Nyssa gate city journal., June 29, 1939, Image 3

NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1939
there were many from out side of
Cow Hollow.
The agent’s assistant was very
much surprise to see the crowd that
came out. He never had half
enough poison to go around and he
was very much Impressed with the
stories of our plight.
We are going to try poisoning
them, and are going to try to get
enough woven wire to make a fence
and pen for to get up a big rabbit
drive.
A rabbit drive is great sport. The
only one we were on caught and
killed about 4.000 rabbits. Many
rabbit drivers kill 4000 or 5000. Tis
quite a sight to see that many rab­
bits in one pile and to know that
less than 24 hours ago they were
hopping around eating up the farm­
ers crops.
Last week Cow Hollow was visited
by a small “twister” which was al­
together too large and now this
week we get a "baby forest fire"
that is too large too. If you can call
sage brush a baby forest, Sunday
about noon Jack Parker had taken
the cows up above the canal to let
them range back in the hills to
feed when he saw quite a smoke
back to the northeast. He rode as
fast as he could to it. The fire then
had ocvered about ten acres. He
took his saddle blanket and tried
to beat out the fire but there was
a good breeze and the grass and
brush was dry and he soon saw that ]
by himself he had no chance to put
the fire out. The fire spread and
Looking through a doorway into the Court of Honor at lb ’ ui-
burned all afternoon. When night
fornia World's Fair, you see the 400-foot Tower of the Sun :.d at
came there was lots of light back in
the left a height red and yellow light standard, Lucy clouds drift
the hills. The fire was still burning
lazily overhead.
Monday morning. It had burned
over a two mile front in Cow Hol­
and Pillsburys.
BIG BEND
low and we don't know how far
Mr. and Mrs. N S. Phelan return­
back into the hills.
Donna Mae, the 3-year-old daugh­ ed home Friday from a two motnhs
It is hard to estimate the dam­ ter of Mr. and Mrs. Chat Purdy visit in Illinois.
age of a lire like that. The June passed away Wednesday at the Mil-
Don Lackland of Parma was a
grass was ripe and dryed and not waukie sanitarium near Portland business visitor in Bend Friday.
hurt but the bunch grass still had and was buried Saturday morning
Members of the high school Girl
life in its rots and is killed.
at Roswell. Graveside services were Scouts met Tuesday with their
The sage brush being burned off held the cemetery with the Rev. leader Mrs. M. Judd at Newell
the snow will blow off into big Oastler in charge.
Heights and planned their work for
drifts and the ground will go into
Mr. and Mrs. Chat Purdy return­ the summer.
the spring dry.
Charles Wicklander and R. S.
Thousands of sheep each year ed to the home at Coulee dam Sun­
Grant spent Friday in the Bend.
have been feeding across this strip day accompanied by Mrs. Plin Case
Guy Roush and son of Glendale
Mrs. Homer Sweet of Lacoma and
of now baren ground on their way
Cal., are guests of Mrs. L. Eachus.
to their summer range. Dude Park­ Mrs. Lata Brown of Nampa were
Mr. and Mrs. Guernsey Abbott
ers horses and cows have been feed­ guests Friday and Saturday of Mr.
and children of Roswell were Thurs­
ing on this land later through the and Mrs. Will Sweet.
day guests in the Will Sweet home.
summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Baldridge spent
Wilbur Roberts of Roswell was
Wednesday
and
Thursday
visiting
Whoever carelessly threw down
calling on Bend freinds Sunday.
the match that set that fire little their and family at Emmett.
Mr. and Mrs. Corbett of Burns
thought of the havoc he would
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Miller, Vir­
and Mrs. Wilcox of Weiser were
raise.
ginia and Jim attended the cherry
guests in the Haworth home Sun­
Chuch Share said “I have been festival at Emmett Thursday.
day. Basil Rogers returned to Burns
riding this range for 30 years and
Miss
Evelyn
Haworth spent with them.
this is the first time I ever saw a Thursday in Boise with frineds.
Mrs. Amy Eskew and children of
thing like this happen.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Peck and Mrs.
Tuesday morning—We see Elza Johns of Boise attended the funeral Fruitland were week end guests in
the Elmer Eskew home.
Niccum across the Hollow making of Donna Mae Purdy Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Roberts were
little piles of dead rabbits and later
Sydney Stansell of San Francisco
ask him how many he got the first is a guest at the P. B. Anderson dinner guests in the Robert Weir
home Sunday.
night and he says “I didn’t get
home.
Mr. and Mrs. Arch Parker spent
them all gathered up but I think
Mrs. Kate Kardner of Boise spent Sunday visiting her parents, Mr.
there is about 100 dead ones.”
Sunday visiting Mrs. L. Eachus.
and Mrs. Bert La Rue in Vale.
Mrs. Clyde Riggs and sons of Par­
Mrs. Claude Eachus and Mrs.
Kingman Pre-School Group—
ma spent Friday visiting her par­
The Kingman Kolony pre-school ents, Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Roberts
study group will meet at the home and other relatives in this vicinity.
of Mrs. R. H. Clark Thursday, July
Mrs. E. E. Parker and Mrs. Ver­
6 at 3 p. m. Anyone interested in non Parker of Adrian called on Miss
pre-school study is invited. The top­ Lessie McDonald in Parma Friday.
ic for this month is “summer care,
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sparks spent
diet and colthing.” Please bring Sunday visiting In the Henderson
subject material for presentation home in Emmett.
and discussion. Election of officers
Mr. and Mrs. McCormick of Boise
for next year will be held.
spent Sunday visiting the Millers
It's Fair Silhouette
STATE C APITO L NEWS
A. L. LINDBECK
State Capitol News Bureau
SALEM — All of the murals in
Oregon’s new $3,500,000 state capltol
building are now In place.
The last ones, in the house and
senate, were put up this week by the
artists, Barry Faulkner and Frank
H. !}chwarz who came west for the
mounting after completing work in
their New York studios.
The two latest works are of the
arrival in Salem of news the state
had been admitted to the union,
and of the meeting at Champoeg
when it was decided to set up a
provisional government.
The Champoeg painting was done
by Faulkner, and was put above the
speaker's platform in the house of
representatives. It shows the French
and American settlers gathered to­
gether prior to the voting.
The news the state had been ad­
mitted to the union was done by
Schwarz, and is now above the
president's platform in the senate.
Historical research showed. Schwarz
said, that the occasion was not one
of excitement, since an earlier re­
quest for admittance to the union
had been rejected and the settlers
had lost interest.
The decoration of the building in­
terior was completed with the last
mural. Workmen are still busy
carving two huge groups which
flank the main steps in front of the
capltol, and will be busy for another
month.
The groups are of an early wagon
trail, and of Lewis and Clark. The
carving is being done with air drills,
and when completed will leave two
of the largest stone groups in the
west. The Vermont marble from
which the groups are being hewn
were the largest single blocks ever
quarried.
The state board of control is
planning a booklet either to be sold
or given to the public, describing
each piece of art work and with a
picture of each. The photographs
will be in color.
At the present time the public has
no ways of knowing what the mural
represent.
Return From Convention—
Mr. and Mrs. John Lienhard re­
turned Saturday from the State
grange convention at Corvallis and
a trip to the fair at San Francisco.
John Lienhard won a free phone
call. They called Mrs. Lienhard's
brother, O. L. Walter in New York
City a former resident of Malheur
county.
All members who are interested
in hearing the report of the State
grange session are urged to attend
the grange meeting July 13 at the
Boulevard grange hall.
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OPTOMETRIST
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Appointment
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Ontario, Oregon
CARL H. COAD
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
PHONE 31
Nyssa, Oregon
L. A. Maulding, M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
Phone 37
Hours: 10 to 12 and 1 to 5
Daily- Except Sunday
Fry Building
COW HOLLOW
By The Happy Farmer
With a steady flow in our ditches
now for the past few days the peo­
ple are beginning to forget some
about our water scare.
Owing to his sickness last winter
and still being laid up mostly this
spring Doc Raffington was already
behind with his irrigating and now
that there is a limit on how much
water we can draw he is having
difficulty in keeping his ground wet.
Clarence Niccum cut his clover
early for hay and Jim Trummell
cut part and left part of his for
early seed. Doc Raffington left his
for early seed but now there is so
much honey-dew and little bugs
that eats the kernel out of the seed
has put in its appearance, Doc is
now letting Dude Parker cut his
clover for hay.
Chuck Share finished stacking
hay Monday. All of Cow Hollow’s
first cutting of hay is in the stack
now except about an acre that Elza
Niccum has that he expects to cut
soon and haul up for feed.
The lateral that Sam Cates gets
water from washed out again last
week. After spending the whole day
Saturday with a four hourse team
and fresno and three or four shovels
the break was repaired and the water
turned in and the crew went to
supper and came back to look and
it had washed out again within 10
feet of the first place. Sam thinks
that gophers or squirrels is the cause
of the water going through the
bank.
Since the Nyssa C.C.C. boys are
gone the rodent control is getting
to be quite a proposition.
The Jack rabbits are getting to
be a terrible pest in Cow Hollow.
There are just thousands of them
now and they are completely clean­
ing up some of the fields.
Of the 18 farms in Cow; Hollow
there are four that the rabbits hav-
n’t hurt much as yet. It is believed
that Art Eastman is damaged more
than any one else in the Hollow.
Mrs. Helen Niccum said as they
came from town Monday evening
she counted 15 rabbits right around
Eastman's house and many of them
were right on his lawn. Art has
been shooting some of them with a
shotgun as he has no rifle. He says,
“I won’t shoot at them unless I can
get at least three at one shot.” And
adds “why is would break me up If
I tried to shoot all of them.”
Elza Niccum and Sam Cates are
being damaged very badly too. In
fact all the farmers on the north
side of the Hollow are being fairly
“eaten up" by rabbits. To date
there is only two or three gardens
in all of Cow Hollow that the rab­
bits are hot bothering. We very
much doubt if there will be more
than two or three late gardens left.
Elza Niccum has a government
bulletin on rabbits and its says “ the
average rabbits cost the farmer $1
per head per year for each rabbit
that feeds upon his crops.”
Art Eastman says, “It couldn’t
cost me that much if they ate up
the whole place even to the fence
posts,” and he throws out his arms
and says “why I have thousands of
them.”
Someone wrote to the
county
agent, Mr. McKennon about the
rabbits and he came out Saturday
and saw a couple of farmers and
then told them to let it be konwn
and he or his assistant would come
back Monday afternoon and give
a demonstration of how to mix stry­
chnine on alfafla to poison them,
he said for the farmers to each bring
a sack of fresh young alafalfa and
they would poison it for them to
take back as a sample and scatter
for the rabbits and after that the
farmers would hase to each buy their
own strychine.
Of the 18 farmers in Cow Hollow
all were represented except two and
DR. E. D. NORCOTT
DENTIST
Office Phone 35F2
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Thursday in the Eagles Hall
The Public Is Invited
D. R. D eO ross........President
Mrs. A. V. Pruyn
Secretary
NYSSA AERIE
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Meets Wednesday Night
AT EAGLES HALL
Visiting Eagles Welcome
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LOCAL NEWS
ADRIAN
Visit Grandparents—
Allan, Jimmie and Stanley White
Gerrit Muntjeweriff, Charles Mc­ are spending several days with their
Connell and Vernon Parker went grandparents at Payette.
fishing above Jordan Valley over
Sunday and they returned with a At Payette Lakes—
good catch.
Miss Georgia Dennis, Mrs. M.
Mrs. Earl Sparks and infant Sperry of Nyssa and Mrs. Frank
daughter returned from the hospital Edwards of Caldwell spent last
Tuesday evening to her parents’ week as guests at the Willard Rob­
home.
ertson cabin at Payette Lakes.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Nelson and
From Kentucky—
daughter. Betty of Nampa were
Mrs. Orra Steele, a sister og Mrs.
Sunday guests at the W. E. Ash­
craft home. Betty remained for a Frank Edwards, of Bollen Green,
Kentucky is visiting with Mrs. Ed­
visit.
Mrs. Vernon Parker and Bobby wards in Caldwell and on Monday
spent the week end with Mr. and they spent the day with Mrs. Ed­
wards daughter. Mrs. J. Sample in
Mrs. E. E. Parker of Big Bend.
Nyssa.
Gloria Pounds went to Vale last
Thursday to visit her grandmother. Return from Trip—
Mrs. Hart.
On Friday Mrs. Fred Burgesser.
Mrs. Millard Wisbey and son Mrs. Joe Trent and George Scott
Ronald, Byrna Rae Stone of Gas­ returned form a two weeks trip to
ton, Ore., spent Wednesday visiting Colorado. With them came Miss
her cousin, Mrs. James McGinnis Anna Belle Smith who will be a
and family.
house guest of Mrs. Trents for a
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hatch and short time.
family were Sunday guests at the
Ed Wymcr home in Parma.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Smith. Mr.
and Mrs. Freddie Jurries, Mr. and
Mrs. James McGinnis, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Hatch and Mr. and Mrs.
Bertha! Caverhill enjoyed a picnic
Leave Boise
11:15 A. M.
and swimming at Snivelys
hot
Leave Caldwell
12:10 Noon
springs Thursday evening.
Arrive Winnemucca
5:15 P. M.
Sunday visitors at the Charles Arrive Reno
10:10 P. M.
McConnell home were Mr. and Mrs. Arrive San Francisco
8:05 A. M.
Elzie Sparks of Parma, Mrs . Art
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Dyre Roberts called on Mrs. Earl | Sparks of Dixie and Mrs. Ellen
Sparks and new baby at the Charles Sparks of Big Bend.
McConnell home in Adrian Satur­
Mrs. Vernon Parker and Mrs. E.
day.
Mrs. Vernon Parker and Bobbie E Parker and Iola visited Miss Mc­
of Adrian were week end guests in Donald at Parma Saturday.
Mr and Mrs. Glen Pounds and
tile E. E Parker home while Vernon
Gloria spent Wednesday evening
went on a fishing trip.
Mrs. M E. Rogeis and Mrs R. L with his parents. Mr. and Mr.s L. C.
Haworth were Ontario visitors Sat­ Pounds at Caldwell.
urday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs Alvon McGinnis of
Elmer Parker of Nampa was aj Newell Heights were dinner guests
Sunday guest in the E. E Parker [ Sunday at the James McGinnis
home. Other guests were Mrs. Henry home.
Hatch and son and Mr. and Mis. j Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hatch. Mrs.
Berthel Caverhill of Adlan.
Henry Hatch were in Boise Mon­
Mr. and Mrs. Virl Bishop,
Mr day.
and Mrs. Arch Parker and E. E.
La Verne Linderman who was
Paker were business visitors in I
hurt in a car accident last Monday
Nampa Monday.
evening is reported as improving.
Mrs. E. E. Parker and Mrs. Ver­
non Parker called on Mrs. Fisher i
and new baby in Roswell Sunday.
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