The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-09-29


record at 2.04.
The Portland Exposition was
formally opened Wednesday night.
Wheat in the Cold Springs
country averaged thirty bushels to
the acre.
Miss Harriet Woodruff, county
school superintendent was in Ath-
ena Tuesday.
X Snow fell every day last week,
in the John Day country but mel
ted as fast as it fell.
George Ellsworth was appointed
janitor of the school house, by the
board Of school directors,
The State Fair at Salem ended
Saturday. 1t is said not to have
been success financially.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Johns, Of
Pendleton spent last Sunday in
Athena visiting Mr. and Mrs. R.
A. Garden.
| The grove south Of the city is
becoming quite g, resort for the.
congregation of Athenians on
Sunday afternoon.
The Athena band is practicing
on new music. Next Spring the
Athena band will come out the
best in the state.
i Born, in Pendleton, Saturday
.Eevening, September 1123, to Mr.. and
! Mrs. w. w. Boothby, daughter,
weight nine pounds.
j Dan Gillis, who has been assist
| ing his brother Angus to complete
the new school building, returned
to Tacoma last Saturday.
i Married, in Pendleton, J. D.
Lanham, Of Birch creek, and Miss
L, B. Pepper, formerly Of Rome,
Ga, were welded Saturday after
noon.
We are in receipt Of an interest
ing communication, which, owing
to the lack Of space, we are com.
PEELED to leave over till next
week,
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ, Kinzie who
used to reside on Gerking Flat
west Of this city, but now residents
Of Walla Walla, are visiting at the
home Of Clark Walter.
A lady correspondent of the Wes-
ton Leader accuses its editor OF
not being capable Of running a
newspaper, or words tothat effect,
and the editor in turn says, like
all women. she has had the last
word, and he presumes that she is
satisfied.
i, At the clerks office has been
filed map Of Fruityale. a town
established on Mud Creek in the
East End. About d half-sectior
is dedicated as a. toWdasite by Johr
G. Swash, Eva Swash, R. F. Smith
and Emma Smith.
Al School began at Helix last Mon
day with q light attendance be
: cause of sickness and the late har
! vest. Both rooms have been com
pletely renovated and the seating
] changed SO that both teachers ex
press themselves as we'll pleased
: with their surroundings.
Eddie McFerren, of Helix, me
with severe accident Wednesday
! While emptying wheat into {
: chopper his foot caught in bell
. and was taken round pulley
While no bones were broken, tn,
cords around the ankle were snap
: ed, which will likely cripple hin
d for life.
The plant of the defunct Oregon
City Herald was sold at sheriff
sale last Saturday. The purchas
ers are T. B. Hankins, Jane
Shaw, e. G. Hamilton, and G. Fl
Y r. Miller, most of them wealth,
# populists, who propose resuminl
9 at once the publication Of a peo
d ple's party paper.
At T. G.sDavies' real estate ofiic
!, says the Walla Walla Statesman
I is tomato vine laden with tha
vegetable which weighs 100 pounds
Besides this, from the same vim
It so pounds were gathered befor
'e pulled up It was raised by J. {
" johnson near Yellow Hawk, on
: mile from the court house.
! ! The Dayton Courief says of E
y r. Burke, who a year or so ag
: made Athena his headquarters
! J. "E. r. Burke graduated in tn
! Dayton branch Of the Ensor inst
: tute for the cure Of the liquor hs
bit, or disease, last week. He a
g leges that even the smell OF whis
e key makes him sick, and he know
s several others who have taken til
i treatment who say the same Of it
y Mrs. Sarah Chessman, at OF
q time a resident of this city, die
i. recently ofquick consumption, /
ee Ear1ham, Iowa. Mrs. Cbessma
le has D large number Of acquain
/ ances and relatives in this count
h who will be panied to learn Of h
as demise, among who is her daugl
/. ter Mrs + TT MeTTnahar ~ Hall