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About The Gate city journal. (Nyssa, Or.) 1910-1937 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1928)
THE GATE CIT ' JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON * Mxty-odd years. But by the present generation it is pro CONDENSED STATEMENT OF bable that Iineoln's paramount aim during the Civil War is not so well understood as it should be. Doubtless the general impression is that his chief object was the ablition of slavery. NYSSA, OREGON Whle Lincoln was always against slavery on princi At the Close of Business Decemb er 31, 1927. ple, his original idea was to abolish it by paying slave owners for their property from the national treasury, LIABILITIES RESOURCES thus gradually emancipating the negro. Such a proposal Loans and Discounts ....$429,626.92 Capital Stock.... ......... _ $ 25,000.00 was made by him as early as 1849 when a member of Overdrafts _________ 239.36 Surplus and Profits ........ 57,804.32 1 Congress, and was renewed in 1862, while the war was Bills Payable.... - ......... NONE Banking House, Furni in progress. NONE ture and Fixtures..... 13,500.00 Rediscounts _________ 553,790.0b But his real aim during the war was the preservation Other Real E state........ 6,006.61 Deposits .................... W arrants ........................ 2,739.63 of the nation as one unio,n with the abolishment of U. S. Treasury Bonds.. 100,000.00 slavery as a secondary consideration. This is best illus- Cash and due from banks trted by his famous letter to Horace Greeley, on August ......... ............ 84,761.84 S 22, 1862, in which he said: Total Cash Reserve ..... 184,761.84 “My paramount object is to save the Union, and not Total ........................$630 774.30 Total .................. ...... $636 774.36 | either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the ! Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I Securities Pledged or Surety Bonds Furnished for Deposits^ NONE could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do i t ; and OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others H. J. Ward, President John Ray, Vice l.csu ien t alone, I would also do that.” THE MALHEUR COUNTY BANK J. P. Dunaway, Cashier .. O. G. Bauer, Assistant Cashier II. A. Diven, Assistant Cashier J. F. Reece J. J. Sarazin G. L. Phillips The service of this bank has beer, developed from experience and intimate knowledge of the needs of our depositors. We desire to render always a little MORE serv ice than you expect. If we had the keys to some cities we know we would lose no time in getting out. Anyway, Congress should at least provide the Missi ssippi valley with a good, roomy ark. Another paradox is that the more shiftless a man is the oftener the landlords make him shift. A new machine will pluck a fowl in 45 seconds. But some birds get skinned in less time than that. While casting about for an antidote for crime, it might be well to consider the possibilities of hemp. Any woman can keep a man guessing, particularly when she begins making hand signals from the car ahead. Appropriately enough, Madame Chin Chin is the name of a telephone operator in San Frncisco’s China town. Several prospective trans-Atlantic fliers of 1928 are planning to give the Navy some practice in the “search problem.” An exchange tells of a fellow who was charged with smashing a clock, but was acquitted whenhe proved that the clock struck first. It appears that some women get married only as a preliminary to acquiring the fascination which is sup posed to attach to a “dashing young widow.” When opera singers throw things around it is attri buted to the Artistic Temperament. We may be thank ful that bricklayers seldom get that way. Mr. A. B. See, the elevator manufacturer, is a harsh critic of modern schools. He seems to think they should take their A. B. Sees more seriously. Correspondence courses in the science of government are inexpensive, but it costs something to get elected to an office where the knowledge can be put into prac tice. N I Job Printing /T We ere equipped to handle any kind of Job Printing, and when It cornea to Service, we can only refer you to our customen or ask that you give ua a trial CATE CITY JOURNAL No Better Time’ Than NOW To Oil Harness for Spring Work Auto Tops Made and Repaired ^ -------------------- ------------¡; • » « * H. D. Holmes ; Transfer and Baggagf < • i I ;; ! i All kinds of hauling ir ;; City limits ;; Phone 5 Nyssa, Oregon ■« NYSSA BARBER SH0P|: •» Shaving, Hair Cutting :: Hot and Cold Baths ; Shoe reparing neatly done A FARMERS QUESTION ANSWERED Roy Pounds, Prop. «> ROSS PARKINSON A farmer writing from Tangent, Oregon, wants Oregor. Nyssa, Oregon to know just why The Oregonian is opposed to the $3 automobile tax. The Oregnian is opposed to the $3 automobile license because it is destructive in character and will either im BERTSCII pair the state’s financial credit or result in an increase of taxes on land. The correspondent also asks: “Has California a $3 C. Klinkenberg auto license?” It has not. The license fee in California Between Lawrence Gas Station is $6, to which is added a personal property tax on and Ford Garage PROMPT DELIVERY motor vehicles. Oregon does not collect personal pro perty taxes on motor vehicles. .. SOLICITS A PART OF YOUR Reasonable Rates “Is it possible to apply an additional tax on gas suf Patronage ficient to raise the necessary amount of money to con PHONE 15 tinue the present highway program if a $3 auto license :: G. E. BERTSCH y ; should be adopted?” To derive present revenues from a $3 license and an increased gasoline tax would require an additional 4'/2 cents a gallon on gasoline, or a total, with present gaso line tax, of cents a gallon. BOND LOANS NOTARY PUBLIC This assumes that the present consumption of gaso INSURANCE INTERESTING NOTES line would continue. But almost certainly the consum ption would diminish, due to avoilanee of the state lines „ ^ , i Among Canadian banks the Royal Bank of Can- of gasoline by Oregon residents living near the state ,ada rankg highest in capital) asse^t and profits, the border. . _ , ! latter item amounting to .$5,370,145 during its last fiscal The tax would be referred to the people. Its adop- vp„r LICENSED REAL ESI ATE BROKERS tion would be extremely doubtful, not alone because A party of about 80 farmers, representing every pro of its menance to very large miscellaneus business der- vince of Canada, recently arrived in England on a tour ived from tourists, but also because there is no unanim uf that country and Europe to study intensive farming Farms and City Property lty of opinion as to how roads shuold be financed if the I methods present financing system be destroyed. Out of ten j Arehaelogists have been invited to watch for relics Insurance letters on the su b le t of automobile licenses now on the f aniquityJ which may be unearthed during the con- editors desk, seven propose different schemes for pay | struction of 22 miies ()f subways on Rome. PHONE 53 N Y S S A , OREGON ml roa( obligations. . . . ! Army and Navy officers serving <as military attaches The correspondent^ and all others interested in the of the White House in Washington must be single men. subject are reminded that the Oregon constitution re Orders have been placed by the Canadian Pacific All office work util be managed an in the pant; only quires that every law regulating taxation, shall be sub Railway for $3,000,000 worth of equipment, including real estate transactions by Boydell & Willoughby. mitted to the people. To provide substitute revenues by 585 cars of various types. any form of taxation, after adoption of the $3 license, J. BOYDELL. Telephone girls in Hull, England, have formed the would entail a wait of two years for the next succeeding Wrong Number dancing club. general election and a loss of approximately $8,000,000 China now furnishes only about 20 per cent of the in highway revenues. world’s tea, although at one time it supplied nearly 80 Automobiles might automatically be returned to the per cent. general property tax rolls, but in the absence of special tax legislation and a vote of the people thereon, that plan SNAPPY STUFF would not provide a single dollar for state highways. The revenues obtained by taxing automobiles under Andrew Benham, who had the longest and finest existing laws, would go into the county general fund whiskers in Surrey, Eng., got too close to the fireplace, Counties are now raising as much tax money as the and goodby, beard. 6 per cent limitation permits. The only result ofre- Mrs. Hannah Bromley of Leeds, Eng., complained to turning automobiles to the county tax rolls would he an the police that her husband took a bath every day and equivalent reduction in other taxes, and no county beat her when she didn’t have the water hot. would have more money than it now has for highway Walter Revell of Grimsby, Eng., was swept off a work. trawler by a high wave, but the next billow carried him ■ The state tax comission, however, could increase th- back on board. state general taxes to pay state road bond redemption Being Arnold, 103, of Bournemouth, Eng., has had to and interest, as the 6 per cent limitation does not appl disontinue bowling on the physcian’s advice, having par to indebtedness levies. It would be forced to do this to ticipated in every local match for years. avoid debt delinquency and serious impairment to hon John McCrea of Corrvdhoine, trapped what is believ and credit. The Tangent farmer would find that h> ed to he Scotland’s last wild cat. farm taxes increased more than he -saved by the redui Two girl bandits of Marseilles, fully masked, held up NYSSA tion in automobile licenses fees. OREGON 18 men in a single week. Not all of the auto licenses money goes into stnt Three Englishmen in Paris “seeing the sights” were roads, however. Each cunty receives from the state 2 re ertV held up by a masked woman bandit. per cent of the license fees originating in that county A fe e wondering in t’ c nails for 22 years, a post- ' » > ♦ ♦ ♦ » ♦ » » » I I » » » ♦ ♦ « I 4 | .M M I 1 I The money thus returned is expended either in paymnt r ’d mailed in IfOO from Sabina, Ohio, has reached of county road bond interest and principal or for county I . a d,-ir> formerly of Wilmington, Ohio, in Okla I HAVE A FULL LINE OF road construction. Counties now receive a total of homa City, Okla. more than $1,500,000 for local use. The $3 license wiP i hard V. Noi!lo c.f I iver orj wrs granted a divorce cut it down to about $187,000. If Linn county is usin' because his wife eloped with a guest at a dance the its apportionment of license money to nay off indebt n-1 couple was giving. ness, the Tangent farmer’s taxes will almost inevit Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McCorn of Chicago first quarrel ably be further increased to make u p the loss in r '■ ed »'ver their radio set, and the bitterness increased un onues occasioned by approval of the low license bill til it reached the divorce court, where the wife won a Oregonian. decree. BARBER SHOP CITY DRAY LINE NYSSA REALTY CO. POULTRY SUPPLIES Custom Cleaning and Grinding NYSSA GRAIN & SEED COMPANY MEAT LINCOLN’S WAR AIM The recurrence of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday on February 12 revives memories, of our fir ? martyred President, now revered in the South as well as in th*. North. So rich in human interest was Lincoln’s life that it » resents almost unlimited material for the writer—ma terial of which wide use has been made during the put. ■\ ; <-r> clip paH hor husband used football tactics aft«r marriage and “kicked her around,” Mrs. Marie ' a art of Clevelnd. Ohio, was granted a divorce from her luwhand. a former football star at Western Reserve University. Tn Ttnly all motor vehicles, well as financial trans- actions pertaining to them, must be recorded with the ¿o\ eminent. Both Fresh and Cured Nothing but the Best Quality on hand H. M. H O U SH PHONE 3 Nyssa, Oregon + * + + * * * 1 » 1 1 i I I I I ’M I I 1 I > >+■! I I I 1 | l » 4 . | 4 » » » t « M M M M » ♦ $ I