The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-08-02
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Herbert Manasse was in Pendletor
Tuesday.
Matt Mosgrove was in town yester
day from Milton.
Mr.. Lachlan McCleay of Tacoma,
was in Athena Sunday.
Mrs. Agnes Ferguson spent the week
at the Whiteman home. west of town.
Miss Myrtle Wall of Pendleton,
spent Sunday with relatives in Athena.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Estes have
gone into camp at Kemela for the
( summer.
X Miss Myrtle Defreece returned last
4 Week from a pleasant visit with friends
in Union county.
Mrs. /. NJ. Kemp and daughter
Lucille are visiting relatives and
friends in Portland.
Mrs. V. e. Hoven has returned from
an extended visit with relatives and
friends at Kelso, Wash.
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Will
M. Peterson. has been quite i'll at their
Pendleton home this week.
Editor Swenson of the Inland EN-
pire Magazine was in the city yester-
day. the guest of Henry Barrett.
Y Measles has broken out in the Adams
4 harvest crew west of town. One of
the men is reported to be very sick.
K f. S. Le Grow, went down to. his
Touchet ranch Saturday. He was ac-
companied by Master George Winship.
Carpenters have completed work on
the addition to the Swaggart farm re-
sidence north of the city, and painters
are now at work.
Ed and Irwin Clemons, who are en-
ployed on Seattle electric lines, have.
returned to that city, after visit with
relatives in this city.
The ladies of the W. @. B. M. of the
Christian church will meet at the
home of MIS-. Robert Tharp. next
"Wednesday afternoon.
The barley crop in the Pilot Rock
neighborhood is practically all har-.
I, vested the average yield being from
40 to so bushels. pei acre.
County Treasurer G.. w. Bradley
was in town Sunday from Pendleton.
He was greeted with a warm welcome
from his Athena friends.
Frank Beale was up from his Pine
Greek ranch Tuesday. He.sized up the
prospects for putting his threshing
outfit to work in this vicinity.
Wv. w. Raymond is over from Walla
/Walla, seeing to it that his big har
yesting outfit is in proper trim to take
care of his bumper wheat crop.
Mr.. O. B. Funk, formerly resident
Of Weston, but lately of Spokane, is
one Of the purchasers of the Union
Savings Bank, at Walla Walla. s-
DR.. Sponagle the dentist left last
evening for two weeks visit in Port
land. He may sniff the sea breezes at
Long Beach before returning home.
x Wagner 8 Martins new combine is
/doing excellent work. The average
yield in the neighborhood where the
machine is at work will be over 40
bushels per acre. sa.
]. M. O'Harra was in town Satur-
day from his farm east of Weston.
His new home is completed and ready
for occupancy, the painters having
finished work.
Walla Walla's street fair and carni-
val will be held this year September 16
to 81 inclusive. A wheat palace, arti-
fetal lake and other novel attractions
are announced.
Misses Verna Dwelly and Pauline
Adams of Walla Walla, were the
guests of Mrs. @. A. Barrett Tuesday.
In company with Walter Adams, the
young ladies rode horseback to Bing-
\hsm Springs.
\ Rev. Geo. T. Ellis and wife have re-
Ithrned from Baker City, where Mr..
Ellis took course of treatment for
asthma. He is greatly improved and
will hold regular services hereafter at
the Baptist church.
The better part of the Press family
is in Portland; SO if the Press man
seems grouchy, put it down that he
belongs in the ranks of the other sore
headed old patches like Kemp, Ker-
shaw, Richards ct. al.
Mrs. Hays Of Baker City. who was a
guest of Mrs. d. Fl. Preston, returned
home Sunday evening. Miss Davis of
Spokane also a guest at the Preston
home, returned to Walla Walla with
Mr. and Mrs. Preston, Sunday evening.
XTwo thousand half-gallon jars, of
fruit have been put up at the girls
dormitorY of the Weston Normal
School. Strawberries, Iaspberries and
cherries were the principal varieties
of fruit used.
For the reason that it is the desire
of the management of the Weston
brick yard to reduce the accumulated