The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-09-01

Inc DaOQ m6t IOr r6nedTedi quiz
day for the first time since harvest
began.
M. Finneran, at one time a resi-
dent of Athena, was in the city
Wednesday.
The Farmers Warehouse Co.,
have shipped nine carloads of wheat
so far this season.
A. Roderick Grant of the o. w.
R. Mf. Co., of Portland Or. was in
the city yesterday.
Nye, the Walla Walla harness
dealer, was in the city Sunday, a
guest at the Young home.
Marshal Stamper and family
are recreating on the shores Of
Willowa Lake this week.
Max Levin has been improving
the looks of the exterior of his
residence by a fresh coat of cement.
Hugh Thompson is acting in the
capacity of city marshal during
Stamper's absence at Willowa
Lake.
Miss Eunice Smith departed for
Pendleton yesterday evening, where
she will teach in the public schools
of that city.
J, w. Smith and James Maloney
returned from weeks outing at
Saling's camp, Monday and report
a splendid time.
Mat johnson, accompanied. by
several others left Wednesday for
Mud springs, on the Elgin road to
kill bar and pick huckleberries.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Marsett, died at their home
on the reservation yesterday and
will be buried in the Athena ceme-
terry today.
During the past week the air has
been loaded with dense smoke,
which comes from the forest fires
now raging in the Blue Mountains
near Kamela.
| XWallie Ashpaugh, the brick
mason left last week for his ranch
on the Pend d'Oreille river, in
Washington. Mr.. Breckhill, his
partner is still in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Maloney, who
have been sojourning at Saling's
camp, returned home Tuesday eve
ming. Mrs. Maloney's health was
benefited greatly by the trip.
The Press is getting up club
bing list with the leading weekly
newspapers and magazines of the
United States, a list of which will
appear as soon as arrangements can
be perfected.
| The Walia Walla contractors
| who have been cementing the
school house have completed their
work and departed. Athena's
spacious school house is second to
none in the county.
| 1t seemed like old times in
| Athena last Sunday. The streets
were lined ali day with teams and
men from the harvest fields, which
put some of the old life in things
and made us forget all about the
financial stringency for the time
being.
William Winship and Lee Mitch
I'll with their families, returned
| from Woodard's toll gate Tuesday
where they have been recreating
and picking huekleberries. They
report a large number of people
| from Walla Walla and other places,
camping there.
! Chas. Brotherton finished thresh-
ing 240 acres of spring sown grain
on the reservation Monday, from
which he received 1000 sacks Of
| 6rst.class wheat. He sold 100
sacks to the Farmers Warehouse
4 Co., for SO cents per bushel.
Alex McRae, who has been EN-.
ployed by the Frank Bros, imple-
ment company, with headquarters
at Walla Walla, for some time, has
accepted a position with Knapp,
Burrell & Co., of this city, taking
the place made vacant by the re-
sisnation of Mr.. Calendar, who
has been with the company since
last fall.
+ In last weeks "patent" up the
street, there appeared an article
one of Hendricks master pieces
lin which he intimated that at
one time the Press undertook. but
''in vain," to "io" the Republican
up. He is mistaken. 1t is, and
always has been a self-evident fact
in the minds of the people that the
finland Republican is one horse
affair and ''done" to a turn.
" Id rambling through the north
a part Of the city Sunday. PREss
-ffeporter was more than ever i'm
: pressed with the fine appearance Of
that portion of Athena. The
; dwellings all have neat, tidy, ap.
pearance, and most of the yards.
and the young locust trees-inval-
liable to the Oregon home maker
: were green and pleasing to the