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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1898
Page
4
The East End is analyzed through local exchanges with a protest planned against Byers' bill. Weston Leader notes marriages and births in Weston area, courtship and social events, and community notices. One item reports Indians together at the Umatilla agency debating action to file a protest.
East Oregonian describes a council on the W. Byers plan to carry Umatilla River waters across the reservation by pipes to hillside reservoirs above Pendleton. Elders warn it would ruin pasturage, kill river trees, and deprive fuel, threatening a million dollars in value. Chiefs Peo, Young Obie, and No Shirt were named to deliver a protest to the interior secretary at Congress.
A Pendleton city jail tale centers on a young man of the town jailed after walking with the marshal’s daughter. The incident sparks reminiscences of chivalry and old chastity codes as a Walla Walla mother objects to the case against her daughter’s companion, noting the daughter faced no charges while the man awaits proceedings. The mother, a steam laundry worker, travels from Weston to raise concerns about the alleged intimacy with her 14 year old daughter, Cora Solland, and mentions the daughter’s role as a canvasser.
The 0. R. & N. Co. will spend about 200000 in spring to raise grades toward 26 feet to the mile and reduce curvature, cutting operating costs. Steel bridges will replace five wooden trestles between the Umatilla and Grande Ronde rivers, with bids expected to total 60000 to 76000 dollars.
Farmers and local officials are named in this mixed assemblage of notes. Samuel P. Purdy, supervisor of road district No. 33 near Athens, reports no bill for road work and criticizes wage charging. Other items note a resignation, a life event at the Shinn place near Weston, a barn fire destroying eggs barley and hay, a lodge reorganization in Pendleton, a runaway eight-horse team near the reservation, and a sale offer for a residence in Athens Washington.
A parent from Amador California reports a young boy once nearly blind due to cloudy eyes found relief after doctors used various preparations including Mood’s Sarsaparilla and Hood’s Sarsaparilla. The claim credits a sera-like tonic with eye healing effects and urges readers to try Hood’s for similar issues. The ad promotes Hood’s Pills and Sarsaparilla as “True Blood Purifier” with pricing details.
A G A R affiliated committee proposes founding a national military college to honor Union soldiers, promote civics education, and raise citizenship standards. Members include A. J. Bortor Jr of Mason City Iowa chairman and others from Hartford Connecticut and Louisville Kentucky. The effort seeks location plans and funding reports for the national encampment in Omaha next September.
A varied inventory of land for sale including 480 acres north of Athena with good wheat land and pasture, 160 acres in wheat, 1120 acres with cultivation and pasture, 240 acres on Pine Creek with irrigation, 180 acres timber land, 400 acres pasture two miles from a railroad, a 7 room house with barn in Railway Addition, 320 acres with cultivation and pasture, an 80 acre fruit farm between Walla Walla and Milton, a five room house on Jefferson Street, two lots on Washington Street, property on Weston mountain, spring water and fertile orchard areas, prices ranging from 900 to 12 000 dollars. J W Smith Arnena Orgcon.
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