The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-04-26
Brevities.

Sunny days.
Are they not pleasant?
Gardens look we'll and are grow
ing fast.
Mrs. A. R. Bradley visited in
Weston Sunday.
G. DeGraw, prominent citizen
of Weston, was in town Monday.
C. w. Steen put up at the Gold
en- Rule Hotel, in Pendleton, Sat
urday.
Billy Mosgrove's new buggy ar
rived from Chicago this week. It
is a beauty.
The vegetable peddling business
in Walla Walla is completely mon
opolized by the Chinese.
L. D. Lively left on Sunday eve
ning's passenger for Portland. to
look after business interests.
J. G. Crome, Palmer & Rey's
type seller, was Press Office call
er Tuesday. Same old Crome!
The Brown boys are contempla-
ting removing the "Miltonian"
plant to some point in Idaho where
they will start paper.
The hose cart, hook and ladder
truck are now substantially housed
in suitable quarters on the ground
floor of the city hall.
How about that bicycle club?
Athena, at present, is behind her
sister towns in this respect. Only
two standard wheels in town.
Trees have taken on their dress
Of green hereabouts, while up in
the Big Bend country, Washing
ton, snow-drifts are still in sight.
The boys who play base ball
should repair the back-stop. It's
too long between times when the
ball passes through the present
structure.
Waits burg, s; Walla Walla, 3,
was the way a game of ball stood
Saturday in Waitsburg at the fin
ish. Charley Holt plays with the
Waitsburg team.
Shiloh's Cure, the great Cough
and Group Cure, is in great demand
Pocket size contains twenty-five
doses, only 25c. Children love it.
Sold by all Druggists.
Lee Mitchell came over from
Walla Walla Saturday evening
and went down to Pendleton to
pay taxes on his Umatilla county
property. Lucky mani
The appeal bond in the Lee
street bridge case has been filed
and notices Of appeal served. The
case will probably be settled next
month by the supreme court.
Major Bloch, the "spankin y
team of bays and the editor spent
Sunday on the classic banks Of
Dry Greek, angling for the sportive
speckled beauty. Got 000000--30,
y. It is said that while in Pendle-
ton, the three state officers express
ed dissatisfaction with the site for
the asylum at Union. Poor sani-
tary conditions were the chief cause
of complaint.
Fred Van Horn, the young gen.
tleman who was thrown from his
bicycle on Dry Greek hill, Sunday
last is at the City Hotel, Milton.
He is resting easy, with favorable
chances for recovery.
Sheriff Houser has been chasing
a horse thief over in Grant county,
or thereabouts, since April 5 and
the people begin to suspect that
the thief may have stolen Zoe's
horse too and that he is returning
home on foot, says the Alliance
Herald.
Workmen repairing Pendloton's
water system, found chunk o.
lead in the pipe that tipped the
scales at 15 pounds, It is thought
by it's discovery and removal a
saving of 100 cords of wood pei
year will be the result, besides ad-
ditional pressure.
John Froome this week received
from New York City, an elegant
44.valve Ephonium Of the famous
Besson make. 1t cost Mr., Froomt
the snug sum Of $50 and is indeed
a gem. The Besson band instru
ments are imported from England
and are recognized the world owe
as the highest grade made, TIL,
Athena band now has three instru
ments of this make, and will a
soon as possible replace the instru
ments now on hand with those 0
| the Besson make.