The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-08-30
Local News.

Cut down the thistles.
Melons are plentiful this year.
w. E. Young was in Walla Wal
la Sunday.
Postmaster Maloney is ''jist Itch
in" for grouse to get ripe.
J. Z. German was over from
Walla Walla Wednesday.
Mrs. N. Swaggat visited in PEN
dleton Tuesday of this week.
Barney Keenan, and wife, of
Weston, was in the city Tuesday.
g. M. Froome and wife were in
the city from Pendleton Wednesday.
! Good roads" should be the
watchword. Straw solves the prob
lem.
| III. Key. of the Weston distillery,
traded with Athena merchants
Tuesday.
improvement is noticed in the
local columns of the Pendleton
Tribune.
Wanted-To buy two or three
young calves. Address r. E. Stew
art, Athena Oregon, 2t
Mrs. w. T. Gilman and children
returned home Sunday evening
from a visit TO Milton.
Mrs. T. P. Page was in town
Sunday. She brought her baby
boy In for medical treatment.
The road between this city and
Weston is becoming, badly cut up,
the result of heavily loaded wagons.
Please don't forget that compe-
tent and experienced druggist fills
the prescriptions at Osburn's Drug
store.
While settling up old scores
about town don't forget the patient
printer. He's hungry for a little
change.
1t is said the Touchet bottom
lands are producing fine crops of
fruit and vegetables. They irrigate
down there.
Six hundred loads Of manure will
be sold at auction at Fort Walla
Walla on September Eat | o'clock
p, m. of that day.
Tn Southern Oregon town pa
per has started ballot to decide
who is the handsomest woman.
The prize is gold mine.
With the exception of a very few
cases, harvesting in this section is
over. Most of the boys have lit
tie money now. Hold on to it boys.
Louis Estes has fitted up a bar
ber shop in the Morris building and
is now ready to furnish clean
shave or neat hair cut on short
notice. t
Prof. F. J. Van Wrinkle, of the
Weston Normal School. has return
ed home from Boston. He took
a special course at Harvard while
there.
Charles Barrett is again loser of
q valuable horse. Tuesday nights
passenger caught it about the same
place the one last week lost its life
by the same train.
A band Of Gypsies were camped
in the grove below town this week.
The girls and boys visited them,
and many had their fortunes told'
past, present and future.
The stable and sheds on the
farm OF Charles Maybee, seven
miles northeast Of Pendleton, to-
gether with 30 tons of hay, a pony
and two saddles, were entirely de-
stroyed by fire at noon Tuesday.
The Long Creek Eagle complains
that sheep from the neighboring
counties have eaten about the last
spear of grass in that region, and
hopes are now entertained that
they will soon return to their home
| pasture.
ATTENTION ALL.-Be sure and
buy your harvest supplies in the
line of groceries, at Max Lewins
Cash Grocery, as he sells cheaper
than any one else in Athena. Call
and get prices before purchasing
elsewhere.
Prof. M. e. Royal will deliver an
address on "Educational Interests"
at the Baptist church Sunday
afternoon at 8 o'clock. He will
talk fully about the Normal
school at Weston and urgent
ly requests those interested in
schools TO attend.
! The proprietors Of the Pendleton
securing mills and other parties in
terested in the proposed woolen
mills are receiving a great deal Of
encouragement, says the Tribune.
So far % of the rs shares Of capi-
tai stock have been sold at the par
value of 800 per share, and the
remainder will doubtless soon be
disposed of.
There are great many Of the
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