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About The Gate city journal. (Nyssa, Or.) 1910-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1916)
Rev. Baker Injured um s> brass s.etc. odern OWN A HOME IN NYSSA Residence Lots-Business Lots Down, the balance on easy payments, This property is close in and convenient to side- walks and city water. The best opportunity to secure a home that has been offered since the boom. Stop paying rent and own a home of your own. Prices will never be lower. fealei leserip- y cuts here is ckly as rom On Terms So Easy That You W ill N ever Miss the M oney ivery ; commences, over. KET Nyssa Journal Office Inquire at i 1 ♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦ •h’*'■*’ •.Vk* • +*'!" 'Wills’ A uto Truck Will Fill Your Orders Quicker Than a Wink im pare it« i you bay save yo« ne Hauls A nything, Any Time, Anywhere City and Couutry Business Solicited. • 0 . B. Wills, Prop. 5SÜ J II. F A RLEYi in Auto Accident Eight Constitutional Amendments Filed Ontario. July 18.—Two automobiles Eight petitions for the placing of collided just west of Ontario in Sunday state wide constitutional amendments evening’s dust storm. Three of the on the November ballot have been filed four men in the cars escaped with with the secretary of state. Last Sat bruises, but the fourth, Rev. D. E. urday was the last day of filing. Three Baker, pastor of the Baptist church of petitions announced earlier had failed Ontario, suffered bad cuts across the to show up. cheek and temple and a severed artery i The missing petitions were one for in the wrist, from windshield glass. J “ One day of rest in seven,” fostered Mr. Baker was returning from an ap . by the Weekly Rest Day League; one pointment in the country with F. A. | to protect salmon in the Columbia Stewart, an Ontario merchant, in the river and its tributaries, and one relat latter’s Ford car. They met B. B. ing to the admission of health practi Wood in his high powered Stoddard- tioners to do business in the state. Dayton roadster, on his way to his The rural credits petition, in which farm. Art Magill, another young far there has been keen interest manifested mer, was with him. over the state, was filed late Saturday Both drivers seem to have seen each afternoon with about 26,500 signa other, but one or both failed to turn tures. This amendment is initiated out far enough to pass. Lamps, fen and favored by the Oregon Referen ders and radiators on both cars were dum league, a federation of the Ore damaged, and the lighter one will be gon State Grange, Farmers’ Educa in the hands of the surgeons in the tional and Co-operative union and the Ford hospital some time before it is Oregon State Federation of Labor. presentable again. The state wide tax limitation amend Several stitches were required to ment petition came in with about 35,- close the minister’s wounds. Hard 000 signatures, it is fostered by the luck seems to be camping on Mr. Ba State Taxpayers' league. ker’s trail. Five weeks ago his wife The amendment "to abolish discrim burned her foot and was confined to ination against home manufacture of bed several days. A week later Mr. lignt beer’’ was brought in with 42,046 Baker, then doing a full carpenter’s signatures, and the amendment in work in remodeling his church build itiated by the Oregon state prohibition ing, stepped on a nail and was on committee “ to prohibit the importation crutches two weeks. of liquor for beverage purposes” was filed with 30,470 signatures. Other petitions filed were the “ Peo Rancher Arrested on ples land and loan law,” “ Validating location of certain public institutions Charge of Bootlegging and providing for normal school at Pen Caldwell.—Arrested Tuesday morn dleton,” Prohibition of compulsory vac ing at his ranch just southwest of cination and medical treatment,” “To Caldwell and lodged in county jail, O. repeal and abolish the Sunday closing K. Brody will face a charge of boot law,” and several petitions for county legging. He was taken on a warrant laws; sworn out and served by Sheriff Fro- Popular Pastime at Weiser. man. Six quart bottles of “evidence” said Just at present the popular pastime to have been uncovered about the for both the younger and the older sets Brodie premises were brought in with iB swimming, and not to have been in the prisoner. They will be used as all over is to acknowledge one’s self a evidence, states County Attorney Grif sort of a "has been,” according to the fiths, in prosecution of the prisoner on prevalent opinion. The Seventh street a charge of illegal possession and sale bridge is the resort moat frequented and the Weiser river furnishes the of liquor. At 10 o’clock Wednesday morning water. It also furnishes the current Brodie will be brought before Probate that makes swimming down stream a Judge Frank Meek, when the time will pleasure hut swimming up rtream an be ^set for the preliminary examina impossibility, it's similar to coasting, long, pleasant ride down, then a hard tion, unless the accused man decides walk back on the bank. to waive his hearing. The water is cold, there is no dis Judge Meek on Tuesday fixed Brody's bond at $500. This he was nnable to pute on this fact, hut the temperature raise during the day 'and remained in doesn’t bother the. bunch one bit. jail. He is a young man, his age be Bathing suits have been in demand for the past week and the “ polar bears” ing given as 21 years. and “ snowbirds” are about all out fitted. The bridge each evening is fill INDUSTRIAL REVIEW. ed with autos and traffic is about stop Figures compiled by the Forest Ser ped on the road The drivers seem to vice shsw that the furniture manu experience difficulty in getting all the facturers of Oregon use annually near way over during the ablutions below. Harking hack to an ancient fable of a ly seven million feet of lumber. certain sailor who filled his ears with Reports received from nearly all sec wax or cotton batting, or some other tions of Douglas county indicate that this year’s crop of prunes will far sur handy material, it might be well for the chauffeurs to lash themselves to the pass previous years. steering gear and wear four-cornered Construction of John Day highway, blind bridles. which will connect the Columbia river The fun commenced about 7 o’clock highway with Lincoln highway, will be and lasts until—but that don’t matter, started soon. it commences about 7. Wasco county cherry stems are be- j ing shipped to Europe to make poison ous gas that is used by opposing armies Carey Act Project in France. Soon to Be Opened Work has been started on Sunset oil well north of Vale. Inquiries are continually being re Auto tourists spent $7400 in Baker In ceived at this office in regard to lands in this valley. Not many landowners four weeks. Oregon gold output increased $107,- in this section of the country nppear 000 first six months of 1916 over same anxious to Bell, the tendency being to acquire more acres. This is a good period 1915. Allies have, in past year, paid$l,r>00,- place to live and the people know it (XX) for Oregon and Washington spruce and arc content to stay. There is still good government land for manufacture of aeroplanes. for homesteading. Some with possibil ities for private irrigation systems at moderate cost. All natural flow irri Bag W ildcats In gation waters have been appropriated. There arc thousands of acres of road stead of Sage Hens grant lands for sale at from $5 to $20 Nampa. Hunting sagehens in Owy per acre, with water available for a hee county Sunday where they mo lot of it.. 1 tored from here, Robert Poole, Tom The Carey act project under the Ai - Poole and Harry Kimmel came across a telope reservoir comprises 50,00 acres j wilu cat and its two kittens, much to of very choice land, beautifully located. This project is not yet ! the misfortune of the cats. The pelts of the mother and one of open to entry, hut the system is the kittens were brought home by the practically completed and the time for party, and kitten No. 2 was brought opening will not be long delayed.— home alive, having liecn captured by Jordan Valley Express. I Robert Poole, although it first gave ! him a severe bite on the thumb. War Machines. Asks for Money for Artesian W ell Work There has been completed at the U. Senator Chamberlain has secured an S. Arsenal at Rock Island, III., and ONTARIO, OREGON sent to the Mexican border, a double amendment to the sundry civil bill to increase from $150,000 to $250,0“0 the: turreted, armored automobile. It weighs, full) equipped, 12,000 appropriation to make experiments in pounds. It has four times the power artesian well development in Oregon of the ordinary automobile of like di and other states. mensions. It can run on any ordinary W’cck End Excursions. road that is not too soft to support its LICENSED EMBALMER weight; its speed it twenty-five miles: Attractive rates for excursion tickets it is immune against musket shots, and good from Saturday (or Sunday) to Lady Assistant each turret has a machine gun that Monday—on sale e e r y week. Still fires several thousand shots per min better rates for tickets good Sunday ute. It is believed to be a most for only. Ask O. S. L. agents for details. Calls promptly answered, day or night. Phone No. 132 midable machine. It is said that sev +*+*+++4-++++*++***+++++++4'+++4>++*++**++++++*-M’’M’++4-+ eral smaller and swifter armored ma FOR SALE. Horse and two-horse wagon, also chines with one turret are being mad* At 50c we esn show you the grandest, Don't forget the date of the Cooked ready at the same place for the same two-horse harness for sale. —A. H. assortment of Men's or Boys’ Shirts in ! Coabo. destination.- Goodwin’s Weekly. Food Sale—Jaturdav, July 1. the state. L. Spier. U n d e rta k e r and F u n e ra l D ire c to r P
