The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-06-16
CITY AND COUNTY.
A Full Resume of News Local Per-
sonal and Otherwise.


Circuit Court adjourned Saturday
evening.
Chas. Sharp was in Pendleton
Monday ON business this week.
Getting warmer, someone says.
Don't know whether it is or not.
Have you seen that silverware
Hollis is giving away to his custo-
mers.
The Knapp Burrell house has
received two new threshers, both of
which are sold.
Only the purest and freshest
drugs used in Prescriptions at the
Pioneer Drug Store.
The Athena Band has been en-
gagged to play in Pendleton on the
| fourth. Go with the boys.
Hewitt uses nothing but pure,
| fresh drugs in filling prescriptions.
Take your prescriptions to him.
IXWm. Post took the oath of office
Yas deputy marshal and entered
UPON his duties as night watch
last Tuesday evening.
The picnic given by the Adams
| people at Cayuse Station last Sat
urday was largely attended. All
who were there report having had
a good time.
| Frank Parkyn, of Adams accom-
panied by his wife and mother-in-
| law left last Wednesday on visit
to Lostine, Wallowa county gcins
| by team across the mountains.
/ J. w. White has become associ-
| ated with Charles Beale in the
meat market business at Pendleton
Mr.. White followed the same occu.
patton at Athena for several years
J. N. B. Gerking, w. H. III
Scott, Otis Gerking, Jas Scott, and
Mr.. Potroff left on Monday on 9
few days fishing excursion along
Meacham creek and the Umatilla.
Irving McQuary, formerly editol
Of the Press, received an Edisor
Phonograph from Washington, D
c., Saturday morning, and is nov
grinding sweet strains Of music
from it.
, Lee Mitchell, we are sorry t.
learn, has been confined to his
room for several days with ;
very painful swelling of one o
his feet. He fears it is whit
swelling, he having had an attacl
of that disease once before.
Wv. J. Wilkinson and A. d. Blu
lhaye returned from Mission wher
they have just completed a ware
house forthe Pacific Coast Elevate
Co. The house is 1873 feet lon
by Sc feet wide with 16 fee
walls. The company has also
platform 800 feet long at the sam
station.
DR.. Mofitt, who is now treatini
Mrs. Alex McRae, Of Walla Wall
tells us that Mrs. McRae is in
very critical condition. TIL
Walla Walla physicians decide
she could not recover without hay
ing an operation performed; br
i the DR.. hopes to relieve her will
| out an operation,
] Jesse, 12-year-old son Of B. v
Levens, of Baker City, while nes
the railroad track, observed thrt
freight cars aud caboose runnir
wild toward Haines, and given a
/ aecceleration of speed by stiff win
/! blowing from the south. In an II
/ slant the boy caught on to Il
. rear car and threw on brakes, brin,
4 ing them to a standstill after a sho
4 run.
+ XSeveral saloons at Pendletc
Z have quit using electric lights, al
n the Tribune says about Is mo
i will soon follow. A threat W
E made some time ago that if gam
ling was stopped the saloons wou
boycott the electric light compan
and as they are the largest patro
I of the company, it would cause t
! company to suspend, leaving t
! city in darkness.
: An ice cream and strawber
d festival will be given by the wiy
y u and daughters Of members Of Dol
. Lodge at the Masonic Hall on
evening Of July 1st. This will
the third supper given to the me-
bero of Dolph Lodge by these ladi
= =. and, as they are always su
pleasant and enjoyable affairs,
old bachelors look forward to Il
J one with fond anticipation.
H. C. Grady, the newly appo
ted U. S. Marshal has the follC
ing deputies to serve under hi
Ii r. b. Beatie Of Pendleton for t
district, ]. Fitzgerald Of Marsh
town, Iowa, for the Portland Z
! trict. H. r. Sibley of Pendleton
be clerk at Portland. Mr. 81
gerald, it will be remembered, =
formerly yardmaster ef the Un
ills, Pacific yards here. Messrs Sib
lee, and Beatie are well known Pend
res