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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.
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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
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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)
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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.
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