The Gate city journal., June 13, 1924, Image 1

T he G ate C ity journal
VOL.XXII. NO 32.
NYSSA. OREGON, FRIDAY. JUNE 13. 1924
CHALLENGES IK S t « " » « ■ «
10 WATER CONTEST ELECTED CHAIRMAN
VALE FIREMEN KEEN TO RUN
UP AGAINST WINNERS OF
LAST YEAR’ S DUEL.
WILL BE IN PARADE JULY 4
VW
Invitation Issued to Brogan-Jamie-
son and Ironside-Bonita to
Have Water Fight.
Cities Join In Health Crusade
Through Clean-up Activities
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J. 1). BILLINGSLEY WILL GUIDE
DESTINIES OF REPUBLICAN
CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
Robt. D. Lytle and I. W. Hope of
Yale Will Hold Other Two O f­
fices— Meeting Teld Thursday.
J. D. Billingsley of Ontario was I
elected chairman of the county or­
ganization of the Republican C en -;
tral Committeemen at the regular
post-primary meeting held in Vale
in the court house Thursday after­
noon, and Mrs. Robt. D. Lytle of
Vale
was
elected
vice-chairman.
R. D. Lytle was elected secretary
and I. W. Hope, also of Vale, was
elected treasurer for the ensuing;
term o f office.
Eleven of the precincts of the
county were
represented at the
meeting, a large percentage consid­
ering the miles that some had to
travel to be present. An executive
committee was named and the fill­
ing of some of the precinct vacan­
cies was discussed.
Plans for the
selection of a committepwoman for
each precinct were formulated, the
names o f which will probably be
forthcoming in the near future .
Outgoing officers for the organ­
ization were Geo. W. Hayes of Vale,
who has served as chairman for
the past four years, and E. M. Blod­
gett of Nyssa, who has held the sec­
retary’s office.
(From the Malheur Enterprise.)
The chief discussions at the regu
lar monthly meeting of Vale’s vol
unteer
fire
department
Monday
evening centered around the possi
bility of Nyssa’s chances for win
ning the coming water fight which
the two towns are expected to stage
as part of the big annual celebra
tion the fourth of next month. The
fact that Nyssa has hardly received
the invitation of the firemen to
participate in the contest, yet alone
find time to reply, did not dampen
the enthusiasm of the different
companies for they are sure that
the winners o f last year’s bout will
again welcome a chance to meet the
local boys.
Teams From Brogan and Ironside.
An invitation is also being issued
to the men of Jamieson and Brogan
to form a hose team to go up
MARKIKNG THE ROADS.
against
men
from
Ironside and
With the campaign to remove un­
Bonita and northern communities
advertising
signs
from
This will enable the staging of a sightly
double header event for this part of America’s roads well under way,
the program, which will indeed be attention may well be turned to the
one of the most popular features. character of signs and sign posts
In spite of the rigid clearing o f the marking roads to show their des­
streets by the marshals o f the day, tination and distances.
The historic ‘‘ sign post” is of
the crowds will surge up to see
how the combatants are coming on wood, with a board nailed to the
and as a result the firemen aren’t side, ending in a rude representation
the only wet ones when the winners of a pointing hand. The board bears
are acknowledged, but this only upon its face, usually in weather-
adds to the fun and general good obliterated letters, the name of the
next town.
humor of the day.
Such a marker was all right for a
Also in Parade.
trail, or a wagon road, but *• as
The members of
,
depart
much out of place on a fine, hard
ment are also making arrangements
road as an ox cart among auto­
to be in the parade of the morning mobiles. Modern practice dictates
and are promising something novel
that roads signs and posts should
as well as interesting. For the
be permanent, sightly, plain as to
teams mentioned above, the cap­
information conveyed, sturdy, and
tains of each company have been artistic.
instructed to select one man from
For national highways, a beautiful
the hose companies and one from
bronze sign post has already been
the hook and ladder will make up
designed by famous sculptor. Road
the team of five.
associations interested in some par­
Another feature of Monday even­ ticular road have adopted distinc­
ing’s meeting was the challenge of tive markers, in many cases o f a
the hook and ladder company to all high degree of art and beauty, as
the rest of the department to cross well as utility. The Old Oregon
bats with them on the local dia­ Trail, for instance, which it is pro­
mond at the ball park in a game of posed to improve from the Missouri
twilight
baseball
Friday evening. to the Columbia, is now in process
The blackboard in the postoffice of being marked with signs of real
has been causing much amusement beauty and significance. Professor
through the suggestion of a prob­ Fairbanks, o f the University of Ore­
able line-.up on the two sides and a gon, designed the marker, showing
good crowd will witness the affair.
typical coverd wagon and pioneer
Every company whose duty it is family o f early western days. Such
to furnish the eats stages a menu
sign is particularly appropriate
that each time is voted the best one for this trail, which is the route
yet, but the decision on the summer followed by early-day pioneers in
time luncheon dished out at this their ox-team emigration from the
meeting by Hose Company No. 2 Eastern States to Oregon and Wash­
unTer the direction o f its captain, ington in the late forties and early
C. B. Woodward, was a unanimous fifties.
vote
of
approval.
Sandwich's,
It is not necessary to wait for some
cake, ice cream and lemonade were large association to design or place
the main popular features and made markers. Every town can help by
a hit with everyone.
seeing to it that the sign posts a-
long its entering and leaving roads
are plain as to intent, yet hand­
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some and distinctive. Placing such
CRESTON
markers emfcodies the spirit of
welcome to the tourist, which is
good business” for any town, and
i most excellent work for local
civic organizations to take up and
follow through.
m
«
$1.50 PER YEAR
o m m uto M ii EFFECT OF SEBACE
»I JORDAN l l l l t l CUT STARTS NIONOAÍ
MANAGER
OF
AM USEM EV
PLACE NOT A CITIZEN; TAK­
¡TW O CARS OF STOCK HOLD UP
EN FOR SECOND TIME.
PUTTING ORDER INTO
ACTION THIS WEEK.
lw o
House* Found to
Coiituia Illicit Liquor—One Cane
to Go Before Circuit Court.
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“ Brlg'trtaa the corner where feu
ere!**
make their home towns a safer
Thii| is the message being broad­ place to live in and a healthier
cast by cities and towns in the place for their children.
United States and Canada. In an
If the suggestions are followed,
effort to have dirt attacked as a the rats will find that many happy
community problem
to promote hoinesites under the rubbish heaps
will be unavailable. The malarial
health.
Hanitarlane declare a city Is only mosquitoes will wander far from
as clean as its homes, and that their erstwhile habitations to flud
mothers should remember that an undralned puddle in which to
the immaculateness of their nurs- breed. The house-flies will And
eriee may be made dangerous for many manure heaps missing when
their bahies by vagrant dirt from they come to lay their eggs and
unclean places.
It is pointed out there will be far less danger of
that diseases bred in dirt are no disastrous conflagrations starting
in the waste and refuse heaped in
respectors of persons.
Revival of the venerable, but the forgotten corners.
Here are the eight outstanding
slightly obsolete, custom of spring
house-cleaning, and the extension things suggested by the Metropol­
of the ancient rite outside the walls itan as a foundation for a clean-up
of the house to back alleys and crusade:
vacant lots, until there Is a vast 1. Have all rubbish removed froir
succession of Spotless Towns, is no your cellar, back-yard and area­
mean undertaking.
way, and placed in barrels or box­
Municipalities,
women's dubs, es for removal. Arrange to have
civic and industrial organizations It taken away.
•venrwhere
are
preparing
for 2. Clean hallway, of all obstruc­
clean-up activities. The Mayor of tions. Ventilate damp cellar* and
fit. Louis
once pummarized the closets.
laatlng benefits of such effort» by | 3. Beat all carpet» and haUtflngs
1 1 Scrub
" ----e floorg and waah — #oo<J
saying: “ Paint a neglected h“
back
yard or vacant lot with the green work.
of grass’ or sbubbery or a thrift 4. Clean all windows and
keep
garden or publicly oommlt to any them open to treeh air and sun­
other useful purpose and it will light.
not revert to Its former dlsorder- 6. Ask your landlord to repair
Uness. Otherwise It Inevitably and leaky roofs and plumbing; broken
speedily will do so."
walls and ceilings.
In urging every municipality to 6. Report stagnant pools,
refuse
proclaim its annual ('lean-up week, and other nearby nuisances to the
the Welfare Division of the Met- j Health Department",
ropolltan Life Insurance Company 7. Do what you can to see that
is Instructing Its twenty-thousand vacant lots are cleaned of all re­
agents and Its visiting nurses In fuse, tin cans, boxes and other
3955 cities and towns to lend & litter.
hand.
It Is educating Its policy- 8. Compliance with these suggest-
holders
which
comprise
o n e -1 ions and with efforts of the Health
seventh of the combined popula- Department will make your city a
tlons of the United States und Can- healthy and pleasant
place
for
ada just how they can help to your children to grow up la.
INSTRUCTIONS OF JONE 5TH
(Muia the
Knterprise.)
• i aiccoiui overlooking of the iaci I uni mereiai Club Discusses Reduc-
iliat he is not a rit i..cn once more
Cion at Special Luncheon Meet­
brought
Fernando
Madariaga to
ing Thursday ;U « t Until Sep.
Vale as one ol the three prisoners
taken in an early morning raid In
Jordan Valley last Thursday.
He
According to instructions receiv
has been acting as the manager ol
Thursday by W. T. Posey, local
v n°U “ *! ■
^anee ha" ,*n Ju'Uan agent of the Oregon Short Line, the
„ a ..ey which he owned jointly wit I t cut in the Brogan train service took
Kufmo A m tola, although the same effect on that date. June oth, in
place was closed by of 1 leers of the stead of June 1st, as the order from
..*w a year ago because lie was not the public service commission gave
a citizen of the United States and them the privilege of doing the lat-
therefore could
not lawfully run t«r part of May. Trains run as
such a pace of amusement.
Ma- pt.r 8l.hedule on Friday und Satur­
d a y s plead guilty to his over- Jay
according to terms of the
sight and was charged as penalty a contract, stock or
perishable ar
fine of *L00 and given a jail sen tide*
most be
be sent uf
tides must
at nnf'd
once. Tu/i
Two
tence of 30 days to be suspsnded cars of stock were to bo shipped
upon good behavior.
this week end which were ordered
A rooming house operated by before
the curtailment of train
Eulogio Madariaga was also search­ service.
ed and one quart of liquor, some
After this week train service on
homemade beer, and some moon
shine
were
confiscated.
When the Brogan branch will be reduced
brought to Vale he plead guilty to to three trains a week, in spite of
the charge of possessing intoxieat the efforts made by the people af­
ing liquor and was fined $350 with fected by this service to hold the
daily train into their territory at
a jail sentence of 60 days also to
be suspended upon good behavior. the hearing in Ontario May 14th
before H. H. Corey, chairman of
Both Fernando and Eulogio Madar­
iaga were arraigned before Judge the Public Service Commission of
Rogers, justice of the peace of this Oregon.
city.
Three Trains a Week.
A third prisoner from the same
The
new schedule will provide
city was Ambrose
Eloriaga, pro­
prietor o f a Basque rooming house. train service on Tuesday, Thursday
The raid upon his place revealed a and Saturday, round trips each day,
four gallon keg of »--»«»'shine, and a from June 1st to September 30,
jar which
also
_yned liquor. 1924, and will take care of perish­
livestock.
The
Eloriaga plead not guilty but was able freight and
fined $500 and given four months railroad company alleges that the
volume of business,
imprisonment.
His sentence was amount and
heavier as this was his seconu-of both passenger and freight, trans­
fense.
The prisoner was tried in ported and handled by trains oper­
tho justice court under Justice J. D. ated on each of the branches indi­
Rogers but his attorney, R. W. cated in their report or petition,
Swagler, gave notice of appeal, un namely, the Brogan and Homedale
nounclng that the case would be lines, has been steadily and heavily
diminishing, resulting in a substan­
carried to the circuit court.
The daylight raid wax made last tial loss in operating revenue and
Thursday in Jordan Valley at 4 a. that a continuance and maintenance
m. by a searching party consisting of present train service would be
of Marshal H. C. Furmer, Dick unprofitable and unjustifiable.
Robinson, both of Ontario, MarshalY
Homedale Cut.
John Barkley, District Attorney R.
In the same telegram received by
D. Lytle, both of Vale, C. W. Glenn, Mr. Posey it was announced that
deputy sheriff, and Lloyd Linville, the Homedale branch would 1* cut
federal
prohibition
agent.
The tc semi-weekly service. Tho train
party returned Thursday night with will travel from Ontario to Erb and
American marines in Haiti are the prisoners taken in the southern
FACTS OF INTEREST
return on Monday and Friday of
making intensive use of airplanes town.
each week. This cut will also be in
The people of the United States in carrying medicine, supplies, an­
effect until September 30, 1921.
ELECTING THE DISTRICT
saved during 1923 more than they imals and mail points difficult of
The company further alleged t’ at
SCHOOL BOARD.
access by highway and by sea
earned during 1890.
The election o f one or more mem­ the proposed train service would
Ten
of
the
eleven
state
legila-
probably and reasonably accommo­
The total levies of general pro-
tures meeting this year have passed bers of each of the district school date the business, both passenger
erty taxes over the United States
boards will take place in the next
more than 4,000 new state laws.
and freight, required or offeieq to
have increased 160 per cent in the
The Liberty Bell has been placed two or three weeks in many of the be transported and handled, and ex­
ten year period expending from
on wheels to facilitate its quick re­ communities. So much of the suc­ pressed a willingness to restore the
1912 to 1922.
moval from Independence Hall in cess especially of the small school train service, previously practiced
depends on the board that the peo­
Mine fields have been discovered case of fire.
ple of the district need to be very on these branches at such a time as
in the Eastern Baltic o ff Finland.
The German
Government
dis­
business increased over what it is
The are of Russian origin, dating courages radio to a great extent. careful in selecting it. One un­ at the present time, to warrant ad­
worthy member may so interfere
from the world war.
I.isteners-ln must have a license for
with the school that it will te al­ ditional service.
Testimony was made by the com­
On
May
4, 1888,
the
first which they pay six dollars a year. most worthless for a number of
commercially
successful
overhead Sets can serve hut one wave length years. A great deal has beep writ­ pany to the effect that while six-
trolley car appeared in this country. and it is forbidden to tune in on ten and said about just what kind of day train service had been furnish­
foreign broadcasting stations. N(
If was in Richmond, Virginia.
person makes a good board member. ed on the Oregon Eastern and the
one may build his own and no one
Brogan branch, and three days a
The River Shannon is the longest under twenty-one may have a set. Certainly the usual characteristics week on the Homedale branch the
o f a good citizen such as honesty,
•>nd largest river in the Irish Free
The imam of the mosque atWork-
lines in question were operated at a
State. It is navigable for thirty-five ing in London, addressing a meeting fairness, kindness, and public spirit
substantial loss and that the ship­
miles for all classes of ocean-going of Muslins, said: “ You will become are necessary. There is the teacher
to be selected. The board needs to ments handled averaged less than a
vessels.
once again rulers o f the world if know where to go or to whom to carload per day during the year
The United States Department o f 1 you act according to the advice of write in order to find teachers, 1923. It was stated that the service
Commerce is about to issue a i the Holy Prophet, and ‘trust in God, what personal qualities make for formerly afforded was in excess of
‘‘glossary of business” English for | but tie your camel.”
successful
classroom
work,
and the reasonable demands of the com­
Americans advertising in England.”
The old German stork, with his what salary must be offered to se­ munities served and that a just, ad­
More than one million boys and black wings, white breast and red cure a competent teacher. The equate and reasonable service is to
Takes Band Of Sheep To Mountains 10-MILLIONTH FORD WILL
operate the train service between
girls
attend the Sunday schools of bill— the colors of the old German board ought to know how to attend
MAKE
COAST
TO
COAST
TRIP
— Goes To Nyssa—To Fini-h Shear
to the affairs o f the district in e Ontario and Brogan via Vale tri­
Canada.
empire—
is
reported
to
be
disappear­
Detroit, Mich., June 4.— A new
ing— Returns Home Saturday
business-like way. This means that weekly and on the Homedale branch
and outstanding achievement in the
According to Stanley If ildwin, ing. They return in numbers from
The Misses Jennie, Elcnora, and automobile industry o f America was ex-Premier o f Great Britain, the Egypt to Germany each year, but it will be able to make up a budget, bi-weekly.
The order granting the railroad
Delva Beer, spent last Sunday a f­ attained here today when the ten- Englishman does not worry. Other since the war their numbers have konw how much money there is for
the year, where the money comer company their application was sign­
ternoon with Mrs. E. Rogers.
millionth Model “ T ” Ford car left nations, he declared, worry without decreased.
from, how it should be spent, and ed by H. H. Corey, chairman, and
J. C. Yost was an all night visitor the final assembly in the Highland grumbling: the Englishman grum­
In the absolute absence of light a will keep careful accounts.
More­ Newton McCoy, Thomas K. Camp­
at the Rogers home Thursday of Park plant of the Ford Motor Com­ bles without worrying.
cat could not see at all, no more over, school trustees should get men bell, commissioners.
It
provided
this week.
pany.
than
human
beings,
but
her
whisk­
and women wise enough to leave that the application of the Oregon
An official report shows that
Creston
had
a belated
snow
The motor, bearing the number
ers
would
enable
her
to
feel
her
matters to Short Line Railroad Company to re­
storm Friday of this week
10,000,000 was completed this morn­ there was one American visitor to way about, while we use our hands professional teaching
the teacher. Finally they must b> duce mixed train service between
T. R. Beers went to the Warm ing, and reached the car assembly Shakespeare’s birthplace last year, in such circumstances.
the kind of folk that the rhildren of Ontario and Brogan via Vale to tri­
Springs the first of this week.
line early this afternoon, and was to four British.
weekly, making round trips Tues­
Vilhjalmur Stefansson has sailed the community can respect.
Mrs. Ben Jones visited her father assembled into a torring car, the
To a spectator on our nearest
day, Thursday and Saturday and to
and mother. Mr. and Mrs. Frank most popular of all
Ford body star, the sun and earth would rep­ for Australia where he expects to
LIBRARY
RECEIVES
GIFT.
reduce Homedale braneh service to
Shumway, this week.
types.
resent a close double star, so com­ explore by airplane the “ Never-Ner- Grounds of County Library at On
two trips per week, making a round
John
Steward
passed
through
In celebration of having attained paratively near are the sun and the j er Land” in the barren interior of
tario
Improved
by
Chnire
Can­
trip on Monday and Friday he
' that continent. He expects fo find
Creston with a hand of sheep on the
10,000,000 production record, the earth.
nes Gift of Mr. Boyer.
granted
It also ordered that when­
rich resources in the Great Austra­
way to the mountains.
company announces that Ford Car
The
grounds
of
the
County
Li
ever one or more carloads of perish­
“ Nations are only united as a rule lian Desert with a possibility of
Frank Shumway was a Crowley No. 10.000,000 will make a coast to
brnry
at
Ontario
have
been
greatly
able freight, or one or more car­
when they are In conflict with other discovering a place fit for human
caller the first o f the week.
coast trip as signifying the nation­
improved by the reeent gift of some loads of livestock be offered for
J. C. Wattenberge. Mr. Oliver, wide popularity of the Ford car and nations. If there is no foreign dan­ habitation.
very choice cannas from Mr. Boyer transportation or handling on days
A. V. Clark stopned for a short its appeal to every class of driver. ger the natural pugnacity of people
Rollin T.vnde Hart, writing in (he The generosity of Mr. Bover and other than the designated train
is excited by the mismanagement
stav at Creston last Tuesday on
The car will be shipped to New
World’s Work, has this to sav on the the cooperation of
Mr. Aldridge service days, the Oregon Short Line
their way to Crowley to ¡finish York within a day or two and leav­ of their own internal affairs.” —The migration o f the Negro north: “ His janitor
of
the
library,
rapidlv Railroad Company
should accept,
shearing for the season. Rain did ing there will be driven across the Irish Statesman.
children put on shoes. Instead of go­ transformed the vacant sDare next
not delay the shearing.
More than twenty-five thousand ing to school three months in the to the building into two very hand handle and transport such carload
country
to
San
Francisco. Thp
or carloads of perishable freight or
Charli; McConnell went to Nyssa t.incoln Highway has been selected women have been m fined
or sentenced i , year, thev go nine months, and to a some hed” of cannas. edged h'-
m
livestock.
last Sunday.
as the official route o f travel and to imprisonment for violating the better school
Besides, there is sweet allyaum with a backgronnd of
David Rogers went to Ontario the [ stops will be made at most all the) National Prohibition law.
‘freedom’—a wretched enough sub­ eolius.
As indicatioh that they are not
first of the week to have some den- towns along the line. Frank Kulick,) Magnets are used to clean clover stitute for actual freedom, but nev­
At the last meeting of the Hhrarv merely “ immigrant, itinerant labor­
tal work done.
who years ago attained fame and | seed at Cambridge, England. Mag- ertheless
exhilarating . . . . Now hoard the appreciation of the hoard ers, a nonasaim¡ladle unsocial lot,”
Frankie 'Shumway, Jr., called for, broke many records as the pilot of netic powder is used mixed with the they think principally o f their less ¡and the librarian for Mr. Rover’- Japanese in the United States mav
hi* mail Mondav
Ford raring ears, will be at the I dodder and seed an metBl sticks to fortunate brethren. To bring them generosity wss
expressed
in the establish the “ First Japanese Uni­
Miss Jennie Beers returned home wheel of the
ten-millionth Ford, the dodder which Is lifted away from north, to tesrh them, to civilize and 1 form of * resolution to be ineor- versity of America.” which is to lie
Saturday.
| during the trans-continental trip. ) the clean seed.
uplift them is their ambition.”
j fiorated into tha mlnuta*.
co educational In San Francisco.
SNOW STORM FRIDAY