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[XV NO. 17 NYSSA, MALHEUR COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1917 ^ ,„ 0 recital Thursday evening _en8e. Joseph Cancelmo never better.'. Added to a superb this artist brings to his inter- i of the classics th at, fine sen- and sympathetic touch that to mind the imagery that in- the composition itaelf. For two hours an appreciative audi- ijoyed every number o f the best program ever rendered in Each piece was a gem and ¡(fared from the others because ital was so beautifully varied all the sentiments that find place mind of man were covored by ■ropriste expression in melody, proceeds o f this successful event [jo to the Italian Relief Society to ir sufferars in Europe. Mr. Can ’t farewell concert is a fitting j to the wonderful work he has in s number o f benefit concerts (the Red Cross at Nyssa, Ontario. Kingman, Big Bend and other * \ 'A W KL B e t ' v L E 8 o u A, '• i k e - The Red Cross knitting is rapidly be coming popular with the ladies and girls of Nyssa. At the present date there are 72 helpers engaged in this line o f Red Cross wo:k. There has been delivered tp Ontario for further shipment the followingfinished articles: Eight sweaters, 14 mufflers. 2 helmets, 13 pair wristlets and 19 pair socks, be sides there are 5 articles on hand and 64 are nearing completion. A new sup ply of yarn and needles has been re ceived. Anyone wishing to get start ed in knitting may see Mrs. J. Boydell. Authority Transferred The Journal is in receipt of s letter trom W. K. Newell, assistant food ad- ministrrtor for Oregon, stating that through an arrangement just made, ok over our authority over tho border towns of ee (t>e style | Oregon east o f Huntington has been transferred from the U. S. food ad ministration for this state to that of ■ lua|ity, Mod" Idaho. This territory includes Nycsa, ita. Vale and Ontario. This arrangement ( has heen made for convenience, as sup- HOLY ROSARY HOSPITAL I plies for this district are drawn large r ONTARIO, OREGON, ly from Idaho, rather than from Ore fating ladies wishing to train for gon. „ i are requested to apply to Moth- Everybody likes to r e a d -if you know Superior for information. Three anything newsy tell it to The Journal. incies. Dec. 7 tf A of Brief Resume the Daily Events in a Live Town What Your Neighbors Are Doing. Florence McDonald ia viiiting friends Mra. D. H. Stoner visited in Ontario in Caldwell this week. Wednesday. . Harry Sharp is down from Nampa W. E. Lees, prominent Ontario at this week attending to business matter. torney, paid Nyssa a brief visit Wed- The Misses Elizabeth and Clara Can- desday hara visited friends in Parma Saturday. Cashier J. H. Wolt o f the Malheur Mr. and Mrs. Ray Chipman and Mias County Bank, wag an Ontario visitor Louise Robertson were Ontario visitors Wednesday. Thursday. Mrs. R. M. Horn went to Boise Mon Mrs. Will H. Beam attendrd the day to visit a sick friend who is in a funeral of her brother-in-law, William hospital at that place. Plughoff at Ontario Wednesday. John Reece returned this week from Miss Grace Pounds returned this a tour o f inspection to his sheep camp week from an extended visit with rel He reports everything lovely and the woolies in fine condition. atives and friends at Burley, Idaho. Miss Althea Sheldon was a Boise Miss Pearl Toombs o f Ironsides was a guest last week at the Dennis home visitor Tuesday. She was in a wreck at Meridian in which an engineer was in this city. W. W. Foster, commonly known as severely injured. Miss Mattie and Chaa. Canham went "Honey” Foster, went to Ontario Wednesday to attend a convention of to Ten Davis this morning to visit Miss Elizabeth Canham, who is teaching bee men who were in session there. school at that place. J. H. Kinnaird, ex-depot agent, cel George Toombs came up from Pay ebrated his emancipation from the on erous duties o f that position by taking ette this morning, where he has been working in a parking house for the a trip to Boise Thursday. past three months. C. B. Sanford and Jett Mansker of Sylvester Morris, mail carrier on Ontario are drilling wells on the E. O. L. Co.’s tracts a few miles west o f, Route No. 1 out o f Nyssa, was sick a couple o f days this week and his place Nyssa. S T A T E "M E N T O F T H E was taken by Virgil Fogle, Miss I. G. Anderson, daughter of Mrs. Fred Sheets of the Journal Isham Anderson of this city: was mar ried in La Grande on Wednesday, No staff went down to Ontario Wednesday vembre 24, to Mr. Hqmer Wilson. They to interview her dentist. She claims the first round was a draw and will will reside at La Grande. NYSSA, OREGON. pull off the deciding bout in the near The financial statement of the tiled by the Superintendent of Banks of the State of Oregon at future. Thanksgiving Red Cross drive was re the close o f business Nov. 20, 1917. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Baird are the ceived this week too late for -puhlicp- tion but will appear in fu)l in next proud and happy parents o f a baby week's issue. It shows net proceeds daughter who came to brighten their RESOURCES home last Wednesday. Being the first of *264.68. $97,283.35 child in the family the young parents ns and d isco u n ts............................... The following Nyssa boya left Thure 11.69 nrturally regard it as about the great Overdrafts.............................................. • day for La Grande to attend the Older . 18,298.26 est thing that ever happened. Mother onds and w a rra n ts............................... Boys conference o f the Y. M C. A .: . 6,090.00 and child are doing well. iking house, furniture and fixtures Dwignt, Gordon and William McDon 664.49 Rev. H. I. Hansen is expecting a ber real estate ow n ed ......................... ald, Allan Forbes, Cody Butler and 47,699.62 new arrival at hia house soon and is and sight exch an ge....................... Jack Teutsch. making elaborate preparations for its Mr. and Mrs. W, L. Gibson are $170,047.41 reception. He called on the expert "somewhere in the E ast" visiting rel servicea o f J. L. Friis to superintend atives and atteding to business. Their LIABILITIES the construction o f a garage building ............................... $25.000,00 first stop was at Kansas City, and from to keep it in, aaid expected new arrival [Capital stock paid in there Mr. Gibson expected to go to . , being a Ford car which the reverend I Surplus fund ........ .............. 4,021.78 ¡ Texas to look up a market for his big gentleman has purchased to use in his [Undivided profits ................................ 136,025.63 crop of onions, spuds, etc. pastoral work. Deposits ..................... W. W. Howard, county agricultur A meeting o f the Nyssa Library 8170.047.41 ist, is again on the job, after an ab association will be held next Tuesday sence of several months at Camp Lewis . afternoon at o'clock in the library Reserve T hirty-Fvve Per Cent. where he acted as provisional sergeant ! room. Miss Cornelia Marvin, state FRANK D. HALL, Cashier I A. G. KINGMAN, President in the national army, drilling citizen librarian, will be present and has im soldiers at Camp Lewis. portant matters to bring before the Mr. and Mrs. Will Cathey are the association in relation to the ways in Htis > o a t t v e t t > t proud and happy parents o f a dainty whidh the organization can aid in war baby daughter, born Saturday morn work. All members, and others inter ing, November 31. The little one has ested in the library, are urgently re been named Myrtlebelle Merrell and quested to be present. is the pride of the household. f "H B A N K OF NYSSA it | adr-i31 ackinaw coat e that Nation goods to get varied r of ons. Carts, Veloci- "ars, Doll lies, Dolls ■at variet- ards, Dec- erns, and loice pice li Teapots, lumerable et Cotton. 5 000.001 4 * “I want a present for a man!” F you’ re looking for a Christmas g ift fo r a man a trip to our store will solve your problem. This is a man’ s store, full o f things men like. I Here >ou will find many a g ift that a man will appreciate for its usefulness as well as for the sen timent which prompted the giving. ÍCE JRE OREGON $1.60 PER YEAR 6c PER COPY Benefit Concert Red Cross Knitting je Artistic Success Becoming Popular NYSSA AND VICINITY | Ÿ . VT To >O K T he G ate C ity J ournal ) M. C. A. DRIVE W hy not make it a big, warm H art Schaffner & M arx Suit or O vercoat? L. SP1ER The honte of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes. Man*« and Boya’ Store The following Suggestions are offered for your convenience: Sweaters Gloves Shirts Half hose Fur caps Hats Underwear Neckties Caps Cuff buttons Scarf pins Jewelry Mackinaw coats Leather belt» Suspenders, boxed Pajam as Knitted silk reefers Hand kerchief* Silk mufflers SPIER Nyssa Oregon Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Garri son, on Thanksgiving day, a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Garrison have more than usual cause for thanksgiving thie year. The young lady has been named Al- vera. Frank Leuck it helping the boys out at the Nyssa Garage and blackamith shop during a rush o f work at that industrial center. Although Frank ii now a bonanza farmer be knows tiie blacksmith game from A to Z ai.d his hand has not lost its cunning. Two more Nsssa boys left this week to join the forces that are fighting against the powers o f evil as expmpli- fied by the kaiser and minions. Chan dler Harper went to Baker City to join the aviation corps, whila Felton Dun can went to Portland to enlist in the marine coips. Mrs. Zina Rambaud received a letter from her father, L. C. Roth rocs, who lives at Peneleton, Or,, that he has transferred to her brother, H. C. Rothrock, the east half o f section 24, township north, range 33 east. It sold for *56,000 cash. This is the second ranch Mr. Rothrock haa sold in 1917. Mr. N. E. Leigh, manager o f the Cozy theatre here, has donated the use of said house for "m ovie’ ’ night (tonight). Mr. Leigh has been very kind in giving the free use o f the theatre for ell patriotic purposes, and in the name o f the public our thanke are extended. J. H. Kinnaird has resigned hie po sition as agent of- the local O. S. L. station and ie succeeded by C. B. Hixon from Picota, Oregon, who has assumed charge. Mr. Kinnaird will take one "trick ” as operator bare un til February when he will leave for Iowa to engage in fanning. “ JiiA.” as hie friends all call him. has served hie company and the public faithfully and well and hia determination to re tire from the railroad game will be universally regretted by the Nyeea public. MARRIED IN WALLA WALLA From the Walla Walla Bulletin we take the following- A quiet wedding occurred at 12:30 p. m. Wednesday at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Tufts, when Mrs. Martha Belle Mc Donald was united in marriage to Mr Fred Klingback of Nyssa, Oregon. The bride was dressed in a beautiful gown o f tan crepe de chine and car ied a bou- qu etof pink La France rosea. They marched in to the strains o f "The Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin.” played by the bride’s sister, Miss Margaret Tufts. The impressive ring ceremony was read by Rev. Harold C. Warren. A fter the ceremony a wedding din ner was served to the guests, who were all immediate relatives o f the bride. The house was decorated with white end yellow chrysanthemum*, artistic ally arranged. The bride ia well known in Walla Walla vicinity and her marriage comes ts a surprise to her many friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Klingback will make their home on a ranch a few miles from Nyssa, Oregon, after January 1, 1918. S. O. S. Call. The Red Croes rooms are open every afternoon for work and everyone ie re quested to come end help with the sew ing. as the association is anxious to get a shipment off before Christmas. The ladies o f the Owyhee ere making a dozen bed sbeots every week, and the Arcadia ladiet a dozen convalescence robes. RED CROSS ASSO., Nyssa, Or. Money loaned on I-and Security, Low Interest, Long Term». Hinich, Nyssa. JAN iRVIN : CITY G0ES“0VERTHE TOP” We are pleased to be able to print the following from the report of tne committee in charge o f the recent drive for the Army Y. M. C. A. funds. The local four-minute speaker*, on in structions from Washington, D. C., worked in the interest o f tlîe drive and made good in the several localities where they spoke, being able to arouse a feeling and spirit in the citizens that produced the desired results. The town o f Nyssa and communities of Owyhee. Kingman Kolony and Big Bend were apportioned a quota o f $600 Blayney Boydell Writes Encouraging Letters and went the quota and over. The workers for the fund* and what they were able to do with the help of tnoir neighbors is shown in the report as follows: Kingman Kolony— Peck-Blodgett..................... . . . *137.00 Big Bend—’ E. L. Tate____ _____ » .0 0 Owyhee Mrs. W. Guy Thompson_____ 108.75 Nyssa and Vicinity - Tom N isb et................................ 71.00 E. M. D ean ................................ 187.50 Don Davis . . . ........................... 22.60 S. D. Goshert............................ 258 60 C. C. Hunt.................................. 116 00 C. C. W ilson.............................. 36.00 *976.26 The report further shows that o f the above subscriptions there was paid in cash the sum o f $853.25: and that there were pledges to the amount o f $122. There was a balance in the bank from the drive o f last spring in the sum of $4.01, which sum was added to the amount collected in this drive, making a total o f $857 26, which amount has been remitted to B. Lee Paget, treas urer Y. M C. A. War Work Council, Portland. The good people ot the territory cov ered are certainly doing their bit and we trust that they will continue to do so for the period o f the war. Jitter an inverval o f several weeks letters have been received from J. B. Boydell, (Blayney) who is in the United States navy, submarine corps. His letters are very encouraging and cheerful, never having made one word o f complaint since enlisting on April 13, 1917. Having passed thtough the initiatory part uf the training, both as an able bodied seaman and gunner, he is now deeply interested in his work, and in his own words says: "This is sure a great life, if you do not weaken, and I sure wish you peo ple could have seen all the interesting and funny sight* with me—Panama, the Panama canal, F'lorida. Give kindest regards to all enquiring friends and tell Mr. Ross and Mr. Nisbct that I hope that they will save some tame The Nyssa school is trying a new ducks for me to have a shot at "R eceived the Journal and was sure venture in music this year. The plan is to put on an Operetta at the Opera glad to get it ." House December 12. It has been the custom to put on a play in the fall and a concert in the spring, the receipts of which were used for various school ac tivities. This year it was decided not to give anything before Christmas on J. H. Tague, an old soldier o f the account o f the great demand or. the civil war, died last week at the home people for the support o f the war. It o f hia daughter, Mrs. Vina Boswell, of was thought that the Thanksgiving Ontario, after a lingering illness o f a football game would pay the expense paralytic nature. He leaves three o f that activity and the concert cou’d Bons—Harry, Emery and Charles, and wait until spring, but on account o f the two daughters, Mrs. Boswell and Mrs. Red Cross benefit and bad weather, Dervich, to mourn his loss. The this plan had to be abandoned. So the funeral was held at Ontario on Thurs students were tried out on a musical day November 29. Interment was in play. the Ontario cemetery. They took to it like ducks to water and have progressed so nicely that it can be ready by the Friday before Christmas. It is hoped that the re When it comes to raising corn, as ceipts from the play will he enough to well as nearly everything else, Nyssa meet the student debt o f $35. Students stands nt the head o f the list. She from the seventh grade to Seniors in still holds the record for producing the high school arc being used, and it is most perfect car of corn in the state likely that some exhibition drills will o f Oregon. The foiiowing extract be given by the smaller children Tho Op*—'H a is called the "Polished from a letter rtceived by J. B. Hat field from Carl Sjoblom at Minneapolis, P ebbles," referring to a mother and Minn., shows that we can even make her daughters who pretend to be mere They pose as city the denizens o f the old corn states of then they are. folks, but at the end o f the play they ihe Middle W est stare a little: "D ear John- Say, that corn you gave arc giad to get back on the farm and us was a great advertisement. Every let others more deserving have the body thinks it was the finest corn they pleasures of city life. The m usic,ie ever saw, and the mar. that my brother very cstchy and well adapted to the works for would like to get two quarts voices o f Ih«- young people. It will o f each kind o f the corn if you can surely be very entertaining to to the public as well as instructive to the possibly spare it .” The corn in question was rai.sed by children. School Children Will Give Operetta Soldier of Civil War Answers Final Call Makes ’Em Stare the Hatfield brothers on their farm For your friends who are far away near town and Mr. Hatfield states that the corn was not the best they raised and for those who are near there is this year but was inferior to much of only ONE.best G ift--and that is your this year’s crop. The corn requested photograph. * has been sent and will further add to THE BURRELL STUDIO. Nyssa’ s fame as a corngrowing center. Ontario, Oregon. Malheur County Bank STATEM EN T O F THE * Library As- ibrary room ition o f the Miss Cor- 1 , w h s pras- but highly talk on a a. •rary could >naervation peration o f Pamphlats 1 different la o f their d and cir- possibl# it ia hoped will study oeated the ’ with the ■unites as t advant- * present the read- food con- s on sub- association re fiction netic and in* thor- >ject suc- i and de- • fit the in* some- mutters, s adopted: he Nyssa •re will- y that we ner in the ur faeili- , SOLVED, on o f all ( to the teachin* we will brary for SOLVED, able, se- through s to (be amended id OLVED, md adopt until af- OLVED, e r f way ■nance o f o f food >RY. / Also. > ferry lined the •e home hie time The af- antly in includ'd is lunch was 11 n affair, la being 1 sterner e: Mrs. Hanson, ’. Beam, A. M. Duncan, re. <’. n, M re. anDyke, E. Ser Mra, D, “ A BANK OF STRENGTH AND CHARACTER” Nyss» Oregon. er, was At the close o f lusmess Nov. 20, 1917. RESOURCES Loans and Discounts Overdrafts . . . . . Liberty Bonds and Warrants Banking House, Furniture and Fixtures Cash on hand and due from Banka $ 117,563.73 20.14 13,654.00 9.146.57 . 96,868.21 $237,2 i 52. 66 LIABILITIES Capital Stock, paid in cash Surplus and Undivided Profits Deposits . . . . If you are thinking o f buying a ear don’ t forget that the little old Ford rambles right along and is always on the job. See Fields at Service Garage. Adv.d7tf ER COPY $ 25.000 00 18,156.26 194.096.39 $237.252.65 We invite you to examine the above statement o f this Strong Stale Bank, where Safety First and Courf «ay to All are standing rules H. J WARD, President JOHN RAY, J. H WOLF. Vice President. taahier. ■icin-