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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1911)
4 Press Paragraphs e Millers g. the Bnokaroos, Pendleton, Sunday. ' it Strawberries at Weston tomor- Dhn Darbam transacted business in dleton Tuesday. es Carter of Weston, bad business je oity Wednesday. T. King, tbe Weston farmer, in tbe oity Monday. V. A. and Sim Barnes were in tbe ' yesterday from Weoton. Ir. and Mrs. Ed Kilgore are 'so rcing at Wenaba Springs. Mrs. Hugh Taylor is visiting ber tor, Mis. John Peebler at Stanfleld. Mrs. Henry Eeene has returned torn a visit with friends in Walla 'alia. Miss Leta Edington will attend the .'week's session of summer school at lallis. t-endleton has been given a ieduo ) in rates on electrio power and gbt service. Kyle MoDaniel has been eleoted as jrinoipal of tbe Adams sohools 'for he coming year. Dr. W. U. Parks, of Biobmond, Vs., has been eleoted as president of Col umbia College, at Milton. 1 F. S. Wilson and B. B. Biobards were In LaGranda on business this week, returning home yesterday. Charles Norris is improving bis property in tbe north part of the oity, with a neat fence around his barn lot. Mrs. Nova Desper oame over from "Mix this week, and was a guest at home of her mother, Mrs. Mary iss. uiiB. Monroe and ber uncle, W. W. Jacobs were Sunday guests at tbe homo of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Berlin, northwest of town. Charles Despain and Miss Qnin till Mathews, popular young people of Jfendlet;n, were married in that oity Wednesday afternoon. Mr. C. H. Allen of Adams, aooom aiued by his daughter Mrs. Cora Red , ford, was in the oity yesterday, trad K ing with Athena merchants. Mrs.- MoKay, of Walla Walla val- ley, was a guest tbe first of the week, P of berdaughter, Mrs. W. J. Gholson, and her son, Wm. Wiuship. 1 Reports from tbe mountains are to Hthe effeot that there will be a prolifio juokleberry crop this season. The p ushes are loaded with bloom. Mr. and Mr. J. V. Mitohell have fi)rrived borne from a week's sojourn Oi' i tbe Keene mountain xanob, where tlljey spent a most pleasant outing. Mrs. W. H. Dale of Helix, recently underwent an operation at Walla Wal la for removal of a tumor. At last reports she was slowly improving. Ish Watts, wno will again manage 1 harvest operations in tbe field for Watts Bios., is having tbe harvesting machinery overhauled and repaired. George Loiimer, who is employed 4 by Bert Cartano, has rented tbe Kiik 'property on 6th and Adams streets and :.twith bis family has taken possession. j Mrs. H. A. Barrett End Miss Jessica ;MoEwen, who went down to Portland fiast week to attend tbe MoEwen-Goff bedding, Dave returned to their homes ln this oity. D. B. Watson has resigned tbe offioe f deputy game and fish warden. Scheie are several candidates for tbe i'ffloe but no one has yet been named fto Qll the vaoanoy. ft Link Swaggart has eight head of work mules for sale, at his home ranoh nurtb of Athena. These mules are ready to work, and are from three to six years old. Miss Luoile Kemp visited in Athena Wednesday night With her mother and little sisters. Miss Lnoile will leave soon after tbe Fourth for an ex tended visit at Cornelins, Ore. Dr. Sharp was called to Weston last evening to attend Mrs. Henry Stam per, who suifered a stroke of paralysis. Tbe left side was aff eoted. Word from Weston this morning is to the effeot that Mrs. Stamper is improving. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Beaoh, of Lew iston, Idaho arrived in tbe oity this morning and visited for the day attbe home of Mrs. Wilkinson. Mr. and Mrs. Beaoh are on their way to Twin' Falls, and will make the trip by auto mobile. Pendleton papers report the Kit Car son wild west show whioh exhibited in that town Tuesday as being "sim ply rotten." The show gave one per formance only, and tbe stunts were hissed and hooted by real cowboys and Indians. x The Indians will hold their oelebra tion at Cayuse tbis year, beginning July 4th and continuing for a week or ten days. On the 4th. the oelebration opens with a big parade. On the fol lowing days tbe prinoipal events will be horse raoing. The county rock crusher was moved to Weston Wednesday, where it will crush rook for the Weston portion of tbe Athena-Weston maoademized road. Before leaving, the ornsher ground up sufficient rook for the new oonorete oross walks on Main street In a letter to a friend at Weston, says the Leader, D. C. Kiik says that crop prospeots are good and every thing prosperous in Saskatchewan province, Canada. Mr. Kirs and sons are looated npon a large body of land in the Maple creek dislriot. Tonight at 12 o'clock, midnight, the Pieston-Parton Milling Co., one of the strongest flrmB mannfaoturing flour on the Paoifio coast, goes out of bus iness. The company has been rein corporated nnder the name of the Preston-Shaffer Milling oompany. Mis. Bowles and Miss Lauia Bowles of Walla Walla spent the week-end at the borne of Mr. and Mrs. Fay Le Grow in tbis oity. Miss Bowles will leave the latter part of this week for a visit tu San Franoisoo, Los An geles and other points in California. Mrs. Harder, mother pf L. C. Har der died at Milton Wednesday of last week of illness inoident to old age. Mrs. Harder was a highly respected pioneer resident of tbis end of the county. She is survived by an aged husband and several sons and daugh ters. M. S. Pate, prinoipal of the Athena sohools the past vear. has been ohosen president of the new O. A. C. Summer Session Club reoently organized fox tbe purpose of arranging evening en tertainments and week-end junkets for the six weeks of tbe summer sohool session. A party of about 25 yonng people. under the obaperonage of Miss Lizzie Molntyre and Mrs. Minnie DePeatt, left early yesterday morning with camping outfit for Wenaba Springs. where they will enjoy oamp life for a week or two, and assist in the oelebra tion at that popular resoit . Tom Gilkey treated his Athena friends to bear steak tbis week. He killed bruin ou tbe south fork of tbe Umatilla. George Brace was with Gilkey, but was not fortunate enough to get a shot. Bears are quite plenti ful in the mountains and on the foot hills at present, but the pelts aie not in prime oondition, therefore it does not pay to hunt them. T k You. BCidlj M f Don't Forget Walla Wallas Big 4ft of July Celebration July 4 and 5. 1911 ' Under Auspices Merchant's Ass'n TWO DAYS Band Tournament. Biff. Bang. Free Fun and Amusements, Street Spectacles. League Base Ball, Sports and Athletics. Something Doing Every Minute. See Large Bills. Reduced Rates on Railroads. Come all. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Meldrum leave this evening for Portland, where they will attend the state and National conventions of the Christian obuioh, whioh convene in that oity. Mr. Meldium will doliver tbe prinoipal address Sunday morning in the First Christian church to tbe etato con vention. The program at tbe Dieamland for Friday and Saturday is as follows: 1. "Victims of Fate." Vitagraph. 2 "Bud's Escape," Pathe. 8 "The Kid," Biograpb. For Sunday: 1. Shriner's Pilgrimage." 1000 feet, Selig.' 2. The - Fall of Batiylon" Gaumont. 3. "The Stars and Stripes," Edison. Infantile paralysis has made its ap- pearanoe in Athena and vicinity. Dr. Sharp has encountered several cases, the affliotion being among children exclusively. Children in the families of Frank Berlin, A. M. Johnson and C. O. Henry have been afflioted, but in no instance has tbe disease been of a virulent nature. Bert Cartano oarries tbe best family liquors in town, and be is making a speoialty of fine table wines. For 1.50 per gallon, you oan get oboioe Tokay, Muscat, Angelioa, Sweet Ca tawba or Port. These are California's best produot and give satisfaction wherever used. Call at tbe Red Front for the best and purest liquors. The Leader reports that tbe oity of Weston has reoeived 800 feet of new fire hose of a superior grade costing $1.10 a foot. It will withstand a pres sure of 400 pounds to the square inob. Together with the several new hy drants now installed and an improved water suddIv. the town has the best fire protection it has ever enjoyed. S. F. Wilson of this city has pur chased a seotion of land from J. G. Biohardson in South Cold Springs for $25,000, or $40 per aore. A half seo tion of the land is in otop and conser vative estimates place tbe prospective yield at 85 bushels per aore. In addi tion to cash consideration, Mr. Wilson exobanged a tlook of unimproved Portland oity property for tbe wneat land. Mrs. Jos. N. Soott reoently received from far away India a paokage of silks and embroideries wbioh, from association she values very highly. A scarf is done in exquisite hand em broidery. The things were sent : by her sister, formerly Miss Gertiude Preston, well known in Athena, and in Weston where she grew to woman hood, who is now in India with her husband. Mr. Butherford, where both are in the mission field. Mr. T. J. Hazleton. seoretary of tbe Paoifio Coast Rescue and Protect ive society, will leotuie in the M. E. church Sunday morning at 11 a. m., his subject being: "The White Slave Traffic" As this subieot is an im portant one npon whioh tbe publio ought to be well informed, it is hoped that a goodly congregation mav gieet him. Mr. Hazleton is a foroeful speaker and a well infoimed man. Mrs. T. J. Kirk left Tuesday morn ing for LaCrosB. Wash., where she goes to make her permanent home with her son, George Ehrhart, who reoently lost his wife, the lady dying of appen- dioitia. Mr. Ehrhart resides on a farm near LaCroes. and his mother will keep bouse for him and take oare of his four .small children. Mrs. Kirk will bo greatly missed by ber friends and neiehbors in Athena, where she has resided for many years. Dr. W. G. Hnghes. Athena's new dentist, looated in tbe postofflce build ing, has an expensive offioe equipment. It includes splendid furniture in Mis sion style, sterilizers, eleotrio motor, fountain onspidors and big cabinet full of instruments. The dentist has a neat and convenient offioe. Every thing is tidy, clean and sanitary. There is now no need for Athena peo ple going to Pendleton or Walla Walla to have dental work done. lor toe doc tor has modern appliances and prac tices bis profession under aptodate methods. Mrs. Wm. Kilgore suffered a very serious injury last Friday, when she fell from a barn loft at her home near town. Mrs. Kilcore was alone at tbe time,. and while searching for eggs in tbe hav loft, fell through a hole in the floor, and immediately lost oon soiousnees. Upon regaining her senses she found herself lying aorosB tbe manger, and realized that she was ser iously Hurt Making ber way pain folly and in a dazed oondition to the house, she had bat a short time to wait before her husband arrived and Dr. S'aarn was summoned. Her in- inries were attended to and it was found two ribs were fraotured. Mrs, Kilcira has been bedfast sinoe tbe accident. Th Yakima Tieers "bo have -a percentage of 923 in tbe Yakima Val ley Lea cue. will prooably play a ser ies ef sanies with tbe teams of the Blue Mountain League soon after tbe Fourth. Tb6 Yakima Herald says: "Sinoe the Tice.rs have oleaned up all comers in this cart of the state and have been compelled to draw fiom tm Puget Sound country for most of the good eamos of the season, Manager Payne is now contemplating a trip into tbe W alia Walla-Pendleton conn trv for a series of sames with tbe teams of t be Blue Mountain League, wbioh oloa es its schedule on July 2, Athena no w has the lead with percent age enough to assure her tbe pennant, while Walla Walla is a close seoond. The Athena team has won all of ber games of ' tbe season bnt two, and Manages Pi yne is anxious to matob his Tigtrs a gainst them." New Shoe Shop. Ward & Couob, new arrivals lu Athena, have opened a shoe shop c n Main street and aie tire pared to do a. U Inods of fine repairing on ebort or del ' at lwiaonaLle prices. Kingsbury & C onqueror CD Hats We have just received a fine assortment of the latest Sum mer and early the Fall styles If you desire a real nobby Hat, arid a Hat that will give you satisfaction, call on us. EVERY $3 HAT we sell is guaranteed to give satisfaction. FX am St. iossrove Mercantile Ladies' Neckwear in Great Profusion Company Ladies' and Children's Hose; All sizes, all colors Owing to the backward season, we are now 'overstock ed with new, uptbdate Ladies' Shirt Waists and Dress Skirts. All this season s goods, new and stylish, and we shall place them on sale Saturday morning, June 3rd. First come, first served. We price will be so ri diculously low that they" won't last long. Lot 1 Lot 5 All our $1 and $1.25 fine Lawn Waists, An immense assortment of Novelty Silk open back or front, and Pongee Waists, no two alike, NOW 89c AT COST Lot 2 Lot6 All our $1.50 and $1.75 fine Lawn Waist Our 5, 5 50, 6 and $6.50 Ladies' Dress trimmed in lace or embroidery, Skirts, a colors and Black, HOW $1.35 WOW $3.95 Lot 3 7 All our $2 and $2.25 Waists, very fine Our $7.50 and $8.50 Ladies' Fine Dress material and elegantly trimmed, . Skirts, great variety of materials, NOW 81.69 - MWJH Lot 4 Lot 8 k All our $2.75 and $3 Waists, extra fine All our fine Voiles and sample Skirts, in f and dainty effects, great variety. Will be sold NOW 11.95 AT COST 1 vZzZZZZi&&& ii i . 'in ri if