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K vas/ ÚATE CITY JOURNAL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1939 stout leather collar and to that a per might get the thing desired in short stout rope at whose further color form and size. Perfumes and a mail route would deliver their end was a good-sized block of wood candle , desk and dresser sets and mail up the Hollow. And in less securely fastened, and worn smooth toys and wrappings and more than than three years electricity would from the seven miles of country that 'Twas a happy place with a be available for all and huge trucks roads it had bumped over on the laugh and joke for everyone, but would roar past their doors over a fine graveled road hauling seven nocturnal Journey from the feeding so it always is. For friendly folk and a half tons of the world's best flocks. Tis hard to say that a they be who labor there and well do chopped hay to hungry cattle miles master shouldst part with his dog they know the needs of this town and miles away and many people, at if he doest love and care for him, and countryside. various places in the world—some yet such evidence of affection of Now comes the new year. May far away, would be watching weekly the truant for a new master should Wisdom keep us as a nation out of to read the news from Cow Hollow. not be punished. war and guide our feet into paths It is now time for us to begin to And on Saturday such a stream of of plenty and abundance for all. think of our new years resolutions. youngsters poured down Main street End labors feuds and bring peace Can we resolve to improve Cow that one might have thought the between labor and industry that Hollow more and better in the next Things About Nyssa's Shops Piper of Hamlin was loose again there may be security and jobs for three years than in the last? To but trekked only to their rendezvous the worker and happiness and pros some and especially our creditors, with Santa and later on we didst perity for the nations. it looks like we (individual farmers) And to our neighbors and friends are not keeping up with our end of Came the call last week for help watch them again trudging home for a little family which found It all sticky with much candies and may the Giver of All Good shower the game. We Cow Hollowites believe we can self stranded strangers in the sage happy that they had been remem them with every good thing of life. brush at the Yule time without any bered. And while it is argued that This is our New Year's wish for do much better in the next three 1940. many boys who may have more than years than we have done in the visible means of help. And the call enough receive from the public do past. Three years ago this was a wast not In vain. nations too, taking monies that wilderness of sagebrush and would Early on Friday morning the re might be spent on more needy folk, COW HOLLOW raise nothing but jack rabbits and sponses started. A huge box of toys, still the free-for-all Christmas tree By T h e H appy F a rm e r coyotes and a multitude of spring enough so that other under privi in the market place adds a zest and wild flowers. leged wee ones learned too that thrill for all the youngsters that will Christmas has come and gone and Now we all have livable homes the jolly red-coated old gentleman be remembered when much of ev it was a merry one for most of us. and most all our land cleared and called on them in the eve of Noel. eryday life will have been forgotten. There was a fine program Sun levelled enough to irrigate and we Then came Ellen Judd of King- And sometimes ’tis happy memories day evening down at the CCC camp man with offerings of clothes and that tend to keep a sane balance the house was packed until many have a water right or supply to be toys and to our door little Alma in life when everything else seems had to stand. Out of 17 families in proud of. We now are ready to pro duce from six to nine tons of the Deane Cunningham laden with all wrong. Cow Hollow, 13 of them were at best alfalfa hay per acre and the clean and warm clothing for the But with Christmas over and the the program and Sunset Valley and wee folk shivering in their flimsy days already on the lengthening the Richland districts were well rep land that has been seeded to hay for a couple years will now produce garments. From others there was a stretch’ tis sale time at the stores, resented, too. one to two hundred sacks of pota sack of coal, a box of groceries, a that stocks may be reduced and Most of us spent Christmas peace toes per acre or 50 to 75 bushels of money offering for shoes for the shelves cleared for the new spring fully at home with our families. corn or wheat per acre; 60 to 100 school boy, cans and cans of fruit things so soon to put in their ap But oh! how nice to know that we bushels of barley per acre and al and vegetables, some books and pearance. Some managers have al live in the good old U. S. A. and most any other crop in proportion, generous portion of venison until the ready told us that the first orders can celebrate peacefully at home and we have pastures and shade immediate need hast been met and have gone in to the wholesale and not worry about the enemy and fruit trees started. So why can’t before real want stalks again at houses and ’tis but a matter of dropping bombs on our heads. we go forward with a bound during their tent flap ’tis hoped that some days until they will be putting in Elza Niccum returned home on the next three years? more permanent aid may have been an appearance here. Christmas eve. He had been at Mrs. Chuck Share was released provided. from the Caldwell hospital a week And at Mrs. Atkeson’s there is to Wendell, Idaho, working. Three years ago Elza Niccum re Not only was this family cared be a store-wide sale of all mer ago Wednesday. A hospital is one for, but boxes and baskets went out chandise. Silk and woolen dresses, turned home on Christmas eve at place from which most every one is Hollister, Idaho. He and his brother over the town and countryside to not old, but not the very latest, just happy when released for release needy ones. The Masons and East the thing to fill in this in-between Howard Niccum and Russell Howell means recovery usually. ern Stars, the Legionaires and their space and they will be just the thing had been over in Oregon on the Most oi tne cow Hollowites re auxiliary, the Vets of Foreign Wars for street wear when this planet’s Vale-Owyhee project near Nyssa ceived their soil conservation checks and their auxiliary, the Epworth source of light and heat begins tun and Ontario looking for a home in time for Christmas, which made League and every other organization ing up for July and August. House stead, and Elza and Russell locat a very nice present from Uncle Sam. and many private Individuals helped dresses, too, many of them pattern ed one each in a place called Cow Jim Trummel and his sister Fran In this happy Christmas giving. One ed for street wear of bright long- Hollow and made application to cis ate Christmas dinner and spent file upon them. of the unselfish and thoughtful giv wearing and easily-washed fabrics. Upon returning Elza was telling the day with the Russell Howell ers was the couple who stopped for And speaking of happy young family. a chat on their return from taking sters, 'twas a merry lot that got to his wife that they would have been Frank Parker and Russell Howell a huge chunk of venison to the it see the free matinee on Tuesday home a day earlier but as they sat helped Roy Rookstool move his inerants camped at the “jungle..". that Buck Giezentanner didst pro in Frank Morgan’s office waiting house a short distance where he will And they didst tell of the light of vide at his Nyssa theatre. But on their turn there was a group of remodel and enlarge it. There will gratitude and joy that didst shine every Saturday afternoon there ist men from Hood River that was in be much more lumber used in Cow from the eyes of the men huddled a matinee there just made for boys ahead of them and they were lis Hollow for building purposes (and there over their campfire. Food and and girls and at so low a cost that tening in as they filed their ap fences, too) in the next three years meat especially had been scarce with each one should be able to earn the plications and one of them gave than in the past three. most of them. So is the lamp of few pennies that it takes for ad the numbers of the land that Elza Mort Wixon will be the first one had picked to file on so he had to human kindness kindled when we mission. in Cow Hollow to hold a public go back and pick out another one. pause and look back over the years auction sale. He is also the first one And at Wilson’s grocery store, There was no gravelled road up with gratitude to the Great Donor three hundred and sixty-five days to get discouraged and leave Cow for his care and generosity toward out of the year they have fine foods the Hollow then, in fact there was Hollow. no road at all and as they came us. Tis well that a season hast been at low cost, sale or no sale. And Mort has started to prove up on back they missed the trail and set aside in which so to do. 'tis just the place this post-Christ- wandered around in the sage brush. his homestead and has rented it And friends didst tell us a sweet mas season to purchase those good By the time they got back to Nyssa for two years and intends to try dog story. old staples like beans and flour and they had to stay over until the next working for wages for a while again. Pioneering on a homestead is A shepherd dog which tended a macaroni that the lady of the man day to file. flock of sheep feeding in their pas or wilt turn her culinary art loose The Hood River group included quite different to good wages and tures didst fall in love with the own on that she may retrench a bit Frank Parker, Bill Parker, Dude life in a large city, but it is hoped er of the land and his family. So after the Christmas spending spree. Parker, Arch Eastman and several that in the next three years Cow And now that most of the spring others that did not make a go of Hollow will not lose many more of much so that when the flock moved its pioneers. to new fields he returned to them. pullets have turned to laying in it. The owner came and found him and earnest 'tis a balanced ration that Big hopes and stories they all returned him to the sterner duties they wilt need to remain at their brought home of their new located SUNSET VALLEY of sheep tending. But on the fol peak of production and at the A1 homesteads back in that shoe lowing morn the pooch again wast Thompson feed store they do have string valley called Cow Hollow that The Worth While Club entertain there to help open the pasture gate those fine Purina chows and mashes stuck back in the hills like a sore ed their families with a party at at milking time. But again the own or wilt concoct thine own formula thumb. They knew it was fine land, but the CCC mess hall Saturday eve er came and led him away and for thee from their stock of chick what would they do about school ning. About forty guests were pres again the following morning there foods. was aweary Fido perched on the Sure and there is a nip to the and mail, for there never could be ent. to enjoy games and a late doorstep. By th a t time the flock had atmosphere these days but if thou but one road out and the Nyssa lunch. Mr .and Mrs. John Case and moved farther up the valley again wilt fire thy stoves or furnaces with school bus and mail route would and when the truant one was taken that Aberdeen coal that Mr. Hughey come to the CCC camp at the daughter Phyllis Joanne motored to away this time his host deemed that at the old Jackson lumber yard mouth of the valley and five miles La Grande Friday to spend the holi they would not meet again. But he doest traffic in thy homestead wilt from the upper end of the settle days with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Gueck visited deemed in vain for on Christmas be as snug and warm as any old ment. Little did they realize that in relatives in Caldwell Christmas. mom there was the pooch again bug in a rug could possibly be, and Margery and Georgia Hlllis miss ready for the seance with the bo- more so, for there wilt be no dust less than a year a school bus would vines. Attached to his neck was a and smoke from that clean fuel to pick up their children almost at ed several days of school last week their door, in less than two years due to the flu. worry thee. And on our friends counters at the Owyhee drug store before i Christmas we didst see a great ar ray of fine candies and didst won der if there were enough people in all the countryside to eat them up. But it must have been so for after . the day had come and gone and we paid another visit only a few of the original lot remained. But ’tis well Dr. Francis S. Weir for at that place of health protect- tion they do ever strive to sell only Dentist pure and fresh candies. And at Mr. Morris’ jewelry store Office: Sarazin Clinic Bldg. in the Atkeson block the windows Phone 5W didst glow and glitter with their ar ray of bright gold and brilliant gems as sunkist waters of a lapping tide. CARL H. COAD And now that Christmas ist ended one's thoughts will be returning to ATTORNEY-AT-LAW their own needs and no better time PHONE 31 than now to have the watch clean That sounds Utopian, but it’s ab Nyssa, Oregon ed and regulated and those weak solutely true when you use Gor ened clasps on bracelet and pin don Creek coal! W e guarantee strengthened. And if ’tis taken to L. A. Maulding, M.D. this man Morris the mend wilt stay that the proper grade for your Physician and Surgeon mended and be properly done ere heating plant will give satisfac Phone 37 'tis returned to thee again. tion. Surely Santa didst hang out at Hours: 10 to 12 and 1 to 5 the Gamble store this season for by Daily—Except Sunday Saturday evening he hadst stripped Fry Building their shelves bare of everything. But he didst of a truth show a fine Judgment for the stock at that em TOWNSEND CLUB porium was of the best at the low MEETINGS est cost and the lay-away plan an Meets 1st and 3rd Monday at easy way to pay. But that plan doest not end with the Christmas Eagles Hall season but may be used the year A. L. McClellan___ President through for those things one needs Don Graham _____ Secretary so for the little luxury that one The Pablic h Invited may afford if not too great the ini tial outlay. Then when the last pay ment ist maye ’tis thine indeed to NYSSA AERIE take home and enjoy and without F. O. E. NO. 2134 worry of any collector coming for Meets Wednesday Night his money when least convenient for AT EAGLES HALL thee. And verUy the Nyssa Pharmacy i Visiting Eagles Welcome was a busy place this season and | HARRY MINER, Sec. COAL—GRAIN— FEED every clerk on the jump every min CLIFF GREER Pres. Phone 26 ute for fine was the stock and com plete in every line so th at the shop Ye Snooper’s Column ---- s---- ------ £------ AT LESS EXPENSE GORDON CREEK COAL UTAH’S LOWEST ASH COAL Not a clinker in a carload AL THOMPSON SON PAGE THREE Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schweizer OREGON TRAIL Roy and Gilbert Holmes were and the Hobson family shopped in I _____ Christmas dinner guests at the F. Caldwell Saturday. Oregon Trail schooi children pre- S. Byers home. Mr. and Mrs, Wilbur Chapin en- | seated a Christmas program Friday tertained at Christmas dinner the evening. A playlet was dramatized Laurenson tamily, Mr. and Mrs py some of the pupils in the upper Examiner Vaughn. Hafold Snyder. Louie Davis J room xhe operetta "The Old Wo On December 29th, according to and Willard Whitman. man in the Shoe" was presented word received from the offices of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Schweizer by the older pupils and Miss Allen's Secretary of State E. Snell, there were guests at the Housenholder and Miss Stein’s roms. At tile close will be an examiner of operators home in Owyhee Christmas day. of the program Santa arrived with and chauffeurs in Nyssa from the Mr. and Mrs. Ora Newgen, Eddie presents and treats. Mrs. Joe Stam hour of 10 a. m. until 6 p. m. and Cohen and Glendon Hillls were assisted with the music. The P. T. A. all wishing driving permits or li Christmas dinner guests at the sponsored the treats. censes are advised to see him at Newgen home. The Merry Matrons club held that time. Lloyd Landreth has been sick with their annual Christmas party at the flu. home of Virginia Rookstool Wed Add Months of nesday, Dec. 20th. Each member Mrs. L. B. Landreth received message last week that her sister in ['presented one number on the pro- Wear to Your Shoes! Nebraska had passed away. The | gram. Christmas gifts were ex- Landreths had just returned from changed. Refreshments weer served to 20 members and six guests. The a visit there. Mr. and Mrs. Cash Turner and club will meet Jan. 10 with La Mr. and Mrs. Jay Howard and chil Vinnie Smith, Nina Boness, assist dren spent Christmas with Mr ing. Turner's brother at Vale. Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Holmes, Rob Mr. and Mrs. Laurenson enter ert and Junior left Thursday morn tained with an ice cream party Sat ing to spend the holidays with Mr. urday night. Guests were Don Park Holmes’ parents and other relatives er, Winifred Hoover and Norma at Modesto, Calif. Jean Daiss. Wilbur Smith visited with friends Mr. and Mrs. Laurenson and Mr. and relatives in this neighborhood Have them REBUILT and Mrs. Vaughn motored to Rig last week. the modern way with gins. Idaho. Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Holmes an- Mr. and Mrs. John Reffett and nonuce the arrival of an NEW INVISIBLE lb. children were guests at the Newgen baby boy Friday, Dec. 22. SOLES home Christmas evening. F. B. Rookstool, Wayne and Har Mrs. J. A. Black and Paul Ran- old and Leonard Olson went to Un some are flu sufferers. Kenneth and Charlotte Ditty have ity last week for wood. SHOE SHOP Mr. and Mrs. Bill Toll of Fruit- the measles. The Lester Kendall family enjoy land were dinner guests at the R. Next to Nyssa Cafe ed Christmas at the Lem Wilson W. Holmes home on Christmas. home near Nyssa. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wilson and son Harley spent Christmas with FIRE AUTOMOBILES relatives at Homedale. The Homer Cates family moved TRUCK OWNER’S ATTENTION Monday to their new home in Cow Hollow. They built a house on the FOR LONG AND SHORT HAUL Sam Cates place. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Vaughn Sr. INSURANCE from Hemmingford, Nebr., returned home Monday after a two-weeks visit with their son, Kenneth Lau renson. The Oce Schweizer family were Christmas guests at the Harry Rus BONDS Phone 53 FARM RENTALS sell home in Big Bend. ------ £------ ABBOTT’S SEE DON M. GRAHAM PUBLIC SALE! On the M. R. Wixon farm, 1 % miles north and 3 miles west of C. C. C. camp, or 7 miles south of Nyssa on Adrian highway, 3 miles west, % mile north and 3 miles west. FRI., JAN. 5 Sale Starts Sharp at I P. M. LIVESTOCK HORSES Team of Work Horses, smooth mouth, wt. 3300. 1 Bay Mare and 1 Gray Gelding. 1 Brown Horse, 6 years old 1 Bay Horse, smooth mouth CATTLE 1 Guernsey Cow, 7 yrs. old 1 Durham Cow, 6 years old freshen in January freshen in January 1 Holstein-Jersey, 7 years old 1 Jersey Heifer, heavy springer freshen in January 2 Jersey Heifers, 2 years old freshen in spring 1 Brown Swiss, 8 years old, 4 gals. 1 Guernsey Heifer, coming 3 years old 3 Guernsey Heifers, coming 2 years old freshen from March to April Milking now, freshen 8 July 3 Bred Roan Heifers 1 Holstein Heifer, coming 2 yrs. old 1 Holstein-Jersey, 7 years old freshen 21 June freshen in January 3 Yearling Steers All Cattle recently tested for T. B. and Abortion 1 Hampshire Sow HOGS 1 Hampshire Gilt 6 Weaner Pigs MACHINERY 1 New Ideal Mowing Machine good shape 1 International Cultivator, shovels, corrugators in good shape 1 2-way John Deere Plow 1 Sulky Plow, 16 inch 1 Cream Separator, Royal Blue, nearly new 1 Set of Harness and Collars 1 Set of Eveners 1 Box Heater, nearly new 1 Walking Plow, 14 inch LUNCH WILL BE SERVED BY THE WAH1NE CLUB TERMS: CASH M, R. W IX O N , Owner DIXON & AVERS Auctioneers W . N. YOUNG Clerk
