NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, THURS., AUGUST 12, 1937
OREGON TRAIL
MRS. FRANK BYERS
The 4-H girls who were losers In
the apron drive last spring enter­
tained the 4-H boys with a picnic
at Big Bend park Sunday. A picnic
lunch was served at noon with ice
cream during the afternoon. Local
club leaders and members plan to
make this an annual event with
members and parents attending.
Charles Thomason gave a very in­
teresting talk about the tour he and
several of the local club boys were
on. A meeting was held during the
afternoon and officers were elected
Among these enjoying the affair
besides club members were M sors
and Mesdames Chas. Thomason,
Ewen Chard, Fred Bones, Grover
Cocper, Marion Chard, Miss Faye
Mettlen, Bob Talbot and Jim W ar­
ren.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Smith and
daughters entertained a group of
friends Sunday afternoon and even­
ing. Those present were Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew Stroop and Helen of
Fruitland, Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt
Smith and sons, Mr. and Mrs. J. H
Ulrey and family and Mr. and Mrs.
Clifford Arnold and family of Luca1
Kansas. Ice cream and cake were
served.
The Merry Matrons Club met
August 4th at the home of Mrs
Minnie Mitchell with Mrs. Nova
Glenn assisting. The next meeting
will be held at the home of Mrs
Mary Wurl with Mrs. Leah Currans
assisting.
George Wilson is driving a new
MODERN
PLUMBING
A home Is only as modern as
Its plumbing. In bathrooms,
kitchens, laundries and lava­
tories, attractive fixtures and
dependable “hidden” m ater­
ials pay dividends in extra
satisfaction and convenience.
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Plumber
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PARMA
Lafayette.
Mr. and Mrs. Hartley of Souther­
land who' were en route to New
Grlsans spent 8unday at the F. C.
Fry home.
Mr. and Mrs. Orrln Currey and
Annie Holmes visited at the Fred
Currey home In Juntura Friday
evening.
Mrs. J. B. Smith left Wednesday
for Emmett to visit at the home of
her brother Emil Dean.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Mettlen of
Mitchell Butte spent Sunday even­
ing at the Marion Chard home.
Wyatt Smith is driving a new
Plymouth.
Klaas Stam is remodeling his
home. A kitchen is being added on
the east side and the work is almost
completed.
Mr. and Mrs. Cliford Arnold and
children of Lucas, Kansas are
visiting a t the home of their cousins
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ulrey and fam­
ily. The Arnolds are looking for a
location here.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Holmes and
family spent Saturday night and
Sunday at the home of Mrs. Holmes
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Toll of
Fruitland.
Aliene Talbot of Mitchell Butte
pent last week with Madonna
Kressly.
Grover Cooper had the misfortune
ta have one of his work horses die
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Vanvalken-
burg and family have moved into
the house on F. O. Holmes lower
place.
Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Smith and
Vance spent Friday in Boise.
Wayne Ulrey visited with his par­
ents Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ulrey Sun­
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bunch and son
Paul, Jr., of Ponca City, Okla., are
visiting at the Van Maltsberger
home.
Mrs. Max Sohweizer and daugh­
ters left Friday to spend a few days
in Boise with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Kelly and son
Melville of Ontario were Sunday
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Orrin
Currey.
Last week the government leveled
the spoil piles at Dunaway.
Mrs. Ray Atwood and Avis Ulrey
called on Mrs. Marion Chard Satur­
day morning.
The HEC club of Oregon Trail
Grange met at the home of Mrs. O.
Choate last Tuesday afternoon with
seven members present. Tea towels
were hemmed for the grange.
Mrs. Albert B. Hopkins of Ontario
WE S T E R N
IDAHO
TATI FAIR
was a dinner guest at the F. G.
Hclmes home Wednesday
The Miss:a Ooldle Miller and
Irene Gilchrist of Ontario were in
this neighborhood on
business
Thursday.
A number of farmers are selling
whole milk to the Co-operative
Creamery cf Payette who started a
milk route the first of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Schaffer and
Kent visited at the Ewen and Mar­
lon Chard and the Wyatt and
Archie Smith homes Saturday be­
fore returning to their home at
Lucas, Kansas the first of tha week
Win. Clevenger of Ontario is re­
modeling Albert Hopkins house.
Two new rooms are also being add­
ed.
Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Currey and
Robert Holmes made a business
trip to Nampa Saturday.
L. B Landreth threshed wheat
and barley for Torvald and Leonard
Olson, Grover Cooper and Mr. Cur­
ran.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Shaffer of
Lucas, Kansas were supper guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Chard S at­
urday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Archie
Smith and family called later in tlv
evening.
Miss Margaret Polley of Fruitland
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with Annie Holmes.
Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Gerghen and
little daughter of Sharon Springs.
Kansas visited at the Archie and
Wyatt Smith homes last Thursday
and Friday. They were enroute to
Portland where they expect to lo­
cate.
Mr. and Mrs. Ewen Chard and
children and Faye Mettlen visited
th3 T. M. Lowe hot springs at
Mitchell Butte Sunday evening.
Leonard Olson went to Nampa
Monday.
Miss Margaret Polley, Miss An­
nie Holmes, Austin Gcodson and
Roy Holmes were Sunday evening
callers at the Melville Inlose home
in Ontario.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Fuhrman
and daughter of Kuna. Idaho were
guests at the Torvad Olson home
Sunday.
O W Y H EE
DORIS
KLINGBACK
Wm. Peutz, well known rancher
of Owyhee, was thrown from a plow
when it became unhooked from the
tractor last Wednesday and is hav­
ing to take a vacation in bed, tho
an ex-ray picture assured them no
bones were broken.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Glenn who re­
side at the Owyhee Dam were Walla
Walla business visitors last week.
Mrs. Chas. Schweiztr took care of
their son during their absence.
The Merry Matrons Cub met with
Mrs. Minnie Mitch: 11 Wednesday,
Mrs. Nova Glenn was co-hcstess.
Rev. and Mrs. Clayton Brown and
son Randall of Boise were over­
night guests of the Klingbacks on
Wednesday.
The Owyhee Dramatic Club under
the leadership of Mrs. Mildred Hite
put on a very enjoyable entertain­
ment at the school house Thursday
evening.
The following program
was given: piano solo, Margaret
Klingback; song, Mrs. Dola Mitch­
ell and Doris Klingback; skit, At the
Ticket Office, Margaret and Henry
Mitchell and Doris Klingback; tap
dance, Hinemoa Cloniger; song,
Bonnie Matlock; pantomine, Phillip
and Lewis Mitchell, Dorothy Mc-
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All work guaranteed.
By the hour or contract.
HARRY SAYLES
NYSSA
State Licensed
OREGON
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Clure, Anna Louts« Schweiaer and LANCASTER TO HAVE
Juanita Franklin. A group dressed
POSTOFFICE SOON
as cowboys around a campfire sang
several songs while individual songs
were given by Louise Klingback and
The little settlement of Lancas­
Nadine Crocker. Dale Glenn and
Russell Patton. A dance, The Gray ter, about 10 miles northwest of
Mare. Hinemoa Cloniger; song, Vale is to have a postoffice soon,
Bonnie Matlock; song, Russell P at­ according to word received from
ton. and a play “Henry’s Mall order
Wife," directed by Mrs. Dola Mitch- 1 Congressman Pierce, but due to du­
ell. Characters were Henry, Phillip plication of names in the state, the
and Dola Mitchell, Leslie Crocker. postoffice will be named "Willow
Louise Klingback and Verna Mitch- Creek.”
el.
Mrs. Dorothy Sappe has been
Mrs. LaVone Culbertson was "hon­
named
acting postmaster pending
or guest at a birthday dinner Wed­
nesday evening at the Klingback examination for the post. Repre­
sentative Pierce also says that he
home.
John Walker and i f e e l s certain the postoffice dep sn -
son and Miss Bertha Farmer of ( ment wU1 have occasion to establish
Berryville, Ark., were visitors at the ! many
r°utes and some new of-
Ellis Walters home last week. Mrs flces 111 Malheur county due to the
Walker and Miss Farmer are sisters l ra Pw settlement of lands under the
of Mrs. Walters. They left for Twin government project
Falls Friday taking Mrs. Walters j
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with them for a short visit with U. S. CROPS NEAR AVERAGE
their sister who lives at th at place.
AS PRICES HOLD STEADY
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Nugent, Grand­
ma Nugent and Trueman Rogers
from Campo, Colorado were visiting
Near average crop prospects, with
Colorado friends in Owyhee last
week.
food crops somewhat more promis-
Mrs. A. L. Nickols of Meridian : lng than feed crops, is the general
spent a week with her sister Mrs. ' agricultural situation in the United
C. H. Shirk recently. Mrs. Gray of States at mid-July as Indicated by
the same town was an all day visit­ a report Just released by the O. S. C.
ors at the Shirk home last Monday. I extension service. Considering the
Mrs. Lila Abbott is cooking for somewhat reduced numbers of live­
the Dunaway Brothers in the place stock, the feed supply is expected
of Mrs. Packer who has gone east to be about aedquate in the country
to visit her parents.
j as a whole.
Jack Glascock of Ontario is help­
Despite some improvement in
ing Bill Schweizer hay.
crop prospects compared with a
The Kurske family with several month ago, the general farm price
relatives returned from Portland level in the whole country and In
last week. They are going to farm Oregon appears not to have con­
the land at Terteling camp.
tinued during the past few weeks
Mrs. A1 Notheis helped Mrs. Jake
Kollen through haying.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Nichols of
Parma were visitors at the Tom
Lowe home Sunday.
Several horses have died on the
Owyhee recently. This week the
Dunaway Brothers and John Hite
each lost a horse.
Mr. and Mrs. Grant Koon of On­
tario were overnight guest9 of the
Rawleigh Chamberlain family S at­
urday.
Mrs. Orin Fawcett from Alamosa
who is visiting her parents at Hag-
erman, Idaho, spent Thursday with
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Shirk.
Joe Plaza had an attack of ton­
sillitis last week. He was taken to
Dr. Sarazin for treatment Tuesday.
Mr.s Dwight Burke was an over­
night visit at the parental C. R.
Hite home Friday.
Mrs. Bradley will be hostess to
Outdoor appetlt-s call for
OKK Club Thursday, August 19.
plenty of energy-giving bread
The Owyhee PTA meets with Mrs.
Our baked foods are fresh
S. D. Bigelow Friday August 13.
daily.
Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Bigelow called
on Mr and Mrs Coulter Sunday
afternoon.
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Tom Lowe has a new Ford V8.
Miss Iva May and Juanita Graves
of Ontario conducted services at the
Owyhee School Sunday night.
VALE CONTRACTOR GETS
SUN RIVER PROJECT JOB
The contract for construction of
laterals and canal structures on the
Sun River Slope Division of the Sun
River Federal Reclamation Project
in Montana has been awarded by
Secretary of the Interior. Harold L.
Ickes, to Otis Williams and Com­
pany of Vale, Oregon, on a bid of
$65,773.80.
The successful bid was the lowest
of nine proposals received by the
Bureau of Reclamation at its Fair-
Held, Montana, office July 8.
The Sun River Slope Divison of
th? project Is only partly completed,
although for several years 2.688
acres have been under irrigation
there. In ajl, the plans call for ad­
dition of 14.345 acres to this div­
ision, and the larger part of this
acreage will be served by the canals
to be built under this contract.
The contractor will begin work
within 30 days and must complete
the Job In 400 calendar days there­
after.
the decline which was ap p a ren t! pay for commodities used in pi c-
during April and May. Farm prices | daction and living. T h l Jlme md::{
are generally considerably higher of purchasing powet of farm pro­
than a year ago, being supported ducts stood at 93 per cent of the
by substantially higher consumers prewar average, compared with loi
at the high point In January. 1937.
purchasing power.
The report, which is available
The decline in the general level
agents,
of farm prices during April and j from ccunty agricultural
May, without a similar decline in i contains much detailed Information
farm costs, resulted in a decline in on farm prices and market outlook
the index of farm purchasing power for numerous commodities, Includ­
of approximately 8 per cent since ing wheat and rye, corn, oats and
January, as measured by the ratio barley, potatoes, truck crops, fruits,
between prices farmers receive for nuts. hops, flax, hay, pastures, hogs,
farm products and the prices they milk and eggs and chickens.
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OREGON
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To cut down the high coat of stop and
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