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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1910)
Press Paragraphs v u X V Attorney Wilson .spent Sunday' in Ua Grande. Mr. and Mrs. James S. Bell were in Pendleton Tuesday. Lawrence Piukerton spent Snnday with friends in Milton. Machine oil, from $1.50 to $2.25 per can,, at the Palaoe drugstore. Mrs. Austin Fobs and Mrs. Henry Dell were in Pendleton Weduesday. . Mrs. H. 0. Wortbington has been ill at her home in this city this week. Marion Jaok was in the city yester day from the ranon on the reservation Mrs. H. I. Watts and Miss Minnie Najlor spent Wednesday in Pendle ton. . '- Mr. and Mrs. Lawrenne Lieuallen were in the city from Adams Satur day- A. J. Willaby is having a new porch added to his oottage on Jeffer son street. Ace Wagner is on the sioa list this week, bqing threatened with an attack of fever. . N ' .. Bob Fletcher, circulation manager for the East Oregonian, was in town yesterday, ' t B. 0. Kidder attended the' funeral of the late Emery La Hue in Pendle ton Monday. Mrs. Lewis, of Pullman,' Wash., is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. , Tbos. Defreeoe. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Swaggart and children were in Pendleton Tuesday and Wednesday. A Mr. and Mrs. John Stanton returned ednesday fiom a oamping trip on the Umatilla river. :' Fred and Jusepb. Baddeley are en gaged this week in breaking a fine span of driving horses. ' W. D. Chamberlain returned to Pendleton Tuesday , after spending a oonple of days in Athena.' ' The two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Berlin is ill with a swelling on the side of the neok. Mr. and ' Mrs. Charles Kirk have eturned from a visit to friends and relatives in the Willamette valley. The regular preaohing servioe, morning and evening, will Occur in the Methodist church next Sabbath. : Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Harris left Fri day evenibg for Baker City, after spending the day with Athena friends. )( Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Biohards and Mr. and Mrs. Mai ion Hansell will spend the Fourth on the Umatilla "river. The band boys have been holding ightly rehearsals in order to be in proper trim for the celebration at Pilot Book. J Dr. Newsom has moved his offioe to 'She rooms in the Post building wbiuh i i - 3 i n T) : l i nave ueen ouuupiuu uy ui. uuyvu, the dentist. . ! Georee Gross and family left for Wenaha springs Wednesday morning. They will return home Tuesday of next week. TiVw JQala Pnni" hand nf onnf) wnrlr horses, two colts, a buggy, and two sets of harness. Address, Mrs. Henry LaBraohe, Athena, Ore. Harvest hands are congregating in f Athena. Many of them have been there in seasons past and performed Ja Dor in the harvest fields. Mr. and Mrs. A. Maokenzie Mel drum and Jittle daughter are attend ing the Christian churoh : convention at Tnrner, Oregon, this week. J." M. Ogie has resigned as post master of Gurdane, and as no one will apply for the position, it is probable that the offioe will be discontinued. Y Mayor Turner of Weston was in the 'city Wednesday and left a couple of simoleons in tne editor's care for an other year's subscription to the Press. Frank Henry and Zelma Lewis, both of Adams, were united in mar riage at that place on Saturday eve ning. Be v. A. O. Hammond officiat ed. . .. YThe Johnson-Jeffries fight returns will be received at John Estes' near beer resort, on the afternoon of Jnly 4th. The returns will be reoeived by lcunds. ' Miss Lula Tharp has entered the employ of the Mosgrove Mercantile company as oash girl, iu the place of Miss Eva Wright, who goes to Cor vallis. .' The auxiliary of the C. W. B. M. will meet next Wednesday at the home of Mrs. 0. M. Brotherton. All me hers please take ootioe. By order of the president. H. P.' Milieu and Ira McDonald C in the country north of town Wednesday and while meandering around in that vioinity observed some good fields of wheat. Mrs. Byron Hawks returned last evening from a month's visit at Spo kane. ! She was accompanied home by her sister, Miss Lillian MoDonald, and her sister-ia-law, Mrs. J. D. Mo Donald. XMiss Nettie Cannon, a teacher in the Walla Walla schools, spent Sat urday and "Sunday with friends in' Athena and vioinity. She will leave shortly for a visit to her old home in Missouri. A party of about twenty young peo ple will leave in the morning for We naha springs, to spend the 4tb at that popular resort. The party will be ohaparoned by Mrs. DoPeatt and Miss Lizzie Molntyre. Stanfield and Pilot Book Will have speoial trains from Pendleton on July 4th. 1 Athena is interested in the Pilot Book oelebration from the fact that her ball team and band are to partic ipate in the big event at that plaoe. Harvesting has commenced in -the south part of the county. The barley Crop is ripe ' and the wheat in that section nearly ready for the harvester. The Pilot Rook oonntry will harvest an excellent orop of barley this year. Hiram' Knight,' who has been affliot with appendicitis, is reooveriog and is able to be out. This is the seo- ond attaok he has suffered and aa op eration -will probably have to be resorted to before he gets permanent relief. JuHanrioe Hill, public stenographer, 4ka ordered a new Underwood type writer. While giving due oredit to other standard makes of typewriters, Maurice is decidedly partial to the many good features of the "Under wood. Mrs. Winsbip and two little daugh ters left yesterday for Spokane, where they will visit relatives for several days. Mrs. Winsbip will also visit her daughter. Mrs. Jarman, who is spending the summer near Odessa, Wash. M. W. Smith, agency director of the Western Union Life of Spokane is in the oity. He is aooompanied by S. F. 1 Emery of Spokane. "Maithy" still sports the smile that won't wear off, and his Athena friends are pleased o see him. M. L. Watts et al, have sold the John Bergevin ranoh and also a por tion of the Page land to Mrs. Susan Adams of Walla Walla, for a consid eration of $25,000. The land is in the foothills district, southeast of town and in crop. A speoial eession of the grand jury was held at Pendletcn this week. True bills were found against Andrew Get hart, laroeny by bailee; William Hod gen, colored, laroeny ; Tots-homi, an Indian, horse-stealing; Fred Gilling bam, indeoent exposure. Horses Strayed A reward will be paid for information leading to the re covery of one bay mare brand D on left shoulder, had on bell when last seen; one sorrel horse, brand S W on right shoulder and star and half moon on right hip. - Address, Tom Sbalall, Cayuse P. O. Oregon. oooFinDtore 000 With a etook of home furnishings that is larger and more oomplete than the combined stock of any three Btores in our Hue within one hun dred miles of Walla Walla, we know we can fit out your home with just the artioles that you want, for our stock is so large and varied that we oan fill your every want and suit your tastes, no matter how simple or elaborate they may be. We want yon to see our stock and get better acquainted whether yon ate in need of anything or not.' When you are in Walla Walla or Pasco, we want yon to make our store your . headquarters for you are always weloome. Watoh for our Snmmer Goods Catalogue. ' The little son of Mrs. Frankie Rus sell has been seriously ill at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis LaBraohe this week. The child is afflicted ' with a swelling . oa the side of the neok and to relieve it; lanoing was resorted to. The Union Temperanoe meetiicg wbioh was to have ooourred at thd Baptist churoh next Sunday, will be postponed one week. On July 10th Rev. W. H. Marvin of Walla WalJa will give the union temperanoe ad dress in the Baptist ohurob. - ; r Dell Bros, have moved the Chet bCollougb cottage from the West side onto a lot on Adams street, re cently purchased of Bobert Coppock. The house contains five nice rooms. It will be offered for rent and will make a most desirable plaoe in which to live. ' ... ,.T ' . Colonel Wood was 'among the dis tinguished Weston visitors at the ball game Sunday. The colonel was in terested iu seeing Pendleton defeated by the Maioons, but like the rest of us bad to be content with seeing the big end of the score chalked up for the county eeaters. T The Indians expeot to have a good oelebration this year. The big jolli fication will take place at the Mission and a general invitation is extended the whites to attend, but no rowdies wanted. For the races, horses are entered from the Yakima and ISez Peroe reservations. East Oregonian : James Cox, a former well known Umatilla oonnty ball player, who formerly performed for the Athena Yellow Kids and later for Pendleton in the days when the Umatilla oonnty league was in its glory but who is now located in Spo kane, is the guest of local friends. Pendleton and ; Weston ball teams clash for the last time this season on the Weston grounds Sunday afternoon. Weston won the pennant in the Blue Mountain league. Athena's - defeat of Pendleton in the 1? inning game had the result of making it easy sled ding for the Mountaineers in their rush to viotory. If an v members of the Umatilla oonnty Caledonian Sooiety have cop ies of the Press of May 27, wnion Ountained aooonnts of the Pionio, they will oonfer a favor by sending that paper to J. P. Robertson, 571, Gideon St, Portland.1 The supply of that issue at the Press offloe is exhaus ted, henoe this request. : There la another good garden in Athena this year, as samples brought to the Press offioe yesterday by Mrs H. H. Hill clearly demonstrate. Peas, potatoaud teets .in profusion and of the verv choicest varieties were in the oolleotion. In a corner of the basket fenosed a boa net of fine roses and carnations, . that for J&eauty, 4nd . - , iiL l.iL fragrance would compete who mgu honors with the California product. V Clarence Brotherton got in the way lora horse's heels yesterday morning I and received the full fcroe of a vioious kiok on the nose. The tones on one side were fractured, but the skin was not badly broken and no scar will re sult. Clarenoe . was dootoring the horse when he let fly with his heels. The young man is getting along all right, but it is a question whether he takes a contemplated trip to the springs. Thn SwAccnrt Land oomoany. of wbioh A. L. Swaggart is president, is negotiating an exchange of land locat ed on Birob creek, south of Pendleton, for an apartment house and other property in Portland. Should the deal go through, wbioh it probably will, the property valuation involved will be about $40,000. The land -was purchased several years ago and has been in cultivation under the super viBion of Frank Swaggart. Curious Tombstone. On a srravestone in the parish churchyard of Great Yarmouth. Eng land, there is sculptured the unusual representation of a clown seated in a tub. which is being drawn down a riv er by two swans. Beneath this stone lies one of the-many victims who were drowned years ago by the collapse of an iron suspension bridge on which they had crowded to see a clown pass underneath in the manner described. The feat, which was a novel form of advertisement by a traveling circus, was actually performed, but the rush of people from one side of the bridge to the other after the man had passed under caused the tragic ending. 2gj The Davis-Kaser Company Walla, Walla Wash The home of Greater Whitman) Branch Store at Pasco. Wash- Mora Acceptable. The judge frowned down on the hu morous tramp. "At first I was disposed to give you a year and a quarter," said the former in stern tones, "but now I think I'll drop the quarter and give you a year." The humorous tramp looked up quickly. - "Your honor, why don't you make yourself a good fellow and drop do fear and give me de quarter?" New York World. , Back to Nature. "Agnes sat playing bridge all the afternoon with her back to a glorious mountain view." "Yes; she is president of our Back to Mature club.' Life. Miss De Style-lie said T was a lit tle flower; that be intended to keep me. Miss Gunbusta I noticed him pressing you. Smart Set Kiov Fomrtli lie Snap! Bang! We are going some, and the clothing is on the move. Not the old Jarman stock, but the new, neat, snappy, up to date clothing from the best mills. The perfect fitting kind. We, have thousands of dol lars worth of this high grade clothing which we will We will 1 discontinue the Clothing Department,- and it means that you can buy clothing cheaper now than you ever could in the history of Athena. i ! Boys Suits, $1.50 and up Mens Earits, ?75c and up Come while we have a complete run of sizes. " "STe Great Get Acquainted Sale is still on and you will find great bargains in all departments. Come early. Come often. Athena Department Store Jesse G. Campbell, Proprietor God baa lent us the earth for our life. It la a great entail. Ruskio. The Belgian stallion, Commissaire, No. 32870, will be in Athena a. Wright's feed stable for the season Terms, 110, 115 and 20. K. E. Stewait. j iosgrove Mercantile south side flnmrai 71 V Athena i! ) Main Street UUJULL UUJii V Oregon U - I Great Clearance Sale of Ladies' Mull and Lawn Shirt Waists and summer Suits, now when you need them. The hot weather is yet to come. No reserve. Take your choice. They come to you at actual cost & & m This Season's Seasonable Goods $6.50 Ladies' white Duck Suits, $4.75 $1.00 Ladies' white Lawn Waists, 69c $10.50 Poplin Suits, now . . 6.95 $1.25 Ladies' white Lawn Waists, 89c $3.75 fancy silk Pongee Waists. . 2.85 $1.50 Ladies' white Lawn Waists, 98c ' $4.50 fancy silk Pongee Waists, 3.25 $1.75 Ladies' white Lawn Waists, $1.18 $5.50 black Peau de Soie Waists, 4.25 $2.50 Ladies' white Lawn Waists, 1.68 Sale Begins Sa June 11th, 1910 today pM GEN 111 6 STAMPS WITH EVERY CASH PURCHASE