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ouk THE ONTARIO ARGUS. THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1918. Live News From Surrounding Towns And Country. Happenings of a Week FRIITLAND ITKMS. who often ship stock, are much pleased with the now stockyards which , , , . , , t the railroad company has just com- plrted nt Kingman. It was a shock to the entire com- C. F. Peck und H. It. Otis attended munity when the sad news of J. M. the meeting of the users of electric Royston's accident Friday evening MM powi if at I'avi tto last Thursday even benril. He was driving his fine rcg- ing. istcrcd Jersey bull into the barn when j The Girls' Sewing club held its first me animal turned and rem mm wiin meeting .Saturday afternoon. Helen parents, Mr. and Mrs. E bis horns, causing his death within a Ptck U elected president and Mar- aid few minutes. Mrs. Koyaton and MM thn Moses secretary. of his daughters came to his assist-1 Mrs. Jennie Tyler and daughter, nee, and with pitchforks kept the Mjgg F-illian Langlcy of Now Ply animal away from him until other mouth, visited nt the Maxwell home help arrived The doctor was railed, last week. Miss Dorothy Pilcher ac- but he wus dead when the doctor ar rived. Ilia family and relatives havi the deep sympathy of the entire com munity. Honorable Krnest Anderson of Nampa visited over Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson, cast of town. fields some green with alfalfa, clov er or grain, while others are fresh plowed, over which teams are plod ding with the disk, the harrow, the drill or the corugator. Much fruit is being planted and many new tracts ATc being put in cultivation this year. Dead Ox Plat is all right. Boost! The Rice Bros, are now railing brush on Charles Rice's new place Just west of Aug Senkbile's. Mr. Senkbile is turning the sod up side down at a lively pace. I. C. Thompson and Charlie Dar- turned home Sunday. A party was given Tuesday evening in honor of Miss Merrv Kllcn How. who returned home Saturday from ne" 9 turned from Wilson Westfall where she has been teach- Creckl Idano' whorp the' md a bi ing school. J0D P'0W'njJ' Mr. Thompson is Miss Marion McDonald, who is at- now doin "ome 8M,f,inK n his new tending the College of Idaho in Cald- pIntp n"ar thp Pavette "ridge, for well, spent the week end with her,merlr the Chrlp Rice Place- H McDon-' L.angiey has had excel lent success with incubator chickens. Mrs. Ira M. Falkington and Mrs. She 8a'8' "J woul(l havp no oth,'r Cowans visited Ontario Saturday. will be their guest for a few weeks Miss Lucy Thompson, the teacher of the Owyhee school, spent the week end with Miss Florence Kingman. Mrs. Kndser and children were the guests of Mrs. Lee Boyd for several days last week. They returned to We have the prospects of a bumper their home in Payette Saturday even crop of apples this year and all kinds ing. of fruit as well. The trees are in R. R. Overstreet was digging u bloom and as yet there has been no ditch last Thursday, and upon glanc frost t do any damage. Also othcr'ljng up suddenly saw a rabid coyote within three feet of him. He killed it with his shovel, and has been con gratulating himself ever since that he chanced to look up at that moment. H. I). Thompson came over from crops are in fine condition. A co-operative creamery meeting was held in Payette last week that will Interest the dairy men of this vi cinity ns well. Officers were elected and it iH the intention to begin hand- New Plymouth Saturday to note th ling the cream by the first of Muy. progress being made on his new housv This organisation starts out wlthl A. G. Kingmun attended Pomona bright prospects for success as th Grange in N'yssa Saturday. board of directors are men of expert- Mrs. E. Wade, Mrs. C. VU Peck and once in this line of work and the busi- Miss Helen Peck were Nyssa visitors ness will be conducted in a business Saturday. like way. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Morgan and Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Russell were 'daughter, Margaret, vlsitel the Bov ilinner guests at the D. D. Hunter 'dell family in Nyssa Saturday, home Sunday. Last year's corn contest for which Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rich and lit- Mr. Kingman labored long and faith tie daughter visited Sunday nt the fully, always "cheerfully cheerful and William Hollenbeck home. optimistically optimistic," was writ- The Fruitland high school baseball ten up in it page article entitled "In team played with the New Plymouth 'termountain Corn." in last week's team Friday afternoon, resulting in u Country Gentleman, score of ! to I in favor of Fruitland. The Kolony orchestra will give .. It was a league gume and we are sure- concert on the night of April .10 ut ly proud of our boys. the Kolony school house, the proi Is Miss Alma Crowthcr, who has been to be used to swell the fund for a visiting friendh in this community u piano for the school house. The mem few days, left Saturday for her home bers of the orchestra are Helen Pick, on Big Willow. JThrelmu MeCrear yand Anna Ander- Tbe Queen Ksther circle of Fruit-son, violinists; Corinne Maxwell, eel land will entertain the I'ay.tte Qmm list, and Mrs. C. F. Peek, pianist. They Ksther circle Thursday evening at will be assisted by Mrs. Frank T. Fpworth hull. Morgan, reader. April 27 Is the dale ..i toi voting The program follow mi l he ., notion of bonding tin di March. "Old Faithful"... Iliilinmnn tn. i to build a new high school build- Violin solo, "Kuiuwiuk". . Wieniawski i The polls ure open from I to 7 1 Threlma McCrenry o'clock in the school building. Come Overture. "Goddess of Night" and vol. for I lie bert interest, of Thos. Allen chickens. They can be raised easily Mrs. Cora Biggs of Caldwell has if 'ou. know how ""' 'ou ,lon,t havc been visiting in Nyssa this week. l0 walt tm tne ol(l hena B t0 8et Professor Straub of the University tin" Mr8- lnflf has also demon- compnnied them on their return and of Oregon delivered a very interesting trBtP' f,,r a number of years that lecture to the pupils of Nyssa high,ean Kr"n lrucK ran Dp ra,sp" " school last week. abundance on the bench without wa- Mrs. John Lackey and daughter, l r" Tressie, visited Ontario Saturday. Mr Stokp.v- who " sojourning in Mrs. Broughton of Portland is visit- '''"". w''tp" ' would be hard to ing her daughter, Mrs. P. J. Phil- flnd better nlace than thi"- jpg A. T. McDonald came down in the Misses F.dith Iredale and Dell.. vallp' on a business trip with Levi Darke were Parma visitors last week. Cru11 la8t Thur"dy. returning to his G. B. Holloway of Boise was in "WMtl rMr Nyssa Monday on business connected ' II i8 ,,,Brned that Mr' St""brcaker with the ranch, which he recently sold ,truck water in hi" new wo" at to G. Russel. Mr. Russel experts depth of " fet and the water ro,e to put in HO acres of corn for silage. 85 feet- nd that Mr Hiby ot w" In connection with his dairying Mr. tor at 90 feet on P11 he " Russel is raising hogs which will con- l,evel- sume the by products. At the pres-1 Mn- m ot ,he Cabbage Patch ent he has a herd of .'(00 . ,h" been "'Pro"' '" interesting Thomas Canham and P. J. Phillips, iP,cture with far sV"1" "ntion to directors of the Owvhoe Irrigation l"a" lnan ll WM possioie to give 11 HIGH SCHOOL NOTES. (By Amelia Plughoff.) The ball game last Friday between Payette and Ontario was the most in teresting game of the season. The teams were about evenly matched keeping the score about the same, but Payette came off the victor with u score of 9 to 8. Will Fitzgerald, who was injured on the high school hike, is again at tending school, after an absence of three weeks. Our boys went to Boise last Satur day to take part in the track meet. Those who were on the team were: Jay Husted, Lee Maddux, Darr Dear born, (ilenn Brown, Rowland Koenig. Lary Gramse, Earl Weaver and Earl Griffin. Owing to the size of the Boise team, who were much heavier orchard that is not loss when there an? than our men, and the drawback of a hogs to clean it up. 1 have been in sandy track, resulted in on overwhelm- this section of the country for four ing victory for Boise. teen years, eleven years on this place," Roscoe Conklin is almost fully re- he continued, "and I have learned covered from his injury, and will be many things here by my experience, in school next week. For several years I devoted most d( Payette will again visit our town my place to small fruit and berries next Friday, for the purpose of th-'and truck gardening. There was good Ontario-Payette track meet. The op- money in it for awhile, but now too posing teams are rjuito evenly .many people raise their own stuff, dicstlon of a bumper crop this year. Weather conditions are ideal and if nothing unforaeen arises, there will be a big fruit crop throughout the entire section this season. Mr. Myers has just completed the planting of five acres of field peas which he put in between the trees in his orchard. He also expects to seed six or seven acres in the orchard to alfalfa. His corn will be planted sometime before the first of May, and he expects to put in Yellow Dent and a white variety. "I believe a farmer will make money by raising hogs and corn," stated Mr. Myers, "and I intend to go into that business to some extent. It is a good combination, and on n farm of this size will go well. There is always a certain amount of refuse from the District, were in Boise Thursday, Fri day and Saturday In connection with the highline ditch. It is understood that a contract has been signed be- when it first appeared on the stage. (An entire circus was hired and transported to San Rafael. Theodore Roche, a leading lawyer, supervised matched, and an exciting game is an ticipated. This meet will be held at the fair grounds and an admission of 25 cents will be charged Friday, April 23, is the "Night of Nights" of the school year. The car nival arrangements are all made, and we are planning on a successful event and all patrons and parents are urged to be present A party of Freshmen young ladies were delightfully entertained at the home of Miss Ruby Waldron at Mal let station, leaving Ontario Saturday morning and returning Monday morn ing. Those who enjoyed Miss Ruby.; hospitality were: Edith Martin, Dor othy Jauuish, Virginia Reynolds, Theodosia Wills, Abb... Wlnegar and Hazel Hardman. tween Mr. Talmadge and the district i1"" court fne" officials concerning the surveying nnd development of a power plant. Supporting Beatriz Michelena arc such well known players as Blanche your bo- and girls and the coiun un Itjr. Mrs JO Scritchfiel.l, who is seri- Violm solo (a), "Air Varie"; Dan. la (b), "The Bee" Schubert Helen Peck. . i aa . . . . . . The ladies of the Mission.rv .rn-ietv l naPn,an' Andrew kodsoh ana Mouse held a "ouiltinir bee" in the basement '"" of the Presbyterian church on Tues-1 TnP Produ-tin is a dramatization day afternoon. After the work was of Annp Crawford Flexner's success over a delicious luncheon was served. 'ul P,a b"ed uPn the wide,y read Mr Conklin of Ontario was in ,torie' "Mr"' Wi' of the Cabbage Nyssa last week for the purpose of I,atch" and 1$ Mary." by Alice buying cattle. He purchased two ,Hean R,ce' It was produced by ar eows from C. C. Hunt and six from ""fr'" with The Uibler company W. I. Gibson b t'n6 con,Petent company of the Call- Mrs. Sheffield of Payette was fornia Motion Pictur,, ,rPoration and visitor at the home of Mrs. C. C. Hunt g Pr",entd bV World Film corpora last week. tion, Lewis J. Selznick, vice president Mrs. Newbel and Mrs. Glasscock of nd Kemral manager, home office, ISO the Owyhee were in Nyssa Saturday. Horace Burbidge was u business visitor in Caldwell Tuesday The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Crawford, a popului young couple of Nyssa, were surprised by u company of young people lust Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Burbidge drove to Yule last Sunday. The electric light crew of the Idaho- Oregon company went out to King man Kolony line where they will be gin work. ously ill with appendicitis, will un- Reading. "Funny Lou Learns to ilergo an operation Wednesduy The high School domestic science Rend" KM Morgan. girUwitbtli.ii teacher. Miss Hull, en- Overture (a), "Poet and Peasant"; joyed a picnic Saturduy afternoon. I K. Von Suppe They went up to the moutli of llig Valse (hi. "Nights of Gladness" Willow on Herding island. Weiner-1 An. lift".' wurst. salad, pickles, eggs, potatoes f Intermission. and rolls were served for dinner Tango. "Yankee Dandy" Weidt Miss Apphiu Robinson entei tnined (fa 'iot, "Whip und Spur" Allen several friends ThuiMla.s evrninc, ii Violin solo, "Maurka ile Concert" honor of Miss Almu Crowther. Ovide Musin Mr. ami Mrs. Fd Williams of Twin , Violin solo. "Sunday Morning" A. Gramse, county fruit inspector Murtin has been inspecting the orchard- I t.t. t-m. - ... around Nyssa und now the sweet odor i1"' Va - an" tmnk the' wl" ot spray again fills the air. West 46th St., New York. Dreamland, Saturday, April 24. Another New Family Settled Here. J. J. Powers and his sister, Miss Elizabeth Powers, came here recently and bought the Ramey ranch, about three and a half miles south of On tario, where they are comfortably) settled and very busy with spring work. The Powers came here from (.ate Baptist Church. Topics for next Sunday, April 26th, 11 a. m., "A Clean Life;" 8 p. m. "Every Dog Has His Day." Hear these addresses, they will do you good. D. E. BAKER. Pastor. Rambles of a Visitor (Continued from Page 1.) Oregon very much. They are doing The Wilson Bros, have purchased their full share in helping to improve a five-passenger Overland. NAB OX FLAT. tl... country, both being vigorous work-era Improving Town Ditch. Fulls arrived Saturday for. a ,-horl stay at the Royston home. J. II Spuinhnucr and II. K. Rus sell took the high school teum to Net I Plymouth l'rula ufternoon in their Maxwell cars. The seventh and eighth grades gave a very interesting program Friday night in the Method. si church under the direction of Prof. T. . N'eilson. The bouse was crowded and everyone enjoyed a pleasant evening, Mrs I ru Daltell and Mrs Hurry 1'owell will entertain the Kensington iTumboin m. club Wednesda) afternoon at the Dul zell home Dr J I). Cillilan OCCUaled the pul pit lust Sunday morning in the Mcll. odist church. PI u ill me r Grimes and Russell Hooker have sold their automobile to r. Higby, manager of the l.luho nc gon Fruit Crovsers' ussociution. 'I hey will leuve soon for Sun Fran. laM to attend the world's fair. Miss Mamie Boyer, who is teaching school at Wilder. Idaho, spent the week end visiting with her home folks. Ole Bull Helen IVck. Melody in F Rubensten ' Gel n. un ee" Weidt Song, "I'm Gla.l My Sweetheart's Not Soldier." Corinne Maxwell. peru selection, "Bohemian Grand Cul. Medley liuL Lt . . I , J.. . i.l ami 4 . . .. .. .-. . . t t 1 & W.tbeck has had the well ; T lu. . u ....; . drillers bus, for several .Iuns pust. . ""-'----."- ,, .. . y l ' improving their main ditch, but bus not struck wuter to dute. ,. ... ... r licit- nir oiu canui useii 10 run Southern Melodies." "Hindu Man" F.ugene penalty, Threlma Mi Creary. 'Tiidcr the Double Fugle". , , Wugner NYSSA NEWS, Mr. Runey of Lamer, Dead Ox Flut, has moved onto his claim in : IV -lei. foimcrly the Charles Wyman claim. Kln.ei Hay worth of lower Dead Ox Flut has moved recently to his home stcud mar the head of Moore's hol low. Mr. Kancy und Mr. Hayworth are otl. old timei.-, and have finally con hided a dry farm is worth while. There wa recently u gverniiient en gineer out looking over the bench with u view to determining the pruc ticubility of the Dead Ox Flut urigu tion project. This is a much mooted question umong those of the higher lands of the project and many of them are struggling to get out of it. No ... ro.ss the sagebrush desert section, owned by Wood & Hanley. from Charlie Leavitt's pluce to Gordon's corner, the new ditch runs due east from Leavitt's to James Walter's cor ner, thence down the section line due north to Gordon's. This work is being rushed to com pletion so as to get the water on very soon. Concert Planned. A concert for the near future is be ing planning by Dr. Colcord, manager of the Ontario band, and some of th" members of the music clubs here for one seems to dispute the fact thut I 'he benefit of the bund. The boys water can be put on the land, or are practicing diligently now and are KING.MtN KOLONY NKW.v A force of ten men, working Me the Idaho-Oregon Light & Power com pany, are constructing the line to the new pumping plant. They ate domi . iled ut the Overntreot home. Kolony people putticuluily thos.. Mr und Mrs. E C. Hunt were On tano visitors lust Suturduy . Miss Macl.ean of Huiley hus been viiting ut the Boydell home for the pust week. Mm Harben of Ruthfield, Idaho, is visiting her coumiis, the Misses Hon. Rev. Powell held services in the Pari.-li hull Sunday afternoon. A chicken pie supper will be given by the l.udies' Aid society in the base ment of the parsonage next Wednesday. Mrs. G. F. l.u Frens, a Nampa homesteader, visited in Nyssa last week. Miss Flsie ti.bson. who hus been teaching school ut l.acomb. Ore , re- ruth, i portions of it, but many think the cost will exceed the benefits. J R. I.angley lost a valuable hor.-c u few days ago the best one, of course. This is always one's luck. He is now left short of horse power I evi Crull, who is tending the Ayei's place on Lower Dead Ox Flat, made a trip home Tuesday, and to Payette Wednesday, and returned to unxious to make some more money for uniforms. Open air concerts are also planned to begin soon in the park near the depot. Statement of Ownership, management, circulation, etc., require.! by the act of August 24, 1H12, I It It,. Hntan., A ....... , ...-l. ti. -u i . I -''" .wo, puuosoni wees- work Thursday with a load of ajsm. w ..-,,. ..... Dl.es and Iresno scrapers. He has p w. c. MmnK 0nUrio Q his ground ull ready for seeding and will do some ditch work in a few days. It is a grand sight to look from the bench land roads down over Lower Dead Ox Flat these days. One can see farms after farms and fields after Mortgagee. M K. Bain, Farms. Idaho W. C, Marsh. Editor. Sworn to and subscribed before me this rh day of April. 1915. W. W. Wood. (seal) Notary Public for Oregon Mp.vnimissiou expires Oct. It, 1916. ter, and the result has been the ideal. There are many so-called "garden spots" in this broad land. But truly there are none that will compare with this. The resources of the country are manifold. Opportunity is offered for almost every kind of Agricultural en deavor, and the success obtained in every line bungs tins section to the first rank for diversified farming. From truck gardening for the early spring market, to the raising of large fields of corn; from the successful production of early strawberries and small fruits to the cultivation of large commercial apple orchards, there is no country that excels this. Truly the Creator was kind when He made this fuvored section. A stranger visiting in Ontario re cently made the remark, "You people don't realise what a wonderful country this is." The idea he intended to con vey being that we were prone to ac cept the wonderful opportunities of fered, in too much of a matter-of-fact niaaner. Probably this is true, but the rule "Realization is never so great as anticipation," has certainly been disproved in this section. For you find no dissatisfied people here, and a visit to the many farm homes of the section makes one's heart glad with the many expressions of satisfaction und the substantial und profitable home life to be found on every hand. While the whole of the Lower Snuke and Payette River Valleys has been called the "Modern Garden of F.ien," the Fruitland section just across Snake river from Ontario has been termed the "Heart of the Garden." A visit there at this time of the year leads one to believe thut the name is correct. Going from Ontario into the Fruitland section, the first home to attract the visitors eye is on the right hand side of the road and is that of W. F. Myers. Mr. Myers has forty a. i.s of land every foot of which ii in cultivation and under irrigation. This place presents an ideal picture of diversified farming. Out of the entire forty acres, eighteen acres is devoted to fruit, ten acres to alfalfa, one acre to strawberries, one-fourth of an acre to red raspberries, one-fourth acre to dew berries and logan berries and ten acres will be devoted to corn. Of the eighteen acres in fruit there is ten acres of apples of the Rome Beauty, Delicious, King David and Jonathan varieties. All of the apples will bear this year for the first time. The balance of the orchard is devoted to cherries, which will also produce their first crop this year. Lambert, Bing, Early Richmond, Royal Duke and Sixteen to One are the different varieties of cherries in the orchard. Mr. Myers states there is every in- and the market is not sufficient. I had bad lurk in trying to ship to com mission houses, so havc gradually workeil away from that kind of work." Mr. Myers farms his place with one team. In addition to the work team he has a fine brood mare on the place, the mare now having a fine colt fol lowing at her side. He has four brood sows and before many days expects to have four fine litters of pigs. The work of pruning his orchard was completed last week, and he ex pects to try an experiment this year in spraying. Instead of spraying twice as has been the custom in bear ing orchards, he says he is going to try to combine the two sprays, put ting the scale spray in with the arse nic of lead spray, thus saving the ex pense of one spraying. He will spray sometime during the next week or ten days. (To be continued.) Mrs. C. W. Piatt (Continued From Page 1) maaaannnnananMnnamnnwnnansswnnsi club of Ontario. Her father was u piominent Mason. She is survived by two sons and two daughters, besides her husband, and a brother ami two sisters. The brother and sisters reside in New York City. I be dsughters are th Misses Mue and Nellie Piatt of On tario, and the sons are Fred Piatt of Parma, and Donald Piatt of On tario. The funeral occurred yesterday aft ernoon at 2 o'clock from the residence, with Bishop Paddock officiating. In terment occurred in the Ontario cemetery. Franchise is Asked i - nt ii ..-'. from pags 1) Mnssaaaaaasinsiasiaaasiaannnnniiaaiiaaanai marketing of it, and thus the appli cation for a franchise in Ontario. Power engineers have estimated the complete cost of installation of th" project and the annual maintenance to be from $7.50 to $10.00 per horse power per annum. And it has been figured that the entire cost of the complete installation of the hydro electric plants, transmission in..-. pumping plants and the principal ditches to water the entire twenty two thousand acres, will cost less than u million dollars. The plans of the company include the building of its power plant on the Payette river at the junction of the north and east forks. By so do ing they can utilize their power rights on both forks of the river at the one plant. Their transmission line to bring the power to the Snake river will be 46 miles in length, which will cost about $2,000 per mile. The line will be built to carry 66,000 volts. The pumping plant will be built on the Oregon side of the Snuke river, just west of Payette. The first lift of water will be to height of 230 feet. At this level a considerable amount of land can be watered, and water will also be supplied to a small res ervoir from which a second lift cf 100 feet will be made. While this is .onsidered ordinarily as a very high lift for irrigation wa ter, it should be born in mind thnt the company will" own their own power project which will allow for the supplying of power at a minimum cost and will be by no means pro hibitive. This company will have no "peak loads" to pay for and will n..t be limited to a five months' service within a period of six months. Emi nent engineers who have examined the project express surprise at its feasability, and at the low cost. It is the intention of the companv to supply their surplus power at a rate that will allow it to be used foe heating purposes. But this matter hinges on whether the city council allows them a franchise within the city limits. I -