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THE GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON ABerlin chemist has invented tablets that when put a true gentlegman and courgeus, a man whose life into a glass o f water turn it into fine wine or beer. was devoted to the cause of aviation, on whose loyalty CONDENSED STATEMENT OF to his kind stood high within him.” A French engineer has built an unsinkable boat of Bennett did not live to accompany Byrd to the Ant- great sjieed equipped with a 600-horsepower engine. artic, as both had hoped, but the memory of his daunt NYSSA, OREQON less spirit will accompany the expedition to the Far Scientist at John Hopkins have discovered a germ At the Close o f Business June 30, 1928. South, inspiring its members to further deeds o f cour icide 72 times more powerful than carbolic acid. age. RESOURCES LIABILITIES 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 » 4 4 1 I I » » » .» > 1 4 4 4 4 4 4 I t * 4 4 4 I I ABOUT WOMEN Loans and Discounts $432,684.89 Capital Stock...... ...........$ 26,000.00 Mary Dongan Hapgood is the socialist party nominee J Surplus and Profits 55,313.25 Overdrafts ........... 130.8$ for governor of Massachusetts. Bills Payable.... ............... NONE Banking House, Furni Rediscounts „ .. NONE ture and Fixtures 13,500.00 The Women’s International League for peace and - Deposits .... 647,651.56 Other Real Estate 14,000.00 TRUCKING freedom is sending three reprsentative women of its •' Warrants ....... 2,596.53 and membership to China and Japan to culitvate friendly '<■ HAIR BOBBING AND TON- Cash and Due from TRANSFERRING relations with the women of the Orient. Banks ......................... 265,052.51 SORIAL WORK OF ALL KINDS Miss Gladys A. Taylor will take charge of the passen-| Phone 15 and Phone 28 .... $727,964.81 | $727,964.81 ‘‘ We Aim to Please" ger traffic advertising o f one o f the largest steamship lines operating from New York.. ROY POUNDS. PROP. Securities Pledged or Surety Bonds Furnished for Deposits> NONE C. KLINKENBERG Oregon Groves o f trees “ in memory of outstanding heroes ! Nyssa OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS and patriots of the United States,” are to be planted in » 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 1 I 1 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 44 ♦ 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 14 4 4 1 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 H. J. Ward, President John Kay, Vice President ;cities and towns throughout the country by the society »»»•♦ H44H J. P. Dunaway, Cashier ¡o f the Daughters o f the Republic. No Better Time Than 17289208 .. O. G. Bauer, Assistant Cashierll. A. Diven, Assistant Cashier. Miss Angelica Cave o f Oxford University won the,:: J. F. Reece J. J. Sarazin G. L. Phillips NOW annual poetry award know as the Newdigate prize. The service of this bank has be en developed from experience and H. D. Holmes To Oil Harness for Spring Miss Annie Mae Bailey of Birmingham, Ala., was re intimate knowledge o f the needs of our depositors. We desire to Work render always a little MORE service— a little BETTER service than cently awarded a prize as the author of the one act play Transfer and Baggag( you expect. Auto Tops Made and "My Love for Thee.7 Repaired Impatient over the slowness of his crew, unloading All kinds o f hauling ir -00 heavy kegs, a stevdore in Havre bawled: “ Hurry up Shoe reparing neatly done City limits with that junk and get at the real cargo.” The "junk” in GRADE FARM PRODUCTS ROSS PARKINSON No farmer would expect to sell at a good price a bar the kegs consisted of ten million dollars in gold. : Nyssa, Oregon Phone 5 Nyssa, Oregon rel filled with onions, cucumbers, turnips and potatoes, < 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 1 4 4 * 4 4 4 4 4 4-» all mixed together. It is almost as foolish to expect to BOYS AND GIRLS get the best market price for a barrel o f a single pro Wildon Francis Webster o f Florala, Ala., has a record duct in which all are dumped without regard to size of going through 11 years of grammar and high school color or cleanliness. | without being tardy or absent. By neglecting tf properly grade their produce, many j James R. Moore, 17, o f Somerset, Ky., won the Fifth farmers must sell it for much less than might be ob ■ National Oratorical Contest spnsoreed by American tained for the same stuff by exercising a little care in | newspapers. i preparing it for the market. In discussing this import j Edwin Syversrud of Edinburg, N. D. aged 13 years, ant phase o f marketing an expert says: j has graduated from high school with an average of 96 “ Quality and uniformity in grains, fruit, cotton, pota ' percent for four years. toes, dairy and poultry products command a premium Chawson Beswick Van Sielen of Philadelphia, 11 and from the buyer. A crate o f large, clean eggs o f uniform years old is soloist in the Memorial Chapel choid and is color will bring in a more central market than one in which small dirty, vari-colored eggs are included. Dirty said to be the youngest finished boy soloist in America. Edith Vance, a Pleasant Hill, Tenn., Accademy girl, potatoes o f mixed sizes sell poorly alongside of clean won first prize for the state o f Tennssee in the National ones that have been graded. The difference in price Oratorical contest on “ Outlaw War Treaties.” between graded and ungraded products often means the Two popular, dependable cars Joan Harding, 10 years old, of Boston, is believed to difference between profit and loss on farming occupa at reasonable prices. be the best juvenile equestrienne in New England. tions. NYSSA BARBER SHOP:: jj City Transfer BATHS WE CARRY NASH Chevrolets ... NEW PEACE TREATIES INTERESTING NOTES Terms o f the new peace treaties which are sought to Sightseers are now admitted to the Great Mosque of be made between fifteen .o r more leading powers Hebron built over a cave said to contain the bodies of through the initative o f Secretary o f State Kellogg o f Abraham and Sara, Isaac and Rebecca and Jacob and the United States are short and to the point. The entire Leah. agreement is contained in these few words: Married men live four years longer in England than “ The high contracting parties solemnly declare in the bachelors according to a statement made to a group names o f their respective peoples that they condemn of life insurance actuaries. recourse to war and renounce it as an instrument of Sun dials are in more common use today in China national policy in their relations with one another. They than any place in the world. agree that the settlement o f all disputes of whatever A Paris newspaper has circulation of two million, nature or of whatever origin which may arise between which is believed to be the largest in the world. them shall never be sought excpt by pacific means.” In Sweden, there is a thousand-year-old tradition that So far as the actual agreement is concerned, that is every Swede may see his king and in direct appeal tel! all. Yet in these two short sentences are contained his story o f wrongs, file his complaints and ask assist pledges which, if faithfully kept, would banish war ance. from a great portion o f the earth. It is also provided In the world war 2,084,000 American soldiers reached that other nations may join in these pledges at any time. While it is perhaps too much to hope that war can be France. Andorra, having enjoyed undisturbed sovereignty entirely abolished, these treaties ,to which the United States, Great Britian, Germany, France, Italy, Japan frince 1278, is the oldest existing republic in the world, and other nations have already given informal assent, Rev. Francis Wrigley, chairman o f the Congrega- if actually signed will mark the greatest practical step tional Union’s Assembly, advocated the preparation oi in the interest o f peace ever taken since the dawn o f a shorter Bible in an address recently, civilization. , A clinic will be established in New York City to study naughty children and ascertain how to deal with them. SPREAD OF 1-H CLUBS Sir Arthur Keith, a famous English scientist, declar- I^ast year 619,712 American boys and girls better fit-led in a lecture that “ man lives only when he lives dang- ted themselves for rural community life and leadership erously.” through 4-H Club activities, under the cooperative dir ection o f Extension Service o f the Department of Agri The quadrennial circus now begins with the elephant culture. ........... and donkey as star performers. Of the total enrolled, nearly 400,000 completed , . . , , ,, ,. . I Correct this sentence; He is a successful campaign th . tasks or projects assigned to them, according to re- orat lmt he never ,listorts thc truth. ports received from 2,622 county extension agents “ Foreign titles are so absurd,” remarked the District throughout the country. Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler o f the Elks. Addressing 148 champion farm boys and girls at the national club camp recently held in Washington, Dr. C.j With the conventions over, the next big political B. Smith, chief of cooperative extension work stated the event will be the Literary Digest’s straw vote, purpose o f the clubs to be that o f aiding rural boys and, One of the serious problems connected with Artie girls in improving farm and home practices and in explorations is that o f relieving the relief expeditions, broadening the social life o f their communities ;in mak-l Many autoists think warning signs at railroad cross ing them appreciate the possibilities of rural life andjings are intended for the locomative engineer, helping them to become efficient farmers and home-i As we understand it, the Pan-Hellenic idea orignated makers, and training them for leadership in their lo- when the neighbors began to pan Helen of Troy. cality districts. One doesn’t always express what is at the bottom of The members are taught to “ work together, counsel his heart by what he shouts at the top of his voice. together, play together, cooperate and achieve.” '1 he Democratic convention’s harmony was slightly There is no doubt that one o f the foremost needs of marred by the four different bands playing different rural people is better cooperation among themselves. tunes at the same time. Club work teaches boys and girls how to cooperate. For the benefit of unmarried ladies who are prone to proscr‘stinate, they are reminded that leap year is more TRIBUTE TO BENNETT than half gone. It was a most graceful action on the part o f Comman The 4-H clubs might add to their membership by en-| der Byrd that he named his Antarctic enterprise the Floyd Bennett Antartic Exi>edition and christened his listing some o f those who have been sojourning in Hot! Happy Hospitable Houston. leading airplane the Floyd Bennett. Anc ient and amusing song title: “ Old Folks atj Bennett was the pilot of Ryrd’s plane, the Josephine Home.” Ford, on the first aircraft flight over the North Pole, Now we may forget the platforms and get down to lie died a few weeks ago o f pneumonia, contracted while trying to relieve the crew o f the Bremen, strand practical politics. A perfect husband and a perfect wife would have ed on Greenly Island As a recent writer has said ,"he died as he had lived, little to talk about. ... Enclosed Wash Rack Service Up-to-date and satisfactory Gas, Oils, Tires, Tubes and Accessories. Greasing and Crank Case Service POWELL SERVICE STATION NYSSA, OREGON N O TAR Y PUBLIC BOND LOANS INSURANCE NYSSA REALTY CO. ■ LICENSED REAL E S I A T E BROKERS Farms and City Property Insurance PIIONE 53 NYSSA, OREGON All office work will he managed an in the pant; only real estate transactions l>u Roydell & Willoughby. J. BO Y DELL. 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