The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-06-30
CITY AND COUNTY.
A Full Resume Of News---Looal Per
sonaI and Otherwise.

lOI Tue L ftluieJOn oIedm Laundry.
Have you seen that silyerware
Hollis is giving away to his custo-
mers.
Only the purest and freshest
drugs used in Prescriptions at the
Pioneer Drug Store.
First class oats and baled tim
othy hay for sale by the hundred
at Froome's stable.
Hewitt uses nothing but pure,
fresh drugs in filling prescriptions.
Take your prescriptions to him.
The school at the Indian agency
closes to day. Some parties went
from Athena to witness the closing
exercises.
G. w. Rigby was in the city
from his reservation farm last
Tuesday. He says the crops on
the reserve are needing rain.
The free dance at Pendleton on
the 4th will be the grandest you
ever participated in. Day and
night. Music by the Athena
band.
James Simington, E. O. Casey,
l'Chas. Stanton and Jerre Buzan,
well known farmers of the Van
sycle country, were in town on
business last Tuesday,
See the new back at the Photo
gallery painted by Lane. Now is
the time to get a good photo.
| Come early before the. warm
weather comes.
Mr.. Sargent, president Of the
Buckley Lumber Co. was in
town the first of the week on
business connected with the COM
pany's lumber yard at this place.
/ Leave your washing with Han
sell and Maloney, They send it
to the Pendleton Steam Laundry
every Wednesday evening and
| have in returned Saturday morn
ing.
| 1t is said the farmers of Tuda-
Willow are compelled to cut their
| grain for hay in order to keep it
from being devoured by crickets.
which are investing that section of
the country in large numbers.
| youcontemplate buying q head
er go and see the Plano steel head
er on the vacant lot east of the
Pioneer Drug Store. This is the
best header on the market, and
they are going like hot CAKES.
| P. N. Stevens "the living two
legged gopher" has come back to
| Athena again, and says he is ready
! to clean wells for fifty per cent
| less than any one else.
| The Plano Binder is the only
binder on the market having a fly
| wheel attachment. 1t is not a
picked-up machine and it is noS a
cheap machine. It is sold by Kelso
Bros. Athena, Ore. w. E. Clark
manager. sgmm
George Link Of Spanish Hollow,
Grant county is in the city. He
reports that wheat in that sec
tion is suffering greatly for want of
rain. Mr.. Link and his brother,
have 1900 acres of wheat sown on
summer fallow ground, and ne
says that, unless it rains soon, it
will not produce anything.
Mrs Roush left on last Wednes-
day evenings train on an extern
sive visit to relatives in Nebraska.
Mr.. Roush will take a trip to
Portland and other points in the
Willamette valley in the interest
of the Athena Mill Co. and will
join his family in the east some
time this summer.
Henry Schmitt's team was
hitched in the rear Of Fred Rosen.
zweig's residence Saturday, and
during the wind storm they be-
came frightened. They broke
lose and started for home at a
break neck speed, distributing the
hack along the road for several
miles out Of town. The horses
were not injured.
Pendleton Tribune: Assessor
Brannin and deputies are busy pre-
pairing the assessment rolls. They
find quite difference in the roll
this year from that of 1892. Eighty
persons in Union. Helix and Full
ton precincts were assessed in
1892 on $4,000. In 1893, with
out their indebtness, $312215.
The increase is about the same all
the way through.
There will be a grand celebration
under the auspices of the Helix
and Adams bands at Cayuse
station July the 4th. The usual
program of races, ball games
music, etc is announced. A. D
Leedy will deliver the oration
We predict large crowd will at.
tend from Adams. Helix and Other
points, as many people will prefer
j days outing on the river to {
day in some town.
Last Tuesday Ed Rush of ths