The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-08-02

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Pioneer Drug Store.
n NHuckleberries and venisoD serve Elk.
tensively in replenishment of larders
of campers up at Meacham, berries are
plentiful. and three deer have recently
fallen victims to the unerring aim of
hunters. Monday Col. Raley of PEN
dleton killed large buck.
The second coat of oil has been ap-
piled to the roadbed of the o. X. & N.
railroad between Pendleton and Walla
Walla, and is proving very effectual
in keeping down the clouds of dust
which swept through coaches when
ever the windows were raised.
Services at the Church of Christ on
Lords day. Morning; First Church
of Christ: The Fellowship. Even
ing ..All Authority. Arrangements
will be made to have the evening SER
vices out doors, in front of the. main
entrance to the church. All are in
vited.
For the month of August the NJ. E.
and Baptist churches will hold union
services on each Sunday evening, the
regular morning service being held in
each church as usual. The first of the
series of union, services will be con-
Quoted by Rev. Ellis at the M. d.
church Sunday evening.
XAgent Richards reports that wheat
iSbeginning to come into the ware
houses Of the Puget Sound Warehouse
company at Waterman and Hillsdale
stations on the Northern Pacific
branch. The Hillsdale house is in
charge of Robert Montgomery and the
company's interests at Waterman are
in charge of Roy Cannon.
Miss Lulu Robey is i'll with heart
trouble, a disease to which she has
been subject for years. The doctor
ordered her to Seattle from Walla
Walla where she makes her home
with her grandfather, D. N. Mcdonald.
Miss Robey has many anxious friends
in Athena and vicinity.
Joe Scott was in town yesterday and
reported that his combine, which is
fed by l4-foot header, is averaging
$40 sacks per day. This machine,
Holt has done excellent work for seven
years. The Scott wheat will average
about 40 bushels per acre. the presence
Of smut being responsible for 10 per
cent loss, according to Jee's estimate.
Last Saturday Chas. Brotherton
purchased IL head of Wallowa work
horses for $2400, an average of 5000
per, head. The stock is now being
used in. drawing his new combine.
Mr., Brotherton recently disposed of
his cattle to Pendleton parties, receiv-
ing $35 head for steers; $25 for COWS
and $12 for calves.
The open season for grouse, prairie
Chicken and native pheasant com
mences August 15, aud shot guns are
being polished up to be in readiness
for the occasion. Grouse and native
pheasant to the number Of 10 birds per
man per day may be lawfully killed
from August / s to December 1; prairie
chicken from August Is to November
10, limit of 10 birds per day allowed.
Lee Booher and Jesse Myrick were
arrested Tuesday Ey Deputy Sheriff
Blakley on a warrant sworn by r. L..
Hager, who resides on the Umatilla
river near Bingham Springs. The
Toys were charged with killing
couple of Hager's dogs. They claimed
the dogs bit their horses heels before
they shot them. The case never came
to trial, the matter being compromised
by the boys paying Hager $40 damages
and the costs.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Sailing and MIR.
aud Mrs. Clarence LaBrache left
Athena Tuesday for Kamela. The
ladies will join a merry party Of camp
ers and Messrs. Sailing and LaBrache
will engage in wood hauling having
taken their teams with them. On the
side, they have prospects of earning a
goedly number of shekles playing
violin and piano for pavilion dances,
which are said to Ee largely attended.
the we'll known Chinaman,
came near bleeding to death from nasal
hemorrhage, yesterday afternoon and
last night. DIR. Sharp was called. but
Charley would not submit to have
his nostrils plugged and the physician
was powerless to give relief. The old
fellow preferred Chinese treatment,
and this morning /. NJ. Kemp of the
First National Bank. which employs
the Chinaman. took him to Pendleton.
N- An explosion of smut took place in
the Barrett & Hodgen's separator, just
as the machine started on the days
work yesterday morning at the Jerry
Stone place, west of town. A sheet OF
fame burst out of the machine, sing.
ing the eye crows of the sack sewer,
but strange to say no damage what
ever resulted to the machine. The
reason that the separator was not dam
aged as no fire resulted, is attributed tC
the fact that no straw had yet entered
the separator, which was just begin
ming to getiu motion.
| (Fire which is supposed to have start
ed from bolt OF Lightning, burned
92O acres of standing grain ON thC