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VOL X V II
NO. 1
School Board
Selecting Teachers
NYSSA« M A LH E U R COUNTY. OREGON, FR ID A Y , AUG. 23 1918
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HEAVY WORK ON THE FIGHTING LINE
The achool board is having
difficulty in securing teachers
for the conning school year The
war has depleted the ranks o f
the teaching profession to such
(By Our Regular Correspondent)
an extent that there are seem*
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Price left Satur-
ingly not enough left to fill the
day for Colorado.
positions.
We still lack two
Mr. and Mrs. I. H. {Cellar returned
high schoel teachers for the Sunday from a week’s vacation.
term which begins September 3.
Mr. and Mrs. A . A. Baker ar.d fam
It is believed, however,' the va­ ily have gone to the hills for a abort
cancies will be filled within the vacation.
next few days. The following
The speaker last Sunday at the com-
mnnity war service was Rev. Arthur
have so far been selected:
Rice of Myton, Utah.
Principal—E. B. Conklin-
These powerful American artillerymen, with huge crowbars, are working
Miss Doris Kerrick has secured i fast to get tbelr heavy gun Into position to hurl Its shells at the retreating
Primary—Mrs. R. J. Davis.
position as teacher at the Apple Val
Huns. It Is a difficult job, fo r the earth Is pitted with shell craters.
Third and fourth—Miss Crys­ ley achool house for next year.
tal West.
Mr. and Mra. J. W. Price left Sat­
Fifth and sixth — Miss Lan- urday for Portland, where they will at­
drith.
tend the G. A. R. convention.
Seventh and eighth—Miss An­
Raymond Diekersen waa refused as
physically unfit at Salt Lake, where
na McDonald.
k
he went to enlist in the navy.
High school—Miss Sheldon.
A Brief Resume o f the Daily Events in a Live Town—
G. M. Kirkpatrick, a soldier o f the
The school was fortunate in
north during the Civil war, will attend
What Your Neighbors Are Doing.
securing Prof. Conklin as princi­ the G. A. R. Convention at Portland.
pal, as he is recognized as one of
Miss Shirley Fisk left Saturday foi
the most able instructors in the New York. She must report there on John Ennia went to Parma Friday,
Jack Lynch was in Boise Wednesday,
county and will
make Nyssa August 22, and will then leave for
Cody Butler is reported to be conva­
Attorney Lea« of Ontario waa a vis­
lescing from a saver* illness.
itor in Nyssa Friday.
school second to none The high France.
Mr. and Mrs. E. B Butler o f Ar­
school will offer exceptional ad­ Mra. J. O ’malia has heard from her
Mr. and Mra. B. F. Farmer o f Vale
cadia visited Sunday at tha home of
vantages to outside students, two sons—Howard, who is in tha navy were in Nyssa yesterday.
stationed at Bramerton, and John, who
Mrs. Butler’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
who are invited to take advant­ is at Camp Lewis.
Tha Bxrke pool hall ia being moved J. W. Wills.
across tha street into the Frank Golden
age o f the opportunities offered.
Mrs. F. C. Platt and three asna and
OW YHEE
P arm a N otes
By Our Regular Correspondent
Newt Thomason is the possessor of
Ford car.
Mrs. George Clascock was a patron
of the Bend Mercantile Company Mon­
day,
Mias Alice Curtisa cam* down from
her homestead up tha Owyhea Wed­
nesday.
Mrs. Myrtle Mussel!, from Idaho, is
the guest o f Mrs. George Skinner
this week.
Miss Margaret Share haa been help
ing at the William Waahiugton ranch
during haying.
IRyssa and IDicinity
t
B ig Bend
BY OUR RXGULAR CORRBSPONDENT
Threshing and haying are stopped,
owing to the rain.
Leonard Sandy went to Boise Mon­
day evening for a few days.
Marguerite Harper -of Meridian ia a
guest in the Swiggert home.
Lon Boswell o f Baker ia a guest of
hia brothers, Frank and John.
IHEffie Ferret spent the past weak in
the Hickox home at Kingman.
Mrs. and Mrf. Thos. Welsh autoed
to Caldwell on business Friday.
Roy Garry o f Greenville, Ky., ia the
guest o f his uncle, Mr. Ferial.
E. H. Test, Jr., o f Ontario wss a
business caller in the Bend Monday.
N. S. Phelan and Alex Wade le ft for
Bear trees Monday evening on a Ash­
ing trip.
le PER COPY
Fred Kllngback and Vicenti Mendi-
ola motored to Payette Saturday via
Nysaa and Ontario.
The program for the big Red
Cross Benefit Concert is com­
plete and as published below ia
an assurance that the entertain­
ment will be one o f exceptional
merit and will afford Nyssa mu­
sic lovers a rare treat
The
young ladies, who are numbered
among Nyssa's best musical tal­
e n t hate spent much time in
preparation and a splendid pro­
gram is assured
The concert is given under the
auspices of the local Red Croaa
and the entire proceeds will be
given to that organization. Ev­
erybody and his best girl should
attend and help a worthy cause,
and at the same time get double
your money’s worth o f music.
Liberty Theatre, Wednesday,
August 28. 1918, 8:30 p. m.
Following is the program:
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Pratt motored to
Long Valley Saturday on business, re­
INTRODUCTION
turning Tuesday.
M rs . B. F. F armer of V als
Oscar Smith, who helped in the hay-
MY DREAM OF TH E U. S. A
fields in this vicinity, returned to hia
Miss J osie S herman . 1st Sp.
home at Regena, Idaho, last Friday.
M rs . M c C arty , 2nd Sp.
Archie Sinclair, the McConnon man,
Miss E thel H ansen , 1st Alto
returned home Saturday from a trip
miss V irginia F orbes , 2d Alto
into tho southern part e f the county.
POLONAISE IN A
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Chopin
A. D. Morey, who has been at St.
Miss E thel H ansen
Alphonsua hospital for the past three READJNGS
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Miss A lice S pier
weeks, is expected, home some time
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Willis
Corbin
and
building.
A U TU M N L U L L A B Y
this week.
Miases Nina Allen and Ida Delyria re
daughter were visiting friends in Nyssa
M rs . M c C arty
M rs . S herman
Rev.
H.
1.
Hansen
made
a
trip
to
Miaa Marian Lowe returned home
turned Sunday from a vacation o f three
Saturday and Sunday. They formerly
M iss F orbes
W aftfall this week, returning Wed
weeks at the Payette lakes.
from Payette laiit week, accompanied
lived here but are located near Vale.
W H ILE I H A V E YOU
nesday
Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Nash will re­
Tha Misses Gertie and Elsie Ray and by Miss Amanda Come Ison, who came
Q uartette
Mis« Phoebe Sheldon has returned
turn to Parma about September 1 and
Lula Davis motored to Boise Sunday up for a visit,
TH E SU N SH IN E OF YO UR SM ILE
from
Flann’s
Ferry,
where
ehe
spent
Messrs. Georgs and Sidney Skinner
will occupy the house in which H.
in Gertie’s new Ford to visit Miss Alta
M rs . M c C arty
the summer.
Spencer has been living.
Smith, who ia tha St. Alphonsus hos­ left Thursday for Portland to attend M USICAL READINGS
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Mrs. Ethel Martin o f Kingman Kol- pital there.
the Q, A R. reunion held tht're Aug­
Mra. Story, mother o f Rev. Story o f
M iss L ola S chirmer
the United Presbyterian church, died ony is the guest thia weak o f Miss
TH E GOBLINS
M. S. Clark, recently o f Southern ust IS to 24 inclusive.
Maria Burrough.
Mrs. John Wall and son, Cloyton
Sunday evening.
Rev Paul Gauss
Idaho, is in charge o f the substation,
Q uartette
John Evans returned heme this waek taking the place o f Mr. Stoner, who Kenneth, and Mr. and Mra. Simp’son L IT T L E P IN K ROSE - C. J. Band
conducted the funeral on Tuesday af
from the Ontrrio hospital, where he recently le ft for the coast to work in and family o f Creston. Or., are guetits
ternoon.
M rs . S herman
the shipyards,
at the Lowe home at the P.utte.
E K O T)K ,
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Grieg
Mias Russell of Weiaer, a University was taking medical treatment.
Miss H ansen
C. Martinsen, an extensive rancher
Mr. and M.rs. Claud* Smith and Mr.
o f Washington graduate o f last year,
Mrs. 0. D. Cole returned to her
has been elected as teacher of sciences above Mitchell Butte, returned Wed home in Boise this week, after fn ex­ and Mrs. W altar Pinkston and family A N N IE L A U R IE
T rio
for the next year at the Parma high nesday from a trip to tha coast.
tended visit with bar parents, Mr. and motored to the mountains above Pay­
achool.
Fred and Eddie Powell were in from Mrs. J. W. Wills, o f this city and har ette lakes, where they w ill sojortrn a W H ERE MY C A R A V A N HAS
RESTED
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H. Lohr
week.
Rev. Paul Gauss, minister of the First their Owyhee ranch Wednesday, trans ■iater, Mrs. E. B. Bntler of Arcadia.
Miss H anskn
John Grlchkowtky o f Payette ana'
Presbyterian ckurch, has sent in his acting business with Nyssa merchants.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Rutladga and Mr.
ADDRESS
examination papers to join the array
Bruce Duncan returned Sunday from and Mra. Carl Rutledge, former wall John Kunzlery o f Ontario, who haya
M rs . B F. P armer
service as a chaplain, Ha does not a vacation which he spent at Boise, known people o f this vicinity, re­ been helping in the hayfiekls, motored
M a ^ C H OF THE N ATIO N S
to
their
rerpective
homes
Saturday
turned
to
their
home
at
Eagle
Sunday,
know when he will be called.
Medridian and other towns o f the vi­
Q uartertb
after a visit at tha G. G. Brown home. «v«ning, returning Sunday evening.
Mr, and Mrs. A. Albertson left Sat­ cinity.
ACCO M P A N IS T — Mist Esther Spiar
A . D. Morey, who ia in the hospital
Dr. J. J, Sarazin is taking a well
urday for Pertland, where they will at­
Tha Malheur County Bank has on
tend the G. A. R. convention. They hard and will deliver to the purchaser deserved vacation
at Portland end at Boise, suffered a relapse the letter
will visit with relatives in Rose City. all Third Liberty Loan bends that coast {points and will inveatigat* part o f the week and his daughter,
Mr. Alberson is one o f Parma’s Civil are fully paid for.
tee run or o f a particularly handsome Mrs. Ben Logan, wss sent for. She
war veteran*.
M itt Ethel and Elmar Hansen mo­ mermaid having been discovered in returned home Sunday reporting her
father much better.
Tha T. D. S. Sunday School class of tored to Ontario Wednesday to meet those waters,
Mrs. N, S. Phelan and Anna retured
home from a visit at Pilot Rock Mon­
day evening,
tha First Presbyterian church enjoyed
E.-H. Brumback and sons, Joe and a trip to Boisa laat Thursday. They
Rex. and Leonard Sandy autoed to went by auto and had a picnic dinner
at the White City ground*. They alio
Caldwell Friday.
went to the Natatorium.
John Boswell is the owner o f a new
On account o f going to the navy
Oakland, bought from Virgil Staplea
yards at Bremerton, Wash , H. E.
o f Ontario laat week
Spencer will have an auction tale at
Mr. and Mrs. W . J. Robinson and hit home on Grove Avenue on August
Dal« autoad down from Ironside Wed­ 23, where he will sail his household
nesday on buiinasa, returning Monday. goods and alao hia automabila.
Lowell A Willis, Chas. Paine, Rot-
Mra. Pitzer and baby, who spent the
past weak visiting in the Cartwright well Fruit Co., F. E. Fisk and J, J.
Hicks told their prunes laat week to
home, returned to Ontario Sunday.
Der.r.y A Co., through J. C. Watson at
The little eight-year-old daughter e f
the beat pries obtained in the valley
Mr. and Mra. Looney is sick with ty.
th*a year. Packing will start at the
phoid at Holy Rotary hospital in On­
Parma packing house about August 26.
tario.
aith about SO packers pseking this
Mr. and Mrs. John Boswall and chll- fruit.
dran and Frank and Lon Boawall plan­
ned to lerve Wednesday morning on a
camping trip.
Fix the Roads.
Conaiderabla building is being done
People traveling between Nyssa
in the Bend at present. The Hatch and the Owyhee country com­
Bungalow is titering completion, Jeaae
plain o f the condition of the
Johnston has lumber hauled for a new
roads,
claiming that in places
bungalow, Eri eat Pulliam ia planning |
a saw addition to his home and Waa- , roads
r
are almost impassable,
ran 8mall«y is building on tha 40 ha ju st who is to blame for this
recently purchased. V. V. Hickox w ill1
Condition of our thoroughfares
bu ild later on his 4Q.
Estray Notice.
$1.60 PER YEAR
Splendid Program
For Benefit Concert
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Gaorge H. Bodfish autoed over from
H. L Hansen, who waa returning
Malheur City Monday to look after hia
from a trip to Westfall.
J. Stem, Sr., haa moved into hia fine extensive property interests hare. He
new bungalow west o f town recently reports business a little quiet in hia
Completed. The Journal is glad to wel­ «action owing to the crops having bean
burned out by tha drouth.
come Mr. Stam and his family to
Nyssa.
Mra. Anna Phillipa this weak sold
L. Spier received e telegram frem her ten-acre fruit tract two miles west
C. C. Wilson Wednesday, stating that o f town to Will Robeaon o f Middiatom
he had arrived safely at Camp Meyer, Idaho, who will take possession \n a
in the District o f Columbia, where he few days. Tha price paid waa ^sioo,
the purchaser getting the aloe b, crop
will be stationed for a time.
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and household good*.
Mrs N. J. Minton returned Thurs«
N. Hon is repairing a«J
day evening to her home at Seattle,
after a three weeks visit with hsr the plastering on the tchoo, houM
parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Brown, rooms that wss badly d . mafed by b#.
ing soaked with «a te
and ethsr rslatives and friends.
rjr. Ed Christen-
sen and Olie Servo" ' 4» are doing some
P. J. Phillips left Sunday for the
painting and
Repairing getting the
East and will visit relatives in Mary­
rooms in r eadi .iesa for tba opening o f
land and West Virginia. He will be
tha fal’, terra.
joined in a short tima by his family,
and will make their home in the East
M, and fjr a . J. B. Smith were in
A. R. Mickelson, foreman o f tbe Boise Suf ,d,y to see Miss Alta Smith,
Deseret sheep camp on the Owyhee, who rer-ently underwent an operation
back from a trip to Council, where * l the St. Alphonsus hospital. They
he went t > look after some o f the earn . report the young lady to he improving
nioely and bolieve aha will be well
peny sheen which are being rap
ged enough to return home in a few days.
there.
They alao saw A D. Morey, who they
M e-ried-O n July «6, at t>
■e Chris- say ie recovering from an operation.
tien church at Weiaer. F
Lee and
There ere 6,822 " roots ” to the
Miss Mary Herman. T V
r- happy couple Smileaga Tree. Smileage is on sale hi
spent their boneymo'
jn at Spokane, that many cities and towns throughout
Mr. Lee ia propri*
-tor o f tha Silver the country. The “ Rooters” are in a
Grill at Ontario.
position to build wide grins on the faeee
The M c C op ne|| Bros., Jack and o f a million soldiers. They are doing
Charlie, iv turnwj this week from a their work well. It ¡ain’ t as exacting as
trip t * C* _,ica|j0i where they went with a fight but it keeps the fighter feeling
are o f fa t sheep, which they dis- fit to fight hard.
p^ *' ad o f at price* that have swollen
A telegram wee received this week
’ oeir bans arceuht to mammoth pro­ by A. McDonald which stated that
portions.
Douglass had again been wounded by
deponent sayeth not. but some­
body must be, and it should not
be allowed to continue. Our in­
formant states th*t the differ-
ee between these roads and
ose just across the line in Idaho
is very great, the latter being
kept in perfect condition f t %U
times, showing that it ia possibly
to keep our own roads in
Mr. and Mra. 9. D. Goahert and Mr the Hunt end was in the hospital g e t­
condition.
The road
Officials and Mra. Jesse Thompson, returned ting fixed up for another round. Thia
the first o f the week from a two-weeks makes three times the young men hi
should get busy.
The following described animals have
been taken up for trespassing on tbo
premises o f tbo undersigned about four
mile* northwest o f Nyaea. Oregon: One
^laek gelding, brand with double cross
bar on loft shoulder, one bay gelding
brand 66 with x under on right shoul­
der. on« bay gelding brand J with bar
under on right atiflo. Owner can hays
tbo tamo by paying charges and if not
so claimed within ton days said animals
Will be advertised for solo,
9mall two story ham * for aale cheap.
B. A. DIESEL.
City water. Inqoiae o f L Spier.
Dated this 22nd day of August, 1918.
S
outing
ienced
aa the
nearly
at Payette lakaa. They exper­
some difficulty in getting home,
recent rains had made the roads
impassible in pi
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Rust took their
son Morgen to tha hospital at Ontario
for a few days last week, where he
waa under the cars o f Dr. Waese. Ha
waa sufficiently recovered to be brought
borne Sunday.
Jets Ysasi, a Basqne employed bv
who ha* been ill at
the Holy Rosary hospital, o f Ontario,
returned home the last o f tha week,
without undergoing a siege of typhoid,
as waa at first feared.
Vieee.ti Mondiola,
Helps Sink a
German Submarine
In a letter to his parents Albert Ire-
da e relates a
thrilling .„counter
with a couple o f German submarine« in
which one submarine was sunk. His
ship, the Kingfisher, was doing patrol
duty off the Virginia coast when they
sighted a boat load o f survivors from *
ship that had juat been torpedoed by a
sub. They pulled out to the ship just in
time to see it sink, and were attacked
by two sub*. During the fight on* of
them wee sunk and the other submer
ged and eaceped.
Dr. B. F. Winter*, district superin­
tendent of Le Grande district o f the
M. E. church, accompanied by Rev.
Nearly everyone ie busy in the hay-
H. I. Hansen, delivered an eloquent
field this week.
address on “ Influence” at the school
A ' dy Hansen le having hia grain
bouss Thursday evening.
cut by Doc Pullen thle week.
Mr. and Mrs. John Peters and chil­
Noble Pullen returned home Monday
dren. Ralph and Ruth, and I. N. Clark
o f Chico, Calif., arrived in Owyhee after a trip to Salt Lake, reporting
after an 11-day motor trip overland that he didn't like it ever there.
Mr. end Mrs. Rachenbergsr left
for a viait with Mr. Clark's daughter
and Mrs. Peters sister. Miss Maud« their camp at Mitchell Rutte the laat
o f the week and will stay awhile in
Clark, and the Bradley families.
Ontario.
Mrs. John Glascock and brother,
Vicenti Mendiola was called from
William Schwcizer,, visited Ontario
Monday, where they went to angago a hia ranch in the midet o f haying to go
room for Mr. Schweizer and Johnny to his sheep eemp at Jordan Valley,
Glascoek, who will attend school there owing to the illness of his ramptender.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pinkston and
the coming term. Mrs. Gus 9chweiztr
family moterad to Caldwell Sunday
accompanied them as far as Nyssa.
evening, where Mr. Pinkston loft hia
The Industrial Club mat last Friday
car in the garage for repair«. He re­
afternoon with Miss Maude Clark.
turned home by rail Monday, leaving
Plana for tha fair exhibit were made
Mrs. Pinkston and tha children for a
and a number o f appropriate club visit with relatives.
yells were adopted, after which a short
Bert Cssssll o f Ontario recently
musical program waa given.
Mis*
Eugenie Pratt, preaident o f th- club, eomplotod the drilling o f e 160-foot
has been selected, by virtue o f her ex­ well on the ranch belonging to Fred
cellent work in sewing, to represent Klingback. He aspect* to drill a wall
tha Martinsan ranch in tho near
Malheur county at the Spokane Inter-
State fair the first week in September, future, being held up in the work by
where she will compete with other the absence at Aberdeen, Wash., o f
county representatives in that line c f Mr. Martinson, who Is expected keek
been won rated, but he is still eager for
work, with a possible chance to be
the fray and Fritzie will hear from
sent as a state representative to the
him again as soon as be can get back
fair to be held in Chicago this fall.
on the firing line.
Gem State
Lumber Cow for cement.