Best Meat and Seafood at Lowest Seasonal Prices
The place to get the best meat that money can buy and at the lowest price. Fish and oysters in season. The highest cash price paid for poultry.
10 Jul 1908
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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1908
Page
1
The place to get the best meat that money can buy and at the lowest price. Fish and oysters in season. The highest cash price paid for poultry.
The Preston Parton Milling Company bought the Pacific Coast Elevator building in the north city, plans to move it to the west town plant, house it on a concrete basement, connect a grain conveyor to the milling department, and install a separate motor for power to facilitate wheat in transit.
A government plan redraws boundaries into the Umatilla Whitman and Malheur National forests, totaling 3 - backers note the Whitman, Umatilla and Malheur areas span several counties in Oregon with supervisors in Heppner Gumpter and Johar Day and headquarters. Harvest preparations are underway with new combines added. the season will be short, starting next week and extending four more weeks before harvest begins.
The Bryan nomination speech by I J Dann sparks fervent cheers as William Jennings Bryan wins the first ballot with 892 votes. City street work proceeds under Marshall Gholson, with rock crushing for a ten day macadamized road project on Main Street between the railroad tracks and westward, improving a previously impassable section.
The article notes oversized peanuts grown near Hebo on W. W. Wolfe’s farm, then reports a deadly horse disease spreading within 15 miles, with Dr. S. B. Nelson at Pullman pursuing diagnosis. It also covers Drain Normal School funding cuts, Weston lights, a pure food seizure, and Milton Cove church meetings.
A letter from Superintendent Reed of the Walla Walla penitentiary announces 850,000 grain bags for sale to the public after July 1. Bags sold at 6.00 per 100 feet fob Walla Walla, lower than current quotes. Washington residents allowed private sale. Umatilla county farmers can buy, with state law directing sale to residents until July 1. Also notes Harmony Club gathering and arrests of a skeleton-key thief named George Grant in North Yakima.
National convention of the Socialist Labor Party in New York names Martin R. Preston of Nevada for president and Donald Monroe of Virginia for vice president. Preston, praised by Daniel DeLeon, is jailed at Goldfield, Nev, serving five years for a three year old shooting during a strike, deemed honorable by supporters. The platform calls for a cooperative commonwealth replacing present capitalist production and society.
Dr. Joe Baddeley, recently discharged from hospital care near Weston, graduates after four years at the Washington State College Veterinary Department in Spokane. He earned high marks, passed the civil service exam for a veterinary meat inspector, and the Washington state exam. He plans to rest and recover at home before deciding where to practice, possibly entering public service. Additional items note blooded hog purchases by J. F. McNaught of Hermiston, and a testimonial for Electric Bitter from M Harden of Silver City praising its effectiveness for various ailments.
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