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.
At Davison's Barber Shop
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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
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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]