The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-09-15

day.
Louie Bergevih departed this
NOR ming for his ranch in Lapwai
coun try.
Mrs. l. McQuary and Mrs. c. L.
Reeves visited the Press Office
Wednesday.
John Foss will open school Mon
day next at the Union school
house on Gerking Flat.
Frank Ely and family have re-
turned from Bingham Warm
Springs, after weeks rusticating.
! We learn that Irving McQuary
has accepted a position with the
East Oregonian. Here's to you
Irve.
w. A. Sample, the Alliance man,
was in the city Saturday, and
made the PRESS office very pleas
ant call.
Taft, Tolbert & Co., the black
smiths will give SOC per bushel for
| good wheat, on all standing ac-
counts.
/ Prof. Lanes class In painting is
daily increasing. Mi Lane is a
thorough artist and an excellent
instructor.
l7 Mrs. Fred Rosenzweig and child
rem returned from the, mountains
this week, with bountiful supply
4 of huckleberries.
/ ], w. Lockwood, at one time a
| prosperous farmer of this vicinity,
but now residing in Seattle Wash,
was in the city this week.
IA populist paper, the Living
| Issue, published at John Day City,
| Grant county, has suspended.
Thus one by one do "the daisies'
! die.
IL Mrs. Angus M. Gillis will open
Ia kindergarten school, Monday
morning at her residence on Fourth
street. See the announcement in
this issue.
1t is said that the only change
in the prevailing monotony at Wes-
ton is the dog fights which occur
on Main street at all hours of the
day and night.
| This week the Press publishes
] an article--the first of a series-on
road building. Our farmers and
/ road supervisors should read this
and profit thereby.
IL Doubtless some wheat stacks
We're pretty thoroughly dampened
4 by the recent heavy rains, but
| by throwing off the top and sides,
they will be ready for the machine
| Monday.
! Athena had the appearance of a
young Chicago Saturday. Hun
dreds of farmers, from all over the
county, were in attendance on the
mass meeting at the Farmers
| WarehSuse
i David Taylor received a tele-
gram from his wife Wednesday,
| from Brazil, Ind, stating that she
| and her mother, Mrs. Gerking ar
| rived at their destination, safely,
Though somewhat fatigued.
lNAThe Inland Republican family
\ aye on the sick list this week and
| Irving McQuary came to the res
cue and got out the sheet. The
PRESS hopes that Mr.. and Mrs.
Hendricks will speedily recover,
i A young lady wants to know
how to make not enough out ofthe
word enough" That is easy.
Take the 3rd, I'd and list letters Of
the word enough" for the first
word, and the 9Th, 4th and 9th for
| the second word and you have
something that is not enough for
any young lady. n
DR.. Eagan's peat bed on his
farm below Milton is still burning
and it is expected will burb for a
while. The peat in places was
four feet in thickness and has been
burned out clean. 1t makes an
extremely hot fire and the effect at
night is beautiful. 1t will render
the pasture useless for a year or
more.
The principal attraction this
week, says the Milton Eagle, was
the moving Of the building, which
is to be used for the South Milton
school up through Main street.
The number of practical house
movers that developed on the side
walks was truly astonishing.
You can't always tell show much
some people NiIow until their
knowledge is puS$4o the test.
A young man named George
Voorhees,, whose family resides
northwest Of this city, while going
home from town the other evening
in company with another young
man, engaged in horse race. The
animal which young Voorhees, was
riding fell throwing the riderto the
ground, injuring his hip and spine.
Dir. King, the attending physician
says he thinks the boy, though
suffering excruciating pain. will