The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-11-21
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Noo' sao ~Auoius SlotorS COulgnC at
the opera house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will M. Peterson
were in Pendleton yesterday.
Mrs. Austin Foss and Miss Iva CAL
lender spent the day yesterday in PEN
dleton.
Mrs. Woodruff and Miss Mabel
Tompkins will arrive home this even-
ing from La Grande.
The Pendleton Tribune has man in
the field securing data for its annual
writeup of the county.
Mrs. Nelson Manela and Mrs. Ern-
est Mcqueen of Milton were guests Of
Athena friends Saturday.
y Miss Gertie Luna and Miss Edyth
Mcbride attended the play when
Knighthood was in Flower" at PEN
dleton.
x j. M. Kern, prosperous farmer of
the Helix neighborhood was in town
yesterday, trading with our mer-
chants.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Warren and
Misses Viva and Fay Warren were
trading with Athena merchants Sat
urday from Weston.
The regular monthly business meet
ing of the z. P. s. G. E. will take
place at the Christian church Satur-
day evening after which social time
will be enjoyed.
X There is some evidence that an In
dian has been murdered on the Colum
bia, near Umatilla. A pool of blood
was discovered near the river and
blanket was found in the water.
Mrs. M. w. Smith, who spent sew
eral months visiting velatives and
friends in the eastern states returned
home yesterday morning. She was
met ut La Grande by Mr.. Smith.
\ Miss Maud Knowlton arrived in the
city yesterday from Newport, Wash,
and will remain in Athena for some
time visiting relatives. She is sister
of Fred Knowlton and grand daugh-
ter of VIM. Willaby, ST.
NJ. w. Jenkins has returned from
Kennewick where he went on church
affairs. Mr.. Jenkins says land
prices in that section are increasing
in value, 5000 per acre being the price
asked for sagebrush land contiguous
to irrigation bitches.
In fight at John Bergevin's on the
reservation Thursday night Hugh
Robbie stabbed Dan Hart with pocket
knife. Hart's injuries are not serious.
DIR. Plamondon dressed the wounds
and found one cut in the stomach, one
in the scalp and one in the face.
The boys and girls Rally Day ex-
ercises will be given in the Christian
church Sunday evening the 26th. All
the children taking part in the ex-
ercises are requested to meet for prac-
tice in the church at 2 O'Clock Satur-
day.
H. I. Booth, general agent for the
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance COM
pany, is in the city on business. 0.
q. Chamberlain is the local agent of
the company. which is among the
strongest insurance organizations in
the Northwest.
Officer Gholson received word Satur-
day from Garfield, WASH, to intercept
a man wanted there for horse steal
ing. He had lett here before the
message came, and was caught in
Pendleton. The fellow stopped at the
Athena hotel while here and was ac-
companied by woman.
4 Claud Steen, the prosperous Dry
creek farmer, has installed an electric
light plant for domestic convenience.
He purchased a five horse power gaso-
line engine with dynamo complete,
aud now bis beautiful country home
bristles with electric lights at nomin-
al expense.
The Pendleton football team, de-
feated at Baker City, maintains that it
can win from Baker on the Pendleton
grounds. In the matter Of field sports,
base ball in particular, it has long
been an established fact that visit
ing team at Pendleton, stands little
show of winning out.
Milton Eagle: Messrs. Hays and
Craghead, real estate dealers of Athe-
ma, were making the acquaintance of
our citizens Tuesday and incidentally
looking over the field with view of
doing some business here in the
future. The gentlemen report making
number Of good sales in the Athena
neighborhood recently.
N>Athena's first team of football
players has game schedule with the
La Grande team in that city on
Thanksgiving day, and return game
will be played in this city on Christ
mas day. The Athena team is
strengthening its line up for the game,
and it will be formidable aggrega-
tion on the field.
Perhaps it will be Of interest to the
people Of Athena to know something
Of the little women who are to enter
tain at the opera house tonight.
They come from Boston, Mass, and
are Of the noted Adams family of that
state. They have studied In Boston