn off beeves this fall however, on account of unsatisfac tory prices. Most of them are already provided with winter pasture in the stubble fields. ' Looking for Fleenor. A Joseph dispatch says "the officers are looking for Guy Fleenor, whose pa rents reside here, and Charles Ohaltin, who resides at Summerville. They are wanted on a charge of highway robbery, Dan Campbell was held up in an alley by three men early Monday morning. On the following morning George Lew ell was arrested. He said the other two men were implicated in the deed. He was released." , Guy Fleenor is a son of Dr. J. G. Fjeenor, who moved from Weston to Joseph some three years ago. He bocame locally known as an amateur athlete and was quite popular here, where lux acquaintances are loth to be lieve him capable of the crime charged. Weston Leader. t X LaFaveBrooks. John, J, LaFave and Miss Inez P. Brooks were united in marriage in Pen dleton Monday. Both are well known near Athena, where they have lived for several years. The groom is the step son of Frank Martin, one of the largest farmers on the reservation. o.iy, m-u t;;.i. -j Dan .May, the contractor, and bis force of men completed the brick work on the new Methodist church Tuesday, and went back to Pendleton. Carpen ters, now that the masonry work is com pleted, will rush their part of the work through. ... Dime Social. i The Christian Endeavor society will give a dime social in the Christian church on Friday evening, November 6th. An appropriate program will be rendered and refreshments served. Tha Great McEwen. , The great McEwen, magician and hypnotist, appeared before a fair sized audience at the Athena opera house Monday evening. His work was very clever and of a high standard. Goes to Portland ' -Dr. William House, of Weston has ac cepted a position as associate medical director of the Mt. Tabor Nervous San itarium, situated in a suburb of Portland. The City Takes Action. Friday evening the city council met in special session to take action regarding the situation involved by the action of the (). R. k N. Co., declaring the vacation of Garfield street and a portion of Fourth, Fifth and Sixth streets. The mayor and the councilmen were unanimous in favor of action being taken to have these streets opened, and accordingly the committee on streets and public improvement was by motion instructed to secure legal advice in the matter. The question of opening the streets has been unsettled for some time. The city authorities had waited on the railroad company for its decision and Anally it came. It was in the form of an announcement that the company would not open up the streets and that if the city did it would have to do it legally. Judge Balleray has been retained to look after the city's interests and ufter investigation will advise as to the manner iu which the city may best obtain title to the streets in question. TOMPSON IS IWDICTED. Said to Have Solicited Money for Influence ! The United States grand jury has re turned an , indictment against Asa B. Thompson, receiver of the land office at La Grande. The indictment charges Thompson with soliciting money to in fluence his official decision for approval of homestead applications which had been held up for insufficiency of proof. i There are three counts in the indict ment and among the witnesses asrainst Thompson is Charles Cunningham, a well known stockman of eastern Oregon and Glen Baling of this city. It is al leged that Thompson approached Cun ningham and offered to have ten home stead applications approved in consider ation of 9500. The other counts concern the alleged dealings with Asa Raymond, to whom he is alleged to have offered his services for $50 in the case of each ap plication. I The interior department has had agents in this state for many months past investigating alleged frauds in the entry of public lands, and the indict ment of Thompson is the first result of that investigation. Rumors of gigantic frauds against the publio land laws have been in circulation for the past yoar, and it has been stated that the fraud ulent entries in the states of California, Oregon and Washington are said to be included in the fraudulent entries. It is understood that other indictments will follow. j Thompson has been suspendod by order of Secretary Hitchcock. "There will be others," he said, "whenever similar circumstances are discovered in connection with them." ' " . ) Taming Stubble Tinder. : There promises to be a considerable amount of stubble land plowed in this vicinity for the purpose of seeding wheat this fall. Each year there is more or less of this class of farming done, but ibis year the practice is more noticeable. To Light M. . Church. C. E. Troutman, the architect who drew the plans from which the new M. E. church is being built, was up from Pendleton in company with Geo. Maple, who came to make estimates for wirinir and lighting the building. Ia Eeceiver's Hands. The Red Boy Consolidated Mines Co. in Baker county is in financial difficulty and John Thomsen has been appointed receiver. Red Boy stock ia held in con- iderable amounts by Umatilla county people. Helix on the Boom. Helix is on the boom. Already the town has two butcher shoos and tha firm of Richards. Bott & JobnHon will start a third. A cold storage plant is in order.