Local drawings and town notices from Athena January 1903
A compilation of local items: a Wednesday drawing for a harness and cart ticket won by HC Manela, business hours agreed for January through March 1903, a death in Touchet, marriage near Adams, a Pendleton death, Lewis and Clark Expo funding talk, a Christmas eve death, Tack Parker’s saddle pony gift, Walla Walla moral reform note, hires in county clerk’s office, Miss Renn’s resignation, and Federations of Womens Clubs legislative work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atherid Mercantile Cole
Manela
Herbert Parker
Shick & Co
M.J. Bagley
R. J. Boddy
Taylor & Jarman
Chat
Norris
N. A. Miller
Athena’ Mercantile. Co
Ed Mansudo
Grose & Worthington
B. R. Cox
John Hanson
Touchet
Walla Willa
Srere Ene
Athena
French Crigler
Walla Walla
Bessie. McBride
Celia Rent
McBride
Weston State Normal
Pendleton Visitors With Purcell and Guests
Mr D H Purcell arrives from Oregon City to visit relatives in Pendleton. Mrs Mona Schwartz, a teacher in Pendleton, spends Christmas at the Hansell home and returns to Pendleton Tuesday. Laura Purcell joins for a few days. Raymond Grumpacker, staying with Mr Spaulding and Lamar School, returns home to Pomeroy Washington for holidays. George Hartman of Pendleton appointed to state library board by acting Governor Ritner for the unexpired term of Mina Cornelian Marvin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. H. Purcell
M. W. Hanselly
Oregon City
Mona, Schwarts
Pendleton School
Hansell
Pendleton
Tudaday
Laura Purcell
Raymond Grumpacker
George Hartman
State Library Board
Ritner
Mina Cornelian Marvin
Tote as a Virginia word echoes to New York
A New Yorker by birth reclaims Virginia roots in language. He recalls tote as a potent term from boyhood, contrasting it with the North’s carry. The recollection centers on speech, usage, and a shop sign named the U tote Service, illustrating regional word drift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pars Oulpepper
New Yorker
Virginia
New York
The
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Building a Church in a Day Remarked in Chicago
A contract dated Friday planned a church ready for dedication the following Sunday. On Saturday workers began at dawn and by seven pm the structure had windows doors and electric light. No floor yet but by midnight the building was complete and dedication followed the next day. This feat recalls a similar rush in Pontine County Quebec forty years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Chicago
Pontine County
Que
Old Lumberman Refuses to Use Automatic Block System
A blunt lumberman who owns a western railroad declines to adopt an automatic block six system after a sales agent touts it. He warns accidents happen regardless of effort and condemns replacing human crews, noting three jailed brakemen and indicating no public satisfaction in hanging an automatic machine. The exchange, reported by the Philadelphia Ledger, reflects tension between safety tech and labor concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wwestern
Feller
Philadelphia. Ledger
Moree Rode on Coweathher and Red Sparrows Imported
A secondhand account from New Westminster reports a locomotive incident with a cow and a horse band near Hope after a freight blocked a bridge. The piece also notes Java sparrows with red beaks, 4000 imported, often kept as house pets, and a quip about mosquitoes not bothering a long-time resident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moree
Coweathher
New Westminster
B. C
Fraser Valley
Alorke
N. BR
GC. N. BR
Hope
Discovery Could Help Feed Russia With Swamp Root Food
Sumadra university reports discovery of qwaan swamp root edible qualities aimed to halve Russian famine. Notes say qwaan provides starch fat content and potential nourishment, promising reduced suffering through new starch rich food source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Sumadra University
Scientific American
Liquefying Carbon Under High Pressure Experiments
A Prenelt tavern investigator reports carbon heated in an electric furnace at 1500 atmospheres showing a flames and arc interruption. The carbon is said to pass into a liquid transparent state and perhaps adopt a fiery allotropic form as internal water incurs a shallow coat of material, though details remain unsatisfactory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carigas
World Largest Coin for the Worlds Probably the Largest Coin
A rare copper plate coin, about 11 inches wide and weighing nearly four pounds, bears no date 1730 and is stamped with the term nod date. It is part of a large collection of over 80 000 specimens illustrating exchange across eras, including Sweden and periods after the War of Charles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweden
Charles
Germany Welcomes US Suggestions On Reparations
Berlin officials say Germany will cordially consider any suggestions from the United States regarding reparations. The statement followed a conference attended by Premier Cuno and other government leaders amid postwar economic concerns and German inquiries about terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Berlin
United States
Cuno
Seeds Amendment Defeated in House Vote
An amendment by Representative Langley of Kentucky to add $360,000 for seed distribution by members of Congress was voted down, 14 to 0, as part of the agricultural appropriation bill in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Im Ie House
Langley
Kentucky
Also Mentioned on This Page
Clarence Haley
H. R. Cox
Jeter
G.W. Rigby
Congregational Church
A. R. Olds
Little “Tack Parker
Neighborhood News
Ca Laermle
Cowart
Deine Soho
Billlitt Railroad
Mr. Cobbies
Tve
Birmingham Agé- Herald
Watts & Rogers
Hardware and Implements
Draft & Poker Door
Hill Board
Fisher
J. E.froome
Iin DePeart
May Crowley
Lilla
Third Street
Oregon
Watts & Prestbve
Attorneys-At-Law
Main Street
DRS. A
R.A
Athena Press
Athena Shop
Amos Odell
PI Mrietor
Preston-Shadfer Milling Co
Setae
Merchant Millers & Grain Buyers
Waitsburg, Wash
First National Bank
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