The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-10-11
scRIsBLER,s INTERESTING TALK

| few days on the Flat.
| Grover Gerking, a Butter river
rancher, is visiting relatives and
friends in this vicinity.
Dave Russell has been engaged
the past week in building new
barn on his farm west of town.
Tom Barger is having a fire and
frost-proof cellar constructed on
his place five miles west of town,
Carpenter Pierce is doing the
lsjS8H0rf.
XJinks Taylor and Hardy Mans
Y6Nld have gone to the John Day
country to roundup and drive out
a hundred head of horses that Mr..
Taylor recently sold to parties who
intend shipping them east. The
horses will be delivered at Pendle-
ton. The boys will be gone about
ten days and as an experiment will.
eat two or three horses just to test
the quality Of horse beef
A few days ago Harve Whitemans
family had narrow escape from
WHAT might have been a serious
catastrophe. The women folks
who were engaged in canning
were lin the act Of unsoldering q
Eve gallon can which had contained
alcohol, when an unexpected and
terrific explosion occurred, creating
eatconsternation and commotion
among the Gamers and kitchen
furniture generally. When the
smoke cleared away the kitchen
presented the appearance of having
been visited by a half-grown
cyclope; pots, pans, cans, kids,
women, girls and various other use!
full articles being strewn around
quite promiscuously. Fortunately
no lives were lost, though one of
the party is reported as having
three spare-ribs fractured.
Chas. Brotherton met with q
serious accident one evening last
week. Shortly after retiring he
heard noise in the direction of
his smoke-h house. Thinking that;
he had probably left the door open
and that some stray feline or canine
was taking advantage of his care
! lessness, he hastily arose to investi-
| gate. Just as he was going out he
stepped on q nail that was in
loose doorstep, which had in some
unaccountable manner become
turned upside down. The nail was
d long rusty one and penetrated
Mr.. Brotherton's foot to the depth
Of about six inches, going almost
/ half way through his foot and
causing intense pain and extreme
lameness. However, we are glad
to record the fact that no serious
consequences resulted, and that
Brother Brotherton sis rapidly re-
covering and is at present enjoy
ing himself imnIsnsely sitting
around watching hB better half do
the chores. III
Considerable ssnusement was
furnished the largeand appreciative
| audience that assembled last Thurs
day morningat tie Enclosure in the
rear of MosgroyRs mercantile es-
tablishment, to&Witness the open
ing performan@ of Murphy and
Bailey's Wild$ West shows. Mr..
| Murphy as al all-round bronco
buster and asa rope singer, is un-
/ surpassed, while the manner in
which Bailey manipulates the
wheelbarroM is simply superbly
grand. The performance was
greeted with uproaruous applause
throughout. The climax was
reached when Murphy, while going
at full speed roped the buffalo, and
Bailey with his wheelbarrow
mounted the ferocious beast and
wheeled himself on the rope across
to the bronco, while all parties to
the act were going like the wind.
We don't mean cyclone or any
thing like that but just a gentle
breeze, as it were. Their next per-
formance will be announced in
time to accommodate all who may
wish to attend.
A few evenings ago as the silver
moon was climbing the eastern sky,
one Of our most prominent citizens
might have been seen reclining in
an easy chair at his elegant resi-
dence, southwest corner of Fourth
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