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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1908)
7 Press Paragraphs! 7- Miss Ellen Booth visited in Pendlei j too Wednesday. S. P. Wilson bad business in Pea I dioiou Wednesday. Mrs. Henry Stamper was over 110m v Weston Tuesday.'"'" Mrs. Sam BoobeiK'WbS a'Tendleton f Visitor Wednesday. I Mrs. Fruukie LaBrasobe returned to 1 Jt'ouaietou yesterday. ; Dr. J. D. Flamoudou was u Pendle ton visitor WednesdayM'' ' Wis. iiisie i'aiidy, of -Adatnsi was , iu the city Wednesday. v Mis. ; Minnie Walker,' lot Westoa.- wua iu town Wednesday; - ' ' r tank Kwaggart' drove- down -to bis i' Biruh creek taucii veaterdav. ' " ? Pendleton tbe Hint of the week. ' t ;. i (J. A. Barrett attended tbe good J loads tally iu Pondletou yesterday. MisB Feiol McBride will visit her grandparents at Weston tomorrow. " I C. II. ' Whitemau'oame over from . Walla Walla yesterday on business. Mi. and Mrs. C. F. BulQuob,: of ' Weston traded in Athena 'Wednesday. A Mra. Sum ftnnhfli and Mra Mn. K .:ph$eu were Pendleton visitors' yester day.. ' Harry Tomer was over from Wes iton Tuesday having bosiness in onr oity." i Dr. and Mrs. Heisley returned Wed-' ,nesday morning from a visit to Walla ' Walla. r ' Mrs. Matt Mosgrove was in the oity Wednesday from - Milton, 'visiting '.friends.' '. " J - Mr. and Mrs. Barker will soon more with their family to Bermiston ' to reside. ' Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Willaby were 'Walla Walla visitors Saturday "and ! Mrs. J. T. King and Mrs. Tim Mo Bride, of Weston, were in the city Mr. aud Mrs. John Harris of Wes ton visited at the Mansfield home Wednesday. rf J. F. Kershaw ia assisting at tbe O. R. & N. depot in the absence of Agent E. M. Smith. ' ' Lon BooherOf ' Lexington", Morrow oonuty, visited here the past week with bis brothers. i Mrs.1 Wm, Piper and Miss Qeorgie Qansell were in from tbe farms shop iping yesterday. ' Miss Ethel Brady was over from Baker City this week, visiting friends' in this vioinity. -L Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Kirk were in the city from Weston Tuesday, trading with onr merohauts. ) Get yonr roasted chickens and docks at Millers' Bakery. Pot yonr orders in early. Phone M. 125. i Mrs. Dick Gerberding of Weston, was a guest "of her' daughter;- Mrs. Tidtfir O'Harra WnrinAfldaV. 1 Mrs. Lela Hardeu, daughter -of "James Huggens, has been visiting here the past week from Spokane. , For sale, a young mare, 4 years bid, and two yearling "colts."" Enquire" 6f Mis. Henry Wright, Athena. . Clarence Wrigbt is down on a ' visit i to relatives, from Alberta, where he thas been for some months past. ' ' The ' infant daughter of Mr.1 and Mrs. I. M. Kemp' has been sick the 'past week at their home In Weston. 1' Miss 'Grace' Githeus arrived home Monday evening from an extended ; visit with her sister at Bandon, Oreg. ; Mrs. C. A. Barrett 'went over to j Walla Walla Sunday evening, where J she was' the guest of Mrs. John Adams. r Misses Eva Wright aud Minnie Tbarp 'went over to Walla Walla Sat- urday and saw the play, "The Holy City."- Just A- There probably isnVa reader of this newspaper wbo will not want to buy some house furnishing article or other between now and tbe holidays. So, 'tis quite proper for a store tbat feels quite sure it is better able to serve you than any other to have a word with you at about this time. As things go in Walla Walla (and they certainly go to snit us) tbe DAVIS-KASER store has made probably tbe greatest success of all stores here. At least; we have tried bard and earnestly to do everything in the world tha would ordinarily biing suooess to a store. Tbe rapid almost pbenomioal increase in our tusiness wond indi cate tbat We are at least pleasing a great majority of tbe buying publio; and, for this we feel bigbly gratified and thankful: Onr customers always come tbe aeoond, and tbe third time, and this of course, is tbe basis of onr f uooessV ' " We want to, therefore, talk to those wbo have not tried trading here as yet We want to say to yon, TRY.- If we do not make yonr trading both pleasant and profitable we incur a great bosiness risk. At least, tbat is tbe way we figure it, for to have a disappointed customer is about tbe worst thing that can happen to a store. Yen can rest assured, there fore, that you will like your trading here when you try. All DAVIS KASER patrons are more than satisfied they are pleased. Tbeie will fiom now till tbe holidays be a whole lot of valuable, sen sible store news from here. It will be Dews that thrifty and thinking housewives will appreciate and profit by. We will make it as interesting as possible.1 We'll be right glad and so will you if yon accept Ibis in vitation'to become a DAVIS-KASER Customer. . The Davis-Kaser Company Complete Home & House Furnishers WalfcrWaila, Wash. .... Pasco, Wash. Miss Stella Jackson was in Echo this week in the interests of the Jones & Jackson ' millinery store at that plaos. i' ( 'Good 6-rooin bouse lor rent ; batb, pantry!; etc. Inquire of Miss Eva Wiignt, at tbe Athena Mercantile Co 'a. store. Mrs. Will Miller left Wednesday to' attend tbe wedding of her niece, Miss Bessie Miller,' wbicb ooourred in Union yesterday. " Mrs. H. Parkens, of Palonse city was a guest of relatives here this week. Mrs. ' Parkens is a rieioe of tbe Bootier brother' rt - Mrs. A: Kinnear and Miss Minnie Kionear, of Weston, and Mr; James Lalaod; of Walla Walla, wefe in tbe city yesterday. L , Zeph Lockwood Jr.' arrived Satnr-, day trom roruuna to join nis wiie here.- -Tbey will remain gnestsKf rel-1 'atives for some time;i "'-- r:' ' ' Mrs. Chailoy King; who DCW resides at Heimistou, was iu the oity Tuesday, having come over from Weston where ebe visited her parents. Marriage lioenses were , issued this week to Wm. Graveoauoh and Mabel Kequist, and Lovi Beeder and Minnie Champion, all ot this county. Misses Lizzie and Laura Mclntyre were ovoi from Weston Snnday, and were accompanied borne by their little nephew, Master Donald Johnson. Jerry Stone is having a full length veranda and porches added to bis resi dence on 3rd and Adams streets, which will greatly add to its appearance. Born, Ootober, 13 1903 to Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Harden near Helix, an 8 pound boy. All are reported to be doing nioely, especially tbe father. r Hill cleans one aud eight day clocks fdr "1.00, alarm, 50o. Genuine make ana best made main spring, any grade watolv?1.00. Guaranteed one year. Those wbo are indebted to us will please " call and settle before Monday, the 26. ''After - which tills will be oolleoted through Atty- Wilson. Drs. Heisley." " - '" Mrs. C- E. MoAvoy and Mrs. Shel ton, of Walla Walla, cousins of Mra J, . H. Hiteman are visiting at the homes of Mis. Hiteman and Mrs. Henry Doll. Born, October 20, 1908, to Mr. and Mrs. Otba A. Beeder, an 8 1-2 pound girl. Marshal Gholson is kept more busy than usual ' now with his added dutiee as granddad. Mrs. Lillie Miller announoes another new shipment of pattern hats. Mis. Miller's millinery is arriving weekly, and so there is always something new from which to choose. -Mr. Lamb, - who left here Sunday was a resident with bli family of tbe reoently flooded oity of Shawnee, Okla homa. Mr. Lamb worked in toe ware houses here this summer. Weston Leader: ! Mrs. Henry Pink ertoo ' received a telephone message Tuesday announcing the birth of a little daughter to Mr. and Mis. Walter Ely at Boise City, Idaho. . House for rent, having 7 rooms and bath, pantry etc. ' Rents for $10 per month. Refer to Dr. Heisley, or Mrs. J. W. Smith. Also Dr. Heisley has S cords of wood and coal for sale. Mis. Attbnr Coppook has returned to her home near town, having spent a greater part of last week at her par ents' home, here with her sick baby. He. has recovered from his illness.'" Kodol is a combination of the nat ural digestive juices and it digests all classes of food and every kind of food, s6 you see it will do tbe work that the stomach itself does. - Sold by Palace Drug Co. Miss Lottie Lamb and Fred L. Com stook both of Weston were united in marriage by tbe Rev. S. G. Fisber of tbe Central Christian church in Walla Walla Wednesday evening at 6 o'clook. Elmer Connick has rented the Geo. Foster residence iu the north part of town and with his family will soon oooupy the same. ' Mr. Connick has leased a body of fruit laud at Free- water for tbe term of one year, and will take possession in tbe early spring, mcving to tbat place. Talk. Miss Lois Powell and Claude Still, students at the Normal, and Professor J. E. Keefe, principal of the Weston publio school, were guests of Miss Ceoile Boyd at her borne here Sunday. Mrs. Gibson, sister to Miss Stella Jackson who has been visiting here for several weeks, left tbo first of the week for her home in La Salle, 111. She waa accompanied to Pendleton by ber mother. --. Bepoits from tbe Blue Mountain sawmill, 16 miles east of Athena, are to tbe effect that there is now a full foot of stuw. coveiiug the ground iu that vioinity. - This is unusual at this lime of the yoar - - das. Cameron, an employe at tbe St l rftebols hotel, acoidently swallowed a t rj j 1 1. a jjiuiu seeu vxeuuesaay wuiou uuuseu him such safleiing that be was obliged to go to Pendleton yesterday to see a pbysiciaa for relief. " Mrs." Q. W. B. Zerba and Mrs. A. J. Walker; accompanied by Master Theo dore Zerba will leave Sunday for ;a visit with friends and relatives. Mrs. Zerba goes to Albion, Wash., and Mrs. Walker to Huntsville. The Woodman of the World will give a grand blowout on Wednesday evening.'Hov: 4r to wbich'their fam ilies and members- of the Citole will be invited. All are expecting an eve ning of unaenal interest V. An auto party consistinp of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tbarp, Misses-Edith and Blanob Orswell and Mibs Lula Tbarp wont over to Walla Walla where they witnessed tbe production of "The Holy City" Saturday night. Hartalud ( Minn. ) Hetald : Hollo T. Brown and family have decided to remain in Cedar Rapids tbia winter Mr. Brown having been plaoed in charge of tbe mens' furnishings de partment of one of the big stores there. Xpoug Flynn left tbe first of the week for the stook ranch on John Day. Mr. Flynn was one of the two to take .first prize in tbe broncho busting contest at tbe Walla Walla county races last week ' Mr. Flynn carried away $50 for bis prowess in riding. r . , Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Wagner 'left Monday for tbe east, where they will visit for the coming six weeks or there about. Mr, and Mrs. Wagner will stop first at Bellrille, Kan., then go to Oskaloosa, Iowa.- Returning they will stop in Montana for a visit with a brother of Mrs. Wagner. Mrs. Ernest Koepke and little daugh ter arrived Wednesday morning from Walla Walla and were met here by Mr. Koopke who took them to their new home, the fine farm west of town reoently purobased fiom C. H. White man of Walla Walla. Mrs. Koepke's little girl has lecently iecovered from a dangerous illness. Geo. Robbing, circulation manager for the East Oregonian, was in tbe oity this week interesting tbe boys and girls in tbe East Orcgonian-Journal pony contest now in full swing. The ohildren entering tbe contest iu Athena are as follows: Leo Judy, Rex Payne, Alice Gaines, Odesa Russell and Leslie Snyder, i V A report oomes here of the burning 'nf tha hnrna nt Mr anil Mra T-I H Curtis, on their farm near Pullman Wash. The bouse had reoently been ereoted at a cost of $2000 dollars, and insurance was held to the amount or $600. 1 Tbe fire .was disoovred in the early morning wbon the family were at breakfast. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Wilbur of Union were visiting in tLc city at the home of Mi. and Mrs. T. J. Kirk Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs. Wilbur is a niece of Mr. Kirk, and Mr. Wilbnr is tbe prospective manager of tbe recon structed Pendleton Wcolen Mills, soon to be opened in that city by a new oompany. Edward and Erven White left Wed nesday for Seattle, after a ccnple of weeks vacation witb their pa ranis here. Tbe boys will letmn to their respective vocations of moterman and conduotor on tbe city car lines. They were ' aooompanied as far as Walla Walla by their mother, Mrs. B. D. Clemons. - Clanence E, Eddy, representative of the Oregon Journal, and San Franoisco Examiner, was in tbe city for a conple of days this week. Mr. Eddy is a journalist and magazine writer of note,' articles from bis pen appearing from time to time in tbe magazine sections of various papers. A vivid word picture from his pen of the fa mous Death Valley mines was pub lisbed in last Sunday's edition of tbe Journal. Tuesday evening, after moving sev eral loads of household goods to Wes ton, Mrs. D. B. Jar man left a bedquilt hanging on the line and went away for an hour. Upon returning, the quilt was found to be gone and no traces left. : Mis. Jaiman regtets tbe loss of the covering more from feelings of sentiment on aocount of associations, than for its intrinsic value. Such petty miscreants deserve tbe very limit should they be caught at their pilfer ings. ' Joe Scof t has a ben out at his farm which for a vioious temper will out shine any "old hen" we have beard of lately. There was a pet cat in the household, one that was a particular favorite for having been tbe last of a family of kittens, each of wbicb with tbe mother cat, badmetatragiodeatb. Mrs. Scott had given tbe oat a choioe morsel, and bearing a fracas in tbe back yard, ran to ascertain the trouble. Tbe lady found tbe cat in its expiriug turoes, witb tba ben fluttering about. On examination it was found tbat she had given one vioious peck just in tbe edge of the cat's eye, leaving a bole as clean as a bullet wound, killing tbe pussy' instantly. The ben's fury was strange from tbe faot that she had uo brood of chickens to protect. j jp to to ALL THE GO. i 'VIKIWC SYSTEM" CLOTHING For; Boys and Young Men We plain I armans jlos Just received a large shipment of the latest im ported and domestic Fall dress goods and suitings, in all the new weaves and coloring. It will pay you to give them your careful inspection before making your fall selections. Mosgrove Mercantile Co. Athena, Or B. & H. Trading-Stamps Given; with Cash Purchases HEW & UP-TO-DATE Can be had by asking for the "Miller-made" at Jarman's. They are made in the latest models and are just whatithey should be in every detail and finish. ; Prices from $7.00; to $20.00 L Flannel Vests. They are & COME IN AND SEE THEM have them in both and fancy patterns rices from The Place Where the Whole Family mm grove Mercantile Go To Ladies Who Appreciate High Grade in Merchandise : ft wV'king System Store Can Trade Mice H