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THE GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON $2,000,000 them the first rtal show of the win ! ter. The visitors Wsre on a buying i OWYHEE trip for the new mercantile store j Earl Contrail of Long Valley spent that they are putting in at Juntura. j several days with his brother Ray Mrs. Nina Currier reports that an tho first of the week. NYSSA. OREÇON Mrs. Joe Minton has been quite ill. epidemic of influenza in the White AT THE COLSE OF BUSINESS OCTOBER 3, 1 * 2 « Mrs. Chas. Fisher was hostess to Settlement district has played havoc the Owyhee P. T. A. Friday after WELL KNOWN STORE OWNER with her school attendance. Fully RESOURCES LIABILITIES noon. 60 per cent of the children have been Nyssa gladly received the news Our three school districts are plan FOUND DEAD IN HER CHAIR L omu and Discounts _$416,497.20 Capital Stock________ 6 26A00J0 out of school on account of illness. Tuesday that the interior appropria SUNDAY MORNING ning Christmas programs and trees Overdraft* __________ 689.01 Surplus and P ro fits_ 67,180.61 for Friday evening. tions bill carries $2,000,000 for the Harry Page, Watson; John Wood, Banking House, Furni Mrs. Albert Rust and daughter Bills Payable__________ NONE Frank Vines, Vale; and R. B. Cope Owyhee project for the next fiscal STATE TREASURER KAY GIVES Phillis left Tuesday to visit relatives (From the Malheur Enterprise) ture and Fixtures......................... 18,600.00 R ediscounts------------- NONE land ¿ear, said Frank T. Morgan, secre FINANCIAL SUMMARY OF TEN >n Salem. of Harper brought in some of a busy day in her store, Mrs. Other Reel Estate......................... 14,000.00 Deposits .......... 648.376.88 the largest deliveries of Christmas tary of the district, a visitor hers Mrs. M. M. Points came down L. After MALHEUR DISTRICTS Warranta ___________ 4,181.14 A. Mansur late Saturday Thursday. from Long Valley the first of the night or Sunday died turkeys. morning. She was U. S. Govt. Bonds week and is visiting in the home of Good progress has been made this Joseph Barnes of Drewsey, who her son Silas Points. found sitting in her chair and ap $127,223.61 finds that the hot mineral baths at year. The railroad to the dam site WANT AIO OF LEGISLATURE The Fred Klingback family were parently death claimed her without Cash and Due from was completed and on November business visitors in Caldwell Satur a moment’s warning. Her sudden the Vale sanitarium are good for his ----6166,046.36 283,26996 day. rheumatism, is here again for an in 21st was accepted by the govern passing was a sad blow for relatives ment. Telephone and power lines Three Districts of County Indebeted The Frank DeBord family of Pay and a wide circle of friends. She had $731,037.31 definite sojourn. ette were dinner guests in the Kling 6731,037.31 are in. The General Construction Drue Anderson, Nyssa, and Bert company has the 900-foot tunnel To State For Interest Payments— back home Sunday. been failing for several years but Mrs. J. P. McGinnis was quite Warmsprings Debtor Edwards of Ontario are new arrivals about half completed. This giant tun Furnished lor Deposits NONE Securities Pledged or Surety seemingly in good health since seriously ill the first of the week but was at the Vale sanitarium. her return from Calfornia last is improving steadily now. nel which is 26 feet in diameter will OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS spring. George Fenton of Namorf is an carry Fred Klingback left Monday for a the river while the world’s lar Salem—(Special)—Sentiment has H. J. Ward, President John Ray, Vice President days visit with his brothers on The last rites w ee held from the other grower who knows how to kill gest dam is being built. been growing among state officials few Squaw Butte. J. P. Dunaway, Cashier Christian Church V- ednesday after his turkeys. They were in first familiar with the finanical condition Mr. and Mrs. Ted Simmons and noon and she was leid to rest in the _ O. G. Bsuer, Assistant CsshlerH. A. Given, Assistant class condition for delivery in the of the various irrigation districts Carl Simmons were dinner guests in Vale cemetery, whore Mr. Mansur J. F. Reece J. J, Sarasin G. L. Phillips last pool and 137 turks returned the T. T. Elliott home Sunday. that something should be done at the the Mrs. buried several years ago. Rev. The service of this bank has been developed from experience and grower $581. S. D. Bigelow and son John 1929 session of the legislature Real Estate Transfers Recorded Ontario visitors Friday. They George Ellis was ri charge of the intimate knowledge of the needs of our depositors. Ws desire to A modern new double garage was Malheur Count yto City of Ontario whereby the districts would be re were brought home their new Ford road services. The Neighbors of Wood render always a little MORE service—a little BETTER service than recently completed as an addition to of future obligations in con ster. 6to 10, inclusive, Block 68; and lieved you expect. lodge of whL i Mrs. Mansur the residence property of Mrs. J. C. Lots nection with these projects. One Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Greeting were craft Lots 1 7to 20. inc. Block 337, Ontar state was a member, attended in a body Gordon. afternoon guests in the Lowe home official has gone on record as and many other friends paid their Mike Samer, prominent rancher of io. 10, 3, 28. $81.60.. favoring passage of a law which Sunday. Mrs. A. G. Kingman who is ser kindly neighbor this final tribute of piece of steel struck the eye ball. An Big Bend, says that the Vale sani Ontario Land £ Townsite Co. to City would wipe out the district’s debts to iously ill has been holding her own respect. Business h ses closed. VALE infection complicated matters. tarium is a better place to go for of Ontario, west 72 feet of Lota the state and thereby place them In quite well until the last few days but Mary Lucretia \ llker was bom to 5, inclusive, Block 299, Ontario. helpful aid to health, than a good Charles F. Flegel of the Eastern Elsie O’Neill, teacher of St. Hel a position for reorganization on a now she does not seem so well. 12, 8,8 28. $1.00. S. D. Bigelow family and Mrs- near Mandeville, isouri, October Oregon Land Company office of On ens, is coming hpme today for the many more widely advertised resorts ound finanical footing. There are The M. Lowe listened to the radio in 22. 1863. She joint i the Church of tario, was at the courthouse Tuesday. holidays. where he has been. E. T. Embertson to O A. B. Muel others who believe the districts T. the Chas. Bradley home Sunday Christ in her girlhood days. After Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Scott of Jam Pounds Orchestra went to Nyssa ler, NEVi Sec. 22-17-44. 6, 17, 1926. should be made to pay the state at evening ieson were here to do Christmas Frank Chester sustained a painful Thursday school a fc*v years she mar night to play for the dance 10 00 Henry Slippy had a new radio in teaching least 50 per cent. trading and to visit with their injury to an eye Tuesday evening ried Lewis A .Mans'”- in 1883. They daughter Mrs. Ralph Cone. Last when a bit of wood struck him that opened the new gymnasium of Larin A. Blyeu to Lilly M. Blyeu, Malheur county’s irrigation dis stalled last week. resided in Missouri Iowa, Nebras the Gate City school. The spacious'W tiSW >4, and SWI4NWI4 Sec. 26 tricts owe $95,015.20 total interest Saturday they were in Nampa and ka and Oklahoma : d on March 10, they returned home in a new Ford sharp blow. new gym was completed last week! SE^N EK i E)4NE14 Sec. 27; EH to the state; segregated: Jordan Glenn Felton, salesman for the coupe. 1908, came to Vale Valley district $5462.14, Payette dj ! , ™ . a ;lon* w l , n eed , : n w t Pauine Jobes will accompany Nora Standard Oil Company, is on vaca ™ She is survived by six children, as the old quarters in the attic of Johnston to her home in Emmett to tion. He and his family went to Ken the Nyssa school were too small for W. W. Knowles et ux to C. W Slope $381.57, Warmsprings $89,171.- two daughters Mi Leona Gordon day but she will return to spend newick, Wash., Sunday to remain un the husky hoop teams of Malheur Knowles, Lots 22 and 23, Block 33, 49. of Portland and Mi Montie Brock vacation week in Vale. Hope-Holland Add to Vale. 8, 21, 26. Following is a summary of ten after the holidays. Their rela county. of Waverly, Kansa four sons Glenn $ 10 . 00 . Mr. and Mrs. William Johnston of til districts of the county, taken from While the two largest land owners and Ray Mansur of Vale; Carroll of Sunnyside, Wash., will spend Christ tives were eager to see the little son. Lloyd Richardson of Ontario took W. R. Harrington to James Mor the annual report of the state treas of the Vale project, the Eastern Ore Doney, Calif.; Vale of Ingle,wood, NWHNEH. NWI4 WV4SWH mas with the parents of Mr. John Henry Lloyd Lumpee is gaining Jack Taylor’s place on the laundry fitt, and SEy*SWH Sec. 18-15-42. 12, 11 urer. gon and Oregon Western Coloniza California, and ’ 'urteen grand prominence as a short story writer truck this week.' ston in Corvallis. $1.00. tion companies, signed up the excess children. Interest Bond Issues After a'visit of nearly two weeks on the University of Oregon campus. Claud Bullock has rented the Carl 28. Alice H. Hupp to Lew W. Kibler with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. In a class of fifty students, he rated Symes ranch on the Owyhee river. WHSEH, NEHSWH, Lot 3, EV4- Jordan Valley—Bonds issued land agreements months ago, the Vale Mrs. Gordon and Mrs. Brock ar- I. F. S. Diven and with the Pat best mark for his first short He has leased the property for two and WHWHwH- $110,700; annual interest $4,779.76; project office during September last,' rived in time for tha services Wed- ^ ® Johnson family, Mrs. Eldon Palmer the 7-19-47. 11, 10, 28 paid by state $9,464.87; repaid state sent by registered mail notices to 12 nesday story. He is now a member of the years. . SEKSWH Sec. and baby son are planning to leave writers’ honorary society. $ 10.00 owners within the district own Mr. and Mrs. Conley Davis were K W. Smith et ux to F. B. Lloyd $3,805.06; credited to district $187.67 land for their home in Yoncalla, Oregon. ing an irrigable area of 3960 acres Friends and relatives have been de Mrs. George McKee anid Mrs. D. in town from Watson last Friday to Lots 11 and 12, Home Park Fruit imount unpaid by district $5,462.- who RIVER.IDE had not signed up their excess lighted with her handsome little son. J. Paul spent Friday and Saturday do their Christmas shopping early. Tract, Sec. 32-15-47. 7, 21, 28. $10.00 14. land of 1888 acres. Ida B. Carey to H. F. Dye et ux David F. Graham was confined to in Boise with relatives. A1 Winters has been hauling sup EHSEH Sec. 13; and NET4NEH Payette Slope—Bonds issued $16,- The notices provided that unless Mr. and Mrs. Sam Ferris were in his home with illness last week. plies Watson for Ben Echanir of Sec. 13 ¡and NEHNEH Sec. 24-13 500; annual interest $763.14; paid by the owner adviser the bureau on or down Saturday f< supplies. Mrs. T. A. Sloan of Boise, mother Dolly Lawrence, teacher of Half of Mrs. Paul, is getting over an at Crane, to sheepman who is feeding his 40; NWHNWH Sec 19; and WH state $4,774.78; repaid state $4,344.- before January 1, 1929, of the de The ground is covered with about way, will arrive home today to spend inches of sno and Sunday tack of ‘‘flu." She is spending the flocks at the Ernest Bensli ranch. SWH Sec. 18-13-41. 10, 6, 28. $100. 61; credited to district $48.60; un scription Christmas vacation here. of the 160 acres which the four night the thermom er reached s t . T. Follett to H. F. Dye et paid $381.57. Echanir has two large bands at Wat ux Chas Mrs. Robert Madden of Juntura winter with her daughter here. EV4SWU, and WH- Warmsprings—Bonds issued $414, owner desired to hold as non-excess en degrees belov— winter is her spent last week with relatives here Georgia Hickman, teacher of son and he is bringing in a third. He SEH SWHNE14; 13-18-40. 10, 6, 28. $100. 000; annual interest $20,591.28; paid land and signed the standard form of Martha Steen spent the week en.i while her husband and James West- Myrtle Point, will accompany Hazel has purchased several hundred tons Addie Sec. Presley et vir to Fred F. by state $132,742.70; repaid state •jxccss land agreement submitted with Mrs. Sam Fe>--is. fall were on a stock buying trip for Russell, student of the University of of hay at Watson. Reed SHSEH eSc. NHNEH Armstrong is herding sheep the new Juntura store, to be known Oregon, on a Christmas trip home Mr. and Mrs. G. Y. Chester were in Sec. 16-16-40. 12, 8, 9; 28. and $10.00. $42,507.29; credited to. district $1,- with the notice, that selection would for Sam McEwen. be made by the bureau of not to ex Mr. Jim and as the Malheur Trading company. ward bound. They are due to reach town Monday to do some Christmas Margaret W. Schweizer et al to 063.92; unpaid $89,171.49. Mrs. A. V. Clark were They returned to Juntura Friday. ceed 160 irrigable acres for which United States -easement to construct visitors here Saturday. Debt July 1, 1928 shopping. power line across NW14NWI4 Sec. Mr. and Mrs. Robert O. Officer of Vale Sunday. owner might receive water and James Yost was 'ader at Christ Fairmore—Unmatured bonds out the Mr and Mrs. Allen Wilcox are 22-20-46. 11, 16, 28. $9.00. Baker and Henry Lloyd Lumpee are Otto Neff, who has been sick for looking the balance of the land would be per ian Endeavor Sunday night under standing $20,000; net debt $20,000. forward to the arrival of Malheur County Bank to United coming home for Christmas, The several weeks with influenza at the the supervision of J. rs. R. A. \/jr- manently excluded the Vale nock. latter will spend his week's vacation country home of Mr. and Mrs. H. N. their daughter Frances, who will be I States easement to construct power Jordan Valley—Unmatured bonds project and no water from would be fur here. Mr. and Mrs. M’ rtin Gale u are home for Christmas this year. She is!’/,"% ‘ ^ 9 0 SeC‘ 3' 21‘46' outstanding $430,000; warrants and nished therefor. is reported improving. White Settlement school closed Hainline, of Mr. and rs. Harry Fair- a student nurse at Seattle . and is tak - 1 1 i f \ M TJr'Vu* . T „ other obligations $134,285.24; net The project office advises that as guests Hazel Daley, teacher of Burke, Ida , . . j Isidore Ynda to Joaquin Egana, man Sunday. Tuesday noon, as a good part of the ho, is coming home for the holidays. ing her course in conjunction with Lote land 2, Subdivision D of Block debt $664,235.24. a result of these notices only one Clyde Parks and Harry Fairman work at the University of Washing- 6, Pioneer Add. to Jordan Valley. 11, Kingman Kolony—No debt. students have been confined to their sister Grace may remain in the ton. some fine Christmas tur land owner owning 240 acres, includ shipped She is expected to arrive home homes with illness. Mrs. Nina Cur Her 1, 28. $1,800.00. Ontario-Nyssa—No debt. keys Saturday. school room at Twin Falls as this ing 80 acres of excess land, has U. S. A. to James Allen SHNEH, Owyhee—Warrants and other ob- Monday. rier is at home in Vale and the other Mr. and Mrs. C.yde Parks were town has already taken a next SEHNWy«, Lot 3, NEKSWH, N%- igations signed the excess land agreement up house Mrs. John Chester received the SEH guests of Mrs G. W. Cox last teacher Mss Lucy Thomson has re Idaho outstanding, net debt, $2,- month’s vacation this winter be Sec. 18; SWH to Thursday of this week. week end. sad news of the passing of her moth Sec 17; and and SEHSEH turned to Nyssa. The school will re cause of an epidemic of sickness. 372.83. NW14; Sec. 20-39-46. 11, The Sunday school will give a prompt signing of the balance Christmas sume work January 7, it has been Mrs. Ted Hon returned to town er in Seattle Saturday midnight. The 8, 28. Park-Unit—Unmatured bonds out of The program under the dir elderly Mrs. Brown had been in ill these excess land agreements is announced. Chas E. Cole et ux to John Purvis standing $135,118.86, net debt. ection of Mr*. Evs Yost and Mrs. Sunday from the R. H. DeArmond very necessary for the intelligent health for years. She had many Lot 4, Block 16, Vale; and Lots 5 and Payette-Oregon Slope—Unmatur- ’ Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Romph and her home. Mr. and Mrs. Will Smith Womock. The children will have a 6, Block 6, Hadleys 2nd Add. to and maximum development tree and a treat. Mr. Womock and niece Mildred Hyes of Wisconsin, were over from Parma and they friends in Vale as she resided here Vale. 12, 7, 28. $1.00. ed* bonds outstanding $202,000; war planning a few years ago. of the Vale project and it also ef Thomas Cook ha been helping Mrs. Thomas Higley of Huntington, found her feeling much better. rants and other obligations $20,394.- Ruah E. ard et vir to State of preparations. Twila Hansen’s nimble fingers that Oregon fects the situation relative to the with Mrs. H. P. Cummock and daughter 184 Lots in Wards Add. to 39; net debt $282,394.39. Skating partes a u very popular as can make a violin talk, are at home Warmsprings irrigation district as Davina of Weiser were recent guests Monday Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Huff on the typewriter in Jefferson high Nyssa. 12, 6, 28. $1.00. (Q. C. Deed). Slide—Unmatured bonds outstand the ice on the river is now about government will unquestionably five inches thick. man were in Ontario to see their school of Portland, where she is a of the Romph families. ing $100,000; warrants and other the Marriage Licenses Issued have to know how much land it re Mrs. John Stewa was a g • t of Ruth Helen Ellston went to Baker daughter Mrs. Glenn Rose. The Rose Dolph White and Lola' May Weath obligations outstanding $14,787.56; quires this year. She was the only erly. water for before it purchases Mrs. C. B. Brown fVnday. the last of the week to join her par family are living there and Mr. Rose student 12, 10, 28. student of the school to win a silver Forest C. Proctor and Cleo B. net debt $114,787.56. any additional interest in the Warm- Mr. Wilbur was . ere Sudnay for is continuing with his county road ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Elston. Vale—No debt. pin for records made in the last Welbum. 12, 10, 28. spring. reservoir, or possibly even Arm9tronK . , d Mr Womock Friends have been advised that Mr. work. period. The Vale girl, who has been German and Irene Wagner. Warmsprings—Unmatured bonds exercises its option on the purchase | far Jght jn a finp tree Tuesday for Elston has a good chance to recover When the Robert Madden family studying violin in Portland for near 12, John utstnnding, $1,350,000; matured 11, 28. ' the church program. the sight of his eye, so seriously in and James Westfall of Juntura came ly two years, is now preparing for a not redeemed $176.000; war of the entire one-half interest. Petitions Filed in Probate Court bonds jured at Harper recently when a to town Monday, they brought with concert which she will give at Jeff Estate rants and other obligations out of Robert Weber. 12, 10. 28 standing $528,677.42; net debt $2.- erson high in January. ■ «ift » ■. V » ■ ■ «UN 1 CHRISTMAS DAY Joe Hansen sprained his back and Throughout the Christian world 064,877.42. fractured a rib in a recent fall and Christmas in commem- the accident has interrupted his work oraiton of is the celebrated PIONEER SUCCUMBS birth of al at the Coats tourist camp. Four cab though the exact date of Christ, that event C. O. Anderson, Vale pioneer who ins and four connecting stalls for is not known. Observance of Christ homesteaded the present Richard mas was first officially set for De Gallway farm, died recently in Boise. automobiles are about completed. cember 26 by Pope Julus in the For several years he operated the COLLEGE GRID STAR STABBED fourth century, and coincided with elevatqj OF ALL KINDS “ in the Idanha Hotel in pagan festivals which were C<Ntva)}is—(Special)—Dec . 17—i certain held about the time of the winter Boise.* He will be missed at the an Lewis ‘‘Hip’’ Dickerson, formerly of solstice. Weiser and an acquaintance of Mal Even to this day many of the nual pioneer gatherings here as he heur county people, is in a hospital failed to attend the old time which surruonds the Christ never f with a punctured lung, as the re customs reunion. mas season may be traced to pagan result of a stab wound and Lanza sources. This may be accounter for Bryant is in jail, charged with as by the fact that early missionaries Big meals are served at the mess sault with a dangerous weapon. The did PRICES THE LOWEST not disturb the harmless natvie hall of the General Construction stabbing occurred in a fight over a customs of their converts, but grad company at the Owyhee dam site. young woman, officers reported, ually merged them with Christian There is seating capacity for 400 when Bryant confronted Dickerson observances. The giving of Christ workers. and the girl on the street. Dicker- mas gifts, the decorations of hoily son is in a serious condition as pneu and mistletoe, the feasting and other monia has developed. He is a for features of the Christmas observ Malheur county has another town, mer All-Star coast football tackle. ance are of very ancient origin. qpite a modem city it is, the Dorbon Christmas, therefore, has a double Construction company camp near Don’t blame Congress. The con significance—the religious and the Harper, headquarters for the crew of stitution says it must meet every social—the latter perpetuating the 90 December. customs of many peoples. It is per men who are doing the Vale pro haps the most widely observed of any ject tunnel work. The camp has a of the year’s holidays, and its social water system. It has electric lights is not entirely confined and at night, it is a brilliant oasis No Better Time Than observance to adherents of Christianity. No day is so closely associated in a surrounding desert of darkness. NOW Two power plants furnish the \ with the spirit of ‘‘peace on earth, cood will toward men.” While there Ughta and provide compressed air to long been a tendency to com- To Oil Harness for Spring: I has 1, 2, and 3. The first tun mercialize the Christmas season, it Tunnels Work nel ia in for a distance of 76 feet. No is marked by much genuine charity 2 is in 170 feet and the third tun kindliness, and the cheery greet- Auto Tops Made and j , and nel about 26 feet. ing ‘‘Merry Christmas’’ is usually a Repaired I sincere expression of friendliness and A 30-foot addition has been added to the mess hall. Several new bunk Shoe reparing: neatly done , good wishes. NYSSA, OREGON PARMA, IDAHO Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Pounds moved houses are now being built. the:r farm near Homedale to Complaints Filed ia Circuit Court ROSS PARKINSON from Vale Saturday. They are living In J. A. Blum ve Willing O. Morgan. Nyssa, Oregon the Hess residence. 12, 14, 28. Recovery of money. $2.000 Owyhee Item STATE Mill WAIVE Finds Favor 195,015 MALHEUR CONDENSED STATEMENT o f THE MALHEUR COUNTY BANK SUDDEN DEATH CLAIMS MRS. L. A. MANSUR IRRIGATION DECT County Statistics $ . . URGE UNO OWNERS TO FALL IN LINE <% k ■» BUILDING MATERIAL LUMBER For Quality and Service See COAL WOOD S. W. MORRISON BOISE PAYETTE LUMBER CO. 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