The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-07-06

music, is the guest of her college
mate, Mrs, j. D. Plamondon. Miss
Calbreath. who is already talented
musician, will spend the summer in
Oregon and this fall will leave for
Germany, where she will spend two
years in perfecting herself in her
chosen profession.
Fifty acres of spring wheat sown on
summer fallow land at the Barrett
Pine Creek ranch, has been damaged
by the hot weather to the extent that
the quality of the grain is greatly i'm
paired and the field will be cut for
hay. This piece of wheat was ex-
tremely rank in growth, the result
being that the plant could not stand
the heat.
The little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Bert Cartano yesterday drank por-
ton of the contents of small bottle
of iodine. The mother heard the
little one strangle and went to her
assistance in time to prevent her from
swallowing much of the drug. DR..
Stone was called and the child is get
ting along we'll under his care. The
mouth and throat was burned to some
extent.
Mrs. J. F. Zerba, who has been in
i'll health for number of years, died
early this morning at the Zerba place
nt1 thu MnrVkos.. g..
went some days ago. Mrs. Zerba was
afflicted with tuberculosis, but the
direct cause of death was pneumonia.
The deceased leaves a husband and
several children. Interment will take
place in the Athena cemetery, the
time of holding the funeral is not yet
announced
The machine men of Eureka fiat
district have settled on the following
prices for labor in the harvest fields:
Forkers, per day, So; header punchers,
So. so; hoedowns, So. so; separator men,
So; engineers, So; spike pitchers 80. 80;
leaders, 50. so. The prices for thresh-
ing in that district will be cents per
bushel for clean grain and 5 for foul.
There is scarcity of good men for
the harvest fields. Harvesting will
commence by the 10th inst.
We have heard of men being kicked
by horses, mules and cows, but seldom
if ever does newspaper have the op-
portunity to chronicle the event where
man is kicked by hen. However,
here is an instance. P. e. Colbern
of this city has a refractory hen, and
the other day when he went to take
eggs from the nest, the hen actually
rose up in wrath and kicked him on
the hand. The hand became seriously
swollen and the prompt attention Of
physician prevented case of blood
poison.
Weston's delegation to the celebra-
tion at Pendleton included the distin-
gished presence of Colonel Wood.
Coming home, the excursion train was
loaded down and many were obliged
to stand in the passage way and in
the vestibules. The Colonel was con-
spicuous, as usual. In this instance
he was carrying budget of deceased
Roman candles, not as mementoes of
the celebration, but with the object
of planting them for illumination
purposes on his Gardena ranch. DAN
CLING his legs over the car step, Wood
was heard to explain to his best girl
the advantages of being a scientific
farmer, and how mellow would be the
light rays reflected from the little
Roman candles after the mamma can
dies had propagated sprouts on them,
when the girl remarked: When /
get home, I'll have a dish of straw
berries and cream, and Wood, in
language which be considered choice
and poetic followed with: ''And
when arrive home, 81 I'll-rI--I'll
bathe my feet in cold waterl"