The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1904-07-15

/ II l.. u. Pickel has returned from triE
to bis Pilot Rock ranch. He cut aud
stacked bis bay while there.
A party of fifteen or twenty young
people went up on the Unatilla river
Tuesday and spent jolly day, return
ing in the evening.
i Mrs. j. F. Adams and daughter Alta
left Wednesday for the farm of Marion
Jack near Pendleton, where they will
have charge of the harvest cook house.
Miss Anna Kirk has returned from
Chicago, where she has been in a school
OF pharmacy for the past two years and
is now with her mother and sister at
La Grande.
Ernest W. Mcqueen and Miss Ger
trude D. George, both of Milton, we're
married last Sunday at 2 p. M. The
bride is daughter Of Rev. D. E.
George.
Miss Lula Ray, who has been teach
ing school at Bremerton, Wash, for the
past two years, was over from her home
at Weston, Sunday, the guest of Mrs.
W. R. Miller.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Beck and Mr.. and
, Mrs. Roy Beck arrived in the city
Wednesday from their homesteads in
franklin county, and will remain here
during harvest.
A series of heavy rains has visited
the mountain districts west of Sumpter
the past week doing immense damage to
mining bitches. Many Of the rains were
small cloudbursts.
~.Jesse w. Smith is expected home this
week from his Snake river mines. Some
big washouts are reported from the re-
cent cloudbursts in the Imnaha district,
in Mr.. Smiths vicinity.
i John Foss was taken severely ill at
his home in Moro last week, having been
overcome by the heat while at work in
his blacksmith shop. AT latest reports
he was pronounced out of danger.
At a meeting Of Glover Leaf Lodge.
Degree of Honor, Wednesday evening,
Mrs. ]. W. Smith was elected delegate
to attend grand lodge, which convenes
in Portland the 10Th, with Mrs. Rosen-
zweig as alternate
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w. A. Flower, an experienced pho
tographer, and l.. G.. Pickel will con-
duct the Umatilla Art gallery. Mr..
Flower will manage the gallery and Mr..
Pickel will look after the outside work.
Prices reasonable and good work guran-
East Oregonian: A license to wed
was issued by County Clerk Sailing
Tueday morning to Albert s. O'Harra
and Maggie M. McCorkell The bride
is resident of Briggson and the groom
Of Weston. The young couple will
make their future home at Weston.
Rev. Dean Hamilton, pastor of the
Baptist church at Weston, will preach /!
in the Christian church in this city next
Sunday morning. j. W. Jenkins will |
occupy Mr.. Hamilton's pulpit in Wes-
ton in the morning. His subject in his
home pulpit in the evening will be:
1.-THE Three Pleas.
Mrs. A. B. McEwen remembered the
Press yesterday morning in a most
pleasant manner by sending to our desk
a magnificent boquet Of roses. Athena
may not be celebrated for its rose cul-
ture, but few individual gardens such
as that seen at the McEwen home will
demonstrate what might be done in that |
line with little care.
I During the electric storm which Wis
fted this region Monday evening, Dave
the city marshal at Weston,
was standing near q telephone pole In
in that city when he received severe
electric shock, receiving at the same
time burn extending down the side Of
his face and neck. Moving down the
street, he was standing near tree when
the elements again showed their dis
pleasure by Ievelipg It to the ground. |