The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-04
Grain sacks are worth more than

or TenuletoH aug. Otu.
Frank Sailing. of Weston, was
IN the city on business Tuesday.
The grove south of town is J
illed with men hunting for
work.
Bergeyir Bros. new store room
is nearly completed and is one of
the finest in the city.
Black berries are abundantin the !
Milton neighborhood, and are
commanding fair price.
Our insurance agents are rust
ling wheat insurance, and thous
ands of acres are being insured.
Geo. Bacus. timer for the G. A.
Barrett Co., is engaged in putting
on the tin roof of the new school
building.
A dog ordinance is in exist
ence in Athena, but still we notice
a large number of dogs without
registration collars, running at
large.
The new sky-light for the Press
office arrived from Portland this
week, and when in position we
will be enabled to give more light
on divers subjects.
While in Milton Sunday the
Junior editor of the PRESS visited
the Eagle office. Hull has very
neat little den over there.
The cook at the Marshal House
in Weston had a very serious at
tack of cramp collie Sunday even
ing, which for a time was thought
would prove fatal.
w. T. Gilman informs us that
he is getting his share of grain in
surance. He insured 1000 acres
for one mana. w. Sweeny-
Tuesday afternoon.
y Louie Bergevin, Of Bergevin
Bros. made visit to the Lap
wal reservation this week to look
after the harvesting of their 5000
acre wheat field up there.
* Frank Martin, Wednesday
Estarted harvesting on his reser-
ton ranch with the combined
harvester which has been on ex-
hibition in front of Bloch's store
for the past month.
The report comes from the He
lix neighborhood that the grain in
that locality was severely injured
by the hot weather of the past
week. A large acreage Of grain
was resown this spring, and it was
not sufficiently matured to stand
the extreme hot weather.
Tuesday afternoon game OF
ball was played by the first nine
and picked team. The feature
of the game was the coaching O.
Bill Young, captain of the defunct
"Jiggers," from a dry goods boz
across the street, and one Poole
who made several grand stanc
| plays.
Walla Walla has at last pre-
pared to shake off the private cor
poration water works system that
has ridden like the witch in 8
nightmare for several years on the
consumers of that fair city. A
vote on the proposition of bonding
the town for a water works system
owned by the city was carried bS
q majority of 548.
IADuring the ball game at Heli'
Thursday, P. Sone's team ran away
with a hack containing his wife
and babe. Mr.. Sones who hat
left the hack, ran to the rescue
| He was unable to seize the horses
heads, but grabbed the back ban'
and was dragged sixty or seventy
rods, hanging on desperately. Mrs
Sones jumped out with her child
escaping unhurt. and the team
finally stopped.
Somebody says that there !
said to be one editor in heaven
How he got in there is not pos
itively known, but it is conjecture
that he passed himself for minis
ter and stepped in unexpectedly
When the dodge was discovere
| they searched the realms of felicit
} in all their length and breadth 70
: a lawyer to draw up the necessar
papers for his ejectment, bu
they couldn't find one, and {
, course he held the fort.
r A telegraph operator name
: Swart, who has been running th
| post-office at Gibbon, over on th
river, has been doing a thriyin
g business in the stamp trade. II
. would contract obligatiors to tt
t Pendleton merchants and pa
: them off in job lots Of stamp
/, which he would report to I'll
: postoffice department as cal
: celled. A postal inspector name
9 Robinson heard fit, and inves
] igated the matter, with the resul
that young Swart was arrested an
I taken to Portland.
< G. F. Doane, Of Pendleton abo'
|. IL o'clock last Sunday night, i
8 front of NJ. Baruh's, on Jackso
s street, while on his way to IL
: rac;danca of Ed. X. Smith. W;