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THS GATE CITY JOUVNAL, ffTBBA,
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GATE CITY JOURNAL
r’uoliahed every F riJay a t Nyssa. O re
gon, by
FR ED L. SHEETS.
FRIDAY. FEBRU ARY 13, 192J
“'•'»«red as »ecuiui-cmss n m u c r April
. „ *wiu, a t the postoffice a t Nyssa,
Oregon, under the A cto f March 3,1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES :
One year, in advance_______ . . . $1 50
S'xm onths in advance........ .............- 75c
CITY COUNCIL MEETS
IN DOUBLE SESSION
Takes Action in a number ofim-
portant matters---Wili Se
cure Auto Park.
FARM BUREAU IS
GETTING 3USY
The practical benefits of tha F ar .i
I ireau system are already beginning to
le
apparent.
A rrangem ents have
been made to ship in a cat load of dry
I nd Rural seed potatoes under the
f, jsplces of this organization, which
v. ill be sold to the farm ers for piant-
i g a t actual cost, which is expected
lo b e about $5.25 per hundred to the
p irehaaerhere, as the price paid for
t: em is $4.65 a t the shipping point in
Idaho. The shipm ent will arrive next
v s e k and wili be sold out to the first
corners as long as tney last.
W. L.
( ibson will be in charge. The Bure u
i so expects to be able to secure a car-
i. ad of Dicklow w heat for seeding pur-
I oses.
A com m ittee wss appointed a t a re
cent m eeting of the local Farm Bureau
l i investigate the price of lumber and
i< port th a t it can be laid down here in
c irload lots for about $35 per thous-
ii id for rough lumber, with other
grades ia proportion.
The regular monthly m eeting of the
city coune I was held a t the council
room Monday, February 2, with the
following officials present: Mayor T.
J. Ca'dwell; Councilmen G oshert, Me-
gold« n. Foster, I’rettym an.
The following bills wero ullowed:
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Bank ol N yssq...................... - $ 15 CO
L ast Friday evening about 60 reem-
V. if. Chipm aa
. . . 90C0
I era of the Odd Fellow and Rebekah
R ecorder
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25 00 l il g e s g a v e a farewell parly for Mr
N yssa Blacksm ith
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1.80 i id Mrs. A rth u r Cook and Mr. and
Louin Johnston
.............. — 15 CO •Mrs. Dalles Duncan. I t is needless
say th a t a most, enjoyable tim e was
Id iho Power Co.......................... .
81.0-' to
h id i y all present.
Boise Payette L. C o ....................-
2.85
Various gam es with music and danc
G ate City Journal.
10 05 ing formed he evening’s amusem ent
The Piggy books which were made
Ny«f;a Meat Market
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1.80
the evening uifordtd a g re a t
N yssa Trading Co.
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6.15 during
deal of fun and pleasure. .Each guest
N y s ii Hdwu Co....................
12.65 v. as requested to draw the picture of a
p ’g, while blindfolded, and sign his
T o tal......... ..............................
$262.00 nam e to it. These books were given
The cgineer’s report regarding the to the d eparting m em bers as a re-
n e m b ra n c e of the evening.
survey for the proposed city irrigation
Delicious refreshm ents w ere served
system was read The report contained a id the g u ests departed, wishing Mr.
a complete estim ate of the cost n id Mrs O o k arid Mr. and Mrs D un
(,f the different syatcms th a t could be can success in th eir new homes.
ODD FELLOWS AND
StBEKAHS ENTERTAIN
used. The report was accepted and
laid on t he table, aw aiting a eonven
ient tim e for the engineer to be ures-
ent for fu rth er explanation. The re
corder was requested to arrange a date
during the following week.
An application from D. W. Gibson
asking permission to place the d 'rt
excavated from his proposed building
basem ent upon Third s tre e t and Reece
avenue Was referred to tha stre e t
com m ittee.
Councilman G oshert feported th a t »
complaint had been made by the school
board th a t minors were p erm itted to
frequent the pool and billiard halls and
th a t the school board requested the
council to tak e some decisive action to
prevent the same. A motion carried
th a t an ordinance be passed prohibiting
minors under the sge of twenty-one
years from frequenting pool and bil
liard and card rooms, and fu rth e r the
m arshal was instructed to notify the
m anagers of said places th a t said or
dinanca will go into effect immedi
ately upon the passage hy the city
conncil and to act accordingly. I t was
also decided th a t all punch boards and
gam es of chance of every n ature shall
he and a ie hereby prohibited and not
ullowed to be in use in Nyssa. to corn-
form with the s tste la w .
The m arshal was ordered to a rre st
nil conductors who allow hheir train s
to hlotk the crossing a t the depot
longer than the time lim it of tw elve
minutes.
A t a called m eeting of the Council
held on Tuesday evening. F ebruary 10,
the m a tte r of reconsidering the age
lim it for admission to pool halls, also
if it was advisable to allow the owners
of punch boards a reasonable tim e to
dispose of those on hand, was discuss
•d
It was decided th a t thirry days
should be allowed the owners of such
boards to dispose o f th eir stock. The
age limit was fixed a t the same age as
th a t now In force,
th e advisability of opening the ii-
brary room during the evening from 7
to 10 o'clock during the week was dis
cussed and on motion it was decided
to have the m arshal in attendance
every evening as «tated.
A com m ittee consisting of Goshert,
Megorden and I’re'ty m an was appoint
ed to select a suitable place to estab-
licu an all to park for the accommoda
tion of tourists, and to make an e s ti
m ate of the requirem ents.
The proposition of the farm ers to
do the hauling a rd spreading of the
gravel on the road leading from J. C.
B eam 'l to the section road west if the
city would furnish the gravel was ac
cepted.
TO THE PUBlJC.
We, the undersigned, with to a n
nounce th a t we have purchased the
Hotel W estern and am now open for
business. Our aim will be courtesy
and efficient service to onr guests.
O ur dining room will be opened in a
few days and our tables will he eup-
plied with everything the m arket a f
fords and our prices will be moderate.
We th erefo re ask the p n tro n .g e of the
people of N yssa and vlcirily and the
tra v elin g public
F aust 4 Boyer, Proprietors
HOTEL WESTERN HAS
NEW MANAGEMENT
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ATTA BOY./'
»YOUR MONEY COME TO PA PA l*
IHyssa and IDicinity
A Brief Resume of the Daily Events in a Live Town —
What Your Neigh jots Are Doing.
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E r M. Greig was up fretn O ntario
Red C hester of Vale was a Nyssa
j esierday.
v isiter Tuesday.
T. F. Coward and Charley Craw ford
Mrs. H aley and M rs.S torts w ere On
ere spending a few weeks in California.
tario visitors Tuesday.
Jim Dinwiddle was in town y e ste r
L. C. Pounds has been visiting rela
lives and friends in Nyssa fa r several day, a fte r a two w eeks' serious illness.
days.
Jack Sheets and wife were seeing
Mrs. R oberta Trulock o f Nampa, the gig- ts and visiting friends in our
sig t-r of Mrs. H arry Sharp, is visiting city Wednesday.
in Nyssa.
William B a rre tt of Baker City was a
Mrs. S arah Lynch is reported to be dinner guest a t the E. H. McDonald
seriously ill a t her home on the east Lome W ednesday.
side of.tow n.
E. M. Dean Is in the Twin Falls
ih r e e carloads of fa t cattle were country this week buying a carload o*
shipped to th e Portland m ark et from seed potatoes for the local Farm Bu
the local stock yards this week.
reau.
C hester Dunn and Manford Keck | Mrs. Roilie Thompson le ft for Lcs
retu rn ed the first of th e week from a Animos, Colo., last week for a visit to
v isit of several months in Oklahoma.
home folks. She is a sister of Mrs.
A. E Weddle of Lava Rock, Idaho, R obert Elliott,
i> visiting a t tha home of H. D.
Mr and Mrs. Roilie Thompson from
Holmes and expects to rem ain in town B rem erton, W ash , have te e n visiting
fo r several weeks
a t the home of Mr. and Mrs J . R.
Ten workmen have been busy a t the E lliott the past week.
ru b-station all week m aking a ltera
Frank Stubbs has purchased the
tions and repair ar.d p u ttin g the Sitnnson drav line and will h e re a fte r
p lan t in first class condition.
conduct the same, instead of Eld W ar
A rth u r Conk and family this week ren, as stated in last week’s issue of
moved to B aker City, w here Mr. Cook the Journal.
will engage in begin«-s. The people of
Sunday evening a g re a t m eeting at
N yssa are sorry to lose this estim able th:- Presbyterian church a t 7:30; bap-
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family.
Cam and reception of m em ber-; a
H arry G oshert made a business trip g re a t service of song. Dr. Amos gives
to N ampa Tuesday. “ They sa y ” tha his last m essage of the series
H arry is gcii g to s ta rt a g oat farm
A broken w ire on the high lire
and w ent up to g e t a stock of th o r
caused a disturbance a t the local sub
oughbreds.
station Sunday night and resulted in
D. W. Gibson has purchased some Ihe city being le ft in darkness fo r a
lots on Third stre e t opposite tha J. couple of hours.
Boydel residence and th e first of March
Mr. and Mrs. C. P Lackey returned
will begin the erection of a modern
from North Pow der the first of the
bungalow
A, D Morey w ent to Caldwell T ues w»ek. They w ere accompanied home
day to recover his car which he was hy Mrs. L ackey’s m other Mrs. Thos.
forced to leave th ere while on a trip B utler, who will make her home here
6 °/o]¥O W ~ J %
Our special Savings Investment
Plan makes it possible for you to
earn 6 per cent on your savings--
while you are paying for Idaho
Power 7 per cent Cumulative Pre
ferred stock.
A fter you have completed your payments, your invest
ment earns 7 per cent per annum, payable quarterly by
mail February 1. May 1, August 1 and November I.
Ask about our Savings Investment plan at any Idaho
Power office.
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AGED PIONEER
PASSES AWAY
News Notes of Nyssa School
FOR GAS ON STOMACH
fiiinsle -lyccnne, back th o rn bark,
etc . as mixed in Adleri- ka, relieve.
ANY CASE g * on atom* h or S"or
-tetnaeh It acta on both imp, r an I
lower bowel ana r-m o - o all foul m at
te r which poisoned stom ach
O ften
cares
constipation. P rev en ts snpen
Announcement.
d cltis Tt'e IN STAN T pi ssa n t ao
I wish to announce th a t I have tion »f Adler I ka surprises both do-
leased the shop a t th a G ate City G ar tors and patients. One man who suf
ag e and am now ready to do all kinds fered fix- ,i ears from inoigesti. n and
o f auto work and rep airin g . S a ’iafac- constipation waa helped by O N I dose.
tion g u a ran te e d .
J. C. McGee.
S. F. Foster.
The Sophomore class will give their
[ s r ty to the High School students
on Fiiday e v -rin g . F ebruary 13 From
lb-, n um h-r of c ’a s mee ings which
have i . rn held and th e numerous re-
te n rse ls * hich have been going on
th. gue< s anticip ate on unusually i '
te re -tm g tin e.
R Kent and Virgil l.o g returned to
scho, I W ednesda , a fte r a long ab
s rice on account of the flu.
William K linkcnherg is no longer in
our m idst, having ohtaiued his degree
The Idaho Power Co.
m
recently, owing to the bad condition of
Mr. and M rs.B arney Wilson returned
th e roads.
home last Friday from a wedding trip
Mr. A rth u r, who has owned the Jim to S a lt Lake and other places of inter
R»e piace tw o miles w est of town for est. They are now at home to their
A fte r hanging fire for for a couple th e p ast th r e years, recently sold the friends a t th eir :ozy home on north
o f weeks, th e deal for the sale of the property for $11,000, or $272 per acre. F irst street.
The evangelistic m eetings which a re
Hotel W estern was closed the first of He bought the place th ree years ago
the week. The purchasers are Messrs. for $8 00,
being held each evening a t the Metho
C. M. Zink, who suffered the frac- dist shurch by Rev. Lance of Nampa
F au st and Boyer, both of the Apple
Valley neighborhood, and price paid turp of his leg last fall by falling from wifi be continued all next week The
a a affold while working on the H ant public is cordially invited to aatend the
w as $7500.
The new ow ners have had consider building, is able to nav ig ate around services.
i hie experience in cate rin g to the again, albeit in a som ew hat slow and
F. M. Binkley returned this week
v.ants o f th e hungry public. They dignified manner.
from W ashington, where he has been
have already taken pnssossn n and
Barkley Wilson, mail carrier on for the p ast two months. His health
will soon open th e dining room.
P;iiite 1, had to send out the S. O. S.
would not perm it of his residence in
, call Tuesday, his car having a t last th a t section and he has returned to
succumbed t> the bad roads and laid
N yssa to settle down and grew up with
down on the job, necessitating his be
the country.
ing towed into town fe r first aid to
his faith fu l Ford.
Ira R utledge, a form er well known
Messrs. S p ad er and Ncdrow of Nez farm er of Nyssa, wai in tew n this
Perce, who recently purchased the week. Mr R utledge hai ju s t sold his
Ben Sm ith ranch near town, arrived farm near Eagla, Idaho, for $21,000.
The death of A. F. Sheets, fa th e r of
S. F. F oster and d aughter Dona
F. L. Sheets, publisher of the Journal, this week and have taken possession of
occurred a t his home in Joseph, O re th e ir new property. They appear to w ere O ntario visitois Thursday.
gon, on Tuesday,
February
10, be well pleased with th eir new home j Dallas Duncan, who purchased a
a t the age of 78 years.
D eath a: d the people of N yssa extend to
forty sere fa»m in the Wilder neigh
was due to old age complicated
by a stro k e of paralyses which he them the glad hand and bid them borhood last fall, was recently offered
suffered about five years ago and we'come to our city.
an advance of $2000 over the purchase
from which he never recovered. He
Now ia tne w inter of our discontent price, but refused to accept This in
had been an invalid for a num ber of
years and his death was not nncx about over, ap parently. The nights dicates the e x te n t to which land is ad
pci'ted.
are still a little frosty, b u t the days vancing in value in the Snake valley.
Mr. S heets was an old pioneer of are almost, idea). Tho w eather man
Ralph Swafford was down from
E astern Oregon, having come to the
s ta ts in 1861, and followed the black has given us a p retty hard dose for the New Meadows the first
of th*
smith trad e until about five years ago. p ast three months, but if he will see week visiting friends.
He reports
lie leaves a wife and eight children to th a t the fru it crop escapes injury all
about a foot of snow up in th a t neck
mourn his loss
will be forgiven him.
of the woods and sta te s th a t the th e r
Seym our Ross and fam ily are mov m om eter registered 50 below during
NOTICE
ing into their new house n ear Ontario the cold snep in Deeemher. He is in
All who are interested in pumping this week, which has ju s t been com the grocery business in New Meadows
BBlfl M
w ater for irrigation purposes should
see B
the Uiilctt pumping p lan t which is the pleted at a cost of $4000 Seymour ia and is apparently doing well.
sim plest p lant known. We have b th reported to be as proud as a little boy
Frank Lyneh ia mourning th e loss of
gaseline and electric plants complete with his first pair of pants with pock
and can fill your w ants in every re- e ts in ’em. and is doing a lot of brag tw o perfectly good teeth which were
spe t. If in terested call on o r before
separated from his person in a rath er
February 21, 1920, a t E. A. Bodmer’s ging about a certain colonade which he peculiar m anner. He w ai repairing
ranch on Gamble Island, two miles be appears ro think is the last word in
■ome m achinery when a piece acci
low Nyssa. Oregon.
arch tectu ral excellence.
dently fell on bim, striking him a hard
G1LLKMT W ATER MOTOR CO.,
Ed C hristensen returned Tuesday blow on the cranium . Frank was a
Baker, Oregon.
from painting Seymour R oss's fine lit'ie dazed for a mom ent ane on ta k
new bungalow n ear O ntario, having ing stock of his injuries found two
PR ESB Y TER IA N CHURCH
E vangelistic m eetings will close completed the Interior painting in bia teeth w ere miesing, one of which he
with th e serv cea Sunday. February u ual a rtistic style. He did in five had ju s t paid $9 50 to have filled. His
15. Preaching at 11 a in. and in the days the work the carp en ters d ed ared head was only slightly injured.
evening a t 7:30. C hristian E ndeavor it would require ten day to do, and as
at 6:30.
The evangelistic m eetings
will culm inate in the m eetings on Sun a consequence was made a flattering
Seed B arley—I have some good seed
day. A t th e evening service will be offer to work w ith them all sum m er,
the baptiam and reception of mem but having made o th er plhna. tarned Barley for sale. Address W. H. Beam
tiers. A g re a t M rvire o f song Dr. the offer down.
Nyssa, Oregon, R. F D.
22-4t
Amua will give his last message. All
are cordially invited to these, the best
ineelings of the series.
Sunday School a t 10 a. m
L o st-B e tw e e n A drian and Vale, by
During tha assembly period laat F ri
way of Arcadia, a chain for large ear. day afternoon Rev. Amos, who is hold
F ird e r please Dave at the office of the ing meetings a t the Presbyterian
G ate City Journal and receive rew ard. church, and Rev. Shields made brief
addressee to the High School students
Mr. Amos gave an interestin g speech
GLYCERINE MIXTURE
on the meaning of education.
L a te p
as E. D. D. (ex p ertd iteh digger.I
The Senior room had to be abandoned
th is weak because of trouble with the
stove.
| T ie various grades are preparing
! program s in celebrstion of V alentina's
day. On Friday afternoon each >o ing-
-lo r will r-ceive one Valentine, at
ie-.st.
The rowd d condition of several of
i .- f isdo r o w s is being s o rra s h a t
i lieved, as some of the cbildr n have
b en removed from l-bool because
t >eir „arent* h .v e I ft town.
The baseball te e n s t r a increasing In
num bers, as well as skill, as the w .-m
w eather continues te call out new re
em its.
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Remedies for that
Cold and “Flu.”
Valentine Day
Novelties
MUSTERINE
MUSTEROL
MUSTER OINT
AHALE-SIC BALM
MENTHALATUM
WHITE FINE COUGH
SYRUP, mentholated
with ta r—Put up for us.
COUGH DROPS
FUMIGATORS
CLINICAL THERMOM
ETERS
POST CARDS
FOLDERS
You’ll find ju st what you
want in this line here.
FRESH CANDY
and
SODA
LAX PHARMACY
LAX PHARMACY
“ You’ll Do B etter H e re .“
You’ll Do B etter H ere
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Stationery
BOX PAPER
Assorted colors
TABLETS
CORRESPONDENCE
CARDS
env elo pes
Linen and Plain
SIGNET INK
Assorted colors
PARKER FOUNTAIN
PENS
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Rubber Goods
WATER BOTTLES
FOUNTAIN SYRINGES
Combinations
ICE CAPS
These are made by the Good
rich Co., the same firm who
make your Cord Tires.
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LAX
PHARMACY
‘ You’ll Do B etter H era.”
LAX PHARMACY
■‘Y ou’ll Do B etter H e ra .”
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Our Grocery line is always com
plete-new things every day.
Before buying your Implements
see our line-THE OLIVER LINE.
DeLavel Separators and Dairy Sup
plies.
Apex and Eden E!ectric Washers
on easy payments.
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