The Gate city journal. (Nyssa, Or.) 1910-1937, January 13, 1928, Image 1

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    THE GATE CITY JOURNAL
VOLUME XXVI.
No. 51.
PEDIGREE PIG
NYSSA, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY
JURY USI DRAWN
FOR JANUARY COURT
$1000 FROM ONE PIG
JANUARY
CLEARANCE
SALE
Suits and Overcoats
HEN SETS DURING DECEMBER
BRINGS THREE STRAGGLERS
TO W. J. HUFFMAN RANCH
Twists, Worsteds, Cassimeres
$JO,75
$2¿i-50
W i t h a F e w a t $ 15
‘
P
Dollar Shirts
Odd Trousers
Plain and Fancy
Broadcloth
All sizes, styles and mater­
ials to make your coat do
double duty
CLEARANCE SALE, $1.00
$1.95
$2.95
$3.85
Mackinaws, Stag Shirts
Leather Vests
Reduced to a point where cost is not a question
B oys’ Blazers
Men’s
Take your choice
Slipons & Knit Coats
$1.95
$2.85 53.85
ALEXANDERS
Finest of Men’s Stores
Ontario, Oregon
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TRAIN WRECK SITUATION IM­
PRESSES
UPON
PORTLAND
WRITER NEED OF CROSS
STATE LINE
WOULD JOIN BURNS LINK
Publisher Believes Cross State Road
Would connect with Burns Road
Bctween Vale and Nyssa
*
with the Bums branch at a point that Santa would leave them one next
about half way between Nyssa and year too.
Vale.’’
Rev. Brown o f Boise the Sunday
hool missionary will meet with the
■eople of Oregon Trail in the school
house Sunday morning at 10:30. All
Mrs. J. W. McLing of Salt Lake
who would like to see a Sunday
City is visiting with her daughter
chool in the community are invited
Mrs. Emmett Gifford at the Appel
to e present. It’s a good work, come
ranch
mt and help.
The L. F. Edmundson family have
Dwight Smiths who have been liv-
gone to Oklahoma to make their
:ng in Owyhee are moving to Nyssa
future home.
this week.
Rex Brumbach, Culver teacher, at­
Bill Glenns are moving to the Bill
tended a conference at the Univer-
ersity of Idaho at Moscow during Ward place in Oregon Trail which
holidays. He was a delegate from they recently purchased.
Three months late and five months
early for this locality, a turkey hen
hatched out a number o f birds and
brought three o f the little stragglers
into the farm yard at the W. J. Huff­
man ranch near Vale on the morn­ Tau chapter of the T. K. E. frater­
nity at O A C.
ing of December 29
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hatch and
When it came to setting earlier in
the fall, the turkey hen had been! Herman Jones have retunied from
discouraged
by Mrs. Huffman, so a holiday visit in Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Eachus were re­
she stole her nest out. It was under
cent arrivals from Salt Lake, having
a weed a quarter of a mile from the
spent a holiday visit with their
house. All during the
month of
daughter.
December the plucky little mother
The new park directors recently
kept her nest warm, warding off
elected are
Burt Roberts, Ernest
zero weather several days and nights.
Mausling, Clint Allen, John Lewison,
She hatched out quite a number,
Will Schütz and Leo Lewison, secre­
although
she reached the house
tary.
with only three hungry little mouths
The newborn child o f Mr. and Mrs.
to feed.
Elmer Walker died Tuesday week.
Perhaps she grew weary o f so
i ,
ni„ ht iMrs Walker seems to be better after
many cares. Last Thursday night
.
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,
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a serious illness since the child’ s
she deserted her babies, flew up on
birth.
the roost for a good night’s rest,
only to find the three little turks STRIKE ARTESIAN WELL
frozen to death next morning.
NEAR JAMIESON
Hatching season in this loaclity
An artesian well flowing 270 gal­
is in May and June:
In a few in­ lons of water an hour has been ob­
stances mother hens will raise one tained at a depth o f 327 feet on the
I lock of birds and then attempt to C. P. Ragsdale ranch one mile north
iet again in the fall, but never later o f Jamieson. This makes the second
than in September.
Growers
say recent strike of artesian water in
that in California turkeys have been i he Willow River Valley reported by
known to hatch out in the winter Brn Jones, driller, the first strike
months.
having been made on the Ivor Wil­
Maybe, Mrs. Turkey thought this liams place at Brogan.
was California.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY BLODGETT
OFFICER NEW ORGANIZATION
Newcomers—
District Attorney E. M. Blodget of
Mr and Mrs. Murray Brown, photo­
graphers of no little repute through Malheur county * u elected a mem-
out this section, moved to their farm mer of the executive committee of
under the Warmsprings project near h eastern Oregon Officers associa-
Vale from Payette last week. They* ion, which was recently formed for
are going in for dairying and turkey j ’’ andling joint problems in law en-
raising and will take pictures as a I o ermrnt. The next meeting will be
tide line.
hold in Baker on March 12.
j
Court F ixes
Tax Levies For
County In 1928
Rev. Brown of Boise was in Owy-
xo and Kingman Kolony holding
classes for those wishing to take the
Teachers training course as outlined
by the American
Sunday
School
Union. The class meeds this week in
At the county court meeting here
the Khngback home on Tuesday and
Wednesday the following tax levies
n the Walter Nichols home in the
were made for 1928; general levies
olony on Friday.
*254,272.12, special school 154,368.28
Mrs. Chas Bradley who has been special town 58,173.81, special road
<eriously ill is now convalesing, her 26,293.92,
irrigation
223,199.53
iaughter Alta, who had been living drainage 43,982.73,
Morton Island
a Boise returned home Friday to be bond district 1,600, forest fire patrol
v' th her.
189.70, which brings total levies and
Mrs. Albert Rust who underwent assessments to *763,780.09.
The Ontario city levy is 33 mills,
n operation at the Holy
Rosary
lospital
in Ontario is recovering an increase this year of 1 mill; Vale
licely and expects to be at home the city levy 61 mills, increase 3.3 mills
due to reduced valuations and city
ater part of the week.
.inprovement work; Nyssa 33 mills,
The Misses Humphreys and Semer- increase 10.3 mills; Jordan Valley II
ec of Fruitland are holding a series mills, decrease 1.1 mills due to cut
>f evangelistic meetings at the Owy­ in their budget by the court to keep
hee school house every evening be- within the 6 per cent limitation.
gining at 7 :45. A cordial invita­
tion is extended to all.
“ For days the Union Pacific de­
toured its trains through the Co
iumbia gorge by way o f the North
Bank road. The wreck at Oneonta
was
the cause.
mission at the request of the Warm-
Mesdames J. B. Smith and T M.
“If the Union Pacific had an east
Lowe wbo are members of the Ways
springs board o f directors, is being
and west extension through Central
worked out step by step. Within a Oregon it would leave the present nd Means committee of the county
P T. A. met in Ontario Saturday
short time, directors expect the re­ main line at Ontario. It would cross
with the Federated Club to lay plans
port of the investigating committee the Central Oregon plateau where
| for a service shop. Another meeting
who made the economic survey. This ;nowfall is usually light. It would at a later date however was found
negotiate the crossing of the Cas­
is the report that has been prepared
necessary to complete the plans.
cades either by common use with
by W. W. McLaughlin, economic ex­ the Southern Pacific o f the Natron
The Klingback family were dinner
pert of the Department of Agricul­ mss or by its own route. It would, guests in the DeBord home in Pay-
ture, and Dr. W. L. Powers of O. A enter Portland by way of the Wil­ ette Saturday.
Rarely,
if
ever,
Mr. LaFrener who was snow bound
C, with the assistance o f Paul Ewing, lamette valley.
would both the Coumbia gorge and for a week in Bend, Oregon, arrived
Wm. Johnston, Dr. Stevenson.
Central Oregon routes be out o f com­ to resume his school in Owyhee Sun­
Consider Settlement Means
mission
at the
same time. The day evening. Mrs. Archie Cantrall
State Engineer Rhea Luper was Union Pacific could proceed un­ tough in his room the days he was
68-hour Chicago absent.
here Friday and Saturday to confer worried with the
Christa Minton has been spending
with the board realtive to a method train service promised for May. It
could even run 66-hour trains with­ the past week with his brother and
of settling with the bondholders and
out heart failure,’’ said the Oregon family
in Boise and is expected
other creditors. The status of the Journal editorially .
home this week.
district was considered from every
W. S. Brown o f the Malheur En­
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Elliott took
angle in a series of meeting that terprise agrees with
the Portland
Mrs. McCreary back up to the Owy­
were held.
i writer that a railroad across Cen­
Now it will be necessary for the tral Oregon would furnish an alter­ hee dam site where she will resume
■ ooking for a bunch of men
board to meet with the several bond­ nate route but he
discredits
the
Mrs. Ted
Simmos o f Nyssa is
holders’ committee and the state statement that an east and west ex­
spending the week with her parents
reclamation commission, as a con­ tension through
Central
Oregon
ference has been scheduled for next would leave the present main line Mr. and Mrs. T. T Elliott of King-
Tuesday in Portland.
Board mem­ -it Ontario. “ This shows how little man Kolony
bers plan to leave today.
Mr. and Mrs Geo Brown of Adrain
even the best posted
residents of
Sometime ago officials received i p ort]and know their Eastern Oregon “(pent Sunday visiting in Vale.
a new map of the district prepared geography,” said Mr. Brown. “ Why
Mr. and Mrs. Geo M cLafferty of
by the investigating committee which should a great transcontintental rail­ Nyssa were dinner guests in the Con­
shows the several land classifications road run several miles out of its way rad Martin homo in the Kolony Sun­
in colored sections.
About 14,000 just for the fun o f running back day.
acres, out of the 30,000 acres includ­ again? The answer is, it would not.
Mrs. C. C. Cotton invited in a few
ed in the district, have been classi­ A glance at the map will show that neighbors Saturday evening to dem­
fied as very poor land and will prob­ the Central Oregon extension, when onstrate how well her new electric
ably be excluded when settlement is built, will leave the main line at waffle
iron worked.
All said it
effected.
some point near Nyssa and connect worked fine and expressed the wish
TURKEYS HATCH OUT
In keeping with a fixed policy to start each
season with a fresh, new stock we offer our
present stock at Bargains most extraordinary.
OW YHEE
RAIL ROUIE THRU
WORKING OUI GENIRAL OREGON
BOARO GOING TO PORTLANO
hand! The tale of a pig, and it all j
Brogan, E. H. Brumbach, W. T.
started in the ton-litter movement Ashcraft and B. W. Millsap of Big
which was designed to start som e-! Dend; D. A. Clore and L. P Lumpee,
thing.
j Vale.
One of these mortgage lifting pigs
■ In Ontario—
lives in Oregon, just across the line
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Madden and
from Idaho. The tale of the Ore­
little son were guests of Mr. and
gon pig is told
in a letter to the
Mrs. D. E. Masterson in Ontario on
editor, as follows:
New Year’s Day Their first New
'‘ In March, a year ago (1926), Mrs.
Year dinner was enjoyed with rela­
Karl Norvall of Vale, Oregon, made
tives in Nyssa and in the evening
up hermind to go in for pruebred pigs.
they were guests at another festive
She read of the prize-winning
ton
dinner at the Masterson home.
litter o f O. I.
C’s at the Oregon
state fair at Salem and after corres­ farrowed there were 67. This fall
ponding with the owner of the prize Mrs. Norvall has sold from this herd
litter she purchased from
him a 18 feeder pigs, and 440 fat hogs.
gilt. This gilt’s dam was a litter
“ In September another lot o f 50
mate to the dam of the prize winn­ babies came. Mrs. Norvall and her
ers. Mrs. Norvall received also the husband were on a trip to Iowa at
registered pedigree of her pig.
the time and some were lost. Of
She Kept the Sows
these 50 Mrs. Norvall sold 25 wean-
“ In May thjs guilt farrowed seven ers, keeping the others to fatten for
splendid pigs, two males and five spring market.
These, with seven
sow pigs. She sold the two males at sows and two purebred boars con­
*25 each and kept the sows.
stitute her winter herd.
“ In addition to this, in a little over
“ In November she bought a pure-
bread boar from an Idaho breeder. a year and a half Mrs. Norvall has
“ The first litter autved February realized from sales close to *1000 and
11. By March 5 there were 50 little all from one pig whose first cost was
_,id when the Iasi fc>'t farrowed *37.50. A pretty fair pig tale.’ ’ Ore-
and Maida, the original mother p ig ,1 gon Farmer.
*1.5« 1'KR YEAR
it
Those who served on the grand
jury include Kay Duncan and C.
Smith o f Ironside, C. W. Madden and
W. T. Downs of Ontario, J. B. Wood­
cock of Malheur, H. J. Kennedy and
TALE
OF
LITTLE PIG
THAT
DIRECTORS
LOOK
FOR COM­
Saxon Humphrey o f Vale
PROVED A REAL MONEY
PLETE ECONOMIC REPORT IN
Trial Jurors
MAKER
FEW DAYS
Residents of the county called for
the trial jury next week are Fred
Currey, Juntura; T. M. Lowe, John
Kakabeeke, F. C. Fry, C. E. Elliott
and Gerrit Stam of
Nyssa; A. L
Chadwick, W. L. Turner, Robert Gil
Mrs. Karl Norvall Tells Story of
Conference Will Be Held With Bond
christ, Bert Koplin, John Walters
Mortgage-lifting Pig Through
holders' Committees a nd State
S. D. Dorman, John Forbes, J. L.
Oregon Farmer
Reclamation Commission
Mackay, Paul
Van Petten, Blaine
May and C
C Taylor of Ontario;
Frank Grant, Ray Christensen and
(From The Malheur Enterprise)
(From The Malheur Enterprise)
This is not a can-you-beat it story, Otto Meili of Dead Ox Flat; Frank
Re-organization
of the Warm-
but beat it if you can. A thousand Vines o f Jamieson; Ed Oakes, W. 1.
spings irrigation district started last
dollars from one pig! And the or-1 Duncan, S A. Lofton, Ironside; Carl
iginal (plus a few others) still on j Thomas o f Westfall, G H. Bridwell spring by the state reclamation com­
ON VALE FARM
13 1928.
County Statistics
Real Estate Transfers Recorded
Timothy J. Toohey et ux to Cy­
rus G. Wareham, E liN E li,
and
SEY* Sec. 15; anw W liN E li Sec. 22
23-38. 12, 23, 27 *10.00
Riverside Homestead Co to Port­
land Terminal Investment Co. 138
Lots in Outlooki
(Riverside) and
42.64 acres in SE14 Sec. 27 and N li
NEV* Sec . 34-23-37. 12, 5, 27 *1.00.
Jane A Davis to George D Davis
Lots 1 2 3 4 and 5, Block 215, Ont­
ario. 12, 31 27 *10.00.
I. G Anderson to Robert E Long
Lots 11 12 and 13, Block 16, Nyssa.
12, 23, 27.* 800.00.
Charles P Lackey et ux to Melvin
T. Walters et ux Lots 17, 18 19 and
20, Block
32, Ontario.
12, 28, 27.
*1,600.00.
Ameil Claude to Blanche Claude
Lots 2 and 3 and art of Lot 1, Sec
14; and Lots 1 and 2, Sec. 15-26-43;
S% N W (4 anw SW>4 Sec.12; N li -
NW14 Sec. 13; S liN E li and SE14
Sec. 11; and N H N E li ec. 14-20-37.
(this deed covers undivided % in­
terest only). 1, 4, 27. *10.00.
Paul F. Erwip et ux to State of
Oregon E liS E li Sec. 9, 20-42. 12, 21
27 *2,900.00.
Guy C. Wise
et ux to State of
Oregon W liS E li and E liS W li Sec
32 13 39; NW14SW14 and S liN W li
Sec. 32-13 39; Lot 3, Sec. 6. 14-39.;
SMrSEtt and SE*4SW>4 Sec. 29-13
39; WV4NE(4 NE14NE14, and N li-
NW14 ec 32-13-8 .912, 21, 27.» 2,000.
R. C Enos et al to Geirge Brown
Lots 14 and 15, Block 1, Adrain. 4,
23 27. *1.00.
Arthur W. Ward et ux to H. J
Ward N liS liN E H Sec 24-20-46. 9,
20, 1924. *500.
H J Ward et ux to W L Glenn,
N liS liN E H Sec .24-20-46. 12, 31, 27.
*3,000
Rudolph A Kuner to J B. Swan et
al, Lot 5, Bloc 8, Nyssa. 12, 21 27.
$2000
Nyssa Realty Co. to Lon S Root
Lots 17 18 and 19 ,Block 59, Greens
Add to Nysa.
1, 5, 28. *100.00
M T Tarlin et al to Alfred Scott
Lots 1 and 3 Secl9-28-46; and E li
E li Sec. 24-28 45 . 11, 27. 26 *1
Frank Stubbs et ux to M W Greel­
ey, Lots 10 and 11 and 12 and Block
8,Teutschs Add to Nyssa. 4 28 27.
Mr. and Mrs .Chas. Fisher had as
dinner guests Sunday Mr and Mrs.
* 1000 .
Roy Taylor o f Ontario.
M W Cheeley et ux to Dwight
Mis. Harry Gorman was a Sun­ L. Smith Lots 10 11 and 12 Block
day guest in the Fisher home atend- STeutschs Add. to Nyssa 11 23 27.
ing church in the evening at the *1250.
Owyhee school house with them.
Edna Boyd to Maria
Pagnagn
Echanis Lots 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20,
Block 10 Ontario. 7 6 27. *6500.
U S A to Hutton B Syme SEU
SE14 Sec 20; Lots 3 , 4, 7, and 8,
Sec. 21; Lot 2 Sec. 28; and Lot 1
Sec. 29-26-43 8 21 1907
H B Syme to U S A. Lots 3 and 4
Sec. 21 and Lots 6 and 7 Sec 16- 26
Malheur county has a political
43 11 8 27. *3790.
chaiacter, J. D. Billingsley, who is
Anne E Syme et vir to U S A Lot
atti acting considerable attention just
I Sec 29; Lot 2 Sec 28; SE14SE14
nuw. A few weeks ago Mr. Billings­
Sec 20; and Lots
7 and 8ec. 21 2ft
ley announoed that he would run for
II 8, 27. *6,786.
state senator from Malheur, Harney
Marriage IJeense Issued
and Grant counties.
Walter Menrow Perry and Irene
Mr. Billingsley
is one of those
Palmer.. 1, 7 28.
men who puts his cards on the table
nd takes the public into his confi­ Boys Experience Thrills—
(From The Malheur Enterprise)
dence and in a business like way bids
While on return to
the Oregon
for the job. He is a strong candi­
college, several Vale
date as he made a splendid record Agricultural
thrilling
last year as representative from this hoys lived through some
experiences. Cleo Slaght was on the
district.
He is a very capable man, being a train going toward Portland that was
successful stockman and business man wrecked. He escaped unhurt and
of this county. He has never ming­ helped remove several injured per­
the wreckage.
Dantan
led in a selfish way with county or sons from
state politics. He asks for the job Humphrey, George Thayer and Ray
as a business man who has the time Moe who were returning to school
■ind who enjoys the opportunity to with several Idaho boys in a car,
devote a month or so to politics. It made The Dalles safely. As the roads
is very generally believed that he from there to Portland were closed
will serve his district in an efficent by the snow slide, they were obliged
and honorable
way
if given the to travel by train the rest o f th«
BILLINGSLEY QUI
FOR STATE SENATOR
chance.
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