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About The Gate city journal. (Nyssa, Or.) 1910-1937 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1928)
THE GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON CONDENSED STATEMENT OF The Malheur County Bank NYSSA. OREGON AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS OCTOUBER 10. 1927 RESOURCES I LIABILITIES Loans a no' Discounts ....1385,312.46 j Capital Stock .... ........ t 25,000.00 Overdrafts _______ 720.46 ( Surplus and Profits ... 55,989.58 I Bills Payable..... ............... NONE Banking House, Furni Rediscounts ___________ NONE ture and Fixtures___ 13,500.00 Other Real Estate......... 6,006.61 I Deposits ........................ 580,798.92 Warrants ....................... 2,675.00 U. S. Treasury Bonds . 100,000.00 Cash and Due from Banks ______________ 153,673.98 Total Cash Reserve..... 253,573.98 Total *661,788.60 Total CANNOT DO BOTH Some people just simply expect too much o f the common run ol humanity. We are asked to keep the wheels of in- uusiry turning by purchasing me thuigs that are oeing prouuced in great quantities, and then we are told we nave no right to complain of our condition unless we re turn to the Simple lne and get along with the things that satisfied our grandparents. i f we do the former we are pretty sure to get in a bad shape occasionally and if we do the latter we dis tress those who depend upon manufacturing. If we spend our money as fast as we make it there are sure to be times when we will be very hard up, but if we practice strict economy we disturb industries that are speeded up to quantity production. We are perfectly willing to do either o f these things, oecause it is our ambition to please, but we can’t do Doth.—Kansas City Post ......................... $661,788.50 W HAT’S N EW ? An electric machine has been developed for use in OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS stretching persons to a greater height. H. J. Ward, President John Ray, Vice r e s id e n t Carry a load oi two tons, a new type New York speed J. P. Dunaway, Cashier boat can make 63 miles an hour. .. O. G. Bauer, Assistant Cashier H. A. Diven, Assistant J. F. Reece J. J. Sarazin G. L. Phillips More thn 3,600 patents pertaining to radio have been granted by the United States Patent Office. Prompt and understanding service and our desire to promote pros perity; to help you get your share o f it and to use that share w!*h A new airplane landing gear based on the caterpillar wisdom is our ddeeire. wheel principle, has been successfully tried out in brace. P’or rapidly making duplicate copies, all ol which ap-l pear as original, sell operating typewriter, using a per THE PRICE TOO HIGH Glorious as were the achievements o f successful over forated roll on the principle of a piano player- has been sea flyers during 1927, the loss of 19 men and three invented. An instrument with which a man may trim his own women, who failed, makes the price o f this kind of glory hair has been invented in New York. seem to high. Securities Pledged or Surety Bonds Furnished for Deposits^ NONE Those who died in the quest for trans-oceanic flying fame, leaving no record to tell the tragic story o f their fate* were these: Nungesser and Coli, between Paris and New York; Saint-Roman and Mouneyres, between Senegal ami Buenos Aires; early in May. Pedler, Knope and Miss Mildred Doran; F’rost and Scott; Erwin and Eichwaldt; between California and Honolulu in August. ........................ Redfern, Between Brunswick, Ga., and Rio Janerio in August. Hamilton, Minchin ando Princess Lowestein-Werth- eim who left England for Canada August 31. Bertaud, Hill and Payne in an attempted flight from New York to Rome in September. Omdal, Goldsborough, Kohler and Mrs. Fances Gray son, who left New York on December 23 Tor Harbor Grace, Newfoundland- on the first leg o f a proposed flight to England. Through sheer luck, Haldeman and Miss Ruth Elder escaped death when their plane landed in the Atlantic- near a tank steamer in October. Besides the loss of life attending these stunts, hun dreds of thousands of dollars and the time o f man} ships and airplanes were spent in friutless searches for the victims. In the present state of aviation, the cost o f oversea flying is too high. Boston and Brooklyn National League teams played the longest big league gme on record on May , 1920 ; 26 innings, score 1 to 1. The nations are thinking up more horrible means to employ in the next “ unthinkable” war. Think what a singer Patti might have become had she enjoyed the benefit of toasted cigarettes. Job Printin Í We ere equipped to handle any kind of Job Printing, and when it cornea to Service^ we can only refer you to our cuatoner» or aak that you give us a trial. CATE CITY JOURNAL No 16920872 i ► ------- —--------------------- - , , H. D. Holmes ;; Transfer and Baggage ¡j I: All kinds of hauling ir ;; City limits • •» » ; Phone 5 Nyssa, Oregon \ \ Better Time Than NOW NYSSA BARBER SHOP I To Oil Harness for Spring Work Auto Tops Made and Repaired Shaving, Hair Cutting Hot and Cold Baths Shoe reparing neatly done Roy Pounds, Prop, ROSS PARKINSON Nyssa, Oregon j- Nyssa Oregon » | »»♦ * V *î* Ÿ '!* *!* *¡* *¡**i**¡* -I* W W W tH W t W t t t t U I I I--M INTERESTING NOTES B E R T S C II Dr. Joseph Roth of Montgomery Ala., tests eyes and gives away many pair o f plasses to poor people each week. C. Klinkenberg Frederick H. Rindge o f Stockton, Cal- raised 67,707 Between Lawrence Gas Station | \ j pounds of pottoes from one acre of ground last season. and Ford Garage PROMPT DELIVERY Due to cooperation between organized labor and em SOLICITS A PART OF YOUR ployers, there has been no strike of importance in Con Reasonable Rates Patronage necticut during the past year. The National Brotherhood of Operative Potters has PHONE 15 G. E. BERTSCH completed a new home and headquarters building at - '!'♦♦♦♦ I l l l l l l I l-S-M-fr-M.** I 4- 'l"t"l- -1- -I- -H- ♦ <■ -I- Liverpool, O. The British Transport Workers Union lays claim to I I H * l' m u I I I I "I-141 I I1 H i t * » being the strongest labor organization in the world. Fitiz Bieler, a German pilot, has a con -ession for est N O T A R Y PUBLIC BOND LOANS ablishment of the first civil aviation school in Mexico. INSURANCE A number of airplane ambulances, in which opera tions may be performed in the air, have been ordered for the Royal Air Force o f Great Britian. President Coolidge is 55, consequently justified in con sidering himself exempt from the draft. LICENSED REAL ESTATE BROKERS Greenland ranch, in California, has had temperatures as high as 134 degrees. Anyway the name sounds cool. With automobiles and airplanes becoming so common Farms and City Property place it will soon be hard to find even a one-horse town. Insurance A cash and carry liquor system is proposed for Mani toba. But the trouble is that so few are able to carry the stuff. PHONE 53 NYSSA, OREGON Motion picture filmsup to 1,000 feet in length may now be sent by mail. Osculatory portions ,howevei should be limited to a 100-yard dash. All office work will be managed an in the part; only real estate transactions bg Boydell & Willoughby. Asa Haynes of Alabama was convicted o f violating the prohibition law. Had it been Asa Haynes of Gin. J. BOYDELL. it would have been bigger news. A seat in the Senate costs about as much as one on the New York Stock Exchange- but you get the lattei when you pay for it. We are against the 48-letter alphabet. The 26 letter* we have are difficult enough to keep in their propel places. Dickens immortalized the phrase “ Barkis is willin,’ which the the Nashville Banner brings up to date with the paraphrase “ Willis is barkin.” Still, we will not be abie to judge the new Ford com pletely until we see how one looks after a locomotive runs it a tie race for a crossing. A British editor says that “ Big Bill Thompson has given us one of the biggest laughs we ever enjoyed. Now w h o says the English have no sense of humor? CIVILIZAZTION Thousands of people listened to a musical program coming over the radio on Sunday evening, December 18. They had read that morning of 43 men trapped in the sunken submarine S-4, but the music had diverted their minds from the tragedy. Then between numbers the announcer requested them to stand by for. important news. He quoted a press dis patch giving word from a few surviving men buried, under a raging sea. Communication had been establish ed by divers pounding in code with hammers, to which the imprisoned men responded in like manner. In the campartment from which the response came the taps told that six men were still alive, but that the air was becoming foul and their plight was desperate. Came also the pitiful plea,’’Will it be long now ?” The divers tapped out the message that everything was be ing done to save them. But the dispatch also told thai heavy seas were making rescue efforts futile. The musical program was resumed, but the notes sounded false. Jazz melodies seemed cruelly discordant when listners knew that brave men were dying by in ches. And thus they died, while a thoughtless world j whirled on. The Chinese do everything backward. They classi And still we build submarines. And some ever fied a bevy of girls as “ red” the other day because the think we are civilized. maids had bobbed hair. In Christain nations it is long hair which is usually associated with Bolshevism—also HOT DOGS VS. COLLEGE iong whiskers. Gregory J. Deck of Buffalo was poor but ambitious Some inquring editor asks the question as to what nine years ago, when at the age o f 18 he determined to has become o f all the brass railings that used to be in have a college education. But hot dogs blocked his way. front o f the old-fashioned bars. It’s our humble opinion Casting about for some means o f earning his way that these brass railings have been made into saxa- through college, Deck tried running a hot dog stand and phones. met success beyond his fondest expectatios. Business I. is aid that in the new English dictionary which was so good that he could not take time to go to school. s to appear soon, semedung like fifty three columns Soon he opened additional stands, all of which prosper are devoted to the word “ put.“ Why not? ..“ Put” is a ed. very important word- so important that it’s hard to get Recently he bought out six competitors and now ha* what virtually amounts to a "hot dog trust” in his home politicians to stay that way. n hat cracking sound you hear occasionally is not the city, with a warehouse, a bakery, a butcher shop, a fleet o f 12 trucks and 16 hot dog stands. His annual turnover breaking of the ice during the January thaw. It is cnly is more than $500000 and he draws from his business a the noise made by the fracture o f a few New Year reso- nalary equal to that of the President of the United lutions. States—$75,000 a year. ! The fellow who is handicapped by not having any But it looks as though he will have to worry along sex-aur-enl usually makes up for it by possessing a com- without a college degree .Still he holds a very desirable fortable bank account and a mind at peace with the if not dignified, title. He is known as ' the hot dog world. Ring.” I Now that Dempsey and Tunney have settled their dif- ,------------------------- i ference it would seem that the next fight o f national President Coolidge does not choose to run around interest would be the battle between the Ford and the any more telling people what he meant in the first place. Chevrolet. BARBER SHOP;! CITY DRAY LINE f NYSSA REALTY CO. POULTRY SUPPLIES Custom Cleaning and Grinding NYSSA GRAIN & SEED COMPANY NYSSA OREGON - H -4H-+4-I I HAVE A FULL LINE OF MEAT Both Fresh and Cured Nothing but the Best Quality on hand H. M . H OU SH PHONE 3 Nyssa, Oregon * * * * * M > ♦ ' I I » » ! » ♦ ♦ ♦ I I >♦>+ M I I I H M I I I * » ♦ ♦ ♦ « > ! M M H
