The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-07

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had good rehearsal.
! Gussie, the second child of Max Lewin's
has been quite eick this week.
Lake France was confined to his home
this week with cholera morbus.
Mrs. E. R. Cox has been confined to
her room with illness this week.
G. M. Morrison, the prosperous young
farmer of Adams, was in town Tuesday.
Wheat on the Gerking farm, west of
town, is going 80 bushels and is OF No.
quality.
| II, B. Huntington, Athena's new attor.
ney, went to Dayton, WASH, Monday on
business.
O. w. Tracy, manager of the Pacific
Coast Elevator Company, was in Athena
Wednesday.
I The open season for killing deer be-
gan last Saturday, and will last until
December l.
lN Monday and Tuesday town was lively,
owing to the presence of a large number
OF threshing crews.
Elder E. @. Sanderson, dean of the
divinity school of Eugene, visited Elder
Rushing this week.
| 70. w. Hollis, W. E. Young and NJ. M.
Johns have been appointed appraisers of
the estate of E. DePeatt.
ID Carpenters are now rushing the work
On Hamilton Rourke Compsny's new
warehouse at Waterman.
P. M. KIRKLAND'S accounts must be
settled. Cali at the First National bank,
and interview E. L. Barnett.
n Born--In Adams, on Wednesday,
August 8, 1896, to Mr.. and Mrs. +. j.
Looze, girl, weight IL pounds.
Mrs. Geo. Martin left last Tuesday to
join her mother who is rusticating near
the Cold Spring on the mountain.
X Henry Kelsay, who has been visiting
With his brother Charley, for the past
week, left for New Orleans, Sunday.
You need not 60 any further than
Athena for your harvest supplies. Athe-
ma merchants will not be undersold.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy cures
colds, Group and whooping cough. 1t is
pleasant, safe and reliable. For sale by
Osburn.
The mountains at the present time are
thickly populated, and as consequence
the towns and villages are somewhat de-
serted.
At meeting of the Pendleton Com
mercial Association last Tuesday evening
500 was added to the library fund Of
that body.
County School Superintendent Nowlin,
will hold teachers examination in
Pendleton next week, commencing on
Wednesday.
| NThe train on the w. & 9. r. came
| through Athena from Pendleton Satur-
day and took out load of sleep for the
Sound market.
J. Bloch received fine lady's bicycle
yesterday, which he will rattle off. 1t is
neat wheel, and the first one to be
ratified off in Athena.
{TG. g. Osburn will start next Sunday
Pevening for Helena, Montana, to attend
the meeting of the Grand Camp of the
Woodmen of the World.
When the hair begins to fall out or
turn gray, the scalp needs doCtoring, and
we know Of no better specific than Halls
Vegetable Sicilian Hair -Renewer.
Au infant son of John Guise, who lives
near Adams, died on Saturday last and
was buried Sunday. The child was six
months old and died of cholera in
fantum.
IM w. II. Hawes, who has about 500
acres of wheat on the reservation, started
a new combine harvester yesterday. He
now has two of these machines in opera
tion on his place.
l%The barley crop in this section is max
Ming an excellent yield. E. A. Dudley g
crop onithe Richards place made near
| 80 bushels per acre. Several others re-
port nearly as good yield.
Mr.. Herrin, of The Dalles, Grand
Lecturer of the A. 0. U. W., will deliver
a lecture in Athena on the benefits of
that order, Monday, August "a, to which
the public is cordially invited.
w. s. Byers is making up a shipment
of three csrlonds Of -four destined for
Africa. 1t is put up in l24, 241a and 20
pound sacks OF the ordinary kind and
these sacks in turn are packed in coffee
sacks.
The members of Woodmen camp at
Pendleton seem to have decided to assist
all the unmarried "neighbors" of their
camp to find suitable wives. Justice
Miller offers to peform the ceremony
free of charge.
Superintendent of instruction Irwin
has completed the work of compiling the
school census from reports sent in by the
county superntendents through the state,
and has turned the work over to the
state printer.
Pendleton's city recorder will leave
next Sunday for Helena, Montana, to
attend the grand council Of the Wood
men, and w. j. Furnish, Pendleton's
mayor, will act as police judge during
the recorders absence.
George Riddle, OF Baker City, went
fishing and tied his buggy horee on a bill.
When he came back the horse had Slip
ped aud rolled down the hill in such a
way that the halter around his neck had
choked him to death.
! x A petition was circulated among the
fepublicans Of North Athena precinct one
day this week asking the chairman OF the
republican county central committee to
appoint e. L. Barnett, Committeeman
for North Athena, vice E. DEFEAT, de-
ceased.
Elder E. O. Sanderson, dean of the
divinity school of the Christian church in
Oregon, will occupy the pulpit at the
Christian church here next Sunday
morning and evening. mr. Ssnderson is
one of the brightest lighte in the Christian
church and all should hear him.
" Frank Frazier is still firm believer
vn Chehslis' ability to beat bicyclists.
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