> THE GATH CITY JW7KNAE 11 1 GATE CITY JOURNAL Published every Friday «t N tw *. Oregon, b» H. P. BROWN Entered at the Poetodfica a« N r m , Oracoli, aa 1 1 — 1 ilnlli .l«d Matter SUBSCRIPTION BATES: One year, in advance---------- J1.0V months, ia advanea-------- .75 PASSENGER SCHEDULE Main Lina Eastboond. No. 26 —Due 9:22 a. m. daily. No, 6 - Due 3:17 p m. daily. No. 24-Due 5:11 p. m. daily. Main Line Westbound. No. 17-Due 3:22 a. ia. daily. No. 23—Due 1:35 p. m. daily. No 25—Due 6:34 p. m. daily. Homedale Branch Leaves Nysss at 10:15 a. ra. Mon* days and Fridays only. Charge 110 with Violating Vie» a id Im m orality Act METHODIST COMMUNITY NOTES A noon day luncheon for the trustee* of the church wss givea at tha par •onage Monday noon. Kev. Harry Hamilton, auparintendent of the dis trict. was present to discuss with the trustees tha matter of improving the ehureb preuarty. Nina men were present, beside* several ladies who assisted with the luncheon. Plans wars made to begin eieavating for the basement under the church next week. Volunteer labor will be much appreciated, as this is an urgent need to aupply room for Sunday school and for aocial purposes. Don't forget the wetch night meet ing at the ehurch on New Year’* eve. ’Khere will be a abort program, an avening of gamos, stunts and fun, eloting up with a davotional meeting as the old year goea out. Let us all join in to make this one good evening of aoaiai fellowship! The eeries of revival meetings will begin on Monday evening, the 2nd ot January. Rev. Luscomb of Kana will be with us to do the preaching. Sunday morning and evtning ser vices wil be hold at the regular hours. Special muaie will be provided. O ne T h in g A d a m E tc a p e d Eve never taunted Adam about the Irvivington, N. J.—Ona hundred tradesman and tan n porters, includ number of men who had proposed to her.—Florence Herald. ing a woman, were arroatad here Sun day on charges of violating the vica £, M. BLOl a m and immorality act in ‘pursuing world Attorney and Com t ior at Law ly occupation on tfce first day of tba Practice ia ell oourta wtek, commonly callad Sunday.” The Nysaa, On goo law waa enacted 72 yaars ago. Tha only activity permitted under ita pro ******** ************** visions are traveling to and from church and selling milk and newspa pera. Out of curiosity, we would like to know how many Nyasa charch mem C. KLIHKENBEBG hers approve of th e law. We wool i be glad to hear from any who do, or P R OM, r t b L I V B R Y ! do not, giving reasons for belief. it j 330 able Hate* Personally wado not believe the law ia either Christian or eonatitutional. PHONE IS We imagine a mighty howl would go up wera a law passed compelling everyone to cease work on the seventh day (the ore eommandtd by the Bible) instesd of “ the first day of the week, commonly callad Sunday.” The Goldea Rule doe* not seeaa to be as much in favor with latter day Chtistians as it was with Christ. SHAVING. HAIR CUTTING HOT AND COLD BATHS ] ! City Dray Line INYSSA BARBER SHOP Library Hour». Saturdays Only Open to town patron 2:30 fo 6.80. Out of town patron* 2:80 to 7 JO. Roy Pounds, Prop. Nyasa C ollege F ra te rn ttie s The first American college fra ternity ot which there Is a record was the “Flut Hat club" that appeared at the College of William and Mary In 1750 and continued In existence until after 1772. It was secret, literary and aocial. The oldest Greek letter fra ternity In this country now In exist ence Is the 1'hi Beta Kappa, organized In 1776. W a th in g to n ’ » G r e a tn e s s "Who was the greatest of American statesmen?" "George Washington,” answered Senator Sorghum, without a moment’s hesitation. "You mnst ad mit that he had wonderful advisers." "What made him great was the fact that he knew where to look for advice and how to take It."—Washington Star. G o U p, Y o u n g M an Tlie young fellow who studies avia tion Is the one who Is hound to rise to the occasion.—Worcester Evening Post. A n c ie n t L a w The American law that only a sol dier or a sailor at sea may rtmke an oral will dates back to Caesar. The Real O r t h o p h o n ic V ic tr o la s Ready for Delivery The gift for all the family M a k e T h is a M u sic a l C h r is tm a s Grand and Upright Piancs Gulbrxnsen Registering Pianos Real Orthophonic Victrolaa The Long-playing Edisons Band Instruments Drums and Traps Radiola (a. c. a . line) Everything in Music A musical gift for each individual Mail orders promptly filled Terms on all instruments SAMPSON MUSIC CO. Your music stoae for over 20 years Boise, Nampa, Weiser, Twin Falls I ■ rr noté V f U. S. Schools Building a llation IN THE COUNTY CO'IRT o r THB STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COTNTY OF MALHEUR In the Matter of the Estate of Au gustus G. Kingmand, Deceased. An Ojfier Fixing Tim* for Haariag, fur Distribution and Settlement. E. M. Blodgett, administrator of the estate of Augustus G Kingman, X 'deceased, has this day filed, for final ' : S e t t l e m e n t , his account ot hie admin istration of i he affairs of said estate, accompanied by the filing of a petition for final distribution of said aatate among the persons entitled thereto, and it appearing to the court from said petition that said administrator prays thattfec said account be accepted and tbe date set for hearing same. It is hereby considered and ordered by the judge of said county court that Monday, the 24th day of January, 1927, at tha hour of 11 o’eleck, in th* forenoon of that day, in the county court room in the court house at Vale, Malheur County, Oregon, be, and the same, hereby appointed and fixed aa the ' time and place for hearing objections to said account, the settlement there- | of, and the hearing of said petition; that said administrator give notice of said hearing by publication of inch notice once each week for four con secutive weeks in the Gate City Joar- ' nal, a newspaper of general circuit- ti in published weekly in eaid county, and that the first publication of said notice be on th* 24th day of Decem ber, 1923. H. Lea Noe, County Judge. First publication December 24, 1926. Last publii ation January 21, 1927. of Music! • ;.3 ‘HE public schools are building fo r A m erica a nation of musi- Jl d a n s. This, in a sentence, is th e j f A '“# explanation fo r th e ex trao rd in ary in tere st in music a t present displayed by all ages and classes of society offered by nearly a score of noted artists, ed u cators and o th er leaders, included in a symposium com piled by th e Conn Music C enter, E lk h art, Ind. The Music C enter w as lead to secure th e opinions on th e value of music to th e public school pupil th a t follow by th e publication of governm ent figures show ing a larg e gain in the num ber of professional m usicians, and fu rth e r indicating th a t th e sale o f m usical instrum ents th ro u g h o u t th e country has m ore th an doubled in th e p ast tw elve years. According to the published figures, there are now in the U nited S tates as many musicians as there are clergymen o r law yers ‘ and five times as many as th ere are journalists. This, o f course, does not take count of the thousands of semi-professional and am a te u r musicians who are doing part-tim e work teaching, singing in choir3, or earning e x tra dollars by working on the side with violin and saxophone. Figures from the same source also show th a t while the value of mu sical instrum ents turned out in 1914 was only $119,- 000,000, in 1923 the figure had risen to $242,000,000 and is steadily going up. O f the millions of boys and girls who are entering high schools in America this fall, the Conn Music C enter estim ates th a t close to a million will have some sort o f musical train in g before they en ter college o r commerce. These will form the bulk of th e high school and university bands of tom orrow, la te r tu rn in g to lodge and community bands and orchestras few into symphonic orchestras and still others to grand opera. They will take the places now being filled larg. jj' by musicians brought in from abroad, and among them will be the g re a t soloists to represent America in th e world councils o f music. O ther contributors and contributions to the music school sym posium a re : Jo h n P h ilip N e w O cean S o u n d er A wonderful device has been devel oped by the United States navy, whereby a sound signal la sent out and Is reflected by the sea bottom back to the instrument It has re vealed hitherto unsuspected feature* of the ocean floor. S o u sa, recognised as “king of band leaders” :— W hat I should like to see fn this country, w hat I . , * ■#-. te X-. believe would do more than anything else fo r its musical develop m ent, is the extension of the band idea along ’ the lines de veloped by organized baseball. This game was once a purely local thing; isolated NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION team s dotted here and there in school Department of the Interior, or village or factory. We know w hat it has become. Why cannot the U. S. Land Office at Vale, Oregon, American band be made as vital and November 13, 1926. universal a p a rt o f our everyday Notice is hereby given that Kenneth life? Mathesun, of Rockville, Oregon, who, The musical train in g of children is a most im portant p a rt of any pro on December 10, 1921, made Heme- gram fo r m aking America more and stead Entry No 07661, for BWfSWJi, more musical, b u t I believe that, like Sec 26; WJSEi. SE*SE*. Sec. 27; other education, its place is in the NJNEJ. ¿«v 34; WJNWJ and 8}, See. school and not in the home. The reason “ Y o u n g B o y C an’t S in g ” why many children of p ast generations 35, Township 26 S , Range 46 E, Wil T hree striking viewpoints stand out have found music drudgery is because it lamette Meridian, has tiled notie* of In th e symposium below. Several of w as made an e x tra task, an infringem ent intention to make final three-year the contributors make the point th a t upon th eir playtim e instead of a p a rt of th eir proof to establish claim to tb* lead Americans are no longer content with schooltime. above deserjhad, before Register U. merely hearigjf music, but th a t they JOHN PHILIP SOUSA F r e d e r ic k Neil I n n e s , director of the Conn are showing unm istakable signs of 6. Land Office, Vale, Oregon, on the N ational School of Music, Chicago:— America w anting to take an active p a rt in creating music. 13 destined to be the leading nation of the world in the 23rd day of December, 1926. Sportively speaking, it might bo interpreted to mean realm of music. I t does not yet rank with Germ any, Claimant names ae witnesses: th a t the rising generation is tirin g of watching a base France, H ungary, Italy or England. B ut she is climb James Molloy, of Jordan Valley,Ore. ball game when the opportunity is th ere to go out and ing. I t is the music in the public schools which will play golf. U nquestionably, there is a grow ing inclina give A m erica h er suprem acy. Fully eighty per cent John Liddle, of Rockville, Oregon. tion on the p a rt of Americans to develop th eir “musical of the high schools have some musical organization, Alfred Sheridan, of Rockville, Or*. bump.” orchestra or band. No other country offers her young Joseph Fenwick, of Jordan Valley, Frederick Neil Inncs, one of the g reatest bandm asters people such opportunity to know, to appreciate and to Oregon. o f all tim es and now head of a unique institution in play good music. Geo. W. McKnigbt, Chicago which aim s to train band men as well as band I believe the band or o rchestra is vastly superior to leaders, thinks th a t the present am azing popularity of Register. the vocal class. W hy? Because th e boy in the adoles instrum ental music among young folk is a reaction to cent stage simply will not sing. He may be compelled the distress experienced by th eir parents in being forced NOTICE TO CREDITORS to take vocal work in the schoolroom in th eir youth. to go through th e motions, but he will not actually sing. The boy in the adolescent stage, he says, will not sing be He refuses fo r the simple reason th a t ho has no voice IN THE COTNTY COURT OF THE cause he has “no voice to sing with,” bu t given a trom to sing with. B ut give him a trom bone or a cornet, or STATE OF OREGON FOR MAL bone, cornet o r any other instrum ent, it is am azing any other instrum ent of the band, and watch his prog HEUR COUNTY. with w hat energy he will apply him self to it. Mr. Innes ress. It is am azing how he will work and study. There is a strong believer th a t band and orchestra are vastly is no question but the public schools are wise in de In the Matter of tbe Estate ef Albert superior to the vocal class as a train in g medium and in voting more time to Instrum ental instruction. W hen Neuhuys, deceased. this he is seconded by several of the contributors to the music occupies a position in the school on an equal foot The undersigned, haring bean ap ing with m athem atics and history A m erica will have symposium. capable musicians. pointed, by the judge of the County A nother new thought on music in the schools is ad Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, Commissioner of Public Court, of the S ta te of Oregon, f e r the vanced by C. D. G reenleaf, fo r ton consecutive year3 president of the National Association of Band In stru H ealth, Chicago:— David’s harp drove aw ay Saul’s ill County of Malheur, a d m in is tra to r ef m ent M anufacturers. He thinks instrum ental music humor. Music plays a vital p a rt today in the mind and the estate of Albert Neuhuys de should be included in the manual training course of body of the nation. We have learned th a t tones can ceased, and having qualified, notiea la play a vital p a rt in th e treatm en t of the men the school curriculum. “ Our schools have been devel tally ailing. H ospitals have learned th a t hereby given to the creditors of, and oped so th a t now a child can learn to be a car with music they can ease the suffering all persona h a v in g claims against th* p enter, mechanic, p rin ter or a member of a patients. num ber of oth er professions, all a t public estate of said deceased, to preaent The effect of music on sick children cost,” says Mr. G reenleaf; “why not them, duly verified ae rtquired by law, is rem arkable. Musical games and extend the same sort of opportunity to calisthenics perform ed to music not withing six months after the first pub children who desire to take up music only stim ulate, b u t are disciplining lication of this notiee, to said admin as a life-w ork?” agents in th e train in g of convales istrator, at the office of B. M. Blod Y o u th B lo w in g Its H orn cent and grow ing children. gett, in the Town of Nyasa, Malheur W here th ere is life there is music, Continuing, Mr. G reenleaf says: County, Oregon, the plate designated and w here there is music th ere is “ Radio, the phonograph and the where said a d m ia is tra to r will receive life, love— and health. public school band are conspiring to make the U nited S tates the T h o m a s A. Edison, the "electrical said claims. most musical nation in all the w izard” :— Campaigns should be inaug Dick Teoaefc world. A fter hearing more music urated fo r the purpose of acquainting than any other generation has ever people with the advantages of musical Administrator of the Estate ef Albert Neuhuys, Deceased. heard, America is expressing an ardent training. Families should be induced to have wish to blow its own horn in the actual •. all th eir children learn to play separate instru R. M. Blodgett. sense of the phrase. The creative m ents and to form home orchestras. The ef- Attorney for Admistrator. spirit is lifting its head and today Dft- H er m a n BUNDESEN feet of this on the musical life of our country First publication December 17, 1M6. the United S tates is developing would be immense. One of the reasons chil more musicians and embryo musicians than ever before. dren should be ta u g h t music is th a t when th ey grow Last publication January 14, 1927. “ No m atter how fa r short he may be from the ac up they will have a taste fo r it and a m eans with which cepted standards o f his instrum ent, the player derives to occupy th eir leisure. NOTICE fa r more satisfaction and pleasure in the knowledge Edward W. Bok, editor, a u th o r and philanthropist:— INMHECOUN1Y COURT OF THE th a t he is creating music than he could possibly feel from the strains o f the modern m asters, artificially re To be brought up in a home in which there is no music STATE OF OREGON, FOR TH* produced. is a terrible deprivation. I f I had m y/life to live again COUNTY OF MALHEUR. “ I t is a serious problem with many parents these days I should certainly w ant to make music a p a rt of my In the Matter of the Estate of JOS to find wholesome methods of recreation fo r th e ir chil EPH ALBERT FELTON, Deceased. dren. The band and orchestra furnish an ideal outlet early training. My tw o sons fo rtu n ate ly have a love fo r the energies o f the ‘g an g ’ which might otherwise be fo r music. One plays the piano and the other plays the Notiee is hereby given by th* un expressed in ways not nearly so healthful. It is p retty trom bone. It has seemed to me th a t A m erican musical dersigned administratrix with th* will generally agreed th a t while the child is grow ing up is train in g in the past has been fa r too superficial. M uuc annexed of the estate of Joseph Al- the best tim e to imbue him with a knowledge and love fo r music. The child has the tim e to devote to it, and has done me a w onderful and invaluable service. 1 1 bert Felton, deceased, to tb* creditor* learns music readily. By not giving him a musical edu firmly believe It is only a mattei; of tim e when we 1 of and all persons haying claims cation in childhood, we are probably depriving him of shall become In this country a g re a t m usic-creating ' „gainst th* said deceased to present the Joys of music fo rev er." people. them with the necessary vouchers Joliet (lllinoit) High School Band, Winner of the 1926 National Contest. within six months after the first pub lication of this notice to the under signed administratrix at her residence at Nyasa, Oregon, or at tbe office of her attorneys at Vale, Oregon, which resilence and said effie* tbe under* egned selects ss her place ef hualnea* in all matters connected wiih said es tate of Joseph Albert FeRen, de ceased Davis £ Lytle, attorneys fat said administratrix Dated and first published at Nyssn, v / i c g u i i , this tuie i 19th n n u day m y of ut rvo Oregon, November, 19V6. , Mary f U y i I ton, AdminisWatrix with the W lf i annexed of the estate of Joseph Albert ^tlb« Fel ton, deceased. a!9417 /