The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-12-08

|N The Promoter, the new Pendleton
paper, comes out this week with
lwrite-up of Athena, that compares
very favorably with other write-ups
Of the town given by outside papers.
f %. G. Chamberlain transacted bust
ness at theUmatilla agency yesterday.
Mr. Chamberlain was informed by
the new agent that no new business
would be taken up until after the new
year was ushered in.
Election results at Pilot Rock were:
Mayor, E. f. Beitle; Recorder, Ray
Miller; treasurer, G. S. SS.tevant;
councilmen, Isaac Bogard, w. H.
Glenn, Charles Newcomb, L.. E. Roy
and M. A. Sturtevant.
Salem Capital Journal: Henry
Barrett and sister, Mrs. Areta Pla-
mondon, of Athena, are guests of Dr.
j. f. Calbreath and family. Mrs.
Plamondon and Prof. Helen Calbreath
are "old college chums.o
M Clarence Zerba, of Athena, who is
attending the Pendleton Business col
legle, is doing excellent work in all
his studies and during the last month
/ has won the gold medal for the great
est Improvement in penmanship.
l><Wm. Schrimpf dropped into the
Press office Monday long enough to
tell us that Schrlmpf, Cannon & Co.,
had broken the Pinkerton boys hog
killing record. The Schrimpf record
is 16 hogs killed and dressed in one
hour and 80 minutes.
~ Fall sown wheat in this vicinity
and in the Helix neighborhood is grow
ing nicely. The snow has practically
disappeared. It went off with a
chinook wind and the ground not be-
ing frozen all moisture is being alb
sorbed by the soil.
TX The largest land deal made in this
county the past year was consum-
mated at Pendleton yesterday when
Charles Cunningham, the sheepman,
transferred to J. II. Burgess, of Ante
lope 10, 1888 acres of grazing land
the purchase price being $116,878.
L. K. Kerbaugh, formerly business
j manager of the Pendleton Tribune, is
the latest worthless check offender at
Pendleton. He issued checks on
the Oregon Savings bank of Portland.
Kerbaugh took train for Denver and
the checks came back from Portland
marked, Payment stopped. f"
Tx Adams city election will be held
| Monday, Dec. II, and the following
are the candidates placed in nomina-
ton: L. A. Lieuallen, mayor; 0. l..
Baker, recorder; DIR. e. A. Todd,
treasurer; John Geiss, @. G. Darr, J..
A. Winn and G. E. Otterstedt, coun-
cilmen.
Blair & Wood, Weston real estate
agents have brought suit in Justice
Chamberlain court to recover $50
from Jesse Hart. This sum is alleged
to be due for commission on the sale
Of 12O acres of mountain land.
Peterson 81 Peterson are attorneys fol
plaintiffs.
The alterations and improvements
, at the Baptist church are now com
plete, with the exception of placing
the new pews. The church is nicely
) painted and papered, a new carpe
adorns the floor, and the building il
furnace heated. Yesterday anothel
much needed Improvement was mad
when a new sidewalk was placed OIL
the south side of the church property
IN Sheldon Taylor is very good sho
foy boy. The Taylor barnyard he
ing infested with a lot of pigeons
Sheldon determined to decimate tn
r ranks of the feathered tribe. Wit
this object in view, the boy scattere'
! some grain in circle and took
5 "stand" in range. Twelve pigeon
. alighted to feed on the grain and a
Q the crack OF the gun eleven birds fel
over dead.