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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1898
Page
4
A crowded items page lists dental ads, groceries, paints, shoes, farm sales, lodging, and local updates. Mentions Dr L F Tovar on 3rd street, Athena Mercantile Co stock arrivals, and W E Young from Weston. Includes trains, school notes, weather, and community notices with numerous business promotions.
An assorted Athena Oregon page notes DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve for piles sold by McBride, visits by Hiteman to Willamette valley towns and the Oregon penitentiary, Phillips moving to Seattle to open a candy stand, Dr. Tovar offering language and music lessons, and local residents Froome, Dickenson, and Hiteman with updates on health, travel, and school plans. A dairy-focused note mentions new creamery construction and farm prosperity.
Athena plans to install a complete electric light plant at the Athena Flooring Mill Company facility once patronage is secured. The system will use incandescent lighting for stores offices and residences, with power ample for future arc lights. A return bowling match between Athena and Weston yielded Weston 18 points more. a rematch is set for Monday. Information is sought on a bay horse Dorse branded WFF found with a white face and left hip.
A largely signed petition in Pendleton asks the O R N Co to let west and east bound passengers stop at Wood Spur six miles above Bingham Springs. The move aids beet industry and Pendleton excursion traffic, with emphasis on stops on Sandsy and Tuesdays when a flag appears. In Dayville a sheep camp raid results in twenty one sheep slain and herder alerting owner.
Harness maker W E Young displays a diverse shop window with calivo bolts baking powder tin cans and tools as J Thompson becomes canvass department clerk. Meanwhile county party figures near Spook plan fusion between Democrats Peoples and Silver Republicans ahead of a 185 delegate convention with broad representation to include Bryan voters.
Colfax April 19 Sheriff Sims defies court order to move Robert McDonald charged with murder to Garfield county. He claims custodial authority and vows to resist mob violence if jail is attacked. Court considers contempt proceedings as a show cause. Local items report school teaching, O O F celebration travel rates, and a legal summons with mixed notices.
The undersigned is administrator of the estate of Henry T. James, deceased. All persons having claims against the estate must present them with proper vouchers within six months to the administrator at the office of H. J. Lister in Athens, Umatilie County. Dated April 17, 196.
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