Meat and seafood at the best price in town
The notice advertises top quality meat that money can buy and seasonal fish and oysters with the lowest prices. It also promises the highest cash price paid for poultry.
06 Mar 1908
Page 1
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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
1
The notice advertises top quality meat that money can buy and seasonal fish and oysters with the lowest prices. It also promises the highest cash price paid for poultry.
Athena voters chose Dr. J D Plamondon for mayor with 111 of 128 ballots while council and treasurer races favored incumbents. Ordinance 114 passed 71 to 3. Weston and Athena youths formed a Young Men Fraternal Society, planning a constituting committee and oyster supper. W B Taylor sold two carloads of fine Idaho mules to Pendleton stock buyers with prices from 400 to 500 dollars per pair. U Ren called for GOP consolidation. Cake declined.
The Cleaver brothers representing Chicago and Indiana capital closed on the Hinkie Ditch holdings at Kobo. About 10 000 acres of arid land and 26 miles of canals were sold for 100 000 dollars. The deal follows another large purchase of half of the Farnish ditch project to Dr Henry Waldo Coe and associates of Portland. The Hinkle Ditch company, organized three years ago by J T Hinkle of Pendleton and O D Teel of Boba, has expanded and become a leading reclamation project in the state. The new owners plan to colonize the land with eastern homeseekers.
Mabel Forrest of Athena died in Pendleton after consuming candy with poison. Her brothers who shared the same candy were seriously ill. An investigation is planned with candy samples to be analyzed. Funeral held in Pendleton with procession from E J Sommerville residence to the Catholic church and burial in Orney cemetery.
Frank K Welles county school superintendent announces candidacy for re election amid broad reader support praising his administration The piece notes he may be unopposed reflecting high public regard and competence in managing public schools Also mentioned is the death of Jefferson P Brown in Walla Walla and a local card of thanks for sympathy after the loss plus an advertisement for a tube remedy sold by Pioneer Drug Store
Arthur Scott of Athena purchased the Cooley-Pierce farm in Cold Springs, a 1120 acre estate with 500 acres of growing grain for 4000 dollars. The deal, brokered by Contra Bittner Hayes, marks one of the county’s largest real estate transactions in recent months. Scott, an experienced area wheat farmer, plans farming continuation despite the seller’s exit.
Lovell who died after being found stretched across the railroad track near Starbuck was pronounced dead at Walla Walla hospital Sunday afternoon. He offered only that a brother near Farmington and a son in Appleton, Wisconsin awaited him. The engineer stopped the freight train within a few feet of him. Suspected apoplectic stroke. head wound prompted foul play doubt. Lovell’s body held locally for relatives. Also noted is C. H. Preston buying a half interest in Mastin the prize Poland China boar, shipped to Waitsburg. Foreclosure suit filed in Weston for L. A. Shollenberger vs James O. Dingby involving $230. A Palace Drug ad promotes Kodol for stomach ailments.
In Walla Walla the Ankeny Taft faction repels Boxer charges of a secret taft club meeting. Ankeny delegates to Tacoma pledge loyalty to Ankeny and Taft, while Boxers prepare their own slate for the primary. Also note Strain’s petition, infant death, and local returns from the Sound.
Walter Manker a 10 year old boy died Monday evening after a week long diphtheria illness in Pendleton. The outbreak was severe with several cases reported as physicians and health boards act to stop the spread. David H. Bayne and Ethel Lienalien wed at the bride’s parents home and plan a Portland honeymoon before settling in Helix where Bayne works in mercantile business.
The district No 69 chairmanship at three miles west of Warren station is declared vacant by the county school superintendent. An election will be held to fill the vacancy. Kodol is advertised as a scientific digestive preparation with natural digestives, claimed to digest over 8 000 grains per dose, sold by Palace Drug Company.
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