The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-08-18

ment at the Mosgrove Mercantile
compaDy's store.
John Sylvester, pioneer merchant
of Pilot Rock, died at Baker Sunday
night as the result of complications
due to old age. The remains we're
taken to Pilot Rock for interment.
Mr.. and Mrs. V. Stroble of Pen
dleton visited at the home of their
daughter Mrs. Victor Burke, in this
city yesterday. They were on their
way home from tour of Montana.
The Walla Walla Union reports that
the lid was lifted off the local market
in the Garden city Wednesday. when
10000 bushels of bluestem was bought
J by Dement, Bros. millers, at 78 cents
per bushel.
Miss Lucille Kemp visited friends in
Athena a couple of days this week.
In company with her mother and little
sisters she will leave tomorrow for
short visit with relatives at Cotton
aud Spokane.
The jury in the condemnation pro-
ceedings brought by the City Of Pen
dleton to secure springs at Thorn Hol-
low for supplying the water system,
gave the Indian owners $4, 1000 for 26
acres of land.
Notices are posted announcing the
sale of the st. Dennis homo place on
Wild Horse creek above town. The
place is to be sold to the highest bid
der on Monday, August %. 1t has
been appraised at $l8. 800.
Lee Hiteman came in from Boise
Monday and spent several days at the
parental home in this city. Lee is
now located at Salt Lake City, where
he is manager for branch house of
the Diamond Rubber company.
Lowell Rogers has moved has bar
vest crew to rented ground on the
mountain west of the Britten place.
now owned by W. S. Ferguson. and
will finish the season with ten days
, run in harvesting oats, of which he
has a splendid crop.
Luther Van Wrinkle, the photog
rapher, has returned to Athena with
his full equipment and will be pre-
pared to do first class work at the gal
lery for short time. Those desiring
high grade photographs will do well
to call on him at once.
Marion Hausell will 60 to Black
Mountain next week IN search OF
,, grouse. He will take a pack horse
and plenty of provisions. so that in
= = case of scarcity of game birds he will
have plenty to eat. However, Marion
generally gets his share of the game.
"Little Snake" a wild steer from
the ranch of John Spain. with record
,, of throwing 80 men and one that has
never been ridden straight up, has
keen turned over to the management
t of the Roundup. II is claimed the
steer is equal to the famous Steam
boat.
Senator Poindexter of Washington
has introduced q bill directing the
= issuance of patents to purchasers Of
Q lands in the Umatilla reservation, un
a der the acts of March 3. 1888, ant
July /, 1902, where they can show
. lands valuable only for grazing pur
poses.
\ When the dust storm was at it
1 worst Monday afternoon, Mike Don
! nelly. a life-serving convict at tn
4 WalJa Walla penitentiary effected
bis escape and every effort to looat
4 him has been futile. Donnelly is
mulatto and was convicted of man
slaughter.
There is large acreage of potatoe
I on the mountain ranches east of towl
1 this season, and good price expected
! The fact that d1outh practically de
\ stroyed the crop in the Middle state
would indicate that expectations oi
1 the spud raisers for high prices are
1 we'll founded
DR.. Sharp was called to Helix last
evening, where be assisted DR.. Kin
ney in amputating a couple Of fingers
I from the hand of f. g. Bailey, an EN-
ploye of Ira Scott Bailey was un
lucky enough to have his hand caught
in the machine he was operating in
the harvest field.
Two thousand acres of timber lane
belonging to the Palmer Lum ber com
1 pany nine miles north of Elgin, hat
been burned over by forest fire which
1 started the fore part of the week. L
1 is understood the fire was brought un
der control by systematic effort on tn
II part of fire lighters.
4 Mrs. Lille Miller will leave about
n the first of September for Portland
Il where she will purchase a large stool
n of Fall millinery. She urgently re
U quests that all persons owing her cal
n and settle before the lst, This is i'm
y perative and Mrs. Miller hopes tha
the call will not 90 unheeded.
\ The sack problem has confronted To
= warehousemen and the wheat raise
4 this week. Nearly every rancho
was compelled to have an extra suppl
q of sacks over and above his first pur
= chase. This resulted in depicting th
q surplus supply on hand and there wa
y a general rustic to obtain new consign
q ments.
4 A sou of Mr. and Mrs. Haworth. re
= siding opposite the NJ. E. church.
4 very low with Bright's disease, an
great concern is felt bv his frieads a
I to his condition. Everything possibl
is being done for his comfort and th
I sympathy of the comm unity is wit
the family. who are oomparativel
I new corners to the city.