The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-09-13

lady is doing as well as could be ex-
pected and hopes are now entertained
that she may finally regain the use
of her limbs.
NDick Nye and Mel Tittsworth left
! yesterday morning for Cambridge,
Idaho. Mr.. Nye has a claim near
Cambridge, and has been working in
! the Puget Sound warehouse here. Neil
earned tidy little sum in the harvest
field. The boys will travel overland.
Mrs. Lille Miller announces her
grand opening for fall and winter
dress hats, street hats and fancy mil
linery to occur on Wednesday and
I hursday, September 1S and 10. All
her old patrons and the ladies of
Athena and vicinity in general are in
vited to call.
Mrs. A. M. Gillis and Mrs. r. A.
Stewart arrived home Tuesday from
Spokane. where they attended the
Methodist Episcopal conference for
the Columbia district. The ladies
were very much pleased with their
visit. and saw many former Athenaites
now residing there.
Chas. Brotherton took a new de-
parture this week, having tired of the
monotony of the ordinary runaway.
While engaged in fighting windmill,
I a la Don Quixote, he got the worst of
it, in which bis face was severely
gashed. Moral: Stick to the runaway,
Charley and you wont get hurt.
Rev. Isreal Putnam, the new pastor
appointed by the Methodist Episcopal
Conference, to the pastorate of the M.
E. church of this city. will preach
next Sunday morning and evening.
Rev. Curry, the retiring pastor, will
move toWeston to reside temporarily.
He has filed on timber land in Baker
county.
Two cases of scarlet fever are re-
ported in the family of Mr.. McAlex-
ander, recent arrivals in the city.
Customary quarantine precautions
were taken ano no other cases have
developed. A number of cases are re-
ported in the vicinity of Weston, one
case, that of Miss Lee, school teach
er, being very severe.
X Out in the Helix and Juniper neigh
Eorhoods, where there yet remains
considerable grain to harvest, many
ranchers Snd themselves short of
sacks. The reason for the shortage is
that the crop is larger than anticipa-
ted. The Preston Parton Milling
company of this city is supplying sacks
to Helix farmers.
I. j. Mansfield after spending seve
raj weeks visiting bis brothers, B. F.
and F. M. Mansfield of this city, left
Monday for his home in Galesburg,
Illinois. The old gentleman was well
pleased with Oregon, hut as he has
lived in his home county for 70 years
and is the possessor of large fortune,
the Beaver State with all its matchless
advantages appeals not to him.
Chas. Dunn of Tekoa, WASH. spent
a few days with Athena trends this
week. Charles has been in the en-
ploy of the o. r. & N. Co., for the
past two years. He recently gradual
ed from clerical work in the COM
pany's offices and now ranks we'll up
on the list of brakemen who will soon
be eligible to wear the brass buttons
of conductor.
Mr.. Il. B. Surbeck. an experien ced
cigar dealer, will tomorrow open
cigar store and club rooms in the
Boldly building. north side Main street
Mr.. Surbeck IS an experienced cigar
maker and if the trade iustifies, he
may conduct cigar factory in this
city. Mr.. Surbeck and family are re-
cent arrivals from Weiser Idaho. Ho
is we'll known in Walla Waila. where
he conducted cigar factory.