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About The Gate city journal. (Nyssa, Or.) 1910-1937 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1925)
JOHN DAT USI! Steiwer St , Carey a nf i e l d NEAR COMPLETION TEN DAYS WORK WILL COM PLETE LITTLE LOST VALLEY SECTION. WORK DONE IN CGW VALLEY Road Worker» Move To Vale To Spend Winter Month«—Concrete Workei» Done. From the Malheur Enterprise. Despite the rainy weather of the last two weeks, the Malheur county unit of the John Day highway which runs from the foot of the Brogan hill, through Cow valley and Little Lost valley to Unity Beam creek section, is practically completed. The entire stretch covers a distance of over twenty miles. Tom Craig, sub contractor for H. C. Boyer of On tario, wound up the Cow Valley stretch this week. Only the last ends of the work remain to be fin ished on the Little Lost Valley stretch, which has been constructed by Brown, Drummir, Smith and Ene- beck. Good Road Construction Again very favorable reports reach Vale regarding the construc tion of this particular section of the John Day highway. It has been said that the grading excells any road in this country. The Little Lost valley section was also a most difficult road project. Its construc tion necessitated the filling in of two very deep cuts and the levelling of rather a steep hill. However, the contractors have exceeded highest expectations and have built what has been called a masterpiece road. Surfacing Next Year The surfacing on the stretch from Austin to Unity has just been com pleted, and it is understood that the surfacing on the Malheur county unit will be done in 1926. This will complete one of the finest road pro jects in Oregon, a road that opens a new country to long needed devel opment. TURKEY SHIPMENT YALOED AT $1000 From the Malheur Enterprise. R. E. Weant, local dealer, has es timated that turkeys for the holiday trade valued at about $7000 have left the city this week for Payette, where they have been loaded into cars and shipped to the far eastern market. Every day in the week farmers of tha county have brought in truck loads of fine, fat birds, and they have been picked at Mr. Weant’s headquarter« In the Diven building. Again this year, county farmers have been fortunate hr growing a produce that has brought a topnotch market price. On Wednesday tur keys jumped from 86 cents per pound to 40 cents, the growers' price. “Turkey growers are sure making the money,” says Mr. Weant. "Last year I paid as low ns 20 rents for most of the turkeys bought. I am glad to sect hem get the price, however,” concluded the dealer. The $7000 valuation of last week’s shipping includes some thousand turkeys, most of them having weigh ed around fourteen pounds. They also complete the season’s shipment cast. From now until Christmas, the birds will be shipped to the coast and used for local trade. One of the finest turkey sales was that Of Fretwell & Inma"n, of Owy hee. The birds were unusi-ally large weighing around 16 pounds, and were perfectly fattened on com. The birds grown by Orvall Scott, Mr. Coon, Geo. McLaughlin, of Vale, by J. L. Pope and John Norwood of Jamieson also graded high. DELINQUENT TAX SALE ON PROPERTY VALUED AT $482,000 On Saturday, November 19th, at » courthouse in Vale, Sheriff C. . Glenn will sell at public auction, bject to redemption, to the highest ider for cash, all the right, title d interest in and to property ly- j in Malheur county, on which tax- have become delinquent since 20. The lands will be sold for sea and accrued interest, to sat- ’y game to Malheur county, debt- The land is valued at $482,000, cording to the decree of foreclos- e signed by Judge Dalton Biggs November 28th. Practically all of the land to be Id at public sale next Saturday nsists of farm land, and lies in rious parts of the county. The linquent list for 1920 also in- ides a few outlying lota in Vale d other town sites. There will be no better opportun- r for prt'Sy“ *lvo land buyers, and :ich interest in the «ale has al- ady been manifested. P'M • ror III THE CALL FOR A MAN Wanted: A man who can find things to be done with* Walter Looney is here from Port land looking after business interests. out the help of a manager and three assistants. A man who ^ets to work on time in the morning and Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Cowgill an nounce the marriage of their daugh does not imperil the lives of others in an attempt to be ter Ethel to Russell Dentei, at Cer- the first to quit work at night. vallis, Oregon, on Thanksgiving A man who is neat in appearance and does not sulk for Day. They will continue their stud an hour’s overtime in emergencies. ies at O. A. C. A man who listens carefully when he is spoken to and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lambert are moving their household goods to the asks only enough questions to insure the accurate carry 45 ranch at Owyhee, Nevada. Mr. ing out of instructions. A man who moves quickly and makes as little noise as Lambert will visit relitives at Wei- ser and Baker until spring. possible about it. Mrs. Mary Shepherd will leave A man who looks you straight in the eye and tells the this week for Stevenville, Montana, truth every time. and after the holidays will enter the A man who does not pity himself for having to work. State Normal at Dillon. A man who is cheerful, courteous to everyone and de Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Baltzor of » Cow Creek are spending the week termined to “make good.” A man who, when he does not know, says, “I do not at Caldwell. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ditton visited j know,” and when he is asked to do anything says, “I’ll at the Stanford home Saturday”. try.”—Powell River Digester. I ÜULLLOt. Ill COI]«IÏ AGENT WORK A valued subscriber to The Voter submits the following brief analysis: '‘Steiwer ? He was in the Senate REPRESENTATIVES IN VARIOUS when I was a member of the House; COUNTIES PROVIDED FOR IN heavy, distant, not constituted to TENTATI \ E BU DG ET. make close affiliations; not an ora tor; very ordinary as a speaker; we Work of the college in coopera have better timber. “Judge Carey? A brainy man; tion with Oregon counties through excellent lawyer with genial person the county extension agents last ality; would be my choice of the year met with more than usual ap proval by the people, reports F. L. two. Ballard, county agent leader. The '‘Stanfield? His usefulness to the number of extension agents cooper state is incalculable; we want re atively suppoited by the counties sults, accomplishment; he knows how promises to be greater next year. to get results; is in a position that All of the 35 college county rep could not be caught up with in 10 resentatives are provided for in ten years by equally able man, and none so able to get results; he as a trader tative budgets made out by the coun and a trader always gets more re ty courts for 1926. In addition, sults than a scholar or a lawyer in Polk county has made provision for a legislative mix-up.”—Oregon Voter. an agricultural agent, Clackamas The above estimate of the #nndi- for a county club leader, and Uma dates for the Republican nomina tilla for an assistant county agent, tion for United States Senatorj according to Ballard. brings out the situation exactly, and 1 The widespread adoption of fed it is unnecessary to add that, for the eration wheats east of the Cascades, next few years, Oregon needs the development of alfalfa as a forage most influential and able man avail crop in the Willamette valley, and a big increase in vetch acreage in the able. The present time is most critical. coast counties, are three pieces of We have outbuilded our ability to extension work that have attracted much attention during 1925. Due to pay. the three-year demonstration pro Accrueing interest has taken the gram carried on by the extension form of taxation that simple econ service, the acreage of fedt1 ratio t omy will not reduce or legal advice wheats totalled approximately 400,- relieve. 000 this year. The average increase It is a predicament that nothing in yield is at least five bushels per but constructive business will re acre. lieve, by placing more valuations on the tax rolls. Who is offering to, or who can, deliver the goods? STANFIELD. ROAD BOOSTERS MEET Judge H. Lee Noe, of Malheur county, was asked to accompany Judge Johnson of Harney county and an advisory committee to Portland this week where they went for an important conference with the state highway commission, the bureau of public roads and state forest serv ice. However, Judge Noe was un able to attend. The meeting was called for the purpose of making up the road budget for the coming year, and no doubt money was included to match the bond issue of $200,000 which Harney county will spend on roads. The proposition now facing Har ney county is to get the most prac tical roads designated by the high way commission the first of the year, thus putting the state in a po sition to share expenses of road building with state funds. As $35,000 was included in the Harney county bond issue for the construction of the Bums-Drewsey road to the Malheur county line, a section of the proposed Central Ore gon Highway, it too will likely be designated by the state highway commission. 1 OWYHEE Mr. and Mrs. Overstreet and son Robert and the faculties of the King- man and Owyhee schools visited at the Lowe home Thursday night and listened to some popular old time or old time popular music on the Lowe’s new Silvertone. Our box supper was a great suc cess from every viewpoint and $24.- 75 was realized from the sale of the beautiful boxes and the lovely cakes and special lunches. Harry Evans did the auctioneering and received top prices for each box. We enjoy ed the presence of Mr. and Mrs. Doc Pullen from Roswell, and Mrs. Frank DeBord and daughter from Payette, as all these helped with our pro gram. Mrs. Evans and daughter Mrs. Hennis received a much appreciated Christmas gift from Mrs. Evans' parents in Colorado. It was round- trip tickets to visit them and they will leave Saturday. Mr. Evans will ship out to Colorado a car of apples for the Idaho Equity about the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Klingback en tertained at a big farewell dinner for the Evans Sunday. Those pres ent were the honor guests and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Fisher and Rev. Snow. It was decided at Sufiday School that Rev. Snow would hold a series of meetings at the schoolhouse this week. After this writing Mrs. Thomas Lowe will take over the correspond ence and we sincerely hope she may have the cooperation in this work that we have always received. Mrs. Ixiwe’s telephone number is 73F12 and please call her when you have a news item, for news from each fam ily is what the absent ones rejoice in. So please take time to help her as rhe i* a T.-ry, very busy lady and it seems that she is given every thing to do K-cause she is so willing and kind. JORDAN VALLEY T * - — -------------------- • Mrs. Hayiett and son Daniel, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Strode were, IT MAKES ALL THINGS NEW dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Fahin Sunday. While it seems impossible to say anything new on the Miss Irene Stitzel spent Monday subject of Christmas celebration, the miracle of the sea and Tuesday the guest of Maxine son is that tlio custom of nearly 2,000 years makes prac Hayiett. tically all things new. The aged become young again Tom Creicher is visiting his niece through their rejoicing in the delights of the grand-chil Mrs. J. W. Baltzor. Miss Edna Lee spent the week end dren with the thing that once made their own eyes open at the Cliffs, as the guest of Miss wide in wonder—memories of their own childhood also come back to them. Margaret Hardisty. It is not simply a jest that papa also likes to play— It was intended at the beginning of school on Cow Creek to have a even though he may say it is just to test them—with the month’s vacation at Christmas, but toys he buys for the youngsters. Thus, while the holi as the weather is so nice it has been day is particularly a festival for the children, emphasiz decided to postpone the vacation un til later, when the weather will be ing the story of the Babe in the Manger, it also has for more stormy. There will be no holi the elders its pleasures and the wider significance of days except Christmas and New ¿hat world-inspiring event in Bethlehem. Year’s day. The program committee of the SIDELIGHTS Cow Creek literary society is in charge of the Christmas tree and Mohammedanism, too, has its modernist problem .ac program to be held at the school- cording to recent reports which tell of the dismissal of house. \li Abd-el-Razek, famed scholar, from the University Ted Blaekstock of Squaw creek of Cairo, and his subsequent movement for a reform of Every land has its Christmas cus was a business visitor at the Ditton lam. With an engaging personality and a new brand toms and superstitions, but it is only ranch the first of the week. Jle since the Christian era that the spir- ] took home the herd of purebred Rel if religion he will not lack for enthusiastic followers. it of kindness and good will has pre Polled cattle which have been pas Those who buried King Tut were apparently determin vailed all over. turing here this fall. ed that he should stay put. His mummy was found to The Christmas stocking originat The debate for the next meeting be firmly glued to the bottom of his gold coffin with a ed in Italy and the legend goes that of Literary to he held December 18 dried pitch-like material, which defies removal. good old St. Nicholas of Padua is ir,, Resolved, That there is more responsible for it. He had a habit pleasure in pursuit than in possess Students of the University of Alabama recently took of going about the windows of the ion. The speakers for the affirm a a vote on the advisability of the United States joining poor and slyly throwing in a knitted tive are Mrs. Chevally, Mr. Hayiett, the World Court, with an affirmative result. This ought purse of money. After a time the [ Daniel Hayiett, negative, Maxine purses were hung just outside th e , Hayiett, Irene Stitzel, R. A. Ditton. to settle that little matter and relieve our statesmen of windows, so that he might skip n o : Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ditton and further worry about it. one. In northern Italy it was so family called at Hayletts Sunday. Qute a stir in prohibition circles has been made by the cold that a stocking was substituted Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wolfe spent and hung by the chimney place, and the past week at railroad points on recent report of the united committee of a large group slipping down the chimney he would business. of reform organizations, which says that if present en put his gift there. Miss Lydia Thiel was an all night forcement is the best the government can do it “ought The Russian children fill their guest of Mrs. Riley Wyatt Saturday. to be pitied for its imbecility and damned for its incapa shoes with hay ten days before E. F. Baltzor returr/'d home Wed Christmas and place them outside nesday from Homed ale with lumber city.” In reply Secretary Mellon described the prohibi the door, so that St. Nicholas may and winter supplies. Mr. Baltzor is tionists’ session as “a meeting of radical reformers to have food for his horse, for this is rebuilding his house on tha Spring blow off.” the time he makes the rounds to ranch. It may or may not be of interest to know that Feng, find where the good children live, Robt. McConnell Js laying new before going out to take the gifts. floors in his house on Mahogany Mt. famed “Christian general” of China, is a teetotaler; a The Bulgarians think th at the ani non-smoker, and a plain dresser, with a decided liking mals talk with each other on Christ for ice cream. He has also been described as a “special mas night; the sheep walk in a pro kind of Christian, who teaches his soldiers to pray well cession about the place, and the bees and shoot better.” hum in their hives. In Sweden and Norway, thirteen Clubwomen of Sioux Falls edited a newspaper for one days are given over for the Christ i day and kept all crime news off the front page. mas festival and are called “Yule days,” or “Tretten Yule.” For days Charles Vincent of Glencoe, 111., mistook his war medal In 1924, 593 Oregon people died the house mother is busy making ev with tuberculosis. Best estimates In for a piece of candy in the dark and swallowed it. erything spotlessly clean. Boughs dicate that probably 5000 are afflicted from the juniper and fir trees are with the disease. Careful studies show Charles Ames of Carleton, Minn., was freed of a spread upon the floor. The family that between the ages of 15 and 40, charge of making home brew by order of Judge H. J. go, in turn, to the bake house, which which may be called the best years Gannis, who said he sometimes made it himself. has been made warm, and here each of life, more Oregonians die of tuber culosis than from any other cause of takes a good wash from head to A number of girls at Columbia University have adopt- foot. This is considered an import death and the same Is true through out the United States as a whole. All ted small turtles as pets, since dogs and cats have been ant part of the ceremonies, for in this is In spite of the fact tuberculosis many cases it is the only bath taken Is known to be preventable and curu- barred from the institution. until next Yuletide. alile. Congressman Hoch of Kansas declares that many ru The children of today, and of all “We know enough about tubercu ral mail carriers have soft snaps, working only three or the days to come, will be glad that losis to scotch It within a generation. the Roundheads of Oliver Cromwell’s It is not lack of knowledge, It Is lack four hours a day, while the farmers they serve must time, and the Puritans of New Eng of application of knowledge that im work from dawn to dusk. land, did not succeed in losing pedes our progress.” These were the Russian dives have found the wreck of the English Christmas off the map, as they tried words of Dr. Allen K. Krause, leading so hard to do. The Bay Colony of American authority on tuberculosis, ship, Black Prince, sunk 59 years ago with eight mil Massachusetts did prohibit the mak when he vi«lted Oregon last summer. lions of treasure. He aiso pointed out that the knowl ing of mince pies, for a time, and edge which makes physicians confi Mrs. R. C. Shelton of Chicago buried her pet canary declared that trimming the house dently assort that "tuberculosis Is pre with greens was a wicked and pagan ventable and cureahle’’ Is not knowl in a small mahogany coffin which she had made for it. custom. But we have good author edge regarding medicines or treat ity for even this custom, for Christ’s ments that can be called “specliic only day of public honor on earth cures.” It Is knowedge regarding the was marked by the strewing of palm fundamental rules of healthy living. It Is disregard of the rules of healthy branches before Him on the day of living that permits tuberculosis to con His entrance into Jerusalem. tinue as so great a menace to humane In pagan days the boughs of holly life. It Is knowledge of these rules, and spruce were supposed to be and care In their application which placed so that the sprites and fairies will eventually overcome tuberculosis. might have a place to hide, and bring It Is the tremendous progress In this good luck to the family. But the direction which has made possible the Of Rural Schools in Mal^ur County Christian world has given a spiritual 'tO 'f i reduction in the tuberculosis death meaning to even this custom. The rate in the United States within the We have Elementary Grade boughs of fir and spruce signify the last 15 years, and the 28% reduction In Oregon's rate within the last ten years. power and love of God, which shall Christmas Seals finance the cam flourish as a green bay tree, and live paign of the Oregon Tuherculosls As to endless time. sociation which is speclficly designed to meet the need of teaching health. ~I wish to cordially endorse the com Public Health nurses are put Into the ing anti-tuberculosis campaign In Ore field In Oregon. Health teaching is gon, through the sale of Christmas taken Into the Oregon schools. Liter Seals. I note with pleasure the report ature Is distributed, exhibits are pre of the great decrease In the death rate pared. and every known channel of from tuherculosls In our hone- stale, teaching health Is employed. during the past fourteen years, and be Send in your order now. The objective of the health teach lieve that this Is due In a large ing Is to overcome tuberculosis by measure to the money derived from striking at Its vulnerable spot. the sale of Christmas Seals. “The Christmas Seal campaign Is a most worthy one and I consider It a W hon T h o y Do, Thoy>ro F at distinct privilege to be able to add my A Portland woman la having a dr«e* VALE, OREGON trslimony to the great number who mink- of red, white and bine, heran*- hold a like op’n'on •• ahe «ay» thuf they are rolora that were HON. N. J. SINN O TT. , never known to run.—Portland Ex IN MANY COUNTRIES CHRISTMAS SEALS AND TUBERCULOSIS FIGHT J TEACHERS! REPORT CARDS Malheur Enterprise U. S. R ep resen tativ e from Oregon. •MM.
