The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-12-01
Frank Mansfield is suffering
from an attack of la grippe.

Grand Master for Oregon of the /.
0.O.F. post, Wild Horse Lodge, was
in this city, on an officialSvisit Fri
day night last. The doctor was
formerly resident of Weston, and
for 3 long time editor of the
Leader.
There will be a meeting of the
Peoples Party County Central
Committee in Athena tomorrow.
All those interested in the welfare
of this party should attend. There
will be some action taken toward
getting their forces in shape for the
coming contest in June.
Hoodlums have disturbed relig-
ious meetings in Heppner for some
time, and citizen gave them
severe roasting through the col
umns of the Gazette last week.
The rowdies ascertained the author,
waylaid him and gave him
severe beating. Seems to be a
wild town that
up to the hour of going to press
no additional news has been receiy-
of the bank robbers and they are
probably safe and sound in some
far off locality by this time. Eagle"
Yes and its our private opinion the
Eagle will go to press and be
"squoze' good many times be-
| fore the robbers are caught.
A SanFrancisco dispatch of Mon
day says: Miss Ida B. Smith a
young woman whose home is in
Eastern Oregon, died at the county
hospital October 81. 1t is now
charged her death was due to lack
of proper care. For three days
Miss Smith went without medicine
prescribed for her, and the hospital
attendants are accused of neg
ligence,
The various county assessors
! throughout Oregon are making
preparations to hold meeting at
Salem during the coming session
Of the state board of equalization.
| 1t is thought that suggestions may
| be offered to the board which will
enable it to arrive at better con-
clueion as to its changes in the
various county rolls. They will
also meet among themselves and
| talk assessment.
The Review states that Spokane
is filing up with desperate charac-
ters, who, the police believe, are work
ing their way to the midwinter fail
at Golden Gate Park. These un-
welcome visitors comprise all sorts
of criminals, theapicR-pocket, tht
burglar, the petty thief and thu
garroter, and the reports received
daily of crimes in that city indi
{ cate that they are working theil
passage. Look out for them.
A woman with small child got
: on the Southern Pacific train a
West Fork one day last week bount
! for Scio. She was from the place
mines and thought the righ
amount of gold-dust from her snul
/ sack ought to be good for her pass
} age, but it wasn't. She had n
/ money and the conductor, havin
t no scales, told her to get off q
: Roseburg. This she did and even il
! the town had considerable difficult
t in making trade.
Corvallis offers to the fashion
able world new form ofentertain
i ment, the onion sociable. 81
{ young ladies stand in q row, an
/ one bites the cheek out Of an onion
Il then the onion is turned over t
/ the young men for inspection
8 The one who guesses who bit th
a onion kisses the other five ladie
Il If he fails to guess, he is onl
t allowed to kiss the girl who bit I'll
d onion. Thus again is the hope
10 reward overshadowed by the fes
.e Of punishment.
Pasco News: In the city
y Roseburg, Southern Oregon, the
IS is an organization known as Il
IS E"Independent Order of Old Maids
II and not one member thereof h
10 reached the age required
A leagally belong to such an orde
d. At d ball given BY the militia
le that place tile members Of this a
IN tique order presented floral tt
at butte bearing the inscritio
m HCompliments Of the |. 0. ON
III When it comes to the girls propC
IN ing in unity IN this far west the
II is something wrong. Boys, =
s. girls have passed the button v
certainly can do the rest.
ng A car load with Oregon exhib
se returned from the worlds fair pai
C. ed through La Grand the 9th
day. The sides Of the car bore t
a following inscriptions: "Oreg
ar Returning Triumphant from t
in Worlds Fair" Medals awarde
re Agriculture IS; Horticulture
IN, Fisheries 6; Mining a; Education
,st "A; Forestry 2; Woman's work
i'll "Oregon is still the home Of t
III. Big Red Apple" "Oregon !
lr, homes for the Homeless "Go
of Schools are Abundant, and t
ne Industrious and Frugal Grow Ri