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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1903
Page
3
Pendleton visitors, farmers, and tradesmen fill Athena headlines with births, sales, and health updates. Notables include Grace Ray visiting Weston, John Gross selling threshing outfit, and Mrs. Sharp visiting Pendleton. various residents report recoveries, travels, and daily trades as wheat moves through warehouses and livestock matters shift in local markets.
The article reports on harness details for Chas Norris and Charlie, two warehouses burning at Thorn Hollow station with limited wheat loss, a new permanent pastor for Athena's Baptist church Rev C H H Moore taking up duties, local farming moves by Thomas Hailey and others, a typhoid scare regarding Lester Beale, a veterinary inspection of a horse in Weaton, and various Flat neighborhood updates including harvesters, machinery trials, a Pendleton outfit visit, and a Spokane return of Mrs Nancy Case with one daughter.
Misther McNutt hears that Gal Wood has been given hunch and Rockyfelle and Jim Hill delivered punishment. The Colonel discovers his plan fails to hold posts, pays $222 25 for improvements, then sells rights to the property to the government and faces a suit from heirs for possession. The incident pivots on feuds, a shooting match bid, and a suicide threat, highlighting social tensions over real estate in wartime.
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