The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-12-01

land would confer a great faver
by settling the same.
Parties desiring pasture for stock
should call on or addres, r. Il.
Stewart, Athena, Oregon.
There are now 46O prisoners
confined within the walls of the
penitentiary at Walla Walla.
Attention to the daily habits of
the young will prevent suffering.
Take Simmons Liver Regulator.
Senator w. r. Matlock, of PEN
dleton, has been appointed COM
missioner for the Mid-winter Fair.
Hobo's robbed car loaded with
drygoods at Pendlton Tuesday night
taking goods to the amount of$50.
Arrangements are now made by
which the best Rock Spring Coal
can now be had at the U. P. Depot
at.$9 per ton.
Little n-year-old Cecil Cole,
of Milton, was seriously bitten by
huge St. Bernard dog in that city
last week.
In a drunken row between
four Indians at Pendleton, one day
last week, one of them was seve rely
slashed with knife.
Fred Normandy who was charg-
ed with assault on Ed Morrsette,
was discharged by commissioner
Beam at Pendleton Saturday.
Parties desiring good farm at
low price and easy terms, will do
we'll to call at the Athena Press
office for particulars.
The Huntington Herald says a
good many men are making a sue
cess taking gold out of the Snake
and Burntiriver sands.
There will be services at the
Baptist church next Sunday at II
a. m. Subject: "The Devils Ques-
ton" Treated by R. r. Storey.
Mr.. Winsett, who is organizing a
class in vocal music in this city,
comes highly recommended by the
press of OREGON and Washington.
Some astute burglars went
through lodging house at Blain,
Washington, taking only the
trousers of all the guests, except
the pair they really wanted, which
contained 800.
George Washington said Tom
my in his composition at public
school last Friday, twas man who
if he pointed a gun at a man and
told him it wasn't loaded the mar
would not get bitYseared."
/ Owing to hard times the G. A
Barrett Co., will offer a special in
| ducement to cash customers. They
| still have a full line Of hardware
stoves and tinware, also very Low
prices in Plows, Harrows, Seeder
| and Drills. We will not be under
sold. Special prices in Wagon
and Hacks.
Milton Eagle: Willis Young
the ex-landlord of the Bartlett
House, who, about the first of Oct
last, hastily and mysteriously lef
the city without the formality Q
bidding his creditors, friends 0
family adieu, has been heard from il
Nebraska. He is said to be a
work at Ceader Bluffs. It is IN
derstood that his family will joi
him there in few days.
An infant son of Mr.. and Mr.
Phil Beathe died quite suddenl
Saturday evening. The little on
was feeling as we'll as usual a fev
minute before its death, when
was suddenly siezed with a convu
sion and expired before anythin
could be done for it's relief. ]
was laid to rest in the Westo
, cemetery Sunday Leader
Says the Walla Walla paper:
Dixie farmer who sent his whef
to Portland has received the graf
! flying intelligence that 200 sacl
9 have been condemned on the G,
! cuse that it was injured by I'll
6 rain, but the fact is that he sackt
all his wheat before drop oe raj
a fell. The farmers should insi
!, upon having their wheat accepts
4 before it leaves their hands, as II
i wheat men at the ports will sic
! upon any excuse to condemn it.
/ An exchange says that a lat
vert to grocery store few da
! ago for a peck of apples, taking
: she supposed a fresh laundried flo
4 sack. She held the sack up VIII
4 The clerk poured the apples in.
j j singular thing then happent
4 4 The fruit tnen went through t
{ { sacks and rolled to the floor. {
= examination it was found til
there was two holes in the bottC
A. Of the sack, both trimmed wi
ii embroidery. The young m
ii tainted and the lady sent sm
ts boy after,the apples-with a b
b. ket.
y = Pat Maxwell is again hayi
y trouble with his face. His CT