THE GATE CITY JOURNAL
HARPER L O I S 13
THE VALE
$1.60 PER YEAR
NYSSA, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1927.
VOLUME XXIV. NO. 47.
OWYHEE
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NEW VEAN WIEN
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ARCADIA
IDAHO SPUD LAW
MAY RESULT IN
MALHEUR LABEL
Reuben Saurs, wife and son re
The Harva Otis and Beaumont
turned to their home in Portland
families were entertained in the
last Wednesday. They have been
Conrad Martin home on New Years
here since last fall working in the
Day.
fruit and visiting Mrs. Saurs’ par
Florence Bach who was home for
OREGON STATE BOARD OF ents, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Zittercob.
the holidays left Sunday to resume
HEALTH SAYS WORK IS
her teaching near Emmett.
Evelyn and Helen Lackey of On
HEALTHFUL
Wade Nichols was taken back to
tario were visiting their grandpar
the sanitarium at Caldwell where a
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ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Long last
COUNTY AGENT SHOVEL BE
Few people look upon their work week.
J. D. FAIRMAN, PRESIDENT HAR cast was put on hi3 injured foot. He THRESHHOLD OF 1927 FINDS
Mrs. Lester Lamb and little
LIEVES NEW IDAHO REGU
returned home Saturday
MALHEUR COUNTY ON VERGE as an ally to their health, yet it is
PER COMMERCIAL CLUB
LATIONS PROVE BENEFIT
Mr. and Mrs. Don Morgan left
0 F GREAT DEVELOPMENT
and it should be so. All, except a daughter and Mrs. Clyde Long and
WRITES ARTICLE
for Twin Falls, Idaho.
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; favored few of us, have to work, j children were Ontario visitors Thurs
The Fred Klingback family spent
[and we are better off for it. The | day.
several days visiting relatives on Mil I jfjllil CflQ |/l! C.fl JbV¡ICC work of an individual should be in-1 Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Shaver spent
Squaw Butte last week.
IHILUUH0 TUil YHLC U niH CL spirinK anJ stimulating. It should part of Christmas week with friends
Clyde Benton was a week end
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I be pleasant and profitable. It should and relatives in Boise.
While at the Christmas program New Regulations Will Result In Mal
Irrigation Project And Extensive Di- guest in the Klingback home.
Appropriations Of About $3,000,00« have » definite purpose. If it would
The Owyhee P. T. A. meets Fri
atomaceous Deposits Will Prove
heur Establishing A Reputa-tion
Reclamation In Malheur Have
■meet these ends- his health would be | here John Molenaar, Jr., of Ontar
day January 14th at 3:30 at the
io had the misfortune of having his
Vital factors In Development
For Home Grown Produce
Passed House And Senate
[better.
school house.
j Strain should be avoided by those | new hat stolen.
Mr. and Mrs. John Jarvis and Vir
employed in work. Strain may b e1 Mr. and Mrs. John Hunt and two
ginia May returned Monday from a
daughters, Ruth and Thelma spent
Copies of the new Idaho potato
To succeed in any industry where f ‘w d ^ s visit ^ t h relativeT in 1
' F[°m ‘he « alheur Enterpnse) | cither physlcal or
mental. Good
grading reputations have just been
the production
of a commodity Veiscr ldaho
“ Vale and Malheur county face the
p08ture wil, do much to prevent Christmas week in Boise.
J. T. Long and son, Clyde were receive* at the County Agent’s office
comes from the earth or soil, it is M —/j an 7 _ Mrs
Frank Morgan
Morgan ana
and able ^ to 7 lonf,
7 * 7 a0Ught
W“ h development 0f
physieal
8trai" will
’ a"d
r .' hramc
the body
do f“Ulty
much to P°9it,°n
help donating work at the M. E. Church and are of considerable interest to
necessary to interest the local pop- children arrived home from Eugene, and growth in 1927. It will be a bring it on. A man who sits at his at Nyssa last week where they are Oregon potato growers, as the ma
ula'ion and capital will come t.i as- o reg0n> Saturday after a six weeks banner vear Never before was the iu-c~oii
__ j ,„„io putting in a new basement.
jority of cur stock has in tne past
sist in til« i stablishment of that IU- vjs:t wjtb relatives They made the v
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des*t a day s^ou*d Ket UP and wa'k
Shorty Jenkins has moved from been marketed under the Idaho
,hp Hevelonment of the
relatives, llrey made tne New Year ushered ln under brighter ar„und now and then, or work for a
dustry and .he development of the tnp home ln a car and report that conditions. Vale is not alone in whiie standing up. The environ-: the Hunt ranch to Ontario.
brands, fine section of the regula
Morris Lamb and family have tions states as follows;
surr°jnoing <-oun r •
the roads were good all the way. facing an outlook so encouraging ment, as well as his mental attitude,
With this conviction
the Co - Born to Mr. and Mrs John Hite but Harper, Jamieson, Brogan and has much to do with his personal moved back to their ranch at Cald
“Containers marked with Idaho
mercial Club of Harper, in Malheur
0f Ontario, December 27th a daugh- othcr towns tributary will be affect- welfare The work place should in well. His brother Lester Lamb and Official brands must not be used as
county, has encouraged local enter- ter. The little lady has been named ed through development of the Vale the first place be kept clean and family will run the place here and containers for the shipment of po
prise in developing resources and Marjorie Lue
J project. Nyssa and Ontario a r e free from dust. Dust causes irri- Mr. Lamb will divide his time be tatoes grown in any other state,
encouraging new settlers to
come
Mrs. Pearl Marx of Diamond iooUng for a prosperous year a. tatjon to the nose and throat and tween the two places as his son, such act would be mis-branding and
to its valley.
Oregon, arrived last week and will a result of the 8tart of work on the predisposes to acute cold and other Hugh will run the Caldwell ranch. a violation of the Federal Pure Food
Harper is located in the first dis- keep house for her father Oscar mamouth Owyhee project.
C. W. Barrett had a good work & Drug Act 1.”
infections which enter by these ca-
trict under the Vale Irrigation pro- Pinkston on the MacLafferty ranch,
A letter received in regard to this
Has Senate Approval
nals. Places where people work mare stray away or stolen last week.
ject which the Government has now The Alvin McGinnis and Henry
Mr. and Mrs. John Mull and child section of the new regulation states
Now that the senate has passed should be well ventilated and airy.
set under way. On this project will Slippy families were dinner guests the '¡nteiior bill including new ap- Lighting arrangements are import- ren took dinner with J. T. Long and that all violations of this section
be expended within the next five Sunday of Andrew McGinnis on the propriatKns for the Vale and Owy- anf The light should be sufficient family Wednesday.
will be reported directly to the U.
S. Bureau of Chemistry Office at
*20,000,0.» «°
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l L p r o » . . . 0 ,,. b M l l b . .1
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A ¿ U i “ M
Seattle, Washington.
170,000 acres of land, most of which
Mr. and Mrs. Rex Johnson of d0nars that will be expended ¡n no^ j 00 jc directly at a light or have
is in Malheur County.
Caldwell returned home last week thig territory in 1927. The appro- it , hine into his face The force of
In commenting upon the above
With rich soil to till it is appar- after a Christmas visit in the Wal- priations pow stand at approxi- light should be directed clearly over
regulation, W. L. Shovel, County
ent that what we have needed ¡a tor Pinkston home.
| mately $1,000,000 for the Vale, Owy- the left shoulder.
Agent, states: “This new law has
water, and this is now being sup-
August Tuelson left Tuesday for. hee at |2,000,000—the figures fix-
a very direct bearing upon the la
Nature
hates
an
idler.
A
man
plied from the Warm Springs dam. a visit in Boise, Idaho.
ed by tbe bouse. An appropriation
beling of shipments of potatoes
When our project is finished the
The little son of Vincent Mendi- for the Baker project was also in who has nothing to do is worse off
from Malheur County. There is no
physiologically than one who toils JOHNSON, WELCH AND ONTAR
supply will be sufficient to take ola is quite sick with pneumonia.
question but that the products of
cluded, which amounts to $450,000,
care of several hundred families
IO ISLANDS IN SNAKE RIV Malheur County are just as good
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew McGinnis a]tbough it has been stated that a good eight hours a day. Idlers
whose surplus labor can be used in were host and hostess at a New Secretary Work is still hostile to form that vicious class of people,
ER OPEN MARCH 4, 1927
as those of the neighboring state
our industry at home.
Years supper and party.
| construction of the Baker project. who find time to write long windy
but hitherto shippers have apparent
epistles
to
newspapers
taking
ex
For Harper is also the home of
Grandma Bontager is quite ill
p or the Vale and Owyhee there
ly been ‘‘riding” on the reputation
ceptions to every progressive move Johnson, Welch and Ontario Island
the Whiteurth Company, which is with pleurisy.
^
| is still a balance of the 1926 ap-
of Idaho rather than building up
extracting from the hills which sur
Mrs. Dwight Smith is spending pr0priation to be spent this year, ment. There is a most happy med in the Snake River have been opened one of our own. The best advertise
ium
Ijetween
idleness
and
over-work,
to entry, according to a notice re ment that a community could have
round th-j Harpor
various the week with her sister, Ms H ar-! The iinal completion of the Vale
grades of the purest diatomaceous ry Goshert of Emmett, Idaho.
j project will bring 30,000 acres of ••vli ch tvery useful citizen ought to 1 ceived from George W. McKnight, in building up a land settlement
earth from what is said to be thej Mrs. Wm. Schweizer is spending the richest agricultural soil into try to attain. Hard work, properly j register at the Vale land office. The program such as this County, on ac
approved plat of survey of the Is count of the new Vale and Owyhee
largest deposit of this material in the week with her brother John Hite productivity, land which surrounds done, never harmed anyone.
Health and efficiency always seem lands will be officially filed on projects, will need is a steady flow
America. These hills do not rise and family of Ontario.
this town. Vale will be the natur-
abruptly but in folds which encom
The Klingback family were guests a| and m0st convenient trading to go together. The combination March 4, 1927. The following regu of agricultural products of high
pass the 12,000 acres of fertile lands of Mr. and Mrs. George Benton of pojnt for a big farm area, where of physical and mental health is es lations were contained in the notice: quality marketed under a name or
(a) SOLDIERS’ PREFERENCE. brand carrying the identity of the
through which flows the Malheur Nyssa on New Years. The Frank farrning and dairying will be the sential to the mind as it will not
River from southwest to northeast, Debord family of Payette and Lew- cbiei factors. The coming of the perform wonders by itself. All per From March 4, to June 2, 1927, said district in which these products are
coming
in -i
through u - a scenic --«..A-
canyon ¡g< Elmer, and A. L. Debord of Nys- right kind of settlers will mean the sons who want to live rightly should lands will be subject to entry under grown.
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endeavor to cultivate « serenity of the homestead and desert land laws,
which we hope will be the Central sa were guests also.
greatest problem solved.
“For ‘bis-, reason it may he that
mind along with such physical bene- | by qualified ex-service men of the this .regulation will work out as a
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Moses were
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Oregon Highway location, and ie-
fits as fresh air, exercise, proper World War, PROVIDED applicants
parting through a ten-mile canyon
benefit instead of a hardship. Mal
food, water, rest, proper care when file their applications to enter at
cut by erosion and faulting in its
heur County should be ‘“sold” to
needed
and
avoiding
disease.
any
time
from
February
12
to
steep sides of lava rock.
its own citizenship at least suf
Real Estate Transfers Recorded.
March 3, 1927. All such applications ficiently to allow the marketing of
To the north and northeast of
A. H. York et ux to C. E. Taylor-
together with those filed on March its products under its own name. If
Harper lie the hills of Whiteurth
WKSWK, and SEKSWK Sec. 28;
4, 1927, will be treated as similtan- not, how can we expect to “sell” it
rising to heights of from 500 to 1500
j EKNWK, SWKNEK, NEKSWK,
eously filed, and conflicting appli to someone else?”
feet above the surface level. They
and NWKSEK Sec. 33; EKSWK,
cations will be disposed of by lot.
appear to be solidly white and from
WKSEK, and SEKSEK Sec. 34;
The preference right above pro DAIRY SPECIALIST IS
seven different locations which are
and SWKSWK Sec. 35-15-40. NEK-
vided for is subject to valid prior
from 300 to 700 feet above the Val
COMING TO MALHEUR
(From the Malheur Enterprise.)
NWK, N%NEK, SEKNEK. and
rights or equitable claims recogniz
ley, the crude “Diato” is quarried
The
countywide
campaign
against
SEK
Sec.
3;
and
WKNWK
Sec.
2-
BOARD
OF
CONTROL
VOTES
ed
by
existing
laws.
and transported about six mites by
Neal C. Jamieson, extension dairy
UNANIMOUSLY FOR SITE
Beginning with June 3, 1927, said specialist from the Oregon Agri
truck over good roads coming down jack rabbits is on, but it is not too 16-40. 2-17-26. $10.00. (Q. C. Deed),
late
for
a
few
remaining
farmers
C.
E.
Taylor
et
ux
to
P.
H.
Mar-
OFFERED BY THE DALLES
lands will become subject to entry cultural college, will spend three
to the altitude of 2515 feet to the
by the public.
mill at Harper on the Eastern Ore- to get in. Conditions at present are cus-Lot 4, Sec. 2; Lots 1, 2, and 3,
days in the county beginning Jan
For twenty days prior to June 3, uary 10.
Milled to the required screen mesh, ideal for rabbit poisoning and unit- Sec. 3-16-40; WKSWK and SEVi Salem.—The new state tuberculosis
ed
effort
at
this
time
will
destroy
SWK
Sec.
28;
EV4NWV4,
SWV4-
1927, any qualified applicant may
the material is sacked and trade
r
T j t h o u s a n d s of the pests and save NEK, N E K S W K , and N W K S E K hospital for Eastern Oregon is to execute and file his application.
GEORGE W. McKNIGHT FINDS
marked <Ds o.
Sh.pped in car-, crops next year. ^ “United means Sec. «-15-40:
E
U
S
W
K
.
W
K
S
E
K
.
33-15-40; E*£SW*4, WVfcSEH, be located at The Dalles, according
NOTICE has been given that a
loads, '‘Disilo” goes to manufactur
MUCH INTEREST IN PROJECT
to unanimous vote of the state board large portion, if not all of the land
every
farmer
in
the
Vale
district,
and
SE^SE^i
Sec.
34;
and
SW
^-
ers on the Coast and in the east
of control consisting of Governor represented on said plat is being
and
in
every
other
district
that
has
S
^
Sec.
35-15-40;
NEHNW1
/^,
E%-
(From the Malheur Enterprise.)
ern territory, where it has been well
Pierce, Secretary of State Kozer claimed by J. R. Blackaby, Samuel
Tuesday was a bumper day in
received. Repeat orders are prov been organized by County Agent W. NET4, SE'ANE^, and SE*4 Sec. 3;
L. Shovel. It isn’t up to the other and WVfeNW1* Sec. 2-16-40. 12-23- and State Treasurer Kay Wednes H. Corliss, Floyd C. Corliss and E.
land office business. Five filings
ing its worth.
day afternoon.
fellow to take part in the drive but 26. $10.00. (Q. C. Deed),
D. Gilliland, of Ontario, and it Is j were made before the withdraw
A sawmill for making the dia
it
is
up
to
every
farmer
to
plant
L.
G.
Pickell
et
ux
to
J.
J.
Kerr
Selection of the site was based expected that appropriate
al of lands under the Vale pro
action
tomaceous earth into insulating
the poison on his own acreage.
i NM j N E ^ N E ^ Sec 17-15-46. 8-31- upon information gained by the will be taken by these parties to
ject. The visitors were Olen R.
brick is being installed at Harper.
Drive Going Over Big
¡26. $10.00.
board on a visit to the numerous protect their rights and secure title
Shira, Ira O. Webster and James
It is said that these brick are of the
Mr. Shovel was here Thursday
Edward Edge Sr., et ox to Ed- sites offered for this institution, to the land.
A. Shira of Fruitland. They fil
finest quality, being free from lam
and said that he was finding good ward Woodcock-NV6SEV4 SEV4NE'., two weeks ago, but more largely up-
ed on land in the vicinity of
inations.
cooperation but not quite 100 per NEV4SWV4, SEV4NWV4, and SW'4- on the recommendations of Dr. G. C.
Harper. The other entryman
cent. It is not to late to come in NEK Sec. 8; SWV4NWK and NWK Bellinger, superintendent of the Ore-
was Daniel O’Conner of Lake-
now, he said, as a new shipment of SWK Sec. 9-13-40. 12-16-26. $100.00. gon state tuberculosis hospital at
view, who made two filings. Re
poison will arrive at the office next
Frederick Greenwood et al, Trus- Salem, and Jamieson Marshall, instl-
gister George W. McKnight
tees to William J. Hyke-WK Sec. tution secretary of the National
Monday.
says this was one of the best
Clyde G. Huntley, collector of in
Comparing this campaign with 16-16-42. 8-3-26. Exchange of pro- Tuberculosis hospital.
days in the year for the land
Free text-books for Oregon public the one held two year* ago, Mr. Perty.
Both Dr. Bellinger and Marshall, t ternal revenue, has announced that
office. He finds much interest
school students were favored and Shovel says that at that time 600
WarmspmngB Ii*rigation District wbose headquarters are in New York 45,000 income tax return blanks for
in Vale project lands, inquiries
state printing of text-books was op- ounces of strychnine was secured to United States of America-undi- city, accompanied the board of con-1 individuals, corporations, and part reaching his office nearly every
posed by the representative council by the farmers, and the total this ! vided V4 interest in Warmsprings trol in its tour of inspection over the nerships were placed in the mails.
day from the coast and from
of the Oregon State Teachers as- year has already topped the 700 “ Reservoir and water rights. 12-18-
to eastern section and have spent the They reached practically all the tax the east. He is confident that
sociation in Portland this week.
mark, with more orders coming in 26. Consideration not given. (Q. pas( few day8 on a second visit to payers in the state by Tuesday. The
the project will not lack good
Permission for school districts of every day. The farmers are realiz- C. Deed).
j jbe sjte at The Dalles and several blanks are for the filing of taxable
settlers when once the work is
U. S. A. to The Commercial Min- sjtcg ¡„- tbe vicinity of Bend after returns upon incomes for 1926.
the first class to select their text ing the importance of united act-
underway.
books independently of the State ¡on, they know that a few dollars ing Co.-mining claims in Sections the
of control had eliminated
Individuals can start making
Text-book commission, a text-book worth of poison may save a thous- 21 and 22-13-42. 9-30-1912.
| a|| otber claimants for the hospital their returns to the office of intern
The state highway commission at
committee composed only of persons and dollars in crops next year.
REPORT SAYS JOHN DAY
location.
I al revenue service at Portland any its meeting in Portland last week
residing in school districts over
Farmers who have already dis-
HIGHWAY Wi l l BE PUSHED
The new hospital is to be construe- time, but all such returns must be decided upon the road oiling pro
which the body has text-book auth tributed the poison are getting re-
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| ted on a 49-acre tract of land im- in by the close of March 16. Ex gram for 1927. Although it has
ority was recommended.
suits. One morning J. F. Phelan o t
In a state road report for the dec- mediately ~ adjoining the eastern emptions for individuals remain the been surmised that the John Day
H. E. inlow. superintendent of Bonita found a thousand dead ones, ade, just closed, a summary of the boundary of Soroeis park and with- same as last year, $1500 for single highway from Vale to Nyssa would
city public schools at Pendleton was J. L. Pope counted 400. Now Is the work on the John Day highway, ¡n the city limits of The Dalles. Ac- and $3500 for married folk. The be oiled, it was not officially an
elected yesterday to the vice-pre3l- time to act if Malheur County Is ¡9 included which says: The John cording to Marshall .whose duties only change this year is the in nounced until last Thursday that
dency of the teachers organization to be rid of its rabbit menace. It I>sy highway will be finished in have taken him to practically every crease in the tax rate for corpora the road from the “Y” to Vale and
and Mrs. Suzanne H. Carter, of will not take much time, and th e , 5ix months, as the remaining unit tuberculosis hospital in the United tions from 13 to 13K per cent. Re Nyssa would be on the program
Jacksonville, superintendent of Jack- time will be well spent.
J of 32 miles in Malheur and Baker States, The Dalles location is the turn of income tax blanks by in next spring. The road from Ontario
son county public schools, automat
Farmers are urged to get in touch counties has been graded and nn- most sightly of any occupied by a dividuals must be accompanied by to the *'Y” will be given new oil,
ically advanced to the presidency of with their local leader, one of the der contract for surfacing.
This similar institution in the entire at least one-fourth of the amount the estimate said. Nothing was
of the tax, Mr. Huntley has stated. said about oiling the John Day high
the association.
following: James Graham, Vale; will give a through road from Nyssa country.
Trent Johnson, Vale, Ernest Locey, and Ontario, on Jhe Snake River be-
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Field agents of the internal reve way from Arlington to Vale.
The English Language is spoken Ironside; C. W. Pearce, Westfall; tween Oregon and Idaho, through
The girls of Constantinople and nue department will start their an
by more than 180,000,000 people, W. J. Scott, Jamieson; H. Washam, Vale and <.n as far west as Arr ng-| Angora are bobbing and shingling nual trip to all parts of the state
The color of Apples depends upon
while German is second with 120,- Malheur and Ohms. KepHngar, On- ton, on the Columbia River. Thaj their hair faster than those of New after the first of the year, to help their nitrogen content, the highest
taxpayers to complete their reports. colored fruit having the least.
tario. J. F Phelan, Bonita, Oregon.' length of the John Day ia 291 miles. I York or London.
000 , 000 .
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OPENED Í0 ENTRY
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T POISONING
CAMPAIGN UNDERWAY
Teachers Favor
Free Textbooks
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ÍHE DALLES GELS
STATE HOSPITAL
Income Tax For
1926 Called For