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I NYSSA I AND VICINITY /ADRIAN A B rief Resume o f the Daily Events in a Live Town What Y our N eighbors Are D oing. H E h i « ii at V il« Mrs S .J. Minton of Hois*- is visiting relatives at Sy»*a this week. Mrs Olive VVaiker and daogh- t-r. 1 .aura. visit*'I in Ontario last The Nyssa An to Co sold a new Ford car to the Rutledge family this week. Ferguson-McKinney Shirts at L. Spier's. Fit and wear strictly guaranteed. Now is the time to get your hats cheap. The Golden Rule store is having a sale. An anto truck will be the next improvement our popular drayman will add to bis exuipmeut. Miss M ittie Dennis returned f orn a visit to Mr. E H Supers borne in N-i up* on >louda> Zeke Gan but run iri from the Shearing camp at Bnckboa.d springs Saturday and .Sunday. It is worth your while to see our fine line of shoes. Latest shapes arid all guaranteed L. Spier. Mr. and Mrs Harry McKee and baby McKee are paying are pay ing a short visit to Nyssa friends. A. G Kingman, honorary may or of Kingman Kolony. way a business visitor to the city yester day. Do yon need an extra pair of t reusers t We have a tine assort ment jost in from New York L Spier. Mr McKee has returned from Logan, Utah, and taken a position as timekeeper on the Oregon- Eastern. Rev. Johns, pastor of the M. E. church at Ontario, visited Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Farmer and Rev. C. L. Walker Tuesday. R. F. Jessee is the present O. S. L. agent at Nyssa. J. H. Kinnaird is taking a liO-day vaca tion in the East. Mr. and Mrs. M. A . Patison of Emmett, Idaho, visited this week at the home of their daughter, Mrs. W. Nichols of this city. A man was canvassing for tog- less harness this week. The use to which it is especially adapted is orchard cultivation. Ernest Wilson took in the big Sells-Floto show at Payette Tues day, stopped at Ontario over night and returned to the Gate City Wednesday. Superintendent W. A. Winters, of the La Grande district of the M. E. church, was in Nyssa Fri day and held quarterly confer ence. Clarence McConnell went out to Agency valley Monday, after a visit of several days with his mother. Mrs. Sarah McConnell, in Nyssa- Councilman George Phillips treated himself to a vacation Tues day and accompanied by his young son, attend«! the Sells-Floto show at Payette Only about one month until the Fourth, Now is the time to get your choice of a fine lot of Hart, Hchaffner & Marx and Style-Plus Suits. L. Spier. An excnrsion train with a bunch o f homeseekers aboard will leave Nyssa on Saturday, May 31 at 11 a. m. to attend the sale of state lands at Homedale, Idaho. The Polk Co. are getting out their 1913 directory for Malheur and Harney counties. W. W. W oodbeck. their traveling solici tor, was in the city this week. All the newest styles in canvass •hoes. The only chance you will have this summer to get shoes at the prices we are offering. All vises at the Golden Rule store Miss M. M. Edwards, formerly a capable teacher in the Nyssa schools bnt more recently o f Los- tine, visited old-tim e friends in the city several days this week. ! MOXEY RAISING Mr. and Mrs. Cora Pilsbury w r e Caldwell visitors recently. A number of Bend people at tend«) tbe circus in Boise M«n M 't. J. N. Thomason returned fro«n a trip to Vale this week with d ty. Mr. A. L. Tate, who has been the strayed horses belonging t° Thomason <fc Hanson They were quite ill. is able to be at work running at large on the Malheur again. rivi r flats Mr. Shotwell called in Arena Lawrence Tbyaen is improving Valley Wednesday afternoon of 80 acres of Idaho soil near the last week. east end of Nyssa • 130,000 bridge M '. Fred Fisk of Parma bought Surveyor Lockwood and party several fine horses in this vicinity weie employed on Thursday to lo the past week. cate the lines for fencing. Mr and Mrs. L. H. Ekin and Ira Rutledge, wbo recently sold daughter were guests of friends in a well-improved farm near Nyssa, Parma Thors«]?)’ . motored down to the fntnre me Mr. and Mrs. Kimball and sons tropolis of tbe Snake valley Wed of Boise are tbe new tenants on nesday. He has a host of friends the Schulz ranch. here who are always glad *o see Mrs G. L Judd spent several him. days visiting her sister at Ten- Our popular city attorney. C. C. davis the past week Wilson, this week became tbe Mrs. Mae McDowell will enter proud possessor of eight thorough tain the Busy Bees at her home- bred hnnting Dups. of assorted on Thursday afternoon. colors These are not jnst ordi John Sinclair is with Burt nary paps. but are covered with Roberts. Sir John is missed by silky hair and when they walk the Morley household. they step first on one foot and Miss Alice Curtis of Vale was then on another. soliciting subscribers for the En terprise in this section last Thurs N Y SSA GIRL W RITES day. Messrs F A. Miller and E. H. Continued from first page. Brumbach attended a banquet at »he Saratoga given by the Royal session of the engineers in the Arch Masons at Caldwell. men's gymnasium discussed state Mr and Mrs. Burt Morley and and national co-operation in the family, Messrs Shotwell and Sin development of * Iregon's water clair took dinner Sunday and resources. spent the afternoon with W. J. At the same hour the editors Robinson met in the Journalsim room to Plans for a Boys' Club are un discuss "T he Place of the Press in der way. The age limit will be the C om m unity" The women from 8 to 12. Talk it over boys met in Villard to discuss the " R e so that we wont lose any time af lation of the Women o f the State ter school closes. to the University.” The annual school meeting will At 4 o'clock the dramatic club be held at tbe school house the of the University, under the di third Monday in June. All are rection of Prof. A. F Reddie, pre request«! to turn ou t. as im port- sent«! scenes from “ Peer G ynt" ant business will be brought up. and "Midsummer N ight’s Dream.” E H . Brumbach and family- Two banquets completed the program of the most successful motored to Caldwell Saturday. Brumbach attend«! the Commonwealth Conference ever Mr. of convention, held in Eugene. One was given by Threshermeu's Sigma Delta Chi. the journalistic which organization he is vice fraternity, to the visiting editors, president. and the other by the University Sunday school and preaching of Oregon alumnae to the visiting service at Arena Valley were well women at the Osborn hotel. attended. The Bible class is most The special train from Portland, interesting. Come out and join which brought m ostof the visitors us. Bring the children. We and many of the speakers, left at have classes for them and good 7:30 on its return and with it went teachers many thoughtful men and women Prospects for Boy Scouts are ready to "boost” for "Oregon," as good. We will soon be full had been evidenced by their inter fledg«l tenderfoots soon The est in “ Oregon "affairs and who left met Thursday behind them an enthusiastic following boys crowd of loyal "Oregon” students. night. May 22, with Earl John ston: L. K. Bullock Gordon Jud, Wallace McDowell, Wilfred Swig- PO TATO BEETLE ert, Walter Schnles, Foster Swig- ert and Dallas Swigert. The girls made some candy and we Continued from first page.) h elp «l—eat it. Ions of water Then five pounds On Friday evening a majority of lime is slack«! in a small quan of the Bend people gathered at tity of water and made up into a the pleasant hospitable home of twenty-five gallon solution Then Mr. and Mrs. Thos Welch to as the two solutions, fifty gallons in sist them in celebrating th°ir sil all, are poured simultaneously into ver wedding. It was an evening a spray tank, and stirred vigor of unalloyed pleasure, one long to ously meanwhile. Good, fresh be remember«! by those present. lime must be used an«l should al- Mr. an.l Mrs. Welch have been ways , be in excess Only wooden j residents of this vicinity for the vessels should be used in hand past ten years and rank among ling Bordeaux mixture. To this the most popular here. All join solution should be added two in wishing them many years of pounds of arsenate of lead and happiness and prosperity. mix it thoroughly It may be used at normal strength for pota Stock wanted to pasture on toes, but ten gallons of water Bridge Island. II.HU per head shonld be added tor tomatoes per month. R. R. Clark. alTtf solutions us«l alone is fairly effi cient. I f only lead arsenate is seeeeeeeeee nsed, apply at the rate of two ponn«ls to fifty gallons of water. l-*"9 Wlr« Span. Th# ■pan of telapboua wire just placed aoroaa the bay I. one of the longeet anywb.r. In the .tate of Or* «on The wire run* from a pole naar Captain Wellandari . housa to OM 1 CHALLENGE PRESSING PARLORS Cleaning Pressing Repairing 00 •ouU> •ad tha diatene* hl,h from pole to pole la »? nearly one half mil# Ita K V Ä ?"* aoout 115 or lJO feet and will ’ ha maata of any vaaaal oomtn* here at pr*a**L-fa*wpo»% Long ; •• John Proprietor. 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WHITE Beginning Saturday Morning, May 31 Ending Saturday Evening, June 7 E are owing several large bills which «re co m in g due, and in ordor to several lines of SEASON. we are offerin g them »1 without profit because we sim ply M U ST have m oney to pay ou r bills. are offering special inducem ents on W i.romptly we These Merchandise goodr are right in season now and Here are former prices and the prices oflered d this money-raising WHITE SALE: Regular $1.75 Ladies’ white canvas two strap pomps “ 1.80 Ladies’ white canval 12 button Shoes 1.25 Children’s white canvas two strap Pomps . 1.50 Children’s white canvas Shoes 3.50 Ladies’ lon^ kid Gloves, 3 colors to select from .55 White Linen TABLECLOTH 66 inches wide Salt Ones Get B Special Millinery Salfft With P Empire on Ì road. la d ie s ’ Hats and Trimmings, One Third O ff R egular Price Having bad a profitable s i n on Millinery, we have decided to give our customer* tbjj r- j r. ti* i irk'd th>- PR IC E D O W N JU ST ONE-T^H^H This Special Mdlinerv Sale giv.-s everyone an opportunity to gt t a genuine bargain J b u n ch ; of Snake line in time for the FOURTH < )F JU LY s from Nyssa and vi a trip on the I ial M onday last. T GOLDEN RULESTOR? Q U A L IT Y TH E S A M E -P R I C E S L E S S od business men, acquaintances arding the miles of new line MEKRAN, LAND OF Mv S TE R i i Oerccat*d by Natur« and Shunned By Man— Few Tribes Linger There. Nyssa AUTO Mekran, mysterious Mekran, Is th> and stretching almost from the In.ti ro the entrance to the Persian gulf The greater part of Mekran is desolate i:d forsaken, a land desiccated by na lure and shunned by man. The few rribes which linger there are the jet iam of history, stray wreckage which oas drifted into this obscure corner of H L I P M O B lL E SAILOR IS BES1 Adaptable From FI reroom to Oat ley, It Industrious and Sticks t* Ship. There la a growing disposition os lie part of ship owners and officer* In various parts of the world to send to China for complete crews For E te ^ a J T lS R Une” to carry about a third more Chinese for the same service. On the other hand there are many officers and owners who claim that with such additional allowance of help * vessel lg run more easily and effl clently. and that, all things consid ered, the Chinese sailor ta the best all •round man aboard ship to be found anywhere. He Is adaptable from flreroom to «•Hey. it Industrióos, hat little or no desire to leave the ship In port and therefore «Ives little or no trouble from drunkenneee and desertion As soon as they become accustomed to foreign ways Chinese crews are aa efficient aa and often more efficient than foreign crews man for mar, and some companies pay their Chinese crew practically as much man for man as they do white crews and carry the same complement they wvmld of white employees. She Knew. Mother—"The king was In the counting house, counting up bis money; the queen was la the kitchen, fating bread and b on ey" Mo«lem Child— ‘ Must be a fairy story; the cook wouldn't let her."— Harper a Ba portion of tbe 8 . nd an extension o S T I J D E B A K I s y s t e m s of ditches F O R D _ events. It is even believed that the Oravidlans passed through Mekran on their way to southern India and left stragglers, whose descendants have Iwelt there ever «inee. There are patches of Mongols from the '¡»vs of TenghU Khan: colonies of half-breed Arabs from the time when an Arab dynasty held Sind; unmistakable Raj puts, who were there before Alexan der; African negro«», the offshoots of medieval slavery, and traces of still alder peoples, whose origins are lost In the mists of time. Yet Mekran can not always have been either so dry or so deserted. Then there are vast ma sonry dams, obviously built to catch the water In the hills Just as engineers »re making dams In the Indian ghauts today Sometimes the hills are ter raced for cultivation, after the fashion of hills In southern Japan and else where: only In Mekran the terraces f are dry and bare and not even a blade '» of grass remains. The crumbling ruins of whole cities, the very names of which are forgotten, lie concealed be tween the serrated ridges CHINESE at H om edale, newest irrigate« tbe great N ortl ,de the wide Snake states of Oregon ral large bod been placed t iring tbe past six ailin g of new on forward. district pum •pidly Harley Davidson Motorcycleoem Indian Motorcycles Expert Repairing A uto Livery, day on!11. dirtrict land ~ " j is receivin g the a 1 Eastern capita re entertained of a Electric Light W ork o f A ll Kinds ade during 1913. Bicyc.es Repaired 4 K olon y new ] water for 3000 usand acres u r water rights oc across Snake river 1 1 7 E have secured a lim it«! supply of booklets on J________ townsite of Adrian, * ' and H ogs.' “ Alfalfa Seed and Potatoes." l'ta Nyssa to H om eda practical books and apply to irrigated lands of thii watered tract. 'n and alfalfa, by trees and other evidenc con dition s were eyes! of the visi The Bank »if Safety and service. lenient extends wit Nyssa. Oregon. hrough tbe lower vernm ent pioject, dica and Fargo F to H om edale, w bulk of tbe Gem are being impre em pire of 50 i i l the valley o! or. Nyssa at edale at tbe so re unli mited poss Careful attention given to Stock it for the homeme G oa l R ig gs- Courteous Treatment y in -the future, h soil: and unlilt being join ed an Ny»*-' g fortunes are t by those w bo s * * * * * * * ♦ ♦ ♦ * * * * ♦ • • • * > a>♦♦#»>»••>♦••♦< ities at band. F will spring up at by the i K ingm an Owyhee n a n ,t h e t Ileys; Adr: LU M E IN A N D G E T ONE Malheur County BantT East Side Bart Livery - Sale Stahlt” * I Roy Crockett ! Announcement?^? T o the people of Nyssa a n d ’ ’ icin ity : I have bought out Mr. F-. A. Sailor, of' Nvssa Meat Market, and by givin g you best of service, I hope to receive a sbar* you r patronage. “ A at the Big B< the center of 10, rich aD(j ^ J L hern Gem HORACE R U R B ID Í H om edale and N]