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....................................................................... .............................. ... NEWS OF MALHEUR COUNTY SCHOOLS PREPAREDNESS 1 A. M. Johnson was a Payette visitor Thursday. Dr. Cluen of Parma was in Nyssa B y MISS KAY CLARK Wednesday. Superintendent of Schools. Don and Lulu Davis were Ontario visitors Friday. This bank is prepared to give its customers the most Applications for professional certifi Miss Pearl Wallace is visiting her cates now issued by the state depart liable banking service. sister in Parma. ment are in the county office ready for All depositors are extended every financial aid and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Crockett were On- distribution. Teachers wishing them TotilU y c o n » »»w jm with good banking. tario visitors Wednesday. will kindly make their requests soon. Mrs. Thompson and Miss Lucy were Most of the people in the Creston neighborhood met at the home of Mr. Payette visitors Friday. YOUR ACCOUNT IS SOLICITED and Mrs. Shumway last Friday evening. Mr. Clanahan, the well known bee The' Creston school, assisted by th e' man, was in town Saturday. teacher, gave a splendid program. Im- j Harry Eeuck went to Parma Monday mediately following the program, the to have some dental work done. older people organized a Grange. The Mr Voit is building an addition to remainder o f the evening was spent in FRANK D. HALL, Cashier A. G. KINGMAN, President his home in the northern part o f town. dancing and visiting. Such a gathering means much in developing a good com- j Rev. Harper, who has been visiting munity spirit where the homes are his family at Milton, Or., returned to scattered as they are in that section. Nyssa Tuesday, l . H. Hill, formerly of the Hill’s ♦ ♦ Mr. Howard and Mr. H'ckox were the visitors who spoke in regard to Grange' pharmacy o f Ontario, was a business $ KINGMAN KOLONY ARCADIA work and Miss Clark in the interest o f . visitor in Nyssa Tuesday, v * * * * * * + + * * * * * * ♦ ♦ ♦*♦ *♦♦ ♦♦ *. the school. | M|ss Eva Boydell, who is teaching in The water was turned into the J. C. Fleming and family visited The Annex and Hillside schools in Ontario, spent the week-end with her District No 29 closed last week. The parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. Boydell, of irrigation ditches the first o f this, near Vale last Sunday. William Champlin, the man who teachers, Miss Weir ar.d Mrs. Spauld-. Nyssa. week. | Miss Marian McDonald, who is at- cared for Will Pennington’ s ranch dur ing, have seturned to their homes. Mrs Maxwell and Miss Corinne ing the latter’ s visit in Portland last The boys and girls who have enrolled tending the College o f Idaho at Cald- Maxwell are visiting Mrs. Tyler winter, has left for parts unknown. | for iudustrial club work should not“ well, spent the week end with her par in New Plymouth. We think he must have accepted a leap carefully the score upon which the ents at Nyssa. ! awaids are based for Project work this The wolf which has been both year proposal. Toy Barton, a friend of the Wilson year. Last year, the report or note Bros., from Murray, Kentucky, is mak Roy Williams and family and E. B. ering the people in the west end Butler, Sr., and wife were over near book counted but 20 points whiie this ing a short visit with them. He is en o f the Kolony for some time was Vale last Sunday. year it counts 40 points. This is a val route to Washington. shot py Mr. Waltz last Sunday Mr. Dodge, the prominent lawyer, uable phase o f club work and should The Boydell house is being treated to morning. returned Monday from a visit to Ogden count for more than it has in other a coat of paint this week. This is in years. A special Easter program has and Idaho Falls. accordance with the new clean-up The standard school certificates is- movement and it is hoped that many E. B. Butler, Sr., and Roy Williams been prepared by the Sunday are looking after some cattle near Mal sued by the state department were others will follow their example. school for Easter. let station. We have our suspections sent to the five standard schools this Among the new arrivals in this vi Farm work and irrigation keep about a fishing line being smuggled in week. Certainly the patrons and chil cinity are Mr. G. Neal, Mr. Admiral dren in these districts have every everyone busy now. Several in the auto. Keck and their families. They I reason to be proud o f their achieve- Preparations for the picnic next Fri from Oklahoma. They are so well formal picnic suppers along the ments. pleased with this country that they river have been about the ouly day are being made in honor o f the last Mr. H. I). Thompson has been re- will locate. day o f school, form of social diversion. elected in the Kir.gman Kolony district. Mrs. Otis Laws received word that Work has been resumed on the drain The pupils and the patrons of the age system near John Ward’ s ranch Miss Martha Overstreet is e x her mother was seriously ill in Iowa. Arcadia district are to enjoy a senool after a delay of a few days. Mr. I. G pected home soon from Creston, Clyde Long is the proud owner o f a picnic Friday afternoon. Mrs. Cheeley Anderson has tahen the contract and Oregon, where she has been motorcycle and Miss Gibson have taught very suc expects to be occupied for some time teaching school this winter. As cessfully this year. in the completion o f the project. a sort of closing event to the Mr. C. H. Zavely will teach in the Alta and Dwight Smith received school year the people there held Jamieson school again next year. With word last week that their parents had the new building and a good man at the started overland in an auto from Iowa a neighborhood party last Friday head o f the work the Jam eson school for Nyssa. They will visit in Hast night. Miss Clarke and Mr, Last Wednesday afternoon a runa will doubtless be one of the best village * ings, Neb. They report the roads ex Howard made the hundred mile way team ran into the house now occu schools in thd county. csptionally gcod so far, but it is doubt trip for the occasion and organ pied by P. P. Brainard and did conaid- Miss Welbourn and Miss Thompson ful when they arrive. ized a grange. erable damage. The frightened horses have completed the years work in the B. F. Smith and A. E. Kimball were hitched to a hay-rack and as they The farmers o f the Kolony. ran past the house the hay-rack caught Grove and White Star schools. whose farms lie about one mile north Programs for the Teachers’ Training west of town,are putting in a half mile who have been waiting some one o f the porch posts and jerked it School will be sent to all the teachers, of twelve-inch pipe to convoy water what impatiently all fall and from its foundations and carried it the first week in May. for irrigation purposes. The pipe line At the present time there are 83] spring for an opportunity to have away. The team then ran past Mr. school districts in Malheur county. Two will replace the old wooden flume Vogts’ house and back to Mr. Brain- their seed threshed, have secured ard’s again. This time they ran into petitions asking for additional districts which lias been in use for a number of will be considered and acted upon at the promise of Mr. McCreary’s the corner o f the house and dilapidated the next meeting o f the district bound years. engine and expect to get it done it somewhat. They had time to go ary board. Miss Hodgson and Miss Fikan, the WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. this week. only a little farther when they were Juntura teachers, will spend their sum caught. mer vacation at the home o f Miss Three hundred years ago the greatest Hodgson in Indiana. Money to loan on I m - poet o f all time laid down his pen. To be exact, William Shakespeare died Call on proved Ranches April 23, 1618. This great author is rc. A private recital will be given by the Pinney, or write to W , J. pupils o f Evelyn Cheeley Tuesday, At the last meeting of ihe Library garded as dry and uninterestidg by April 25, at the M E. ch"rch. All association it was decided to have the , many people, but it will generally be Ontario, Oregon. music lovers are invited. formal opening o f the Nyssa Public! found that such people have not really Library Thursday, May 4. It will be . . . . , held in the afternoon and evening and! *Tlei to enjoy Shakespeare s works, He the entire population of Nyssa and vi is the poet of all time and o f all people cinity will he invited. Light refresh for his plays show the emotions, the ments will be served. It is expected struggles, the ambitions of the human j that the new books, which are ordered, soul. ' will be here by that time. Shakespeare was from the people and his plays are for the people. He pos Easter Services. sessed an insight into human nature Never before heard in Nyssa All tbe churches will observe Easter Sunday. The Methodists and Presby that is nothing short o f marvelous. He terians will hold Easter services with wrote as his own mind directed him and sermons and special music at 11:30 a.m. did not try to conform to the narrow, and the Episcopalians at 4:30 p. m. conventional standards of the literature of his day. What further proof of Announcement. Shakespeare’s gerius could we ask Rev. D. E. Baker will preach at than the knowledge that his plays Owyhee Sunday at 11 a. m. and at the | written for an audience and a stage of | Parish House. Nyssa at 3Ip. m Bap- three hundred are b Needs to be o f Pathe Freres Moving Picture fame, i tismal service at the Owyhee store at 1 . ® 1 . 10 a. m. | Precl®ted by the people o f the present heard to be appreciated. m day? Lincoln said that whatever suc- The Idanha Orchard Co., of which cess he had in life was due to the influ- John Conselmo is manager, will build ence of his mother and to the reading an up-to-date packing house in .Nyssa o f the Bible and Shakespeare, soon. This wilt be a great saving to „ , . . the company, as it will n“ t be neces- I Contrary to general opinion Shakes- sary to haul the packed fruit over a peare is deeply religious and this shows long dusty road and will also make la- (through most o f his plays. The moral Exclusive Agents. bor easier to secure. teaching o f Shakespeare can be summed up in the following quotation: “ Oh, gentlemen, the time o f life is short. To spend that shortness basely were too long.” That Shakespeare knew and appre ciated music is shown by numerous songs and the rhythm o f his plays ! 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