The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-07-27
Press Paragraphs


Will NJ. Peterson was in Pendleton
yesterday on legal business.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. H. Preston left
last evening for the coast, to remain
several days.
Miss Carrie Stone has returned from
Seattle, where she attended teachers
summer school.
bill" Booher's wheat crop on the
reservation is averaging better than
40 bushels per acre.
I. D. Taylor, Lee Teutsch and M.
A. RAIDER came up from Pendleton to
attend the funeral of S. A. Maloney.
M. v. Howard, pastor of the South
Methodist church at Milton, was in
the city Wednesday.
The usual services will take place
at the Baptist church Sunday morn
lug and evening.
- Fred Kershaw is employed portion
of his time as bookkeeper at the First
National Bank.
The Preston Parton Mills are closed
down for the week, and will be start
ed up as soon as the machinery is
overhauled.
Subjscts for the next Lords day at
the Church of Christ Morning, San
Impure Church. Evening, "Jesus
as a Preacher, :"
Prof. French, president of the
Eastern Oregon State Normal School,
will visit Union county in the inter-
ests of that institution.
l have piece of desirable property
25 foot front, center of Main street,
Athena, which will trade for cattle.
R. J. Boldly, Athena.
kLost or Stolen-A bay cayuse mare,
reached name, branded with circle G.
on right thigh, has scar on nose, about
or years DID, $40 reward. Billy
Robinson. Weston.
T At the Press Office is twin apple.
The growth is from one stem, but
there are two cores. The specimen
was taken from fine assortment re-
ceived yesterday by Dell Brothers.
Squaws are beginning to make reg
ular trips to town with huckleberries
which they offer for sale at exorbitant
prices. This is the forerunner Of har-
vesting a big berry. crop on the
mountain slopes.
Glen Sailing has rented one of the
Hiteman cottages and will move his
family to town while he works in the
harvest fields. In the fall he will
return to the mountains to harvest bis
potato crop.
Perry Tuttle and L. B. Kidwell,
Elgin Boys, are in town. Mr.. Tuttle
is printer and memb Der of the Elgin
Recorder family. He will don
pair of overalls and go into the harvest
fields for months vacation.
A standpipe for convenience in fill
ing water tanks from the city mains
has been placed in position at hose
cart house No. 2, at the West side of
Main street, just across the street
from the o. r.. & N. tracks.
Mr.and Mrs. Ed. McQuary Of Milton,
were in the city Wednesday. Mr..
McQuary is owner and landlord of the
City Hotel at Milton, but the Press
man remembers him better as publish
er of the Press in the days of old lang
syne.
A fire, starting from Marion Jacks
traction engine, was the cause for a
great scare Ia that neighborhood
Wednesday afternoon. The FIRE burn.
ed through several acres of barley
stubble, but it was put out before it
reached any grain.
An expert succeeding remedying
the defects of the gasoline engine on
the Walters Combine and the machine
is said to be doing fairly good work.
The engine is said to be deficient in
power, aud 25-horse- power Buffalo
engine will be substituted.
1t is related of a combine harvester
driver, who is engaged in an outfit
operating west of town that be
made a whole round of the field the
other day after losing the tongue out
of the machine The parts connecting
the tongue became broken, when it
dropped to the ground.
Ed. Barrett went to Waitsburg yes
terday morning, for the purpose Of
submitting bid on the work of COZ
strueting an addition to the Preston
Parton Milling company, Mill "a, =
at that place. Mr.. Barrett is a sue
oessful contractor and since coming
to Athena has been very scucessful il
his work.
With the Sunday evening services
at the Baptist church, Rev. Ellis viii
not preach again until September
He will take much needed rest ant
will perhaps spend his vacation a
Baker City. Mr.. Ellis is in poo
health, and though somewhat i'm
proved, be is far from being wei
man. For several days he has beef
in The Dalles receiving medical treat
ment.
Mra Gao~oie Pierce wife of L. J.