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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1905
Page
4
Terhune Lumber Yard Hunt Avenue promotes building materials with lowest prices and contracting services. T L Terhune offers estimates properly furnished in Athena Oregon.
Pendleton Business College opens with notices from Athena visitors and local residents. Attendance and examinations are mentioned, with staff and students moving between Pendleton and nearby towns. Local society and business figures are cited along with a typhoid outbreak update and a horse theft incident.
J Norvell will start tearing out the old front Monday as the modern plate glass storefront is added. The interior will be remodled and when finished Ed Manasse will have a convenient and attractive store room in the city. C G Chamberlain left for Dayton to attend the funeral of J B Chamberlain in Malheur county.
The August 2 ceremony at 28 Ninth Street Vancouver BC joined Thomas J Ervin and Nellie Wagner in a small gathering. Rev R Newon Powell officiated at the Methodist church with Clyde Myers and the couple’s other friends as witnesses. The couple will reside in Vancouver after refreshments.
On August 24 25 and September 16 17 the O R N will sell round trip tickets to Chicago St Louis St Paul Minneapolis Duluth Kansas City St Joseph Leavenworth Omaha Council Bluffs and Sioux City under conditions: one limited first class fare ten dollars. Children half fare. Limit ten days going 90 days for final return. Stopovers allowed within transit limits in either direction.
On August 29 the O R N will run a special train from Milton to Pendleton, joining train No 1 at Pendleton. The train will depart Athena at 7 58, tickets cost 6 26 for round trip, return limited to seven days from issue and not valid in either direction in sleeping cars. A healing account claims Electric Bittera cured OC F Collier of Cherokee Indiana kidney disease, with prior severe headaches backache and depression.
Local testimonial from D L Gregory of Hope Texas praises Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for curing a bad sore and for sore eyes. Sold at McBride’s Drug Store, listing 256.
Items in Brief list offerings from Cox McEwen's Samson at Cox & McEwen's and Manasse's sterling silver novelties. Gay's sells Freeh bread and cakes daily. A Barrett & Co advertises Deering binding twine and tailored garments. Worthington & Thompson touts Crescent Coffee and men’s ready to wear. Athena Mercantile Co promotes Made to Measure garments. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea advertised as a tonic. Buel's blacksmith shop fixes wagon axles. Athena and McBride drugstores push medicines for digestion and constipation remedies Cascarers and King’s New Life Pills are advertised.
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