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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1909)
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Six and Eight Pages Every Friday. F, B. Boyd, Publisher. Application for entrance as 2nd class matter made on July.5, 1907 at the postofflce at Athena, Oregon Under an Aotot Congress of March 8, 1879 v Subserl tlon Ratci l pir year, tn advance 12.00 Single copies in wrappers, 5c, tATHENA. ORE.. OCT. 29. . . . 1909 ; Press Paragraphs At the Bakery today, five-cent sand wiches. "The Matob Boy's Honesty," at the Dime tonight. County Supt. Welles was iu the ait; Tuesday night. Wm. Powers, of Weston, was in the city Wednesday between trains. 1 Miss Gladys Bayes was tip from St. r T .li. a a c j i-iLi tiuaepu o acuusuijr cuuuajr, vuuuug her sister, Mrs. Frank Berlin near town. Miss Ada Ely, who ie teaohing near LaCrosse Wash., was down Sunday on a short visit to her mother in Weston. 1 A change was made Saturday in f the meat market business, the Boddv shop being transferred to the Stone brothers. Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Tbarp and son and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tharp and daughters were Walla Walla visitors Sunday. A Mrs. Griswold, manager of the looal telepbone oflloe, and her assistant. Miss Alta Sharp, visited in PendJeton Sunday. . y. John King has been over from' Wes ton this week renovating his cottage on 4th street for the use of the family of Mr. West, v Mr. and Mrs. R H. Leonard were over from Walla Walla the first of the week, visiting at the Caton and Ban nister homes. over from Walla visiting ber farm Mrs. Bush was Walla last- week, west of town. Emery Parris will leave next Week to matrioulate with the Walla Walla Business college. Leon Kidder came down Sunday from Spokane, where he has been em ployed at painting. W. F. Matlock, who has been very seriously ill at his home in Pendleton, is reported improving. Mies Golda WiJlaby, in company with an- auto party, passed through from Walla Walla Sunday. Mrs. F. S. LeGrow returned Tues day from a week's visit with her mo ther and sister in Walla Walla. Miss Odessa Kirkpatriok of Weston was a guest Sunday of ; bar oousin, Mrs. K. A. Thompson in this city. Jerry Stone reoovered the lost over ooat advertised last week in the col um&s of the Press. Advertising paid in this instance at least. - KEENE'S 1 mJkJkJLJLAJLJkJkJkJkJLM. .Barber Shop. Shaving, Haircutting, Shampooing, Massage for Face - and Scalp. .HOT BATHS. Shop North Side Main Street, Athena, Ore. www Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Beeder and little daughter left yesterday for their home in Taooma, after a two weeks' visit with relatives here. A party of six Pendleton base ball fans passed through Tuesday in an auto, bound for Walla Walla to wit ness the big base ball game. Mr. Seals, an employe at the Pres ton -Parton mill, went over to Walla Walla Wednesday being called as a witness in a street oar aocident. Mrs. Jacob Creighton returned Fri day to her home at Guy, Wash., ac companied as far as Walla Walla by her mother, Mrs. A. J. Wagner. Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Taylor were in the city from Pendleton Sunday and Monday, visiting relatives. They bad just returned from a trip to Salem. The family of J. F. Brown arrived Saturday from Spokane and are now settled in their Athena home, their oarJoad of furniture having arrived Tuesday. Mrs. O. M. Gastleman was np the past wees trom Portland visiting relatives here and at Weston. At present she is visiting her mother in Walla Walla. THE I ST. NICHOLS HOTEL J. E. FROOME, prop. 1!f Only First-class Hotel in the City. w THE ST. NICHOLS Is the only one that can accommodate commercial travelers. Can beiecomended for Its clean and well ventilated rooms. f Cob. Maim ahd Thibd, atbkha, Or. Miss Effie Vandervein and Mrs. Oliver Dickenson are new pupils in Prof Guiott's musio class, ooming in from their home north of town on his lesson days here. XHenry Eoepke this week purobased ttnGallaber plaoe. The property ad joins bis own home plaoe on the north and is that on whiob the Athena res ervoir is situated. r Mrs. J, 0. Burke was very severely Y C j i l i y t.nuAM. uviueu uuuuu tuo nuuuiuoi iuuuuij morning while doing the family wash ing by aooidentally splashing scalding water from a boiler. Mr. and Mrs. Charles McLean ar rived home Wednesday from Milton where they spent the week. They have just returned from a summer's stay in Franklin county Wash. Wanted Energetio young man to aot as resident salesman for us in Athena, on a commission basis. Good money in this for a live man. Ad dress Page & Son, Portland, Oregon. Claude ' O. Leete, of Davenport, Wash., is a guest this week at the home of his uncle,' Harvey Caton. Mr. Leete is on his way home from Pitts burg, Pa., where he attendod the great national convention of the Christian ohuroh. Mrs. E. H. Stone was down from her present home in Thornton, Wash., last week, visiting relatives in this vioinity. She was acoompanied from Walla Walla by ber sisters, Mrs. M. Woodward of that city, and Mrs. Hobart, of Silverton, Oregon. LMr. and Mrs. Byron N. Hawks and jvir. ana iurs. . m. xaggart drove to Milton Tuesday morning, taking the interurban into Walla Walla, where they witnessed the exhibition ball game between the famous Pniladel phia Nationals and the All Star ag gregation. The Epworth League is making some needed improvements at the Methodist ohuroh. The new Meth odist Hymnal has been installed and booK racks are being fixed to the back October 4th to 9th is Fair week at Walla Walla Make Davis-Kaser's Your Headquarters Here We want fair week to be "Visiting Week" at our store. We want to have the pleasure of visiting'witb yon and help macyonr stay in Walla Walla the most pleasant one yon ever bad. We want yon to make our store your headquarters use our phones use our "Best Rooms" meet your friends here and make yourself perfeotly at home at our store. We are proudj to asy that we nave the largest and best seleoted stock of home furnishings In Walla Walla Valley and hope to have the pleasure of show ing you'througb our store. We have made a "Best Room" of our bootn'at the fair for your comfort. Thursday October ?tb, being " Walla Y.'alla" day, our store will be closed all day. ; , The Davis-Kaser Company Dealers'in Paints, Builders' Hardware, Sewing Machines Complete Home & House Furnishers Walla Walla, Wash (The home ofreater Why: nvi) Branch Store at Pasco. Wash- of the seats. The envelope system of providing for the pastor's salary has been adopted and envelope holders plaoed on the seat baoks. An' extra radiator has been plaoed in the League room, providing for the comfort of those attending League and prayer meeting. Mr. and Mrs. M. Sanders, of Boone field, Iowa, are guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hlteman in this oity. Mr. Sanders is a oousin of Mrs. Hiteman, and the two families had not met in 81 years. Mrs. Shelton, of Walla Walla, also a oousin, is a mem ber of the party. Beeson Bros. Big Unole Tom's Cabin Co. will entertain the theatre going publio at the opera house to night. They carry twenty-five people, band and orohestra all special scenery .for a grand production of the old drama that never will wear out A show that amuses and teaches a lesson of morality. . The Little Salmon river hunters re turned Tuesday, having enoountered no big game. Members of the party report a very wet trip, while advices from the Grand Bonde aggregation say that it is extremely "dry" in their neighborhood. It is hard to rec oncile the two stories, and yet the distance between the camps may ao oonnt for the dieorepauoy. Miss Mattie Caton, who was taken with a severe attack 'of appendioitis Friday, is reported rnuoh improved, and an operation willjnot be neoessary at present. The family oame in Sun day from their farm to the town res idence, where medioal attention oould be had. The young lady's condition is quite satisfactory to her attending pbysioian, Dr. Sharp, at present. Tuesday night residents of the north east part of the oity were reminded of pioneer days, when the mournf nl howl of the ooyote was often heard in the "stilly night." Somewhere out in the moonlit fields to the northward the old familiar tones oame in short, staooato notes, followed by long, dole ful wails that sounded like a dozon animals in chorus, and was probably one lone ooyote. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Walker of Ta ooma are in the oity, visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Barrett. Mrs. Walker is a sister of Mrs. Bar rett. Mr. and Mrs. Walker are re turning from a sojourn of several months in Philadelphia, and stopped at Elgin, Wallowa county, being ac companied from there by Mrs. Martha Mays. She will spend the winter with her daughter in Taooma . Election Monday. Next Monday, November 1, is tbe day set on which the voters of District No. 29 will meet for tbe eleotion of a new mem ber of the board of dieotors, to fill out tbe unexpired term of Mr. Stone, resigned. The meeting will be held in tbe sohool building Monday afternoon at 4 p. m. Two Brothers in Accident. Dick Stewart, while riding an un broken colt, was thrown at the Mos grove plaoe above Milton Saturday and severely hurt. The young man was thrown into a barbwire fenoe. Jimmy Stewart bis brother and well known here, hitched up bis team and started to town for assistance, when in some manner his team beoame en tangled and he also was mixed up in an aooident, though escaping uninjur ed. One of the horses was injured. New Dentist for Athena. That Athena is soon to have a resident dentist is now an assured faot. A prominent dentist from Port land has been in correspondence with Athena business men, and has deoided that this is the best plaoe in tbe state in whiob to looate for the praotioe of his professionThe exaot date of his arrival was not learned, but the time will be soon and ail contemplating going away to have dental work done will do well to await his arrival. Umatilla Horses In Demand VW. D. Roberts, the well known Spokane borsebnyer, was again in this vioinity, gathering np a carload of draft horses this week.- He took out a carload of big animals a few days ago and was so euooessf ul in dis posing of them that be oame baok to repeat the performance. He says this will probably be bis last trip this fall, however,' as tbe apparent good de mand has caused tbe horse owners to raise their prices so high that the animals cannot be bandied profitably by the middlemen. Settles Road Fuss. A long standing controversy with re gard to road affairs has been settled by the county court at Pendleton whiob has agitated one of the road sections of northern Umatilla county. For seven years residents -of the east side of the Tnmalum river have been trying to get tbe road through tbe MoCoy property. Reoently tbe court ordered the road opeaed and the dam ages were assessed at $300. From this tbe McCoys appealed and tbe amount has been increased to $1350 and the costs, $200, assessed to tbe petitioners. Salaries Too Low. Salaries of sohool teachers in Walla Walla county are too low to atttraot teachers from outside the county, ac cording to Mrs. Josephine Preston, countv superintendent, who returned last week from Seattle, where she had gone to secure teaobers for country schools. Mrs. Preston said that a number of teaobers looking for positions refused to leave tbe oity when told tbat the salary offered by tbe country districts was $60 a month In some oases directors have offered even lower wages than this, but have been unable to fill the positions. O. B. Steward MGneon J, F. Brown as eprtmeirt Store New Dress Patterns New Silk Waist Patterns New Arrivals of Furs See . our new novelties and trimmings. Lace Jabots and etc. o411 wooll Blankets, Comforters, Ladies Knitted wool Scarfs, Mufflers, etc. e Line of Men's Furnishings See Our v Complet lens Auto t ' v.- 1 1 Overcoats EW1ED & BEOWI ST OPENS 71 1 CLOSE 6 P. M. EXCEPT SAT . ... ...n, URDAY I? Mercantile I osgrove Athena Company Oregon We are now showing the largest and most up-to- date stock of general Merchandise and ladies and gen- tlemens ready-to-wear goods ever shown in cAthena. Dress Goods Department . We have doubled the stock in this department and we have doubled the trade this fall. The reason why, we are selling new t shadow stripes all colors for 50c per yard while else where you pay 75c for the same grade. Mens Suits and Overcoats. There's a lot of talk go ing around loose just at this time concerning the merit of clothes, but it is the store back of the goods that counts. We have better goods than ever t before. Better workmanship, better styles, and our showing is unusually complete. We We are selling extra fine Sula shadow stripes at 60c. Elsewhere you pay" guarantee the prices lower 75c for same goods. We are selling High Grade all wool Imported suiting for $1 per yard, sold elsewhere for $1.50. than either Walla Walla or Pendleton. We are de termined to keep the trade home. Compare our prices is all we ask. Ladies Tailored suits the very latest styles and colors, from $16.50 to $32.50. Ladies, Misses and child- rens Cloaks, all new goods, and at prices lower than any of the large cities. We are sole agents for the celebrated Muncing underwear. Ladies, children and men's The most reliable goods that money can buy. Just received a large ship ment of jet trimmings, buck les, pins and Neckwear. Just received the largest consignment of High Grade Knit Goods ever shipped to this town. Ladies', Misses, Children's and Men's Sweaters, Scarfs, Gloves etc. dir ect from the factory which enables us to sell for about what others paid for them.
