The Gate city journal., September 21, 1911, Image 1

Published in the heart oi tne Fruit Belt—NYGGA OREGON—the coming Apple Paradise of the Northwest
VOL. IX
prese
of ti
T he G ate C ity J ournal
NO. 20.
NYHSA, MALHEUR COUNTY.OREGON, THURSDAY. SECT. 21, 1911
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WILL NYSSA BE MADE THE END OF R. R. DIVISION?
Visiting Delegation of Will Extend Big Prune Enlargement of Railroad Yard Nyssa Day Special for OWYHEE NEWS NOTES
Ontario Boosters.
Orchard.
the Fair.
Matters of Interest Occur­
Beyond
any
Indicated
Pres­
Sixty-five of Ontario’s business Mrs. M. J. Jenkins has purchas­
The
special
train
to
carry
the
ring: in the Nearby Neigh­
men and other citizens invaded ed 8,000 more prune trees to be
Nyssa
delegation
to
Ontario,
on
borhood.
Nyssa last Friday afternoon, ac­ set out next spring, on the Jenkins
ent
Needs,
Double
Tracking
Friday,
Wept.
29,
“Nyssa
Day”
at
companied by their brass band, farm near Nyssa.
the Malbenr County Fair, will The Owyhee people have re­
and were recieved by the citizens At present the Jenkins prune
leave
Nyssa at 9:05 a. in., for On­ paired and repainted their
Nyssa-Buhl
Extension
Line
of this place with a rousing wel­ orchard is producing about twenty
tario, and leave Ontario for Nyssa school house till it appears near­
come.
carloads of prunes annually, and
ly new. They intend to sup­
at 7 p. ni.
Tables were spread on Main the fruit from this place has been
Out
of
the
City.
The school board has set aside plement these improvements by
street and a big supply of water­ taking the top market price. The
that day as a legal holiday, school putting in a wind mill and
MODERN SIGNAL
STANDS ADDED
melons and cantaloupes cut for addition of 8,000 mare prune
will be dismissed and everybody planting trees on the school
the visitors, who did full justice to trees to this orchard will make it
and their families will go to the lawn. Miss Eva Boydell of
the feast, declaring them the best one of the largest «m l most, valua­
Fuii, see the big pumpkins and Nyssa is teaching the Owyhee
that could be produced in Mal­ ble in this section of the state.
fat pigs, the buckaroo sports school this year.
heur county—and that's the best Why the Gossips Get Their
and fine fruits, Mid all root for the Rev. Homer E. Bush of Nys­
in the west.
Nyssa foot ball team.
Tongues Wagging.
sa preaches at Owyhee the first
W. Lee Blodgett, of the Nyssa
commercial club, made a speech The mother who allows a 10-year
intek mounta T i T four state and third Sundays of each
of welcome to the visitors, telling old daughter to float around the
month, the Methodist churches
FAIR
them thftt Nyssa was free to them, community in a top bug*y till 2
Ogden, Utah, Sept. 22-30. of Nyssa and Owyhee having
and inviting them to help them­ a. m., with a counterfeit sport of a
Reduced rates via Oregon Short consolidated since the death of
selves to anything they could eat, weak jaw and weaker morals, sim­
Line. Tickets on sale from Rev. Shippen, Rev. Bush assum­
drink or carry away. President ply opens the front door to grief
Utah points, Sept. 22nd, to 30th, ing the pastorate of both the
J. R. Blackaby of the Ontario and disgrace. If you don’t know
inclusive; from all other points churches.
Commercial club responded, and what company your girl keeps or
except
in Montana, September John Gregory has gone back
after thanking the Nyssa people what time of night she turns in,
21st,
to
20th, limited to Octo­ to Iowa to settle up some busi­
for the bountiful feast of mealons, your roar when the gossip.3 get
ber
3rd.
Limit of Utah tickets, ness affairs. He intends to dis­
invited Nyssa to the big Pair, busy will sound like the wheeze
October
1st. See agents for pose of two farms he owus hack
hoping this community would re- of a disabled Jewsharp — just about
rates
and
further
particulars. there and invest the proceeds in
[>eat its performence of last year as touching and pathetic. The
in carrying off all the prizes offer­ girl who insists on spooning with
Durell, an old timer more Owyhee property.
ed by the fair association. He every male being in the corporate For a long time unconfirmed is being confirmed in the con­ in George
the newspaper profession, ar­ Miss Belva St. Clair is teach­
said the keys would be thrown in limits, ought to be backed into the rumors have been rife here that struction work now in progress rived
in Nyssa the latter part of ing the school at Kingman Col­
the well and the town thrown wide woodshed and relieved of her over­ it was the ultimate intention of rather than by verbal announce­ last week
from Illinois, and re­ ony this year.
open, with sports of every kind flow of affection with a No. 11 the O. 8. L. to make Nyssa the ment.
mained
in
several days, Julian Lowe is attending the
slipper laid across the hiplets. We end of a division, but the Jour­ Parties on the outside, who endeavoring the to city
for all.
make
a trude in Nyssa high school this year.
The get-acquainted visit was a had sooner see a girl kiss a blind nal not being able to secure an are in close touch with the in­
the
mercantile
line
and
get lo­
success in particular, and every shote through a barbed wire fence official confirmation of these re­ ner circle ol the O. 8. L. official
cated
here,
but
being
unable
to Joseph F. Reed, the govern­
visitor interviewed expressed him- than to have her change partners ports, has been holding the mat­ family, state without hesitation
ment agricultural expert, visit­
self both pleased with the enter- six nights a week, in the front ter in obeyance pending further that Nyssa is to be made a di­ do so, went to Boise Tuesday. ed
He was w ell pleased with the at Tom Lowe’s Saturday,
11 tainnient prepared, and more than parlor with the lights turned low. developments.
vision
point,
and
as
additional
if a n d tllfi P^eaBed with the rapid development It is harder to marry off a girl
Nyssa country, and may return Sunday and Monday last.
However, the present action evidence of their belief in what here and invest in some other It is reported that the stork
f
J * shown by this section of Malheur who has been pawed over by every
C' county. Those who had not vis- yap in the community than it is to of the Short Line in double­ they contend, they have pur­ line.
visited the home of Hans Vogts
| ited Nyssa during the past few fatten a sheep on pineapple ice. tracking the new road of the chased property in Nyssa, and Dave Chenoweth and W. R. last Sunday morning and left a
I mouths were astonished to note You can’t gold-brick a sharp-eyed Nyssa-Buhl Extension out of are sending friends here to in­ Smith returned a few days ago 12-pound boy.
r the extent of the business trans­ suitor with second hand goods, this place, the enlargement of vest.
acted at this point, as evidenced any more than you can fit a bath the railroad yards here, the con­ These insistent assertions, ta­ from a trip up the Malheur riv­ Wm. Smith and family start
by the big stocks carried and the robe on a goat. There are lots of struction of miles of additional ken in connection with the un­ er, over through the Cord coun­ for California October 1st, mak­
number of business houses repre­ weak minded parents that are go­ side tracking, the installation of usually large amount of track­ try, and back by way of Jordan ing the trip overland, for their
ing up against the judgment day modern signals and signal sta­ age now built and in process of Valley. They were unable to health. John Vanderpool will
sented here.
with about as much chance as a tions here, in addition to the construction in the Nyssa yards, locate any vacant lands where have charge of the Smith ranch,
G. H. Miller has sold his res- cross-eyed
at a beauty show, perfectly equipped block signal not only gives color to the as­ water was accessable.
having rented it for the coming
p taurant and moved to Emmett, and we call girl them
blessed
with
year,
and the girls are wonder­
T.
N.
Nelson
went
to
Boise
I where he wili embark in the the enthusiasm of a one-legged system, and the usual station sertions, but greatly strengthen Tuesday for a brief business ing who
will do the cooking for
and switch signals already in the belief long held by the citi­
same line of business.
man at a club dance.
his
haying
hands.
operation, would indicate that zens, who have carefully watch­ visit.
is something more doing ed the trend of railroad maneu­ New Policeman Now on
Mrs. Stevens Gets Good there
in railroad construction at this vers for the past few years, that
Verdict.
Guard,
point than the mere connecting Nyssa will eventually be one of
Mrs.
Minnie
G.
Stevens
and
The following letter, received
of the Extension with the main the chief railroad points—the Jack Ellithorp has been ap­ The foot ball team of the high
•by Prof. R. G. White a few days Peter Stan, the former being the line. The contention that the terminus of both a passenger pointed u police officer by the school will give a basket social
ago, referring to the course of en- owner of the land and the latter jump from Glenn’s Ferry to and freight division, as well as city council, to succeed W. W. in the school house Friday
tertainments proposed to be put having a lease upon it, were Huntington for a division point the junction of a main line loop Smith, resigned.
night, Sept. 22, at 8 o'clock.
g on at Nyssa this season, has the awarded $2,017.25 for 3.51 acres is too great, and that eventually traversing over 300 miles of the Mr. Ellithnrp went on duty A splendid musical and liter­
condemned for a right the railroad shops, round hous­ richest section of Snake river the first of the week.
ary program will be rendered,
14.—Herewith we of for land
s
the
O.
S.
L.,
the
case
having
valley.
es,
etc.,
will
be
moved
to
Nyssa,
consisting of speeches by coach­
.
i • |beg to hand you yourlist of dates been tried before a jury in the
YV. B. Hosie. who was out with es and players, recitations, songs
îtî WOrK ilfo r Lyceum Course. This sched- district court at Vale Thursday
the B. F. Farmer surveying crew, and instrumental music by Mrs.
j ale has been made up after very The land in cantroversy is J. H. Hill at Meadows.
to make a preliminary survey of I Lafreuz, Mrs. Arnold, vtias Ba-
A
Hot
Shot.
iting $200,0^ (careful labor on the part of our
lands
south of Kingman
. and other art-
Meadows Valley Bank, A story is told of a newspaper the
., purpose
, ,i- colony
, • i, ker, * Miss Lufrenz
and should insure yonr tal on the Nyssa-Buhl extension, at The
fin
the
of
establishing
s out of Nys ¡office,
ant to arrive early and in good and of the amount awarded, the New Meadows, opened its editor in one of the Idaho vil­ another pumping plant for the ‘8te- Miss Calkins, Pansy John-
shape for their work. The dates owner gets $1817.25 and Mr doors to the public on Friday lages who hud the joke on a cit­ irrigation of those lands, stAtes 80,1 others will sp<-Hk. Ev-
last and henceforth will be num­ izen of his own town not long that it is evident that a sufficient orybody will yell.
areas follows:
¡Stan $200.
among the important busi­ since. The citizen ami his fam­ number of acres can be secured The public is cordially invit­
Aller T n °.1° 3t>
.
Another grand ball is scheduled bered
ness
establishments
of the val­ ily are great admirers of the for the proposed system, and even ed to attend. Bring your iriends,
rtieS .’ ' Jubdee
V*8.’ Sintra's
Dec for tomorrow evening at the opera ley. It is a state bank
Virginia
Singers, L»ec.
with an mail order store, and buy all of more is within the prescribed your baskets and your pocket
authorized capital of »>5,000. their goods in the east A f«-w level than was at first estimated,
W
hoU8e-
and help the hoys out in
Alvah Green, Jan. 23d.
W. W. Smith took charge of Mr. J. H. Hill, formerly of Nys­ weeks ago a daughter, of ll.e for it is proposed to cover lands books
their manly efforts.
The Spaffords, Cartoonists, Feb. the Oregonidaho orchards, as sa, the cashier, is an experi­ house got married ami the entiie within a raise of 150 feet and lower. Program will bo free a el every*
AM the lands in that section are body will be there.
5th.
j superintendent, Monday.
enced, capable and courteous bridal paraphernalia, including taken
up, some of the settlers
Trusting that your course will j
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gentleman, who is fast gaining the invitations, was purchased having gone
hack from the river A special session of Hi t Legis­
prove a decided success, and as- Ham Kautzman, general salesman
in
the
big
cities
The
day
after
to
a
point
that
require a
a
host
of
friends.
The
new
to enact good roa Is legis­
luring you that to this end you of the Fruitland Nursery, was in bank will be a help to the busi­ the wedding the bride’s father raise of 250 feet to would
reach the low­ lature
lation has been recommended by
nay depend upon our co-operation Nyssa Friday, looking after the
est
|K>rtions.
The
preliminary
brought the newsjaper office a < nrvey just made will enable the Govenor West’s com mission,
to the very fullest extent, we are, interests of his firm, and did a ness men of the new town and long
account of the event, hut engineer to make a map of the which has just met and outlined
a
great
convenience
to
the
rail-
etc,—Britt Lyceum Bureau.
> thriving business here. The
when
the paper appear rd it con­ lands to he embraced within the several biiis. These provide for
road townsite company. .¡I May
....
—T
7
T
i
Fruitland
Nursery
being
right
.
Mined
about tile wed- pro postal system, and to show the state aid, a state highway com­
Mike O Brien of Owyhee, and
atonr door, can be depended it prosper and grow unt.l it b e - ^ .^ ^ nothing
g^ announcement
of character of country through which missioner, and for enabling conn*
¡me of the old timers in this sec- upon to make good any errors comes, like Meadows valley, af­ three or four lines. Next «lay
’he canal would he hu.lt
ries to avail the nselvoa of th#
tion of Eastern Oregon, dropped lhat may occur, without putting
the
citizen
called
at
the
news-
j,
L
Lo,.kwo(Mi
threshed
100
ter
which
it
was
named,
known
bonding
act for road purposeQ
Tuesday, to renew old ac the pnrchaaer to any unnecessary
paper office to demand an ex- , iU.ka „f „Haifa seed from his 50 passed at the
last general olection|
throughout
the
state
as
the
best
intance with the Journal fje]ay Gr trouble. And again,
planation why the report of the ¡¡ores nHar town this season. The The commissioners,
who r >preseat
man, and chat over the changes their stock being produced in a in the west.—Meadows Eagle. wedding had not been printed. Si.wi IH worth »20 a sack, and this
all
parts
of
the
state,
arc hopeful
“Oh,
that’s
all
right,”
said
the
urnount
add.-d
to
the
value
of
the
soil and climate, makes
Slaking place in the dozen or similar
that
much
will
be
aooonpli«he4
editor,
“you’ll
probably
find
it
|
;ty
and
pasture
of
the
land,
bring
Mayor
L.
C.
Pounds
of
Apple
it
the
most
desirable
for
the
Nyssa
Ibore years since we last met. orchardist. Read the Fruitland
iu good roads movement by tbn
Valley was in the city Tues­ in the Montgomery Ward spring t!»e net product up to nearly $00 enactment
of these measure*.
Newt Minton made a business Nurserv announcement in the day.
catalogue.” —Ex.
I*1* acre.
rip to Boise Tuesday.
Journal. _
this poi
Everything Points to a Most Import­
ant Future for Nyssa as a Railroad
Center—Outsiders Getting “Wise”
to the Facts, Investing in Property
and Sending Friends to do Likewise
ter than
d effect.
Miey eagy
Basket Social by Foot
Ball Team.
popula-Lyceum ¿ t*ertainment
imediatc
ises, moke
startifc'tZV,
r
a