The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-07-28
Oil for a little shower!

Go to Helix for your house and
barn bills.
We have left few 3-inch Header
trucks. The G. B. Barrett Co.
Antifermentine, the greater fruit
preserver, at the Pioneer Drug
Store.
The Craver Header the finest in
the world for sale by the G. A.
Barrett Co.
Mrs. Press Banks has been con-
fined to her room with illness for
the past week.
Parties desiring good work horses
should call on Geo. Froome. He
has some for sale cheap.
Chas. Sharp's baby, Clayton,
has been sick with summer COM
plant for the past week, but is
better now.
Athena has one of the finest
groves in the county, and just the
place to hold a grand harvest pic
mic. "Let's get in"
The recent hot weather is driv-
ing those who can, 60 to the noun
tains and making those who cannot
wish they were there.
Game, huckleberries and bear
abound in the John Day country.
Prospectors also are numerous, the
gold fever having set in.
The G. A. Barrett Co., carry the
largest line Of machine oils in the
city, farmers will find the largest
assortment to select from.
Wheat is worth at present from
35 to 371 cents per bushel, sacked,
report grain dealers. The outlook
for improvement is considered
slim.
The mountains are receiving
their annual crowd of visitors. It
is said the huckleberry crop is
more prolific than usual this
year.
G. w. Rigby & Son have com
menced heading on the reservation,
Grain shows up better than an
ticipated a few weeks ago, but
some of it is pretty light.
Mrs. Powell, who has been Wis.
iting her daughter, Mrs. DR.. G. w
King, of this city, for the past
month, returned to her home in
East Portland via Tacoma,
Wednesday evening.
n|fhe school house is rapid,
||-aearing completion under th'
supervision of Angus Gillis. Wher
the building is completed Athena
will have one of the finest schoo
houses in Eastern Oregon.
Many of the men who hav
came here to seek work have gon,
to the country to work in the har
vest fields, and many are still
waiting for job, while every da,
brings more to town carrying thei
blankets.
w. II. Tennery, we'll known il
this vicinity ard who resides il
Pendleton met with serious &C
cident at Switzlers Island, on tn
| Columbia river. He was repair
| ing water wheel and fell, break
ing three ribs.
| A young man named Fran
Green, who held up La Grand
| constable at Meacham some tim
ago, was arrested on the Mort
| fork of the Umatilla Wednesda
on the charge of horse stealth
and taken to La Grande by deput
Sheriff Haley.
A woman named "Black Dis
mond," who has been telling fo1
tunes in the Helix neighborhoo,
gave $50 to her recently acquire
husband to keep for her Fl
skipped with the money and 81
is now hunting another husband.
George Smell, of Walla WALL
who has the contract for plasterir
the new school building arrived
! the city Wednesday, and con
menced work on the buildin
yesterday. Mr.. Smell is a fir
class workman and the directo
may rest assured Of a neat job.
Some fine monuments have r
Gently been erected in our vicinit
by the Roberts Marble firm
Walla Walla. The most imposiI
one being a mansive red Swec
granite for the late Chas. McMorri
of Weston. An elaborate mon
! ment is now under course of CO
struction by the Roberts Co.,
the late John Walker.
It is reported that Harry Bo,
mer, present editor of the Westc
Leader-which was recently SO
to Harry Brown-will start anoth
paper in that city. Cad wond
what he will live on. The Lead
is the most poorly patroniz,
sheet in the way of ads that com
to the Press Office. What's Il
matter with them over there, an
way2
Mr.. Chamberlain, who was he
: IN a few days visit to his siste