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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1910)
ress Paragraphs le Roby was io Pendleton Tues- dr. and Mrs. Alex MoKay are at 1 Lake. as Ida Banister visited friends at ; 1 1 on, Saturday. . ." Mrs. Wm. Winship has been on the sick list this week. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Taylor were Pendle ton visitors Friday.' Grandma Shiok who has been ser iously ill, is improving. George Gerking transacted business in Pendleton Wednesday. Agent Smith of the O. K. and N. was in Walla Walla, Monday. X Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Jarman were in the city Sunday from Weston. Attorney Peterson was up from Pen- ' dlflton WflfitlflHrinv nn IpcthI hnoinooa h Mr. and Mrs. Cbaa. McLean visited I) with friends in Walla Walla this ' week. . ; . . Miss Velma Wilkenson visited with diss Carrie Sharp in Pendleton. Sat urday. p( The Dell boys have an exceptionally Bne assortment of oranges and apples this week. : Mrs. B. D. demons bus been visit ing ner daughter, Mrs. Ed Kidder, near Pendleton. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Gerking have returned home from their visit to relatives at Taooma. Mrs. Henry Wood has been in Pen dleton this week attending her dangb ter, Mrs. John Stanton. - For sale or trade a onmnWo stpom statiojery threshing outfit. Inquire of Jas. Bryan, Athena Oregon. n Miss Lizzie Sheard has entered rOleavers' Business oollege this week to take the commercial oourse. Mrs. fietts and two little sons spent yesterday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Grabill, in the country. Mrs.' Madison Galivan," sister-in-law of Mrs. S. 0. Stanton, died at her home in Soio, Ore., Jannary 28. Y Arobie, 'the oldest son of V. M. Shiok is in the city from Stevens county, Wash., visiting relatives. For rent a four room cottage on the West side. Apply to Miss Wright, cashier at Mosgrove Mercantile Go's. Mr. and Mrs. Ken worthy of Walla Walla have been gnests this week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Weir. Mrs. Miller of Walla Walla and Mrs. Beneiield of Weston, were enter- .ta.ined at theWortbingtoa tome Tnes- 3ay. : , G. T. Smith went down to Hood Uer this ' week.' His sou-in-law, Elmer Craft, is ill in a hospital at . that plaoe. Y L. A. Gitbens Has a oanine prize in two Bne English Setter puppies. They are standard bred and come from Canada. V Miss jBeveily, one of the teachers' 'in the Athena publiq sohool, is taking we teauuers, exumiuatiuu ai renaie ton, this week. Mrs. M, L. Watts went over to Walla Walla, where she will remain until Monday, the guest of ber sister, Mrs. D. H. Preston. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Wilbur have returned to their noma in Union. They were accompanied as far as Pendleton by Mrs. J. A. Kirk. X Mrs. Byron Hawks entertained Misses Blanobe and Edith Orswell, Miss Nellie Mulkey and Miss Velma Wilkenson at dinner Wednesday even ing. Mrs. Stephenson and little daughter of Armstrong, B. C., who have been "visiting at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. John Walker, left for their home Tuesday. . Y Boy F. Alexander, a well known young men of Pendleton and Miss Vera Abbott of Walla Walla, were nnited In marriage Wednesday. y Mrs. Chas. McFarland and daughter Aent down to Pendleton Sundav. whew Mrs. John Stanton, Mrs. Mo Farland's sister has been seriously ill at the hospital. L ftf Mrs. James Woodruff, who scent several weeks at the home of her par ents, returned to ber home this week and was aooompanied as far as Pen dleton by Mrs. Tompkins. Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Le Grow, .who went on the Walla Walla speoial train to California, January 17, have returned home. - They had a very pleasant and enjoyable trip. judges and clerks for the oity elec tion were named at the oounoil meet ing Monday evening. Judges are: S. L. Spentier, L. Dell and T. P. Defreeoe; clerks, York Dell and Ernest Zerba. Tonight the Athena High Sohool boys' basket ball team will play the second team of Columbia oollege, at the opeia house. The admission prioe. 25 and 35 cents, is within reaoh of all. AMiUer and West, the well drillers, .his week added a sew Wester field gasoline engine to their equipment. The maohine has two cylinders of the four oylinder type and develops 20 horse power. AW. S. Sommers was in the oity this week from his home near Harrison. Idaho. Mr. Sommers was a resident here in the old "Centerville" days. He wae a partner of W. W. Jaooba in the carpenter business. The Athena Land oompany have a splendid bargain to offer in a hand some 7-room honse, plastered through cut, wired for electric lights, desira ble looation in Athena, two lots, barn and outbuilding, for $1,200. Mrs. John Walker recently received intelligence of the death of her broth er, Arobie Stephenson who died at his home in Alberta. Mr. Stephenson at one time resided in this vioinity and will be remembered by Athena people. Tho Fred Parr residenoe on the res ervation was destroyed by Are about 6:30 Monday evening. A defective flue is believed to have been respons ible for the blaze wbioh caused a loss of 12,500. Insurance to the amount of $1200 was carried. '. ' The stockholders of the First Na tional Bank of Athena eleoted Henry Koepke to the presidency of the bank, wbioh offioe was made vaoant by the death of T. J. Kirk. A. B. MoEwen was eleoted vice-president and Edw. Koontz, director. School Notes Uninvited Guests. W. P. Willaby, who has a farm between Weston and Athena, but is living at Athera this-- winter, paid a visit to his farm the other day to see how things were going. He found, says the Weston Leader, that un known guests bad extended a cordial invitation to themselves to call at his plaoe during his absence. TLey had broken into the house and made them selves fully at home. Empty whisky bottles were soattered here and tbeie, the beds were in disorder, and the oontents of the rooms turned topsy turvy. From appearanoes the visitors had built a fire, and feasted on jelly and coffee, these being the only pro visions left in the kitohen larder. The refreshments they brought with them were oontained in the whisky bottles. Indications are that there were two men and two women in the party but beycnd this much there is nothing to disolose their identity. Mr. Willaby does not objeot so much to their visit, but be thinks they might have been a little less oareless with the house hold effeots. XFull Share of Rain. Although but five months of the rainy season have passed, Umatilla county has already received 9. 16 inches of rainfall, which is a greater amount than was received during the whole season of 1908-1909, and above the average of a normal year. Now for Spring For monthhs we have been planning the coming spring campaign. New goods are already arriving at frequent intervals while many more are on the way. - .In order that no new or otherwise desirable items might be over looked, our buyers are now'soouring the eeastern markets, and seeing tu it that we own our merchandise at the lowest possible landed costs. In spite of advanoing markets we will be able to ofter our customers most items for as little and in some oases less than heretofore. More stress than ever before will be laid on quality, ever keeping in mind the faot that "The sweetness of low prioes never equals the bitter ness of poor quality." The best is being oulled from all lines for all tastes and all purses. All over this great store, even in our exchange department on the third floor, our customers are proteoted against possible costly errors by our "Satisfaction or your money back" guarantee. With os this means re fund promptly and cheerfully without quibbling or protest. Unless our friends are pleased we are not. Wherever possible our service is to be improved to the end that we may merit in still greater volume the favors of our old friends and secure the confidence and ptaronagejof the ever increasing number of new oitizens in our midst. No effort is to te spared to make shopping here convenient, pleasant and profitable whether in person, by proxy or by maiL The Davis-Kaser Company Walla, WallaWVash TJie home of Greater Whitman) Branch Store at Pasco. Wash- Miss Beverly, of the Primary De partment is taking the teaobers exam ination at Pendleton this week. Mrs Homer Watts is supplying her place. Mrs. Homer Watts has been eleoted to fill out the unexpired term of Miss Edith Orswell, who resigned on ao count of emergencies calling her home to Eugene. The Sohool will give a Patriotic entertainment February 22, combin ing Linooln's and Washington's birth days in one oelebration. Miss Edith Orswell's students pre sented her with a beautiful Athena souvenir spoon, on her departure from our sohool. V Roasted to Death. To be literally roasted alive, with not a square Inoh of whole skin re maining on his body and to surfer un told agony for nine hours, was the fate of Jesse Churchill, head of the cyanide department at the Flagstaff mine, who died in a hospital at Baker City. Cbnrohiil was coating the in terior of a cone-shaped tank with tar, when he upset a gasoline torch and the bottom of the whole tank beoame a raging fnrnaoe. All his clothing including his shoes, were burned from the body. He was discovered by F. L. MoClane, superintendent, - and water turned into the tank. He was taken to Baker City and everything was done to relieve him, but he soon died. He was very brave and joked about the aocident. He lived in Oswego, and was engaged to a young lady there. Government Forces Change. The government has forced the O. R. & N. oompany to change its plans regarding the uronosed Stanfleld-Cov- ote cutoff, aooording to reports from Hermiston. If these repoits are true, and they seem to have some founda tion, the department of the interior has refused to approve the proposed rignt of way aoross the government land and has notified the company that it must keep its road above the 620-fdot contour line. This means thct the road cannot- be built so as to interfere with the proposed extension of the Umatlila project so as to in- olude the 70,000 aores of land on the west side of the Umatilla river. Bridge Contracts. A Portland oompany has scoured the contracts fox the erection of four -new steel bridges in Umatilla oounty. Of seven bids received, that of the Aals Bridge oompany for $8000 was the lowest by $1200. An interesting feature of the awarding of the con tract was that A. B. Eberhart, who put in the bid for the Portland oom pany, has had, charge of the construc tion of. every., steelrtoridge whioh the oounty has put in. The present structures will be built over the Walla Walla river at MoCoy and Mil ton; aoross Butter creek near its mouth, and aoross Dry oreek near Blue Mountain station. Aged 19; Married Three Times. John A. King and Mrs. Annie Win neth were made man and wife this afternoon for' the second time. The ceremony was performed in the offioe of Justice of the Peaoe Joe H, Parks about 2 o'clock. The couple were married recently but it developed that the bride had been married before and that the . six months required by law to intervene between divorce and re marriage bad not expired by a few days, so it became necessary to have the knot retied. This therefore makes the third marriage for the bride, who is only 19. The husband is 47. Mrs. John Stanton Improving. The latest news this morning from Mrs. John Stanton, who has been crit ically ill in Plendleton, is that she is improving rapidly. Baptist Church Notes. The servioes of last Lord's Day were splendid, good congregations and good spirit. This is as it would better be. There are a few who say the time is not ripe for union ; be that as it may, it is never out of place to love a little more, it is never out of place for pro fessed followers of Jesus Christ to earnestly desire to beoome possessed of the spirit of their Divine Master.. The time is always ripe to seek to minimize, differences, the time is always ripe and the need very present for -he bringing a little more of heav en to this weary old earth. There's lots of food for reflection in the word of the sweet hymn : "The world to day is dying for a little bit of Love." Love is the greatest binding and cem enting f oroe in the world. The great test in the examination room of the King dom of God is love ; not profession but possession counts there. Love is faith in praotice. Those are pregnant words in John 3: 14 and 18. "We know that we have passed from death onto life, because we love the breth ren. He that lovetb not his brother atideth in death." Tbe great apostle says we may possess everything but if we lack love we lacs: that wbioh is vital to life and efficiency. If love is onr minus quantity Jet us pray God that the minus sball .be turned into plus. "He that dwelletb in love dwelleth in God and .God in him." jonn : 16. ' Ho wonder Paul says "Follow aftf r love" and so say I. Is not this Bom etbing of the meaning of those words in tbe model prayer; "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaves." It waa voted by 1 (.he members gathered in worship last Lord's day to accrpt the invitation of tbe Christian church and worship with them this coming Lord's Day. Tbe bible sohool will meet as usual at 10 a. m. Dtes (B Owing to the fact that Mr. Steward of the firm of Steward CoV Brown has decided to retire from the busi ness at Athena and desires to settle up the business of the firm as quickly as possible, we have decided to con tinue our big Discount Sale till February 20 or later. Per Cert or 1-5 of the selling price deducted from every article qf merchandise, which is equal to a 40 to 50 per cent cut based on Walla Walla or Pendleton prices. Best brands Prints, net to you, only 5c per yard, worth wholesale at the factory, 5 3-4 BLANKETS , . SHOES $2.50 shoes net $2.00 3 " "... 2.4-0 3.50 " " 2.80 4 " " ........ 3.20 f " " . 4.00 Cotton blankets have advanced 25 per cent since we bought ours. We sell them to you at the old price and giye you a 20 per cent Discount, which is lower than you can buy thein at the factory by the bale. Our $15 Suits are sold at $20 in Walla Walla, the Descount Sale brings them net to you only $12.Kingsbury hats are sold the world over at $3 to $3.50, our net Discount Sale price $2.40!i! A A White Goods & Fancy Goods. Our embroidery and Laces and all lines of White Goods are new up-to-date Hues bought from the manufacturers and our regular selling prices range from 1-3 to 1-2 less than city prices. Buy them now at our old price less 1-5 off. Hosiery, Dress Goods, Uuderwear, Rubbers, Arctics, Snow Excluders and etc. at a 2o per cent reduction, , ' . Our advertisements mean what we say. All parties owing the firm of Steward , CSl Brown are requested to call and settle their accounts as soon as possible. Athena's Department Store STEWARD m BROWN, Main Street Athena, Oregon. losp lercantile Athena Company Oregon On Tuesday Feb shipment of fine dress orings for the coming embroderies imported Goods worth 15 and and 15c. The celebra with every cash pure losgrovt Go: