The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-07-26
Local News.
Clean out your we'll.

Hollis receives new goods every
day.
Peaches are becoming plentiful
in the market.
H. Key, the Weston distillery
man, was in the city Monday.
"Pap" Stroud, Masonic grand
lecturer for Oregon, is in the city.
A Spokane base ball team wants
to play ball in Pendleton in Aug
ust.
We understand the Wild Horse
road to Pendleton is now in tip.top
condition.
]. Bloch has first class second
hand Wood Binder which he will
sell very cheap.
Wheat on the Ralston place,
west of Adams went 80 bushels and
barley made so.
. Rev. +. A. LaViolette was engag.
ed Wednesday in repairing the bell
at the NJ. e. church.
The 0. R. & N. Co; this week
put IN a pair of scales and pipes
Tor water at their stock yards,
Remember that the Boston Store
carries a full line of Waverly shoes
for girls, boys or ladies. /
H. Macarthur is making improve
ments on his main street property
by erecting high fence in the
rear thereof.
* Several Japs have been noticed
Fof late among the transient la
boring men who have come here to
work in the harvest fields.
1t is said that water was rather
low in the tank Sunday. In case
of fire this would be an inconven-
fence that might cost somebody
dear.
Mr.. G.. L. Strong, of Mitchell
Crook county, was in the city yes
terday. He is a newspaper man,
and of course called at the PRESS
Office.
Louis Estes has fitted up bar
ber shop in the Morris building and
is now ready to furnish a clean
shave or a neat hair cut on short
notice. I
Each year flies seem to gel
worse on the Pacific coast. 1t il
only a matter ola short time until
horses will be provided with nets
for protection. ia
G. r. Powell, advertising agent fol
Loyd's Mammoth Pavilion Uncle
Toms Cabin, was in the city Mon,
day. The Pass acknowledges 8
pleasant call.
A girl baby was born at Kokomo
Ind, the other day who is tht
fourteenth daughter OF fourteenth
daughter of a fourteenth daughter
a record thought to be unprecenden
ted.
State Evangelist, r. e. Dunlap
began a series of meetings at tn,
Christian church, in this city last
evening. These meetings will enc
with Sunday evenings sermon. AL
are cordially invited to attend.
Uncle Toms Cabin will be playe,
in Athena on Monday evenin,
next. While the play is old We
it is always new when produced b,
a good company, and Loyd's i
said to be the best in the world.
ATTENTION ALL.-Be sure ant
buy your harvest supplies in tn
line of groceries, at Max Levin
Cash Grocery, as he sells cheape
than any one else in Athena. Ca
and get prices before purchasin
Elsewhere.
N4iberty, the Indian, came
I tow Monday, and proceeded q
oncs TO take on a comfortabl
ajag." Deputy Marshal Gholso
escorted the dusky denizen Of th
forest to his cayuse, with orders
vamoose from town.
The people at Echo, numberin
about so, who were poisoned o
poison oak at picnic recently, al
slowly recovering, says the K. {
There has been lots of work fc
the physicians, scarcely q famil
in the town escaping.
The receipts of the Umatill
county toll road on the North For
Of the John Day was as follow
May, $12075; June, $115. Th
makes total for the two month
of $235.75, or $13575 to the count
after all expenses of the road al
paid.
A tramp insulted q number
, women in Milton a day or two ag
and when the men came home ar
learned oft, they armed themselv
with all kinds of FIRE arms. A b
| persuit was begun, but the scare
! ended in failure, luckily for Il
: tramp. People who came throue
|, Milton learned of the affair by sc
ing number OF armed men at Il
g depot says the East Oregonian.
The East Columbia conference
! the Methodist Episcopal churc