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GATE CITY JOURNAL Puülibiied every Tnursuay at Nyssa. Oregon, by BROWN BROS. . H. Brown..............................................Editor H. F B row n....................... Buninesn Manag*«- myself; not upon my dreams, j but upon what I actually do; not upon luck, but upon pluck.! I believe in working when you work, and playing when you play, and in giviu > i. ml demand ing a square dec <.i every act of life.” — Ex. THE CALL OF THE COUNTRY Made Them Even. Hogan and Murphy were on their way to work early one morning, when Hogan, being a few yards in front of V uri hy, stooped down and picked up a dollar. "Sure," said Murphy, “That's u dollar ye have found.’ riugan M: d amazed, saying as he f .v Mur- phy the coin, Thin that squi.cs up th; dollar 1 owe ye.” I The N eicTors "I suppose you won’t keep this new I W. M. BROOKE housemaid more than , week, either," R. W. SW AGLER said the spiteful neighbor. "Indeed, I’ll rot." r* plied the other spiteful one. "She’: lied to m ■ already. She 'old A T T O R N E Y S A T LAW me *h- came from a highly-respect-I able family, and understand she’s | Wilson Bldg Ontario, been working for you." Conditions as reported from the eastern theatre of war re- Topographic engin. ers of the cal the two snakes that swal United States'Geological Survey lowed each other. have been making profile surveys Belgium was lately reputed to in the Snake River basin. Idaho— be the most densely populated surreys incidental to their gener country in Europe, but times al topographic mapping— and the Fcr Your Plan**. results of their work haye just have changed. Inst-:;d cf buying ixy t-sive Jardi been published by th.- Geological niere- fcr y-jur potted rVr.ts, simply Reading the news from Mex pain: ■ fie ordinary ffeur i and sauc Survey in water-Sup|>:y Paper 347 ers v i> a Hat ell p*i:i-’ ■ ti a color to ico must be a rather pleasant which contains also map of the hoin’ Oiir.a with the scheme of occupation for Huerta these area examined. tho room they sre in. Flower pots days. The Snake river bn :n contains paint d a green-blue or a Chinese blue are wonderfully quaint : ¿id decorative. Almost anybody now, on this many good storage kites but only side of the pond, oan see a good a few have been utilized. About English as She Is Speke. 400,000 acre-feet of water can be "Have you anything that will euro reason for the Atlantic ocean. stored in Jackson lake by a dam corns?” asked the cus‘ ->mer in the One trouble seems to be that which has been constiucted by drug store. “What seems to be the matter with your corns?" asked the the reclamation service, The polite clerk, who was something of a Europe is entirely too small. argest site is at Swan valley, on purist.— New York Times. T H E FARM BOY’S CREED. Snake river, where the water Quite. available for storage is npproxi- "W as your husband cool when you “ I believe that the country mately 4,000.000 acre .feet. Irri told him there was a burglar In the which God made is .more beau gation has reached a high stage house?" asked Mrs. Hammer. "Cool,1 tiful than the city which man of development in the Snake replied Mrs. Gabb. "I should say he was cool. Why. hts teeth chattered.” made; that lifts out of doors and river valley, yet approximately —Cincinnati Enquirer. in touch with the earth is the 6,000,000 acre-feet of water runs Eventually Hint From Hubby. natural life 'o f man. I believe annually to waste. Mrs. Blowttt (with newspaper)— these flood waters will be stored that the dignity o* labor de and used to irrigate thousands of "John, what does wanderlust’ mean?" pends not on what you do, but acre« of arid land. Tho streams Her Husband— “It’s an ailment my dol lars are aftlicted with." h o w you do n ; that opportunity afford enormous water powers, but only a few site h tv i been de com es to the boy on the farm as veloped. owing to the l ick of mar- Dlpio- acy. Old Gent! — - V>|; y boy, am) often as to the boy iD the city; ket. when doi s : n h: t . come?” Roy A copy of the water supply pa that life is larger and freer and (who h; h cautioned not to fish per may be obtained free on ap for pr sen * Oh, it p sod by a happier on the farm than in the plication to the director of the long tini- a >. . Saturday ’ town, hat my success depends United States Geological Survey. —Ufe. J not on my location, but upon Washington, D. 0. ) MALHEUR COUNTY \tiraan BAN|gANK C 1 In tim n Nyssa, Oregon. he cloro* o f At (^I h I by the Superintend gon at the close of business October 31. 1914. RESOURCES Rural life offers to young men days Entered as 8t“coril-clas3 niattt). Try W*v~d Paper. That $25,000 it«in for the ex of toil and nights of study. It offers April 14. 11*10, at the i»6t ottico if a piece of waxed paper placed ut Nyssa, Oregon, under the Act termination of rabbits in Mal frugal fare and plain clothes. It of under The centerpiece cn -■ polished fers lean bodies, hard muscles, horny table it will prevent the l a from of Murch it, 1870. heur county should cause con hands and furrowed brows. It of adhering to the table ii>. ho -.vathe fers wholesale recreation to the ex sternation in the ranks of the ; s well as prevent a stair n cold tent necessary to maintain the high water or an overfilled v i- or ro SUBSCRIPTION RATES long ears. est efficiency. It ofTere the burden of bowl. —New York Press. • >nu year, in advance . . ............$1.50 bringing up large families and train .Six months, in advance Atfaiia and corn is a com bina ing them in the productive life. It Dally The offers the obligations of using all ,bu Three moMhs, in advance. tion that will make the Snake wealth as tools and not as means of W e do not know ■ ; t ripples valley the most prosperous sec self-gratification. It does not offer healing are set in r on when w< hi I Chris- the insult of a life of ease, or aes simply gmllo on one In the death of D. R. Ehrgood, tion of Oregon. ’l in thf thetic enjoyment, or graceful con tianity wants noth!" iiffcclioiially known in Nyssa as ii v Iirum sumption or emotional ecstasy. It world as sunny peoi ' “ Untie Dun,” the community offers, instead, the joy of productive mond. of participating in the suffers a severe loss. As one SCHOOL NOTES I achievement, building up of a higher rural civiliza At »he End o f F or ty-E ig ht Hours. of the early settlers he was M tion. "Papa certainly didn'l i To young women also it offers toil, E fc p ea n trip very we' an important factor in the up* The school hoard has purchased biuldii e of Nyssa, and ai y over two hundred Hollars worth study, frugal fare and plain clothes w'.i bt; Ill Pome two <! such as befit tiiose who are honored u a mistake* and i f - movement f r the moral uplift of new single seats for the pri with a great and difficult task. It i we’ve n *ev;t nothin:, of the community' tvas sure to mary anil intermediate rooms offers also the pains, the burdens and th «*'■■ iibsolut responsibilities of sacred motherhood. v In le day."— Lipr'-icotfs h ive his hearty support. Nyssa These seats are adjustable, both It offers the obligation and perpetua c_ij ill afford to lose such a citi tis to top and seat, by loosening tion in succeeding generations the principles of the productive life made •Ah. Qua zen, ns men of his sterling hon and tightening four bolts any de manifest in theinselvos. It does not I strike thn v i , 1 1 i i no > esty and upright character are sired height can be secured. The offer the insult of a life of pride and below us have air* comp ai ied vanity. It offers the joys of achieve that I always play the wrong tej ' - all loo few, but his relatives and height of the chilfl in inches is ment, of self-expression not alone Munich Fllegende Rlaei'er. friends can find solace in the the oidy measurement required. in dead mnrble and canvas, but also The size of the double seats that in the plnslic lives of children to be knowledge that the world is were replaced is such that by shaped and moulded into those Ideal Pc- better because Daniel R ELr- * ' don’ t Ilk • to k rufi the uddition of two-inch blocks forms of mind and heart which their dreams have pictured. gcod lived in it. 'l. t< d..y, ’b :t . r ’ 1 ,;r tke old seuts will serve admirably . o of my acqa ccs, I a i 1 cet, are sirk 1 i ’.way rurn If there was any doubt about for high school purposes. By this Co-operative thinking is the biggest .. it can’t possibly h > hr. In I ver the Snake valley being a corn purchase the board has taken a problem ¿hat confronts the farmer to long step toward supplying the day. country that doubt was surely Pt.-aiiçe T pupils with comfortable and dispelled by the Pomona No farmer can afford to buy a thing in Gulni a 'lu re ! 5 lie: will healthful seuts. he can raise, no matter how cheap it yie'ds a 1 : ; of a frui:- grange tern show at Ontario. The principal nas been spend It. size : can- huge fruit I . , The average yieled per acre of non ball r .mi , i .„5 n,. . a iieuieu- ing considerable time during the the hinds of the 31 contestants Co-operation is the force that keeps dous noise when it pop past two weeks in rearranging was 83 6-10 bushels, while the seats throughout the various the wolf from the door. Estray Cow. largest yield was 121 7-10 bu school rooms. In all the rooms Is your farm declaring dividends, Came to my place about Octo shels. Such productiveness will the different sizes of seats were or are you in the tenant class? ber 1, a red milch cow now with make the famous corn-grow ing fastened down without much re I young calf, gentle, crop in right A farm is a business establishment, states of the Middle West look gard for the size of the seat in | ear, split in left ear. dehorned, and should be so operated. brand not discernable. Owner front or behind any given seat. to their laurels. lean have same by proving prop- By inattention to this matter it A farm should be operated for net, ■rtyand paying charges. Inquire A bridge across Snake river frequently happened that a low! not for gross results. | G G. JBrown. two miles west of at Big Bend will be a distinct seat was behind a high desk-top Nyssa.—adv nfi The net results of good farming advantage to Nyssa. With free and a high seat behind a low desk are profits, success, a growing busi access to the railroad, the trade top. The teachers are exercising ness and a good Hying. P R O F E S S IO N A L . ol the Bend will come to Nyssa care that pupils are placed in seats Value of Love. as naturally as the waters of the of the right size. A wifi who practises what is com I D r . J, J. S A R A Z IN Snake How to the Columbia. Considerable hyloplate black monly known among the fraternity of P H Y S I C I A N A SUKUliON board has been put in the primury husbands as "hurt Io<" ’’ Indicating If the other nations keep and in the high school recitation that a tear show i about ready to Office between Second and Third fall because her b^-ioved has not ac hammering away, Uncle Sam rooms. The green color has been quiesced wholly in her desires and on Main street. may tind himself the first naval chosen because it is more restful plans, the other morning said at the Nyssa Oregon breakfast table after her husband had power of the land without build to the eyes. declined firmly but surely to buy an Mr. Pinkston, from the Owyhee, automobile of a ce -tain type, “John, ing a ship. gave the advanced pupils an ad don’t you love me any more?” “Uh- P, J. PH ILLIPS Charles G. Daws says that un dress recently. He spoke of his huh— I guess so; but not ‘ 1 000 worth." ATTORNEY-AT-LAW exampled prosperity is on its early schooling and his experi Had Told the Truth. way hither. Why not send out ences during the Civil war. "Is the master of the house in?" In Oregon Mr. Shinn, the county agiicul quired the smooth tongued book agent Nyssa a reception committee to hurry of the little boy who answered his turai advisor, arranged to have an it along? expert speak to the pupils in ring. “ Nope," said the hoy. "Little | C.C. WILSON rooms four and five on the subject boys should not tell falsehoods,” said The old fashioned man who the book agent "Jsn't that your fa LAWYER “ Hog Cholera.” ther reading the newspaper there by wound his watch with a key the window*?” "Y ep,” was the answer; Real Estate Insurance now has a son who rides in a "that’s pa, all rl^ht, but ma is out.” Nyssa - - Oregon self-starting automobile. STORAGE SITES IN SNAKE BASIN STATEI STATEM ENT OF TH E Loans ami Discounts * 84,2'.1- Overdrafts....... .... .................................... 33 Bonds am' Warrants ....................................................... 208 Banking House. Furniture and Fixtures ......................... 9.67C Cash on hand and dm- Iroin b a n k s....................................... 24.631 SI 18,839 LIABILITIES Capital Stock............. .............................................................. $ 25,C Surplus..................................................................................... 5,0 Undivided profits.................................................................... 6,4 Deposits................ ............................................................ . . . 82,2 Reserve for ta x es.................................. ............................. 2C $118,831; The Oldest, the Largest, the Strongest Bank in Nyssa. H. J. WARD, Pres. REÎ land discounts.............. draft- ............................ jand Warrants iking house furniture and j resources....................... land sight exchange LIA I stock paid in jrided profits »its..................... J. H. WOLF, CashH RESKR KINGMAN, Pres. împire Lumber Co. Lumber, Lime, Plaster, Cement, Sash and Doors J. E ire In su ra n ce- — R e g is te r now Rock Springs and Utah Coal F ish and ( NYSSA OREGON Notary Public-* ;ra House 6 HOME VISITORS’ <A EXCURSIONS EAST VIA Union Pacific System Very low round trip fares from Oregon Short Line points to Den ver, Kansas City, St. Louis. Min. neapolis, Chicago, St. Paul and many other points. Moving F Tuesday, Thui We want our customers “ The Best Bank Ontario N The oldest b banking rooi » per cent on savings TICKETS ON SALE O ctober 24, N ov. 21, 23 D ecem ber 19 and 22 See any Oregon Short Line agent for further particulars J. H. furniture ai LICENSE! Lady Calls Promptly Or. Telephone 52 D R . D . C, B R E T T A Phone No. 64W W m . M c B r a tn e y DENTIST Ontario Pharmacy Block I Ontario - - UNDERTAKER Oregon T . O. H um phreys, D . D.S EMBALMER L icensed D E N T IS T O P T> A E‘ Y AND in Id a h o EAST SII AND FE and O regon Transfer - Calls Promptly Answered Day or Night. PARMA ID AHO Phone 53 Telephone at my expense. D R . H, G. HOWE ONTARIO, OREGON D E N TIS T Te l. 7 3 - R First National Bank Bldg. Ontario Or. Any Spectacle Lenses Duplicated STROTHER-BLACKSTONE CO. ■VOCKISOS* TO c o s W . HEIST FRESH FISH SALMON AND HALIBUT Shipped direct from Pngct Sound to this market. G o ld an d S ilv er Sm iths Fine and complicated watch repairing a specialty. 727 Main 9t. Boise, Idaho myssa uncfit Iflarhet H. BURB1DCE P rep . C. H . I N Y S S A ’S LE, M A K E S SHA> A N D HAIRCL CLEAN BATHS IN S H AN(
