The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
CITY AND COUNTY.
A Full Resume Of News---Local Per-
sonal and Otherwise.

The PRESS gives the news.
Go to Helix for your house and
barn bills.
Refrigerators at cost. Call ear
ly at the c. A. Barrett Co.
The Pendleton band is contem-
plating forming an orchestra.
We have left few 3-inch Header
trucks. The c. 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 c. A.
Barrett Co.
There will be preaching at the
Baptist church Sunday IL a. m.
and 8 p. m. by the pastor.
Hewitt uses nothing but pure,
fresh drugs in filing prescriptions.
Take your prescriptions to him.
Max Levin was somewhat sun
der the weather" a couple of days
last week, but is all right again.
The farmers Warehouse Co. dis
posed of 1000 grain bags to farmers
in this vicinity in the last week.
>Al Garden, of the East Oregon
ian force, accompanied by his wife,
visited with his parents in this
city Sunday.
Professor George Seabring of In
dependence was in the city We'd
nesday. The Press acknowledges
a pleasant call,
G. w. Proebstel, the Weston
hardware man handles the Cour-
ier Pneumatic Mail Bicycles. He
has three which he will sell at
cost.
The Farmers Warehouse Co.
commenced to receive wheat on the
9th inst and the first car for the
season from Athena, consigned to
Mason Ehrman & Co. Portland by
tthe P. Railway yesterday.
Ndrshal Stamper and night
%atchman Ward gave the hobo's
instructions to vamoose the other
day. They all took the officers al
their word and Athena is now rid
of the festive cold lunch eaters.
On August 1st ]. D. Bowers
landlord Of the Marshall House in
Weston, stepped down and out
The hotel will be converted into g
boarding house for the norma
school. Thus Weston is left with
out any hotel and has but one res.
taurant.
captain" Jarvis, principle o
the Albina public school was II
Athena the past week on business
The Captain reports times dull il
the metropolis of Oregon. He lef
Wednesday evening for Meacham
where he is interested in real es
tate, and will go from there tt
Albina where heenters ON his dutie.
principle Sept. 18th.
George Martin, at one time par
owner of the Press, was in, tht
city Sunday, George is at presen
harvesting for Henry Schmitd, anc
by the growth of beard on his face
one would judge him to be a gen
uine harvester. It is reported thar
George has vowed that he viii
never shave until he finds las
that will take him "for better O
4 1worseY
l>>Wsdnesday Telephone connection
| kas made between the depot ant
lBergevin Bros, store. This vii
prove great boom to the citizen
| of Athena. as we'll as the former
| for it will save many q walk to tn
depot. If you have any bushes
| with the agent you can now tall
with him over the telephone b,
going to Bergevin Bros, store AM
drop "a nickle in the SLOT"
i Farmers should bear in min
that David Taylor. Hamilton
Rourke's agent at Athena will pu
wheat on the U. P. for the sam
rates as on the O. & w. T. Fc
instance ifa farmer who has graf
stored at his warehouse on the {
& w T. and can get more for it G
a buyer on the U. P. Mr.. Taylc
will load it on the U. P. cars at n
extra cost to the farmer.
Athena came near having a fiji
one day this week through tt
carelessness of a young ma
with cigarette. The fellow thre
a partly smoked cigarette in a DO
Of sawdust used for spittoon
the Pioneer drug store. An hot
or two afterward, a smoke was see
coming from the box. and on ii
vestigation it was found that IL
sawdust was burning quite freel
Had it been thrown there la
in the evening. we would hav
doubtless had a FIRE, the origin
which would have been myster
A couple who claim to be ma
and wife, named Wolf, who hav
been working in Nathan Pierce